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Post by carnivoure12 on Oct 2, 2008 6:30:21 GMT -5
Hey everyone,
Here in Toronto its been about 12C, Today we woke up to 8C, do you guys think I should prep my Darlings for dormancy now? Some pitchers still are green and lush, so i'm not sure.
Thanks in advanced
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Post by lloyd on Oct 2, 2008 8:54:21 GMT -5
I'm not an expert but I think we've got a while. My sarr's were in my 12C basement all winter and I took them out in late April or May when we had weeks of 2-3C nights with no obvious damage. The plants will enjoy some nice growing before the real cold. I'm hoping I can keep mine out till maybe mid-November. Maybe cover them at night if there's a deep frost predicted.
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Post by blokeman on Oct 12, 2008 19:10:15 GMT -5
they can tolerate being outside all winter so a breif frost wont hurt, it`ll just get em prepared for the comming winter, i still have mine outside and montreal has had 2 frosts so far!
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Post by lloyd on Oct 13, 2008 13:49:38 GMT -5
It's absolutely beautiful in Toronto now up to 25C today! My sarr's & VFT's are looking good although the dews are going into dormancy.
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Post by jonnybee7 on Oct 16, 2008 19:51:07 GMT -5
Here in Manitoba, we've already had quite a few frosts, and the other night our thermometer showed -1. Today I went out to my bog, and was surprised to see that among my flytraps and sarrs, D. capensis and D. adelae were still growing and full of dew.  |
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Post by Syble on Oct 20, 2008 20:13:06 GMT -5
your adelea wont last too long in frosty conditions! I overwinter my bog outside, has everything in it. i don't cover it up until december. Hope that helps? Sib  |
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Post by jonnybee7 on Oct 21, 2008 20:06:08 GMT -5
your adelea wont last too long in frosty conditions!Sib yah I know. I'm sure the capensis wont last too long either. But I knew that. I have too many of them inside the house to warrant digging them up and bringing them inside. So I thought I'd see how they fare. My capensis also flowered outside this year and left me alot of seed. I spread it around the bog hoping I'll get lucky and some will pop up next spring. But I doubt it. i don't cover it up until december. Hope that helps? Sib I'm thinking I'll be covering my bog in the coming weeks. But no later than mid november, as the ground should be well frozen by then. Is it better to have the bog on the wetter side or dryer side for overwintering? |
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Post by kd on Oct 21, 2008 20:46:27 GMT -5
Hey jonnybee - do you have any pics of your bog?
I still have all my CPs (and soem orchids) outside, but in my 'greenhouse' with the heater on, so they don't get frost. The temps have been below 0, but I don't know how to technically define a 'frost'. Haven't seen any frost, no frosted up windows, etc. It's time to bring them in, anyway. This weekend.
I want to keep the hardy and semi-hardy ones outside - as with jonnybee's question, should the pots be soaking wet, or not? I don't want the pots to all break because of the freezing, if the media is wet. What is best?
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Post by Syble on Oct 23, 2008 20:15:59 GMT -5
i wouldn't leave the pots soaking wet, as damp cold conditions encourage rot and other nasties. My climates a fair bit different then yours but i had a problem with decidedly too much rain here. We got all kinds of rain all winter long, so i acutally had to pump my bog all winter, think I'll tent a tarp over it this year though :S Sib |
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Post by jonnybee7 on Oct 23, 2008 20:25:10 GMT -5
Hey jonnybee - do you have any pics of your bog? No, no pictures. Nothing worth taking pictures of this year as all the plants I put in were quite small. |
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Post by carnivoure12 on Oct 31, 2008 22:16:28 GMT -5
I covered my darlings with some shreded newspaper, is and gave them their last watering, do I just not water them until spring? or will I have to water the media in winter? Is it OK if the soil dries out?
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Post by dvg on Nov 1, 2008 1:59:23 GMT -5
I covered my darlings with some shreded newspaper, is and gave them their last watering, do I just not water them until spring? or will I have to water the media in winter? Is it OK if the soil dries out? I have lost vft's and Sarrs during their dormancy, because I let their dishes and thus their media dry out. If you can check on them once a week or so, and ensure their media is moist, chances are very good they will rebound very nicely out of their dormancy in the spring. If you let the media dry out, you could lose a few plants. |
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Post by lloyd on Nov 1, 2008 11:32:56 GMT -5
It was so warm yesterday 15C. My sarrs look great. The rubra and leuco are growing nice new pitchers. The psitt., purps and flava still look nice as do the VFT's. When it hits 1C overnight I cover them with buckets. I'm going to hold off the final covering as long as possible. Sometime in November. The temperate dews are all dormant although a rogue spatulata is too stupid to get ready for winter.
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Post by brian on Nov 2, 2008 17:49:43 GMT -5
Up North we had hard frost with minus ten temperatures (typically measured a few meters above ground level by met stations). Tender annuals like Cosmos that are a couple of feet high were quickly blackened. But all my sarr crosses look green and the VFTs including the B52s are doing just fine so far. However the experimental cobra I planted is brown as a paper bag. Is it toast?
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Post by Rick Hillier on Nov 3, 2008 10:19:20 GMT -5
Lloyd: Have you actually been able to overwinter D. spathulata??? I didn't know that it was hardy enough, but maybe I'll try it outside if I am ever able to relocate what's left of my bog.
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