Drosera flowering?

Drosera flowering?#288609

By Nandi -  Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:45 pm
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- Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:45 pm #288609

Should I cut the the flowers from sundrews if I don't want seeds? Is blooming exhaus sundrews like VFT?

Re: Drosera flowering?#288610

By DeadlyCarnivore -  Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:57 pm
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- Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:57 pm #288610

Depends on the sundew, if you dont want seeds, cut off the flower stalk.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#288616

By SundewWolf -  Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:48 pm
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- Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:48 pm #288616

It won't really exhaust them as bad as a VFT, but if you don't want seeds I say cut it.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#288634

By nimbulan -  Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:44 am
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- Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:44 am #288634

It does not matter in the slightest. Even with VFTs you won't see more than a temporary slowdown in growth if the plant is healthy.

Doesn't anybody like flowers?

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Re: Drosera flowering?#288690

By Tarzanus -  Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:14 pm
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- Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:14 pm #288690

They do slow down. During the winter, if they flower and you don't feed it enough, it starts to decline. Even Drosera capensis. When it stops flowering it usually goes back to normal. Feeding helps a lot - well fed Drosera will not mind flowering at all, it will actually push out more flowers.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#288701

By boarderlib -  Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:52 pm
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- Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:52 pm #288701

I like flowers, but I still cut stalks here and there. How many spatulata seeds do we really need? Lol.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#289100

By Chingz -  Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:03 am
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- Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:03 am #289100

I let my only humpty doo flowering.
And my plant really look awful & miserable. It shrunk 2/3 from original size. I was afraid it will die because the leaves were so very tiny I can't even put an ant.... Lucky it was still dewy.
It took 4 weeks for my plant to look like normal again.
So, no more flower.
And I am lucky because the seeds grew too.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#289101

By Benurmanii -  Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:41 am
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- Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:41 am #289101

If your Drosera is suffering from flowering, then that means it is already in bad conditions. The worst thing that has happened to my Drosera is the plant slightly shrinking in size due to producing so many flower stalks.

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Re: Drosera flowering?#289118

By nimbulan -  Sun Mar 26, 2017 3:54 pm
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- Sun Mar 26, 2017 3:54 pm #289118

The only time I've noticed flowering affecting one of my sundews was when I had a capensis grow 4 flower stalks in rapid succession, and the plant just shrunk slightly for a short time.

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