How I Clean My Houseplants & Deal With Plant Pests
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2021
- Cleaning my plants & pest management are definitely the most time consuming part of my indoor plant hobby, so here's how I do it! Thanks for watching!
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I love how calm you are. I see mealy bugs and it feels like the end of the world to me 😆😅 “burn it with fire… all is lost!”
This is a good one for people( like me) who have no idea what these pests really look like and actually see how it is done to get rid of them. Good idea! Thank you 🙂
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I do this a bit differently than Nick these days. I used to use this method, but the scale always came back. Recently I read about a different technique on Reddit and I really like it.
Great video! It's reassuring to see that it is ''normal'' and not necessarily alarming to have plants with pest at some point. How do you clean velvety leaves (for example Velvet Calathea)?
I searched yt for "how to clean houseplants" but what I realllly wanted to know was "how does Nick Pileggi clean his house plants because I will do whatever he tells me to do." Thanks for sharing your tips and recommendations!! You are such a lovely resource for us plant people!! ❤️❤️❤️
I loved this video especially because it normalizes pests. Scale annihilated my sago palm despite my efforts to treat it with neem oil Solution. So I just chopped up all its fronds and cleaned up any dead bits of the plant and within two months, I was rewarded with beautiful new growth. I was actually amazed at how quickly the plant bounced back. It healed me of my fear of pests.
Thanks as always for teaching us!
I've only recently become a plant parent in the last year (I love and keep both house plants and outdoor plants) and i am sooo glad I found your channel! Not only is getting to see all your beautiful plants so much fun but I love when you share your little nuggets of knowledge with us! Thank you!
I was thinking: I hope I am NOT crazy when cleaning my plant, leaf by leaf, since i didn't know how other people clean their plants. So - THANK YOU for this validating video - I'm not nuts, after all, as to how I clean the leaves!
Thank you for normalizing the daily presence of pests. I've been so sad since my thrip infestation started and it's been an ongoing battle ever since. I've grown to accept it's just a part of plant parenting but most people don't talk about it like you do!
Thanks for the video.
ugh I had been avoiding doing anything about the weird sticky substances on my calethea - how wrong I was. Now I know what I'll be doing when I get home today!! Thanks for the recipe and tips 👍
This video really helped me not to freak out. This will be my first winter! I already have some mealy bugs. Thank you and greetings from Germany
I think manually cleaning every leaf is definitely the best way to eradicate pests. No matter what products you use (I use neem oil and peppermint castille soap), you can actually just use water (I've done this before), as long as you're manually cleaning every leaf that's the main thing and the most effective way of pest control.
Thank you for showing this kind of video. It really helps to identify these buggers and what the process is like. It's a good reminder that plants are not just for beauty and sprucing but truly need different levels of care being living things and all.
I find it easier and more effective to put the mixture in a spray bottle, spray tops and bottoms of the leaves, plus the stems down to soil, let it sit, then wipe leaves top and bottom. That way pests hiding on stems or crevices aren't missed. I also am sure to spray leaf bottoms and stems with water to remove residue.
Hi, Nick. I live in far NE Philly. I find the city water here is not good for my plants. I let bottles of water sit out for 24 hours and use it to water plants. I noticed my plants like it better. I use distilled water on my prayer plants and it reduced the brown crispy leaves. I clean my plants the same way. I love to watch your videos and you've taught me so much. Thank you 😊
Love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to make them for us.
Thank you for this viewing angle on cleaning your plants. I do it exactly the same way: with paper towel and a spray bottle, one leaf at a time. I worked in a lab where we used 70% ethanol to disinfect everything except for surgical procedures: we could not exceed 60% ethanol as that was the concentration at which cellular damage occurred. I was accidentally used the 70% by accident once, and crossed my fingers that it would go unnoticed, but the person who checked my sample told me my cell walls were busted and to do better. Bugger! ;P