hi everybody welcome back to part two of how to build a portable carnivorous bog we have moved outside to do the next step and before we get started I just wanted to show you a few things that may be able to go in the bog or are going to go in the bog so these just a few Syrian cities I have kicking around this is a carrot picture plant there is our purpurea there are numerous types of temperate sundews in here these are seedlings that I have so there is rotunda folia intermedia and I believe this one I forget the Latin name but is called the English Sun do anyways these ones are all able to survive the cold and of course the venus flytraps over there this is a Cobra Lily I may or may not try that in the carnivorous bog they are quite hard to grow they takes very special care and I can't guarantee I could provide that in the bog so I'm up in the air about that I am have a good thing going the way it is and I'm not sure I really want to change that up but anyways now moving on to the next part of the carnivorous bog build okay so a few ingredients we're going to be starting with I have a bag of perlite here that's going to go into the mix I have some Spagna moss here now I've already shown you how to rehydrate this bag de moss so I'm going to throw that in the bowl of water there so that while we are talking it's going to start hydrating up and I have a whole bunch of pre-moistened peat moss here so I've made 10 gallons of it I just threw a bunch in some 5-gallon buckets and threw the hose in it earlier today peat moss is very hard to work with when it's dry and so very hard to rehydrate when it's dry so it takes a lot of time so by throwing a the hose in them the five-gallon bucket full of peat moss it just gave me a good head start on getting that hydrated you don't want to plant any plants in a bog when the peat moss is bone-dry because I'll actually suck the moisture out of the roots and it's as they say takes hours and hours to rehydrate so in the meantime your plants get quite stressed a bunch of peat moss here and I'm going to empty in a lot of this bag I want more perlite down deeper than I do on the surface our lights going to keep the deeper areas that could become anaerobic or low oxygen zones is going to keep that so it has a bit more oxygen in it so give that a good mix up there definitely a good thing I made them too full five gallon buckets of peat moss because it looks like we're definitely going to need it give that a mix up there and I'm going to go get the other five-gallon pail of peat moss I'll be right back okay so I just added a second five liter of peat moss to the bog it's a good thing I have a backup reserve of peat moss too because it looks like it's going to need it so we're going to add some more perlite to the top of this there we go and we're going to give that a good mix in and as you can see the stuff I mixed up a few hours ago still isn't actually um completely waterlogged yet it is still soaking up the moisture as it goes so it's a good thing I gave it a couple hours head start because it is I'm still very very dry and I'm going to add this is my reserve of peat moss that I use for all my carnivorous plants sort of potting from day to day because I know that it takes a lot to moisten the peat moss that I always keep about five gallons pre-moistened already now it's going to take a lot more time to get it moist so I'm probably going to have to come back I'm afraid to bring the camera back in here I think what I am going to do now using this sort of area here before we dig in any plants I'm going to install my little pond look so so hopefully when it's all packed in there that's going to sit in there nice and tight and it's not going to want to float up like it is now I think it's just because um the peat moss has so much water in it itself right now that it um wants to float another thing we all want to do for the top layer is we're going to want to add some Spagna moss so that's beg no moss there and it's just going to be mixed in the top layer just like so maybe want to spread that out evenly and then I'm going to need one more top dressing of peat moss for the top of it here so that'll sort of get buried under that a little bit and this is all going to pack down to there's the beginning is of a bog now I'm going to go around and find some I think I'm going to tear it with some rocks to put a few different levels in there so I'm going to go collect some rocks one important thing to realize when you're collecting rocks is to make sure that they are inert we don't want any rocks that are made out of calcium or lime or anything it's going to leach into the water we want to make sure that these rocks have zero leaching abilities so I'm going to go find myself some rocks now alright so we're going to leave it at that for today the peat moss is just too dry still to work with it needs to soak up some water so we'll plant the bog up in part three of how to build a 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