@tippitiwichet how deep are your pots, love? i can't tell in these photos but these are long-rooted beasties and you'll likely get better results if they have more legroom than a "normal" pot provides.

@fernfren Oh, those are the little pots I put them in for easy transplanting, they have mesh sides and yes, the roots are starting to peek out the sides. They'll go in a 6" pot soon, I'll just drop the mesh pot in. They were in a community pot until spring, I figure this way I can drop them in a pot and next time I want to freshen the substrate, I can lift the little pot out and drop it in fresh stuff with relatively little disturbance.

@tippitiwichet mesh pots sound like a good idea for the home-grower/hobbyist. HFT experimented with mesh early on and came to regret it-- but they're a commercial nursey, so their needs are different.

i am a bit skeptical tbh, i feel like it would inhibit root growth, but i will not go to battle on that hill. you just keep posting so i can vicariously see how it's going. 🙃

photos incoming...

@fernfren No worries, this is simply one stage in experimentation. I have clones of the same plants in various spots, they're doing better than the setup I had, but that absolutely does not mean I'm done fidgeting.

@fernfren I see what you're seeing now, I think. That's not sepals facing each other, but rather a few super tiny leaves playing spoons with each other. Cool, hope it forms a root, looks like it will be easy to divide when it's ready.

@tippitiwichet yeah exactly. i think when you first posted a pic a while back, it was a smooth round nubby-- but those pointy bits there-- them's leaves.

i don't have too much experience dividing sarracenia at my friends' nursery. i mostly divide and pot up the flytraps bc they sell like hotcakes and they practically fall into separate plants at the slightest pull.

sarracenia can get a lil mad about it, so it's best to divide just before dormancy breaks.

@tippitiwichet in fact, i read recently that when you're repotting in the early spring, if you rough up the rhizome a little bit, make some shallow cuts in the top, it'll sprout a new pup from there.

not sure if i'll try that, or want to divide mine any time soon. i just want them to swell into giant happy clumps and fill the bog

@fernfren I probably won't do a full division until spring, but last fall I nipped just a tiny bit off of a few plants for "backup" and that's how I got the glorious looking one. So, I will probably do something similar, but that's all going to depend on how the year goes.

@fernfren I did the little pots because I read it recommended elsewhere, and it is indeed excellent to root cuttings in, but hearing a grower didn't have good luck with them puts them in the "experimental" group, and I don't want my mother plants there. So, I went ahead and divided her even though it's a little later than I would have done that, because she's still def in the "burst of growth" phase. I really didn't like how cluttered she was with little phylum, so now she's under the new light.

@tippitiwichet yeah, HFT read abt mesh somewhere too-- maybe same place, idk. but the roots got embedded and tangled in the mesh and made it harder to divide and propagate.

the mesh was also metal-- theirs was anyway-- and when metal corrodes (as it do in wet conditions) it releases salts, which are... less than ideal for our delicate beauties. i'm not really sure what the mesh recommender was on abt, maybe they published too soon in their own experiment.

@fernfren Hmm. Mine are plastic, and the "mesh" part is a long slit, so I might not have that issue. Either way, I'll let the babies root in it (breathes well), and then I'm going to keep half the cuttings in a mesh pot and move the others into a 6", so I can compare them. :)