Utricularia: The Mighty Miniature Carnivorous Plant!

[@mugen_moss_heart]

Utric are super awesome! Can you do a video on the different utric you have? What flowers the most for you?

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

I would absolutely love to do that!! Great idea!!

[@disneyman51170]

Great vid. Thanks for the info.

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

Thank you!!

[@jquilloin]

You had me at “orchids” of the carnivorous world. I love growing flowers. I love the idea of mixing this plant with other plants in my collection. I am thinking of trying them with my restrepia or pleurothallis in general which are plants that also require low minerals when watering. Which type of urticularia are the most adoptable?

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

That is awesome!! Bisquamata, subulata, are great and are like weeds. Longifolia is a weed as well and very adaptable. Plus it get half dollar sized flowers that look like purple orchids!

[@mrcrawlingstv]

I don't have any of these but would very much like to try them in my pond and freshwater aquarium

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

They are amazing. Gibba, inflata, macrohiza, Purperea. There are a ton of aquatic plants and you can do several terrestrials too.

[@Killer_carnivorous_plants]

My question is what about temperate range and dormancy? I have a utricularia bisqumata hitchhiker in my bog planter currently. I got it from California Carnivores with my Sarracenia purpurea x Adrian slack. And I live in zone 6b. And know that utricularia probably be tricky repotting as you can't really see if I got all the underneath parts

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

Hey!! They can handle a very large range of temperatures 35 -100 f. No dormancy required. Yeah it would be very difficult to repot and get all of it. You can definitely take a pinch of the stolons and replant into another pot but it would be hard getting all of it out. I don’t mind it for sure. I like having the little flowers pop up everywhere!

[@Killer_carnivorous_plants]

@Carnivorousplanthelp I'm not concerned with it being in my planter. I actually like it in my planter. I'm just not sure it'll survive winter outside. We can get as cold and negative degrees at times but usually winter temperatures are 20-30s

[@Carnivorousplanthelp]

Ummm it should be fine. What you can do just to help ensure success is take a small pinch and put it in a pot. That way you grow a new colony just in case the one in the pot dies. It’s not likely but just in case.