pygmy flowers

jack

• Mar 2, 2011

• #1

I need to know if I can let them flower continously without slowing their growth or if I should cut the flowers like VFT. This is my first time with pygmies and I'm not quite sure. Thanks for your responses, Jack

 

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eou812

• Mar 2, 2011

• #2

Mine are flowering also and it doesn't slow down the growth and really that cutting off the flower on a VFT thing is only for VFT but you only have to cut the flower off of a VFT if it's 2 years or younger and i would let them flower and enjoy the beuti.

 

theyellowdart

sea bear returns!

• Mar 2, 2011

• #3

I have a few Drosera nitidula x pulchella that have flowered pretty much nonstop for about a year and a half. I've never cut the flowers - but even if doing so would have made the plants grow faster, pygmies don't take a long time to grow to their full size anyway. Theoretically, the only growth you'd be speeding up is leaf production.

 

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jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast

• Mar 3, 2011

• #4

They do just fine with the flowers - except for D. lasiantha and D. sargenti .... but maybe there were other factors?

 

jack

• Mar 3, 2011

• #5

Thanks everyone. A flower they will be.