is this normal? I wasn't home for a few days, my mum watered it once while I was gone, but now its a bit "dried" at the top on the "flower" part
it also grew ALOT since I bought it, when I got it it had like 4/5 of those leaves
any tips in general for this type of plant?
by NightmareSun_
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I mean, better than mine rn 😅. I don’t even know what type of sarreciena I have because it was infested with aphids and dried when I bought it. (Here’s a photo of it after I cleaned it and maybe got rid of aphids, still waiting to see.)I assume it could be a purpurea because some leaves looked like it but very thin and skinny before I cut them because they were damaged/dried. So I’d say you’re doing good, keep giving that guy some rainwater n such.
However, if you worry about drying out, your purpurea would love a water tray. (Also yes, we might both have the same plant). they can have constantly filled water tray and not rot since they live in bogs, just don’t keep the top part of the soil waterlogged for longer than a week, but that would be hard even with a water tray since the water only goes up so far into the soil. And you’d have to water it constantly every day for that to be an issue. So yea, you may want a water tray that’s regularly filled to around half an inch of water and refill whenever it seems low.
But also, purpurea likes to have water in its pitchers, if they look dry you may want to put some in there. Idk much about that stuff tho because I never had a purpurea (unless mine actually is one) so you may need to research a bit on that.
Anyway good luck and happy growing 🤗.
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