How Should Your Venus Flytraps Look Throughout A Year?
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Bobbi the Karate Cat, Abby and Baxter, and Pitcher Plants make cameo appearances in this fun video about Venus Flytrap care, following Venus Flytraps through a year and looking closely at how they ‘look’ from winter dormancy through the hot, active, fast growing days of summer. Beautifully shot and edited, and if you’re a nature nerd this video has a lot of entertainment to offer beyond Venus Flytrap tips and care.
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very interesting video! would be cool if you did more videos on the other pets/plants you have!
I love your videos. You really have a calm nature about you and it's fascinating watching and listening to your videos. Thanks for showing the flytraps. I hope Leon is doing well.
Hey Jay, thanks for watching! Yeah Leon is doing great. I have a new major update coming soon. ✌️✌️✌️
Yes it’s like getting to go on a kind hearted journey. One you’d get at the pet store or zoo in an ideal world.
Hi Brady, this was one of your very best videos. I absolutely love your content and the way you explain everything. Your passion, understanding and your sense of humor is a joy to listen to.
Awesome! Thank you so much for watching. ✌️✌️✌️
Those plants are fascinating. I enjoy your low-,key approach to going through the annual cycle with good close-ups. Thank you.
Hey, Brady! Very interesting video and I love the kitty cameos. Looking forward to the next Leon update! 😊 🦞
Thank you very much for this! I can't believe this isn't in 4k! That is how good your shots are!
You have an amazing eye and deliver a fantastic view of various forms of life interacting with the Flytraps/carnivorous garden. So very informational, entertaining and inspiring!
I live in Michigan and there is a carnivorous plant farm here local that I want to check out for sure now.
Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see what you can show us in 4k! I am sure you will be able to do that soon with the quality content you put out currently.
Please consider creating videos showing how to make both small and large scale terrariums for indooor settings.
P.S. - Is it possible to create an ecosystem hosting carnivorous plants that is healthy for reptiles, frogs or other small creatures that people may keep as pets (scorpions too!?)?
I came here for Leon, but I am thoroughly enjoying *all* of your pursuits! You have some really fascinating hobbies, and you share them so well!
Thank you! ❤🦞❤🦞
Hey Nancy, thank you so much for checking out the videos! ✌️✌️✌️🦞
I got a fly trap as a gift for my sister without fully appreciating that they're kind of a mix between a plant and an animal as far as care goes. I was worried that I was giving her a pot full of constant work to do, but she's enjoyed tending it. They're probably the most interesting plant that I've ever encountered. It's really cool to see so many of them in one place. 👍
Yeah they are really fascinating and tend to operate the opposite of how most plants operate.
@@Bradybrandwood Indeed... Just me keeping it alive until it could be gifted was an adventure all of its own. I thought you just put it in soil and water it, right..? 😆
You have no idea how helpful this is! I've only gone through 2 summers since moving to the Carolinas from the midwest and it's remarkable what grows here. I never really knew Venus fly traps were native to so close to where I am.
I've had a backyard space for only a few months now and really got to dig into growing my own plants and produce for the first time. Now that it's cooling down I'm busy planning the space for next spring and this is just the fun touch I needed! I'm excited to start a tub of a few plants come next spring. May need to figure out something different come winter as it does get a bit chillier here in the mountains but I would love to hear more on your advice for keeping the plants indoors over winter months.
Truly excited to see the life this invites into my yard as I've already spotted a few frogs.
Im afraid to ask but how much time do you spend daily on your plants... watering, maintenance, clean up, etc?
Nice video, gave a like and subscribed cause you added the cats in it too😊👍
Awesome! Thank you for watching. I spend a lot of time on the plants and the Koi, but it’s enjoyable time. ✌️✌️✌️
Okay....why do you not want to fertilize the ground that the fly traps are in? Do they do better in poor soil?😇❤️
Yep, poor soil is better for carnivorous plants. Carnivorous plants adapted to environments with poor soil by finding that bugs are a good nutrient source.
They get their nutrients from what they eat as opposed to what they're in.
@@robrod7120 you said the same thing I was going to!
@@robrod7120 thank you!
We’ve had our fly traps for a few years now. We’re in FL. I had no idea they go dormant! That explains it! Mostly they are outside but when it gets cold here, I bring them inside.
Between Leon & the Flytraps really enjoying your channel!
Amazing production Brady! Very informative! Beautiful photography! Thank you! Frances
Awesome Frances! Thank you for checking it out. ✌️✌️✌️
Hi Brady! Love your plant videos, I noticed in a few of your other videos that you seem to have a large variety of other plants. Would you ever consider doing a video where you show them all and talk about them? :)
I don't understand how I went from watching lobster to venus flytrap content but hey! I'm here for it! Keep it coming Brady!
For a second I thought this was a random recommendation, then I saw it was you and I knew it was going to be somewhere between useful and *very* useful :)
Awesome! Thank you for checking it out. ✌️✌️✌️
I live near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and I follow much the same procedure as you with my Venus Fly Traps. Mine stay uncovered in full sun all year round as we have relatively mild winters (May through to August) and very hot and humid summers (November through to March) all with rain water added daily.
Brady, your greenthumb is amazing and your cinematography is ascending to another level! I want to live in the moment with that dragonfly, such peace and beauty. Thank you so much for sharing. Sending best wishes for you and yours.
This looks like a lot of work, but yet, so relaxing. Love your videos.
Enjoyed this video. Started watching you when Leon came home. Staying because of your smooth narration and obvious subject knowledge. Thanks!
Thank you for this video, now when I decide to try and grow them again I’ll know how they are meant to look
I've tried so hard to keep them alive 😂 I have 3 remaining out of 9! I live in zone 6b but keep them outside as much as possible despite my attempts my remaining 3 look terrible. I've done so much research trying to keep these things alive! I know my remaining 3 are eating and only getting rain water but they still look like they're barely hanging on 😆
They are definitely difficult.
This was totally enchanting. And I love your cats. A BIG thank you.
You make everything seem so beautiful and magical. I’m literally mesmerized by your videos!!
You are such a talented story teller. I tried keeping a fly trap in Reno, NV. I used the distilled water and let it soak up the water from below, but one day I left it outside to get some real sun, and it happened to get up to 106 that day. When I brought it in, it was dead. Dry heat and record heat doesn't help them, so I'll give up while living in a high altitude (4500k ft) desert.
Really some beautiful photography you have shot. Always a joy watching your videos
Your camera work and photography are fantastic! We gotta get you a new mic and your videos will be top notch! Time to buy a few shirts from your store for me...
I just love your videos, started with Leon, but also love the other videos about animals and plants; both interesting and funny. Anway, keep up the good work & kind regards from Belgium!
Thanks so much for this video! I just started growing VFTs this summer and was wondering what to expect with dormancy. Love seeing the seasons!
I pull the flower stalks and push then down into the moss against the edge of the pot. Very good hit rate of them growing new plants. I also divide the rhizomes every couple of years to double or triple the number of plants. After seeing this I might actually let them flower, I didn't realise how much seed they produce.
So interesting and relaxing. I really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing.
I just discovered you a few days ago, and love your videos, as well as your life! I am considering retiring from my jod and come into your world. Thanks again.
It's amazing that he saved this poor venus fly trap from a death sentence from the supermarket.
😅 SmartAss!
Wow, your Leon's Dad! I knew your voice was familiar. Lol
😅😅😅🦞
Amazing content!! Wow it very strange how literally in highschool 2009 when youtube was just getting popular all this content was what I was interested and doing as a hobby, including koi pond, various flytraps and sarracenia along with fish from a single betta to an arrowana plus leopard geckos and my own dubia roach colony. Keep it up!! 💯
Very interesting Brady! They wouldn't last long if I had them though, I do NOT have a green thumb! Lol. Anyway, can't wait to see the update on Leon🙋
Your videos are amazing! And I adore dragonflies...what awesome little predators they are!
I've had my new plants for 2 weeks, they look healthy, I'm taking care of them. I feed them myself with beetles I raise
I miss Leon! Looking forward to his next video 💖❤️🧡
I’m working on a new Leon update now. It’ll be up soon. ✌️✌️✌️🦞
The beds of fly trap seedling look awesome! Amazing to see!
Great video! Must have been in the works for a while! Really cool to see the dragonflies!
Cool subject. Thanks for the video
What an interesting visit to your unique garden!! Do you find that the population of summer flies in your yard, are kept in check by your Venus flytraps? Very enjoyable video!! Say HI to Leon, for us.
Hi Bobby 😊❤❤ Baxter! 😂 I love your kitties!
I am a fruit fly geneticist. I love these plants and they are BEAUTIFUL!
You always have the coolest content. Love your varied collection of life!
Your channel is great i come here to unwind keep it up looking forward to another Leon update
I think that grass is edible and tastes like onion, but do your research. Where I live we call them Gräslök (Grassonion)
I don't know how I didn't find your channel sooner but I went from stuff about Sea Monkeys and then hermit crabs, and ended up meeting Leon, and now we're on carnivorous plants. My workday has been dead. I took one call all day (I work from home) and these videos kept me sane. Definitely worth a sub, and I am currently researching what I need to grow some fly traps haha
Awesome Dark Lord, thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️🦞
You always deliver quality videos!! very educational and entertaining material, Thank you so much! I loved it!
Awesome! Thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️
What interesting documentation. Should be sendet on TV! ❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks Brady this was the perfect de-stress time that my mind needed😊
Thank you!! I struggle with fly traps as I have to winter them indoors. In Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Zone 3A, 3B. We have native pitcher plants and sundue plants. They live in the peat moss. The pitcher plants usually completely encased in moss with just the opening showing. I have a collected pitcher plant out by my pond, it does well there year round. There are tropical pitchers I would love to try. Plus flytraps. I can keep them for a time, then they go into dormancy seemingly, but just die. Maybe minerals, I don't know. I was always told to keep them in terracotta pots, mistake one I suppose, I guess I should melt snow for them! Or find distilled water. Great video!
I loved this! I just had my first successful VFT dormancy last winter and this summer added a sundew and a purple pitcher plant to the family. Carnivorous plants are just so cool, and I remember being in awe when my first VFT flower came up last year. Lovely little freaky plants
I owned one as a teenager. Pretty cool plant.
Cheers Brandy!!
Loved seeing your beautiful cats 🐈⬛!! ❤
I truly adore your videos. The narration, cinematography, editing, and especially your love for the living world make them a joy to watch. Thanks so much for sharing.
Awesome Space Pirates! Thanks for checking out the vids. Much appreciated. ✌️✌️✌️
Juncus, or 'Biezen' as they are called in The Netherlands are a family of grasses that enjoy very moist, 'swamp like' conditions. Where i live, the are traditionally used for roofing of houses.
Cool, thanks Ben, I will look that up. ✌️✌️✌️
This was such a rad video. I love the detail in every part of the video. I didn't think I'd ever come across a video about Venus Fly Traps.
Keep up the good work
I found you because of your venus fly trap content and subbed for Leon. This video has been very educational. I am trying to raise fly traps. Out of 9 I only have 3. With this info I hope to save them.
Awesome Candy! I hope your traps do well. Thanks for watching. ✌️✌️✌️
Lol I started with 9 too and am also down to 3 😂 And those 3 look sad but are still hanging on. Mine did flower over the summer and have been eating. 🤞 these 3 survive our winter and take off in the spring. Good luck!
You’re Leon’s dad right?
i always liked flytraps as a kid. but watching your video is not only the most relaxing thing to do it also helps me with my anxiety about small insects, u help to understand nature. i thank you for that. :) also very cool videos tons of awesome scenes and pictures, mustve been alot of work, but also shows ur love for your things. thanks again.
Awesome! Thank you for checking it out. ✌️✌️✌️
A meat eating vegetables..! Thank god it's not sea worthy.!! Hi Leon from Australia.
Before the Leon saga I originally came to your channel 2 years ago for your carnivorous plant videos! I love everything you post
Awesome! Thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️
How should they look...healthy but hungry, inconspicuous but ready, small yet larger than life!
You should get some sundews and butterworts
I did recently get some Sundews. ✌️✌️✌️
Yes... Bobby is a Supervisor. 😉 Your videos are good... its not just lobster and cats.
Are you sure it wasn't Baxter who dug up the seedlings? There was even cat hair in your palm of your hand alongside the destruction 🤣 🐈
I have wondered about fly traps. What sort of bugs do they attract to eat? Is it specifically flies or do they get mosquitoes and other insects as well?
They eat just about any insect that climbs into the trap. Mosquitoes are generally too small though for full grown traps to catch. Sundew do a great job of catching mosquitos though. ✌️✌️✌️
Hi Brady, I love this video. I didn't know Venus flytraps were so wonderful till you told us about them. The picture plants are pretty great too. They sure have beautiful flowers. I love your cats too. Cats just do what they want and don't care. You ginger cats reminds me of the cat I used to have. Yours is so pretty. I enjoy your videos a lot. You have a great way of explaining to us and love your humor and storytelling. Thank you for this video. 😊😻🌺☘️🌸🐈🐈⬛🦎🪰🦟🪳🐜🦗🐌🐞🐝🐾🦞🦋💚
It’s nice seeing the plants and animals around it doing their natural thing
Yeah I agree.
i thought you were a little weird with keeping a lobster, now i know you are keeping venus fly traps. Don't get me wrong... venus flytraps are on our side i reckon... just... you're creepy bud. #FreeLeon!!
About 5 minutes in you said we don't fertilizer from decomposing material in these plants. Why not?
Very interesting….These plants flower!! I thought the trap part was like the flower…I’m going to have to look up information….
Your interests are fascinating…first you get me interested in Lobsters….and now I can’t eat them….now plants that eat insects….What next!!..Thanks good info..🌺👍
Know Any good sources for venues flytrap seeds?
I have bought Venus flytrap seeds online, but only got limited results from them. Since growing my own seeds I’ve gotten much better results.
Very cool video. I grow napenthes for fun. I live in a part of Hawaii where napenthes just grow like there’s no tomorrow.
I live in Ohio. I've made multiple attempts to keep venus fly traps, but they always wound up dying eventually. So, I've given up. As far as exotic plants go, I'll just stick with cacti and succulents. I've always had good luck with those.
I used to keep/propagate flytraps. I had close to 100 individual plants at one point (four different breeds). After my father died, I stopped caring for them. #noexcuses I have one plant of indeterminate breed left over that is- at minimum- 16 years old. He's slow, and kind of "senile": In the spring, after hibernation, I never know what he's going to do, as he doesn't follow the standard "spring leaf > summer leaf" growing schedule anymore. It's really weird. I just put him down for hibernation last week, and he's still all tall spring leaves. Last year he jumped straight to short summer leaves, and didn't put out any spring leaves at all. His traps don't put on any color anymore either, despite barely eating in over a decade.
Any thoughts?
I recently found some seeds in my refrigerator that I'd collected in 2005 and 2006. I'm going to try sowing them this coming spring and see if anything happens.
Hey Brady,
you mentioned in a previous video about podcasts and Hollywood is calling etc. and I was wondering if that’s true (I wasn’t exactly sure if you were just making a Funny there,!) and if they’re looking at making a documentary about your story or what like could you expand on that a little bit?
I’m so interested!
✌️From Delaware
Cheers!🍺
Thank you for making this video! I'm new to flytraps and this was reasssuring. I "rescued" three mostly-dead ones from a grocery store as a spur-of-the-moment thing, and so far they're doing pretty good. I keep them in a "hospital terrarium" (it's a huge decorative jar), mist them daily, and feed them thawed bloodworms once a week... am I doing it right?
I listend to this while learning Linux Unbuntu for the first time. It was the perfect background, interesting but relaxing.
How cool. I love watching your videos about Leon and didn't know you raise traps. I've been raising "Junior" from a warehouse store death cube for two years. I'm looking forward to growing some babies from seed if Junior will cooperate. Thanks for sharing!
I just don't know how you do it, Brady. Saw this pop up on the sub feed and said "nah, don't need to watch that." Then I clicked on it and somehow it's 17 minutes later and I don't regret it. I have a black thumb and only the regular amount of interest in flytraps, but I was entertained the whole way through.
Nice work, with the plants and the film! You shouldn't be so hard on the weeds that pop up with fly traps, I've gotten a couple of orchids, among other nice bog plants.
Brady: You're such a unique thinker - venus fly traps, Leon, what other unique interests do you nurture?
Since I live in a drier climate, should I store my venus flytraps in a terrarium to keep the humidity up? Also, should I feed them dead insects since there aren't many buzzing around my house? Also, is there a big plan for all the venus flytraps you have?
You are a fascinating man! I've watched u for Leon, but I just happened to buy a venus trap a few months ago. This came up on my feed in perfect time for me bc I was wondering if my little guy (i named him Seymour!) was doing ok.
How do you put them into dormancy if you live in places too cold to keep them outside? (I live in MN!)
That’s a great question. Some people will put them in the back of the refrigerator for a few months during winter, and some will put them in a garage that is not prone to freezing but stays in the 40 F range for the winter.
I leave my flytrap on a windowsill in the late summer/autumn to let it start acclimating to the colder weather. (In colder weather, I close the window and leave the plant in the space between the screen and inner window so it is still somewhat sheltered. As long as it doesn't get a frost, it'll be okay.) Then, around halloween, I let the pot dry out for a day or two, then place the whole thing in a ziplock bag and put it in the door of my refrigerator until around Easter... shorter, if it's a particularly warm spring (but no less than 4 months). When your plant is ready to wake up, take it out of the fridge, let it warm up for a day, then unbag it, water it and resume your normal care schedule until next halloween...
Also MN, my sister puts them in the garage under growlights and keeps an eye on the temperature.
Just curious
1. What is the purpose for growing Venus fly traps?
2. Does it cut your finger if you stick your hand in them?
are you a biologist? btw I have just thought about such plants (that I cannot grow in my climate I guess) - and here is your video :)
I love your videos!!!! I hope Leon is well😄😄
I appreciate the time it took to pull this together and give such great information. But Bobby's stubby tail takes the Cake for me
I wasn’t paying attention to who posted this when I clicked the video. Your voice came on and I was thinking “that sounds like Leon’s dad”
3:50 is there any particular reason you use distilled water instead of tap water?
Yes because distilled water is very low in minerals and fertilizers like ammonia, nitrites, nitrates. City tap water will be high in ammonia, fluoride, chlorine,… and minerals and other nutrients.
amazing video. i love the style that this is just pure content and you dont try to get anything unecessary fancy. keep it up
How about an MFB SMG video.....pick a side ;-)
This was fascinating, Canada isn’t the best climate for these plants, although I grow Jack in the pulpits and Arum successfully. I did well with a Nepenthes for several years, until the squirrels dug it out while I was away.
You have developed a nice little ecosystem there, and I would spend a lot of time just watching all the small lives playing out. Cats remember that they were once worshipped as Gods, and assume they still should be.
I always enjoy your offerings Brady, you are, (as my Grandmother would say), a man of many parts. Thank you for sharing some of those parts with us, you have a wonderful ease of style.🖤🇨🇦
My family used to have a cat named Baxter too, and from what I remember he looked identical to your Baxter.
In the lab, we fruit fly geneticists keep the renegades under control with manmade flytraps, namely milk bott;les with apple cider vinegar and soap with a cone taped to the top, that has only a small hole in the bottom. Flies go in but can't navigate out.
Flytrap eat only one fly per month? I imagine this means house fly. Bug giant flies. Assuming they could eat ten flies per month if they were fruit fly sized, is ther a way you could recommend for mass production, to allow, say 1000 flies per month?
Venus Flytraps are so interesting. I might try my hand at growing one after this informative video. Give Leon a hug for me.