Your Plants Will DIE. Let's Fix That. 🪴☠️👌
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- This is the DEAD PLANTS video you've been waiting for. Dead or dying plants are all around us. And it's 100% OK to kill your houseplants. Let's count the ways your plants can die, talk about some remedies & techniques to avoid killing your plants, and more importantly, spend some time laughing at my mistakes! 😂
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=== CHAPTERS 📖 ===
00:00 Intro 👋
02:03 STORY TIME 📕
08:14 In Commercial Growing
09:10 In Boutique Shops
13:11 Ain't Nothin' Ugly on Social Media
15:49 WHEEL OF DEADNESS 🎯
18:00 Commercial Agriculture vs. NATURE
18:35 Stuff That Will Kill Your Plants
22:45 Humidity in Semi-Hydro
31:05 FLUSH Your LECA
41:59 Dormancy (It's Not Dead!)
1:31:00 Outro 🫡
=== FEATURED PLANTS 🪴 ===
05:13 🌱 #Anthurium "Doc Block" F2 - #anthuriumdocblockf2 #anthuriumdocblock
09:42 🌱 #Epipremnum aureum "Manjula" - #epipremnumaureummanjula #manujulapothos
09:58 🌱 #Philodendron "Summer Glory" - #philodendronsummerglory
13:38 🌱 Anthurium decipiens - #anthuriumdecipiens
17:11 🌱 Anthurium cutucuense - #anthuriumcutucuense
34:55 🌱 Anthurium besseae aff. x luxurians - #anthuriumbesseaeaffxluxurians
46:09 🌱 Philodendron melanochrysum - #philodendronmelanochrysum
47:03 🌱 Alocasia infernalis - #alocasiainfernalis
54:38 🌱 Anthurium pedatoradiatum - #anthuriumpedatoradiatum
55:56 🌱 Anthurium papi "Blue" - #anthuriumpapillilaminumblue #anthuriumpapillilaminum
57:00 🌱 Anthurium sp. "Morona" - #anthuriumspmorona
1:07:15 🌱 #Syngonium rayii - #syngoniumrayii
1:20:00 🌱 Syngonium podophyllum "Red Spot Tricolor" - #syngoniumredspottricolor #syngoniumpodophyllum
1:26:44 🌱 Philodendron cv. "Florida Ghost" - #philodendronfloridaghost
1:27:39 🌱 Anthurium wendlingeri "NSE Tropicals" & Ecuagenera - #anthuriumwendlingeri
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Yaay an hour and a half video. Lemme pour a drink and make a snack 😁
I screenshotted this for my... ugghh.. scrapbook? Not sure what to call it. I don't think I can admit to having a scrapbook.
Jokes aside, I love this though. Thank you. 😉
There are a lot of plants that I have had on my videos that are dead, so don’t be embarrassed just part of it. I am obsessed with the Queen I have 4 of them, but I am totally stressed because I want to do it right. Some start yellowing and I am like why? Ugh, it is a lot of work, but it is fun at the same time. Makes me feel good if they thrive.
It's the money that makes it hard. I'm about to lose a $175 seedling...ouch. But it's the price of the education. I just last week overused Neem and under the grow lights fried ALL the new leaves. I tripped over a plant, you name it... But that label jar makes me feel better...ha! And I think I damaged seedlings with the heat mat. The really little seedlings are the hardest for me. I heard cloud forest plants don't do well on a heat mat. Do you know which seedlings should be on a heat mat?
Hey Anna! If it makes you feel any better... I've lost a number of $175 seedlings and I literally just lost one this week that was particularly rough. I'm actually embarrassed to mention the name because it's a rather rare Anthurium I got from a well-known collector in Eastern Canada... sigh.
I'm pretty careful about seedlings on a heat mat, tbh, if plants are in anything non-semi-hydro (e.g. sphagnum moss, tree fern, stratum.) I typically only put ones with really good root systems that have at least a 3" container on a heat mat. Anything smaller (e.g. 2" containers) will be inside a prop box or seedling tray and shouldn't make direct contact with the heat mat. It's way too easy for those things to go haywire and burn through your moss/TF in a day or two without you noticing and watering. I've had larger plants in moss go dry within a couple of days if I'm not paying attention.
If you want to use a heat mat (and there are plenty of times I do), I'd recommend getting one with a thermostat included (I think I have one or two linked in this video description) so you can breathe a little easier and be less stressed about it.
@@theproppist If it makes you feel better, mine is a (carla x BVEP) x Carlablackiae. After shipping, it was $175ish. I'm dreading "the seller" asking for follow up photos...ugh.
For what it's worth, I would never send a follow-up photo past the initial unboxing if you really have to... if I paid for it, it's my problem. 😉
If you want to try and save a little cash, try getting in on some group orders. I'm pretty sure I saw a (carla x bvep) x carla going for
Oof I hear you, I finally started buying the big price tag plants this year and of course all of the things have started happening this year. Fungus gnats from a sellers moss, thrips from the S.O.s purchase, just some crazy root rot issues...I think I'm being over zealous due to the price tags and I have to remind myself my hoyas thrive on neglect, I don't need to helicopter parent the rest
@JessicaSugarTankLarson On the price, yeah, I'm trying to be a little more cautious there, too. I've been buying more seed batches and group orders that have brought the price down somewhat, but in those cases you're trading less cash for way more maintenance and stress on the initial growing front. Losing tiny seedlings kinda sucks but I'd argue it's still better than losing a large, mature plant. 🤷♂️ Gotta take the wins where you find them. 😉
I'm def not a helicopter parent, probably the opposite, I neglect stuff a little too long and then often underwatering leads to other problems, like bugs. The pests are a problem even for me, I have a spider mite outbreak literally happening right now that I'm trying to subdue.
Out of everything, my hoyas are definitely the survivors, they're so succulent that they're nearly impossible to kill and as long as they have some relative humidity they will root pretty much anywhere along their vine, which is nice but a pain in the ass to maintain because they tend to go crazy! I think I have a reel on my IG (@theproppist) showing my Hoya mathilde infiltrating literally every crack in my Milsbo, lol. 😂
Bravo!!! Thank you for showing the good bad and the ugly. You’re right, people don’t do it enough
You're my favorite plant TH-camr! I love how honest you are about the trial and error of being a plant person. It's a seemingly never ending experiment😂😊
Thank you so much, very glad to have you here!
I try and be as honest as I can, and I kill plenty of stuff due to experimentation and a whole lot of unintentional neglect (lol). Trying to be a bit more meticulous about my smaller seedlings. The one advantage of killing stuff is you have more room for new stuff, right? 😉
Yes! Normalize zombie plants😂 And speaking of- I noticed your plant assistants were playing Plants vs Zombies in the background. Well played 👏🏻
Haha if you can believe it, my twins picked the game they were going to play without any influence from me, I swear I didn't suggest anything! 🤯
I have to give 9-year-olds more credit, it seems. 😂
Man, that anthurium at the start. I just got my first one, it had 3 broken off leaves. Got it for 50% off (5 euro). Took nearly 2 months to start growing, now it's pushing out 2-3 at the same time. However, first new leaf I was really excited for. For no reason it got a tear... Must've looked at it too hard.
I hear **looking** at Anthuriums is probably the worst thing you can do. They tear, leaves brown off, thrips and spider mites attack out of the blue... and if you look at someone else's, you end up buying more. Horrible...!
Now let's go scroll Instagram a little more... 😂 🔫 💥
And thanks for watching. That Anthurium at the start is my papi unknown hybrid x lux from @bagsplants on IG if you want to look him up. I have another one that's just starting to recover from being chopped down to a stump... really curious to see if it ends up growing to be like its big bro!
I've recently caught the plant buying bug - bought too many at once & subsequently fell into the plant content vortex here on TH-cam & this is video has been the much-needed salve for my nerves & anxiety. Thank you so much!
Hey @heartinthecity! Thank you for watching. I just wanted to tell you that this comment made my day. I took a screenshot and showed my wife. 😃 Love that you found the video helpful and that it took the edge off somewhat!
I'm trying to alternate this type of video into my stream of other planty content as I feel like it gives a bit more of a balanced view compared to the "buy buy buy" / FOMO mentality we all end up falling into when collecting.
Since I started collecting close to 4 years ago, I've discovered I need to take a break now and then from buying for 2-3 months at a time just to reset and feel inspired by my collection - and honestly, to take better care of the plants I have, including getting rid of some stuff I don't feel too attached to, propagating, and ditching dead stuff. Seems like a natural balance to the collecting lifecycle and it brings quite a bit of respite when you start feeling a little overwhelmed or burnt out.
Glad I was able to help and please let me know if there are any other topics you'd like me to cover! 💚
I started collecting around the same time and only killed 2 plants lithops and Hoya princess that came with too much water. I always only keep what I can care for. Around 70 with a full time job. Can’t bother with super difficult plants
Hey Janice! Awesome that you've managed to do so well keeping your stuff alive! I tend to experiment with all sorts of risky plant behaviour so I probably kill way more than the average person. But that's part of the fun of it for me. I probably have 200+ around here including seedlings and props at this point, and I also work F/T with 3 kids, so I absolutely get it! I'm probably going to purge a few this summer to focus more on the ones I really want to grow big/spectacular. Props to you, 70 plants isn't easy!
Yes that's okay 😊 I was so guilty at first when I kill plants I thought I was not doing a good job. But it's normal especially when you transfer plants into pon or when thrips are fighting with you. Instagram tend to make you fill guilty and buy more plants 😩
I know, right? Killing stuff is fine as long as you can come to grips with throwing some money out the window as a "learning experience". I've done so much of that (lol). But Instagram is the worst! 😆 I still can't avoid the lust from some of the new plants I see on there, but I'm trying to ration myself to only looking once or twice a day. Plant envy is the devil. 😈
Yes, I used to be really active on Instagram but you must make a publication everyday. It was more stressfull than fun. The most popular plants are the most expensive 😢 I have a small appartment that's why I can only have 50 plants if I want more I have to sell one 😁
@Emma_splants Hey Emma! Sorry I missed your reply in my comments feed!
I know what you mean about posting to Instagram. I'm terrible about being consistent there (I'm @theproppist on IG) and it feels more like stress than fun. So I try just to post when I run into a new leaf or something interesting going on in my collection that actually inspires me to post, instead of trying to post on a schedule. TH-cam is my main platform and IG is basically just for fun right now, so I'm not going to waste a ton of effort on it until it actually matters to me. Plus, with their new paid account changes, it's starting to feel kind of "pay-to-win", which is really lame. For now, I'll just post when I feel like it's worthwhile and I'm inspired to do it... less stress is the way to go!
Also, if you want to try and save some money on the "popular" plants (like Anthurium hybrids these days), I've joined some Facebook groups that do group orders and save everyone quite a lot of money. They tend to be regional groups so you'll need to find one in your local area (I'm guessing you're in Europe?), but they can save you a ton of money if you're willing to buy seedlings or seeds and do a little extra work to baby them as they grow. Hope that helps. 😊
@theproppist yes I do post only when I have new things to show. 😊
Yes I'm from Europe, from France more exactly do you know any group for Europe ?
Thanks 😊
Yaay! 🎉 Thank you for the new video 😊
I really like the topic you shared with us.
Thank you Dan! Appreciate you watching (again)! And if you have ideas for future videos, let me know! 😊
Haha i started cracking up at the pinguicula part. Im obsessed with my pings. I probay have damn near 40 (i propagate the hell out of them) i think u should try again! Im a helicopter plant mom so they have no chance of drying out. BUT if ur not a crazy person like me, grow it in sphag moss and keep in a lil tray of water. Even when the tray dries up u still have a good 3 or 4 days of the moss staying damp.
40 pings!!... I'm starting to wonder if maybe YOU'RE the one who was selling me those damn things. 😂 I never actually saw her face... mostly COVID door pick-ups before I got wise and stopped buying them!
TBH you're probably 100% right on how to keep them alive if you're lazy. The sphagnum thing, maybe with LECA underneath, I hate it for Anthuriums but it would probably work great to keep pings alive. Not that I'll ever know. 🤷♂️ 😆
Hahaha
that golden bone is 🔥
@MyLocksMyPlants Thank you! It's not quite up there with @kevin.'s (HakunaLaPlanta) but I'm pretty proud of it. Probably time to upsize the pot it's been in for >2 years, though... lol. 😂
@theproppist lol it looks great! gotta do what ya can when you have time lol
Would love to see a video on your grow tent. Enjoy your video thanks
Thank you Pamela! I've got a new tent build in the works so I think I'll probably film setting that up, since it's my 2nd tent I think I know what I'm doing a little better this time. Appreciate the suggestion and thanks for watching!
Thats great I look forward to it. Thank you
I will be looking for the golden bone now... Great video! 😊
Hey Mona, thanks for watching! Golden Bones used to be quite a bit more expensive when I got mine back in... 2021? (I think.) I'm pretty sure you can snag one for cheap now, I'm not sure if they're in garden centres but I bet you can get one off Etsy or a local plant swap pretty easily. And if you're ever up in Vancouver, BC, let me know and I'm sure I can dig you up some corms. 😆
Agree with regale I sold it with a crappy leaf at least recoup my costs. But I think your prop box for your stomp maybe sterilization first and airflow or at least some kind of enzyme liquid to kill dead matter to reduce root rot like Cannazym
Yeah, the perlite containers had a airflow issues until I started cutting holes into the tops. Those were a couple of my earlier attempts that failed pretty miserably. I just kept them around for demonstration purposes... they're gone now. 😉
I'll definitely check out Cannazym... the world of cannabis cultivation can teach us aroid collectors and semi-hydro/hydroponics buffs so much, they've been doing this stuff for decades. I think folks just need to be more open-minded to knowledge sharing since we're all basically doing similar things. I found it on Amazon so I may buy a bottle just to give it a try. Thanks for the tip!
I’m glad you popped up in my feed! Speaking of leca-do you recycle it? I’ve heard of boiling it to recycle it. Is that a thing? EDIT: yep, kept watching this epic video and got my answer! New subscriber here, buddy! How have I never seen you before? Probably the hydro/semi-hydro situation. I’m in South Dakota, USA. Your newest fan!
I deffo recyle leca. Boiling it works, some people bake it for 30 min etc. It is 100% reusable, so some coins and clean them badboys. It has to be full of dead rotted roots before i say eff it and toss it 😅
Hey Becky! Thanks for stopping by, appreciate the comment AND the sub! Glad you found it helpful. 😃
Like MISS Thomass said above, I always recycle my LECA. It's designed to be recyclable. There are a lot of ways to clean it, you can just use hot water and give it a good scrub (I think I've shown this in previous videos), or you can boil it (just use a cheap pot so you don't care if it gets damaged).
The other options are to use cleaning products designed for semi-hydro like General Hydroponics FloraKleen. I think I have a link to it in the video description (if not, I'll add one.) It works well as a thing you do while flushing, but I'm pretty lazy about it. I usually just grab the shower head or a hose, throw stuff in a big dollar-store sieve outside, and hose it down until it looks clean. A little hydrogen peroxide (1oz per gallon of water) in your nutrient mix will also help cleaning things up (including algae.)
Let me know if you have any other questions! I'm gonna need to do a Q&A video sometime soon.
When your Alocasia,s lose their leaves or go dormant…when do you start watering? Do you wait until new growth appears or do you minimally water to keep the roots alive?
Hey Jack - since I keep the majority of my Alocasias in my cabinet or one of my grow tent (or some kind of enclosure with good lighting), I don't find they go into dormancy.
When I did have them go dormant indoors previously, in the late fall/winter (before I had a tent/cabinet/etc.), I would chop them down and only water enough the keep the soil from totally drying out completely (i.e. minimally water, as you said) for an extended period of time. It's kind of like any other tuberous/bulbous(?) plant you'd plant outside. In Southeast Asia they tend to ship them bare-root as tubers. You can even dig them up in the winter time and keep them in a paper bag in room temperature over the dormancy period and re-plant them in the spring if you really want.
I should mention that It's also similar to what I do with my pepper plants if I want to overwinter them, which is to cut them down to their bare stems (and their first couple of Y junctions), and then keep their container soil watered very infrequently. I use grow bags for my outdoor veggies, so putting the peppers in the garage for a few months isn't that big of a deal.
I'm a lazy plant collector, though, so I use my grow lights and temp-controlled environments like cabinets and tents just to keep them from going dormant altogether. You can do this in your home by keeping them in a brighter, warm spot, and they'll be less likely to go dormant, but unless that temp/humidity/light is consistent, they may still do it.
@@theproppist thank you so much…I appreciate it…and enjoy your channel!