I’m living in an apartment and the only way I can get 5 hours of sun is by hanging. So I doubt the mini method would work for me :/It looks like some kind of Purpura hybrid to me. Fridge dormancys do not work well in my experience. I can't tell you how many vft's I've lost to it. You might want to build a terrarium so that you could control the light cycle and lower the temperature to put it in dormancy. The compressor from a mini fridge might do the trick. I've never done that myself though. You could also get a small refrigerator with a glass door, which would allow the plant to photosynthesize. Which is usually the problem with vft's in a fridge.
You MIGHT be able to add some osmocote to the pitchers but never the soil. I hope that helps.
That makes sense now! I used to have a Sarracenia Flava and the amount of ants trapped was so much until it almost overflowed.Ants tend to go only for plants either producing a lot of nectar, or specific species like S. minor. The purpurea complex is perfectly capable of catching its own food, but other organisms.
Thanks!My S. purpurea and S. rosea have never caught nearly as many bugs as the upright species. They still grow well though.
First off, you don't need to buy any insects to feed your plants; even if they catch nothing, they will still grow without any additive nutrients (they just do better with some insects, or a weak fertilizer shot). Secondly, at this point in the year, don't force it into dormancy (unless you're in the southern hemisphere and then you still should have several months), just let it grow. And when it is time for the next dormant period, leave the green growth and just stick it in a bag in the fridge (best to try and ease it into dormancy somehow, either with cooler water added perhaps or other, and some people like to bare-root Sarrs in tropical regions to store them).