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I can’t be the only guy with them, right? Let’s see em, here’s a few of mine I decided were looking good

I like that Derbyensis, that's a really nice specimen.
Thanks for sharing.
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While I haven’t had it all that long (~7 weeks), my little ordensis looks really nice: So far, it hasn’t been any trouble.

Wow, nice plants everyone I was doing some thinking and I would like to ask, could you grow woolly sundews in the same enviroment as say, a lowland nepenthes? I think the temperature requirements match up pretty well, but I believe that the woolly sundews might like it dryer than the nepenthes do in the winter. Could this be a problem? Thanks.

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote:Wow, nice plants everyone I was doing some thinking and I would like to ask, could you grow woolly sundews in the same enviroment as say, a lowland nepenthes? I think the temperature requirements match up pretty well, but I believe that the woolly sundews might like it dryer than the nepenthes do in the winter. Could this be a problem? Thanks.

Honestly I don’t see a need for their dormancy, it’s more of a survival lastditch effort instead of a necessity. Think of pygmies
I would say go for it. Hot and humid is what they love

HeliamphoraWalnut wrote: Honestly I don’t see a need for their dormancy, it’s more of a survival lastditch effort instead of a necessity. Think of pygmies
I would say go for it. Hot and humid is what they love

So pygmy sundews would be good with lowland Nepenthes? Or was "thinking of pygmies" meant as "they would do better rather than woolly sundews"?

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote:

HeliamphoraWalnut wrote: Honestly I don’t see a need for their dormancy, it’s more of a survival lastditch effort instead of a necessity. Think of pygmies
I would say go for it. Hot and humid is what they love

So pygmy sundews would be good with lowland Nepenthes? Or was "thinking of pygmies" meant as "they would do better rather than woolly sundews"?

Pygmy sundews go into dormancy in the summer mostly as a survival effort — not because they need to. Wooly sundews are similar in that their dormancy is a survival effort, not a requirement.

bananaman wrote: summer mostly as a survival effort — not because they need to. Wooly sundews are similar in that their dormancy is a survival effort, not a requirement.

Ah. Thanks. Now time to search up some terrarium builds...

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote:

bananaman wrote: summer mostly as a survival effort — not because they need to. Wooly sundews are similar in that their dormancy is a survival effort, not a requirement.

Ah. Thanks. Now time to search up some terrarium builds...

I grow all my petiolaris dews in ambient humidity (40-60)
Seems like the biggest factor is heat, they really need that

How do you provide the heat? I'm using a heat pad, but either the pad is old and getting less effective of it might just not be enough heat because I think my ordensis might be slipping into dormancy...

mo_carnivore wrote:How do you provide the heat? I'm using a heat pad, but either the pad is old and getting less effective of it might just not be enough heat because I think my ordensis might be slipping into dormancy...

I use a seed starting mat, maybe try a new one?

HeliamphoraWalnut wrote: I grow all my petiolaris dews in ambient humidity (40-60)
Seems like the biggest factor is heat, they really need that

That's good to know. But I was thinking of a growing environment where I could grow both Lowland Nepenthes and Petiolaris sundews, so I would need the humidity for the Nepenthes.

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote:

HeliamphoraWalnut wrote: I grow all my petiolaris dews in ambient humidity (40-60)
Seems like the biggest factor is heat, they really need that

That's good to know. But I was thinking of a growing environment where I could grow both Lowland Nepenthes and Petiolaris sundews, so I would need the humidity for the Nepenthes.

They would love it, I was just saying they like, but don't need humdity as much as heat

So is it more about the soil warmth than the actual air temp?

mo_carnivore wrote:So is it more about the soil warmth than the actual air temp?

Yeah, you gotta get those warm roots man!