This is Fantastic 😍😊.. just got into Anthurium about 2 years ago after being into plants for years being new, this is going to be a good resource moving forward.
The way you speak is so clear, eloquent and professional, are you a doctor by chance or work in academia? Incredible collection btw! I knew I wasn't crazy when I noticed a 100% success rate with my new and imported plants staying alive ever since introducing sulfur and extra iron supplementation into my nutrient water!
Awesome video, Nick! Thank you so much for sharing your approach! I'm learning a lot! I would love videos on updates on specific crosses/batches showing differences between sibling seedlings. That is super interesting to me.
Just found your channel recently. I like your approach to growing and appreciate your video. I like picking up knowledge from others as I practice my cultivation routines! Keep up the sharing a great content! Thank you!
Thanks for such an informative video. Your success with the self-watering setups has inspired me to give it a go. Liked the point you made about burnout and reducing maintenance needs.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much Nick! I've been looking for PPFD values for references for several months now and haven't been able to find any information, thank you so much! This is very helpful 🫶🤍🌿
Wow, thanks for breaking down what you do for feeding and fertilizing you’ve got me thinking about a couple of components that I don’t currently incorporate into my feeds such as iron and sulfur.
Well explained with the nutrients section! I usually find it hard to understand nutrient requirements / how everything interacts together. I’m definitely used to alocasias more than anthurium, I’ve only gotten into them about 1.5 years ago. They’ve been so rewarding to watch mature and size up, a really cool genus.
I had a set of leaves come in almost black on several plants. The next leaves on each plant were lighter. I'm trying to figure out what happened, but I think it's nutrient lockout. I literally have like 4 different substrates that I use depending on the need. But don't like pon - I'll use bio-stratum for rehabs but that's it. I also think the big caveat is these conditions will create your plants in your conditions - if I were to recreate your exact conditions it might not work. You should do minidocs/videos on the history of different Anthuriums. Those videos do super well for people. I'm still so surprised you don't do no drainage - especially with glass. It was a game changer for me for Anthuriums with thick roots. Literally they go nuts. I use self-watering with wicks for all else. I'm not this erratic - I comment while watching the video so the responses are from different points.
Hi, thanks for the video. Respect you only water once a month. That's very efficient. I was just hoping you could help answer a couple of questions I have. You say you use 900 EC but this is confusing. I use an EC of 0.9 which is 450 ppm. 900 EC is just completely out of the range of my understanding of EC so if you can help me understand the 900 I'd be grateful. I also completely missed the NPK ratio of your fertilizer. I know this is less important but what would really help me the most to get an accurate understanding would be the N-P-K percentages and how much you add per gallon of water. That way I can work out the rough EC value myself. Thanks. Have a good week.
Thanks for giving details and such good explanations for why each component of the fertilizers are needed. It’s so interesting! Will you show us how to pot up in your self-water system? Specifically I’m interested in how you weave your wick into the substrate.
Just a heads up, if your rooting gel contains IBA (almost guaranteed to be the case), then switching to a powder won’t do anything differently than your plants already receive. Thanks for sharing your insight!
Hey Nick, can you write down again the things that you def need for correct fertilizing, or link the products you use somewhere? Thank you a lot for this video
I’d start with some sort of complete fertilizer whether that’s a multi part hydroponic fertilizer or a one part, to that I’d add a calmag product, silica, and a kelp product
Everyone i add a little extra calmag to my foliage pro with super thrive i get leaf curling, and not just on my anthurium. Or maybe it's something else? Leaf curling in my dark Phoenix and one gorgeous, robust gatorbod cross is the bane of my existence.
you mentioned that you typically will add more fertilized water into the pots every ~3-4 weeks, but have you noticed any pH drift or precipitate build-up with the fertilized water within your pots over the course of those several weeks? I had heard you generally want to use up any fertilizer mix that you prep within roughly a week (i.e., don't prep a batch of fertilized water that will sit around in a container for many weeks/months) due to the potential for pH drifting or precipitate formation (can be due to various sources, for example, CO2 dissolving into the water and converting into carbonic acid, which can acidify the water, or calcium/magnesium reacting with phosphate creating an insoluble precipitate). So I was wondering if there was any risk of the water sitting within those pots also having pH drift, potentially resulting in nutrient lock-out? I'm assuming you haven't noticed this issue since your plants don't show any nutrient deficiencies, but was wondering anyway
There are only a handful that need top ups and they will be repotted soon. When I have measured at the end of the month I find there’s very little change in parameters
I think it is important to note that berry production doesn't equal viability and some viable hybrid offspring will be sterile. Some hybrids may also only work one way (e.g. plant A can only be the "mother" and plant B the "father"). It never hurts to try and something interesting might result. I've got a friedrichsthalii that appears to have been pollinated, which I did not actively do. The only options would be a chance selfing off that single inflo or pollen was delivered from sp. Napo (nigrolaminum 'Gigi'), as these were the only two plants with an active inflo (and Napo does sit above fried). If berries are produced and if I harvest and germinate them, it will become obvious if it is a selfing or a hybrid as they grow.
The fertilizer I use is only available from resellers and at retail stores. It’s a small local company. I used the general hydroponics line before, I made the switch bc grotek is cheaper
Note that you can actually grow anthurium without being so OCD about it, the fun part of plants is to make your own experiments. defo no need for crazy expensive nutrient designed for cannabis growers (these tend to be very inflated prices not really cost efficient) I'm just thinking for people with less cash in general (anthurium are expensive for sure). I do enjoy this channel, well done.
I think if you use calmag and pH down (really important) you can get away with using cheap fertilizers. I have even used municipal compost, rose fertilizer inorganic and organic garden fertilizer and my plants grew. However I would be careful with the organic fertilizer because I had mold on my soil (not on roots). I'm going to test a really expensive premium fertilizer soon Just to see whether it really makes a difference or not. Is it worth the money?
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This is Fantastic 😍😊.. just got into Anthurium about 2 years ago after being into plants for years being new, this is going to be a good resource moving forward.
So nice of you
The way you speak is so clear, eloquent and professional, are you a doctor by chance or work in academia? Incredible collection btw! I knew I wasn't crazy when I noticed a 100% success rate with my new and imported plants staying alive ever since introducing sulfur and extra iron supplementation into my nutrient water!
Thank you, I’m not
This is awesome Nick 😎
Awesome video, Nick! Thank you so much for sharing your approach! I'm learning a lot!
I would love videos on updates on specific crosses/batches showing differences between sibling seedlings. That is super interesting to me.
Will do!
@@nxcplants thank you!
Just found your channel recently. I like your approach to growing and appreciate your video. I like picking up knowledge from others as I practice my cultivation routines! Keep up the sharing a great content! Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
i LOVED this video. Always giving us so much valuable information 😊
Thank you so much Kevin!!
You're a freaking anthurium authority! Amazing gorgeous plants!
Wow, thank you!
Thank you!! Anthuriums are my new obsession and have been trying to find the best supplementation for the soil. Can’t wait to try this out
You are so welcome!
Yayyyy. Been waiting for a longer video from you Nick🤗💖
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thanks for such an informative video. Your success with the self-watering setups has inspired me to give it a go. Liked the point you made about burnout and reducing maintenance needs.
Thank you, I hope you have a good experience
Thanks so much for sharing, so helpful in levelling up anth care!! And kitty...aaawww! My ragdoll boy is the nicest cat, such lovely natured animals!
Thank you, ragdolls are the best
Oh my goodness, thank you so much Nick! I've been looking for PPFD values for references for several months now and haven't been able to find any information, thank you so much! This is very helpful 🫶🤍🌿
Glad it was helpful!
Next level anthurium info to help with optimum care. Thanks, handsome. 😉
Wow, thanks for breaking down what you do for feeding and fertilizing you’ve got me thinking about a couple of components that I don’t currently incorporate into my feeds such as iron and sulfur.
Any time!
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Great video, thank you so much! It would be nice if you typed out or linked all of the nutrients you use.
Interesting topic.nice sharing
Glad you liked it
I'm gonna try your home made pon mix because i think the lechuza pon is super expensive. Thanks for showing the alternative, it is super helpful 😊
I hope it works out for you!
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Are you adding your own rope to those self watering pots? Also, what size components are you choosing for the DIY pon?
Well explained with the nutrients section! I usually find it hard to understand nutrient requirements / how everything interacts together. I’m definitely used to alocasias more than anthurium, I’ve only gotten into them about 1.5 years ago. They’ve been so rewarding to watch mature and size up, a really cool genus.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the tips!
No problem!
I had a set of leaves come in almost black on several plants. The next leaves on each plant were lighter. I'm trying to figure out what happened, but I think it's nutrient lockout. I literally have like 4 different substrates that I use depending on the need. But don't like pon - I'll use bio-stratum for rehabs but that's it. I also think the big caveat is these conditions will create your plants in your conditions - if I were to recreate your exact conditions it might not work. You should do minidocs/videos on the history of different Anthuriums. Those videos do super well for people. I'm still so surprised you don't do no drainage - especially with glass. It was a game changer for me for Anthuriums with thick roots. Literally they go nuts. I use self-watering with wicks for all else. I'm not this erratic - I comment while watching the video so the responses are from different points.
I used to keep more things in no drainage. I’m just not a fan, especially for anthurium that I’m not propping
I was thinking of doing some more species highlights!
Thanks!
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Hi, thanks for the video. Respect you only water once a month. That's very efficient.
I was just hoping you could help answer a couple of questions I have.
You say you use 900 EC but this is confusing. I use an EC of 0.9 which is 450 ppm.
900 EC is just completely out of the range of my understanding of EC so if you can help me understand the 900 I'd be grateful.
I also completely missed the NPK ratio of your fertilizer. I know this is less important but what would really help me the most to get an accurate understanding would be the N-P-K percentages and how much you add per gallon of water.
That way I can work out the rough EC value myself.
Thanks. Have a good week.
I misspoke when I said EC of 900 I meant it was 900PPM, and it actually has an EC of 1500us/cm. My final NPK is 12.5-9-12.
Thanks for giving details and such good explanations for why each component of the fertilizers are needed. It’s so interesting!
Will you show us how to pot up in your self-water system? Specifically I’m interested in how you weave your wick into the substrate.
Sure! I’ll do my best to show that in another video. Till then I rest in on top of a layer of leca balls.
hi! i was going to set up my shelf using drainage cells to block the wind. but i like that silver thing you layer onto your shelves, what's that?
The white shelf liners are made from corrugated plastic
Do mico like Orca does anything in soilless pumice/lava/bark mix? Or it needs soil?
My nutrient solution contains organic components to feed the myco and bacteria so I also use it in my pon plants
Hi, love your content. I was wondering if you could make a video diagnosing issues with anthurium like particular nutrient deficiencies
Great suggestion! I’ll see if I can’t start planning one
Thx Nick
Just a heads up, if your rooting gel contains IBA (almost guaranteed to be the case), then switching to a powder won’t do anything differently than your plants already receive. Thanks for sharing your insight!
Thanks for the tip!
What is the fun in keeping plants in tents with unnatural pink light and being not able to see and enjoy them?
Omg thank you ❤
No problem 😊
Hey Nick, can you write down again the things that you def need for correct fertilizing, or link the products you use somewhere? Thank you a lot for this video
I’d start with some sort of complete fertilizer whether that’s a multi part hydroponic fertilizer or a one part, to that I’d add a calmag product, silica, and a kelp product
@@nxcplants thank you thats what i needed to know!!!
😍
Everyone i add a little extra calmag to my foliage pro with super thrive i get leaf curling, and not just on my anthurium.
Or maybe it's something else?
Leaf curling in my dark Phoenix and one gorgeous, robust gatorbod cross is the bane of my existence.
How far are your plants from your lights especially those that are a bit smaller?
The small plants I keep 6-12 inches from the 10w bars
you mentioned that you typically will add more fertilized water into the pots every ~3-4 weeks, but have you noticed any pH drift or precipitate build-up with the fertilized water within your pots over the course of those several weeks? I had heard you generally want to use up any fertilizer mix that you prep within roughly a week (i.e., don't prep a batch of fertilized water that will sit around in a container for many weeks/months) due to the potential for pH drifting or precipitate formation (can be due to various sources, for example, CO2 dissolving into the water and converting into carbonic acid, which can acidify the water, or calcium/magnesium reacting with phosphate creating an insoluble precipitate). So I was wondering if there was any risk of the water sitting within those pots also having pH drift, potentially resulting in nutrient lock-out? I'm assuming you haven't noticed this issue since your plants don't show any nutrient deficiencies, but was wondering anyway
There are only a handful that need top ups and they will be repotted soon. When I have measured at the end of the month I find there’s very little change in parameters
when you measure the EC of your nutrient solution what units are they, uS/cm or ppm?
900 ppm or 1600 uS/cm
Could you share the size and where from for the square pots?
I get them from Amazon. But they’re available everywhere since they’re drop shipped from alibaba
@@nxcplantsThanks 👍
I think it is important to note that berry production doesn't equal viability and some viable hybrid offspring will be sterile. Some hybrids may also only work one way (e.g. plant A can only be the "mother" and plant B the "father"). It never hurts to try and something interesting might result. I've got a friedrichsthalii that appears to have been pollinated, which I did not actively do. The only options would be a chance selfing off that single inflo or pollen was delivered from sp. Napo (nigrolaminum 'Gigi'), as these were the only two plants with an active inflo (and Napo does sit above fried). If berries are produced and if I harvest and germinate them, it will become obvious if it is a selfing or a hybrid as they grow.
What do you mean to fertilize a lot? Because you use a lot of products, can you explain to me please, thanks.
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Could you leave links for the fertilizers?
The fertilizer I use is only available from resellers and at retail stores. It’s a small local company. I used the general hydroponics line before, I made the switch bc grotek is cheaper
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❤️ thank you
Do you sale anthuriums?
the furry one looks a lil bit odd. what kind of anthurium is that?
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You do mention light intensity, but how long do they stay on? 😅
He said 14 hours a day
It's at 3:28
Yep as they say, 14 hrs a day on a timer
@@nxcplantsoh mb do they go by they/them?
@@nxcplants Sorry, scrolled back just some seconds short of that 🙂
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Thanks, I’ll work on that
Note that you can actually grow anthurium without being so OCD about it, the fun part of plants is to make your own experiments. defo no need for crazy expensive nutrient designed for cannabis growers (these tend to be very inflated prices not really cost efficient) I'm just thinking for people with less cash in general (anthurium are expensive for sure). I do enjoy this channel, well done.
I think if you use calmag and pH down (really important) you can get away with using cheap fertilizers. I have even used municipal compost, rose fertilizer inorganic and organic garden fertilizer and my plants grew. However I would be careful with the organic fertilizer because I had mold on my soil (not on roots).
I'm going to test a really expensive premium fertilizer soon Just to see whether it really makes a difference or not. Is it worth the money?
Dude. Not cool. That's not what ocd is and i think everyone knows that they can experiment themselves.