- Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:47 pm
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I was in the North Carolina mountains last weekend and had to hit the Lowe's store in Boone. While I was there, I decided to cruise through the indoor garden section to check out the Christmas "abominations": dyed poinsettias, succulents goobered in paint and drizzled with glitter, tiny presents hot-glued on cacti. I spotted some Venus flytraps in surprisingly good condition (must have been a fresh shipment) and bought one that showed promise:
I bare-rooted the plant and put it in a taller pot with some real soil: I took a page from ChefDean's playbook: I masked the bottom 1.5 inches (38mm) of the pot and painted the rest white. Now these pots stay much cooler in the summer, and none of the painted part rests in water.
Notice the unusual "soil". It had the consistency of wet, inch-long (25mm) fiberglass. When I unpotted the plant, I found that the top 2/3 was this stuff, the bottom 1/3 was peat moss, and the plant was in a peat plug wrapped in fabric. I'm still not sure what this stuff is. It smells very faintly of cedar. Could it be shredded branches?I bare-rooted the plant and put it in a taller pot with some real soil: I took a page from ChefDean's playbook: I masked the bottom 1.5 inches (38mm) of the pot and painted the rest white. Now these pots stay much cooler in the summer, and none of the painted part rests in water.
Last edited by MikeB on Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:02 am, edited 1 time in total.