Almost time for me to take all of mine out of the fridge! My 14th year of fridge dormancy. It's a busy time of year for us CP growers! Thanks Matt and Leah!
I'm a new mom, to two venus fly traps, and I adore them so very much! Today I decided to finaly make my soil so I can repot them into a bigger crib! And thank God that I decided to watch your video, because I was about to use Peat Moss, Miracle Grow!! I would have been devistated if I lost these two green babies! Thank you for that very important detail oriented tip!!
I just started making the seeds for my Venus Fly Trap todays. I only use rainwater for my plants. I have enjoyed your ability! I don't know how long to use seeds yet. Thanks!
Thanks so much for your helpful video! I started with some Walmart Flytraps last spring and summer. They did pretty well and some of them grew like crazy. They are dormant right now, and hopefully will survive the winter. I know I will have to repot some of them, because they are getting crowded in 6" pots. I will be sure to use the paper towels, because I have noticed some soil in the trays. Thanks again and wish me luck!
Quartz is usually mostly silica but can contain some impurities. My guess is that it would work fine but you might try a small test run with it before putting your entire collection in quartz stone amended soil.
Thank you for the video, always look forward to a video from you guys since I’ve watched ALL of your videos. Would you be able/willing to share the exact medium perlite and silica sand you use? I look forward to future videos.
Our general ratio is 5 parts peat moss, 3 parts silica sand, and 2 parts perlite by volume. A lot of growers use 50:50 peat moss to perlite too. Just make sure the mix is at least 50% sand and/or perlite for good soil drainage and aeration.
Hi Diego - Repotting flytraps now (late January) is a great time because the plants aren't growing much, if at all, so it won't set them back. You could wait another month or so but I wouldn't put it off past early March if you have the time to do it now.
I got two questions: 1. Where can I buy completely fertilizer free peat moss in large quantity? 2. How do I stop green moss from growing in my soil mixture?
I got two answers 😆 1. Most big garden centers or nurseries carry peat moss by the bale. Usually, they're 3 cu. ft. or 3.8 cu. ft. bales. 2. That's hard to do. It's really next to impossible to stop once it starts. The only thing to do is repot the plants and thoroughly wash them to try to remove any moss particles. But it almost always comes back, particularly if your plants grow under something that drips rain down onto them after touching a roof or structure where moss grows.
Is it possible you could provide a link to the sand and perlite? All the sand and perlite in my area isn't as high quality is yours, and I have too large of a collection to keep buying pre made mix. Thanks
Here's a link to the place I bought a pallet of perlite from: pvpind.com/perlite/ I got the medium-sized granules and I like that size much better than the coarse grade which sometimes has large chunks that tend to float to the top of the soil. And the silica sand (the company actually calls it "gravel") came from Covia Corp: www.coviacorp.com/ I contacted them directly and bought 2 pallets that I had to pay to have delivered via a less-than-a-truckload service.
Yes, we always reuse our old media in the bottom of the pots and use new stuff on the top of pots for the first 3-5 inches. It is a good idea to repot Venus flytraps annually. When growing in long fiber sphagnum, it is almost a requirement because the moss starts to lose its "healthiness" after about 8-10 months. Flytraps in a peat moss mixture can sometimes go a couple of years before needing a repot, but we recommend repotting them anually.
why does it seem to be standard practice to remove most of the media from the roots instead of pull from pot, retain soil, place in larger pot and fill around with soil ?
Good question! Most plants prefer to not have their roots disturbed but flytraps don't mind it much. And the primary reason to repot them is to freshen the soil, not provide more space. So it is better to remove all the soil when freshening the soil. If you are simply potting to give them more room, you can do what you describe and keep the soil around the roots.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore Thanks Matt. Seeing that i managed to keep a Aldis trap alive for a year now I am hoping to expand with more exotic traps. Seeing a place in MO that propagates traps and others makes it even better
Carpet moss can be a real pain to deal with. It usually has to come from somewhere to start growing. When we lived in Oregon, it would always show up on pots near a drip line. Perhaps you can move your plant somewhere that there is nothing dripping on it and that will help. An annual repotting is almost mandatory for Venus flytraps too, which eliminates all of the moss at once, though it often comes back unless extreme care is taken to thoroughly wash off the moss from the plant and use a new pot.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore thats sad, cover with sand helps, but I have small flytrap nursery like yours and Im repotting every 6 months. Carpet have in bad cases more than inch in height and make plants die or almost die, Im aways repotting mother plants pot to remove it. by the way, thanks for your help on forum, you inspired me to move from my job to grow and sell flytraps for living. 🤩
@@eduardoferreira9882 that's so great that you are now selling flytraps too! Yes, potting and repotting is the majority of the labor when running a nursery. Covering with sand does help a bit but the moss always comes back.
Yes, sometimes it is necessary. Peat from different sources can vary a lot in mineral content. We've found a few reliable sources that are always low in mineral content and only buy those now so we don't have to rinse. But it is always a good idea to test the mineral content on a new bale of peat and rinse if the TDS of the runoff water is high after soaking a small sample for an hour or so in distilled water.
Venus flytraps can be repotted any time of year and be fine. But if you want to impact their growth the least, the best time to repot is in late spring just before they break dormancy.
I think you mean humus? Hummus would be better eaten by a human! Humus on the other hand might be worth trying in small quantities in the peat moss mixture for Venus flytraps but I suspect it might be too nutritious and cause the plants to burn if too much were used.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore I guess I’m redoing my soil. I’ve been doing a ratio in cups of 5 sphagnum peat moss, 2 perlite, and 1 silica sand. What if I only have medium perlite? Seems I need more sphagnum moss and switch the perlite and sand?
@@donnafigures1784 the ratio is a guideline but isn't critically important to have it exact. Your mix could work fine. It's more how the mix feels once it is all together. Best to keep some air in the soil if at all possible
Thanks for the video Matt and Leah. I've heard that flytraps benefit from an open, airy soil mix. Have you found any advantage to peat/perlite vs peat/perlite/sand? I would expect the sand to compact the soil mix somewhat.
Actually, the sand helps prevent the peat moss from compacting in our experience! I'm in the process of repotting thousands of Sarracenia (pitcher plants) and the pots that had some sand in the mix definitely are less compacted than the pots with nothing but peat moss in them. Anything added to break up the soil seems to be a good thing to provide aeration and healthier root growth. But if you mix peat/perlite, that should be good enough if it is around a 50/50 ratio. We add the sand to add some weight to the soil mix and it does seem like the plants grow a bit better in the soil mix with sand.
Thanks for that I’ve picked up a few helpful tips on your page. I’ve a Venus ready to be split into about four pots and I have a sarracenia is it advisable to put them all into a larger pot together or should I keep them separate 💚🇮🇪
So glad to hear you've found some of our information helpful!! Sarracenia prefer much wetter soil than do flytraps so I'd not recommend growing them together unless doing so in very deep pots where the flytraps can stay quite a ways away from the water level at all times.
Hi Brandon! Sorry I'm just noticing this comment!! Yes, after obtaining some very high quality peat, we've switched from using long fiber sphagnum to using peat again. We used peat historically before around 2013 but after getting several poor quality bags of peat we discontinued using it. Now that we've found good quality peat again, we're back to using it. Flytraps grow a bit more quickly in the LFSM, now that we're here in Missouri where the weather is much more favorable for growing carnivores than it was in Oregon, the difference is negligible. Given how expensive LFSM is, we went ahead and switched back to growing everything in peat. Though we still offer the option to have plants shipped potted in LFSM and are still offering it for sale on FlytrapStore.com
@@bayareacarnivores plants generally grow a bit faster in LFS but the cost of LFS is far higher and doesn't make sense for a huge collection like ours. The quality of a given bale of peat can vary a lot from brand to brand and even bale to bale. I've only found one brand to be consistently high quality and that is Theriault & Hachey but I can't get it here in MO. I just shop around looking for a good bale of peat at the local stores and when I find one, I buy the whole pallet!
Almost time for me to take all of mine out of the fridge! My 14th year of fridge dormancy. It's a busy time of year for us CP growers! Thanks Matt and Leah!
I'm a new mom, to two venus fly traps, and I adore them so very much! Today I decided to finaly make my soil so I can repot them into a bigger crib! And thank God that I decided to watch your video, because I was about to use Peat Moss, Miracle Grow!! I would have been devistated if I lost these two green babies! Thank you for that very important detail oriented tip!!
Thanks for the feedbac! Glad to hear our video helped save a Venus flytrap life or two!!😁
I just started making the seeds for my Venus Fly Trap todays. I only use rainwater for my plants. I have enjoyed your ability! I don't know how long to use seeds yet. Thanks!
I find that my plant grows better with rain water than distilled water. I like the idea with the paper towel.
Thanks so much for your helpful video! I started with some Walmart Flytraps last spring and summer. They did pretty well and some of them grew like crazy. They are dormant right now, and hopefully will survive the winter. I know I will have to repot some of them, because they are getting crowded in 6" pots. I will be sure to use the paper towels, because I have noticed some soil in the trays. Thanks again and wish me luck!
Thanks for your kind feedback and good luck with the repot!
Very nice Video!
I learned many things!
Greetings from Hamburg/Germany 🇩🇪
Thank you!
Keep making Videos!!!
Always look forward to them.
OK, will do!
I have used coco coir and perlite. My plants are doing great. I rinse the coco coir with distilled water until your meter shows 0.
Thanks for the comment-- good to know!
3:35 I like to feed all the traps before repotting so they are already closed :D
I'm new. Curious, what do you feed them? I've heard you can feed fish food flakes. I have some gold fish flakes.
@@vickiabbott3838 freeze dried Bloodworms
@@vickiabbott3838 freeze dried blood worms !
@@vickiabbott3838 freeze dried blood worms
Could I use quartz stone with peat/perlite mix?
Quartz is usually mostly silica but can contain some impurities. My guess is that it would work fine but you might try a small test run with it before putting your entire collection in quartz stone amended soil.
Thank you for the video, always look forward to a video from you guys since I’ve watched ALL of your videos. Would you be able/willing to share the exact medium perlite and silica sand you use? I look forward to future videos.
I would like to know me to !!! Curently using a 5 part peatmoss for 3 part sand and 2 part perlite but i find it a lot sandy , tx
I’m going with this mixture for my bog. What ratios do you use?
Our general ratio is 5 parts peat moss, 3 parts silica sand, and 2 parts perlite by volume. A lot of growers use 50:50 peat moss to perlite too. Just make sure the mix is at least 50% sand and/or perlite for good soil drainage and aeration.
Hello, a lot of traps are gone from summer and was wondering if I should repot now or just wait till it gets warmer out thank u very much:)
Hi Diego - Repotting flytraps now (late January) is a great time because the plants aren't growing much, if at all, so it won't set them back. You could wait another month or so but I wouldn't put it off past early March if you have the time to do it now.
Should I repot my plant that I see no green on ?
I got two questions:
1. Where can I buy completely fertilizer free peat moss in large quantity?
2. How do I stop green moss from growing in my soil mixture?
I got two answers 😆
1. Most big garden centers or nurseries carry peat moss by the bale. Usually, they're 3 cu. ft. or 3.8 cu. ft. bales.
2. That's hard to do. It's really next to impossible to stop once it starts. The only thing to do is repot the plants and thoroughly wash them to try to remove any moss particles. But it almost always comes back, particularly if your plants grow under something that drips rain down onto them after touching a roof or structure where moss grows.
One of my problems is how much the soil settles in over time. Maybe I should pack it a little tighter when repotting so it doesn’t sink in as much.
Yes, if the soil settles too much then it isn't dense enough. Pack it in more tightly, particularly in the bottom two-thirds of the pot.
Is it possible you could provide a link to the sand and perlite? All the sand and perlite in my area isn't as high quality is yours, and I have too large of a collection to keep buying pre made mix. Thanks
Here's a link to the place I bought a pallet of perlite from:
pvpind.com/perlite/
I got the medium-sized granules and I like that size much better than the coarse grade which sometimes has large chunks that tend to float to the top of the soil.
And the silica sand (the company actually calls it "gravel") came from Covia Corp:
www.coviacorp.com/
I contacted them directly and bought 2 pallets that I had to pay to have delivered via a less-than-a-truckload service.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore alright thanks
Can peat moss/silica sand be reused when you re-pot? How often should you re-pot peat moss/silica sand vs long fiber sphagnum moss?
Yes, we always reuse our old media in the bottom of the pots and use new stuff on the top of pots for the first 3-5 inches. It is a good idea to repot Venus flytraps annually. When growing in long fiber sphagnum, it is almost a requirement because the moss starts to lose its "healthiness" after about 8-10 months. Flytraps in a peat moss mixture can sometimes go a couple of years before needing a repot, but we recommend repotting them anually.
why does it seem to be standard practice to remove most of the media from the roots instead of pull from pot, retain soil, place in larger pot and fill around with soil ?
Good question! Most plants prefer to not have their roots disturbed but flytraps don't mind it much. And the primary reason to repot them is to freshen the soil, not provide more space. So it is better to remove all the soil when freshening the soil. If you are simply potting to give them more room, you can do what you describe and keep the soil around the roots.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore Thanks Matt. Seeing that i managed to keep a Aldis trap alive for a year now I am hoping to expand with more exotic traps. Seeing a place in MO that propagates traps and others makes it even better
do you have any tip to prevent carpet moss on top of pots?
Carpet moss can be a real pain to deal with. It usually has to come from somewhere to start growing. When we lived in Oregon, it would always show up on pots near a drip line. Perhaps you can move your plant somewhere that there is nothing dripping on it and that will help.
An annual repotting is almost mandatory for Venus flytraps too, which eliminates all of the moss at once, though it often comes back unless extreme care is taken to thoroughly wash off the moss from the plant and use a new pot.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore thats sad, cover with sand helps, but I have small flytrap nursery like yours and Im repotting every 6 months. Carpet have in bad cases more than inch in height and make plants die or almost die, Im aways repotting mother plants pot to remove it. by the way, thanks for your help on forum, you inspired me to move from my job to grow and sell flytraps for living. 🤩
@@eduardoferreira9882 that's so great that you are now selling flytraps too!
Yes, potting and repotting is the majority of the labor when running a nursery.
Covering with sand does help a bit but the moss always comes back.
I've seen some reccomendations of rinsing the peat with distilled water to remove minerals first. Is this something you do?
Yes, sometimes it is necessary. Peat from different sources can vary a lot in mineral content. We've found a few reliable sources that are always low in mineral content and only buy those now so we don't have to rinse. But it is always a good idea to test the mineral content on a new bale of peat and rinse if the TDS of the runoff water is high after soaking a small sample for an hour or so in distilled water.
When is the best time of year to transplant?
Venus flytraps can be repotted any time of year and be fine. But if you want to impact their growth the least, the best time to repot is in late spring just before they break dormancy.
What about hummus in my potting soil? It has sand, perlite, peat moss and hummus???
I think you mean humus? Hummus would be better eaten by a human! Humus on the other hand might be worth trying in small quantities in the peat moss mixture for Venus flytraps but I suspect it might be too nutritious and cause the plants to burn if too much were used.
What’s the soil ratio?
By volume it is 50% sphagnum peat moss, 30% course silica sand, and 20% small perlite.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore I guess I’m redoing my soil. I’ve been doing a ratio in cups of 5 sphagnum peat moss, 2 perlite, and 1 silica sand. What if I only have medium perlite? Seems I need more sphagnum moss and switch the perlite and sand?
@@donnafigures1784 the ratio is a guideline but isn't critically important to have it exact. Your mix could work fine. It's more how the mix feels once it is all together. Best to keep some air in the soil if at all possible
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore thank you. Now if I could get some red dragons being sold in Canada. I’ll be set to expand
Thanks for the video Matt and Leah. I've heard that flytraps benefit from an open, airy soil mix. Have you found any advantage to peat/perlite vs peat/perlite/sand? I would expect the sand to compact the soil mix somewhat.
Actually, the sand helps prevent the peat moss from compacting in our experience! I'm in the process of repotting thousands of Sarracenia (pitcher plants) and the pots that had some sand in the mix definitely are less compacted than the pots with nothing but peat moss in them. Anything added to break up the soil seems to be a good thing to provide aeration and healthier root growth.
But if you mix peat/perlite, that should be good enough if it is around a 50/50 ratio. We add the sand to add some weight to the soil mix and it does seem like the plants grow a bit better in the soil mix with sand.
Thanks for that I’ve picked up a few helpful tips on your page. I’ve a Venus ready to be split into about four pots and I have a sarracenia is it advisable to put them all into a larger pot together or should I keep them separate 💚🇮🇪
So glad to hear you've found some of our information helpful!! Sarracenia prefer much wetter soil than do flytraps so I'd not recommend growing them together unless doing so in very deep pots where the flytraps can stay quite a ways away from the water level at all times.
Just a question, most of your plants are now in peat:sand, did you switch from spag. to peat?
Hi Brandon! Sorry I'm just noticing this comment!!
Yes, after obtaining some very high quality peat, we've switched from using long fiber sphagnum to using peat again. We used peat historically before around 2013 but after getting several poor quality bags of peat we discontinued using it. Now that we've found good quality peat again, we're back to using it. Flytraps grow a bit more quickly in the LFSM, now that we're here in Missouri where the weather is much more favorable for growing carnivores than it was in Oregon, the difference is negligible. Given how expensive LFSM is, we went ahead and switched back to growing everything in peat. Though we still offer the option to have plants shipped potted in LFSM and are still offering it for sale on FlytrapStore.com
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore Oh ok! Over here in CA, peat moss doesn't work out super good for me as much as LFSM does.
@@bayareacarnivores plants generally grow a bit faster in LFS but the cost of LFS is far higher and doesn't make sense for a huge collection like ours.
The quality of a given bale of peat can vary a lot from brand to brand and even bale to bale. I've only found one brand to be consistently high quality and that is Theriault & Hachey but I can't get it here in MO.
I just shop around looking for a good bale of peat at the local stores and when I find one, I buy the whole pallet!
So annoying when camera ppl talk..
Ok
That’s pretty rude, I like that she’s helping us asking questions for us? She knows what she’s doing but it’s for us to learn.
@@melissamcquabbie2226 I agree