sassin rassin frassin

[schloaty]

Man! I was all excited for the flower on my purpurea. I think it's venosa (Home Depot rescue), but this would have been the proof. Also, it was my largest bud of any of the sar scapes this year - almost as large as a ping pong ball.

Giant down pour broke it off! WAHHHHH!

 

[WildBill]

Sorry Schloaty -

Similar thing happened to me yesterday. We had a crazy fastmoving thunderstorm come thru which knocked my Amorphophallus Voodoo lily off the deck. The plant had a 6 foot tall flower stalk about to open. I'd put it outside that day, so it wouldn't stink up the house. The fall bent the stem and snapped 8 inches of the point of the flower off. 5 minutes later it was bright and sunny. Aarrgghh!!

 

[jimscott]

I just decapitated a Nep pitcher while transplanting it. I know... not as devestating. Pitchers don't produce a bazillion seeds. Does it count that a hanging basket collapsed onto this setup, knocking over the trays, destroying the Byblis plants and a few other easily replaceable plants?

This

+ this

= disaster.  

 

[dewy]

Jim, you should write a book called "Jim's series of disastrous disasters."

 

[vft guy in SJ]

I feel for ya.. I had a pitcher on my S flava "Red tube" that got snapped nearly in half one day. I never could figure out what happened to it although I suspect feline intervention here. This was gonna be a really cool pitcher. At the time it got broken it was already as tall as the previous pitcher. It would have easily been a couple inches taller. Interestingly enough, even broken in half, it opened and colored up just like it had grown out normally.

Cheers
Steve

 

[jimscott]

Steve, it's a jungle in there - and a nice looking jungle at that!

Dewy: LOL!

 

[PlantAKiss]

Steve...that doesn't look like a flava red tube to me.  That plant has leuco in it.  ??  I have a nice photo of a red tube but I can't post it now since I'm at work. Perhaps yours is a leuco "red tube"?

Yep...plant disaster's are painful.  Especially when its something you were waiting for.  I remember how excited I was waiting for MY VERY FIRST Sarracenia flower to open.  Just before the bud popped, I went out to check it and found it neatly sliced off as if someone had cut it with scissors. I assume squirrels did it.  I was absolutely crushed.

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OK...here is a photo.

http://www.pitcherplant.com/image_folder1/sfla_cforms.html

 

[tommyr]

I laughed out loud when I read your topic name, no offense! I always say
"Racka fraka stakis!"

Cartoons are the best aren't they?!

Tom
(who got his first sarracnias today, a very small rubra and 3 very small purpunia's from Lowes!)