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Greetings everybody!

I have been searching for good forums about Sarracenia breeding, and I was thrilled and very lucky finding this forum. It is very useful to see suggestions and helpfull advices.

I am cherishing Sarracenia Oreophila for over a 8 mounths, and she was growing very well. In spring I transplanted my Sarracenia from smaller flowerpot to a larger flower pot. It still was continuing to make a progress but eventually something weird started to happen.

First, my plant doesnt want to expand all over the flowerpot, yes it grows, but her sprout (pitchers) are just growing in the same bush as others, so bigger pitchers are suffocating smaller ones, and when smaller succeed to grow they usually have some strange shape, because they are trying to break through over older. Why new pitchers don't want to expand over flowerpot? Should I prune old ones, to let new grow?

Second thing is, as this summer is pretty much hot 35 to 40 degrees, they beggined to dry, and some of them started to get stains (spots) interior like they are drying, and I am watering them regularry every day in evenings with distilled water. They are exposed to sun from 9am to 4pm and they were healthy until now.

Another thing is that when my Sarracenia swallow a bigger insect, like bee for example, it won't digest it properly and beggins to dry. I don't know why but it's like a bug suffocate my plant to grow. Bug starting to digest turn in like a mud, but pitcher start to die.

Do You have any suggestions? Thank you very much and I am really sorry for my bad english. I will make shure to put pictures as soon as I can, but if anyone have similar experience please share here, so I can help my plant.

The bug thing is normal. A pitcher that gets too full of insects will generally die.

For the rest, we're going to need photos.

Here are some pictures. You can see the black stains on them, at some pictures, and also can I move them to another pot now? They started to suffocate each other, and I am not sure what to do at this moment.

PLS HELP!

Hi SarraceniaFan

That is not an S. oreophilla i'm afraid, it is a S. purpurea or purpurea hybrid. It is exhibiting fairly typical growth for that species, the browning of the traps probably being die back of the older pitchers. but it seems to be rather greener than I would expect, indicating a light level lower than required.

The plants roots can overheat at about 43C and above, which in direct sun, if you are getting air teperatures of 40C you could be getting. Is you plant standing in a tray of water?

I'm not sure where you are located in the world, but I would wait until the plant is dormant before removing any dead pitchers, splitting it and repotting. Place outside in spring in a tray of water and watch it flourish.

Cheers
Steve

Hi, thanks for responding.

Thank You for that info. I wasn't aware of what kind (or type) of Sarracenia I have. It's always been like this, and they were all healthy and green, never purple. It's on the sun from 9am to 4pm, and it's always in a tray filled with water. I just took it to take a picture and then returned to tray.

This plant never had stains like this - brown and black, and never started to dry like this like on the second and the last picture. Can this be a fungus or some other disease?

As I said previous, I am worried that they are also suffocating one another, so if I don't remove the dead ones, the new ones cannot grow properly... What should I do?

Also, when they start to dry, they start from a top. I am also worried that this isn't just drying because they started to rot inside...

SarraceniaFan wrote:Also, when they start to dry, they start from a top. I am also worried that this isn't just drying because they started to rot inside...

What do you mean rot inside? are you seeing the prey rotting in the pitchers which is normal, or the plant itself?

Cheers
Steve

I meant that they when they start dying, they start from the top. This stains (or marks) in her, as you can see on picture 1,2,4 are making me worried, because I can see that they look like they are infected... I don't know what is happening to her, but these black and brown spots have never been in her when start to die. Also those are on the new leaves, so I am not sure what it is...