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Post by trooperkris on May 27, 2015 15:55:31 GMT
I got home from college yesterday, and finally decided to take a look at the division I took over winter, of my Flava Rugelii. It has been sending up pitchers, but they have been small and spindly, compared to the main plant, which has been sending up at least 1 foot pitchers. For a while, it was of no concern to me, until yesterday when I saw the tips of pitchers turning brown. This made me think that something was wrong, so I quickly transformed into Doctor Kris, and moved the plant into the garage. Under a shop light, I inspected the plant, and that's when I saw what was wrong: rhizome rot. I tried to save what I could, but by that time, it was too late. Most of the rhizome was mushy and brown. :/ i took several pictures of the plant, before and after my various procedures of investigating the plant, and I will try to post them on here. Currently, I have no idea what could have caused it. The only thing i could think of would be me switching from bottom watering my plants (All of my plants are in those self-watering pots, which have a water tray built in), to top-watering. This would be my second week of top-watering, but since this incident, I am going to resume bottom-watering as a precaution. I was wondering if anybody could verify that top-watering can cause something like this, or if not, they could list some factors that can cause the rhizome to rot like it did. If you need a description of how I grow my plants, I can give details as well as post pictures. I don't want this unfortunate event to happen again.
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Yaron
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Post by Yaron on May 27, 2015 16:02:01 GMT
I have read elsewhere that top watering sarracenia caused all sorts of problems. I'll try to find those posts and link them
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Post by hcarlton on May 27, 2015 20:50:23 GMT
Top-watering is not the cause of the issue. After all, they get rained on all the time naturally. What can cause this is lack of good light or low temperatures at the wrong time, and the presence of pathogens which take advantage of the plants. Up and down temps and cool, wet weather have made me lose a lot of plants this year, though I hope to save the rest by repotting everything as fungi and bacteria can live dormant in the soil.
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Post by trooperkris on May 28, 2015 2:47:24 GMT
Top-watering is not the cause of the issue. After all, they get rained on all the time naturally. What can cause this is lack of good light or low temperatures at the wrong time, and the presence of pathogens which take advantage of the plants. Up and down temps and cool, wet weather have made me lose a lot of plants this year, though I hope to save the rest by repotting everything as fungi and bacteria can live dormant in the soil. I grow all of my plants outside, where they receive direct sun for a good part of the day. Also, i use Bayer Advanced 3-in-1, which i thought would protect my plants from both diseases and pathogens alike.
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Post by hcarlton on May 29, 2015 0:41:01 GMT
If that were entirely true then no one would deal with pests and rot. If the plants are being top watered and then the water continues to sit on the rhizome, this can cause issues. However, there still needs to be some sort of pathogen present in order to cause actual issue in that case. And rhizome rot is often caused by pathogenic fungi that transfer via both soil and water.
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