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Can I separate these basal shoots? Didn't even think about doing it til I unpotted it, thought there was one but turns out there are two

Is there a way to get these basal shoots separated from the main plant?

When my Drosera Graomogolensis died to root rot I discovered that it's tap-root reached the bottom of my 10 inch deep pot. Luckily, before it died, I'd cut several leaves off and now am raising its orphaned children. As I was repotting these clones I got the idea to try to 'train' my plant to have long roots

So, in case anyone is unaware, these plants grow a long 'taproot'. These guys typically live at higher elevations and because gravity has the unfortunate effect of stealing all the water away and giving it to the greedy vegetation down below they had to adapt. This resulted in them evolving a (as far as I've seen) singular thick, long, root along that just burrows straight down as deep as it can go so that when their normal roots don't have access to water it can still thrive by reaching the water that the ground has absorbed.

In theory, this means i (Batman) could potentially train my graomogolensis orphans (my gaggle Robins in training) to grow super long roots (kick bad guys butts while supporting the prison industrial complex rather than addressing the root cause of crime in my city).

Also, disclaimer, I'm not doing any real formal measuring or data collecting or any 'real' documentation'. This is for fun and I work a lot. Specifically I work not as a scientist.

So, the way ive set it up is:

1. I put them into 3 pots based on how big the orphan clones (fig. 1-5) are I filled the bottom of the pot, up to just below where most of the roots reach, with a 50/50 peat/perlite

2. Filled the rest in with more perlite (didn't measure that out either, kinda just threw more perlite into the 50/50 mix until it looked right). (Fig. 6,7)

3. Accidentally rip the roots off of one of the clones (fig. 8)

4. Freak out (not pictured)

5. Decide im going to fix things by making a prosthetic root (not pictured)

6. Cut a straw to the length of the height of my smallest pot (fig. 9)

7. Fill the straw with sphagnum (fig. 10)

8. Placed my brutalized clone in its new prosthetic root and hope for the best as if it changes the fact that I've dismembered the living thing I was supposed to care for, nourish, and grow (fig. 11)

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

Is there really a tangible benefit to cutting a flower stalk to save energy? Like, every time I see someone post a pic of a carnivorous plant, regardless of the health it appears to be in, and they ask "is my plant ok?" There's a dozen people saying "cut the flower stalk‼️ your plant is dedicating energy to it that it's not sending to its leaves🫪". All of my plants except for my neps shoot up flowers, some like my Madagascarsnsis and Capensis flower incessantly year round. I've tried trimming the flower stalks to see if they grow better or more, and didn't notice a difference. I prune dead and dying leaves regularly, but the flower stalks stay unless they're in the way.

A year ago I was convinced I could never keep a plant alive. Now these plants have brought immeasurable joy into my life.

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Wanted the hamata to be the first, idk how reddit works, but here's a small selection of some of my favorite pics of my collection🤗

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