Previously received dry drosera pulchella gemmae from an online seller. https://www.reddit.com/r/SundewLove/s/ksLhXZU8TP I sent a complaint and they offered to send fresh gemmae in moist moss instead. They arrived today and I carefully spread them out in moist moss beds.
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.
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.
First time experience, It's beautiful
I thought these guys would still grow more before flowering but I guessed wrong. I started these from a sundew seed mix so my I believe it is D.intermida but correct me if I am wrong. Can someone tell me why these guys are so tiny since they should be bigger than this.