Strange Drosera baby at the top of seed pod shoot?

[Cheddardan]

Hello everyone. An interesting event (as seen in the attached pictures) is taking place with my Drosera. One of the seed pod shoots has developed a secondary branch (marked in blue). At the top of this secondary branch is a healthy little new plant!

Is this unusual? Can anyone please offer some insight into this phenomenon? What should I do with this this little show-off

This is my first post here and thank you!

 

[adnedarn]

It's called false vivipary and isn't super common but not entirely rare either. I think it's always neat to see! Here is a post I made a while back where I had some VFTs doing something similar lol. Venus flytrap "Tree" soon available!!

 

[Cheddardan]

It's called false vivipary and isn't super common but not entirely rare either. I think it's always neat to see! Here is a post I made a while back where I had some VFTs doing it. Venus flytrap "Tree" soon available!!

Thank you so much for the quick reply and link, very cool! What should I do with this thing now? Lol.... Will it just keep growing up there or will the stem eventually dry up? Should I cut it and plant it? Thanks!

 

[adnedarn]

Looks like you have plenty of flower stalks for seed, so it's completely up to you! I believe true false vivipary do have roots and can be potted if you want to (my flytrap example did not make roots). I'd imagine you could leave the plant there until the flower stalk dies if you want to just watch it. You could probably even lay it over onto media as you would D. prolifera babies to let it establish before cutting it loose.

 

[Cheddardan]

Looks like you have plenty of flower stalks for seed, so it's completely up to you! I believe true false vivipary do have roots and can be potted if you want to (my flytrap example did not make roots). I'd imagine you could leave the plant there until the flower stalk dies if you want to just watch it. You could probably even lay it over onto media as you would D. prolifera babies to let it establish before cutting it loose.

 

[Cheddardan]

Yes, absolutely no shortage of seeds among my Sundews. I like the idea of letting the little guy sit up on the shoot for a while, while I keep an eye on it until it tells me it is time to make a change. My sundews like to mingle amongst each other and propagate non stop (including the Butterworts). The larger cluster in the pictures sits in my wine making den under grow lights to keep the fruit flies in check. I also have a variety in the kitchen window under grow lights. I would like to place one of the ground hugging Drosera's in the middle of each pitcher plant shown in the picture for the kitchen window. I'm getting off topic. Thanks again!

 

[FrankenSnyder]

Amazing how sundews can do this. I have a D. anglica, my favorite, which recently spontaneously formed a sprout on a still attached leaf. I bent the leaf down and pressed it to the soil so the sprout could root and continue growing on its own. It’s now big enough to be transplanted into its own pot. Much quicker than reproducing by seed.