Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:31:50 -0600 From: John Green <john.green@ascensus.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2354$foo@default> Subject: Re: Live Sphagnum
MCliff428@aol.com wrote:
>I see that some plants like Darlingtonia call for a soil
>recipe with only live sphagnum. This makes sense,
>but should I put the plant in store bought dead long
>fibered sphagnum and the live stuff on top? Can collected
>dead long fibered sphagnum be used from a bog (the
>stuff beneath the live tips)?
Several years ago the only source of information I had was Slack's book
("Insect-eating plants and how to grow them" - which I kept checked out from
the library for about a year straight!) and he seemed to recommend only
long-fiber sphagnum (at least that's how I understood it - I think the
British speak a different kind of english ;-) ). So I grew everything in
dead long-fiber sphagnum (VFT, D. capensis, S. purpurea venosa, and
Darlingtonia) which was all I could find, sold in small (expensive) packages
at the garden center for use by fishermen (to keep worms "fat and sassy"
according to the package). Now that I think about it, that's the only time
I've ever had any success growing Darlingtonia. I guess the others did
okay, too, but peat moss and silica sand is much cheaper and seems to work
as well or better for the others.
John Green
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - where it actually rained last night!
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