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QUESTION:Are these Sarracenia salvageable? I'm not exactly sure if it was snails, slugs or caterpillars but it completely ate the crown and bore into the rhizome creating a little "den". If I clean t ...

Jacob here with Sarracenia Northwest. I have a glass of water here. Using a TDS meter like this, I can quickly assess the mineral concentration of this water, and this water is 14 parts per million.

QUESTION:I recently purchased 6 gallons of peat/perlite, and I was wondering if the perlite was a horticultural grade perlite that was rinsed in RO water to leach out any fluoride. Thanks (Submitted ...

QUESTION: I have two pitcher plants a friend just gave me. She felt they weren’t doing well in her care. I know next to nothing about carnivorous plants but, luckily, found your website yester ...

QUESTION:My Venus flytraps and Sarracenia died over winter!! I put them in the garage for dormancy where it's around 40°F (4°C). I live in USDA Zone 5B. My father told me that I did not ...

QUESTION:Hello, I recently order 2 gallons of “live sphagnum moss” from a private seller in Washington state. The seller says the moss is native to the Pacific Northwest and he got it cer ...

QUESTION:Sarracenia purchased last spring and summer I planted in an outdoor bog garden, in fall I covered the entire planter with a foot of leaves. I live in Wisconsin. I uncovered a couple weeks ...

See below for links. By Jacob Farin | Sarracenia Northwest (Carnivorous Plant Specialists Since 1995) TL;DR / Quick Answer: The long-held belief that Darlingtonia californica (Cobra Lily) dies beca ...

QUESTION: I have had the plant about 1 month I put it outside on the deck. This gets full sun. Shade the last couple hours of the day. I kept it in the same container it was shipped in and didn’ ...

QUESTION: I received my dormant Drosera filiformis on March 8. I bought the soil for sarracenia and sundew from you. I followed the directions. I put my plant into a 5" plastic pot with holes i ...

QUESTION: I'm in the Portland area and bought this Red Dragon Flytrap at your open house a couple of years ago. It's never really thrived but this year seems more sickly. It gets new growth but t ...

Hi, I’m Jacob Farin, one of the growers here at Sarracenia Northwest. In 2005, we started a free service answering questions from carnivorous plant growers all over the world. Since then, we&r ...