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About 3 minutes after this video ended, I took a couple pics to show the tentacles fully trapping the spider. Enjoy!

Wow ! Pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing

Great pictures, video and process! congratulations!

Cool. How big is the drosera?

beckhamlim24 wrote:Cool. How big is the drosera?

About the size of a quarter.
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are you still having some difficulties figuring out what is wrong with the other burmanniis?

One of mine also died for no reason while starting to flower, the first stalk completed its seed production, but the second did not end the growth.


Even so, from nowhere, I have 2 more burmanii plants in other pots!! I really do not understand how that happened, I've hade burmanii seeds only one in my life and they were sowed in november!

akinkysnorlax wrote:are you still having some difficulties figuring out what is wrong with the other burmanniis?

I have no clue what caused it. 4 out of 6 started to die in weird fashion. 2 of the 4 inflicted put up flower stalks, but completely halted growth after a couple days. Of the 2 remaining healthy ones, 1 put up a flower stalk tbat is growing rapidly (I'll post photos later). I am now feeding the heck out of the flowering plant (feeding 1-2 spiders that are the size of the leaves, plus 4-6 fruit flies daily).
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Sorry to hear. Its so weird how only some of them died and some did not while in the same pot. I can't really think of any variables that would cause the death of those burmannii.

Neither can I. As long as the healthy plant produces seed, I will be fine. Adult burmannii really need more than fruit flies. I would have to give like 4 fruit flies per leaf to accommodate its needs.

I use dried bloodworms, when I ran out of daphnia due to filamentous bacteria

D. burmannii is an annual, it is typical for them to die after flowering. They can live longer if the flower stalks are cut before blooming, or may even survive blooming if they are very well grown and fed but your best bet is to save seed and start them as needed to replace old plants.

Tony C wrote:D. burmannii is an annual, it is typical for them to die after flowering. They can live longer if the flower stalks are cut before blooming, or may even survive blooming if they are very well grown and fed but your best bet is to save seed and start them as needed to replace old plants.

I have read that these plants can live for years if you really feed them while they are flowering. Obviously something went wrong on this run, but if I get seed, I will try again. I really want to successfully grow burmannii as a perennial

This is my source that makes me think they live for several years:
http://icps.proboards.com/thread/5990/help

For now, I have not had the complete assurance of it since one of mine already died, but, just have a look.

hmm, upon reading that thread, maybe it would be better if I cut the flower stalks of the less healthy burmannii and see if they recuperate...