Should You Cut Off Sarracenia Flowers?

[@tedfuchs9132]

Got my first order from your business recently. Was very impressed with the quality of the Sundews I had ordered. Large and healthy. I've never had any nursery take the amount of care with the packing of the plants either. Very well done. Looking forward to ordering more!

[@tkmccoywv]

I planted an old wheelbarrow full of Sarracenia three years ago, and two 30 gallon barrels two years ago. I have LOADS of flower buds coming up! Exciting :)

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

My S. Tarnok is going to bloom this year....my first flower ever from a sarracenia! I am so excited! And no, i wont need to cut it off since this is its second year with me. Thank you for all the great info and beautiful photography on your channel. I've learned even more watching! Keep up the good work! 😊

[@Tommyr]

Thank you for making new videos. I miss the monthly videos.

[@tkmccoywv]

So do I. I love their videos.

[@buggsy5]

Just look for the monthly care videos from previous years - little changes from year to year.

[@volvos70t51]

Many thanks, I have just purchased some Sarracenia species........yes during lock down, they were dumped at my front door (Schnell's ghost, Flava burgundy red, Flava var maxima and some others).......this video has helped me so much, the weather has turned perfect here in the UK for growing these but all the new plants (except Burgundy red which is growing two very fast growing pitchers with no flowers) are showing exactly what you showed in your video, so i will cut the flower stems tomorrow............thanks for all your great videos, best wishes and stay safe! :-)

[@dogwater696]

very helpful video, my plant recently had it's first flower bud and was wondering what to do.

[@SarraceniaNorthwest]

Glad the video was helpful! Make sure to also watch our monthly care videos for growing tips throughout the year. www.growcarnivorousplants.com/monthly-carnivorous-plant-care/

[@mikestern1029]

I really like the different videos you make great information

[@ScaryFear]

Hi Jeff. Have you lost weight? That's great you sound great too. Good to see you. I'm excited about Sarracenia season this year. I love seeing your pools all lined up. Long time subscriber here. I still have all your DVDs.

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Just found your channel. Glad for the useful info on pitcher plants. Ours look a bit worse for the wear having barely survived the squirrels 🐿. Who ate through some pitchers in search of the bugs. Not good!

[@christiesilva6918]

Thank you for this information, didn.t know this

[@night6573]

Can sarracenia self pollinate?

[@coolestdude11111]

NIGHT they can be self pollinated by hand, but the flowers are designed in such a way that they will not self pollinate in their own

[@night6573]

rduke thank you

[@buggsy5]

They can, very poorly. I have seen pods that had only a couple of seeds in them.

[@AlanMota303]

Man I'm still unsure if I should start potting up my plants with chicagos unpredictable weather but then again I have sum tolerant sarracenias

[@buggsy5]

Yes, they are far more tolerant to weather extremes than the books and many videos make them out to be.

[@danielbohonek8086]

Hey I’m Danny from Scotland. I just bought a Sarracenia Lucophylis. How would I care for this plant ?

[@buggsy5]

Buy Jacob Farin's eBook on carnivorous plant care. It will have all the answers you need and costs only something like $10.

[@kimwolf5053]

I couldn't watch any longer. The scissors came out. I was traumatized. No, just joking. Needs must. People don't realise that sarra flowers are stunning and people should be growing them just for the flowers! Love your videos. A pity we are on the other side of the world, going into winter. We'll have to take a trip to see them in the wild. Cheers Kim

[@lehigomez8044]

I received a plant from a show and right now it had dead ones still attached pretty long but some of the flowers look like the ones in the video. Do I remove the dead leaves the long ones or do I remove the flower? Or just remove all at once and let it grow?

[@coolestdude11111]

Lehi Gomez Like he said in the video, I would remove the flower as it’s a fresh division. As for the pitchers, it depends on what species you have. If it’s a sarracenia flava variety, do not cut off any small green leaves curled against the ground, those are phylodia which produce energy for the plant. Only remove those if they are dead. If it’s a purpurea or psittacina, only remove dead pitchers. If it’s anything else, you can just cut back all the leaves to the rhizome

[@lehigomez8044]

rduke thanks ! I just looked in my photos and found the name of the plant it’s a Flava. The leaves around them are about a foot long or close to it. The tips were dead and before I took it home they yanked them off. So now I just have leaves which doesn’t look like they’re growing. But for the bud it’s growing very quickly. I really do appreciate your feedback it helps out a lot on my journey here.

[@patrickjordan8373]

A parallel topic would be that if a plant can tolerate severe pruning, will they recover from animal grazing? Do rabbits or deer find Sarracenia to be tasty?

[@DanteTimberwolf]

From my experience they will recover. I've had issues with lubber grasshoppers every summer but when lubber season is over the pitcher plants recover like nothing ever happened.

[@vaccinefraud5570]

@@DanteTimberwolf Thanks. I'm just gunshy investing in plants that have an initially high investment cost. One year I put in the most cold hardy bamboo available because Illinois had 4 years of the warmest winters. Of course: that winter there was an arctic blast that went below their threshold and wiped out my entire planting.

[@ronj9448]

The flowers stink. So I cut them off. On the varieties I grow they have a rotting smell. Maybe that is great for attracting insects but whew.

[@SarraceniaNorthwest]

Thank you for watching. You might be mixing this plant up with a voodoo lily, which is not at all carnivorous. Flowers on Sarracenia have a sweet scent. Sarracenia flava is the anomaly with its flowers smelling similar to cat urine. But none of the Sarracenia flowers have a scent akin to rotting meat. Watch our video about the voodoo lily. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHawqn57dtWsq80

[@ronj9448]

@@SarraceniaNorthwest Hi, thanks for replying. I bought from you Sarracenia flava subcorpora. So we would agree that it smells bad. Cat urine or rotting meat? When it happens in your house,😁 then we're splitting hairs. My pots normally stay outside except in the coldest months but one year I didn't put them back out in time and they flowered indoors. The smell that greeted me coming home from work was a disaster. Lesson learned. Thanks guys!

[@melissa27292]

Just cut mine off...man was that hard..lol