We're Getting Another Carnivorous Plant? - Drosophyllum lusitanicum

hey guys welcome to the channel in today's video we will be talking about Drosophila Luci Tanika which we actually wanted so let's start the video okay so let me tell you the stories of how I actually won ten dress up for the new satanica seeds so a couple days ago the Instagram page W a carnivores which is Western Australian carnivores they listed a seed giveaway for reaching 1000 followers on Instagram so what they did is that they made four packs of seeds and in each pack there are ten seeds get two away on instagram and two away on Facebook so I'm scrolling through Instagram you know I'm a plant page if you want to go check it out - here is where you can go it's the flat top garden on Instagram and you know I was just scrolling through in all plans and then I noticed this post from W carnivores and they said that they're doing a giveaway and they're going to draw someone you know from the comments whoever comments he had to comment and tag a friend and obviously follow them and lock the picture so you know what I'm not gonna I'm not even a try and always a path for these giveaways and you know I never won so I scroll past it and then I was like you know what who cares you know let me just try it anyway so I went back up and I tapped in the Kogi drawers who is a friend of mine on Instagram and then I was the last comment and that was like a day or so before they drew all the names for Instagram so the next the next day at about 11 o'clock at night I get an Instagram message from W carnivores he won the season hazard I won something for the first time ever I was so surprised and I'm so obviously very very happy and the issue is that I've never grown satanic that before I've only met up on them and heard about them up never you know done the research to look after them so obviously we won those ten seeds and he's gonna be personal to us tomorrow so we'll get them sometime this week or early next week and what I want to do is I want to get their pot ready because I don't want to get them and not have anywhere to put them so in this video we will be talking about the pots and the soil and basically the general care and starting you know to grow some drosphila loser tanika with you guys it's also known as the dewy pan or the Portuguese drosera you see my hats Portugal and I'm Portuguese so back home I guess not that I was ready that there but anyway let's start the video so I've started doing some research online I went on to Kona response talk and I went and looks at my books they say that we nearly used a terracotta pot and very airy free draining soil because these plants do not like to stay moist and they also do not like root disturbances but I have one issue here and that issue is that I really don't like terracotta pots so what I did is that I sent out a message for help and got my cat helper to deliver the message a couple of minutes later and I got a reply saying okay they'll help me out essentially what I asked them was this do I have to use a terracotta pot and what soil recipe do you recommend because everyone has different recommendations what he said is that yeah you can use a plastic pot but you need to make sure that you don't over watch them because the terracotta pots actually help to keep the soil drier whereas the plastic pots obviously hold in more plastic so I thought to myself that's fine I will just make sure I water them even less than recommended and make extra sure that there's less peat because Pete holds water and we want less water so I'm s so there's less pee in the mix and I was also recommended to use a mixture of perlite sand and peat and this mixture is a ratio of 1 is to 1 is to 1/4 as I said it's a very very little Pete and the last thing is that I usually use a layer of sphagnum Moss at the bottom of the pots to keep all the soil in but if we use Fagin Moss this will increase water attention within the pot and that's not what we want so what we're gonna do is that we're gonna go out to the Home Depot get it up get a suitable size pots and then put some rocks in the bottom and fill up this pot with the correct medium many cigars it wasn't just that easier I had to do more research on what size pots they want because as I said if these guys don't like new disturbances so it's the back I can just pop them you know in a small pots and then once they've grown up a little bit smooth them into bigger pots that we're doing with all our other dresser oh we actually have to plant these guys in their final adult sized pot and that's quite an issue because as I've said I've never grown them before and I have no idea how big they get and I have no idea what size pots that they really would like to have so I did some more googling again and what I found out from this is that they prefer terracotta pots between the size of 16 centimeters to 30 centimeters so that's quite a big range and again I was unsure what size to get because I'm a person who really likes details and accurate information and measurements I'm not someone who really works on some of this some of that between this so once again I had to send out another letter for help but you see this time I didn't really get a reply they just said I've been asked what is fine but between 16 to 30 centimetres and how's that that's what Google said but I guess we'll just have to think about it ourselves one thing that I would really like to have in the future is a big pot with a colony of plans of each different species this is something that are ready wish to have will be so nice to have a really big healthy colony of all the different types of species in the world so currently we have our small round pots which we have all of our savings in it's the cat and we have a really tall pot for our tubers and now they're really tall pots are excellent for the plants they have ReadyTalk pots obviously and that means that they can grow they're very long rows which is really good eye response but I'm getting 10 seeds and I don't think I can fit 10 outsized recipe limbs inside of just the tall pot so I had to start thinking about the future and the big colony size pots that we will eventually get so this caused me a little bit of stress because I don't lack around pots having the round pots for all of the seedlings is okay because I can kind of say it's just for now and I will you know sell these pots with plants inside of them to other people eventually and that's why I've only got those big square ones with our lack square pots because you know they fit together nicely and they're organized but you don't get big square pots it's actually very difficult to find them and I looked at the catalog of the pot suppliers here in Australia we have tons and tons of different pots but they don't have any big square ones so unfortunately just have to suck it up and get a round pot so after I decided to do that it was actually time to go out and get a pot and make sure that I got the right measurements as well so one of the important things that I wanted to ensure is that the particles sits in a trailer many people say that you should topwater it but the people that asked both you said it's fun to use the tray method and you know I'd rather use a train method because I don't like washing from the top because this will cause the swell to splash everywhere and with young little seedlings that's extra critical to make sure that you don't destroy them while they're young so we got this pot and I measured it out and as you can see it's about 17 and a half centimeters which is just about seven inches so the base of our parts has to be at least 17 centimeters so that it can fit inside of this train which actually comes from some mushrooms and now as I said you need the base to be around 17 centimeters and the top 16 to 30 centimeters in diameter and now as I said that's not a very accurate measurement but we know how small we want the base of the pot to be but as I said I had to suck it up and we went out to get this round pot and this is what I came back with the base of this pot is just wide enough to fit inside of our train well you guys can see that but it's at 17 centimeters which is just the length of our train and the top of the pot is about 19 and 1/2 centimeters so these are the parts that we will be using for all our colonies as you can see it's quite long let me actually I'll get you the tube pots and can see the hearts so here is our colony pots and here are our tube pots as you can see they are literally the exact same heart and this means that if you have a single point in here the roots are the right length and the adequate length to reach the bottom here and the same thing here these pots are nice and deep and it means that all the roots can reach down to the bottom of the pot and have a lot of room to grow but as I said because this one is obviously much wider than the square part we can have many more parts nion have a nice big colony so eventually when we have lots of venus flytraps and not the colony of different rasa Shastra capensis big sarracenias darlingtonia nice big Nepenthes they were all be using this one size pot which is basically the biggest size that you need for your plants obviously you can get a bigger pot it's your choice but this is like the right size for mature plants of almost all of the different cannabis plants Genesis got this part and now it's time to put some rocks in the bottom to hold all the soil in and we also need to mix up our soil because obviously I haven't done that either and lucky for us down here at the end of our garden we have a nice big patch of rocks that are perfect for this part so what I'm doing is I'm collecting only these white rocks because I know that these ones are not full of minerals about these dark ones or these red ones which are covered in that clay stuff if you wash out these white ones there they stay care and I'm pretty sure that they don't reach any minerals but I'm sure you guys would know more about that than me but anyway if we need to put rocks at the bottom and these are the same kind of rocks that I'll be able to buy from the shops anyway so let's start collecting those this is the amount of products that we will need I will size we don't need rocks at the bottom and then when I take too much but now I'm gonna go bring fees under the water and shake them and get all of the dust and whatever's on them off of them [Music] [Music] okay so there we go these are all of our rocks now cleaned okay so what we've gotcha is our mixing bucket our sand to be washed together two parts of perlite to the fun part and I will go get Pete later so as I said we needed to be in the ratio of 1 is to 1 is to 1/4 or 4 to 4 is to 1 which is also the same as 2 is to 2 is to 1/2 so we have 2 parts of per lap we're gonna take two parts of sand and we'll get half a pot of peat and we'll mix it all together so let's start doing that [Music] [Music] this is why it is important but you have something at the bottom of your party to prevent the sand from flying up because this is what will happen dangar so we had exactly two pots remaining which is obviously great for us so we've used up all of this sand and I did buy silica sand quite a while back up or two bags so if we need more we have some but let me go get half a parts of peat so here's half a pot of peat let's put it in and mix it all together so now the reason why we have the peat at all is simply just to help the roots get into something and to have some kind of water absorption I'll also be absolutely no water in there ever and if we will be always dry so that's what we have that [Music] [Music] [Music] so there we go guys we have our soil all mixed up it looks very well draining which is perfect for these guys so next what we need to do is we need a space out of rocks and put the soil in okay and here we go guys yeah we have a pot and what I want to do is I want to push like I said all the stones to the side and then put some soil in the middle so that we can really just keep the stones to the sides and keep them on the holes and you don't need him in the middle as I said let's just make this but actually I'm just going to do this kind of like one by one just just to cover up the holes you know just to make sure the holes are entirely covered up [Music] okay so now the holes are basically covered we know that the gaps are like basically properly covered and I will put some sand in and then just shove the rest over so I'm just putting a little bit in the middle so it helps to push the stones to the sides okay so now we have our stones in let's continue filling it up [Music] you know this is one of the most annoying things when you have a pot and it's almost full I think people's like oftentimes I just give up at this point that they say that's good enough but if you guys know me you know that I hate I really hate it to win the pots are not full so what I'm gonna go do is I want to put this pots inside of here just like this the water it's to see I'm gonna water to see how well the water actually runs out of this okay it kind of has to be inside of there but I can just forgot about that and you will let's see how it runs out be good training considering I put a little bit in let me mix up a little bit I am gonna go mix up some more soil to cover up the rest of this pot I'll see you guys after that okay and there we go guys our pot is now full to the top and you can see the watch at the bottom is that really ready dirty I'm not sure why I think that's cuz of the peat but yeah anyway this pot is ready for our seeds that you will get so what I'm gonna do is gonna leave it outside so it can suck up the water and get nice and moist for the seeds and I'm gonna go inside and talk more about the species okay y'all sorry back inside and not let's talk a little bit more about the actual species himself as you can see I got quite dark outside I had to take the sand art and mix it in with noose and put it back in a couple times it was really really annoying because but what happened is that the sign wasn't really mixed well together so when I try to put on top it was dark it was just compacting was not mixed properly so I just had to make some multiple times but anyway let's talk about the species themselves so I'm getting seeds when you get seeds you need a oftentimes scarify the season this means you rabbit against some sandpaper and that allows water to penetrate the seed coat and go into the actual plant so the plant knows that there's water and that it should grow so because we're getting such fresh seeds I'm not really gonna scarify it I'm gonna just cut the end off just a little bit at the end just to you know just how about the ponds people said that does help so what I'll do is put that pond like that outside keep it really nice and moist so the ceilings can grow well and as I've said these plants they don't like staying wet they're actually one of the very few cannabis plants that actually prefer to stay dry so I'm will be watering this plant about once or twice a week I'll just be putting water in a tray at the bottom and letting it soak up and then after that leaving it a completely alone that's actually the reason why we created such a loose and such a free draining soil so that the plants won't stay what's that so that they you know obviously don't rot up and die and these guys hates root disturbances so that's why we need to put them into the final pot immediately they will grow quite big and you know moving them when people say that their roots ready hating disturbed is really nerve-racking cuz you know you don't induce those plants these plants will grow right outside then love lots and lots of sunlight obviously the normal water rain water pistols or reverse osmosis water in the tray at the bottom let it soak up or you can just overhead water a top water it you know I don't really like that cuz you saw with the perlite at first the top and I hate perlite and the way that it does that so hopefully soon we'll get our season we can plant them up together and we'll have another plan get all of those flowers that are outside in the next hope you'll actually see one of those horse fires that was inside the house that I caught and fed to one of our dormant venus flytraps and man i really don't like this fast because they look like a full of diseases so if you found this video and a bit informative entertain please remember to leave a lack so the YouTube algorithm can recommend this video to other people who like the same content and if you're ready enjoy this video and you actually want to see us plant those seeds together in the future and you want to see us grow those seeds please remember to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any of our weekly videos so I'll see you guys in the next episode just quote one of these I don't know what flatus is but it's one of those that will most probably me forgets a chance just want to feed it to our venus flytraps real quick you know it was inside the house as well so that's all that's not scary at all please don't escape please don't escape okay the bloodthirsty fire has been caught [Music] [Applause] you [Applause]