Stylidium debile

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Stylidium, also known as triggerplants. This one is classified as Protocarnivorous, the flowers are really cool!
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I remember growing a number of Stylidium species rather successfully when I was starting out with CPs. I wanted to try them out again so I've started graminifolium and debile from seed, and I'm having terrible luck with them, I had decent luck getting graminifolium to a decent size in my lowland tank, and then it stopped growing so I moved it out of the tank and in with my Cephs (I gather they like drier soil and better airflow so I thought I'd give that a try). The debile germinated a few months ago and it has done essentially nothing since then, other than putting out a few leaves that are even smaller than the seed leaves. This was the easiest species I grew back in the day, so I'm starting to get a bit concerned that I've fallen victim to a curse or something like that.

Conditions:
S. debile - short (2") pot in a 1:1 peat:sand mix, kept in sundew trays, so it is kept fairly wet. In the lowland terrarium so high temps (25-30°C year round) near 100% humidity and bright light.
S. graminifolium - tall (4") pot in a 1:1 peat:sand mix, under LED lighting at ambient (50-70%) humidity and cool temps. Kept in a tray with Dionaea so they usually get watered when the top of the soil is dry.

If anyone is growing these and has some insight on how I can improve conditions for them I'd love to hear!

Thanks,

G
 
Interesting Lloyd, I can't remember for the life of me what I used to grow mine in, but I've been wondering if it is a nutrient thing that's causing such poor growth. Perhaps I'll try some light fertilization to see if that improves things.
 
I mixed ... basically everything I had into this medium, heh. On average, it's pretty close to a standard peat/perlite drosera mix though.

What I'm really wondering about is how much fertilizer to give it. Since it only thwacks bugs but doesn't really eat them, it must need like a normal plant's level of fertilizer or something, right?
 
Twylia said:
Did you have any luck? If so you want to share your secret..lol. I'm struggling trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
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Nope. The plant(s) I had just, like, slowly dwindled away and died within a month or two of getting it. I don't know what went wrong. I was led to believe that this would be an easy grower, haha.
 
spiffyzha said:
Nope. The plant(s) I had just, like, slowly dwindled away and died within a month or two of getting it. I don't know what went wrong. I was led to believe that this would be an easy grower, haha.
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I faithfully kill every so called "easy grower" I guess I'll keep experimenting. Thanks for the reply.
 
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