As I mentioned in the previous post, I recently purchased two new Sarracenia from Lowes. I still don’t know what they are, but I finally got around to taking some pictures. Here are some pictures of the whole plants:
And here is a closeup of one of the new pitchers:
If anyone knows what this is, please let me know.
I thought that I would put in some historical items to help get things started here. This dates back to last spring. My friend Dave got ahold of several Cephalotus plants. Because he is a nice guy, he passed one on to me. I should point out that at this point I had no experience with Cephalotus.
I had read that you can keep Cephalotus outside, so I put it on my front porch along with my flytraps and my Sarracenia. I also removed the plastic cd-r box which was covering the plant. This is where the trouble started.
The weather was particularly windy at this time, but I thought that this would not be a problem (Wrong).
After a couple of days (and following the correct watering instructions) I noticed that the traps were closed–I thought that this was a little odd but perhaps not out of the ordinary. Then some of the leaves started to turn a little silvery, which I definitely took as a bad sign indeed.
I immediately brought the plant back into the house and put is on a table where it could get morning sun (right next to my Nepenthes ventricosa) and put its plastic ‘dome’ back on. Sadly, leaves and traps continued to die off until there seemed to be nothing left.
But, this story has a happy ending. There was one bud that survived the ill-treatment, and the rhizome must have been in good shape as well, because, over the next weeks, it began to sprout new leaves and traps.
Since that time, it has been living on the same table and continues to do well to this day.
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