Looking good! That last pic a microwave? Haha don’t cook your plants!
You will find most sundew Seed is much too small to try and plant in an orderly fashion. Only a few make seeds larger than tiny black dots! I have found that most sundews are quite easy to remove when they are little rosettes or little trees about the with of pencil eraser for most (except pygmies and very small species) you can gently slide tweezers around the mini little plant and GENTLY wiggle them up. You will find most will have developed what looks like a taproot that slides out of the media (even easier in peat vs. LFS so you are good there) then simply use same tweezers to poke a hole where you want them in the pot and slide the root down and apply pressure gently to the media directly around your new transplant, thus closing the hole around the root/s.
***when transferring seedlings always transfer into the same type of media they were sprouted in!! Much much more success!
Keep in mind while very resilient they do not want to be moved so you may risk losing a seedling or two. Also some species handle this disturbance better than others.
With that being said, you will find that sundews look beautiful when they grow from seed that was dispersed at random, like they would be in nature. Another thing to do with sundews that I was greatful to learn is, as soon as your sundew is of decent size (I.e. at least half way to adulthood or more) take a leaf cutting or two and propagate them vegetatively! You will get more plants which will grow much faster to maturity than growing from seed. Also it saves you in the event that something happens to your other plant.
P.S. 2 weeks or a little more is ok for cold stratfication for me I get the best results from that length of time.
I think that’s all I wanted to say right now.
You will find most sundew Seed is much too small to try and plant in an orderly fashion. Only a few make seeds larger than tiny black dots! I have found that most sundews are quite easy to remove when they are little rosettes or little trees about the with of pencil eraser for most (except pygmies and very small species) you can gently slide tweezers around the mini little plant and GENTLY wiggle them up. You will find most will have developed what looks like a taproot that slides out of the media (even easier in peat vs. LFS so you are good there) then simply use same tweezers to poke a hole where you want them in the pot and slide the root down and apply pressure gently to the media directly around your new transplant, thus closing the hole around the root/s.
***when transferring seedlings always transfer into the same type of media they were sprouted in!! Much much more success!
Keep in mind while very resilient they do not want to be moved so you may risk losing a seedling or two. Also some species handle this disturbance better than others.
With that being said, you will find that sundews look beautiful when they grow from seed that was dispersed at random, like they would be in nature. Another thing to do with sundews that I was greatful to learn is, as soon as your sundew is of decent size (I.e. at least half way to adulthood or more) take a leaf cutting or two and propagate them vegetatively! You will get more plants which will grow much faster to maturity than growing from seed. Also it saves you in the event that something happens to your other plant.
P.S. 2 weeks or a little more is ok for cold stratfication for me I get the best results from that length of time.
I think that’s all I wanted to say right now.