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I bought this Sarracenia from a local garden center. It has spent its whole life in a big crappy green house, if you can even call it that. It was in one of those tinny pots so i repotted it and threw it out with my VFT's. Wish i had taken pics, it was a nice plant

It has experienced 5-6 very hard frosts and froze solid twice. Didn't even phase it. The sun however.....As expected all the pitchers sunburned and started dying.

The plant and nature will have to figure it out, all i can do is make sure the soil is sufficiently wet/moist.

I will update each month, going to be interesting to see what happens to it.

I had the same with my sarracenia purp. Freezing solid or being coverd in snow, nothing seemed to harm/kill it. But when spring came the sun burned all of the pitchers. So i cut off all the burned pitcher and now one month later its starting to form new ones.

These plants are almost impossible to kill :p

A little early for an update but she is putting up new pitchers, you can see 3 here. Only took 4 days for them to grow 2.5". I didn't realize how fast they grow once they start growing. This plant didn't grow anything for almost 3 months since I bought it and in a matter of 4 days grew these pitchers.

In a bit of a conundrum.

Have 7 new pitchers coming up. The old dying-ish pitchers are kind of blocking them and making them work to get up and out.

I'm debating trimming out the old dying-ish pitchers.

They are still half green so they are providing photosynthesis for the plant but making it difficult for the new pitchers.

To trim or not to trim.....

I would trim all of the browning parts.. it'd be like leaving a hand that's falling off from frost bite....

I went ahead and trimmed out all the old pitchers. What a pain.

I decided to go ahead and trim them because I now have more new pitchers coming up than I can count.

Purps will push the dead/dying growth out of the way. The plant doesn't struggle with it, after all nobody trims dead growth off the ones growing in nature.

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One year ago


Today.

Nice recovery


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Looks nice and healthy. Carolina Yellow Jacket, i assume?

Nah, it's just a typical purp I bought at a local plant nursery. They get tons of Sarr's, VFTs and Ventrata neps from little shop of horrors every year. Nothing special.