Feeding Sundews

I talked to Aaron of http://www.growsundews.com a lot today about feeding sundews. I fed a few sundews before talking to him by wetting betta pellets and breaking them up with tweezers and feeding. That's really hard, because of how reluctant wet pieces of food are to leave tweezers, and they always go to the middle of the tweezers rather than hang onto the edge. So I talked to him and subsequently ground up my betta pellets with a mortar and pestle and put teeny-tiny pieces of dust on my Drosera capensis seedlings.

I thought I had a billion seedlings, but it turns out that I might not. Some are dying, because of mold.  Maybe I didn't rinse the peat well enough. But the peat in my Venus Flytrap mixes isn't molding at all. I have sand instead of perlite in the sundew mix, but sand is supposed to be a lot better than perlite for not growing mold and algae and such. I don't know what's going on. But I did just sew a few bajillion more D. capensis seeds the other day, so I may have more to work with soon.

If I have the same luck with these betta pellets as I did with the last pellets, I'll be out of luck, because the last ones killed every plant I fed them to. And this time I fed them to both plants I have of one Drosera species, an unlabeled form of D. spatulata. I'm hopeful, though. Last time it was with D. adelae, and they're real jerks when it comes to surviving. I got fed up with my adelae and threw their roots into some LFS and covered them and forgot about them, and they're doing better than when I gave a darn about them.

D. capensis right after feeding

D. capensis shortly after feeding

D. capensis a little while longer after feeding