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By Cross
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How am I supposed to get them all out of here without damaging either them like my sarracenia. Can they stay in there until they're much larger? Would they be alright? There's several different species in there. Image

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By Cross
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mo_carnivore wrote:Since the sarr is dormant right now, I would recommend unpotting the entire thing and separating them now.
How really sensitive are the sundews' roots? It'd like to save even the tiny ones.

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By CpKid
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Whew, thats a lot of sundew! The smaller ones are cape sundews, they're not to sensitive, and are really hard to kill (From experience lol). The Forked sundew should be fine, but I'll let someone more experience speak up on that.
By King Drosophyllum VI
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The cape sundews root systems at that size should be small enough that you can remove the soil around the roots with it and put it in another pot and replace the removed soil. The I don't know about the fork leafed sundew because I can't tell what species it is.
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By ChefDean
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I'm in the process of repotting a bunch of dews myself. I'm pretty sure they're all Albino Capes, but, like you, I want as many to survive as possible.
Some advice I got that works beautifully is to use a toothpick to make a little hole in the new media, and use the same toothpick to gently uproot the seedling with a small chunk of the old media. Put it in the hole and gently tamp it down, again with the toothpick.
Keeping a small root ball helps in mitigating shock from the transplant.
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By bananaman
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Most of the sundews you’ll find as weeds are pretty tolerant of root disturbance. The D. binata and D. capensis you’ve got certainly are. They both usually continue growing without missing a beat after transplanting (even after barerooting!)
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By thefic
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I use regular everyday tweezers with great success. The front “tweezing” side works well to gently scoop up around the tiny plants and then the flat side to transport surrounding dirt and roots to the new pot.

Works well on my sundews, VFTs, and cacti.
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