Cutting Old Leaves - Carnivorous Plant Spring Care

hey guys it's springtime and that means our plants are coming out of dormancy and that also means we have to cut off all their old leaves to stick around so if you're new to this channel and you aren't really sure what this channel is about this channel is dedicated to the care and cultivation of plants and more specifically carnivorous plants just like the sarracenia so that's what you're into remember to subscribe and hit the bell icon so that you don't miss any of our weekly videos let's jump straight into it every winter paneros plants go into dormancy and that means that all of it all these for the previous season die off and the plan goes to sleep and that also means that every spring time we have to cut off all the old leaves so that the plant has new Sun mats coming to the crown and that all of these old leaves don't actually get in the way of the new growth and prevent sunlight from getting into the crown of the plant so really we have to make sure that we cut off all these old leaves although you know this doesn't really happen in nature but it does just help our plans just to grow more and grow better at the beginning of spring just like it is now so just like that we look cut of all the old leaves so that the crown of the plant rots in the middle has as much Sun are coming to it as possible and you know all the old leaves are no longer there so that there's no rotting or mold developing on the plant and this is just really to help the plants prevent any fungus and diseases and give it a good start for the next growing season so I'm just gonna take all the parts and cut off all the leaves and I hope you enjoyed this time see there's a lot of web webs here from obviously espada and this is another reason why we want to get rid of all of the old leaves because that also allows sort of a Harding place for all of the other insects and bugs that may come and find their way onto this plant so by removing that we also prevent any other bugs and insects that we don't actually want to be there from being that so you can see here are some of the webs that have not taken off and the crown is now there's actually two planters here now the crown is open for all the new growth that's coming out so this plant I got from England as you can see hands fly traps and there's so much mass on the surface that is also flowering that it really does get in the way of the growth of the plant that's in the middle if you can see they're much well you can actually see that but this plant is starting to come out of dormancy and there is a new flat trap developing that there in the center and all of this moss and growth that's in the way does hinder the progression of the plant into springtime so this is another reason why we just need to get rid of all of this moss and old leaves and stuff that do arise just mention another debris actually stays near the crown of the plant just to allow as much sunlight in there as we can and there we go this one's also not done [Music] [Music] so I don't know how I'm gonna really get this one on camera so really with Saracen you want to cut as close to the crown as you can so that one was just cut it was cut just just there so ray as close as I can down to the bottom so that there is no extra bit stuck sticking out all the way up here but everyone has their own preference really but what I do with the pond that is a leaf that is half alive at this one is that I cut off just the the dead button leave the rest of the love because this alive but it still photosynthesizing and helping the plants out let's look inside of one of these pictures and see how many bugs this one actually caught last season that's so gross I'm not sure how well you can actually see this oh jeez that's gross so all of this is just dried up exoskeletons of flies I'm guessing for the most part hopefully you can actually see that oh so close we have this new fella already started making new growth here hope you can see that right there and this plant will be very big this this growth season so some dresser but not still get to start coming out of dormancy but it will I always do and you can see that there's also webs on this plant [Music] this is a plans also from a friend of man in the Netherlands and you can see here that there's one two three four five six baby plants all sprouting at the top here and this is actually because this is capensis Bains cloth which grows a very long stem and I had to bury half a stem into the soil so that it could actually fit into the pot and that means that all these little babies are not popped out from the stem which is I wouldn't wanna guess [Music] and this is my dresser ah capensis that I've grown from seed and if you have watched in my previous video on the aphids you will understand now why exactly I hate spring tales because if you look at the surface of the soil is full of like holes and they break down the material and that really is not what plants these kind of responds want just because they don't want broken-down material cuz that means that it's providing nutrients to the plant and that kills the plant so drastic offenses are known to basically be non killable but obviously if you if you are not able to provide them with the correct and soil they're not gonna grow in it so this is why I don't like the spring tales but you know everyone some other people like them I just don't and and this is just a normal dress or a capensis and it's really struggling and it's you know these things are unkillable but some springtails have managed to kill them don't understand how this is even possible but there's a first time for everything I guess the first time I've never been able to go capensis really well this is drosera capensis red and as you can see it's flowering so one of my subscribers once some seeds from me and this is one of the plants that you will be getting so here you can see the very pretty pink flower and all the different CD parts are coming up and I hope you enjoy this this plant when you do eventually get the seeds the rest meter still flower but this one's jumped up first [Music] [Music] this is Joshua cross hybrid ah you can't see the name but I know that the I am Tabata and just at the top of these as you can see a little have an AK ulam one here and another one there so this plant will start growing soon and it does have a flower stalk up here but no seeds actually the seeds came because this plant started flowering for me when I got it which was basically the beginning of spring here in South Africa I'm putting them back there just in case they are seeds but there probably aren't um so I got this plant just in autumn really I bought East Africa so and I got it from the northern hemisphere so it was starting to flower but obviously it got up quite a bit confused because sorry there's the greenhouse fans in the background just making all that noise but it got confused because it went from spring straight back into autumn and he's not like why why is this happening so basically the flowers stopped growing plant went back to sleep and now the plant will have the opportunity to grow extra strong because it's basically had to dormancy straight off to each other and that is really why we want to have dormancy for plants so that they can grow extra strong in the next growth season and I mean also it's from evolution you can't you can't not give the plants a dormancy period there's a reason why it exists and I don't really want to dive into that from this video if you can also see that just don't open too much but yeah he's gonna start growing here we have a pencil small as you can tell very good permanent markers and as you can tell it is small here are some capensis Alba form as you can tell the plant is completely lacking any red colour even the tips of the track home shell or the sticky tentacles some people in the quarter are completely white and that's what's called alga lack of you know some may even call it anthocyanin free which is basically a compound which give plants the red coloration and this plant is completely lacking nuts it's really nice plant to have and the cool thing is that it keeps it straight even through seed so all of almost all of my appearances that I have are all seed grown so sometimes if you get a dresser capensis red it is not very red or if you get a dresser capensis normal it is very red so it's very variable and that's why you really need to make sure that you get a fairly large amount of seeds I mean treasure capensis produce too many seeds anyway but then you'll be able to choose ones that you lock and hopefully that you know they they will be exactly what you want and self spying one plant that is not actually what's exactly it is so that's why I need I have a little bit of a variety of seeds every now and then but luckily with these guys they've completely lost the anthocyanins and in such they are completely colorless that's really cool so this this big boy is flavor another more big words big words from South Carolina and this is also a plant from Germany I think this one is from and in such it also had a little bit of a shock coming into winter here and not much growth and this is sarracenia a lotta it is one of my oldest plants probably had it for about four or five years now and it's in the biggest bucket out of them all if you watched my previous video on the aphids as well this is the bodyguard of the of the little enclosure that all upon save and this plant grows a lot oh geez look there's even a flower coming out so this is how it starts singing la ville another sings well this is how sarracenia flower looks like the flower grows up really tall you can't see in camera probably about a meter taller than the plant depends on the size of the plants and the flowers are kind of upside down like my hand is and it's really interesting to see how different these flowers are compared to the rest and this is literally the first time I've seen it on this plant since the season started so these little things just where my finger is are all the new growth coming out of the plant for this season and as you can see there are tons and tons of little plantlets here's another one here growing out of this rhizome and it's gonna be a big plant the season and I'm gonna be so sad to see him go I don't know if any of you I really know only a few of my subscribers really that I have contacts with me know that I am leaving South Africa at the end of the year and I'm moving to Australia and that is also why the start of each video the what is it called the opener or now well the trailer I guess at the beginning say 'zed the pre season because this is gonna be the pre season to the first season of growth that I have of plants that will be in Australia because December is summertime in the southern hemisphere and around December January I will be in Australia so that would be the first season and this really will be the preseason end and such I'm gonna have to be selling off or trying to solve off many of my plants not many people can actually afford much in South Africa but this plant is gonna be massive and I'm gonna miss it I'm gonna actually miss all my plants but you know sometimes we have to do things for the future and there we go now the crown is nice and open so we can see all the new growth none of the growth in the centre will be hindered by the dead and this plant will now be able to grow nicely and the next season so there we have it all of the outside plants and now ready to start growing for the season let's pack them away put them back into there into the cage and there we go now they locked up they can't escape anymore and if you enjoyed this video please remember to click the like button and to share it with everyone and remember every week we will be putting up a new video so remember to subscribe as well I'm gonna put all of these old leaves into the compost so that they can be used to grow more pods thank you guys I'll see you next time but