{"id":2169,"date":"2012-04-01T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:03:41","slug":"pretty-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/04\/pretty-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the never ending cleaning and\u00a0re-potting\u00a0that I am still doing &#8211; another task has been added to the madness. Flower maintenance. There&#8217;s quite a few plants that I am not going to use in hybridizing this year. \u00a0I have to be selective. (That&#8217;s what I tell myself every year.) \u00a0That said, I may let the unused plant bloom for a bit, enjoy the flowers &#8230; then lop em off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below were some\u00a0defunct\u00a0flowers that got bent out of shape from my recent\u00a0re-potting\u00a0efforts. The stress and movement of re-potting caused the flowers to bend\/fall over in all these weird directions. \u00a0I was not planning on using this particular S. flava clone in hybridization this year, so I just cut the flower stalks off to (hopefully) help the plant redirect energy to foliar growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They can kinda still make for a nice shot, at least. \u00a0Such pretty compost material&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7113\/7037765303_6afbb25d51_z.jpg\" alt=\"Pretty Compost\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sarracenia flava flowers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the never ending cleaning and\u00a0re-potting\u00a0that I am still doing &#8211; another task has been added to the madness. Flower maintenance. There&#8217;s quite a few plants that I am not going to use in hybridizing this year. \u00a0I have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/04\/pretty-compost\/\">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":[525,239,524,130],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-compost","tag-flower","tag-pretty","tag-sarracenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}