Panman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:12 pm
I've grown mine in 50/50 peat/perlite with now issues (other than forgetting to water them). It is important to know that brevifolia is typically an annual or biennial. You will ant to be sure to collect and sow seeds.
Thanks for the feedback, John. I may reconsider the perlite. Just had the bad experience of the perlite splashing all over the place. These are tiny plants so I'm not sure how top dressing with LFSM will work. How do you deal with the perlite splashing onto them.
I had read where they will most likely die off and come back from seedlings. Even that they produce seed in the spring, die out in the heat of the summer, and sprout in the moist, cooler autumn.
As for forgetting to water... Last week was a rough week and I was away from the house a great deal. I had three 6" pots with some 3-4 month old flytraps growing in them. Probably between 30 and 35 seedlings. I think I might have ten now.
But, that's ok...I can grow more.
Sundews69 wrote:Ooo, brevifolia, nice! Where'd you get them? I think your typical Drosera mix would be fine but that peat/sand mix would work just as well. It does grow in drier conditions and I would assume it is a pretty tough plant - it's been found growing in sidewalk cracks in Texas! Also, like Panman said, make sure to keep an eye out for seeds because they typically grow as annuals.
We sold some property probably 15 years ago to an old family friend. I was gathering firewood at the time and he told me to help myself to firewood or anything else from the property and gave me a key to the gates. I got to thinking about the sandy land, old pines, and the moist areas on it.
What is kind of crazy is that years ago me and my gardening buddy used to go arrowhead hunting in different fields and on fresh clear-cut/logged lands. I can remember seeing threadleaf sundews and red rosetted sundews, usually around some hot, muggy, wet areas in clear-cuts that we usually detoured around. I can picture them well but for the life of me have no idea in what direction they were in, much less the specific spots. Back then they were just a "sticky-looking plant".
I've got a place over on a small creek (where the "Intheswamp" comes from) that I'm going to scout out. There's a couple of spots that *might* be good ground for some sundews but I'm afraid they may have too much overgrowth. I've got some friends around the county I'm going to ask if I can look for snotgrass on their properties...you'd think it'd make them think I was crazy but it's too late...they already think that!
I may go with a peat/perlite/and sand mix. Maybe the top inch just sand and peat moss. I'm just shy of the perlite up top.