sphagnum

So theoretically, given the right soil, one could potentially turn a persistently wet part of their yard into a bog by amending copious amounts of peat and planting a thick top dressing of sphagnum. Right? Or am I (probably) missing something.

I have a large Enfant Terrible in an eight inch pot. It's completely colonized the pot since spring '14 and I was hoping it would flower but it hasn't yet. The potting media is a blend of long fiber sphagnum, perlite, and orchid bark. The pot is normally in my grow chamber 6" away from two t5...

Where do you guys get the peat moss, perlite, sphagnum moss, or sand that you use for your plants? I don’t want to end up buying the wrong stuff on accident.

Up for grabs are five (5) sandwich bags stuffed with live sphagnum moss. The moss is freshly collected and free to the first five (5) members to post and pm me. All I ask is $6 for shipping sent to my paypal. Good luck! :-O Edit: This particular species is native to Michigan and therefore...

I noticed this single strand of moss was growing extremely tall in my Ventricosa's pot.

I will be re-potting my Nepenthes soon because most of them are showing high pH stress from back before I got my water pH under control by using RO water and additional treatment with hydroponic pH-down solution. Is there any disadvantage (besides cost) to just growing everything in long-fibered...

I recently bought Malleola seidenfadenia from a seller on eBay. The plant isn't doing well. The seller told me the condition of the plant is the result of shipping. I suspect the seller didn't send a healthy and well cultured plant. Anyway, the plant is alive but has only two leaves. It's been...

Heres my Nepenthes Ventricosa after 3 weeks in my care :) I just bought some Sphagnum Moss off Ebay, so thats one of the main new things. I actually need some help with the moss. It was harvested off of the sellers land, and it came with a boatload of other vegetation including dead leaves, dead...

I recently made a trade with RSS and he sent me some Live Sphagnum Moss as padding for the plants I received. I don't have a place for the Live Sphagnum Moss so it's up for grabs, just cover shipping which should be about 5 bucks. It's a sandwich bag full. First to post up AND pm me gets it.

This will be a thread mostly consisting of my carnivorous plants, but also some other random plant photos from time to time. To start, these are some pictures of the plants that I grow indoors in my basement. I don't have any current photos of plants that I have outside on the deck. Since I...

The time has come when I need to begin selling some stuff. I'm at a loss with Sphagnum because I don't want to remove it from the culture and force it to "start over" but I want it to ship well. Is there a method for shipping a Sphagnum culture (contained + live Sphagnum in it)? Is it possible...

Due to the generous nature of many of the TF members and with summer almost over its about the right time for some giveaways. So what are most people looking for? Keep in mind everything I'm growing is currently growing in 65-75 temps, maybe a little higher or lower. Utricularia...

i have two trays of live sphagnum moss. I've been giving them distilled water. can i give them regular water that's not suitable for carnivorous plants?

time to trim the fat off my sarracenia collection third up is some sphagnum moss and i will include this oreo looking sarracenia free of charge! (as i couldn't 100% confirm it's identity) :) post up with a number 1-20. winner to pay shipping. enjoy! winner to be selected next week

I'm sure lots of us are at university right now, and still growing some very nice plants. I just moved in, so I was wondering if you could share some of your setups. In particular where do you keep soil and repot without getting bits of sphagnum everywhere? Also, does anyone have a terrarium...

I ordered some drosera rotundifolia from a guy on eBay and I suspect they were poached. They came in sphagnum with some typical detritus and even found a baby leech in it. The plants themselves were unkempt and missing parts of their root system. As well as being very stout, and having very...

Hello everyone, I've read a bit about adding Trichoderma to planting medium to aid in root mass and function. I was at a local hydroponics store (here in Canada), and picked up a product called "Piranha" by Advanced Nutrients. It contains certain beneficial fungi, and it's supposed to be...

Hi guys, I wanted to make a nice little living room display piece with a Cephalotus follicularis. Here is what I have accomplished so far. I must say I did not expect it to go down this route. I thought it will definitely crash before getting here. I will hopefully update this thread with...

For a few years now I have been losing neps quite regulary where the roots on examining are very wirey black and dead. And often the dieback extends into the base of the plant. Healthy nep roots I find are black, thicker with micro hairs on them and white caps to the ends. I keep losing plants...

Today a few of the NECPS members took a trip to a few bogs on the Cape. We visited 3 different locations, all somewhat close to each other yet all ecologically different. Site # 1 The entrance road and habitats where we found the plants . A fairly dry site, very unique among New England bog...