Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:13:13 +0930 (CST) From: blymn@baesystems.com.au (Brett Lymn) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2037$foo@default> Subject: Re: Sarr. Pruning
According to Kit Halsted:
>
>What's a safe percentage to cut off? If I have 4 pitchers, all
>deformed, should I cut all of them off?
>
It really depend how many pitchers you have - those 4 make up a
significant part of the plant's photosynthesising surfaces then
cutting them off is going to be a big set back for the plant. Leaving
them on cannot hurt as long as the leaves (let's not forget that is
what they are :-) are healthy.
>Should one cut off damaged pitchers as well?
>
Unless they are so badly damaged that they are no use to the plant I
would just leave them.
>Should it be done when they turn brown at the top? When they're no
>longer capable of trapping insects?
>
I trim off the brown bits as the pitcher dies off, I may be wrong but
I think that the plant can recover nutrients/other stuff from the leaf
as it dies back.
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