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this is why you should rinse your peat!

this is a pot of drosera nidiformis seedlings i sowed about SIX MONTHS ago. as you can see the seedlings are competing with the moss and losing. theres about a thousand seedlings buried under the moss

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THE WINNER:
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Looks like your dews are in a sticky situation!
 
That is very beautiful moss.
 
I thought you might be gonna talk about pest creatures from peat. Lately I have been finding very tiny red centipedes in my peat after it sits in the terrariums for a few months. I never use peat in pots but I mix up "forest soil" for my plant & animal vivariums with shredded cypress mulch, oak twigs, crushed leaves and peat. They don't seem to hurt anything, I don't know if the baby vampire crabs eat them or what.
 
ill trade it for some pings. the moss is thick enough i could pull the whole top off in a nice moss disk. sundews and all....
 
But of course if you were trying to grow a pot of moss you would have ended up with D. capensis, D. burmannii, D. binata and others that get around with the least provocation.
 
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I've gotten that even after rinsing peat....seems to be just a matter of chance for me.
 
But of course if you were trying to grow a pot of moss you would have ended up with D. capensis, D. burmanii, D. binata and others that get around with the least provocation.

LOL! That's about right!
 
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