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Those plants flopping over,can i cut them off now.Sarracenia's

Great video! Thank you!

I bought my pitcher plants from this company. They are still doing well after four years.

Great video! Bought a VFT on 16/08/2024. It is now sitting outdoors in the sunshine in Stubbington, England. Distilled water now on the shopping list!

very well done. I am outdoor grower in VFT's native north carolina. I was concerned about the plant medium (peat moss & perlite) freezing in the pot and killing the plant during dormancy. If that 2013 plant can freeze and make it through PNW winter, I feel confident my plants will do well here.

These monthly care videos are awesome! They're really helpful and have prepared me in terms of what to expect. I have a quick question about repotting/dividing VFTs and Sarracenias though. I understand this is best done in early spring when the plants are just waking up, but I have a VFT that I have somewhat neglected for a while and is outgrowing it's pot. What harm would there be in repotting and dividing now before it gets colder and before the plants start to go dormant?

nice!

put them into floating trunks instead in plastic pots and it will be something...

i think venus is an animal

Thank you thank you thank you! When should you repot? I just bought 2 small plants (from Walmart of all places) and they're in these tiny 1" pots which seem too small. What proportion should pot be to plant size? Thanks in advance!

Thanks so much for the video it really helped!! Greece's sun is like the sun from a desert nowadays ( it wasnt like that few years ago). The plants were not doing well, a lot of discoloration, especially on the flytraps and the sarracenias. Imagine a rubricorpora losing its color and become green. I think high UV's destroying the color of the plants along with high temperatures. So i have a question, a shade cloth or polyethylene-polycarbonate (lots of carnivorous plants owners grow them in these greenhouses) that blocks full UV's spectrum is better for greenhouse glazing material for our plants. Most flower greenhouses allow a percent of UV ( UVA) to color their flowers (UV makes the plant to produce anthocyanins and do secondary metabolism), what about the carnivorous plants??

Boiling the water to remove minerals only works if you're distilling it. The minerals will stay in the pot while you collect the evaporated water

How to make a fly trap big? Will it grow big in a big pot or are they a small plant regardless

Vary useful information, interesting group of plants

Thanks, hope you're both well.

Excellent video. To the point and practical.

Excellent video and information

Thank you great info

The nursery I bought it from was treating it like an indoor tropical plant. So that was mistake number 1. This video was beyond helpful! Hope I can save my plant

Thanks for the video, we always look forward to seeing them each month.

So much valuable information in a quick video. Thank you!

Really one of the good guys. Anyone like us that care and spend our lives trying to keep plants alive can relate, especially those plants from all over the world, African desert to jungle moist. We need to study and learn from every access point to keep them alive. Thanks

greetings from europe and thnaks for the tips i planted some sundew and sarracenia flava seeds in may and they are doing great finally I see them popping out. sarracenia startet to grow really fast

Thank you Jacob love the silver in the hair look how time goes by, Great video,

Thanks so much for this episode😌🙌🌟I learnt a lot and I can now grow my pitcher plants, flytraps and Nepenthes successfully👏👏👏

Thanks Jacob! Hi to Jeff!

Jacob! Will I see you at the PDX Reptile Expo on the 10th? I really appreciate these videos!

I have planted mines while growing but was careful. I was switching pot to better pot and they are thriving.

Awesome as always!

Love your vid

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Got your plants today and they look great! Thank you!

Is Summer in central Italy fine for temperature or is it too hot?

What is the substitute for perlite??

Perlite is volcanic in origin and has a large percentage of pore space due to gases being evolved from the magma during eruption. The light color is an indication of the chemical composition. Light colored igneous rocks are referred to as "felsic" and contain high percentages of silica (more than 65%). Metal ions include mostly sodium and potassium which do not contribute to alkalinity. Felsic rocks are also referred to as "acidic" igneous rocks because when they weather they generate acidity. If you use dark colored scoria, which has similar pore space like perlite, you could potentially add alkalinity when it weathers because it is a mafic igneous rock (often referred to as "basic" igneous rock). Basic igneous rock has lower silica content and higher magnesium and calcium content. As the name suggests, basic igneous rocks (dark black and green) generate alkalinity when they weather.

Perlite is porous but not permeable. Adding small amounts of perlite is adding impermeable material without increasing porosity. I agree with your explanation of the higher concentration of perlite. The higher percentage of perlite increases the chance of grain to grain contact creating greater pore networks resulting in greater permeability. Nice video and experiment.

If you are unsure of the composition of your gravel, and you are trying to avoid marble/limestone which will drive up the pH, a simple test is to place some of it in vinegar. If you see small bubbles forming around the pebbles that is an indication that you have marble/limestone and you should avoid using it.

Im in the UK, our weather is so unpredictable but our winters arent really that cold most of the time. Do i still need to mist it during the winter months?

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Any update on that experiment video? I live in a zone 4A, so having my carnys outside in the summer is great at 25-34c however winters can snap down to -40c so I tend to have a mix of indoor growlights supplementing outside patio direct sunlight. It can be hard to find information that doesn't contradict the last thing you read! I currently have 4 Sunblaster white LED growlights set up next to a large west facing window.

Where can I get one of those rock looking pots that you show at 8.35?

would it be safe to say orchid mix is good for potting nepenthes?

Thank you so much, that was fantastic! I'm three months into tending my VFT and have been doing things properly, for the most part, except that I've been supplementing the rain water with tap water. I'll correct that immediately. It appears to be doing fairly well for now. What worries me is that I'm on the East Coast, ~ 600 miles north of Wilmington. I'm in USDA zone 7b, while Wilmington is 8b. Should I burlap the plant in winter?

FINALLY after dozens and dozens of vids all my questions answered in one simple straight forward video Thank You

Thank you

Should I grow them in full sun even if it is really hot, like 35 or 40⁰C?

Thank you for your knowledge of these plants!

i heard that filling the trays with sand so that the water is still there but not enough for the larvae could be useful as well, but i'm not sure tho

The part where he feeds the trap broccoli that’s plant cannibalism

I always loved fly traps but mine always died, i live in a tropical coutry so i'm not so sure about letting them be outdoors, also, is it ok to just water them with rain water? or even not actually water them and let rain do that? i never know what is the best course of action