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When you say filtered water what do you mean? You want to use only R.O. water or distilled or rainwater unless your TDS reading is 50ppm or lower. That may be your issue.

Didn't miss your point at all. Why so angry??? I'm not new to CPs. I have experience too.

My plants are NOT IN A BOG, they are in pots. I'll stick with fridge dormancy, it works perfectly. Thanks.

Yes there is an explanation, it's too cold here and we get repeated freeze/thaw cycles in winter and it gets at times to near 0 F. By mid to late October my plants go into the fridge. I've been growing my VFTs that way for over 13 years now without a single loss. Yes purpurea can survive very...

As I said before I already tried it once and lost all my sarrs. No need to get defensive, I wasn't accusing anyone of anything here.

I fell for that once and won't fall for it again. Again, I lost all my sarracenia a few years ago. Never again.

I'm in zone 6. If the sarracenia won't survive here (including my purpurea!) no way this plant will.

I would love to just leave them outside but there is no way it would survive the winter here where I am. Especially in a pot. I lost all my sarracenia a few years ago because someone said I could leave them out. They were wrong, I lost over 2 dozen plants. Never again.

That's what I will do then, repot the main plant, sow the gemmae and pop them the fridge. Thanks for the help, this is my first grandiflora so I'd like to have it survive. Tom

Thanks for replying. It can get to single digits here and we have many freeze / thaw cycles as well, do you think it would survive that? It's in a small 3" pot.

Hi folks. I got my first grandiflora over winter and it was great in spring but once the weather got too hot it stopped growing and made it's hibernacula. I noticed today that it also produced some gemmae as well. I'll keep the plant in the shade for now and in the fall give it fridge dormancy...

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Hit them with a SULPHUR based fungicide mixed half strength. I've been using it for 13 years with no problems at all.

Probably the garbage sadly. But at least they had a good life.

Bonide and I mix it at around 1/4 to 1/2 strength. Wow, 45 degrees should be just fine, fridges are typically 38-40 F.

Well I believe in growing them as close to their natural way as possible and to me that means they get dormancy every year. It's unnatural for them NOT to get dormancy. It makes zero sense to me to not give them dormancy. But whatever floats people's boats I guess.

No problem. For VFTs, I drain off excess water from the pots, hit them with a sulphur based fungicide and place in zip lock bags and pop them in the fridge for 3 to 3 1/2 months. I occasionally check them (once a month) for fungus and hit with the fungicide if needed. Late winter around...

Well I don't regurgitate and I've been growing them for over 12 years now and doing the fridge dormancy method with no losses. To each his own I guess. Good luck!

I tried growing some of mine in LFSM last year and didn't really see any difference in growth. Some say the roots and plants grow bigger but I didn't see that at all. I switched them back to peat/perlite this year. I prefer peat/perlite mix. It's much easier to clean off the roots too, LFSM is a...

It reminds me of a zinnia flower. VERY nice!