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Post by mikeintenn on Jul 2, 2014 16:41:50 GMT
Many of my Sarrs hoods (not all of them) are turning brown at a young age. They are in 1/2 gallon pots of sphagnum peat and sand that sit in water-filled trays. The trays are in the open sun all day long. Most affected are Dana's Delight and Judith Hindle. These plants were acquired this spring and have sent up maybe 20 stems each. Are they self-pruning themselves? Is it poor care on my part?
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Post by Bio on Jul 2, 2014 19:03:56 GMT
It sounds to me like the older pitchers are simply dying away
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Post by Aidan on Jul 3, 2014 13:36:56 GMT
Leaf-burn perhaps if it is happening to fresh leaves.
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Post by jdallas on Jul 3, 2014 14:56:15 GMT
Mikeintenn,
Post a picture of your growing arrangement, and give us more details about how you're growing them. Helpful information would include, depth of the water in your water trays, and your water source. Also, what is your potting medium? Where do you live? (This is to access climate issues.) This will help folks here to give you a better plan of action if something is amiss, or if it is just natural aging.
Jeff
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Post by mikeintenn on Jul 3, 2014 23:56:00 GMT
Thanks for your replies everyone. Jeff, my pots sit in a tub filled with peat and water with the pots wedged in the "muck" so I don't know how deep the water might be, but I would judge the depth is quite high in the pots. Water source is rain (from a rain barrel). Potting medium is sphagnum peat and sand. I live in east Tennessee. The original plants were received from a commercial source in April as unpotted, large clumps.
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Post by mikeintenn on Jul 3, 2014 23:57:08 GMT
Thanks for your replies everyone. Jeff, my pots sit in a tub filled with peat and water with the pots wedged in the "muck" so I don't know how deep the water might be, but I would judge the depth is quite high in the pots. Water source is rain (from a rain barrel). Potting medium is sphagnum peat and sand. I live in east Tennessee. The original plants were received from a commercial source in April as unrooted, large clumps.
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Post by ICPS-bob on Jul 4, 2014 1:06:46 GMT
Ugg. From the look of the Moonthroat photo, it appears the pitchers have wilted. This is what my plants look like when I forget to water them. In your case, my immediate guess if that the water table is too high and the rhizome has rotted, or the muck has become toxic. Just a guess though.
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Post by stevebooth on Jul 4, 2014 11:53:18 GMT
Assuming your water is OK and that there has been no fertiliser about, that would be my best guess too. This is exactly the symptoms that occur if the water level has been too high for too long, the alata picture looks like a classic example of it, the plants decline over a period of weeks to a slow and painful death. The substrate becomes anearobic and the lack of oxygen kills the roots, this can also occur if your soil looses its acidity and starts to decompose thereby releasing nutrients into the soil, the act of decomposition also releases a flood of gas into the soil excluding the oxygen, but as you only potted them in April this is unlikely to be the case unles you were using old peat. Repot if possible, if not reduce the water level to keep the plants just damp for a couple of weeks to let the roots breathe, then water from the top to induce oxygen down into the soil. At this stage they can be saved by repotting, if you do this look at the roots and you will see that they are nowhere near as long and strong as theuy should be and teh white new growth of roots will be missing.
Good luck Steve
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