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Post by mabudon on Aug 9, 2007 15:15:34 GMT -5
Okay, why that is so dang funny to me makes no sense- I think that might be TOO dry for a proper dormancy  I know a few folks who don't give their plants light during dormancy. They'll wake up "on time" regardless, since once they go properly dormant they are basically on a "chemical timer" |
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Post by daniello on Aug 9, 2007 15:44:46 GMT -5
i laughed too.
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Post by eql on Aug 9, 2007 17:14:24 GMT -5
so should VFTs be bare root during dormancy, or potted?
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Post by lloyd on Aug 9, 2007 19:43:48 GMT -5
I'd go the easy way and leave them in the pot if space is not a concern.
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Post by eql on Aug 11, 2007 18:11:51 GMT -5
so leave them in the pot and stick em in the fridge? what about a dark closet? or does it need to be cool?
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Post by lloyd on Aug 11, 2007 19:48:21 GMT -5
I think cool is very important. My basement closet stayed at 10-13C which seemed to do the trick for my S. leucophylla even thought it wasn't that cold. I'm going to try all the Sarr's, temperate drosera's and VFT's this year. I don't think light is important. I lost some stuff in the fridge last winter due to rotting and frozen pitchers.
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Post by mabudon on Aug 12, 2007 8:44:41 GMT -5
Cool IS important- doesn't have to be frozen solid or anything, but think a temp that would be real uncomfortable for you and the plants will enjoy it.
Total darkness and cool (12 C or less ideally) is fine, but they WILL go dormant with our shortened winter photoperiod in a chilly window just as well
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Post by eql on Aug 13, 2007 20:36:23 GMT -5
so if i just leave them on a cool windowsill they will be just fine?
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Post by lloyd on Aug 13, 2007 20:49:14 GMT -5
My D. intermedia goes dormant on a cool windowsill but my Sarr's and VFT's never did.
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Post by eql on Sept 8, 2007 12:47:22 GMT -5
im thinking about putting them in my basement crawlspace.. its nice and cool, and dark. ill have enough room to leave them in their pots too. im just concerned about water... im the only one who can get in there, and im away at school. I come home about once a month.. but still... i guess my other option is the fridge here at school.. id have to talk to my roomie about it.. but i doubt that she'd care.. in that case, id just stick the whole pot into the veggie/meat drawer... sound right?
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 8, 2007 13:16:33 GMT -5
As Canadians, we're the luckiest lot of all CP growers. Our climate allows for a natural dormancy period for beauties like VFT, and many other temperate CPs - sarracenias, darlingtonia, temperate droseras... I leave all my vfts pot bound outdoors for a winter's rest... and they have happily survived for decades in this manner. Yes, we get the extreme cold winter now and then with temperatures dipping below -15C ... but as long as your best is under a blanket of snow, or peat moss, or whatever (I've used cardboard, straw, and discarded comforters in the past) you're okay. The only real danger is spring slugs and birds pecking through them. I've examined rock hard frozen vft bulbs in the middle of winter... and they've all come back. Just remember to try your best to keep them on the drier (damp) side during it's winter's rest. The fridge technique are for *those tropical growers* who have to suffer through 12 months of beautiful sunshine. We've got snow, rain and sunshine here in the best place on earth David |
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Post by eql on Oct 14, 2007 18:08:25 GMT -5
can someone clarify "damp" for me... i know what the word means.. but is it like, squeeze the LFS and no water comes out, or a wet paper towel? or.... etc?
thanks!
*EQL*
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Post by lloyd on Oct 14, 2007 18:36:07 GMT -5
I think damp would be lightly squeezed or maybe drained so it doesn't drip.
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Post by eql on Oct 15, 2007 18:08:21 GMT -5
hmmmm.. ok
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Post by daniello on Oct 18, 2007 23:55:47 GMT -5
i am taking my vfts up to my parents' acreage this weekend (mid-october) to be put to sleep in the cold room. up until now they had been in a room which receives some natural light in addition to the fluorescents they are under, and a lot of the traps seem to be yellowing/dying off. i'm assuming that means they are getting tired (uh, right?). hopefully my mom takes good care of them over the winter. i will have to try to remind her to check up on them once a week or so.
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