D.paradoxa looks sick

[powersensor]

Hi guys,

I noticed that my D.paradoxa does not look healthy it is infested with aphids and mealie bugs. What should I do to help save the plant?

[alcran]

Cut back on the watering, spray with an insectide, and let it go dormant. It looks like yours is trying to go dormant. Paradoxa has a dry dormancy. The soil should only be barely damp at the most. It should be dry enough that the algae on the moss dies.

[kentosaurs]

Hi Alcran

i thought i heard somewhere that if you keep a wooly sundew wet whole year round it doesn't need to go dormant? Or did i mistake that for another sundew? My sundew too has lots of dead leaves and only 2-4 traps at a time....Me and sundews just don't mix well..

Ken

[Khoas]

You are thinking of pygmy sundews.

[bactrus]

Try looking closely in between the petioles see there is any aphids.

[kentosaurs]

Hi Khaos

Some stuff from a book

"When the soil dries out during the annual drought most plants die back to they're thick often hairy bulblike stems for several months of dormancy.However in cultivation the plants remain in growth if they are kept wet."

Sooo i'm just basing everything i said on this few lines...Correct me if i'm wrong.

Ken