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I received an Alice Sundew a few weeks ago and placed it inside a large produce container with ventilation holes, sitting in a small tray of water, next to a fly trap neighbour in dried sphagnum moss. It was initially doing great and producing dew. I later changed the dried sphagnum moss to live moss sitting in a bit of water. The overall humidity was too high (which I only realized after buying a humidity gauge, like in the 80 percents or higher). The Alice Sundew completely died.

I cut off the top dead foliage and adjusted conditions until now the sundew is sitting in a tray of water in an open jar to keep some humidity but not a lot. A year ago I accidentally killed a Spoon Leafed Sundew similarly: I gave it too much humidity.

Can the Alice Sundew recover and produce a new plant from the roots if I keep it under the new conditions for a while, or is there no hope for it recovering?

Assuming the roots are still alive, they can grow into a new plant. Alternatively, you could dig it up and lie to roots flat horizontally to get more plants.

Horizontally? That's pretty cool. Do I keep them relatively shallow?

Yes. Shallow. Maybe a mm of media on top at most.

A question about this. How can I make the new plant grow into an adult more quickly? Last year when I tried just planting the roots of my dead drosera spatulata (vertically) it sprouted new baby plants but I was unable to get them to reach maturity and eventually gave up.

Give them enough light, and occasional feeding.