FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Yes, Drosera. Maybe tokaiensis. A pic of an open flower can sometimes be a better way to tell what species.
Many sundews do OK clustered, but those might be beginning to get a little too cozy. Thinning them out will let them stretch their legs a bit, but they'll not look good for a few weeks after due to shock. But they'll eventually come back around.

I'd agree that they can be thinned. What I'd do, especially since you're new at this, is slip pot them into several pots to give them room without disturbing them too much. To do that, I'd make sure the medium is damp enough to hold together and flex the sides of pot, so tipping the pot lets the whole root ball come out as a single piece. Then using a dull blade, gently cut the root ball across the middle of the clump to create two to four pieces. Each piece can then be slip potted individually into a new pot. If all goes well, you'll wind up with multiple pots of plants that are happy to spread out. And, yes, cut the flower stalks.

Hypersapien wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:10 pm Why use a dull blade though? am I trying to separate the plants more than cut through them?

Right. The fewer cut ends, the less chance of problems. As you said, you want to push the roots apart where you can. BTW, expect the root ball to crumble - I've never had one that didn't. But you're just trying to kept the majority of the roots undusturbed and undamaged, if you can.

For them to survive that long, it likely wasn't the separating that did them in. Reading back through your thread, I see couple of questions that went unasked, a suggestion that may have gone unfollowed, and a possible action that was unnecessary.
Many commercially available carnivorous plant soils are entirely the wrong media, you don't want to use it as it will slowly kill your plant. What was it? If it's not the proper material, it likely killed the tiny plants almost immediately, and burned the surviving plants over time.
Plus, you said these were under grow lights in your garage. It's possible the grow light was inadequate and/or inappropriate. It could have burned the tiny plants while they were already stressed, then not been able to provide enough light for long term survival of the bigger plants. Do you know if it was a grow light appropriate for carnivorous plants? Or you simply used what you had?
It was suggested to bag the plants. This is to counteract transpiration, and allow time or the plants roots to settle in and make better contact with the media for improved water uptake. Was this done? Even if it was, without the proper media or lighting, it wouldn't have mattered long term.
Last, you mentioned dormancy as a possibility as to why the last ones died off. That's a very real possibility as the specific plants you had, assuming my ID was in the ballpark, do not require a dormancy. Although many subtropical sundews will recover fine if unnecessarily forced through a dormancy, yours were already not doing well due to numerous potential factors, and just may not have had the stored energy to live through it.