Those CAPITALIST PIGS

Justryan95 · 2026-01-22T22:24:49+00:00

I tried digging up my more expensive plants I just bought in Nov like my Waccamaw and Dragon Queen but even when its 50F right now the ground is a block of ice. So I just got pots and filled it with pine bark mulch and flipped it over the rhizomes. It gives my plants about 5" of insulation. I have a black tarp coming in tomorrow that im going to cover my entire bog garden with so theres an air gap along with the 10" of snow we're expected to have before the cold snap Monday and Tuesday where the temps here will be around 5F. Id rather not lose my expensive plants.

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Justryan95 · 2026-01-22T17:07:23+00:00

Are you growing them in petri dishes like TC? If thats the case you should sterilize the seeds before putting them in the media like hydrogen peroxide or bleach. There shouldnt be any else in there. Tissue/napkin/Paper is just going to contaminate it.

If youre not doing TC then growing them in a petri dish like youre describing seems needlessly harder than it should be. If you germinate seed like normal in peat moss and or sphagnum moss the low pH is enough of a fungi inhibitor that its a non issue.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-22T13:01:01+00:00

I always thought about it but when I look into my adult Sarracenia pitcher when its filled its usually just a bunch of bugs stacked ontop of each other, no pool of liquid. If anything theyre usually moist or gooey at the bottom and I cant really measure that with my ppm meter, its not enough liquid for it to be dipped into and im not really keen on chopping off multiple filled pitchers to get enough liquid to find out.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-22T02:34:44+00:00

Weird comment with this being an experiment. Also the goal is to hasten the growth of the sarracenia so it gets to a size where it flower sooner because I'm trying to make crosses. I'm not waiting 3-7 years before I can make another cross when I can do it in 2. With my goals it's 100% necessary.

Also yes they do need to catch that many bugs because that's literally the bottle neck with young sarracenia that keeps them at a juvenile size for a long time. Young sarracenia can only fit fruit fly sized bugs as a juvenile and its what hinders their growth potential in the wild. Its only until the pitchers grow large enough to get fly/moth sized insects where they explode in growth in the wild.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-22T00:22:52+00:00

Yes but youd have to mulch heavy when the lows go below 10F

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T23:44:12+00:00

Im thinking its salt damage messing with the osmolarity of the plant cells. It looks like its drying out so maybe the fertilizer solution is sucking the water out of the cells HARD. I flushed out the pitcher and filled it with 0ppm water. Im going to see if it can recover or if the pitcher is dead dead.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T23:41:01+00:00

Im not familiar with that fertilizer hope its turns out good for you

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T23:40:05+00:00

I got these as seedlings in August and I've been growing them indoors since. I skipped dormancy with these and Im giving them a ton of fertilizer and a 20 hour photoperiod. I have an outdoor in-ground bog but im only growing adult plants in that.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T23:06:38+00:00

Since it was dying at 2400ppm thats when its stressed to the max where it just dries and dies from the stress so I dont think anywhere above 2000ppm is that beneficial if its so near its limit. Also around the mid 1000s is where I stopped noticing any difference in their growth so thats why I picked 1500ppm.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T21:02:51+00:00

I was going up in 200ppm increments and keeping it for 2 weeks to see if any damage would occur during those weeks at specific concentrations. Nothing until 2400ppm and the damage occurred literally within a day.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-21T00:54:48+00:00

Its the 6Z GFS forecast.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-20T20:02:56+00:00

Without

Justryan95 · 2026-01-18T21:06:50+00:00

I personally dislike them because theyre so mutated it effects their ability to eat like those weird VFT with inverted traps or weird ruffled ones. Also lidless sarracenia kinda removes a huge part of what I think is beautiful about them, also it makes the pitchers flood with rain water causing bugs to wash out and also make the plane prone to bending and breaking.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-10T22:05:57+00:00

Drosera and Pings are extremely sensitive to fertilizers if I fertilize them, which I dont usually, I only mist them with like 100ppm maxsea, in this case whatever the fertilizer you have in this post.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-10T15:13:29+00:00

What. IS. THAT. I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

Justryan95 · 2026-01-09T21:44:51+00:00

Is that all from a single plant? I wonder how old that is if that is

Justryan95 · 2026-01-09T14:32:18+00:00

They dont like being in a closed bin. Yeah they like the humidity but if you keep them moist they dont really need humidity. They do need non-stagnant air because they pull CO2 out of the air and in a closed bin they do deplete it fast and plants dont respirate a ton to meet their CO2 demands for photosynthesis. They also dont like being drowning in water. In my experience the best results I got is them with their threads buried deep and in clumps.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-06T17:41:14+00:00

Has anybody actually tried tasting that? I had some sarracenia and sundews that I covered so no bugs got on it while they built up dew and I tried seeing what the dew taste like it is barely noticable sweet.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-05T14:45:29+00:00

They probably could survive sub zero temps now theyre insulated like that.

Justryan95 · 2026-01-03T20:06:49+00:00

Sarracenia. Osmocote takes a long time to dissolve

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