End of dormancy question.

[muscipula]

Here in the avalon of Newfoundland zone 5b, and its still currently winter, when do you guys think is a great time to pot up my VTF's? i'm guessing in april maybe? please help.

[dvg]

Wayne, I like to give my vft's 4 months of dormancy. I put them in dormancy at the end of October. This year I left them outside until about mid November. I plan to take them out of dormancy at the beginning of March.

[flytrapcare.com]

Some of my plants are already showing lots of growth. Most of them are already showing a little growth. You might want to get them out now. For sure within the next couple of weeks.

[lloyd]

Way too early for Newfoundland. I'm going to wait until early April. Even then I'll have to cover them up for late frosts.

[dvg]

I'm going to start giving mine more light and heat in March. I won't be able to leave them outside until some days in April, but it probably won't be until sometime in May, until I can feel safer about leaving them outside overnight.

[blokeman]

well it seems i might have been a little too anxious for my plants to come out of dormancy, i took them out a week ago, and they won't see my balcony 'til, like the others say, come mid April to early May. Montreal is a micro-climate all on it's own, it's even snowed on my birthday in the past, and it's on the 6th of May. Maybe i should have waited a 'little' longer to wake them from their slumber at the back of my fridge... at least i have something new to look at though!

[petmantis]

i have the bad habit of taking my cp's out of dormancy on st Valentines day, then i keep them either in my terrarium or on a sunny windowsill until May. the problem this year is that my s. flava has woken up enough to start putting up a flower stalk that is a cm tall as of today, i should have kept it in the fridge for a longer time muscipula, you should wait until the weather gets warmer, maybe pot them up a month before all the snow is gone and it is sort of warm outside, then keep them indoors on a bright windowsill....just my guess.

[flytrapcare.com]

Seems to me you're giving up a few good weeks or a couple of months of decent growing time by not taking them out now. Nearly all of my plants the last two years have started growing around Valentine's Day. I keep them in a sunny window until the chance of freeze is gone in April and then I move them outside until October.

Of course if you have too many to put in a sunny window, I guess you have no choice but to leave them in dormancy wherever you have them.

[muscipula]

oh my i hate having mixed responses.. :\ this is a hard choice to make, im soon thinking of taking them out