I enjoyed seeing how other plants respond to being potted in tree fern fiber by using clear pots. I've known for several decades that orchids really respond well to being potted in tree fern fiber so I'm glad to see how other plants respond. I'm currently experimenting with a tree fern fiber/pumice/NZ pine bark mix for growing epiphytic cactus (Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera). I'm trying to create a mix based on the characteristics of materials that would accumulate on the limbs of tropical/subtropical trees that are the home of epiphytic plants. Thanks for the video and I suspect there will be converts to tree fern fiber after watching it.
My Hoya Thomsonii loves this stuff. Didn't do anything at all in pon so I thought I'd try and repot in tree fern fiber and now it has amazing roots and 3 new growth points and that was only 1 week ago! When it was in pon it had really sad little roots. >.
Awesome video, cannot wait to get my Melanochrysum into the tree fern fibre from you!! Also, YOUR DOG!! OMG, from one snozzle dog lover to another, hello :)
Thanks so much for the explanations and demonstrations, this was super super helpful. I actually bit the bullet and decided to try propagating hoya in fern fibre after watching this video. I was wondering if you are able to shed light on when I should water after the initial watering? Do I wait until the fern fibre dries out completely or wait until it's lightly damp? I assume once the roots are firmly established, then it's watering once the fern fibre is dry? lol sorry for all the questions 😅
HAHA No worries at all! Happy to help :) Once you've watered them in, I recommend not watering again until its 90% dry! Then soak through again & repeat! Plants recover 100X better from being underwater than over watered! In the wild they don't get watered once a week right? they have dry & wet spells :) Hope this helps!
Fun video. Enjoyed your enthusiasm! For me the fundamental idea is that plants don't need soil to thrive (see hydroponics). What they need is something to prop them up and deliver water, food and air, which is what tree fern fiber is born to do. Since we know plants don't need soil, it bugs me when we discuss growing in tree fern fiber then replanting with some sort of soil or soil mix, or even just adding perlite to tff. I feel it's counterproductive to first "save" the plant in tff, then subject it to soil that needs fixing and careful watering to succeed. Tff doesn't need to be amended, it's already perfectly airy. You don't even need a microscope to see the freeways of air available to the roots. I also don't feel it needs to dry out at all. The idea is not to suffocate the roots. Being waterlogged means the roots are overwhelmed with water and not able to breathe. If you bottom feed, the fiber delivers the water up the fibers, but there's still tons of space for air circulation at the same time. It's impossible to waterlog with tff unless you flood a closed container. That's why I love it. TFF is too simple to use; borderline error-proof. You can't physically overwater (from below). I was convinced last year when Dustin at HereButNot.com showed how he was able to grow Melanochrysum in Canada's low humidity (th-cam.com/video/DTCam3PV_gw/w-d-xo.html) (see the 14 minute mark if the link doesn't work right), and it only makes sense. Plants need food. Food travels in water. Plants need water to circulate through them. Can't do that if 1) there's no water to come up or 2) there's not enough water LEAVING the plant to make room for more water. So, there needs to be a balance between hydration from below and evaporation from the leaves. With low water supply from below, high humidity helps slow evaporation to save the plant until another rainy day/watering. With low humidity and low water, the plants wither waiting for their owners to dry the soil out enough to dodge root rot (aka let the roots breathe again). As Dustin proves, humidity is not the key, but one type of mitigation. With more water AND air, humidity becomes more moot. TFF fibers sitting in a bottom feeder deliver water 24/7 while also delivering air 24/7. Water and food are freely available to the plant on demand, and the plant is not stressed from feast/famine cycles. Watering time is more obvious; just fill the bottom tray when empty-ish. As a last resort, the tff will tell you you're too slow on the watering when it turns from dark brown to light brown (dry). Guesswork eliminated. I say, leave the soil behind. Thoughts?
Everyone has their own preferences! If someone is more comfortable replanting back into soil then it’s all good! It doesn’t harm the plant at all x👍 but I do always suggest adding a bit of TFF into the soil to help
Hi Fogyreef. From what I have watched on TH-cam many people are mixing perlite or Leca in with TFF to stretch it out as it's very expensive, and they have the other product on hand. I went to your TH-cam channel hoping to see some of your plants in TFF. I have repotting a large, very beautiful Maidenhair Fern and must admit I am stressing a little. All bar two of my many plants are set up semi hydro but looking at also making poles for climbers. Have you had experience with this. What do you feed you plants in TTF
Hello. I was wondering if TFF is good for Maiden Hair ferns (in a self watering pot) and Monsteras and if so would you mix it with Perlite or Leca to give it more air
I just wanted to say, I had gotten tree fern fiber to propagate some plants, I had heard it’s a game changer. I decided to try it and searched and TH-camd people’s experiences with it. You were the first video that popped up and after I watched it, I used half a smol bag that I’d gotten, and moved most of my propagations to fern fiber 😅 I also am rehabbing a couple plants in fern fiber. I have lots of high hopes after this vid! Ahha. How many plants do you have in fern fiber ?
Awh how amazing! I love hearing success stories!! I propagate almost 100% of my plants in straight tree fern fibre and keep about 50% of them in it afterwards! The rest I transfer into our House Plant Mix for sale 💕
I’m not sure if I got it right or not but I recently repotted my philodendrons with lots of fern fibre with some coco coir, pumice, perlite does this sounds right? Thanks
How dry do you let the treefern get before you water again? Can you grow hoya, aroids out of the pop box iunto maturity? Are you using any kind of reservoir, or just watering though to keep it consistently moist? Thank you for a wonderful video :)
New sub, found you from My petite garden blogger, love your content!!! 💚🌿🌱💚🤗what was the green cord used to pin down Hoya? Thanks much🤗Omg love your bloopers😉😄😉
Sorry me again. When transferring a larger plant, do you need to feed said plant every time you water like it semi hydro and also is it important to get every part of the soil off.
Hey again! 😂 you don’t have to get all the soil off! Just a good shake will do! And I always reccomend feeding at least every second water, if not every water :)
I enjoyed seeing how other plants respond to being potted in tree fern fiber by using clear pots. I've known for several decades that orchids really respond well to being potted in tree fern fiber so I'm glad to see how other plants respond. I'm currently experimenting with a tree fern fiber/pumice/NZ pine bark mix for growing epiphytic cactus (Rhipsalis, Schlumbergera). I'm trying to create a mix based on the characteristics of materials that would accumulate on the limbs of tropical/subtropical trees that are the home of epiphytic plants. Thanks for the video and I suspect there will be converts to tree fern fiber after watching it.
I enjoyed watching this, thanks, very educational!
Glad to hear! 💕
My Hoya Thomsonii loves this stuff. Didn't do anything at all in pon so I thought I'd try and repot in tree fern fiber and now it has amazing roots and 3 new growth points and that was only 1 week ago! When it was in pon it had really sad little roots. >.
It truely is amazing stuff!
Awesome information thanks Rachel🌿🌿
This was a great video. Thank you so much!
As always you make me smile, love your video about the fern fibre and how you use it. Great to see you are a stockist of it now 😃
Aww you're too kind 🥰
Learning a lot concepts/ideas to try from your videos. Thank you!
Amazing to hear!! 💕
Awesome video, cannot wait to get my Melanochrysum into the tree fern fibre from you!! Also, YOUR DOG!! OMG, from one snozzle dog lover to another, hello :)
Nellie says HI!!! 😂🥰 snozzle I like that 😂
@@GrowingGreenNZ ahhhh Nellie, you’re so beautiful! My little boy is called Badger, he says hi too 👋🏽
Thanks so much for the explanations and demonstrations, this was super super helpful. I actually bit the bullet and decided to try propagating hoya in fern fibre after watching this video. I was wondering if you are able to shed light on when I should water after the initial watering? Do I wait until the fern fibre dries out completely or wait until it's lightly damp? I assume once the roots are firmly established, then it's watering once the fern fibre is dry? lol sorry for all the questions 😅
HAHA No worries at all! Happy to help :)
Once you've watered them in, I recommend not watering again until its 90% dry! Then soak through again & repeat! Plants recover 100X better from being underwater than over watered! In the wild they don't get watered once a week right? they have dry & wet spells :) Hope this helps!
@@GrowingGreenNZ aaah that makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much!! :)
@@ssulin3348 no problem 🥰
New Subscriber...Awesome video! I have been wanting to switch from moss to tree fern.
It’s truely the best you won’t regret it!
Thanks for the video :) for sure going to buy some for my Hoya fishtail which I’m going to propagate:)
Amazing!! They’re gonna love it!!
Fun video. Enjoyed your enthusiasm! For me the fundamental idea is that plants don't need soil to thrive (see hydroponics). What they need is something to prop them up and deliver water, food and air, which is what tree fern fiber is born to do. Since we know plants don't need soil, it bugs me when we discuss growing in tree fern fiber then replanting with some sort of soil or soil mix, or even just adding perlite to tff. I feel it's counterproductive to first "save" the plant in tff, then subject it to soil that needs fixing and careful watering to succeed. Tff doesn't need to be amended, it's already perfectly airy. You don't even need a microscope to see the freeways of air available to the roots. I also don't feel it needs to dry out at all. The idea is not to suffocate the roots. Being waterlogged means the roots are overwhelmed with water and not able to breathe. If you bottom feed, the fiber delivers the water up the fibers, but there's still tons of space for air circulation at the same time. It's impossible to waterlog with tff unless you flood a closed container. That's why I love it. TFF is too simple to use; borderline error-proof. You can't physically overwater (from below). I was convinced last year when Dustin at HereButNot.com showed how he was able to grow Melanochrysum in Canada's low humidity (th-cam.com/video/DTCam3PV_gw/w-d-xo.html) (see the 14 minute mark if the link doesn't work right), and it only makes sense. Plants need food. Food travels in water. Plants need water to circulate through them. Can't do that if 1) there's no water to come up or 2) there's not enough water LEAVING the plant to make room for more water. So, there needs to be a balance between hydration from below and evaporation from the leaves. With low water supply from below, high humidity helps slow evaporation to save the plant until another rainy day/watering. With low humidity and low water, the plants wither waiting for their owners to dry the soil out enough to dodge root rot (aka let the roots breathe again). As Dustin proves, humidity is not the key, but one type of mitigation. With more water AND air, humidity becomes more moot. TFF fibers sitting in a bottom feeder deliver water 24/7 while also delivering air 24/7. Water and food are freely available to the plant on demand, and the plant is not stressed from feast/famine cycles. Watering time is more obvious; just fill the bottom tray when empty-ish. As a last resort, the tff will tell you you're too slow on the watering when it turns from dark brown to light brown (dry). Guesswork eliminated. I say, leave the soil behind. Thoughts?
Everyone has their own preferences! If someone is more comfortable replanting back into soil then it’s all good! It doesn’t harm the plant at all x👍 but I do always suggest adding a bit of TFF into the soil to help
Hi Fogyreef. From what I have watched on TH-cam many people are mixing perlite or Leca in with TFF to stretch it out as it's very expensive, and they have the other product on hand. I went to your TH-cam channel hoping to see some of your plants in TFF. I have repotting a large, very beautiful Maidenhair Fern and must admit I am stressing a little. All bar two of my many plants are set up semi hydro but looking at also making poles for climbers. Have you had experience with this. What do you feed you plants in TTF
Love your videos & I’ve just subscribed to your channel! I’m into growing ferns & orchids now & so timely to chance upon Fern Tree fibre.
Hiya!! Thank you so much 🥰 if you’re in NZ I sell it on my website www.growinggreen.nz if you wanted to try it out! It’s FANTASTIC stuff!
@@GrowingGreenNZ , I’m in tropical Singapore and it can be expensive & yet not readily available. I’m resourcing to see how I can bring them.
Do you have an update from this video about those hoyas how are they doing now after 10 mos☺️
Unfortunately not sorry! ❤️ if you check out one of my vlogs they have results in them :)
Awesome! Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Hello. I was wondering if TFF is good for Maiden Hair ferns (in a self watering pot) and Monsteras and if so would you mix it with Perlite or Leca to give it more air
Hey! Yes it’s good for EVERY plant! & you’re safe to just plant it straight into Tree Fern Fibre, no need to add anything!
@@GrowingGreenNZ Thank you
Hi Thanks for this video. Can I use this to propagate my philodendron Pink princess?
Absolutely!
I just wanted to say, I had gotten tree fern fiber to propagate some plants, I had heard it’s a game changer. I decided to try it and searched and TH-camd people’s experiences with it. You were the first video that popped up and after I watched it, I used half a smol bag that I’d gotten, and moved most of my propagations to fern fiber 😅 I also am rehabbing a couple plants in fern fiber. I have lots of high hopes after this vid! Ahha. How many plants do you have in fern fiber ?
Awh how amazing! I love hearing success stories!! I propagate almost 100% of my plants in straight tree fern fibre and keep about 50% of them in it afterwards! The rest I transfer into our House Plant Mix for sale 💕
I am in Canada and just got some fern fibre, but its extremely dry and some is stuck together. Should i wet it first?
Not necessarily! As long as you water it in once you’ve planted your plant it will be fine :)
I’m not sure if I got it right or not but I recently repotted my philodendrons with lots of fern fibre with some coco coir, pumice, perlite does this sounds right? Thanks
That’s totally fine! You can also just pot them straight into the fern fibre :)
How dry do you let the treefern get before you water again? Can you grow hoya, aroids out of the pop box iunto maturity? Are you using any kind of reservoir, or just watering though to keep it consistently moist? Thank you for a wonderful video :)
@@janinebernard5419 thank you! No reservoir, just use it like normal soil. I let it dry out at least 90%
@@GrowingGreenNZ so the color changes to super light brown/completely dry 90% of the way? Thanks for your reply :)
@@janinebernard5419 Yes :)
Hi , thanks for the demp,do you remove and repot to soil after having a good root system ?
You can use the entire substrate and plant it straight into the next pot! They’ll love you for it 🥰
what she said about the wood native new zealand in 1:24 ?
Hiya! Its the name of the tree fern that it comes from :) The word is written on the screen for you!
New sub, found you from My petite garden blogger, love your content!!! 💚🌿🌱💚🤗what was the green cord used to pin down Hoya? Thanks much🤗Omg love your bloopers😉😄😉
Amazing! Thank you 💕 it’s just basic garden wire! 💕 I love the bloopers too! Showing everyone that it’s doesn’t always go smoothly 😂
New subscribe.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching & subscribing!
What is the name of the green tie that you used to hold the Serpens down in the tree fern?
It’s called garden tie 💕
Do you moisten the fibre before you use it for planting? also, when adding sponge rock or another inurt material, any tips??
Hey! I usually just water in cuttings as normal :) I wouldn't recommend adding anything to it its fine on its own!
Sorry me again. When transferring a larger plant, do you need to feed said plant every time you water like it semi hydro and also is it important to get every part of the soil off.
Hey again! 😂 you don’t have to get all the soil off! Just a good shake will do! And I always reccomend feeding at least every second water, if not every water :)
Do the heating mat’s dry out the mix quickly?
As long as you have a lid on your prop box it should keep it wet!
@@GrowingGreenNZ thank you 👍👍
Yay girl 💚😍🙋🏼♀️
THAAAAANKS!!!! 🥰👏🏻
Are there any plant types that you would not recommend using tree fern with?
Nope! Everything loves it!
Can pothos be done this way please
Yes! Most plants can :)
🤣🤣 i hate that word MOIST too! Great video thank you!!
Hahah absolutely!! And thank you
Where to purchase please
www.growinggreen.nz
hahahahahahahaahahahah ahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha The bloopers! I FEEL THAT IN MY SOUL.
HAHAHAH there were too many good ones 😂