absolutely beautiful - I really admire your ability to stick to your vision and build something like this from basically a glass cabinet! and you have an amazing sense of beauty in how you've chosen the plants and set them out really fantastic - I'm so inspired
I started watching him when I was around 15 or 16 i think. He's definitely a youtube og, i bet many of us have been inspired by him, and if you haven't, go watch his videos and you will be lol
Thank you! and yes I love talking ab other channels I enjoy because I feel like you guys would like them too. It's like recommending a tv show to friends lol. For my aquariums/terrariums I get a lot of inspiration from SerpaDesign and Foo the Flowerhorn. The aquarium that I show at 4:04 was a direct copy from his volcano tank. I posted it on Reddit a few years back when I made it and people thought I stole his photo. I took it as a compliment though lol
omg benji I have been waiting for this video! my cabinet has been sitting there waiting for me to build the terrarium! and this is the perfect motivator. All the plants are so absolutely beautiful and I love how much of an ecosystem it is within itself. I love the bugs, the CUTEST mushrooms, the passiflora is gorgeous... thank you so so much for sharing this project. It is amazing as are you! 💚
ikr?? the mushrooms are so tiny and they sprout up randomly and only live for around a week so it's always a joy to see them. I love the passiflora too! it grows extremely fast and is very hardy. I'm growing it out on my balcony, and in my home (outside the terrarium) and it's thriving in every location. The leaf shape and color is so pretty, it reminds me of a butterfly
@@benjiplant if you don’t mind me asking, where can one find the passiflora vine? Or what is the full name? If anyone knows, please inform me. I’m in love!
was feeling really uninspired by plants for a little bit but this reignited my interest again. thanks for showing how creative you can be with plants~!
Thanks for sharing your greenhouse cabinet to us!! It’s simply breathtaking 😍 I admire the thriving micro ecosystem you have created. It must be so cool to see how it will change and evolve over time.
Hey man I just found your channel and Im already in love wid your plants and I've been watching all your videos continuously. wishing u all the success and love frm India
Your videos are a balm for my anxious soul. Watching the growth of this cabinet from its start has been super educational! Thank you so much! Your new dog is so adorable.
Still beautiful and I understand why you took the waterfall out but it took away some of the magic. I love any kind of water feature and having one contained in a small space that I can look at when I want to makes me very happy.
I like your approach to things, I'm the same way. Glad we're not alone! 😄 The greenhouse is beautiful. I hope to try something like this in the future.
Just built my Rudsta and now I'm researching your videos to make sure I get all the needed supplies and steps in order. Thank you for inspiring me, Benji! 😊🌿🌱
I really like your setup! Most people tend to putting too much stuff in their cabinets, like too many different colours that don't match that we'll, but yours looks really natural and balanced. Well done!
Gorgeous. Some little lizards or a turtle would make it a storybook fantasy, and maybe balance out the bugs. You should sell your idea to IKEA, it would be a wonderful gift idea for parents to encourage learning how to create and grow things with their kids.
Beautiful,so inspirational. Thank you for including details about the mother lights and the reverse osmosis water and fertiliser. I was also wondering about the Manis xx. I love Theo,he’s the most adorable addition to your home.
haha i really do like them (they're not making me write this comment lol). they're different from any other grow lights on the market and address a lot of needs for houseplant ppl in terms of aesthetics and functionality
You can throw a granule of Osmocote in each pitcher if you want to fertilize the Nepenthes. I figured it would burn them but California Carinvores suggested it in a video and it works well. The cabinet looks incredible. Really inspiring.
about halfway into this video i realized i fucked up at work, spent an hour sprialing, and then came back to this relaxing content lol so thank you benji
I'm glad I found you I always wanted to grow moss but didn't know much about it. moss is very beautiful and even making them into aquarium is interesting so thank you!
This is very cool :D thank you for sharing this update. In the distant future I want to try to make my own cabinet! I’d also like to say that your videos have given me inspiration and courage to start making my own pant videos. You’re videos encourage me to be myself :D
I was thinking of getting tree frogs and this is really good inspo for the kind of enclosure I want to keep them in. Your rhaphidophora hayi is thriving. Mine is dying lmao
I see and understand why you removed waterfall and pond, but what about mister? I am glad you filmed this update. I personally have no problem with building something, but am constantly worried if it would last. Your experiences help us, so thank you for that. Also, these videos are very inspiring, and I plan to build similar thing in a bout a year or so when renovations in my flat are done. Greetings from Croatia
I removed the mister because i had to constantly fill the cup it was in. It would have worked much better if it was in a larger body of water. With the cup I had to refill it every 2 days or so and I got tired of it so I just took it out haha
This is goals for sure! I’m newer to plants and super curious - is an environment like this prone to any type of mites or bugs? Or would those carnivorous plants take care of anything like that? Obsessed with your content now!
This is growing beautifuly! You could add Tillandsia, it'd look great, they do so well in high-umidity enviroments. Also you could try that pink mushroom (Pleurotus djamor), it'd like your log.
Wow!! It's looking so lush and beautiful that's so awesome you did such an amazing job !! I love how everything just pops I could gaze at it for hours 😍👍💚
Get some rainforest frogs because your cabinet looks so similar but even better than the one at Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, which has I believe a couple of poisonous dart frogs, really colorful and super tiny. Thank you so much for this beautiful work.
awesome cabinet with ecosystem inside!! I was wondering also about the maintainance with mould and fungus, plages in general... but you said that you don't need to do too much... when did you added the isopods and springtales? I don't know if I'm prepared to add this buddies voluntarily but I thing it's the most natural way...just thinking about build a cabinet... and nice idea about acuarium lights and silicone thing
I just spray the cabinet every couple of days with water and that’s more or less it! Sometimes I trim the plants back if they’re growing too much. The majority of the work is in the beginning during the setup. Also you can add the isopods and springtails right when you set the cabinet up. You might need to give them a little bit of food tho since the cabinet is new. I feed mine fish flakes every once in a while:)
i was trying to grow them in a tupperware container and then i was like wait... why don't i just spread spores around in my cabinet. 3 months later i started seeing sporelings! I'm just not sure what to do once they get bigger lol
stumbled across your channel today! absolutely love how calm these videos are and i had to comment because i am the exact same in that i just do things and solve the problems as i go, no instruction manuals for me either (my partner evens me out though as he is very much to the book). amazing rainforest you've created here x
It would be really awesome to hear more about the color of light in plant content. As I mentioned in another comment, I think the algorithm recommended you because I do watch Tanner, Green Aqua, etc - and something that would be neat to see is more examples of the light spectrum affecting plant display, and maybe how or where you’d use different lights to different effect. Admittedly, going into summer may not be the best time for this idea… 😂
Plant people, cat people, dog people, lol you checked 2 boxes for me. I love your plant cabinet, and all the information about plants and critters. I'm going to run out and get me a light for my plants. Thank you Benji.
it'd be also so cool if you'll add a mist effect in your terrarium. but love how abundant your terrarium cabinet now compare before, amazing care you got there. 💙
I always though begonias hate to have moisture on their leaves. Yours look gorgeous though 🤔 thanks for sharing the video, great inspiration, I'm waiting for the spring to redo my boring Rudsta!
This IKEA cabinet is wonderful I have a question, do you have never given fertilizers cause you had the cp, so is all your lush green moss and plants sustaines themselves just with the decaying matter of the mosses? If not how do you cope with nutrients for the plants?
Update on me selling: I’m starting to get into tissue culture ! , it’s a scary thing but your videos are so relaxing they calm my nerves ! Thanks Benji 😌❤️
Love the cabinet, we have the same hobbies, thanks for all your videos. PS your blue and “brownish” button up looks super good on you! (Not trying to slid in your DMs either, just a compliment)
Absolutely stunning indoor tropical greenhouse!, better than any painting/wall art (because it's alive!!!!), really excellent video........i'm inspired to try a smaller version, thanks! :-)
aaaa its so pretty!! i've also been quite interested in carnivorous plants lately so im planning on buying a sundew. i'm just doing a bit of researching first bc i dont wanna kill them in the end. do you have any additional tips?
they appreciate a tonnn of light and distilled water. other than that, they’re pretty hardy. also try to not get water on the sundew leaves, it can wash off the sticky dew
Absolutely stunning with the moss all over. I love moss so much. It is my dream to create an all moss terrarium. I would LOVE to know what kind of sheet moss you did use. Did you add other mosses as well?
That cabinet looks amazing. Really well done Benji. It’s a great joy to look at it. What’s the fertilizer you mention you added into the substrate? Thanks for sharing
Man, that thing is amazing. I have plan to do something similar at some moment, but to put quite a lot of life there, like siders and insects, just a biosphere.
Hello. I really love what ou did with your cabinet ❤ I will do the same (Moss directly on "fresh" polyurethane foam ) and i would like ro know what type of living moss sheets you used ?
I think the main cause of your leaks wasn't that you sealed the enclosure, but rather the enclosure isn't suitable for a paludarium. Regardless it turned out great. Did you have any issues w/ the tree fern panels? I was going to use some in my paludarium build, but there are many reviews claiming they contained mold spores.
The m you Benji! Your cabinet is full of life! You are inspiring me to build one like this(I have a small IKEA cabinet but it is more like a greenhouse of sorts). Where did you get your weather strips from? Also, how about the live moss? Theo is just so cute!!!
Oh my gosh! Your cabinet setup is like a fantasy, I imagined being a little fairy in there, it’s beautiful Benji.✨
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absolutely beautiful - I really admire your ability to stick to your vision and build something like this from basically a glass cabinet!
and you have an amazing sense of beauty in how you've chosen the plants and set them out
really fantastic - I'm so inspired
I absolutely love how lush it became! The additions that you made really helped it grow!
Yes!! So inspiring! I'm so happy you brought up SerpaDesign as well!
As both a reptile and plant lover, my heart skipped a little
I started watching him when I was around 15 or 16 i think. He's definitely a youtube og, i bet many of us have been inspired by him, and if you haven't, go watch his videos and you will be lol
@@benjiplant can you please link the video from him that will help us with building this? Thank you ;)
@@syamimsirajudin7305 benji has a video on this exact cabinet
I really like that you put up the names on screen of the plants! I know it's gotta be a lot of extra work, but please keep doing it! :)
Your terrarium is stunning ! I love it so much (especially the baby platyceriums). I love that you shouted out Serpa Design, icons supporting icons 💚
Thank you! and yes I love talking ab other channels I enjoy because I feel like you guys would like them too. It's like recommending a tv show to friends lol. For my aquariums/terrariums I get a lot of inspiration from SerpaDesign and Foo the Flowerhorn. The aquarium that I show at 4:04 was a direct copy from his volcano tank. I posted it on Reddit a few years back when I made it and people thought I stole his photo. I took it as a compliment though lol
It's 12:38AM here in the Philippines and I've got 7am class later but I really need to watch this ahahahaha ❤️❤️❤️
SAMEEEEE 😭🌸
Same!😂 i freakin’ love this guy! Especially his calm demeanor, super soothing voice and gorgeous, gorgeous curls! hahaha
It’s 2:14 am in London, I came across this just now and I refuse to sleep without watching this… ♥️♥️♥️
Kamusta kababayan
Omggg sess!!! I woke up at around 6am and mentally told myself i will watch his vlog after work and now im here HAHAHAHAHAH i love this for us
omg benji I have been waiting for this video! my cabinet has been sitting there waiting for me to build the terrarium! and this is the perfect motivator. All the plants are so absolutely beautiful and I love how much of an ecosystem it is within itself. I love the bugs, the CUTEST mushrooms, the passiflora is gorgeous... thank you so so much for sharing this project. It is amazing as are you! 💚
ikr?? the mushrooms are so tiny and they sprout up randomly and only live for around a week so it's always a joy to see them. I love the passiflora too! it grows extremely fast and is very hardy. I'm growing it out on my balcony, and in my home (outside the terrarium) and it's thriving in every location. The leaf shape and color is so pretty, it reminds me of a butterfly
@@benjiplant if you don’t mind me asking, where can one find the passiflora vine? Or what is the full name? If anyone knows, please inform me. I’m in love!
The passiflora is SO adorable. I am going to keep my eye out and hope I can find one. They actually look like chubby bats to me 😆🥰
@@benjiplantSo 2 years later do you know the species of passiflora? yours is so stunning I just have to get one for myself
was feeling really uninspired by plants for a little bit but this reignited my interest again. thanks for showing how creative you can be with plants~!
Thanks for sharing your greenhouse cabinet to us!! It’s simply breathtaking 😍 I admire the thriving micro ecosystem you have created. It must be so cool to see how it will change and evolve over time.
it's so cool to see the update, how plants adapt and grow 🌿
my favorite part about keeping plants :)
@@benjiplant would be so great if you could share all plants list. Because i keep watching and watching it, so fascinating ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have an old empty fish tank collecting dust in the garage and now you have inspired me to make a little planted terrarium🥰
Your plant cabinet is awesome! It's so lush and beautiful. Very inspiring
I'm really glad whenever I see you get sponsorships that fit your niche needs SO MUCH
The voice is soo at ease and merits a subscription for sure. Keep up the great work and nice Serpa shoutout :)
This is amazing! Beautifully arranged, it looks so natural 👌
And the variety of plants is a feast for the eyes
Hey man I just found your channel and Im already in love wid your plants and I've been watching all your videos continuously. wishing u all the success and love frm India
Your videos are a balm for my anxious soul. Watching the growth of this cabinet from its start has been super educational! Thank you so much! Your new dog is so adorable.
Still beautiful and I understand why you took the waterfall out but it took away some of the magic. I love any kind of water feature and having one contained in a small space that I can look at when I want to makes me very happy.
I like your approach to things, I'm the same way. Glad we're not alone! 😄 The greenhouse is beautiful. I hope to try something like this in the future.
Just built my Rudsta and now I'm researching your videos to make sure I get all the needed supplies and steps in order. Thank you for inspiring me, Benji! 😊🌿🌱
I don't know what it is but I just find so much comfort in watching your videos, so Benji thank you!
Amazingly well done! Nice to see someone putting their hard work and time into something so beautiful and peaceful. Thank you for sharing.
I really like your setup! Most people tend to putting too much stuff in their cabinets, like too many different colours that don't match that we'll, but yours looks really natural and balanced. Well done!
Your cabinet is gorgeous, I believe the passiflora you have is a trifasciata, I’ve got one and it looks like yours, such a pretty plant.
I love your terrarium. Like escaping to another world that’s peaceful. 💚🌿🪴 It’s also so nice seeing how kind you are to Theodore. ❤️
Gorgeous. Some little lizards or a turtle would make it a storybook fantasy, and maybe balance out the bugs.
You should sell your idea to IKEA, it would be a wonderful gift idea for parents to encourage learning how to create and grow things with their kids.
oh this is DELIGHTFUL, lovely to see how it changed over time
Beautiful,so inspirational.
Thank you for including details about the mother lights and the reverse osmosis water and fertiliser. I was also wondering about the Manis xx. I love Theo,he’s the most adorable addition to your home.
This is an amazing update, and a really dang good advertisement for mother lights. Now I have to get some 😂
haha i really do like them (they're not making me write this comment lol). they're different from any other grow lights on the market and address a lot of needs for houseplant ppl in terms of aesthetics and functionality
You can throw a granule of Osmocote in each pitcher if you want to fertilize the Nepenthes. I figured it would burn them but California Carinvores suggested it in a video and it works well. The cabinet looks incredible. Really inspiring.
This is so soothing. This is almost plant asmr. Thank you for sharing 😊
about halfway into this video i realized i fucked up at work, spent an hour sprialing, and then came back to this relaxing content lol so thank you benji
An easy way to set up a pond fixture is to just bury a 2.5-5 gallon tank so that itself is enclosed/sealed.
I'm glad I found you I always wanted to grow moss but didn't know much about it. moss is very beautiful and even making them into aquarium is interesting so thank you!
It looks amazing! Also your apartment, love the plants hanging from the windows 💙
Great work Benji, it looks superb.
Greetings from Cumbria in the U.K.
Stay safe and well.
Your voice is so calming.
This is very cool :D thank you for sharing this update. In the distant future I want to try to make my own cabinet! I’d also like to say that your videos have given me inspiration and courage to start making my own pant videos. You’re videos encourage me to be myself :D
I was thinking of getting tree frogs and this is really good inspo for the kind of enclosure I want to keep them in. Your rhaphidophora hayi is thriving. Mine is dying lmao
How's the mantis? Everything looks amazing, I love it.
Your voice is how I imagine a psychologist would sound, very calm and soothing.
I see and understand why you removed waterfall and pond, but what about mister?
I am glad you filmed this update. I personally have no problem with building something, but am constantly worried if it would last. Your experiences help us, so thank you for that. Also, these videos are very inspiring, and I plan to build similar thing in a bout a year or so when renovations in my flat are done.
Greetings from Croatia
I removed the mister because i had to constantly fill the cup it was in. It would have worked much better if it was in a larger body of water. With the cup I had to refill it every 2 days or so and I got tired of it so I just took it out haha
@@benjiplant That's good to know, that it wasn't problematic, just extra work... thank you. :)
i would love to see a tutorial of u trying everything again from scratch with everything u know now. n gift one to a friend if u don’t wanna keep it!!
This is truly genius and so beautiful! Thank you for sharing & for the inspiration Benji
That has turned out spectacularly!!! 💚
If my new LED lighting doesn't work well I'll know which brand to check out!
This is goals for sure! I’m newer to plants and super curious - is an environment like this prone to any type of mites or bugs? Or would those carnivorous plants take care of anything like that? Obsessed with your content now!
Cabinet looks amazing! Makes me want to redo my big terrarium that I've been neglecting.
Your videos make me so happy, they’re so enjoyable and informative!
Impressive, this cabinet has really come into to it's own, good for her being able adapt your approach!
This is growing beautifuly! You could add Tillandsia, it'd look great, they do so well in high-umidity enviroments. Also you could try that pink mushroom (Pleurotus djamor), it'd like your log.
This is beautiful and lush. Yes, Benji, you are an artist. Love it!
I love this cabinet & absolutely loved the creative process of it
"fungus gnat heaven" was what I was thinking before you mention them. Glad you took care of them with the sundews 😉
This is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen, I want to live inside that cabinet 😂
You just created a new need for my house. How dare you. Now I have to make one for myself and my nepenthes! :D
Love your content Benji
Wow!! It's looking so lush and beautiful that's so awesome you did such an amazing job !! I love how everything just pops I could gaze at it for hours 😍👍💚
Get some rainforest frogs because your cabinet looks so similar but even better than the one at Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, which has I believe a couple of poisonous dart frogs, really colorful and super tiny. Thank you so much for this beautiful work.
awesome cabinet with ecosystem inside!! I was wondering also about the maintainance with mould and fungus, plages in general... but you said that you don't need to do too much... when did you added the isopods and springtales? I don't know if I'm prepared to add this buddies voluntarily but I thing it's the most natural way...just thinking about build a cabinet... and nice idea about acuarium lights and silicone thing
I just spray the cabinet every couple of days with water and that’s more or less it! Sometimes I trim the plants back if they’re growing too much. The majority of the work is in the beginning during the setup. Also you can add the isopods and springtails right when you set the cabinet up. You might need to give them a little bit of food tho since the cabinet is new. I feed mine fish flakes every once in a while:)
I love your creation 💖 you're so knowledgeable. And inspiring. Thx for sharing 😊
Thank you for talking so calmly.
I hate to read instructions too but at least you figured it out. Your plant showcase really looks wonderful. 😊
You did an amazing job! Theo is an adorable addition to your home.
I do love how you incorporated Platycerium spores into your greenhouse ecosystem. I know thats what I would do.
i was trying to grow them in a tupperware container and then i was like wait... why don't i just spread spores around in my cabinet. 3 months later i started seeing sporelings! I'm just not sure what to do once they get bigger lol
Yours are the best 8ve fi7nd so far, thank you for your generosity in sharing. Going to try making one
stumbled across your channel today! absolutely love how calm these videos are and i had to comment because i am the exact same in that i just do things and solve the problems as i go, no instruction manuals for me either (my partner evens me out though as he is very much to the book). amazing rainforest you've created here x
Hey Benji, this is so inspiring and beautiful! How do the mother grow lights fix onto the top of the cabinet please? ❤
It would be really awesome to hear more about the color of light in plant content. As I mentioned in another comment, I think the algorithm recommended you because I do watch Tanner, Green Aqua, etc - and something that would be neat to see is more examples of the light spectrum affecting plant display, and maybe how or where you’d use different lights to different effect.
Admittedly, going into summer may not be the best time for this idea… 😂
Plant people, cat people, dog people, lol you checked 2 boxes for me. I love your plant cabinet, and all the information about plants and critters. I'm going to run out and get me a light for my plants. Thank you Benji.
Absolutely beautiful! Work of art!
it'd be also so cool if you'll add a mist effect in your terrarium. but love how abundant your terrarium cabinet now compare before, amazing care you got there. 💙
He had a timed mister before and it looked pretty cool; maybe it came out along with the waterfall?
I always though begonias hate to have moisture on their leaves. Yours look gorgeous though 🤔 thanks for sharing the video, great inspiration, I'm waiting for the spring to redo my boring Rudsta!
This IKEA cabinet is wonderful I have a question, do you have never given fertilizers cause you had the cp, so is all your lush green moss and plants sustaines themselves just with the decaying matter of the mosses? If not how do you cope with nutrients for the plants?
Jealous...😭😭😭...this is so so beautiful ... i could sit in front of it all day and not get bored
i just watched the video about you making it last night! and you posted a update the day after :D
Love how it has grown lush and beautiful. 🌿
Update on me selling: I’m starting to get into tissue culture ! , it’s a scary thing but your videos are so relaxing they calm my nerves ! Thanks Benji 😌❤️
Love the cabinet, we have the same hobbies, thanks for all your videos.
PS your blue and “brownish” button up looks super good on you! (Not trying to slid in your DMs either, just a compliment)
So beautiful. Very inspiring that I really I wanna achieve something similar to my future terrarium project. Love it!!!
ur videos fuel my passion for environmental biology!!! ur the coolest!!!! :)
Love the update you definitely have a green thumb 🍃😊❣️
Absolutely stunning benji! So inspiring and beautiful 💕🙌🏼
Absolutely stunning indoor tropical greenhouse!, better than any painting/wall art (because it's alive!!!!), really excellent video........i'm inspired to try a smaller version, thanks! :-)
aaaa its so pretty!! i've also been quite interested in carnivorous plants lately so im planning on buying a sundew. i'm just doing a bit of researching first bc i dont wanna kill them in the end. do you have any additional tips?
they appreciate a tonnn of light and distilled water. other than that, they’re pretty hardy. also try to not get water on the sundew leaves, it can wash off the sticky dew
wow thanks for the update! so helpful! i’m very inspired benji!!! question? still no fans or airflow?
Wow this is such a cool idea! So lovely to be able to have something like this in an apartment
Absolutely stunning with the moss all over. I love moss so much. It is my dream to create an all moss terrarium.
I would LOVE to know what kind of sheet moss you did use. Did you add other mosses as well?
The original video from Oct has a lot of info!
i’m here to support you
Awesome greenhouse cabinet! I'm afraid to build one because of the possibility of mould due to the high humidity and lack of airflow :(
This is striving. Congrats !
That cabinet looks amazing. Really well done Benji. It’s a great joy to look at it. What’s the fertilizer you mention you added into the substrate?
Thanks for sharing
your cabinet is quite a success. well done. BR from germany!
It looks like a fairy jungle paradise 😍
Man, that thing is amazing. I have plan to do something similar at some moment, but to put quite a lot of life there, like siders and insects, just a biosphere.
I found your channel and now I'm obsessed. I almost feel like I can do this too!
Hello. I really love what ou did with your cabinet ❤
I will do the same (Moss directly on "fresh" polyurethane foam ) and i would like ro know what type of living moss sheets you used ?
I think the main cause of your leaks wasn't that you sealed the enclosure, but rather the enclosure isn't suitable for a paludarium.
Regardless it turned out great. Did you have any issues w/ the tree fern panels? I was going to use some in my paludarium build, but there are many reviews claiming they contained mold spores.
“philodendron theodoreum” 😂 😂
The sundews are gorgeous
The m you Benji! Your cabinet is full of life! You are inspiring me to build one like this(I have a small IKEA cabinet but it is more like a greenhouse of sorts). Where did you get your weather strips from? Also, how about the live moss? Theo is just so cute!!!