Why is my sundew not sticky? How to increase dew!
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Sundews are covered in glistening dew that is both beautiful and deadly; these drops are how they catch their prey! Sometimes they stop producing dew. How do you get your sundew to be more sticky and produce these dew drops? Daniela will tell you what you need to do to make your sundew happy again!
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I was reading the humidity as well plays a part the if it's below 60% dew won't produce on sundews becasue it's to dry ,I had that problem in my indoor grow room a week after I raised the humidity past 60 for a week the dew came back , the tropicals are in the indoor area, under a 1000w leds
Humidity is the last thing you should worry about with most sundews. Only a few specific groups of sundews care about humidity at all (uncommon to rare South American species, rare tropical African species, and the three sisters from Australia.) The vast majority of sundews you can easily buy will grow happily in 20% humidity or less, though higher humidity will make the dew drops larger.
Thank you for the video. Wow beauty’s. In the 70s I used to grow these and pitcher plants. Also I love tillandisas. Fast forward now I have my favorite Tillandsias & staghorns & super bum but not the Carnavoire plants. I’m gonna have to see if my backyard stock pond is in a good spot to have these again. Love them
Thank you
very helpful! just got my first sundew yesterday and noticed there wasn't any dew, this answered my questions. I'm using a bright grow light and made a very moist environment so now I just wait to see how its going
That’s great! I’m so glad this was helpful!
Thanks and I love the background music
What do you do so that there is such beautifull green Groningen around the plant? Moss?😊
Thanks so much ❤
Just subbed, grats on 10k!!
Thank you 😆
Thanks for this video, I was getting worried about my new plant, but now I know I just have to have patience. Also, you say watering your plant but don’t specify if it can be regular water or distilled water? I’ve read that you can ONLY use distilled water.
Technically, you can also use rain water. The water just has to be low in minerals
You can use distilled, reverse osmosis or rain water! Any water that has low dissolved salts or minerals in it 😊
Another reason is: too much wind.
Can D capensis be grown with Mexican pings indoors under the same lighting?
Yes!
My new Sundew has dew, is hydrated, but doesn't seem to eat. There are a few small flying insects trapped in the dew, but it's not curling around them. Any advice?
They won’t always curl around their prey, rather they’ll digest right where it lands! So they’re probably doing really well!
@@California_Carnivores thanks! Makes me feel much better!
i’ve had sundews for a few years, and they’ve always thrived, but recently i moved them from a south window to a north window, knowing it would have a lack of sun a installed grow lights, so they get both natural sun and artificial sun, and yet they are unhappy, i’m so lost.
Sometimes it’s just that they need time to adjust out. If it’s been less than six weeks, wait a little longer and see if they bounce back in that time. If they still look rough, try adjusting your grow light. Sundews can be grown on a 12 hour day length of light under grow lights so you can increase the hours it’s on. Or you can move it so that it’s closer to the plants.
Hello, I dropped my sundew it was like a one foot drop and it fell on its face…. And now it dosent have any dew and most of the leaves what should I do please help me
It’ll just take time to regenerate the dew; give it 2-4 weeks and it should make more dew with plenty of light
@@California_Carnivores oh ok good to know glad I didn’t kill it. I only put it outside every 2 days do you know a grow light that I can turn on as a artificial sun?
@@littlestrawberry437 The Yescom square paneled lights from Amazon are great!
@@California_Carnivores ok thank you so much!
I tried not to leave mine outside do to the dry west texas air and its been in the windowsill for weeks getting 12 hours of indirect sun. I assume thats not enough. Came here cus i found mold in my moss, so keeping it to moist i guess so after i fix that maybe it can stand a little more dryness. Current plan is to take it to my moms tomorrow where it can get hit by direct sun from 9 am to 12 and indirect rest of the day. I hopes this would work better than some venus fly traps that worked fine till they died from not checking on them in 2 days of high heat
Indirect sun usually doesn’t work well for most sundews and is usually the reason they get moldy as well. If you have an indoor windowsill where it gets direct sun for at least half the day it should do well!
I got my plant from you guys and it appears to be dead and it appeared to just diminish within the first month. The moss is bright and green and my plant is all brown. No new growth. It’s under grow lights with it like 4’ away from the plant, 12 hrs a day, water tray, and indoors. Any idea what I may be doing wrong?
It's probably still dormant
What species is it?
@@California_Carnivores
Drosera Madagascariensis.
Off topic, what is California Carnivores opinion on the GROWIT Perlite #2 brand? It states it’s inert.
@@Jesus-eg3yb we’ve never actually seen that brand - so I don’t have any experience with it
I have a pot of subtropical sundews on an indoor western windowsill with 8h artificial led growlights and always 1-2cm water in the tray, temperature is about 18°C, humidity is medium to low, no fungus
though the plants seem not to get any dew (its 3 weeks on this windowsill now) and just dont seem to adapt? Any idea what the problem might be?
I would increase the day length to 10-12 hours over the course of a few days. Give it another week and they still have no dew, move them closer to the light or reevaluate the light you’re using
So my sundews were outside after I got them (a set of 3) there dew came back really fast and they were thriving but because it’s gotten much colder I brought them inside a couple weeks ago and they have lot all there dew. I keep them in watering trays under a grow light so the difference is that they are inside and under a light instead of sun. Water is the same. Do you know what the problem could be? I also have humidity between 60-80 most the time
It could be that you have to mess with the light a little. There are two factors at play: day length and distance. If your lights are on for less than 12 hours, increase to 12. If that doesn’t help, move the lights closer to the plants in increments and see if that helps. It can take a few weeks for any changes to benefit the plant so it may be a month or so before you dial it all in. If increasing day length and decreasing the distance between the light and the plants doesn’t help, your grow light may not be strong enough
Do sundews require yearly repot or can they go longer in the same soil mix?
Sundews appreciate a re-pot but can be grown in the same pot for several years!
Do i leave the sundews outside in rain just like venus flytraps? or should i bring them under the shade?
You can leave them outside in the rain, they would be exposed to rain in nature and don’t mind it 😊
I have a binata that is having trouble getting dew. The new leaves have dew but the older ones don’t. Should I trim them off?
You can trim off the older leaves when they die back as they blacken; they will lose the dew as they start to die back, that’s totally normal 😊
@@California_Carnivores thanks.
How do you know if your Droseras are getting too much light? Mine are under LEDs and look good but are pretty dark red, especially my D. graomogolensis. It has tons of dew and is flowering like crazy, just had its 5th flower open today.
They will usually turn very dark red when exposed to a lot of light and the leaves will shorten. That isn’t harmful to the plant! If you notice that they are growing successively smaller leaves; shrinking away, that’s a sign they could use less light. Another sign can be if they are quite red and suddenly stop producing dew; that’s too much light.
@@California_Carnivores Awesome, super helpful tips! Thanks!
@@California_Carnivores I pulled the one Drosera that had one leaf that stopped producing dew out to the edge of the lights and it's already starting to form dew back on that one leaf. Light works in mysterious ways sometimes. ;) The rest of the Droseras are producing dew like crazy! So I'm leaving them as is. Thanks again for the great advice!
@@pinecone.jeff.carnivores it really does. It’s all a fine balance. That’s the funny thing; there’s no perfect road map because part of this is just observing the individual plants and making tiny changes to the grow!