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Beautiful looking plants! The coloration and sheer "meaty-ness" of the traps are amazing. I ordered the Jaws (bareroot) you recommended and can't wait to see it! It just shipped today so hopefully have it on Friday, if not Saturday.

Ran out of my 50/50 mix, and wanted to try some LFSM as a media, so found some Mosser Lee I am going to give a shot with these.

Can't wait till they're here! Great looking plants!

bvalente wrote:Beautiful looking plants! The coloration and sheer "meaty-ness" of the traps are amazing. I ordered the Jaws (bareroot) you recommended and can't wait to see it! It just shipped today so hopefully have it on Friday, if not Saturday.

Ran out of my 50/50 mix, and wanted to try some LFSM as a media, so found some Mosser Lee I am going to give a shot with these.

Can't wait till they're here! Great looking plants!

According to many people on the forum Mosser Lee is pretty bad quality so watch out with it :/

SFLguy wrote:

bvalente wrote:Beautiful looking plants! The coloration and sheer "meaty-ness" of the traps are amazing. I ordered the Jaws (bareroot) you recommended and can't wait to see it! It just shipped today so hopefully have it on Friday, if not Saturday.

Ran out of my 50/50 mix, and wanted to try some LFSM as a media, so found some Mosser Lee I am going to give a shot with these.

Can't wait till they're here! Great looking plants!

According to many people on the forum Mosser Lee is pretty bad quality so watch out with it :/

I read that as well, for my first attempt with pure LFSM it was all my local nursery had and Lowe's was a bit out of my gas tank range at the time So for a decent LFSM, figured I would give it a try.

bvalente wrote:
I read that as well, for my first attempt with pure LFSM it was all my local nursery had and Lowe's was a bit out of my gas tank range at the time So for a decent LFSM, figured I would give it a try.

Well if that's what you got, then why not but if you change your mind and have a home depot near by, they usually have some orchid moss (Chilean LFSM)

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dmagnan wrote:

Matt wrote:Same goes for several flytraps that grew larger than I've ever seen them before when I shifted all of my plants from growing in peat/perlite/sand to New Zealand long fiber sphagnum.

I swear, when I first started on these forums years ago your plants were not as big. I mean, they were always impressive, and more healthy looking than mine, but some of these new pictures are astonishing. BUT you've given up your secret!!! HAHAHA (evil laugh)

So it turns out, it's not so easy to convey a comic supervillain tone in text. That sounded better in my head...

Yes, I've given up the secret! Hopefully more people will try it and have the success we've had

bvalente wrote:Beautiful looking plants! The coloration and sheer "meaty-ness" of the traps are amazing. I ordered the Jaws (bareroot) you recommended and can't wait to see it! It just shipped today so hopefully have it on Friday, if not Saturday.

Ran out of my 50/50 mix, and wanted to try some LFSM as a media, so found some Mosser Lee I am going to give a shot with these.

Can't wait till they're here! Great looking plants!

I hope you enjoy them. Jaws is awesome in my opinion, and one of the best flytraps out there!

As for the Mosser Lee, I'd have to recommend that you try a different LFSM to start with. That stuff is pretty bad...

Awesome pics, Matt!!! Thanks for the backyard tour .

Happy growing into the 2014 season!

What soil mix do you use for those VFTs Matt? AWESOME! Jealous of the greenhouse! I WANT ONE!

tommyr wrote:What soil mix do you use for those VFTs Matt?

Last spring we switch to using pure New Zealand long-fiber sphagnum for all of our plants. The results have been amazing!

tommyr wrote:AWESOME! Jealous of the greenhouse! I WANT ONE!

Thanks I love our greenhouses. They're great. I hope that you're able to get your own someday!

Matt wrote:

tommyr wrote:What soil mix do you use for those VFTs Matt?

Last spring we switch to using pure New Zealand long-fiber sphagnum for all of our plants. The results have been amazing!

tommyr wrote:AWESOME! Jealous of the greenhouse! I WANT ONE!

Thanks I love our greenhouses. They're great. I hope that you're able to get your own someday!

Thanks for the reply! I'll try switching some of mine over to LFSM next spring. I also need to get me one of the DC XLs! Impressive as hell!

Edit: Just ordered a DC XL Matt!

Wow, awesome looking VFT's! A reminder of all the VFT"s I had before!

jht-union wrote:Wow, awesome looking VFT's! A reminder of all the VFT"s I had before!

Thanks Jacobo! Yes, you had quite a nice collection of VFTs at one point! So sad that you had to part with them

Wow that's a lot of happy VFTs! How big can Crimson Sawtooth get? If it gets bigger than 1.5 then I will have to include it in my next order!

Nice to see where all the magic happens, Matt.

Any chance we can get a tour of the tissue culture laboratory?

All the pretties!! Wonderful to see the behind the scenes! Thank you for the photos, Matt.

The Deep Guerrilla Red has a different looking trap, upper right side of pic, no long fingers on top of the trap, maybe showing it's lineage. Those are some lovely plants and I want to work for you, hard work is a blessing.