If you have indeed managed to kill D. capensis, congratulations and may I welcome you to the club! Mine died when my grandson who lives with me was in his "helper" phase, and watered it daily with tap water. You live, you learn. Better growing next time. Repotting won't hurt. Although I don't grow capensis, I put all of my potted dews in a 50/50 mix of peat and sand.
Hey, don't worry about it, I can't even grow capensis, it dies back to the roots for me every summer
I use whatever peat I find at Lowe's. For sand my favorite is size 0 filter sand, but recently I started using a sand intended as an underlayment for paving stones. I like the coarseness of the grains, and it's much cheaper than filter sand.
Skip the trip. Just get a Zero Water brand counter top water filter and you'll know that your water is deionized with a TDS of less than 6 and pH around 5.8.
Bed Bath and prices beyond sells them and they may take pity on you if you don't bring a coupon.
RO filters waste water, unless the waste water is routed to your grey water sysyem.
As if good water is free and we have infinite supplies.
Calculate the costs in realtime.
What do you pay the city or utility company to dig the pipes and annual water bill?
Im in the desert and we bring water in from another State.
I do my part to minimize waTer usage.
Its amazing how far a 5 gallon bucket of rain water can be stretched during a black out.
Yea I told my fiance I'd like to try again and if I kill it again then it's just not meant to be It just sucks cause it's my absolutely favorite of the carnivorous plants! What kind of plants do you have?
Outdoors I have Sarracenia, VFTs and some dews, intermedia does pretty well here along with a Nepenthes that I'm testing out.
Indoors, I have a few Nepenthes, Drosera capensis and nidiformis, some Utricularia, and some Mexican Pinguicula
Although D. capensis is hardy, it will still die back at around 30°Oh nice! What kind of temperatures do you get around where you live (especially at night?) I've been told to leave my sundew outside as long as it doesn't go below 20 and I'm incredibly paranoid to just leave it out there. o.o
I'd love to see a picture of your plants! ^.^