Post by krakatoa on Mar 25, 2011 16:55:21 GMT
So here we are, canoing through the first part of spring here in Sacramento! Now before east coast folks and those buried under snow brandish machetes, you have to understand one thing - we are done with this kind of weather we are getting right now - it's like winter returned with a vengeance, and there's nothing worse than watching plants that were actively growing, halt and become WATER LOGGED with all the rain we've had, (and more is coming) and the mold! I have already performed a few emergency surgeries on a few, and I have found it does not matter whether they are in the greenhouse with ventilation or outdoors in the open, and you can't put them in covered areas, because they're so dark, and with new growth and buds coming up....AAAAAUUGH!! So far, no losses, but I've been constantly tipping over water trays that fill up within an hour - to take them out and leave them out won't work since the whole collection is built upon staging, and I can't just set them on the ground - there's too many and the larger plants I have are weighing in at @ 100 lbs. ( well at least the wind won't get them - oh that's right we've also had tornadoes around neighboring counties, but nothing that could compete with Tornado Alley, and the foothills and Sierras right behind us are buried under snow.)
I thought it was only S. rubra and it's species (or subspecies) I had to watch, but yesterday, I found a S. 'Red Sumatra' that was beginning to get mold all over one section on the rhizome, so I quickly bare rooted it, cut off all infected areas and wrapped it in a collar of sphagnum moss, with the cut area open - I also snapped off the flower scape and kept the pitcher, hoping it will put it's energy back into growing. Hopefully this will be as far as it goes, but if not I'm gonna have to bust out the big guns.
I thought it was only S. rubra and it's species (or subspecies) I had to watch, but yesterday, I found a S. 'Red Sumatra' that was beginning to get mold all over one section on the rhizome, so I quickly bare rooted it, cut off all infected areas and wrapped it in a collar of sphagnum moss, with the cut area open - I also snapped off the flower scape and kept the pitcher, hoping it will put it's energy back into growing. Hopefully this will be as far as it goes, but if not I'm gonna have to bust out the big guns.