I strangely love when my plant leaves drip water! Makes me feel like my indoor jungle dreams are coming true and I fight the urge to taste the water every time 😂😂😂 P.S. Your Calathea Rufibarba is absolutely GORGEOUS!!
I’m guilty of the same thing, buying a plant first, and then researching how to care for it. Most of the time I can accommodate plant needs, but every once in a while I have an “oops” moment. I don’t have a lot of plants (compared to you) but I have a big variety of plants that I really enjoy. I learn a lot from you. Keep posting your great plant videos!
It happens to me a lot. I rarely go out with the intention of getting a specific plant. Only yesterday I made the mistake of "quickly checking IKEA for a couple of things while I'm already in the city" and I couldn't get past the plant section without buying six (small) new plants - and I definitely held myself back, because there were a lot more that looked interesting. Still need to do proper research on some of my new friends.
@@PlantPerson58 It's a dangerous game to go into any store that has plants. I'm glad I get my groceries delivered now, so I don't have to force myself past the plants in my local grocery store every time, haha.
Hello Mr Sheffield So a few days ago I put some kidney beans 🫘 in a pot (there was no soil/mud in there just a tiny bit of water ) and I was like I’m a few days I’ll put them into a pot (Because a couple of weeks back I saw a video on TH-cam that you can sow kidney beans in pots and they grow/sprout quickly and it was true because I put a kidney bean in the same pot. as my drancena there was a seedling actually amazing and this Wasn’t like a normal seedling was like a different type of seedling ) so then today I checked up on the kidney beans and what do i see THAT THEY HAVE SPROUTED 😱I was so surprised!
I really have learnt the most from you Richard. I like your down to earth and humorous way of teaching. It makes it so much more fun. You're my favourite plant channel 🫶😃
I have more success with buying small, juvenile versions of plants vs large, mature ones. The small ones seem to adapt to my condo's environment more readily. Larger plants look great, at first, but don't seem to be as tolerant to the drastic change from the greenhouse to my central Canadian condo. It's also more fun to watch a small, baby plant grow bigger, than it is to watch a big, mature plant wither and fail.
I really appreciate these recap videos, Richard. It’s great to refresh on all of this info in such a condense & concise format. And of course your trademark wit that keeps us coming back 😁
Hallo aus Hamburg / Deutschland - hier ist das Wetter wie in Sheffield 😂😂😂. Ich finde es gut, wenn sich der Pflanzenfreund im Internet schlau macht, wie die Pflanzen in deren Habitat wachsen/ leben. Super, dass du uns alles zeigst! Ich finde dich sehr witzig und lache laut über deine Parodien. Hab eine schöne Restwoche .... Liebe Grüße Gaby
I'm a romance languages speaker (Portuguese and Spanish) so I always freak out when my English-speaking plant TH-camrs call the plants "guys", "mister", "bad boy"... Plants are ABSOLUTELY FEMININE in romance languages!!! (I mean, that makes sense, I guess...) What a lovely surprise to listen about Phoebe and Fanny 🥹🥹🥹 Hope they go on thriving!!! Btw, my croton screams for a hard pruning, but I just don't find the nerve 😂
Got about 20 cacti.. watering is a breeze, just put them in water+ cactus feed for 30 minutes every 2 weeks in season and every month in winter.. so far so good :) and yes this procedure isn't risk free, if you're not as stubborn as I am, wearing gloves is an easy fix
To clarify, I have glass oven dishes and when filled with pots they are all about halfway in the water(+feed) so there's plenty for all to get fully saturated
Seems like we all should be immediately taking cuttings when we bring a plant home, then pitching the original plant. Starting a new plant in our unique atmospheres would be much less stressful on us and them.
That was interesting about the water droplets alocosia does that, as does the monstera. Both appear happy though.( fingers crossed for alocosia, she's still quite new).
Don’t worry at all at the end of the day they’re only plants ! Just do t go crazy spending money on them unless you can afford to kill expensive plants :) otherwise you can always get easier plants just dont stress!
We feed, water, change, wash, and ever groom them! I'm sure they're mostly just grateful you're not trying to eat them 🤭 so some minor mistakes are gracefully accepted!
Glad you talked about dripping leaves. My pothos did that the first time I watered it after planting my water propagations in soil. I thought maybe I over watered so backing off a bit. However, a few leaves still do this occasionally even when I am careful to let it dry out more.
I literally grow a good portion of my plants to include over a dozen cacti in nothing but water. Half of them I have suspended over my 10 gallon fish tank and the others are in small glass jars with just the roots submerged. They grow just fine and I've yet to have a rot issue 👌
All ficuses shall henceforth be known as Fanny. I have 2 fannies in a pot and one is just not enjoying sharing. I shall call her mega fanny. Thanks for amusing the 3 year old inside a 32 yo body!
Your cactus advice is spot on! would add that some cactus are more rainforesty types & need slightly different care & also some cactus' aren't even cactus (looking at you Euphorbia) Which leads back to your tip on finding out exactly what you've got! Also PLANT LABELS LIE!
@@SheffieldMadePlants the holiday cactus types are rainforest dudes but am sure there's a few others. I killed a couple by treating them like desert cactus before I looked them up because I am an idiot
Any cactus that survives in the Sonoran desert, where I live, gets watered frequently because we have two monsoon seasons, each lasting 3-4 months. Many cactuses (That's an Arizona dialect by the way), in people's yards die because they think they don't have to be watered..
My Peace Lily was booming in the bathroom. Then i removed it, put it in the lounge and lost half the volume of the leaves. So now hes back in the bathroom. 😂
When learning about my peace lily I gave it all purpose food and it started leaking an irritating clear fluid. I didn't feed it for ages and it flowered, 2 months later it's still going! I think we understand eachother at this point 😊
I have a joke for you: A woman visits her neighbour and sees all the beautiful plants her neighbour has. She asks, "How are your plants so gorgeous and mine are just so sad-looking?" The neighbour says, "The secret is - you have to speak to your plants. I speak to my plants every day." The woman goes home, stands in front of her shelf full of plants, and says, "Listen up, plants! If you don't start blooming within this week, I'll rip all of you out!"
thank you for mentioning the cactus advice! i used to live in the desert and it always frustrated me when people assumed cacti didn't need watering because they lived in the desert anyway. if you ever lived in the desert, you would KNOW that place storms. when it rains, it absolutely pours and it is unrelenting. the reason cacti are the way they are is so they can retain that moisture and that rain, but it has to be a good soak for them to "fill up" again also, i have a question! how do you remember what each of your plants are named? do you have a document of them all, or are only some of them named?
@@SheffieldMadePlants i do! i lived in arizona for 8 years growing up, not far from the border of mexico. storms there are powerful. during the summer especially, it rains almost all the time, with fat drops and roaring thunder. high winds usually come before it and the smell of rain on them is unmatched. we call it the monsoon season and it lasts 2-3 months. summers are super hot (reaching over 40 c) but the rains feel so nice. most of the year, it's scattered rainstorms that happen maybe once a month and thanks for the answer about the plant names! i feel much better about not remembering the names of my own plants now 😂
I'm very honored that you've named the beautiful smaller Tineke "Fanny". My name is usually not associated with beauty. 😆 Bought two Tineke babies at the end of last year and even though they live in my northern window they get light reflected off of my neighbors windows and are really enjoying themselves. I had never thought of buying them before watching your videos. So happy that I started. Its an incredibly easy going and beautiful plant! 🥰
I am glad that your ficus elastica grows nicely. But if you are not happy how the branches are growing you can do wiring around branches and trunk so you can set branches to grow more wider... It is pretty common technique in bonsai. You can watch some herons bonsai videos on yt (he's somewhere around London maybe you can go see its nursery/garden center). I hope you have a maple tree in your garden which is good example how to prune and wire branches so you can practice
I agree with all the points made here. I've either done it myself or followed your advise from other videos and have had better results or understanding of my plants. The number one game changer was the direct light for almost all my plants. Things that I have placed in my garden in direct light have made my so called "low light living plants" look malnourished. I now no longer believe in low light plants. They ALL love bright or direct light. Humidity control was runner up. My plants outgrew the humidity containers I built so I gave up that and misting and now even the Begonia rex has been growing fine with the occasional heater blowing on them. I just keep the moisture in the soil on point, and group it around other plants. Truly mind-blowing how adaptable these guys are.
Something I follow almost religiously. If there leaves are succulent I don’t mist/ if the leaves aren’t they may get some misting. My opinion on Leca is it’s better than sliced bread, saved my bacon more time than I’d like to mention, roots love the stuff and will happily grow in it even when your a bit rubbish at repotting your seedlings.
You had me and my wife rolling again lol. Thanks for the laughs! If you’re not Mr. Sheffield, then what do we call you? I can’t remember what you said your name was. I just watched that video the other day too . I used to never be able to grow cactus and succulents until I googled it, and also seen how you water yours. I flood them, then let them dry out between waterings and no more rot problems. Thanks for sharing, and thank you for your time into making these.👍
i love my moisture meter but guys, it doesn't work in lecca?? i'm totally in the dark with my florida beauty and thai con and never water them - they don't seem mad but i'm scared :(
You can place a plant in the sun of itw slowly acclimate! I live in the south of france and i have a big monstera sitting in front of my south facing window not getting burnt! Its all anout acclimation
I thought the water at the ends of the leaves was called transpiration. Oh well Im sure that wont be the last thing Im wrong about. Have a blessed day.
Guttatation also happens more near cold areas like windows. My Alocasias (sitting in pon) produce streams of water on the windows in winter. It just can't evaporate.
I have a small peace lily I rescued.. it was tiny and now is small medium sized, i don't feed it and water sporadically, it actually threw a flower for me.. I was so pleased!!
I have the exact same plant you featured first! I have mine in a 10" plant bowl (it has drainage) it sprawls over the sides and the leaves root like crazy when they drop on the soil. It is constantly full. The problem; I don't know the name of it. I just treat it like my Jade plant. So far so good!
Awesome video as always. If I wanted to grow my plant in just perlite, how would I move it safely from soil to perlite? How is the perlite staying moist and what about fertilization?
Thanks! Gently remove the soil but no need to go crazy and remove every grain. Pop it in perlite and then put the pot in an outer pot with a reservoir of water at the bottom. Keeps the perlite nice and moist. Add hydroponic feed to the water.
I have an orchid and african violet that are blooming beautifully with MSU orchid fertilizer of 19-4-23. I have read conflicting information as to whether higher phosphorous fertilizers produce more blooms.
No I just got a few new ones.. no one is really posting any videos I guess I’m just looking for a plant community and a few new friends good people with the same interests as me. It’s seems like there not many good people out here anymore
My Alocasia Amazonica Polly is in guttation mode everyday for a week now. And no, i'm not overwatering. I got the plant 2 weeks ago and only watered it once when it came. Any ideas?
My indoor jungle is growing from an aquarium. So care is more or less self managed. But i was wondering why I would get a drop of water on my monstara adansonii leaves every so often good to know about the peace lily and phosphorus. Subscribed.
Ah man speaking of plants not growing in a pattern you think they aught, I lost my mind the first time I saw brussel sprouts in their living pre-grocery store context 🤯 same with pineapples
I love the look of your verocosum. My alocasia never usually goes dormant but my alocasia Ivory coast and black velvet is going dormant due to the cold winter. Thank God the spring is coming.
10:43 mr Bin is back. And Richard could not place the pots with more care and love inside. Great informative video, beside your planty friends I love the dramatisation of a middle aged man who did yoga for the first time.
I bought the water meter over your link thingy - sadly it only shows "dry". Even tho I put it in soaking wet soil 🤣 Great tips and I love your humorous way of content creating 😁😁
@@SheffieldMadePlants I tried on various soils. Even the soil from a freshly opened, well mixed bag does not get a proper readout. Guess I'll go back to my trustworthy finger 😁😁 Seems to work for some people so might also be just shipping damage, who knows - was worth the try tho ☺
@@windyacresway I tried on proper soil first and didn't get any readout. So I went on and tried more and more wet soil. When I tried like really wet soil it went from bone dry to medium dry. 👀
Thank you for another educational video 👍🏻 I'm going to try with growing in Leca or Perlite, or perhaps a mix One thing that I'm a bit worried about is that Perlite and especially Leca is lighter than water and floaty How much of an issue is that with bigger plants growing in either Perlite or Leca? Will watering push the plant a couple of inches up and make it fall over? Better safe than sorry 😀
Cheers mate! I've not experienced that. You just need a little reservoir to keep things ticking over so not enough to topple anything. I've got little babies that don't move. LECA is pretty heavy anyway when it's wet
@@SheffieldMadePlants I'm the person who made the original 'i thought he was called Mr Sheffield' joke. And then got dogpiled by people thinking I was serious
Unfortunately I can’t place most of my plants on the window 🪟 I live in Florida and it’s always really sunny outside and I can’t let anything happen to my plants I have to much love for them ❤
@@SheffieldMadePlants it’s nice and all but sometimes it can be a bit to much unless I’m in my backyard growing veggies or caring for my outdoor plants .
Trick for mine is it needs more light to flower. I've only ever got Northern exposures, and my wife loves heavy curtains on top of that. 😅 So it'll go some months without enough light, and then I start feeling bad and open the curtains before work in the morning, and it starts flowering like it's going out of style.
My only gold star tip for alocasias is bottom self watering planter. Try that out with a decent amount of fertilizer( hungry fellas they are) I am getting no leaf dropping and tones of new growth.
@@SheffieldMadePlantsthere are two one in the window and one up higher on the shelf(looks like coleus to me but not sure) at 8:39. They look purple on screen but I brightened my phone and the one in the window maybe pink. My mother loves purple and I’d love to get her a purple plant.
Wonderfully informative as always, making watching you a real pleasure and delight. I always smile at your antics. Much love sent to you from Down Under 👍🥰🦘😘
@SheffieldMadePlants her business went under! Theres other youtubers that talk about on their video. Look up pretty in green, he talks about plant drama in the community lol
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@michaelwilson7907 that should do
LOL
My father had a cactus in his classroom. We were only allowed to water it when it rained in PhoenixArizona.
I strangely love when my plant leaves drip water! Makes me feel like my indoor jungle dreams are coming true and I fight the urge to taste the water every time 😂😂😂
P.S. Your Calathea Rufibarba is absolutely GORGEOUS!!
Thanks! Maybe it tastes nice 🤔
I’m guilty of the same thing, buying a plant first, and then researching how to care for it. Most of the time I can accommodate plant needs, but every once in a while I have an “oops” moment. I don’t have a lot of plants (compared to you) but I have a big variety of plants that I really enjoy. I learn a lot from you. Keep posting your great plant videos!
It happens to me a lot. I rarely go out with the intention of getting a specific plant. Only yesterday I made the mistake of "quickly checking IKEA for a couple of things while I'm already in the city" and I couldn't get past the plant section without buying six (small) new plants - and I definitely held myself back, because there were a lot more that looked interesting. Still need to do proper research on some of my new friends.
I only recently realized my local IKEA has plants. I immediately thought, “Oh no!” I know where this is going in the future.
@@PlantPerson58 It's a dangerous game to go into any store that has plants. I'm glad I get my groceries delivered now, so I don't have to force myself past the plants in my local grocery store every time, haha.
Will do thanks for watching!
Hello Mr Sheffield
So a few days ago I put some kidney beans 🫘 in a pot (there was no soil/mud in there just a tiny bit of water ) and I was like I’m a few days I’ll put them into a pot
(Because a couple of weeks back I saw a video on TH-cam that you can sow kidney beans in pots and they grow/sprout quickly and it was true because I put a kidney bean in the same pot. as my drancena there was a seedling actually amazing and this Wasn’t like a normal seedling was like a different type of seedling ) so then today I checked up on the kidney beans and what do i see THAT THEY HAVE SPROUTED 😱I was so surprised!
I really have learnt the most from you Richard. I like your down to earth and humorous way of teaching. It makes it so much more fun. You're my favourite plant channel 🫶😃
He cracks me up with his facial expressions!
He's mixing acting with educating and that makes his videos so funny 😁
Awesome, thank you! Glad you like the vids!
Totally agree....it's like I'm talking to a friend...straight to the point...I never lose interest....
I have more success with buying small, juvenile versions of plants vs large, mature ones. The small ones seem to adapt to my condo's environment more readily. Larger plants look great, at first, but don't seem to be as tolerant to the drastic change from the greenhouse to my central Canadian condo. It's also more fun to watch a small, baby plant grow bigger, than it is to watch a big, mature plant wither and fail.
I get that too 👍
I really appreciate these recap videos, Richard. It’s great to refresh on all of this info in such a condense & concise format. And of course your trademark wit that keeps us coming back 😁
Thank you 😊
Hallo aus Hamburg / Deutschland - hier ist das Wetter wie in Sheffield 😂😂😂. Ich finde es gut, wenn sich der Pflanzenfreund im Internet schlau macht, wie die Pflanzen in deren Habitat wachsen/ leben. Super, dass du uns alles zeigst!
Ich finde dich sehr witzig und lache laut über deine Parodien.
Hab eine schöne Restwoche .... Liebe Grüße Gaby
Thank you 😊. We can share in our weather misery
I'm a romance languages speaker (Portuguese and Spanish) so I always freak out when my English-speaking plant TH-camrs call the plants "guys", "mister", "bad boy"... Plants are ABSOLUTELY FEMININE in romance languages!!! (I mean, that makes sense, I guess...)
What a lovely surprise to listen about Phoebe and Fanny 🥹🥹🥹 Hope they go on thriving!!!
Btw, my croton screams for a hard pruning, but I just don't find the nerve 😂
Can't all be girls surely, they need someone to procreate with 😂. Croton will be fine
In dry Colorado I keep my humidifier on low 24/7 and it stays around 50% humidity and my plants love it.
What would it be without it?
@@SheffieldMadePlants a very dangerous 30%
Best video yet, the humour made me laugh many a time 😂
Thank you 😊
Wait so ur telling me I’ve been lied to…there is no Mr Sheffield 😭💀
Got about 20 cacti.. watering is a breeze, just put them in water+ cactus feed for 30 minutes every 2 weeks in season and every month in winter.. so far so good :) and yes this procedure isn't risk free, if you're not as stubborn as I am, wearing gloves is an easy fix
Thanks for the tips!
To clarify, I have glass oven dishes and when filled with pots they are all about halfway in the water(+feed) so there's plenty for all to get fully saturated
Seems like we all should be immediately taking cuttings when we bring a plant home, then pitching the original plant. Starting a new plant in our unique atmospheres would be much less stressful on us and them.
Yeah definitely for a back up anyway and it'll probably perform better
The plants I grow from cuttings do okay in my apartment, and the ones I buy as adult plants often die.
That was interesting about the water droplets alocosia does that, as does the monstera. Both appear happy though.( fingers crossed for alocosia, she's still quite new).
Yeah it’s normally fine 👍
My water Lilly has a lot of flowers but most of them are green with very few white ones. 😅
I need to do better. I hope they understand I am trying my best
Don’t worry at all at the end of the day they’re only plants ! Just do t go crazy spending money on them unless you can afford to kill expensive plants :) otherwise you can always get easier plants just dont stress!
We feed, water, change, wash, and ever groom them! I'm sure they're mostly just grateful you're not trying to eat them 🤭 so some minor mistakes are gracefully accepted!
They appreciate the care you give them
Glad you talked about dripping leaves. My pothos did that the first time I watered it after planting my water propagations in soil. I thought maybe I over watered so backing off a bit. However, a few leaves still do this occasionally even when I am careful to let it dry out more.
It's probably fine
I literally grow a good portion of my plants to include over a dozen cacti in nothing but water. Half of them I have suspended over my 10 gallon fish tank and the others are in small glass jars with just the roots submerged. They grow just fine and I've yet to have a rot issue 👌
All ficuses shall henceforth be known as Fanny. I have 2 fannies in a pot and one is just not enjoying sharing. I shall call her mega fanny. Thanks for amusing the 3 year old inside a 32 yo body!
😂😂
Your cactus advice is spot on! would add that some cactus are more rainforesty types & need slightly different care & also some cactus' aren't even cactus (looking at you Euphorbia) Which leads back to your tip on finding out exactly what you've got! Also PLANT LABELS LIE!
Absolutely!! Although didn't know there was rainforesty type 👍
@@SheffieldMadePlants the holiday cactus types are rainforest dudes but am sure there's a few others. I killed a couple by treating them like desert cactus before I looked them up because I am an idiot
Moral of this story? Who dares, wins :)
Any cactus that survives in the Sonoran desert, where I live, gets watered frequently because we have two monsoon seasons, each lasting 3-4 months. Many cactuses (That's an Arizona dialect by the way), in people's yards die because they think they don't have to be watered..
My Peace Lily was booming in the bathroom. Then i removed it, put it in the lounge and lost half the volume of the leaves. So now hes back in the bathroom. 😂
When learning about my peace lily I gave it all purpose food and it started leaking an irritating clear fluid. I didn't feed it for ages and it flowered, 2 months later it's still going! I think we understand eachother at this point 😊
I have a joke for you:
A woman visits her neighbour and sees all the beautiful plants her neighbour has. She asks, "How are your plants so gorgeous and mine are just so sad-looking?"
The neighbour says, "The secret is - you have to speak to your plants. I speak to my plants every day."
The woman goes home, stands in front of her shelf full of plants, and says, "Listen up, plants! If you don't start blooming within this week, I'll rip all of you out!"
😂
thank you for mentioning the cactus advice! i used to live in the desert and it always frustrated me when people assumed cacti didn't need watering because they lived in the desert anyway. if you ever lived in the desert, you would KNOW that place storms. when it rains, it absolutely pours and it is unrelenting. the reason cacti are the way they are is so they can retain that moisture and that rain, but it has to be a good soak for them to "fill up" again
also, i have a question! how do you remember what each of your plants are named? do you have a document of them all, or are only some of them named?
THAT WAS MY QUESTION! Are they all named or only some, and how does he remember all those names?
A desert storm sounds fun. Do you have experience? A lot of them have names but not all. Sometimes they change 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants i do! i lived in arizona for 8 years growing up, not far from the border of mexico. storms there are powerful. during the summer especially, it rains almost all the time, with fat drops and roaring thunder. high winds usually come before it and the smell of rain on them is unmatched. we call it the monsoon season and it lasts 2-3 months. summers are super hot (reaching over 40 c) but the rains feel so nice. most of the year, it's scattered rainstorms that happen maybe once a month
and thanks for the answer about the plant names! i feel much better about not remembering the names of my own plants now 😂
I'm very honored that you've named the beautiful smaller Tineke "Fanny". My name is usually not associated with beauty. 😆
Bought two Tineke babies at the end of last year and even though they live in my northern window they get light reflected off of my neighbors windows and are really enjoying themselves. I had never thought of buying them before watching your videos. So happy that I started. Its an incredibly easy going and beautiful plant! 🥰
Nice! Glad you’re enjoying the plant
I love the name Fanny! It always makes me think of the lovely Fanny Price from Mansfield Park 💕
Your videos are amazing!!!
Thank you so much!!
We all know that, Richard... We still like Mr Sheffield lol reminds us of "The Nanny"😂❤
😂
I subscribed more for the comedic relief than for advice.
Feeding the algorithm monster after watching another good-1. As always, I tapped the 👍 button.
Much appreciated!
I am glad that your ficus elastica grows nicely. But if you are not happy how the branches are growing you can do wiring around branches and trunk so you can set branches to grow more wider... It is pretty common technique in bonsai. You can watch some herons bonsai videos on yt (he's somewhere around London maybe you can go see its nursery/garden center). I hope you have a maple tree in your garden which is good example how to prune and wire branches so you can practice
Thanks i'll have a little look 👍
I agree with all the points made here. I've either done it myself or followed your advise from other videos and have had better results or understanding of my plants. The number one game changer was the direct light for almost all my plants. Things that I have placed in my garden in direct light have made my so called "low light living plants" look malnourished. I now no longer believe in low light plants. They ALL love bright or direct light. Humidity control was runner up. My plants outgrew the humidity containers I built so I gave up that and misting and now even the Begonia rex has been growing fine with the occasional heater blowing on them. I just keep the moisture in the soil on point, and group it around other plants. Truly mind-blowing how adaptable these guys are.
Plants out in the garden is a great hack 👍
I never check a plant out before buying a plant out
My peace lilies bloom all the time :> no idea why, they just do
Something I follow almost religiously. If there leaves are succulent I don’t mist/ if the leaves aren’t they may get some misting. My opinion on Leca is it’s better than sliced bread, saved my bacon more time than I’d like to mention, roots love the stuff and will happily grow in it even when your a bit rubbish at repotting your seedlings.
Cool i'll stick at it
I use DWC, I can't over/under water it :)
You had me and my wife rolling again lol. Thanks for the laughs! If you’re not Mr. Sheffield, then what do we call you? I can’t remember what you said your name was. I just watched that video the other day too . I used to never be able to grow cactus and succulents until I googled it, and also seen how you water yours. I flood them, then let them dry out between waterings and no more rot problems. Thanks for sharing, and thank you for your time into making these.👍
Richard or I like Mr Sheffield 😂
I've gotten hooked on succulents 😊 and have a couple cacti as well. TY for your informative and hilarious videos ❤
Thanks for watching 😁
i love my moisture meter but guys, it doesn't work in lecca?? i'm totally in the dark with my florida beauty and thai con and never water them - they don't seem mad but i'm scared :(
Yeah it won't work with leca. Is there a reservoir of water?
You can place a plant in the sun of itw slowly acclimate! I live in the south of france and i have a big monstera sitting in front of my south facing window not getting burnt! Its all anout acclimation
Very good 👍
I got freaked out by guttation at first too! Then I found out how common it it for aglaonemas, can even mean it’s happy)
For sure
What happen to your competition Planterina ? I've used you as well for my plant information.
Mystery to me. Can’t think why she’d delete everything
I have to say I really appreciate your videos! I've been binging them. Your humor is under rated, aswell as your dramatizing plant scenarios 😂
Glad you like them!
I am proud to say that I am the 20-year-plus owner of a Ferocactus Emoryi. It's the dog's danglies!
I found way more dust in a bag of perlite than I thought should be in there. Do you normally find a lot of dust in your bags of perlite?
Yes it can be at the bottom
I thought the water at the ends of the leaves was called transpiration. Oh well Im sure that wont be the last thing Im wrong about. Have a blessed day.
Same to you!
Guttatation also happens more near cold areas like windows. My Alocasias (sitting in pon) produce streams of water on the windows in winter. It just can't evaporate.
Interesting 🤔
Yep that’s me, thanks to you I’ve saved my monstera and varythingy rubber tree plant I got from Santa. The later is dropping leaves😔.
I have a small peace lily I rescued.. it was tiny and now is small medium sized, i don't feed it and water sporadically, it actually threw a flower for me.. I was so pleased!!
Great stuff 👍
I have the exact same plant you featured first! I have mine in a 10" plant bowl (it has drainage) it sprawls over the sides and the leaves root like crazy when they drop on the soil. It is constantly full.
The problem; I don't know the name of it. I just treat it like my Jade plant. So far so good!
The sedum on the windowsill? You're right they root like mad!
@SheffieldMadePlants Thanks! I called it a jellybean plant when no one was listening, appearances you know!😉
Thank you for these brilliant and humorous videos that are also informative ❤ much appreciate your work
Glad you like them!
Needed the time to settle in bless her 😂😂😂
I usually stand in the plant store for an hour as I research everything about it lol
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If i *do* want leafy growth, is miracle grow all purpose ok?
Yes it will be
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing houseplants lovely collection beautiful I always love watching your video have a blessed day
highly recommend cutting off the inflorescence on that alocasia
Will do thanks
What is the name of the first plant you showed, the succulent that wants to trail and not grow upright? I haven’t been able to identify mine
Sedum
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thanks! You sent me on the proper search. I think it’s a Sedum Adolphi
Awesome video as always. If I wanted to grow my plant in just perlite, how would I move it safely from soil to perlite? How is the perlite staying moist and what about fertilization?
Thanks! Gently remove the soil but no need to go crazy and remove every grain. Pop it in perlite and then put the pot in an outer pot with a reservoir of water at the bottom. Keeps the perlite nice and moist. Add hydroponic feed to the water.
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thanks for your reply...would a peace lily do well in perlite
@@kbm4409 yep should do
@@SheffieldMadePlants do you put extra holes in your nursery pot to give it more aireation
Could you do a video on the process of moving a plant from soil to perlite? I am a visual learner when it comes to plants
Just perlite 😮😮
How do you know when to water the plant!?
I always keep a reservoir of water at the bottom to keep the perlite moist
Bloom nutes makes the whole apartment smell like a field of flowers. Be careful with that
Perlite is volcanic rock does that basically means that you're putting your plants in a volcano😮
I have an orchid and african violet that are blooming beautifully with MSU orchid fertilizer of 19-4-23. I have read conflicting information as to whether higher phosphorous fertilizers produce more blooms.
Might depend on the plant
Hey I have a question for everyone.. is it just me or is anyone else feeling like they are they are going through a 🪴 plant withdrawal?? 😅
From not buying?
No I just got a few new ones.. no one is really posting any videos I guess I’m just looking for a plant community and a few new friends good people with the same interests as me. It’s seems like there not many good people out here anymore
@@jennifermorrales3389 kill this plant has a great discord community you can join for free
My Alocasia Amazonica Polly is in guttation mode everyday for a week now. And no, i'm not overwatering. I got the plant 2 weeks ago and only watered it once when it came. Any ideas?
Might just have more water than it needs and is adapting. I'd wait and see and maybe adjust further down the line
My indoor jungle is growing from an aquarium. So care is more or less self managed. But i was wondering why I would get a drop of water on my monstara adansonii leaves every so often good to know about the peace lily and phosphorus. Subscribed.
Great stuff 👍
Ah man speaking of plants not growing in a pattern you think they aught, I lost my mind the first time I saw brussel sprouts in their living pre-grocery store context 🤯 same with pineapples
Madness isn't it!
I love the look of your verocosum. My alocasia never usually goes dormant but my alocasia Ivory coast and black velvet is going dormant due to the cold winter. Thank God the spring is coming.
Still feels too far away for me
10:43 mr Bin is back. And Richard could not place the pots with more care and love inside. Great informative video, beside your planty friends I love the dramatisation of a middle aged man who did yoga for the first time.
Haha I forgot I left that in
Use a product called easy feed extra made by a company called solufeed the, works wonders on the living walls and interior plants.
Thanks for the tip
I don't water my cacti at all during the winter, not at all
The sedum adolphi does trail, and I've got mine outside in full sun. Yours needs more sun (longer in the sun) it's stretching
It’s the brightest spot so it’ll have to deal with it 😁
I mixed a handful of worm castings in with my peace lilies, even the small scraggly one has multiple blooms!
Great stuff 👍
I bought the water meter over your link thingy - sadly it only shows "dry". Even tho I put it in soaking wet soil 🤣
Great tips and I love your humorous way of content creating 😁😁
If your soil is soaking wet it won't read correctly as it's designed to read moist soil not soaking wet.
Another way to test if your plant needs water is by weight.
The lighter the pot, the drier it is.
I've hear that before and not sure what it is. Is your soil mix very chunky?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I tried on various soils. Even the soil from a freshly opened, well mixed bag does not get a proper readout. Guess I'll go back to my trustworthy finger 😁😁 Seems to work for some people so might also be just shipping damage, who knows - was worth the try tho ☺
@@windyacresway I tried on proper soil first and didn't get any readout. So I went on and tried more and more wet soil. When I tried like really wet soil it went from bone dry to medium dry. 👀
😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
At this point, I think I watch more for the B-roll than anything else *chef's kiss*
😂 cheers!
Thank you for another educational video 👍🏻
I'm going to try with growing in Leca or Perlite, or perhaps a mix
One thing that I'm a bit worried about is that Perlite and especially Leca is lighter than water and floaty
How much of an issue is that with bigger plants growing in either Perlite or Leca?
Will watering push the plant a couple of inches up and make it fall over?
Better safe than sorry 😀
Cheers mate! I've not experienced that. You just need a little reservoir to keep things ticking over so not enough to topple anything. I've got little babies that don't move. LECA is pretty heavy anyway when it's wet
@@SheffieldMadePlants 👍🏻
Always fun videos 😀🇨🇦
Glad you like them!
9:20 IN MY DEFENCE I'm english and I was being sarcastic, two things the people condescendingly correcting me couldn't seem to comprehend
Not sure what you're referring to? What have i missed?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I'm the person who made the original 'i thought he was called Mr Sheffield' joke. And then got dogpiled by people thinking I was serious
@@888fluffy oh I see. It’s all good fun 👍
I thoroughlu enjoy yr channel. I have learned so much. N plus.you are a funny guy. Thank you
I appreciate that
Boy you crack me up. You hugging that Calathea reveals our obsession.
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Unfortunately I can’t place most of my plants on the window 🪟 I live in Florida and it’s always really sunny outside and I can’t let anything happen to my plants I have to much love for them ❤
I wish I had that problem 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants it’s nice and all but sometimes it can be a bit to much unless I’m in my backyard growing veggies or caring for my outdoor plants .
I have like 10 blooms on my peace lily, 7 of them white. I just use miracle grow indoor soil and filtered water
Great stuff 👍
Trick for mine is it needs more light to flower. I've only ever got Northern exposures, and my wife loves heavy curtains on top of that. 😅 So it'll go some months without enough light, and then I start feeling bad and open the curtains before work in the morning, and it starts flowering like it's going out of style.
My only gold star tip for alocasias is bottom self watering planter. Try that out with a decent amount of fertilizer( hungry fellas they are) I am getting no leaf dropping and tones of new growth.
I'm trying a bunch in semi hydro
@@SheffieldMadePlants hope it makes it on the highlights on your video in the future.
Amen on cactus and succulent watering!!! I am a succulent killer.
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I would love to know what your purple plants are? They’re so pretty.
Got a time stamp?
@@SheffieldMadePlantsthere are two one in the window and one up higher on the shelf(looks like coleus to me but not sure) at 8:39. They look purple on screen but I brightened my phone and the one in the window maybe pink. My mother loves purple and I’d love to get her a purple plant.
@@dia9491 that’s a begonia inca flame. Very nice
@@SheffieldMadePlants thank you.
YOGA FOR THE FIRST TIME? HILARIOUS. PRUNING MAKES ME CRY
You’ve got this ✊
Hi, do you have any bottom watering videos?
I see you do it often, is it for all plants? And how much to add please?
I do
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I don't watch any ones videos but yours!
Great stuff 👍
Whats the green stuff in the perlite? 👀
On top? Algae
@@SheffieldMadePlants is that a good thing? *I'm creeped out by bugs & moldy things, trying to b a good plant parent🫣
@@k.w.8295 it looks ugly but probably not bad for the plant
I struggle with finding the the name of some of my plants. I either forgot or got rid of the pot with the sticker on it…
Google lens does a good job
@@SheffieldMadePlantsOMG! That worked! I had no idea! 🤣
I have been the proud owner of a monstera pinnatipartita! Who knew? 🤣
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank you so much!
I also suffer from inherent n00biness
Are u gen Z?
We all do in the beginning! With a keen willingness to learn you will shed your noob cocoon in no time 😊
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Noob cocoon!
@@thepiyush909I’m quoting Mr Sheffield 😂
You yelling at your peace Lily 💀😅
Sick of her 😂
Awesome video as always
You rock!
Love your dry humor bro. Funny dude
I appreciate that
❤ your video
Thank you 😊
Hello. Do you think anthurium can live in only perlite?
Thank you from Mexico for your great videos.
Yep
@@SheffieldMadePlants thank you much 🌱
Just bought a moisture meter 😬
Wonderfully informative as always, making watching you a real pleasure and delight. I always smile at your antics. Much love sent to you from Down Under 👍🥰🦘😘
You're the best!
Well you did it. You beat Planterina. Her channel has been removed.
Wait what? What happened?
I have no idea but her channel is GONE!
@SheffieldMadePlants her business went under! Theres other youtubers that talk about on their video. Look up pretty in green, he talks about plant drama in the community lol