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growergray

growergray

Just a guy
Quick(and possibly stupid) question,
Is it possible to grow a cape sundew outside? Everything I read tells me it's a windowsill/terrarium/greenhouse plant. Just curious...
note: I do live in mild-wintered, magma-hot-summered houston
 
Well in warmer climates this can become rather invasive, frankly. If you have suitable conditions (they have been known to survive frezes) there is frankly no reason why you cant try it atleast once.
 
It may just be shock from moving them, but I noticed that they died down and grew all deformed during the middle of summer here. They picked back up as soon as the weather cooled a little though.

You could always give it a try, they're really tough.
 
Being in Houston, you can probably grow them outside all year round. Just be cognizant of the occasional cold snaps. Your climate is very similar to that of Cool85k5 (Jerry). Also be careful not to move a plant that is radically different from the current temp and humidity.
 
Drosera capensis would survive a Nuclear Attack from Iran!!
It would livee aslong as u give it life giving water thats 4 sure
 
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I have a friend who grew his outdoors in a bog where it experienced 4 freezes. He brought the bog in a greenhouse set to a low of 40F where it continues to survive.

I think it survived the freezes because the bog was radiating some of the heat it had stored during the day and the plant was protected by the cover of other plants--so while there was a light frost on the periphery of the bog, there was none in the center (where the plant was). So it may not have actually experienced a true frost.

But D.capensis can definitely take temperatures lower than most people would think.
 
It was the heat I was most worried about. It get very humid here and the winters, as I mentioned, are usually very mild.
 
the friends idea occured to me...good way to bring up my new hobby:

"yea, I'm into carnivorous plants now...want one?"

:)
 
Seriously, when I worked at a lab in PA, I gave starter cp's away to ~10 co-workers. Not that any of them are still into it, but hey, ya never know.
 
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