You can turn any pot or basket ECT into a cache pot by cutting a clear dollar store shower curtain to fit and lining the bottom. Thrifted baskets are my absolute FAVORITE. Square/rectangular ones can be used as a wall mounted planter if you wrap wire around the back and hook it onto screws. Just a random plant hack for ya -- you're welcome 😆
What you do with your ferns is what I do with my 12 Alocasias. I have found that if I put river rocks at the base of the container pot it helps with watering . I top water over my sink then put them back in their planter. Any excess water drips on the rocks and acts like its own humidifier. Since doing this they are booming! New leaves all the time and no over watering and no root rot. I also always wet my leaves when watering. So far no pests either. I'm going to try this system with some of my delicate prayer plants as well. I have 24 different types.
That sounds like an excellent idea. I think I'll start doing that. Now, when you say river rocks, how large (or small) are you talking, or does it even make a difference? For example, I have some pea gravel that I could use, but my thought is that pea gravel would hold very little water for the added humidity to be useful. So would rocks the size of say grapes or a little larger be what you use? Thanks for the idea, and thanks in advance for the answer to my question. 🙂
@vickykent353 yes that should be fine. I use river rocks that are around pebble size. It has saved me a ton of Alocasia watering stress and they definitely love it! They have been booming with new leaves since doing it. I'm sure you will see the results quickly 😊
I’ve had the most success in leaving my calatheas and marantas in nursery pots with cover pots. If I repot, it’s into a bigger nursery pot/cover pot combo. The cover pot helps retain moisture in the warmer months, and I usually remove the cover pots in the winter if they don’t seem to be drying out as they should.
Do cold climate people keep heat on 24/7. ?????????? True, plants are similar price to a bunch of flowers. Oh, maybe my jewel orchid needs a terrarium. Mine isn't growing after 2 years.
Been following you a long time and you never disappoint. You reminded me of a couple things....going to put lecca under my Rabbits Foot fern that I just repotted. Also I like to support my local Small Business and I'm with you on being kind to retail and food industry workers. Worked in Both. I seriously could go on about how you touched on things your feeling that are resonating with me. You had me laughing and that my friend is worth gold.
Love that prices have gone down, now that I have purged some plants am now guilty of bringing new ones home. You should take us on a tour of some of the nurseries you highlighted today. And agree, yes, everyone should work in retail and the restaurant industry at least once in their lifetime to appreciate what it's like on the other side; I suspect people would be a lot kinder. Did you go to the Philadelphia Flower Show?
I totally agree! Everyone should work in the retail and restaurant industries for some time in their lives. AGREE! AGREE! (And thanks for the Soltech shout-outs in your videos. I ADORE my grow light. So stylish.)
Hi Nick! You found some great plants! I really appreciate the tip about using LECA in the bottom of cover pots to keep moisture to the plants. IF I decide to try a Rabbits Foot Fern again, I will try this. Love the terrarium with the Ludisia discolor var. nigrescens and Ficus repens 'Quercifolia'. I would love to have both of these plants! Those Hoyas are really pretty. Always up for a nice Hoya, at a decent price. Thank you so much for sharing!
Loved the first one with patchwork pillow leaves. sorry I cannot remember it's name but it's going to be a stunner! It WOULD look best up a moss pole, maybe with some of your terrarium ficus, stuffed in-between the sphagnum to grow in peaceful harmony, as the head swaying, dude sings. Moral rebel, Jo🪴🌵🌿
Idk if someone already commented about Sigilatis but as a Hoya collector. Sigilatis had so many varieties you could choose and the care almost the same. Just don't give it a bigger pot and wait about 3-4 days after it's dried out before you water them again
The Ficus repens is easy to grow as long as it always has access to water, you can even grow it soil-less straight in water! Self-watering containers also work great. Just never let it dry out as it will become crunchy dead in a minute. Prefers rather strong light, will bleach but not burn in too-high intensity. Beware it likes to attach to surfaces and walls and will leave permanent marks. Very easy to propagate and can grow very quickly.
Hi Nick.. Great videos. I read somewhere the getting Hoya carnosa to bloom is very difficult. Have you found that to be true? It seems like you have a gift with hoyas, so I figured who better to ask !!!
Take this from a grandma put that calthea (I can’t spell) in leca and be amazed I was and I am an old dog but this trick grew me a huge beautiful plant that is still growing strong!!
Hoya royal flush is one of my all time faves on my collection .... its got everything I love in a hoya .... small long leaves, thin dropping stems ..... and the colors!!!! Ugh!! SO GORGEOUS!! I've never seen another hoya with this combo of color .... some leaves cam be nearly silver sage and some are blackened with mint speckles .... love it .... I have 2 because if one tragically dies I NEED AT LEAST A BACKUP!! LOL
Hi Nick, i moved to Florida a few years ago... When you mentioned Linvilla Orchards I just about cried! I had been going there every fall since i have been born until I moved! I love that place and its been the source of so many happy memories!!
Hi Nick. I'm a new subscriber as of a couple of weeks ago. I want to let you know how much I appreciate and thoroughly enjoy your channel content. It's so very refreshing with your straightforwardness (is that a real word? 😅) You just have the perfect personality and sense of humor for me, and I could listen to you all day. ❤
Nice deal on the Begonia. Steve's Leaves has Begonia lanceolata and the similar Begonia herbacea. His story is the the names were switched in cultivation. By his naming convention you have the Begonia herbacea. I've had mine from him for over a year now. Easy to grow with no issues. Even propagated it from a leaf that fell off in shipping.
I do plant ordering for a mom and pop place in Indiana and all the pottery we get in is mass produced stuff from Border Concepts. I wish the owners would look into teaming up with some local artists to get in some handmade pottery.
Fun video 😊 First, I could spend an entire day in greenhouses and nurseries..of course it is better if I have money. Second, meh, two-three hour drive for plant shopping? Piece of cake. (At least it's not just big box stores only to choose from). And, lastly, that fern tree? I have never seen that. So cool! I would like to find one of those.
Hey for a whole month, that orbifolia looks really good. It's one of my favorite plants as far as "looks" go but I am not growing it successfully at all! I really like your idea of growing it more like an annual.
Hey Nick, Snap! I got a Sigillatis yesterday too! The one that you have now is the same as mine and is the wide leaf form. That's probably why the leaves are much bigger than the one you had originally which I'm guessing must have been the narrow leaf. Mine was only £11 for a 12cm pot here in the UK 💚🌱💚
Your sigillatis is not the original one, that's why the leaves are thicker. I think it's called sigillatis ah001, but I think there's similar ones as well. Mine died and I'm glad because she was a nightmare. Good luck
I have seen Hoya sigillatis AH001 which looks like yours a bit. I had that begonia and loved it! Looked more like an orchid. Easiest calathea ever!!!! Great plants!
Besides, I find mealy bugs one of the least stressful to a plant as long as you keep on top of killing them regularly. I have a scindapsis that always develops a few mealys and it’s thriving. I just take out the rubbing alcohol to get those guys and give the whole plant a soap spray once in a while. Bugs are part of an ecosystem too. 😄
I have the begonia, its such a unique, attractive plant, love it, can't reccomend it enough. Its' an epiphyte, care is more like a peperomia than begonia.
@@NickPileggiPlants I don't know if that would work, i have mine in a succulent mix, coco coir and pine that I use for peperomia, somewhere I read pine is good if you get Pythium/root rot, the sad fate of a lot of my peps.
Indecisive libra here too! Your sigilatis appears to look just like mine I picked up within the past couple months (in FL)- vines and leaves and all- there do seem to maybe be slightly different varieties bc I feel like some photos and peoples’ descriptions have been quite different. I’ve heard the leaves described as thin but mine feel mostly quite thick? But yours really looks nearly exactly like mine. About the same price too, between like $15-$22 - I bought several Hoyas around the time and don’t totally remember. Mine has been a bit slower to wake up and start growing- it was hardening off a new leaf when I got it and it’s just started to show some growth- although I did get it in December/“winter”(winter hardly counts as a Floridian.) Anyway I should finish the video but I like my sigi and want to sun stress it and I’m excited to see new growth and pleased you got one bc I like your taste. I don’t wanna deal with moss poles either and kind of avoid absolute climbers partially bc that. I may one day grab something that’s like already set up on a pole at a nursery but I don’t even know about that. Somehow lazy with over 100 plants and it works. I struggle a bit with begonias too. That is an interesting lil one.
OK first the plants Gorgeous I currently don't have plants right now my sorry ex probably burned all mine but anywho what u said about working in retail I totally agree if people haven't done it and want to complain imma need them too not okurr because they don't know the half of what we go through
I hate moss poles too. Especially that one in the background. Jk. PS mealy bugs on my plants have become my friends. Athough neem oil has been working good for me lately. PSS I'd also love to make a terrarium with you. I have a channel called Tiny World Laboratory.
Where is Peppers? I see an etsy shop based out of Philly and a greenhouse in Milton, DE. I’m looking for full hoya plants. Waiting for 2 leaves to be full grown is annoying me. Also, Dambly’s in Berlin, NJ (maybe some other town but south) and Magnolia’s in Magnolia, NJ are pretty nice. Just FYI.
Ooh I didn’t expect you to bring a Calathea in to the mix! 🌿 I have a thrip problem atm and I think I’m going to have to hose down and repot my Calathea medallion 😬🫣
You can turn any pot or basket ECT into a cache pot by cutting a clear dollar store shower curtain to fit and lining the bottom. Thrifted baskets are my absolute FAVORITE. Square/rectangular ones can be used as a wall mounted planter if you wrap wire around the back and hook it onto screws. Just a random plant hack for ya -- you're welcome 😆
Nice haul. I'm never letting another Calathea in my home again. So good luck with that!
omg same! i am done with calathea! they keep dying on me.
What you do with your ferns is what I do with my 12 Alocasias. I have found that if I put river rocks at the base of the container pot it helps with watering . I top water over my sink then put them back in their planter. Any excess water drips on the rocks and acts like its own humidifier. Since doing this they are booming! New leaves all the time and no over watering and no root rot. I also always wet my leaves when watering. So far no pests either. I'm going to try this system with some of my delicate prayer plants as well. I have 24 different types.
That sounds like an excellent idea. I think I'll start doing that.
Now, when you say river rocks, how large (or small) are you talking, or does it even make a difference? For example, I have some pea gravel that I could use, but my thought is that pea gravel would hold very little water for the added humidity to be useful. So would rocks the size of say grapes or a little larger be what you use? Thanks for the idea, and thanks in advance for the answer to my question. 🙂
@vickykent353 yes that should be fine. I use river rocks that are around pebble size. It has saved me a ton of Alocasia watering stress and they definitely love it! They have been booming with new leaves since doing it. I'm sure you will see the results quickly 😊
Maybe I will have to try this with alocasias and prayer plants too then!
I’ve had the most success in leaving my calatheas and marantas in nursery pots with cover pots. If I repot, it’s into a bigger nursery pot/cover pot combo. The cover pot helps retain moisture in the warmer months, and I usually remove the cover pots in the winter if they don’t seem to be drying out as they should.
Do cold climate people keep heat on 24/7. ?????????? True, plants are similar price to a bunch of flowers. Oh, maybe my jewel orchid needs a terrarium. Mine isn't growing after 2 years.
I now really want a rabbit foot’s fern! And I didn’t know I needed one until this video! ❤😂
I have one and she's doing so well and is just beautiful!
I am so glad to see your back, doing videos. Missed your wonderful videos and personality. It is so great to see your opinions and knowledge on plants
Been following you a long time and you never disappoint. You reminded me of a couple things....going to put lecca under my Rabbits Foot fern that I just repotted. Also I like to support my local Small Business and I'm with you on being kind to retail and food industry workers. Worked in Both. I seriously could go on about how you touched on things your feeling that are resonating with me. You had me laughing and that my friend is worth gold.
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I looooose my mind this time of year. The $ I have spent on seeds and plants could make me weep....with JOY !
i love the Amydrium medium silver.
from what i understand, it tends to put out runners if not given a moss pole.
You should try Ficus Pumilla (frog leaf ficus). Very easy and reliable terrarium creeper.
Love that prices have gone down, now that I have purged some plants am now guilty of bringing new ones home. You should take us on a tour of some of the nurseries you highlighted today. And agree, yes, everyone should work in retail and the restaurant industry at least once in their lifetime to appreciate what it's like on the other side; I suspect people would be a lot kinder. Did you go to the Philadelphia Flower Show?
I totally agree! Everyone should work in the retail and restaurant industries for some time in their lives. AGREE! AGREE! (And thanks for the Soltech shout-outs in your videos. I ADORE my grow light. So stylish.)
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Hi Nick! You found some great plants! I really appreciate the tip about using LECA in the bottom of cover pots to keep moisture to the plants. IF I decide to try a Rabbits Foot Fern again, I will try this. Love the terrarium with the Ludisia discolor var. nigrescens and Ficus repens 'Quercifolia'. I would love to have both of these plants! Those Hoyas are really pretty. Always up for a nice Hoya, at a decent price. Thank you so much for sharing!
Loved the first one with patchwork pillow leaves.
sorry I cannot remember it's name but it's going to be a stunner!
It WOULD look best up a moss pole, maybe with some of your terrarium ficus, stuffed in-between the sphagnum to grow in peaceful harmony, as the head swaying, dude sings.
Moral rebel, Jo🪴🌵🌿
Idk if someone already commented about Sigilatis but as a Hoya collector. Sigilatis had so many varieties you could choose and the care almost the same. Just don't give it a bigger pot and wait about 3-4 days after it's dried out before you water them again
The Ficus repens is easy to grow as long as it always has access to water, you can even grow it soil-less straight in water! Self-watering containers also work great. Just never let it dry out as it will become crunchy dead in a minute. Prefers rather strong light, will bleach but not burn in too-high intensity. Beware it likes to attach to surfaces and walls and will leave permanent marks. Very easy to propagate and can grow very quickly.
I think it is great that you have branched out and try some different plants. I might look for that begonia...
Hi Nick! Nice plant haul.💚
Hi Nick.. Great videos. I read somewhere the getting Hoya carnosa to bloom is very difficult. Have you found that to be true? It seems like you have a gift with hoyas, so I figured who better to ask !!!
So excited about your royal flush! I hope they have them chain wide 🤞🏼
I have a little jewel orchid growing out of a kombucha bottle. They're such tough little guys.
That Royal Flush is a type of Hoya lacunosa! I’ve been looking for one, great find. I have a plain green one currently.
Take this from a grandma put that calthea (I can’t spell) in leca and be amazed I was and I am an old dog but this trick grew me a huge beautiful plant that is still growing strong!!
My favorite is the amydrium and I love the planter.
Yayyy I love a plant haul !🎉
Love that you are putting out videos more often again. Where's Muffin? I miss seeing her. 💖
Hoya royal flush is one of my all time faves on my collection .... its got everything I love in a hoya .... small long leaves, thin dropping stems ..... and the colors!!!! Ugh!! SO GORGEOUS!! I've never seen another hoya with this combo of color .... some leaves cam be nearly silver sage and some are blackened with mint speckles .... love it .... I have 2 because if one tragically dies I NEED AT LEAST A BACKUP!! LOL
It is really something! I'm so excited to watch it grow!
Great haul! 💚🪴
Hi Nick, i moved to Florida a few years ago... When you mentioned Linvilla Orchards I just about cried! I had been going there every fall since i have been born until I moved! I love that place and its been the source of so many happy memories!!
it's such a beautiful spot! hopefully you get to visit again one day!
@@NickPileggiPlants i hope so too! The fall and the holidays just are not the same!
Hi Nick. I'm a new subscriber as of a couple of weeks ago. I want to let you know how much I appreciate and thoroughly enjoy your channel content. It's so very refreshing with your straightforwardness (is that a real word? 😅)
You just have the perfect personality and sense of humor for me, and I could listen to you all day. ❤
aw this made my day 💚
Nice deal on the Begonia. Steve's Leaves has Begonia lanceolata and the similar Begonia herbacea. His story is the the names were switched in cultivation. By his naming convention you have the Begonia herbacea. I've had mine from him for over a year now. Easy to grow with no issues. Even propagated it from a leaf that fell off in shipping.
oh that is some good info! I'd believe Steve lol
Ooo I bought myself an orbifolia the other day! Love them 💚
Oh muffin! Where are you?❤😊
Top dress the fern with sphagnum moss and you won’t have any crispy ends and won’t need the lecca. Trust me it works!
oo that's a great tip!
I do plant ordering for a mom and pop place in Indiana and all the pottery we get in is mass produced stuff from Border Concepts. I wish the owners would look into teaming up with some local artists to get in some handmade pottery.
Border Concepts lmao I'm familiar with them 😅
Fun video 😊
First, I could spend an entire day in greenhouses and nurseries..of course it is better if I have money.
Second, meh, two-three hour drive for plant shopping? Piece of cake. (At least it's not just big box stores only to choose from).
And, lastly, that fern tree? I have never seen that. So cool! I would like to find one of those.
the fern tree is my entire personality right now lol I love it 🤭
@@NickPileggiPlants ok, that's too funny 😁
Hey for a whole month, that orbifolia looks really good. It's one of my favorite plants as far as "looks" go but I am not growing it successfully at all! I really like your idea of growing it more like an annual.
I do that leca trick in the bottom of pots too. Really helps keep things that dry out quick moister!
I'm gonna have to try it with more plants!
Orbifolia goes great in Leca
Hey Nick, Snap! I got a Sigillatis yesterday too! The one that you have now is the same as mine and is the wide leaf form. That's probably why the leaves are much bigger than the one you had originally which I'm guessing must have been the narrow leaf. Mine was only £11 for a 12cm pot here in the UK 💚🌱💚
ahhh that makes sense!!
Your sigillatis is not the original one, that's why the leaves are thicker. I think it's called sigillatis ah001, but I think there's similar ones as well. Mine died and I'm glad because she was a nightmare. Good luck
True the repens and pot, cute 🎉🎉🎉
Hoya sigillatis wide-leaf or borneo.
I have seen Hoya sigillatis AH001 which looks like yours a bit. I had that begonia and loved it! Looked more like an orchid. Easiest calathea ever!!!! Great plants!
Nick, I love your videos & looking at you ❤ you’re a great true speaker 🤪
You always make me wanna go get some flow-licious plants 💚 🪴
Besides, I find mealy bugs one of the least stressful to a plant as long as you keep on top of killing them regularly. I have a scindapsis that always develops a few mealys and it’s thriving. I just take out the rubbing alcohol to get those guys and give the whole plant a soap spray once in a while. Bugs are part of an ecosystem too. 😄
I like Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream! I know you said toothpaste; but I like the ice cream.
I have the begonia, its such a unique, attractive plant, love it, can't reccomend it enough. Its' an epiphyte, care is more like a peperomia than begonia.
ooh that is good to know! Maybe I will plant it directly in the vanda basket it's sitting in!
@@NickPileggiPlants I don't know if that would work, i have mine in a succulent mix, coco coir and pine that I use for peperomia, somewhere I read pine is good if you get Pythium/root rot, the sad fate of a lot of my peps.
Perfect as always 🫶🏽 kinda interested in the fern tree too 🤔
Me too. It's so 😎 looking. I just made up my mind. 😅 I'm getting one!!
Yay to mint chocolate chip and Linvilla !!! 😉
love those hoya royal flush. Do you think they're related to Royal Hawaiian Purple Hoya?
Peppers is my go to! I’d be so excited if I saw you, I’d probably faint 😂
Oh Nick....you tempt me
Please give an update if you can get the amydrium to not put out a bunch of runners.
oh gosh lol now I'm nervous about it 😭
Indecisive libra here too! Your sigilatis appears to look just like mine I picked up within the past couple months (in FL)- vines and leaves and all- there do seem to maybe be slightly different varieties bc I feel like some photos and peoples’ descriptions have been quite different. I’ve heard the leaves described as thin but mine feel mostly quite thick? But yours really looks nearly exactly like mine. About the same price too, between like $15-$22 - I bought several Hoyas around the time and don’t totally remember. Mine has been a bit slower to wake up and start growing- it was hardening off a new leaf when I got it and it’s just started to show some growth- although I did get it in December/“winter”(winter hardly counts as a Floridian.) Anyway I should finish the video but I like my sigi and want to sun stress it and I’m excited to see new growth and pleased you got one bc I like your taste. I don’t wanna deal with moss poles either and kind of avoid absolute climbers partially bc that. I may one day grab something that’s like already set up on a pole at a nursery but I don’t even know about that. Somehow lazy with over 100 plants and it works. I struggle a bit with begonias too. That is an interesting lil one.
I'm forever going to refer to it as my sigi now 😂
I have found the Ludisia Discolor to be the fastest growing jewel orchid I've ever owned.
OK first the plants Gorgeous I currently don't have plants right now my sorry ex probably burned all mine but anywho what u said about working in retail I totally agree if people haven't done it and want to complain imma need them too not okurr because they don't know the half of what we go through
"Its Karen behavior" 😂
Love the hoya!
Wish i could go to peppers but I'm in the midwest 😢
Girl check out Magnolia Garden Village in NJ. Not far from McNaughton’s, much better rare plants, prices, and pottery!
Hoya Royal Flush is a Hoya lacunosa ssp
ooo makes sense!
Looks like a Sigillatis Borneo😊
There are 2 different hoya sigulatis out there , one narrow, one round (I find the round easier to grow)
I hate moss poles too. Especially that one in the background. Jk. PS mealy bugs on my plants have become my friends. Athough neem oil has been working good for me lately. PSS I'd also love to make a terrarium with you. I have a channel called Tiny World Laboratory.
Where is Peppers? I see an etsy shop based out of Philly and a greenhouse in Milton, DE. I’m looking for full hoya plants. Waiting for 2 leaves to be full grown is annoying me. Also, Dambly’s in Berlin, NJ (maybe some other town but south) and Magnolia’s in Magnolia, NJ are pretty nice. Just FYI.
Moss pokes are a complete PITA. I don't blame you, I rage quit mine. I'm going to try a wood plank instead.
Nice ❤
Libra Plant Gang! Very picky but when I see something I like bank balance be DAMNED!
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I'm so bad with plants right now what's the one growing on the moss pole behind you I know I know what it is but can't think of the name
it's a philodendron tripartitum!
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Such a great greenhouse online store, doesn’t ship past the US? Ugh archaic website, doesn’t ship internationally… sigh 😢
Funny I have worked in retail, food service anddd Healthcare.
Ooh I didn’t expect you to bring a Calathea in to the mix! 🌿 I have a thrip problem atm and I think I’m going to have to hose down and repot my Calathea medallion 😬🫣
those medallions are pest magnets! ☠️
Nick orchids and creeping ficus are both terrarium plants. Lol
There we go then! Lol
I love mint chip and can’t understand anyone who says it tastes like toothpaste. I ain’t ever had a sweet toothpaste with chunks of chocolate.
MINT CHIP FTW 🎉
I’m always scrapping with people in my local plant groups about finding pests 🤣 like ya’ll plants get pests relax
😂😂 doing the lord's work over here
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ONLY one hoya! 😅
3 ! you comment before the end of the video (as I often do !) look at 15:15 ....
@@tarantellalarouge7632Hah yeah I was making a joke! C'mon we're plant lovers! We know what we like and we can't resist ❤
@@NoDecaf7 no problem ! those Hoyas are not spectacular, but they win your heart with their charms .....
It‘s actually Ficus pumila
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first view and comment! Oh the little things in life :)
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