Is Bucephalandra a Good Plant to Grow for Profit? Plants for Profit: Buce
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2024
- It's time to talk about one of the most in demand plants when it comes to aquascapes and how you can use it to make money!
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Buce has been one off my most enjoyable plants to grow. As said I have a shrimp tank full off it along with java moss. Great video once again.
The best variant for making money is Green Wavy. It grows like crazy, vertically and forms dense bushes. I have almost all comercially sold variants and none come even close. Maybe Kedagang. When you need to sell just take a bush and trim stems with 8-10 leaves and roots. You should leave stems with 0-2 leaves on the bush, those will start growing over time into new branches. Don't sell to quick. The more you have the faster you multiply. I grow them in high light, moderate Co2. If you lack space you can use suckers and a pipe placed on your aquarium walls and stick bushes between the pipe and glass. Vertical gardening style. Use proceeds to aquire new types, the rares the better. There are hundreads of types so you have a lot of work ahead. Cheers.
Hey Bentley have you heard about fig trees there super easy to grow and hardy there’s thousands of self fertile collectible varieties that can be worth hundreds of dollars a rooted out cutting and they can all taste delicious with different berry flavors the varieties sold at the stores are way less good and that’s why they have a bad rap but there rare varieties that taste like cherry candy or strawberries and meany more amazing berries flavors.
@@jamesfrederick.wow can those be raised indoors?
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I was looking at my own buce tonight..thinking how to improve..so great video Bentley..
Learned loads as usual..
Great advice Bentley!! Love my Buce...so many different colors
Thanks for the info, good to see your passion and knowledge in this ...
thank you so much for this sir!
Awesome Tips you shared !!! I learn alot...hope to see more of your videos soon!! 😀 nick
Really liking these species profiles! Great work as always Bentley 👍
I love your plant episodes. I haven't been getting my notifications lately. Cheers Jason
You may have to uncheck notifications then out them back to all, I've had to do that on a couple channels recently. It's annoying for certain
Thanks Bentley, will do that now.
Yeah Bentley crushing another plant species video, love these, keep up the awesome work man!!
Thanks Clay!
Great video, Bentley!
Great video. Thank you for sharing. I just bought some from Aq Co-op! - Little Bobby
NW Aquahobby (youtube channel) is cultivating buce immersed in his garage, he has done some testing, and it just grows so much faster emersed. Even if you want to sell it in its submerged state, you can grow it emersed, and the time it takes to adapt to the new conditions will still save time. Additionally when growing emersed it makes it a lot easier to provide ideal nutrients to the plants. Mind you i am talking purely if you plan to profit from sales and cultivate this as opposed to enjoy it.
the lavarocks are a great tip ;D i used lavarock below my soil and i used the spare ones for buce ;D so far it worked out and even the smallest rhizome pieces came back to life^^
Love my Buce. Been growing them for about four years now. 👊🏻
Your video inspires me so much sir
Great video, beautiful cat.
Yep love using ceramic bio-rings, black and red lava rock, and white marble chips.
I bought buce from Erik Lucas before. I grow my buce emersed for profit. I was debating about splitting up the rhizomes but I think I’ll give it a try, great video!
Hey Bentley thanks for another great video. And excellent timing as I've recently been talking with a friend about getting some from him since he imports it.
Great Video keep it up Man!
Do you have a suggestion where to find or a link to the shelves you mentioned? I really wanna do a grow out tank for buce and anubias and java fern with shrimps. And that sounds perfect to fit more in.
I use small red lava rocks with drilled holes (tunnels) through it. This is very good place to implant Buces or Anubias, even without a glue at all. I use 6 mm drill and small cordless driller - just be careful, lava rocks are easy to crack :)
I find that if you have a nutrient rich substrate and keep buce near it, the buce will eventually send down roots into that substrate and at least in my experience it seems like the buce will grow much faster once it does that as well.
To those aren't actually roots. They serve two purposes, 1 the anchor to hardscape, and 2 minor nutrient absorption. The rhizome and leaves are where tha vast majority of nutrient up take happens. So while there will be a very slight increase in growth you may also damage the plant if the fertilizer has say root tabs or has had years with livestock but no rooted plants and built up a thick mulm layer at the bottom that's super concentrated fertilizer basically and can burn the roots of buce. Not sure if there is a term other than roots to refer to them as they aren't actually roots. You would think so but I've yet to hear of one.
This is great info, thanks for sharing! May have to start contributing to the hobby in a bigger way!
I recently found your channel, became a subscriber and been watching several of your videos. I am glad to learn that you are also in the great Seattle area where I live. I am a big fan of the buchephalandra. I like their different varieties and I especially like when they are about to flower so there is that expectation. I have grown buce in both mid-light 20-long tank with no CO2 and in high-light 20-tall tank with CO2. Of course, when there is CO2, the plant grows faster, but even without CO2, it did well. I think this is because I wasn't looking to sell them for profit, just enjoy watching them so I didn't mind the slow growth. I found buce works really well with dragon stones cos all the holes that I can stick the plants in. Anyway, really enjoyed your video and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thx for the tips. You confirmed how to grow more buce for my tanks, without going bankrupt. 🖖😊
Nice video Blob
MEOW! Pet me human! LOL. Erik has great buce. I ordered around 20 different types from him (the small size) just to see what they looked like in person. All of what I ordered came in looking awesome.
Bucephalandra sounds like slang for something married men only get on their birthday. 😆
Heyah Bentley, loving the species profile mate, especially on bucephalandra. Love my buce and how’d it bad. Thank you for sharing your opinions and tips on growth and cultivation. 🌱💚
One more thing... Many places sell emersed... So ask before you buy.
Bucephalandra can convert without melting in am ideal environment... I have no luck achieving this. If you don't, it will also melt away. You may have almost nothing but bare rhizome... As long as the rhizome does not rot, (get mushy) it will grow back.
Would be cool if you Bently do a top 10 buce cause they look kind of similar and there is a lot.😊
As a personal rule, I don't do top 10s
Great video I’m setting up a 125 and I can’t decide between buce or anubias on the wood and rocks
Do both! I alternated red mini Buce and Nana petite Anubias in dragonstone in one of my tanks, looked great
Just a note from experience, of your cooking buce at 150+ par
Do not even move your buce.
Once you set it somewhere, even bumping it can cause it to melt away. Direction of light can cause it to melt.
Good info, thank you!
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My favorite kind of guy - the one who gives away all his trade secrets to the public for free!
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P.S. u drop so much good info about plants and I saw your nice cat, so here’s some cat hacks for you. You probably already know most of them but still maybe a fun easter egg for someone to find.
- feed them on a plate, not in a bowl. Bowl irritates whisker muscles.
- cats distrust still water! give them water with fountains, not containers. Try washing cats in running water too.
- nape of the neck, where momma cat carrys kitten with, immobilizes kitten while being carried - but this effect never goes away! Grab adult cats by a handful of nape to immobilize them! Helps with bathing them too!
- don’t put their food and water next to each other, nor either of those by a litterbox.
- put several litterboxes and several water fountains for them around the house. Makes them feel like they have a larger territory.
- dispense part of their daily meal via puzzle toy at some other part of the day
- 30 minutes of play time per day - hunting exercises, etc
- try ending playtime with treats, vaguely simulating ending the hunt with a kill
- cats love crickets as much as Oscars do! And they’re super healthy for them! Maybe end playtime with crickets!
- cats like heights! Build shelf-ladders so they can hop up to a shelf way up by the ceiling. Put a hidey box and maybe a water fountain up there!
- cats don’t like scents from laundry soaps, rug shampoos, etc. Always go for unscented or pet friendly cleaners, even on your own clothes!
- scientists studied cat brain waves to find out what music cats like! They came up with special music for cats! It’s completely ridiculous and there’s TH-cam videos of cat music which you can play for your cat, as well as videos of other people’s cats listening to cat music!
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Another great video. You provide excellent information, thanks for sharing your knowledge. When you glue buce to a rock, do you put glue on the stem, roots or on the rhizhome?
Rhizome. I try to avoid much glue on the roots, though some will happen. I usually apply glue to the side of the rhizome when possible and adhere to my surface.
Do you have any recommendations for how to keep track of the names of the different types of buce when using the ceramic ring or small lava rock method? I'm starting with single rhizomes of many different types and still figuring out how best to arrange them, so creating a map wouldn't work so well for me. Also - really great video! Thanks!
Colored zip ties, wrap a zip tie through the whole of the ceramic ring, then write down what each color is on.
@@BentleyPascoe Great idea! Thanks!!
I haven't been into plants long but I haven't heard anyone say that in nature plants generally have a cycle of long grown followed by usually a short period of dying back and then growing again but in our aquariums we try to make them grow nonstop which is why I think a lot of people have trouble with Buce and crypts bc they grow slower and are generally more affected by those changes
Love my buces.
Hope you will increase the light next time
Great info Bentley...So if I DON'T do Co2, would the pink lady do well in my 20g With fluorite and a Fluval 3.0- 18", light??? (I do have Easy Green on standby) I love that one, but hopefully Ill get to Erik's next week to check some stuff out..
Should do fine I believe, but Erik can give you details on it
nice vid. I just want to ask what is the smallest buce available for hobbyist?I have the wavy green and it grows like crazy.I am looking for a smaller variety for my nano tanks. thanks
I'm not sure to be honest, brownie is small, but it's likely one of the Catherinei styles.
Hey man thanks for the video... Can you pls show how to attach to small piece of lava rock or ceramic ring?? Because my friend's buce died when he used glue
I'll do my best to include it soon
Great video… but can you show how you split up the big clump to small pieces. Lots of video growing them but none shows how to propogate/ decide them. Hope you can show me and others
This is very good info. May I ask? Can buce survive if I just keep it fully submerged in a little container, like a betta tank without co2 and filtration system? Thank you.
It can survive yes, but the growth rate will be much slower as you can expect.
I traded some shrimp for some bucephalandra. I received 2 huge clumps of Belindae and 6 rhizomes of Godzilla. I used leftover lava rock from a past project. Just bashed it with a hammer. Use safety glasses...
What about current , do they prefer still water or a nice water flow?
Flow will help keep them clean, they come from stream systems, so they're used to flow
Maganda means beautiful
I have tons of buce and I been collecting since 2013 , I am fully aware of the situation of buce being poached that's why I'm so upset for not getting proper identification of my buce! I have no idea what species I have or how rare they are...I think the names are counter productive and Wish scientific names were what everything was sold as also I think the prices are out of control in America and are one of the biggest reasons the illegal buce market is still thriving, sadly!! But definitely a awesome plant and certainly one with many stories and stigmas
Part of the naming problem is that it takes so long to describe and a new flashy name can basically just generate sales despite the plant being the same as something else
Ur cat is the best lol.
Hey Bentley, Do you know anything about SC or SCA tanks? Got a "deal" being offered to me. $950 for 150 gallon tank, stand, and trigger systems sapphire 39 sump. Worried because I've never heard of the brand.
I'm not familiar with them, but a trigger sapphire 39 is about $450, so it sounds like a reasonable deal
👌 yes bro yes 👌
Umm I thought the cat added to the high quality video production 😻
damn those are quite expensive in the states. here in UK is not even worth to do that.i do have like 3 species of buce: mini needle lleaf, Catherine and lamandau mini red
More kitty please!
Buce seems to be pretty hot right now. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any up here
Booze all the way!
Bruce in the U.K. is similar price to anubias .. def not a profit machine
That’s for the limited nursery varieties offered by producers like Aquaflora, Dennerle and Tropica. You can only get about 10 varieties from them. Prices for other varieties are similar to the prices in America, but admittedly a little lower.
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You're my go to Bentley. What Buce is the best flowerer without special conditions?
What Buce is the easiest of the wavy leafed?
What Buce that are purple or black are the easiest to keep?
What Buce if you know is actually closest to being all three?
I heard on George Farmer something about Buce albida is his favorite..cant find another mention on the internet let alone buy one. What he called Buce albida was dark leafed and flowered very well. Just cannot find a lead on it. I asked him..no answer so far.
Albida is a crypt, specifically crypt albida brown. I would look at nice green wavy, buce brownie brown or blue for flowering. For darker near black really that's typically skeleton king and it's more difficult. Buce super red mini has a dark too leaf, red stem and it's pretty easy.
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Guppy Mansion!!!! I love buce, need CO2.
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Buce is bad for profit. Because they grow tooooo slow.
Actually if you do your conditions correctly and use a small bit of CO2 you can get decent growth from them.