Re: Newbie on sundew plants
 

Bend the flower stalk slightly over a large envople or a sheet of paper to catch any split seeds. Cut the seedpod, I found tearing will pull the whole scape out of the plants a lot of the time.

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Oh.. thanks for the info.

Will try to do that next time, cause the intermmedia still not yet flowering, but it got many of the pods :eek:
Now the burmanii is start to growing flower stalk again ! Quite fast from my what i see :P

For the other 2 burmanii seed POT, 1 of the first pot which are the 4cm small pot that one, i already saw the got growth significant on it already, really happy with that.
But for the 8cm pot, still got no improvement yet, hopefully those seed didn't been wash away by water or whatever.


This is the updates of mine :smile:

Re: Newbie on sundew plants
 

Look at all the seeds I collected from my crazy intermedia flower frenzy. Not sure whether viable or not but 98% the seedpods already black in colour so I press them gently and the seeds pour out.

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that's madness !

so you pluck out the seedpod & put together in the picture, right ?

my intermedia still not yet flowering, & my burmanii new flower stalk is growing taller & taller.
still got no sign of growing on the 8cm pot, i wonder does the seed still growing there or not. dunno is there any concern of i use more of spagnum moss or not, cause just a thin layer of peat moss above, below those spagnum moss i make the pieces smaller & fill in the pot.
On the other note, the 4cm pot is growing nicely.. but quite pack.
I wonder should i need to wait it grow a bit bigger only re-pot it to another pot or not.

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Btw, if those plant grow flower stock, but the flower didn't open, it instead been a long time then dried out itself . what is the cause of that?

Re: Newbie on sundew plants
 

Normally a change in the enviorment wil cause this. Large changes in humidity, light levels or water level can cause the flowers to abort.

Re: Newbie on sundew plants
 

ic, do high level of humidity will bring side effect too?

But im suppose in my case, should be sunlight problem, anyway, i already remove the dead flower pod to another container, leave it for a week first before pluck it out the seed.

On another note, last time those burmanii seed already grew out their plant, really glad of that, question is i already can remove the plastic bag that wrap before it right? i mean previously the plastic bag which are use to protect the seed from rain drop.

One more doubt is, does those newly grew up plant is ready to prey those bugs

Re: Newbie on sundew plants
 

If I got this right you have Drosera burmanii seedling that have just germinate and you have used a plastic bag over the pot to increase humidity.
If so don't take the bag straight off, the sudden drop in humidity could be bad, instead slowly take the bag over a period of couple weeks to allow the seedlings time to adjust.
Start by lift the bad up just enough to leave a little gap and after couple of day increase the gap by a little bit. If the seedlings start to wilt put bag back over until they strengthen up and try again.

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yeah, you got that right about the condition.
Now i got the point, cause previously i thought of just taking it off, but still feel un-secure, lucky that i ask this here before doing that.
Thanks :smile::1thumbup:

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Anyway, here's my burmanii which readily to be re-potting to a bigger pot

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