looks nice!

drosera pics, please? :)

hi christian
very nice longiscapa. this plant doesnt grow very well for me, maybe i dont grow it hot enough?
or maybe it needs peat moss or a high water level?
any tips?
thanks
matt

hey rich,
youll have to tell me (in private) about these salty spots in NJ/LI.
anderson,
if capillaris is difficult for you, you need to change your growing conditions - its an easy plant to grow!
matt

i definitely agree with mobile on this:



word spreads quickly about this sort of thing on web forums, so you really should sort things out asap.

hi sue
regardless of whether you sell outside of australia, you should still try to ID things correctly for at least 2 reasons:
1. customers will be annoyed if they pay for something thats not what its supposed to be and
2. youll be further contributing to mislabeling worldwide (since growers in australia often trade seed with people outside of aus).
so, if and when you decide to post pics, let us know. id be happy to help as i can, and im sure other forum members would too.
any chance you could do this soon, before you start distributing more potentially mislabeled plants?
also, ive always been curious about the sources of some of these plants. it would be great if you could reconnect with them to find out where they got the material (country, state, town, etc) because many populations of plants have since been destroyed. if you could find out the origin of what your father acquired years back, it would be very useful.
matt

thanks :) actually, the pics on my website look horrible by todays standards cause a lot off them were baby pics of my plants and there are some awesome photographers on the scene now. so if and when i revamp, things should look a lot better now that my plants are older and my cameras much better :)
matt

thanks guys. :)

This is more of a reintroduction as I've been away for a while and I notice a lot of new "faces" around here.

I specialize in South American and other tropical Drosera. I grow them indoors, under lights. You can take a peek at my horribly out of date website here: http://www.sundewgrower.com
If time allows, I might revamp this site sometime this year.

Work's kept me really busy for a long, long time, but I'm finally whipping my collection back into shape. It's amazing how tolerant plants are when they live in terraria. I'm making the switch from No Damp Off (Mosser Lee milled sphagnum) to Supersphag. NDO is great stuff but it's a serious pain cause it grows sphagnum quickly whereas Supersphag doesn't. So I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to the days of picking sphagnum moss away from my babies.

If I owe you any plants or seed or you just want to say hi, please contact me ASAP while I'm in CP mode.

If I don't know you and you're interested in acquiring some of my spare plants as I decide what stays and what goes, please email me privately at sundew AT hotmail DOT com and I'll try to let you know as plants become available. (No promises yet!!)

If you're looking to trade, I'm only interested in seed. It may take a while for me to reply to your email.

Thanks,

Matt

http://www.sundewgrower.com

i cant know for sure which are misidentified without seeing photos of them or having the plants, can i? :)
there are some serious name butcherings on that list - perhaps you should post the list of drosera to the drosera forum here and ask people which they feel need further investigation. id really recommend taking and posting pics of everything. it will also be a good way for customers to see what theyre paying for, which is really important if youre selling plants...
matt

hi sue
one of the things i remembered about your dads list was that several Drosera that were and still are commonly mislabeled appeared on his list. i just checked the list and they seem to still be on it. some things are badly misspelled and some are using old temporary names for plants which have previously been scientifically named. i'd highly recommend taking pics of each of your drosera and posting them for serious drosera growers to ID them. id be happy to give you some feedback if youd like.
thanks
matt

cant you just use the pieces as leaf and stolon cuttings? i only grow plants from seed, so the concept of receiving a pretty plant in the mail is strange to me.

hi sue
wow, what a blast from the past. i was on your dads mailing list back in the 80s but im not sure if i ever ordered anything from him. please post a link to your website.
thanks
matt

the top pic makes me wish i grew sarracenia. very nice!

i think thats where they found that new african nepenthes species!

i agree that these take a long time to adjust after repotting, but ive repotted quite a few plants and only had 2 or 3 losses. be patient. if they look dead, keep them until a new plant pops out.

as some of you might have noticed ive been taking quite a break from cp forums as ive been swamped with work and other obligations.

im sure ive said it before and ill say it again...

although i havent spoken to allen for quite some time, hes given me reasonable proof that he does in fact grow many tuberous drosera very well, which is no surprise considering he lives in tuberous drosera territory. this contradicts what others have said about him not growing any CP and also suggests to me that hes fully capable of propagating many of the plants he sells.

take that for what its worth.

matt

also posted to the discussion on our recent pine barrens trip:

hi guys

first of all, sorry for being out of touch for such a long time (andreas!), ive been really busy and am going to try to take a break this summer to catch up.

anyway, i just got an email from a friend with a forwarded message from one of his friends.
apparently, theres another x hybrida spot. :)

he sent a photo (which looks like x hybrida to me and isn't the couple of plants we saw) and said "It occurs with its parents in good numbers south of Chatsworth." ill email him back and try to get location details.

rich, i really hope youre not serious about introducing any more cultivated plants into natural habitats. im sure there are other x hybrida spots... its just a matter of finding them.

matt

hi guys

first of all, sorry for being out of touch for such a long time (andreas!), ive been really busy and am going to try to take a break this summer to catch up.

anyway, i just got an email from a friend with a forwarded message from one of his friends.
apparently, theres another x hybrida spot. :)

he sent a photo (which looks like x hybrida to me and isn't the couple of plants we saw) and said "It occurs with its parents in good numbers south of Chatsworth." ill email him back and try to get location details.

rich, i really hope youre not serious about introducing any more cultivated plants into natural habitats. im sure there are other x hybrida spots... its just a matter of finding them.

matt

nice work sebastian! you should go back and get some seed of the drosera! :)
matt

i disagree with this. perhaps in some cases this is true, but there is a huge amount of variation within some species. while the average person may not appreciate these differences, i have plenty of CPs with location data that i can easily tell apart from others of the same species which came from different populations. add to that the fact that many of the remaining populations are threatened and theres great reason to preserve location data for species.

hi ries
octobers a little late in the season, i think the drosera will be dormant. but you sould still be able to see sarracenia.
there are lots of places in the pine barrens which are around 1:30 from newark.
i heard the introduced plants were removed though who knows if it was a total success since rhizomes can break.
matt

when chuck showed up on ebay petiolaris were relatively hard to find so people not knowing other sources bid them up to very high prices. eventually, he flooded the market and it seemed like he couldnt even get $10 a plant for most varieties on ebay anymore. this is probably why you couldnt find him on ebay now. my guess is he sells most petiolaris direct now. it amuses and at the same time annoys me how he relabeled plants from allen lowries seed which originally had location data with fanciful names like they're all his own special, selected cultivars. amuses because people eat that sht up but annoys me because its important for us to keep records of where collections were originally made.

enabling email notification of replies.... i didnt realize this was an option now!

thanks mobile, i was already aware of this. charleys greenhouse should know what theyre doing, so i would assume their grow vs flower bulbs have the right outputs for growth vs flowering. but ill check just to be sure.

it seems ive found a more attractive package here (though i need to find out shipping costs):

http://www.wormsway.com/detail.asp?sku=SPG104

my last concern however is that perhaps 4 bulbs at around 10" from the tops of my pots may provide lighting thats too intense with these t5 bulbs ??? any opinions on this?

thanks!
matt

more pics, more pics!