Random Drosera Pictures
 

just some of my favorite drosera sp:

D. capensis
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/DSC01938.jpg

D. indicia 'Red'
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/DSC01935.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/DSC01936.jpg

D. adelae
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/DSC01934.jpg

D. prolifera - finally dewing after 4 long months :laugh:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/DSC01931.jpg

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OMG! Beautiful droseras!

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hongrui,

Can you share your cultivation technic or routine for your prolifera? day and night temperatures and sunlight intensity.

What media do you use?

Thanks.

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i keep D. prolifera in shade, mix is 1:1 peat and sand, with a top dressing of sand. no special reason for the top dressing though. because the pot is in shade, i guess the max temp is maybe 30C, drops down at night to maybe 24C.

i tried growing D. schizandra in the same conditions but it rotted away. maybe because my humidity wasn't high enough.

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hongrui, hope you don`t mind i hitch a ride on to your post......one of my flowering pygmies....

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...8/DSCN9151.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...DSCN9143-1.jpg

the sundew itself ....d.pulchella salmon flower

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...8/DSCN9146.jpg

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very nice tarence! pygmies just don't like me...

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yours never flowered hongrui ? i kinda looked forward to seeing this particular pygmy flower coz of its famed orange flowers...it was a nice surprise.

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Hmmm, looks like I can never grow this in my area. The temperatures in my place is unpredictable. When it rains, it'll be around the same temperature as your growing condition. However, if it's a sunny day, temperature at night do not really go down.

I've already killed 2 prolifera and 2 schizandra. :crying:

Is the area where your prolifera is very humid?

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tarence, nope, i only have 1 left, and its just surviving.

David, its not particularly humid, i think. i have not bothered to go measure the RH though. did you keep both your D. prolifera and D. schizandra in shade or in bright light?

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I tried one in my terrarium with only one 18 watt PLL light and 90% humidity. It died. Then I tried another one at the window of my apartment. It received bringht light. No direct sunlight. It also died.

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Hi David,
Took me a while to get back here. I have an advantage over you for D. prolifera, as I gorw in a basement in a temperate zone.
The media does not really seem to matter. I would try lfs to maximize the humidity and keeping the roots cool. Is there anywhere inside where it does not get too warm?
I also somehow manage to grow D. falconeri in the same basement that I got from tc, and yes I still remember I owe you both plants, lol.
Send me your addie again and I will send you both, if youa re willing to try again.

Cheers,

Joe

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Joe,

Of course! I am more than willing to try again.:smile: Thanks so much.

The best place I can think of is my 1-feet terrarium, but I wonder if the 9-watt PLL lighting is still too much for it. My earlier plant was placed about 9inches from the lighting and it died. Humidity wasn't a problem. Perhaps its the heat.

Do you think it would be better if I keep them in a bigger pot and use only sphagnum moss? As you've suggested, that would keep the roots cool. Perhaps I'll try what I did for my Heliamphora. It was advised to me to place granite stones at the bottom of the pot to keep it cool. Then fill up with the media the heliamphora is growing in. Place this pot in a tray of water untill the level of the granite stones. It seems the stones are much cooler and will keep the area around the roots cool. What do you think? Actually, I was also told to place this smaller pot where the plant grows in a bigger pot and fill the gap betweent the smaller pot and bigger pot with smaler granite stones allt the way up to the top. Perhaps this will work on the prolifera and falconeri too.

The coolest location in my house would be the living area, but there's only light from the window with no sunlight. I wonder if the lighting is enough.

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You can try that light. I have grown some very far from lights. They look etiolated, but look somewhat like they do in nature. I prefer more light. It gives it a little color and makes the tentacles very dewy.
Are you growing a Heli succesfully? If that is the case, you should be able to grow these. I would go with pure sphagnum.
The other stuff sounds interesting.
Cheers,

Joe

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I grow my D.prolifera in pure sphagnum moss and it received a few hours of direct morning sun, bright for the rest of the day. It sends out two flower stalks now. I think low night temperature is more crucial to grow this plant.