Pygmy Sundew

[Hikenyura]

I recently got a healthy pygmy sundew, and I was wondering if I'm able to grow it outside? Also I accidently unrooted my sundew, will this cause big problems with my plant?

[Steve]

I grow several pygmy sundews and they seem to do best outside in direct sun during the first half of the day. If your plant has been grown indoors, let it adjust to direct sun slowly. As for if getting uprooted, it will depend on how badly the root system was damaged. I would keep it in bright indrect light for while until it recovers.

[jm82792]

I grow my scorpoides outside gets down to 50 but there happy but I will have to take them out when winter hits before the frosts.

[wadave]

I'm no expert on drosera but I do live in Perth, Western Australia so I can give you a little insight to the weather patterns here. Hopefully you can get an idea as to what it will and will not take weather wise.

Pygmies do grow during our autumn/winter when the rain starts and the temperatures cool. For the most part there are only a few areas that experience frosts, the rest will experience nights around 2 or 3 deg C (35 deg F), and days of 12 - 14 deg C (55 - 60 deg F). Only the very southern most tip will ever get snow and it's very rare. Summers are very hot and dry with temps around 35 - 40+ deg C (95 - 105+ deg F).

So keeping your pygmie outside should be fine so long as frosts are not servere and long lasting. I keep mine in a terrarium as my greenhouse gets overhead watering, ie not on the tray system. This makes it very hard to control the amount of water they receive plus the large amount of water tends to constantly wash off their glue which they don't like on a consistent basis.

I hope that was helpful.

Dave.