Hello bob123how, Your doing fine with hardening them off. That was a good idea to punch holes a few at a time in the "cube of death." In any event, just water them, leave them in good light, and leave them alone for days at a time. You will be surprised at how well plants do when people aren't hovering over them all the time. You don't really need to suck the air out of the cube. Just punch the holes and make them bigger over time and more numerous until you can safely remove the dome like you did. Hubert sounds like he will be O.K. He just needs a couple of weeks to recover. His new leaves should dew normally. In any case, it is good light, not humidity, that allows a sundew to produce glue on its tentacles. Do not worry about insects to feed your plants yet. They can and will live for a long time without prey. Just let them recover for a few weeks first. D. adleae can and will catch a lot of gnats, mosquitoes, and fruit flies on their own. If they do not catch anything for a month, you can place them a few feet from a patio light when it gets dark and they will catch plenty of insects that blunder into their leaves. Just don't leave them out there for too long or they might overeat. One or two small insects a month is sufficient for carnivorous plants. Light, mineral free water, acid soil, good drainage, and normal room temperatures around 75 degrees fahrenheit are the first considerations to growing carnivorous plants. They are just like normal plants, just specialized to catch their fertilizer while it is still alive. Never fertilize the soil of your plants, their roots will burn and rot. One other thing, now that you have two D. adelae, I hope you bought a lot of pots and have a lot of space. They reproduce themselves by root runs, so every few months you will see several plantlets growing around the parent. The parent plants only live a couple of years, but their offspring grow fast and continue the cycle over and over again like rabbits multiplying. My D. adelae produced 10 new plants that are mostly half grown in only a few months time. The adult plants will flower, but produce no seed as they are all clones that need cross pollination with genetically different plants. After flowering, an old adult plant will die slowly as it produces new clones of itself from it's roots. These plants are actually considered a weed due to their prolific growth patterns. You can chop an entire plant back and you will get six more just like it in a month or two sprouting from the old roots. Just one Lance Leaf Sundew became 10 new plants in under 4 months.

Thank you Tom! It died about a month after i bought it :( my guess is not enough humidity, and the plants bought from Home Depot are already in a state of shock from improper in-store care. On to the next plant!

Cape sundews, and most sundews as a matter of fact, along with Venus Flytraps, all self-pollinate. Cape sundews are the masters of self-pollination cloning. Your gonna have 100s of seeds soon. Mine just got done flowering too and produced 36 flowers. Just wait for the entire scape to complete the flowering cycle and let it blacken, then clip it off and crush the flowers over white paper or into a white paper cup.. You will see lots of extremely tiny seeds fall out. Just sprinkle them on sundew soil in a pot or planter and keep them misted daily and you should see hundreds of tiny round leaved seedlings in a couple of weeks. Give them a few months and they will eventually grow long strap shaped adult leaves. Nepenthes are the main species that need male and female plants. Sarracenias, Drosera adelae, Darlingtonia, and some others need cross fertilization, but both plants have male and female capacity (hermaphroditism) and so both will produce seeds after cross-pollination. Nepenthes only produce seeds from the female plant.

The plant as stated before needs more light. I'm going to have to go with a different plant myself. I would say D. spatulata as it is the more common garden variety sundew. D. spatulata gets it 1 1/2" D. spatulata Here is D. aliciae, which gets larger 3".