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[image alt text: A close up view of a 2.5 inch square black pot on a grow shelf. In the pot is a Dwarf Sundew. Its leaves are the shape of elongated rain drops, with the narrow point coming out of its center. Each leaf is covered with dozens and dozens of closely packed red hair like stalks, with a drop of sticky dew at the end. Some leaves have gnats stuck to them and are in the process of closing, others opening. A curled flower stalk is emerging from the center.]

I can't wait to have more seeds than I know what to do with. The original motiviation for getting native carnivorous plants was to help with the fungus gnat problem in my grow room.

The sundews eat a good number of gnats but I think I'd need a dozen or more to actually make a dent in the population.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A close up of a flower stalk with blooms from another plant. A thin straight stalk is covered with a chain of folded up flowers that are producing seeds.

Here's a mature stalk on another one of my sundews. A single flower blooms for just a few hours in the midmorning every day or two.