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François Sockhom Mey

Friday, January 7, 2011

Drosera cistiflora and alba growing slowly

Sigh...

I've been growing theses gorgeous winter growing South African sundews for more than a couple of years now and although the small plants are healthy and come back each year, I find them fairly slow. I hope I can soon lay my eyes on those Drosera on the tip of which will proudly stand some amazing flowers.

Drosera alba:


Drosera cistiflora:


I grow my plants in my garage under tubes. I suspect the temperatures are not optimal. When the weather is cold, the plants endure temperatures of 6 °C at night and 10°c at day. There's of course no "greenhouse effect" and therefore, no real difference of temperature in the room -no significant elevation of temperature. I suspect the days should be a bit warmer. Or maybe the seedlings are still too small? I might be an impatient kid.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful plants!
    The red one seems D.alba.

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  2. Hello Pico!

    Thank you very much for reminding me the reddish plant actually is Drosera alba. I got this plant from Extreme plants a while ago as D. cistiflora and these plants indeed turned out to be D. alba.

    Cheers,

    François.

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