I Was Accused of Stealing the World's Rarest Plant | FANATICS: THE DEEP END
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- This plant collector was suspected of stealing a prized cutting from the world's most expensive plant.
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He looked so guilty when they asked him about it 😂
Exactly. Don't believe him either. Ya he just at the exact same time got a MASSIVE cutting of this rare plant and tried to root a massive cutting instead of cutting it up and trying to root it. Makes no sense from the perspective of someone who actually had a horticultural background. It has no root system and you are going to try and root a massive cutting with all those leaves on it... ya sure... Especially when its so rare and you could have just chopped it up and likely rooted multiple nodes and had even more plants... Also it was from his friend so there was no hurry to give it to him meaning it makes no sense why the friend wouldn't have done air layering first to give the cutting.
sooooooooooo guilty
He seemed too smily the whole time, and how he first said that he couldn't believe someone would accuse him?? Not even mentioning how it was horrible that the almost extinct plant got ruined. He mentioned how he has had plants stolen at the end, and how horrible it feels. But it just feels fake. Though innocent until proven should be remembered in this case
He did it, 110% and the guy from the botanical garden helped.
100%
100% yes.
1%
The guy on the ladder deghad something to do with it.
I was just about to say it might be an inside job
He isn’t a good liar
I don’t know why I’m here but that guy definitely did it
Same n fax 📠 no 🖨
He stole it! The timing of when he acquired his plant is beyond suspicious.
$7000 is not the most expensive plant you can buy. There are plenty that go upwards of $20K. And he's like oh, it's horrible someone might steal a plant. But oh maybe my best friend Eric did it.
They said rare not most expensive
@@MakyeaMarie I was commenting on the narratiion.
@@moominsean ...and MakyeaMarie was correcting your recollection of it.
@@83btm Literally the very first sentence in the video. "...and this is definitely, right now, the most expensive plant you can buy. Last I saw, it was around $7000." Go away.
@@moominsean It's amusing that you believe you're "commenting on the narration" of the video. The narration VERBALLY (look up "literally" in the dictionary--you're welcome) communicates that the plant is RARE.
You, on the other hand, seem a bit too focused on all the bullshit falling out of the mouth of the guy they INTERVIEWED. News flash: that mouth-breathing muppet is not the "narrator."
Can you wrap that around your head? If so, then ok--you can go away now. Thanks.
>Has good friend known for stealing from botanical gardens
>Posts pics of new plant not doing well soon after theft
>Deletes pictures because it's obvious
>Gets scared because too many people know
>Sells plant to get rid of the evidence
How is this even a question, someone go slap this mans up and give both of his plants to the botanical garden.
dudes whole demeanor changed once she asked him about the 3rd plant, either really good editing or this dude was sweating at that question lol
He never not once said he questioned his good friend about where he got the plant from or even tried helping them out.
someone who knows about plants can see his story doesn't even add up. For him to even attempt to root a huge cutting like that is absurd. You have to cut off most of the leaves because it had no root system. Secondly that wouldn't even happen because it's pointless to do because almost always you cut up the plant and make it smaller in the first place not try and root such a huge cutting. Also since it;s so rare you;d cut up that huge cutting and try and propagate multiple plants from it not just one. Also if it's so rare there wouldn't even be a cutting in the first place, the friend would have done air layering to root a section of it which is way safer than doing a cutting. It's all a load of poopoo.
He screams guilty with his facial expressions and voice changes
how the hell do you walk out with such a large cutting without being noticed? It's not like you can stick it in your pocket. They have no security footage of anyone going in with a poll saw or something? seems odd..
they have rare plant collections in a dome costing millions and yet they cant buy CCTVs...
Once you get beyond the foliage, there is a seedy undergrowth to the plant community.
this person they're interviewing is already in trouble for another big plant scandal unrelated to this one where he allegedly scammed a bunch of shops out of quite a lot of money. take that as you will 🤷♀️
Dude did it 1000%
He's a terrrible liar, and judging from how clean that cut was, it had to be an inside job.
My dad has these growing in his backyard in Florida. He has rare orchids and bonsai plants as well. I thought he was stupid for spending $800 for that plant and now it's worth $7000 😂
Wow nice Where in Florida?
@@Aouf1 *casual robbery planning*
Say less
@@Eisaku2 😂💀
You can still delete this
The plant is in tissue culture, making it nowhere near the rarest plant on earth. Not even close to being the most expensive either. Prices have dropped significantly in the last year.
literally just got a tc baby for 300. and i work at starbucks so that tells u something
That’s fantastic - so no dimwits be stealing from public garden anymore! 🎉
my grandpa used to take cuttings from public parks, lol. cheapskates. But nothing like this, and not from private property!
Tc and seed grown is really quite different
@@aneres87 I know..
This makes me feel really bad about all the succulent leaves I used to off of plants in liquor store parking lots..🥺.. but only when they were not treated nicely. And never something like this.. but this is still me justifying taking leaves to propagate. I now ask and every single time people say yes. And yeah he totally did it.
Absolutely no shame in propagating plants when done ✔️ responsibly IMO. Leave it better than you found it ✌🏽
@@squid_fish thanks for that❤️. I just can't believe how many people are so willing to share their succulents I'm not sure how it is with other plants. But succulent enthusiasts will gladly snip off a piece if you are happy to grow it.
@@angiethompson5648 cus most succulents are cheap and grow extremely rapidly, forcefully, i would even say invasively
Whatever man. I don't view that as theft. If you can make 10 plants out of one plant, and the store can still sell that one plant with no problem, I say im a cultivator, not a thief
I get my succulent leaves or other things to propagate from like lows or home depot when they're sitting on the floor and obviously garbage. I've also asked the staff like "hey this spider plant baby branch is cracked and dying can I take it?" And they always say yes bc they can't fix that, it would be garbage either way
I've never heard someone call another person "depraved" for stealing and much less for stealing a plant.
I was looking for this comment! Same here
Me neither. I just looked up the definition and it said morally corrupt. Which would apply to theft in many cases
It’s like stealing a child to these people. Show some empathy
right, drop bombs on families watching tv, have sex with children but stealing a plant..how dare you
@@Feelthefx , show some empathy? What? What part of my comment says I have no empathy? I just said that I've never heard anyone using that word in that context. Again, what part of that seems to be so offensive? Lord I am really going to stop commenting on TH-cam. There's always someone who either interprets the comment wrong or add a different meaning to it.
He did it
His friend probably did take it and lied to him... or didn't. Once he realized he must have freaked and fabricated a story to save him from getting in trouble/save face.
plot twist theirs no eric and he's really talking about himself
Totally..... "I have it to my friend who steals plants and he gave it back to me."
@@oscarinacan yeah right plus hes a plant kook he looks like he's about to touch himself talkin bout it
Would make no sense that he had to root a plant that was the same size and rarity at the same time it happened.
Exactly. Anyone with half a brain and concept of horticulture wouldn't try rooting a huge massive cutting like that(with leaves on), far less of such a rare plant. Dumdum knows nothing about plants and wants social media fame and stole the plant. Far less if it was from the friend. The friend would air layer a rooted section from one of the plants then give it. Their story is as fake as it gets.
This is hilarious, the guy is so clearly guilty I don't know why he agreed to do this
Lol dude seems guilty as hell
Dude was so nervous when he was getting pressed he definitely had his buddy steal that Plant and they split the profits
This has probably been said but….
If you have a rare plant that is being preserved for conservation reasons why wouldn’t you want to make as many of them as possible to conserve the species? I understand it will lower the value of the plants but isn’t the main focus conservation and repopulation?????? Yes I know plants from cuttings are genetically identical but this plant wouldn’t exist without a way to reproduce so spreading out one plant in search of others to breed with isn’t totally crazy either right? Right!
PSS is far from endangered . There are hundreds of thousands of PSS that have been propagated via tissue culture being held by big nurseries
@@ImStuckInStockton well dang I guess it’s just a private owner thing then lol.
They take time to grow then flower then pollination then grow seed then you have to try grow seeds
@@DATSUNC210RB20DET Propagating by seed is the slowest propagation method, cuttings save years and they can be more succesful
@@4Azr 👏🏅
It's kind of hard to prove a plant is a plant unless they start taking fingerprints of these things or DNA testing
Even then, cuttings from from mother plant aka the same plant. Think of it like cloning. DNA will be shared between every cutting and the host plant
Plants do have DNA, they are living organisms.
My god our education system failed us 🪦
@@compsigh9275 nah, don’t blame the education system. I have family who are teachers and they love to teach, but there are kids who refuse to listen or try and educate themselves. They don’t take school seriously. Everyone knows of those kids.
But you can tell he stole the plant because the dumdum tried to root the whole cutting instead of chopping it up first. They obviously know almost nothing about horticulture, they are in it for the tiktok attention.
That dude forsure stole it you can flatout see his energy when she asks him if that half dead cutting was the one from the botanical garden. Hopefully they banned him and any of his associates for life
Man that dude lying. He knows it was stolen
5:45 😑😑😑
5:50 I'm no body language/ face reader, the smirk 😏 while saying "im so heart broken someone would do that, I've personally had plants stolen and I wouldn't want anyone to go through that."
Is why his friend Erik chose a public garden as it isn't privately owned by a certain someone..
also i googled body language smirking and this is what it says " When someone smirks it means they are trying to not show their true feelings about something and often it is because they know what you're thinking and want to show that they have the upper hand in some way. Smirking also happens when people know something you don't." .................. so basically his smirk was " my friend" stole the plant and he knows he got away with it telling a bs story
Wonder if the botanical center has samples taken from the plant and could do comparisons.
Why wouldn't one want to reproduce this plant as often as possible?
Thats kinda what I was thinking...I mean, hell, if we could clone pandas by chopping one of their legs off, it wouldn't matter that they're too stupid to mate 🤷♂️
@Sara Luebke ...depends on where you cut it...most plant species tend to bush tf out after a good trim....
@Sara Luebke 😅 just wait until you learn about supercropping some Mary Jane 🤣
Slow growing. Can kill the plant. It prevents a maturing plant from reaching maturity where it can flower and set seed which can help produce possibly thousands of new plants each year vs 1-2 cuttings every few years. You know... kinda relevant reasons...
He know he stole that damn plant 🪴
Well long story short botanic gardens need to put cameras now
Reminds me of when I took some clones from my job where I work as a weed grower lmao 🤣
No one asked, "where are the cameras and the footage if any"? No one can access that facility without inside help. WOW
I can tell by the way he answered her it’s it’s part of the stolen plant cutting
Just do a DNA test. Take a sample from each one of those plants and compare to the one in the botanic garden....problem solved.
if it is rare to get a DNA would require to cut the plant. doubt they want to damage it.
@@Domz12 it can be super a small piece tho so I think it would be worth it for them tbh
its not that serious, how fix some real problems in the world
Do you understand that if Spiritu sancti is rare that all plants may have the same DNA? it would not prove anything but again why am I commenting on Vice video where people don't know anything lol
I wish I had ridiculous amount of money to help repopulate plants in the wild. Like, have multiple endangered plants and be able to successfully re introduce them to their native parts. This plant obsession, just like the wave of certain animal obsessions (Example: Dalmations when 101 Dalmations animated movie came out) has lead to such sad situations.
lol..so guilty
😂😂😂😂the music behind this kills me
Pinocchio handled Hooks interrogation better than this guy handled raggedy Ann’s
😂
Yeah he took that ish
This is like someone drooling over a rare vehicle, then one day we hear about the exact same car stolen from a collector, and magically that car is in the droolers driveway, and it was given to him by a friend.
😂😂😂😂
And yes, vehicles are tracked, but it's the same point.
You can tell he's lying his ass off. He did it. That was the plant.
5:00 “Eric“ is what he named his pole saw
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂the girl trying so hard not to laugh I'm fucking dead dude it's a plant come on now!!
He looked so guilty 😡😡 and he looks like a complete liar. He’s talking about his suppose friend Eric as a way to reflect the accusation of him. There’s evidence he was visiting the place and it so happen when the plan when missing he acquired one.
He did it. He totally stole that plant. I’ve been to that botanical garden and they sell plants next door he could of made walked out making it look like he purchased the plant
He’s a liar.
I’m waiting for the Netflix documentary. 😂
So many coincidences
Did VICE interview this "Eric"? I think ol dude is lying..
GUILTY
He probably did it but the video also doesn’t give us his explanation or details where he got his other plants too etc. so? They are also a slow growing plant..he couldn’t have used the cuttings for his other two to grow
5:02
Her expression is priceless. 😂
I feel like the guy in charge of the botanical garden, people dag out flowers from my community garden section, that I have for people enjoyment, and two days ago somebody cut a lot of branches of a beautiful perenniall bush that I have had for 3 years and lives for some months of the year.
That is absolutely disgusting, especially if it's adults. I can see naughty children doing that because they want a garden.
If it's endangered shouldn't we be cloning it? What? Not doing this would be the bad thing.... 🥶
These plants are in TC. It won't take long to be $500
I just got a tc baby for 600 dollars. 650 overnighted. Now the var. Billie is the top in the plant world bc it cannot be TC’d.
@@meggieboyd1247is it still alive? I hear the TC ones are very tricky and even more difficult to care for
I'll bet the cops started laughing when he reported it.
Its Rare no more, its been intensively propagated through seeds and tissue culture. My friend in Brazil grows ton of spiritus sancti from seeds. In thailand its also been tissue cultured.
If it's rare and endangered, propagate the hell out of it and distribute it so that the species can survive, instead of putting it in a museum.
i hate that this history exists, it reminds me of greedy people, of people who want to concentrate things in the hands of few, of people who capitalize on endangered plants from other countries, of botanical gardens that don't do social work, of the hyper individualistic society that we live in and the consumerism that invades every single hobby on this mf system.
The whole time while I was watching this i just kept thinking how they’re going to replay this over and over again when later in the future after everything is over they’ll find out that this guy did it with indirect help from the guy at the botanical garden 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Ohhh yeah, yeah I heard about that as well” *the third one sold was the stolen one for sure*
If it was that expensive I’d at least put it in a nicer looking pot.
Either very trusting people, or, I don't know. With rare & expensive plants (or any items), a security system is a possible protector???
He absolutely stole it. Or Eric stole it.
I see this kind of plant on several plant shops on my city but it is not that big. Probably around a quater or half the size of this. I think I need to buy some.
I would not show myself after this. Man he looked so guilty.
5:10 straight lying through his teeth. Wow he's bad at that. Lolol
I’m dead!!! Funniest episode ever!
$7000 ya say,
With tissue culture one itty bitty bit could be turned into thousands, in a couple more years they could be as common as dandelions.
So where's this plant at?
I just want a look, honest.
The full video is not available here in Brazil. I wanted to watch it so much.
Does anyone know what the name of the song that plays at the beginning?
He stole it, for sure.
I REALLY LOVE my pet plants, and I wish every plants thieves are cursed.
Yeah he got it from his friend Eric
Bro so guilty it’s almost cringeworthy lmao
Do you ever step back a bit and feel a bit self conscious about people not in the know seeing this and finding that one of the rarest and most coveted plants in the world is kind of "regular looking"? Don't get me wrong, I like how it looks, but there's orchids, anthuriums, and many other species that really look extravagant, whereas the spiritus sancti *just* has long leaves and thin petioles.
I had a Brazilian co-worker who thought they were super ugly, lol.
I would show him pics of my philodendrons, and he'd just say"they're ugly".
And he was from plant heaven!
Well thats because it IS nothing really special. Which is why you can get them super cheap now that they're available.
A year ago I saw a baby spiritus sancti for £99, today I ordered one for £20.
That guy looks guilty af
Why does he say “my friend Eric” in a winky eye voice lol
he is so guilty. he knows that plant is stolen.
He is a collector, and like any other collector he has money to give and their are many people from the inside staff that can smuggle the plant to him easily. Sounds like a typical blackmarket to me. And this so called "Botanical Garden" pretending like a messiah of plants while displaying a plant like trophy as a centerpiece chandelier instead of propagating it more and more... is just so laughable. Like pot calling the kettle back. Atleast the thief is propagating it.
That's worse because then the thief can make even more money off the stolen plant
@@herreramalik thats the whole point of stealing it
@@jaystackz3425 I kno2 she made it seem like it was a good thing to be propagating it I think it's nit can then now the thief. An make even more money
@@nancyvandermeer4480 not really you would have to reproduce enough plants for it to actually change that you can only get so many cuttings from a plant ot would take too long to produce a scale big enough to effect the market right now
@@nancyvandermeer4480 that's what makes the plant do desirable what's the point of getting a rare plant if it's no longer rare its just another plant at that point. At least with centerpieces you're able to admire and some people want them for the clout and kill them in 2 months anyways instead providing the right care for these plants
Guilty asf 😂
Beautiful plant !!! Can't believe how many people think that he did it. Well after reading so many comments........ I just don't know. I'm not judging. Why isn't the Botanical Garden taking their own cuttings so we can all have this plant forever ???????
Dude was for sure lying hard.
I mean right after this happened. This plant popped up in ALOT of places 😆 and to think I now own one is insane 😂
IM SO JEALOUS!!!
@@kayafacchini Prices are dropping. I just bought one off of Etsy, a 4 inch pot size, for $80.
he is well guilty .
I saw the original video. I'm confused on why this clip was was uploaded. I thought we were going to get answers and it's just a clip. Did they ever find out who stole it? Can we get an update video?
I think it’s obvious. The guy being interviewed is a horrible liar.
Damn for that much! Well let me fly back to Tonga they have a lot of these growing abundantly lol
I'd to hear what the plant thinks about all this
This is the same guy who scammed people along with Eric C aka Aroiddaddy out of $3000 each for plants they claimed were a cross of Spiritus Sancti and Jose Buono and it was just Jose Buono.
Two well know scammers in the community this guy for sure did it and I’m sure Eric helped.
did a search , indeed a endangered plant
Massively over dramatic during the theft description.
I'm from Brazil and thought I already saw it, why is it rare? Then it explained :P
you sure its the same plant ? there are many similar looking ones
People are so disgusting. In my business they ruined our plants because so many stole leaves, stems etc.
Also on Aloes🤦♀️ I mean on some plants this shows so much if a leave is cut. 😖
Stole tf out of it 😂
If.they are that rare, it's a crime to not send cuttings everywhere to spread it around the world.
That is exactly what botanical gardens do. They were likely trying to grow it out to maturity to flower and set seed. Hundreds or thousands of seeds to grow new plants each year is far faster than 1-2 cuttings every few years from a slow growing plant. Just a reminder.