Dr. Bittleston, great talk! Thank you so much! Many of us watching this video are growers at home on our windowsills, in our grow tents, yards, and greenhouses. Given that different carnivorous plant species do indeed have specific symbiotic colonies of bacteria and microfauna, if, for example, a Nepenthes plant is seed-grown and cared for in a home grow-tent and only fed liquid fertilizer, do these pitchers get colonized by microfauna from airborne spores or by some other means? Does it matter what species of microfauna colonize a pitcher (if the pH and other environmental pitcher conditions are favorable) as long as it provides similar symbiotic benefits other than what the plant might be expecting from a different species of microfauna?
Are there ways to introduce the “correct” type of microfauna? Should we be feeding a variety of live insects to increase the likelihood of seeding our pitchers with bacteria that works better?
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Dr. Bittleston, great talk! Thank you so much! Many of us watching this video are growers at home on our windowsills, in our grow tents, yards, and greenhouses. Given that different carnivorous plant species do indeed have specific symbiotic colonies of bacteria and microfauna, if, for example, a Nepenthes plant is seed-grown and cared for in a home grow-tent and only fed liquid fertilizer, do these pitchers get colonized by microfauna from airborne spores or by some other means? Does it matter what species of microfauna colonize a pitcher (if the pH and other environmental pitcher conditions are favorable) as long as it provides similar symbiotic benefits other than what the plant might be expecting from a different species of microfauna?
Are there ways to introduce the “correct” type of microfauna? Should we be feeding a variety of live insects to increase the likelihood of seeding our pitchers with bacteria that works better?