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Post by dvg on Aug 23, 2019 19:02:12 GMT
Only had her for a short while, but she is a muse for inspiration.  Ahhh...'Judith Hindle'...you're the beauty to behold,beyond being described - words dive, but too shallowly,to plunge that deep inside.The seers confessed, if truth be told -their bared sight with your beauty bold,commingles and collides!
dvg
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Post by dvg on Apr 8, 2020 18:56:07 GMT
This is the only Sarracenia in my collection, and it managed to survive the winter, despite being frozen twice. The first freeze happened last fall when I forgot to bring her in at night, and the -7°c night time low, left the top soil frozen and almost all of the water in the tray frozen solid. The second freeze occurred in the root cellar when outside lows plummeted down to -37°c, with the root cellar dropping to -3°c...discovered that after three days of the cold weather and that time all of the water in the tray, about an inch or so, was completely frozen solid. Read up on this cultivar after those accidental freezes and read that she was able to tolerate light frosts, so was hoping that she'd survive these two frosty encounters. About a week after she was removed from her winter slumber, 'Judith Hindle' was repotted into a larger pot, and her old dead growth was pruned away. Only the old green growth was left behind, to help promote this year's new growth.  The new growth is pushing up new pitchers and a couple of flowers so far.  Decided to allow the flowers to flower, and will update again when they open.  dvg |
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Post by stevebooth on Apr 8, 2020 19:43:30 GMT
They are pretty tough plants, mine have .been down to minus 15C for a day or so before now without loss, but definitely not recommended.
Cheers
Steve
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Post by dvg on May 14, 2020 3:59:03 GMT
Dug back into the photo archives and found this update of the first pitchers and flower to develop earlier this season.  Wasn't sure at first if i was going to let this plant flower, but decided to see the flower(s), so...  Since then, a second flower bloomed and new pitchers are finally again shooting skyward. Here is a recent gif of this year's first growth to emerge, pitchers now opened.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Aug 5, 2020 0:45:10 GMT
An August update on this clone.  Last year's pitchers are flopping to the right; the pitchers are removed when they are mostly brown and thus not photosynthetically productive anymore. dvg |
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Post by dvg on Aug 11, 2020 19:47:44 GMT
Whilst pruning away some dead wood, i spied some soft brown scale on most of the old pitchers. So after a bit more pruning, this is how she is looking today.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Aug 13, 2020 23:15:09 GMT
The newest and largest pitcher to open is a bumblebee magnet. I rescued two yesterday and another two today.  And whilst shooting a moment ago, another bumblebee arrived to visit various pitchers, before departing off safely again.  dvg |
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Post by stevebooth on Aug 14, 2020 15:20:39 GMT
Pick a longish strand of grass and stand that in the pitcher, it saves many trips to and from the pitcher to save them, which inevitably you wont do, but it does mean almost everything else gets away too.
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Post by dvg on Aug 14, 2020 18:02:42 GMT
Rescued another bumblebee this morning, using the same dandelion flower stalk.
They really do find Judith's pitchers to be irresistibly alluring.
dvg
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Post by dvg on Jul 22, 2022 21:19:56 GMT
Judith is beginning to make some nice pitchers now.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Sept 2, 2022 1:21:06 GMT
A pic from today:  dvg |
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