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I bought some amazingly healthy Holland Red Venus fly traps from Member Bigpurp57. I got a perfect 10 inch pot for it today. its like a rubbery plastic. its very dense and almost a half inch think. it was black when i bought it so i spray painted it a gloss white. Its drying now so ill plant them tomorrow. I just have to drill some holes in it and it will be good to go. i already mixed up some medium. i did like 30% perlite 20% silica sand and the rest was peat moss. I washed it out as best i could. all i have to do now is pot it.

Let me know if i should add more sand

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Everything looks good!Just make sure you have enough dirt to fill it to the top.

I know. I can just mix up some more

The heavy rain is currently helping filter my mix

I would add 30% silica sand and 20% perlite, everything looks good though. Make sure you keep the towels wet until you plant those plants.

OK i planted the traps today. I think it turned out well.
I put all my mix in a old pillow case and because my rain barrel water reads 7 ppm on my meter i pored about 6 gallons into a large 15 gallon bucket and dunked the pillow case into it. i make sure to really get the water into the medium. when i was done i rang out some of the water into a cup and the tds read 5 ppm. i figured that was good enough
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Looks good!

Matt wrote:Looks good!

Thanks Matt. I really love the colors on these plants. i really hope they grow good for me. Iv been told they are more sensitive to being to wet

They look planted too deep. Good looking VFTs anyway.

IHaveNoIdea wrote:They look planted too deep. Good looking VFTs anyway.

Any higher and the rhizome would be showing. I was more worried they were to shallow

I always let the rhizome half out and then cover it with soil. They grow well, don't rot, just no issues at all. And it looks better.

Awesome looking pot. I also have a large communitt pot that I put all my different reds in