You've taught me how to water, how to prune, how to root prune, and so much more - you are basically like a father to me now, so I'll be expecting birthday gifts from now on 😁
WhenI was very little, my mom had several rose bushes in our yard. Every year , after flowering, she would cut them WAY back. They would come back beautifully every time!
"Be bold, bite the bullet, and make the cut." Peter Chan owner/founder of Herons Bonsai, London's premiere bonsai nursery. It most certainly is a "leap of faith" when making drastically hard pruned cuts, especially when it's taken so long to grow and, in the case of bonsai, can cost hundreds of dollars. When done INTELLIGENTLY your plant will rejuvenate and become the thriving and enjoyable plant you've desired! It's also good to apply a sealant to the wounds to reduce the loss of sap. Great video my friend, keep it up!
I’ve been binge-watching your videos and I have to say you are probably my favourite “plant TH-camr” so far. There are great channels with great content but, as a “first time plant parent” sometimes the “perfection” they portray makes me feel overwhelmed and discouraged. The “chill” vibe I get with your content makes me quite excited and eager to learn 📖🤓 Looking forward to more content 😊
@@SheffieldMadePlants I second his comment! Please keep up the good work ... and could you reply to even the oldie but goodie vids you made too though? Some of us have just discovered them, and you.
Thanks for the advice, yes years ago I too was always afraid to cut my plants, but when they then multiply with cloning the happiness increases and the house looks like a jungle! Hugs to all
I did this to a fiddle leaf fig that had reached our ceiling a year or two ago. It only had one LONG stem. I hacked it below the halfway point, then I created cuttings from the top portion. The base has branched and now has a lot of leaves. All the cuttings have formed individual plants. So, now I have a branched main plant, instead of one long stem, and a bunch of baby plants.
@@markb8954 I didn't do anything but cut it and drop the bottom ends into water. I didn't do anything else. The plant took care of the rest. Once each piece had roots and started sprouting leaves, I put them into pots.
I have a huge fiddle leaf fig I want to do this to! It's my favorite, but it's becoming so top heavy and leaning too much in one direction. I'm scared to do it but glad you had success. How long did it take for it to start growing? At what time of year did you prune it?
@@yassebasse86 Scared the heck out of me, too. I initially tried "layering" but that failed completely, so that's when I decided to go extreme. Scared me badly, since it's one of my favorite plants, but I finally took a deep breath and just hacked it off. It actually took a few WEEKS before I finally started seeing the first hints of new growth. Once it started, though, it really took off.
I once cut off the top of my rubber tree too, though far less drastically than you did. I wanted it to make side branches instead of growing up with its one stem only. And side branches it did make! Four of them!
before you cut the head off your tree for tilting slightly you might want to consider metal wire for binding it straight. this is done to bonsai to shape them and works just fine. if the stem is too tough you can just bind one end of the plant to the pot and pull it straight. i use this method to get a funny S-shape on my shefflera stem for aestetics.
I did this to two of my older crotons that were getting a little scarce in foliage on top and they pushed out a bunch of new shoots from the bottom of the stem. It's definitely scary but a great tool to know if you refuse to ever give up on a plant like me!
This video came at a perfect time for me. I was about to prune my jade back without giving it a through dry-out time before cutting and then watering afterwards. I really needed this one! Thanks, sir for your generosity in sharing your tips in this video.
Ha ah! I love The one direction quick view, you’re great. I’ve listened to your plants tips (cutting the roots) and my formerly root bound plants are thriving! So great! Thank you
I'm thinking of doing this to my regular Ficus Elastica. It has two really nice and healthy side stems, but they're pretty much growing in the same direction. It makes the plant look wonky, and has it leaning quite a lot to that side as well. As a bonus for 'beheading' my rubber plant, I can gift my sister or niece with one of the cuttings, perhaps even both of them 😄 Thank you for the video Have a nice weekend everyone
You sir, are doing gods work. So glad i found your channel! Ive been loving your content and learning a lot! Thank you and keep up the amazing content 🙏
did this to a cherry laurel last year cut in half and put the top half in another pot and 1 year later the top of the old plant is now regrowing and the old bottom half is bushing out new leaves and slowly starting to regrow to the top where I cut it. Amazing to see it coming back to life
I learned that when I cut a 50 inch piracanta at the base because I didn't want it to grow there. Then I went to Mexico around c19 time and ended up staying there 2 years, when I got back the piracanta had grown back and was 6ft tall with a 2.5 inch trunk!
A year ago, I notched and pruned my ficus elastica tree, I have 3 types and all of them produced multiple branches in no time....! Best decision I made 😁
I had to hard prune my lemon lime philodendron because it was actively dying and I couldn't figure out why. I just love this plant so much, I was pretty disappointed. I ended up cutting off the good parts and planted them. So far it appears the cuttings I saved are doing well and one is showing new growth!
You can use keiki paste on the nodes where leaves have fallen off on ficus plants. They grow branches where you apply this paste. Brilliant way of shaping plants without sacrificing healthy parts.
90% of my plants are throne-less so I do the soft pruning using my fingers to pluck or pull back the leaves to break off naturally. I only use the cutting pliers on my periwinkle flowers t use them at my alters. I had noticed they do grow more and are fluffier than those plants I never cut so dramatically. Thank you for your channel on to care for our green babies.
So this was encouraging, We have at least a 50 yr old rubber tree between us and neighbor, He wants to cut down the tree. At least we can save our half.❤
@Sheffield Made Plants 🤣 It happens. It hurts your heart for a minute or two but then you realize in a couple of months, you get to see some new growth!
I did the same to mine. But whenever I saw a new branch coming out is not the way I like, I wait until it's 10" long and has 3-4 leaves, then I cut it plant it another pot.. I succeeded twice but failed last year as the branch was wilted. Then when my original plants need repotting I also plant the propagated branch( having healthy roots) along side it..
A lot of plants can be propagated from cuttings. I did it with a Dracaena marginata “tricolor” several years ago after it had grown to over 3 feet tall. Now I have 2 of them together in the pot. Succulents with stems can be propagated this way too. (You can also propagate some succulents from leaves, but they take years to mature.)
I think I need to do this to my fiddle leaf… it’s got two gangly looking stems with about 7 leaves each. And they’re dropping by the week even though I haven’t changed anything about how I care for it. I think it’s time today.
Yesterday I chopped off the top of my money tree, I accidentally overwatered it a few times and it was looking terrible so I decided to propagate the last few healthy leaves in order to save it before it’s too late, but I’m also keeping the leftover stem to see if it’ll regrow anything. Sometimes it’s fun to experiment!
i use to work on a garden in trinidad it was on the mountain. walking in the dirt road i spot a plant, it was about a 1ft tall , it had white on the leave it had a pod , the stem was so solid it felt like wire or steel , i think it it felt like a 1/4 inch steel. i never saw it before, or saw anyone with it , i did see 1 more on a next hill side
I've pruned my pothos at the base whenever their longer stems no longer have any leaves to encourage new growth. I can also save the nodes from those same stems to develop new baby pothos; however, I haven't done that method in awhile because I have too many of these plants now. 🤣
My rubber plant bled so much after I pruned it last year I started to cry I felt guilty, almost like I had hurt it, recently I found a piece of tree trunk in the park and I placed it at the root of the rubber after a while the leaves started turning yellow and falling off, I may have gotten it sick by doing that, so I'm gonna prune it again, following your instructions and hopefully all will be well, I don't wanna loose my plant.....🌷
I just started working as a gardener at a big garden store that also does winter storage for potted tropical and sub-tropical plants. Mostly these come from bars and restaurants that use them simply as decoration for their outdoor seating, and nobody working at those places is employed as a gardener, so watering is all they ever get from their owners. There's a couple of customers where I'll be calling the owners to ask we can do some serious downsizing on their plants. I've been doing a few deliveries with our delivery drivers, and getting a highly fragile plant through squeezes between houses and garages that are only a third as wide as the plants is just a terrible day at work for everyone involved.
I recently had to hard prune the crap out of a marble Pothos that I had in one of my arid terrariums, it clearly didn't like the dry conditions so it was all saggy. I cut the whole thing into four big cuttings, and got rid of the old roots. I put the cuttings in water and basically restarted the entire plant and so far it's been doing much better
I am very inexperienced. I hard pruned a ficus bonsai (curtain) that I have had for 7 years. I thought it was a goner.... It was perpetually droopy, yellow and when I would water it, the runoff would be red/dark brown (root rot). I cleaned up the roots, cleaned the pot, gave it fresh potting mix and hard pruned it so it looks like a bare dead tree. I had read after I did this that plants need leaves and without leaves plants will die (so I thought). I initially thought I had killed it, as it stayed in that bare state for several weeks. Mind you I did this in February. Right when I nearly gave up hope I saw tiny small green buds (end of March). Those buds quickly turned into freshly green stems and leaves (April). My plant is now bushier and better than ever!
Thanks for this excellent, approachable content! I have a poinsettia (rescued from work after Christmas about five years ago) that has gotten very leggy - too tall and just a few leaves in a bunch at the top. Now having watched your videos, I'm guessing it needs both a root prune and a hard prune. Since it's May as I'm writing this, I'll start with the hard prune described in this video and maybe save the root prune until winter rolls around and the plant has had time to recover from the hard prune.
I love your videos. Oh! I wanted to let you know that you informed and encouraged me when I didn’t know what my plant was (the Birken). It’s doing great and putting out another leaf. I’ve had 3 since I’ve owned it. (Since autumn or early winter.) anyway, I just chopped the top off my dragon tree (very young,only about 8 inches tall when I cut it). I’m gambling on it splitting into two tops. I hope I didn’t mess up.
You can also fine a node, slide it 1/2 into the trunk just below a node, insert a small piece of plastic, and it should activate the node. This way you have a bit more control over where the plant grows a new node.
One of my oldest plants is a 15+ y/o rubber tree that I waited way too long to prune. It wasn't until it was hitting the ceiling that I finally did it. It's branching out finally but it still has to be supported by a PVC pole.
YES! this is what i was looking for a week ago! thanks! perfect for spring! I cut head off my silvr sword philo to branch it out, i got three shoots! I'm very excited to say the least, it was stressful for about 6 weeks tho!
I just hard pruned my croton and I really felt scared of it specially since it's my favourite so it just felt wrong, this video helped me understand the process a little bit more and avoid some mistakes, thank you so much, I love your content!
I had the same issue you were having w8th the ficus,but with an avocado tree. But the new branch always wanted to go up instead of laterally. I found out later that it was apparently due to lack of light. So maybe that ficus also needs more light than it's getting
After you prune any rubber plant better than keeping it indoor at the brightest spot shift it outdoors in full sun I did the same after pruning my plant It had only 1 long leggy stem so I pruned it ,today just today 4 new shoots came from every side😆 after some leaves come shift it in indoors again good idea Tip From (HY Greens LTD)
I lost all my leaves on my rubber plant last year (thrips) it was just a stick. I cut or should i say slashed just above where all the leaves was and now it has branched out on each one of those cuts with several leaves on each (not one leaf like before). So if you wanted growth further down or the opposite side you could try that method to encourage growth.
Thank you for all the useful information, I learned so much from you and your videos gave me so much confidence to push my limits 🙏🏽. I just got my first Ficus Elastica Ruby, $5 from a grocery store 😁. So cheap because it was in a very bad shape. I followed your instructions and it thriving uncontrollably 😅. It has 4 stems and the leaves start to overlap. After seeing the results in this video, I might cut the 2 new stems and propagate it. It will be a new experiment for me. Fingers crossed 🤞😄. Again thank you 🙏🏽
I had a plant about 6 weeks and got a bit to high one day and cut all the leaves off at the stem I wish I’d have left it to see if it would have grown again
My snake plant has become huge. It has gotten so big that it is very hard to manage its maintenance. I'm not sure what to do with it. It is over 9 years old and very sentimental to me. This video has a lot of good advice. I sort of smirk when he demonstrates his tips with small snake plants. I ,in no way, think I know more than a professional plant grower. I just would like to see him using a bigger snake plant example.
Not sure if someone’s asked, but can you propagate the cuttings? Especially the rubber plants. Curious about that since I have a new baby rubber plant and would like to learn more. Really glad I found your channel!
I have a 15 year old rubber plant it turned into a jungle in the yard😂😂😂 The more I cut its branches the bigger it gets and fights back and now I know why😂😂😂😂😂
A week ago I hard pruned my aglaonema. I didn't care for properly when I first got it two years ago so it grew up to be very leggy. When I cut the head off, there was still too much stem to leave behind so I chopped off the middle part as well and put it in a tube with perlite just to see what happens. There are no roots yet, but it has green buds all over it! I'm so curious if this stem piece would actually develop into a normal plant. Pretty sure this won't work on plants with wood-like stems though 😅
Thanks for all the great advice!! I’m thinking of doing this to my mature Pilea but don’t know if I can bring myself to! (The consolation being at least I can grown another Pilea from the part I cut off!)
@@SheffieldMadePlants I have cut down smaller leggy ones and they’ve come back great and bushy! My big one isn’t too leggy but the leaves have gotten misshapen and some are now convex instead of flat! 😭
i hard prune mt bassilicum , basicly i cut it down till like 5 cm en put the 15 cm i pruned off in water to create a new bassilicum plant the 5cm stump just grows 2 new growths and the 15cm top becomes a new plant with roots in less than 7 day's
Great content and delivery thanks...After a cold snap in Florida it was either perform the hard prune or throw out the ficus with massive leaves. It is showing signs of growth dont know if they will be leaves or branches. BTW.... fairy soap is truly something a Brit could say and get away with in America well it has a different connotation altogether.
Thanks, that was helpful, especially with your example. I have a ficus elastica that I have had since '02, it has grown slowly and steadily with 10 stems going in all different directions. It is quite bushy, but getting wide and in the way of some other plants in my bay window. I've been considering pruning and propagating the cuttings, but wasn't sure if I could cut it back to the woody parts. Apparently I can.
I did this to my chili plants. The following year they grew back stronger than ever, and also way way hotter 🥵 My "mild" chili plant just upped it's chili power by a lot! Damn near unbearable to eat (because silly me, I thought they were still mild). :)
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You've taught me how to water, how to prune, how to root prune, and so much more - you are basically like a father to me now, so I'll be expecting birthday gifts from now on 😁
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Love the commitment involved in making videos like this with one year ago follow ups. It’s great to see the true impact of what you tried
Thank you 😊
I cut my plant as stated in the video and it died! Now, I don't have to waste my time with it anymore. Thank you for the tips!
I did this with my monstera, 3 of my pothos, and my syngonium albo, all heavily wilted and are struggling hard from it.
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Tip: Always research your plant before cutting it, some like basil need to be cut only above a node of leaves or else they won't grow back
WhenI was very little, my mom had several rose bushes in our yard. Every year , after flowering, she would cut them WAY back. They would come back beautifully every time!
It's great for rose bushes!
"Be bold, bite the bullet, and make the cut." Peter Chan owner/founder of Herons Bonsai, London's premiere bonsai nursery.
It most certainly is a "leap of faith" when making drastically hard pruned cuts, especially when it's taken so long to grow and, in the case of bonsai, can cost hundreds of dollars. When done INTELLIGENTLY your plant will rejuvenate and become the thriving and enjoyable plant you've desired! It's also good to apply a sealant to the wounds to reduce the loss of sap. Great video my friend, keep it up!
Well put thanks 👍
What's best to seal with though?
I’ve been binge-watching your videos and I have to say you are probably my favourite “plant TH-camr” so far.
There are great channels with great content but, as a “first time plant parent” sometimes the “perfection” they portray makes me feel overwhelmed and discouraged.
The “chill” vibe I get with your content makes me quite excited and eager to learn 📖🤓
Looking forward to more content 😊
Awesome thank you very much 😊
@@SheffieldMadePlants I second his comment! Please keep up the good work ... and could you reply to even the oldie but goodie vids you made too though? Some of us have just discovered them, and you.
Thanks for the advice, yes years ago I too was always afraid to cut my plants, but when they then multiply with cloning the happiness increases and the house looks like a jungle! Hugs to all
I did the same to my rubber plant. Took a while but it exploded in all directions and looks so much better now.
Great stuff 👍
I don't think I'll be stressed if my head was cut off. On the contrary, I'll be stress-free 😂 Joke aside, great video!
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Oh my 😂😂😂 I needed that laugh! Thank u! It hit me dead right in the funny bone. Lol
U might grow at least 2 heads
I did this to a fiddle leaf fig that had reached our ceiling a year or two ago. It only had one LONG stem. I hacked it below the halfway point, then I created cuttings from the top portion. The base has branched and now has a lot of leaves. All the cuttings have formed individual plants. So, now I have a branched main plant, instead of one long stem, and a bunch of baby plants.
A great success 👍
I did this too. What did you do to the cutting in order to get it to root? Right now I have my piece in water.
@@markb8954 I didn't do anything but cut it and drop the bottom ends into water. I didn't do anything else. The plant took care of the rest. Once each piece had roots and started sprouting leaves, I put them into pots.
I have a huge fiddle leaf fig I want to do this to! It's my favorite, but it's becoming so top heavy and leaning too much in one direction. I'm scared to do it but glad you had success. How long did it take for it to start growing? At what time of year did you prune it?
@@yassebasse86 Scared the heck out of me, too. I initially tried "layering" but that failed completely, so that's when I decided to go extreme. Scared me badly, since it's one of my favorite plants, but I finally took a deep breath and just hacked it off. It actually took a few WEEKS before I finally started seeing the first hints of new growth. Once it started, though, it really took off.
I once cut off the top of my rubber tree too, though far less drastically than you did. I wanted it to make side branches instead of growing up with its one stem only. And side branches it did make! Four of them!
Nice! 4 stems is great
Why is it I always get 1 stem every time I give a cut?
@@rachnarane5227 that can be because it didn't get enough light after pruning
before you cut the head off your tree for tilting slightly you might want to consider metal wire for binding it straight. this is done to bonsai to shape them and works just fine. if the stem is too tough you can just bind one end of the plant to the pot and pull it straight. i use this method to get a funny S-shape on my shefflera stem for aestetics.
Thanks for the tip
Around a month ago I hard pruned my dracaena marginata, and now it's pushing branches from four additional spots. Highly recommended 👍🏾
Nice 👌
I did this to two of my older crotons that were getting a little scarce in foliage on top and they pushed out a bunch of new shoots from the bottom of the stem. It's definitely scary but a great tool to know if you refuse to ever give up on a plant like me!
Great! 😁
I root pruned my massive spider plant last week after watching your video about it and it has perked up fantastically.
Great stuff 😁
I think the video we all want to see is how the cuttings you placed in water to propagate new plants turned out.
This video came at a perfect time for me. I was about to prune my jade back without giving it a through dry-out time before cutting and then watering afterwards. I really needed this one! Thanks, sir for your generosity in sharing your tips in this video.
My pleasure 😊
Ha ah! I love
The one direction quick view, you’re great.
I’ve listened to your plants tips (cutting the roots) and my formerly root bound plants are thriving! So great! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
A man who knows his onions ,big time.
Thanks 😊
I appreciate that you show how your plant look a year on after any alterations. it gives me hope i just might not kill if I prune my plants.
Cool glad you enjoyed it
I'm thinking of doing this to my regular Ficus Elastica. It has two really nice and healthy side stems, but they're pretty much growing in the same direction.
It makes the plant look wonky, and has it leaning quite a lot to that side as well.
As a bonus for 'beheading' my rubber plant, I can gift my sister or niece with one of the cuttings, perhaps even both of them 😄
Thank you for the video
Have a nice weekend everyone
We’ll worth doing! Have a good weekend yourself 👍
You sir, are doing gods work. So glad i found your channel! Ive been loving your content and learning a lot! Thank you and keep up the amazing content 🙏
Awesome thank you 😊
Very nice! In Bonsai we call this type of work a "trunk chop" It creates taper and movement in the tree making it look older but in miniature!
I did this to my focus ruby several months ago. It's coming back beautifully.
Nice!
did this to a cherry laurel last year cut in half and put the top half in another pot and 1 year later the top of the old plant is now regrowing and the old bottom half is bushing out new leaves and slowly starting to regrow to the top where I cut it. Amazing to see it coming back to life
Good work
I learned that when I cut a 50 inch piracanta at the base because I didn't want it to grow there. Then I went to Mexico around c19 time and ended up staying there 2 years, when I got back the piracanta had grown back and was 6ft tall with a 2.5 inch trunk!
A year ago, I notched and pruned my ficus elastica tree, I have 3 types and all of them produced multiple branches in no time....! Best decision I made 😁
Great stuff 👍
I had to hard prune my lemon lime philodendron because it was actively dying and I couldn't figure out why. I just love this plant so much, I was pretty disappointed. I ended up cutting off the good parts and planted them. So far it appears the cuttings I saved are doing well and one is showing new growth!
Nice save! My L&L doesn't do much 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah Im happy it's a very beautiful plant. It seems mine has responded well to a plant light 😊
You can use keiki paste on the nodes where leaves have fallen off on ficus plants. They grow branches where you apply this paste. Brilliant way of shaping plants without sacrificing healthy parts.
I can't seem to get it easily in UK
90% of my plants are throne-less so I do the soft pruning using my fingers to pluck or pull back the leaves to break off naturally. I only use the cutting pliers on my periwinkle flowers t use them at my alters. I had noticed they do grow more and are fluffier than those plants I never cut so dramatically. Thank you for your channel on to care for our green babies.
Thanks for tuning in!
So this was encouraging, We have at least a 50 yr old rubber tree between us and neighbor, He wants to cut down the tree. At least we can save our half.❤
I love cutting back my crotons, coleus and my favorite Hawaiian T a propagating the cuttings. Yes the plants looks soooo much better too.
So true!
I like your bold approach, and they way you've explained these process well.
I appreciate that!
Thank you for all of your content now i have fabulous plants
So true. I have had to do that several times. Either by an accident or because the plant just needed a fresh start. 💜👍🏾
My first time was an accident 😂
@Sheffield Made Plants 🤣 It happens. It hurts your heart for a minute or two but then you realize in a couple of months, you get to see some new growth!
I did the same to mine. But whenever I saw a new branch coming out is not the way I like, I wait until it's 10" long and has 3-4 leaves, then I cut it plant it another pot.. I succeeded twice but failed last year as the branch was wilted. Then when my original plants need repotting I also plant the propagated branch( having healthy roots) along side it..
I should have done that to my rubber tree
A lot of plants can be propagated from cuttings. I did it with a Dracaena marginata “tricolor” several years ago after it had grown to over 3 feet tall. Now I have 2 of them together in the pot. Succulents with stems can be propagated this way too. (You can also propagate some succulents from leaves, but they take years to mature.)
I just cut one of my 7feet philodendrons in half haha. I’m so excited to see how the bottom half reacts.
You’ve got this ✊
As always, great advice. Plants are a lot more resilient than many thank. Thanks for the video, 👍
Thanks for watching 😁
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2:01 LOL "one direction" 😂
I think I need to do this to my fiddle leaf… it’s got two gangly looking stems with about 7 leaves each. And they’re dropping by the week even though I haven’t changed anything about how I care for it. I think it’s time today.
You’ve got this ✊
Yesterday I chopped off the top of my money tree, I accidentally overwatered it a few times and it was looking terrible so I decided to propagate the last few healthy leaves in order to save it before it’s too late, but I’m also keeping the leftover stem to see if it’ll regrow anything. Sometimes it’s fun to experiment!
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I would recommend to use keiki paste on any node you want new branch to come. It really works😊
Thanks for the tip. Is it just for orchids?
@@SheffieldMadePlants No it works on any plant
i use to work on a garden in trinidad it was on the mountain. walking in the dirt road i spot a plant, it was about a 1ft tall , it had white on the leave it had a pod , the stem was so solid it felt like wire or steel , i think it it felt like a 1/4 inch steel. i never saw it before, or saw anyone with it , i did see 1 more on a next hill side
I've pruned my pothos at the base whenever their longer stems no longer have any leaves to encourage new growth. I can also save the nodes from those same stems to develop new baby pothos; however, I haven't done that method in awhile because I have too many of these plants now. 🤣
I cut my lanky curry leaf , at the top, chop chop. I got a bushy little plant now.
Great stuff 👍
Love this video, makes me feel optimistic about some of the plant rescues I have that need some harder pruning. Thanks 👏
My pleasure 😊
My rubber plant bled so much after I pruned it last year I started to cry I felt guilty, almost like I had hurt it, recently I found a piece of tree trunk in the park and I placed it at the root of the rubber after a while the leaves started turning yellow and falling off, I may have gotten it sick by doing that, so I'm gonna prune it again, following your instructions and hopefully all will be well, I don't wanna loose my plant.....🌷
Hope it works out well 🤞
I just started working as a gardener at a big garden store that also does winter storage for potted tropical and sub-tropical plants. Mostly these come from bars and restaurants that use them simply as decoration for their outdoor seating, and nobody working at those places is employed as a gardener, so watering is all they ever get from their owners.
There's a couple of customers where I'll be calling the owners to ask we can do some serious downsizing on their plants. I've been doing a few deliveries with our delivery drivers, and getting a highly fragile plant through squeezes between houses and garages that are only a third as wide as the plants is just a terrible day at work for everyone involved.
I didn't know bars and restaurants did this but makes sense
I was waiting for you to drop a joke about the Queen of Hearts 😂. Oh well, next time!
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I recently had to hard prune the crap out of a marble Pothos that I had in one of my arid terrariums, it clearly didn't like the dry conditions so it was all saggy. I cut the whole thing into four big cuttings, and got rid of the old roots. I put the cuttings in water and basically restarted the entire plant and so far it's been doing much better
At least you've got extra plants now!
@@SheffieldMadePlants yes!
I am very inexperienced. I hard pruned a ficus bonsai (curtain) that I have had for 7 years. I thought it was a goner.... It was perpetually droopy, yellow and when I would water it, the runoff would be red/dark brown (root rot). I cleaned up the roots, cleaned the pot, gave it fresh potting mix and hard pruned it so it looks like a bare dead tree.
I had read after I did this that plants need leaves and without leaves plants will die (so I thought). I initially thought I had killed it, as it stayed in that bare state for several weeks. Mind you I did this in February. Right when I nearly gave up hope I saw tiny small green buds (end of March). Those buds quickly turned into freshly green stems and leaves (April). My plant is now bushier and better than ever!
It’s great when you start to see life on the plant again!
Thanks for this excellent, approachable content! I have a poinsettia (rescued from work after Christmas about five years ago) that has gotten very leggy - too tall and just a few leaves in a bunch at the top. Now having watched your videos, I'm guessing it needs both a root prune and a hard prune. Since it's May as I'm writing this, I'll start with the hard prune described in this video and maybe save the root prune until winter rolls around and the plant has had time to recover from the hard prune.
You’re probably better off doing both now to be honest
My young apple had rust or some disease so I lopped it in half so there’s just a stick and now it’s sprouting all over and much better shape !
Works a charm!
Thanks Mr Sheffield for those important information.
Thanks for watching 😁
I love your videos. Oh! I wanted to let you know that you informed and encouraged me when I didn’t know what my plant was (the Birken). It’s doing great and putting out another leaf. I’ve had 3 since I’ve owned it. (Since autumn or early winter.) anyway, I just chopped the top off my dragon tree (very young,only about 8 inches tall when I cut it). I’m gambling on it splitting into two tops. I hope I didn’t mess up.
It should work out alright 😁. Glad your Birkin is growing!
🤣 his house looks already as a jungle! That's evidence that it works! 🌱🌿😁
Thank you 😊
Damn.Even plants have RNG elements when growing.
Always 😅
You can also fine a node, slide it 1/2 into the trunk just below a node, insert a small piece of plastic, and it should activate the node. This way you have a bit more control over where the plant grows a new node.
You sound like a surgeon 😁
Got to say, that's very confusing English..."insert a small piece what's plastic"...????
@@kateoc8 autocorrect… thanks for the grammar lesson.
One of my oldest plants is a 15+ y/o rubber tree that I waited way too long to prune. It wasn't until it was hitting the ceiling that I finally did it. It's branching out finally but it still has to be supported by a PVC pole.
You could go even lower with the prune?
YES! this is what i was looking for a week ago! thanks! perfect for spring! I cut head off my silvr sword philo to branch it out, i got three shoots! I'm very excited to say the least, it was stressful for about 6 weeks tho!
Bravery is rewarded 😁
one direction
I was recently forced to do the same thing to my lemon tree. Tonnes of new branches coming from the stump now.
Cool! I lost mine to a cold British winter
Another very thorough, excellent video! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Once all my 7 tomat plants got a disease and after a hard prune one of them bounced back and with three main stems!!!
I just hard pruned my croton and I really felt scared of it specially since it's my favourite so it just felt wrong, this video helped me understand the process a little bit more and avoid some mistakes, thank you so much, I love your content!
Glad you found it useful 👍
I had the same issue you were having w8th the ficus,but with an avocado tree. But the new branch always wanted to go up instead of laterally. I found out later that it was apparently due to lack of light. So maybe that ficus also needs more light than it's getting
After you prune any rubber plant better than keeping it indoor at the brightest spot shift it outdoors in full sun I did the same after pruning my plant It had only 1 long leggy stem so I pruned it ,today just today 4 new shoots came from every side😆 after some leaves come shift it in indoors again good idea Tip From (HY Greens LTD)
That’ll work 😁👍
"I knew if I didn't correct its course..." it would grow into an unruly, defiant teenager up to no good and failing at school.
Sounds right 😂
I lost all my leaves on my rubber plant last year (thrips) it was just a stick. I cut or should i say slashed just above where all the leaves was and now it has branched out on each one of those cuts with several leaves on each (not one leaf like before). So if you wanted growth further down or the opposite side you could try that method to encourage growth.
So you didn’t cut all the way through? I’m trying that now and waiting for something to happen
@SheffieldMadePlants no just a little cut right above where the old leaf use to be. It worked very well for me.
If my head was cut off, stress will no longer be a problem to me. 😵
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I cut my rubber tree a year ago and its the best ive ever done for that plant
Were you able to replant the cut part?
Brings it back to life
@@JustanamebroDK I cut the stem in smaller leaf+stem parts and propagated them, I sold a few but those I kept are growing really great
Me learning about plant, even though I don't do any planting
Thank you my dear ♥️
You bet!
Thank you for all the useful information, I learned so much from you and your videos gave me so much confidence to push my limits 🙏🏽. I just got my first Ficus Elastica Ruby, $5 from a grocery store 😁. So cheap because it was in a very bad shape. I followed your instructions and it thriving uncontrollably 😅. It has 4 stems and the leaves start to overlap. After seeing the results in this video, I might cut the 2 new stems and propagate it. It will be a new experiment for me. Fingers crossed 🤞😄. Again thank you 🙏🏽
Glad it was helpful 👍
I had a plant about 6 weeks and got a bit to high one day and cut all the leaves off at the stem I wish I’d have left it to see if it would have grown again
Thank you for the video you guy's are helping us
My snake plant has become huge. It has gotten so big that it is very hard to manage its maintenance. I'm not sure what to do with it. It is over 9 years old and very sentimental to me. This video has a lot of good advice. I sort of smirk when he demonstrates his tips with small snake plants. I ,in no way, think I know more than a professional plant grower. I just would like to see him using a bigger snake plant example.
Snake plant in this video? I was using a Ficus wasn’t I?
instructions unclear, cut heads off sunflowers.
Not sure if someone’s asked, but can you propagate the cuttings? Especially the rubber plants. Curious about that since I have a new baby rubber plant and would like to learn more. Really glad I found your channel!
Yes you can. I showed that in the original video th-cam.com/video/AKUgS9JxtKI/w-d-xo.html
@@SheffieldMadePlants awesome, thanks for the link!! 😊
I did that last year, it took forever to grow roots 😅 but it's now a happy little baby tree
I have a 15 year old rubber plant it turned into a jungle in the yard😂😂😂 The more I cut its branches the bigger it gets and fights back and now I know why😂😂😂😂😂
Nice!
Love your videos, they make me chuckle!! 😄
Thank you 😊
The one direction picture got me giggling 😂🤣
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I love doing it to jade plants I stuck a leaf in soil it got roots their amazing decapitated a tall one I had the cutting grew like a weed
Very satisfying
A week ago I hard pruned my aglaonema. I didn't care for properly when I first got it two years ago so it grew up to be very leggy. When I cut the head off, there was still too much stem to leave behind so I chopped off the middle part as well and put it in a tube with perlite just to see what happens. There are no roots yet, but it has green buds all over it! I'm so curious if this stem piece would actually develop into a normal plant. Pretty sure this won't work on plants with wood-like stems though 😅
I reckon that will turn into a plant. I did the same with a monstera node. No leaves on it, just a stump. It’s grown nicely into a plant
That's exciting, I didn't know you could do that! Thanks for sharing!
Thank for this great class about pruning
Thanks for watching 😁
My rubber plant is now 8 feet tall and yes it's dropping a little but I just supported by tieing it in opposite direction
that one direction joke threw me off
Thanks for all the great advice!! I’m thinking of doing this to my mature Pilea but don’t know if I can bring myself to! (The consolation being at least I can grown another Pilea from the part I cut off!)
They always get tall and leggy 🥲
@@SheffieldMadePlants I have cut down smaller leggy ones and they’ve come back great and bushy!
My big one isn’t too leggy but the leaves have gotten misshapen and some are now convex instead of flat! 😭
what about repotting it on angle .. and might do some good.. take off lower leaves grow tasler and topos to make go outwards.
Worth a try
My pink princess had been growing in a funny shape but I’m so scared to prune her.
You’ve got this ✊
i hard prune mt bassilicum , basicly i cut it down till like 5 cm en put the 15 cm i pruned off in water to create a new bassilicum plant the 5cm stump just grows 2 new growths
and the 15cm top becomes a new plant with roots in less than 7 day's
Perfect 👌
Great content and delivery thanks...After a cold snap in Florida it was either perform the hard prune or throw out the ficus with massive leaves. It is showing signs of growth dont know if they will be leaves or branches. BTW.... fairy soap is truly something a Brit could say and get away with in America well it has a different connotation altogether.
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Thanks, that was helpful, especially with your example. I have a ficus elastica that I have had since '02, it has grown slowly and steadily with 10 stems going in all different directions. It is quite bushy, but getting wide and in the way of some other plants in my bay window. I've been considering pruning and propagating the cuttings, but wasn't sure if I could cut it back to the woody parts. Apparently I can.
Thanks for watching 😁
@Sheffield Made Plants - You might want to try the 'notching' method in order to encourage branching on your Ficus elastica. :)
Cheers!
I have tried but unsuccessfully ☹️
@@SheffieldMadePlants Hmm... Have you tried scraping off the bark around the notch?
@@StefanNaydenov no, didn't know you were meant to
I did this to my chili plants. The following year they grew back stronger than ever, and also way way hotter 🥵 My "mild" chili plant just upped it's chili power by a lot! Damn near unbearable to eat (because silly me, I thought they were still mild). :)
Didn’t know they changed heat
You should show how to air layer before doing a big lop off like this. What did you do with the top part?