Expert: Sarracenia Northwest - 3/30/2010

Question
Hello, sorry to bother you again, I recieved a Sarracenia Daina's Delight, it is doing great and the roots are white and supple, but a few days ago the pot it was in toppled over on top of it, the rhizome split right between the mother and a daughter rhizome, I was worried that it might be too young to divide and that it might slow down in growth or die all together. Here is a vid I had made for someone erlier for a friend on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1520093085&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=153447...  On the note of slow growth, My Nepenthes Truncata has not made a new leaf yet for almost 3 months and I repotted it a few days ago, Do you know why it is not producing a new leaf? It is a Paisan Highland and it is in normal intermediate temperatures.
  Thank you for your time once again!

Answer
Hi Nelson,

Since the rhizome is already divided, there's nothing you can do but wait.  Yes, it would slow it down slightly, but that's the way plants usually grow after a division.  Plants only die if a division doesn't have roots.  If all divisions have roots, then you shouldn't expect any losses.

I'm not sure why your truncata hasn't produced a new leaf.  Right now I don't have sufficient information to diagnose your situation.

Good growing!
Jacob Farin