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Recently I won a giveaway with a bunch of drosera cuttings and would like to know how do I grow them? Can just put them in a pot and leave them outside? or keep the m inside with some led grow lights that I have? Please help.Also I will put the species names if that will help

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Which Drosera? For
capensis you can either just float an entire leaf in water and wait for it to sprout small plants, or you can cut a leaf up into smallish pieces and place them, tentacles up, on the surface of a standard moist peat/perlite medium, cover with a bag, keep under lights or in bright filtered window light, and wait. It usually takes a couple weeks for plants to start growing. I do it that way. You can do that with binata / dichotoma, spathulata and many others.


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Bob Beer wrote:Which Drosera? For
capensis you can either just float an entire leaf in water and wait for it to sprout small plants, or you can cut a leaf up into smallish pieces and place them, tentacles up, on the surface of a standard moist peat/perlite medium, cover with a bag, keep under lights or in bright filtered window light, and wait. It usually takes a couple weeks for plants to start growing. I do it that way. You can do that with binata / dichotoma, spathulata and many others.


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Here are the names

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Here is an article on leaf cuttings. The site also gives specific information on propagation of different species. http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/Prop ... ation.html


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Floating them in water in my opinion is a great way to go, better than in substrate. I just recently rooted drosera graomogolensis, latifolia, spatulata, and capensis in pure water and i bet the aliciae will root soon (crossing fingers).

I should try it. I've always had good luck with the substrate method but it would be good to compare!


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In my experience it's hard to make sure that the leaf is in good enough contact with the substrate and the leaf often drys out and doesn't root. Rooting cuttings in water solves both of these problems.