- Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:39 am
#221989
Hi all,
I could really use some help. My first sundew ever, a red cape I named Curly, seems to be dying and I can't pinpoint why. I have a few other sundews growing under the same conditions. My Alice Sundew is in the same tray and seems to be doing fine. The issue is that the new growth is dead and the plant is losing dew. I tried looking in the forum for a similar situation but couldn't find anything.
I noticed a slowing of new growth a week ago, but just brushed my concern aside, figuring it would pick up soon. I am quite concerned now because a couple of months ago my venus flytrap came down with a fungus, causing the flytrap to display the same symptoms, and that fungus was so aggressive that it took the whole plant down in a week. I have currently quarantined the sundew in case it has some sort of disease. Here are the conditions my sundew was growing in before:
issue: not growing, new growth is blackened, dew disappearing (i am aware that sometimes dew disappears naturally... in this case, this is occurring at an alarming rate)
light: cool 6500k light
location: indoors by a window and a CFL
humidity/temperature: should be good, i have a few other sundews that are doing fine under the same conditions
watering method: tray, with rainwater
media: LFS (this is what the plant came in when i bought it)
Theories on why my sundew appears to be dying:
- disease/fungus?
- not enough room for roots/needs to be repotted? (there are quite a few other babies that happened to start growing in the pot after i bought the sundew)
- something in the water (mineral build up)--this seems unlikely because there is an alice sundew in the same tray that seems to be doing fine
- something else???
Please let me know if you have any questions!
BEFORE AFTER NEW GROWTH DYING/ NEW LEAVES NOT OPENING
DEW DISAPPEARING If you could help me out and give me a clue on what's going on, I'd be so grateful. Thank you in advance.
I could really use some help. My first sundew ever, a red cape I named Curly, seems to be dying and I can't pinpoint why. I have a few other sundews growing under the same conditions. My Alice Sundew is in the same tray and seems to be doing fine. The issue is that the new growth is dead and the plant is losing dew. I tried looking in the forum for a similar situation but couldn't find anything.
I noticed a slowing of new growth a week ago, but just brushed my concern aside, figuring it would pick up soon. I am quite concerned now because a couple of months ago my venus flytrap came down with a fungus, causing the flytrap to display the same symptoms, and that fungus was so aggressive that it took the whole plant down in a week. I have currently quarantined the sundew in case it has some sort of disease. Here are the conditions my sundew was growing in before:
issue: not growing, new growth is blackened, dew disappearing (i am aware that sometimes dew disappears naturally... in this case, this is occurring at an alarming rate)
light: cool 6500k light
location: indoors by a window and a CFL
humidity/temperature: should be good, i have a few other sundews that are doing fine under the same conditions
watering method: tray, with rainwater
media: LFS (this is what the plant came in when i bought it)
Theories on why my sundew appears to be dying:
- disease/fungus?
- not enough room for roots/needs to be repotted? (there are quite a few other babies that happened to start growing in the pot after i bought the sundew)
- something in the water (mineral build up)--this seems unlikely because there is an alice sundew in the same tray that seems to be doing fine
- something else???
Please let me know if you have any questions!
BEFORE AFTER NEW GROWTH DYING/ NEW LEAVES NOT OPENING
DEW DISAPPEARING If you could help me out and give me a clue on what's going on, I'd be so grateful. Thank you in advance.