D. burmanni 'red'

[Cindy]

I've got several plants from a dear friend recently but transplanted one into LFS/perlite, instead of the peat/sand mix.

Guess what...it turned green from its original golden and red!

Is it a red form or is it just the peat? Or both?

 

[jimscott]

It's a sessilifolia!

Seriously, could it just need more light?

 

[Drosera36]

Yeah, I'm with Jimscott. Don't red forms need a load of light to stay red otherwise they'll turn green?

-Ben

 

[LLeopardGGecko]

I'd have to say it's light as well. Try upping the wattage/exposure!

 

[adnedarn]

I have the green form and red tentacle form growing all over my green house

And they all stay true to their color no matter what they are growing in.... I even just found some in a bucket of nasty water growing... Floating on the crap on top the water... AMAZING!

 

[Fernando Rivadavia]

I don't know about D.burmannii in Australia, but with D.sessilifolia at several sites in central Venezuela I saw maroon, red, orange and yellow plants grow side-by-side!! I'd only ever seen this before with P.moranensis in Mexico, very strange!

Good luck,
Fernando Rivadavia

 

[Cindy]

Not the light, boys.

The red (in peat) and green (in LFS) are both under the same lights, next to each other.

 

[dewy]

Quote[/b] (Cindy @ April 04 2006,7:24)]Not the light, boys.

 The red (in peat) and green (in LFS) are both under the same lights, next to each other.

I have found out that in a peaty mixture D.sessifolia will turn a deep red while in lfs it will turn green. I am not sure what exactly causes this, though.
dewy

 

[Drosera36]

Yeah, come to think of it, I remember reading somewhere that planting some types of Drosera into peat make them redder than in other soil mixtures.

EDIT: Ah, here it is:

Drosera dielsiana isn't very picky about soil. It grows well in pure sphagnum moss as well as the standard 1:1 peat:sand "CP mix". It will tend to be redder in peat and under brighter light. -from the ICPS webpage. Despite the fact that they're talking about D. dielsiana, I think they have it written in some other Drosera profiles.

-Ben