What Works Better, Fish Flakes or Fertilizer? - Fertilizing Carnivorous Plants

hey guys welcome back to the channel in today's video we will be checking up on this plant which we fit fish flakes and liquid fertilizers to see which of us to actually help the plants grow better so stick around so about a week ago we actually fed our trusted us and Nathanial fish flakes and liquid fertilizers and the reason why we did this was so that we could compare how these fish flakes and fertilizers obviously affect the plants which are receiving those nutrients if you don't know what a dresser is this is a drawstring but it is essentially a canal response it's also called the Sanju and it catches insects and different bugs but you can also supplement its growth with some very done into the fertilizers and also obviously fish flakes or in other cases blood worms or either small insects that you can get from the shops so as I said we fertilize two different plants and we want to see how those fertilizers actually affects the growth of the plant and the reason why we chose these drosera is something because they are the biggest ones we have right now I don't all of our draw so that we have besides the two turist rostra which are doing their own thing these are the biggest plants that we have and obviously the only ones that we could probably feed and kind of quantify their growth because all the other guys are the tree seedlings and even with the microscope the microscopy with the magnifying glass you guys are not gonna be able to see this evening is up close because they are literally just that tiny even with my own naked eyes I can barely see them they're just little specks of red and green and some of them are kind of yellow so you can barely see them so that's not really worthwhile but what these bigger plants will be able to see some of their growth in today's video we will also be talking about our dresser at a delay which as you know has gone through a lot they were eaten by cats they were then transported on the whole world then we planted them a penny found those nuts in them so we will be checking up on them you'll fertilize them and we'll give them the last application of neem oil to make sure that there are absolutely no more fungus nuts in their parts and you will also be doing an update on our truster rej because our dresser arre Jane needs to have liquid fertilizers so we will be checking up on them and fertilizing them as well so first off I'll show you guys the dresser a Reacher you guys may remember we have two seedlings here as one and there is the other one I'm not gonna get out the magnifying glass because their growth is literally exactly the same as last week there's literally no difference and then except for this guy here it just has a little tiny bud forming where a new growth where new leaf will start coming out of so there's no reason for me to get the magnifying glass because I'll just be showing you guys the exact same thing as last week there's literally nothing different with these guys we will fertilize these guys a little bit later when we fertilize the other plants as well so yeah as you can see they are completely the same completely normal next up we have the toaster a delay and I hope that you guys can actually see it now it's grown so much since we first started looking after these cars this is probably like a month worth of growth watch out from it looking lot of this guy down here so yeah it has grown quite a bit and as I said we will be spraying this one with some of the neem oil just to make sure we kill off any top of them from this mask that may be remaining let's just do that real quick okay guys and that is all of the the neem oil that we have made together all finished now so that's the last application of neem that we will have this part let me wash my hands real quick okay cool this guy is doing perfectly fine now and we will feed it together I just want to give us some time to get the the neem oil soaked in and we can update you guys on our drosera rotundifolia but before I update you guys on the Rotunda folia I actually want to ask you guys a question if you remember a couple days ago we made our pot for our roster for the new satanica which we are getting 10 C's of in the mail because we actually won them and my question to you guys is this should we actually use a terracotta pot or not the reason why I'm asking you guys this is because I put rocks at the bottom of that pot and there is no sign leaking through I also had one of our subscribers recommend that I use part fabric and I actually messaged some people asking what they think about this and they said it isn't really good idea it's better to use shade cloth but the issue with the shade cloth is that you have to buy them black in meters at a time and it gets quite expensive if you literally want like a couple centimeters so it's kind of you know useless to do that so I want to know what you guys think do you guys think I should go ahead and just get the terracotta pots and then use that anyway even though I don't like the terra cotta pots or do you guys think that I should keep the plastic pots and see how it goes with that even though the soil falls out or do you think I should just put some sphagnum Moss at the bottom of the plastic pots to try to keep it in even though this wagon must make keep in extra water please let me know what you guys think because I you know I don't see know what to do obviously I want the plants to do well but obviously as I said I don't like the terra cotta pots either but if you guys think that I should get the terra cotta pots let me know I mean I'll obviously I'll do that so let's go back to looking at the truss rod rotundifolia and here we go guys here is our part tricera rotundifolia this is the one that we've fed with fish cakes you can see the fish cakes they're austell and some of the traps and this is the one that we fed in liquid first faster and you can tell be fed the first Mouser because there's nothing on the tracks obviously it ate one that the first battles so the very first thing that you guys may be able to tell between the two points is that there is no difference they look almost exactly the same as each other they have the same size there's literally no difference in them and the reason why I asked suggest this is is because it's only been a week right we fed this guy the fish baits and this one in liquid fertilizers but they both made a new leaf raspberry and their and they both have new growth coming out of the center and they literally look about the same size so what does this mean does this mean that the liquid fertilizers better doesn't mean that the fish flakes are better and it means that neither one of them are really better we haven't given it enough time to actually determine which one is better I was really hoping that the new developing trap would be a little bit bigger than one of the others seeing as we did fertilize them so we could have some kind of comparable results but as you can tell obviously not so what we will do is that we will feed this guy just one more drop of liquid fertilizer and the same thing with this guy obviously with fish flakes and then you can compare again next week to see any new differences but what I do want to say is this I think that this guy may actually grow bigger quicker and this guy over here will stay the same size but it will just grow slower even though it is also obviously getting first of all so this guy will grow much better than you know these small fast yellow and the reason why I believe this to be true is because this plant is always being fed in liquid fertilizers and this Romina fed fish cakes this means that the fertilizers for this guy is much more readily available to the scope yeah and the reason for this is kind of simple if I had to have a protein shake over here or if I had to have an apple would tribal with my body be able to actually digest and put it into my body quicker now the arms to this is something that not many people actually know if you're having a protein shake or if you are a dresser and you're having a liquid fertilizer all of the nutrients are very easily available they were literally in suspension in the water which means that they're literally floating in the water and as you drinker or consumers it literally goes right down into your body anybody doesn't have to break it down with your teeth chewing on it your body doesn't have to then digest down all of the proteins and all of the carbohydrates into smaller pieces to digest it protein shakes just athlete with fertilizers a much more broken down and easily accessible for your body to actually consume and in this case much easily accessible for the plan to consume but if you're having the fish plates or in this case the Apple your body has to chew it swallow it and anybody still has to break down all of the Apple pieces into smaller pieces and then absorb it so obviously there are both good for you but this is a reason why many people say that you should have a protein shake after exercising because a protein shake will give you the supplements and energy need immediately whereas something like a big steak might take a little bit longer and it's the same thing with the first classes and they give the plant a liquid first Lassa it will very easily and quickly absorbed into the body but if you give it something that the fish breaks it was stated for much longer and it's actually very apparent as you saw the one that had the liquid fertilizers had the traps still open whereas the rostra who have the fish cakes still have the traps slightly closed on the fish station and obviously there are main pieces on the fish cakes are still there and this is just a quick example that something like fertilizer or protein shakes can get absorbed much quicker and easier but if you give your body or add rostra actual food it will take a little bit longer and that's why I suggest that the rostra was the Laza will grow big but quicker than the trustor he got the actual fish page because that one will also grow big but slower and you tell you got something Australian apples already good I much better than African ones and the other thing is that the last ready down I've had my apples in the fridge for like two months now because obviously I was having them every day it was exercising every day Jim but obviously the way that things are at now everything shut down and I mean the fridge was so long but they're still so good and I think this I think they might have a wax on them but obviously I washed it off before I eat it but they're lost along and they're really good so well done Australia so as you can see this is the trap that we cut the fertilizer and there's nothing left behind the traps are completely open again whereas if you look at this guy here you've got the fish bait you can see there's some pieces of fish flakes still remaining and the traps are only opens a spat girl but ensures that this car obviously has to digest his food and takes longer to do then this guy over here anyway and while our finishes apple I will also first ask these plants and they will keep it on a time lapse so we can see what they do okay and here we go we will first fertilize our asura region you might actually be able to see the new growth coming up there if i zoom in enough you guys will see little green spot but I am gonna give this trust raviga a cursed oil soake so we can already make sure the roots get enough nutrients because I'm kind of worried about these guys and they grow quite slowly okay that's pretty good and let's do the other rejoin you don't remember the episode it's so looks so bad it has a gray stuff full of roots yeah sorry guys I can do better tracks over here okay and that's a pretty good soil so for them and now let's do the other leg tears so here is our tiny little baby a delay you guys should be able to see it because it's actually visible now and let's give it just a couple drops you don't wanna do too much don't do too much because it isn't a delay is not a region it is more sensitive to roots and leaf burns from fertilizers and next we will do the actual visible prawns because you know at its time but let's give this guy some fish baits okay so it has this fish cake and I'll give you guys a ten ten minutes Tom laughs which is basically thirty seconds when you guys see if the news that all as usual our docks will move Maxwell anything at all because it was just a baby and there's no movement from the fish bit so see you guys [Music] [Music] okay and then you go down as you can see that not much actually happened because as I've said it's too young and I still need something to actually move and stimulates the leaves so what we're gonna do here is that we're gonna feed two traps we're gonna feed the newest trap and one that looks the best so we will start off with a liquid fertilizer and I'll make sure you guys can see this properly you're gonna get your hand in the way again and let's put one drop on this old leaf yeah and on the newest beef there you go and now for some fish cakes I'm gonna tie make sure that these fish baits are pretty big because obviously the droplets that we're giving are also pretty big so yeah when I try to show that their fish cakes are all so big and there we go guys we have these pants now obviously all fits locked up and what I will do is that I will leave this font over here actually like this is actually fine I will use a pump at this so we can also time-lapse them to see if there is any movement which again I did that but you know might as well try so I'll see you guys in another 10 minutes here we go the plants are all you know fed now I didn't see much movement I think maybe this comment a little bit but yeah I'm not really certain because you can't really tell and so yeah so there we go guys that is it for today's Wednesday update what I might end up doing is that I might actually feed the drawstring reject twice a week now because they are not really growing that quick and I don't want them to die and obviously they need to be first last while they're young so I might end up doing that and these guys if you have any idea what do you think I should do with the Trostle filling pot outside please that we know in the comments I'd really appreciate that hopefully we can get something that is good for the plants I don't really want to have this soil leaking out cuz I hate that more than what it would take to having a terracotta pot so let me know what you guys suggest I do what you guys think I do yeah I hope you guys enjoy this feeding video hopefully next week we can see some good updates in them so if you are subscribed yet remember to take the subscribe button so that you can actually stay up to date with all other videos that we release every single week and if you enjoyed this video find a little bit informative please remember to leave a like it really helps out the channel a lot 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