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Although I don't have any experience of this myself, I have friends who successfully germinate many species of Pinguicula in water. I don't see any reason why the same couldn't work for Drosera species. I might even try it myself.
Cindy,
I used that method last year for sprouting some capensis seeds. I had exellant germination, but capensis will sprout about anywhere. The most time consuming part was picking out the sprouts to place them on some peat.
I used a small empty peanut butter jar that I put an inch (2.5cm) or so of water in. I kept the lid on it to minimize evaporation. I didn't use fungicide. My primary concern was algae growing in the water making it hard to see seedling growth. Fortunately, I needn't have worried. I kept the jar in my window where it recieved bright indirect light or light (heavily) filtered past the leaves of my houseplants. After the leaves had sprouted and the seedlings started to tangle each other I poured them into a shallow dish to seperate them when . I would suggest doing it before this point (tangling each other) as it was a royal pain seperating them without damaging them and I often left two or three stuck together just to be safe. They were still pretty small. I used the ends of toothpicks to pick them out, seperate them, and place them in sphagnum peat.
I pretty much did it all by guessing/intuition. So feel free to make changes.
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