TerraForums Venus Flytrap, Nepenthes, Drosera and more talk
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Well after potting a VFT, I have a relatively large amount of soil left over. Thinking I may want to expand, I was wondering what CPs can be grown in only peat and perlite?
I grow everything in peaterlite plus the occasional additive. Recently the only things that I don't grow in the stuff are mexican pings since I can't keep fungus gnat larvae from eating them. Darn fungal odor.
But, basically you can grow just about all of them in varying mixtures of peaterlite. It's always handy to have long fibered sphagnum on hand though.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (jhaluska @ Sep. 15 2003,12:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">pond boy, it might help me to know what plants you have.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
His growlist is a part of his sig.
Ok, you can grow:
most Utricularia (aquatic still could use the peat)
Sarracenia
some/most Nepenthes
Dionaea
maybe Byblis...doesn't seem to bother it
most Drosera
most Pinguicula
Easily most of the stuff. Only really do you find difficult plants that need something weird. The majority of the plants (cp's) will do fine in some varying mixes of peat and perlite.
Peat and perlite, or peat and sand, or peat and something else is the basis for the substrate of just about all of these plants.
I know that alot of cps grow in perlite and peat combo. The only thing I know is I have had really bad luck with that combo. Although I have not tried my new method that people told me (wash the peat and perlite good to get any chemicals outs).
Is there an 'generic' mix that all the plants can be grown in? I've seen ratios from pure peat to 50/50. I know that often the plants are all put together, so there has to be some soil mixture they all can 'tolerate.' Anybody know what the ratio is for that mixture?
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