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I have been growing CPs for several years. Keeping them alive is another story. Right now, I have:

In quantities worth giving away/trading/selling:
Drosera Burmanii
Drosera Spatulata
Drosera binata var dichotoma (Giant)
Byblis liniflora
Byblis guehoi

Well established but no spares:
Nepenthes Ampullaria (2)
Nepenthes Mirabillis
Pinguicula Hans/Tina
Pinguicula Esseriana
Pinguicula Aphrodite
Pinguicula collimensis x gigantea

Work in progress - germinating/sowed/too tiny to count on:
Venus flytraps - all red
Venus flytraps - Adrian Slack's giant
Byblis gigantea
Byblis lamellata
Drosophyllum

Coming soon with any luck:
Drosera curviscapa
Drosera stolonifera (tuberous)
Drosera regia
Drosera macrophylla (tuberous)
Drosera peltata (tuberous)
Drosera adelae
Drosera venusata

I'm growing plants near Bombay (Mumbai). Weather here is... hot and humid for the most part. Summers can reach in upper 30s. Temps dropping below 20 degrees at any time of the year is rare. Not unheard of, but rare. No question of frosts, etc. So a lot of the instructions I find on the internet don't work. Instructions for saving your plants from a heat spell are not very useful for saving them from permanent heat. Adapting plants can be a big pain. Some don't care. Tropical droseras and byblis love it here. People can't get byblis to germinate, it is a weed here. I suspect drosophyllum will too, if I can convince it to germinate. Keeping pings alive is a work of art and has cost me a fortune to the point I should probably give up. Lowland nepenthes are fine. I doubt other pitchers will work here, though I find heliamphora fascinating.

I would like to grow:

Pinguicula gigantea
Venus flytraps
Drosophyllum
Drosera regia
Drosera slackii
Drosera capensis (any/all)
Drosera binata - (all except dichotoma giant, which I have lots)

Have you tried growing Sundews in the Drosera indica group?
They should thrive in your climate.
Examples are:
Drosera indica
Drosera finlaysoniana
Drosera serpens
Drosera hartmeyerorum

Good growing,
Mike

I have drosera indica seeds I'm planning to sow as soon as I make space - in a week or so. I had tried them before, but "lost" the seeds before germination in an unfortunate accident (cricket playing kids on the street hitting the ball "out of the stadium" straight into my third floor balcony....) that also got several other plants.

I consoled myself with some retail therapy and now I now also have several more plants:

Drosera capensis
Drosera binata multifada (has germinated, but minute)
Venus flytraps (several, but whether they survive is another story)
Heliamphora minor
Nepenthes truncata x mira
Nepenthes madagascarensis
Nepenthes insignis
Nepenthes vieillardi
Nepenthes bellii
Nepenthes rafflesiana

(yeah, yeah, I know my climate is just not right for VFTs, Helis or Drosera regia.... but .... I'm trying a hack involving some cooling.... OTOH the neps I selected for hot weather happy lowlanders other than truncata x mira so... fingers crossed)

Current list

• byblis liniflora, byblis guehoi
• pinguicula aphrodite
• drosera burmanii, finlaysoniana (indica complex), spatulata, hybrida, beleziana, andromeda, capensis, curviscapa, esterhuyseniae x slackii, binata dichotoma giant, binata red(?)/marston dragon(?), binata multifida (seedlings), pretty rosette (seedlings)
• nepenthes ampullaria, ventrata, miranda, several vikings (?) + small plants: truncata x mira, rajah x veitchii, robcantleyi x veitchii, veitchii x platychila, rafflesiana, madagascarensis, bellii (+several plants and seeds on the way)
• venus flytrap several small plants
• heliamphora minor (scrawny one, this)

Massive nepenthes explosion in the mail:

Plants: bicalcarata, ventricosa, sibuyanensis, maxima x vogelli, densiflora x robcantleyi, and rafflesiana
TC: truncata
Seeds: merriliana, rafflesiana, naga, sanguinea, hemsleyana, mirabilis var echinostoma, albomarginata red, northiana and veitchii

I am an inch away from getting notice that either I live in the home or the plants. Thankfully, I run the home, so others can only do for now. I suspect if I continue, I'm going to have a domestic revolt.

Drosera indica is an insectivorous plant, a sundew native to tropical countries throughout the world, from Asia to Africa, but absent from the neotropics and Australia.

I just happen to live in Australia...where nothing thrives, except useless wild grass and gumtrees lol