| Last summer, I cut the mostly-dry flower tops off of my Drosera plants. I have three species: binata, capensis and a pygmy species that grows in clumps that I neglected to label.
I put the seeds in paper envelopes and stored them in a cardboard box until about a month ago. I was going to put them in separate containers, but being lazy and not expecting them to sprout, I just threw the contents of all three envelopes into one shallow plastic dish full of peat and covered it with a clear plastic top.
When the surface of the peat started turning green, I thought it was just algae or sphagnum spores coming to life, but now I can see I've got a wall-to-wall carpet of drosera seedlings in there, about 10-12 square inches worth. The plants are still so small that you can barely make out the tiny little petioles and traps.
So two questions: Since I've never grown drosera from seed, I'm wondering what's the best way to grow these micro-plants into adults. Secondly, would it be impossible to sell the adults if I don't know which species are the "parents"?
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