They are so easy to grow that I ended up with more of them than I could count. The lessons I learned from it allowed me to successfully grow and reproduce venus fly traps, and I eventually grew a whole lot of other carnivorous plants too. I missed growing carnivorous plants.
For a few years I have wanted to grow carnivorous plants again, but haven't had the money or space, and I had nowhere safe from my kids to grow them.
Drosera capensis sending up a flower stalk - not my photo |
Recently I got some seed of Drosera capensis. Seed was cheaper than buying a plant, but it is risky as seedlings are tiny that things can go wrong and old seed or poorly stored seed can have low or no germination rates.
I had good rates of germination and decided to record the number of days from planting the seed. If I remember I will try to record the flowering date, but that is a few months away and any number of things could happen between now and then.
Days to germinate Drosera capensis
Seed planted 22/03/2019 Day 0
Germinated 06/04/2019 Day 15
Carnivorous leaves 21/04/2019 Day 30
Seeds ready to plant 19/12/2020 Around 21 months under poor conditions
Drosera capensis seedlings |
The seeds are tiny, several would fit on the full stop at the end of this sentence. The seedlings are far too tiny at the moment for me to be able to take a decent picture, so I found some pictures on the internet of mature plants.
For a full list of vegetable days to maturity (I know that sundews are not really vegetables) please click here.
Drosera capensis leaf curling around prey - not my photo |
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