- Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:00 am
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I picked up this moss from OSH. Is it okay to use for carnivorous plants?
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mitch wrote:no do not use this!Isn't it just moss? Or does it have some sort of additives that make it unsuitable?
Steve_D wrote:Some types of sheet moss or "green moss" are reportedly poisonous to some or most carnivorous plants, even if they have no additives at all. They are generally considered not suitable for use in carnivorous plant growing mediums.Curious now, what do you think this moss is that I have in my VFT pot? It just showed up on its own, and is in almost all my plant pots (not just my CPs).
Ronnie wrote:On the picture tc3driver put up it says sphagnum tree moss?There is no such thing as "sphagnum tree moss." That is probably a mistake. This may be a moss that grows on trees, but is very probably not sphagnum moss. I wouldn't use it.
Sounds like sphagnum to me?
emmalish wrote:Curious now, what do you think this moss is that I have in my VFT pot?That looks like a carpet moss. There are at least hundreds of species of carpet moss. They are pretty, but they can choke small seedlings to death, and form a dense, water-sucking mat at the top layer of the growing medium, growing so well that other plants, unless they are much deeper rooted, may suffer.
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