Moss poles??? Bah humbug!!! I just chopped up my Silltepecana and my Cebu Blue about a month ago. Decided to put them in small vases of just water and nutrients. I was able to make several, so now I have them in different areas of my home. I like keeping most of my plants small also, being that I live in an apartment and not a home owner.
I also wasn’t happy with mine,chopped it up in single node cuttings,they rooted really fast and easy,just potted them up so tight. It’s such a beautiful blueish/greenish color.😊
I chopped my Cebu Blue after it filled the hanging basket saucer with aerial roots. (I really mean filled it!) it looked pretty demoralized for a while. Once it grew back, I have kept it trimmed up and it doesn't seem to grow those ridiculous roots anymore. Dave, I think you should try a dashing tweed driver's cap.
Our lives are not 100% about plants alone, we have spouses, household chores, family lives, friends, work for those who are not yet retired, volunteer work, or just socializing, or just being busy with walking your dogs, walking with neughbors, church activities, babysitting grandkids or aging parents, window shopping, or just catching sleep 😴💤 or napping....plant hobby is just one part of our lives....lets be happy and have a good balance in life...a fulfilling life 🎉😊❤
I agree with this word-for-word. And..... may I add that I actually really love our home. The actual home that I've worked my back to the bone at restoring 😆
I agree! About keeping plants small and no moss poles. Your plants are so lush and colorful! Im staring at one sorry looking cebu blue in my north window. I have others in better lighting. Im gonna give her a hair cut.
It's so easy to look at someone's else's jungle and think "I'd love that!" Only to be completely disappointed with it in our own homes. As for my 'Cebu Blue' ... thank you! That one was on the very brink of death a few years ago. I bought it massively under-watered in pure coco coir, soaked it (oops), Iowa hit -25, and our furnace broke. What a perfect storm 🤣
Interesting subject this. I agree with you 100%, you see channels where they have huge plants and have huge problems with them. Keep my hoyas small and cut my philodendrons to make them bushy. But I do want bigger pothos plants for my shelves. The only big plants I have are old, really old, and my benjamin ficus trees are in bonsai form. Do not like mosspoles at all. Thanks Dave, great video, brings calm to to me , as I am taking care of our sick kitty just now, a big house, a family and my epilepic dog who is a little darling , and my fishes. Yes I live in a zoo/ jungle. ❤❤❤
Iowa City bestie, I have about 50 plants giving you the bombastic side-eye right now. Time to start throwing things away! Since the weather is determined to court pneumonia, I've been staying inside with my plant babies, just ENCOURAGING them with the compost bin by my side. I ordered a Cao Bang that I'm going to have to restart (it looks like trash), and a couple of my Meredithii aren't growing the way I want. This hobby is so fantastic because it's so customizable to the hobbyist. I remember when I just started out and the influencers would have these massive plants, (especially the moss pole peddlers), and my first thought was always, "They don't live in NYC. There's no way!" The sheer amount of space and time it must take. I haven't found my sugar daddy yet, so alas, I'm working 9-5 (thank you, Dolly): Time is a premium for me. My orchids grow in spite of my tender care. I don't want to imagine the nightmare of having to take a damn plant off a moss pole to water the moss pole so the plant can be hydrated. Lol. Shoot, writing that sentence was exhausting, much less. I was not blessed with an abundance of patience, so I could see me trashing an entire collection bc of a moss pole. 😅. For all the thousands of dollars I've spent, they better keep ME happy... Anyway, your hat looked terrific! Why does it look like you're wearing outerwear inside again?🤔. Take care and stay warm, Iowa City, Iowan friend. Much appreciation for yet another fantastic vid.
Thanks so much! I think it is sooo easy to look at someone else's collection, whatever it is, and think "I want that!" Only to be disappointed and burned out by it. Or, more likely, it won't grow that way, anyway. I remember seeing Summer Rayne Oakes doing NY studio tours where people were collecting shelves full on Monstera (fill in the blanks). I was like, Uh, what're ya gonna do when those actually start to grow?? Even *I* can think that far ahead 🤣😂🤣
Thanks, Rebecca! I'm so very fond of this plant. A few years ago, and this is a true story 🤣, a few years ago I told this plant to live or die--I just didn't care anymore. I'd given it everything I was ever going to give it to survive. It chose life 😂🤣😂
Love your humor always and that hat!! Wowser!!! Your last vid on orchids convinced me to buy my first orchid which I haven't bought yet but I am looking. Basically I am just thrilled that most my plants are thriving and I think pest free. I haven't made any 'towers' out of wire yet but I see the need in my near future as the bamboo hoops and ladders just aren't cutting it and Hoyas like to grow 'up'. Happy Holidays, Dave.
I totally agree with you on all the beautiful plants that you showed,I also love them bushy in a hanging basket/pot,I don’t like them in their mature state. I cut up my cebu blue into single node cuttings and it rooted so well,just filled up a whole pot of them and they already look good. I go for busheness over long sparse vines. Love every plant that you had there,so bushy and healthy. 💚🪴🌿 Natalie
Hi, Natalie! I feel like we're getting slowly brainwashed by every single TH-camr saying "I know I *have* to get this on a moss pole soon" .... And let's face it. There are plenty, plenty plenty of plants on moss poles that absolutely do not look like Sydney Plant Guy's 🤣
@ I started off with lots of plants on moss poles,than as I noticed that yes,the leaves get larger but they also lose the look of their beauty from when they are smaller, I pulled them off and cut them up and enjoying them in a basket with their juvenile leaves. SPG had to keep chopping and propping to keep the top big leaves to continue to size up. Now,if I want a big leaf plant I have a lot to choose from,without going through that long process.🌿💚Natalie
Your llano carti road is gorgeous. I love mine, but it grows at a snail’s pace. I’ve had it for years, but you’d never know it from it’s modest size. For me, the shimmery velvet micans leaves are beautiful too, and is an easy to grow plant
@@soberplantguyI sold mine and now have a few cuttings… My Friend Tiffany has her… she’s a new plant parent and I check in on my child from time to time. 😂
@@hanstera_deliciosa This is one of the few plants that I really, truly, sincerely miss. If only they were more widely available so that I could replace it 😆
I’m not a fan of moss poles either, I love a bushy trailing plant. I just chucked a super leggy Scindapsus exotica, I had on a shelf in my bathroom. I found a full 4” pot of it for 11.99 at a local plant store, it wasn’t worth my time to restart it. I’m sure I should have chopped and propped but there are only certain plants I’m interested in doing that to, like my Hoyas.
@@hanstera_deliciosa I truly look at it as I would outdoor gardening: like, would I feel absolutely compelled to save every last little bit when I'm out whacking plants about in the garden? No, of course not 😇
I have 4 moss poles & I’m filling the front & sides with cuttings. I think they look great when they’re full & the pole is covered! It takes time like anything else, but it’s worth it to me. I don’t find them any more difficult than any other. However, I don’t want to fill my house with them. I’m growing my Siltepecana like yours. I just chopped it up last night to fill it out. I adore a nice full hanging plant 🌱 😊
@ I live in my Airstream at the moment doing some renovations. They only take vertical space, so I don’t understand. I have 50 plants in here & the plants on moss poles take the same amount of space as the others. I understand some people just don’t want to fool with them & that’s ok too.
@ Wow! That’s large 😮 Mine just grow close to the pole (Adonsonii, Brazil, Manjula & M. Obliqua Peru)I guess it depends on the type of plant. I wont grow plants with long petioles. I don’t have the space. My largest plant (in width) is my Prince of Orange, but I love it so much I’ll make room for it 😃 Those bright orange leaves are a show stopper!! Always nice chatting with you Dave!
It's so great you made this video. I have personally been cleaning up some of the plants looked a bit ugly in my collection that need to get fuller or whatever it may be I have been cutting things back whenever I see it rooting things to fill the pot put it on a pole if I want it to have bigger leaves just trying to perfect what I already have.
My cebu blue was DOA and I’ve managed to coax a tiny vine cutting to start growing. At this point it would be easier to get a new one but dammit I can’t give up .
I had to really think about this to realize that I don't really think about it. haha. I take it plant-by-plant. For the most part, I would say that I just let the plants do their own thing unless their thing annoys me. If a plant NEEDS to be on a moss pole, then I don't need it in my collection. Simple as that. I'm not a big chopper-backer unless the plant is sending out stupid growth (lookin' at you Purple Passion Plant), or if I want to fill out a sparse plant. I really only got back into seriously collecting plants about two years ago, so it's still kind of an evolving situation. In other news . . . I noticed your paperwhites in the background. I did decide to pick some bulbs up, too. The flowers are just starting to open up. I haven't noticed the daffodil-mixed-with-feet smell, so I think it does help to grow them in wide open space. Good thing . . . since my stapelia surprised me by blooming for the first time with TWO flowers. I was shocked to see one bud and even more shocked a couple of days later to see that there was a second bud behind it. Between the paperwhites and the stapelia, it could really be a "foul wind" all up in here, but it hasn't been a problem so far. Another stapelia surprise . . . my plant wasn't tagged when I bought it, so I was assuming that it was a Stapelia Gigantea, which is a plant that my grandma grew many years ago. It's actually a Stapelia Leendertziae. I'm not sticking my nose in them, but the flowers are really cool looking.
🤣😂🤣 This is so funny. In our large (by cubic feet) living room, the smell of the paper whites is actually quite nice--no sticking a nose into them, of course 😆 But when I was at the grocery store the other day, I rounded a corner into a full display of them, and it about knocked me off my feet. Not in a good way........ And good on you for growing plant, gasp, the way *you* think they look great!
Love your hatties. I've chopped my Cebu blue, which was running wild a few months ago and planted10 or so props directly in substrate and we are both so happy. It is full and beautiful and tame. I also chopped my Neon Pothos with the same beautiful results. The Brazil hanging in my window has always gotten regular haircuts. I have no moss poles because they are too much work from what I can tell, also I don't like the one-sided look. I do use trellises as needed. I bought Barrina T8 fixtures when you mentioned them months ago (before you had your store). Got white lamps. Love them. I went to your store to check it out and here's what I'm wondering: the lamps are yellow in the store, what is the difference between the colors? Pink, yellow, white- what's up with that? Also, those horrid pots are in your store! Peace.
@@hanstera_deliciosa I have almost every plant I own under lights (over 100). I live in a studio with one 7' x 5' west facing window. The apartment is long and deep though. I am growing mostly Philodendrens, pothos, syngonium, hoyas, begonias, episcias, orchids, and more! The only plants in the window are suculents and sansevrieria. A long answer to a short question.
OH MY GOD thank you for the heads up on the pots!!! As for the lights, only choose them based on the color you prefer. They have identical wavelengths, no matter what random people on FB groups say. Barrina supplies the data. I'd comment more in general here, but I need to excise those pots from my page prono!!!
I do not like moss poles here too. I do have a few of them but they are only 32 inches tall. When those vining philodendrons that are on them reach the top I chop them I am nt doing the chop and extend like SPG. I also have my moss pole collection in rolling carts 6 to 7 pots in each cart and I do rotate them. Right now they are in the center of a dividing wall from living room to dining room so I do get to see both sides of the plants. I am so with you on feeling fine with keeping the plants clipped back into a smaller shape. As many plants as I have pulled from my hoard I am still feeling a bit overwhelmed with way too many. Love the Lano Carte Road syngonium. I have pared my syngonium collection down to f plants. I did lose my S. Frosted heard. She just quit me after several restarts.
That's the way I would enjoy poles. Just can't make that happen here, at least not easily/or without eating up living space. Too bad about your Frosted Heart. I don't think that plant is exactly easy 😊
@@soberplantguy Yes the carts made from two deep dresser drawers with an added pywood bottom and casters added do take up a lot of living space. Since it is just me here it is ok for now. They are usually along the west wall in front of the two big windows there. Winter I move them to the center of the room. I just have too many plants. :(
I prefer my Monstera Peru short and rounded, filling up a basket, but not trailing very long nor climbing up a pole. It's one of those plants that I like better BEFORE it's fenestrated. Likewise, I love the way Cebu Blue leaves arrange themselves as they cascade, and I find them less attractive if they are growing vertically. Philodendron Micans is another I prefer to keep clipping so the vines don't grow longer than 3 feet. It looks gangly otherwise. I do have one tied to a square pole, 2 x 2 inches, and growing upwards. It's gorgeous.
I hardly have a backyard now that i moved, 32 yrs of outside gardening is very enjoyable so when we moved to a bigger house but hardly have front or back garden, i find myself collecting more houseplants...but just starter plants in 4 inch pots...now i have collected 100 plants, mostly still small 4&5&6 inch pots and some 8-10 inch ones like Zz, Norfolk pine, triple heights Dracaena , Money tree and Song of India draceana, and a Monstera Deliciosa to corners of the house that need taller bigger plants ....its a great mix of 20 tall plants, 20 succulents, 20 cacti, 20 hoyas, 20 mixed tropicals or other interesting plants like carnivorous or " funky weird" plants that we consider COOL...yeah i dont consider moss poles cool .. i prefer bushy plants as tbey look so much healthier...i dont like trailing or leggy plants but if they are full on top, its great! Thats why if i love a certain plant so much, i buy doubles or triples of the same plant if its not expensive because i like to put them together as to make it look compact and healthy... aside from being an insurance in case one dies i have extra...what we do for love of plants!!! Hey, they make us happy, right? Just like when pets make ppl happy...thats what's important!❤️❤️❤️ As the song goes Dont Worry Be Happy👍
What a great potluck you have going on! I'm in a similar/different situation in that we have space for outdoor gardening, but the canopy of mature trees puts us in pretty deep shade. And don't get me wrong: we love all these beautiful trees. And I love indoor gardening, so win win 😁
Your plants look beautiful 🪴🪴🪴 None of he plants that you grow small on purpose are Hoyas 😅 So does that mean that all the Hoyas are allowed to grow huge? Good point “Whats going to make you happy” We shouldn’t be doing things because “its the best way” but rather because we enjoy it 🌸
All the examples that are not included 😂 The gifted hat 🥹 The things our spouses say and don’t remember (because there’s no way we could be wrong when it comes to our recollections) 😁 Your strong opinion about the color purple 💜 Sharing how beautiful certain plants can look lovely trailing and trimmed/cut back 🏆 I’m not a moss pole person but I’ll give support. After seeing this, I’m rethinking some of my setups 🤔 Some plants just look better trailing (or in my case, draped across a surface cause cats) 😼
Rock that hat Dave! Merry Christmas!
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Thank you, Amy! I debuted it at my wife's bookstore, and downtown Iowa City yesterday.... I got some laughs, I'll say that much 🤣
Yes that hat is you Dave!😅 whoever made it is very clever.😊
@@pudik2008 She's become quite a dear friend. I debuted it in downtown Iowa City last night and the reactions were ... mainly those of amusement 😆
@@soberplantguy At least they got a laugh out of it!😅 I do like the part about your dog liking it though!😂
I really like your idea of growing the plants small, they look great. Thanks so much for the inspiration ❤😊❤
Ah, that's great! It's good to have a nice mix, but more importantly, just to grow what and how we like 😊
Moss poles??? Bah humbug!!! I just chopped up my Silltepecana and my Cebu Blue about a month ago. Decided to put them in small vases of just water and nutrients. I was able to make several, so now I have them in different areas of my home. I like keeping most of my plants small also, being that I live in an apartment and not a home owner.
That's exactly the way to do it: whatever is right for us as individuals 😊
I was going to throw away my cebu blu because it is UGGGGGLLLLLLY! now I’m chopping yours looks perfect! Thanks for sharing your tricks!
Chopping back solved a lot of those “problems” 😆
I also wasn’t happy with mine,chopped it up in single node cuttings,they rooted really fast and easy,just potted them up so tight. It’s such a beautiful blueish/greenish color.😊
@@pudik2008 It's the best!
Hi Dave. I too prefer my plants on the smaller side, no trellis or moss poles for me 😊. Thanks for sharing 😊
I figured I wasn't alone on this 😁
I chopped my Cebu Blue after it filled the hanging basket saucer with aerial roots. (I really mean filled it!) it looked pretty demoralized for a while. Once it grew back, I have kept it trimmed up and it doesn't seem to grow those ridiculous roots anymore. Dave, I think you should try a dashing tweed driver's cap.
Oh my. The driver’s 🧢 YES please. Pretty please. 🙏
Thirded! 😂
I kept waiting for him to pull one out of his arsenal. DAVE, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
Looks like you've made a popular suggestion 😆 And good on you finding out what works with *your* plant 😁
@@hanstera_deliciosa I actually have been keeping an eye out.....
10:30- Deny, deny, deny!!!!!!! Yes. Thank you Kathleen. Kathleen for prez.
Save Dave from himself. We don’t need a Kelly Clarkson situation… super glue tape sounds like a recipe for Dave to create chaos. Very wise. Indeed.
Excuse me? This is not Kathleen channel, thank you very much.... 😆
@@hanstera_deliciosa Also, Kathleen reads these comments, so let's please not encourage her?
Our lives are not 100% about plants alone, we have spouses, household chores, family lives, friends, work for those who are not yet retired, volunteer work, or just socializing, or just being busy with walking your dogs, walking with neughbors, church activities, babysitting grandkids or aging parents, window shopping, or just catching sleep 😴💤 or napping....plant hobby is just one part of our lives....lets be happy and have a good balance in life...a fulfilling life 🎉😊❤
I agree with this word-for-word. And..... may I add that I actually really love our home. The actual home that I've worked my back to the bone at restoring 😆
I use the little metal wall clips for hanging terra cotta pots. Also the metal wall rings.
I agree that the hanging plants look much nicer. 🌱
Thank you for reminding me about those clips! I finally have a setup where I can use them 😊
I agree! About keeping plants small and no moss poles. Your plants are so lush and colorful! Im staring at one sorry looking cebu blue in my north window. I have others in better lighting. Im gonna give her a hair cut.
It's so easy to look at someone's else's jungle and think "I'd love that!" Only to be completely disappointed with it in our own homes. As for my 'Cebu Blue' ... thank you! That one was on the very brink of death a few years ago. I bought it massively under-watered in pure coco coir, soaked it (oops), Iowa hit -25, and our furnace broke. What a perfect storm 🤣
I won't use moss poles.. seems like too much work and not very nice to look at..I stay away from plants that need them.. Nice hat!😂
Hey, thanks! I got the compliments in downtown Iowa City today 😁 And yes, the less said about moss poles, the better 😆
Interesting subject this. I agree with you 100%, you see channels where they have huge plants and have huge problems with them.
Keep my hoyas small and cut my philodendrons to make them bushy.
But I do want bigger pothos plants for my shelves.
The only big plants I have are old, really old, and my benjamin ficus trees are in bonsai form. Do not like mosspoles at all.
Thanks Dave, great video, brings calm to to me , as I am taking care of our sick kitty just now, a big house, a family and my epilepic dog who is a little darling , and my fishes. Yes I live in a zoo/ jungle.
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Oh, gosh. I'm sure you're taking good care of your kitty (and the rest of the clan as well). You have my best wishes 😊
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Thank you so much💘
Iowa City bestie, I have about 50 plants giving you the bombastic side-eye right now. Time to start throwing things away! Since the weather is determined to court pneumonia, I've been staying inside with my plant babies, just ENCOURAGING them with the compost bin by my side. I ordered a Cao Bang that I'm going to have to restart (it looks like trash), and a couple of my Meredithii aren't growing the way I want. This hobby is so fantastic because it's so customizable to the hobbyist. I remember when I just started out and the influencers would have these massive plants, (especially the moss pole peddlers), and my first thought was always, "They don't live in NYC. There's no way!" The sheer amount of space and time it must take. I haven't found my sugar daddy yet, so alas, I'm working 9-5 (thank you, Dolly): Time is a premium for me. My orchids grow in spite of my tender care. I don't want to imagine the nightmare of having to take a damn plant off a moss pole to water the moss pole so the plant can be hydrated. Lol. Shoot, writing that sentence was exhausting, much less. I was not blessed with an abundance of patience, so I could see me trashing an entire collection bc of a moss pole. 😅. For all the thousands of dollars I've spent, they better keep ME happy... Anyway, your hat looked terrific! Why does it look like you're wearing outerwear inside again?🤔. Take care and stay warm, Iowa City, Iowan friend. Much appreciation for yet another fantastic vid.
Thanks so much! I think it is sooo easy to look at someone else's collection, whatever it is, and think "I want that!" Only to be disappointed and burned out by it. Or, more likely, it won't grow that way, anyway. I remember seeing Summer Rayne Oakes doing NY studio tours where people were collecting shelves full on Monstera (fill in the blanks). I was like, Uh, what're ya gonna do when those actually start to grow?? Even *I* can think that far ahead 🤣😂🤣
Wow, that stiltepecana is the prettiest one I've ever seen!!! I live the apple green and dark green next to the silver. Stunning.
Thanks, Rebecca! I'm so very fond of this plant. A few years ago, and this is a true story 🤣, a few years ago I told this plant to live or die--I just didn't care anymore. I'd given it everything I was ever going to give it to survive.
It chose life 😂🤣😂
Oh my goodness I adore that hat
I do have a few moss poles & that’s enough for the time being 👍 Thanks for the great laughs, I so appreciate them 🫶🏻
Hi, Heather! Great to hear from you, as always 😊
Ditto!!! They’re a time sucker….
@ they sure are 😂😂
@@soberplantguy PS - I forgot to say how much I love the hat you were given. It’s fabulous!!
@@heatherstephens9295 Guess who made it 🙄🤭
Love your humor always and that hat!! Wowser!!! Your last vid on orchids convinced me to buy my first orchid which I haven't bought yet but I am looking. Basically I am just thrilled that most my plants are thriving and I think pest free. I haven't made any 'towers' out of wire yet but I see the need in my near future as the bamboo hoops and ladders just aren't cutting it and Hoyas like to grow 'up'. Happy Holidays, Dave.
Thank you--and that's awesome! I hope you find a pretty orchid someday soon. Happy holidays to you as well 😊
I totally agree with you on all the beautiful plants that you showed,I also love them bushy in a hanging basket/pot,I don’t like them in their mature state. I cut up my cebu blue into single node cuttings and it rooted so well,just filled up a whole pot of them and they already look good. I go for busheness over long sparse vines. Love every plant that you had there,so bushy and healthy. 💚🪴🌿 Natalie
Hi, Natalie! I feel like we're getting slowly brainwashed by every single TH-camr saying "I know I *have* to get this on a moss pole soon" .... And let's face it. There are plenty, plenty plenty of plants on moss poles that absolutely do not look like Sydney Plant Guy's 🤣
@ I started off with lots of plants on moss poles,than as I noticed that yes,the leaves get larger but they also lose the look of their beauty from when they are smaller, I pulled them off and cut them up and enjoying them in a basket with their juvenile leaves. SPG had to keep chopping and propping to keep the top big leaves to continue to size up. Now,if I want a big leaf plant I have a lot to choose from,without going through that long process.🌿💚Natalie
@@pudik2008 I fell under the spell, too. But after one summer of poles out the wazoo, I was like, What am I even doing??
I feel the same way about my cebu blue, I love the little silvery lance leaves. Now if it will only grow as full as yours...
I’m sure it will..!
Your llano carti road is gorgeous. I love mine, but it grows at a snail’s pace. I’ve had it for years, but you’d never know it from it’s modest size. For me, the shimmery velvet micans leaves are beautiful too, and is an easy to grow plant
Too soon on the micans. I lost a very beautiful one after a -25 cold snap, and our furnace broke. Gorgeous plant 😊
@@soberplantguyI sold mine and now have a few cuttings… My Friend Tiffany has her… she’s a new plant parent and I check in on my child from time to time. 😂
@@hanstera_deliciosa This is one of the few plants that I really, truly, sincerely miss. If only they were more widely available so that I could replace it 😆
I’m not a fan of moss poles either, I love a bushy trailing plant. I just chucked a super leggy Scindapsus exotica, I had on a shelf in my bathroom. I found a full 4” pot of it for 11.99 at a local plant store, it wasn’t worth my time to restart it. I’m sure I should have chopped and propped but there are only certain plants I’m interested in doing that to, like my Hoyas.
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Chopping and propping becomes an identity… 😂
@@hanstera_deliciosa I truly look at it as I would outdoor gardening: like, would I feel absolutely compelled to save every last little bit when I'm out whacking plants about in the garden? No, of course not 😇
Hear hear!! And love the toque! 😄
Thank you!
Green is also nice… purple and green is acceptable! 💗 Thank you
Please stop fighting against settled science. It's embarrassing..........
I have 4 moss poles & I’m filling the front & sides with cuttings. I think they look great when they’re full & the pole is covered! It takes time like anything else, but it’s worth it to me. I don’t find them any more difficult than any other. However, I don’t want to fill my house with them. I’m growing my Siltepecana like yours. I just chopped it up last night to fill it out. I adore a nice full hanging plant 🌱 😊
That’s the look I’d want … but with the enormous plant I have, that would take up, oh, ALL of the real estate 🤣😁🤣
@ I live in my Airstream at the moment doing some renovations. They only take vertical space, so I don’t understand. I have 50 plants in here & the plants on moss poles take the same amount of space as the others. I understand some people just don’t want to fool with them & that’s ok too.
In my case, it’s 2’ out in one direction. Not a 2’ circle which would require wayyy more space.
@ Wow! That’s large 😮 Mine just grow close to the pole (Adonsonii, Brazil, Manjula & M. Obliqua Peru)I guess it depends on the type of plant. I wont grow plants with long petioles. I don’t have the space. My largest plant (in width) is my Prince of Orange, but I love it so much I’ll make room for it 😃 Those bright orange leaves are a show stopper!! Always nice chatting with you Dave!
❤❤Très joli bonnet ,j ’adore vos videos ,continuez a nous regaler .Amitiés de France .
Merci à vous 😊
Please! Continue to delight us!!!!
It's so great you made this video. I have personally been cleaning up some of the plants looked a bit ugly in my collection that need to get fuller or whatever it may be I have been cutting things back whenever I see it rooting things to fill the pot put it on a pole if I want it to have bigger leaves just trying to perfect what I already have.
Thank you so much! I'm delighted that you enjoyed it 😊
My cebu blue was DOA and I’ve managed to coax a tiny vine cutting to start growing. At this point it would be easier to get a new one but dammit I can’t give up .
That hat is amazing!
Wasn’t that sweet of her?? 😊
Don’t like moss poles either unless it’s covered in plants front and back
That’s *the* only acceptable way 😁
I had to really think about this to realize that I don't really think about it. haha. I take it plant-by-plant. For the most part, I would say that I just let the plants do their own thing unless their thing annoys me. If a plant NEEDS to be on a moss pole, then I don't need it in my collection. Simple as that. I'm not a big chopper-backer unless the plant is sending out stupid growth (lookin' at you Purple Passion Plant), or if I want to fill out a sparse plant. I really only got back into seriously collecting plants about two years ago, so it's still kind of an evolving situation.
In other news . . . I noticed your paperwhites in the background. I did decide to pick some bulbs up, too. The flowers are just starting to open up. I haven't noticed the daffodil-mixed-with-feet smell, so I think it does help to grow them in wide open space. Good thing . . . since my stapelia surprised me by blooming for the first time with TWO flowers. I was shocked to see one bud and even more shocked a couple of days later to see that there was a second bud behind it. Between the paperwhites and the stapelia, it could really be a "foul wind" all up in here, but it hasn't been a problem so far. Another stapelia surprise . . . my plant wasn't tagged when I bought it, so I was assuming that it was a Stapelia Gigantea, which is a plant that my grandma grew many years ago. It's actually a Stapelia Leendertziae. I'm not sticking my nose in them, but the flowers are really cool looking.
🤣😂🤣 This is so funny. In our large (by cubic feet) living room, the smell of the paper whites is actually quite nice--no sticking a nose into them, of course 😆 But when I was at the grocery store the other day, I rounded a corner into a full display of them, and it about knocked me off my feet. Not in a good way........ And good on you for growing plant, gasp, the way *you* think they look great!
Love your hatties. I've chopped my Cebu blue, which was running wild a few months ago and planted10 or so props directly in substrate and we are both so happy. It is full and beautiful and tame. I also chopped my Neon Pothos with the same beautiful results. The Brazil hanging in my window has always gotten regular haircuts. I have no moss poles because they are too much work from what I can tell, also I don't like the one-sided look. I do use trellises as needed.
I bought Barrina T8 fixtures when you mentioned them months ago (before you had your store). Got white lamps. Love them. I went to your store to check it out and here's what I'm wondering: the lamps are yellow in the store, what is the difference between the colors? Pink, yellow, white- what's up with that? Also, those horrid pots are in your store! Peace.
For your Barrina Lights- Which plants do you have under them and why? 🤗 💚
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@@hanstera_deliciosa I have almost every plant I own under lights (over 100). I live in a studio with one 7' x 5' west facing window. The apartment is long and deep though. I am growing mostly Philodendrens, pothos, syngonium, hoyas, begonias, episcias, orchids, and more! The only plants in the window are suculents and sansevrieria. A long answer to a short question.
@@helenesolomon a beautiful answer to a vague question. Love to you beautiful human 🤗
OH MY GOD thank you for the heads up on the pots!!!
As for the lights, only choose them based on the color you prefer. They have identical wavelengths, no matter what random people on FB groups say. Barrina supplies the data. I'd comment more in general here, but I need to excise those pots from my page prono!!!
Totally agree about Siltepecana, I won't allow it to mature. 😅 Cebu Blue same story.
I'll add: I don't let myself mature, either 😅
@@soberplantguy oh, my husband will attest to that! He's always accusing me of still being 13 lolol.
@@bailemos I think there's genuine value in holding onto a least a *little* bit of that 😊
Quite dashing.
Dashing indeed.
@ Ah! We meet in the digital universe! I love you my beautiful friend!
The hat? Plant? Moi? 😆
@@TiffanyBrandt-g2q Ok. I'll go ahead and assume it's the hat 😁
I do not like moss poles here too. I do have a few of them but they are only 32 inches tall. When those vining philodendrons that are on them reach the top I chop them I am nt doing the chop and extend like SPG. I also have my moss pole collection in rolling carts 6 to 7 pots in each cart and I do rotate them. Right now they are in the center of a dividing wall from living room to dining room so I do get to see both sides of the plants.
I am so with you on feeling fine with keeping the plants clipped back into a smaller shape. As many plants as I have pulled from my hoard I am still feeling a bit overwhelmed with way too many.
Love the Lano Carte Road syngonium. I have pared my syngonium collection down to f plants. I did lose my S. Frosted heard. She just quit me after several restarts.
That's the way I would enjoy poles. Just can't make that happen here, at least not easily/or without eating up living space. Too bad about your Frosted Heart. I don't think that plant is exactly easy 😊
@@soberplantguy Yes the carts made from two deep dresser drawers with an added pywood bottom and casters added do take up a lot of living space. Since it is just me here it is ok for now. They are usually along the west wall in front of the two big windows there. Winter I move them to the center of the room. I just have too many plants. :(
@@shadesofidaho Oh, wow! Very inventive 😀
I prefer my Monstera Peru short and rounded, filling up a basket, but not trailing very long nor climbing up a pole. It's one of those plants that I like better BEFORE it's fenestrated. Likewise, I love the way Cebu Blue leaves arrange themselves as they cascade, and I find them less attractive if they are growing vertically. Philodendron Micans is another I prefer to keep clipping so the vines don't grow longer than 3 feet. It looks gangly otherwise. I do have one tied to a square pole, 2 x 2 inches, and growing upwards. It's gorgeous.
Agreed, and agreed 😁
I discovered death containers this year too RIP to those cuttings
I have never seen anything like it! What I wouldn't give to have never seen those things on sale 😩
I love monstera but not in my home and I don't want to grow it small 😅
Same here 😆
I hardly have a backyard now that i moved, 32 yrs of outside gardening is very enjoyable so when we moved to a bigger house but hardly have front or back garden, i find myself collecting more houseplants...but just starter plants in 4 inch pots...now i have collected 100 plants, mostly still small 4&5&6 inch pots and some 8-10 inch ones like Zz, Norfolk pine, triple heights Dracaena , Money tree and Song of India draceana, and a Monstera Deliciosa to corners of the house that need taller bigger plants ....its a great mix of 20 tall plants, 20 succulents, 20 cacti, 20 hoyas, 20 mixed tropicals or other interesting plants like carnivorous or " funky weird" plants that we consider COOL...yeah i dont consider moss poles cool .. i prefer bushy plants as tbey look so much healthier...i dont like trailing or leggy plants but if they are full on top, its great! Thats why if i love a certain plant so much, i buy doubles or triples of the same plant if its not expensive because i like to put them together as to make it look compact and healthy... aside from being an insurance in case one dies i have extra...what we do for love of plants!!! Hey, they make us happy, right? Just like when pets make ppl happy...thats what's important!❤️❤️❤️ As the song goes Dont Worry Be Happy👍
What a great potluck you have going on! I'm in a similar/different situation in that we have space for outdoor gardening, but the canopy of mature trees puts us in pretty deep shade. And don't get me wrong: we love all these beautiful trees. And I love indoor gardening, so win win 😁
I don’t like moss poles.
I feel even more strongly about them 😆
Period. You tell them. 🤗 😉
Your plants look beautiful 🪴🪴🪴
None of he plants that you grow small on purpose are Hoyas 😅
So does that mean that all the Hoyas are allowed to grow huge?
Good point
“Whats going to make you happy”
We shouldn’t be doing things because “its the best way” but rather because we enjoy it 🌸
Let’s not discourage our Hoya from actually growing 🤣
@ hahaha, you are right, lets not 🫢
I agree
Thank you for watching!
All the examples that are not included 😂
The gifted hat 🥹
The things our spouses say and don’t remember (because there’s no way we could be wrong when it comes to our recollections) 😁
Your strong opinion about the color purple 💜
Sharing how beautiful certain plants can look lovely trailing and trimmed/cut back 🏆
I’m not a moss pole person but I’ll give support. After seeing this, I’m rethinking some of my setups 🤔
Some plants just look better trailing (or in my case, draped across a surface cause cats) 😼
The statement about purple was not an opinion 🤣😂🤣 And I agree about everything else 😆