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By Oliverben17
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#290461
I have had a pitcher plant for a few months now and its growing well, almost doubled in size. Now some of the older individual pitchers are going yellow at the edges and I think their begging to die of old age to make way for new ones. Should I cut these off or wait for them to die off by themselves? As its only the edges of the leaves should I wait for a bit first or just cut off the yellow bits?
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#290462
Oliverben17 wrote:I have had a pitcher plant for a few months now and its growing well, almost doubled in size. Now some of the older individual pitchers are going yellow at the edges and I think their begging to die of old age to make way for new ones. Should I cut these off or wait for them to die off by themselves? As its only the edges of the leaves should I wait for a bit first or just cut off the yellow bits?
Let them die off first, they can still photosynthesise and produce energy for the plant.

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By Oliverben17
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#290463
Ok, when I do trim them should I just cut them off at the base?
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By bijillon
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#290531
Cut them right where it meets the leaf, it's still. Functioning leaf


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