Carnivorous Plants Carpet Moss

Probably the most insidious and most common moss ceratodon purpureus is called red roof moss.

Carnivorous plants carpet moss.

Nearly all nurseries think they have sphagnum but what they usually have is peat moss or the useless green moss or sheet moss materials. See reviews photos directions phone numbers and more for the best nurseries plants trees in garden grove ca. You can use perlite horticultural sand and sphagnum peat moss to make the soil for sarracenia. A few of them are good for growing carnivorous plants.

Almost all are not immediately evident and will only show up after weeks or months of seemingly healthy growth though some chemicals that are found in certain products may kill your plants very quickly. Some of these you have probably seen growing with sphagnum such as feather moss which is benign and hair cap moss which can be a nuisance. Large carnivorous plant nurseries should have it i know that california carnivores does so stick with them. You do not want it but chances are it is in most of your carnivore pots.

One type of soil mix is 60 of peat moss and 40 of sand. The canadian sphagnum peat moss association cspma and associated organizations and institutions are doing their best to ensure that peat moss is a renewable resource. Not to be confused with green moss long fibered peat or carpet moss all of which can be found in bags calling them peat moss. There are over 8000 other species of true mosses.

There are differences and they usually have negative effects. As with other carnivorous plants sarracenia thrive in acidic soil. As a growing medium for carnivorous or one of the soil ingredients.