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Awesome! What I like to do is bury the cuttings under the soil of the parent pot and I get a dozen babies the next week.

Any pictures?

They look good!

Please note, instead of keeping them that wet and adding the dangerous risk of mold, you can simply put them in a ziploc bag or humidity dome and keep the soil slightly moist.

Yeah oftentimes you only get 1-2 buds on plants with short leaves like capensis. Threadleaf sundews such as Filiformis and Binata can sprout a multitude of leaflets, sometimes up to 8 or 9.

I was just about to post a question on this, but now I'll just hijack this thread instead!

How do you transfer them to soil? Do you bury the entire cutting and ensure that the new sprouts are sticking out?

I tried to plant it on top of moist soil, but it dried out. Now I've got a few cuttings sort of meshed together with sphagnum moss, but I don't know if it's doing the trick. (They're kind of just hanging out on top of the moss.)

Happy to get your thoughts!

Agreed with everything stated above. I generally put a layer of chopped sphagnum on top of the soil that I can tuck the plant into. It helps to keep the moisture in contact with the plant and doesn't dry out as easily as straight soil. I too use a humidity dome for the transplants. I generally remove it after 2 or 3 weeks.

For propagation, I usually chop it up with a pair of scissors. I find it is easier to work with seedlings and transplants that way. I only use about 1/8 to 1/4 an inch on top of the soil. Recently, I got a mini food processor that I am using to mill the sphagnum. It chops it really fine and is faster than me doing it with scissors.

Chopped sphagnum is how I do it too. It felt like the safest play at the time. I grow my cuttings in water so I tried to maintain good moisture. Kept them into high humidity until they established themselves a bit. Pinguicula is easier, sometimes you just pop off a leaf, stick the tip in contact with soil and let it do its thing out in the open. Actually just left a broken gigantea leaf outside and it made a plantlet with nothing but the humidity outside lol. Now it's an experiment outside.

Sarracenia2004 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:20 pm Mini food processor for chopping sphagnum moss

If it's stupid and works, it isn't stupid.

Once your 'Dreamsicle' buds, prepare for adult-sized plants within 3 months.
My Filiformis is already 3 inches tall and it budded in late August

MaxVft wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:26 pm Once your 'Dreamsicle' buds, prepare for adult-sized plants within 3 months.
My Filiformis is already 3 inches tall and it budded in late August

That Is no joke. I had one I got with 3 inch long leaves, grew for a few months and doubled. when it came out of dormancy it exploded into 8 plants that were full grown in no time and filled the pot.

Sarracenia2004 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:41 am

I noticed that Drosera Binata is on your growlist! If you want, I could send you one once they are bigger...

Are you talking about discussing a trade?

The ones growing upwards and curled like that should fork

Talk about coincidences...

Your November 4th post was made at 8:14 AM. Your November 7th post was also made at 8:14 AM (but if it wasn't for this mornings daylight savings it would've been 9:14 AM )

Sarracenia2004 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:24 pm well...
The binatas have started throwing out forked leaves! The leaves with more plants on them seem to be growing a lot slower. Do you guys think it is possible to seperate them yet? I think is should repot them, and cut up the remains of the leaves to space them out..

Congrats!

As for separation, they often live their lives compacted (or as I hear), but if you want them to grow to their full potential, you can individually pot each one up. If they have roots longer than a half inch, I think you'd be safe cutting off the dead leaf tissue. If not, just leave it on but put it into a pot.