Alien Plant Being Repotted - New Moss Garden Started.

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Okay, there's another Sarracenia that needs to be repotted. It has actually been long overdue. riverflows@riverflows called these plants Alien - I thank RF for the title.

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We have all we need, which is whole moss on the left, perlite in the middle, and minced moss on the right.

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The new larger pot has holes at the bottom already and the whole sphagnum moss has been sitting all winter because I buy this in bulk. It looks like the Spagnum moss has started to grow inside the bag.

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I always buy sphagnum moss, and I have never thought of growing it myself. But since it sat all winter and started its own farm, I'm going to start growing my own sphagnum moss.

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in the bag

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now in a tray to be farmed


So I have my sphagnum farm, my sphagnum moss farm in a tray and I put whole sphagnum moss at the bottom of the new pot because it keeps the holes at the bottom from clogging.

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Then I add perlite to help hold the moisture when things dry out up top. A lot of perlite at the bottom. Sparse toward the surface.

Then we add ground up sphagnum moss and sparse perlite to the new pot up to the desired level.

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This 'new' pot is being used again and so I'm going to line up the markings for north of the old pot and the new pot before moving the plant over.

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Sadly, I am alone in my garden and nobody is here to take a picture of how I lift it out of the old pot. Basically, I put my four fingers of each hand at the top edge, and my fingernails are pressed out against the plastic walls of the planter as I push to the bottom.

Then I squeeze inward and cradle the plant with all eight fingers and lift it over to the new pot.

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Now I want to center the tubular leaves so that they look nice and then I will backfill around the edges of the pot up to the base where the stems come out.

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We now have north facing north and it's back on the shelf with the other adult plants and I'm ready to do the next one. I hope you've enjoyed this view at how to repot a Sarracenia.

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