This is the kind of video that most plant collectors must see... i think it is our responsibility as plant collector to know where our plants coming from
Another interesting and ethically correct video! Poaching is a crime, or at least it must be legally determined as such ! You have a big point on it Sean ! On the other hand, Indonesian endemic plants are sooo beautiful! You literally live in paradise!! Thank you for this post and wish you success for your store!!
Licuala (and other palm) can be propagate through sowing seeds. They don't grow pups around them. I've heard Licuala mapu are hard to grow and will take 4-5 years to start growing seeds. The seeds however will germinate around 12-16 months and does need high ph soil, so nurseries are having hard time to germinate them.
Thank you for this, I’m very jealous of the plants that you’re able to get so easily however I appreciate that you show them to us and hope that one day responsibly were able to get them. 😎
As someone with an education in rural development and natural resource management, I love your message about poaching. That the world is colorful, not black and white❤️🧡💛💚💙💜. People rarely poach or engage in criminal activities without a good reason, usually that reason is to put food on their table or to pay for their children's education. With education (as you say) and economic help like agricultural extention and stronger social security nets, poaching and other issues can be mitigated. Poachers are more often than not victims of their socioeconomic situation, rather than inherently evil criminals (as is easily perceived from a black and white perspective). I guess something like this is what you hinted at, and I love that you raise this topic! Also, I would love a world where every business profiting from selling tropical plants donated a percentage of their earnings to rainforest conservation. 🤗💚
First: your videos are NEVER too long Second: beautiful plants!! Third: I would fight you in a parking lot for that palm 😂😂😂 Thank you for another great video!
Really love your videos there is so many new plants we learning here. And sometimes same same plants thats is shown on other videos are too repetitive that I loose interest in watching them🥴.
Those plants are so beautiful I would love to have them in my collection Another great video thank you so much for sharing and look if someone is going to give you plants take them its a gift for you to keep sharing with others and sale for a great price as much as you propagate the price will come down so we to can afford beautiful plants like these ..
Sean, you are correct to be cautious about endorsements. Take KD as an example, I recently tried buying plants from them and had only gotten luke warm response. Probably because I'm not an influencer. I don't have social media account, just my checking account, and apparently this isn't good enough for them to treat me as a customer. A quick youtube search showed that plant blogger channels with decent amount of followers had gotten plants from them. Marketing to its best, I don't blame you or them. Maybe mention YMMV (Your Mileage may Vary) clause next time you review a store. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
Whoaaa interesting… I might bring this up to them next time I run into them. (Keeping your name anonymous). It might have to do with their admin/staff or limited english.
I have licuala mapu , they hate direct sunlight or they will getting burn n die. Dont give them fertilizer too, the leaf patern will gone and die too slowly, i have 20 pot licuala but only 1 pot survived until now🥲. Btw ur plants look gorgeous! Saya suka liatnya sukses selalu mas👍
Let be honest, most of plants were first taken from the wild but what important is how they took them like a cutting or the whole plant with roots. I’m glad you are against poaching that why I love this channel! That’s begonia might be Begonia Geogeonsis
Whoaaa thank you for that ID I think you are right! All plants were taken from the wild but these days because of instagram and also how easy it is to export, a lot of poaching is done at an alarming rate before they can be properly preserved ex-situ in a way that benefits local economy. Its all about finding balance and being a bit patient and being respectful to the region its found in.
@@onlyplants wow ,that's why I really dislike those trends and social media influence in general,, I never thought it's this big and complex of a topic ..I strongly agree that you should speak up about it
Unfortunately i think there's no regulations on poaching these kind of exotic plants in Indonesia. If there's any regulations on it, i doubt the laws is enforce to the (illegal) hunters. At least it's not as extensive as illegal poaching of wild animals. Especially for plants that aren't necessarily 'rare' in certain area of indonesian's forest. Sadly your point of poaching being a livelihood of people that live near the forest is true as well. I think the solution for this problem is making some kind of agricultural extension to these hunters about preserving biodiversity of their forest. They can poach few plants, grow them, propagate, and then sell it. And the most important one, we need a institution that take care of the documentation of plants that the the hunters took from the wild, how many they took, what's the species and variety, the size, photographic evidence, etc. The hunters should be also have some kind of license if they want to poach plants from the forest.
Correct. Licenses are hard to implement… I think it is more important to educate both the hunter and the buyer, and try to pair hunters with growers for profit sharing scheme.
Put them in medium light and water really often, here in Indonesia we cannot let the soil dry. I water them everyday. They need high humidity…80% i guess. And the potting media should be the one which holds water.
I also killed my leea amabilis 😂 It arrived in a perfect condition and then I overconfidently repot it. It drooped several minutes after 🤣 'Dead' a few days later 😅 cold stone dead ahahaha Lo and behold, after a few months it sprung back to life 😍 Btw, we always have palms at home, as far as I know I've never seen them grow pups. They have this seed or should I say 'fruit'? 😅 they have it all year round. And when they drop to the ground, they would easily grow into a new baby plant. Gotta be careful growing palms if you don't put them in pots, they would grow massive and everywhere 😂 Ours have been destroying the fence, because they have this extreme root system 😅😅
Is propagating a plant from the wild poaching plants to? Cause every time I go to a forest in indonesia I search for vining houseplants and propagated it every time hope I didn't commit a crime , thx
I wouldn’t call it a crime… if the plant is in huge abundance in nature and you can multiply it successfully I dont see any issues at all, in fact you would be helping preserve the species 😀 but if one is hunting for extremely rare plants for a few bucks to be exported to the other side of the world where it may not survive the journey, that would be very wrong (in my opinion)
There's a fine line between conservation and crime. Are you ripping off the entire plant completely and not leaving enough for regeneration? Then you're committing a crime. Are you taking just a tiny cutting and leaving the rest to grow? You're conserving ex-situ. So... It's kinda like how archaeology is kinda like grave robbery but not really.
By word of mouth/testimonials, and also you can see from the images if the plants were in pristine nursery conditions or if they looked like they were yanked out of a forest.
It's so sad to see how prevalent poaching is... I ordered a Chiloschista lunifera from a seller thinking she's legit, turns out she has poached them from the wild and so the plant died and i felt bad owning it 😔 i also bought a Dendrobium cumulatum and a Vanda stangeana which also seem to be poached with the amount of lichen attached to their roots and the dehydrated state they arrived in.
Anyone growing a wild plant got it at some point from the wild (by wild I mean non a man-made hybrid or cultivar). Even tissue culture is essentially just cloning a wild plant. So where do we draw a line? I know poaching is just taking the plant from the wild and selling it but how about growers? How do they source new species to grow commercially? Is there any legal way to source wild plants and grow them? It's all extremely confusing, especially that there is no real way to know where the plant came from. Even if the grower now has a 100 specimens in their nursery the original mother plant could have been poached.
Haha because this is a bonus video 🙈 the hint for next video is still in the last video. We actually have 3 more videos coming this week! Its a mouthful
It is so important that the Indonesian people are getting educated NOT to be tempted to poach due to crazy collectors overseas who would sell their grandma for a plant that no one Else owns. Why is superiority over other ppl so important nowadays ? Are ppl not self confidant anymore , not being able to just represent themselves through their well cultivated character and personality ? Indonesians should by all means preserve the local Environment and buyers should stop chasing the white ghost in the forest .
This is the kind of video that most plant collectors must see... i think it is our responsibility as plant collector to know where our plants coming from
Another interesting and ethically correct video! Poaching is a crime, or at least it must be legally determined as such ! You have a big point on it Sean ! On the other hand, Indonesian endemic plants are sooo beautiful! You literally live in paradise!! Thank you for this post and wish you success for your store!!
Thank youu
I didn't know plants could be poached, that was educational, thank you!
I have been looking at some of these species to grow in my greenhouse. These plants are quite expensive and hard to get in Europe. Great showcase!
Amazing plants! Thank you for the video.
Licuala (and other palm) can be propagate through sowing seeds. They don't grow pups around them. I've heard Licuala mapu are hard to grow and will take 4-5 years to start growing seeds. The seeds however will germinate around 12-16 months and does need high ph soil, so nurseries are having hard time to germinate them.
Whoaaaa good info, thank youu
Sean, this was excellent! You always show such good character and your passion and understanding is very clear. Those plants are so beautiful.
Wow so much of rich information to digest here! And those plants!! Oh my I want them all!
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That Labisia ia so interesting I have not seen one of those before how cool is that.
Thank you for this, I’m very jealous of the plants that you’re able to get so easily however I appreciate that you show them to us and hope that one day responsibly were able to get them. 😎
Thank you for very important topic and for showing incredible plants.
Looooooovvveeee the plants and your message!!!!!
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@@onlyplants hahaha
Gorgeous plants, love it
Wow, loved all your gifted plants
All your plant is super amazing sir! I'm inspired to take care my plants really because of you ♥️.....your homalomena is superb!
That begonia sp is BEAUTIFUL
Thank you my friend faithfully watching your video L1
Hello from Australia 🇦🇺 love your videos can’t wait to see the next instalment 🙂
As someone with an education in rural development and natural resource management, I love your message about poaching. That the world is colorful, not black and white❤️🧡💛💚💙💜. People rarely poach or engage in criminal activities without a good reason, usually that reason is to put food on their table or to pay for their children's education. With education (as you say) and economic help like agricultural extention and stronger social security nets, poaching and other issues can be mitigated. Poachers are more often than not victims of their socioeconomic situation, rather than inherently evil criminals (as is easily perceived from a black and white perspective). I guess something like this is what you hinted at, and I love that you raise this topic!
Also, I would love a world where every business profiting from selling tropical plants donated a percentage of their earnings to rainforest conservation. 🤗💚
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Nice video 😍
Bukan anak taneman, tapi cinta bgt kartel daun. Tank you sean, then buy from us😅🙏
Got 2 more plants into my wishlist. Thank u... 😍
love these educational hauls!
First: your videos are NEVER too long
Second: beautiful plants!!
Third: I would fight you in a parking lot for that palm 😂😂😂
Thank you for another great video!
International viewer yeahhhh🥳 From Germany and I love your content. As soon as you ship abroad, pls let us know🤩
Thank youuu
Wow, nice haul! Such cool plants. Most of them probably aren’t available in the US, but I can wait. Thanks for sharing! Enjoy your new plants.
Really love your videos there is so many new plants we learning here. And sometimes same same plants thats is shown on other videos are too repetitive that I loose interest in watching them🥴.
Those plants are so beautiful I would love to have them in my collection Another great video thank you so much for sharing and look if someone is going to give you plants take them its a gift for you to keep sharing with others and sale for a great price as much as you propagate the price will come down so we to can afford beautiful plants like these ..
oh my oh my .... sooo exciting!
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Sean, you are correct to be cautious about endorsements. Take KD as an example, I recently tried buying plants from them and had only gotten luke warm response. Probably because I'm not an influencer. I don't have social media account, just my checking account, and apparently this isn't good enough for them to treat me as a customer. A quick youtube search showed that plant blogger channels with decent amount of followers had gotten plants from them. Marketing to its best, I don't blame you or them. Maybe mention YMMV (Your Mileage may Vary) clause next time you review a store. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
Whoaaa interesting… I might bring this up to them next time I run into them. (Keeping your name anonymous). It might have to do with their admin/staff or limited english.
Ga nyangka ini endemic Indonesia. bagus2 banget ga kalah sama encemic amerika selatan.
Iya ini kayaknya next global trend. Rhaphidophora dan scindapsus lagi mulai gerak
Very informative video..
Nice plants! I like their logo.
At the very top of my plant wishlist is the Alocasia Infernalis (endemic to Borneo).
I just googled it. Cool!!!
تبارك الله عليك الله يعطيك الصحه نتمنى لك التوفيق والنجاح ويدوم التواصل👍👍🔔
맨왼쪽 아단소니 신품종인가봐요? 유니크하네요 예쁨요ㅎ🤗
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Some homalomena I have too... Homalomena hairy
It's Begonia Goegoensis, very beautiful 😍
Thank youuu
I have licuala mapu , they hate direct sunlight or they will getting burn n die. Dont give them fertilizer too, the leaf patern will gone and die too slowly, i have 20 pot licuala but only 1 pot survived until now🥲. Btw ur plants look gorgeous! Saya suka liatnya sukses selalu mas👍
Wahh thanks for the tip!
Let be honest, most of plants were first taken from the wild but what important is how they took them like a cutting or the whole plant with roots.
I’m glad you are against poaching that why I love this channel! That’s begonia might be Begonia Geogeonsis
Whoaaa thank you for that ID I think you are right!
All plants were taken from the wild but these days because of instagram and also how easy it is to export, a lot of poaching is done at an alarming rate before they can be properly preserved ex-situ in a way that benefits local economy. Its all about finding balance and being a bit patient and being respectful to the region its found in.
@@onlyplants wow ,that's why I really dislike those trends and social media influence in general,,
I never thought it's this big and complex of a topic ..I strongly agree that you should speak up about it
I would love to receive more plants. 😁
Unfortunately i think there's no regulations on poaching these kind of exotic plants in Indonesia. If there's any regulations on it, i doubt the laws is enforce to the (illegal) hunters. At least it's not as extensive as illegal poaching of wild animals. Especially for plants that aren't necessarily 'rare' in certain area of indonesian's forest. Sadly your point of poaching being a livelihood of people that live near the forest is true as well. I think the solution for this problem is making some kind of agricultural extension to these hunters about preserving biodiversity of their forest. They can poach few plants, grow them, propagate, and then sell it. And the most important one, we need a institution that take care of the documentation of plants that the the hunters took from the wild, how many they took, what's the species and variety, the size, photographic evidence, etc. The hunters should be also have some kind of license if they want to poach plants from the forest.
Correct. Licenses are hard to implement… I think it is more important to educate both the hunter and the buyer, and try to pair hunters with growers for profit sharing scheme.
I saw Bat plant when in the jungles of Borneo a couple of years ago. Do you have experience with Bat plant id love tips xx
I just brought it back to life but not sure of the conditions to let it thrive. It seem to be quite hard
Put them in medium light and water really often, here in Indonesia we cannot let the soil dry. I water them everyday. They need high humidity…80% i guess. And the potting media should be the one which holds water.
Licuala 'Mapu' need very low pH soil, please watch Nyonya Destira video about it, she interviewed Mr. Hambali about Mapu care.
Oh wowww must do that
Maybe ground coffee might be good for this plant 😀
I also killed my leea amabilis 😂
It arrived in a perfect condition and then I overconfidently repot it. It drooped several minutes after 🤣
'Dead' a few days later 😅 cold stone dead ahahaha
Lo and behold, after a few months it sprung back to life 😍
Btw, we always have palms at home, as far as I know I've never seen them grow pups. They have this seed or should I say 'fruit'? 😅 they have it all year round. And when they drop to the ground, they would easily grow into a new baby plant.
Gotta be careful growing palms if you don't put them in pots, they would grow massive and everywhere 😂
Ours have been destroying the fence, because they have this extreme root system 😅😅
Whoaaaa good tip about palm propagation. Many thanks!
Gorgeous
Love your fuzzy Homolomena.. Sean hope you do more plant haul in future😉👍🏻
Is propagating a plant from the wild poaching plants to? Cause every time I go to a forest in indonesia I search for vining houseplants and propagated it every time hope I didn't commit a crime , thx
I wouldn’t call it a crime… if the plant is in huge abundance in nature and you can multiply it successfully I dont see any issues at all, in fact you would be helping preserve the species 😀 but if one is hunting for extremely rare plants for a few bucks to be exported to the other side of the world where it may not survive the journey, that would be very wrong (in my opinion)
There's a fine line between conservation and crime. Are you ripping off the entire plant completely and not leaving enough for regeneration? Then you're committing a crime.
Are you taking just a tiny cutting and leaving the rest to grow? You're conserving ex-situ.
So... It's kinda like how archaeology is kinda like grave robbery but not really.
That begonia! 😍😍😍
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How do you find a reputable grower?
By word of mouth/testimonials, and also you can see from the images if the plants were in pristine nursery conditions or if they looked like they were yanked out of a forest.
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It's so sad to see how prevalent poaching is...
I ordered a Chiloschista lunifera from a seller thinking she's legit, turns out she has poached them from the wild and so the plant died and i felt bad owning it 😔 i also bought a Dendrobium cumulatum and a Vanda stangeana which also seem to be poached with the amount of lichen attached to their roots and the dehydrated state they arrived in.
🥲
Anyone growing a wild plant got it at some point from the wild (by wild I mean non a man-made hybrid or cultivar). Even tissue culture is essentially just cloning a wild plant. So where do we draw a line? I know poaching is just taking the plant from the wild and selling it but how about growers? How do they source new species to grow commercially? Is there any legal way to source wild plants and grow them? It's all extremely confusing, especially that there is no real way to know where the plant came from. Even if the grower now has a 100 specimens in their nursery the original mother plant could have been poached.
Begonia sp ( begonia geogoensis from sumatera )
Thank youu
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Sean.. usually you give us a hint what is next video will be. But there is nothing today.. what happened?
Haha because this is a bonus video 🙈 the hint for next video is still in the last video. We actually have 3 more videos coming this week! Its a mouthful
It is so important that the Indonesian people are getting educated NOT to be tempted to poach due to crazy collectors overseas who would sell their grandma for a plant that no one Else owns.
Why is superiority over other ppl so important nowadays ?
Are ppl not self confidant anymore , not being able to just represent themselves through their well cultivated character and personality ?
Indonesians should by all means preserve the local Environment and buyers should stop chasing the white ghost in the forest .
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