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An issue I have always had with temperate sundews is that they always die during or at the end of dormancy. My Drosera intermedia always either get killed by mold or they die soon after growing their first leaves which always look very unhealthy. I only have 2 mature plants that survived this winter and I want to save them so I don't have to restart from seed again.

I also want to try to grow temperate Drosera filiformis but I am worried that they will do the same thing as the D. intermedia because the only one I have grown appeared from nowhere in a pot a few years ago was killed by mold while it was dormant.

What sort of environment are you growing them in? I've always found temperate sundews to be pretty bulletproof over winter. They can handle far more abuse than Sarracenia or flytraps.

I grow them outside sitting in water trays the same way as if they were not dormant. I live in Texas so maybe the temperature is the issue.

Still out in full sun? I suppose it's possible that being too warm during dormancy could cause issues. You might try cutting back on the water a bit if that's the case.

Today I found a plant in one of my mini bogs which gets a lot less water than the other plants so hopefully it will do better when it starts growing. It looks better because the dormant leaves are all green compared to the ones grown on their own which have partly dead looking leaves.

we overwinter all ours outdoors here in NC have had no real noticeable difference the first two years they are beginning to come back as we speak (freakish warm weather streak has me worried tho!)

King Drosophyllum VI wrote:An issue I have always had with temperate sundews is that they always die during or at the end of dormancy. My Drosera intermedia always either get killed by mold or they die soon after growing their first leaves which always look very unhealthy. I only have 2 mature plants that survived this winter and I want to save them so I don't have to restart from seed again.

I also want to try to grow temperate Drosera filiformis but I am worried that they will do the same thing as the D. intermedia because the only one I have grown appeared from nowhere in a pot a few years ago was killed by mold while it was dormant.

Interesting that you have trouble in Texas as I have trouble in Wisconsin. My problem is the intermedia die in droves from the cold. I lose at least half my plants each winter no mater how mild, sometimes I'll lose 95%. I always just treat mine as annuals and they reseed for me every year so its all good. Someday, I will have to try and get some seed from somewhere in Canada, and see if they survive better.

I would say go ahead and give the filiformis a try but get the all red verity from Florida, they seem to come out of dormancy more readily then the other types I've tried.

I once grew some red Drosera filiformis that I bought off of Carnivorous Plant Nursery which died from the cold but I had grown a few plants from leaf cuttings which where in my greenhouse and they got eaten by a caterpillar. I got my other D. filiformis from a seed which germinated in my Sarracenia purpuria's pot a few years after I bought it so I don't know what kind it was except for that it came from California Carnivores.

Your filiformis "red" died from cold? In Texas? Huh. Maybe those arn't for you then.

Huntsmanshorn wrote:Your filiformis "red" died from cold? In Texas? Huh. Maybe those arn't for you then.

The plant was small and it froze. I will probably try growing it again