My new TC plants

[Cindy]

Hongrui, that's exactly what I want to hear! That the species don't do well in direct sunlight...I don't have the photoperiod here at my balcony for VFTs and Sarracenias so you are a bearer of good news.

Now that Hongrui mentioned it, the ones directly under my T5 lights are slower than those further away. Hmmm...time to experiment and investigate...

Btw, what mix are you all using? Mine's just silica sand with about 20-25% peat.

David, I am as new as you to this species. I think maybe Khoas can help too 'cos D. hartmeyerorum is found in Australia.

I forgot to add...I have the plants in peat/sand covered loosely to maintain the humidity because they are quite near to the lights. The others which are further away which are not potted up, are left on perlite. I'll show a couple of photos later.

[David]

So not so much light for this fella, but the light should not be as dim as how we grow prolifera and schizandra?

[Cindy]

There are a few tiny D. hartmeyerorum plants at the base of the main plant which I didn't have the heart to throw out. They are all dewy without any cover. I asked myself...why do I always have plants doing better in pure perlite for me?

[Cindy]

David, in good light and not as low intensity as prolifera and schizandra. I still find it hard to consider the latter two as sundews.

[David]

I feel the same way too. I thik they're the only CPs I know that do not thrive with sunlight. Remember some time back I had 2 prolifera and they died. I dump the pot at my wash area window which is never closed. After a couple fo months the sphagnum moss started to cover the entire pot.

Then one day I just decided to dig into the sphagnum moss hoping to see a my prolifera coming back to life... Well it did not but I found 3 baby plantlets. Not sure if these are from the roots of the mother plant. The thing was they were growing in the sphagnum moss and totally covered by the moss. They were thriving. funny CPs

I think house plants need more light than them.

[Cindy]

David, that is what exactly happened to my schizandra! I had a few small plants (~1cm) which I placed onto some sphagnum moss. Soon after, I could see that they turned back and left them there. Recently, when I wanted to harvest some of sphagnum for growing other plants, I found a couple more schizandra plantlets covered under an inch of moss. Seems that the cooler weather lately resuscitated them. Oddballs of the Sundew Clan.

[hongrui]

Originally Posted by Cindy

Btw, what mix are you all using? Mine's just silica sand with about 20-25% peat.

i used 1:1 peat: perlite.