I think that's a great way to sum it up! Just a time lapse also wouldn't cut it for me but the feeling of doing something "together" makes me way more invested than talking about it
Hey Claire! 💚 90% of the time, I put your long form videos on and do houseplant stuff with you 🥰 but sometimes I watch them while I’m cooking too, it’s just great ambient, getting stuff done content! I love it!
I watched one of your videos where you said this form of video might help with our own plant burnout and you were absolutely right! Single-handedly helping me cure my own planty burnout. I could watch hours on hours of these videos Clare and im always doing planty stuff right along with you! Thankyou so much from one plant parent to the next!
I like the longer format. It's hot in Aus now and unpleasant being outside gardening. So I watch these Sat morning and do indoor plant things, cooking, cleaning etc. Usually I do things I've been procrastinating on and frequently have ideas I'd not considered before.
Each type of video has its own purpose. Long form is super for motivating me to get some plant chores done. I watered and removed all the dry bits from the plants in my front two rooms. 20-30min informative videos are great for the commute home when I cannot watch. 20-30 min videos that require watching, such as unboxing or top xxx lists are great for winding down at the end of the day. I love to work on my plants on the floor, as well. It just adds to the grounding effect, I think. Thanks for all you do!
I see you have a lot going on in your life, plants, your boyfriend moving in and he is working at home, and trying to maintain everything in the house. You need to take a step back and evaluate life and see what it is that is getting you upset and overwhelmed. I was married to a man with ADHD and his normal routine was fine but if something new entered the picture, he would be stressed, and burned out from things, so something in your life is too much from your normal routine. I hope you find your way. - I love your channel and enjoy watching you.
Claire, your plant house tour is the video that really encouraged me to start off my planty journey! I think I watched it 5 times in a row at that time, and I still come back to it to this day, because I find such great confort in watching it. I would love for you to do an updated version, I.m sure it's a lot of work but I reckon it will be worth it 🥰
I LOVE watching you do planty chores. It encourages me so much! Gives me ideas too. Thank you for doing a long video. I was so happy to see that. I am cooking dinner listening to you. lol
Eeeep I feel so passionate about this: I have always scraped off the outer layer to reveal the underlying corm, and I have had a 100% success rate with my corms in fluval stratum. Covered in a container (much like the one you just cleaned out!) until growth really pops off. I was amazed the first time I tried stratum after years of water, soil, spagnum moss, etc. The time it takes it to sprout growth and roots is shockingly fast. And the plants make an effortless transition to pon once well rooted 😘 Hope that helps! My baby Jacklyn’s are so dang cute!
Check the weather forecast for the next week, set an alarm for the morning of a warm sunny day, re-wash the rug, hang it out, and set another timer to bring it back in that evening.
Hi Claire, I am not discounting the comments about changing your clothes after handling plants that have pests, but I just can't see it. Hand washing after handling a plant with a pest and also trying to keep your plants spaced apart is a big help. I'm sure it is difficult with large collections. I totally enjoyed this video!!! ❤❤❤
Just in case you’re curious, you’ll find the gigas appears and even grows much like the melanochrysum as its a hybrid of that plant, I think it’s other parent is verrucosum. So generally they’re much easier to own yet keep the appeal of the melanochrysum. This may also explain the ease of rooting them as Melanos are on the whole easy to propogate but a pain to size up.
Love your videos and love your apartment! Ive kept plants for over 30 years, went to school for it, and used ro manage a retail greenhouse years ago (I was all about the tropicals... I like to garden, but I resented the bedding plants for taking up space in the green house in the spring. Lol). In my experience, spidermites normally hit when a plant is stressed. You may always have a spider mite or two that the plant can keep under control on its own and you wont get a massive infestarion and see the damage.... Until the plant is stressed-- too much light, too dry, too wet, too dark-- and the mites take over. This also tends to be true of thrips. Aphids will attack anything, usually when in flower (like a hibiscus or cape primrose) and come in on plants kept outside or make their own way in. Mealy bugs are harder to pin. I have seen them on the healthiest of plants... Im in America and had a pesticide license (when I worked at the Greenhouse) and would bug bomb on a schedule (which now I feel is bad practice, but that was years ago) but never noticed any transfer of cooties from the greenhouse to my home on my clothes (Ive always kept lots of plants at home)-- but if you keep plants outside, scan them carefully for cooties when you bring them in because that was always the largest source of bug infection.
57:43 I have done the same thing. I’m potting up duplicates, relocating the plants I don’t love as much to the garden, and just focusing on the plants I love the most.
In regards to cleaning things, I’m one of those people that sterilises everything between use. Just a combo of being in a science degree that requires sterilisation and also having severe OCD (best career idea, I know!), I have to clean everything between plants. Nothing gets cross-contaminated at all. It does sound overboard, I know, but OCD gonna OCD, yo. Also, 💚
I’m an artist and I listen to longer, chatty videos when I’m working in my studio. So it’s a 💚 for me. I do also like tutorials (I’m trying to become a better plant parent) but I like those to be short and to the point without any extra stuff.
I'm relatively new to the planty world and really appreciate your content, Claire! A mix of all three sounds great and I really love the longer vids like this one! 💚
I have 2 chiapense, frosted heart and variegated. I grow them both in soil. The frosted heart is in my cabinet because it's rehabbing. The other is in room conditions and does great.
💚 I absolutely love long videos like this. If there's a shorter video, I often feel like it goes forward too quickly and I need to watch again to catch something I missed... I feel like nowadays quick and short content is so popular that I feel like I'm in the minority with liking very long and relatively calm videos! I won't even do anything while watching, I'm just enjoying every bit of planty content with the people I like (like you). I watch these while I'm relaxing on the sofa or when I'm eating breakfast, dinner of evening snack☕🥪 It was so funny that you mentioned other youtubers' sun rooms and I follow them all! The world is so small. I'm too dreaming of my next home and I hope it will be a proper house with extra rooms for both my and my husband's hobbies. I want a plant room that can have some mess on the tables and my husband needs an office for his work and also for his many instruments and music studio equipment... I'm currently expecting a baby so soon we need a room for him/her too. Now we don't have an extra bedroom here in our apartment but I think a baby doesn't need own room for a long time... This year I need to downsize my plant collection so that I don't have as much chores, but that's not fun! I love growing vegetables on my balcony but this summer I probably can't carry as much water there as before😬 I would like to grow as much as before because eating your own vegetables is so fun and healthy.
💚💚💚💚💚💚 I just get on with my day. I can’t bear silence so you nattering away about something that interests me helps my brain. I love a good long video where I can be doing housework and watch it at the same time without having to keep going back to the iPad to change the video etc. Sometimes I sit and watch but sometimes I’m busying myself. It depends 🙃🙃🙃
Re. Transferring pests from plant to plant, consider your scrunched on your wrist as that would’ve been closer to the plants and also goes in and out of substrate bags…
Hi Claire! When I sprout corms I pick that brown stuff off. Unless the corms from the Jacklyn are in fact black. But usually they have the brown membrane and I scrape it off. I’ve sprouted corms that small before! You can too! Love you and your channel! Xoxoxo from Florida!
Same. I had a A.J. corm in sphagnum moss for months doing absolutely nothing and I was about to give up on it. But I decided to peel off the brown membrane and within a few weeks it had started sprouting!
About the tortum, mine was doing exactly the same. It was creating nice big leaves in the summer and then in the autumn this started. I chopped it but it kept doing the same. So, I think it just wants more light. I moved it closer to the west facing window recently and keeping an eye on it if it gets better. Hopefully that solves it! Going towards the brighter days anyways 😊🌱 And YAAAYYY for Esmeraldense!!! 🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚 💚🌸💚🌸💚🌸
💚 I love the long form/planty chores videos. It's honestly the only way I'm getting any plant chores done at the moment. I tell myself I can't watch your long videos until I'm doing plant chores myself (even though I want to watch right away). I've been able to get through some of the big things I've been avoiding for a long time with just the videos you've posted since New years. I love any of the content you put out, but I tell myself I can watch the short ones without doing work.
For the alocasia jackolyn corms I’ve peeled them so they dark hard shell is all gone and then put them on a paper towel and only misted with a bit of water and put on top of a heat mat so it creates a little greenhouse effect for them and all mine sprouted well ☺️
I love these!!💚💚💚 as parasocial as it sounds… I feel like we’re hanging out while I do my own house chores hahahah! I’ll watch anything you put out, so if you’re too busy and need to make short videos sometimes- I’ll still be here💚💚💚
I can relate to the plants in one spot where you see them regularly to remember to care for them. I was just telling my boyfriend that I feel silly having all of mine in front of one window because it’s the only one that isn’t shaded in my house and I can’t remember to water them when I need to and not forget any of them.
💚Also i like not just plants that you do that we see. Like seeing you walking your dog and a glimpse of skincare and comic con and plant swaps. I love watching daily peoples lives too. Like thrifting, cooking etc.
It really depends on how I’m feeling. Sometimes I’ll be repotting/watering, and other times I’m drinking my coffee on the couch with my dog watching.💚🌞
I don't sterilize pots but I wash them out maybe with hot water if they had pests. I just make sure all the dirt is out. If they are just getting up potted sometimes I just rub the dirt out and reuse it.
I wouldn't change clothes unless it was a thrips situation. I used to be a plant merchandiser. It was the best job, loving plants as I do. I have over 300 plants and the burn out was terrible. My health wasn't good so my husband told me to stay home and not work. This past year I have a better hold on my plants and a new refreshing feeling to getting them back to where they should be. They were suffering as I was. New year new outlook. Watching your videos again and feeling inspired.💚🙂
I have a giant repotting mat for working on my big chonks on the floor. I also love thrifting plant pots, I’ve saved so much money What about trying to peel the skin off those Jaklyn corms see if that’ll help prevent rot? I don’t see why a wet stick without roots couldn’t take in nutrients, if it’s growing a leaf it would have to be, the wet stick takes in water right? I think roots are just extensions of the stick not the only way to get nutrients. But I have no proof, just my opinion. If you pot that Alocasia especially deep into pon is there a fear of stem rot?
Hi Claire, my Frosted Heart came from rescue shelf in a supermarket. I cut it, the bottom part is in an aroid mix and the upper part rooted in semi-hydro and that part is doing much much better. My plant care is a bit spontaneous, for example today (saturday) I started to water and transferring into semi-hydro my alocasias at 6.00 a.m. 😀 No plan at all. I am definitely for option of long plant chores videos 💚💚💚
Hi Claire! I’m really enjoying the long content you have put out recently. I usually watch planty videos to relax and these longer kind of videos are perfect for that 💚💚
I’ve done corms that small before. I put them in moss in the tiniest little condiments container and it took about 4 full months for them to start to sprout. But they did!! And they look wonderful.
I really enjoyed this video! 💚 And about the topic of changing clothes every time you handle a pesty plant, I wouldn’t do that unless it’s super bad and multiple plants at once. But just follow your gut feeling! 😁💚
💚💚💚 love love love this content 😃 i use it to relax and chill out...so do none of my chores whilst watching! Lol it's my time out. Love the super long ones! May not watch all in one go but love that I have a bit more to go back to the next day. 😊
Hi Claire, been watching your content and page for a minute but first time I write. Nice to seeing someone do chores while explaining how to care for plants. Thank you for being true to yourself and what you do. Also Me time is important for the soul and as a person it’s what keeps us healthy. Take it from me a learned that a long time ago. You have to make time for Me time doing what you Love. So then you can take care of others ❤️❤️
Hi Claire. I've given up on chemically treating for pests. I now high pressure spray down leaves with water. If pests are around during spring or autumn, I put the plant outside to let mother nature do its thing. During winter, I do a high pressure water spray and wait till the warmer weather arrives. Also, doing a soil repot can be a solution. Greeblies, can hibernate for extended periods of time. 🌺
I’ve been quietly watching and going through nearly all your content “binging” 😂 and I have to say your content is fun, genuine and realistic. Love watching you and sometimes you make me lol 😂 keep doing what you’re doing and keeping it real for us all.. I watch a lot of content creators and it’s really nice to be able to share real life situations.. without all the perfect green leafage.. not sure if that makes sense! It does to me ❤
💚💚💚LOVE these longer vids but seriously anything you feel happy creating is all ok with me. Thanks so much for all the content you make I can’t get enough 🤩🌱💚
I just put my frosted heart on the moss pole, 4” plastic D shaped one that’s 24” tall. It has two growth points growing well but it’s only just been put on the pole about 3 days ago. It’s biggest leaf is 4-4 1/2”
I’ve started to sieve my pon & perlite when new & dry, saving the dust & using it in my succulent soil, so far so good! No dust down the drain & plants seem to like it. X
I like using beach wood or pretty warped branches and sticks as hoya trellises, I feel the natural curves help me and the plant know where to go - a new discovery coming out of burnout - paused my own plant chores to write that I also enjoy watching someone do something similar to me while I work, esp with plants it provides a lot of inspiration
Oh I’m so very glad I looked to see if you had a new video. I love this style. I’m actually making air holes in my new clear pot for my plants I am repotting into pon, and I can watch while doing it!!! Thank you.
I wear one of my husbands old button down dress shirt, I keep several so I always have one. After I’m done with plant care I wash it alone in the washing machine in hot water. I don’t mix it with my other clothes in the hamper either
I’m a dog groomer and I listen to your videos while I groom dogs. So I love the longer content! In fact this video coincidentally ended just as I finished my last dog for the day. A cutie cocker spaniel girl named Maxi. ☺️ I also have a frosted heart and it’s been a pretty easy going plant. I put it on a coir pole but I’m thinking of moving it to a sphagnum moss pole. I did chop it to prop the top and then plant back into the pot when I first got it and it’s taking forever to root up. :/
I've grown an alocasia Jacklyn from a corm in fluval stratum. I'm fairly new to plants but I bought the mother from Walmart and it died almost immediately from rot. I managed to find one corm and luckily it's doing ok. Just finished it's 3rd leaf but the original died. It's in a closed bin with a bunch of other Polly and pink dragon corms.
💚 i absolutely love the longer videos. I usually start watching them in bed and then I get excited to do plant care as well and pause the video. After a while i continue to watch the video and catch myself looking at my collection and finding new things to do so I pause again and start all over. It truly does feel like we’re doing it together 😊🥰
While I'm watching you on our large screen TV, I do planty chores (watering, cleaning leaves), and when I repot I watch your vids at my desk in my home office on a big gaming monitor. You, Kevin, Miro, Fern, Charmaine, Becca, Nicole, and Adam are always in my livingroom at one time or another while I do planty related care. 💚🌞
Little tip concerning the pipes, get some tights, cut them up and put them over your drain in the bath tub, but under the little metal thing that usually is supposet to hold up hair. You can also reuse the little tight piece a lot, just let it dry and dust of the soil/other potting medium. Saved me from a lot of soil in the drain :D
Your long chores videos are the only thing which can get me through cleaning the house❤ seriously, I save them for later so I have motivation for my chores 😂
Thank you for talking about your apprehension to driving. I was in an accident last year (passenger) and I am unable to drive by myself and I am seeing a psychologist but basically, the PTSD is just striking fear in me. And hearing that I'm not the only one helps.
My favorite trellis for Hoya are the simple bamboo arch style ones, they are larger than most of the plastic or wire ones, and they are more natural looking
So I am currently getting the very beggings of creating my own plant nursery and growing our own food so I start seeds and transplant seeds while I watch your long form videos and it helps me focus soo much ❤
I learnt to drive in my 30s. Passed 1st time but had masses of lessons. I was born in a big city and public transport was great so no need to drive. Later I moved to as more rural area hence why I learnt to drive. I was also v scared, to this day I will get v stressed about driving to unfamiliar places/routes. I will only do it if I absolutely must. The longest trip I took was to go and pick up a stray dog that I adopted, it was picked up on a motorway by a nice woman member of the public. She could not find any owners and put out a call for help in rehoming online. So I went, a drive that was well worth it. I had her for 15 years. The dog I mean. A lovely lurcher. Brilliant dogs.
Love your videos!! Concerning the change of clothes with spider mites: no I wouldn't. Should I? Yes. I work in a laboratory in a different town, and one day I was working with a microscope under semi sterile conditions. And suddenly there was a spider mite crawling on my sample.. it crawled from my hair onto my lab coat into the sterile flowhood onto my sample..i worked with my plants the day before!
I really enjoyed watching long repot videos, I did some watering and made dinner while watching this one. You have so many plants I would love seeing a tour.
I’ve sprouted Jacklyn corms smaller than those so i think you should be fine. It worried me because they were darker then other Alocasia corks and I thought they would rot but they didn’t. I peeled the outer layer though.
Regarding hoya trellises . . . I'm fairly new to hoya collecting, so I've been finding my way with trellises. I've bought all of them on Amazon at this point. The main thing that I've struggled with so far is anticipating what the plants will need as they get bigger and how to address that. The trellises that I have used most often are black metal hoops that have "cross branches" (for lack of a better descriptor) and a little butterfly or bird on them. I liked the whimsy of those. Rookie mistake, though, I weaved my Hoya Fungii around one when it was small. Now it's gotten pretty big and I think it needs a larger trellis, but I can't get it off the butterfly trellis without destroying it. (I'm not a big "chop and prop" gal, so I'm not happy about it.) I've also used bamboo ladder trellises and just bought some bamboo u-shaped trellises that I'm going to try. Another that I'm trying is a white-coated metal trellis that you are supposed to be able to expand by attaching another trellis to it. So, short story long, it's a work in progress. I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. I really think all of the trellises can be useful for my collection if I marry them with the right hoyas.
💚☺️ Any content you produce is fine with me. I have been using your videos to sit down in between bouts of plant care as a reward focus. Works wonders. My chiapense frosted heart is the same height as my regular chiapense but the leaves are smaller and have a light coloured leaf and beautiful white veining on the newest leaves. Same treatment, growing attached to a 900mm stake.
For my hoyas I have a lot of them in macrame hangers so they trail down and/or climb up the macrame hanger. I also like the circle trellises and bamboo trellises with vertical and horizontal pieces which gives lots of options to wrap the tendrils around. I feel the bamboo trellises would look very nice in your space 😊
I like watching people do things rather than hearing them talk about doing things. Good job Claire.
I think that's a great way to sum it up! Just a time lapse also wouldn't cut it for me but the feeling of doing something "together" makes me way more invested than talking about it
Silly but i absolutely loved the little tidy up inclusion, was a nice bit of cleaning motivation and something i need to get better at myself ❤❤
💚 long form content please 🤗 it definitely motivates me to take care of my plant chores while I watch your channel
Plant chore videos are my favorite. I get a lot of my own plant chores done while watching. Helps keep me motivated when I'm not feeling it so much. 💚
Hey Claire! 💚 90% of the time, I put your long form videos on and do houseplant stuff with you 🥰 but sometimes I watch them while I’m cooking too, it’s just great ambient, getting stuff done content! I love it!
💚💚💚 Absolutely love this long plant chores chatty content!
I watched one of your videos where you said this form of video might help with our own plant burnout and you were absolutely right! Single-handedly helping me cure my own planty burnout. I could watch hours on hours of these videos Clare and im always doing planty stuff right along with you! Thankyou so much from one plant parent to the next!
Love the long form content. It often does help me feel more motivated to get plant chores or other household chores done while listening/watching. 💚💚💚
I like the longer format. It's hot in Aus now and unpleasant being outside gardening. So I watch these Sat morning and do indoor plant things, cooking, cleaning etc. Usually I do things I've been procrastinating on and frequently have ideas I'd not considered before.
Each type of video has its own purpose. Long form is super for motivating me to get some plant chores done. I watered and removed all the dry bits from the plants in my front two rooms. 20-30min informative videos are great for the commute home when I cannot watch. 20-30 min videos that require watching, such as unboxing or top xxx lists are great for winding down at the end of the day.
I love to work on my plants on the floor, as well. It just adds to the grounding effect, I think. Thanks for all you do!
I am seriously IN LOVE with your space!! 😍😍 So beautiful!!
Thank you for saying that about gnats and pon. I thought I was the only one experiencing that.
I see you have a lot going on in your life, plants, your boyfriend moving in and he is working at home, and trying to maintain everything in the house. You need to take a step back and evaluate life and see what it is that is getting you upset and overwhelmed. I was married to a man with ADHD and his normal routine was fine but if something new entered the picture, he would be stressed, and burned out from things, so something in your life is too much from your normal routine. I hope you find your way. - I love your channel and enjoy watching you.
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💚💚💚 I watch your videos while working from home so I have a lot of time to sit and listen!
Claire, your plant house tour is the video that really encouraged me to start off my planty journey! I think I watched it 5 times in a row at that time, and I still come back to it to this day, because I find such great confort in watching it. I would love for you to do an updated version, I.m sure it's a lot of work but I reckon it will be worth it 🥰
Me too, thats the long one, when she was at her mothers house right? It is a pretty special video, I think its in two parts.
@@pennyred6195 I think it's right after she moved here, while everything was new and adjusting😄
same!
So happy your birthday plant lived! I knew it would! Never give up! Nature loves to find a way!
I LOVE watching you do planty chores. It encourages me so much! Gives me ideas too. Thank you for doing a long video. I was so happy to see that. I am cooking dinner listening to you. lol
Eeeep I feel so passionate about this:
I have always scraped off the outer layer to reveal the underlying corm, and I have had a 100% success rate with my corms in fluval stratum. Covered in a container (much like the one you just cleaned out!) until growth really pops off. I was amazed the first time I tried stratum after years of water, soil, spagnum moss, etc. The time it takes it to sprout growth and roots is shockingly fast. And the plants make an effortless transition to pon once well rooted 😘 Hope that helps! My baby Jacklyn’s are so dang cute!
Check the weather forecast for the next week, set an alarm for the morning of a warm sunny day, re-wash the rug, hang it out, and set another timer to bring it back in that evening.
Hi Claire, I am not discounting the comments about changing your clothes after handling plants that have pests, but I just can't see it. Hand washing after handling a plant with a pest and also trying to keep your plants spaced apart is a big help. I'm sure it is difficult with large collections. I totally enjoyed this video!!! ❤❤❤
Just in case you’re curious, you’ll find the gigas appears and even grows much like the melanochrysum as its a hybrid of that plant, I think it’s other parent is verrucosum.
So generally they’re much easier to own yet keep the appeal of the melanochrysum. This may also explain the ease of rooting them as Melanos are on the whole easy to propogate but a pain to size up.
Love your videos and love your apartment! Ive kept plants for over 30 years, went to school for it, and used ro manage a retail greenhouse years ago (I was all about the tropicals... I like to garden, but I resented the bedding plants for taking up space in the green house in the spring. Lol). In my experience, spidermites normally hit when a plant is stressed. You may always have a spider mite or two that the plant can keep under control on its own and you wont get a massive infestarion and see the damage.... Until the plant is stressed-- too much light, too dry, too wet, too dark-- and the mites take over. This also tends to be true of thrips. Aphids will attack anything, usually when in flower (like a hibiscus or cape primrose) and come in on plants kept outside or make their own way in. Mealy bugs are harder to pin. I have seen them on the healthiest of plants... Im in America and had a pesticide license (when I worked at the Greenhouse) and would bug bomb on a schedule (which now I feel is bad practice, but that was years ago) but never noticed any transfer of cooties from the greenhouse to my home on my clothes (Ive always kept lots of plants at home)-- but if you keep plants outside, scan them carefully for cooties when you bring them in because that was always the largest source of bug infection.
💚 loving the long form videos, but it’s all up to how you are feeling, so I’ll be happy with whatever you put out.
💚 loving the long form videos but honestly, make whatever makes you happy!
57:43 I have done the same thing. I’m potting up duplicates, relocating the plants I don’t love as much to the garden, and just focusing on the plants I love the most.
In regards to cleaning things, I’m one of those people that sterilises everything between use. Just a combo of being in a science degree that requires sterilisation and also having severe OCD (best career idea, I know!), I have to clean everything between plants. Nothing gets cross-contaminated at all.
It does sound overboard, I know, but OCD gonna OCD, yo.
Also, 💚
I’m an artist and I listen to longer, chatty videos when I’m working in my studio. So it’s a 💚 for me. I do also like tutorials (I’m trying to become a better plant parent) but I like those to be short and to the point without any extra stuff.
I'm relatively new to the planty world and really appreciate your content, Claire! A mix of all three sounds great and I really love the longer vids like this one! 💚
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 I just love the long ones because it allows me to have "company" whilst doing my plant care!
💚 Long form is my Fave. It's motivating for me
I have 2 chiapense, frosted heart and variegated. I grow them both in soil. The frosted heart is in my cabinet because it's rehabbing. The other is in room conditions and does great.
I only have 93 plants but I learn so much from watching your channel 😊 thank you
💚 I absolutely love long videos like this. If there's a shorter video, I often feel like it goes forward too quickly and I need to watch again to catch something I missed... I feel like nowadays quick and short content is so popular that I feel like I'm in the minority with liking very long and relatively calm videos! I won't even do anything while watching, I'm just enjoying every bit of planty content with the people I like (like you). I watch these while I'm relaxing on the sofa or when I'm eating breakfast, dinner of evening snack☕🥪
It was so funny that you mentioned other youtubers' sun rooms and I follow them all! The world is so small. I'm too dreaming of my next home and I hope it will be a proper house with extra rooms for both my and my husband's hobbies. I want a plant room that can have some mess on the tables and my husband needs an office for his work and also for his many instruments and music studio equipment... I'm currently expecting a baby so soon we need a room for him/her too. Now we don't have an extra bedroom here in our apartment but I think a baby doesn't need own room for a long time... This year I need to downsize my plant collection so that I don't have as much chores, but that's not fun! I love growing vegetables on my balcony but this summer I probably can't carry as much water there as before😬 I would like to grow as much as before because eating your own vegetables is so fun and healthy.
💚 Actually, I enjoy all of your videos. I think you should give a variety of all 3. I look forward to seeing more from you. Keep up the great videos.
💚💚💚💚💚💚 I just get on with my day. I can’t bear silence so you nattering away about something that interests me helps my brain. I love a good long video where I can be doing housework and watch it at the same time without having to keep going back to the iPad to change the video etc. Sometimes I sit and watch but sometimes I’m busying myself. It depends 🙃🙃🙃
Re. Transferring pests from plant to plant, consider your scrunched on your wrist as that would’ve been closer to the plants and also goes in and out of substrate bags…
Hi Claire! When I sprout corms I pick that brown stuff off. Unless the corms from the Jacklyn are in fact black. But usually they have the brown membrane and I scrape it off. I’ve sprouted corms that small before! You can too! Love you and your channel! Xoxoxo from Florida!
I agree, I thing corms grow these to protect themselves from damage. I have grown corms like that even without pealing the stuff off
Same. I had a A.J. corm in sphagnum moss for months doing absolutely nothing and I was about to give up on it. But I decided to peel off the brown membrane and within a few weeks it had started sprouting!
Never thought a smaller corm couldn't be viable. It will just probably produce a small leaf to start with and need some attention but totally doable
@@ingrida1121 saw that at sydneyplantguy
About the tortum, mine was doing exactly the same. It was creating nice big leaves in the summer and then in the autumn this started. I chopped it but it kept doing the same. So, I think it just wants more light. I moved it closer to the west facing window recently and keeping an eye on it if it gets better. Hopefully that solves it! Going towards the brighter days anyways 😊🌱
And YAAAYYY for Esmeraldense!!! 🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚🎉💚
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💚 I love the long form/planty chores videos. It's honestly the only way I'm getting any plant chores done at the moment. I tell myself I can't watch your long videos until I'm doing plant chores myself (even though I want to watch right away). I've been able to get through some of the big things I've been avoiding for a long time with just the videos you've posted since New years. I love any of the content you put out, but I tell myself I can watch the short ones without doing work.
💚 Love the long-format videos and they are very informative so I'm voting for long-form. But I'm old and I have plenty of time :-)
For the alocasia jackolyn corms I’ve peeled them so they dark hard shell is all gone and then put them on a paper towel and only misted with a bit of water and put on top of a heat mat so it creates a little greenhouse effect for them and all mine sprouted well ☺️
I love these!!💚💚💚 as parasocial as it sounds… I feel like we’re hanging out while I do my own house chores hahahah! I’ll watch anything you put out, so if you’re too busy and need to make short videos sometimes- I’ll still be here💚💚💚
I can relate to the plants in one spot where you see them regularly to remember to care for them. I was just telling my boyfriend that I feel silly having all of mine in front of one window because it’s the only one that isn’t shaded in my house and I can’t remember to water them when I need to and not forget any of them.
💚Also i like not just plants that you do that we see. Like seeing you walking your dog and a glimpse of skincare and comic con and plant swaps. I love watching daily peoples lives too. Like thrifting, cooking etc.
It really depends on how I’m feeling. Sometimes I’ll be repotting/watering, and other times I’m drinking my coffee on the couch with my dog watching.💚🌞
I don't sterilize pots but I wash them out maybe with hot water if they had pests. I just make sure all the dirt is out. If they are just getting up potted sometimes I just rub the dirt out and reuse it.
💚 yes please, love these longer videos, really useful to get things done alongside.
I wouldn't change clothes unless it was a thrips situation. I used to be a plant merchandiser. It was the best job, loving plants as I do. I have over 300 plants and the burn out was terrible. My health wasn't good so my husband told me to stay home and not work. This past year I have a better hold on my plants and a new refreshing feeling to getting them back to where they should be. They were suffering as I was. New year new outlook. Watching your videos again and feeling inspired.💚🙂
Such a beautiful collection!! I love the whole vibe of this video 🥰
I have a giant repotting mat for working on my big chonks on the floor.
I also love thrifting plant pots, I’ve saved so much money
What about trying to peel the skin off those Jaklyn corms see if that’ll help prevent rot?
I don’t see why a wet stick without roots couldn’t take in nutrients, if it’s growing a leaf it would have to be, the wet stick takes in water right? I think roots are just extensions of the stick not the only way to get nutrients. But I have no proof, just my opinion.
If you pot that Alocasia especially deep into pon is there a fear of stem rot?
Love the long content! Especially the cozy vibes/ montage scenes with music sprinkled in :) 💚💚💚
Hi Claire, my Frosted Heart came from rescue shelf in a supermarket. I cut it, the bottom part is in an aroid mix and the upper part rooted in semi-hydro and that part is doing much much better. My plant care is a bit spontaneous, for example today (saturday) I started to water and transferring into semi-hydro my alocasias at 6.00 a.m. 😀 No plan at all. I am definitely for option of long plant chores videos 💚💚💚
Hi Claire! I’m really enjoying the long content you have put out recently. I usually watch planty videos to relax and these longer kind of videos are perfect for that 💚💚
I’ve done corms that small before. I put them in moss in the tiniest little condiments container and it took about 4 full months for them to start to sprout. But they did!! And they look wonderful.
I really enjoyed this video! 💚 And about the topic of changing clothes every time you handle a pesty plant, I wouldn’t do that unless it’s super bad and multiple plants at once. But just follow your gut feeling! 😁💚
💚💚💚 love love love this content 😃 i use it to relax and chill out...so do none of my chores whilst watching! Lol it's my time out. Love the super long ones! May not watch all in one go but love that I have a bit more to go back to the next day. 😊
Hi Claire, been watching your content and page for a minute but first time I write. Nice to seeing someone do chores while explaining how to care for plants. Thank you for being true to yourself and what you do. Also Me time is important for the soul and as a person it’s what keeps us healthy. Take it from me a learned that a long time ago. You have to make time for Me time doing what you Love. So then you can take care of others ❤️❤️
I would definitely enjoy more long videos, they keep me so much company!
You’re on to a good start with resetting. 💚. Love your repotting vids. Thanks for sharing Claire!
Hi Claire. I've given up on chemically treating for pests. I now high pressure spray down leaves with water. If pests are around during spring or autumn, I put the plant outside to let mother nature do its thing. During winter, I do a high pressure water spray and wait till the warmer weather arrives. Also, doing a soil repot can be a solution. Greeblies, can hibernate for extended periods of time. 🌺
I’ve been quietly watching and going through nearly all your content “binging” 😂 and I have to say your content is fun, genuine and realistic. Love watching you and sometimes you make me lol 😂 keep doing what you’re doing and keeping it real for us all.. I watch a lot of content creators and it’s really nice to be able to share real life situations.. without all the perfect green leafage.. not sure if that makes sense! It does to me ❤
💚💚💚LOVE these longer vids but seriously anything you feel happy creating is all ok with me. Thanks so much for all the content you make I can’t get enough 🤩🌱💚
I just put my frosted heart on the moss pole, 4” plastic D shaped one that’s 24” tall. It has two growth points growing well but it’s only just been put on the pole about 3 days ago. It’s biggest leaf is 4-4 1/2”
I’ve started to sieve my pon & perlite when new & dry, saving the dust & using it in my succulent soil, so far so good! No dust down the drain & plants seem to like it. X
I like using beach wood or pretty warped branches and sticks as hoya trellises, I feel the natural curves help me and the plant know where to go - a new discovery coming out of burnout - paused my own plant chores to write that I also enjoy watching someone do something similar to me while I work, esp with plants it provides a lot of inspiration
Oh I’m so very glad I looked to see if you had a new video. I love this style. I’m actually making air holes in my new clear pot for my plants I am repotting into pon, and I can watch while doing it!!! Thank you.
I like the long content, I’m usually doing plant stuff or cooking.
I wear one of my husbands old button down dress shirt, I keep several so I always have one. After I’m done with plant care I wash it alone in the washing machine in hot water. I don’t mix it with my other clothes in the hamper either
💚💚💚 love love love your channel. I’ve watched and rewatched your videos. I do all my planty chores watching you. 😊
I’m a dog groomer and I listen to your videos while I groom dogs. So I love the longer content! In fact this video coincidentally ended just as I finished my last dog for the day. A cutie cocker spaniel girl named Maxi. ☺️
I also have a frosted heart and it’s been a pretty easy going plant. I put it on a coir pole but I’m thinking of moving it to a sphagnum moss pole. I did chop it to prop the top and then plant back into the pot when I first got it and it’s taking forever to root up. :/
LOVING these 1-2 hour videosssss
I've grown an alocasia Jacklyn from a corm in fluval stratum. I'm fairly new to plants but I bought the mother from Walmart and it died almost immediately from rot. I managed to find one corm and luckily it's doing ok. Just finished it's 3rd leaf but the original died. It's in a closed bin with a bunch of other Polly and pink dragon corms.
Mine was pretty small and I just scraped off the dark coating.
💚 i absolutely love the longer videos. I usually start watching them in bed and then I get excited to do plant care as well and pause the video. After a while i continue to watch the video and catch myself looking at my collection and finding new things to do so I pause again and start all over. It truly does feel like we’re doing it together 😊🥰
💚 I do enjoy your long form.
💓I’ll be honest I like them all. As long as I’m learning I’m happy. Thank you.
While I'm watching you on our large screen TV, I do planty chores (watering, cleaning leaves), and when I repot I watch your vids at my desk in my home office on a big gaming monitor. You, Kevin, Miro, Fern, Charmaine, Becca, Nicole, and Adam are always in my livingroom at one time or another while I do planty related care. 💚🌞
Little tip concerning the pipes, get some tights, cut them up and put them over your drain in the bath tub, but under the little metal thing that usually is supposet to hold up hair. You can also reuse the little tight piece a lot, just let it dry and dust of the soil/other potting medium. Saved me from a lot of soil in the drain :D
This is a GREAT tip!!
Your long chores videos are the only thing which can get me through cleaning the house❤ seriously, I save them for later so I have motivation for my chores 😂
💚 i do plant chores along with you and i feel that you’re also informative as you’re working. i usually learn something new!!
Would love to ‘go along’ on a trip to the garden center with you 🚗🪴
Thank you for talking about your apprehension to driving. I was in an accident last year (passenger) and I am unable to drive by myself and I am seeing a psychologist but basically, the PTSD is just striking fear in me. And hearing that I'm not the only one helps.
I love doing my Planty chores along with you while you do yours! It gets me motivated and it’s good for me. I appreciate you.💚🪴💚🪴💚
My favorite trellis for Hoya are the simple bamboo arch style ones, they are larger than most of the plastic or wire ones, and they are more natural looking
So I am currently getting the very beggings of creating my own plant nursery and growing our own food so I start seeds and transplant seeds while I watch your long form videos and it helps me focus soo much ❤
I learnt to drive in my 30s. Passed 1st time but had masses of lessons.
I was born in a big city and public transport was great so no need to drive. Later I moved to as more rural area hence why I learnt to drive. I was also v scared, to this day I will get v stressed about driving to unfamiliar places/routes. I will only do it if I absolutely must. The longest trip I took was to go and pick up a stray dog that I adopted, it was picked up on a motorway by a nice woman member of the public. She could not find any owners and put out a call for help in rehoming online. So I went, a drive that was well worth it. I had her for 15 years. The dog I mean. A lovely lurcher. Brilliant dogs.
Aww that journey driving must have been worth it! I had a lurcher growing up, they're beautiful dogs
Love your videos!! Concerning the change of clothes with spider mites: no I wouldn't. Should I? Yes. I work in a laboratory in a different town, and one day I was working with a microscope under semi sterile conditions. And suddenly there was a spider mite crawling on my sample.. it crawled from my hair onto my lab coat into the sterile flowhood onto my sample..i worked with my plants the day before!
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 Love love love your looong videos, it helps me so much to start doing my plant chores, otherwise I can procrastinate like forever 🥲
💚💚 absolutely love your long plant care videos as well as the informative ones
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful
I put my chiapense in pot to acclimate and it is so happy. Then you can just skip the moss. I so dislike removing moss from roots!
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I really enjoyed watching long repot videos, I did some watering and made dinner while watching this one. You have so many plants I would love seeing a tour.
Love the long form videos as well as shorter top ten lists etc. personally not a fan of informative or care videos, but that's just me 💚🌸
I’ve sprouted Jacklyn corms smaller than those so i think you should be fine. It worried me because they were darker then other Alocasia corks and I thought they would rot but they didn’t. I peeled the outer layer though.
Regarding hoya trellises . . . I'm fairly new to hoya collecting, so I've been finding my way with trellises. I've bought all of them on Amazon at this point. The main thing that I've struggled with so far is anticipating what the plants will need as they get bigger and how to address that. The trellises that I have used most often are black metal hoops that have "cross branches" (for lack of a better descriptor) and a little butterfly or bird on them. I liked the whimsy of those. Rookie mistake, though, I weaved my Hoya Fungii around one when it was small. Now it's gotten pretty big and I think it needs a larger trellis, but I can't get it off the butterfly trellis without destroying it. (I'm not a big "chop and prop" gal, so I'm not happy about it.) I've also used bamboo ladder trellises and just bought some bamboo u-shaped trellises that I'm going to try. Another that I'm trying is a white-coated metal trellis that you are supposed to be able to expand by attaching another trellis to it. So, short story long, it's a work in progress. I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. I really think all of the trellises can be useful for my collection if I marry them with the right hoyas.
Love the longer videos especially with a little bit of Joli too! 💚
I don’t change my clothes unless I had to carry a large plant that had pests. I do wash my hands after each plant handling.
I love your home so much❤
I love your videos every time I have a question about plants i watchyour videos 😊
💚☺️ Any content you produce is fine with me. I have been using your videos to sit down in between bouts of plant care as a reward focus. Works wonders.
My chiapense frosted heart is the same height as my regular chiapense but the leaves are smaller and have a light coloured leaf and beautiful white veining on the newest leaves. Same treatment, growing attached to a 900mm stake.
For my hoyas I have a lot of them in macrame hangers so they trail down and/or climb up the macrame hanger. I also like the circle trellises and bamboo trellises with vertical and horizontal pieces which gives lots of options to wrap the tendrils around. I feel the bamboo trellises would look very nice in your space 😊
Love the vid!! I am rooting for your euphorbia ghost! I have one aswell ab and I am very curious what it will do for you!