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shall i divide now?

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:42 pm
by carnivorous1123
my sarracenia rhyzome has split into 3 i was wondering if i should split them now or wait for when they come out of dormancy?

Re: shall i divide now?

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:00 am
by snapperhead51
carnivorous1123 wrote:my sarracenia rhyzome has split into 3 i was wondering if i should split them now or wait for when they come out of dormancy?
Carni 1123
your plants goes in to dormancy in winter not summer , its your summer there now right ! you can re pot and spilt closer to spring about a month or 2 before is good ,just doing mine now . but I am in ozz so its winter here :D
If you have the traps up on the sarras there in full grow mode not dormancy
J

Re: shall i divide now?

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:14 pm
by carnivorous1123
i know i meant spring lol i meant after dormancy lol its just the way i worded it but <- thats what i meant lol will it do the plant harm if i do it now or when it gets to end of autum?

Re: shall i divide now?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:07 am
by snapperhead51
Liam
if you split it now in its prime growth time you will set it back wards for the rest of the season ,not all ways but most plants do not like it and will recover again next spring, unless your plant is budging out of its pot or the potting mix has gone stinky or its been in the same pot for more than 3 years there should be no reason to split the plant , unless you have a particular reason for doing so ??

Re: shall i divide now?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:50 am
by carnivorous1123
Well thr rhizome is bulging above the soil and i wondered if the plant would appreciate to be split into its own pot (it has naturally done it)

Re: shall i divide now?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:39 am
by Oblivion
just give it a bigger pot.
and pot it up against one side of the pot, with the growth points facing (and growing) toward the opposite side of the pot where there's plenty of room.