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Whoooo! cuttings a success!

Hi all.
These are the first successful cuttings i have had of drosera. I have two D. binata (dichotoma) (format?)<span style='color:red'>[Edit: please do not use single quotes for anything but valid cultivar names. This should read: Drosera binata (dichotoma)]</span> cuttings sprouted and planted (just barely noticable roots.) And three D. capensis cuttings sprouted and planted, these have a bit larger roots.
I'm happy!
Dave  
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Thanks, by the way, i had a capensis<span style='color:red'>[Edit: corrected spelling, Drosera capensis]</span> flowering, and i shook the closed flower and some stuff came out. What do capensis<span style='color:red'>[Edit: corrected spelling, Drosera capensis]</span> seeds look like?
 
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Quote[/b] (TunaSurprise @ Mar. 15 2005,9:32)]Hi all.
These are the first successful cuttings i have had of drosera. I have two D. binata 'dichotoma' (format?) cuttings sprouted and planted (just barely noticable roots.) And three D. capensis cuttings sprouted and planted, these have a bit larger roots.
I'm happy!
Dave  
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Could you describe your process, please?
 
Outstanding. Congratulations. One of the greater joys of growing plants, making more plants.
 
Very true Pingman.

My process:
1. Take scissors.
2. remove leaf.
3. place leaf in water OR place leaf in wet peat with a small depression place in soil through depression, and cover that with a bit of soil to aid in keeping the cutting watered.
4. wait
5. wait
6. remove plantlets by removing cut leaf and cutting off the leaf around the cutting leaving a few millimeters around it.
7. place in new home

BTW Pingman, i knew it probably wasn't correct in the first place, so i put (format?) in to ask.
 
Steps 4 and 5 seem to be the key to making cuttings
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So far I've only gotten D.filiformis and MAYBE D.slackii (maybe for 2 reasons, one I don't know if that's truly what the plant is, and secondly I'm not entirely sure that it is a rooted cutting, might actually be a plant that came from the roots)

D.filiformis seems to actually want to have leaf cuttings taken, somehow, I know I'm repeating that as soon as the just-outta-dormancy leaves are long enough again...
 
TunaSurprise,

I realized that, I just wanted to include an explanation.
 
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