Hi again, Technically, a month ago was the time for dormancy. Actually, it's a gradual process that begins in the summer, as the photoperiod decreases, followed by decreasing temps. There seems to be two ways of thinking about dormancy. The first is the several month process and the second is the 3 month sleep. This is what I did: I bought a VFT in June of '03. After struggling to figure out how to take care of it, I kept it at work, in a cleaned out plastic pretzel container, filled with an inch of Deionized water (I work at a lab). It was uncovered and placed on a window sill. The .25" traps grew to 1", even as the photoperiod was declining. The window sill, throughout the Fall, was also getting cooler, down to the mid-50's. In November, I brought it home and placed in my kitchen window sill, between the windows, with the outer one open. I wa trying to get the temp cooler, but not too cool. Unfortuantely, I was also getting "greenhouse effect". So I moved it and others to the screened in porch, where it was colder still. In December we had a cold snap and the media froze. So I moved the already cold plants to the fridge, into the butter keeper, until February. then I moved them to the lab fridge for a couple more weeks. Then back to the coolish window sill, where it began to wake up. A few weeks later I moved them to outside. I was then rewarded with flowers. They stayed outside all spring through the Fall, which would have been a better approach had I known about it. They are in a lab fridge right now. Once the plants have gone through the slow, several month process of less light and temps, they can, if your climate is too cold, be put in a fridge. You DON't want to take a plant that is 70 degrees and toss them into a 40 degree environment. These plants need gradual acclimation to cooling, warming, humidity, etc.. The Sarracenia pitcher plants can be treated similarly as to a VFT. They need lots of light, but not at this time of year.
You live a little south of me. I am in Reading, PA. I recommend a window sill and let nature bring them around again. If it produces a flower, having not being put through dormancy, I would cut it off this year, until you can get it through its natural cycle of growth and dormancy.