It’s that time of year when plants start to wake up and send up their flowers. Buds are rising!

If you’re not using the flowers for breeding, do you snip buds off to promote more vigorous pitcher growth? Or do you leave the buds to enjoy the flowers? I usually leave the flowers on to do their thing. It’s kinda nice to see the vibrant colors all over the place. I may do some bud snipping on certain plants to encourage more pitcher growth. For example, I snipped most of the buds off my mother S. ‘Saurus’ in an attempt to see what kind of pitchers I’d get this season. There were about 15 emerging buds throughout this rhizome mass. After snipping I left about 3 buds, just in case I needed it for breeding efforts this season.

Here’s a few more photos of buds happening from the back yard. It’s always cool to see those little spheres explode into the colorful jellyfish-looking flowers.