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my drosera capensis are flowering at the moment, and as they will produce a lot of seeds i was wondering what the best method would be to store them. for other plant seeds such as sunflower seeds and passiflora seeds, im just keeping them in a dark and dry place at room temperature, would this be the same for carnivorous plant seeds?

drosera capensis seeds are so small they make VFT seeds look big, lol. I get so much seed from my Cape that i dont really bother storing, i just put them in a small zip lock bag and they last just under a year, but not long at all.
The best way ive seen seed stored, especially vft seeds is in small plastic tubes, i got sent a lot of vft seeds packed this way that were knocking on nearly 4 years and they had over 80% germination rate, you can see what i mean in this vid i made, its 1,12 miniutes into the video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXvcXg8vWfE[/youtube]

I think that would probely work very well for drosera, esspecialy if you keep them in the fridge too.

alright, thank you. now let see if i can manage to make some of those tubes myself

I usually make an envelope out of a square piece of paper and then put them in a bag in the refrigerator.

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so i can just store them dry into the fridge, but what about temperate seeds like drosera intermedia? can i also store them dry in the fridge? i know they need a cold stratification before they can be sown, but does it also count if they are being kept dry or do they need to be moist? for example one of those tubes from Dr GreenThumb with a few drops of rain water and the seeds?

You will need moisture for stratification. Whether it's planted, in with some strands of LFSM or a moist paper towel or in water its your choice.

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I make paper envelopes, see this link: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/seedbank/Envelope.htm

I put all my envelopes in a ZipLoc bag and store it in the refrigerator.

I grow Tropical, Sub-Tropical, and Temperate Drosera. I grow Byblis and Drosophyllum. I even grow a FlyTrap or two. I store all my seeds this way.

The only ones I'd hesitate to refrigerate are Nepenthes.

Good growing,
Mike