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Post by regina on Apr 5, 2011 14:39:05 GMT
I have seven different sarracenias that have buds on them. Tonight it will freeze or frost. Should I protect them or will they be ok?
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Post by jdallas on Apr 5, 2011 16:50:44 GMT
Hi Regina,
If you ask a care question, it really helps to give much more information than that. Generally speaking a cover, or bringing them to a shelter will be of benefit, but it depends on how cold it's going to get, and how developed your plants are. Also, we don't know were you live, which is very relavant. Also, how have you been caring for your plant up till now?
In our nursery in Oregon we are still subject to light frosts until early May. Sarracenia flava, S. oreophila, and S. leucophylla will have emerging flower buds, but they seem to be able to handle frost. If pitcher are open, they can be nipped by frost, but the rhizomes will recover quickly. With all this I'm speaking of temperatures no colder than 28 degrees F.
Jeff
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Post by regina on Apr 5, 2011 20:53:24 GMT
They are Alata, Flava rugelii, Purpurea ssp purpurea, Psittacina, Leucophylla, a Copper top and Dana dDelite Not any of them are open, but the white is getting near open. I am from North GA and it will get to freezing tonight and that means frost also. Thank you for your help.
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Post by regina on Apr 5, 2011 20:56:12 GMT
Oh yes they have been out side all winter
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Post by mbfmark on Feb 21, 2012 4:02:27 GMT
I can verify that Sarracenia buds, at least at the earlier stages of development, are fairly freeze tolerant. My plants lived outside in extreme NW South Carolina in pots, where in our mountain hollow we have hard freezes off and on usually until late March and sometimes even into April. At our latitude the buds on most varieties are well up by then. Only when we bottomed out at 19F on April 6th a few years ago were any of them ever damaged. They evolved with this climate so are used to a lot of late season frosts and freezes and can usually take all but the most extreme conditions that happen perhaps once a decade. Thankfully now, they all live on a bog garden and have the benefit of the ground's warmth. But they survived in pots undamaged even with a few dips into the single digits. They are MUCH tougher without special winter protection than I imagined, so long as it doesn't stay below freezing day after day.
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