{"id":1718,"date":"2011-09-08T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2011-09-08T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:22:54","slug":"time-to-slice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/09\/time-to-slice\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Slice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been doing some re-organizing, and a little bit of clean up lately.\u00a0 A lot of the pitchers from earlier this year have turned crispy, so I&#8217;m choppin&#8217; em off.\u00a0 ESPECIALLY the plants that I moved outside from the greenhouse. (UGH, what a mess.)\u00a0 Anyway, removing dead foliage helps with your basic plant hygiene.\u00a0 Removing those dead pitchers allows for better light and air circulation, which in turn, leads to healthier plants.\u00a0 When plants get crowded and you got all that dead tissue shizznits going on all up-in-that mofo, well &#8211; uh &#8212; it can open up the door to some Sarracenia funk.\u00a0 It *can* get nasty!\u00a0 A little bit each day I&#8217;m doing some clean up.\u00a0 And, come Winter, I&#8217;ll probably be slicing everything back down to the rhizome! Oh, good times indeed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6198\/6122460403_194c7f08ef.jpg\" alt=\"Slice\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Dead pitchers, beware.<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some re-organizing, and a little bit of clean up lately.\u00a0 A lot of the pitchers from earlier this year have turned crispy, so I&#8217;m choppin&#8217; em off.\u00a0 ESPECIALLY the plants that I moved outside from the greenhouse. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/09\/time-to-slice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,405,215,130,404],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-clean-up","tag-hygiene","tag-katana","tag-sarracenia","tag-slice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}