You're really close to 50k subscribers. How exciting for you. 🎉 You certainly deserve it. 😊 I hope you do something nice for yourself for all the hard work you put in for us.❤ Maybe a nice massage, new makeup or a favorite product, a planty T-shirt 👕 I don't know🤷 just something to put a smile 😁 on your face for all your hard work and planty accomplishments 👍💦🌵🌼
I love that way of doing tasks/chores. I think I will start doing that with my normal chores because i frequently get overwhelmed and end up having a hard time getting started…. Great way to get started!! Loved the video. You’re awesome ❤
Oh my gosh!!! This is such a fun way of getting things done. I need to do this for life in general. How did I miss this from Fern. I feel like I watch every video from you and her. Can’t wait to watch your tasks while I do some admin work 😅
Maybe I could use this exciting drawing technique to get my sons to do tasks! I could even add some surprise treats amongst the papers as an incentive. "You may draw a task or you may be a winner!"
I should make a pot of to-dos and get a few things done too! What a fun idea, I'm afraid I'd talk myself out of something and I don't have anyone to hold me accountable, lol. 💚💚💚
If only I could get my marantas to look like yours! I had to cut both my lemon lime and red all the way back because of spider mites!! Stunning plant!! ✨
Heart shaped leaves, is a TH-cam channel that has the best way to get rid of spider mites and I have always used her method. It takes one time and they are gone. No need to cut your plants back. Hope this helps
Just got my first bag of Pon and repotted a few small plants. I see now how you can become addicted! it’s so easy to work with. I’m excited to see the results 😂
This was definitely one of my favorite video ideas you have done yet! It was very motivating for me as well, I did some less than desirable plant chores along side you while watching!!
I found an easy way to help pack the pin or soul down before out the plants into the pot. Use the back of those scoops. They are flat and round. Perfect tool
Your shelf unit is no longer available. I was bummed because I like the two outside same and inner one spaced wider. I also couldn’t find a shelving unit that was 72”. 70” was the longest and few to choose from. I did find a shelving unit from IKEA that I probably will order at end of month since I have a sofa table 70” coming in a week that needs to be put together and it’s the same as your white one only dark as it matches my ikea living room furniture
❤ Love it! Can’t wait to purchase a well loved plant by you!!! Even if it’s a reverted to green cutting!! I’m going to try the random task trick. Imma also going to use it for work! ❤
Same for me. I'm on a no plants buy for the year, but I might have to make an exception to purchase an inexpensive plant or corn... we'll see what happens 😉
This was great, Melissa ... the variety of tasks. Glad you liked it, too. But, but, you're making it almost impossible not to get a kitty or two this spring ... yours are so dang cute ... after vowing No More Pets!
Thank you so much! haha cats are awesome! Luna is on my lap know while I'm responding :D you'll have to get two so they can play and keep each other company 🤪
Why do you put the plant in water before transferring to pon? How long do you leave them like that? If you transfer from lecca to pon, do you put in water first too? Thanks! Love the video
I don't use leca but it's similar to pon. I transfer to water first to lessen any shock they may go through. A lot of the soil roots may end up rotting if you go straight to pon first. A couple weeks in water should be good.
I have been using systemic granulars for pest control in my soil and it has worked wonders. I’m wondering if I can put it on top of PON if it will work. My plants in water struggle with pests until put in soil with systemic
Really impressed by the root system of the 3 plants you raised from seeds. Do you fertilize your plants in sphagnum moss once they begin to grow roots?
So many roots! I was impressed too! The moss was hiding some of them lol I started to gently fertilize them a couple months ago. I started with the GT and watered the moss through with it but for the first few months I just used my regular water 😁
I love watching your videos. They are so much fun. An you motivate me to do mine. If you can do a care video maybe or let me know some tips for an alocasia tortum. I just got one and don't want to kill it lol
haha I was hoping I didn't draw some that I put in there because same! 🤭 Sometimes I feel I have to be in certain moods to tackle some chores that are overdue.
A month is a good time to let a plant acclimate to your home. If it is in soil I personally would transfer it to water first for a couple weeks then transfer to pon.
Thank you so much! I will do more and thank you! This is 1 of 4 of my lemon limes haha but the only one in pon - it really seems to like semi-hydro! My others are in soil.
Hi Melissa, I love your plants and your selection of plants. As I watch this video I’m wondering if you could share what PON mixture you’re using. I’m learning so much from you and other plant enthusiasts since I’m new to it. THANKS SOOOOO MUCH FOR SHARING.
I'm gonna steal that idea! So smart to make notes and pick a few from a jar. It has to make the chores much easier to manage 😊❤ and satisfying to rip them up when your finished 😊😊 I send you a message on Instagram btw, about the Micans on mosspole.
It was so fun! I loved changing it up and doing it this way. Made it less overwhelming! ☺️ Instagram DM's get really overwhelming for me sometimes 🥹 I would love to help everyone but with as many messages that get sent to me I can't get through them all. I do what I can to reply but I have to set limits or I can't get other work done.
Thank you for showing the first re-pot, I never thought to tie a knot in the string that wicks the water up. I LOVE the way you can stick your finger in the pot, to see how much water is in there. You said you bought them at Target, but I'm in Alberta Canada and we don't have any Targets-----Any ideas on where else I could find them? That is a beautiful Plant you put in there.
I am feeling like this now...feeling overwhelmed by the amount of tasks that are urgent. My main problem is that others require my time and I keep having to put my plant tasks on the backburner 😩 Thanks for your motivating idea 👌🏼 Will have to lock in a day in the week and block everyone else out 🫣 Your'e so cute when you open each 'surprise' task and the excited response each time hahaha and the 'piou' sound as you're tearing the done task so so cute hahaha 😝I have my Cuprea in pon and she's pushing out new growth already ( it's only been a couple of months) so yours should love it too🤭
lol I was glad to find my one corn when the plant died. Because I didn’t know if it died or went dormant I kept watering it. Then when I was checking the stump, it fell off. So when I was dumping the old soil out I started looking for corms and I found insight roots on it. So I potted it in stratum. Waiting yo see it grow a top.
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but the Adansonii Aurea has Polaroid Variegation, so the variegation is not visible when the leaves first come in, they basically all look green at first. So maybe you still have a lot more potential in all those cuttings and just need to wait and see what becomes of all the new growth once it grows bigger and hardens off?
Hi Melissa I use coffee filters for netting and screen for windows.My husband get me a square of it from Lowe’s and I just cut it and put it in the bottom of my pots. Love the video have a nice day.
Hello, I put my Cuprea in pon from soil and I must say it loves pon. I've had so much growth in the last 2 months and each leave is bigger than the last. I love it. Good luck with the growth.
It wasn't fun, it was much more than that, just a great video. It was so funny seeing you had fun with those paper picking, I had a very amusing time watching this video. Surely you have to do this again !!! Keep save and take care🥰
By any chance do you know how long it takes for alocasias to produce corms? I have looked everywhere and can’t even seem to find a rough estimate (Iv been watching all your videos and see you have ALOT of alocasias so I was hoping you might have an idea lol)
It depends, I think some varieties produce more than others. Alocasias that are more established will produce them more quickly. If they're small plants then they just haven't had time to grow enough yet to have corms.
Fun video! Hey, those wicks do t need to be knotted and trimmed. You shape it into an upside down U and then put each end down through a hole so the ends go in the water. Took me a second to get that on wicking pots lol. And wow, that maranta loves pon! Makes me want to try a maranta again 💚
Please do more like this! It was fun to watch.
I definitely will!
so pretty not just your plants
Thank you! 🥹
Love this “blind pick a task” vid. Thanks for sharing Melissa!
Glad you enjoyed it! It was so fun to do it this way 💚
You're really close to 50k subscribers. How exciting for you. 🎉 You certainly deserve it. 😊 I hope you do something nice for yourself for all the hard work you put in for us.❤ Maybe a nice massage, new makeup or a favorite product, a planty T-shirt 👕 I don't know🤷 just something to put a smile 😁 on your face for all your hard work and planty accomplishments 👍💦🌵🌼
Thank you so much Dora 🥹🫶 It's crazy to think how much my little channel has grown. I'll definitely have to do something to celebrate ☺️
I love that way of doing tasks/chores. I think I will start doing that with my normal chores because i frequently get overwhelmed and end up having a hard time getting started…. Great way to get started!! Loved the video. You’re awesome ❤
Thank you so much Jessica! Yes! Definitely try it out, it made the tasks less overwhelming with a set number to do!
Always a pleasure, Melissa, ty 💚✨ please update on your Jacklyn. Would love to hear about what's going on with her in pon. Everything looks great!
I'll haven't checked on the Jacklyn yet but going to soon. I need time to figure out that meter I bought so I can use it :D
Oh my gosh!!! This is such a fun way of getting things done. I need to do this for life in general.
How did I miss this from Fern. I feel like I watch every video from you and her.
Can’t wait to watch your tasks while I do some admin work 😅
Your lemon 🍋 lime maranta 🌿looks so pretty, happy, and healthy. I can't wait to see how much she grows ❤
Maybe I could use this exciting drawing technique to get my sons to do tasks! I could even add some surprise treats amongst the papers as an incentive. "You may draw a task or you may be a winner!"
I like it. It mixes things up a bit.
I should make a pot of to-dos and get a few things done too! What a fun idea, I'm afraid I'd talk myself out of something and I don't have anyone to hold me accountable, lol. 💚💚💚
I love this idea of picking random chores. I'll have to try that. :)
Yes, give it a go! It definitely motivated me to get them done 🥰
JAYSUS, you are an actual GODDESS when it comes to marantas. I need to study under you 😂
I really enjoyed this format of video!
If only I could get my marantas to look like yours! I had to cut both my lemon lime and red all the way back because of spider mites!!
Stunning plant!! ✨
Spider mites are so annoying! sorry you had to cut them back 🥹 hopefully, they'll grow more again here for you 🫶
Heart shaped leaves, is a TH-cam channel that has the best way to get rid of spider mites and I have always used her method. It takes one time and they are gone. No need to cut your plants back. Hope this helps
@@katiewilliams9273 Thank you so much! I will definitely check it out.
Great concept! Congratulations on making progress on your task list - always a good thing. You could make this a weekly event.
I definitely want to do more! I think I could knock out some overdue chores pretty quickly this way 🫶
Loved this video!! Definitely do more!!!
Can not wait to see how the Maranta goes in the new pot🌻
Thank you! So far so good! It seems happy with the transfer. I bet it's going to start filling in a lot more now.
I have no doubt it will. I look forward to see it grow with you@@plantsbymelissa
You're a great teacher! Thank youuuuu....!!! Ya gots it going on! 😊
Breaking out Pon 👣🪴
Thank you so much! ☺️
Just got my first bag of Pon and repotted a few small plants. I see now how you can become addicted! it’s so easy to work with. I’m excited to see the results 😂
Yay! Glad you are trying it out! It's been such a nice change from soil! ☺️
This was definitely one of my favorite video ideas you have done yet! It was very motivating for me as well, I did some less than desirable plant chores along side you while watching!!
I found an easy way to help pack the pin or soul down before out the plants into the pot. Use the back of those scoops. They are flat and round. Perfect tool
The helper cats just crack me up. So cat like. They always think they are helping.
I believe that going from moss to pon is a good thing. I think the moss roots are similar to water roots.
This was a fun video. Looking forward to the next one such as this😊
Your shelf unit is no longer available. I was bummed because I like the two outside same and inner one spaced wider. I also couldn’t find a shelving unit that was 72”. 70” was the longest and few to choose from. I did find a shelving unit from IKEA that I probably will order at end of month since I have a sofa table 70” coming in a week that needs to be put together and it’s the same as your white one only dark as it matches my ikea living room furniture
I overlooked it. I found the pon in you Amazon store
This was so much fun to watch! ❤❤🤗🤗
No matter the context, I always enjoy viewing your beautiful plants. Thanks.
Thank you so much for being here! ☺️
❤ Love it! Can’t wait to purchase a well loved plant by you!!! Even if it’s a reverted to green cutting!! I’m going to try the random task trick. Imma also going to use it for work! ❤
Same for me. I'm on a no plants buy for the year, but I might have to make an exception to purchase an inexpensive plant or corn... we'll see what happens 😉
This was great, Melissa ... the variety of tasks. Glad you liked it, too. But, but, you're making it almost impossible not to get a kitty or two this spring ... yours are so dang cute ... after vowing No More Pets!
Thank you so much! haha cats are awesome! Luna is on my lap know while I'm responding :D you'll have to get two so they can play and keep each other company 🤪
Why do you put the plant in water before transferring to pon? How long do you leave them like that? If you transfer from lecca to pon, do you put in water first too? Thanks! Love the video
I don't use leca but it's similar to pon. I transfer to water first to lessen any shock they may go through. A lot of the soil roots may end up rotting if you go straight to pon first. A couple weeks in water should be good.
I have been using systemic granulars for pest control in my soil and it has worked wonders. I’m wondering if I can put it on top of PON if it will work. My plants in water struggle with pests until put in soil with systemic
I don't use systemic and I believe it's only good for soil plants.
Really impressed by the root system of the 3 plants you raised from seeds. Do you fertilize your plants in sphagnum moss once they begin to grow roots?
So many roots! I was impressed too! The moss was hiding some of them lol I started to gently fertilize them a couple months ago. I started with the GT and watered the moss through with it but for the first few months I just used my regular water 😁
I love watching your videos. They are so much fun. An you motivate me to do mine. If you can do a care video maybe or let me know some tips for an alocasia tortum. I just got one and don't want to kill it lol
I haven't heard of an alocasia tortum, do you mean philodendron?
Fun! I love this type of video 🥰🥰
I'm so glad! I had so much fun doing this 🥰
I could not trust myself not to put a task I didn't want to do back.. say cleaning the bathroom, that task would go right back into the bowl
haha I was hoping I didn't draw some that I put in there because same! 🤭 Sometimes I feel I have to be in certain moods to tackle some chores that are overdue.
Loved this video! Such a great idea!! Would definitely like to see this again. I should do this for all the tasks on my list. 😊
Thank you!! Yes!! give it a try it was so fun 🥰
Hi Melissa and kitty's, I enjoyed this task game good job. Please keep doing. Thanks
Thank you! Will do!
Awww pretty Luna. ❤
When should I put my silver dragon in pond. I got it last month.
A month is a good time to let a plant acclimate to your home. If it is in soil I personally would transfer it to water first for a couple weeks then transfer to pon.
I enjoyed this method of choosing tasks. I hope you'll do more! Your maranta lemon lime looks flawless. I may move my variegated maranta to pon!
Thank you so much! I will do more and thank you! This is 1 of 4 of my lemon limes haha but the only one in pon - it really seems to like semi-hydro! My others are in soil.
Your videos are such relaxing good vibes!! I love having them on while I do puzzles 🧩💚
Glad you enjoy them 🥹 Thank you so much for watching 🫶
Melissa, how did you transfer your large maranta to Pon?
They were water propagations so they transferred very easily. I think I ended up making a short form video with this maranta.
Enjoyed this video. I love making a list and it’s so satisfying to cross them off as I go so this type of “list” is a lot of fun to do.
It really is! I had so much fun doing it this way 🥰
Hi Melissa..!! What brand of pon do you use?
Lechuza brand pon!
Where is your site? I would love to order your anthurium!
It's not ready :) Once it is though I will let everyone know 🫶
Beautiful lovely😍❤️
Loved this video. When you were working with Maranta, you referred to a netting that helps with roots. Could you explain about that? Thanks
Hi Melissa, I love your plants and your selection of plants. As I watch this video I’m wondering if you could share what PON mixture you’re using. I’m learning so much from you and other plant enthusiasts since I’m new to it. THANKS SOOOOO MUCH FOR SHARING.
I'm gonna steal that idea! So smart to make notes and pick a few from a jar. It has to make the chores much easier to manage 😊❤ and satisfying to rip them up when your finished 😊😊 I send you a message on Instagram btw, about the Micans on mosspole.
It was so fun! I loved changing it up and doing it this way. Made it less overwhelming! ☺️ Instagram DM's get really overwhelming for me sometimes 🥹 I would love to help everyone but with as many messages that get sent to me I can't get through them all. I do what I can to reply but I have to set limits or I can't get other work done.
That's understandable ❤😊 I just wondered if it was ok to tag you in a reel where I say that I was inspired by you to put my Micans on a mosspole 😊😊
Thank you for showing the first re-pot, I never thought to tie a knot in the string that wicks the water up. I LOVE the way you can stick your finger in the pot, to see how much water is in there. You said you bought them at Target, but I'm in Alberta Canada and we don't have any Targets-----Any ideas on where else I could find them? That is a beautiful Plant you put in there.
I am feeling like this now...feeling overwhelmed by the amount of tasks that are urgent. My main problem is that others require my time and I keep having to put my plant tasks on the backburner 😩 Thanks for your motivating idea 👌🏼 Will have to lock in a day in the week and block everyone else out 🫣 Your'e so cute when you open each 'surprise' task and the excited response each time hahaha and the 'piou' sound as you're tearing the done task so so cute hahaha 😝I have my Cuprea in pon and she's pushing out new growth already ( it's only been a couple of months) so yours should love it too🤭
lol I was glad to find my one corn when the plant died. Because I didn’t know if it died or went dormant I kept watering it. Then when I was checking the stump, it fell off. So when I was dumping the old soil out I started looking for corms and I found insight roots on it. So I potted it in stratum. Waiting yo see it grow a top.
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but the Adansonii Aurea has Polaroid Variegation, so the variegation is not visible when the leaves first come in, they basically all look green at first. So maybe you still have a lot more potential in all those cuttings and just need to wait and see what becomes of all the new growth once it grows bigger and hardens off?
That’s a great idea!!! I’d like to do a similar video lol 😂
love love love this method of getting tasks done! Please do more in the future, it was super fun!
You and Fern are my favorites.❤ I am going to use this task idea for cleaning too!
I just got a philodendron black gold and plan on putting it in pon. What are your thoughts on that?
This is a great idea! Do this task again, only if you’re up for it for sure lol.
Hi Melissa I use coffee filters for netting and screen for windows.My husband get me a square of it from Lowe’s and I just cut it and put it in the bottom of my pots. Love the video have a nice day.
Thanks for sharing!!
I bought a roll of window screen too to use at bottom of pots. Great idea
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Is there an ante fungal that you can use when you think is a fungal issue
This is fun!! Please do more task lottos like this in future videos 😍
most definitely!
hi 🤝l’m from Azerbaijani 🇦🇿😊
just slightly rootbound 😂
Yes I enjoyed this type of video.
I enjoyed too.❤🌱💦
I'm so glad!
Great idea! Thanks. 🙏
Excited to see you put together your new green IKEA Rudsta cabinet. Will you be video taping that project?
Yes! I will be filming it! I am waiting on one more item to come in that I ordered for it. I actually just built the little one today ☺️
Good morning Melissa. I’m just starting the video and so far I really like it and like the whole idea. This is gonna be. Fun.
Yay! Thank you!
Hello, I put my Cuprea in pon from soil and I must say it loves pon. I've had so much growth in the last 2 months and each leave is bigger than the last. I love it. Good luck with the growth.
aw yay! so happy to hear that! It makes me excited to move mine over :D
It wasn't fun, it was much more than that, just a great video. It was so funny seeing you had fun with those paper picking, I had a very amusing time watching this video. Surely you have to do this again !!! Keep save and take care🥰
Glad you enjoyed it! I will definitely do it again here! I had so much fun with it ☺️
By any chance do you know how long it takes for alocasias to produce corms? I have looked everywhere and can’t even seem to find a rough estimate (Iv been watching all your videos and see you have ALOT of alocasias so I was hoping you might have an idea lol)
It depends, I think some varieties produce more than others. Alocasias that are more established will produce them more quickly. If they're small plants then they just haven't had time to grow enough yet to have corms.
Yay! This was a great video. I like the blind picks. Cool idea.
Glad you enjoyed!
Fun video! Hey, those wicks do t need to be knotted and trimmed. You shape it into an upside down U and then put each end down through a hole so the ends go in the water. Took me a second to get that on wicking pots lol. And wow, that maranta loves pon! Makes me want to try a maranta again 💚
ahh I see what you're saying. I don't use wicks normally in my self watering pots but that makes sense! lol Yes, the maranta really seems to love it!
You found great satisfaction in ripping up those task papers didn’t you? 😉
Oh yes! haha
I also copied this idea from Fern and do this all the time! It’s lots of fun - kind of like a game 😂
haha yes! I felt so accomplished afterwards. I need to do it again soon!
This was fun.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about plants.🌿
of course! So happy to be able to be here and to share! I appreciate the support!
It’s fun !!
Love this idea! And I love your maranta 💛💚🍋
Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed! 💚
"corms a brewin" love it 🤣
Hehe 😂
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We need an update on the most recent “disaster plant mail” how is it doing?! Video please!!! Love your content!
Coming tomorrow! 😁
Yay! 😊cant wait
This was such a great way to do a video. Really enjoyed it.
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Have a great Monday! Thanks for watching! 🫶
Hello from Italy you are wonderful ❤