Cutting back Sarracenia for winter , how and why

good morning everyone Matt Soper here Hampshire carnivorous plants and we've been asked a lot recently how to overwinter your Sarah senior or what to do with the plants I'm going to try and Link this video as clear as possible um so you can see what we do with us over the winter so today it's what is it 9th of November and we'll have a look at this large saracenia flour apparent with Jello now I've left this one intentionally for this video um years ago when I first started growing these plants I remember I used in the automatic to cut all the pictures down to the ground right down around about I don't know September October time and this had quite an effect on my plants I found that they were coming up shorter each year and the plants are actually getting smaller and the reason for this is because I was depriving the plants of the food which they caught that season which helps to build the rhizome up for the following year when they took advantage of that and make nice big pictures so the way I cut or the way we cut our plants down here is we've just cut off the brown bit so here I want this to be really really clear so you all know what to do this one's right down the bottom so I'll take that one off this one here I will carry on with this one but probably wondering why we do this now the reason why we do this is because if you grow your plants in an unheated Greenhouse like we are here with not much air movement although we do open the doors I've got the fans turned off at the moment so you can hear me talking but in a greenhouse with a relatively still atmosphere you get a problem called botritis it's a fungal problem it's a gray mold and I've got an example of it here so you know what to look for can you see this fluffy stuff on here on this flower seed pod this is botritis or gray mode this is not good if you leave this it can spread and go down the flower Escape or down the pictures and it can cause the plant to rot out from the rhizome it's probably one of the biggest problems you can get when you're growing these plants under glass over winter the time you get it most are normally Autumn when it's overcast and dull and the same in early spring when it's really really cold and frosty I find it's not a problem but if you keep your plants clean and tidy as I say removing any of the the dead foliage it's fine and I said earlier about chasing the plants down just cutting the brown bits off here obviously by cutting the brown bits off you're reducing a chance of portraitis on your plants but also you're not depriving the plants of the insect materina can we have a look in here can you see the flies in there so this bit will remain on the plant and this is what will give the plant its energy or strength to grow next season all of these are just cut down as far as they are brown but then sort of give the plants to trim off and then a few weeks time we're removing down a bit further so all I'm doing is taking off any of the really dead round traps it doesn't take that long once you get a hang of it you can do this a few years there so this is about three of course a few takes direction to shore let's place the time so really what you're doing is leaving anything on the plant that's green and removing all the dead Brown material as I said the reason we're doing that is to stop the charts of arthritis now if you're growing the plants out in a peat bog Garden you do not need to do this we do just to make everything nice and tidy but when they're outside with lots of air movement I've never had a problem with arthritis out in a Bobcat with plants growing out in the open so outside is not a problem but under glass it says and by doing this we've reduced the chances of arthritis oh tenfold in fact we never sprayed with a fungicide of the winter months as long as you just keep on top like this keep the plants clean and tidy another good thing to do is keep your plants stood on Camp Perry matting keep them just down rather than wet and you can overwinter them quite happily now I hope that's been useful it's because we have been asked a lot about this I hope that's explain the roots explain the reason why we leave some of the trap on the plant and also why we cut the breakfast off of the traps off the saracenia plants okay thanks very much for watching

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Published: Tue Nov 08 2022