How to Grow Sarracenia purpurea
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- We get asked a lot about how to best grow Sarracenia purpurea. Damon will give you all his best tips and tricks to grow these beautiful plants. For more information or to order plants checkout www.californiacarnivores.com
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that the bog garden (3 plants) I received for Easter is doing really well! Here in southwestern Ohio, they sit outside on the south side of my home and only receive distilled or rain water. I recently had to order fertilizer from you guys because my sarracenia was looking brown, crispy, and droopy while the dionaea and drosera were doing fine. About a week after I lightly fertilized the leaves of each plant, I can really see the difference! My sundew looks to be slightly bigger and has larger dew drops; the venus flytrap, while a few leaves turn black and die, bunches of new traps are growing in the center; and the pitcher plant is growing several new pitchers! I’m low-key super excited to see them thrive for (hopefully) years to come! Thank you for everything!
I’m so happy to hear that!!!! ❤️🌱
I just gave my grandparents, in southern Oregon, some of thoes for their fish pond. Been told they are doing great! Love the videos keep them up!
That answered all my questions, perfect, thanks for sharing!
Love you guys and what you do! Keeping spreading your knowledge!
Thank you!
huh, what have i been waiting for?! on the east coast, and our winters dont get that cold + i have the lights.. just gotta wake up these seeds i guess! thanks for the simple assurances here
We also have them in native to Illinois.
I have some seed grown pupureas sp purpurea some of them are reddish in color some are green. The green one seems to be biggee ans larger than the reds. I hope I can grow to to their full size.
Did you cold stratify your seeds before planting and how long did it take to see growth from seed?
Love ur videos
Lovley specimens you have there.
I live in Michigan and am looking to add a large container to the flowerbed for the summer much like what you show in this video for the Venosa. What variety is the northern version you showed in the smaller pot?
If I understand it correctly, these plants love lots of sun. Direct sunlight ok, so long as they have plenty of pure water in the container and in their pitchers?
And lastly, you said they do well in an UNDRAINED container. How do you judge that? Won't the roots rot if you overwater the container?
Anyway, I'm going to check out your channel, and store if you have one. The visuals on these in your video is very helpful.
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea is the more cold hardy northern species! They are bog plants and won’t rot with lots of water; they would much rather be over watered than under watered. It takes a bit of time to learn how much to water an undrained bog but in summer, it can be many times a week.
@@California_Carnivores Thank you!
Whelp low and behold my question is answered
Can I use a single osmocote pellet in the pitcher to feed it? I know that works with nepenthes.
Yes! Add a little water with the pellet to help with digestion
Are these easy to grow? Obviously you have a green thumb which I lack. I like your set up.
Where can you acquire seeds or small plants? Although it gets hot here in the southeast, we do get into the 20s overnight in the winter.
They are easy to grow! In most areas just put them outside, in lots of sunlight, sitting in a lot of water. They are cold hardy for a brief freeze
@@California_Carnivores thanks. Do you know where I can acquire plants or seeds?
@@California_Carnivores by the way, are you Peter D’Amato? If so, I just picked up a book of yours today “Savage Garden”. I am reading the introduction and enjoyed your humorous description of your initial foray into carnivorous plants. You description of the sundew was poignant and I was astonished to learn that Venus flytraps are native to the Carolinas because I live in South Carolina and have never seen one.
@@salvatorelivreri Peter started the nursery! He doesn’t like to do videos but this is his nursery 😊
@@salvatorelivreri We have them available on our website seasonally.
May want to start turning your green house into tincture shop . These plant may be highly valuable very soon because of their healing and medicinal abilities
I don't even care that its medicinal I care that it's carnivorous
Smallpox!
I'm curious I I could plant the cold hardy variety in my flower bed and replicate the type of soil they need just in that area.
Like a 3 ft x 3 ft section of carnivorous plant soil surrounded by normal soil from my flower bed. Would that work? I would want to leave them out there year-round I live in Kentucky so I feel like the cold hardy variety would do well with our winters I'm just not sure about being able to keep the soil right.
I would put a liner around it, like a flexible plastic pond liner. The soil around it will leech minerals and salts into the soil and that will kill your plant eventually.
Can the SUBSPECIES PURPEREA survive single digit temperature (in farenheit)?
If heavily mulched in, yes
Are there sarracenia or any other carnivorous plants that you can have frogs live in? Had someone ask me and I’m unsure. I do recall hearing of frogs being found coexisting with certain plants.
We have a whole colony of frogs that live in the nursery and they often take naps in the pitchers. They very, very rarely slip in and get eaten. These are little Pacific Chorus Frogs
@@California_Carnivores what about with flytraps?
@@monke1919 we’ve only seen a few frogs eaten in our 30 years
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When growing saracinia seeds using a seed propagator is it OK to lift the lid daily to peek inside? Or should they be left undisturbed?
It’s really best to leave them undisturbed. Check them once a week for any issues of mold or weeds but other than that, it’s like opening the oven when you’re baking cookies; best to just wait until the end! 😊
Does the purperea need as much light as other sarracenia?
They do!
@@California_Carnivores and my rescue I got like a week ago is starting to turn red under the lights, should I do something?
@@monke1919 they normally have red leaves
@@California_Carnivores ok
Wow. I'm finding the Northern variety impossible to find for sale. Is there a reason for this? I can find hybrids, and Venosa, but the Northern variety is a nope. ?
We will have more of them available soon, I’m just waiting on them to grow a few spring pitchers. The venosa are made by a big supplier in a tissue culture lab so they’re more plentiful and more available
@@California_Carnivores Thank you! :D
What is the best way to tell purpurea venosa apart from Purpurea ssp. Purpurea? I have one but I don’t know which one it is.
The lids on venosa tend to be more wide open, ruffled and expose the inside of the pitcher. The pitchers can be more bulbous. The lids of purpurea are narrower, almost pinched over the mouth, often covering the entrance to the pitchers and they are waxy. There is a lot of introgression between these two in their natural range so you can see some real crossover in the plants as well
I just got a S. Purpurea Venosa. How tolerant of heat are they? I live in San Bernardino, CA. Also, how often is one to fill them with water?
They’re fairly tough when it comes to heat (I grow mine outdoors here in zone 9b year round and it gets 90-100 regularly) it’s a good idea to over water them once a week to top off the pitchers with a bit of water
@@California_Carnivores
Thank you very much.
Hi am I first!? How do I revive my pitcher plant that has those long necks it went without water for 3-4 days in direct sunlight and it’s hood has closed and it has gotten crunchy and same with my Venus fly trap my fly trap is still soft but all black so now they both in direct sunlight sitting in rainwater I collected.
I would just let them sit in water for 2-4 weeks and wait and see if they grow new leavea
Ok
Thanks :)
How do you make this a medicinal oil? Do you sell the plants or the oil?
We cannot recommend ingesting these plants as they have small amounts of poison in their tissue and we do not know the effects this can have
Purpurea purpurea is a ok one for under lights?
Yes!
How can I fertilize my sarracenia in a flat where there are no insects?
We use diluted Maxsea fertilizer on and in the pitchers. It’s a seaweed based fertilizer
How often should I feed them osmocote?
Once per month with a little distilled water added to help digestion!
Hi! Quick question; I'm getting a sarracenia today, but the tag vaguely says "Sarracenia purpurea venosa". It claims it's both of these subspecies, but I'm getting it from a hardware store so I doubt it's a hybrid lol. How can I tell which one it is?
It’s most likely Sarracenia purpurea ssp venosa and the tag is just not written well!
How much heat can they tolerate?
Purpurea ssp venosa likes heat and has a similar tolerance range of other sarracenia but ssp purpurea doesn’t love temps in the 90’s or above. That being said, we grow both outdoors in zone 9b and they experience temps 90-105 F routinely and it doesn’t kill them, just burns back the tips of their leaves
I just got one from my local nursery and it's green. Is this bad?
The new leaves are often green so they’re probably just freshly grown
that should change
What's with the green ones then?
Those are anthocyanin free!
younger plants
How can I order from you?
Checkout our website www.californiacarnivores.com 😊
Can the sarracenia purperea venosa be grown indoors?
It can be difficult to grow Sarracenia indoors however, purpurea are a good choice if you want to try. Just make sure you provide them a chilly winter dormancy and full sun during the growing season.
@@California_Carnivores ok
@@California_Carnivores how long would a carnivorous plant live if it didn't go dormant?
@@California_Carnivores do you think I should put the sarracenia purperea in a fridge like a venus flytrap? Or just leave it on the windowsill because it dosent get very cold inside. Well sometimes it can.
@@monke1919 They can live for several years without dormancy before they will begin to fail and then die
These will be gold when Democrats release small pox.
Early to the party