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chas51
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I'm assuming that this forum goes beyond vegetables.
Anyone have any experience in growing carnivorous plants? I know that I'm pushing the edge here, but I decided to try to grow two Sarracenia plants. They are native to the SE US, and I'm just out of the "growing area" but I decided to take a chance anyway. The back of my house faces south, and is the hottest part of my property, so I just planted them in the ground, with some peat moss, sand and some "organic" soil from Home Depot. I've been watering them with distilled water, and so far, (about a week) they have been doing good. I was just wondering if anyone has tried to grow them, and what the results were.
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Mynok
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Sarracenia tend to inhabit permanently wet fens, swamps, and grassy plains. These habitats tend to be acidic with soil made up of sand and Sphagnum moss. Frequently, the soil will be poor in nutrients; often continuously washed clean by moving water. The plants gain their advantage from their ability to extract nutrients from insect prey in this mineral-poor environment. The plants prefer strong, direct sunlight with no shade.
They'll do best in a boggy environment, like most carnivorous plants do.
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WadeVC
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Other than an occassional Venus Fly Trap, I can't really say that I have any experience with this, but I did find an excellent website you may want to check out:
Carnivorous Plants
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greenglass
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I,m sure carnivorous plants won't do well in soil with nitrogen so test for that in your garden. Try pure sphagnum moss in plastic pots or covered glass containers but keep it shaded so the temperature doesn't go above 90
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ericjacob613
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I grow Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia), Trumpet Plants and Sundews. The Pitcher Plants are in sandy decaying moss in a plastic pot which sits in about an inch or so of water. Keep the soil wet, very wet, and give them all the sun you can. They grow like weeds but die back in winter. Do not feed them. If it gets very cold where you live you might bring them inside for the winter.
When growing mine fill up with so many sow bugs and blowflies they lean over, almost touching the ground.
The blooms look like this:
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