The one with the fish had to be the best, torturing a poor orchid, plant and torturing a few fish in the same plant hack. people are horrible to fish on the Internet
Growing your own tampons can be really economical - plant directly into the soil- and if you prefer pads you can grow them by planting the seeds from a shop bought pad. Most of them are seedless so make sure you get the seeded variety (labelled as containing absorbent gel beads) this works for disposable nappies too.
LMAO. Thank you Mr. Sheffield. I'm sorry you wasted your time on these, but THANK you! I needed a good laugh. The funniest thing was your face when you were just "dumbfounded" at these hacks.. That is until I saw the Tampon Tree comment here. 🤣. I mean, I had no idea. And here I've been spending all this money over the years! Yes, please do tell Mrs. Sheffield right away and have her tell all her friends. Our problems are solved! Well, maybe anyway, how hard is it to care for a Tampon tree? I'm assuming it needs a good bit of shade and a lot of watering...I'm dying here.
I did the hack where it said to put cuttings into a half-cut banana and bury that into the soil, with the cuttings peeking above the soil. What happened next happened all at the same time: three weeks later, the cuttings died and my house was completely infested with fruit flies.
Not sure if it helps but my favorite hack for catching fruit flys is actually with the lemon and onion in a cup of water. (Literally a hack in this same video that claims you will grow a lemon tree)
yeah.. it was so crucial to give the leaves of the jade plant a careful clean using cotton buds at 21:20 so that you can cut them off nice and clean at 22:20
“Bent for save” is definitely the best plant advice I’ve heard in a while 😂🤔 I’m so glad you’ve done another one of these 5-min Crafts reviews, Richard. Really brightened my day 😂
Submerging a plant under water for an hour kills pest. No need for garlic. I’ve done this for mealy bug and spider mites, it works. Funny story I bought a Swiss cheese plant that was infested with mealy bugs and unpotted it immediately. Ran a warm bath and weighed it down under the water, then left it for an hour. My 9 year old daughter thought it was drowning and needed to save it. I had to intervene and explain that plants don’t have lungs therefore they won’t drown 😂❤
I have two peach saplings that were infested with spider mites that just kept coming back. I got rid of all the soil and submerged the plants overnight in soapy water, but left the roots out. Most of the leaves have fallen off, but they were already in pretty bad shape because of the mites and this was a last resort. They are still alive after a week. I was going to replace them but hopefully I won't have to! No one tried to rescue them, and the cats were not allowed in the closet that they were in. Does that count? ;)
I love how fruits don't rot when put iinto wet soil in any of these videos 😂 Btw, adding some sort of liquid colour to the stem of a plant does work. Several years ago I bought this beautiful dark blue orchid as a gift to my mother... Turned out to be a white orchid with a small plastic bag containing some sort of colouring around the stem just below the surface of the soil. Clever trick Cheers mate and best wishes for 2024 to you and yours
@@SheffieldMadePlantsI've seen a stem split up the middle and the two ends in different colours, and it seemingly turned a white rose into two different colors. It was a while ago, i did not get a chance to see if it was a "true" claim lol
The bonsai making with your commentary had me rolling on the floor laughing 😂 The jade was probably infested with grubs because maybe they tried planting it in a steak 🥩 😂
I'm so glad I forgot to shut the TV off this morning and TH-cam was on AutoPlay. I absolutely love listening to you talk. Very knowledgeable, Funny and Not boring ! Also I love the accent!
On the second hack with the heart trellis and the orchid, you can clearly see they have snapped the flower spikes to get them in that shape. It will look cool for a day but the flowers will start dieing off the next day
If you are very careful you can bend them, but it is easier to "grow" the stems to the shape you want, just attach the clips as flower spike grows, or *carefully* gently bend the spikes slowly over a couple days. If you go the second route, use string to loosely tie and then snug it in as the plant moves.
this is also super true and how orchid flower spikes are typically shaped, but you can see the brake at the bottom of both flower spikes in this vid. I like doing fun shapes with orchid flowers, but this one is just not right
@@jennifercarroll3355doesn't look too much like those flowers, it looks an awful lot like a phaleanopsis orchid based on the flower, flower spikes and leaves. I have 2 in my collection and have my eye on another
I'd rather go: get half an orange, apple, berries pineapple and whatever any fruit you like, pitch all of them in a nice large bowl with NO drainage holes, add some liqueur and top it all with a good hearty scoop of vanilla icecream. Bon appetit!! 😂
I've seen the hack with the fabric around the base of the tree to kill off weeds used at 29:50. A friend of mine did the same thing with old carboard boxes for a few weeks. It's done to kill the weeds before either putting in the layer of mulch or creating/tilling a new planting bed because it's safer then spraying with weed killer. This way the area starts out without weeds/grass and when you lay in the mulch you don't have to fight already established weeds. Same with the new beds, makes it easier to till or break ground as you aren't fighting established plants with strong roots. It kills the weeds/grass and weakens the roots.
It's actually a good trick if you want to plant something new around a tree/bush or re-seed your lawn. Especially if you have, or want, a healthy garden for animals (birds, hedgehogs) and insects (wild bees, butterflies, bumblebees). We just put a plastic cover around our trees and over our "weed infested" lawn for 1-2 months and then seeded it all with wild flower seeds. Instead of spraying pesticide, which would kill all the things we actually want to care for in our garden. (We have a small nest for wild bees and they increased our foor production about 2 fold.)
I gotta say with the buttermilk thing. If you blend any moss into buttermilk, alive or dry moss, anykind, and paint it on just about anything… it WILL actually grow live moss, given it has sunlight and moisture present somewhere. Because of the live cultures reacting with the moss. But none of the video was real and i dont even know if they blended moss or broccoli or something haha
Interesting! An arborist told me I could blend up some moss and spread it on rocks and exposed tree roots to encourage more moss growth in my garden. Now im wondering if adding buttermilk will help with the success of that. Definitely going to research this further! Thanks Laura!
@@SheffieldMadePlants me neither… or any of them for that matter. You know, someone ought to make a 5 min craft that actually shows the result some 2-4 weeks later… but then I guess t may not be as appealing to have a 1month crafts. But it would be cool to have a good plant hacks video done by someone who actually shows their results sped up and actually has good hacks. You should do this! You already have the best camera shooting style to pull this off. And I like your simplicity wisdom. Plus your house looks incredible. And I bet your kids would love to do some of the hacks sped up. Just an idea. But I know you’d get a lot of interest from it.
Yeah, it's an old formula for getting moss to grow on various surfaces. Would it grow that well on a smooth brick wall? Not likely. You'd have to put it on a north-facing wall and spray it at least once a day, and the weather would have to be fairly cool...in other words...don't bother covering your brick wall with moss. Just move to some place like Sheffield where it's damp and cool, you'll get moss all over the place.
the hacks are plant torture… when they split that one plant in half and made it into a heart, i could hear the plant screaming in pain and begging for them to stop
Oh my gosh. I am now dumber for watching those hacks😂 to the rubbish bin with these hacks! lol loved every minute of your reactions to these. Thanks for sharing Mr Sheffield!
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you talk us through those unbelievable hacks……I suppose some people are taken in by these things but not us Mr Sheffield. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you create these cuttings. I will be definitely having a go at this. I’ve been binging on your videos. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
So my first thought was to say some ppl believe aloe is a rooting hormone. Don’t know? Which led me to think “Mr. Sheffield, why don’t you test a few of these abominations? Do the Apple/orange thing and the crazy onion lemon water stuff. Please! Don’t forget the potatoes too!” Great video series! 🎉 Amazing how the dragon fruit and pumpkin sprouts looked the same 😂.
At that tree plant at 11:31 I was laughing SO hard!! My eyes were watering I could barely see anything and my nose started to run too. That is the most funniest thing I have seen in who knows how long!! 😂😂😂😂😂
i have an old garden patch that we will dig trenches into and throw our food scraps into. when we discard things like watermelon, rock melons, tomatos, chilli, pumpkins etc. we often end up with seedlings. in our climate, we are lucky enough to be able to grow many 'out of season' fruits and veg with very little effort.
Well, sure. But you didn't get tomatoes growing from your watermelon seed, or pumpkins growing from your chilis. This is called 'naturalization', where the plant self-sows and spreads, assuming it's in the right location and climate for that to work.I've had tomatoes 'volunteer' the next season, and they do seem to do better than getting a start from the nursery. Also, if you're growing hybrid plants, the seeds will not grow true to type. It'll work fine with non-hybrids, but really, how much is a packet of seeds?
THe rose colored with food coloring sorta works but not uniform. THe stem has tiny straw-like tubes that "drink" up the water. When you make a slice to get colred water in the cup, not all the straw-like tubes are cut, so some parts will hardly have any color. You can also do this with celery branches. The leaves get colorful, the stock stays green. The cut edge, tubes are cut so they look like brightly colored dots.
Oh my gosh!! 40:12 That crazy thing you lay on in the fields to garden... My grandfather actually BUILT a thing like that!!! 😮 my grandmother was FURIOUS about it too!! I cannot believe someone else had the same insane idea! And there the nutty thing is which only makes gardening way harder. That was back in the 1980s... He also had the "brilliant" idea to try to kill those woodchucks (aka groundhogs) with car exhaust. I am sure they were all sitting elsewhere and laughing at him...
The courgette one around 39:00 is actually really. Growers actually use the same principle to guarantee their crop doesn't grow into odd shapes that grocery shoppers might find unappealing.
So for the veggies being grown into shapes, that's real. In thier video it definitely looked fake, but the actual act of doing so is real. They make cube water melons to save space. I've also seen it done with pumpkins, and other melons like honey dew.
They put in text to help you understand whats going on, but it never makes any sense and it just gets more confusing 😂 cracking up watching you trying to figure out whats going on with that ficus or whatever it was 😂
(Watching this video impressed me with how ignorant we've become about nature. That the channel could even remotely think viewers would believe those plant hacks are real relies on the producers' confidence that their public have never seen a growing green thing in their life.)
Aloe Vera helps plants to root. The root ball in the extensive repair was wrapped in a plastic that was killing it. The hydrogen peroxide cleaned the dirt and plastic off of the plant and they repotted it in the wooden crate alternating with mulch, dirt and fertilizer. They also spliced a branch onto a healthy limb. The sprinkler was a pool noodle from the dollar store
I felt sorry for that poor Frankenficus they created.The flowers at 19.23 were Alstromerias. God knows what the stems were. The Calathea one that you liked looked like a nightmare to water. As for the rest - they were abominations
I think the empty egg shells could make some okayish nursery pots for growing the seeds in soil. if you don't want to buy these coconut fiber (or whatever these are made of) mini pots and if you eat enough eggs.
Supposedly, in the Disney film, "Swiss Family Robinson," they planted seeds from cooked canned fruits and vegetables and actually got them to grow. I suppose if the genetic material that would trigger growth was still intact? I don't know. It would be a bit of a miracle at that.
That's just ridiculous. Any seed subjected to that high a heat would be nonviable. If the canned food seeds did sprout, that would mean the food hadn't been processed properly, and would therefore poison you! Important survival tip: Don't rely on Disney for your survival!
27:56 She did not over water, it's when the soil comes to high up close to the edge of the pot, watering becomes imposssible without leaking onto the floor. With her stick she wasn't testing to see if the soil was moist. She made holes to allow the water to seep into the soil faster.
I’ve heard that you can use a teaspoon of laundry soap in a gallon of water and spray plants to kill fungus gnats. Spray the leaves and water the plant with the rest so the larvae get killed also. I tried it and it seemed to work. Didn’t loose any plants! Haha. 🤷🏻♀️
38:38 You can make fruits and vegetables grow into different shapes using molds how successful you are depends on the mold you use and when you attach it, but it does work
1:20 solid enough hack, except for the part where they broke the flower stem so it would even make the heart curve... Just, start to train it for the trellis trick as soon as the flower shoots come up, you'll be good if you're gentle enough with it
Fun video, thanks for this one :) Seems most are fake. Those that aren't, don't look like 5 minute jobs to me lol. Most just look cruel and horrific. by the way that artificial grass is Static Grass and the black thing is a Static Grass Applicator - that's model railway scenery techniques
The hack 32:40 is working, but it is better to have the water below the plant bc it can get to much water if the water container is higher. I don't know what the word for it is in english, but the water will not stop dripping if the water is higher, not the plant "taking it" when needed. It is the same with a tea bag string in a cup!
2:21 that does work on cut flowers. I'm not sure it would work in the situation they showed, though, but you can water a white rose bush with colored water, and the flowers will take on the color of the water if you use enough dye for long enough although you will also get some of the color in the stems and leaves as well and it also depends on what you use to color the water
I think the usefulness of eggshells in the garden might depends on to climate and soil. Here in the mountains of VA USA when we mix eggshells in our soil it helps the tomatoes in our outside veg garden.
Studies have shown that it takes a looong time for egg shells to actually breakdown. Sure, as they do so they're releasing calcium, but it's a tiny amount. If you're soil needs calcium, bone meal or ground oyster shells will work a lot better. Not to mention you're got to eat a LOT of eggs!
I feel like they heard, or read, about how animal wool, like sheep wool, is a good fertilizer and thought it works just with any hair... 37:30 I've not tested it with human hair, but it seems like such a bad idea: 1. Depending on the human there might be conditioners or other chemicals on it, which are bad for plants and soil organisms. 2. Sheep wool is different from human hair and contains a different mix of chemicals. It should also be unwashed wool, as washing it with shampoo removes beneficial hair-layers. 3. Sheep wool is a slow degrading fertilizer (it lasts about 1y) and is used for outdoor plants. You mix it into the soil, as it is broken down by bacteria and organisms found in the soil.
the grape would just rot it's specifically designed to be eaten, so it has a lot of sugars to make it taste good whese sugars (especially when in a humid enviroment like partially dipped in a cup of water) will be eaten by fungus, and the structure will break down aka it'll start to rot
Aloe juice goes rancid within a week. I sometimes make my own sugar scrubs and hair masks. Anything leftover does NOT keep at all. Idk about an onion changing the color of a Widdow's Thrill. I doubt it. I've had one for years and I've propagated it a dozen times or more. They get super leggy if you don't give them enough light.You have to let the cuttings heal over like you do with most succulents. I let mine chill in dry soil for at least a week. If you put a cutting in a wet environment, it's just going to rot. I also don't know about turning an avocado into a bonsai, but I did do three umbrella plants once about ten years ago. Snip the tap root, wire and anchor the branches you want to manipulate and wait. One died, one didn't take at all and is 3ft tall now and one worked very well. If I can just keep my squirrel from digging in the soil I think they'll be ok lol.
One thing to take from this might be the mentioned "stem canker".. I could imagine that this speeds up the "woodification" (or whatever it is called, I'm not a native speaker) of the stem. Like pruning increases the growth at close nodes, the removal of the skin might also increase it's growth and sturdiness. Maybe it's worth a test, but the rest is mostly just awful.. Edit: the mosspole design is actually pretty good and I will adopt a similar system soon for mine: the pipe is used as water container that is closed at the bottom and comes handy when watering the pole. You just fill the pipe with water and small holes distribute it quite evenly. But their design has far to big holes and the leica is quite useless.
Believe it or not the moss paint thing is somewhat true. In the aquarium hobby you can literally blend moss and mix it with glue and paint it onto rocks or wood and it helps it attach to the surface and then it regrows its quite a common trick to establish aquarium moss. However on a wall i think they've just created a dry smelly mess but in principal it would work if that wall was consistently moist.
The dragon fruit one is especially egregious because dragon fruit comes from a cactus. Also. If you bury fruits it will just rot. Clean the seeds first, germinate, then plant, or plant the clean seeds if you are feeling lucky
My family grew a wide variety of things in and on our compost pile with no cleaning. I had success with pumpkin and watermelon seeds from what had rotted in a garden, as well as a positive bush of cherry tomatoes in the partial shade under the back steps, and I have no idea how that happened. I also grew two avocado plants this year by just pushing them into the soil of a pot used by another plant. A third didn't sprout but two out of three ain't bad. :) Normally I have a black thumb but I do pretty well by accident.
Happy New Year Mr Plant Guy!!! Wow, these five minute crafts lot sure do insult your intelligence...anyway, you cheered me up watching your reaction to there "hacks". RIP poor plants they touch😢
Grafting is pretty cool but it has to be done right - plants have to be joined with the correct points of contact, and usually have to be the same family. (Ginseng grafted ficus is popular- not sure if they are related) I love the idea of it but haven’t mustered the dedication. People have grafted tomato to potato plants so you can get edible tubers and fruits. Or poisonous tubers and fruits depending which way round you do it 🤣 plant clay and plant paste sound made up to me. 5 min crafts is useless but it would be good if you test some of the ones that *might* work and see if any of them do, or recreate some of the ideas for real using correct techniques. Inside a mango stone if you cut it open is a seed that looks a bit like a cashew. I’ve never successfully sprouted one though. 25:00 9/10 for not being completely and obviously fake- that’s a low bar 🤣 date palms apparently grow really fast - that’s my excuse for buying expensive medjool dates from time to time but didn’t get round to planting the seeds… they taste so good though-a bit like soft toffee.
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The one with the fish had to be the best, torturing a poor orchid, plant and torturing a few fish in the same plant hack. people are horrible to fish on the Internet
lol....i blocked the 5 minute crafts page a few years back, so much waste of time on their posts
Yeah me too
Growing your own tampons can be really economical - plant directly into the soil- and if you prefer pads you can grow them by planting the seeds from a shop bought pad. Most of them are seedless so make sure you get the seeded variety (labelled as containing absorbent gel beads) this works for disposable nappies too.
I have a large tampon tree in my conservatory as they prefer a warm climate.
I’ll let Mrs Sheffield know 😁
LMAO. Thank you Mr. Sheffield. I'm sorry you wasted your time on these, but THANK you! I needed a good laugh. The funniest thing was your face when you were just "dumbfounded" at these hacks.. That is until I saw the Tampon Tree comment here. 🤣. I mean, I had no idea. And here I've been spending all this money over the years! Yes, please do tell Mrs. Sheffield right away and have her tell all her friends. Our problems are solved! Well, maybe anyway, how hard is it to care for a Tampon tree? I'm assuming it needs a good bit of shade and a lot of watering...I'm dying here.
@@we2824 😂😂
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I did the hack where it said to put cuttings into a half-cut banana and bury that into the soil, with the cuttings peeking above the soil. What happened next happened all at the same time: three weeks later, the cuttings died and my house was completely infested with fruit flies.
Jeez what a nightmare!
Not sure if it helps but my favorite hack for catching fruit flys is actually with the lemon and onion in a cup of water. (Literally a hack in this same video that claims you will grow a lemon tree)
They gotcha!
yeah.. it was so crucial to give the leaves of the jade plant a careful clean using cotton buds at 21:20 so that you can cut them off nice and clean at 22:20
Madness!
I hated that "hack" the most
“Bent for save” is definitely the best plant advice I’ve heard in a while 😂🤔 I’m so glad you’ve done another one of these 5-min Crafts reviews, Richard. Really brightened my day 😂
Bent for save! 😂
I think they meant "bent for shape" or "bend to shape" but bent for save will live in my brain for a while now 😆
Submerging a plant under water for an hour kills pest. No need for garlic. I’ve done this for mealy bug and spider mites, it works. Funny story I bought a Swiss cheese plant that was infested with mealy bugs and unpotted it immediately. Ran a warm bath and weighed it down under the water, then left it for an hour. My 9 year old daughter thought it was drowning and needed to save it. I had to intervene and explain that plants don’t have lungs therefore they won’t drown 😂❤
Haha my 8 year old would look at me funny if i did that
I have two peach saplings that were infested with spider mites that just kept coming back. I got rid of all the soil and submerged the plants overnight in soapy water, but left the roots out. Most of the leaves have fallen off, but they were already in pretty bad shape because of the mites and this was a last resort. They are still alive after a week. I was going to replace them but hopefully I won't have to! No one tried to rescue them, and the cats were not allowed in the closet that they were in. Does that count? ;)
The further along you watch the more and more exasperated he gets 😂
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I love how fruits don't rot when put iinto wet soil in any of these videos 😂
Btw, adding some sort of liquid colour to the stem of a plant does work.
Several years ago I bought this beautiful dark blue orchid as a gift to my mother... Turned out to be a white orchid with a small plastic bag containing some sort of colouring around the stem just below the surface of the soil. Clever trick
Cheers mate and best wishes for 2024 to you and yours
Ah right good to know! I'll have to try that
@@SheffieldMadePlantsI've seen a stem split up the middle and the two ends in different colours, and it seemingly turned a white rose into two different colors. It was a while ago, i did not get a chance to see if it was a "true" claim lol
The bonsai making with your commentary had me rolling on the floor laughing 😂
The jade was probably infested with grubs because maybe they tried planting it in a steak 🥩 😂
😂 probably
Pretty sure those 'grubs' were larva for feeding reptiles. Like wax worms or something. They don't really eat plants like that.
@@1faithchick7 this, those bigger ones were super worms, and the smaller ones look like wax worms
I'm so glad I forgot to shut the TV off this morning and TH-cam was on AutoPlay. I absolutely love listening to you talk. Very knowledgeable, Funny and Not boring ! Also I love the accent!
Thanks!
The one starting from 20:45 was absolutely ridiculous! Cleaning the leaves with hydrogen peroxide just to cut them off later 😂
I lost it at that one! What a waste!!! And oh those poor fish…
Ridiculous!
Idea for new videos: Try the "hacks", that you weren't sure were real, yourself and see if they really work. Kinda like a Mythbuster
Yep good shout
He did a few already
I swear I heard faint screams from my plants during some of these
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Your plants think it's the Spanish Inquisition!
Lemon growing into the lime tree takes the cake. Thanks for the laughs!
You bet!
On the second hack with the heart trellis and the orchid, you can clearly see they have snapped the flower spikes to get them in that shape. It will look cool for a day but the flowers will start dieing off the next day
Most likely
If you are very careful you can bend them, but it is easier to "grow" the stems to the shape you want, just attach the clips as flower spike grows, or *carefully* gently bend the spikes slowly over a couple days. If you go the second route, use string to loosely tie and then snug it in as the plant moves.
this is also super true and how orchid flower spikes are typically shaped, but you can see the brake at the bottom of both flower spikes in this vid. I like doing fun shapes with orchid flowers, but this one is just not right
Alstroemeria ...in case you want to know what the beautiful orchid- like flowers are on the heart trellis.🌸
@@jennifercarroll3355doesn't look too much like those flowers, it looks an awful lot like a phaleanopsis orchid based on the flower, flower spikes and leaves. I have 2 in my collection and have my eye on another
I'd rather go: get half an orange, apple, berries pineapple and whatever any fruit you like, pitch all of them in a nice large bowl with NO drainage holes, add some liqueur and top it all with a good hearty scoop of vanilla icecream. Bon appetit!! 😂
Like the sound of that
You’re too generous 😅. Those hacks are -0 😂
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I laughed so hard when you called those 2 real bad ones an abomination.
Haha they really were
I've seen the hack with the fabric around the base of the tree to kill off weeds used at 29:50. A friend of mine did the same thing with old carboard boxes for a few weeks. It's done to kill the weeds before either putting in the layer of mulch or creating/tilling a new planting bed because it's safer then spraying with weed killer. This way the area starts out without weeds/grass and when you lay in the mulch you don't have to fight already established weeds. Same with the new beds, makes it easier to till or break ground as you aren't fighting established plants with strong roots. It kills the weeds/grass and weakens the roots.
Ah right that makes sense
It's actually a good trick if you want to plant something new around a tree/bush or re-seed your lawn.
Especially if you have, or want, a healthy garden for animals (birds, hedgehogs) and insects (wild bees, butterflies, bumblebees).
We just put a plastic cover around our trees and over our "weed infested" lawn for 1-2 months and then seeded it all with wild flower seeds.
Instead of spraying pesticide, which would kill all the things we actually want to care for in our garden.
(We have a small nest for wild bees and they increased our foor production about 2 fold.)
I gotta say with the buttermilk thing. If you blend any moss into buttermilk, alive or dry moss, anykind, and paint it on just about anything… it WILL actually grow live moss, given it has sunlight and moisture present somewhere.
Because of the live cultures reacting with the moss. But none of the video was real and i dont even know if they blended moss or broccoli or something haha
I thought so. Dunno why they faked it in the end
Interesting! An arborist told me I could blend up some moss and spread it on rocks and exposed tree roots to encourage more moss growth in my garden. Now im wondering if adding buttermilk will help with the success of that. Definitely going to research this further! Thanks Laura!
@@SheffieldMadePlants me neither… or any of them for that matter. You know, someone ought to make a 5 min craft that actually shows the result some 2-4 weeks later… but then I guess t may not be as appealing to have a 1month crafts.
But it would be cool to have a good plant hacks video done by someone who actually shows their results sped up and actually has good hacks. You should do this! You already have the best camera shooting style to pull this off. And I like your simplicity wisdom. Plus your house looks incredible. And I bet your kids would love to do some of the hacks sped up.
Just an idea. But I know you’d get a lot of interest from it.
Yeah, it's an old formula for getting moss to grow on various surfaces. Would it grow that well on a smooth brick wall? Not likely. You'd have to put it on a north-facing wall and spray it at least once a day, and the weather would have to be fairly cool...in other words...don't bother covering your brick wall with moss. Just move to some place like Sheffield where it's damp and cool, you'll get moss all over the place.
This is so funny. You're commentary makes it. I'm off to rub a potato on my hair to make it stronger, as clearly they're magic.😂
Haha I’ll do the same
@@SheffieldMadePlants next time we see you you'll have a heart shaped orchid growing out your head.😂
the hacks are plant torture… when they split that one plant in half and made it into a heart, i could hear the plant screaming in pain and begging for them to stop
That one was criminal!
No, that was the viewers. :)
It's like The Island of Doctor Moreau for plants.
Yes! LOL
Oh my gosh. I am now dumber for watching those hacks😂 to the rubbish bin with these hacks! lol loved every minute of your reactions to these. Thanks for sharing Mr Sheffield!
Yay! Thank you!
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you talk us through those unbelievable hacks……I suppose some people are taken in by these things but not us Mr Sheffield. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a fun and entertaining video! Made me laugh and laughter is so good for the soul/mood. I give it a 10 out of 10. 😅 Thanks!
Yay! Thank you!
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you create these cuttings. I will be definitely having a go at this. I’ve been binging on your videos. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Thank you 😊
So my first thought was to say some ppl believe aloe is a rooting hormone. Don’t know? Which led me to think “Mr. Sheffield, why don’t you test a few of these abominations? Do the Apple/orange thing and the crazy onion lemon water stuff. Please! Don’t forget the potatoes too!” Great video series! 🎉
Amazing how the dragon fruit and pumpkin sprouts looked the same 😂.
Yep could be something I’ll look into
At that tree plant at 11:31 I was laughing SO hard!! My eyes were watering I could barely see anything and my nose started to run too. That is the most funniest thing I have seen in who knows how long!! 😂😂😂😂😂
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You are so entertaining, and I love watching your videos. Great plant info.
Thank you 😊
Your commentaries are hilarious.😂 And so are the hacks. Great video!👍🏻👍🏻😁 10/10!
Thanks! 😄
The flowers that are split to make a heart at 19:15 are Alstroemeria. They are used allot in bouquets.
Good to know 👍
i have an old garden patch that we will dig trenches into and throw our food scraps into. when we discard things like watermelon, rock melons, tomatos, chilli, pumpkins etc. we often end up with seedlings. in our climate, we are lucky enough to be able to grow many 'out of season' fruits and veg with very little effort.
Sounds fun
Well, sure. But you didn't get tomatoes growing from your watermelon seed, or pumpkins growing from your chilis. This is called 'naturalization', where the plant self-sows and spreads, assuming it's in the right location and climate for that to work.I've had tomatoes 'volunteer' the next season, and they do seem to do better than getting a start from the nursery. Also, if you're growing hybrid plants, the seeds will not grow true to type. It'll work fine with non-hybrids, but really, how much is a packet of seeds?
I don't know if I'm emotionally able to handle this in one sitting...
Take it bits 😁
THe rose colored with food coloring sorta works but not uniform. THe stem has tiny straw-like tubes that "drink" up the water. When you make a slice to get colred water in the cup, not all the straw-like tubes are cut, so some parts will hardly have any color. You can also do this with celery branches. The leaves get colorful, the stock stays green. The cut edge, tubes are cut so they look like brightly colored dots.
What a fun commentary-love your -100 rating 😂😂cheered me right up thanks please do more of these 😁
Thank you 😊
I can’t stop laughing at mr. Sheffields commentary! 😂
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Oh my gosh!! 40:12 That crazy thing you lay on in the fields to garden... My grandfather actually BUILT a thing like that!!! 😮 my grandmother was FURIOUS about it too!! I cannot believe someone else had the same insane idea! And there the nutty thing is which only makes gardening way harder. That was back in the 1980s... He also had the "brilliant" idea to try to kill those woodchucks (aka groundhogs) with car exhaust. I am sure they were all sitting elsewhere and laughing at him...
I love that one with the paper towel holder its a stake aswel ima actually try that one.
The garlic flower is actually a bougainvillea flower
The courgette one around 39:00 is actually really. Growers actually use the same principle to guarantee their crop doesn't grow into odd shapes that grocery shoppers might find unappealing.
Thanks for your video!! Good to know which hacks would be a waste of time !!
"-100" 😂
Love your channel. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
So for the veggies being grown into shapes, that's real. In thier video it definitely looked fake, but the actual act of doing so is real. They make cube water melons to save space. I've also seen it done with pumpkins, and other melons like honey dew.
Sounds weird!
I love watching your channel. You're so funny. Thanks Rich!
Thanks for watching!
The last hack with the bottle + hose spray... JUST USE YOUR THUMB OR ANOTHER FINGER OR ANOTHER PART OF YOUR HAND xD
Oh yeah the good old thumb
15:46 those look like pumpkin seeds germinating
They put in text to help you understand whats going on, but it never makes any sense and it just gets more confusing 😂 cracking up watching you trying to figure out whats going on with that ficus or whatever it was 😂
I know right!
Yes, you can use buttermilk and dried moss to grow more moss. Will it work like they showed? Not bloody likely.
(Watching this video impressed me with how ignorant we've become about nature. That the channel could even remotely think viewers would believe those plant hacks are real relies on the producers' confidence that their public have never seen a growing green thing in their life.)
Sad but true
What is the average age of their viewers? Might be pretty young.
PT Barnum was being optimistic.
Aloe Vera helps plants to root. The root ball in the extensive repair was wrapped in a plastic that was killing it. The hydrogen peroxide cleaned the dirt and plastic off of the plant and they repotted it in the wooden crate alternating with mulch, dirt and fertilizer. They also spliced a branch onto a healthy limb. The sprinkler was a pool noodle from the dollar store
I felt sorry for that poor Frankenficus they created.The flowers at 19.23 were Alstromerias. God knows what the stems were. The Calathea one that you liked looked like a nightmare to water. As for the rest - they were abominations
That poor ficus. Couldn’t believe it
The stems are used in the hack next, right? 👀
FYI...You put salt in pasta water to keep the noodles from sticking together. It's not for flavor. Take it from an Italian! (Love your videos!)
I have never loved 5 minute hacks so much 😂😂
"Cuz,...You know, I mean, ya need an egg, din ya?" 😆
I think the empty egg shells could make some okayish nursery pots for growing the seeds in soil. if you don't want to buy these coconut fiber (or whatever these are made of) mini pots and if you eat enough eggs.
"Shenanigans" - the polar opposite of Sheffieldigans
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Ahhh a tomato plant with some silly little grapes! Lol!
You, sir, are too kind. I would give almost all of them a 0.
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I never salt the pasta water. Don't taste the difference at all. Most of the salt remains in the water anyway.
Supposedly, in the Disney film, "Swiss Family Robinson," they planted seeds from cooked canned fruits and vegetables and actually got them to grow. I suppose if the genetic material that would trigger growth was still intact? I don't know. It would be a bit of a miracle at that.
That's just ridiculous. Any seed subjected to that high a heat would be nonviable. If the canned food seeds did sprout, that would mean the food hadn't been processed properly, and would therefore poison you! Important survival tip: Don't rely on Disney for your survival!
36:41 "What else we got, anything else...... Coconut?" Sums up 99% of 5 minute crafts.
Most of them look like 1 hour AND 5 minute hacks😅😅😅
Also, some of these people appear to have gone to the Joseph Mengele School of Horticulture.😮
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blended up aloe vera is actually really good for propegation
but obviously what they did with it wouldn't work one bit
I want a shirt that says "Bent for Save, Everyone"! 🤣
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27:56 She did not over water, it's when the soil comes to high up close to the edge of the pot, watering becomes imposssible without leaking onto the floor. With her stick she wasn't testing to see if the soil was moist. She made holes to allow the water to seep into the soil faster.
I’ve heard that you can use a teaspoon of laundry soap in a gallon of water and spray plants to kill fungus gnats. Spray the leaves and water the plant with the rest so the larvae get killed also. I tried it and it seemed to work. Didn’t loose any plants! Haha. 🤷🏻♀️
Just found your channel, this is great 😂 you took the hair thibg quite personally 😅
Thanks!
The pumpkin would rot and eventually become dark green orange slime on the mantle.
38:38 You can make fruits and vegetables grow into different shapes using molds how successful you are depends on the mold you use and when you attach it, but it does work
You did have me laughing out loud on this one. Enjoy your wit and personality ❤
Cheers!
1:20 solid enough hack, except for the part where they broke the flower stem so it would even make the heart curve... Just, start to train it for the trellis trick as soon as the flower shoots come up, you'll be good if you're gentle enough with it
Fun video, thanks for this one :) Seems most are fake. Those that aren't, don't look like 5 minute jobs to me lol. Most just look cruel and horrific. by the way that artificial grass is Static Grass and the black thing is a Static Grass Applicator - that's model railway scenery techniques
Oh ok Thanks 👍
Aren’t grocery store grapes seedless…? 😂
Most are thankfully
Not all, but yeah, how many people do you know that buy seeded grapes? Yeah, me neither.
The hack 32:40 is working, but it is better to have the water below the plant bc it can get to much water if the water container is higher. I don't know what the word for it is in english, but the water will not stop dripping if the water is higher, not the plant "taking it" when needed. It is the same with a tea bag string in a cup!
Ah right i see 👍
Nice 👍 When I got married the flowers arrived pale pink instead of yellow, so I stood them in food dye, it works 😂
Very good 👍
2:21 that does work on cut flowers. I'm not sure it would work in the situation they showed, though, but you can water a white rose bush with colored water, and the flowers will take on the color of the water if you use enough dye for long enough although you will also get some of the color in the stems and leaves as well and it also depends on what you use to color the water
Never tried it
I wanna know wth they did to that ginseng - mine is in a pot with no drainage, I basically ignore it always looks great!
I think the usefulness of eggshells in the garden might depends on to climate and soil. Here in the mountains of VA USA when we mix eggshells in our soil it helps the tomatoes in our outside veg garden.
Studies have shown that it takes a looong time for egg shells to actually breakdown. Sure, as they do so they're releasing calcium, but it's a tiny amount. If you're soil needs calcium, bone meal or ground oyster shells will work a lot better. Not to mention you're got to eat a LOT of eggs!
You can color roses with food coloring if theyvare cut so...maybe? It's dumb though!
Apparently it's viable
I feel like they heard, or read, about how animal wool, like sheep wool, is a good fertilizer and thought it works just with any hair... 37:30
I've not tested it with human hair, but it seems like such a bad idea:
1. Depending on the human there might be conditioners or other chemicals on it, which are bad for plants and soil organisms.
2. Sheep wool is different from human hair and contains a different mix of chemicals. It should also be unwashed wool, as washing it with shampoo removes beneficial hair-layers.
3. Sheep wool is a slow degrading fertilizer (it lasts about 1y) and is used for outdoor plants. You mix it into the soil, as it is broken down by bacteria and organisms found in the soil.
Do you have any solutions for white mold/ fungus that grows on soil from lack of ventilation? I have fans in my space but its not enough
moss and buttermilk does work, but not like the photo.
Didn't think so
the grape would just rot
it's specifically designed to be eaten, so it has a lot of sugars to make it taste good
whese sugars (especially when in a humid enviroment like partially dipped in a cup of water)
will be eaten by fungus, and the structure will break down
aka it'll start to rot
That Ginseng...oh god... my eyes bleeding.... O.o
I know right!
23:57 Yay!!!! I Was wondering how long it would take to get a negative score!!! Only surprised it didn't happen sooner
This really deserved it
Aloe juice goes rancid within a week. I sometimes make my own sugar scrubs and hair masks. Anything leftover does NOT keep at all. Idk about an onion changing the color of a Widdow's Thrill. I doubt it. I've had one for years and I've propagated it a dozen times or more. They get super leggy if you don't give them enough light.You have to let the cuttings heal over like you do with most succulents. I let mine chill in dry soil for at least a week. If you put a cutting in a wet environment, it's just going to rot. I also don't know about turning an avocado into a bonsai, but I did do three umbrella plants once about ten years ago. Snip the tap root, wire and anchor the branches you want to manipulate and wait. One died, one didn't take at all and is 3ft tall now and one worked very well. If I can just keep my squirrel from digging in the soil I think they'll be ok lol.
Very good. Umbrella bonsai sounds interesting
Even his criticisms are generous 😄
But buttermilk and moss painted on a rock or wood or anything mostly, it will grow and its honestly very fun and nifty.
One thing to take from this might be the mentioned "stem canker"..
I could imagine that this speeds up the "woodification" (or whatever it is called, I'm not a native speaker) of the stem.
Like pruning increases the growth at close nodes, the removal of the skin might also increase it's growth and sturdiness. Maybe it's worth a test, but the rest is mostly just awful..
Edit: the mosspole design is actually pretty good and I will adopt a similar system soon for mine: the pipe is used as water container that is closed at the bottom and comes handy when watering the pole. You just fill the pipe with water and small holes distribute it quite evenly. But their design has far to big holes and the leica is quite useless.
I had never heard of stem canker before 🤷🏻♂️
@@SheffieldMadePlants me neither, just guessed what might make sense
Believe it or not the moss paint thing is somewhat true. In the aquarium hobby you can literally blend moss and mix it with glue and paint it onto rocks or wood and it helps it attach to the surface and then it regrows its quite a common trick to establish aquarium moss. However on a wall i think they've just created a dry smelly mess but in principal it would work if that wall was consistently moist.
Fair enough!
1. I want to tell you that I love videos. 2. The last time talked I chopped down my rubber tree and none of the leaves... survived.
Still no joy?
@@SheffieldMadePlantsthey all died. I'm glad the mother plant is still around.
whoever makes those videos must really hate plants...
Maybe they’re confused
I feel so bad for all the innocent city people trying these hacks and creating a stinky mess of dead plants in their appartments...
That's what garbage cans are for.
To quote Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does."
The dragon fruit one is especially egregious because dragon fruit comes from a cactus.
Also. If you bury fruits it will just rot. Clean the seeds first, germinate, then plant, or plant the clean seeds if you are feeling lucky
Very true
My family grew a wide variety of things in and on our compost pile with no cleaning. I had success with pumpkin and watermelon seeds from what had rotted in a garden, as well as a positive bush of cherry tomatoes in the partial shade under the back steps, and I have no idea how that happened. I also grew two avocado plants this year by just pushing them into the soil of a pot used by another plant. A third didn't sprout but two out of three ain't bad. :) Normally I have a black thumb but I do pretty well by accident.
I laughed so much😅😂🤣It nearly killed me💔I absolutely enjoyed this episode! Thanks🙏🌟
Nice one, cheers!
Happy New Year Mr Plant Guy!!! Wow, these five minute crafts lot sure do insult your intelligence...anyway, you cheered me up watching your reaction to there "hacks". RIP poor plants they touch😢
Thank you 😊. Happy new year!
The plant split in half around 19min looks more like an alstroemeria than an orchid IMHO
Grafting is pretty cool but it has to be done right - plants have to be joined with the correct points of contact, and usually have to be the same family. (Ginseng grafted ficus is popular- not sure if they are related) I love the idea of it but haven’t mustered the dedication. People have grafted tomato to potato plants so you can get edible tubers and fruits. Or poisonous tubers and fruits depending which way round you do it 🤣 plant clay and plant paste sound made up to me. 5 min crafts is useless but it would be good if you test some of the ones that *might* work and see if any of them do, or recreate some of the ideas for real using correct techniques. Inside a mango stone if you cut it open is a seed that looks a bit like a cashew. I’ve never successfully sprouted one though. 25:00 9/10 for not being completely and obviously fake- that’s a low bar 🤣 date palms apparently grow really fast - that’s my excuse for buying expensive medjool dates from time to time but didn’t get round to planting the seeds… they taste so good though-a bit like soft toffee.
One day I’ll test some. They’re a bit weird an elaborate