Newbie on sundew plants

[foxngn]

Hi All,

Greetings ! This is my first thread in here, also my first experiences on growing Drosera plants.

Here mine's so far, only got 3 different species for now, all from Brother Caseyhoo

My Burmanii which recently just start flowering"




Intermmedia 'Cuba' ? izzit? forgot the name for this liao


& also the bug sucker, Adelea :


feel free to comment, cause i think my plant not really doing well..

[strath76]

Welcome Foxngn. Your plants look to be growing very well. It is a sign they are growing well and enjoying the conditions when they are forming new leaves and have plenty of dew.

D. burmanii is an annual plant and so you need to make sure you collect the seed from the flowers.

[foxngn]

Originally Posted by strath76

Welcome Foxngn. Your plants look to be growing very well. It is a sign they are growing well and enjoying the conditions when they are forming new leaves and have plenty of dew.

D. burmanii is an annual plant and so you need to make sure you collect the seed from the flowers.

Thanks.
Now i only knew Burmanii is an annual plant after you told. Any symptoms i shall be aware that the seed is ready to be pluck out ? It won't drop itself one right ?

[caseyhoo]

Cool... yours plant like yours place... But, if can, give them more light... Yours plant will enjoy it under more light and will show you how happy they are when you do so...

[Khoas]

The sign to look for in a mature seedpod is it turn brown. With burmanii the lower seedpods will mature before the top flowers have finished. The seeds which do reach the surface of the pot will germatate in about 6 - 12 weeks depending on the temperature.

[caseyhoo]

What Khaos said is correct... Once it turn brown, I personnally will wait for 1 or 2 days before harvest it. Becuase, sometime, the seeds inside it still green color.

BTW, the 2nd photo is D. intermedia 'cuba'

[bactrus]

I've been experimenting plucking out the flower shoots of one particular pot. So far that fellow is still growing. Wanna see for how long.

[foxngn]

Originally Posted by caseyhoo

Cool... yours plant like yours place... But, if can, give them more light... Yours plant will enjoy it under more light and will show you how happy they are when you do so...

I hope so, but currently only that got 1 place available to put the plants, somemore that's the place where i can get most of the afternoon - evening sunlight. Maybe when i found another spot to place the flower, will setup a light system for them.

Originally Posted by Khoas

The sign to look for in a mature seedpod is it turn brown. With burmanii the lower seedpods will mature before the top flowers have finished. The seeds which do reach the surface of the pot will germatate in about 6 - 12 weeks depending on the temperature.

erm, sorry Khoas, not quite get this part, the lower seedpod u mean is below burmanii, or the one which are below the flower within the stalk ?

Originally Posted by caseyhoo

What Khaos said is correct... Once it turn brown, I personnally will wait for 1 or 2 days before harvest it. Becuase, sometime, the seeds inside it still green color.

BTW, the 2nd photo is D. intermedia 'cuba'

thanks for the clarification again.

Originally Posted by bactrus

I've been experimenting plucking out the flower shoots of one particular pot. So far that fellow is still growing. Wanna see for how long.

Wow...! so the plant already reach the 'child' stage ?

I heard that some people actually cut off the flower stalk when it grow up til some certain size, to avoid the burmanii plant to shrink. How is it going on, why the plant will response like that by shrinking ?

[bactrus]

No strinkage. Plant just normal. I feed them with small insects very often. But I do keep a set of for seed producing purpose.

[TS]

Welcome to the forum, foxngn.
Your plants are growing happily at your place, provide them with more sun light if you can. All your sundews species will turn more reddish if they get more sun, especially the D. intermedia 'cuba'.
As for D. burmanii, the plant normally shrink after flowering. I normally cut away the flower stalk to "keep" that healthy look. But if you want seeds, then you would have to risk the plant to death by letting the plant to flower then get seeds to start the 2nd generation. It doesn't mean that the plant will surely die, it could survive if the plant is strong enough before it flower.
D. burmanii eventually become weed, they invaded almost every nearby pot in my garden!