Feeding Medium or Large Sundews ~ Speeding up the Growth of your Drosera

Sundews do best when they're able to catch a meal, or are fed, since it encourages rapid growth and flowering. For more information about feeding sundews, check out this page: http://www.growsundews.com/feeding_sundews.html

This method is only recommended for larger or medium-sized sundews. If you have smaller seedlings or plantlets, check out this video instead- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6y5fDHwHP4

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[tylerlol97779]

I bought a sundew plant off ebay and unpacked and potted the sun dew but the trap wont work how do i feed the plant

[sundewman]

@tylerlol97779 The sundew needs to be given time to produce mucilage/dew before it will be able to respond to and digest food. Once you can see some dew production after the plant settles in for a few days (assuming you have a proper setup for growing Drosera), then you can attempt feeding the plant an appropriate amount of food.

Good luck with your new plant!

[tylerlol97779]

can you use fish flakes

[sundewman]

@tylerlol97779 I haven't had as good of luck using fish flakes, but if they're moistened and blended enough, it should work fine. I have a modification that seems to help quite a bit, which was suggested by another grower who recommended adding a very small amount of orchid fertilizer to the water, which stimulates the tentacles to curl over. I'll have a vid response sometime, but i usually use 1/4 teaspoon fert. per gallon of water and mix a small amt. with the crushed fish food.

[ivanFerdianAbimanyu]

hello again,

can I feed a d. burmanii with a pellet of fish food?(not crushed , pure)

is that fine?

[sundewman]

@ivanFerdianAbimanyu Sorry for the delay....Yes I've used whole pellets on the leaves of D. burmannii and D. admirabilis and a few others, and they digest it just fine.

[sundewman]

@1995error haha i completely agree. I just have to resort to this since I'm away from my collection 95% of the year and I am forced to grow these indoors. On top of that, I don't have any free time at this point in my life :/ so fishfood it is! lol

[1995error]

Come on. Seeing the plants eat living insects is half the fun with them.

[sundewman]

@phatdriver Yeah, unfortunately that one is a bit difficult to find these days... good luck in the hunt though.

lol. you can prolly keep doing the tweezer method til your little babies size up a bit more. I'm in the process upping a vid that is a modification to this method that uses some orchid fertilizer in the food mix to get a better response from the plants when feeding.

The wooden spoon idea is a good one. I'm sure they'll get something from that :)

Cheers!

[phatdriver]

That broad leaf is hard to come by - damn, drools!

Anyway;o) How woould you go about feeding my sexy wittle sundews?

This liquid food idea is great, as you say, for medium to large.

So is it back to just crushing my balls into tiny bits and tweezering into place.

it's like a piece o dust man!

While buying a coffee in McD's, I lent, a quantity of their wooden spoons:)

Made a really wet mix and left "spoon" in there.

Just, sort of, dabbed a bit, hoping they'll get something!