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Some of you who haven't heard of this technique will probably be confused by the title.
Sarracenia can be propagated with great difficulty bu leaf pullings.
Generally, it is only thought of as feasible with the low growing species.
The basic technique is you take a young pitcher on a young plant, pull it off so you get the triangular base that attaches it to the rhizome. You then bury this under enough medium to keep it upright, seal it in a plastic bag, and forget about it.

4 moths ago, I took an S. jonesii leaf pulling.
The pitcher still looks like it was just pulled off a plant.
I unpotted it today, and found ROOTS!!!

The plant this was taken from has 5" pitchers or so, and was seed grown by me.
This one was 3".
It was potted in hand-milled LFS in a 3oz paper cup.
It was then placed in a plastic bag, under lights at room temperature.

In the original CPN article about this, they found that S. jonesii had produced roots, but as of the date of the article, they had not obtained shoots.

I don't want to unpot it again for a picture.

I am cautiously optimistic!!

Rooting is the easy bit.


If you can get it to pitcher, and stabilize into an adult plant, you will have my unerring respect for as long as you live

I've never really seen the point in using this as a propagation method, as division is a lot quicker, and easier. Plus I wouldn't say Sarracenia are good for mass producing leaves for pulling off.

I knew that.
I just wanted to try to see if it would work.

A agree with all your points too...

This is very interesting, maybe you could coax some growth by weakly fertilizing it (osmocote or other high nitrogen CP safe fert). Good luck Bananaman.