i was out for awhile today with my fiancee since i was on call for work and was just waiting to be called in, we stopped at the greenhouse supply store up here, and i go in every now and then to see what plants they have...usually good sized S. flava and flytraps, this time they had some huge Darlingtonia, various Sarracenia, and the ever so typical flytraps...
one sarracenia stuck out like a sore thumb to me, and sure enough when i checked the tag, it was an S. oreophila, i was a bit dumb found as to why this particular supplier would be selling this particular species out to this greenhouse (hes a local guy, though i have never met him.)
So rather than risk it dying in the greenhouse from ill care, or ending up in the hands of some child who knows nothing about growing them, i said screw it and spent the 25$ and picked it up...the leaves were covered in the overspray of fertilizer from the plants growing next to it, so when i got home, i washed off as much of it as i could....and if it can be verified as a definite oreo, that would be great...the phyllodia definitely look like oreo phyllodia, and nothing like flava.
So its relaxing with my other S. oreophila, and hopefully will start to grow well, it had no developing pitchers when i got it...
Here it is, and also some pics of my other oreo....
the whole plant just after i got it home...before cleaning off all of the fertilizer over spray...
and here is my other oreophila, nowhere near the size it was last year, lol...stupid cappy weather
one sarracenia stuck out like a sore thumb to me, and sure enough when i checked the tag, it was an S. oreophila, i was a bit dumb found as to why this particular supplier would be selling this particular species out to this greenhouse (hes a local guy, though i have never met him.)
So rather than risk it dying in the greenhouse from ill care, or ending up in the hands of some child who knows nothing about growing them, i said screw it and spent the 25$ and picked it up...the leaves were covered in the overspray of fertilizer from the plants growing next to it, so when i got home, i washed off as much of it as i could....and if it can be verified as a definite oreo, that would be great...the phyllodia definitely look like oreo phyllodia, and nothing like flava.
So its relaxing with my other S. oreophila, and hopefully will start to grow well, it had no developing pitchers when i got it...
Here it is, and also some pics of my other oreo....
the whole plant just after i got it home...before cleaning off all of the fertilizer over spray...
and here is my other oreophila, nowhere near the size it was last year, lol...stupid cappy weather