Propagation in gel media?
Hello everyone, I recently bought two D. Capensis Hercules from an aquarium plant seller, and the curious thing is that they're used to selling plants "in-vitro", sending them planted in a pot with a gel substrate.
Well, that might work normally for truly aquatic plants, but I suspect that the gel made the Droseras a bit *confused*, because there's probably close to 20 or 30 individual plants in there!
I could identify three main "types" of propagates while I tried to separate them by hand:
First would be the main plants, they indeed came one per pot, but with the bigger one there seemed to be a smaller one that grew enough to also fill that role, basically a normal entire plant.
Second would be "leashed" plants, they were smaller and attached to a bigger one by what only after I realised was a leaf! They basically started growing from an older leaf and the gel kept that connection alive.
And the third is the *bouquet*, a bunch of tiny plants growing out of only they know what, some look like they're growing out of each other. I couldn't separate those as well so I just planted them together and will reassess when they're bigger.
I contacted the seller and the gel seems to be a very firm mix of Agar, I wonder if anyone ever used it to propagate leaves? Because *apparently* it works wonders with whole plants, and I think it would have less of a chance of rotting than directly on water and less of a chance of drying than on moss.
Also, cat.