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Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 7/24/09

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:08 pm
by Matt
branpera wrote:is germination the same as the vft
Yep, pretty much except that many people recommend a cold, wet stratification period for temperate Drosera seed. Dionaea do not need this.

Re: Drosera CareSheet RE-UPDATED! **CHECK IT OUT**

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:27 am
by watnazn
CanadianFlyTrapper wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but I have a drosera paradoxa, is this considered a N.A. drosera or tropical? And what kind of special care might it require?


thanks,


Nick. :D
This is an older post but I will still answer it for if anyone else is interested.
d. paradoxa is in a group called the petiolaris complex, the wooly sundews.
They are all from northern australia.
They pretty much all need a tropical climate with lots of light and warm temperature. In nature they require dormancy but in cultivation they do not if you keep it watered with light and warmth.

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 7/24/09

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:00 am
by dionaea muscipula
thanks allen this will help with my sundews but what happened to the ceph caresheet? as you know i have the ceoh fever :D CEPHS!!!

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 7/24/09

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:03 am
by dionaea muscipula
i like touching the dew of sundews :D

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 12/25/09

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:18 am
by roey benjamin marcus
Me too. But only, like, 1 hair.

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:23 am
by Zomboni
Cool, but at the top you wrote about "Many grower have different ways of care for Nepenthes Cultivation". I know it's underwork but just wanted to give a heads up.

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:46 pm
by prpl_trtl
Sorry if I'm spoiling, but I have no time to read all this stuff now. I recieved a package with Mixed Drosera seeds and the question is - Can I sow them just in peat in which I already grow Dionaea plants? I have no perlite to add as a drainage, hope that will not be the problem?? I read in guide that this seeds are dust-like, so is there some trick for sowing them?

Hm,there is the list,i didn' t know there will be this much species, this will be hard to grow like this...

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:48 pm
by limeslide
A lot of those species a tuberous or in the petiolaris complex, which are not explained here. There are also Tropical and North American species in there, too.
The seeds are like dust, I just sprinkle them on top of the soil.

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:22 pm
by prpl_trtl
But can I sow them just on peat without drainage? Also I think they cannot be sown outside in garden cause I'm in hardiness zone 7...??

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:55 pm
by limeslide
No, a lot of them need specific soil mixes to thrive. You may be able to place the north american sundews in pure peat, and the tropicals in peat with sand.

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:30 pm
by Hayden
Brilliant guide that I will be coming back to when I get mine, thankyou!

Re: Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10 (UNDERWORK!)

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:43 pm
by prpl_trtl
I have already sown all seeds, no matter, I will wait to see what will thrive. Thanks, and sorry on spoiling in some way... :)

Re: Basic Drosera CareSheet **UPDATED!** 4/17/10

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:45 pm
by carnivorous1123
great guide!! btw mate you put nepenthes instead of drosera :)

Re: Basic Drosera Care-Sheet (Update)

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 3:00 pm
by MICKEY
you need to ad a pygmy section they grow a little different

Re: Basic Drosera Care-Sheet (Update)

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 3:20 pm
by dantt99
MICKEY wrote:you need to ad a pygmy section they grow a little different
That's why it's titled "Basic Drosera Care-Sheet"