Most Asked Questions About Carnivorous Plants

hey guys welcome back to the channel in today's video we will be answering some questions that people post in the response groups on Facebook so let's start the video so here we are at my office it's literally just the kitchen because this is the best place for me to edit and recording everything because it has the best life you're in the kitchen and with of you answering some questions on our Facebook groups that we have here that were following that many people are also on a nail constantly asking questions that I hope that you guys will find useful for yourselves - so this is gonna be part of a series I will try it out see what you guys think if you guys enjoy it please let me know in the comments and then I can do this every single Friday like a Friday FAQ or something so let me know what you guys think about that let's start looking at some of the questions that people have our first question is what trust our species do you guys recommend I get I'm looking for some new ones so this really depends on where you are in the world but generally you can use these same species for most clams of the world if you can get drawcircle Pence's dresser overnight transfer especially later those are super super easy trash let's look after and they'll all go really really well from seeds they're kind of like they're like a wheels basically if you if you're able to grow plants really well and you're looking after them well and your venus flytraps and all of them together you oftentimes find these species just growing out of nowhere in your pots and they get really annoying because what happens is that you know obviously you have response me enjoy growing these parks but they're in the wrong pots and we have too many of them and I act like a situation you want to throw them away arise because they're obviously plans that you lack but at the same time you have way too many of them and you can't give them away because you don't know enough people and yeah I guess it gets annoying so that's what people say it's a weed but a weed that we all love so it's a it's a real issue for some people there's one that commented trust our vgi i mean i don't think that's really a great species to start with but also this person don't really say what species they have we're going to have so I guess we just fine and yeah just really just fine but if you can give it the right environment yeah it's pretty simple but I don't know anything about this pattern I like how I don't know how experienced they are so that's why just recommend us I'm super easy one can mine a Pentium Casa eat pork beef or chicken so most people who obviously hear about the response for the first time they think that because the tech university can eat like anything that has made out of meat and the truth is that no they can't because pork beef and chicken etc is stuff that a clean response will never be able to eat anyways so they obviously haven't evolved to it and then secondly these meats are so high in back nutrients and they're so high in nutrients and they're so processed that's the amount of nutrients that the plant looks like get exposed to when eating these types of foods is to half the plant and what actually happens is that it burns the traps so I mean you could do it but don't do it it's not a good thing to do and it will damage your traps and it will hurt the plant and anyway why would you want like the smell of rotten meats you know on your part that's disgusting obviously they they're made to catch insects and not animals I miss you like an appendage vgi which Santa's catching mice and small birds and stuff nah don't do that guys there's not good field plans yeah even people the comments are asking why okay the next question is actually a question that I asked about three days ago it was a question about what is the most expensive response I do either bought or heard of and so I'll answer the question the most expensive part that I've ever bought was a Nepenthes LOI I and that was one thousand Rand but I have no idea how much that is in dollars right now probably like $90 or something yeah it was from it was imported into the country knows from the exotic plants I mean it was from Borneo exotics I think it was I don't I don't really run remembers EP or BER don't don't remember but that is my most expensive plant okay so the next question we have is this guy's asking if the sphagnum Moss that he's bought will kill his parts not because he says its racial equality so yeah it always depends on what type of quality you're getting if you're gonna get you know sphagnum Moss that's quite low quality yeah it may be a little bit suspect it may have not contaminants in them so the best thing to do as he asked is like to just take your spagna Moss or your feet and you just rinse it in distilled or rainwater or reverse osmosis you just discuss I mean you just put it in Mac a big tub filled up with water and let it soak and if it's like peat or sagging you can squeeze it like a sponge and just mix it in there really well and then you can just pour out that water and then add some more water and then keep doing that then you will get any other minerals or nutrients that are in that soil and get an art so that you could use that soil but the best way to avoid this is just don't buy the local I always recommend escrow for these five men Tomas and I use team Pete that's the brand I use but in America there's quite a few brands like half moon black gold there's always other brands in America that you can be use for Pete okay so this person has recently bought in-app empty stealing and they don't even know what the seeding looks like so the Nepenthes is the little green pods listing that is on the left yeah the ceilings look like the other plants that have been leaf and in they have their little picture sticking up at the end as well the rest of the stuff is just mosque you can tell it's a mosque because it's it's green and black moss yeah and then this person obviously put this plug inside of another pot of peat and perlite which I don't recommend for Nepenthes because they would prefer something that's little more free draining and holds water less they like to stay moist that are not to stay waterlogged like many of our troughs ruin and venus flytraps do if you can get an appendage and you put in that last wagon moss and some orchid bog and perlite and yeah that's actually a pretty good mix and Matt elated clay or something and you just talk water them every single day with with teen water they'll do really really well than that instead of sitting them in water because that means that their roots will rot but yeah as I said charge this person's question is the leaf with a little cone at the end that's what a baby Nepenthe seeding looks like yeah it's if you if you've grown an appendage before you should be able to tell what it is okay so here we have in-app empties picture it's a young apprentice because you could tell it's young because it has the job it has this developing picture and as pictured looks really weird the little bits is that concave in ones this looks like it's broken and everything so and they're asking it has anyone ever seen something like this before so what I noticed were thin the panties if you change the humidity or they're large or the environment in any way and des Plantes is not acclimated to that environment the pictures sometimes come up deformed but I don't think that those pictures coming out deformed because of the temperature changes this is a cross of rock candy I and vgi and I often see that even adults pictures of these guys when they're parastone and their lid is developing the letter oftentimes squeezes inwards and then pops up obviously wants us to fit up to there with more so this just looks like this picture is just developing like the adults do which is kind of weird because the young pitchers don't often develop like the adults do but as doing that same growth habits from what I think and I think there's nothing actually wrong with this picture so yeah I have some that before but nothing babies but in the adult so this this picture actually is fine so this is one of the most common questions that we often get on these type of groups can I use a Miracle Grow Pete for magnums plants cars and the answer to that question is no because on the packet it says added nutrients and we all know that cannabis plants don't want added nutrients in the soil because these nutrients oftentimes burn up and kill your cannabis plants so to ask the question no do not use Myrtle Grove Pete and she's using to our Caesar for Nepenthes definitely don't use Pete for an apprentice because as I've said earlier it will cause root rots in the Nepenthes rather use some Tomas but she she's obviously read the packets and she even said that I'm assuming you don't use it so good good on her she she realized that she mustn't use this pizza and obviously she asked before she got it which is great because then people can answer her they'll tell her that you should never use Miracle Grow because it's really bad for them as flies there's not even a Miracle Grow like this in Australia that I've seen and I really don't want to try with my pants either because I'm pretty sure it will kill them okay so in this post this person addresses what I said earlier these trusts are oftentimes all weeds and this is a drug for bonauto so as I've said they really are like weeds so I'm glad you got this here wasn't lying to you this person is asking can they put these in a bog garden so that they can like grow out and stretch everywhere without having tons and tons of babies in one pot oh sorry she actually this person wants to put them in their own and Buck Island so yeah you can definitely do that get a bug on you can even use that the bucket just fill the bucket up with the right soil some people put a false bottom at the bottom but Israeli your own choice put them in there and what will happen is that in like a year's time you will have a massive pot full of trust Renata so she has a PG says she has five pounds in this pot so definitely you can do that but the roster they're not gonna really grow out and creep around like she's saying you know sometimes I do make little planters and stuff but they don't like creep around and make babies super easy and then step flower if they flower there's no point putting them in the bog because all this gonna happen is that the seeds are gonna go into the bog I'm gonna get like a trillion plants in that bog and then those seeds are going to go into your gardens and you know get a trillion seeds in those bug gardens too so the best way to prevent them from growing insanely like that is just to cut off the flower stalks as soon as you see them sometimes you already want to see how the flowers look if you ready for your own sanity if you don't want to be dealing with that catch-22 that are speeding up earlier of throwing away plants or keeping one of them just cut off the flowers and just Google how the flowers look there aren't that special they just pink or black sand that's more as well for these very common species so if you want to prevent them from you know overtaking everything just cut up as far as ballast okay so over here we have one of the age-old questions my Venus flytrap is growing a flower and I've heard of actually flowers kill the venus flytraps so the answer to this in most cases is yes cut the flowers because the flowers will drain your beans flash of energy and your Venus flytrap will die because there's no energy to continue growing and that I will always say that to everyone if I don't know how experienced they are if I don't have much info on with this big holocrons look where they're growing how they grow them etc but you can keep the flowers if the plant is extremely healthy and if it is a very big pond the Venus flytrap will not grow as big as it could it would be a little bit smaller but it will still be able to grow new traps and flower at the same time but as I said with a drop in answer why would you really want to do that cut off the flower stalk when it gets about two inches tall put that flower stalk in some soil you have the possibility of creating a new Venus flytrap from that flower cutting and your Venus flytrap will grow really big traps and yeah if you want to see the flowers look just cumulative Venus Patrick flowers are not that amazing and anyway you can't keep cultivars between seeds if you want to have a cultivar of like for example Venus flytrap b52 you have to divide them from roots or leave pullings and stuff like that or even from the flowers if you have seeds of them it's the same plant unfortunately and is no longer a cultivar so yeah just cut it off it's and makes it so much easier for you and for the plant so this is a question for everyone living in England or the UK sorry can anyone recommend cannabis plants that can live outside in the south of the UK you're out so you could you could try Venus flytrap I obviously have never lived in the UK I've never grown plants there but you can try this fact I've I don't see a reason why they won't be able to live there but also sarracenia will work really well even heliamphora if you have a greenhouse and you can really control the humidity at Kew Gardens they have helium-4 is just growing in the temperate section and they're growing like amazingly well aware what I actually went to the UK for about two months to work there and I went to visit Kew Gardens they have all of their sarracenias and the helium forest growing outside in that temperate greenhouse which just means that the roof is open really if you just if you just remove the greenhouse deposit just be outside anyway so you can definitely grow your sarracenias outside venus flytraps give it a try even some of the more cold hardy rostra you can give them a try the ones that form hibernacula like treszura bonanza give them a try as well so for the next question this lady has to be nice flat traps and she wants to know how to keep them alive because she keeps killing them so there are about three steps easy steps that I can tell you right now to look after you know stops number one is to unlock this video so that's this video thing get recommended to everyone else who enjoys the same type of content as you step two would be to subscribe to this channel because we give out information on cannabis plants and venus factor and how to look after them and step three is to check out our Venus fact rap que God 3 posted about eight months ago or whatever it was which goes into detail and all the steps of how to look after a Venus flytrap but in all seriousness Venus watch apps aren't brain not that difficult to grow they're not that difficult to grow if you can just adhere to their basic care if you can keep them outside keep them outside in full Sun not make sure you have them in peat and perlite or peat and sand in a ratio of one is to one and just give them reverse osmosis water distilled water or rainwater that's literally it goes correct soil keep them outside in the Sun and give them water in a tray and put the pot inside of that water tray and literally just keep that water level for almost all of the time is it literally that easy guys and just let the water trade dry ask between waterings give it one or two days and just pull it back up it's simple guys so that's it for today's video guys added about 14 or 13 questions if you guys enjoyed this video please let me know in the comments tell me that you enjoyed this tell me that you want to see more of this if there's any other questions you want me to address if you have any of your own questions email me DM me on Facebook or on Instagram or in the comments just get a hold of me somehow and ask me your questions I'll be very happy to help and if you really enjoy this type of content please remember to 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