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We offer a wide variety of substrates to choose from, including potting mixes, aquarium gravel, and sand. Whether you’re growing indoors or outdoors, in a pot or in the ground, we have the substrate you need to help your carnivorous plants thrive.
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Diflora has tested a substrate that optimizes Pinguicula’s growth, composed of 30% tuff, 20% kanuma, 20% peat, and 30% vermiculite.
Seramis is an ideal substrate for various carnivorous plants. The high porosity maintains perfect moisture and supports various fertilizers.
Pine bark in substrates is very useful for aerating the substrate; it is used for growing Nepenthes, Brocchinia and Catopsis.
Silica sand is a substrate used in mixes with other substrates, for the cultivation of Pinguiculae, tuberous and petiolate sundews and others.
Red volcanic lapillus (3-5mm), porous rock for carnivorous plants. Not inert; suitable for species tolerating soil salinity. Formed from lower-silica magma.
Basacote (12M): Granular fertilizer, slow release rate, low in macro and microelements content. Suitable for use with certain types of carnivores.
Coconut fiber is light, well-ventilated and oxygenated, has excellent drainage, stable pH, retains moisture, and is environmentally friendly and recyclable.
Substrate for Cephalotus (premium) is studied and tested by Diflora for optimal growth of Cephalotus follicularis. Seramis, pumice, perlite,quartz, peat.
Zeolite is a mineral substrate mainly used for the cultivation of Pinguicula and other plants wich tolerate mineral soils.
Kanuma (2/5 mm): Keeps the soil moist, aerated and more acidic than akadama. Can be used to increase the supply of nutrients.
Basacote (3M): Granular fertilizer, slow release rate, low in macro and microelements content. Suitable for use with certain types of carnivores.
Blonde Sphagnum Peat is the substrate par excellence, used for growing our carnivorous plants, usually mixed 50/50 with perlite.
Blond peat of sphagnum moss and perlite, mixed to 50%. The classic appropriate mix to make many carnivorous plant grow at their best, prepared by our staff.
Kiryuzuna: Japanese zeolite from volcanic gravel. pH 6.5-6.8, ideal for acid-loving plants. Collected, dried, heated, and pulverized.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal growth of Cephalotus follicularis composed of 30% pumice, 30% quartz and 40% peat.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal growth of Drosera, composed of 40% peat, 30% perlite and 30% quartz.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal cultivation of all sundew species growing on mineral soils, composed of 40% peat, 20% quartz, 20% lapilli, and 20% kanuma.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal cultivation of Nepenthes growing on mineral soils. Kanuma, akadama, lapilli and peat.
Pumice (2-4 mm) is a porous rock, suitable for growing carnivorous plants that like a moist but aerated substrate. Pumice it is not an inert.
Ketotsuchi is a versatile Japanese humic/clayey growing medium, essential for bonsai and various plant arrangements like for the aquarium.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal cultivation of Heliamphora. 30% parts pumice, 30% parts perlite, 40% parts peat.
Vermiculite is the ideal substrate for pinguiculae growth. Lightweight, eco-friendly, high porosity, water retention and thermal insulation properties.
Tuff fine size is a mineral substrate used mainly for Pinguicula cultivation, either alone or mixed with other mineral compounds or with peat and agriperlite.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal growth of Pinguicula, composed of 50% pumice, 30% lapilli and 20% peat.
Agriperlite increases soil aeration for carnivorous plants. Mixed with sphagnum peat, it is an inert, expands 20 times and is microbiologically safe.
Natural rooting powder with mycorrhizae enhances root development in herbaceous and semi-woody cuttings. Not a phytosanitary product.
Akadama literally means “Red ball soil” and is a volcanic clay collected at a depth of 3 meters in Japan. Remove organisms and pests.
Substrate studied and tested by Diflora for optimal growth of Nepenthes, composed of 40% tuff, 20% kanuma, 20% peat, and 20% vermiculite.
Heliamphora minor, a carnivorous plant from Venezuelan Tepui, thrives in tropical highland conditions, but adapts well to most crops.
“Dionaea AR Werewolf”: upright clone with dark red color, narrow petiole, and stubby-toothed traps. Wavy and irregular. Striking yellow-orange leaf edge.
Sarracenia leucophylla L18MK x Moorei All Red Diflora Giant has pink hues, the ascidium is colored soft red with broad white fenestrations and purplish cap.
Dionaea muscipula ‘Alien’ is a famous prostrate cultivar with large, curved traps. Unique split teeth in mature plants. Slow-growing, giant variety.
Sarracenia purpurea “Smurf” is a selected purpurea by Araflora with a sometimes deformed, inwardly curled operculum. Loved and loathed.
Dionaea muscipula “Kim Il Sung”: Unique, aggressive form. Striking, distinctive appearance with irregular teeth and wavy forms. A must-have for fans!
Nepenthes rafflesiana is a tropical carnivorous plant: It’s an intermediate/lowland (0-1200 m) pitcher plant from Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Darlingtonia californica Meadowhall Clone x Goliath is a clone between two very interesting Darlingtonia varieties. Compared to the standard Darlingtonia clone form it has a longer tongue and a brighter, redder colouration. The ascidia are young and have a longer peduncle than the standard form. Commonly referred to as the cobra plant because of the distinctively shaped ascidium reminiscent of the famous snake.
Dionaea muscipula Wine Mouth is a very rare erect plant that has “sawtooth” but more importantly develops a dark purple almost black coloration inside the trap.
Pinguicula gypsicola has erect, narrow leaves with backward folded margins in summer, and a narrow rosette of small, noncarnivorous leaves in winter.
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