Drosera capensis

A triple forked monster flower stalk, gonna be a whole lot of seeds from that!
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Looking through my plants in the greenhouse, noticed this interesting D. Capensis. It had originally been a well established adult plant, got completely demolished by aphids. Cut it right back, changed the substrate and repotted. Came up nice and healthy and with this one interesting arm.
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To be pedantic (get your pencil and paper out) these are unlikely mutations, more likely responses to growing conditions. Still they are interesting and fun.
Nice and dewy!
 
Patrick S. said:
So this guy has pulled through and seems to be doing a lot better. Changing out the soil from sphagnum to peat probably helped. Not sure if the staple did have anything to do with it, but giving it a good flush of DI definitely did. Can now definitely say that D. capensis are pretty hard to kill, because it looks like I really tried. Now waiting on my "alba" and "red" from Willy to grow.
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So I was searching for the exact same problem I have with my capensis. It gives out lots of new branches but they burn and die out before maturing. I alao changed the soil from long sphagnum to peat moss couple weeks ago but it is still struggling. How long did it take for yours to successfully grow new leaves?
And most important, do you keep the soil wet all the time?
 
Peat/perlite may be better for the roots than plain peat.
Presumably your peat has no fertilizer and your water is pure. If the light is very bright and the plant hasn't had time to acclimate, that might cause burning.
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
Peat/perlite may be better for the roots than plain peat.
Presumably your peat has no fertilizer and your water is pure. If the light is very bright and the plant hasn't had time to acclimate, that might cause burning.
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Thank you Gordon for your reply.
I am using peat/perlite mix without any fertilizer. sorry for not mentioning it correctly.
I think then the problem is my light intensity, because most of my sarracenia plants get dark red color. I will put the light intensity on 60% and see how it goes.
All this happened 4 month ago after I went on a vacation and setup automatic watering system for my carnivorouses. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to test it and it stopped working apparently in the middle of my vacation. By the time I came back my both drosera plants mostly dried out, and after that I am still struggling to get them back to life. I believe they are damaged badly.
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Hello,

This is one of my first CP plants, so I'm looking for advice on what may be going on with it. I got this plant about 1.5 months ago, was doing well but started forming brown tips a couple of weeks ago. It has formed a pedicle and looks like it is on its way to blooming with no problems.

The substrate its currently in is long sphagnum moss and perlite. It's only watered with distilled water and lives under a 1000W light that is on for 8 hours a day during the winter, otherwise sitting at a window when daylight can get to it (light comes on two hours before sunset). RH is >60%, temps hover between 22-25C daily.

Please let me know if there are any errors in my care that I need to fix.

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