Question
Hello Jeff/Jacob Im sorry about the really long and confusing questions last time. This time I have a few shorter ones. First my conditions for my plants. I live in porland oregon. I give my plants tap water. All of them get a half an hour or more direct light than required. Indoor plants are mostly on southeast window a couple on east window. Outdoor ones outside. All use your soil mixes. These questions are about plants that need peat moss mostly as soil, which in my collection I think are cape sundew, lance leaf sundew, venus fly trap, judith hindle saracenia, and pingula  moctezumae. I think have spagnham moss growing on some of these plants because they don't look like oregon moss and even my inside plants have it. My pingula and cape sundew have none. My venus fly trap has a third covered by it, the rest have a few patches. So do I have to repot them yearly and can you pluck some of the moss and put it on more plants to make more. I know you have to repot if they are sick or too big and I read that spagnum moss needs peatmoss (basically dead sphagnum moss).

Answer
Hi Shikhar,

The moss growing on your plants isn't sphagnum.  It's a common moss that forms on the top of peat moss with age.  Sphagnum can grow if it's spores are present, but it is always big and chunky, never fine.  This moss isn't a problem unless it gets really thick on a small plant.

Yearly repotting is a very good idea with all of those plants.  If you have Venus flytraps and the Judith Hindle in larger pots, they can go two seasons before repotting.


Good Growing!

Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
http://www.cobraplant.com