You’ve created the number one plant channel in my book. The information you share is invaluable and the presentation fits the need for so many learning styles. Thank you!
Hey Richard, I just want to let you know that I'm really enjoying your content and I see the increasing amount of effort you put in! Thanks a lot for bringing us calm and realistic houseplant content 🎉
Omg yes! He doesn’t use 100 obnoxious sound effects or scream at the screen lol. Not naming any names but this guy is much better. Very articulate and concise.
Haha ..I love that Wizard. 🤭 I just fell for the 'grouping of plants together' to give my calathea higher humidity.. AND 'you have to repot your plant if you see roots coming out of the drainage holes'. 😂 Uuugh. "Just cut 'em off". Brilliant. Thanks yet again, for another informative video! Happy Saturday! 🪴🌱
Thank you for the pre water comment. I have heard other plant youtubers say this, and I also believe it may lead to over watering. Thank you for the content!❤
@@SheffieldMadePlants I think the pre-watering is a holdover from when all fertilizer was in dry form - even today it tells you to water the plant first. Obviously it doesn’t hold true for liquid fertilizer, but it’s easy to see how it does hold true for DRY fertilizer.
I loved this video, Richard! Very informative. I used to follow the instructions to group plants together for humidity purposes. Well, that was a mistake, they all got aphids! What a mess to clear up. I now make sure there's plenty of space between each plant. Thank you for this video, I really liked it a lot!
Hello Sheffield Made Plants 🖖 absolutely love your channel and thank you so much for all of the amazing advice you are giving to everybody on TH-cam. I noticed you have a Begonia in you huge collection and was wondering if you could possibly do a video on plant care or give any tips? I got one from Homebase around a month ago and it's gone from having about 25 leaves on it to just 1 now. It was completely saturated in water when I got it with a maggot/worm in the roots, I didn't realise how bad this was for it till about a week or two into owning it and then repotted it completely with Perlite and coco coir. It has been fed once with plant food and the soil is drying out now ready for a new water. I have looked everywhere online for help with it but something just isn't working... my bedroom is south facing with glorious rays of light bursting through each day and I know it can't have full light as the leaves crisp up and die too. I'm really struggling with it and I don't want to give up hope. Any advice would be amazing, it's a Begonia Rex. Thank you 😊
Thank you! Sounds like you’re doing the right thing but it’s just been hit hard by the pest eating its roots. Good light and the right watering with patience and a prayer are all you can do really
I love your language, "a spot of bother" 🤣 I know Sheffield is slightly back in time ☺️ but your phrases take me back a few years 👍 So you have great advice, ideas plus you make me smile and laugh.
Great video, as always. I'll share my theory on indoor plant care here, which is that one needs to try to imitate the natural environment your plant evolved in. Most houseplants are tropical or sub-tropical. Many people misinterpret this to mean 'jungle'. and there for hot and wet. "Tropical" actually refers to orbital science! Hold on, I'm not going to go all 'sciency', but if you look at a map or globe, you'll see three major horizontal lines (lines of latitude). There's the equator, of course, in the middle, and there's two more, one twenty degrees to the north, and one the same to the south. These are the "Tropics" of Cancer and Capricorn. (And no, not the book by Henry Miller!) They denote the limits of the sun's angle as the Earth circles the sun, specifically the highest latitude where the sun will appear exactly overhead at noon. This varies with the seasons, of course. Now Mr. Sheffie;d and I happen to live at about the same northern latitude. almost halfway between the equator and the North Pole. So our day length In winter is about six or seven hours. But at or below the Tropics, the day length only varies from 10 hours to 13 hours seasonally. Thus, most of your plant pals Mommies and Daddies grew up with a fairly consistent day length. Oh sure, they'll survive during our short-day winters, but you can't expect them to be happy about it. Supplementing light in winter to give them that 10-13 hours of golden showers (no, NOT Henry Miller!) will help them a lot. They've also evolved to experience either warm dry periods or warm wet periods. You also have to keep in mind that 'tropical' only refers to locations on the latitudes, not the climate. There are deserts (uh, Sahara, ex.) and cold places (mountain tops) in the tropics. Irrespective of that, the day lengths are the same. So, if you want to keep your green-ish pals happy, give them what they want. By learning where your new buddy comes from, and the ecology of that place, you'll know a lot more about what to give them to make them feel at home in your home. This goes for growth habits as well. Climbers are gonna try to climb, spreaders are going to try to spread, some chaps will stand tall and slender, some are short and wide. (No body shaming allowed here!) They all do much better when given the chance to do their own thing. Happy Growing!
I agree, if the plant growth then you can fertilize, no matter if it´s summer or winter. If you are unsure you can always dilute the fertilizer more, this way the plant still has some nutrients if it needs them, but you don´t risk over fertilizing. Also flushing the soil really well every 1-3 month or so can help getting rid of extra salts left behind from fertilizer.
I have always diluted to half-strength and then applied that every watering. Never had an issue with burning, don't have to remember who got fed when and. the plants grow and don't die, so it must be okay with them.
I use an electric grill that I no longer use, dry out the old soil, and then throw it in an old pot , and stir it until I feel content. My soil bill was getting ridiculous,,, work's like a champ,
IF I reuse soil when repotting, I only use it with the plant it came from. I beef it back up and put it in the new pot with that same plant. Lately I haven't been beefing it back up though. This year I've been using a tip I got from one of your videos. Filling in the new pot around the old one, then just plop the plant in without disturbing the root ball too much. It's much easier and my plants look and grow the same.
When it comes to Fertilising I’ve always put the correct amount into a 1 L bottle and then fill the bottle with water and then I fertilise my plants. My Monstera, Dave he takes a full 1 L and my two Pothos Marble Queen and Global Green take about just under half a litre because they are in smaller pots 🪴🪴🪴.
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank You 😊. I’ve never had any issue’s, I just take my plants out of there decorative pots and put them into a Colander one by one which itself is sitting inside a bucket. I then water them giving them a good drink and letting the pots drain off any excess water and then put them back into there decorative pots until next time 👌
Hi! Love your content. I keep having this question though. Why do you pour water after transplanting to get rid of air pockets, but then poke holes in the soil with a chopstick to create air pockets? Is that not contradictory? And while we're at it, doesn't the moisture meter act as a chopstick every time you check your plants?
Oh phew 😂 I had a major panic when I noticed my spider plant roots exploding out of the bottom of the pots but I’ll just give them a trim first before deciding if they really need repotting.
For the soil: just make sure the soil isn't exposed in any way. I feel like it's tempting to store the soil outside, but that's where the pests are. And like fungus gnats, they don't need plants to be in there to thrive, they even prefer decaying matter. But always: these creatures don't just pop up out of nowhere. They need to find the place, and if the soil is stored well in a way that pest insects cannot get in, there shouldn't be a problem. (or add some predatory insects that eat/kill the pests, that may help too)
Nice to hear that you also don't water your plants before fertilizing. I never understood this one either. The only thing this does is saving money if you top-water, because you make sure that the soil is saturated before fertilizing. If you top water dry soil with the fertilizer solution, you are wasting that solution for saturating first.
I was wondering what your opinion is about using fish aquarium water as fertilizer? I have been watering my plants with my aquarium water (never used additional fertilizer) and my plants appear to be doing well, but I now wonder if I should also be adding fertilizer? Love the channel!
I think Richard did a video once saying it was good to use fish aquarium water. I used to use it when I had a lot of aquariums because the fish emulsion was good food for the plants.
Hi Richard i am planning to start my garden soon and am planning to reuse some of my old soil. But i will be sterilizing them before mixing them with the newer soil via heat (aluminium foil and hot water). Would you still recommend to completely start with new soil and get a fresh start? i really wana try to reuse the old soil tho
Pretty much, I 've just stopped watching other videos of the topic. This man is quite the genius, making it all but fool-proof to care for anything plant :)
🇦🇺 great information again! I was especially thinking of you today when I read how coke (the drink, not the drug 😉) was beneficial for plants - I couldn't believe it! And another humidity myth bites the dust! I use a lot of coir in my outdoor pots I do find it can become very hydrophobic during summer but I am in a hot part of Australia - sometimes I have to water my pots twice a day lol Thanks for the reliable information that helps me with my plants
Yep; I’m in a hot part of the northern USA, and in the height of summer I absolutely have to water outdoor plants twice a day (with or without coir). It’s just heat/evaporation. 🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for the heads up. Also in Australia, and I don't yet have an outdoor garden - no space. But I'd live to be able to grow fruit and veg someday. For now, my parsley plant on the window sill is teaching me a lot (mostly that consistency is important 😅).
But Richard, how do I get my extreme jungle look if my plants don't touch? 🤷🏼♀️🤔 I think nearly all my plants have a buddy they touch but it's BC I've got ONE smaller window and everything else gets grown with sansi bulbs and as much as I love their bulbs, I don't really want to need my sunglasses inside. So plants get placed close to the several lamps. So far (knock on wood) I've only had fungus gnats as pests and they're not even bad this year, last year I had to spray, so I'm not concerned. My monstera Thai is just touching the deliciosa as they're sharing a grow bulb but with that only being two plants it's again far easier to look them over and bring death to pests. It was cool enough last night that I pulled my alocasia out of the window sill as they love to touch the glass, it's only 19 inside and the sun is still missing so I've not moved them back but also haven't found "winter spots" for them yet as I wasn't expecting it to go from heat wave to needing a hot tea and an extra blanket. I'm hoping that my actively growing alocasia don't get a bit of a shock and start to go to dormancy as it's not cool enough to need heat 😭 Send warmth! 🆘
@@SheffieldMadePlants always! I think it helps that I check everyone even morning while the dog is out and then again in the evening while I'm closing curtains and shutting off lights. Plus, if anyone needs watered etc then they get a little more attention. When you make it part of your daily routine to check it's a lot easier than if I only checked on a weekend. Perhaps another good reason to not water on a schedule and to listen to your plants. 🤷🏼♀️
Hi, I've got a question. I've recently purchased grow lights for my plants, and I've noticed they make my eyes hurt. I don't look straight into them, and don't have them in the brightest setting, but even from afar the light really hurts. Have you experienced any discomfort from your grow lights? I've read they could cause damage.
Some brand of lights have UV light so you should not point them at yourself for longer periods, however there's no harm at all if they are pointed towards the plants. Are you using purple grow lights by any chance ? I use Sansi grow lights and it looks like sunlight, the plants love it.
@@Daniele63 I got some cheap ones from Amazon. They are full spectrum, though, and I have them on the daylight setting. I do have very sensitive eyes, so it might be just that. I'll ask my ophthalmologist for advice at my next appointment.
@@SheffieldMadePlants I thought as much. Buy cheap, buy twice... They do seem to have a beneficial effect on my plants, so I'll use them until I get get myself a nice lamp and some Sansi bulbs.
It seems that every commercial potting soil I see are 80% or more peat moss; it dries out too fast, hardens, then defies water. From now on, I will be making my own mix:/
The problem i have when roots poke out the bottom: i feel like when bottom watering at this stage, the water does not really get absorbed by the soil as much or fast as before. Anyone else experience this?
I just remembered, if you really can't afford to get new soil, if you put it in the oven at 180 for 30 minutes and then leave it in the sun for a few hours it will sterilise the soil sufficiently to be reusable
@@allissonmueller2342 it's not going to smell unless you decided to give all your plants root rot. You don't keep it long enough to actually roast it, you just heat it up for as short as possible to kill the germs. Actually my soil always either smells nice like fertile soils should or barely noticeable smell, so I don't know what you do to make it smell repulsive
Mooore 😅 I remove roots that have grown out of the pot from time to time. New roots will sprout in the media, and there is where I want them to be. When the roots grow out of the pot on top of the soil, then it is time to repot 😂 Ok, ok… then it had been time to repot quite a while ago. 😏
I am about to toss my aurthuiam. No matter what I do It just grow leaves but no flower. I fertilized using different ones to see which is best does nothing. And gave new soil. It bothers me to just look at leaves. I only water when the soils is fully dried.
@@SheffieldMadePlants place the soil in oven for 40 min 180oC. Or wash with boiling water.. It should kill every thing. You can add some fresh organic soil to revive the soil from nutrients that probably lost by the heat, that way you fresh things up without using all new soil. I grow from seeds so I'm sterelize the soil all the time
Fungus gnats are a trivial issue if you assume they are in the environment and act accordingly as a matter of routine. Regular applications of nematodes will take care of the gnats so that you don't need to worry about reamending and reusing your soil. And you'll also be able to get rid of those sticky traps!
I had so much trouble with pests in my house plants until I learned your tip of bottom tray watering. Just like you promised my pest problems evaporated. Plus I got the moisture meter, and now I’ve stopped overwatering. My plants are so much happier 🌱🌿🪴
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I like this guy
Thanks!
Yess
Me too
And me
I agree.
You’ve created the number one plant channel in my book. The information you share is invaluable and the presentation fits the need for so many learning styles. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Hey Richard,
I just want to let you know that I'm really enjoying your content and I see the increasing amount of effort you put in! Thanks a lot for bringing us calm and realistic houseplant content 🎉
I appreciate that!
Omg yes! He doesn’t use 100 obnoxious sound effects or scream at the screen lol. Not naming any names but this guy is much better. Very articulate and concise.
My wifeand I just watched about an hour of your youtube videos, great humour, very educational love em.
That is awesome!
Your illustrative images and footage are excellent. 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Haha ..I love that Wizard. 🤭
I just fell for the 'grouping of plants together' to give my calathea higher humidity.. AND 'you have to repot your plant if you see roots coming out of the drainage holes'. 😂 Uuugh.
"Just cut 'em off". Brilliant. Thanks yet again, for another informative video! Happy Saturday! 🪴🌱
Love it!!
Thank you for the pre water comment. I have heard other plant youtubers say this, and I also believe it may lead to over watering.
Thank you for the content!❤
My pleasure 😊
@@SheffieldMadePlants I think the pre-watering is a holdover from when all fertilizer was in dry form - even today it tells you to water the plant first. Obviously it doesn’t hold true for liquid fertilizer, but it’s easy to see how it does hold true for DRY fertilizer.
I loved this video, Richard! Very informative. I used to follow the instructions to group plants together for humidity purposes. Well, that was a mistake, they all got aphids! What a mess to clear up. I now make sure there's plenty of space between each plant. Thank you for this video, I really liked it a lot!
Wonderful!
Coconut coir is also hydrophobic when completely dry. Some manufacturer uses a wetting agent when processing coconut coir.
He is the Master when it comes to plants! Glad I found this channel!
Wow, thanks!
I learned to bottom water because of you and my plants are doing so good. My favorite plant channel . So many great tips that work 🙌🏼
Great to hear!
Using aquarium water conditioner is another great one that's made a big difference for me!
Hello Sheffield Made Plants 🖖 absolutely love your channel and thank you so much for all of the amazing advice you are giving to everybody on TH-cam. I noticed you have a Begonia in you huge collection and was wondering if you could possibly do a video on plant care or give any tips? I got one from Homebase around a month ago and it's gone from having about 25 leaves on it to just 1 now. It was completely saturated in water when I got it with a maggot/worm in the roots, I didn't realise how bad this was for it till about a week or two into owning it and then repotted it completely with Perlite and coco coir. It has been fed once with plant food and the soil is drying out now ready for a new water. I have looked everywhere online for help with it but something just isn't working... my bedroom is south facing with glorious rays of light bursting through each day and I know it can't have full light as the leaves crisp up and die too. I'm really struggling with it and I don't want to give up hope. Any advice would be amazing, it's a Begonia Rex. Thank you 😊
Thank you! Sounds like you’re doing the right thing but it’s just been hit hard by the pest eating its roots. Good light and the right watering with patience and a prayer are all you can do really
Very enjoyable and informative post. Many thanks ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your language, "a spot of bother" 🤣
I know Sheffield is slightly back in time ☺️ but your phrases take me back a few years 👍 So you have great advice, ideas plus you make me smile and laugh.
Love that!
Thank you, as always your videos are educational and fun to watch. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much!
I have always put my used houseplant soil on the garden outside.
Great video, as always. I'll share my theory on indoor plant care here, which is that one needs to try to imitate the natural environment your plant evolved in. Most houseplants are tropical or sub-tropical. Many people misinterpret this to mean 'jungle'. and there for hot and wet.
"Tropical" actually refers to orbital science! Hold on, I'm not going to go all 'sciency', but if you look at a map or globe, you'll see three major horizontal lines (lines of latitude). There's the equator, of course, in the middle, and there's two more, one twenty degrees to the north, and one the same to the south. These are the "Tropics" of Cancer and Capricorn. (And no, not the book by Henry Miller!) They denote the limits of the sun's angle as the Earth circles the sun, specifically the highest latitude where the sun will appear exactly overhead at noon.
This varies with the seasons, of course. Now Mr. Sheffie;d and I happen to live at about the same northern latitude. almost halfway between the equator and the North Pole. So our day length In winter is about six or seven hours. But at or below the Tropics, the day length only varies from 10 hours to 13 hours seasonally.
Thus, most of your plant pals Mommies and Daddies grew up with a fairly consistent day length. Oh sure, they'll survive during our short-day winters, but you can't expect them to be happy about it. Supplementing light in winter to give them that 10-13 hours of golden showers (no, NOT Henry Miller!) will help them a lot.
They've also evolved to experience either warm dry periods or warm wet periods. You also have to keep in mind that 'tropical' only refers to locations on the latitudes, not the climate. There are deserts (uh, Sahara, ex.) and cold places (mountain tops) in the tropics. Irrespective of that, the day lengths are the same.
So, if you want to keep your green-ish pals happy, give them what they want. By learning where your new buddy comes from, and the ecology of that place, you'll know a lot more about what to give them to make them feel at home in your home.
This goes for growth habits as well. Climbers are gonna try to climb, spreaders are going to try to spread, some chaps will stand tall and slender, some are short and wide. (No body shaming allowed here!) They all do much better when given the chance to do their own thing.
Happy Growing!
I agree, if the plant growth then you can fertilize, no matter if it´s summer or winter. If you are unsure you can always dilute the fertilizer more, this way the plant still has some nutrients if it needs them, but you don´t risk over fertilizing. Also flushing the soil really well every 1-3 month or so can help getting rid of extra salts left behind from fertilizer.
Good shout 👍
I have always diluted to half-strength and then applied that every watering. Never had an issue with burning, don't have to remember who got fed when and. the plants grow and don't die, so it must be okay with them.
Keep it up mate! Great content.
Appreciate it!
This guy is great giving out great information
Thank you 😊
Reusing soil is fine as long as you sterilize it and continue to fertilize
I use an electric grill that I no longer use, dry out the old soil, and then throw it in an old pot , and stir it until I feel content. My soil bill was getting ridiculous,,, work's like a champ,
❤I’m a old woman and you’re like sunshine on my day may the great Jehovah bless you and your family
Wow, thank you
New subscriber here and indoor gardener. Loving your channel ❤ thanks for all the hard work and helpful advice 😊
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Roots are intrepid explorers. Great description.
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IF I reuse soil when repotting, I only use it with the plant it came from. I beef it back up and put it in the new pot with that same plant. Lately I haven't been beefing it back up though. This year I've been using a tip I got from one of your videos. Filling in the new pot around the old one, then just plop the plant in without disturbing the root ball too much. It's much easier and my plants look and grow the same.
Sounds great!
When it comes to Fertilising I’ve always put the correct amount into a 1 L bottle and then fill the bottle with water and then I fertilise my plants. My Monstera, Dave he takes a full 1 L and my two Pothos Marble Queen and Global Green take about just under half a litre because they are in smaller pots 🪴🪴🪴.
Great tip!
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank You 😊. I’ve never had any issue’s, I just take my plants out of there decorative pots and put them into a Colander one by one which itself is sitting inside a bucket. I then water them giving them a good drink and letting the pots drain off any excess water and then put them back into there decorative pots until next time 👌
You are the man! Thank you!
Thank you 😊
Hi Richard, a new one! Simple and trustworthy advice, and no mumbo jumbo.( although I might add, mumboey jumboey that dead leaves are bad feng shui 😂)
Thank you 😊
Good tips yet again Mr Richard 👌
Thanks Miss J 😉
Lovely video
Lots of useful information 👍
Glad you liked it
Hi! Love your content. I keep having this question though. Why do you pour water after transplanting to get rid of air pockets, but then poke holes in the soil with a chopstick to create air pockets? Is that not contradictory? And while we're at it, doesn't the moisture meter act as a chopstick every time you check your plants?
The chopstick loosens hardened soil. Doesn’t create air pockets where there is no soil touching the roots
Oh phew 😂 I had a major panic when I noticed my spider plant roots exploding out of the bottom of the pots but I’ll just give them a trim first before deciding if they really need repotting.
Great stuff 👍
For the soil: just make sure the soil isn't exposed in any way. I feel like it's tempting to store the soil outside, but that's where the pests are. And like fungus gnats, they don't need plants to be in there to thrive, they even prefer decaying matter. But always: these creatures don't just pop up out of nowhere. They need to find the place, and if the soil is stored well in a way that pest insects cannot get in, there shouldn't be a problem. (or add some predatory insects that eat/kill the pests, that may help too)
Sure it should definitely be kept inside
Nice to hear that you also don't water your plants before fertilizing. I never understood this one either. The only thing this does is saving money if you top-water, because you make sure that the soil is saturated before fertilizing. If you top water dry soil with the fertilizer solution, you are wasting that solution for saturating first.
Exactly!
Hi from Singapore Richard! Love your content..
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for this video. Very reassuring. Is that a lipstick plant behind you? are you going to have an episode on how to care/propagate one of those?
It is and yes I’ll have a think about that
I reuse soil not for my plants, but in the holes my dogs dig in my yard ! 😁
Fair enough 😁
I was wondering what your opinion is about using fish aquarium water as fertilizer? I have been watering my plants with my aquarium water (never used additional fertilizer) and my plants appear to be doing well, but I now wonder if I should also be adding fertilizer? Love the channel!
I think Richard did a video once saying it was good to use fish aquarium water. I used to use it when I had a lot of aquariums because the fish emulsion was good food for the plants.
It’s great with all that free food/poop! If your plants are happy then it’s working 😁
I use it too! :)
You are awesome , and that accent! How bout a study on real outdoor sunshine to window sunshine for us high rise, no balcony living plants.
Thank you 😊
As a mass succulent owner half of these problems are mitigated by the way that they grow.
That was vague
Dishwasher is a great way to get rid of pets especially mealy bugs.but i dilute it and don't let the soil touches any dishwasher
Hi Richard
i am planning to start my garden soon and am planning to reuse some of my old soil. But i will be sterilizing them before mixing them with the newer soil via heat (aluminium foil and hot water). Would you still recommend to completely start with new soil and get a fresh start? i really wana try to reuse the old soil tho
Yea it should be fine to use the sterilised soil
For re-using soil, you can sanitize it in the oven or microwave!
Good shout
Your really cool love to listen to your videos
Thank you 😊
I always recommend green soap instead of dishsoap because green soap in naturally degradable
Pretty much, I 've just stopped watching other videos of the topic. This man is quite the genius, making it all but fool-proof to care for anything plant :)
Wow, thanks
@@SheffieldMadePlants Quite well deserved. You’re very welcome and have earned such a compliment.
I think reusing soil is okay for outdoor plants.
Yes fine for outdoors
Thanks!
Thank you very much 😊
🇦🇺 great information again! I was especially thinking of you today when I read how coke (the drink, not the drug 😉) was beneficial for plants - I couldn't believe it!
And another humidity myth bites the dust!
I use a lot of coir in my outdoor pots I do find it can become very hydrophobic during summer but I am in a hot part of Australia - sometimes I have to water my pots twice a day lol
Thanks for the reliable information that helps me with my plants
Thank you 😊
Yep; I’m in a hot part of the northern USA, and in the height of summer I absolutely have to water outdoor plants twice a day (with or without coir). It’s just heat/evaporation. 🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for the heads up. Also in Australia, and I don't yet have an outdoor garden - no space. But I'd live to be able to grow fruit and veg someday. For now, my parsley plant on the window sill is teaching me a lot (mostly that consistency is important 😅).
Which is best indoor plants?
Depends on your taste. What do you like?
Another awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
But Richard, how do I get my extreme jungle look if my plants don't touch? 🤷🏼♀️🤔
I think nearly all my plants have a buddy they touch but it's BC I've got ONE smaller window and everything else gets grown with sansi bulbs and as much as I love their bulbs, I don't really want to need my sunglasses inside. So plants get placed close to the several lamps. So far (knock on wood) I've only had fungus gnats as pests and they're not even bad this year, last year I had to spray, so I'm not concerned. My monstera Thai is just touching the deliciosa as they're sharing a grow bulb but with that only being two plants it's again far easier to look them over and bring death to pests.
It was cool enough last night that I pulled my alocasia out of the window sill as they love to touch the glass, it's only 19 inside and the sun is still missing so I've not moved them back but also haven't found "winter spots" for them yet as I wasn't expecting it to go from heat wave to needing a hot tea and an extra blanket. I'm hoping that my actively growing alocasia don't get a bit of a shock and start to go to dormancy as it's not cool enough to need heat 😭 Send warmth! 🆘
Be careful with new arrivals anyway! Don’t want your collection to go down 😬
@@SheffieldMadePlants always!
I think it helps that I check everyone even morning while the dog is out and then again in the evening while I'm closing curtains and shutting off lights. Plus, if anyone needs watered etc then they get a little more attention. When you make it part of your daily routine to check it's a lot easier than if I only checked on a weekend. Perhaps another good reason to not water on a schedule and to listen to your plants. 🤷🏼♀️
What do you think about fox farm potting soil
Never heard of it
Hi, I've got a question. I've recently purchased grow lights for my plants, and I've noticed they make my eyes hurt. I don't look straight into them, and don't have them in the brightest setting, but even from afar the light really hurts.
Have you experienced any discomfort from your grow lights? I've read they could cause damage.
Some brand of lights have UV light so you should not point them at yourself for longer periods, however there's no harm at all if they are pointed towards the plants.
Are you using purple grow lights by any chance ? I use Sansi grow lights and it looks like sunlight, the plants love it.
@@Daniele63 I got some cheap ones from Amazon. They are full spectrum, though, and I have them on the daylight setting.
I do have very sensitive eyes, so it might be just that. I'll ask my ophthalmologist for advice at my next appointment.
@@pinstripesuitandheels Maybe cycle trough the settings and find something that is not as bad ? What brand was it ?
I use Sansi and they’re a good brand. No problems with looking at them. Might be the quality of light from the light
@@SheffieldMadePlants I thought as much. Buy cheap, buy twice...
They do seem to have a beneficial effect on my plants, so I'll use them until I get get myself a nice lamp and some Sansi bulbs.
Have you ever heard of hydrogen peroxide for plants? Could you do a video on that 🙏
I’ve used it for gnats but didn’t work. Probably used it wrong
Randdom question how do you water all your highly placed plants ? Is there a dream tip here?
I bottom water so fill the container and place the plants back
It seems that every commercial potting soil I see are 80% or more peat moss; it dries out too fast, hardens, then defies water. From now on, I will be making my own mix:/
Great stuff 👍
At 7:29 what are those white balls ? I found them in my rubber plant earlier too and have a mushroom coming out. Is it the same thing ?
That’s perlite in the soil. Mushrooms just means you have very fertile soil which is good
Oh thank you ! You’re awesome. So happy to see the growth in the last few months / year & congrats !
The problem i have when roots poke out the bottom: i feel like when bottom watering at this stage, the water does not really get absorbed by the soil as much or fast as before. Anyone else experience this?
Hmm I’ve not noticed that but I’ll be keeping an eye out now
I just remembered, if you really can't afford to get new soil, if you put it in the oven at 180 for 30 minutes and then leave it in the sun for a few hours it will sterilise the soil sufficiently to be reusable
Thanks for the tip
Oh God. NO. the smell.... can you imagine?! How hard it will get to debunk your house and your oven?
@@allissonmueller2342 it's not going to smell unless you decided to give all your plants root rot. You don't keep it long enough to actually roast it, you just heat it up for as short as possible to kill the germs.
Actually my soil always either smells nice like fertile soils should or barely noticeable smell, so I don't know what you do to make it smell repulsive
Mooore 😅
I remove roots that have grown out of the pot from time to time. New roots will sprout in the media, and there is where I want them to be.
When the roots grow out of the pot on top of the soil, then it is time to repot 😂
Ok, ok… then it had been time to repot quite a while ago. 😏
I think so! 😁
Oh noooo! I just group up my plants. I don't have the energy to ungroup them again 😭🫣😂🤣
😬 just don't get a pest
@@SheffieldMadePlants fingers crossed 🤞
I am about to toss my aurthuiam. No matter what I do It just grow leaves but no flower. I fertilized using different ones to see which is best does nothing. And gave new soil. It bothers me to just look at leaves. I only water when the soils is fully dried.
Sorry to hear that. Is it getting good light?
More light, Scotty! Get those warp engines firing!
Oh yes plant daddy, teach me😂
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You can sterilize the old soil and use it. And total agree about the peat.. Terrible substrate
How do you sterilise?
@@SheffieldMadePlants place the soil in oven for 40 min 180oC. Or wash with boiling water.. It should kill every thing. You can add some fresh organic soil to revive the soil from nutrients that probably lost by the heat, that way you fresh things up without using all new soil. I grow from seeds so I'm sterelize the soil all the time
I boiled broccoli, and used the water to feed my plants. So far none have died.
Good nutrients 👍
I remove the yellow leaf bc i don't like it's looks on my plant
Fair enough
I wonder how that fertilizer would work on people😊
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Fungus gnats are a trivial issue if you assume they are in the environment and act accordingly as a matter of routine. Regular applications of nematodes will take care of the gnats so that you don't need to worry about reamending and reusing your soil. And you'll also be able to get rid of those sticky traps!
Yes I think it’s time!
I think a requirement for successful utubers is that i would log in to hear you recite a phone book
😂 I like that!
I gotta say it was slightly jarring seeing you with hair in some of those shots. Who is that strange man in your house? Burglar!
said the hamburglar ...
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I had so much trouble with pests in my house plants until I learned your tip of bottom tray watering. Just like you promised my pest problems evaporated. Plus I got the moisture meter, and now I’ve stopped overwatering. My plants are so much happier 🌱🌿🪴
Great stuff 👍