Today I went to the garden store and rescued a couple of particularly horribly cared for sarracenia, a 'bug bat' and a 'carolina yellow jacket,' although based on this particular garden store's really serious lack of expertise on the plants I am not entirely certain that they actually ARE said cultivars. When I asked about whether the plants would go into dormancy naturally here despite our relatively warm winters, I was told that they were "tropical" plants that needed to be kept in very warm temperatures year round or they would die. That, obviously, is wrong. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the plants were bone dry, dry enough that I would water my drought-hardy succulents extra if they were as dry as these poor pitcher plants. For what it's worth, the plants do not appear to be in too bad of condition considering the circumstances (dormancy and being dried out) and clearly WERE healthy before their mistreatment.
I have repotted the plants using a mix of about 70% spaghnum peat moss, 15% perlite, and 15% wet long-fibered sphagnum and watered them a lot, and left them sitting temporarily in shallow but full makeshift water dishes. Tomorrow I am going to look around other local hardware and garden stores until I find deeper water dishes for them. Is there anything else I can do to save these plants?
'bug bat'
'carolina yellow jacket'
I have repotted the plants using a mix of about 70% spaghnum peat moss, 15% perlite, and 15% wet long-fibered sphagnum and watered them a lot, and left them sitting temporarily in shallow but full makeshift water dishes. Tomorrow I am going to look around other local hardware and garden stores until I find deeper water dishes for them. Is there anything else I can do to save these plants?
'bug bat'
'carolina yellow jacket'