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My collection is growing( , shocker, right?) and I've got a few pics I'd like to share with everyone.

Here's a capensis looking all elegant and beautiful And here's a capensis feeding on a freeze dried bloodworm Do capensis flowers normally like this? A nep before the lid opened Same nep, all smiley and stuff... Here it is today Close up on the peristome Here's another pitcher on the same plant, this one is bigger Here's an unkown drosera, still hanging on These sarracenia are from a dormant kit, no idea if they are minors or alatas or what, but they look cool sweeeeeet...

Might just be the angle but that Capensis stalk looks like a double flower. Nice!

The capensis does indeed have a double flower: I like the veining in this sarracenia: This unkown drosera is still hanging on... My nep, looking good: Another pitcher on the same plant, bigger and darker due to it being exposed to more sun: My first Sarracenia, Cenia: As soon as my P. planifolia and S. leuco x alata x wherryii Citronelli begin to show growth, I'll be posting pics.

I was looking at the pitchers from the dormant kit and noticed 'dew' or humidity forming droplets around the opening:
This is from the one that opened most recently: This is the first that opened, it's kind of difficult to see but there is 'dew' on the back of the 'throat': Is that humidity that the plant is catching? Or is it 'dew' that the plant forms? Either way they look great!

Your plant is a rubra or rubra hyrbrid. The "dew" is nectar the leaf secretes to lure bugs into their trap


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Goodkoalie wrote:Your plant is a rubra or rubra hyrbrid. The "dew" is nectar the leaf secretes to lure bugs into their trap


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Ah, thank you, GK! So no need to fill the pitchers with water, right?

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Goodkoalie wrote:Your plant is a rubra or rubra hyrbrid. The "dew" is nectar the leaf secretes to lure bugs into their trap


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Ah, thank you, GK! So no need to fill the pitchers with water, right?

Yup no need


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How cool does this look? Here's another angle: I can see the dew on this Nep: Just about open for business: Looks like the D. capensis flower stalk is a 3-in-1: I played around with the white balance for these pics: And back to normal: This guy was just hanging out on flower stalks:

Beautiful plants and nice macros!

Dionae wrote:Beautiful plants and nice macros!

Thank you, Dionae!

I took these pics a couple days ago. The bug looks kinda cool, it's got tiger coloring or leopard coloring. And this pitcher is doing pretty alright; I poured water in it, but do they make their own nectar? This unknown drosera is finally starting to show its 'claws'.
Here it is in March of this year: Here it is now: I think this looks pretty cool, it's my P.gigantea(recently acquired):

Some pics of my unknown sundew from lowes.

Here it is at the end of February: Here it is a couple days ago, different angle. Hopefully I'll be able to get a bit of an ID on this plant. I have it under lights right now, 15.5 on/8.5 off, thoroughly water and wait for the soil to be dang near bone dry before watering again(distilled water).

A little bit of a 'sarracenia jungle': My second batch of D.capensis seedlings(I accidentally killed my first batch by using neem oil to treat some white fuzz...):

I noticed that the hoods on my purps are different:
Here is Cenia, the bottom of the hoods fold in: A nursery purchase, the middle of the hood folds in: Does this mean they are different hybrids or whatever? Will the flowers help, cuz I'm still waiting for the flower stalks to pop up.

I noticed some weird growth on a capensis I've got with a purp: I wish I get a better angle, but it looks like a division, right? Are drosera capensis known to divide?

It's producing another growing point. I say keep it on and get better foliage I don't think you can divide them though. If you want to propagate sundews put the leaves in pure water under a grow light or at a windowsill. You'll get tons of sprouts in about a month. It works best with binata. Nice capensis!

~Charlie

charlie wrote:It's producing another growing point. I say keep it on and get better foliage I don't think you can divide them though. If you want to propagate sundews put the leaves in pure water under a grow light or at a windowsill. You'll get tons of sprouts in about a month. It works best with binata. Nice capensis!

~Charlie

Thanks, Charlie! I was looking for roots to see if I could separate it, but nothing. I'm gonna keep it where it is and let nature take its course.

Yeah! New pics!

Drosera Indica, looks cool. D. Indica with some food. S. leuco x alata x wherryii Citronelli Different angle. Nice shot of a P. Sethos leaf. Here's another cool shot of the P. Sethos.