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I just wanted to share my first success with CP propagation!

I took 2 leaf cuttings from my Drosera filiformis tracyi and kept them in well lit distilled water until plantlets formed (last photo I think). 2 weeks ago, I put them in pots of 50/50 peat/sand and I'm SO IMPRESSED with how fast these suckers are growing! The images of them in the pots are from today.

I've also had success with some D. Spatulata seeds from the seed bank, but the seedlings are still too small for my camera phone!

Wow! If you think these are fast growers, try doing Intermedia leaf pullings! I just bury mine under the soil next to the parent plant, and a week later I have 2 to 3 babies!

I'll trying that next! I've just been waiting on my Intermedia to get a little bigger, want to make sure she's happy under my care before I remove anything. So excited!

Wow that's ALOT of plantlets on just a single leaf! I'm trying this with my tracyi so I hoping I'm as successful!

This is a cutting from a Marston Dragon that produced a bunch of hatchlings.

Panman wrote:This is a cutting from a Marston Dragon that produced a bunch of hatchlings.

WHOA! That seems like so many!

Panman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:15 pm This is a cutting from a Marston Dragon that produced a bunch of hatchlings.

Wow, no wonder you had so many Marston Dragons to clear out

the thread leaf varieties are doing well for me this time in the test tubes.

So exciting and I can not wait for my plants to come out of dormancy so I can do this as well!!! Congrats!

Supercazzola wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:38 am the thread leaf varieties are doing well for me this time in the test tubes.
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is there a how to on test tube propagation? and doest it work with other species as well?

There isn't much to it.
1. Cut off a young, actively growing leaf.
2. Put it in a test tube.
3. Fill the tube with distilled water.
4. Put in bright light.
5. Wait until plantlets sprout and are big enough to handle.
6. Transfer to growing medium.
7. Gradually accommodate to normal humidity.

I don't know if this works for anything other than sundews, and not even all of them.