Just got my first carnivorous plants, and I am soooooo glad I found this channel! ❤

I so wish I had found your videos sooner when I got my first Venus flytraps. Your videos are way more informative 👍🏻 thank you

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I’m glad you find them helpful 🙏🏼 goodluck. If you ever have any questions I’m happy to help

I have tried (and failed) to grow some flytraps a bunch of times, even tho all my friends give me all their dead, or near dead plants because I seem to have such a green thumb. I love growing things but HATE flies! Glad I stumbled across your channel, I am going to try again. Wish me luck, and ...CHEERS!

I just started keeping venus flytraps in my office at work and I just adore them now and want to keep more! With it being July it maybe too late for me to make a bog garden like this at home, but next spring I am doing this for sure!!!!!

I saw the dog and thought they were going to make a Dog Garden, :D.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha

I have just started growing vfts and some do great and some lag behind. I just bought a green dragon from California Carnivoros and can't wait for it to arrive. I live in North Carolina so she should thrive. Great video y'all.

Karen your my hero you have a natural green thumb 🍃🍃😊🍃🍃❤

I've been wanting to make a bog garden for 2 years now but I'm indecisive as hell and couldn't settle on which type I was going to make. Until now, because I trust your advice as it's all been good and I also trust Sarracenia Northwest. Bought my first drosera and nepenthes from them

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

So glad to have inspire you and thank you so much for your kind words! 😁You can also watch California carnivores. Daniella has done 2 different videos on building bog gardens. Her method included not removing the soil from the roots of the plants which may be easier depending on your thoughts. In the other comment under this video I explain some of the reasons why we do and don’t remove soil before putting it into a bog garden. Otherwise I’m always happy to answer any questions on Instagram or email :)

@Hello_Fuckers0

Жыл бұрын

@The Flytrap Garden oh I already watch California carnivores and red leaf exotic among others I like to see multiple options for the thing I want so I can make sure I like it later on, but then again experimenting is always fun lol

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

@@Hello_Fuckers0 haha perfect 😁 I’ll be keen to see what you end up making! Have fun 😁

I’m thinking of doing this myself.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

Go for it 🙏🏼

Looks like a sawtooth cultivar or maybe a Dentate. Very nice bog, just be sure that you let it dry out completely since you stuffed the holes with sphagnum and then put peat and sand on top. You can build up bacteria quickly since the sand/peat mix tends to pack more tightly than the peat/perlite mix.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the insight 😁 we won’t water it at all until it’s really dry, it’s just going to get all its water from the rain we get, that should be perfectly good ?

@donivanstryker1340

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFlytrapGarden I am not sure how often it rains in England but you can be a good judge just by smelling the media. If it smells sour its getting to much water and not enough oxygen. I would have even put some holes on the sides of the pots to increase airflow and oxygen exchange. But you should be fine :)

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

@@donivanstryker1340 thank you! It pretty much rains every single day (at least it has since I got here haha) we have emptied out water trays too, like I mentioned to Karen when we did it, I’ve never had to empty water trays. Always had to fill them up haha

@tristanthechristian3661

3 ай бұрын

Can cardboard be used as soil mesh? Water goes through it right? Would the cardboard eventually break down too much? Would the cardboard have too many minerals in it?

@donivanstryker1340

3 ай бұрын

@@tristanthechristian3661 I would not use cardboard because of the materials used in manufacturing it. Especially the glue which may break down and might prove to be potentially toxic to your plants.

Hey, great Chanel. I just started growing flytraps. I was under the impression that stones would leach minerals. But, I see you used stones in your bog??

Hi I noticed when you turned the first plant upside down the liquid that came out isn't that the digestive acid that breaks down the insects ?

is that like normal potting mix with perlite? or is that upper bob mix?

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what you mean by upper Bob? Peat and perlite is the standard carnivorous plant soil. The other soil I used for the bottom was just some old media I got on Amazon (sand and peat which isn’t as good as peat and perlite IMO)

where can i get big trays (like your black tray) for pretty cheap?

Hi

the chad

Hey Hello Why you use little stones between the plants ? I think is make it difficult for the new roots/plants to grow to the surface. Greets Jurgen (Belgium )

I got venus fly trap's disgestive enzymes in the soil Will it die? I'm worried lol

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

No that’s ok

@Octilious11934

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFlytrapGarden thank you :)

I'm not sure I understand why you wash all the original soil off the roots of the plants before transplanting them. I've never seen that before, for any plants, but I'm not a carnivorous plant specialist by any means. Is there a reason for doing this? I would have thought that it just increases the transplantation shock, by exposing all the roots and not allowing them to transition from their original soil into the new soil environment.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

Yes! You are correct. There’s a few reasons that I have learnt over the years.. Really old soil becomes… sludgy. It gets really full of anaerobic bacteria and literally becomes sludgy, slimy and can smell bad too. The peat itself actually breaks down, and any (little) nutrition that is in the soil that the plants do use, is depleted. Also by removing all the soil you eliminate the risk of all pests and disease. Now not everyone removes everything, but a bit of the soil is removed for the majority of people who grow carnivorous plants. For example, Matt Soper (one of the biggest UK growers, Hampshire Carnivorous Plants) removes about 50% of his soil. Whereas Carson Trexler (carnivorous plant resource) removes all of it. Some of the Italian growers get everything off and wash it. Whereas California carnivores doesn’t remove any soil when they build their bog gardens, but me personally, I would remove most of it due to the issues of pests and disease (which I have experienced when I first started). The biggest reason why we cleaned these sarracenia very well, is because the greenhouses we got these plants from were far from clean, and we don’t want to risk and pests as you can imagine. Otherwise, I would usually get the majority of the old soil off and leave the soil that is tightly packed in the center of the root ball intact. I hope this helps? If you have any more questions I’m happy to help on Facebook, Instagram or email :)

@ianoliverbailey6545

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFlytrapGarden That's really interesting, thank you for such a thorough (and rapid!) reply. I must admit that my (very few) carnivorous plants have all come from a relatively 'fast' (and 'low cost') source and I've always been convinced that the soil for carnivorous plants is not the most critical thing, and that we should certainly never upgrade the soil to higher nutrient, 'fresher' soils, at risk of killing them. As you can see, I'm on a steep learning curve here ;-) Despite the simple beginnings of my plants, they are way out-growing their original homes and I'm looking to upgrade their environment in a way that they will appreciate! I'm currently eyeing an old aquarium I have, with the view to planting my pitchers and fly-traps into it, but I'm interested by your concerns for drainage. The bottom of the aquarium is broken (fractured), but I'm not sure that this would afford enough drainage.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

@@ianoliverbailey6545 that’s not a problem at all :) When I first started out, I thought the same thing. “The soil has no nutrients and they come from places with no nutrients, it shouldn’t matter” but in the last 3 years or so ive been shown by many growers that they do take nutrition from their soil and like most plants soil health is so important as that’s where their livelihood (their roots) live 😱 so I completely understand as I was in the same boat haha Regarding a glass tank, I wouldn’t recommend glass at all. It will heat the soil up like crazy, and because it’s seethrough, Cyanobacteria, algae and moss will grow inside right up against the walls of the glass so it won’t look nice either sadly. On top of that, the fracture won’t allow enough water flow as you mentioned unless you are good at glass cutting? However, I’m not sure if you are building a terrarium or if you just want to use this as a “pot” similar to what we did in this video?🤔

@ianoliverbailey6545

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFlytrapGarden Actually, I was thinking along the lines of a terrarium, as I've been really impressed by some of the ones built by SerpaDesign here on KZread (kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3dox8OrfaWuedI.html), but I think the problem would be the maintenance and I'm looking for something simple to look after. I think I will go along with your idea of a bog garden in a non-glass container. Just wondering if this is something I could leave out in my garden year-round here in France, or if I would need to bring it under cover in the winter. Currently my sundews, pitchers and venus fly-traps are living indoors in a sunny conservatory...

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

@@ianoliverbailey6545 that video is really cool but like you said there will be a lot of maintenance and the plants don’t do well in terrariums unfortunately (tropical ones can, but they have alot of maintenance and need grow lights etc). Temperate carnivorous plants can do well in a bog garden outside year long, as long as you don’t experience temperatures below 0°C often, or higher than 35 often, they’ll be happy out there. Hampshire carnivorous plants has these beautiful bog gardens outside and he is in southern England, I’m not sure where in France you are but as long as those temperatures are in check then you will be fine 😁

My honest concern: Those rocks may get hot in the hot sun and could fry the traps laying on them.

@TheFlytrapGarden

Жыл бұрын

It should be fine, we have had the planter for about 2 months now and they’re growing well now. It also doesn’t get that sunny or hot up here in the north of England 😁

Very HELPFUL video! I just got two Venus Fly Traps 3 weeks ago! 🪴