Avoid This Type of Pot for Your Carnivorous Plants!

i`m so happy to see those new videos ! and hoping to have subtitles .

Thanks for the video, very clear and slow paced, lots of very good information.

Excellent, glad I watched this video before building my bog container… I have found the water filled tray also stops slugs and snail from getting to the plants

This is great knowledge to have for all Sarracenia enthusiasts. Thank you so much for making and sharing this video.

Is there any solid science behind this? Plenty of highly successful Sarracenia bog gardens don't have drain holes in the bottom. (And in the wild peat bogs are full of bacteria!)

Just ordered from you guys. Excited about my bog garden I'll add to my pond.

I can't wait to order from you guys!!

Thank you, I’m a newbie to carnivorous plants. Trying to learn as much as I can to avoid mistakes. I did not know glass or metal containers were bad for these plants. I also didn’t know that keeping them in planters without holes and just adding water was also not a good thing. Thanks for this info

Such good advice! I was always taught never to put plants in pots with no drain holes and I have followed this with my carnivorous plants so I am pleased to hear I did the right thing. I use square plastic pots in an oblong tray to reduce algae problems. Looking forward to exploring your channel more over the coming weeks!

that´s why you drill holes 5 cm below the rim so there is overflow of water if needed

I was at feed store in Linnton last summer and found a long garden planter like that with two sarracenia in it along with an enormous darlingtonia. I normally don't repot plants this time of year but I noticed an awful lot of bugs on the surface after a few days and caught a whiff of the soil...it was not pleasant. Thankfully the darlingtonia survived after I repotted them.

So how deep should the water level be on bog pots? I have a few bogs that I made and only 1 of them seems to have made it through the winter (most of the plants that made it are sarracenia, though some of them died as well). I should have protected them better, but didn't and was expecting some death. However, I wasn't expecting around 3/4 to have died with the anti-fungal that I used, pesticide, etc. (I made sure everything I used was carnivorous plant safe). The only thing I can think of (given how the ones that died ended up being mushy) was that they were too wet. 2 things come to mind that would have caused them to rot. One being that I may not have had enough chunky material in the mix for better aeration and drainage. 2nd, and what I believe probably was the issue, is that I kept the water level about 3/4 the way up the bog pots (one big is around 2 feet deep, the others around a foot deep give or take a few inches). All of them I kept the water level fairly high thinking that the extra depth would require higher water levels. I also usually just filled the water trays and did very little top watering. So, what is the max recommended height up the bog pots that one should have the water level? I know a lot of places say like 2" or something but if the pot is 2ft tall, the top section of the soil is almost completely dry if left sitting in 2" of water.

Does anyone know if the terracotta pots are ok if they are nesting pots? I just bought one but I am worried that the clay might have too high of a mineral content for my Sarrasenia.

What about the self watering pots of Lechuza? They have a safety hole that prevents more water than it should to stay inside. They worked perfectly for my wild strawberries until I moved them to a much larger pot after they outgrew them

Hey Jeff, I really love your videos. I live in a really windy place during the summer, would a Sarracenia just not do well here? Won't the pitchers just break?

For your extreme green what two species of flava and oreophila did you use

I use long sphagnum moss only at the base of the pot as drainage for my venus fly trap. The reason is because it prevents the peat moss, silica sand, and perlite from draining out of the pot.

thanks friend

There are many ways to grow these plants! I use a beer mug filled half-way with peat moss and ground cover bark!

Do terracotta pots leach minerals? I have mine in a terra cotta pot, but I keep it moist. But thinking maybe I should change it.