Drosera lasiantha

[picrophyll]

Another of the beautiful pygmies.

[neps]

Great plants and photography!

[stevestewart]

Excellent plants and photos!
It looks like the plants enjoy the surface gravel. Do you top dress the media with gravel or is it the main ingredient? Does the coarse gravel inhibit gemmae growth?

Take care,
Steve

[picrophyll]

Steve
This species normally grows in the gravel loam soil. I use it to keep the soil from the plants.
I think that the gravel often allows the gemmae a better chance to get started especially if the weather dries out and burns the new roots.
Phill

[cindy]

One gemma to another gemma: "When I grow up, I want to look just like Phill's plants!" ;D













Gemma lifted off the media by its own roots!

[picrophyll]

Cindy
Well done, they really look great and so healthy. Wont be long and they'll look like their parents and flower.
Cheers
Phill

[Deleted]

great plants......btw are they sown directly onto the gravel i dont understand....?

[cindy]

radjess331, they were sown directly onto the gravel. The side with a bump faces up.

Like this:

[Deleted]

i see ok then thanks.......its interesting that they can grow just on the sand...its a cool adaptation

[cindy]

radjess331,

I followed the instructions showed here. Only the top layer is pure gravel (coarse river sand).

[Deleted]

wow great link thanks cindy

[cindy]

2 weeks later... ;D

Still in humidity dome

[cindy]

While Phill's plants are enjoying the cool of autumn. Mine are flapping in the wind with harsh conditions. The worst so far: 33degC and 28%RH. ;D





Notice the plant on the bottom left hand corner? It keeps dying back and growing, dying back and growing.