House Plant Wisdom I wish I’d Known! | Rare plant tips for beginners
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
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Some rare plant tips, tricks and wisdom nuggets I wish I'd known!
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Tell me your tips in the comments! Let’s get a thread of good advice going ✨🪴❤️
One of my main tips that I learned over the past few years is to not use sticks or wood you find outside as indoor plant supports/polls. Every time I trimmed my outdoor trees I’d use the best sticks as plant polls to size up my leaves. This introduced the bacterias that cause root rot and other nasty funguses, molds and diseases that my indoor plants have little defense against. Keep the outdoor stuff outside and use moss polls, lattice boards, and other things meant for indoor gardens for your inside house plants.
Really good advice! I hope none of your plants had issues 🫶🏻✨🪴❤️
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing these years of learnings! You're saving me $$, time, a bunches of choices! 🙏.
A pest control video would be awesome! I recently discovered systemic insecticide and it's really made a difference. I'm in Canada and sourcing products is so challenging.
I definitely want to make one but I want to make sure I have enough good info to make it worth it. WildFern I’m in Canada and I know she battled a few different pests last year. You might want to check out her channel and see if you can find some of those videos. I know she had thrips and flatmites at one point. Best of luck!
A great episode. I so much prefer listening to others plant troubles rather than having them myself. Not that I haven't experienced all of these myself. Except for those root mealy bugs, that one is getting me nervous!
Thank you! Root mealies keep me up at night for sure. There was a channel called Alesia’s leaves that had videos about getting them a few years ago. I don’t think she posts anymore but that’s how I learned about them. She got them in the Leca of dozens of Hoyas 😫
#1 Tip for new hobbyists- watch this video.
I wish it was out when I started. Oh the time and money I could have saved.
New tip- you need to allocate space for plant supplies (it isn’t just plants that take up space).
Agreed on…
Water Quality is Huge 🙌🙌
Cheap plants still require maintenance.
Plants outgrow the light you intended for them.
Love this video. Thank you!!!
The plant supplies thing is so true! I had to buy a cabinet for my patio to fit them all. That was probably a $200 expense.
I hardly comment or rather never on any plant video in UA-cam. But this is such a great informative episode 🙌 You should have more views!
Thank you for saying that! Hopefully if I stay consistent, the channel will get there eventually ✨🪴❤️
your anthuriums are amazing!! so glad I found your channel
Great tips! I would love a light hearted video about what philos you would/wouldn’t buy again and why. My tip would be coco chunks and chunky perlite as a cheap alternative to pon, has worked great for me with a reservoir. Love all the content lately thank you for your hard work💚
Stay tuned for next week 🫶🏻✨🪴❤️
Thank you! Finally a person who has the same view of Philos as I do. They don't grow well, they don't size up well, tiny roots......Yes there are some good ones. I have several that I love. But give me an Anthurium any day over a philo.
Yessssssssss welcome to the cool kids club lol
This was great, thanks! I love to see a more detailed aroid mix video too.
I mostly grow orchids alongside some Hoya, gesneriads, Begonia, Spaths, and Anthurium, and, at a certain point, I just started watering with 1/4 strength fertilizer throughout most of the year. My tap water with 1/4 strength MSU fertilizer ends up around 6 ph pretty consistently, and whatever is hungrier than that can have a little slow release in the media as a treat.
That’s so nice that your water + fertilizer ends up at a 6. Makes it so much easier!
So true! If repotting is best in spring/summer- that is a lot of repotting if you own between 100-200 plants. This year, I had to repot 2-5 plants at a time per day and I'm still not done for this year. I don't mind repotting as much as all the clean-up afterwards and putting all the supplies back in their place. It is tiring.
I have a shorts series called repotting hell for this exact reason. Horrible.
Today is plant friend down the street catch up day!! I've missed so much!! 😘
Glad to see you back! Hope you’re well ✨🪴❤️
Great video!
Thank you so much!
I’m gonna champion neem oil, but as a soil drench (mixed with soap and water!)🙂 aziradactin works as a systemic and builds up in the plant over time. Found a great study that was done on this where they measured the concentration of aziradactin when applied via the roots. Consistency is key! Spraying helps and will knock down the population, but soil drench is the best 👌 Cold pressed neem oil is unadulterated and still contains all the aziradactin. We don’t have access to effective pesticides or fungicides in Norway, so we don’t have many other options.
Good information, thanks. Mind sharing how much soap, water and neem should be mixed together.
This is really good info! If you can link the study and share any more details, that would be great! The neem oil info out there is so bad!
This vid is literally a shortcut from months or even years of experience for new plant parent.
1 more tips : I don't use pot that is way bigger than the plant, the soil will hold so much water causing the root rot.
Greetings from Indonesia 🙌
That’s a good one! I barely use soil these days so I totally forgot about that. Good looking out!
Great information
I’ve paced myself right up to 200 plants. 🤣🤣
I did the same thing except I probably got closer to 600 🫣
Completely agree about philodendrons. Luckily I only bought maybe 6/7. The wake up call was when I got a black cardinal. Literally nothing interesting about it and I slapped myself for my gotta catch them all mentality.
“Gotta catch ‘em all” mentality had me in its grip for a while too! Pokémon primed our young minds to all become plant hoarders 🤣✨🪴❤️
I am a root chopper lol If plant is getting too big for pots I reduce amount of roots for like 20 procent max, had no issues so far
I do that sometimes too but I always feel guilty
I love that your plants are dancing in the back ayyyyye 😂💚
It’s the ceiling fan. It’s powerful!
Thank you so much! Learned a lot by all of your videos. Please keep doing it! Fan from Taiwan
TYSM 🫶🏻✨🪴❤️
Thank you for the very valuable information!!!
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@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet should I use vermiculite in my aroid mix?
I’ve never used it before and you don’t see many people using it… it’s pretty small granules, right? I think there are probably better options out there. Just my opinion though ✨🪴❤️
Humidity boxes 100%!!
Literally life changing!
I went to dollar tree and got so many cheap tubaware i use those too
Even better for a deal!
Where is the Queen Celine? 😲 Lovely video as always 💚 I agree with everything! Definitely don't need all the philodendron as I thought I did at the start of my planty journey. I still like them but as you said most are a pain 😅 I might need all the anthurium though 🤔🤣🤦♀️
She just got moved out of frame… maybe I filmed something else the same day that made sense to have more anthurium in the background…
That's a good little hint! Can't wait 💚
Thanks for the heads up on anthurium humidty needs. I'll skip them and stick to aroids that can take ambient humidity conditions. You just saved me some heartache and cash.
This is nuts, but I lost my mind over pests. I couldn’t get rid of mealies and spider mites. Tried everything. I finally prayed them all with Lysol spay disinfectant. I used my gloved hands to work the bugs off in the mostly alcohol spray. Nothing has come back. The bugs are gone. And the only plant it damaged was a tractor seat plant sp? Anyhow Lysol works. 💚🖤💚
That was extremely brave and I’m so glad it worked out! Great tip for people who live where they can’t get pesticides!
👏👏👏 Excellent information 🇳🇿🇳🇿
Thank you!
My ilsimanii emergent leaves come in a stunning baby pink and fade to a rich creamy color, I absolutely adore it, it may be my conditions in New Zealand but so far no yellow variegation
If I can find one like that then I would still want it. That sounds like perfection!
You are so lucky in Australia and New Zealand to be able to buy islemanii for a good price. Not so here in the U.S. Thought the snowdrift would be a good replacement but eh...
Love ur anthurium mine all is in a srump need to find a fertelizer
I am always so shocked when people treat their pests a lot of different times in a week. I always jsut do 1 treatment and I never see something coming back or still being there. I never had these issues
I think there’s just a lot of misinformation out there because anytime anyone asks for help with pest control you get 20 different responses that all contradict and the beneficial bug people always try to convert people. I’ll reply with like evidence and studies and specific instructions and people will still fight in the comments about what to do.
I find it funny that you mention all philos looking the same when that is the exact reason I will never get into anthiriums! I know they're really trendy but to me I would just choose 1 or 2 and be done with them. Puls they never have perfect leaves in anyone's backgroung 😑
That’s fair… although anthurium is a pretty diverse genus and I would say that philo leaves are hard to keep perfect too (they love to punch holes in themselves) and leaves don’t stay perfect in nature even so that’s kind of a losing battle.
I more so meant that I didn’t need a nangaritense and a fuzzy petiole and a pasta and a McDowell and a lynamii and a montanum etc., etc. Now if I like something, I can just get one version and be happy with that.
Utohhhhh. Where is the strawberry shake
I moved her out of frame… that may be an Easter egg for another video that’s coming… one where it might make sense to have a background with more anthurium…
Hello! Thank you for the pest control advice! I’ve been really struggling to find a regimen that works- I live in Hawaii and my windows are always open so I am constantly battling spider mites and thrips! With the Bonide soap and the Azamax flush, does it usually just take 1 treatment? Or do you repeat multiple treatments over several weeks?
Usually for me, one is enough if you treat everything at once. But if you have a chronic issue, I’d say it couldn’t hurt to treat everything once a quarter with the Azamax. The bonide insecticidal super soap really isn’t necessary unless you suspect you have an active problem. Hope that helps!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet thank you so much! That definitely helps! Do you ever use the Azamax as a tx when you first bring a plant home as well? Just wondering if you’ve ever had any trouble with it affecting the plant if it’s young! Seems like a lot of the plants I get here come with pests in the soil- I think it’s just hard here bc the outdoor conditions are so good for pests.
So I almost never bring in plants that didn’t go through phytosanitary because I usually import stuff, and I also don’t use soil on hardly anything these days, but that’s a great idea if you have that issue regularly. I’ve gotten thrips from Etsy purchases twice so I should probably do that as well going forward! I’ve never seen it cause an issue for any plant, just make sure you’re not spraying it on the foliage before they’re going to be under bright light, it’s similar to what most people do with neem. Sending all the planty vibes your way!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet thanks so much! Really appreciate the advice! Can’t wait to try this!
Does the insecticide products you suggested work for mealy bugs too?
Mealy bugs you gotta kill with rubbing alcohol. Put it on a Q tip and dab each one with it. Then wash the plant off with an alcohol, water, Castile soap mixture. Those things are the worst.
Holy hell 65 percent ambient humidity damn lol
I am a lucky lucky plant lady
Definitely so much misinformation with pest control. Need people like you to call them fake influencers out!
The people who say to treat thrips with dish soap or by repotting all of your plants always crack me up…. No ma’am that is not going to fix the issue
Where I am mealy bugs and spider mites reign supreme. I’ve washed my plants with dawn for spider mites poor things they are like the oily ducks from the commercials but it does work . As to mealy bugs I’ve tried alcohol, neam oil and nothing, those disgusting creatures just laugh at me. They are the reason why I don’t have hoyas.
Mealy bugs are nasty AF. I’ve always caught them early enough to make due with alcohol swabs fortunately
Do you use that dream team pest combo preventatively? Or when there is a problem? I'm currently dealing with fungus gnat invasion and think I'm going to start adding systemic to everybody.
I also would love to see you do a video on your pest control game 😂
That won’t really help with fungus gnats. For those you can do a mosquito bit tea or a soil drench with diluted hydrogen peroxide. One teaspoon per cup. Diatomaceous earth also works on fungus gnats but you only when dry so you have to bottom water. Hope you get it under control!
I think I have robot fungus gnats. I used mosquito bits water for a month and it would look like it helped immediately and within 24 hours they were all back and stronger than ever. 😢. I would even spray the top of the soil with undiluted hydrogen peroxide and it does nothing. I'll have to try flushing the soil with diluted peroxide
Maybe try the diatomaceous earth then. You sprinkle it on top of the soil and it cuts the gnats up. You can also cover the soil in like pebbles or marbles… not too sure how well that works but I’ve heard people try that. Or try carnivorous plants!
I just had to deal with gnats and nothing would help, they came from a bag of soil. I tried flushing the soil and putting leca on top but it didn’t work. I had to repot my plants with a chunkier coco mix so the top can dry quickly, sprinkle a bit of diatomaceous earth and only bottom water my plants. I also put a carnivorous plant in the most affected room so if gants are still flying around they get eaten. Goodbye stupid gnats. I’ll never buy bags of soil for indoor plants again.
What fertelizer u used
So I’m not too sure this is super practical for most people because I make like a whole potion, but I make 2 gallons of water at a time. I use brita filtered water. I add Tezula MSU orchid fertilizer for tap water, 1 ml of superthrive, 1 ml of liquidirt and 1 ml of cal mag. You have to add the cal mag first and like mix up the water and eat it sit for a while or else the nutrients can mix badly and cause nutrient lockout. Then once that’s all mixed up, I ph balance to 5.7. Hope that helps!
I am so over philodendrons!!! Getting rid of a lot of mine soon. Got so obsessed with then when I first started collecting. Gloriosum who?
Haha! I still like my gloriosum… however I don’t also need the Dean McDowell and the pasta and the fuzzy petiole and the nangaritense and sodiroi aff and the plowmanii and so on and so on… just keeping the faves!
UK is just as bad re regulations on pesticides. Average hobbyists don't have access to proper systemics because it's dangerous for native beneficial insects.
The native insect thing is definitely valid but I only use them indoors. America doesn’t care about native insects, our farms spray all kinds of nasty stuff into the air 🤢
That longissimilobum 🥵
She’s definitely a fave!
This was kinda depressing