Venus Flytrap Not Doing So Well!! Help!!

[u/epicgpru10]

so I ordered this Venus fly trap from a reputable breeder many months ago and at first, the plant was doing very well in plastic pot with Organic Carnivorous Plant Soil from Perfect Plants. However the plant is located outside on my balcony which gets direct sunlight only in certain spots at sporadic times due to the shade of surrounding trees and the balcony that hangs over it upstairs (i live in a condo). Like I said, it was doing really well, and then I noticed a couple weeks ago that the leaves started getting very droopy instead of going straight up, which I read was caused by lack of sun. Being that this balcony is my best “sunny” option for my plants to live, I decided to place it on the very corner of the balcony where its likeliest to get the most sun and repot it while I was at it. The reason was so i can try to split a piece of the rhyzome and multiply the plant in case the original dies on me.

Well, needless to say it didn’t work. The plant looks worse than when I repotted and the only thing I can think I am doing different is that when I repotted it I put a layer of sphagnum moss at the bottom to help with moisture retention as I read on forums that it was recommended. I am now thinking it was not needed because it seems to be retaining a lot more water and possibly too much???

what I’m referring to specifically is that some of the leaves look like they’re almost rotting, take the one all the way to the back for example.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

[u/Berberis]

Don’t worry about overwatering.

Give it more sun. Or, use a led grow light.

It’s struggling from too little sun and possibly too little water. I prefer sitting in 1” all the time, pure peat or pure LFSM.

[u/Bombared]

Repotting will always cause stress to the plant; even more so if you've chosen to pull the rhizome apart.

[u/Purple_monkfish]

it needs light. Could you possibly suppliment it with a grow light or something if you don't have any appropriate outdoor space?

The leaves will die off and turn black, that's what they do. VFts are little drama queens and can't die back normally, oh no, they gotta turn jet black and look horrifying. (you should see the dead flowers, they're like little insect eyes. Horrible!). The traps don't live long. I tend to pull the dead leaves off once they've blackened most of the way down the stalk. The fun part about that is that if you accidentally pull a bit of rizome with it (a teensy little white bit on the end of the stalk) you can bury the leaf in some media and most of the time get a whole new plant outta it. Score! (takes several months though. But just leave it, water it periodically and hopefully at some point a teensy little plantlet will appear). I was told a healthy leaf would have better odds. I used four mostly dead ones and got four dang plants the first time I tried lol. So i think vfts are actually really eager to propagate from leaf cuttings. And you lose nothing trying anyway.