FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

I just brought home a couple of bags of these and just for the fun of it I looked on the bag for ingredients. Both perlite and the peat bags have fertilizer added. The brand is Miracle Grow, but I thought that at least the Peat and Perlite would be fertilizer free. Maybe some other brands don't include it, but in the meantime, I rinsed each quite a bit with running water and hopefully it will leach the fertilizer out unless they added it with slow release stuff. I couldn't see any of those so, I hope they just added it straight. Anybody have any thoughts on this? Maybe the levels of fertilizer is small enough that it won't be a problem anyhow. I wasn't too keen on flushing out the peat because I wondered if this would upset the acid level of it which I wanted.
Brian

Take solace in the fact that you aren't the first person to do this! If you search the forums for Miracle Gro, you will find lots and lots of posts about it.

Best to just repot the plants as soon as possible.

I should have searched the forum about this but I never thought that it would be a problem. I know that most of the Miracle Grow stuff has fertilizers but didn't think it applied to simple peat and perlite. I decided to just shelf the stuff and ordered some of the Hoffman brand. It cost a lot more including shipping, but I was not able to find anything locally that was fert free. I have been growing carnivorous plants for many years and never looked at the bags since I just assumed that fertilizer wouldn't be there. I always have had success with VFT's and Droseras and now wonder if I was having success in spite of the fertilizer since I always bought the media from Lowes or HD. Another one of life's little mysteries.