Here is my new set up! I have two 2ft long t5's side by side on my book shelf with foil. I am still worried it isn't enough light. Does it look okay?
I also found this humidity box/seed starter to plant some sundew seeds in. I know I will end up having to transplant because the pots are pretty small but aren't most young sundew plants?
I also found some canadian peat moss. I will mix this with some pool filter sand and the seeds will go in this.
Would it be possible for me to plant the seeds in pure peat moss or do I have to mix with sand or perlite?
it is possible to use pure peatmoss, aslong as thats what it is, pure peat moss... no fertilizers or random bark from unknown plants
from what i can see on the bag it looks fine, search it head to toe and see if it says there is any fertilizer in it, cuz if so i you cant use it w.o killing your plants
so make sure its 100% sphagnum peatmoss , just be sure to rinse the peat moss with distilled water first to make sure no fungus grows from it, and the sand and perlite are only used to help balance out the water amount in the soil because peat moss holds around 20x its weight in water, so its easy to over water and not know it because it traps water inside it, the perlite and sand help release some of that water so to speak
just make sure you have goon drainage on the pot and youl be fine, those are all southafrican sundews and are extremely hard to kill,
and yea! that setup looks perfect, the lighting is more then enough for those 3 plants and if you start to see the hairs of any of them turn white(besides the alba) then just move them closer to the lights and they will get more color, I wouldnt worry too much about the "heat" from the t5 buls, you can have them quite close to the plants just be sure they dont touch
I used to keep my plants about 4 inchs from the light and they never got too hot
and last thing, if you want to collect the seeds from those flowers make sure they dont get burnt on the light, you can tuck them off to the side if possible
everything looks good tho
gj man!