HERE THEY COME!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bugweed]

First flowers for the season are making their way upward! SOO EARLY!! I love California for that fact alone, the extra long growing season. Anyone else, yet?

 

[FarmerDave]

None here, but this will be my first year for a Sarracenia flower, I'll ask Jimmy if any of his are flowering.

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

...we have snow...and 9* temps WITHOUT windchill playing a role.... its great.
Alex

 

[mannyherrera]

I've had flowers since December. Things have been waking up for a while here. That's either good or bad. Never really seems to hurt them though.

 

[z5guy]

lol, new england, gotta love it. altohugh i shouldent complain because this year has been pretty mild for new england so far.

 

[RL7836]

I'll be lucky if I see flowers in a month ......

 

[Not a Number]

My warehouse wonders have been shooting up phyllodia like crazy the past couple weeks. I just put them outdoors this weekend. The S. purpurea may actually have a few pitcher leaves growing. The warehouse wonder 'Cupped Trap' VFT that I picked up a few weeks ago is pushing up another flower stalk. I just clipped the one that it had when I bought it a couple weeks ago.

None of the Sarracenia divisions (greenhouse / outdoor grown in Northern/Central Calif) I just got are showing any obvious activity but at least the untrimmed portions of the leaves are still green so I guess they are still alive.

Temps have been in the high 70's the past few days in Los Angeles.

 

[BigCarnivourKid]

My 'Hummer's Hurricane' has been blooming since the end of January. My S. × excellens has sent up a bud and my wife's S. oreophylla × flava has sent up two buds. This is the first time I have actually had Sarracenia flower for me.

 

[PlantAKiss]

It was 20 degrees today. All my Sarras are frozen.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

I have 3 flowers coming!! Two on a "huricane creek white", and one on a "leah wilkerson". I cheated though. I was afraid to put them straight out into the winter weather here since they had been in a heated house for about a week. I was afraid their dormancy was already interupted. So after aquiring them and potting them up I put them in the GH instead of outside. So it coaxed them out early. The ones outside are still dorment.

 

[Clint]

You should make a cross and call it S. x 'super expensive' lmao

 

[Not a Number]

Okay, I looked again. The S. flava and the S. 'Tarnok' divisions appear to be showing some growth activity.

How do I distinguish a flower stalk from a leaf in the beginning stages? Both of these and my S. leucophylla divisions should be from mature plants.

 

[Clint]

It has a big bud on the tip... You see the bud before you see the stalk.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Yes Not a number you will definately see a difference. The leaves just look different. I hope someone can take a picture for you. I will nto have time for the next 3 days. between work and school.

 

[Pyro]

Been seein' bud peeking on some of my plants for a month or so now. 'Fraid this new cold snap might frost them

 

[Not a Number]

The shoots look pretty much the same: either flat and hook shaped or cone shaped with a longish spindly point. Some are reddish, some are green, some are red and green.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Those sound like leaves NOT a number. You will definately see a bud popping out from the center of the crown. Last year was the first time I had flowers and you can definately see a different. Again I will try to get pictures for you on friday.

 

[cool85k5]

I have 6 blooms(leuco Tarnok) so far,temps dipping in the 20s.



Jerry

 

[Not a Number]

I think my S. 'Dana's Delight' is sending up a flower - there's a growth that looks like a tiny pink Brussels sprout maybe 1/4 inch across.

 

[Drosera36]

It looks like this.

-Ben