What's the Best Soil For a Flytrap - Soil Recipe for a Venus Flytrap

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Let's experiment and find out which soil is better for our venus flytraps!
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@johnchappell7137 2 жыл бұрын

My flytraps seemed slowed and stunted in the peat that my plants were in. I transplanted them into spaghnum moss which gave the roots more aeration and growing room, and it started sprouting new traps like crazy. It was doubled in about a month. I'm sure some cultivars might fair better in peat just because their root systems grow in denser peat, but the dente's I bought in store really loved the spacing and light feel of their feet in the moss.

@Knein1967 2 жыл бұрын

I use both media for my VFTs, however when planting in sphagnum moss I use the taco method and wrap the plant in sphagnum with a layer in the bottom of the pot. I wrap it until the plant has enough sphagnum around it to mostly fill the pot, then place it in the pot and fill in any areas around that need. It gets super hot during the summer here in Texas, so the lighter color of the sphagnum may help a little with heat absorption. I do shade my plants when it gets up over 100 degrees for more than a day. To save on costs when using larger pots, you can also put peat/pearlite in the bottom of the pot and use sphagnum in the top half of the pot.

@DeadlyPlants2024

I’ve grown my fly traps in sphagnum moss for years, and they’ve thrived. Not to mention, if you’re growing them in peat moss, and it rains, the peat moss kinda splashes up onto the plants, stays on the plant, it dries there and they look like shit. Kinda literally, like someone shit on my plants.

@ScottrickTV 2 жыл бұрын

Got my first venus fly trap from walmart a few weeks ago transferred it into a peat moss perlite mix and it looks to be doing alright and has some new growth. thanks for the videos!

@tobiasware 2 жыл бұрын

I use a peat and river sand mix, with a live sphagnum topping - no perlite. They thrive here in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I have always had to re-pot any Venus Flytraps placed in a sphagnum mix for the reasons you state - too much root rot from excess water retention. I dislike perlite as it gets everywhere, is messy, and looks awful in a pot.

@Trekmario1701 2 жыл бұрын

I grow in spaghium. It grows faster and it retained the water better. So I dont have to water as often .

@アルセウス-l7x 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly the hottest guy talking about vft

@Tommyr 2 жыл бұрын

I have found over the last 4 years that they grow about the same in both mixes. Matter of fact I don't even add perlite to the LFSM. I DO NOT notice any different growth at all between the mixes. They grow the same speed and size. I prefer peat/perlite but LFSM is cleaner to work with but slightly expensive. I know the Flytrap store uses LFSM exclusively the past few years and prefers it.

@veesentdaysendz8113 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!! What if you Mix all three substrates-peat,Spaghnum moss,and perlite all together as one substrate??

@lud3269

Interesting, here in Brazil the standard soil for venus flytraps is the moss, I don't know why, maybe it's better for our weather, but when visiting the forums here 90% of the plants I see are growing in moss + perlite and sometimes sand, the plants grow really healthy and big, I've also seen people growing them in peat and I couldn't see much of a difference.

@foamy909 2 жыл бұрын

I've grown in both moss and peat moss soil as well as either or. For me it's the aesthetics rather than the actual function. I do like peat moss soil as its more weighted down but if not mixed with perlite/sand properly can get compacted very easily compared to moss. Moss is a bit tougher to remove from the roots. Soil also, in my experience, is more susceptible to pest more than moss. So I usually use both! I use the moss to top cover the soil so that it looks much better not having to see perlite and soil.

@DelfinoGarza77 14 сағат бұрын

I want to troll and heckle this guy, but i cant... the information is too good. Thank you!!!

@johnchappell7137 2 жыл бұрын

And obviously since you said moss is so prone to air pockets and cavities, it's very difficult to drown a vft in SM.(it also encourages vigorous root growth). Peat particles are much smaller and absorbent, so I find that drowning vfts is much easier in peat.

@duncanpage1556 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid! Hello from Alberta Can.

@Tatusiek_1 2 жыл бұрын

peat moss also provides more insulation to the roots and the rhizome than long fiber sphagnum moss. The cold weather killed my VFTs in the past winter and they were in long fiber sphagnum. Although it might have been the same with peat since it was an unusually strong cold weather storm. My current VFTs are in long fiber sphagnum, while they are not dying, they do not seem like they are in optimal condition. When winter rolls around, i’ll repot them in peat and see how that works out for them.

@JamesEndo1 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Did you make a follow up video from a year ago? Thanks.

@LivingCyberweapon

Right now, I use peat with a topping of sphagnum. In their natural habitats, there is usually them sitting in peat with sphagnum growing on the peat. But I’m going to try adding perlite for aeration

@brightbkh07

Was there an update video to show the results? I’m sure I am looking right over it but I was curious to see what happened here. I have some that are potted in sphagnum alone with no perlite and some that are in peat and perlite and I have noticed a difference. The sphagnum plants almost died at first and then came back all the sudden and are growing great and the peat and perlite steadily grew at a slow pace but never went through the shock the others did in the beginning.

@-AnyWho 2 жыл бұрын

i'v been reading several different sources sugesting 5:3:2 of peat:silicia sand:perilite is the best mix ... mainly cuz i guess silicia sand adds areation to soil to make it healthier for roots as well keeping the soil from compacting over time ... can't say i've tried it yet cuz i dont have that many plants but i plan to in future. but they also agree 1:1 peat perilite is fine too ...