Not to say that you don’t have brilliant content, because you absolutely do. Love your content. But you have what is one of the most, if not the most, stellar personalities on UA-cam and so just listening to your videos in the background and the vibe you give off is enough. And then with your brilliant content layered on top, is the chef’s kiss!
I always water my plants that way - helps reduce fungus gnats too. I mix up tap water, a drop of baby bio (if needed) and a little water purifier (the stuff you told us about) pour it into 2 large under-bed clear storage containers (kept in the garage) then stand my plants in them. I then leave them to drain on baking cooling racks over the sink or baking trays. Afterwards, I pour the rest of the water into spray bottles as well as an empty fabric softener bottle (one with a spout) that I use for watering my succulents. Another thing I do is to cut down yoghurt pots to a centimetre or two in height and use them to raise my pots up inside the cover pot. I hate how cover pots are usually far deeper than the plant pot. I like the plant pot to be just under the rim so the base of the plant gets light. The great bonus is that the plant is never sitting in water should excess water run out after leaving it to drain after using the watering method above. I also cut a yellow stick fungus gnat square into a long rectangle and stick it on an ice lolly stick. It's cheaper to buy a pack of large squares and cut them to the size and shape you want depending on the plant. I popped in the local garden centre today to "have a look" (yeah, right) and came out with (another) £6 Marble Queen Pothos. They only had 3 but as everyone was in there buying poinsettias, I managed to find one at the back. I couldn't believe my luck. Love me a pothos as you know.
Want an immediate Fungus Gnat death march? Looking for some bug payback? Here's what you do: 1. Stop watering until soil dries out. 2. Add 2 tablespoons of dish soap to a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, add a sprayer and spray the soil liberally, spray all the soils of all your plants at the same time AND the water basins under them. 3. Buy a bag of sand, rinse thoroughly and add at least one half inch to top of soil and this method stops them instantly, (I discovered this one myself and REALLY like it) whatever is left alive in the soil will soon not be. If you can get white silica sand it looks epic cool but play sand works just as well. Cover all plants soil with sand at the same time so the Gnats have no place left to land. LEAVE NO QUARTER 4. Dry up water in sinks at night and spray drains with the Soap/Hydrogen Peroxide solution ( I do not dilute and my plants have no issues in fact it is supposed to get them an oxygen boost). They must have a water source so eliminate them all when going to bed. Do all these at once and you can eliminate 99% in less than 1 day (a few hours)! Happy Hunting!
Two alterations I'd make to these tips. 1) When wicking water to your plants when you're away, run the string through a drinking straw or several as you stretch it from the basin to the plant. Enclosing the string will mean less water evaporates into the air before reaching the plant. It's should make the water last longer. 2) When adding the holes to the bottoms of the food containers, don't forget that bottom ring that juts out/down from the container. When turned upright, that ring will be a reservoir for water that will never be able to drain through the other, higher holes. Putting at least one hole in that ring as well will fix that problem.
Another tip for you. Burn 2 small holes opposite each other in your ugly nursery pots , thread tie wraps through the holes and fasten. You can either make loops or totally tighten them to make longer handles. Now when you put the pot into the cache pot, you can lift it out for watering without damaging your plant.
AOHo! That tray tip is going to save my sink from getting clogged again! Last time I had to suck out the potting soil with a pump and tubing to get most of the potting soil out so the drain would work again. Wow! Great tip. Thank you SMP!
Thank you so much for the information about basil! I bought one put it under a grow light, watered when it was dry and it died. I couldn’t understand why but it was a big bushy plant! Now this video explained it, too many plants stuck into one pot! Think I will try again and follow your advice. Thanks.
For the plastic scooper: use a lighter on the edge! It slightly melts it making a far softer edge that won't cut/scratch you (takes only a few seconds)
@@lunarminx hot iron sounds precarious. The good thing about a lighter is it mainly gets rids of the thin (/sharp) parts, not the main material. I imagine a hot iron is a lot harder to move over the materials edge in a short but even fashion.
Never thought of heating a screwdriver, I don't have a soldering iron so this is great.. I knew there was going to be something useful for me in this video 😄
Thank you Richard for another fun video. I have a soldiering iron, it only costs me $20 Aud. I use it exclusively for melting holes in plastic. One of the best things I have ever bought ❤
Love the laughs you bring, along with useful advice, Richard.. 😆 How to stop fungus gnats making hay, plants having their troos pulled down and others doing yoga.. love it! I remember when I lived on the 2nd floor of a flat over a decade ago, I seriously over-watered the plants hanging on my balcony rail and soaked the elderly fella below as he read his newspaper.. 🤦🏻♀️ He wasn't very happy, I can tell you and I was mortified! 😆
Putting your soil in oven/microwave will also kill the good nutrition in the soil… Putting it in the freezer only kills the bugs and eggs, so the freezer is definitely the better option :)
My local garden centre does a free pot exchange where you can leave unwanted pots for people to take and also take any that you might need. It’s saved me loads of money and is a great way to reduce plastic waste.
For a really cheap watering/potting tray for those with smaller kitchens/homes is to get foil roasting pans with deepish sides. I get the ones that are 13x9 or so inches from the dollar store. They are great for about 6 4" pots to soak up water. Glue guns also work for melting holes into plastic food containers. I like getting Chobrani 32oz yogurt containers...they come with a removable printed sleeve and you end up with a lovely white container that is tall. For the scoop made from milk carton, you can also take off the lid for a more directed pour into containers.
At 6:50 timespot in your video, there is a small bug crawling between your plants, just as you are discussing a method you recommend for keeping bugs away.
I’ve just been using empty nursery pots as my scoops 😂. We are dealing with fungus gnats… but I’ve been having luck killing eggs with diluted peroxide in my watering solution. I’m slowly getting the infestation under control.
I saw the thumbnail and I thought ohh noooo it's the infamous 5 minutes craft, and so many plants will die 😅😂 But fortunately it's you! 😊 My biggest fear is taking home infections, especially thrips 😢
@@SheffieldMadePlants I have two more! 😁 1. My self-made aroid mix is not chunky enough. (I will try to add leca in it next year) 😐 2. Pot size is too big. 🥺
The idea of using other life to control the gnats is one that I feel more people should practice. I keep praying mantis in my home just for that but I am a bit of a big lover anyway. Among all my plants are over 100 species of tarantula.
Don't you wish you had some device that'll tell you when you watered your plant last time or when you fertilized them. I created a simple gadget at home to do exactly that and thought I'd share it here how I made it hoping it'll be helpful for all plant lovers. Who knows someone will manufacture them and sell it soon. Hopefully a dime a dozen. It's something like a mechanical calender of digits to tell us the date we watered the plant. For this you'll need two bottle caps, preferably white. Write 0, 1 , 2 , 3 on one cap like numbers on a clock dial and 0.thru.9 on the other, with a permanent marker. Now join these two caps with digits facing outwards with a screw. I used an plastic electrical casing pipe piece in the middle. Alternatively you could use a piece of wooden dowel. The screw goes through the 1st cap, the casing/dowel piece, then the 2nd cap. To that casing, I inserted a hard wire like a binding/centring wire through the bottom. I use this wire to insert it into the soil for standing/supporting the device. Whenever you water the plant, just change the dials accordingly to reflect the date. For say, you watered on 28th, you change the first dial to 2 and the next dial to 8. Next time you can just see the dial and know the last time you watered was on 28th. Cheers!
11:03 add some dish washing detergent to the water helps to stop the soil becoming hydrophobic --- BTW leave the plant in the pot is not a drama Free tip for those who don't use a dish washer --- the used dish washing water is great for plants as it has detergent and leftover food bits . And not just for pots ; good for garden beds also . In drier areas (outback Australia) it's also saves water to your property
I bring home plastic spoons I’ve been given with food and use them as scoopers for my small plants. Most of my plants are small and young so the gardening shovel is just to much
Great tips and advice, thank you The watering tray is a great idea... Why didn't I think of this *sigh* 🤔😳 As for blowing the dust from leaves, I bought a small handheld USB-charged blower from some Chinese site about two years ago. I bought it to clean my PC, but it works very well with plants as well. It's not as effective as giving normal plants a shower or using a wet rag, but it's great for a quick dusting off. It works perfect for cacti and succulents As a bonus the somewhat forcefull stream of air, will often make spider mites try to escape by dropping down and thus be visible and easy to catch I don't have a link to said blower but it was pretty cheap... 20 pounds or so Cheers
@@SheffieldMadePlants Yes, they'll try to escape the scene of crime by moving down vertically on a string of web, just like spiders move down.... I hate spider mites with a passion. Thrips or fruit flies are mostly just an annoyance to have around. I have yet to experience and deal with aphids and mealy bugs 🤞🏻
@@SheffieldMadePlants i have another use for gallon jugs. i made a raincatcher from a plastic trashcan (oooh technical, i know). when it's getting full i fill up gallon jugs with the cap part cut off, and use them to water plants. the handle is very handy
Indeed, we have them here in Canada, but you get the deposit back for returning them in some provinces... What I do have, though, is 4 l jugs of vinegar. I go through a lot of it for cleaning and I save them to let the water stand for 24hrs (with water conditioner!) before watering my plants. I suppose I could sacrifice one of those to make a scoop 😝 ❤❤❤
Sir Richard, how is it that we both use the exact style of makeup brush (design, color, and all)? The difference is that I actually use mine for makeup.😂😂😂 Thanks for another entertaining video!!!🪴
Fungus gnats...mix diatomaceous earth into the top few inches of your plant soil with a fork. Do not water for a few days. Buy a big bag of DE for a few houseplants? Use the rest as a natural pest barrier around your house to keep bugs from coming in
Put tea tree or peppermint oil where the cats are getting to your plants...you can use a cotton ball or just keep it in a small dish. Any offensive odor will work. I peel an orange and she runs for the hills..
Our local water has both chlorines, so sitting for 24 hours really isn't helpful. I also have reptiles so I have the water treatment for them and I just use it for the plants. Two of the reptiles are in bioactive terrariums with their feeders breeding inside so calcium dusting is out. I add 5 drops of a plain liquid calcium to the misting/ drinking and plant water, helps newlywed plants roots to grow better. I moved to more soil based growing for my leafy greens but was doing kratky hydroponics and made up gallons of nutes at a time and mixed half and half with treated water for the house plants. A trick I learned at a nursery was to fill a bucket or bin with water and dunk a severely dry pot fully under the water until the bubbles stop as that is when all the soil is hydrated again. I have just started two cannabis, legal here and they are just lush and lovely but plan to grow a small cover crop as mulch and just leave it to beeak down over and over to add nutes to the soil. I also use bioactive boosters in the plant substrate and other kinds of fungi to help roots feed. I am trying to use living soil and now I just dump used in a bin to break down the roots and use again in a few months. In a fabric pot I throw all dropped leaves and dried out leafy greens in to fully dry brittle and put in the soil bin. For cuttings, i cut the bottom third of a water bottle off, cut the top eighth off or so. Thread the stems through the upside down mouth piece, put into the base and add water. It keeps the leaves from going in the water.
Gnats gnats gnats - I have followed your struggles and am currently awaiting the hatch out of my nematodes to eat the little buggers!!! I want a nice tray made to set plants in (different sizes) with a corner drain hole and tubing to drain it into a bucket. Still dreaming and waiting on that one! Thanks again for a wonderful and funny video! Lo from California
Love your channel! Always get a chuckle and learn something. In regards to bottom watering in mass- would that allow root mealies to spread? Never had them but have heard enough people deal with them.
They are the same/cousins(?) as the white fluffy Mealy bugs but live underground. UA-camrs Lessya's Leaves, Basie Plants, and then a pod caster Jane Perrone from "On the Ledge" have all dealt with them. I think she made comment that she spread them on her plants by reusing the water that came out of the bottom of the plants and put them in other pots to be mindful of water consumption. My skin crawls with the regular little buggers so the idea of those fluffy devils entering my household- not a pleasant one. (@@SheffieldMadePlants
“Drown that sucka. Yes, pull its trousers down and stick that whole root ball in a bucket of water.” Also “little water farts” 🥹😂 I love the humor while delivering the knowledge. Subscribed and thank you for the smiles.
Great video my kung-fu fighting gnat assassin! One question, do you think that by freezing or cooking the soil you also kill off all the beneficial bacteria that also live in it? I await your response, ninja master.
The basil, cutting propagation in water, does the water have to be changed or can it just sit? My cuttings start out great, and after a couple days, they get funky and die.
6:14 beautiful Coleus, any tips on how to care for it, I got Kong Rose and it’s keeps dying on me from root rotting or drying out, and every time I save it by taking a cut and start all over again.
Finicky little buggers... after my 15th one died I will never ever buy a Coleus again. They are really beautiful but Coleus and I are simply not a good match and I've made peace with that😂
sorry for calling them the wrong name, had to translate it. they are called mealybugs. i hate them so much, with all there white pelt... and as i said they only arrive in the winter when the temperatures are dropping....@@SheffieldMadePlants
hi, I'm a new subscriber and I tried propagating my peace lily but she was drooping so I moved her to soil but nothing has changed .. I don' know what to do please help!
I cut of a part of my peace lily and it had a couple roots on it, I filled a glass with water and put her in it and used a grow light, I did the same with my pothos and my aglaonema plant and they are doing just fine@@SheffieldMadePlants
What’s better than 1 ugly stick in your plants? THREE! 😂😂😂 Still love ya anyway! Nematodes are 100% winner. THE solution to our personal war on terror!
With 6teaspoons of a 3 percent hydrogen peroxide dissolved in a litre of water helped getting rid of all those crawlers, harmful bacteria in my soil furthermore enabling me to use old soil. I have soaked a kilo or two of soil for half an hour in this dissolved hydrogen peroxide solution in a litre and squeezed it thoroughly aftwards.
Thank you Sir, for making such lovely informative videos and for your spending valuable time and efforts in creating top notch videos for us ,where we are learning ,which never ever stops.👍
I have the same problem with the f*cking fungus gnats, but u don't have the problem with your garden? I mean the gnats fly and maybe conquest the soil of your garden, isn't it?
@SheffieldMadePlants Oops! As long as you don't need it for anything else it should be fine though right? In the states most homes have electric/battery powered drills so I always use that to drill holes in the containers. It is more messy than melting it the way you did though. Plastic bits get left behind when drilling.
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Thank you for all your lessons and tips. I love your channel.
I love that you provide references. It makes your channel that much better.
@@Gardening.shorts it’s up to you. Not a naughty company though as far as I know
@@Gardening.shorts I was curious so I checked it out and read many great reviews, including at Trustpilot. I believe it's totally legit..
Not to say that you don’t have brilliant content, because you absolutely do. Love your content. But you have what is one of the most, if not the most, stellar personalities on UA-cam and so just listening to your videos in the background and the vibe you give off is enough. And then with your brilliant content layered on top, is the chef’s kiss!
You're a ⭐️ thank you very much
Always a pleasure! I'm here for the information. Humour is a great plus. Cheers!❤
Thank you 😊
I always water my plants that way - helps reduce fungus gnats too. I mix up tap water, a drop of baby bio (if needed) and a little water purifier (the stuff you told us about) pour it into 2 large under-bed clear storage containers (kept in the garage) then stand my plants in them. I then leave them to drain on baking cooling racks over the sink or baking trays.
Afterwards, I pour the rest of the water into spray bottles as well as an empty fabric softener bottle (one with a spout) that I use for watering my succulents.
Another thing I do is to cut down yoghurt pots to a centimetre or two in height and use them to raise my pots up inside the cover pot. I hate how cover pots are usually far deeper than the plant pot. I like the plant pot to be just under the rim so the base of the plant gets light. The great bonus is that the plant is never sitting in water should excess water run out after leaving it to drain after using the watering method above.
I also cut a yellow stick fungus gnat square into a long rectangle and stick it on an ice lolly stick. It's cheaper to buy a pack of large squares and cut them to the size and shape you want depending on the plant.
I popped in the local garden centre today to "have a look" (yeah, right) and came out with (another) £6 Marble Queen Pothos. They only had 3 but as everyone was in there buying poinsettias, I managed to find one at the back. I couldn't believe my luck. Love me a pothos as you know.
Sounds nice hacks there 👍👍👍
great tips, thanks!
My favorite too! Just so lush looking!
Love the yogurt container hack. I've been doing this with clay balls of late, but it's not always stable since they are, well, balls....
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Great tips as always. Your humor and editing skills set your channel apart. You even managed to work your sponsor in in an interesting way. Thanks!
Thank you for noticing my plant friend 👍
Agree! Great job!
The content on this channel is next level pro stuff. I'm hooked! 🎉
@@prcr 👍👍👍
Yes, your clever presentation is just as wonderful as all the tips. Thanks so much!
Want an immediate Fungus Gnat death march? Looking for some bug payback? Here's what you do: 1. Stop watering until soil dries out. 2. Add 2 tablespoons of dish soap to a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, add a sprayer and spray the soil liberally, spray all the soils of all your plants at the same time AND the water basins under them. 3. Buy a bag of sand, rinse thoroughly and add at least one half inch to top of soil and this method stops them instantly, (I discovered this one myself and REALLY like it) whatever is left alive in the soil will soon not be. If you can get white silica sand it looks epic cool but play sand works just as well. Cover all plants soil with sand at the same time so the Gnats have no place left to land. LEAVE NO QUARTER 4. Dry up water in sinks at night and spray drains with the Soap/Hydrogen Peroxide solution ( I do not dilute and my plants have no issues in fact it is supposed to get them an oxygen boost). They must have a water source so eliminate them all when going to bed. Do all these at once and you can eliminate 99% in less than 1 day (a few hours)! Happy Hunting!
Thanks for the regime 👍
Two alterations I'd make to these tips.
1) When wicking water to your plants when you're away, run the string through a drinking straw or several as you stretch it from the basin to the plant. Enclosing the string will mean less water evaporates into the air before reaching the plant. It's should make the water last longer.
2) When adding the holes to the bottoms of the food containers, don't forget that bottom ring that juts out/down from the container. When turned upright, that ring will be a reservoir for water that will never be able to drain through the other, higher holes. Putting at least one hole in that ring as well will fix that problem.
I love this dude so much, such wholesome uplifting content.
I appreciate that!
@@SheffieldMadePlants idk that jade plant part at the end got a little graphic 😆
@@painetdldy 🤣
If you say that, that means several jokes went over your head
Another tip for you. Burn 2 small holes opposite each other in your ugly nursery pots , thread tie wraps through the holes and fasten. You can either make loops or totally tighten them to make longer handles. Now when you put the pot into the cache pot, you can lift it out for watering without damaging your plant.
I’m taking a note of that one 👍
great idea! Thanks for the tip!
AOHo! That tray tip is going to save my sink from getting clogged again! Last time I had to suck out the potting soil with a pump and tubing to get most of the potting soil out so the drain would work again. Wow! Great tip. Thank you SMP!
My pleasure 😊
Thank you so much for the information about basil! I bought one put it under a grow light, watered when it was dry and it died. I couldn’t understand why but it was a big bushy plant! Now this video explained it, too many plants stuck into one pot! Think I will try again and follow your advice. Thanks.
Glad you found it useful 👍
For the plastic scooper: use a lighter on the edge! It slightly melts it making a far softer edge that won't cut/scratch you (takes only a few seconds)
Great tip 👍
You can also use a hot iron.
@@lunarminx hot iron sounds precarious. The good thing about a lighter is it mainly gets rids of the thin (/sharp) parts, not the main material.
I imagine a hot iron is a lot harder to move over the materials edge in a short but even fashion.
I use the clear plastic tops of store bought cakes as a tray under my nursery pots and I can bottom water and see the level of water left if any
Like it!
That frustration take with you pulling your nonexistent hair was hilarious 🤣
😂
Never thought of heating a screwdriver, I don't have a soldering iron so this is great.. I knew there was going to be something useful for me in this video 😄
Hot glue gun works too.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Richard for another fun video. I have a soldiering iron, it only costs me $20 Aud. I use it exclusively for melting holes in plastic. One of the best things I have ever bought ❤
Great stuff 👍
I've used a hot glue gun before for melting plastic. Works great.
@beckyowens2586 great idea! 😃
Love the laughs you bring, along with useful advice, Richard.. 😆 How to stop fungus gnats making hay, plants having their troos pulled down and others doing yoga.. love it!
I remember when I lived on the 2nd floor of a flat over a decade ago, I seriously over-watered the plants hanging on my balcony rail and soaked the elderly fella below as he read his newspaper.. 🤦🏻♀️ He wasn't very happy, I can tell you and I was mortified! 😆
PS) Congrats on the sponsor, Mr Sheffield.. 👍
😂😂😂
It is always entertaining and informative watching your presentations. Love your sense of humour.
Thank you very much!
Putting your soil in oven/microwave will also kill the good nutrition in the soil… Putting it in the freezer only kills the bugs and eggs, so the freezer is definitely the better option :)
Perfect!
I did the oven before and the smell was not pleasant at all.
@@char26104 hahaha oh boy! glad I never did that!
And good luck getting moisture back into the brand new, now completely dried out soil.
You are absolutely right - freezing is way better.
Nutrients are not alive.. How can magnesium or Potassium can die?
My local garden centre does a free pot exchange where you can leave unwanted pots for people to take and also take any that you might need. It’s saved me loads of money and is a great way to reduce plastic waste.
Love that
Attention cat guardians: those milk/juice bottle scoopers work great for cat litter, too! ;)
I don’t have a cat but amazing !
And filling bird feeders
*cat servants😂
Like it!
Perfect! I just broke my scoop and I have nearly 100 jugs saved for winter sowing! 😂
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful houseplants
Thanks for visiting
For a really cheap watering/potting tray for those with smaller kitchens/homes is to get foil roasting pans with deepish sides. I get the ones that are 13x9 or so inches from the dollar store. They are great for about 6 4" pots to soak up water. Glue guns also work for melting holes into plastic food containers. I like getting Chobrani 32oz yogurt containers...they come with a removable printed sleeve and you end up with a lovely white container that is tall. For the scoop made from milk carton, you can also take off the lid for a more directed pour into containers.
Thanks for the tips
Dust blower alternative: Baby snot sucker. Might be easier to find one and probably cheaper than a piece of camera equipment.
That brings back some memories
At 6:50 timespot in your video, there is a small bug crawling between your plants, just as you are discussing a method you recommend for keeping bugs away.
Not surprised
Love how you compare plant tips and tricks with movies and such. 😂 ❤😊
Glad you like them!
I have so many of those bamboo sticks, and that trellis is the perfect use for some of them!
Great stuff 👍
The milk bottle hack works well as for topping up bird feeders too, no more spilt seed 👍
Good to know!
I’ve just been using empty nursery pots as my scoops 😂. We are dealing with fungus gnats… but I’ve been having luck killing eggs with diluted peroxide in my watering solution. I’m slowly getting the infestation under control.
That's good to hear!
By the way, if you cut the plastic bottle and it has sharp points on the cutline, file them down with a wide emory board. Smooth. 100 grit is good
Amazing tips! Thanks for sharing.
Yogurt containers also make great containers for starting seeds.
Very good 👍
I saw the thumbnail and I thought ohh noooo it's the infamous 5 minutes craft, and so many plants will die 😅😂
But fortunately it's you! 😊
My biggest fear is taking home infections, especially thrips 😢
Every plant parent’s worst nightmare 😬
@@SheffieldMadePlants I have two more! 😁
1. My self-made aroid mix is not chunky enough. (I will try to add leca in it next year) 😐
2. Pot size is too big. 🥺
Flying Skull for fungus gnats, you can water it in or spray the surface after watering.
The idea of using other life to control the gnats is one that I feel more people should practice. I keep praying mantis in my home just for that but I am a bit of a big lover anyway. Among all my plants are over 100 species of tarantula.
Wow! I'm so happy that I clicked on you! I love the idea for a 3 bamboo pole trellis. Thanks for that!
You bet!
Again,another great video 😊 and informative too!Hi from cold Maine😊
Hey, thanks!
Don't you wish you had some device that'll tell you when you watered your plant last time or when you fertilized them. I created a simple gadget at home to do exactly that and thought I'd share it here how I made it hoping it'll be helpful for all plant lovers. Who knows someone will manufacture them and sell it soon. Hopefully a dime a dozen.
It's something like a mechanical calender of digits to tell us the date we watered the plant.
For this you'll need two bottle caps, preferably white. Write 0, 1 , 2 , 3 on one cap like numbers on a clock dial and 0.thru.9 on the other, with a permanent marker.
Now join these two caps with digits facing outwards with a screw.
I used an plastic electrical casing pipe piece in the middle. Alternatively you could use a piece of wooden dowel. The screw goes through the 1st cap, the casing/dowel piece, then the 2nd cap.
To that casing, I inserted a hard wire like a binding/centring wire through the bottom. I use this wire to insert it into the soil for standing/supporting the device.
Whenever you water the plant, just change the dials accordingly to reflect the date. For say, you watered on 28th, you change the first dial to 2 and the next dial to 8. Next time you can just see the dial and know the last time you watered was on 28th.
Cheers!
For a second there I thought you were going to wrap the green string around the stick to have it blend in with the plant. 🤔 Thank you for the hacks 😊
That would be wild
😂@@SheffieldMadePlants
11:03 add some dish washing detergent to the water helps to stop the soil becoming hydrophobic --- BTW leave the plant in the pot is not a drama
Free tip for those who don't use a dish washer --- the used dish washing water is great for plants as it has detergent and leftover food bits . And not just for pots ; good for garden beds also . In drier areas (outback Australia) it's also saves water to your property
Thanks for the tip
Humorous as always :) Enjoyed watching! Thanks!
Thank you 😊
What does it say about me that I watch these videos eagerly awaiting Richard’ innuendos. 😂😂
A gal of great taste 😁
I don’t know I like your videos for plant advices or your humor 😄❤️ probably both
Marvellous!
I bring home plastic spoons I’ve been given with food and use them as scoopers for my small plants. Most of my plants are small and young so the gardening shovel is just to much
Like it!
Mr. Sheffield has a great sense of humor. I get out of every video.
Cheers!
Great tips and advice, thank you
The watering tray is a great idea... Why didn't I think of this *sigh* 🤔😳
As for blowing the dust from leaves, I bought a small handheld USB-charged blower from some Chinese site about two years ago. I bought it to clean my PC, but it works very well with plants as well. It's not as effective as giving normal plants a shower or using a wet rag, but it's great for a quick dusting off. It works perfect for cacti and succulents
As a bonus the somewhat forcefull stream of air, will often make spider mites try to escape by dropping down and thus be visible and easy to catch
I don't have a link to said blower but it was pretty cheap... 20 pounds or so
Cheers
Really you can see the mites trying to escape. Sounds great 👍
@@SheffieldMadePlants
Yes, they'll try to escape the scene of crime by moving down vertically on a string of web, just like spiders move down.... I hate spider mites with a passion.
Thrips or fruit flies are mostly just an annoyance to have around. I have yet to experience and deal with aphids and mealy bugs 🤞🏻
Love your channel. So much good information. Thank you!
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the screwdriver and candle hack because I was thinking about the soldiering iron but I don’t want to get another gadget.
Glad it was useful 😁
Mr Sheffield, why don’t you use moss poles? Or at lease for your monstera? Those aerial roots are looking fo something to grow in!
Never got round to it but started my first one last week 😁
Brilliant idea with the milk bottle 🙂
Thanks!
@@SheffieldMadePlants i have another use for gallon jugs. i made a raincatcher from a plastic trashcan (oooh technical, i know). when it's getting full i fill up gallon jugs with the cap part cut off, and use them to water plants. the handle is very handy
Always enjoyable & useful
Thank you 😊
I like how the very first hack was the milk bottle that "we all have" and us Europeans are here just sad. :D
Indeed, we have them here in Canada, but you get the deposit back for returning them in some provinces...
What I do have, though, is 4 l jugs of vinegar. I go through a lot of it for cleaning and I save them to let the water stand for 24hrs (with water conditioner!) before watering my plants. I suppose I could sacrifice one of those to make a scoop 😝
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I love your plants!💚
Great advice
Thanks!
Sir Richard, how is it that we both use the exact style of makeup brush (design, color, and all)? The difference is that I actually use mine for makeup.😂😂😂
Thanks for another entertaining video!!!🪴
Haha like it!
Fungus gnats...mix diatomaceous earth into the top few inches of your plant soil with a fork. Do not water for a few days. Buy a big bag of DE for a few houseplants? Use the rest as a natural pest barrier around your house to keep bugs from coming in
I use old milk cartons for mini-greenhouses during seed growing season. And propagation
That’s a good one
9:36 that have me goosebumps cause it made me feel cold 😂
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How do you keep cats away from plants? Love your channel!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Can’t help here. Don’t have a cat
Put tea tree or peppermint oil where the cats are getting to your plants...you can use a cotton ball or just keep it in a small dish. Any offensive odor will work. I peel an orange and she runs for the hills..
Damn! I still have a milk man and have glass milk bottles!
Love the retro vibe 😁
Love the videos!! Is youtube your full time job?
Thanks! Yes it is now 😁
Our local water has both chlorines, so sitting for 24 hours really isn't helpful. I also have reptiles so I have the water treatment for them and I just use it for the plants. Two of the reptiles are in bioactive terrariums with their feeders breeding inside so calcium dusting is out. I add 5 drops of a plain liquid calcium to the misting/ drinking and plant water, helps newlywed plants roots to grow better. I moved to more soil based growing for my leafy greens but was doing kratky hydroponics and made up gallons of nutes at a time and mixed half and half with treated water for the house plants. A trick I learned at a nursery was to fill a bucket or bin with water and dunk a severely dry pot fully under the water until the bubbles stop as that is when all the soil is hydrated again. I have just started two cannabis, legal here and they are just lush and lovely but plan to grow a small cover crop as mulch and just leave it to beeak down over and over to add nutes to the soil. I also use bioactive boosters in the plant substrate and other kinds of fungi to help roots feed. I am trying to use living soil and now I just dump used in a bin to break down the roots and use again in a few months. In a fabric pot I throw all dropped leaves and dried out leafy greens in to fully dry brittle and put in the soil bin. For cuttings, i cut the bottom third of a water bottle off, cut the top eighth off or so. Thread the stems through the upside down mouth piece, put into the base and add water. It keeps the leaves from going in the water.
Nice one. Thanks for sharing 👍
Gnats gnats gnats - I have followed your struggles and am currently awaiting the hatch out of my nematodes to eat the little buggers!!!
I want a nice tray made to set plants in (different sizes) with a corner drain hole and tubing to drain it into a bucket. Still dreaming and waiting on that one!
Thanks again for a wonderful and funny video!
Lo from California
Ooh invent it! You will be a gazillionaire 😂
Thanks for watching 😁 and good luck re the gnats
Love your channel! Always get a chuckle and learn something.
In regards to bottom watering in mass- would that allow root mealies to spread? Never had them but have heard enough people deal with them.
I’m not sure what they are?
They are the same/cousins(?) as the white fluffy Mealy bugs but live underground. UA-camrs Lessya's Leaves, Basie Plants, and then a pod caster Jane Perrone from "On the Ledge" have all dealt with them. I think she made comment that she spread them on her plants by reusing the water that came out of the bottom of the plants and put them in other pots to be mindful of water consumption. My skin crawls with the regular little buggers so the idea of those fluffy devils entering my household- not a pleasant one. (@@SheffieldMadePlants
Heatwave in Sheffield 😂
I use a chicken feed scoop for soil potting.
A day every year at least 😅
This is a very informative video!❤😊
Glad you think so!
“Drown that sucka. Yes, pull its trousers down and stick that whole root ball in a bucket of water.”
Also “little water farts” 🥹😂
I love the humor while delivering the knowledge. Subscribed and thank you for the smiles.
Excellent thanks!
If I get water on my floor or windeowsills, it's usually because I'm a clutz and missed the pot with the water can from the start. XD
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If you overheat your screwdriver, you are screwed. 180 C and the hardness go away. Use a nail instead.
Instead of heating the screwdriver and therefore destroying the magnet, you can just use a drill
I use a metal skewer
Not gonna lie, I kinda want to bring plants with me 😂
I know right!
Great informative!!
Cheers pal
What stove / oven is that. It looks great! Hello from Ontario Canada 👋🏼🇨🇦
A Stoves something or other. British made I believe
What kind of soil do you recommend?
Depends what plant you've got. Normally something nice and chunky with coconut coir, perlite and bark in etc
Great video my kung-fu fighting gnat assassin! One question, do you think that by freezing or cooking the soil you also kill off all the beneficial bacteria that also live in it? I await your response, ninja master.
😂. Yes with cooking it for sure. You’d need to fertilise
The basil, cutting propagation in water, does the water have to be changed or can it just sit? My cuttings start out great, and after a couple days, they get funky and die.
I tend to change it every week cos it starts to look grim
Talking about your sponsor I didn't understand your how to set up water when your gone.
Haha good tips.Youre so funny.love your videos😂
Thank you 😊
6:14 beautiful Coleus, any tips on how to care for it, I got Kong Rose and it’s keeps dying on me from root rotting or drying out, and every time I save it by taking a cut and start all over again.
Only had it a few months but it seems to love sun and the soil kept moist
Finicky little buggers... after my 15th one died I will never ever buy a Coleus again. They are really beautiful but Coleus and I are simply not a good match and I've made peace with that😂
These are brilliant..thank you oh plant Guru! 🙏🏼🪴🌱🌿
Glad you like them!
But if you make the soil into the oven or into the freezer you will also kill off all the good bacteria in the soil?
In the oven for sure. Freezer some bits will remain probably
do you have a hack against white mites, every winter the same problems in my indoor garden.....
I don’t think I’ve had them before
sorry for calling them the wrong name, had to translate it. they are called mealybugs. i hate them so much, with all there white pelt... and as i said they only arrive in the winter when the temperatures are dropping....@@SheffieldMadePlants
Love the tips you stole and tried out so we wouldnt have to be bothered trying new hacks. Have a blessed day.
I shared the channel too 😁
Meow. Good tips are meant to be shared, and at least Richard gave a shout out and link to where he found it unlike some
hi, I'm a new subscriber and I tried propagating my peace lily but she was drooping so I moved her to soil but nothing has changed .. I don' know what to do please help!
How were you propagating?
I cut of a part of my peace lily and it had a couple roots on it, I filled a glass with water and put her in it and used a grow light, I did the same with my pothos and my aglaonema plant and they are doing just fine@@SheffieldMadePlants
That’s what I thought, larvaes gnats are in the bagged soil 😩
Cool 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What’s better than 1 ugly stick in your plants? THREE! 😂😂😂
Still love ya anyway!
Nematodes are 100% winner. THE solution to our personal war on terror!
You know this!
With 6teaspoons of a 3 percent hydrogen peroxide dissolved in a litre of water helped getting rid of all those crawlers, harmful bacteria in my soil furthermore enabling me to use old soil.
I have soaked a kilo or two of soil for half an hour in this dissolved hydrogen peroxide solution in a litre and squeezed it thoroughly aftwards.
Thanks for the tip
Thank you Sir, for making such lovely informative videos and for your spending valuable time and efforts in creating top notch videos for us ,where we are learning ,which never ever stops.👍
11:21 but won’t that loosen the soil !
If it's not potbound or hydrophobic then probably. Otherwise everything stays in place as shown
noice.
Instructions unclear milk all over the floor. Please demonstrate with a bag of milk so us Canadians can relate. Thanks!
lol, our milk cartons are made from paper, and they're between 1 to 1,5 liters. XD Not ideal for the first hack. :P
I have a couple plants that need a good drenching 😏
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So our milk comes in bags…
I have the same problem with the f*cking fungus gnats, but u don't have the problem with your garden? I mean the gnats fly and maybe conquest the soil of your garden, isn't it?
They probably are but i've not noticed
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Did you just waste magnetic screw driver 8:20
Hmm didn't think of that 😬
@SheffieldMadePlants Oops! As long as you don't need it for anything else it should be fine though right? In the states most homes have electric/battery powered drills so I always use that to drill holes in the containers. It is more messy than melting it the way you did though. Plastic bits get left behind when drilling.
The most annoying thing about plants is that they DIE!!! In a hot minute!! Without warning!! OK, so I exaggerate a bit...but not much!!
Indeed 😅
funny video
Cheers!
Only noobs doesnt know these hacks😂
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So thats waht their called (fungus nats) I have never thought them a nusence what damage do they do?
They’re annoying mostly bunch can munch on young roots