Creating a Mini-Bog for Venus Flytraps and Sarracenia

Question: Converting from individual pots in a cat litter pan to a mini-bog in a 2'×1'×1.5' plastic container. Need drain hole height? Soil mix: ½ sphagnum, ½ orchid mix (bark, coarse perlite, pumice) with sphagnum mulch? Other advice?

Answer

Hi Dennis,

Container sounds good. Poke drain holes ½" from bottom.

Use equal parts peat moss and perlite or pumice. Avoid long-fiber sphagnum as main media—flytraps don't thrive in it, it breaks down faster, costs more. Orchid mix may contain fertilizer (harmful). Sphagnum top dressing is good; live sphagnum even better.

Water diligently in heat—without standing water, it dries faster.

Good Growing!
Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
www.cobraplant.com