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Image 1 — 20 days later
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20 days later

A couple weeks ago I posted here asking for advice keeping a new drosera capensis alba my dad and I dragged home from a nursery so here’s the updates;

First thing, it turns out my original pot wasn’t a single plant but actually 3 and a plantlet clustered together like a bunch of kids stacked in a trench coat, other than that they’re absolutely thriving to the point where I was even starting to wonder if they could actually over feed themselves (seems like that’s not possible) I’m hoping the 3 larger ones flower soon.

In addition I also went back to the nursery a few days later and grabbed another 2 pots of these things and this time separated them out into their own individual pots. Coming away with 8 of them and 3 plantlets (not pictured) all for just $20. The new one were a bit whiny about being repotted but most of them seem to be settling in and starting to bounce back. Eventually I’m gonna have them all in a 6x12 bonsai style planter with a pvc pipe system to distribute distilled water under the soil by way of an inlet above ground.

u/GBMP-045 — 5 days ago

My dad recently started getting back into carnivorous plants which got ME back into carnivorous plants. My dad’s primarily specializing in Venus fly traps but for me, sundews are my absolute favorite cuz my monkey brain likes looking at shiny things... so I brought this thing home week ago and transferred it to its current pot. In the past I’ve always ended up killing my sundews but now that it’s been a few years and I’m an adult now, I’m trying again, and I’m asking for any advice to get this thing to full size.

Right now I’m trying to keep the soil perma-damp (but not waterlogged) and bring it outside to the direct sun when that’s available (we’ve had a rainy week) it seems happy, I’m watching the trichomes slowly unfurling on new growth, so any suggestions or tips to keep it that way would be awesome!!

u/GBMP-045 — 25 days ago