My Lord, is that guy long winded or what
My experiences with this species brings me joy. I managed to get some wild collected seed from a very kind and generous gentleman from Brazil (thanks Vitor) who was involved in cytological studies of CP. At the time I was working with the Senior Seed Analyst of the Michigan State Herbarium assing to produce a digital library of seed photos. I needed wild collected seed for the project and wrote to as many internet mentions of this species that I could find and pretty much blown off by all. I even offered to RENT the flaming seed, hahahaha but it was a no go. Happily, sympathetic interests that will forever be nameless allowed me to obtain the other needed samples as well but it was like walking over glass barefoot to find it. I wept when it arrived. Two weeks earlier it had been in a scape deep in the rainforest on top of a needle of rock sticking up into the clouds, and utterly forbidden to me. That, my friends, is the power of love.
I always use pure live milled sphagnum for all the Brasillian species for its antifungal and antibacterial qualities. Seed germinated with more stubborness than other species, so I assume fresh seed is particularly desirable. I found early nutrition to be advantageous, but necessitated removal of the spent particles as these babies were terrarium grown. This species I found very susceptible to fungal blight and I lost several plants to it so removal of dinner was important. It also resents the cold as well as hot nights. The plant grows quickly, for me flowering within a season, but I had no seed from my pollination efforts despite several attempts. Dang.
Plants were rack grown cold months in 45-90 per cent humidity, under twin shoplight fixtures, 8 tubes total, 6 inches from the tubes sitting in constant tray water 3 cm. Water was pure rain ONLY. PLants were top syringed avoiding the leaves every couple of weeks, or when temos were in the 80's in the morning. The Tepui's are pristine beyond imagining and plants seem to succumb to mineralization quickly. Main considerations are to provide a night time drop in temp's at least 5 degrees, and to keep things pure.
I've had totally huge plants flower, prosper and then wilt overnight. I dunno.:-( I didn't manage to keep this one long term and it still amazes me it could go pfft so fast. I strongly advise that leafcuttings be taken IMMEDIATELY, which is always good advise but esp. so in this case. Oh yeah, I also had plants that broke every one of my own growing "rules".
Never did root cuts, and would be a little nervous as the Brasilian's have a rep for not appreciating root disturbance. They have long roots, so as deep a pot as possible. They also like cool seeping down there, so on hot days I used water kept in the fridge and syringed as called for. If the nights were over 80, plants were put in the cool cellar. OK, so there's work involved, lol, but that nightime drop is very important and not always easy to produce.
Plants were put outside and gradualy acclimated to those conditions when DT/NT temps were 50F and above in full sun. Feeding was au naturale, but they are hungry plants! In full sun they turn beet red. Probably the deepest madder red of any Drosera species.
In summary, not a beginner plant, and IMO not really suited to terrarium culture which will keep them alive but not happy. Well worth any effort, that's for sure!!! If you grow Drosera montana tomentosa you likely can grow this one too!