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billn9 said:Tommy. Since you are in New York, you should get plenty of cold and wet winter weather. There should not be any need to put them in the fridge, where they do not get any air circulation. You would also avoid the re-acclimation nuisance.

They are not as susceptible to cold as most people believe, including some noted authors. They experience temperatures well below freezing in their native habitat.

Even when it got down to -10 deg F for a few nights a couple of years ago, they survived just fine. Some of the small winter traps even remained green, which surprised me.

And mine are all in pots of various sizes, from 3" to 8", which makes them more susceptible to cold than if they were in a homemade bog.

We get way too many freeze/thaw cycles here and they would certainly NOT survive where I am. I lost all my sarracenia except for my Flavas a few years ago. NO WAY would VFTs survive here. They do great with fridge dormancy. I've been doing it for going on 13 years and it works great and I'm not changing a thing. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".