D.capensis appearing

[DarkHorse]

Hello Carnivorous plant growers, 

I am still new to this so I hope this is the right section and all that.

I ordered a Droseria capensis about 6 months ago and so far it has been doing brilliantly. Not only has it grown well but both small plants flowered successfully. 

Now I appear to have tonnes of the little plants around my main two.

 

My main questions are can I take the small ones out and pot them separately? If I do this what growing medium should I use (I have long fibber shredded sphagnum moss and perlite in my garage so far) the stuff that the plant is growing in at the moment I cant really tell what it is, some kind of living moss?. Any other tips as well would be appreciated. 

The second is that as you can see from the pic below the little D.capensis plants seem to have spread to my venus flytrap (which has also been growing very well), however, I am worried will the D.capensis "take the nutrients" (or eventually cause harm from being in the same pot, there are many of them now) from the venus flytrap? Would it be best to take them out and re-pot them (assuming this is a good idea according to the above question)? Sorry if this is an odd question. 

[DarkHorse]

Here is the second image with the venus fly trap. 

It says images are restricted to 0.22 MB or 0.5 for the total amount in the original. Am I being stupid but how do you guys upload multiple images at once?

Thanks, 
DarkHorse

[ham]

Yes, you can repot the smaller capensis but make sure you do not damage the roots. You can pot them up in basically any cp mix, sphagnum moss,peat perlite mix. Mine is growing in 100% long fiber sphagnum and is doint well. 

I dont think u have to worry about the capensis growing in the vft's pot. Just let it grow and repot it if its out growing the fly trap.

[Alexis]

The VFT and capensis won't harm each other being in the same pot. By that logic the flytrap would be harming itself by splitting into different growpoints (if you uprooted it it you would probably find there are 2 or 3 identical clones in that pot).

[carambola]

As the other guys already said, you can take out the small ones, but it's easier if you let them stay in the pot until they've grown to a reasonable size, just because you then have a bit of petiole or even stem to hold on to. You could damage roots or leaves, but Drosera capensis is exceptionally good at sprouting new plants from any roots or leaves that were broken off. The worst case scenario would lead to a pot full of new (genetically identical) plants.

Don't worry about the seedlings in your Dionaea pot, they won't take the nutrients because neither of these plants really absorbs any nutrients through the soil, they mostly come from the insects they catch.

[bigphil1984]

Very nice plant, I want a sundew [emoji38]

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[Tropicat]

D. capensis grows like a weed for most people. Personally I'd take it out, just to not let it spread everywhere, but that is not because it would do any harm to other plants.
I have the white variety; drosera capensis alba, if you are interested pm me.

[bigphil1984]

Multiple images I think you have to go vip lol

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[Tropicat]

7 hours ago, DarkHorse said:

Here is the second image with the venus fly trap. 

It says images are restricted to 0.22 MB or 0.5 for the total amount in the original. Am I being stupid but how do you guys upload multiple images at once?

Thanks, 
DarkHorse

I use a website to upload photos, such as flickr.