Repotting Sarracenia, Venus Flytraps, and Sundews in Midseason.
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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*Stripping my Sarracenias down to bare root and tossing them in a five gallon bucket of water, stirring them around to loosen the compacted soil*
"What's root disturbance?"
Thank's for watching! You'll feel right at home at our nursery during early spring. That's how we process our Sarracenia. Some varieties, however, don't respond well when they're aggressivly handled during the growing season. S. flava atropurpurea and rubricorpora don't like to be transplanted. They lose their color and stop producing new pitchers.
Thanks for the info, Jacob. I was just about to remove a little sundew from my sarracenia pot. I will now wait til fall. 🌱
Thanks for watching! Glad the video was helpful.
So glad I have you on my U-tube.
Thank you! We're glad to have you on our channel!
I repotted my flytrap a week ago and luckily I did it correctly, thanks
Glad the video was helpful!
How convenient, I just wanted to divide my Sarracenia psittacina.
Right? We must have sent him some signals.
Thanks for watching! Yes, it's best to divide while the plants are dormant. Otherwise, the plant will stop growing new pitchers. Instead, it will focus on repairing the damage from the division. We divide our mother plants in March because that's a convenient time for us. After division, we hold on to the plants for a year to allow them to recover. The divisions are ready for new homes by the start of their second growing season.
Thank you
Thank you so very much!
Thank you for watching!
lol... my sister knows of my love of VFT and bought me one. I totally took it out of the s moss and put it into carnivorous soil.. hopefully it will be okay!
That's very nice of your sister! Your plant will be better off in peat moss and perlite than in pure sphagnum moss. So, you did the right thing!
Would you make a video about the most winter hardy of each carnivorous plant species / cultivars?
Thank you for the suggestion. That subject is a mixed bag because it depends on your winter care strategy. Potted plants pose a different set of challenges than an in-ground bog garden. This alone affects how even the hardiest of carnivorous plants make through winter.
@@SarraceniaNorthwest Maybe you could do videos on both?
I've always buried my sarracenia leucophylla underground without problems, I've noticed exposing it to the sun just hardens the bulb and growth seems slower.
Might just be my specific growing climate that causes this effect.
Thanks for watching. When you see how these plants grow in the wild, the rhizomes are partly exposed and the crowns are above ground. We've found that when the rhizome is buried too deep, it doesn't grow sideways. Rather, it grows upwards toward the soil surface. This type of growth makes it difficult to divide the mother plant down the road.
Made that mistake a few times. Growing season is going to differ from Florida to Maine to California. Do you have a topographic mapping that can translate from when it's safe to repot from region to region.
I had a man send me out if the goodness of his heart 9 flavas which I put into the ground quickly and boom they stated growing like their pants were on fire. Had hopes for this spring for flowers that I could pollinate and collect seed to send back to the man in gratitude. Unfortunately in Nov '23 I had TWO rain washout events totalling over 30" of rain twice. Washed out the plants from their media. Thought I had a chance after the first event as they started with vigorous regrowth. Then the 2nd rainout hit. Got them back in the soil thinking that after a good hibernation all would be well. No such luck. Of the 9 only two came out of dormancy and they both looked in deep distress. Didn't know what to try so I hit them with a few drops of Superthrive and Rootone and gently dribbled some water to wash it in to the media. Touch and go, but they seemed to have gotten over the worst of it.
I was mortified at such a loss as I've never in my life if growing cp to have such a failure rate. I even seem to be slipping trying to rescue cp from the roadside nursery just up the street.
Thanks for watching. You'll have to use your judgement as a gardener when to repot your plants by observing when your plants are dormant and when they're actively growing. This is why we prorduce our monthly videos to show growers how our plants appear. That way they can compare them to their plants and make appropriate choices.
too bad i repoted my sarracenia in June and didn't keep old peat , it all dryed out but i'm keeping it moist allthe time I hope it will recover
Thanks for watching. It should recover. Just give it time.
Great video as always, Jacob!
I have some VFTs and sarracenia in pots outside and the rain sometimes hits them a bit hard. I actually had to repot on of my red VFTs because the rain washed away a lot of its soil.
I've been thinking about adding gravel to the tops of the pots but I'm worried that the gravel might have minerals that will leech into the soil over time.
My current solution is a bit of sphagnum moss on the tops of the pots. It seems to protect the soil, although with the intense sun, it's becoming dark brown and black. It still retains moisture though.
Another solution I've been thinking about is some light netting over the pots, with holes for the plants to grow out of. Something like bird netting to protect crops.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for watching. We have a video about top dressing. You might find that helpful.
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@@SarraceniaNorthwest Yes, thank you. That video answered my questions.
Some of my sarrs started to get rhizome rot. i had to do an emergency cleaning and repotting. which means i had to scrape away dead rhizome, and some roots. was this the right call?
Gads. Had that problem too this year. What I did was pull away the live sphagnum as it had grown to several inches thick. Seemed to do the trick.
Thanks for watching. It's always best to take care of an unhealthy plant immediately. So, if the soil is harboring fungal spores, you should take heroic measures to salvage the plant. Sarracenia is pretty resilient, so it'll bounce back, though it might take a growing season or two before you see a full recovery. Hopefully, the plant wasn't a rare hybrid!
@@SarraceniaNorthwest Luckily one was...But one that bit the dust from it was a sarracenia minor okeefenokee. very sad as it was my only minor and i think they are really cool looking :c
@@cliffowens3629 I grow mine in peat/perlite 50-50 mix. so i pulled mine out, scraped the mushy gunk off and repotted. I think I saved two and lost two. :c
best tip to repotting during the growing season? *don't.*
Matze from Green Jaws said about flytraps that he repots them all over the year and the worst that can happen is that hey maybe not get as much color in the year you repotted them outside of dormancy
Was thinking the same thing
Sometimes you have no choice....
Thanks for watching. While it's best to repot when the plants are dormant, sometimes you just don't have a choice - timing, getting in new plants, and such. That's what this video is about - how to minimize transplant shock when repotting midseason.
Thank you for watching. It depends on how rough an individual is with the roots when repotting. The Red Dragon flytrap, however, is the most sensitive, and that's the variety that many growers tend to kill when they repot it midseason. We've based our recommendations from the questions that come through Ask The Growers.