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Hello, just a quick question, do sarracenia like soil full of organic matter such as fungul matter? If so, how do I increase the organic matter in the soil without buying commercial soil; will adding small fruits into the soil to decompose and grow mushroom spores help?

enderagent89 wrote:Hello, just a quick question, do sarracenia like soil full of organic matter such as fungul matter? If so, how do I increase the organic matter in the soil without buying commercial soil; will adding small fruits into the soil to decompose and grow mushroom spores help?

I would suggest a peat/sand mixture. No fungus is going to like the acidic peat anyway

You are going to run into more problems than benefits by trying to do this.

The regular mix of peat/perlite or addition of sphagnum moss will be best for growing large healthy sarracenia, and the addition of light fertilization (some people toss a few osmocote pellets into the pots) or just feeding the pitchers will be plenty to give them good growth. Also if you want to add more organic matter but not peat for whatever reason, pine bark also works relatively well in the mix.

Even if you wanted to do this, I believe its better to fully compost things instead of just burying food in pots, although most compost is probably too high in nutrients anyways, which is why no one really does anything like this.

I use peat and coarse sand mixture, they seem to love it!