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Cindy, it's inside, right on the grow rack. Going by instincts, I have the plantlets restin on the soil surface. Plants like this tend to develop roots right where they are touching the soil surface. But then again, this is new to me.
Burying isn't really necessary, Cindy. When the scape fully unfurls, the tip will find a solid surface to rest on. If it's moist, an offset will sprout. You can prop the flower scapes into media if you want, but it only sprouts from the very end anyways and it still has to unfurl completely and you only get one, so that doesn't really speed the process up much. Nice pics, jim. Do you have a good colony going? Once I got to six or seven adult plants I just started letting them grow into anything they wanted (away from pots of other things, though.) I've long since stopped trying to count them - this one can be a real pest in ideal conditions.
~Joe
Luckily they are pretty easy to propagate by leaf pullings as well. For whatever reason the plantlet that I received was struggling and started going down hill fast. I was able to take two leaf pullings from it. They both sprouted. One is much faster than the other and has already put out a few leaves with dew of its own. The other has the little green bumps, it's still thinking about making leaves.
I have them, along with most of my sundews on a grow rack, by the sliding windows, under a Grolite. They get ~15 hours of light. Room temp, LFS, watered every few days.
I plant to allow the plantlets to establish themselves in pots of my choice, without severing anything.
wild bill touched on your question a bit, but i'll answer it directly.
if you cut the flower stalk, the stalk will decay quicker and the plantlet will not grow as fast/as big compared to uncut flower stalk w/ plantlet on it.
if the nutrients are still flowing through an attached flower stalk, naturally the plantlet will grow taller, better, faster, stronger (sorry i had to add that in ).
Earlier in the summer I just curled the aged flower stalks with plantlets around in a semicircle and made sure they were touching the soil media substrate and now 3 months later they are the size of the original mother plant. Cool pix Jim.
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