Signs of Too Much Light or Too Little for Your Carnivorous Plant
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2022
- Kate will talk about finding that perfect Goldilocks spot of light for your plant in this video. What are signs of too much light? What are signs of too little light? She’ll tell you what to look for and why, botanically, plants display these signs.
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Excellent information!! Thank you so much!! I LOVE your plants and have purchased many from you!! I live in central Indiana by the way!!
Great video! So needed to watch this. Thank you.
Nice bit of information Kate. Hope to see you do more videos in the future too.
Thanks for the helpful info keep them coming please
Im so happy to find this video and channel. I am part of a Facebook trap group and they freak out on everyone saying every plant has to be in the full sunlight all the time. And I am like I am in Oregon and mine gets half the day in the sun and it does very well.
We have coastal Alabama sun. They thrive in it. Thanks for the tips!
That’s the perfect place for them!
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This entire last year has been interesting watching my Venus and it’s reaction to all the dimming strategies of the sun that’s been deployed above us. Explains why it’s not doing so well in the same spot it’s done great in for years before. Our plants are the canary in a coal mine. 😮
We’re located in Sonoma county and have had five years of really bad fires in our county and nearby. The smoke and haze were really extreme during these last years and it was interesting to see how it did or didn’t effect the plants!
Mmmmm. Kate can enlighten me about Sarracenia all day long...
I have several pitcher plants myself. I noticed on the site you say if you live in an area where snows bring inside in the winter. I live in zone 6b and it snows. I cover mine in the winter with burlap and pine straw and have never had a problem keeping outside year round. I live in VA in the blueridge mountains.
That’s great! We recommend that people can mulch them in heavily and we find many people are quite scared to try it! So it’s good to hear about your success!
Can you perhaps make a short video on what type of lights you could use when your plants are not able to get enough hours of sunlight every day? Greetings
We’ll add that to the list! We like the Yescom 225 square paneled light from Amazon
I think you might have answered my question a bit, but I'd like to ask it anyway: so I just bought two VFTs from a store. They looked very healthy in the store, a ton of big traps, good color, no dying traps at all. I brought them home and put them in a spot where they'll get sun for at least 8 hrs a day. Side note, the first catch they made was two flies in one trap, which was epic. I did unfortunately trigger more traps than I would have liked getting them out of their packaging and all that, but there were still plenty of open traps. Anyway, over the next few days, one of them especially, the one that was a lot more red, started getting black leaves and traps all over the place. I've been picking them off, now there's only two traps and two sprouts left on the entire plant, when there was at least 10-15 traps when I bought them. I did just notice a really, really tiny baby sprout just now, so I think that's a good sign. The more green one is doing okay, but I've had to pick off several leaves and traps from it too. Is it just from the huge increase in sunlight, and it'll just take some time for them to adjust? I do live in LA, so we get some pretty strong sun. It's definitely not lack of water, I water them every morning to keep the soil nice and damp all day in the hot sun. Should I maybe move them to a place where they'll get less direct sunlight for now?
It’s most likely just acclimating to your conditions. If you got it a hardware store or grocery store, it’s probably never been outside before. So it’s just burning off the old leaves but the new leaves that grow in should be well acclimatized. In your area you can also put it in full morning sun with a little protection from the worst of the afternoon sun during summer!
I love this video as I grow in the sun drenched state of Arizona!! I was wondering if you all had any idea where I could find pictures of sun damaged carnivorous plants?? If not I understand. Sun damage is something I am very close concerned about.
Generally sun damaged plants will show dark blotches, almost like water damage. Dehydrated plants will just shrivel up and obviously look dehydrated.
If I spot anything in the nursery that’s sun damaged, I’ll photograph it for you. They do get weird spots and blotches as well as just burning back and turning black at the edges for plants like flytraps
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Thank You !
Where I live they get 6-8 hours of sunlight every day and they are very red so I think that is enough sun 🤗
Great video! Especially useful if you're using LED lighting, where UV and heat aren't as much concern. Took me a while to dial in my nepenthes based on new growth color/size.
It can be so hard to dial that in!
My purpurea is making a lot of these very small droplets on the pitchers that feel like syrup. It's only showing up in the areas that get the most sun. Im growing indoors with lights. But am still providing a dormancy with the purpurea.
It’s probably very happy!
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Great video, Kate!
Questions: How can you tell if a Nepenthes isn’t producing pitchers from not enough light vs not enough humidity?
And speaking of humidity and Nepenthes, your care guides and on each individual Nepenthes pages don’t list humidity ranges. Is there a reason for that?
I have your N. ventricosa ‘Orange’ x dubia and I constantly worry about humidity as I have a reptile heater to warm it during the day. This heat dries the air to 35%. But at night it goes up to 75% or more (the plant is sitting in a large tray with sphagnum moss and pebbles with water but the pot itself is in a dry, smaller tray inside the bigger tray keeping the bottom of the pot dry). I got a small humidifier that runs next to the plant during the day and that brings the humidity up to the mid 50s%.
Pitchers are growing! So should I keep up with the humidifier? Or can I stop it? (My wife is not too happy with the billowing mist in the living room). Is 35% humidity in the day and 75%+ at night enough humidity?
I’m also thinking about getting another “easy” Nepenthes, a sanguinea but want to wait to see if my humidity situation works. I’ve had my N. ventricosa ‘Orange’ x dubia for 2 months now. Lost the original 2 pitchers but one just opened and a 2nd new one is developing. :)
We always start with light as it is more often than not a lack of light that leads to poor pitcher development. You can usually tell it’s light from the leaf development too. So if the leaves are tidy and compact, they’re getting enough light. If they’re huge but not producing pitchers, that would also indicate light is the issue.
Humidity is less of an issue in growing the Nepenthes as houseplants, in our experience so we don’t have a general recommendation on humidity levels. Where we are, the greenhouse is quite humid but our actual climate is not and we’re all able to grow lovely Nepenthes at home without added humidity. It’s a bit of a balance of watering enough and balancing the natural humidity.
If your plant is happy, I would only make changes to your setup slowly so that your plant can acclimate. Or, if it’s super happy, keep it as it is! Maybe move the plants into an old glass fish tank to keep the humidity more localized and less in the living room?
@@California_Carnivores awesome!! I’ll stop obsessing about humidity as the 3 new leaves are pretty compact so far, one with a newly opened pitcher, 2nd leaf with a swelling tendril tip and a 3rd leaf following tightly behind.
It’s under a grow light (Mother.life PlantSpectrum light) about 6” below along side a mini Phalaenopsis and a Paphiopedilum orchids.
I have a very young (~1 yr) sarracenia x mitchelliana and I want to make sure I’m not over-watering. Strange one, I know. But I guarantee it’s not underwatered. Plus, this being the first time I’ve had pitchers, I can see they’re going dormant somewhat early. What should I watch out for and is this early dormancy caused by overwatering? Or something else? Thanks guys, you’ve all been great teachers over these couple years for me
Dormancy is triggered by shorter photo periods and cold weather combined; it’s hard to say which one has more impact! Most Sarracenia really can’t be over watered and many species experience seasonal flooding in the wild! Its more likely that your plant just know what time of year it is and is going dormant; plants always seem to know! In such a young plant you could skip a dormancy safely and you would just need to maintain warm temps and have a grow light set to a 12 hour day length for it
Hi how are you guys hope all is well From DeliToFarms...I have a question I purchased the sarracenia seeds copertop with deep throat should I do a cold stratification on them in the fridge or are they fresh enough to just put on soil......??? And Thank you guys for the beautiful plants that you guys sell 😅😁😁🔥👏👊👍🤟😈
Thank you! 😊 they are quite fresh but I would still do cold stratification to get the best and quickest germination - also, that’s such a good hybrid!
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You mentioned that full sun means different things in different areas. I’m in zone 6a at 6190 feet elevation. My thoughts are because of the elevation (more UV rays) I’m not going to be able to keep them in 8 hours of direct sunlight. I need to do something filtered OR have them in less direct sun (4-6 hours). Does that sound reasonable?
It’s going to depend on the species/genus a lot too. We use a 30% shade cloth in the late spring-fall in our area over the full sun loving plants. They get a full days worth of sun but the shade cloth takes the edge off and that may be a good solution for you as well.
I have drosera hercules x self seedlings that are turning a very pale light-green color. I can't figure out if this from too much or too little light? I was also wondering how long seedlings should remain in a humidity dome.
We usually remove the humidity domes when they’re about 1/2” across in size. It’s most likely not enough light but I wouldn’t change all the factors at once. Remove the dome and then wait a few weeks to see how the leaves look before adjusting light
Off topic from the video but how do you feed utricularia? Also when are you guys going to be able to sell them?
We apply the Maxsea fertilizer to the plants and it really helps them to bloom! We have tons of plants growing out and as soon as they’re not so squidgy in the pots, I’ll put them up on the website!
@@California_Carnivores great! I’ll be on the lookout
My sarracenia purperea and two smaller ones are burning at the tips and I’m wondering if my plants will adapt to the high amounts of sunlight, or if I have to move them somewhere shadier
Give them time to adjust out. They grow in full sun in the southeastern coastal plain of the United States so they can take a lot of heat and sun. The first leaves may burn but new leaves will be better prepared. And some leaf burn is just normal in summer
Thank you so much, I’ve noticed that some of the newer pitchers are more resilient to the harsh sun😁
Is it okay to put my VFTS on Morning sun and Afternoon sun then 80W Growlight at night time. Is it okay for them? Or it will just kill them?
I would pick one option; outside in sunlight or inside under grow lights. And they will go crazy for a while if you grow them with 24 light, but eventually that lack of a night rest period will catch up with them and they will start to do very poorly
Hello, me again…. I followed your tip for the sundew I dropped I did buy a humidifer and sprayed it with a little bit of water every now and then but I can’t put it out side right now because it’s cold in the state of Ohio at the moment and I don’t have a grow light yet and the plant looks terrible it was going well for a few days after I dropped it and followed your instructions but I don’t know if I did something to the plant or something I don’t know where I went wrong is there a way I can send you guys a picture of it or something and tell me what to do I don’t want it to die
Update: I think it’s dead now one of the leaves is turning all the way brown it’s been a few hours and it’s getting darker in color maybe I just wasn’t suited to take care of a plant
The leaves may die back but as long as new leaves are growing, it’s going to be okay. You can always email us at info@californiacarnivores.com. I would avoid misting the plant and instead make sure that it’s getting full sun and is sitting in a deep bowl of water all the time
How do keep that bright green moss?
It just grows and grows without much interference from us 😂 it spreads by spores in the nursery and it’s a little star moss
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I can’t seem to keep it going once I receive my plants.
Are you guys ever gonna open to the public again? How do we purchase plants?
We don’t plan on reopening to the public but we do have lots of plants available on our website; www.californiacarnivores.com 😊
How long does full acclimation happen? I once bought death cube venus flytraps from my city's botanical garden and placed them in direct sunlight, and they got red and sunburnt.
It can take a few weeks. With a plant like a flytrap, you can do a slow acclimation; start them outside in a protected area and then move them to full morning sun the next day, then into an area that gets a few more hours of light the next day and so on until you’re in full sun. The plant may still burn slightly, but it will reduce that initial leaf burn. You’ll also find that even if they burn, they will grow new leaves that are pretty sun-hardy after that!
Are red flytraps more hardy?
@@lorenzomabalos9851 not necessarily, we often find them to be slower growing and they send their flowers up later in the year. We haven’t seen them be more cold hardy than other flytraps and the most cold hardy variety that we grow is traditional green and red
Can someone comment the whole video in short
Should I be expecting my sundew to eat gnats? The leaves don’t have anything sticky on them
It can take them 2-4 weeks to produce dew after you receive them in shipping. After that, if they aren’t producing dew, it may be that they aren’t getting enough light.
@@California_Carnivores appreciate the feedback. I’ll change up their current exposure to see if that makes a difference
What is the ginormous picture plant in the middle !?!?
Those are sculptures 😁
Too much light? I thought they had to get as much light as possible
Especially with artificial light, you can scorch plants. And in places that are very hot AND very dry you can have too much heat and sun for bog plants without careful balance
Hi folks, love your videos but the sound sucks, you need to invest in a ride microphone or something as you’re too far away from the microphone and background noise is ruining the video. Hope you can sort..!
I’m sorry about that - we’ve actually gone through three microphones that have all died in the nursery (possibly the humidity? We have to replace the nursery landline phone constantly too) if you have any microphone suggestions, I’m really happy to take them!
I hate to leave a message on your Channel like this I ordered a plant 12 days ago it finally got shipped from California to New Jersey it hasn't moved in two days in New Jersey says it's on its way but I live in Southeast Texas why did it go from California to New Jersey and now it's not got a robo mail from y'all that's about it
Hi Robert! Thank you so much for your order! We do take 5-10 business days to process all orders, it’s entered the height of the busy season for us. Once the boxes have shipped, they’re out of our control and totally in the hands of the USPS. Usually they do a great job but sometimes they take the plants on a crazy, around the world journey that I cannot explain! I’m so sorry your plants are taking an impromptu tour of the US! Let me know how they look when you get them. I’m sorry it’s all been so delayed, I know that’s super frustrating!
@@California_Carnivores thank you very much I know exactly what you're saying because it's happened before but the bad thing is I know those plants delicate UPS like to play soccer and hockey with certain things LOL but not really laughing. Appreciate your response and they're going to get a piece of my mind I know that much I also apologize for if I sounded rude or mean or anything I just couldn't get a response for a minute there now just it doesn't actually show me where it's going. Just says your package is moving I'm like yeah. I appreciate you though sorry about the book I just wrote LOL I'll keep you posted.
Yay I'm not sure if you got my other message but if it's made it and it's none the worse for wear for its little sightseeing Adventure in a box LOL stupid USPS sometimes can't live with them can't live without them
@@BobbyParker784 I’m so glad to hear that!