All of the below plants are being propogated in San Jose California, USA, USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 15, unless noted otherwise.
Young Drosera cistiflora from seed.
Here you can see the rosette and the stalk. Later most of the rosettes die, while the stalk continues on. They live outdoors year round.
Drosera cistiflora, when it first comes back from dormancy, grows as a rosette. It will start growing a stalk soon. One of the few Drosera that starts as a rosette and then grows upright.
This plant was transplanted to a much larger pot in late spring 2001. The two other photos are of it, or a couple of its' siblings from last year. You can't really see it in this picture, but it is several times the size it was last year.
There are several factors that changed. I don't really know whether it's the larger pot, pure New Zealand spagnum (It was in peat/sand), a small change in location that gave it a little more sun, or just age. I suspect the larger pot is a huge factor. Age comes as second as these were in the tiny seedling pots for a couple of years.
This species dies back in the summer and needs dryer conditions. I didn't let mine dry out entirely as they were interplanted with Drosera glabripes that don't go dormant.
These budding plantlets started to grow from the stem of the plant in the spring of 2002. I noticed them around mid March. The photo was taken April 20, 2002. There are three plantlets at the base of the stem. The plant appeared to go dormant, but then put out these babies. I'm not sure what did it. Perhaps it's because it tried to bloom this year , but a hard frost killed the buds. I've read that these plants die after they bloom. Could this be it's way of saving itself if the buds die before they can open?
