Venus Fly Trap Care Articles

Venus Flytrap soil and potting techniques

Can’t find the proper ingredients to mix your own soil? Buy Venus flytrap potting soil or New Zealand Long Fiber Sphagnum. It is very important to use nutrient-poor soil to grow Venus Flytraps.  Regular potting soil or enriched soil will burn the roots and kill your Venus flytrap very quickly.  We do not recommend fertilizing Venus flytraps.  The fertilizer can burn the roots and likely kill the plant. Some expert growers use extremely diluted fertilizer. In most cases, fertilizer is applied only to the leaves of the...