Drosera Regia HELP ME!!!!!

[David052856]

Can someone please help me?

I just recently bought two juvenile Drosera Regia. I used to grow these plants when I was in high school and I got out of it because I ALWAYS have this problem.


I receive the drosera in the mail, and the leaves on the crown have started turning black. The blackness continues down to the crown and the whole plant dies back.

I had the plants outside in the east texas heat, and I realized that it was getting to warm for them.

So I have moved them inside and have them inside under a grow lamp. The new fiddle heads turn black and die quickly. The whole leaves eventually die down. It looks like I have carefully charred the plant with a blow torch.
The new tender leaves ALWAYS start to doe at the top of the leaf in the fiddle head then following down to the crown.
Can someone please help me.

I currently have them in day time temperatures of 70s to lower 80s and then cool nights down in the 60’s.
I am watering with the water tray system, and try not to let them dry out at all.

Any detailed help as I am at wits end. I have always liked drosera regia but they are so damn hard to sustain.

Thanks so much

David
Email
David052856@aol.com

[TranMinh]

Hi David052856,
First welcome to the forum, Drosera like other CPs they easy to get shock went we change the grow condition leaf will smaller and easy to die. So the new plants come you need to keep it in pot and high humid place ( 100% humid ), and low light not fullsun wait until the new leaf come and move the plants careful to where it grow.

[Khoas]

Remember Droser regia is mountain plant so it does like cooler than most of the genus.

[funkychips]

Fiddleheads are very sensitive to pressure and temperature fluctuations. When I've first gotten my repotted capensis the new leaf stems plus fiddleheads turned black in two days, only to be replaced by new ones a week after. It all depends on the environment you're keeping it in. I don't have a regia but like Khoas mentioned you'd probably want to keep it cooler first to minimise the stress it got during mailing and see how it goes. Hope that helps.

[strath76]

You certainly need to keep the roots of regia cooler. Mine is in a large pot and I water from overhead without using a tray. This is too keep the roots cool. Once established they are a little more tolerant of heat. I would recomend if you have had the same problem before and they have always died that you take a root cutting from your plant. This will allow you to germinate your own plant and it wont have the stress of being posted. Always grow this in a large pot as they need quite a bit of room for the large root system and to maintain a cool root zone.

[spark]

I got a rooted cutting and the leaves that were on it when I got it blackened and died. I cut the black off whenever I saw it, in case it was fungus or something, so it wouldn't spread. Eventually it started putting up new heads and they haven't blackened yet, though they're growing very slowly.