The Worst Carnivorous Plant Product

[@Charlie-yv3ib]

You're basically a plant necromancer at this point

[@RanaLoca]

The dankpods of carnivorous plants

[@RanaLoca]

@@CorruptedDogg holup

[@yeahpez5526]

Was thinkin the same thing

[@jackpot0643]

I actually found this guy from dankpods videos

[@Kilo_Miles]

@Xeraser But Dank does have inte(grit)y lol

[@Nova_of_the_Stars]

Thank God someone said it.

[@58209]

lmao, when i mentioned on your livestream that i got a garbage carnivorous plant, it was this exact product. i got the only box with any signs of green, not knowing if that was a good or bad thing. both plants are doing great. i followed your viral video's advice ("if you can grow a tomato..."), pinched off the trap's flowers, and made sure they're kept plenty wet. my tap water seems fine for them. only problem i had was some of my pitchers getting cooked on the hot porch, so i had to move 'em to a less intense spot. 6 weeks on they're still pretty smal, but i cherish that i'm actually successfully growing carnivorous plants for once.

[@pinkduck7455]

I wish I was able to catch the stream but I was taking a test at school :(

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Tap water wont kill them immediately thats why it seems fine (for now) over time the nutrients and mineral will accumulate burning and killing their roots.

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Distilled water at walmart is very cheap about $1 or less per gallon.

[@waf325]

I got the same package but I got two Venus fly traps and one is amazing and the other is suffereing and very small

[@waf325]

I got a pack that’s meant to have both

[@SparkeyFlarkey]

My dad got me one of these kits 2 years ago, and I've come to realize I must have been incredibly lucky with it. My kit came with 6-7 rhizomes, (the 7th might have just been a clump of dirt, it was tiny) non of them had any growth, all appeared dead. I planted them anyway and about a month later they began sprouting. I got 5 venus flytraps and 1 pitcher out of that kit. All 5 flytraps are still doing great, but unfortunately the pitcher didn't survive winter dormancy, but it was doing great up until then.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Oh wow. Luckiest i got from one was 103 rhizomes. Then again, i picked from "dead" looking ones, and picked the most crowded.

[@flamermcniggings7934]

"O-oh I'm sorry Helios" made me laugh for a solid 5 minutes for no reason whatsoever

[@refriedbeansonbread9717]

Same here lol

[@Sairot247]

Oh my Pkcell

[@sazji]

The famous Death Cubes…$11 is a lot of money for those. I’ve gotten cheaper at Lowe’s, and sometimes you can get a slew of half-dead ones for almost nothing. They bounce back. Some of the plants I’ve gotten have turned out to be pretty decent clones, and after a couple years outside, are filling their pots nicely

[@monke1919]

I mean but in this one you are getting 2 rhizomes for flytraps and American pitcher plants

[@sazji]

@@monke1919 Then not so bad at all.

[@diegogarcia2515]

The developers need to remember that their products are not toys.

[@grandtheftgameryt]

Wow those are horrific conditions... I grow indoors and I love my plants... these well... the employees clearly never watered them and they had literally no sun at all!

[@josienxd5542]

How are your other plants doing? (I remember something about them being sick/infested with something, but I could be wrong)

[@mantis1957]

It was afids that his plants had

[@botanicalchaos]

They’re pretty much fully recovered from the aphids. Flytraps still get wonky leaves but everything else is doing great

[@feathersstreet]

I work at a lowes garden center and half the time they just have two bags of dirt. I had a customer so excited they started doing theirs in their car, found nothing, came back to me to exchange it(i was skeptical), so we went through all 15 that we had. NOTHING in a single one. Management refused to take them off the shelf too. I took them off the shelf and put a sign for a manager and it went right back both times with a new piece of tape... i refused to sell them unless the customer was being rude lol Since then(close to a year) ive only seen one with some greenery

[@PeppersnGlowworms]

VFTs can be surprisingly tough! I had some survive half a year without being watered... Granted, a few month of it were winter, but still very impressive!

[@themurrrr]

I wish I had your green thumbs. Awesome job saving these poor green babies

[@rustedknight_]

you know the industry is kinda fucky when they have to "recover" from packaging. I mean, you have a similar thing with aquarium creatures and acclimation when transferring habitats, but this is quite a different scenario.

[@vivb4118]

I got a vtf from this brand (from Lowe’s I’m pretty sure) I had it in the “terrarium” for about a month and a half and it didn’t grow very much, the traps looked close to dying too. I ended up building a mini bog for it (and a sarracenia not sure which variety though) and they’re both so happy outside! I just got a sundew and a bog violet to accompany them. I do keep a couple jugs of distilled water in case we go awhile without rain but besides that they’re fairly low maintenance plants.

[@vivb4118]

@@FallbackNkillEm Good tip, I’ll have to get one!

[@cineblazer]

Seriously such a criminally underrated channel. Love these videos so much!

[@sunshinegardens21]

I dont know how I got here, but I'm so glad I did. Instantly subbed. I can only ACTUALLY learn & pay attention if I'm laughing & you're hilarious! :)

[@pinaz993]

I half expected "Oh, my Pkcells!" instead of "Sorry, Helios."

[@tic857]

I saw them yesterday and I looked at them and said "I haven't had carnivorous plants in 8 years, but I'm not this desperate."

[@benjaminmckay694]

I have actually bought several of these kits. the ones I got looked like completely dried up husks. I was patient and they all have grown nicely. They are incredibly resilient.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Nope. Have gotten over 100 plants from one of these. Gotta say, even if they "look dead" as long as you know how to tell if it really is or not, its a great way to cheaply get at least 3 plants per.

[@otterr209]

ah, i just got this about 2 months ago!!! i had 3 little "dormant" plants, and i had no idea what i was doing! only one of the plants grew which were the venus flytraps, and currently because of your advice they look pretty well :) very fun plants! thank you so much for the info

[@bxnnies]

I LOVE THE EDITING ON YOUR CHANNEL IT JUST MAKES ME LAUGH

[@Gibblegobblegoob]

Your video quality is getting better man keep at your videos I bet a year from now you'll have a lot more confidence

[@Red5rainbow]

Carnivorous plants AND bakugan in the background???? Uhhh, I love you???

[@botanicalchaos]

😌

[@christianmackay8192]

So nice to get another video from you 😁

[@xpandorasboxx]

VFT are tough little things. I bought one on Halloween on sale, it had a single trap still alive, the dead and the peat moss were molding, brought it home, clipped off the rotting leaf, it's rhizome seemed a little worse for wear, and was potentially starting to go. But, two months later, after being rinsed off in some rain water and placed outside to go straight into dormancy with my others, it's single trap has long since died off but it has new growth! It's not doing much because, yeah, it's dormant right now, but it's there. I'll be checking it's rhizome in about a month or two again when I repot everyone ( I have many babies to separate )

[@pyroshayniac1090]

I adore you. Doing the lord’s work on this channel.

[@nourhanateout7187]

How do u keep the soil moist while u grow it outdoors like that?

[@BREAKENSTEIN]

I got a box on sale for $2. I have them growing from some crisp lil babies. I had no idea if they’d grow so I was pleasantly surprised.

[@NoaKaepora]

I never knew about the plants needing to get used to a new place... I gotta go apologize to some of them now

[@fazemand]

Well that's nice, I actually bought a some kind of pitcher plant like 1 year ago for indoor thinking it would be great for her since we yearly have a little fly problem out here near the farm and fields. She grew to about 1,5 meters and I is touching the ceiling again send help.

[@unknowngod8221]

Well call 911 or 999 or 112

[@neuronoc.7343]

I got lucky, I got a double pack with what I was led to believe was a nepenthes and a fly trap. However, turns out I might've just accidentally cloned the fly trap by pulling a copy off of the main root. Meh, better than the first one I got that had NO plant included, and the plants have actually sprouted pretty nicely.

[@JazzForYourSoul]

Loving that gold Helios. Also, is that an Elfin in that drawer?

[@thereegamer1560]

wait how can you keep them dormant in the summer anyway

[@vivimannequin]

Just deprive them of light and water lmao

[@williamworth2746]

I love exotic stuff I also used to keep Reef aquariums Lord knows they're too expensive but Reeves specialist stores often sell RO water for as low as $0.50 a gallon

[@thesmoviemaker21]

Where I live, I rarely see any of these plant kits. Nice that they are dying where I am, but bad I can't get many plants too.

[@TYAdodo]

Any updates? I tried to "experiment" with the same product and the foilage on yours is far superior

[@botanicalchaos]

I updated it on my big garden update

[@monke1919]

I got 2 of these. Both small but healthy rhizomes. One had 4 rhizomes. But the one with 4 rhizomes had some insect crawling in it. So I sprayed some insecticide and fungicide on it. The other one with 2 like normal didn't so I'm just putting it under lights and hoping it grows. The other one with some type of insect it is in my sunroom. I hope it works. Anything I'm doing wrong? Also it looks like some of them have little flower buds

[@lu8201]

That moss looks dried out. Company's gotta stop selling in that packaging.

[@taintedangelx2488]

Omg I just bought this exact product. Yours look so good compared to what I got. One of mine is like 1.5 inches tall, that's including roots. I had a hard time figuring out which end was the plant end. I have zero hope that either plant will grow so I ordered a set of 3 live carnivorous plants off of Etsy. We'll see what happens in a month

[@dubuyajay9964]

At least you tried to help them.

[@fishyflaek1813]

do you have a nepenthe ventrata? If so, where did you put it?

[@botanicalchaos]

I do. You see it in my tropical carnivorous plant and orchid update video from a couple months ago

[@mythicsword8169]

Good video comment for algorithm

[@brandondavis754]

This makes me feel soooo much better cause I bought this trash from Lowes and I put them outside and used distilled water but they’re still dying. Learning how much direct sunlight they need, Lowe’s and the product maker are definitely to blame.

[@patricktreece9188]

I always check for green growth before I buy these. I've been burn in the past with these kits. I ended up getting S. Rubra in one of them.

[@zachduperron8543]

I see those little storage drawers you have bakugans in, I have those little storage drawers too! I use em for LEGO and other stuff. Now being serious here, also I’ve seen carnivorous plants being sold in such bad condition as well, I’ve seen the rocket farm fly traps, I feel bad for all the plants suffering. Also the orchid world has bad companies selling orchid plants using hoaxes to take care of phalaenopsis orchids such as the just add ice myth.

[@bryancarranzaespinoza162]

He dind't moan while planting the plants lol

[@botanicalchaos]

I forgot the technique!!!!

[@off2kyoto]

Nice bakugan collection

[@off2kyoto]

I love botanical chaos now

[@phobiac281]

ooooooo bro i see few old school bakugans in the background

[@GuardianDarzeit]

Good to see you again

[@megasocky]

Omg the bakugans in the bg

[@mantis1957]

Your doing good lad

[@refriedbeansonbread9717]

I saw the bakugan in the background and had flashbacks lol

[@botanicalchaos]

Hehe

[@thefox3070]

Hey do you have any tips on growing mangos?

[@botanicalchaos]

I don’t. I’ve never grown nangos

[@Nuclei_Breaddo4]

Today we got a carnivorous plant and i caught a drone ant and gave it to him alive, it closed almost instantly. I am happy to have new pet.

[@andrewhe2002]

i want one of these so bad, but that plants inside are always dead 😔

[@mazkhasate]

I have a question, how do you drain your venus fly trap? Like what do you put at the bottom

[@botanicalchaos]

All the pots have drain holes at the bottom

[@mazkhasate]

@@botanicalchaos ok thanks

[@DanteTimberwolf]

The other one is most likely sarracenia rubra or a hybrid of sarracenia rubra

[@alexandriadiangelo6037]

Quick horticulture question! So, I purchased a rather healthy Graptosedum and a Bunny Ear cactus recently, and I've been following a "soak and dry" method for watering both. The cactus is doing great! However, the Graptosedum is not doing well. Since the leaves were turning black and the peat/perlite mixture that the plant came in is much more moist than it needs to be, I cleaned up the roots and have them drying out while I figure out if it'sgot root rot or not. I also got a couple of healthy leaves off to propagate, if there's no saving the plant itself... I've been waiting to water it until the soil is mostly dry, but it's been raining a lot lately and I have my plants under an awning outside (so they get sunlight but don't get sunburnt). That nice long paragraph aside, what did I do wrong? Also, I have no other potting soil or anything to replant my Graptosedum in. Any advice would be very helpful, as I'm still new to caring for succulents. Thank you for being an inspiration to become a plant parent! 😁

[@hamsterama]

I have a couple graptosedum plants that I bought during one of those $2 succulent sales at Aldi. A year after I purchased them, I repotted them into a clay pot, using Miracle-Gro Cactus, Palm, and Citrus soil I bought at Home Depot. They've been doing great for a few years now. I basically do as you do. For all my cacti and succulents, I keep them under a covered patio, so that they get shade during part of the day. They also get watered when the soil is nearly dry. Typically, I put them out in the rain about once a week. Anyway, sounds like you're doing everything right. But the fact is, sometimes plants die, even if you do everything right. Maybe your plant got fungus or bacteria in the soil, who knows. I lost a few succulents over the years. Recently, I nearly lost a cactus. It lost all its roots. I smelled the soil, and there was a mushroom smell. So, clearly, it was a fungus. Once I repotted the cactus into fresh Miracle-Gro soil and watered it, it started re-growing roots. No other plants were affected. So, long story short, stuff happens. It might not be something you did, it could just be a pathogen floating in the air that got into the soil. My suggestion is, buy another graptosedum, and see if you have better luck this time around!

[@alexandriadiangelo6037]

@@hamsterama Thank you so much! 😁

[@hamsterama]

@@alexandriadiangelo6037 You're welcome! And don't get discouraged! I currently have altogether about 50 or so cacti and succulents. I've been collecting them over the past six or so years. While most of the succulents and cacti I've bought are doing great, I've also lost a bunch over the years. It happens. If you can get those leaves to propagate, super! If not, just buy a new plant. Oh, and one more thing. Make sure you only use potting soil and fertilizer specifically for succulents. You can get both in any hardware store that has a gardening section, as well as any plant nursery. Regular potting soil holds too much water, and regular houseplant fertilizer is too high in nitrogen for desert plants. Okay, that's my advice. I wish you much luck with your new hobby!

[@puppybunnysquid3358]

@@hamsterama I'm really sorry for bringing you back into this comment section. I have a few cacti of my own. I had gotten mine at home depot, and they're doing well, but I can't get all the dead soil out of their root system, so I just have the same soil that came in the too small pot in the larger pot that fits (not for much longer) them. I've been intending on repotting them for a while. What do you suggest I do to get that dead dirt off without breaking any of the root system it has?

[@hamsterama]

@@puppybunnysquid3358 I wouldn't worry about removing the old dirt. I never remove the old dirt when re-potting. I pop the cactus plus dirt out of the old pot, and move everything into a bigger pot. In the new pot, just add new soil underneath and on the sides. Basically, I do the same thing you did. And doing this has never been a problem for me. The cactus' roots will eventually spread to the new soil. I'm not a fan of removing the old soil with no justification, because it could break up roots and cause a fungal infection. I imagine the only reason to remove old soil would be if it the cactus was grown in regular potting soil, instead of cactus and succulent soil. However, I'm pretty sure all the cacti at Home Depot are grown in succulent and cactus soil.

[@jordanallen3078]

I love plant rescue vids! 👍

[@yuukihinamori2310]

This is the saddest plant I have ever seen. How are they right now???

[@botanicalchaos]

I’ve updated them. They’re doing very well.

[@tennesseescarnivoresextra8042]

I got one of these and the pitcher plant died but the flytrap is still alive but tiny

[@kevins9249]

This dude has got to make more vids also ending was obtubt he should totally get an outro

[@neweden8755]

I read that title wrong at first

[@iManicGenius85]

I see why you grow these with all those ants running around.

[@botanicalchaos]

Yeah I’ve been having an ant problem lately. They even colonized in my monstera and orchid pots

[@rGarata]

Yo you got you are so many fly traps but they're ants on the floor you got an entire ecosystem going on

[@botanicalchaos]

I fixed the ant problem

[@cameronsines8606]

This channel has brewstew vibes all day long. ❤️

[@averymeijer]

Absolute chad

[@thescarecrow2710]

The bakugans at the back🤩🤩

[@botanicalchaos]

Hehe

[@Tanapseudes]

I got full sized King Henry Venus flytrap for that price.

[@DLCoates1]

Just curious Johnny, would you like some flava? We have tons growing locally that are invasive and I’ve got permission from department of natural resources to pull, pot, and rehome a lot of them. Non commercial so I’d send them free. These are big ones too. Super bushy and roughly 10+ years old. If you’re interested just let me know and send me a DM. Of course I’d have to wait till spring because I don’t wanna shock them.

[@botanicalchaos]

I’d love some but I don’t want to reveal my location

[@DLCoates1]

@@botanicalchaos there’s such thing as a PO Box you know lol. Basically a box you rent for a few dollars a month at your local post office where you pick it up there rather than sharing home address. If you ever get one gimme a shout.

[@botanicalchaos]

@@DLCoates1 I don’t think I’ll do it. I don’t need any more flavas. I’d offer them to someone else if I were you. I appreciate it though

[@aaproductionsyt]

No water bowl?

[@botanicalchaos]

Never

[@jackpot0643]

This man really said Std people

[@outspokenterms9240]

Probably not going to get a response or get one right away but i have a question. The question is why don’t these companies ever sell single sundew and pitcher live plants in stores like lowes, Home Depot and Walmart? why is it just Venus fly traps, and in the case of the one in this video why is it a flytrap/ pitcher bulb combo ? Why can’t they just change it up and sell other carnivorous plants besides the basic VF? with the exception of this one in the video the only thing I’ve seen companies like these sell are the seeds for non VF carnivorous plants.

[@botanicalchaos]

I’d say due to cost and demand.

[@ThisOneChick123]

4:14 🐜🐜🐜

[@luci_datum]

Oh, best of luck, dear God I felt horrible just seeing their condition

[@vsocarras27]

I think the other sarracenia that not the purpurea could be either S. Rubba or S. Minor

[@goombasmasher7393]

I read that as coronavirus plant lol

[@afeefacellularhamzacellula4730]

Buy from a nursery NOT grocery store

[@peto7020]

You have absolutely amazing hands and voice for ASMR videos, unboxings especially. You could just slow down a bit how you speak and the rest just as you do now.

[@Booderintruder23]

Why do I keep reading your video titles as "Coronavirus Plant"?

[@legice]

This is so dankpots :D

[@Mightymilesdiscover]

I have these boxes from my experince they are good

[@novasolar6207]

Garden Guru

[@jimmystargel6203]

I try to save them any time i get a chance, if its green and a live

[@24kGoldenRocket]

Buy quality and don't waste your money. Starting with inferior product marks the pathway to failure.

[@jimmystargel6203]

@@24kGoldenRocket much agreed but some times you can turn shit in to gold but rarely

[@24kGoldenRocket]

@@jimmystargel6203 Yeah. I've turned Lemons into Lemonade on occasion. At times with one inexpensive product I find my time is more valuable than what I save on purchasing inferior product. Minimization of expense is a good strategy at times. Not with death cubes. I generally optimize rather than maximize or minimize. JMHO

[@monke1919]

@@24kGoldenRocket shutup

[@randomjibberish4357]

those bugs on the floor near the pot....ironic?

[@alec116463]

The cicadas are still going?

[@botanicalchaos]

They stopped a couple weeks ago

[@zoey3822]

i did buy one and it did really good until i left it outside wile i went to my moms house and it alll dried up, i brought it in and watered it and it just went all downhill from there

[@botanicalchaos]

That’s one thing that sucks about putting these guys outside. They dry up so fast which is why I recommend using the tray method.

[@averyp.9315]

O he didn't.

[@sexypigeonlover4631]

And they use unsustainable growing mediums! Amazing company

[@monke1919]

Huh?

[@LazyLazu]

give us updates :3

[@botanicalchaos]

I have

[@fostoriadistrictrailfan3907]

0:01 I Eat Bugs! Sure you do

[@sebastiendion1374]

you still need more plants

[@stepheneppinger2284]

Didn’t have to flex with all the bakugan in the background cmon man

[@botanicalchaos]

👀

[@24kGoldenRocket]

Looks like S. Psittacena. But I am on a cellphone and really kind of blind. It is an educated guess.

[@botanicalchaos]

One is purpurea and the other one is potentially rubra

[@monke1919]

Not at all

[@itsrammylol]

Couldn’t be me

[@kajoliloli]

Nice Bakugan 👀

[@botanicalchaos]

👀

[@lawrencedulay4305]

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7 KJV

[@Antron_Edition]

I’ve bought big pitcher plants for 20$ this is scummy

[@24kGoldenRocket]

You've got it. Don't purchase inferior material that has a good chance of dying. Save your money and buy quality.

[@rat_dragon]

That stuff's crap -_-