SCCPE April 2021 Webinar - Growing Drosophyllum

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Cultivation of the exciting Drosophyllum!
An exception in the carnivorous plant world, it lives in limited areas of Portugal, Spain, and Morocco and prefers a Mediterranean climate with mild wet winters and hot dry summers. This is no swamp dweller! A honey like smell draws mass of insects to their early demise. Can we cultivate this unique carnivorous plant successfully?
Dean shared his expert knowledge on how we can successfully grow this beautiful plant! He covered topics from seed to maturity. He will share photos of his beautiful collection, encouraging discussion for group learning, and collaboration!
About Dean:
Dean started growing plants when he worked in a garden center while still in high school in the Chicago area over 40 years ago. He studied botany in college and graduate school, and has cycled through various plant interests since moving to California in 1986. He didn’t really start focusing on carnivores until picking up a couple Sarracenias and Pings from an ad on CL in 2017. Since then, he’s collected and grown plants from all the carnivorous genera. He picked up his first Drosophyllum seeds in 2018 and has found them easy and fun to grow in southern California.
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@santiagoperezlastra7459 3 года назад

Such a great culture guide. Thank you!

@3rdjojogaming988 3 года назад

nice, no one has talked about germinating the seeds as much as you have, i kept failing and failing, ill give this a try

@sunshinecarnivores1919 2 года назад

I've read that the bigger the pot the longer the plants will live. Are they actually biennial plants?

@Uaigneach78 2 года назад

I don't have issues germinating them but my four attempts at growing them always stop at the seedling stage. Normally until they're up to about 1.5 inches and then they all suffer from sudden death syndrome. They rot literally overnight. Looking lovely one day, the next afternoon they're brown. I'm assuming it's about watering, moisture, fungus etc. When do I start drying out the soil at seedling stage? What height or how many leaves in or how many weeks in? Thanks muchly.

@MountainFisher 11 месяцев назад

Try burning some hay where you intend to grow them, in the wild they take off after a fire burns the area over. I live in Southern New Mexico and I just planted the seeds in my yard's desert soil with a handful of peat mixed thinly for a hole you'd expect it to grow in too. I plant the seeds 1/4" deep covered with a folded paper towel on top to keep them damp. Once it sprouts I cut the paper towel. I spray them 3x a day with pure distilled water. When it reaches 1 1/2" I remove the towel. I shade them in the heat of the day if it's going over 100. Peat holds too much water and doesn't allow them to dry out. In the wild they live off dew more than rain. Hard water makes them rot is what I was told. They've spread with no help from me. My son says they look like weeds, but we don't have any mosquitoes. I grew them on the high ground part of the yard as the low part puddles and frogs come out of it.