Thanks for the link pansyface (very good) and for the advice to leave the flower buds on Treehugger. I will see what happens to them in the coming weeks - they have been drinking up bottles of rainwater in this hot weather. Just started growing them so rather ignorant of their needs - using sphagnum moss and Perlite 50/50.
Thank you Clarington - do you use rainwater to water yours? I do hope that I will get some flowers. I understand that it is very difficult to pollinate them.
rainwater is good but as long as you don't have hard water tap water can be just as good at a push, water from the top (so that any building up impurities are washed thru) but make sure you have a tray underneath that can hold about 1-2 inches of water, most pitcher plants are fairly hardy bog plants after all,
I have mine growing around my pond along with some Darlingtonia cobra lily's, Venus fly traps and sundews.
most of mine stay outside all year and only get some horticultural fleece chucked over them when the forecast say -5 or less overnight. so pollination is not a problem, I just let the bees get on with it, the flowers are on long stalks so they're far away from the pitchers, but I've never seen a bee get caught by on anyway -plenty of wasps and blue bottles (or midge/mosquito on the sundews)
Thank you Treehugger - I have very hard water so I use rainwater or de-ionised water.
I have 6 pots in a tray and keep them on a sunny patio - am now interested to see how these round flower buds will look when the flowers come out. The ones I have are called purpurea, flava Purple Tube, alata rubrioperculata, farhamii, ,moorei, harperi. I will get some fleece to put over them on cold nights in the winter as you recommend it.
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pitcher plant flowers are some of their best features!!
if you're lucky you'll end up with a hybrid that has strawberry scented flowers!
plus you can collect seed in the autumn and grow your own hybrids!
Thanks for the link pansyface (very good) and for the advice to leave the flower buds on Treehugger. I will see what happens to them in the coming weeks - they have been drinking up bottles of rainwater in this hot weather. Just started growing them so rather ignorant of their needs - using sphagnum moss and Perlite 50/50.
Mine has just flowered - its really very pretty!
Thank you Clarington - do you use rainwater to water yours? I do hope that I will get some flowers. I understand that it is very difficult to pollinate them.
rainwater is good but as long as you don't have hard water tap water can be just as good at a push, water from the top (so that any building up impurities are washed thru) but make sure you have a tray underneath that can hold about 1-2 inches of water, most pitcher plants are fairly hardy bog plants after all,
I have mine growing around my pond along with some Darlingtonia cobra lily's, Venus fly traps and sundews.
most of mine stay outside all year and only get some horticultural fleece chucked over them when the forecast say -5 or less overnight. so pollination is not a problem, I just let the bees get on with it, the flowers are on long stalks so they're far away from the pitchers, but I've never seen a bee get caught by on anyway -plenty of wasps and blue bottles (or midge/mosquito on the sundews)
Thank you Treehugger - I have very hard water so I use rainwater or de-ionised water.
I have 6 pots in a tray and keep them on a sunny patio - am now interested to see how these round flower buds will look when the flowers come out. The ones I have are called purpurea, flava Purple Tube, alata rubrioperculata, farhamii, ,moorei, harperi. I will get some fleece to put over them on cold nights in the winter as you recommend it.