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Venus Fly Trap Guide — 7M Price & Night Defense

Grow a Garden 2 Venus Fly Trap costs 7M Sheckles, is a multi-harvest Mythic crop with a 3K published value, and bites players at night.

The Venus Fly Trap is a 7,000,000-Sheckle Mythic plant that combines repeat harvests with active nighttime defense. It bites players who get too close, but current guides also warn that the owner can be hit when standing near its target.

Venus Fly Trap at a Glance

Stat Current Reference
Rarity Mythic
Seed Price 7,000,000 Sheckles
Published Crop Value About 3,000 Sheckles before weight and mutation
Harvest Type Multi-harvest
Source Sam's Seed Shop
Reported Restock Chance 1.43% — one current editorial guide; recheck after updates
Ability Bites nearby players at night and removes most of their health

How to Get Venus Fly Trap

Venus Fly Trap is bought from Sam's Seed Shop. It does not appear in every stock rotation.

  1. Keep a separate 7M reserve so the purchase does not stop normal planting.
  2. Check normal Seed Shop refreshes while tending the garden.
  3. Confirm the live item card before buying.
  4. Plant it where its defensive behavior will not block your own movement.

Rock Paper Shotgun reports a 1.43% chance of appearing on a restock. Because this exact rate is not repeated across all current tables, this guide treats it as medium confidence.

What Does Venus Fly Trap Do?

At night, the plant can bite a player who comes too close. Rock Paper Shotgun describes the hit as removing most of an intruder's health, while TheGamer reports about 75%. The important behavior is corroborated; the exact damage should be treated as patch-sensitive.

The plant can also snap at its owner when the owner is too close to the targeted intruder. That makes placement and a safe movement lane more useful than simply filling the garden edge with traps.

A Safer Defense Layout

  • Put the plant near an approach you can see, not inside your main harvesting route.
  • Leave enough space to move away when it targets someone.
  • Combine it with Bee or Bear rather than assuming one bite makes the plot theft-proof.
  • Stay inside the garden at night when holding a crop you cannot afford to lose.
  • Use a private server when prevention matters more than PvP defense.

No current source proves one universal attack range, cooldown, or perfect trap spacing. Avoid fixed-grid claims.

Income and Mutations

Venus Fly Trap is multi-harvest and has an approximately 3K published crop value. Defense is its differentiator; it is not automatically the best pure-income plant.

Using 3,000 only as an example, Eclipsed 80x would be 240,000, Ignited 70x would be 210,000, and Bloodlit 60x would be 180,000 before any other effects. Use the crop's actual displayed value for real decisions.

Is It Worth 7M?

Buy it when you want an affordable Mythic defense crop, have repeat-harvest income already running, and can still fund plot or gear upgrades. Delay it when 7M is your entire balance or when a controlled server would solve the theft problem more reliably.

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the plant cannot hit its owner.
  • Treating the reported 1.43% restock rate as permanent.
  • Expecting one plant to secure the entire plot.
  • Multiplying the 7M seed price instead of the harvested crop value.
  • Buying it only for income without comparing higher-base crops.

Sources

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much is Venus Fly Trap in Grow a Garden 2?

The Venus Fly Trap seed costs 7,000,000 Sheckles at Sam's Seed Shop and belongs to the Mythic rarity.

What does Venus Fly Trap do?

At night it bites nearby players and removes most of their health. Current guides also warn that it can hit the owner when the owner is too close to the target.

Is Venus Fly Trap multi-harvest?

Yes. Current seed references list Venus Fly Trap as multi-harvest, with an approximately 3,000-Sheckle published crop value before weight and mutation.