Literally went to Lowe’s today to just get a few new pots and saucers for my plants and ended up buying an umbrella plant, fertilizer, and stakes 😂 I couldn’t help myself.
This is exactly how my string of hearts project is going 💀 First plant for my tiny apartment, so I had to buy: - the plant - the pot - two giant bags of gravel and soil that didn't come in a smaller size - tools and nails to hang the macrame (I made it so free.99 except I also have a money-sucking crochet hobby the yarn came from) ...I try not to think of the expenses
Really enjoying your videos. I appreciate that while you're so knowledgeable, you are willing to share your mistakes, so it feels like we're all kind of learning together. I just really like your vibe. Thanks for the smiles.☺️🌱
Wow, great work Lee. This IS fantastic. There are no problems and this will work out perfectly- my phrase for the day 🙌🙌 And that moss drop… the anticipation… another great video 😁
SIR! Respect!!!! I finally bit the bullet and got a string of hearts yesterday, after YEARS of coveting them. Of course I came to YT for help and found Christian’s video. Very helpful. Today, searching for more help I found your video. So funny but also very educational. I don’t know if I’m that patient though 😭 I may try your method with a few cuttings and not the whole plant. I paid about $18 for a 4” pot. I have 40+ plants but somehow this one intimidates me to no end 😩 wish me luck!
I'm an old planty person that loves propagating and I've never had success with the variegated Chain-of-Hearts in the water method. I wrap mine around the surface of the pot and pin them lightly to the soil. That way, if they don't take, then I've lost nothing. Love your channel. Keep up the good work.
I pinned pretty long vine and it rooted only one new vine somewhere in the middle, now I’m kinda stuck with it and no more place in the pot to pin more😅 I think I’ll cut around the one which rooted and try the moss though, just waiting for the spring :)
I had big trouble with string of hearts, I know they're supposed to be kept dry, but I had to keep them in a moist environment for a year. Seems like the plant is sold newly propagated, and it's first now, where they have developed bulbs, that it thrives without extra care. So it might be because it doesn't have enough root system to retain lack of moisture, before it has developed the bulbs.
“…and literal minutes of planning…” 😂😂😂 I love your content. Glad I found your channel! Question: why do my string of hearts break off if I breathe on them?
@@KillThisPlant sometimes I worry that if I'm not home to breathe in my room where all my plants are, they'll run out of carbon dioxide 😂 they love breath
Love the realization of the crafters lament (applies to planty things too I find) - why spend $65 for a plant when you can spend $100 to do it yourself! Still, you gave me excellent ideas for me and my “string of arrows”. I water prop mostly but that moss “bowl” might be my next trick to get more bang for my patience!
Got into your channel with your more straightforward q and a videos but this style of content and humor works really well for you, looking forward to more!
I started mine in coconut coir with a bit of pearlite added. It never stays waterlogged and still retains enough moisture to cover the lazy days. You can also just coil the vines around inside the pot and lightly cover, with no need to take cuttings. Here in Perth Western Australia, the vines from my outdoor hanging basket reach the ground and root in the soil below. There are always plenty of ferals snaking off into the garden if I need new plants. I adjust the length of the hanging basket vines with hedge shears, which also thickens the plant up nicely.
And this right here is why I stopped trying to save money on just buying baby plants and growing them up, because for me in addition to all this he showed I have the issue of sometimes being a bad plant mommy and so there’s the added expense of killing off a couple of the cheaper baby plants before I can really get one going. There is also the most important cost - precious time. At this point I just want to enjoy having the plants I really want, and my house looking the way I want right now, not years from now. Plus I feel like when I spend a bit more I’m more motivated to take care of the plant more carefully. This was a hilarious and fun video though and your SoH looks beautiful in the end 🤗😂
This is dedication and I really appreciate seeing the whole process. Hilarious and super informative video. So many UA-cam plant people are giving advice on plants that seem like they just brought home from a box store and did 10 minutes of Google research. You demonstrate real experience and talk about the mistakes and victories. Love this content!!!
This is some serious commitment to producing a video for this long, I think I would've lost the footage meanwhile. Anyway, it ended up looking stunning!!
Haha love your humor. I also refuse to pay more for something I can grow myself even if it means I pay more in the log run, the knowledge and power to do it myself is priceless😄
I've been trying to keep the same tiny variegated string of hearts alive for years. Every time I think it's going well, part of it dies. (I'll admit, I'm not as meticulous with watering schedules as I should be.) You're definitely on to something with the moss. I'm going to give that a try. Thanks so much for your videos!
This is really helpful: direct, clear-and fun! I started a whole batch of small Hoya Linearis cutting in moss the same way and was wondering how to get them transitioned to a pot, love the transfer demo here. Thank you!
🤣🍃2 years in the making, all the loving and experimenting with propagation resulted in your own whopping $65 string of hearts that look fantastic! The cost could be drastically lowered on your subsequent propagation of secondary/tertiary pots, jus sayin' 🥰thanks for taking us through this amazing journey!
I’ve always just taken a few vines of string of hearts and thrown them on top of a pot of fresh soil, then kept it moist. It has always worked, and always resulted in extremely full pots with LONG vines. My longest pot of vibes is 9 feet long. These things are so easy to root/grow for me. I never knew some people struggled with these lol.
I wanted string of hearts soooo bad, 3-4 years ago. And I just got rid of it...I got tired, it grows like crazy. I kid you not, about a foot a month. All of my co-workers got cuttings of this plant from me. The pot was hanging all the way to the ceiling and it kept on growing. So basicaly, for me it was a space issue. I was cutting it every month or two, just to keep it at bay. So easy to propagate, I did it in water.
First time here from Connecticut...I've tried to grow the string of pearls, dolphins, tears, bananas and hearts...killed them all😭 ...you make it look so easy....I'm going to check out more of your vids....
I really don't mess with the strings of pearls/dolphins. Very challenging plants and I don't want to give them important real estate so they can get good sunlight from the top of the plant. Usually lack of light is the issue.
Not to include the water, housing, and time spent caring for the plant....makes you appreciate the price tags even more. I can imagine this was super fun and you definitely got a beautiful plant and loads of experience on how to care for it and keep it lush. Thanks for sharing.
what I love about succulents is that they propagate so reliably, especially when they're rooted in soil instead of water. I guess it makes sense since they're so adapted to having dry roots.
I was given a 10 cm string of hearts about 3 years’ ago. I now have 2 big plants from that plus a healthy bag of sphagnum with a load more rooted babies. I’ve found that piling it up on itself gives a more lush plant. It is a crawler. It is not supposed to hang and drape. Plant it under other tall plants. It will create a beautiful carpet. Take cuttings and root in water to make lots of plants and have some as drapers if you want. You can propagate this endlessly. It gets bigger leaves if it is in slight,y lower light I find. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s trying to maximize photosynthesis?
Currently in the middle of this exact process cause I have been so in love with his string of hearts. I have a whole prop box filled with single nod cuttings.
Love this! Your nerdy humour is just my style lol. I have an over 5-foot-long string of hearts that I can't decide what to do with. Maybe I'll take 90 cuttings and try this process out. Also, I wondered if you might be Canadian, too! Enjoy the coming winter lol
Lol, I'm one of the crazies who bought a $75 variegated string of hearts. I've had it for almost 2 years and this year it bloomed like blooms were going out of style. It's nowhere near as big as yours, I'm too nervous to mess with it too much but it's going to need a bigger pot soon. I'm still pretty pleased with the purchase and my expensive plant lol. Alot easier than trying to grow an albo node, now that was a waste of $100
When I look at a plant and see the price tag it's either for one of two reasons. The plant is an absolute ball ache to grow or you're shopping at a place that rips you off. That said though there's two differences. 1) You buy the plant outright and you get to enjoy it. or. 2) You grow that fucker yourself and cry many times along the journey but you have a plant you grew, and I feel that adds so much more value to that specific plant and you can't buy that.
Greetings from South Africa. I was so excited to see this as I have the plant and did not know the name. My strings are attached to bulbs so I always assumed that this is how they are propagated. on the rare occasion that I have given away, the untangling has been such a chore that I was not quick to share.
He literally inspired me too!!! I had one plant where it came delivered damaged and only had like 4 strings. After 2 years or maybe less its been growing sooo long in the process last year I cut some and tried water propagating but that failed non of my strings survived. Last week I trimmed 5 strings and planted it directly into wet soil and it grew roots! And new leaves! But just 4 strings looks sooo sad, so I totally get you!!!
this video was so good! lol gives me hope for my tiny string of hearts. started as two small strings and now I'm up to 7. i use coco coir instead of sphagnum moss because it's what i have on hand but i totally agree with the method! only way to go in my opinion!
Got a tiny string of hearts like 2 years ago, every time it got pretty long, I just cut it in half and put it all in water to root and kept putting it with the mother plant. Now it's like the same as the one from crazy plant guy. It hangs about 50cm away from a south east window and I water it when the top half leaves don't feel squishy anymore. I have only repotted it once and it's in need for a new repot. It's in a mix of normal indoor plant soil and some perlite (because I thought that was the way to go, 1,5 years ago)
These years in the making videos are the best! As a modern person living in the good year 2024 I am severely allergic to waiting, so it's nice to see everything happen in one video. Also the editing and scripts are really clever. Please don't let that go to your head. Anyway, I came to rewatch this video because I'm about to start my journey for one hell of a string of hearts, I hope it won't take several years :)
I'm not sure if string of hearts works the same as a string of turtles but I've been able to start plants from single nodes and even leaves, though with leaves there is a lower success rate. Moss definitely works better for rooting them than water or soil though
Ug thank you for encouraging us to use what propagation method we're most used to using. I recently got a florida ghost cutting that was BEAUTIFUL but i tried using sphagnum for the first time instead of water, and it rotted because i'm not familiar with how to maintain the moisture in sphagnum. Good lesson for propagating and also not spending much on cuttings lol
As im sitting here looking at my lil string of hearts, this video pops up! I am shook. I am doing this right dang now and I am subscribing! Thank you Mr.Lee
LOL! I have never had a String of Hearts, but may buy one next summer. I think that are a bit costly at my local Gardening Center, which is why I don't have one yet. LOL! Anyway, another great video, Lee!! I love your SOH!...... And I hope Christian @CrazyPlantGuy gets to see this video. And yeah, he would probably get some good laughs in just like I did!🤣🤣🤣
That's what you get for literal minutes of planning ;) Tbh you could just make a macrame hanger, it's stupid easy and takes like 2 hours max from first reading/watching instructions to having a complete hanger. Also I do not recommend hanging terracotta nor ceramic pots indoors. They look nice, but they're also very heavy and do a lot of damage if they fall down. Plastic is uglier, but much more sensible, especially if a macrame hanger is covering most of it. You don't need to buy zipbags in big bulk, just go to Ikea and get their biggest freezer bags, they're like $4-5 for 50. So it would be like $7 for macrame cord, maybe $3 for plastic pot and $5 for bags, $3 for mounting supplies and $9 for plant (honestly pretty pricey for what you've got, I got plant twice that size for $5), bringing it to $31 for everything, excluding of course sphagnum, perlite, soil and charcoal for potting mix. If one wanted to go even cheaper facebook plant groups are right there (for some reason plant enthusiasts of all age mainly congregate on facebook), it's easy to just swap plants and cuttings for free, especially since string of hearts is a pretty common houseplant. I'd be interested in seeing a similar video, but with string of pearls, its propagation is giving me constant grief.
I am really good with soil propagation. I have played with water, but find the best results with soil. I do not use Miracle Grow soil products, I have always had the worst results in just growing plants with that brand of soil, unless I am growing immersed aquarium plants. Because the soil is constantly wet.
I have a method wich works every time and 100%! Its a bit more work but even cheaper and you can decide afterwards how many strings you will plant in one pot: ~ make cuttings with two pairs of leaves each ~ carefully tear of the lower pair of leaves by hand (one by one) ~ fill up a non-transparent vase with water ~ put plastik kitchen foil over the vase an tighten it with a rubber band ~ pierce the tightend foil with a toothpick ~ put the lower end of the cuttings all the way through the small holes into the water ~ just wait until they have long enough roots to plant them With the plastik foil the water won't evaporate too fast and the moisture is even high enough even if the cuttings don't reach the water. The cuttings will take roots where the pair of leaves got seperated and will grow on top. When the cuttings are ready you can carefully rip the foil from the edge to one hole at a time too get them out. ~ not a native english speaker so just ignore the mistakes
The ending was just like me and diy-s - "why should I buy it when I can do it myself even better?"... and then I realize they don't sell things separately and I have to spend a lot more on materials and I actually pay MORE. 😆 And generally any hobby is a bit like that. When I started buying more plants, I thought: "I'll need only a plant and tap water, right?" Wrong. You need a bigger pot with drainage, a water filter, better soil... and of course plants can't do without beautiful ceramic pots and fancy watering can... and maybe display shelves... and some friends, cause more plants = more humidity, right? And then you end up with no money, but a full room of plant stuff. xd PS Thanks for the tips! And congrats on making it big!
My friend gave me three really nice, long, healthy string of hearts plants. Then thrips tried to kill them and I ended up with a handful of leftover tubers. I stuck them in two tiny terracotta pots and now have one leaf each. I'm hoping if I don't overwater them, they'll be revived in the spring 😬
I just found your channel I dont know why its taken UA-cam so long to throw you on my feed... Better late than never.... Thankfully today is my day off so I can do nothing but binge your videos uh I mean educate myself on proper plant care 😂 thank you!!
A little tip for propagating in water If you start them in water and they get water roots, you can add soil day by day until its only soil. Because if you transfer water roots straight away they will die. I did this with my purple heart plant and it worked very well. Then it dried out by mistake and died. Whoops.
Love your videos. You can’t put a price on personal achievement for having grown a wonderful plant from cuttings. But yes, I did have a good chuckle at your sums at the end
thats abolutly how im doing it every time with nearly every plant! buying a baby-plant and grow it by myselfe to a big one. normally im doing this in spring or early summer but if you are using extra light, you can do it all the year around
“After months of research and minutes of planning” describes every impulse plant purchase I’ve ever made
Ahaha same
Literally went to Lowe’s today to just get a few new pots and saucers for my plants and ended up buying an umbrella plant, fertilizer, and stakes 😂 I couldn’t help myself.
Every time!!! ❤
Same 😭
The ending where you're calculating the costs had me in stitches. 😆
Hhhhhe yup that was funny 😂
Well, $64 is less than $65. Great success.
@@elmz and he is making the assumption that Crazy Plant Guy got HIS pots and macrame hanger for free.
This is exactly how my string of hearts project is going 💀
First plant for my tiny apartment, so I had to buy:
- the plant
- the pot
- two giant bags of gravel and soil that didn't come in a smaller size
- tools and nails to hang the macrame (I made it so free.99 except I also have a money-sucking crochet hobby the yarn came from)
...I try not to think of the expenses
@@elmzand 2 years lol
The dedication to keep track of all the video clips to stitch together this video over 2 years is crazy. I appreciate it very much.
Agreed! crazy dedication
TWO YEARS?! Wow. Thanks for putting so much time in this Video!
Really enjoying your videos. I appreciate that while you're so knowledgeable, you are willing to share your mistakes, so it feels like we're all kind of learning together. I just really like your vibe. Thanks for the smiles.☺️🌱
Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Wow, great work Lee. This IS fantastic.
There are no problems and this will work out perfectly- my phrase for the day 🙌🙌
And that moss drop… the anticipation… another great video 😁
Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
SIR! Respect!!!! I finally bit the bullet and got a string of hearts yesterday, after YEARS of coveting them. Of course I came to YT for help and found Christian’s video. Very helpful. Today, searching for more help I found your video. So funny but also very educational. I don’t know if I’m that patient though 😭 I may try your method with a few cuttings and not the whole plant. I paid about $18 for a 4” pot. I have 40+ plants but somehow this one intimidates me to no end 😩 wish me luck!
😫😫ugh! Those last 5 seconds had me feeling personally attacked!! My “cheap” string of pearls already cost me twice the amount I refused to pay.
I'm an old planty person that loves propagating and I've never had success with the variegated Chain-of-Hearts in the water method. I wrap mine around the surface of the pot and pin them lightly to the soil. That way, if they don't take, then I've lost nothing. Love your channel. Keep up the good work.
I've seen that technique! I think it's great.
I pinned pretty long vine and it rooted only one new vine somewhere in the middle, now I’m kinda stuck with it and no more place in the pot to pin more😅 I think I’ll cut around the one which rooted and try the moss though, just waiting for the spring :)
I had big trouble with string of hearts, I know they're supposed to be kept dry, but I had to keep them in a moist environment for a year.
Seems like the plant is sold newly propagated, and it's first now, where they have developed bulbs, that it thrives without extra care.
So it might be because it doesn't have enough root system to retain lack of moisture, before it has developed the bulbs.
The crazy plant guy is OK but you're my favorite!!✌️
I DEFINITELY SECOND THIS!!!
“…and literal minutes of planning…” 😂😂😂
I love your content. Glad I found your channel! Question: why do my string of hearts break off if I breathe on them?
Plants hate breath. That's probably a watering based root issue, maybe pests. either way that vine is likely dying.
Are you flossing your teeth regularly enough?
@@lisascenic fair.
@@KillThisPlant sometimes I worry that if I'm not home to breathe in my room where all my plants are, they'll run out of carbon dioxide 😂 they love breath
Love the realization of the crafters lament (applies to planty things too I find) - why spend $65 for a plant when you can spend $100 to do it yourself! Still, you gave me excellent ideas for me and my “string of arrows”. I water prop mostly but that moss “bowl” might be my next trick to get more bang for my patience!
Got into your channel with your more straightforward q and a videos but this style of content and humor works really well for you, looking forward to more!
Thank you!
I've been trying to make my string of hearts look like his for two years, this method is way more efficient than what I've been doing lol.
the fillipino guy bought his pretty much like that lol.
I started mine in coconut coir with a bit of pearlite added. It never stays waterlogged and still retains enough moisture to cover the lazy days. You can also just coil the vines around inside the pot and lightly cover, with no need to take cuttings. Here in Perth Western Australia, the vines from my outdoor hanging basket reach the ground and root in the soil below. There are always plenty of ferals snaking off into the garden if I need new plants. I adjust the length of the hanging basket vines with hedge shears, which also thickens the plant up nicely.
And this right here is why I stopped trying to save money on just buying baby plants and growing them up, because for me in addition to all this he showed I have the issue of sometimes being a bad plant mommy and so there’s the added expense of killing off a couple of the cheaper baby plants before I can really get one going. There is also the most important cost - precious time. At this point I just want to enjoy having the plants I really want, and my house looking the way I want right now, not years from now. Plus I feel like when I spend a bit more I’m more motivated to take care of the plant more carefully.
This was a hilarious and fun video though and your SoH looks beautiful in the end 🤗😂
well thats what the filipino guy did. he bought his pretty big already lol.
This is dedication and I really appreciate seeing the whole process. Hilarious and super informative video. So many UA-cam plant people are giving advice on plants that seem like they just brought home from a box store and did 10 minutes of Google research. You demonstrate real experience and talk about the mistakes and victories. Love this content!!!
This is some serious commitment to producing a video for this long, I think I would've lost the footage meanwhile. Anyway, it ended up looking stunning!!
Haha, had to have triple hard drives for this one. Thanks for watching.
Haha love your humor. I also refuse to pay more for something I can grow myself even if it means I pay more in the log run, the knowledge and power to do it myself is priceless😄
"Let's talk problems with this method: there are no problems and this will work out perfectly." Gold lmao
“Let’s talk problems with this method: there are no problems, and this will work out perfectly” 😂😂
I just love your videos. Your whole demeanor is great…your delivery, timing, authenticity, just great.
😌
I've been trying to keep the same tiny variegated string of hearts alive for years. Every time I think it's going well, part of it dies. (I'll admit, I'm not as meticulous with watering schedules as I should be.) You're definitely on to something with the moss. I'm going to give that a try. Thanks so much for your videos!
THE END HAD ME ROLLING, i love your energy and humor
Lmfao im so glad i ran into your page, i love hearing plant talk while i do my planty chores, your hilarious
This is really helpful: direct, clear-and fun! I started a whole batch of small Hoya Linearis cutting in moss the same way and was wondering how to get them transitioned to a pot, love the transfer demo here. Thank you!
🤣🍃2 years in the making, all the loving and experimenting with propagation resulted in your own whopping $65 string of hearts that look fantastic! The cost could be drastically lowered on your subsequent propagation of secondary/tertiary pots, jus sayin' 🥰thanks for taking us through this amazing journey!
I’ve always just taken a few vines of string of hearts and thrown them on top of a pot of fresh soil, then kept it moist. It has always worked, and always resulted in extremely full pots with LONG vines. My longest pot of vibes is 9 feet long. These things are so easy to root/grow for me. I never knew some people struggled with these lol.
I wanted string of hearts soooo bad, 3-4 years ago. And I just got rid of it...I got tired, it grows like crazy. I kid you not, about a foot a month. All of my co-workers got cuttings of this plant from me. The pot was hanging all the way to the ceiling and it kept on growing. So basicaly, for me it was a space issue. I was cutting it every month or two, just to keep it at bay. So easy to propagate, I did it in water.
First time here from Connecticut...I've tried to grow the string of pearls, dolphins, tears, bananas and hearts...killed them all😭 ...you make it look so easy....I'm going to check out more of your vids....
I really don't mess with the strings of pearls/dolphins. Very challenging plants and I don't want to give them important real estate so they can get good sunlight from the top of the plant. Usually lack of light is the issue.
Not to include the water, housing, and time spent caring for the plant....makes you appreciate the price tags even more. I can imagine this was super fun and you definitely got a beautiful plant and loads of experience on how to care for it and keep it lush. Thanks for sharing.
what I love about succulents is that they propagate so reliably, especially when they're rooted in soil instead of water. I guess it makes sense since they're so adapted to having dry roots.
I love rooting jade plants by just sticking leaves straight into a tray of soil lmao. water lightly every couple days and they take off no problem.
4:06: cue Dramatic music 🎻
6:02: The feeling of hard work to achieve a goal: Priceless
Honestly. I love the aesthetic of the propagation tray! I will totally get me a tray of string of hearts now!
The little sprautings in the propagation tray are so cute!
"There are no problems and this method will work perfectly." Love!
I was given a 10 cm string of hearts about 3 years’ ago. I now have 2 big plants from that plus a healthy bag of sphagnum with a load more rooted babies. I’ve found that piling it up on itself gives a more lush plant. It is a crawler. It is not supposed to hang and drape. Plant it under other tall plants. It will create a beautiful carpet. Take cuttings and root in water to make lots of plants and have some as drapers if you want. You can propagate this endlessly. It gets bigger leaves if it is in slight,y lower light I find. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s trying to maximize photosynthesis?
Thank you for inspiring me to do the same! My string of hearts is like 8 feet long. Today it gets cut...💚😎💚
Love this! Especially your calculations at the end!😂
Currently in the middle of this exact process cause I have been so in love with his string of hearts. I have a whole prop box filled with single nod cuttings.
Hopefully yours grows big and beautiful!
The commitment this video took!
THE PUNCHLINE AT THE END LOLLLLL. Such good quality videos. Brightens my day
The trick is to write the punchline first, and then spend several years making the video.
recently started propagating in moss and i love it!!! I harvest the moss from the forest around our cabin and it's been working really well!
Love this! Your nerdy humour is just my style lol. I have an over 5-foot-long string of hearts that I can't decide what to do with. Maybe I'll take 90 cuttings and try this process out.
Also, I wondered if you might be Canadian, too! Enjoy the coming winter lol
I am and I will not enjoy it. 🥲
@@KillThisPlant I don’t think any of truly do lol. At least I’m not still in Saskatchewan for the winter!
I think it’s more fun to grow than just buy ❤
Lol, I'm one of the crazies who bought a $75 variegated string of hearts. I've had it for almost 2 years and this year it bloomed like blooms were going out of style. It's nowhere near as big as yours, I'm too nervous to mess with it too much but it's going to need a bigger pot soon. I'm still pretty pleased with the purchase and my expensive plant lol. Alot easier than trying to grow an albo node, now that was a waste of $100
And competition is on. I love you both
This is easily my favorite plant channel,you are the best!
Wow. Thanks!
Thank you SO much for sharing your knowledge!!
Fantastic video! I really enjoyed the tips, the process, and the humor 😂
Thanks for watching!
I don't know who Crazy Plant Guy is, neither do I know why this was recommended to me, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Brilliant
That's great! Thanks for watching.
When I look at a plant and see the price tag it's either for one of two reasons. The plant is an absolute ball ache to grow or you're shopping at a place that rips you off.
That said though there's two differences. 1) You buy the plant outright and you get to enjoy it. or. 2) You grow that fucker yourself and cry many times along the journey but you have a plant you grew, and I feel that adds so much more value to that specific plant and you can't buy that.
Greetings from South Africa. I was so excited to see this as I have the plant and did not know the name. My strings are attached to bulbs so I always assumed that this is how they are propagated. on the rare occasion that I have given away, the untangling has been such a chore that I was not quick to share.
This is such a fun presentation! You’re awesome. Thank you. Just for the record, I have zero success with soil propagation. Ok. Not zero. Minimal!
Same here! Pilea pep likes it! Pretty much nothing else.
You went through it so we don’t have to😂. A+ for tenacity. A++ for bringing us along for the ride.😊
God the calculations at the end are such a mood
You are the perfect plant teacher! Thank you for the suggestions and the info! You had me smiling and agreeing 100%!
He literally inspired me too!!! I had one plant where it came delivered damaged and only had like 4 strings. After 2 years or maybe less its been growing sooo long in the process last year I cut some and tried water propagating but that failed non of my strings survived. Last week I trimmed 5 strings and planted it directly into wet soil and it grew roots! And new leaves! But just 4 strings looks sooo sad, so I totally get you!!!
😂😂😂 I’m so stoked I found your channel. Love your humor and that string of hearts looks awesome!
Thanks so much!!
Your content is everything I never knew I needed!
this video was so good! lol gives me hope for my tiny string of hearts. started as two small strings and now I'm up to 7. i use coco coir instead of sphagnum moss because it's what i have on hand but i totally agree with the method! only way to go in my opinion!
Got a tiny string of hearts like 2 years ago, every time it got pretty long, I just cut it in half and put it all in water to root and kept putting it with the mother plant. Now it's like the same as the one from crazy plant guy.
It hangs about 50cm away from a south east window and I water it when the top half leaves don't feel squishy anymore.
I have only repotted it once and it's in need for a new repot.
It's in a mix of normal indoor plant soil and some perlite (because I thought that was the way to go, 1,5 years ago)
That's great. Whatever's working for you! Keep it up.
These years in the making videos are the best! As a modern person living in the good year 2024 I am severely allergic to waiting, so it's nice to see everything happen in one video.
Also the editing and scripts are really clever. Please don't let that go to your head.
Anyway, I came to rewatch this video because I'm about to start my journey for one hell of a string of hearts, I hope it won't take several years :)
I'm not sure if string of hearts works the same as a string of turtles but I've been able to start plants from single nodes and even leaves, though with leaves there is a lower success rate. Moss definitely works better for rooting them than water or soil though
As a fellow plant addict and clearance rack junkie, I understand !! 😍😍
Ug thank you for encouraging us to use what propagation method we're most used to using. I recently got a florida ghost cutting that was BEAUTIFUL but i tried using sphagnum for the first time instead of water, and it rotted because i'm not familiar with how to maintain the moisture in sphagnum. Good lesson for propagating and also not spending much on cuttings lol
As im sitting here looking at my lil string of hearts, this video pops up! I am shook. I am doing this right dang now and I am subscribing! Thank you Mr.Lee
Thanks for subscribing!
My favourite plant guy!! String of hearts prop day for me today
keep inspired people bro! keep doing video and keep growing your plant! the world need people like you.
Aw brother my heart was beating fast when you flipped that cuttings in to the Tera cotta pot
The end floored me. Thanks for the medium pep talk - needed it :)
this was such a joy to watch thank you
Glad you liked it!
This was such a good video! The patience to cut it all up in deferent steps of the process. So awesome 😊
Thank you for your tips Lee! I don’t have much chance with soil propagation. I have chance with water, sphag and perlite, depending on the plant type
Absolutely.
LOL! I have never had a String of Hearts, but may buy one next summer. I think that are a bit costly at my local Gardening Center, which is why I don't have one yet. LOL! Anyway, another great video, Lee!! I love your SOH!...... And I hope Christian @CrazyPlantGuy gets to see this video. And yeah, he would probably get some good laughs in just like I did!🤣🤣🤣
Loved the music when you put it in the terracotta!
LMFAO Omg you shaking as you place the hearts in the terracotta is SO RELATABLE 😂
I need a string of hearts update 😊
I love your sense of humor.
Came for the plant info, stayed for the comedy
That's what you get for literal minutes of planning ;) Tbh you could just make a macrame hanger, it's stupid easy and takes like 2 hours max from first reading/watching instructions to having a complete hanger. Also I do not recommend hanging terracotta nor ceramic pots indoors. They look nice, but they're also very heavy and do a lot of damage if they fall down. Plastic is uglier, but much more sensible, especially if a macrame hanger is covering most of it. You don't need to buy zipbags in big bulk, just go to Ikea and get their biggest freezer bags, they're like $4-5 for 50. So it would be like $7 for macrame cord, maybe $3 for plastic pot and $5 for bags, $3 for mounting supplies and $9 for plant (honestly pretty pricey for what you've got, I got plant twice that size for $5), bringing it to $31 for everything, excluding of course sphagnum, perlite, soil and charcoal for potting mix. If one wanted to go even cheaper facebook plant groups are right there (for some reason plant enthusiasts of all age mainly congregate on facebook), it's easy to just swap plants and cuttings for free, especially since string of hearts is a pretty common houseplant. I'd be interested in seeing a similar video, but with string of pearls, its propagation is giving me constant grief.
I don't own a SOH but this was so entertaining!! Great job, Lee!!
That last part got me like "12$ betta and 200$ later of tank set up this champ is living in paradise"
I'm amazed at the dedication this video took!
I am really good with soil propagation. I have played with water, but find the best results with soil. I do not use Miracle Grow soil products, I have always had the worst results in just growing plants with that brand of soil, unless I am growing immersed aquarium plants. Because the soil is constantly wet.
I never hit subscribe so fast after watching a video. just brilliant.
Love it! Thanks a lot.
I have a method wich works every time and 100%!
Its a bit more work but even cheaper and you can decide afterwards how many strings you will plant in one pot:
~ make cuttings with two pairs of leaves each
~ carefully tear of the lower pair of leaves by hand (one by one)
~ fill up a non-transparent vase with water
~ put plastik kitchen foil over the vase an tighten it with a rubber band
~ pierce the tightend foil with a toothpick
~ put the lower end of the cuttings all the way through the small holes into the water
~ just wait until they have long enough roots to plant them
With the plastik foil the water won't evaporate too fast and the moisture is even high enough even if the cuttings don't reach the water. The cuttings will take roots where the pair of leaves got seperated and will grow on top. When the cuttings are ready you can carefully rip the foil from the edge to one hole at a time too get them out.
~ not a native english speaker so just ignore the mistakes
Wow. That sounds super involved but I'm glad it's working for you!
The ending was just like me and diy-s - "why should I buy it when I can do it myself even better?"... and then I realize they don't sell things separately and I have to spend a lot more on materials and I actually pay MORE. 😆 And generally any hobby is a bit like that. When I started buying more plants, I thought: "I'll need only a plant and tap water, right?" Wrong. You need a bigger pot with drainage, a water filter, better soil... and of course plants can't do without beautiful ceramic pots and fancy watering can... and maybe display shelves... and some friends, cause more plants = more humidity, right? And then you end up with no money, but a full room of plant stuff. xd
PS Thanks for the tips! And congrats on making it big!
My friend gave me three really nice, long, healthy string of hearts plants. Then thrips tried to kill them and I ended up with a handful of leftover tubers. I stuck them in two tiny terracotta pots and now have one leaf each. I'm hoping if I don't overwater them, they'll be revived in the spring 😬
Hope they come back! (The plant, not the thrips)
Plus the 2 years and the plant wasn't even close to the floor :))))) You're so funny! I'm glad I found your channel :D
I loved this video. Your creativity and droll delivery are everything!!!!
We need an Update!
The last 30 seconds of so of this has earned you one more like and a new subscriber :D Pure gold
I just found your channel I dont know why its taken UA-cam so long to throw you on my feed... Better late than never.... Thankfully today is my day off so I can do nothing but binge your videos uh I mean educate myself on proper plant care 😂 thank you!!
You're just the BEST!
A little tip for propagating in water
If you start them in water and they get water roots, you can add soil day by day until its only soil. Because if you transfer water roots straight away they will die. I did this with my purple heart plant and it worked very well. Then it dried out by mistake and died. Whoops.
Love your videos. You can’t put a price on personal achievement for having grown a wonderful plant from cuttings. But yes, I did have a good chuckle at your sums at the end
I started some in Spaghnum moss also, I love how you did it in saucer!!! 💚🌱🤗 lol your adding up costs is hilarious 😄😉😃 looks beautiful!!!
Lol great vid! I love the sense of community, bringing all the crazy plant ppl together
Great video. Laughed out loud at the calculation 😂😂😂😂
thats abolutly how im doing it every time with nearly every plant!
buying a baby-plant and grow it by myselfe to a big one.
normally im doing this in spring or early summer but if you are using extra light, you can do it all the year around