3 Small Venus Flytraps - Fly Trap - (Dionaea Muscipula) Carnivorous Plant 3 Inch Pot

Received six (!) lovely little flytrap plants in excellent condition. It's great that they are shipped bare-root, as it makes it easy to verify that bugs aren't traveling with them, and they stay in great shape even if the box is turned over or knocked around. Flytraps are always tricky to grow, so it's also very helpful that these came with detailed instructions. Also included were the sphagnum growing medium and an open-mesh-style pot, everything I needed except the four-inch bowl to keep underneath (for water). I started them on distilled water, and now I'm using the condensation water that drips from the outside of our air conditioner. It's been a couple of months since the plants arrived, and they're alive, growing, and catching the occasional fly in their sunny outdoor spot. Some outer traps turned black after planting, but that's normal senescence, especially after shipping, and all six plants have continued to grow more green, healthy traps. Two have even produced flower stalks, which I'll be cutting off (as the plants are rather small to be trying to support seed production), but I'm going to try planting the stalks, because I've read that a flower stalk can generate new plantlets at its base if I just stick it in the wet sphagnum moss. The plants were a hit with my son's first-grade class for show and tell, too.

I had a shipping issue, no fault of the seller! But this problem did require me to contact the seller and I couldn’t have been more pleased with their attentiveness and help. Seller responded almost immediately and new plants were sent right away. Plants were received and looked in good health.

I read a lot of reviews where other people had positive experiences with their plant but I can't say the same with mine. I ordered these FlyTraps along with Succulents and Cactus on Amazon, all at the same time. Everything arrived at my house on the same day as well from the different companies. The plants from the non-related companies arrive already potted and ready to go, the box was labelled live plant of the non-related companies and UPS kept the boxes up right. The plants from JoelsCarnivorousPlants arrived in plastic bags with damp paper towels in the plastic bags along with the plants without any indication that I could see on the box indicating it was a live plant, could be because it was just in a plastic bag. I quickly took them out and followed the instructions to pot them. I had my distilled water ready to go like the instructions said. I waited a few days and only a few heads of the plant died which I assumed was a possibility was it traveled to sunny Arizona. After a few more days the other heads of my plant opened up ready for their yummy live meal. Flies were instantly attracted to them and started crawling all over them but never in the mouths of my plants. After a few more days of patiences eventually flies went in the little mouths and it was amazing to watch the mouths close up to eat their meal. More than 4 days passed and the mouths of the plants stayed closed. I researched online and saw that it did take days for the plants to devour their meals so I waited patiently for the plants to open back up. But instead of opening up they died. Each one that ate a fly died within days of eating. I tried clipped off the blacked heads as they appeared but the plant just kept dying until it was all gone. I'm honestly not sure what caused it to die the moment it ate the flies but for me the plant did not personally work out. Others might have different luck. It could be the flies in my state, it could be that it was going to die within a few weeks of showing up anyway because of the delivery, I honestly don't know. Another thing to note was that the moss and plants had a horrific stench which might have been why so many flies were attracted to the plant. I didn't know where to keep the plant as the smell was too much to keep in my bedroom, bathroom, or even kitchen. An awful smell could be something typical that comes along with these plants so be warned it is a possibility.

First, let me say that the seller is a great communicator. I contacted him prior to placing my order to inquire if the shipping charges could be combined if I ordered more than one plant. He promptly replied, explaining that the way his account is set up, it wasn't possible, but that if I ordered three or more, he would throw in an extra plant. Well, by the time I placed my order for the Venus Fly Traps, the purple pitcher plants that I was, also, looking at were sold out, so I settled on just the 3 small VFT's. As soon as my order was processed, he contacted me via email to give me a more detailed time frame on my delivery, so that my plants wouldn't be sitting in a hot mailbox for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, the USPS delivered them on Monday, rather than Saturday, as was expected, so I was a little worried about their condition when they arrived. They were packaged so well, with very detailed instructions, including an illustration to clarify the different parts of the plant, and their condition was exceptional. Joel includes more than enough moss, and truthfully, more plants than I had been anticipating. I carefully followed all of the directions, and my little plants are happily sitting on the back patio, enjoying the sunshine. I like them so much, that I have already placed another order for more Venus Fly Traps and two of the purple pitcher plants that were sold out before I placed my first order. I'm so glad that I noticed them on his storefront, since there were only six and they have already sold out again! It's very obvious why Joel has such glowing reviews. He takes his business seriously and delivers the best products and customer service possible. He has a nice bio on his website, which I found to be very impressive, and highly suggest anyone thinking about doing business with him read beforehand.

The instruction states to wrap the traps roots in the sphagnum included. They included a good amount and a net pot. There also a few printout pages of instructions. I YouTubed a few care videos before purchase so decided to experiment a bit. I had one in a plastic container with peat moss only, 1 in a terra cotta pot with peat moss, 1 in terra cotta with sphagnum, and one in the netted pot and sphagnum it included. I watered initially with rain water and then with bottles water. The plant in the sphagnum + net pot died within a week. This was how the seller wanted us to take care of the plant and it died! Not only did it die, it molded! I followed the instructions and this is what happened!! The other 3 survived but one died because I forgot about it. The other 2 in peat moss survived. I reported them together in a plastic pot with only peat moss. It lost all the initial traps but is growing new ones. It’s still happily alive. I don’t recommend the instructions he provided only because it didn’t work for me. I followed YouTube instructions and it thrived. I would buy more from this seller only because they’re the only sellers that sells this but I would use peat moss instead of the sphagnum.

My Venus fly traps arrived quickly, undamaged, and just as it was pictured. It comes with everything you need and very good instructions. My 1 year old Venus fly traps died a few weeks back (it was completely my fault) and I would've purchased more from this seller if I hadn't found them being sold in a local store. The only complaint I have about these fly traps are the price, but you're paying for the quality and don't have to buy any additional products since plenty of sphagnum peat moss is included.

I was really surprised when I opened the box and saw the Venus flytrap was green and alive. I always purchased from Lowe's and they were dried out. I love that ordered from here. Beautiful plant

The VF arrived when I was told. They are very healthy and look fantastic! I will be looking for other plants from this seller for sure!! Thank you so much!