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repotting stress-Drosera adelae?


Question
OK, repotted the sundew, managed to keep the plant mostly clean after reading hints on website and got 8 plants from the repotting.  All looked fine until this morning when I checked on them.  There was very little dewy sticky stuff.  The biggest plant had none!  Is this just the stress from being replanted, or did I just murder all my little sundews?  The soil was plenty moist and the pot was still sitting in water.

Answer
Hi Michal,

Congratulations on repotting your D. adelae without getting soil of over it!  Yes, as you've noticed, the sundew will need some time to recover from having its roots disturbed.  So it's very normal not to see any dew for a week or see.  Just make sure the plant is getting lots of sunlight.  The current growth may or may not produce any dew, depending on the age of each leaf, but new growth from this point on will be dewy.

Good growing!
Jacob Farin

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