Hello dear redditors,
I'm a really inexperienced grower,
I have gotten into carnivorous plants a month ago,
Recently i have been salivating over how adorable do blooming D. pygmaea look,
How hard is it to care for it,
What would i need to do to grow it successfully, proliferate and have it bloom nicely.
I know it's now as simple as capensis or sth, gemmae and all,
But i'm hoping to hear from someone experienced,
After all, it doesn't matter what do botanic textbooks say if at the end capensis would happily bloom in my toilet.
There's a thin line between what's nice, what's useful and what's needed.
It'd stand by an east facing window in northern Poland, the window is very bright and big, nothing obstructs it, it has low UV protection.
And yes i understand i most likely won't be able to just put it there like a capensis or sphagnum or any other weeds i might grow,
I know very well i can find answers on the internet, but what one can really get away with is hard to tell with just internet research.
Thank you for any answers-
PS I will not, under any circumstances put it by the southern window, i want to grow plants to look at, not to pass by them every few days by accident, i have a room in the east, and i'd rather make a contraption here, then a trip south.
~~~thank you for your attention
by Antoni_PL_gdynia
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I literally made this reddit account to ask and talk about my savage babies btw
D. pygmaea is extremely easy to grow, it actually is about as easy as a D. capensis. A few years ago I got about six gemmae and the whole pot was filled with them by the end of one spring/summer. I lost that pot in a move, but yeah I don’t recall anything difficult about them. I grew mine outdoors, but I live very close to their natural range.
They really are tiny though, pictures don’t quite capture their scale when you see how small they are in person. Very prolific flowerer and they reach maturity quickly.
They will do fine in any peat/sphagnum-based media. They have long, fine roots that don’t like to be disturbed so try to get a deep pot, but other than that they’re very easy.
This is a pigmy sundew that lives in Australia. It prefers nutrient-poor, gravelly soil. There are wet and dry seasons, which must also be provided indoors. It flowers, but there is no need to pollinate it. Otherwise, it is self-pollinating. It reproduces by seeds and gemmae. It likes warmth during the dry season, when it can be kept at 25–30 °C, and it requires a lot of light, about 12–14 hours of illumination per day with a grow light. During the wet season, cooler conditions are sufficient; 15 °C is perfectly fine. Its roots are very sensitive. Gemmae should be planted directly in their final position in the pot. Young plants are difficult to transplant and may not survive if their roots are damaged. It is advisable to place several small gemmae in one pot, as they look nicer when grown as a small cluster rather than having just a single plant in each pot.
Pygmies are very easy to grow in general, also easy to reproduce them through gemmae.
But in order to achieve close to the color on the picture, you will need to provide a lot more light than an east facing window can provide. Maybe add an extra growlight? ([something like this](https://www.sansiled.com/collections/adjustable-clip-on-grow-light))
Some tips if youve never grown pygmies before:
* Never repot, roots are long, thin and very sensitive, the plant will die
* Also for this reason, order gemmae instead of plants, better chance for success.
* Lots of sand in the media, lots of light
Breathtakingly beautiful.