- Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:09 am
#419036
I've long wondered what the best soil is for flytraps so this year I decided that I'd to try and put it to the test.
I set up 3 containers with 9 rhizomes of B-52 flytraps each. The rhizomes were all approximately the same age and size. I kept them in identical conditions and fed them on the same schedule to ensure the cultural conditions were as close to identical as possible.
The significant difference was the soil:
Anyhoo, here are the results so far. As expected, the 1 sphag : 1 perlite is doing the best.
Surprisingly, the peat+sphagnum is doing the worst of the them, which is not what I was expecting. Maybe this is a result of how I'm watering the plants. I don't know.
I set up 3 containers with 9 rhizomes of B-52 flytraps each. The rhizomes were all approximately the same age and size. I kept them in identical conditions and fed them on the same schedule to ensure the cultural conditions were as close to identical as possible.
The significant difference was the soil:
- 1 peat : 1 perlite - This is the standard mix that most people use and I just filled up the pot with it. The perlite was fairly fine and around the 1-2 mm range. I measured out the ratio by dry volume.
- 1 peat : 1 perlite but the rhizomes of the plants are all wrapped in long fiber sphagnum moss - The moss extended to the bottom of the pot for each plant. To do this I filled the pot with 1 peat : 1 perlite and once it was full then dug out 9 holes to the bottom of the pot about as wide as my hand and filled that with 1 sphagnum : 1 perlite wrapped around the roots of the rhizomes. Maggie Chen reccommends this approach and claims it's supposed to be almost as good as pure sphagnum so I really wanted to give it a try.
- 1 sphagnum : 1 perlite - This supposed to provide best growth and is certainly the priciest option. I think filling up this pot alone probably cost $20 at least.
Anyhoo, here are the results so far. As expected, the 1 sphag : 1 perlite is doing the best.
Surprisingly, the peat+sphagnum is doing the worst of the them, which is not what I was expecting. Maybe this is a result of how I'm watering the plants. I don't know.
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Last edited by davinstewart on Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
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