Spring has sprung

[sarracenia]

Finally moved all my plants outside - no danger of frost in Missouri for at least a week (knock on wood). In the sunlight, I noticed probably close to 70 flowers poking up. Have some S. flava that decided dormancy was enough back in January. Those stalks are about a foot high now, but every thing else is just surfacing. I noticed my Ladies in Waiting has two flowers on it, a rubra x moorei with about 9 flowers coming up from one plant - and it's not even that old, maybe 6 years; and some I've been impatiently waiting to flower for breeding purposes, such as oreophila x psittacina, flava x psittacina, oreophila x willisii, mardi gras, and hummer's hammerhead. Anyway, I needed a cheering up, and this was definitely it. How are everyone else's Sarra's looking, in more northerly areas?

 

[eplants02]

Hmmmm....my S. Dixie Lace is beginning to grow but no signs of flowers but there will be.

 

[The Griffin]

I like your Sarracenia, especially S. "Bug Scoop", lol.

Joe

 

[Alvin Meister]

Well I've got just two flower buds developing at the moment - one on a 'Ladies in Waiting' and another on a catesbaei x minor. Another 5 plants should flower this year and I'm awaiting the arrival of about 15 new plants. Hopefully lots of these will have flowers.

 

[alandallas]

Two of my S. purpureas, three leucophyllas and six minors are showing new buds. I seem to be constantly going out to the patio to check on the progress of all of the small red and green new-growth points coming up from the rhizomes.

I envy you folks who live in sunny Florida.

 

[FlytrapGurl]

How come everybody has Sarr. flowers except me? My purpurea hasn't ever bloomed any flowers at all... ?

 

[schloaty]

Flytrapgurl,
Mine haven't flowered yet either. Don't feel picked on.

 

[ludwig777]

What an exciting time of year for Sarracenia growers! All of mine are quickly coming out of dormancy and many flowers forming; my S. purpurea is flowering for the first time

, it's pitchers never died this year, just turned a deep deep purple color, very nice. My flava scapes seem to grow by the hour. I'm very fortunate to live in a climate where I just leave the plants outdoors year-round and nature takes good care of their dormancy requirements; all I need to give is the right water and soil, no bother with moving pots, gro-lights, danger of frost, etc. I think my temps here in San Diego are similar to their habitat. My friend had 3-foot flavas on his patio last year, where they live all year. A far cry from Nepenthes culture!