Hi,

How long have you had the plant? do you use the tray watering method? what kind of media do you have it in?

It sounds like your problem could be sun shock. When I moved my
drosera capensis outside in full sun (I did not have enough room for all
my other plants under the plant lights) it started to get red and brownish
just like yours. I will post a picture of the plant when it got sun shock
and after,

If you want to keep the plant outside during the day (provided it is above 5 celcius, no lower), start with it in the shade and after about a week expose it gradually to more sun. I would buy a plant light for indoor use ( they only cost about $8). I use a compact flourescent light with a 5000K. When the plant produces no dew, it usually means it is very stressed, They are quite hardy and you should be able to turn things around.

These plants can only withstand about 5 celcius so make sure it does not go any lower than that.

Ethan.

this is the plant when it got sunshock

Thankyou yes it looked a lot like this!

will try your suggestions, I'll post a photo tomorrow when theres light so you can see and detect anything else wrong with it.

Thanks!

Oh lol I forgot to answer your questions.

1. I've had the plant for 2 months.

2. l I have in a little pot and when I see it drying out I put it in a bigger bowl with water (rain water).

3. Well I got the plant from Bunnings (Australian hardware store) and I think its in peat moss?

these plants like to be sitting in water ALL THE TIME. I put mine in a tray with 1-2 inches of water (you use rain water so that's perfect!) and fill it up if it gets below 1/2 inch or so (they like it swampy)

a good medium is 1/2 perlite and 1/2 peat. if it is only in peat i would repot it (they take extremely well to repotting)

Okay, thanks

I will try to repot it and put it in 1 inch of water

I don't know if you can see too well but this is how it looks at the moment.

Thankyou so much

I think I know what the problem is with your plant.

I see from the picture that it has flowered three times and is flowering right now.
When I let my droseras flower, I let them have one flower stalk and that's it for awhile,
as when droseras flower, it takes a lot of the plant's energy and if it flowers too much it will die. I would not let it flower unless I want seeds or else it's a waste of the plant's energy.
I recently let one of my healthy drosera capensis flower and it was not looking too good and took about 2 months to perk up.

Make sure to clip off all of the dead leaves and flower stalks as close to the plant as possible without damaging the plant, this will help get rid of the possibility of fungus or mold growth.

If the green flower stalk is flowering right now and still has buds to open, then cut it off.
But if it is all done flowering and is ripening, then do not cut it off. Leave it and it will give you
lots of seeds to plant.

Good luck!

This might seem very possible

Although this might seem very possible I'm not so sure as Ive started to change the things I was doing to the things you told me and I've seen changes and it seems to start to get some more dew.

This photo is great as its pretty dark and the iPad camera wouldn't focus on the seeds itself but these are the flowers (well used to be) and now I don't know what to do with all these little things that come out of them. Do I have to do anything special to them or can I just plant in 50% perlite 50% peat moss and will it grow? The thing is i think there ready to take out but I will be leaving for a month o holidays. WOuld I be able to put the seeds in a little bag and save them until I come back?

Thanks Ethan, your questions have been very useful!

Awesome! Happy to hear it's looking better.

Drosera Capensis is the easiest sundew to germinate.
You can plant them in the mix you listed above (50% perlite 50% peat moss)
I plant them in that mix and they all seem to love it.

Since you are going away, I would just cut the flower stalk off and then put it in a plastic bag
and it will keep on ripening.

To harvest the seeds, take it out of the plastic bag and crumble the flowers beneath your fingers gently (the seeds are pretty hard to damage) and when you have all of the seeds removed you are ready to plant them.

If you want you can wash your peat moss, it helps keep mold and algae growth from occurring, oh and make sure that the peat moss is pure peat moss and doesn't have any added fertilizers.
This is how to wash your peat moss:
(you don't need to wash your perlite but it's a good idea just to get rid of any dust)
http://www.growsundews.com/rinsing_peat_and_sand_for_carnivorous_plants.html.

Ethan.

Thankyou for all the advice everybody, hopefully my sundew can recover!