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    Hcarlton's Utrics

    Man I love that livida "mexico" variety! I grow the regular one with small flowers and very faint purple tint.
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    Plz help my vft!!

    When you say filtered water what do you mean? You want to use only R.O. water or distilled or rainwater unless your TDS reading is 50ppm or lower. That may be your issue.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    Didn't miss your point at all. Why so angry??? I'm not new to CPs. I have experience too.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    My plants are NOT IN A BOG, they are in pots. I'll stick with fridge dormancy, it works perfectly. Thanks.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    Yes there is an explanation, it's too cold here and we get repeated freeze/thaw cycles in winter and it gets at times to near 0 F. By mid to late October my plants go into the fridge. I've been growing my VFTs that way for over 13 years now without a single loss. Yes purpurea can survive very...
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    As I said before I already tried it once and lost all my sarrs. No need to get defensive, I wasn't accusing anyone of anything here.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    I fell for that once and won't fall for it again. Again, I lost all my sarracenia a few years ago. Never again.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    I'm in zone 6. If the sarracenia won't survive here (including my purpurea!) no way this plant will.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    I would love to just leave them outside but there is no way it would survive the winter here where I am. Especially in a pot. I lost all my sarracenia a few years ago because someone said I could leave them out. They were wrong, I lost over 2 dozen plants. Never again.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    That's what I will do then, repot the main plant, sow the gemmae and pop them the fridge. Thanks for the help, this is my first grandiflora so I'd like to have it survive. Tom
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    Thanks for replying. It can get to single digits here and we have many freeze / thaw cycles as well, do you think it would survive that? It's in a small 3" pot.
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    Question on P. grandiflora

    Hi folks. I got my first grandiflora over winter and it was great in spring but once the weather got too hot it stopped growing and made it's hibernacula. I noticed today that it also produced some gemmae as well. I'll keep the plant in the shade for now and in the fall give it fridge dormancy...
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    My U. reniformis small form

    I have nothing to trade currently.
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    Mold on dormant Venus fly trap.

    Hit them with a SULPHUR based fungicide mixed half strength. I've been using it for 13 years with no problems at all.
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    In case of untimely demise, where are your plants going?

    Probably the garbage sadly. But at least they had a good life.
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