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Carnivorous plants

Tuberous sundews: best soil mix and feeding guide

Tuberous sundews is in Living Soil's Carnivorous plants group. Plants that catch their own food, and are killed by ordinary compost and feed. Its guide gathers what published references say about feeding, spotting problems, cautions, mixes and where the sources differ, with 2 mixes that suit it.

What the tuberous sundews guide covers

Every item carries the reference behind it. Where references disagree, the guide shows both.

  • Feeding1
  • Spotting problems3
  • Cautions2
  • Mixes2
  • Where the sources differ1

The count is how many sourced items each part of the guide holds.

Mixes that suit tuberous sundews

2 mixes are made just for tuberous sundews, inside its guide.

Feeds made for it

Tuberous sundew leaf spray

A simple way to feed tuberous sundews: mist the leaves only, and keep it off the soil.

Each mix comes with the reference behind every figure, measured for your batch, pots or bed.

Good to know

  • The mistake to avoid: Mineral rich tap water, and any fertilizer at all. Use rain, distilled or reverse osmosis water.
  • Also known as: tuberous sundew, drosera peltata, drosera gigantea, drosera auriculata, drosera stolonifera and climbing sundew

Questions

What is the best soil for tuberous sundews?

Living Soil lists 2 mixes that suit tuberous sundews, each from a published reference. 2 are made just for it. The app measures any of them for your batch, pots or bed.

Is the tuberous sundews guide free?

Its overview is free: what the guide covers and which mixes suit it. Opening the full guide takes credits, and the app shows the price before you confirm. Credits never expire.

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