• Nimrod@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Not true. VFTs prefer nutrient poor soil. In fact, the main reason owners of these plants fail to keep them alive is not watering them with pure enough water. You’re supposed to use water with a TDS below 100ppm. Rain water or RO water preferred.

    The reason these plants can survive in such low nutrient soils is because they evolved a different mechanism for obtaining nutrients.

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        8 months ago

        Even better is aquarium water!

        Obviously not if they can’t handle the nutrients, like Venus fly traps