Caring for Carnivorous Plants — Plant One On Me — Ep 070

hey guys it's summer rain from homestead Brooklyn and I'm standing here in karna flora it's actually the largest exporter of carnivorous plants in the world so they have so many different varieties they actually pump out about a million different carnivorous plants per year and they're gonna take us through some of their carnivorous varieties and also tips that you could keep your carnivorous plants indoors so welcome to this week's episode of plant one on me field trip edition thank you for having us here can you just um state your name and your position in this facility well I'm Justin fan castle and I work here now for like five years it actually is the company of my father who started this about 20 23 years ago so it's family owned & operated and yeah yeah yeah actually it is so how I'm sorry how old is the company now it's from 94 so it's OMA it's 20 24 years old and you specialize in carnivorous plants yeah we only grow coniferous plants and karna flora is the name of it yeah so are you a wholesaler or do you also do retail well we grow for the export mostly so we're based in the Netherlands but most of our plants go to Germany England France Spain Italy and how many different species do you have yeah it's changing all the time at the moment I think we have about 40 different species in different spot sizes so we have like over 60 to 80 products now this one you said is very special so maybe you could tell me a little bit about this one it's one of the most primitive versions of a carnivorous plant actually it's sarracenia you see those lids on the top this one doesn't have that it's got this little knob over here and that's where it makes nectar to lure insects where is this native to I think this one grows mainly in South America yeah that's exquisite so and what is the scientific name for this one this is the idiom for and Newton's okay beautiful and this is the only one you're not doing this for commercial production if we do actually yeah yeah I think it's over there but it's really tiny like this is this is like one and all if you're old and this is one like over ten years old I figured geez when it's this small it almost looks like a Cobra you know the overhead yeah that's funny so yeah so these are the first pitches is Mike's and afterwards is going to grow like more adult pictures and features and this like this Wow stunning yeah so flower is pretty awesome our is beautiful that it's actually blooming now because not everything is in flower no so tell me a little bit about how these vary from plant to plant could the source inea's are obviously different than the Nepenthes and very different from the venus flytraps they they catch their prey very differently yeah I would also love to hear as I'm sure some of the folks as well would like to hear about how to actually care for these once you have them like the sarracenia for example there's a big misconception that the lid closest it's more like an umbrella to keep rainwater out and you can see it at the sides there there's a lot of nectar on it yeah so it's also a nice landing spot for for insects like yeah if you taste it it's very sweet and the insects will get into the pitcher and eventually they will slip and they fall in yeah some fluids at the bottom of the plant and it's pretty fun actually you can see it probably yeah there's already water falling out and that's not just like rainwater but they're also enzymes in it too yeah it's more or less like a stomach it's vegetating the insects from the inside digested yeah digested yeah but that's it's it's the way nature felt needed it could get its food from right because I guess a lot of these are growing in boggy terrains where there's not much nitrogen in the soil so they need to figure out how to get nitrogen in some other way so yeah and if you really want to kill your plant as quickly as possible you should give it a lot of fertilizer that's really a better over fertilize it you're gonna kill your plant so that's a rule number one is don't over fertilize it's maybe not even fertilize it at all or how we always recommend consumers to not fertilized at all very good yeah you can go wrong with it very easily and then how would you then you know I think some people would probably be tempted to stick things into the the pitcher like yeah that's fine yeah I wouldn't give him a like a like a steak or something but uh yeah like like if you just give it in sex there's no problem at all I mean it takes food from it but it's not necessary so how would I if I wanted to take one of these home with me which I can't because I'm in the US and you're in the Netherlands it's a shame but if I did want to take one home for me with me how would I care for this indoors because this is not we're not in a greenhouse where it's like you know the perfect conditions for these in a wintertime it's pretty hard because it's really very dark they like a lot of light sarracenia can do outdoor very well and they just need a lot of water mm-hmm so just always keep them wet we recommend to put a bowl of water under the plants so you can just always keep a layer of water in it and they will never dry out some some water I mean at least where I'm from sometimes could be chlorinated or have a lot of minerals is there a suggestion to kind of use more distilled water or something more akin to rainwater or what do you think would be bad well that's not a problem here in the Netherlands at least I mean my grandmother has a sarracenia that's about five years old and that's just from from tap water I don't really know what what what is like at your place but they can handle quite a lot okay let's go to a smaller variety here you have like the Venus flytrap which actually these are pretty sizable traps but this is something that you also this is I mean we are working in kind of the largest facility for venus flytraps and carnivorous plants in the world right yeah that's what they say yeah that's what they say how many how many of plants are you kind of exporting in a course of a year yeah like yeah like a million a million it's it's pretty impressive so we will get a scope of this place afterwards but tell us a little bit about this one yeah it's pretty fun actually because this is the only plant that I know of at least that can count these hairs don't really do nothing except closing so many people who start touching here and they think now door closed no that's not how it works there are free tiny hairs you know at the inside of the of the lip and if you touch that twice it closes or if you touch it for a long time it so close as well within like 20 seconds of one another yes more or less so if I closed it not twice touch it twice it closes yeah but it recognizes that it didn't catch anything so this one will probably opening like one or two days Wow but if it does catch any something it gonna make enzymes again to vegetate it and now this is like one of those some you know plants that I know really one Darwin over and a number of you know kind of botanists of the time because it's the the idea of how it moves and that it has this like anthropomorphizing the plant in a way and also that the fact that it could die digest you know it's you know it's its prey is it's pretty impressive is this a plant that loves humidity well this is actually one of the hardest plants to keep a life I think that if you keep this one alive for two months in your house then you're doing a pretty good job if you really want to keep him as good as possible for a long time keep him wet on a high humidity place so and not too cold like room chance temperatures this is fine just fine does this plant ever die back completely or yeah in a winter in the winter yeah you can't keep them outside but it will die back completely and it can come up but like minus five degrees okay I'm not sure so I think I'm I think I what an important thing is to note is if it does happen to die back it's probably going through its dormant stage so don't necessarily toss it away although you might like it to be tossed out so if you get another one I like them to be happy with their plants and then I'm fine with it but but it's the same for sarracenia are they they go in the winter they can handle a lot they don't die back that quickly but when it's freezing you have a pretty good chance they will die back as well and they will grow up in a summer but relatively late compared to most utter blowing yeah and I was going to say some of the sarracenia czar where actually where I'm from in the Northeast United States their native there as well so we go through winters and yeah now the final one here I'll take this from your hands and then this one is the Nepenthes and you have a number of these as well yeah there are a few misconceptions for these as well same as the sarracenia people think that these let's close well this is a pen piece with a really small lid so you already can see that doesn't really help a lot same story this is mostly for the to keep the rainwater out this is an offensive Bloody Mary so this one has a small lip with which will really not keep the rainwater out the most common misconception about the Nepenthes is that you need to field pictures of with rain water or anything like that these are the same as Cersei neon did they were almost the same they have nectar on the lids they make their fluids by herself so it's a small stomach again and yeah they're full of water and this one never had like water from top but it yeah you can see it already yes yeah it is quite a lot of fluid in it and it's not water it's enzymes to 5280 the insects right so it has all this digestive fluid that it's producing the enzymes are producing these like similar to our digestive fluids within our stomach and then so when an insect gets into the nectar is attracted to their falls in and the rest is history yeah so your music also similarly these are these are pretty well fed meaning fertilized so are you're not necessarily fertilizing these and when you take them into your home no you don't need to do that no just keep them keep them in how you meet at the place especially these ones these these like the highest humidity of all these and good light yeah good light because I wanted water when their pitchers drop because I think that's a common thing especially when if somebody has it in their house and they're their pitchers fall off is a sign that the conditions are not optimal and is that a sign meaning I need to get more I think yeah you could probably already see it from this blonde as well if you look good we got them all all the black pictures eventually they will go black that's just part of the plant and it depends on in the panties how long you can keep them good and how long the pictures will stay on the plum but it's not a hanging plant actually it grows up in nature it goes like ten meters into trees Wow or maybe more even but this one stays relatively compact but you have other species from the panties that grow up very very high thank you so much thank you very much for coming here and I hope you liked it yeah loved it yeah perfect hey guys so I hope you really enjoyed that and it gives you a little bit more confidence with your carnivorous plants in the home and of course if you like these episodes don't forget to subscribe and you can follow along on my journey at homestead brooklyn calm and on my instagram at homestead brooklyn see you next week

Channel: Summer Rayne Oakes

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Length: 12min 8sec (728 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 14 2018