Celia, the purple pitcher hybrid on the right in the first pic, is a weed (the young peach tinted veinless traps can deepen to look like tequila sunrise). Hitchiked her way here in some live moss, is named after Celia in Weeds, 'cause tequila sunrise. She made me very happy by giving me my very first Sarracenia flower bud, which made me super excited, and I thought it would come up before her spring pitchers. Yet, she holds it firmly shut, still, in pic 2. Sigh.
@tippitiwichet flower buds shoot up on tall stalks that hang well above the pitchers (so they don't accidentally eat their pollinators. with that being down in the crown/rhizome still, i think it might be a new pup forming. at this point it doesn't look like a flower bud. The stalks emerge with little balls at the tip that swell as they grow upward then the neck turns down and they open. i had a few abort when it got hot/maybe a bit too dry.
@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.
@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.
@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...