California Carnivores Professional Grade Peat and Perlite Mix
This mix is ideal for American pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, most Sundews, and bladderworts.
This one-gallon bag is made up of about 1 part perlite to 4 parts professional grade peat moss. We use only the highest quality ingredients with our plants and you can too! Our peat moss is the Sunshine brand, professional-grade, milled Canadian sphagnum peat moss. The professional-grade usually isn't available at retail nurseries and costs about twice as much, but is a much finer quality.
One bag will roughly fill 12 of our 2" pots and is about a gallon.
Mixing Instructions:
Mix all of the peat and perlite together in a large bowl. Be sure and wet it with distilled/rainwater before you begin mixing. This will keep the perlite dust to a minimum which is harmful to breathe in. Keep adding water and mixing until it is very soppy wet. Now you're ready to pot 'em up!
When purchasing your own peat and perlite at another nursery or hardware store, Beware of the MiracleGrow brand! There are added fertilizers that are harmful to carnivores.
Customer Reviews
Nothing much to say except that it's a bag of dirt, but exactly the dirt for my Red Dragon flytrap (son, which I've named Rath Ruby). Love all the work you do and your youtube channel!
For those who don't have a lot of space to keep large quantities of peat and perlite, this is an awesome and convenient solution. It's great to be able to just buy what you need and not have to store a bunch of large bricks of peat and perlite.
The order arrived on time. Would I like about this mix is that I can add either perlite or more fertilizer-free peat to customize it for more picky plants like my Cephalotus follicularis.
Definitely the best CP soil I've ever bought.
California Carnivorous never disappointed me.
It is hard to tell if my plant are doing good because it's their dormancy. I believe my plants are doing good. Can't wait to see them thrive in new/fresh soil.
