Sarracenia flowers stopped growth

[Raymond]

Hey guys
Like the title says some of my larger plants started to flower profusely with Atleast 3 flowers on each of my large purps,but they stopped growing these flowers for the past 2weeks+ and the plants that were smaller and just started flowering have sent out their stalk into the sky. In your experience should I cut the stopped flower before they die inside the rhizome or leave them alone. Just saying these are all purps and there is about 14 stunted flowers.

 

[Josh]

I like to let it grow, haven't found that trimming the flowers gives much of a boost.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

If the stunted flower buds are obviously dried out, I cut them off.

 

[Raymond]

Thanks for the advice Lloyd, Ill keep looking out if they dry out. Forgot to also put pictures and I was wrong these flowers didn't grow much if any since April 10th. As you can see they might start to choke out the flower soon so rot was the biggest issue.



Here is a much younger and much more developed flower

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

If they're still shiny and plump, I keep them. Dull, wrinkly, shrivelled, take them out.

 

[daniella3d]

I am wondering what could do that? in 8 years of raising sarracenias, it never hapened to me. Could this be insects damage? This first pic looks like insects damage.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

With me it seems weather related. The flower buds are growing and then a cold period sets in (maybe less than 3-4C at night). Happened to a few buds in late April and then in May this year. Also may happen if it's dry out and the soil isn't continuously wet (not inundated).

 

[Raymond]

I have never seen this as well in all my time. I would lean towards the weather idea since it changed drastically multiple times. I already made the decision to cut them all since I don't think 5 week old buds are good to risk them staying stunted and getting covered by leaves. Might be hard to see with my crappy pictures but there are alot of divions coming in 5new ones on the AF purp and 6 new points on the regular purps. I did keep one on each plant if I didn't think the new growth will choke it out.