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Q/A #94 - Floppy Sarracenia Pitchers

QUESTION: I have a Sarracenia leucophylla x rubra. What do you do, if anything, about a Sarracenia that always gets “floppy?” It was doing better this year being planted higher and more exposed to wind etc., but the rainstorms got to it and several pitchers and flowers fell over. It used to just do this by it

Deformed Pitchers

Q/A #93 - Deformed Pitchers on a Sarracenia

QUESTION: My Sarracenia Don's Flava has a serious tendency to produce deformed traps. None of the other Sarracenia I have do this, and I have a lot! All grown with the tray method, western Oregon sun, peat/ perlite mix. What gives? Is this variety more vulnerable to something? (Submitted in June 2021.)

Venus Flytrap

Q/A #92 - Red Dragon Flytrap Is Finicky

QUESTION: I'm in the Portland area and bought this Red Dragon Flytrap at your open house a couple of years ago. It's never really thrived but this year seems more sickly. It gets new growth but the traps never open and wither away. ( Submitted in June 2021.) RESPONSE BY JEFF DALLAS: The Red Dra

Sarracenia

Q/A #91 - Sarracenia Scarlet Belle or Not?

QUESTION: I was gifted a carnivorous plant at my my son’s funeral a year ago. I was told it’s a Scarlet Belle, but as I grows I’m not sure that’s correct. It is extremely important that I find out this plant’s exact ID. I live in Amarillo TX in zone 7A. I don’t want to leave it outside and it not be able to ha

Venus Flytrap

Q/A #90 - Flytrap Not Flytrap

QUESTION: I have been growing this from seed thinking it was a Venus Flytrap. Now I am not sure, It has shell shaped leaves and is starting to grow fairly tall. The stalks and some leaves have hair and bumps. I got the seeds from Wish.com. Can you identify these plants for me? I'm also in Canada, so it's hard

Sarracenia

Q/A #89 - Sarracenia Didn't Survive Winter.

QUESTION:Sarracenia purchased last spring and summer I planted in an outdoor bog garden, in fall I covered the entire planter with a foot of leaves. I live in Wisconsin. I uncovered a couple weeks ago and have watered almost daily but have seen no emerging growth from anything. I’m tempted to dig everything up

Winter Care

Q/A #89 - Is It My Dad's Fault My Plants Died?

QUESTION:My Venus flytraps and Sarracenia died over winter!! I put them in the garage for dormancy where it's around 40°F (4°C). I live in USDA Zone 5B. My father told me that I did not need to water them during dormancy. I used Sphagnum peat moss without fertilizer. So did my plants die bec

Tropical Sundew

Q/A #88 - Is my Cape Sundew Dying?

QUESTION:I recently got a Drosera capensis albino (from another nursery), and it caught a LOT of small flies, and then proceeded to flower: However recently after flowering, a lot of the leaves started loosing the dew and the older leaves began to turn brown. At first i thought it was just the strands

Nepenthes

Q/A #87 - Do I Separate the New Shoot on My Nepenthes?

QUESTION:I received a Nepenthes sanguinea from you a couple of weeks ago, and it seems to be doing very well. In the picture, it can be seen as a tiny shoot near the base of the main plant. I was wondering if it would be necessary or recommended to split this out from the main plant and grow it as a separ

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