Drosera Collection 2020 | Sundews

This video shows all my Drosera this year that I’ve got in the greenhouse when they are looking their best and just before they go into dormancy.
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[@garygregory8025]

WOW your collection is always so healthy, neat, organized so meticulous! Thanks for sharing!

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Gary Gregory Thank you for commenting. Glad you liked it 😊

[@johnhorchler667]

​@carnivorous_plant_girl Hello I just found your channel I live I the u.s.a In Ohio I was wondering how to take care of it in the winter until spring time? Thank you

[@thekommentator9637]

Wow. Very beautiful collection😍 I love it

[@doodlejump666]

Girl those are gorgeous! Love your channel

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

Well since you’re in Britain, you’d could probably fill em up with water for the vacation until they’re standing in it and it’ll be fine. For me here in north Texas, I gotta move them inside. I learned not to use grow lights for this the hard way lol

[@youravantgarde]

I love the creative decorations you do.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Thank you ☺️

[@tomasvigueras8330]

I love your plants!♥

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Thank you:)

[@Hello_Fuckers0]

I have a drosera multifida extrema that is trailing, and I had to customize a hanger for it because it grows like a very determined weed!! Like the first one you showed. Yours is a most impressive specimen!!! I have to admit to a little bit of plant envy lol but you've shown me a couple drosera I have to look for now, so thank you for this video

[@danevans740]

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the update 😁

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Thanks and you’re welcome 😊

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

Subscribed 😁 This is just super cool Ma'am!

[@manic2360]

Drosera are my favorite CP..as you say, the way they glisten and sparkle in the sun is just wonderful and thats a great collection there.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Manic 23 Thank you 😊

[@peterphan227]

Love your videos. You have an amazing collection.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Thank you very much 😁

[@peterphan227]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl You may not realize it but you're an inspiration to many of us. I'm here in California. Love seeing what you're doing over there with your collection. I'm steadily building up my collection, and your videos/tours are a constant source of inspiration and aspiration.

[@sean2val]

sundews are the most beautiful of all love finding them in the Australian bush

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

They defiantly are!

[@vsocarras27]

Hi I love your sundews their beautiful I personally own drosera spatulata really easy to grow for the most part my thing is if the mucilage on the plant is necessary for survival

[@ardevaputra8260]

Hi, im from Indonesia, i like your plant😍

[@Tommyr]

Wow that binata dichotoma is out of control! LOL! Love it though! I have regular binata and Drosera binata multifida "extrema". The extrema lis already getting out of control for me. Their leaves droop downwards and need quite a bit of room.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Yep the binata is crazy! I’ve been reluctant to get a multifida as I’ve seen how big they can get but looks like I got more than I bargained for with my dichotoma! Haha

[@ANJO0909]

Hi. So really have awesome, wonderful sundews... i think i watched your video several times most especially when i had burmannii seeds. I carefully watched it on how to germinate them.. seeing your collections makes me speechless. I wish i could have some of your seeds. 😘😘. I only have burmannii, humpty doo and spatulata and paradoxa on my drosera collection.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment 😁. I currently only send out seeds within the UK but I am so happy to hear you like the videos and they’ve been some help ☺️

[@ANJO0909]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl is it possoble to send seeds to switzerland?

[@losvega5004]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl ooo or Alaska i would so love to have a gigantic one

[@dante2sharp]

Do drosera binata extrema form auto pollinate?? Mine is making a flower stalk right now

[@duncanpage1556]

Hello from Alberta, Do you put that VFT to sleep for the winter ? its with Sundews. Thanks

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Hello there, yes all my VFT, Sarracenia, Drosera etc all go through a winter dormancy as they remain outside in the greenhouse year round which is unheated. :)

[@happygreen3613]

Is it always better to use peatmoss than sphagnum?

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Personally I would say it is personal choice. I prefer to use peat moss for plants as it can be made up in large batches and is more cost effective. I usually only use sphagnum for propagation but it is up to you what you use 😁

[@MrCheekygeek]

Hello, that is a great collection you have, I hope theyre all doing ok now in this very cold weather. If I could ask you for some advice. I have never had any luck with drosera aliciae. I tried it many times. I do have capensis and it does very well. Just every time I try aliciae. If you can advise me I appreciate it very much thanks.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Hi there, thanks for watching. I keep both my drosera capensis and aliciae in the greenhouse year round and most will die back to the roots and regrow again in spring. They require lots of sunlight, although I have found they can do great in just a very bright position which keeps them a nice green rather than going redder in strong intense sunlight. Watering and soil the same as capensis. If you’re keeping indoors you could attempt raising the humidity slightly, I have found this to help on a couple of struggling aliciae before when I kept them inside. Hope this helps, feel free to ask anymore questions

[@MrCheekygeek]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl Hello and thank you so much. Ok the two aliciae look like 'they've died back completely. So they mat be still alive and come back in spring. And yes, I have them on windowsill in kitchen. They are looking all brown and fairly dry. I will keep them watered slightly and hope they grow back in spring. I have a capensis in bedroom on windowsill but its a bit higher temperature and it is still green and has not died back. Thanks for your reply and you have been very helpful, have a good New Year.Keep up the great work you are doing in caring for so many beautiful plants. Bye and take care.

[@TheScrappydog100]

Hiya, awesome video again. Do you have heating in the winter for the greenhouse ? If so what type of heating do you have ?

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

TheScrappydog100 No I don’t have heating in my greenhouse. My collection consists of mainly temperate plants which go through dormancy. I even leave my subtropical sundews in there during the winter, they die off and come back from the roots

[@TheScrappydog100]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl Thanks for the reply. I'm getting my greenhouse in 2 months and may need some sort of heating. Does your Drosera Regia stay in during winter?

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

TheScrappydog100 Last year I took my regia inside and kept it under a grow light but it didn’t grow very well so this year I’m going to keep it in the greenhouse and see what happens

[@salimmohamedali1694]

Such a lovely collection, I wanted to ask you about the Pygmy Sundews that if you grew them from seeds and for how long have you had them?

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Salim Mohamedali Thank you. All of my Pygmy sundews are grown from gemmae. I’ve only had them for about 2 years but as I leave them in the greenhouse all year they usually die off in the winter and I start the next generation from the gemmae they produce

[@salimmohamedali1694]

Carnivorous_plant_girl Thank you for your quick response. I wanted to ask you about your method of gemmae for Pygmy Sundews. When these Sundews produce gemmae when they die off, do you collect the gemmae and store them for how long any and how do you store them? Sorry for asking you all these questions as I’m new to growing Sundews and this Pygmy variety really fascinates me.

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Salim Mohamedali The gemmae that they produce is like a living bud which you separate to form a new organism. Once separated from the mother plant they should be planted immediately or kept moist in a paper towel but they cannot really be stored as even in a paper towel they will begin to sprout as they must be kept wet. The mother plant can survive after producing gemmae as well. Hope this helps. Anymore questions just ask 😊

[@salimmohamedali1694]

Carnivorous_plant_girl Thank you so much. 👍

[@losvega5004]

Do tropical drossera not go dormant? I haven't found out to much about these plants but I just got one n wish to learn more .

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Some tropical Drosera have a summer dormancy but they do not have a cold dormancy. Sub-tropical Drosera do not have a dormancy but most will die down to the roots over winter and come back in Spring. Temperate Drosera have a cold winter dormancy. Hope this helps :)

[@losvega5004]

@@carnivorous_plant_girl oh ok so I think I have a drossera that's a tropical variation but I live in Alaska:(. I didnt know there needed to be this much research put into them. I have a humidity of 10 percent here in anchorage. Since my dew isn't dewing quite yet should I try and increase the humidity?or should I just wait it out. Thanks for responding by the way I literally just keep finding the same information and tips from every one!

[@Tatusiek_1]

@@losvega5004 tropical plants in Alaska?! Haha goodluck

[@losvega5004]

@@Tatusiek_1 we have sunlight 24/7 during our summers and we also have very humid conditions considering rhat our summer is about 5 months long with all this light I figured it be a good idea.

[@Tatusiek_1]

@@losvega5004 yea but how do you deal with the fact that most of the year it is chilly, tropical plants will die. You have to have some expensive greenhouse set up with heating and light to keep them thriving.

[@MrHo-mi9qx]

Hello, I want to ask. Can Drosera be dormant by putting it into the refrigerator like VFT dormancy ??

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Hi there, I have never experienced Drosera dormancy done via the fridge method, the biggest concern would be the hibernacula rotting if kept too wet. However I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, as long as you only kept them damp and you don’t have any other method to provide dormancy.

[@korzer]

Hello again i have watched quite a few of your videos now and often theres some noise it sounds like someone banging bins, do you have a noisey neighbor or what is that ! lol It would really annoy me, well done for ignoring it when filming another great video thank you

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Haha yes unfortunately all the neighbours around me are super noisy and always when I try to film. Doesn’t help that there is several birds nesting in the tree above the greenhouse at the moment 😂. It is very annoying

[@vsocarras27]

Question out of curiosity your from England right I'm saying that because your flat looks like a English flat by the way this is a Cuban American saying flat despite living in Miami Florida in southeastern United states 😆

[@carnivorous_plant_girl]

Haha well you’re right about that. I’m from England 🤣