D.Burmannii

[kentosaurs]

Hi guys my burmanii which i have grown from seed has finally started to flower.....They are about 2-3inch in sizeSo far only the biggest flowering...Anyways i'm afraid that it might die after flowering but i've also heard if its fed properly they will live up to a couple of years...So what does "fed properly" means?? The one flowering has caught quite a number of bugs already.. Even a fruit fly which almost escaped but finally lost the battle agaisnt the sundew..Other victims are like ants, small flying insect, small beetles..I'm afraird to feed the flowering sundew now cos i wasn't sure if it was like a VFT which uses quite some amount of energy to digest a bug..

[marvin1997]

Originally Posted by kentosaurs

Hi guys my burmanii which i have grown from seed has finally started to flower.....They are about 2-3inch in sizeSo far only the biggest flowering...Anyways i'm afraid that it might die after flowering but i've also heard if its fed properly they will live up to a couple of years...So what does "fed properly" means?? The one flowering has caught quite a number of bugs already.. Even a fruit fly which almost escaped but finally lost the battle agaisnt the sundew..Other victims are like ants, small flying insect, small beetles..I'm afraird to feed the flowering sundew now cos i wasn't sure if it was like a VFT which uses quite some amount of energy to digest a bug..

First flower CUT!!!!!or it'll die.See this article: https://archive.petpitcher.net/drosera/ke...r-in-year-out/

[caseyhoo]

So far, my Burmanii didnt die after it flower.

What you can do is, lets it flower for few , may be 5 flower. then, cut off the top part of flower stalk, so, the plant will not continue flower and not suffer so much from that. Collect seeds when flower bulb is dry. By so, you will have at least 100seeds++.

[plantlover]

My burmanii have flowered almost 10 times!!! But it didn't die. Marvin, please don't claim that by letting it flower, it will die. If its healthy it will live.

[caseyhoo]

But, the plant defanately will suffer, size may getting smaller and not so red.

[marvin1997]

I meant the first flower....

[kentosaurs]

It looks quite healthy to me but as for the flower i dont see much pods developing soo maybe it wont use that much energy??? Oh yea when you say collect the seeds is there any sites you can link me which can help me on tat

[caseyhoo]

Originally Posted by kentosaurs

It looks quite healthy to me but as for the flower i dont see much pods developing soo maybe it wont use that much energy??? Oh yea when you say collect the seeds is there any sites you can link me which can help me on tat

Yours plant still will suffer if you lets it flower freely. I dont know any site for that. Sorry. I seen a discussion in forum about how and when to collect drosera seeds. May be you can check it out.

[plantlover]

I let it flower freely. It gets smaller then after few weeks back to normal and flower again and it continues like a spiral.

[sundewman]

Actually, if conditions are favorable the plant will keep getting larger and larger. When it was 60-70 degrees F indoors, my D. burmannii became very large when I fed each leaf. They also produced massive flower stalks with about 30+ flowers per stalk. Each stalk had ~100 seeds, so that's a ton. However, when warm temps came along (85 degrees F), they started getting smaller and smaller, and now they are just barely hanging on.
Anyone who wants to see some pics of D. burmannii can check out this page: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/burmannii.html