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[Tarek]

Hello,

At last received my

Now urgent question, how to plant it better? I have some small boxes with spaghnum moss , like this ,
what about to put gemms on there? Or other option, i have lot of natural peat moss and speratly perlite, can mix it and pot it in there. Waiting your advices ;)

Edited by Tarek, 20 February 2012 - 20:18 PM.

[Marlon]

I planted my gemmae in pure peat but I think a peat perlite 50/50 mix would be better. I think u shouldn't use sphagnum because it will over grow the tiny pygmy drosera. I hope this helped you.

Greetings, Marlon

[Tarek]

Marlon, on 20 February 2012 - 15:06 PM, said:

I planted my gemmae in pure peat but I think a peat perlite 50/50 mix would be better. I think u shouldn't use sphagnum because it will over grow the tiny pygmy drosera. I hope this helped you.

Greetings, Marlon

Hello Marlon,

And how it`s grow, allready adult plants, no any problems? :)

Thank You very much for your answer.

[Marlon]

Hello, Tarek

I planted them 1,5 months ago and the biggest one is making his fourth trap.

The species I planted are :
-D.Allantostigma
-D.Nitidula x Pygmae
-D.Pygmae east Australia
-D.Occidentalis australis "warriup"

All of them are growing now, but my D.Allantostigma is growing a lot quicker then the rest of them.

I am growing them in a tray in the window sill. I'm living Holland (maybe that's interesting for the weather and sun hours etc.)

Greetings, Marlon

[Tarek]

Thank You for your answer :) . I will allready prepared compost mix and waiting now to dammp it , after couple of hours i will start poting :) . Are you covered with some plastic cover your pot? :)

Like this :

[Marlon]

Nope i just grow them without covering, so there is some air circulation so mould will get a smaller chance to kill the gemmae, it works for me.

If I get gemmae from my own plants i am going to do some tests to see what works better.

Greetings, Marlon

[Tarek]

Ok, i will try without :) . I put weekly progress here, everybody wellcome to comment.

If you have some gemae, can you sell it for me? :) How often pigmy sundews producing them?

[Marlon]

They should be producing gemmae at the end of the year.

My plants are still very young plants, but I heard they should be able to become adult plants in a year and to produce gemmae by then.

If I get gemmae I will tell you, but you never know, I can't promise anything because they are still so young.

Greetings, Marlon

[Tarek]

Yes i understand everything :) I jusk ask to engage in a queue :) .

[Tarek]

Thats how look planted ;) Are need to spray everyday, how do you think ?

Edited by Tarek, 21 February 2012 - 21:10 PM.

[Marlon]

I never spray them, I just keep them in a tray with water so the soil is pretty wet.

Maybe there are some people with other ideas about this?

When the gemmae become plants u shouldn't spray because that is bad for the dew drips, but I don't see a problem when it still are gemmae.

[Tarek]

Marlon, on 22 February 2012 - 07:49 AM, said:

I never spray them, I just keep them in a tray with water so the soil is pretty wet.

Maybe there are some people with other ideas about this?

When the gemmae become plants u shouldn't spray because that is bad for the dew drips.

Wow, first time hear about that, thx for your views.

And i wanna ask, this rule as well for sundews seeds?

[Marlon]

Well the problem is with the seeds if you spray there is I big chance they will get into the soil and that is bad because they need light to germinate.

[Tarek]

Marlon, on 22 February 2012 - 17:45 PM, said:

Well the problem is with the seeds if you spray there is I big chance they will get into the soil and that is bad because they need light to germinate.

But when it`s little bit bigger , like 1cm young plants is not risk than?

[Marlon]

Yes, it is bad for every drosera to spray them, it will make the dew drips go away, and on long term it can be dangerous for the plants.

[Tarek]

OMG, are you sure? One grower advised me to spray it every day  
Can you have look please hear This topic

[Marlon]

Well that's what I know from my own experience, and I learned a lot at the dutch CP forum. They also say that spraying is bad. I almost killed a D.Capensis because I sprayed it, but now I quit spraying it started to live again.

Maybe other people can share their opinion about spraying droseras?

Greetings, Marlon

[Marlon]

Btw the no spraying rule only counts for plants with dew drips.

[Tarek]

You see , other members not very active unfortunately .

I will have this discussion now with some nurseries owners, have wait to get answers about this question.

[Tarek]

Marlon, on 22 February 2012 - 18:40 PM, said:

Btw the no spraying rule only counts for plants with dew drips.

Pinguecula  one like that?