This was a difficult one to get a picture of the bloom. It's not very spectacular, but I felt the plant on a whole deserved a post. The regular form of Drosera spatulata is a small growing carnivorous plant, however the 'Tamlin' cultivar is about 3-4 times larger.
I grew these from seed about 2 years ago and they've really done well. This is the second flowering for them, (the 2 littler ones are putting out stalks too.) Seed to maturity took about a year. Drosera in general are fast growers. I had 25-50 seeds but only 3 germinated. They may have been older, any fresh seed I get has an almost 100% germination rate, so maybe that's why. I'm kind of glad about that though, because I'd be giving one to everyone I know to get rid of them if I had 25-50 of this size!
They're growing in a 10 gallon fishtank, 1/2 open glass top, and an 8,000 K aquarium fluorescent bulb for "sun." I was going to bump it up to a 10,000 K as they're a little green still, but they seem happy so I'll wait until the bulb needs replacing again to bother. I didn't even need to add a fan to this tank as it's in a well traveled area, the air exchange is surprisingly fine. It looks a little crazy in there as it is primarily a seedling tank.
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| D. spatulata 'Tamlin' putting out a flower stalk |
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| Missed the first two flowers |
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| Close-up |
This is something I am getting interested in. Thanks for posting and nudging me more! Oh were is my budget going to go! LOL! LT
ReplyDeleteLol! Yup, too many cool things to spend money on. The good news is that you can grow these from seed easily and it's much cheaper that way!
DeleteThat's a great set up, and your plants look obviously happy in there. Thanks for sharing this, and they are attractive plants too.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Thanks for the compliments, they are quite pretty, even out of bloom.
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