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By benguinmeowmeow
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For what it's worth, these are my subtropical D. intermedia after 6.5 months. I fed every leaf a little bit of fish flake by lightly wetting the end of a sharp object and picking them up. They're at flowering maturity after that time. Drosera seedlings go a lot faster after you start feeding them, but it's time consuming work.
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By TrapsAndDews
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benguinmeowmeow wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:32 pm For what it's worth, these are my subtropical D. intermedia after 6.5 months. I fed every leaf a little bit of fish flake by lightly wetting the end of a sharp object and picking them up. They're at flowering maturity after that time. Drosera seedlings go a lot faster after you start feeding them, but it's time consuming work.20220718_084804.jpg
Do you remember how big they were at two months?

I think I’ll experiment on feeding one seedling and see how big a difference it makes.
By benguinmeowmeow
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I think mine took about a month just to germinate but that was in winter so fairly cold indoors, and a month after germinating they were small, maybe 3 or 4 mm across. After another month or so when I transferred them to a pot and started feeding they really took off (I had them under cling film/saran wrap initially so didn't feed as the high humidity would have caused mould). Part of it might have been higher temperatures and more sunlight though, not just the feeding.
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