I recently discovered leca and been moving my plants into it. Best decision ever, they started growing like a teenager on steroids 😂 I need to move my biggest monstera now... Gonna be hard :')
@@prettyingreen I did it... And I'm so dead 💀 I let it soak in warm water for some hours because the soil was literally compressed... I expected it to be at least four separate plants, but it actually is just one - with over 20 huge and many small leaves. It took me 25l of 20mm leca and quite a big amount of the smaller one.... Yes, I'm really dead 😂
I keep all my plants in leca and in glass with no drain hole or anything I rarely do water changes, and I only fertilize about twice a year. One of my most prolific plants has never had a water change and the container is completely covered in alge. It's never stopped growing and I've had to cut it back several times over the last 2 years.
Leca is literally the lowest matinence medium i use, idk where the critics are coming from. Even some people who have actually tried it, have said its too much work. How? What could they be doing to complicate it so much? Gorgeous adansonii btw- ive got one in a vase with lava rock(instead of leca, it looks awesome in a clear vessel) and a clear acrylic support stick, and im loving watching each new leaf come out larger than the last.
Yeah, I don’t know about that. Some algae is good, but that is gross. I also just prefer other growing media. Leca isn’t suited for me. To each their own though.
I have the same thing and that thing is growing like crazy its in a juicy juice jug that was a transplant temp container now its been about a year occasionally i pour in nutes with about 2 cups of water and leave it. Love leca
First time I’m seeing an Adansonii that looks like miiiine 😮 what’s causing the brown tips on yours? Low humidity? Cannot for the life of me figure out what’s wrong with it😂😆
Wow! She's a beauty! I've been wanting to transfer to leca for a while now. Would you recommend a good distributor to buy from. Also would you mind recommending a good aquaponic fertilizer that isn't too expensive? I heard you could use Miracle-Gro so I tried and failed. Killing my plants. Also I have tried hydrogen peroxide for a boost of oxygen and killed my fucking plants I had for YEARS! 😣😭😡
Hey!! Yeah we’re actually a family owned plant company and we’ve developed a fert and Leca kit that works great and is affordable! Here is the overview video on LECA and the fertilizer: ua-cam.com/video/uuXVajqbRC0/v-deo.html And here is our kit: prettyingreen.com/products/leca-kit?_pos=1&_sid=621815a9f&_ss=r You don’t have to buy from us. Our nutrients are a modified version of General Hydroponics but includes pH down and Vitamin B1. When you use peroxide do 1oz of 3% per gallon of water. Always use diluted, or spot treat for 10-15 seconds then rinse off with water! I hope this helps!! -Chris
If you have a microfiber rag like an automotive one you can loosely wrap a strip of that around the node. Then put it in leca with the strip dipping to the bottom of the tank. I find most things root pretty readily like that. That bit of rag is not removable tho.
@@lelyluckpfft. Just don't grow it in chlorinated tap water. Never had to add nutrients to propagation water, and the only few times I have, nothing came from it. Nah.
I left my random cutting (I accidentally ripped the tip of my vine off) in a jar with algae and it's doing fine I just top the water off and fertilizer here and there
i mean if youre not gonna clean it its not,but i clean mines every two weeks when i see algea i clean it!And that for other people is too much also depends how amny plants you have Lol
I have about 12 aerial roots of a fairly large Swiss cheese monstera. Some are a bit beaten up from when they traveled. Are they all worth cutting off and putting in water to propagate? I want more!
@@prettyingreen never heard of air stones, but now I’ve looked on Amazon and there are so many. Any tips on selecting sizes and buying the required motor? Seems like maybe i should put all monsters roots in one container with the air stone?
I just purchased some for my orchids. I want to put them in glass vases or jars, line the bottom with Leca, then bark, then moss, then leca, bark moss...like a lasagna for orchids. Now I know I can use leca for my other plants,, I'm going to give them all a go. Wish me luck! 💜
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I recently discovered leca and been moving my plants into it. Best decision ever, they started growing like a teenager on steroids 😂 I need to move my biggest monstera now... Gonna be hard :')
I want to do the same thing
Yes!! They grow so well 😄 Do you large Monstera! Just make sure the roots are rinsed off well
Go for it! 😄
@@prettyingreen I did it... And I'm so dead 💀 I let it soak in warm water for some hours because the soil was literally compressed... I expected it to be at least four separate plants, but it actually is just one - with over 20 huge and many small leaves. It took me 25l of 20mm leca and quite a big amount of the smaller one.... Yes, I'm really dead 😂
@@cyanide166 That sounds like a job!!! Sometimes transplants be like that!! But it'll be super happy post transplant!!!
I keep all my plants in leca and in glass with no drain hole or anything
I rarely do water changes, and I only fertilize about twice a year. One of my most prolific plants has never had a water change and the container is completely covered in alge.
It's never stopped growing and I've had to cut it back several times over the last 2 years.
Milhões de parabéns meu amigo amostera aqui em MG Brasil e conhecida como costela de Adão
A planta tá lindona❤
I just don’t like it when it gets old and cloudy, it looks icky
Very true!! Would help if u changed the water or cleaned the container 🤣
Exactly, that's what makes it high maintenance. If you want it to be clean.
@@crustystuff6804 Hydrogen peroxide once a week helps!
dont use a clear container?
Dark colored vase or pot😭
Leca is literally the lowest matinence medium i use, idk where the critics are coming from. Even some people who have actually tried it, have said its too much work. How? What could they be doing to complicate it so much?
Gorgeous adansonii btw- ive got one in a vase with lava rock(instead of leca, it looks awesome in a clear vessel) and a clear acrylic support stick, and im loving watching each new leaf come out larger than the last.
I change the water frequently on my plant but gets cloudy and a film forms on the surface
Try hydrogen peroxide (1oz per gal of water). Also a bubbler with air pump and stone gets rid of the film I’ve found!
My plant is never growing..can you please give me some tips?
@@dekipema9216 Do you have fertilizer in your water? Does the plant have enough light?
Never used fertilizers
@@prettyingreen Maybe not enough light where i have kept until now..
I have my adansonii in leca as well.... I love it and it's more clean and more neat than soil
Yes! Whenever I go back to dirt it’s super messy. Love the simplicity and cleanliness of leca
Wow very nice l love it
Thank you!
Yeah, I don’t know about that. Some algae is good, but that is gross. I also just prefer other growing media. Leca isn’t suited for me.
To each their own though.
Wow it’s doing really good 🎉
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What did you use to secure it to the walls?
I'm thinking of putting my Pilea Peperomioides in LECA. it'll be my first time using this medium so I'm nervous 🙈
Hey, so I thought andansonii leaves were supposed to get bigger when they started climbing?
I’ve got an unhappy bebbie right now
I have the same thing and that thing is growing like crazy its in a juicy juice jug that was a transplant temp container now its been about a year occasionally i pour in nutes with about 2 cups of water and leave it. Love leca
Love that! They really take off in LECA!!
Just bought the Monstera. Gonna try LECA. Eventho I don’t really like the way they look in glass vase
First time I’m seeing an Adansonii that looks like miiiine 😮 what’s causing the brown tips on yours? Low humidity? Cannot for the life of me figure out what’s wrong with it😂😆
Oh damn! That’s it. I’m changing mine to Leca tomorrow!
It’s worth it!
Just... _HOW??_ 🤯
Wow! She's a beauty! I've been wanting to transfer to leca for a while now. Would you recommend a good distributor to buy from. Also would you mind recommending a good aquaponic fertilizer that isn't too expensive? I heard you could use Miracle-Gro so I tried and failed. Killing my plants. Also I have tried hydrogen peroxide for a boost of oxygen and killed my fucking plants I had for YEARS! 😣😭😡
Hey!! Yeah we’re actually a family owned plant company and we’ve developed a fert and Leca kit that works great and is affordable! Here is the overview video on LECA and the fertilizer: ua-cam.com/video/uuXVajqbRC0/v-deo.html
And here is our kit: prettyingreen.com/products/leca-kit?_pos=1&_sid=621815a9f&_ss=r
You don’t have to buy from us. Our nutrients are a modified version of General Hydroponics but includes pH down and Vitamin B1.
When you use peroxide do 1oz of 3% per gallon of water. Always use diluted, or spot treat for 10-15 seconds then rinse off with water!
I hope this helps!!
-Chris
@@prettyingreen thank you, thank you. I'm omw over to check it out. Thanks for your time. 🤘😎🤘
Awesome!! Let me know if you have any questions :)
I've tried to propagate this twice with no luck. I don't think my friend will give me any more cuttings. This is beautiful 😍
Awww try the water method! They propagate well!
If you have a microfiber rag like an automotive one you can loosely wrap a strip of that around the node. Then put it in leca with the strip dipping to the bottom of the tank. I find most things root pretty readily like that. That bit of rag is not removable tho.
Make sure you are putting nutrients in the water propagation. I failed trying to just put them in tap water 🙄
Water or carryout tel
@@lelyluckpfft. Just don't grow it in chlorinated tap water. Never had to add nutrients to propagation water, and the only few times I have, nothing came from it. Nah.
Stunning
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Just waouh 🤩
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Gorgeous. I have one. How the heck do I transplant when it's around things.
Transplanting can be tough when they get in fixed positions! Gotta get creative 🙌 Or just skip the transplant 😂
Why hasent it matured into bigger leaves?
Because it hasn’t rooted into a tree / moss pole / plank going vertically against gravity
I left my random cutting (I accidentally ripped the tip of my vine off) in a jar with algae and it's doing fine I just top the water off and fertilizer here and there
Love my leca!
It’s the best!
@prettyingreen no doubt! It has saved so many of my plants. Was gone 3 weeks & when I returned I only had 1 casualties
very nice 👌👌
What have you done to it in terms of feeding? :)
Just liquid fert A+B parts! prettyingreen.com/products/part-a-b-leca-fertilizer?_pos=2&_sid=5c38a5cd8&_ss=r
i mean if youre not gonna clean it its not,but i clean mines every two weeks when i see algea i clean it!And that for other people is too much also depends how amny plants you have Lol
Truuuue!
I have about 12 aerial roots of a fairly large Swiss cheese monstera. Some are a bit beaten up from when they traveled. Are they all worth cutting off and putting in water to propagate? I want more!
Yup -- I'd say so! Just give them an air stone to propagate! ua-cam.com/video/utHZPvZMhos/v-deo.html
@@prettyingreen never heard of air stones, but now I’ve looked on Amazon and there are so many. Any tips on selecting sizes and buying the required motor? Seems like maybe i should put all monsters roots in one container with the air stone?
@@mattsapero1896 Here's the air pump I use! And it comes with airstone amzn.to/3GO4T8W
@@prettyingreen thx! Can all 12 or even 6 of the roots be out in the same container?
I had to watch this 17 times because I wasn’t sure if it was English
Sir
Do fertilizer the plants
Do the roots grow into the drywall? I want to do this
They do!
I find some plants of mine grow slower in leca. Whilst some do fine. Zz plants in my experience don’t even budge in leca
Hmmm interesting! ZZs can be notoriously slower growing. I’d love to try on in Leca
Lazy leca is the only way haha
Sometimes it just works the best!
What are the benefits of leca?
~30% faster growth, less water consumption, less root rot, less bugs!
I just purchased some for my orchids. I want to put them in glass vases or jars, line the bottom with Leca, then bark, then moss, then leca, bark moss...like a lasagna for orchids. Now I know I can use leca for my other plants,, I'm going to give them all a go. Wish me luck! 💜
I love that! lol a lasagna for orchids 😂 That's perfect!! Best of luck! You're gonna do great!
Hi l have one ad she got whap l had tried everything and she is dying what can l do,?😢
Maybe less water? More light? Usually it’s those two to create an unhealthy root zone
Wow, just 2 water changes in a year and half!!! really????
Yeah!
LECA balls.... I just use that as mulching. I'm not using it as for my plants to live.
You should try it!! It's really incredible stuff!
To much maintenance? It’s the complete opposite. It’s so easy compared to regular soil.
Couldn't agree more!
I dont think this plant looks good at-all bottom half is pretty much dead
Leca and self watering pots Positively change my whole plant life! I don't get it...
Agreed! It's super simple!
Non è possibile!!! Ma cosa ci fate a ste piante??!!😮😮😮
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ew?
Oh my, that just looks nasty 😒
FOR REAL!?
That's abuse.
You should see a swamp in nature! 🤭
@@prettyingreen so true. People have no clue because they spend their lives looking at screens instead of in nature 😢
Ugh 🤢 🤮 poor plant.
You should see plants that grow in nature 😂