My friends, I've become over the course of this past week with you guys as well as Josh,

a carnivorous plant, aficionado.

If only by virtual satisfaction right now, I haven't really gotten into it myself and

that's what we're talking about today.

Josh, yesterday we talked about the conservation problem, the poaching problem.

This happens, of course, in the tropical indoor plant world as well with some of the rare

monsteras and aeroids.

You don't really know sometimes where these things are coming from and I guess I'd love

to hear from you.

Of course, you run a plant shop, so that's one place to get them from, but what do people

need to keep in mind if they're trying to get into carnivorous as far as sourcing goes?

Yep, so I've watched the entire industry change tremendously since I started collecting

these in the late 90s.

It was through web rings, if anyone remembers what that was, and then forums and more recently

like social media, Facebook groups, that sort of thing.

So there's been a big evolution of how people communicate about these plants, how the

plants move around these communities and it's been really fascinating to watch.

So I can give my two cents on kind of best practices and how to avoid some of the early

traps because I watch people constantly, constantly, either get ripped off.

So if you go on to eBay, Etsy, any of those, and you try to buy like Venus fly trap seeds

or a lot of Venus fly trap listings, you're getting ripped off.

A lot of that stuff is not what they say it is.

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