Best Indoor Carnivorous Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	If you've been intrigued and excited about the possibility of growing some carnivorous
0:17.9	plants at home, well then today's episode is going to be fantastic for you.
0:21.6	We have Josh Brown back on the show, owner of predatory plants.
0:25.1	So if I was to get into this world, Josh, is there something that I need to know as far
0:30.6	as like gear, or can I just start growing some of these as if I would grow maybe I don't
0:35.4	know of a pothos plant indoors?
0:37.6	Right, it's both easier and harder depending on which path you take.
0:44.2	You mentioned previously that you tried the Venus flytrap and you had the universal experience
0:49.2	of killing the Venus flytrap.
0:52.9	That's by design.
0:54.2	This flytrap is probably one of the hardest regular plants to grow indoors, period across
1:03.3	any of the house plants that people try to grow.
1:05.8	It's just not well suited for it.
1:08.0	It's an outdoor plant.
1:10.4	It's a temperate perennial.
1:11.9	It wants to get snowed on in the winter and it wants to just be baked in the hot, southern
1:16.4	sun in the summer.
1:18.4	So...
1:19.4	Blows my mind honestly.
1:20.4	You think of...
1:21.4	For some reason, I just think of it as a tropical plant.
1:23.2	You think of it as like a sweltering jungle plant.
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