Everything seemed to be working fine with my plants(4 Sundews, 1 Venus Fly trap) as they were catching insects and growing really well. But my desire of keeping more and different type of carnivorous plants took me into wrong direction. I exchanged seeds of Drosera Binata with gemmae of unknown species of Drosera Pygmy. Gemmae is a part of plants which can be used to grow another plant or in simple word it is like a seeds but it is quite faster then seed. some species of gemmae can start growing withing 24 hours of sowing.
I prepared 2 plastic cups 1 with soilrite as growing media and other with sphagnum moss as growing media.
After sowing I observed that gemmae in soilrite sprouted faster then in sphagnum moss, gemmae in soilrite took 5-6 days to show sign of sprouting where as one's in sphagnum moss took almost twice the time.
But I didnt realize that I dont have much space to expand my collection like this, I was growing my plants inside a closed space and under artificial lighting(100 watt cfl) and I didnt have space enough to accommodate bigger lights. I kind of tried stuffing in all the plants under small coverage of light which lead to less amount light being received by all the plants.
I prepared 2 plastic cups 1 with soilrite as growing media and other with sphagnum moss as growing media.
After sowing I observed that gemmae in soilrite sprouted faster then in sphagnum moss, gemmae in soilrite took 5-6 days to show sign of sprouting where as one's in sphagnum moss took almost twice the time.
But I didnt realize that I dont have much space to expand my collection like this, I was growing my plants inside a closed space and under artificial lighting(100 watt cfl) and I didnt have space enough to accommodate bigger lights. I kind of tried stuffing in all the plants under small coverage of light which lead to less amount light being received by all the plants.
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