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This sale is for 10 market variety Sarracenia - tall growing
SARRACENIA TALL GROWING - would include a variety of plants such as leucophylla, rubra, minor, alata and hybrid types.
Triffid Park chooses the assortment of plants sent to you of what we have healthy excess stock of at the time of ordering - you cannot choose varieties and you will get several of the same variety.
The plants are of a good size and are ready for resale (except during winter when they will be sent in dormant stage with no traps).
If you want to stock up your own collection with these plants, let us know and we can chose a range of plants that might not be as big, but will give you a better variety.
If you order a quantity of 2 - you will receive 20 plants etc.
All plants are sent bare/loose rooted.
No botanical name tags are provided.
We have labels, pots and peat moss available for sale in other listings.
During the months of approximately May to September, your plants will be in their dormant stage, and will not have any traps on them. You will receive dormant rhyzomes. However because they are dormant, I dont know what varieties they are. I have a bit of an idea as many do look slightly different in dormancy, but it will be a guesstimate to make sure you get all Tall Growing varieties.
Read "GROWING INFORMATION FOR SARRACENIAS".
Sarracenia Tall Growing 100mm pot size x 10 plants
REPOTTING: Use a mixture of 75% Sphagnum peat moss, and 25% perlite. Wet this mix thoroughly through first before potting your plant into it. The best time to re-pot is in the early spring when the plants are just starting to grow. Use a pot to suit the size of the plant, giving it enough room to grow for the following year, but not too big that it dwarfs the plant. The pH of the sphagnum peat moss needs to be about 5.5. TDS (total dissolved salts) should be 0 (zero).
WATERING: Do not ever let your Venus Fly Trap dry out. During Spring, Summer and Autumn sit it in a saucer of water, changing the water frequently. The water should cover the drainage holes of the pot. If your water is good enough to drink straight from the tap, then this is alright to use on your plant. If not you should use either rain, distilled or reverse osmosis water. In winter do not let the plant dry out but don’t leave it sitting in water all the time.
FERTILIZING: Do not fertilize with flies or insects. The plant must enjoy the "thrill of the chase", so that it releases it's digestive juices, to devour the insect.
We feed with a mixture of Seasol and Powerfeed. To one litre of water, we use 4 ml of Seasol and 2ml of Powerfeed.
DO NOT use any other fertilisers. We use this mix every 8 weeks from Spring to Autumn either watered onto the growing medium, or poured into the water tray beneath the pot.LIGHT: Venus Fly Traps require a high level of light. A window sill inside the house that gets morning sun in summer and afternoon sun in
winter is an excellent position. Otherwise you can grow them in a terrarium, greenhouse, glasshouse or porch and some growers grow
them outside in the full weather.HUMIDITY: Venus fly traps like humidity around 70-90%. A terrarium or glasshouse will provide this. But a warm sunny window sill will give you enough heat for the plant to survive. Venus fly traps don't like temperatures over 35 degrees celcius. Their growth stops at these temperatures and it is very hard to get them started again.
DORMANCY: During winter your Venus fly trap will go into their dormancy period. They will stop growing and may even die back to
almost nothing. Do not worry. This is a natural occurrence and the plant must go through this period in order to stay alive and gain
strength to grow their spring traps and flowers. Cut off any dead leaves/pitchers at the base of the plant. In spring the plants will send
up their new traps.FLOWERING: Dionaea muscipula's flower in spring, and are white. Producing flowers takes a lot of effort, so many growers cut off the flower stalk early in growth.