This! This is what I needed someone to tell me… I couldn’t figure out why my beautiful plants that I bought at the store died on me, against all my efforts care and love I invest in them 😓😔😭
Lots of big box stores purposely overwater and over fertilize. I give a few days for plants to adjust then I check roots. Sometimes death plugs also play a part in their demise.
That makes a lot of sense actually! I started making my own soil about two years ago and I’ve never gone back! ***for cactus/succulents** 3:2:1 ratio - quick draining soil, perlite, sand.. if I have it, I love adding the coconut coir.
Thank you for that explanation! After buying some ‘wish list’ plants from a wonderful grower they died after a few months with me. I assumed their mixture was better than what I make so I didn’t rush to change it, without thinking about the drastically different environments.
Hahah I'm also a non native speaker and after reading your comment I noticed this too 🤭 The tonality of his voice is very pleasant and i understood every word perfectly
YES!!! I have several Bird of Paradise plants that are slowly turning and brown & yellow. I water them every 7-10 days, and they're still having issues. Now I understand the reasons for the issues. I was attempting to wait until the spring to replant. I will replant them immediately. Thank you for this information.
I just gushed about you to my boyfriend, Im so glad your videos started popping up for me over on Facebook and then over here. You're so informative, insightful, yet calm and efficient, it's such a lovely combination to watch, and you're one of my favorite plant people to watch right now 💖
@@handrewmillan4293 also, is your only comment on Tanner's videos ever to tell me my ex should leave me? I dont even know why you thought he should, since you didnt elaborate, but.... Ya know... If you wanna spend your free time doing that...
Ive found the reverse usually, the soil plants come with usually doesnt retain water at all because its basically mineral sand they water hyperegularly.
How many years did it take to get that big? I just got a 3 foot white bird and living in an apartment, don't want it to get that big. She's on the balcony for the summer, only gets a little evening sun.
I love how you explained this for people. I always say the same thing. You can’t not grow in your home the same way they grow in the greenhouse. They are not the same. ❤
Yes this is so true and I can't stand the soil big box stores use. I hate it. Its also difficult to get the soil off the roots when repotting. Ikea is notorious for this.
We had amazing bird of paradise growin up. Pruning season wasnt so fun but doing it with my great-grandma was! Also, with my grandpas. Love your videos and they would have loved them too!
I grow mine mostly outside and peat moss based "soils" are a major issue for the opposite reason. Sure they retain moisture well in mild conditions. When it's 90 - 100 for half the year it dries out quick. After it dries out it's basically just a solid brick the requires soaking in a pool of water to rehydrate or the water just runs off. I alway replant them into a equal parts mix of good compost, sand, and vermiculite. That holds a good bit of moisture, but doesn't get sodden so unlikely to cause rot even watering everyday. If it does dry out it's pretty easy to rehydrate.
One of my new plants was starting to suffer because of the soil I used to pot it, it was regular potting soil I have for all of them but because I covered the soil with gravel to keep my bird out of it (she likes to peck and eat perlite 🤦🏻♀️) it wasn’t drying out enough between watering I think and it started suffering so I got a chunky mix and so far it’s been good
I found just the opposite to be generally the case. Plants are usually in quick-drying soil when you buy them. But my advice is pretty much the same as your's. Re-pot the plant when you get it home. Because the soil the plant is in is likely not the right kind of soil for the plant at your home. I mostly re-pot them with Miracle Grow houseplant soil.
I love plants and have been trying my hardest to start gardening and keeping plants in my home. They just make me feel alive and help me with depression. But is it weird lately I’ve felt bad for keeping them? Like, I feel kinda guilty for “caging” they in a pot and keeping them inside. Like, I feel like it’s caging an animal that would thrive more in the wild, but on the other hand I’m like well… I’m protecting it from insects and pests and taking care of it. I mean, I also cried when I was about 5/6 yrs old when my parents sold our Geo Metro. I thought we hurt it’s feeling by selling it and getting something newer. I cried when we drove away from the lot and felt soooooooo bad 😆
You're not weird, just emotional and empathetic. Those are lovely traits to have in today's society. I bet you can't watch those animal rescue videos or charity ads without tearing up or like me, change the channel. I appreciate you. Thank you for having a heart and soul.💐🦋🌺🐝🌻🐞🌾🐿🥀🐕🌸🐈🌿🚙🤗😇✌💚
Omg so true!!! I just had to deal with such a plant who kept threatening me for no reason only because the nursery it came from PW were keeping in air light because they have to ship. Now I put in ground and it kept showing sign of suffer but I was persistent and after 1 month it's improving!!!
See, that's part of where I went wrong trying to move my lucky bamboo to soil! I got the moisture retaining potting soil recommended and ended up trashing it, insanely expensive though it was, because barely 2 weeks in and I had fungus gnats everywhere! The bamboo has been surviving in water since, and I would love to move it to soil because it's freaking huge now, having gone from nearly a bud vases that were grossly too small and barely enough water for the size (probably about 8" tall from the roots for the tallest). Now the tall boys in a separate vase are roughly 2' and the little guy that was pulled because it was comedically too small to be with the stalks it was tied to, went from maybe 3" to roughly 8" now. Also, the tall boys have had so many shoots and so much leafy growth that I'd love to trim and propagate but I'm terrified I'll do damage to the original and fail on the propagation. 🙈🥺
I have an orchid I’ve managed to not kill for over a year. I need to repot it, but I am scared to mess with it. It’s still in the original pot it came in from Walmart. 🤦🏻♀️
But I have read not to change out the soil immediately after I bring the plants home... I have seen more than one of my plants in soil that are not suitable for them.
Well now it makes sense. When I was young my mom gave me a plant I don't know what they're called but I recognize them when I see them. I created like 20 plants off of that, and I had this healthy jungle in my house. Got married, picked up a kid in the bargain and all my plants died. Apparently the plants didn't like her (and to be fair I was a bit distracted with marital bloss and such) In the last decade, single again, I started trying house plants and can't keep one alive to save my life.
When you repot would you save the soil that came off this type of plant or just toss it? I’ve heard you can sanitize soil pretty reliably so as long as you added nutrients and treated for pests it may be salvageable?
If you don't have easy access to an already mixt well drained soil make it yourself by buying the components seperatly. I do mine with cactus soil, perlite, bark and charcoal. Some will add leca and coco bark too.
Hiiigh tanner! 👋🏾 whens the best time to germinate seeds in zone 9 for BOP? I was gifted seeds from Honolulu & im scared to get em going the seeds looking like nothing ive seen before 🥹
Tropical greenhouses usually water plants daily, and have higher humidity, so the soil mix is purposely designed to drain water rapidly. (The soil dries out quickly) Acclimation stress is the biggest hurdle for any new plant. Plants adapt to their environment as they grow. So changing a plants environment invalidates a lot of progress.
I love how people “rescue” plants and animals for shops. See to do this you end up paying for them and the shop gets a sale and replaced their stock with another plant/animal in the same or worse condition for the next person to “rescue” and keep the cycle going. Skip the big box stores and find local breeders or nurseries and get them from people doing stuff responsibly in the first place…
Its actually a big scam from the stores. The plants look beautiful all displayed straight from a greenhouse. Then in our homes they die. It made me so sad and it hot me down. I hated seeing the top layer of soil go white with mould! I didn't over water but the soil retains moisture even from the air! So now i know to repot into better drier draining soil!
My home depot soaks all its indoor plants in water with no drainage holes, when im there i dump out the water, they killed like 8 pink princess plants one week
Im trying to find a soil similar to what the plants come in as it doesn't retain the water so long! I use miracle gro soil and it is constantly damp, never drying out! I water my plants loke once a month because of it! What is best to use for soil that doesn't stay constantly damp?
A plant I had got root rot once. Now i mix my own soil mix and i add so many amendments that i have to water everything every few days. Even my snakes get watered every week in my chunky ass mix😂 Otherwise i will love them to death.
I mix the soil it came in, cleaned away from the roots, with a mix of peat, perlite, and orchid bark, maybe sand, moss, or other soil, depending on plant type. I periodically poke all my plants with a skewer or chopstick to help with air and drainage, as well. Basically throw a bunch of stuff in a 5 gallon bucket and mix.
Do you answer questions? Ive got my plants in a soil that i thought was right cause i always hear "well draining soil" But my husband helped me water the other day and he says its to well draining, that i need to thicken it up, how do i do that, and should i?? ( My plants are pretty basic, some pothos, pepperomias, a baby monstera, a few others but pretty basic plants)
would love to see a video on the mixtures you generally go for, for types of houseplants :)
Yes please!
Exactly show your products so we know what to look for, would really help. This was a eye opener, thanks for sharing.
This! This is what I needed someone to tell me… I couldn’t figure out why my beautiful plants that I bought at the store died on me, against all my efforts care and love I invest in them 😓😔😭
:-(((((((
Lots of big box stores purposely overwater and over fertilize. I give a few days for plants to adjust then I check roots. Sometimes death plugs also play a part in their demise.
Water only when soil is dry not on a schedule its an easy mistake to make.
That makes a lot of sense actually! I started making my own soil about two years ago and I’ve never gone back!
***for cactus/succulents**
3:2:1 ratio - quick draining soil, perlite, sand.. if I have it, I love adding the coconut coir.
Thank you for that explanation! After buying some ‘wish list’ plants from a wonderful grower they died after a few months with me. I assumed their mixture was better than what I make so I didn’t rush to change it, without thinking about the drastically different environments.
You're not speaking fast and you're English is so smooth! It sounds really clear to a non native! Thank you so much
Hahah I'm also a non native speaker and after reading your comment I noticed this too 🤭
The tonality of his voice is very pleasant and i understood every word perfectly
Your english*
It’s the accent i struggle with.. i can’t understand a word he’s saying.. English accent is my thing..American accent is something i can’t fathom 😮
Great information! No one ever talks all’s about why you should change your soil. Thank you for that tid bit of knowledge !
I love that you called rescuing, I always feel that way
YES!!! I have several Bird of Paradise plants that are slowly turning and brown & yellow. I water them every 7-10 days, and they're still having issues. Now I understand the reasons for the issues. I was attempting to wait until the spring to replant. I will replant them immediately. Thank you for this information.
Thank you so much!!! I love ur straight to the point videos❤❤
I just gushed about you to my boyfriend, Im so glad your videos started popping up for me over on Facebook and then over here. You're so informative, insightful, yet calm and efficient, it's such a lovely combination to watch, and you're one of my favorite plant people to watch right now 💖
your bf should leave you asap
@@handrewmillan4293jokes on you, i was the one that broke up with him (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
@@handrewmillan4293 also, is your only comment on Tanner's videos ever to tell me my ex should leave me? I dont even know why you thought he should, since you didnt elaborate, but.... Ya know... If you wanna spend your free time doing that...
@@IthinkIneedAhug oh your ex, sorry, good on him
Ive found the reverse usually, the soil plants come with usually doesnt retain water at all because its basically mineral sand they water hyperegularly.
I Love to watch you because it is so informative.
I had a bird of paradise in my front yard.
It was larger than my car. Took a full day to dig it out. Strange root system.
That sounds beautiful!! What I would give for a bird of paradise
How many years did it take to get that big? I just got a 3 foot white bird and living in an apartment, don't want it to get that big. She's on the balcony for the summer, only gets a little evening sun.
Finally, someone explained very clearly why we should to report plants form the shop
I love how you explained this for people. I always say the same thing. You can’t not grow in your home the same way they grow in the greenhouse. They are not the same. ❤
Yes this is so true and I can't stand the soil big box stores use. I hate it. Its also difficult to get the soil off the roots when repotting. Ikea is notorious for this.
Try to gently wash the roots next time to get that horrible poor quality soil off them before replanting with good nutritious lively type of soil.
Very helpful and makes so much sense. Thank you!!
We had amazing bird of paradise growin up.
Pruning season wasnt so fun but doing it with my great-grandma was! Also, with my grandpas. Love your videos and they would have loved them too!
Great words, thanks for the tip!
Thank you for helping me understand why these plants always come in the crappiest soil ever.
Love the shirt! Born in Oregon😁 shout out 2 u from Applegate!
It’s the name of our store!
THANK YOU -I’m so tired of losing nice plants once I get home as if I did something wrong in the first 3 weeks 😂😂😂 I will try again with this new info
I grow mine mostly outside and peat moss based "soils" are a major issue for the opposite reason. Sure they retain moisture well in mild conditions. When it's 90 - 100 for half the year it dries out quick. After it dries out it's basically just a solid brick the requires soaking in a pool of water to rehydrate or the water just runs off. I alway replant them into a equal parts mix of good compost, sand, and vermiculite. That holds a good bit of moisture, but doesn't get sodden so unlikely to cause rot even watering everyday. If it does dry out it's pretty easy to rehydrate.
Makes so much sense! Can't wait to have a house one day so I can build my own greenhouse
This makes so much sense!
Hi! What soil(mixture) did you use for this plant?
Can you be more 'specific' with WHAT type of soil mixture you use to keep house plants living longer & healthier?...👀
I learned a lot today about my store bought plants. Thank you so much! 💕
Subscribed! Quick to the point, learned something! Thank you 🎉
Thank you for the sub!
Thanks!
New to houseplants & have lost plants with THAT type of soil. They die of root rot. Repotting survivors this past week. Lesson learned the hard way.
One of my new plants was starting to suffer because of the soil I used to pot it, it was regular potting soil I have for all of them but because I covered the soil with gravel to keep my bird out of it (she likes to peck and eat perlite 🤦🏻♀️) it wasn’t drying out enough between watering I think and it started suffering so I got a chunky mix and so far it’s been good
I found just the opposite to be generally the case. Plants are usually in quick-drying soil when you buy them. But my advice is pretty much the same as your's. Re-pot the plant when you get it home. Because the soil the plant is in is likely not the right kind of soil for the plant at your home. I mostly re-pot them with Miracle Grow houseplant soil.
Hell mine are always dry!😂 I need a humidifier desperately in my house it gets a ton of light because it’s all windows pretty much and it’s super dry!
Omg I’d never considered this! It explains why I buy beautiful new plants then as soon as I water them they rot!! Thank you!
You've taught me so much 🎉 thank you 🎉
That made sense! Thank you!❤
Thanks ❤😊
When doing that you should put plant in a pail of water first than replant, it make it a happy plant when replanted.
Never thought that thought before! Thank you so much for education us plant dummies. 😅😊
I do the same. I hate that Coco coir that they use in all these. Then we have to spend more money buy more soil and amending it to put in plant.
it’s great to have plants you don’t have to water often, but when the soil doesn’t dry out, there’s a higher chance of rotting… please repot!!
Repot and report.
thanks for that info
Very interesting to know.
Any regular Indoor pot mix also works fine.
I love plants and have been trying my hardest to start gardening and keeping plants in my home. They just make me feel alive and help me with depression.
But is it weird lately I’ve felt bad for keeping them? Like, I feel kinda guilty for “caging” they in a pot and keeping them inside. Like, I feel like it’s caging an animal that would thrive more in the wild, but on the other hand I’m like well… I’m protecting it from insects and pests and taking care of it.
I mean, I also cried when I was about 5/6 yrs old when my parents sold our Geo Metro. I thought we hurt it’s feeling by selling it and getting something newer. I cried when we drove away from the lot and felt soooooooo bad 😆
You're not weird, just emotional and empathetic. Those are lovely traits to have in today's society. I bet you can't watch those animal rescue videos or charity ads without tearing up or like me, change the channel. I appreciate you. Thank you for having a heart and soul.💐🦋🌺🐝🌻🐞🌾🐿🥀🐕🌸🐈🌿🚙🤗😇✌💚
They're not animals who need to roam and fly. Your plants will be happy if you give them what they need
I almost always repot new plants immediately into plastic orchid pots with a fast draining soil with little to no peat.
Thank you for this information
I wonder how many shocks they get before they get to our homes? Every change of temperature - especially here in Scotland.
We have incredibly dry air here so the moisture rich soil is great for me 😅
For whatever reason...8 months after I disappointed 2 house plants...TH-cam brings you to my feed. I'll stick around just in case!
I need to do that for my monstera! Thanks!!!
Thank you 👍
Omg so true!!! I just had to deal with such a plant who kept threatening me for no reason only because the nursery it came from PW were keeping in air light because they have to ship. Now I put in ground and it kept showing sign of suffer but I was persistent and after 1 month it's improving!!!
This was so helpful
THANK YOU❤
Dagnabbit!!! Why didn't I know this BEFORE I tried to figure out why my "RESCUES" are struggling 😑 😢
Great info!
See, that's part of where I went wrong trying to move my lucky bamboo to soil! I got the moisture retaining potting soil recommended and ended up trashing it, insanely expensive though it was, because barely 2 weeks in and I had fungus gnats everywhere! The bamboo has been surviving in water since, and I would love to move it to soil because it's freaking huge now, having gone from nearly a bud vases that were grossly too small and barely enough water for the size (probably about 8" tall from the roots for the tallest). Now the tall boys in a separate vase are roughly 2' and the little guy that was pulled because it was comedically too small to be with the stalks it was tied to, went from maybe 3" to roughly 8" now. Also, the tall boys have had so many shoots and so much leafy growth that I'd love to trim and propagate but I'm terrified I'll do damage to the original and fail on the propagation. 🙈🥺
Nice sharing
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Finally someone explains it to me
I have an orchid I’ve managed to not kill for over a year. I need to repot it, but I am scared to mess with it. It’s still in the original pot it came in from Walmart. 🤦🏻♀️
I need soil recipes!
Where do you get that giant scoop!!?? 😊
But I have read not to change out the soil immediately after I bring the plants home... I have seen more than one of my plants in soil that are not suitable for them.
It would have been helpful if you said what soil mixture and fertilizer you use.
On the bright side, looks like you got about half a cubic foot of peat moss with our plant.
Well now it makes sense. When I was young my mom gave me a plant I don't know what they're called but I recognize them when I see them. I created like 20 plants off of that, and I had this healthy jungle in my house. Got married, picked up a kid in the bargain and all my plants died. Apparently the plants didn't like her (and to be fair I was a bit distracted with marital bloss and such)
In the last decade, single again, I started trying house plants and can't keep one alive to save my life.
What!!! Thank you!
When you repot would you save the soil that came off this type of plant or just toss it? I’ve heard you can sanitize soil pretty reliably so as long as you added nutrients and treated for pests it may be salvageable?
So are you saying that the potting soil from these big box stores is good enough to use? I don't need to go to a speciality store to get better soil?
To a point, yes. More quality always helps though
If you don't have easy access to an already mixt well drained soil make it yourself by buying the components seperatly.
I do mine with cactus soil, perlite, bark and charcoal. Some will add leca and coco bark too.
I noticed this after loosing a lot of plants. Plus the soil level is to high on store pot.
He's correct, rescued.
That's very informative
Show the soil bag
Could ypu add material to the old soil to make it better?
Yes! Perlite or a chunky cactus mix! I add perlite, chunky sand, and charcoal chips when I dont want to waste the soil a plant came in.
I just use ABG mix for literally everything, no matter the situation. Cannot go wrong with ABG mix.
Where do you purchace ABG mix
Hiiigh tanner! 👋🏾 whens the best time to germinate seeds in zone 9 for BOP? I was gifted seeds from Honolulu & im scared to get em going the seeds looking like nothing ive seen before 🥹
Tropical greenhouses usually water plants daily, and have higher humidity, so the soil mix is purposely designed to drain water rapidly. (The soil dries out quickly) Acclimation stress is the biggest hurdle for any new plant. Plants adapt to their environment as they grow. So changing a plants environment invalidates a lot of progress.
This is true for some greenhouses, but definitely not all!
I love how people “rescue” plants and animals for shops.
See to do this you end up paying for them and the shop gets a sale and replaced their stock with another plant/animal in the same or worse condition for the next person to “rescue” and keep the cycle going.
Skip the big box stores and find local breeders or nurseries and get them from people doing stuff responsibly in the first place…
Can you provide the soil brand you used?
Your thoughts on self watering pots?
What brand and product is "chunkier"?
❤ happy planting 🥰🌿💜🥰
Its actually a big scam from the stores. The plants look beautiful all displayed straight from a greenhouse. Then in our homes they die. It made me so sad and it hot me down. I hated seeing the top layer of soil go white with mould! I didn't over water but the soil retains moisture even from the air! So now i know to repot into better drier draining soil!
Wow, just bought a majestic palm, 2 weeks went by and still wet. Why is it better for the soil to dry out quick?
How often should I water the bird of paradise & how should the lighting be ?
I put my bird of paradise in the ground. I live in panhandle of Florida. I cover it when I know it's going to be very very cold
My home depot soaks all its indoor plants in water with no drainage holes, when im there i dump out the water, they killed like 8 pink princess plants one week
Im trying to find a soil similar to what the plants come in as it doesn't retain the water so long! I use miracle gro soil and it is constantly damp, never drying out! I water my plants loke once a month because of it! What is best to use for soil that doesn't stay constantly damp?
A plant I had got root rot once. Now i mix my own soil mix and i add so many amendments that i have to water everything every few days. Even my snakes get watered every week in my chunky ass mix😂 Otherwise i will love them to death.
Id just transplant into a bigger pot with better soil. Dont bother the roots. Just make a divit in the center and drop it in.
😅😅😅
Sometimes that’s a good idea, other times a more thorough job is needed to increase chances of long term success.
is it alright to reuse the soil the plant was in a new, homemade soil mix with some pearlite?
I mix the soil it came in, cleaned away from the roots, with a mix of peat, perlite, and orchid bark, maybe sand, moss, or other soil, depending on plant type. I periodically poke all my plants with a skewer or chopstick to help with air and drainage, as well. Basically throw a bunch of stuff in a 5 gallon bucket and mix.
Soil mix please? What makes up chunky soil? Thank you!!
🎉Thank you
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Tanner you didn't slap that pot?...😊
I just plant my Birds of Paradise in the back yard and let mother nature do her work.
Yup. That. 👍
What soils do you use of mixtures?
Depends on the plant!
@@tannertheplanter4213 for that plant??
@@sincerelysandi 1 part Peat, 1 part perlite, 1 part orchid bark.
@@tannertheplanter4213 Thank you for responding❤
Do you answer questions?
Ive got my plants in a soil that i thought was right cause i always hear "well draining soil" But my husband helped me water the other day and he says its to well draining, that i need to thicken it up, how do i do that, and should i?? ( My plants are pretty basic, some pothos, pepperomias, a baby monstera, a few others but pretty basic plants)