to be ornata be, this is my question!

[krakatoa]

In all the years I have grown carnivores, I remember, as a kid staring and mentally drooling over Don Schnells book that I would check out from the local library. I swore to myself that one day, I would grow this particular flava - now I have two varieties that REFUSE to color up - !@%$!!?!
I mean hardly at all! One was from CC and when I bought the seedling it was in full ornata glory - the other from another reputable grower, although I just bought it a couple of months ago, still both hardly show any veining - here's where I bang my head in the wall - all pitchers around them are, and have fully colored, from leucos to atropurpurea hybrids and rubricorporas, Red Sumatra and heavily veined oreophilas - I have re potted my whole collection, so if disturbance is to blame, why are the atros and rubis not affected? - in fact this is the first year the atro hybrid is showing shades of red, especially in the new pitchers Any ideas? The seedling from CC was identical to the ornata on the ICPS flava seedling page and now has pitchers that are @ 1' now, and was labeled S. flava 'ornata' - it has very thin/faded penciled veining - beautiful form, no color.

[buckcity]

Not sure if it is a coincidence but after using really acidic creek water (rain fed) the colors of my plants seem much richer.

[krakatoa]

You know, I wondered about that, since thats what's supposed to keep atropurpureas red, high acidity - well that and a whole lotta sunlight! I guess here in Calif. I'll need to find runoff from a meth lab - no just kidding - beautiful ornata by the way! "sobbing.." Thanks buckcity!