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I’m Fern! A 20-something gal living on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada with my sweet lil doggo & around 100 houseplants. Plants have changed my life - I love tending to them and sharing the joys and discoveries of my planty journey online. I am passionate about all things living and I have been vegan for over 6 years - it was the best decision I’ve ever made. For those into astrology, I am a gemini sun, scorpio moon, & libra rising. I started out on social media with a focus on makeup/beauty/fashion and am not into it as much, but I do share on those topics from time to time. Thanks for stopping by!
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I will never get sick of propagation videos. They are my fave!!! Same with plant care routines
Yessss 🌱
One of the reasons I like wet stick propagation is solving the mystery of which plant is growing.
Totally!! So fun 😃
I def recommend fertilizing alocasias every two weeks! In nature they're heavy nutrient feeders by eating decaying matter along the jungle floor!! If the leaves keep dying if might be bc they aren't getting enough nutrients :)
Ohh thanks so much for the tip! I will try out increasing feeding
girl I want the tea about pon... everyone raves about it (which to be honest is a good thing) but like there must be downsides? or troubles plant parents are having with the substrate! Please do an update video about it!!
Sending the love as usual ✌🏼
Yes ! I have a sample bag and want to try it but pretty intimidated 😅
From my yt observations, it seems that for some reason plants in pon are more susceptible to root mealies. It might be a coincidence, but two of the TH-camrs I watch who I’m sure don’t know about each other, pretty much at the same time started complaining about root mealies, claiming that the bugs only occurred in their plants in pon 👀
I've never heard about the root mealies issue and haven't had the problem myself (fingers crossed), but I have to say... I'm crazy about pon. There's a little bit of a learning curve with it, but I've converted almost all my plants to it - some in self-watering, some in regular pots with drainage, and I'm so happy with it. It's not just that it eliminates fungus gnat issues and is much cleaner and easier in my opinion, it seems the increased oxygen makes the roots grow so much chunkier and allows them to then go longer without water since they can store more of it. I've got a sunny home with south-facing windows and only needed to water my plants every 10 days this summer, which is crazy compared to previous years when I used soil. I have the thirsty plants in self-watering so I don't have to worry about them and since the pon dries out at the same time I'm able to water the others that like to dry out between waterings on a schedule, which also makes my life easier. I've had a lot of plants that were doing well for a long time and started to struggle out of nowhere and all I could think of was that their soil became compact and when I switched them to pon it was like they were born again. In general I just see so much increased growth when I convert plants to it. I never tried leca on a large scale but heard a lot of complaints and I just don't have the patience to balance ph levels and do all that and it seems those little issues are eliminated with pon. It's got a neutral ph and delivers nutrients to the roots better. Downsides...well, it's got slow release fertilizer so it's hard to know how much fertilizer your plants are getting. I find it's not enough for heavy feeders and then I'm not sure if I'm overfertilizing when I add more. You need to find ways to plug your drainage holes so it doesn't go flying everywhere. And it's pricey (but you can boil and reuse it) and hard to find in a lot of countries. You can make your own, but I find that the diy or generic brand ones I've had weren't as good and ended up switching to lechuza. There's something about the stones having a uniform size that seems to be better in my experience. Other than that, my friends are sick of me raving about it. It's expensive but worth the investment. It just takes so much guesswork out of watering and diagnosing issues and I'm kind of crazy about the stuff. I guess it's also worth saying that I've been using it for a couple years on 140+ plants and have gotten a lot of my friends and family to convert to it. So this is based on those experiences.
If you’re worried about using a heat mat but would like to try using one, get a thermostat. I don’t know if they do plant ones but a good reptile thermostat isn’t expensive at all and just makes sure the heat mat will never go over a certain temp.
Wet sticks take forever but it’s super amazing that you can get a full plant from such a small piece.
Keep your alocasia wet. I have never let mine dry out completely, except at the beginning of my first alocasia, I lost every leaf, then they came in tiny, so I have learned, lots of water, never let it dry out. I keep the bottom of the pot/soil wet at all times. And give it a lot of light. Mine is right by my grow lights and I am at 5 leaves and she's pregnant. I had so many issues with alocasia fydek at the beginning!! I was ready to give up. I had it in terra cotta, 5 in pot. And an airy mix. It hated it. It would dry so fast, so now she's in plastic with more peat moss in the soil. And I haven't lost a leaf since. I water every 4-7 days. I have seen so many ppl I'm the two leaf club, it's because it's under watered so it has to kill the older leaf off to have the water/energy to put the new one out. Light, water! Lots of both! Hopefully this helps!! :)
I've always water propagated all my plants that can be propagated. I only just started perlite propping and that really opens up a world of wet stick/node propping! Propping in moss has been great for the plant to root but a nightmare to remove when ready to pot up! Thank you, FERN! You always inspire me!
Ahhh yessss I hate removing the moss, perlite is so much easier!
Apparently perlite moves up and down through the soil as time marches on, so I wouldn’t be bothered to wipe it away from the roots. Perlite works wonders!
Need some advice. I have always water propagated & just recently tried the perlite prop which in turn rotted everything. Why? The perlite stayed soaked & never dried at all & all I had was an open topped water bottle. Please let me know the secret
@@kimg6911 hi! Maybe you put too much water in the propagation vase. Perlite works, in easy words, giving water to the roots at a steady pace, that’s why if done properly you won’t get any rotting in your cutting. This means you can fill your prop vase with perlite up to the very top of it, but you’ll only fill it with water up to a third, or even half of it (if the perlite dries out too quickly I’d choose to fill half of it). That way the cutting gets water but it’s not constantly touching the water, which is why it rots. Hope I helped :)
I really feel like propagating wet sticks is the like the most fulfilling way to grow new plants. It’s such a delicate process that when it works out it feels soooooo good
I completely agree 😃
Obsessed with your tortum!!! Seriously, well done with all of these plants. It can be so difficult to have success with wet sticks, I recently lost a few Albo nodes that rotted so fast. So happy a few survived!
13:45 I know this video is from a year ago, but as someone with reptiles, I use a thermostat for all my heating devices.. you could totally do this for a heat mat and it’ll shut off if it gets too hot!
I like the videos before I even watch them, because I know I always love them and watch them several times🙈
Fern, whenever you talk about your M. Peru, I relate SO much. I’ve had a single cutting which I rooted and the roots rotted 2x on me.
Finally got it to reroot, but I’m going to keep in perlite/charcoal/worms castings/orchid bark mix - (no soil).
Hope yours continues to thrive!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that has had a hard time with them!! May they both grow big and strong x
I am obsessed with my adansonii that I grew from a wet stick. It's sooo small and I can't stand how cute it is!!!
A trick to avoid root. Rot: water with one quarter teaspoon of peroxide per gallon of water monthly and right after repotting . I am off of grow lights because the special spectrum falls off after a couple months and then it's just a fluorescent bulb
I would love for you to do a video on propagating from a corm! My Black Velvet lost all its leaves and I managed to find 4 corms in the pot which I’ve just put in a container of water for now
Ever since I saw your tortum in the prop box I have been so fascinated with that plant ! I'm also loving the trellis you have placed in it ! I love your styling
Heyyy! I'm so early 💜 thank you for existing
Awe thank YOU 🥺💘
Could you do an update of yeah your thoughts on pon but also leca? Maybe what’s been growing in those two or other semi-hypdroponic stuff. I’m debating putting my thirsty white fusion in leca 😁
Love it! The first time I got a wet stick to turn into a plant I was so excited lol!!
Your hair and nails look so cute!
can we just appreciate how gorgeous she always looks?
I noticed that.
Thank you for sharing!! I love your prop box!!! I do mine just how you showed us!!!
Or you can put your prop box on top of your fridge if your kitchen gets enough light! 🌱🌱🌱😍😍😍
Wet sticks are my favorite videos. Thank you so much! ❤️😘
Thanks for watching Jennifer ☺️
Lol this video is so appropriate you always seem to post videos around what I'm doing it's too funny I'm in my plant room surrounded by wet sticks and props and corms and this video pops up love it !! My black velvet was outside for the summer and was Gorgeous and that little witch up and killed herself when I brought her in the house so I propped her corm lastnight . Oh you'll love your cupre when it grows I'm so so in love with mine and didnt I catch her huge leaf when I was vacuuming the plant room last week I was shook but while inspecting her and in tears intealized she is throwing me a new baby leaf so yay !! Love growing from wet stick it's so rewarding and yas girl reuse those take out containers i use my Tim's ice coffee cups too got that trick from you actually and i thank you ! Have a great week and ps you look really pretty your makeup is on point lovely lady Xo 😁🌿🌱💚
Attempting to propagating my first wet stick ever and this video made me super excited to watch the progress!
Yes!! Good luck :)
I just said when I opened TH-cam, I'd love a new Fern video, and here you are fulfilling my dreams
Always here to fulfill your planty content dreams 🪄 haha - good luck with your standleyana :)
Yay 🙌🏽 thank you for a new video
EEEEEE! CUTIEE CUPREA💖💖! Can't wait to see her progress 🤩
she's sooo sweet 🥺👽
I've only had one wet stick success with a manjula pothos. most of my wet sticks have just rotted. Thanks for the great tips!
I just ordered wet stixx and corms. This video is extremely helpful! New subscriber 🤗
Thank you & welcome!! 🌿
This video makes me want to go chop up my plants to see If I can propagate and make my plants fuller haha! off I go with some scissors. Love your content Fern thanks for providing the goods weekly
FERN! I just wanted to say you were the person who got me into perlite propagation boxes. Can't thank you enough
That's so amazing to hear!! Thank you for sharing 😃
Thanks for another wonderful video Fern I love my H.Fungii also so beautiful hope u have a great weekend an are doing well!! ❤
Thank you! I need to pot up the hoya fungii asap - can't wait to watch it grow 🥰
Awesome video. I’d love to see a video on how to start from corms. I have a black velvet and Frydek that have corms!
I am tempted to try some prop boxes💚
.Great video ! 🌿😊🌿 Plants are the best, specially the people behind them 🌿🤩🌿 You got a new sub from Denmark .☀️🌿😊🇩🇰
My monstera Peru was standing for about a year doing nothing trying to survive. It had pretty good/airy ground when I was checking but I decided to move it completely to the spaghnamoos. Since than together with good biohumus It grows like crazy giving me huuuge leaves ! I literally few days ago propagated one vain for maybe ten new babies 🥰 it is my first time with this medium and I’m very happy 😊 what a pity I cannot put here a picture of my Peru with leaves size like my hand 🤚🏻
Love that trellis on your tortem!
Thanks Fern! Happy Halloween. I love my prop boxes, like Hanukkah or Christmas...lol I forget and then get surprised!
Really looking forward to that video about alocasias' corms! I made it: it grew back from its corm. But did I do it? Erhm... pure luck I guess... I do need some proper guidance 😃
Lovely video!
I just chopped up my var. polybotrya peperomia last night because it has some kind of pest (new leaves growing in with 'moth eaten" style edges and bumps on the leaves, but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is or get rid of it so I chopped it to pieces and along the stem were about 8 nodes that I didn't want to keep pest ridden leaves on so they're currently in spag, perfect timing for this video, thanks!
Oh how cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Your nails are so cool. I can't deal with the feeling of acrylics, so I live vicariously through people that have really creative sets like yours. 😎 I have my license and need to do more nails, because I would do sets like that too (on others).
The trellis you have on your P. Tortum is awesome! I want to get the moon phase one (in white if I can find it), and the snake one you also have. 🌛🌝🌜🐍
Yeah, please make a video about Alocasia growing from bulbs!! I struggle with mine...
Love your channel and these prop videos. Would be curious your thoughts and experiences on pon. It seems you may be having second thoughts?
Great video! Monstero Peru seem soooo hard to propagate too! I really like mine though :)
thanks for sharing watching from Philippines 🖤
Please do a video on how to grow Alocasia from corms!!
How to start your day properly : watch a Fern video
Please do a video about growing alocasia from corms! I was just wondering about it.
Girl, you’ve got the Mojo ✌️❤️
Your nails look so amazing 😍😍😍
Thank you!!
Can you make a video of potting a plant after it grows roots/leaves
Hi Fern, awesome content!! Where did you get the trellis on your beautiful tortum? ☠👻
pineandsprout.com ☺️
OMG You're pretty
I just came for the plants but wow
awww thank you!!
Do you think propping a climbing plant up would suffice or is there something to tying/taping it down?
Love your nails 🤩
Thank you so much! My nail artist is incredible
Do you put a fully sealed lid on the prop box or let it vent a little...?
Thank you for another amazing planty video! I'm loving your lipstick too! What brand and colour is it?!
It’s by colour pop but the shade is discontinued 😩
@@wildfern darn!!
when are the mother lights available in your amazone shop? I wil buy them, just unavailable.. 😁
Can you share what lipstick 💄 you are wearing? It’s beautiful and goes really well on you.
Hey fern!! Have you ever heard of a syngonium chiapense? I love them and I think you would too!
Yes I have!! They are so gorgeous. I would like one someday, as well as the Syngonium macrophyllum frosted heart.
@@wildfern yesss I just found one on Amazon from California Tropicals for $20!!
Favorite way to start a Saturday morning, love from New Zealand 💜
You are so so beautiful Fern
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My black velvet does the same thing! Very frustrating!
do wet sticks need to harden off/dry out a bit before planting? I hade some just completely rot and I don’t know why 😭
I love your nails :)
Hey Fern 👋, do you have Calatheas? If so do you keep them in self watering pots? And what soil mixture do you use? Thanks, love your videos 🍀💚
Hey! I have two calatheas. They aren’t in self watering pots, but I think they’d do really well in them. One is in a regular potting mix (I haven’t repotted it into my mix yet) and one is in pon.
@@wildfern thank you ❤️
Do you have any other varieties of alocasia?
Please make a video on care tips.
I have a few!
When do you plant the wet stick and where do you get pon?
I usually pot them once they have 2 leaves. I make my own pon, I have a video about it on my channel :)
do you keep your black velvet under a grow light? i feel like mine is more of a green rather than the dark colour yours is. im wondering if its because shes getting too much light..
Yes it gets light purely from a grow light!
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I currently have a thrips infestation that practically destroyed my Pilea - the second plant I ever bought. I know I can find pileas everywhere, but this one has special meaning, so I'm thinking about chopping all the damaged leaves and re-starting it as a wet stick... Thoughts?
hmmm I'm not sure about growing pileas from wet stick. they don't have the same nodes are monsters/philos/etc. Even if it only has a few leaves left it can likely bounce back though!! maybe just hold out awhile longer before re-starting it 🥰
@@wildfern The poor thing is well on its way to becoming a zombie plant, so let's see what kind of a miracle I can operate here 😅
@@LarissaVeloso-Planttubber good luck!! You’ll have to update me :)
Girrrrrlll, you're genial
I bought special propagation pots with “humidity domes” that snap on to the pots. Is it a problem to have a leaf touching or pressing up against the dome if I’m propagating a stem cutting? Will the leaf rot or cause the propagation to fail?
It can cause the leaf to rot away :(
@@wildfern thanks for answering! I’ll have to fix that today. Only set things up on Sunday so hopefully the one day didn’t do any damage.
what medium was the hoya fungii growing in? and what medium do hoyas do best in?
It was grown in only sphagnum moss for a year. I have recently transferred it to an airy mix (coco coir, orchid bark, pumice, & perlite)
@@wildfern thanks fern!!!!!! i always have trouble rooting my hoya :/
The alocasia only has one or two leaves because the corm isn’t mature or large enough to support more than that. As it becomes more mature it can hold more leaves. :)
oooo thank you! I look forward to that day haha.
I have a wet stick prop and it’s growing leaves but no roots. It’s been in there for ever. Not sure what I am doing wrong 😑
weird!! if it's in sphagnum try to move it to perlite and if it's in perlite I would try sphagnum. sometimes a different medium will get those roots going :)
@@wildfern thanks I will try I this weekend.
i could never successfully grow hoyas from a wet stick!
I had a MASSIVE peru that seems to have caught a fungus or something and it spread to my siltepecana and I am wondering if I can prop the nodes can I message you on Instagram with photos?
sure!!
Oooohhhh I hope it’s a Mexicanum 😎
me too!! I can't think of what else it would be...
I have 2 Alocasia Black Velvets and they both only have 1 leaf. All of my Alocasia plants hate me 😭
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How many times you water them? They need their soil to be moist most of the times, need very bright light, and lessen the organic matter in the potting mix (more pumice, perlite, zeolite).
Wet sticks definitely can't just be stuck on top of random moss. I want keeping mine wet enough.
uh, I dont do alocasia anymore
-hey fern!
I have a question maybe you could help me with, I’m trying to think of a catchy, aesthetic but Planty name for my TH-cam channel (currently is called Maisies Jungalow but not really feelin it) My name is Maisie and im obsessed with plants, hoping you could give me aome rough jdess and inspire me😁😁 cus ur name is really nice 🥰
everyone pray for me im about to try and start a philo verracosum from 3 wet sticks💀
Hey Fern
Huh zombie plant it’s funny
Hey Olive
Hey Greta
Hey Hillary if you're watching
3:06 - 3:18
Great that plants are now accapeted in LGBTQ+ ❤️
(edit: i can hear some racism towards too much white and too much green)
🌱wildfern🙂ThankYou i had 2 wet sticks only 1 grew😢 if it hadn’t been for your help, I probably wouldn’t have any, The one is growing big & healthy, so ThankYou, 🌥wa. state☔️ 2022 july.🌿⛲️
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