Wonderful episode and series. I have been wanting to try carnivorous plants for a while now. Seeing these mini bogs I can picture exactly where I can place it in my yard
The last 2 months I’ve gone down the carnivorous plant rabbit hole, I started because of fungus gnats in the houseplant area. My favorite are Drosera capsensis and especially D. binata. I also recently got a very red flat Drosera from Rutgers plant sale-still have to ID for it. No more pesky gnats! 😊 A Venus fly trap is also in the water tray. Lastly I have a wonderful hanging Nepenthes sanguinea, the morning sun shines through the speckled pitchers showing the level of nectar in them, nice. If I only had one carnivorous plant it would surely be a Drosera for the gnats! 🌱🦟 can’t wait for the addition of a cool bog garden by your pond!
@@musicalmarion Yes and no (and also depends on the species) but for the most part their rhizome likes to always be moist and their "feet" (end of roots) wet / boggy. Most of these species live on the edge of bogs and like regular cyclical flooding, but not 100%. Packing the bottom soil helps to mimic those conditions as the water wicks up.
They definitely do want drainage, as this allows for aeration and ultimately prevention of anaerobes. The moisture wicking quality of peat keeps the medium moist
Great Video, Bog Plants are really unique and stunning in their own right. Just one major suggestion: water wise Summer is right in using rain water or distilled water. Not because of PH, but more because of dissolved minerals. Hard water will burn you carnivorous plants fast, especially if you have hard well water. Some are more tolerant than others, but Flytraps like Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) readings below 50. Also the same reason to use pool/play sand which is "washed silica", it's inert with no mineral or nutrients left in it. CoCo Coir is generally not used because it breaks down too fast, has a high CEC, and leads to frequent repotting, but maybe if you can get the PH high enough to retard decomposition like peat...
Hola Summer desearía si fuera posible que los vídeos contarán con traducción al español,por favor!!!me encanta tu canal,amo la naturaleza puedes venir a Argentina a visitar jardines ?entre ellos a mí jardin por favor!!!!
Dont use beach sand. It has nutrients, minerals and other stuff that will kill CP. You can put any cp species but keep in mind that some of them need winter dormancy while others grow whole year. So dont mix temperate and tropical CPs.
There's bog, jungle, and desert types of carnivorous plants so you need to do a little research as some have different care needs. But the one thing in common is they all live in low nutrient and mineral areas, so clean pool sand and distilled / rain water is a common must.
"Every other day or every third day". That's why I haven't been able to keep a bog bowl or a bowl of moss. A delicate ecosystem, and yet nature seems to get the job done. I'm going to try again, but with a sand layer at the bottom. That might be my missing link. One thing I know I'm doing right for my South facing plants in pots is to avoid Terra Cotta dishes unless they are glazed. Pyrex Pie plates rule! I buy all of them at my local thrift store. Pots with attached saucers are cool too! As long as there is flow... I've given all of mine away... need to find more!
Hello Rayne! I've been meaning to jump on and ask you what LAV mic you use in your videos? The audio always sounds so clean and crisp in your videos! Thank you!
I didn't understand what she meant by a faux pas with the amendment of soil. Usually with added microbial systems the plants are allowed access to existing nutrients. This is at least what i had assumed. Is this not the case?
Carnivorous plant doesn't like nutrients in their soil as they grow in swampy, sterile places. Heavy minerals will kill them instantly. That's why newbies to carnivorous plants are not advice to try fertilizing as they tend to over fertilize.The water used if you keep them should only be distilled water, rain water or reverse osmosis which should be below 50 in TDS meter. Those things have zero to below 50 in TDS rating.
Peat grows 1mm per year. That means, a bog takes at least 1000 years, sometimes even 5000 years (!) to form. Even if companies are "renewing" it, meaning restoring the sites they're taking it from, it is impossible to keep up with the amout that's extracted. Also, restoration measures often just don't take, because extraction sites get drained to be able to extract the peat. When the areas are flooded again (if at all), the balance of these delicate systems might just totally be off and can't be restored again.
This looks awesome. I wonder if there's anywhere around here i could go to do this or if i should order some plants. I have a fungus gnat problem right now & would love to feed them to some plants instead of the other way around 🥲
Love to see representation for the carnivorous plants!
Please do a houseplant tour, Summer. Like you used to. I love your 2020 houseplant tour, i rewatch it a lot.
Wonderful episode and series. I have been wanting to try carnivorous plants for a while now. Seeing these mini bogs I can picture exactly where I can place it in my yard
Omg she's in Atlanta! The botanical garden is amazing.
I absolutely love the Atlanta Botanical Garden and carnivorous plants!!! awesome to see this
The last 2 months I’ve gone down the carnivorous plant rabbit hole, I started because of fungus gnats in the houseplant area. My favorite are Drosera capsensis and especially D. binata. I also recently got a very red flat Drosera from Rutgers plant sale-still have to ID for it. No more pesky gnats! 😊 A Venus fly trap is also in the water tray. Lastly I have a wonderful hanging Nepenthes sanguinea, the morning sun shines through the speckled pitchers showing the level of nectar in them, nice. If I only had one carnivorous plant it would surely be a Drosera for the gnats! 🌱🦟 can’t wait for the addition of a cool bog garden by your pond!
Your unkown drosera is probably tokaiensis
@@cikarica3521 thank you so much!
This is why I'm going down this rabbit hole
This video was a blast to watch. Got my fingers "itchy" to try it out 🥰 Thank You!
These were so cool! Definitely would be a great project to undertake.
can I grow them in a glass tank instead of the pot with the same cp mix and grow light? thinking of 24x18x18 inch tank
I live in the desert.
No more rain.
The water I would be using would be distilled.
Thank you for your advice.
That looks like so much fun! Such beautiful plants, Drosera are my favourites, they are so ethereal looking.
Thank you Summer! What a great follow-up episode!
Are you going to take your bog bowl home?
If well cared for you could propagate from it!
Love this DIY feature. The Jennifer Paige song reference for that clump joke made me laugh a little 😅
Always refreshing.......
They look great👍
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Great video.
I'm always learning, which is a good thing.
Thank you for discussing Peat use. I would like to try this but would need an alternative to Peat as I don’t use it. Lovely video
Can't wait to make my own here in NZ
A "CP mix" works for the majority of carnivorous plants and is an equal mix of Sphagnum peat and coarse sand. (I had to Google it)
Adding perlite helps too.
@@lindylou3519 But they surely don't want drainage, and soil is the pressed down hard... if I'm wrong tell me to bog off : )
@@musicalmarion Yes and no (and also depends on the species) but for the most part their rhizome likes to always be moist and their "feet" (end of roots) wet / boggy. Most of these species live on the edge of bogs and like regular cyclical flooding, but not 100%. Packing the bottom soil helps to mimic those conditions as the water wicks up.
They definitely do want drainage, as this allows for aeration and ultimately prevention of anaerobes. The moisture wicking quality of peat keeps the medium moist
Omg this is like the video I needed! I was thinking about making a bog bowl for some native british Drosera and lo behold your video is here!!
Oh my god your at the Atlanta botanical gardens!? 😍
nice! your bog bowl looks great 🪴
Fun video! Interested to know what those plant fiber mats are...
I was wondering this as well! Did you have any luck finding?
This is so cool. Love it.
Beautiful plants
This is so interesting, but I have never thought of mixing carnivorous plants together with normal flowers. 😮
Would love to see a Pinguicula bowel or Ping rock.
Would those bowls thrive if place in pond with support to adjust depth. Great video, thanks.
We have a fabulous bog fairly near us. Full of sphagnum moss pitcher plants and orchids
Love making these.
Coco works well with bogs, being in the south I have mix sphagnum moss
Great Video, Bog Plants are really unique and stunning in their own right.
Just one major suggestion: water wise Summer is right in using rain water or distilled water. Not because of PH, but more because of dissolved minerals. Hard water will burn you carnivorous plants fast, especially if you have hard well water. Some are more tolerant than others, but Flytraps like Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) readings below 50.
Also the same reason to use pool/play sand which is "washed silica", it's inert with no mineral or nutrients left in it.
CoCo Coir is generally not used because it breaks down too fast, has a high CEC, and leads to frequent repotting, but maybe if you can get the PH high enough to retard decomposition like peat...
Good bog bowls
Hola Summer desearía si fuera posible que los vídeos contarán con traducción al español,por favor!!!me encanta tu canal,amo la naturaleza puedes venir a Argentina a visitar jardines ?entre ellos a mí jardin por favor!!!!
What do you think about introducing carnivorous plants to new swamp/bogs?
Can you use beach sand? They sell that at the big box store?
Can you put any type of carnivorous plant in the blog mixture?
Dont use beach sand. It has nutrients, minerals and other stuff that will kill CP. You can put any cp species but keep in mind that some of them need winter dormancy while others grow whole year. So dont mix temperate and tropical CPs.
There's bog, jungle, and desert types of carnivorous plants so you need to do a little research as some have different care needs.
But the one thing in common is they all live in low nutrient and mineral areas, so clean pool sand and distilled / rain water is a common must.
"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." *
"Every other day or every third day".
That's why I haven't been able to keep a bog bowl or a bowl of moss.
A delicate ecosystem, and yet nature seems to get the job done.
I'm going to try again, but with a sand layer at the bottom. That might be my missing link.
One thing I know I'm doing right for my South facing plants in pots is to avoid Terra Cotta dishes unless they are glazed.
Pyrex Pie plates rule!
I buy all of them at my local thrift store.
Pots with attached saucers are cool too!
As long as there is flow...
I've given all of mine away... need to find more!
Will we see a spring bulb update this year??
Hello Rayne! I've been meaning to jump on and ask you what LAV mic you use in your videos? The audio always sounds so clean and crisp in your videos! Thank you!
I didn't understand what she meant by a faux pas with the amendment of soil. Usually with added microbial systems the plants are allowed access to existing nutrients. This is at least what i had assumed. Is this not the case?
maybe it's because of the anaerobic environment that's created in the bog
@@victorsimoes5722 exactly.
Carnivorous plant doesn't like nutrients in their soil as they grow in swampy, sterile places. Heavy minerals will kill them instantly. That's why newbies to carnivorous plants are not advice to try fertilizing as they tend to over fertilize.The water used if you keep them should only be distilled water, rain water or reverse osmosis which should be below 50 in TDS meter. Those things have zero to below 50 in TDS rating.
Its just a little crush :)
Need chapters to jump to needed content. Also, what is CP mix?
Sphagnum peat and course silica sand
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Y'all had flirty energy.
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Didn't get that all
isn't a lot of the issue with peat based on myth? aren't the major companies renewing the peat?
Peat grows 1mm per year. That means, a bog takes at least 1000 years, sometimes even 5000 years (!) to form.
Even if companies are "renewing" it, meaning restoring the sites they're taking it from, it is impossible to keep up with the amout that's extracted. Also, restoration measures often just don't take, because extraction sites get drained to be able to extract the peat. When the areas are flooded again (if at all), the balance of these delicate systems might just totally be off and can't be restored again.
Peat is sustainably harvested in North America. Europe did not.
Peat can't be harvested sustainably.
Sources?
@@scottburns8379 Did you see my reply? It has disappeared.
This looks awesome. I wonder if there's anywhere around here i could go to do this or if i should order some plants. I have a fungus gnat problem right now & would love to feed them to some plants instead of the other way around 🥲