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Post by hal on Feb 20, 2015 22:28:22 GMT -5
My VFTs, tender Sarrs and a few D. rotundifolia have been sleeping in the fridge for 3 1/2 months. I'm tempted to wake them up and give them a head start in pots in my grow space, which is about 15C at night and 20C in the day with 14 hours of light right now (I just increased it from 12 hours). I'll plant them out in pots in May, hardening them of a bit before they go out full time.
Has anyone done this before? Do you see any problems with the idea?
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Post by amanitovirosa on Feb 20, 2015 22:43:51 GMT -5
...I took my plants out after just over two months and they woke up just fine under the lights. Just VFT's. 3.5 months should be more than enough.
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Post by Seymour on Feb 21, 2015 8:47:19 GMT -5
I don't think they will be bothered by it. My only temperates right now are VFT's. I have a couple B52's I took them out a out a couple weeks ago. Truth be told I wanted to get a head start on the biggest trap contest
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Post by lloyd on Feb 21, 2015 10:38:31 GMT -5
Sounds reasonable. I just open the garage and wheel them outside when it's sunny/rainy and above ~5C. At night they go back unless it's balmy and rainy. Of course, they look really bad (not dead I hope).
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Post by Devon on Feb 21, 2015 14:42:01 GMT -5
When I tried this with sundews it didn't go well, but the flytraps did fine.
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Post by Maiden on Feb 21, 2015 17:03:44 GMT -5
I agree with Gabriel on this 3 months is a normal dormancy. IMHO, if the temperature is fine, and all the other growing conditions are met, your plants will wakeup slowly and push you many flowers. Do it if you feel to
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Post by H2O on Feb 21, 2015 17:58:13 GMT -5
I'm with Devon on this. Flytraps and Sarracenia have no problems coming out of dormancy early. The majority of Drosera do not like it at all, they will often go dormant earlier in the season and it reduces the size of the hibernaculum. The southern ones would be just fine with it, anything from the North would be risky.
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Post by lloyd on Feb 21, 2015 21:28:17 GMT -5
When I used to have D. filiformis (the cold tolerant one), it did fine in big pots covered all winter by plastic garbage "cans" behind a fence, followed by mould city when it got warm for a week in the early Spring. The only thing that did it in was the Sarr's hogging the Sun. They love the light.
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Post by ontariotraps on Mar 10, 2015 12:45:12 GMT -5
Sounds good, I did the same thing but I had them under 18h of light before I made the transition to out side, first I started to drop the hours to match the outside & then when it was warm enough I started them outside North side of house for a week then east side for a week then south full sun (depending were you live ) & they all did fine
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