What Should I Do With This Sarracenia, I Went Abroad For 4 Weeks And It Looks Stressed.

Question

I’m not sure what I should do, in the 4 weeks, I had someone water the plants but he doesn’t have any experience and assumed more was better. Upon my return I found standing water in the pot and the plant looked like in the photos attached, I had previous problems with sunburn on it but it recovered fine. I’m assuming that the plant is stressed hence all of the stunted growth but I don’t know how I could help it. Some tips would be nice

Answer 1

This can happen with drastic changes in care. These are normally found near bogs, anyway, so this shouldn't be a problem. This one is pretty adaptable, and can tolerate less than wet soils. They do prefer things to be on the wet side, though.

That looks very cramped up. I would recommend potting that up into peat moss, tree bark, and vermiculite or perlite.

Once the larger heads die off, you can cut them back to be replaced by smaller pitchers.

This article will help you with its care, further:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/pitcher-plants/growing-pitcher-plants.htm

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/search?q=Serrecenia%20articles