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I've acquire 2 Drosera Filiformis leaf from a friendly trade 2 weeks back. I left 1 in sphagnum and the other in water. Both strikes but the one on sphagnum shows a faster growth.

Drosera Filiformis

okay i'm going to start trying leaf cuttings now

Water propagation works well with a lot of sundews.
I have had success many times.
Good job tish they look good

ps3isawesome wrote:okay i'm going to start trying leaf cuttings now

yes you should! especially if you want to duplicate any nice ones

Cory wrote:Water propagation works well with a lot of sundews.
I have had success many times.
Good job tish they look good

Thanks Cory! I seems to have problem with Burmannii in water, they always rot/die off.

I haven't tried burmanni

I have had success with
Dielsiana Spathulata and
Hamiltonii

Most of the others I propagate are more easily done with under potting

I will try with the Burmannii again when my seedling get bigger . Currently I am having some strikes on a few sundew leaf

There was this black any lurking in my pot, I think it's a Queen, I left it on the adelae leaf and instead of getting trapped, the queen had a great time drinking up all the beads of dew

The Queen drinks

The last time I was at the horde up construction area. I harvest some seeds from a old flower stalk, there was only 2 flower pod with seeds trapped left. I sowed some of them in peat/perlite mix.

Nepenthes Gracilis Canberra Park, SG
Sow : 8 Dec 2014


Germinate approx. 20 dec 2014

Nice! You're lucky you could save those neps and nep seeds!

Thanks! I have some spare seeds which I intend to release on top of a stream on the bridge in our nature reserves. Just waiting for a trip down.

Sent from my SM-N9005

Merry Christmas to all! Some photos update on the young ones over the week.

Drosera Indica from David F - Spotted about 4 germination in total


Drosera Intermedia EM pond


Drosera Venusta




Flower : Drosera Tokaiensis


Darlingtonia Californica - The one bought home from my office has a red tip on the new growth. Still no sign of germination except these existing 3.






Drosera Adelae - The leaf stike look so different from the root strike which is in the middle.




Drosera Filiformis - A leaf stike


Drosera Burmannii Humpty Doo - Very poor germination rate, one in peat one in lfs

For my own reference

tish wrote:Anyway just showing you what is going on with my sphagnum.

30 Oct When it first came was in a pack, flatten.


28 Nov The peat was really a thin layer, I kept the sphagnum in a container with many holes on top. mist with low ppm water when ever I can, once every 2 days?
'

29 Dec, Today, some are already touching the cover of the container.

I would like to share a very simple tip on how I take photographs with my smartphone camera(13mp).

I have a Samsung Note 3, it comes with a 13 mega pixel camera, not the best in the market (See Sony Z2 and Z3 - 20MP) I use it mainly for my macro photos on my carnivorous plants now. It has 95% replace my DSLR for macro shots. Here's how I does it.

Samsung note 3 camera app has a good zoom in function. I usually maximise it to 2.0 times digital zoom. The subject (plant) has to be in good lightings (my T5 grow light) When I need to go for more zoom and smaller subjects. I attach a mobile phone clip on macro lens. (Link). It helps alot!

Ask me anything, I will answer on this topic.

Here's a video on my camera and the clip on macro lens
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8psYnJiVo[/youtube]

Thanks for the updates Tish, I also find that Humpty Doo has an extreme almost sterile-like germination rate, regardless of the grower who sent me the seeds.

ya, really awesome updates. the amount of work you put in is incredible. this is super educational and fun to read, thank you so much for contributing !!!