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Post by spifmo on Jun 4, 2013 22:21:27 GMT
I've done my fair share of reading up on these two plants before I've decided to buy them but I still have a few questions specific to the setup I have for these two plants. I bought a Dente trap and a Drosera Capensis Narrow leaf. Contrary to this picture I have put the Sundew into a fishbowl with the exact same setup as the VFT ( rocks in the bottom, distilled water, under lamp ). Anyways, i bought them offline from CaliforniaCarnivores, and it took about four days to be shipped to me so the poor things have been sitting in a dark box for that long. ( just arrived yesterday ) :C I'm pretty confident that the fly trap will be okay but I'm worried about the Sundew, it's leaves are ALL curled up, and I've put the two outside to get natural sunlight ( with seran wrap over the tops of the bowls to get it nice and humid inside ) and took them in once the sun is lower in the sky and not hitting them, and put them under the flourescent light for a little while. anyways, i was wondering if any of you lovely people could tell me if I'm doing the right thing to help nurse this plant back to health? ( It isn't producing dew either, It's my first sundew and I'm really worried it will die :C ) I want to make sure I'm doing absolutely everything right. ( also a side note, I've rinsed off those rocks to get the soil off because i picked them up from outside, but I was wondering if they still might give off minerals and salts? If they did, would that be enough to kill my plants or will it not matter much? ) Thanks so much
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 5, 2013 6:00:50 GMT
Any plant that is moved to new conditions will go into temporary shock before it starts looking okay again. The sundew ought to produce new, hardier leaves in a few weeks. However, putting these plants outside in closed containers in full sun is a good way to cook them alive, as they will simply heat up beyond what the plants can stand. The best method for these two plants is to let them be outside of any containers and allow them to adapt to your average humidity in bright light conditions, before moving them to full sunlight. Also, if those lights are regular incandescent lights, they may give off too much heat for the plants. Fluorescent would be a better bet, and the cape sundew can take these artificial light conditions better than the flytrap, which needs 6 hours of full sun a day, minimum, to do well (mine live in constant full sun in very low humidity outside here in CO). As for the rocks, unless they are porous ,as long as you don't use tap water they shouldn't be able to harm your plants with minerals.
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