The plant I got in the mail seems to not yet be fully mature but the traps already are 30-33 mm in length, which is the same as my biggest outdoor-grown flytraps this summer. Presumably the B52s might outdo that next summer, but outdoor growing is over for this year, as everything outside has pretty much gone dormant now.

Anyhow, I'd love to hear more on this cultivar, particularly regarding whether or not it really lives up to its billing as a "giant flytrap".

-Don

Here's a pic of my B52, shipped bare-root but now planted into long-fibre sphagnum. Yes, it could look better, but it did just spend a week in complete darkness, getting beat up in the mail.

Of course, that size of trap is not at all out of the ordinary for a standard VFT, so until this thing produces traps 40 mm or larger, I don't think I can be certain that it is a true B52 cultivar. And it's unlikely to have any hope of producing really big traps until I can grow it outdoors next summer... my shop-lights just can't match the great outdoors.

Well, my main goal was to get it settled in and growing before sending it to bed for the winter. I think I could start dormancy now, but since the cold period is rather long around here so that I can't grow it outside until next May, maybe I'll keep it growing indoors for another month.

Anyway, here's an updated pic, with most of the old traps clipped off (except two near the top of the pic).

This is my plant today (surrounded by D. binata plantlets).

The traps of my specimen are for now 1 inch long by I had read somewhere that ‘B52’ traps can grow up to 2 inches. I’m still going to grow it a little longer too then put it to "sleep" too.

Cheers!