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Hi everyone! My names Becca and I'm new to the community and wanted to introduce myself. I live in south GA and have multiple VFT plants and some pitcher plants as well. I love my babies and am looking to repot them to give them a bigger better home and have run into a few walls. I bought them last year at lowes and it came with the potting mix and sphagnum in the kit. They have flourished and then made it through their dormancy and now are back and bigger and more beautiful than ever, but are outgrowing their homes. Well, now that I'm trying to find my own perlite and peat moss.. I CANT FIND ANY that is devoid of all the miracle grow fertilizers and added minerals and nutrients! I have scoured every store and the Internet.. And I don't want to kill my babies! So here I am .. I'm hoping to get some good advice from you folks! And share my adventure with you..

Well I guess I should have read more .. I just read I should try a nursery.. Lol well so that's what I will do.

Hi and welcome, Becca!

If you have to go to Lowes, you can try something like this for peat : http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?zip ... l=nofollow

^This is available for pickup here at my store location (which I just noticed is in the link). Might be worth looking into. Another smaller big box store "Ace" if you have one, definitely ships to store. While I haven't myself gone for peat, I have ordered untreated perlite and quartz sand using their ship to store option and was very satisfied. Yes, a nursery will probably be a great stop, also.

Best of luck!

Welcome to FlytrapCare Rebecca!

Hi Becca, welcome to FTC

i live close too. north tho. just go to a pikes nursery and buy their peat moss. It has nothing in it and their perlite doesnt either.

Welcome, Becca! Fellow Georgian here(Augusta). I usually buy my perlite online on eBay, it's rather cheap since I don't use much. From Lowe's there's that Premier Peat Moss brand, although I haven't tried it yet(too big of a bag and I live in an apartment )

ugh... just go to pikes and buy their brand, its pricey but its very trustable. I have used the brand for around 4-5 years.

Hi, Becca. And welcome. You should be able to buy silica sand at local construction supplies or what to call it. Not sure about perlite though.

Hey, n welcome to the south.lol I use pure long fiber sphagnum moss. U can get it at Lowe's. It tends to work better for me than 50/50 mix of peat and perlite. It's also less messy and doesn't compact as bas