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Recently I've moved into a house with no natural light, so I put my Drosera Aliciae and Drosera Capensis under a LED grow light, this one to be more precise https://saltonverde.com/producto/bombil ... 00k-solux/

Power: 65W
Nominal voltage: 85-265V
Luminous Flux Lumens: 6500Lm
Rendering Index: 95Ra
Color temperature: 4000K
Dimensions: 105x305mm
Number of LED lights: 6
CFL to LED equivalence: 200-250 W (CFL) equals 65W (LED)

They have been sitting under it for a week, 11 hours a day, at 13cm (aliciae) and 17cm (capensis) from the light itself.

Capensis looks right, but Aliciae started to look a little brownish and I don't know why. Is it to close? It needs more light? Less? I appreciate the help guys, thank you so much

I have the same issues, so hopefully someone will chime in with an answer.

I suppose there is some kind of stress shock involved due to the sudden change of conditions, but I also fear there is something more that I can't see. Is my first time using led grow lights, so I'm sure I made some mistakes.

Came home to find them like this. I'm starting to get really worried, somebody has any solution?

Mine seemed to decline fast like that when I had what turned out to be a caterpillar hidden in the pot. It only came out at night, so it was hard to find. D. aliciae seem to decline fast but recover fast as well, when the problem is corrected. Could be that, or could be some other kind of pest.

Mine is not a pest. I think they just don’t like the intensity / duration of the grow light I have it under.

It looks fine just let it adjusts to the light it will produce few eventually

Thank you so much guys! Every single time I post my doubts here I get pretty helpful feedback

UPDATE TIME.

It's been a while, so I decided to update you with the current status of the plants in case someome who faces the same problems in the future gets a good reference of the whole situation. One of the three plants didn't make it, but the other two got used to the new conditions and look pretty fine at the moment.

The only thing that is bugging me is that one of them looks like its developing a huge amount of stalks from the middle and I don't really think that is a positive thing. Looks like it could hinder the development of new leaves? Time will tell, I suppose.

Yep, Look fine to me. My Aliciae threw up 2-3 stalks at the same time fairly normally once he was healthy and full sized, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I usually cut 1 or 2 of them off and just let it keep doing its thing, eventually you will have a mat of beautiful sundews in there with plenty of seed to spare.

quistes wrote:Looks like it could hinder the development of new leaves?

I agree, your CPs are currently weak (but recovering), you should trim those flowers off.
This should make your drosera focus its energy on recovering.

CPhunter101 wrote:

quistes wrote:Looks like it could hinder the development of new leaves?

I agree, your CPs are currently weak (but recovering), you should trim those flowers off.
This should make your drosera focus its energy on recovering.

Yes, I thought so. Maybe should I let it grow the stalks a few centimeters before cutting it? I have the impresion that if I cut it at the moment it will block the space of future leaves, but that just might be my imaginations

Rammplins wrote:Yep, Look fine to me. My Aliciae threw up 2-3 stalks at the same time fairly normally once he was healthy and full sized, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I usually cut 1 or 2 of them off and just let it keep doing its thing, eventually you will have a mat of beautiful sundews in there with plenty of seed to spare.

Thank you!

quistes wrote:if I cut it at the moment it will block the space of future leaves

Yes and no. Dead brown stem will be visible for awhile, but the leaves tend to grow around it with no problem, but you may get one leaf that didnt get the memo and grows right over it. After the stem dies completely I like to give it a cut near the base just for appearances.

I found that with my Aliciae if I cut the flower stalk to soon it would just try to send up a new flower stalk immediately, 2-3 cm of flower stem above the cut seems to be the sweet spot. Place the cut stalk in some live sphag and you just might be lucky enough to get a strike as well!