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Post by exoticplantseller on Oct 1, 2016 17:21:20 GMT -5
Hi, I noticed today that my D. Tokaiensis wasn't looking to good. I have them in about half to 1cm of water and usually rain water or bottled water. I used to always water with bottled water and it never affected them, so that's not a problem. But I just changed the lights a few weeks ago and I'm wondering if the strong light is shocking it? It is a blue red led spectrum light. I used to not have them under lights so they didn't have much dew. Then I out them under flourecentlights for about a month then under the spectrum lights. I don't know if you can tell, but they got a lot of dew back and now the new leaves are kind of brown and not as thick. Here are some pictures of the plants and lights. Any Suggestions? Thanks in advance   |
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Post by H2O on Oct 1, 2016 17:56:08 GMT -5
First, don't use bottled water, it's crazy high in minerals.
As a general rule if Drosera are producing dew then you're doing something right. The plants are just adjusting to the stronger light and will eventually be a uniform colour. These plants should be little red gems if you're giving them the proper light.
At this point your best move is to do nothing. Let them settle in and adjust.
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Post by shoggoths on Oct 1, 2016 18:59:48 GMT -5
Follow H2O advice.
Also, it happens to me from time to time that my tokaiensis seem to enter a sort of dormancy.
At that time, they look crappy ... like a nest of unfold leave.
After a few weeks, they start growing again.
When that happens, I do nothing.
Same light, same water regime, let them be and they come back to nice looking CPs.
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Post by exoticplantseller on Oct 2, 2016 9:01:40 GMT -5
First, don't use bottled water, it's crazy high in minerals. As a general rule if Drosera are producing dew then you're doing something right. The plants are just adjusting to the stronger light and will eventually be a uniform colour. These plants should be little red gems if you're giving them the proper light. At this point your best move is to do nothing. Let them settle in and adjust. Yeah but I couldn't get rain water as it hasn't rained here in a while and is just raining again now. And I never got a chance to use distilled. Is filtered water Good? My fridge filters it automatically. And also, did you get my message about the account situation from a while ago? And i guess I will just leave these, they have done this before after transplants. Thanks everyone |
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Post by lloyd on Oct 2, 2016 14:10:57 GMT -5
Filtered water is useless.
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