Drosera Tokaiensis

The seeds were sown on 22nd Oct 2009. I received them around 2 months ago prior to that. Germinated on the 13th November 2009. That was fast comparing to my 1st batch of D.Intermedia seeds which took like 2 months to germinate. Well out of 20 seeds only 3 germinated. Not too bad already considering I am really a newbie to droseras. xD

Begining of  Feb 2010 this year, i decided to put one D.tokaiensis out in a homemade mini hanging terrarium to protect it. You see the wind we get in patagonia is horrendous. anyway one week plus later i noticed the some of leaves were like badly scorced….looks like the summer sun is not good for it. the terrarium was in an unshaded spot. it looked sick.

so on the 13th feb 2010 i took the plant back in and cut the flower stalk off and put it back into the indoor terrarium. 3 days later it was looking better. refer to the pic below.

the other two d.tokaiensis were not looking dewy. it was in the terrarium but the pot was not covered. so decided to experiment. i use a 1.5 litre bottle cut at the bottom to cover the plant. less then a week and they were all dewy! here is one pic to show.

so now i am wondering, has it got to be covered apart from having the lights trained on it to get dewy or its just the lights needed. will update more later. need to test it out without the cover for the plant and pot.

Advertisement