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My little D. grao. is nice and dewy today.

Looks great! I love the moss... mine just has a layer of algae on the top of the substrate. It's a bit bigger though. What conditions do you keep it in? Some people say that it needs highland temps but I'm growing it fine in ambient humidity with household temps--aka no big temp drop at night, pretty hot all summer long. It's doing great. What's worked for you?

I don't treat it as highland either. I keep it on my indoor grow rack in household temps.68-74F. I do keep it covered with a humidity dome and uncover a couple times a day for fresh air. It's under a single 18watt LED bulb. Got any pics of yours?

That's a scary cool looking little dew. What type is? Tropical,Temperate ect

Highland temps? I stuck mine in the hottest room of my house! oops. It's been growing great all summer though, even better than my spatulatas. My light just isn't strong enough for that deep red look.

This is what my grao looked like mid-May--nice and dewy!
As you can see, it's not immune to the heat--I'm actually glad that I have three plants, because I can test out stuff (varying foods, etc) on the small one and the problematic one doesn't cause me too much worry (although it would be great if I could figure out what was happening--it's been like that for ages).
I actually have a Drosera latifolia too in the same conditions that is chugging along, although it definitely looked better in the winter.

SundewWolf wrote:My light just isn't strong enough for that deep red look.

I actually don't like the completely red look on these, or most sundews for that matter. I like to see at least a little green on them.

KategoricalKarnivore wrote:

SundewWolf wrote:My light just isn't strong enough for that deep red look.

I actually don't like the completely red look on these, or most sundews for that matter. I like to see at least a little green on them.

When I say this about Pinguicula, people think I'm crazy!

I personally think that full red is the most stunning (on some plants), but I love the look of deep red tentacles against a reddish-green leaf. In several plants, like venus flytraps, sarracenia, and a few sundew species, I prefer this red-but-not-all-red look. I really just think all carnivorous plants are beautiful... that's why I'm on this forum, right?

Yeah the mixed colors might honestly be better. I think the reason I want some all red plants is because I've always had cheap growlights and can never accomplish it.

By the way, does anyone know what's wrong with the green grao? It doesn't have fully open leaves, and since it's isolated to that plants I think it's a pest or something, but it's stayed with that plant and only that plant for many months now.

Here's mine growing under the Mars hydro 300 LED light...very red from the top view.

hollyhock wrote:Here's mine growing under the Mars hydro 300 LED light...very red from the top view.

Wow. That is just beautiful

KategoricalKarnivore wrote: I actually don't like the completely red look on these, or most sundews for that matter. I like to see at least a little green on them.

Benurmanii wrote: When I say this about Pinguicula, people think I'm crazy!

I couldn't agree with you guys more. I have LED's I run in the winter and I keep my plants at the far end of their effectiveness range. I think at this point in the game we're a dying breed unfortunately

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boarderlib wrote:

KategoricalKarnivore wrote: I actually don't like the completely red look on these, or most sundews for that matter. I like to see at least a little green on them.

Benurmanii wrote: When I say this about Pinguicula, people think I'm crazy!

I couldn't agree with you guys more. I have LED's I run in the winter and I keep my plants at the far end of their effectiveness range. I think at this point in the game we're a dying breed unfortunately

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There are a few Pings that are the exception, I must say, but my preference for green is why I prefer P. heterophylla over P. gypsicola. Although, I do prefer red Drosera to green Drosera, though it's best when they have a color gradient from green to red, like on D. camporupestris.