Carnivorous Plants - Late Autumn Tidyup in the Greenhouse 2024

[@terryw1795]

Always down to earth and interesting, good video

[@SarraceniaCrave]

Love the content!

[@JarMaster]

Great video!

[@davidb5255]

Thanks!

[@pauljarvis7386]

Hi, this is perfect timing for me…I have just started a sarracenia collection in my greenhouse, I have about 10 large and the rest are seedlings, all sitting in trays, would you switch to capillary matting throughout the winter or keep them sitting in water, just worried about rotting…cheers David keep the content coming its much appreciated!

[@davidb5255]

I keep mine sitting in trays of water throughout the winter, although maybe not as much as the evaporation is less. Even in winter the greenhouse can get quite warm and you don't want then drying out, especially if you don't check on then every day. The water also helps protect the roots if it gets frosty. In the wild they would be sitting in wet or boggy ground during the winter so just mirror what they get in nature. Obviously keep an eye out for any appearence of mould or growing tips that may suddently go brown, including pitchers that die back from the bottom up rather than the other way around. Rot in my experience only happens if something like mould gets into the rhyzone or the rhyzome freezes through on some of the more tender Sarracenias which can happen if you get a very severe and prolonged cold freezing spell. This has only happened once to me when it got down to -8'C one year and I had some Rubra plants outside. The once in the greenhouse however were fine.

[@pauljarvis7386]

@ thanks mate much appreciated for you sharing your knowledge with me.