hello....i see your post was made last year,and it appears no one has answered you.i would appreciate any seed you would care to part with.at this time,i have no seed to offer in trade.but towards fall,i may have some plants or seed to offer.at this time,i have two types of purpurea,one s minor(okeefenokee type.),two hybrid sarracenia,one rubra,four vft and one ping....oh yeah...and some very small drosera scorpiodes sprouted from gemmae.

Do you mist your plants? or wash cool fresh distilled through the pot? I am in zone 9 and my vft is stuck into my bog still potted. I learned how moss can literally eat a vft! But I spray my bog daily prob. about 3 times during a normal day and a couple times at night. When the Santa Anas are up I spray hourly just to keep the humidity up and help cool the plants. Still wondering if I should buy a misting system or not???? I just went out and looked at mine and mine have new traps coming and even an old one is still there and also some bug or slug has been nibbling on one of the leaves! So try keeping the plant cool even though it likes sun! One way of doing this is to nest the pot into a much larger pot and maybe using dried or live sphagnum between them and then spraying it all down with distilled or r/o. Or maybe rig up a drip or flow system that moves cool water through the pots of your plants. I use a drip on Darlingtonia and Heliamphora. With the Darlingtonia I even cool the water in the fridge and pour it into my drip reservoir. Maybe that would be helpful?

I have tried a few things with these "cubes of death" Darlingtonia. My very first one I had growing at a window sill. It seemed to do okay and in the spring I decided to try an experiment to keep its roots cool. We had a streamlet that tan behind our townhouse and I rigged up the plant to remain in place, on the edge of the streamlet. Unfortunately, not too long afterward, we had a 3" rain event that cause the streamlet to rise and turn into a raging river. It uplifted the plant and carried it away. The second Lowes purchase couldn't take the transition from neglected store to summer heat outdoors and withered withinh hours. Attempts to keep it in line of ac water water going over its roots didn't have any effect. And neither did burying it in the samd of that streamlet. My third Lowes plant has done the best so far. I purchased it one year ago and thought it best to keep it at the window sill at the lab in which in worked, until the ambient outside temp cooled to roughly that of the lab. I repotted it in a plastic pot that fit atop the lid if the Lowes cube, so that it wouldn't be sitting in water. I watred it every day and emptied it when the water level reached the pot. It's essentially a hanging basket Then I put it outside on my porch, where it remained there until mid-November, heading into dormancy. For this past winter I had it in the attic, along with various Sarracenias and temperate sundews, right at a SW window sill. By March it began to wake up on its own and a month later I put it outside and repotted into a larger pot, as a mini-bog plant. It was doing well until critters got into it and bit the pitchers off. And then summer heat came and that didn't help matters. A couple weeks ago I put the plant at the kitchen window (screened) and it is recovering. I've been told that a healthy, established plant can tolerate the heat. But most of us are buying our plants from Lowes and what we get is an already stressed out plant. I have thought of a partial burial of the pot into the ground as an alternative, but haven't tried that yet. I'm just going to continue to let it recover and put it back in the attic for the winter. Here's a pic from last year:

An established plant can take the heat. Mine have survived 90's without a problem. But a new plant will have to be acclimated first.