My first time trying to post. Sorry Oh! My bad. It should have been hoya hindu rope. I did this just before bed. It came to me in the middle of the night. I would like plants like sundew, pitcher plant, venus fly trap. Does this help? I did edit it the post the next morning.

The Bayer 3-in-1 stuff or the Bayer tree and shrub defense stuff, the common stuff from a big box store. The 3-in-1 stuff has the advantage of the fungicide also preventing the Rust infection some Aloes get in wet weather. Not that we've had much wet weather for five years, but last winter my Aloe speciosa had quite an infection. After treatment the new foliage has been flawless. However it should be noted after application to cut off or cover the flowers for two or three years so systemic-tainted nectar/pollen doesn't kill bees. Here there are lots of bees--carpenter, bumble, honey and California native solitary, so I've been cutting off the flowers on the plicatilis since treating it. Plicatilis the attraction isn't really the flowers anyway. I'm unsure how long the systemic stays in the plant, but because of the large bee population have a preference not to chance it. My strategy has become to either buy seed-grown small aloes, less likely to be infected, or buy them very small and immediately treat with systemic; by the time small seedlings are large enough to bloom the systemic should not be in the flower pollen/nectar.

Thanks for the photo. Never have seen one of these before. ( I am also in the Bay Area. ),,,,,,flower looks almost yellow in the photo. Lots of deep orange aloe flowers growing in my neighborhood--I have a few (,Aloe Arborescens) in bloom now.

Many people here build their own soil mix. The most strongly advocated here seams to be 5:1:1 mix. or its cactus brother the gritty mix. If these are of interest just use the search bar on top of this page. At the very least you'll need a good quality cactus mix to which you want to add extra perlite and or gritty material such as crushed granite. You want a fast draining mix. You might also consider using a unglazed terracotta pot. If outside for the summer, you'll want to protect it from the rain to better control the watering.