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Learn how to propagate, grow, and care for carnivorous plants in this free online video series.
There are 15 videos in this series:
Understanding carnivorous plants is easy with these tips, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Propagating carnivorous plants through division is easy with these tips, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Propagating carnivorous plants through leaf cutting is easy with these tips, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Propagating carnivorous plants with seeds is easy with these tips, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
The stratification of carnivorous plants is an important concept in the world of meat-eating flora, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Transplanting carnivorous is easy with these tips, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Potting mix for meat-eating plants is different from regular plants, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Hybridization of meat-eating plants is an important concept in the world of carnivorous flora, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Watering carnivorous plants is similar to watering regular plants, learn how to care for meat-eating plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Feeding meat-eating plants is fun and interesting, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Meat-eating plants need light just like regular plants, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Pruning meat-eating plants is similar to pruning regular plants, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Carnivorous plants have pests like regular plants, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Meat-eating plants can have fungus just like regular plants, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
The dormancy stage is an important concept in the world of meat-eating flora, learn how to care for carnivorous plants like the Venus Fly Trap in this free video.
Carnivorous plants thrive on the nutrients that it receives from trapping and eating animals, insects or arthropods. These plants grow in parts of the world that do not provide valuable nutrients in the soil such as nitrogen. The most popular types are flypaper traps, pitcher plants, snap traps and bladder traps. The flypaper traps are the plants that secrete a sticky substance called mucilage on their leaves in order to trap its prey. Pitfall traps are an interesting plant that traps prey in a rolled leaf, while bladder traps suck prey in with an internal vacuum.
In this series of videos, you can learn more about these interesting plants. Our expert shares an introduction to carnivorous plants and shows how to propagate them through division, leaf cutting and seeds. Stratification and transplantation of carnivorous plants is made easy after seeing these videos. You can also get tips on watering, feeding and lighting these plants so that they will thrive in any environment. Learn about the dormancy stages that these plants go through. Keep your plants safe with a fungus treatment and get tips for hybridization of carnivorous plants in these expert videos.
This series is an Equilibrio Films production.
Wes Major Wes Major has extensive experience in working with nearly every species of carnivorous plant. He has several years of hands on experience in the cultivation and maintenance of these plants. He is currently the Head of Plant Cultivation at Equilibrio Carnivorous Plants. In addition to his experience in cultivation, Major also has extensive field knowledge of carnivorous plants. He has gone on numerous expeditions to locate and study these plants in there natural habitats. Currently he is working with Equilibrio Films Ltd. as the host and narrator for a one hour documentary about Carnivorous Plants.dkdk
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