I'm starting to like picher plants!

[SFLguy]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

The flower is really neat! I have not gotten mine to flower...hopefully, someday.

I can't take the credit for that flower, it was already blooming size when I got it, I just started up some S. Flava seedlings though
Also, one major point I forgot to mention, sarracenia need a dormancy period, this dormancy is triggered by lower levels of light as the result of winter approaching (and to a much smaller degree, lower temperature)

[Daethen]

I just want one of all of the ones you have pictured. They are absolutely gorgeous!!! I have one lonely pitcher that is growing new leaves and pitchers like crazy but the older leaves are gradually turning brown.

[SFLguy]

Originally Posted by Daethen

I just want one of all of the ones you have pictured. They are absolutely gorgeous!!! I have one lonely pitcher that is growing new leaves and pitchers like crazy but the older leaves are gradually turning brown.

Do you know what kind of sarr you have by any chance? How much light is it getting? What kind of water?

[Daethen]

Mine is a Nepanthes (sp). Not sure the exact species. I use only distilled water. It is in my shadehouse. It gets morning sun then partially shaded light the rest of the day. It has some nice sized pitchers and is catching bugs.

[Subrosa]

Provided you get sufficient rain and can locate them to get enough sun, the easiest way to grow Sarracenia in most of the lower 48 is outside year round. Here in the mid Atlantic I grow numerous species and hybrids both in ground and in half barrels without any provision for winter protection. S. leucophylla doesn't like wintering in the barrels but survives. The other species and hybrids I have don't miss a beat in either situation. I don't grow S. rosea which are less cold hardy than leucophylla. A friend grows a wide variety in the Boston area, and I know of other bogs in even colder areas that house Sarracenia with normal mulching for winter protection. Barrels can be kept on wheels and rolled into an unheated garage for protection in cold weather. In normal rainfall years I don't have to water my half barrels, although this spring has been very dry and I did have to fill them once. This makes Sarracenia about the easiest plant to keep for me. Day to day care of a half barrel is almost non existent. There's weeding, and the occasional removal of spent pitchers and other plant parts, but other than these, spring clean up and occasionally draining excess water after heavy storms the barrels are almost maintenance free.

[tarev]

I have two Sarracenias. Sarracenia purpurea and Sarracenia psittacina. Both likes as much full sun it can get, and I sit them in distilled water. I leave them outdoors in winter, they do need that winter dormancy and I find Sarracenia purpurea is faster in waking up from its winter dormancy, than Sarracenia psittacina. Both are awake now, though Sarracenia purpurea is much bigger. When I got my Sarracenia psittacina last year, it was in bloom, and I just really love the upside down umbrella like blooms it had which lasted for about the whole of summer. Sarracenia purpurea pitchers are more upright growing, while psittacina will eventually go recumbent.
Sarracenia psittacina last Sept 2014


Sarracenia psittacina waking up from its winter slumber slowly


Sarracenia purpurea this Spring, grows so fast, gets those veined markings as it continues to mature and get full sun.


I also have a Nepenthes densiflora x spathulata x spectabile..really cute, leaves looks like the color of apples. It has successfully formed a new pitcher and there are several more pitchers forming now. When I initially got it this Feb, it only has that one red pitcher. As temps go warmer now, it is creating more. Just got to maintain the moss always moist and I use distilled water for that. For now I have it growing indoors near our west facing window. I also have a nearby electric kettle that spews moisture towards it when it boils. I think it helps.
When I first got it in Feb this year:

eventually it has started to form a new pitcher


New pitcher is now fully formed, still in light green color but the lid is now open

closer look of new pitcher with lid open

I am trying to observe when it will fully go into that red color. So far the red hue is just near the lip area.

[My Green Pets]

The big green flavas with the purple throats are my favorites, but the green white one (leucophylla?) SFL posted made me sit up in my chair !

Btw how do you say that, I always have said loo-koh-FY-lah.

[Optimist]

Wow, those colors! I noticed that blackjungle terrarium supply has a sale on sarcs at the moment. Including the white one, the deep red and green. The half barrels with wheels are a great idea. I wanted to do some kind of bog garden Because I also have some japanese iris.

[SFLguy]

@tarev I'd give your plant a bit more light if you want to see it color up as much as that other pitcher (subrosa can correct me if I'm wrong I have much less Nepenthes experience)
@CambriaWhat I've always pronounced it loo-soh-fee-lah just because I probably use more French or Spanish in the pronunciation, that particular white plant is from a now extinct population. The plants are called S. leucophylla hurricane creek white (look up Leucophylla Hurricane Creek White Clone F)

[SFLguy]

@optimist If you're interested, a great bog orchid that I want to get eventually is a calopogon tuberosus and I also want to get a Lily: Lilium catesbaei
@tarev also, why do you have that glass around the plant? Is it for humidity? If so, it's not necessary for sarracenia :P
@CambriaWhat have you seen the flava var. atropurpurea?

I added names under the pictures by the way