I know I'm not the only one who thinks this.....but you gotta upload more often. With all of my binging of plant content, it's really sad that one of my favorite creators only graces us with their presence EVERY THREE MONTHS! Stop it...😊
YES!! Seriously I check alll the time. I’ll see something in my feed and get so excited. Then realize it’s from 2 years ago and I’ve already seen it. Damn. But do I remember it enough? Maybe I’ll watch it again? Yes. Sarcasm and plants. Is there anything else better? The answer is no.
@@JDwtaf yep I agree completely. I've only recently gotten interested in house plants this past year but I've been an outdoor gardener for years. I had a bit of a shock coming from the gardening communities to the house plant community. They are SO much different. I was looking into a particular "rare" plant and oh my goodness the competitiveness and "status" plants! In the outdoor gardening communities everyone is totally willing to share their "secrets" such as fertilizer and where they get things from and for what prices.....Iv now found quite a few channels I really like, this one included but this was NOT my first impression. Lol. I just like plants and a bit of sarcasm....I love that he doesn't take anything too seriously.
@@NYandAZ 🧐That may be true....but only for the creator....lol. Not for me. I need more. 🙃 but in all seriousness, I think the channel really could grow to a LARGE audience with more content. I'd definitely purposely push it with likes, comments, etc. I really love the feel of this channel apposed to other channels about plants.
@@lindsey4178 wait, so, not 100% clear, but did this person watch the video, then scroll comments just to tell people who enjoy this creator…. that they don’t like it and would rather see less? Bc there’s a solution for that. 🤣🥱
You talk to us in a way I imagine an instructor of a court-ordered driver’s ed class for boomers (who’ve been ‘drivin’ for years’) would and I LOVE it!!! So pointed, so specific, so shady and wry I don’t even mind being taught the lesson … chef’s kiss!
LMAOO AT THE POOR ECHEVERIA 😂 i feel that on a visceral level though, my burro's tail also freaking explodes from so much as a single glance. It proceeds to propagate itself almost as badly as a mother of millions, and then shrivels and dies looking like a handful of sultanas tossed haphazardly about the room
I put rocks in my pots because I have this rare disorder where I have to pick up random rocks on my travels. I travel a lot. When get home I don’t know what to do with the rocks so end up hanging out with my plants. My disorder also includes sand. Sand from all over the world. I may need help
I just found your channel a few days ago and I’m currently binging your videos from the very beginning lol but I know I’ll have seen them all at some point soon and that makes me sad… you are SO KNOWLEDGEABLE and funny and witty and passionate and unique and we NEED MORE!! 😫 I know you’d rather put a lot of effort into one longer video and not just make a short video on whatever is trending and we appreciate that!! But you could make shorter videos with less work on your end and then STILL be incredible quality to us! You don’t have to prepare and edit so much, just sit down in front of the camera and take it one plant at a time just talking about it. We’d love it my friend!
Haaaaa it’s either this one uniquely food challenged cousin, OR it’s just Nick refusing to let his family ever live down everyone’s food related mistakes. LOL
You are by far my favorite Plant UA-camr. The content is EPIC and you are HILARIOUS 🎉 I uses to be kind of disappointed you did not post more often but the content quality is worth the wait everytime. I audibly laugh within the first minute guaranteed and I always come out at the end with more plant knowledge I did not have. Thanks for bringing something new to the table and still posting for us!
You're too funny I love your videos. I always put rocks in my bigger plants especially because it keeps my naughty kitties from digging and squatting in them. I tried so many ridiculous recommendations online and products in stores. One day I just saw bags of rocks at the Dollar Tree one day and decided to try that.
It may also help to have multiple litter boxes in multiple areas with a variety of (unscented, ideally) types of litter. A really good one that is dense like soil is arm&hammer cloud control. It’s really good. I use that one, the crystals, and sometimes various others so there’s always a variety. I have 3 or 4 litter boxes for 2 cats, you’re technically supposed to have at least as many litter boxes as you have cats, with one extra; so 4 cats = 5 litter boxes and so on. It also could be that the litter box has a lid, a lot of cats find this very scary bc they can’t see potential threats and they can be ambushed coming out. Not coincidentally, a lot of cats enjoy ambushing their siblings coming out of covered litter boxes, because cats are glorious little jerks
Would you enjoy making a video about water for plant care - i.e. tap water vs rain water vs reverse osmosis water vs who knows what people use? I use tap water for all my plants and they thrive (I am in South Africa and the tap water is good), except my carniverous plants and terrariums. They need spring water which I collect from a literally water spring from the mountain.
Girl get out of here with your streams and holy tap water. Honestly if you don't live near air pollution rain water is great, tap water depends on your locality, and reverse osmosis is the most consistent and best.
I love your new back drop! And you kill me. 😂 Excellent video.. why do the big box stores glue the top dressings on some of their plants? It’s annoying.
Thank you Nick, you truly speak plant. I mean I thought the plant was talking the entire time! 🤣But seriously please do not stop making such amazing content, it's always a joy to watch AND I always learn something from your content! 💚😎💚
As video editor, love the way you garnish every joke and word of advice with hilarious visuals. As an Echeveria collector, you have offended my entire race.
God the silent intro with the Martha Stewart style zoom ins on the bowl as you poured in rocks is a masterclass in comedy and I’m only 20 seconds in. 10/10 I would subscribe again
I've moved to the South Sandwich (I'm not sure which sandwich (I hope pastrami)) Islands to research the deviant mating rituals of southern tawny backed sub-antarctic goose necked storm petrels. Bye
Blasting sand works well also. For those that like black over white sand. I stopped using it because I found that fungus gnats would still find a way. Maybe it’s because it was in the store bought soil originally or whatever. Without a benefit to doing the sand top dressing it seemed like you said… an added extra step that would just complicate care. By the way I absolutely enjoy your videos 😂❤
No tea no shade no pink lemonade, but finally a plant UA-camr that’s funny and entertaining. It doesn’t feel like I’m watching ‘a day in my life’ vlog.
For a tiny plant I think that natural garnet sand which are garnet crystals is a nice top dressing. (In Idaho miners would locate garnet mines by looking for small piles of garnet sand next to anthills. Garnet comes in many colors but the ruby red color is the most spectacular.) Another possibility is forminerfera sand. Take a stroll along Hoshizuna no Hama (Star Sand Beach), located on Iriomote Island, and your feet will become encrusted with tiny star-shaped "tests," or shells, produced by microscopic, unicellular protists known as Foraminifera. When Foraminifera die, their shells remain in the sea and the tide brings them ashore. In the case of Hatoma, Iriomote and Taketomi islands in Okinawa, this results in beaches sprinkled with star sand.
I love your channel. All jokes aside, I’ve used rocks in the tops of my succulent and cactus collection for 20+ years. I mostly collected succulents and cactuses for the past 20+ years. But for somewhat different reasons to what you mentioned. Rocks can help keep the soil warmer for longer. (Even lighter coloured pebbles get warm after being in sun). I live in a cold temperate area in Australia. So, during winter, the rocks in the tops of pots seem to help my succulents and cactuses be happier in colder temperatures. For some succulents, the rocks keep the foliage off the soil and less likely to getting damp and rotting. I have some rocks in the top of my peace lily and a begonia to stop my cats from digging in the soil. I’ve used larger rocks to hold down an aerial root on my monstera to the soil of the pot.
Nick! It's been a hot minute--thank you for another well edited diatribe 👍 I will admit that I bought some chunky coconut coir from Costco (say that 5 times fast) to mix in my soil, but it was too chunky, so I've top dressed a couple plants with it. It's light and airy and kinda nice looking.
I'm so happy that I found your channel.. Getting realistic data about plants while remembering those memes is what I need at my age... Would you consider making a video about substrates and/or the principles of propagation in general? I have been propagating in lava rock and for "easier" plants plain water... I'd love to up my game.
Love the information on deserts and New Mexico in particular. I live in New Mexico and can say nothing lives in just the sandy areas, but we have tons of vegetation. Will say though, we DO have a lot of cattle skulls out there...
I've only used rock to help prevent water from splashing soil on my plants leaves since it's in a location that I can't remove it from (since it's a vining plant and it pretty much anchored itself in) and I'm using river and lava rock combination. But for my Madagascar Palm I'm using lava rocks as a top dressing because I had bird problems, a wren kept harassing it's soil and I got tired of refilling it but for the rest of my plants I don't top dress 😂
@@phytosexual I believe as long as they are happy why change it, I had a coworker that put crushed marble on to her mango tree soil and it absolutely killed it (she did that to keep a squirrel away) so I told her for next time use lava rock since they are ph natural in most cases
As someone living in a mice infested environment, I use rock toppings to prevent the mice from digging in my pot... But sometimes they chew on the plant. It kills the plant either way.
God, I did the stone thing once, way back, and I was convinced that it would change my life. It took a month for me to hate myself for believing something some dude named Chad on Instagram had said. But oh well, you live and you learn, I guess - and sometimes, it's while crawling around your bedroom floor to collect pebbles that fell out when you tilted your plant 0.0001cm too much.
I missed your notification the other day but I caught your video today. I bought you a coffee as always. Great video as always and have a great day. ☺️🤗👋👍❤️🌱🌿☕☕☕☕☕
5:45 I've been giggling through like three of your videos now, BUT THIS ENDED ME I'M CRY LAUGHING🤣🤣🤣 So many of these plant hacks overcomplicate things, and as someone who is still struggling to keep their plants alive, it gets so overwhelming. Plants are hearty things that have existed in nature for millions if not billions of years. Except for adjusting the environment to suit its indigenous needs - adding or not adding rocks to the top of the pot, watering from the bottom versus the top, misting or not misting, is not going to make or break that plant.
would you mind saving my plants from despair and death, by making a video on plant care for beginners? my orchid, and my pony tail palm are giving my side eyes for help, but every time i try to google plant care, i get like ten suggestions, all of which goes together like oil and water. i think my plants hate me
I heard that putting some rocks (not covering the whole surface lol) around where the leaves of a succulent might touch the dirt, keep them from being damaged by any moisture in the dirt. But I only do it with succulents and only near the base. I used white stones...had no idea about black rocks vs white lol glad I didn't get the black ones. Now i doubt the choice.
Wouldn't know the sun is to absent to grow succulents here and electricity is too expensive to blast all my plants with grow lights so agalonemys it is :)
Yeah I do it outside in the garden but like only because it looks like a fucking warzone without it on the paths and the few pots I have with succulents to match it. It's all aesthetic. I don't think I'm magically making it better. I'm just living my shallow life trying to make my wife feel like a damn princess in the cottage garden of her delusional dreams like we aren't two lesbians with kids that can't keep anything where it belongs. I ordered $600 worth of roses. That's like... Eight roses. Don't worry I have no idea what I'm doing
I’ve been using tea tree oil to fight fungus gnats, and it’s actually fantastic! One watering with it lasts like 3-4 months, and only smells for like 2 hours surprisingly.
@@phytosexual I know life limits everyone, but I wish you uploaded more content. The way you deliver causes me to retain what you've said infinitely more than anyone else.
I just wish I could have you for a day at my house and garden and stupid lawn edge of clay dirt which won’t grow potatoes. I’d have you analyze all types of things I’m doing wrong including killing many species repeatedly, over fertilizing, engaging in flower-bottom rot and dumping non-organic bloom crap in my non-blooming plum tree. HELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPP
Honestly I'm not versed in growing garden plants outside any more than standard care like taking the suckers off the tomatoes. Also if you want to grow anything in clay you will need to add some compost to break it up. A rototiller would help if you have or can find one.
@@phytosexual heyyy I love that. Three years in and I figured out the sucker thing. I started to realize my clay planted folks were too “stuck” so had a feeling but haven’t added anything. Would sand or something similar be best? I will also do roto
I found your channel last week and I'm working through some of the old videos. This spring I decided my house was barren so I bought a few house plants - one of which (calathia) I almost killed the first month. In November I bought my first real haul of about 20 house plants and now I'm trying to learn something about it. By the way, I want your thesaurus. Actually, I suspect you use several thesauruses (thesaurii ?) to create your brilliant melanges.
5 Reasons to Not Avoid Top Dressing: 1. Naked plants are too temping and I must restrict their freedoms lest I be forced to sin. 2. I have multiple bags of sand in various sizes just SITTING THERE for YEARS. What else do I use them for?? Drainage???? 3. I ran out of my supersized container of corn nu- I mean, mosquito bits, I’m too poor to buy more, and please send help I keep hearing O Fortuna playing in my apartment and I’m being carried off by a swarm of fungus gnats as I type pleas- 4. Many a houseplant has withered and perished when I fall into my depressed stupors and unwittingly subject them to The Drought of the Epochs. Top dressing buys me a little more time to overcorrect and kill them via The Flood of the Epochs instead. 5. Out of pure spite for this video.
I mean, the reason I read was to prevent the plant leaves from being in contact with wet soil. I've literally never heard the rest of this stuff. And with sand it apparently helps prevent certain pests getting in.
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Only 84 years? Mine must be 120.... 💚
Can you smell the fresh paint?
I top-dress with rocks so the soil at the bottom of the pot is compressed into diamonds that I can sell to finance more plants.
Consider replacing the soil with only activated charcoal and skip part of the process!
Now dusty put it a mile under the earths crust and you're all set.
I respect your dedication to post-video-clean-up to give us such quality content.
always.
You're like the CJ the X of plantubers, every line is like a slap in the face and I love it so much
YES ITS SO TRUE
Didn't expect a CJ to the X reference here but I'm living for it
Never change!
I love getting slapped verbally as well
Aww I love when my various obsessions collide 😄
I know I'm not the only one who thinks this.....but you gotta upload more often. With all of my binging of plant content, it's really sad that one of my favorite creators only graces us with their presence EVERY THREE MONTHS! Stop it...😊
YES!! Seriously I check alll the time. I’ll see something in my feed and get so excited. Then realize it’s from 2 years ago and I’ve already seen it. Damn. But do I remember it enough? Maybe I’ll watch it again? Yes.
Sarcasm and plants. Is there anything else better? The answer is no.
@@JDwtaf yep I agree completely. I've only recently gotten interested in house plants this past year but I've been an outdoor gardener for years. I had a bit of a shock coming from the gardening communities to the house plant community. They are SO much different. I was looking into a particular "rare" plant and oh my goodness the competitiveness and "status" plants! In the outdoor gardening communities everyone is totally willing to share their "secrets" such as fertilizer and where they get things from and for what prices.....Iv now found quite a few channels I really like, this one included but this was NOT my first impression. Lol. I just like plants and a bit of sarcasm....I love that he doesn't take anything too seriously.
I completely disagree with you on that.
Less is best.
@@NYandAZ 🧐That may be true....but only for the creator....lol. Not for me. I need more. 🙃 but in all seriousness, I think the channel really could grow to a LARGE audience with more content. I'd definitely purposely push it with likes, comments, etc. I really love the feel of this channel apposed to other channels about plants.
@@lindsey4178 wait, so, not 100% clear, but did this person watch the video, then scroll comments just to tell people who enjoy this creator…. that they don’t like it and would rather see less? Bc there’s a solution for that. 🤣🥱
You talk to us in a way I imagine an instructor of a court-ordered driver’s ed class for boomers (who’ve been ‘drivin’ for years’) would and I LOVE it!!! So pointed, so specific, so shady and wry I don’t even mind being taught the lesson … chef’s kiss!
That description was only specific.
Thanx for not bombarding us with 5 minute commercials every 5 minutes. Love ya... glad you're back
That invisaline "ad" tho 🤣. Made me laugh pretty hard.
No problem :)
LMAOO AT THE POOR ECHEVERIA 😂 i feel that on a visceral level though, my burro's tail also freaking explodes from so much as a single glance. It proceeds to propagate itself almost as badly as a mother of millions, and then shrivels and dies looking like a handful of sultanas tossed haphazardly about the room
I loved the sultana tie in. I'm only growing succulents if I move to Puerto Vallarta because I've offended everyone around me to no return.
I love watching the epiphytic plants in the jungle naturally covered by rocks and sand. Especially the one growing on trees.
Nature truly is a marvel 😂
Yes, I had the privilege of visiting a rainforest and I was enchanted.
I put rocks in my pots because I have this rare disorder where I have to pick up random rocks on my travels. I travel a lot. When get home I don’t know what to do with the rocks so end up hanging out with my plants. My disorder also includes sand. Sand from all over the world. I may need help
lol you stealing elicit sands from Indiana dunes state park?
I just found your channel a few days ago and I’m currently binging your videos from the very beginning lol but I know I’ll have seen them all at some point soon and that makes me sad… you are SO KNOWLEDGEABLE and funny and witty and passionate and unique and we NEED MORE!! 😫
I know you’d rather put a lot of effort into one longer video and not just make a short video on whatever is trending and we appreciate that!!
But you could make shorter videos with less work on your end and then STILL be incredible quality to us! You don’t have to prepare and edit so much, just sit down in front of the camera and take it one plant at a time just talking about it. We’d love it my friend!
I laughed so hard within the first minute. I don't know why you don't have more followers.
I AGREE!
The algorithm just hasn't blessed them with this gift yet. I like to think we're the chosen ones
I recently made a goat sacrifice my cult leader said it should take 3-6 business months.
@@phytosexual Cult Leader??
I like to think that whenever Nick mentions a cousin, its the same cousin that wanted to grill indoors lol
Haaaaa it’s either this one uniquely food challenged cousin, OR it’s just Nick refusing to let his family ever live down everyone’s food related mistakes. LOL
you'll never know.
toaster lasagna >>> carbon monoxide poisoning
Absolute banger of a joke after banger of a joke. I'm literally pausing every twenty seconds to finish laughing
I read 'pulsating' instead of 'pausing' lol.
I love your videos, they are soo awesome! Your commentary, your humor just makes my dayy!!
Thank you!
Good on you Nick, I highly appreciate the informative content wrapped in a stand up comedy. I still love your flowery outfit x
Thank you, I got it from TjMaxx, and I keep seeing people walk around with the same pattern of clothing articles.
@@phytosexual haha, only you can wear it like a famous cabaret star 🌺
A month without your sassy plant videos is a month I would rather be hibernating.
You are by far my favorite Plant UA-camr. The content is EPIC and you are HILARIOUS 🎉
I uses to be kind of disappointed you did not post more often but the content quality is worth the wait everytime. I audibly laugh within the first minute guaranteed and I always come out at the end with more plant knowledge I did not have. Thanks for bringing something new to the table and still posting for us!
You're too funny I love your videos. I always put rocks in my bigger plants especially because it keeps my naughty kitties from digging and squatting in them. I tried so many ridiculous recommendations online and products in stores. One day I just saw bags of rocks at the Dollar Tree one day and decided to try that.
I got 3 cats, so i use leca to keep them from digging in the soil.
It may also help to have multiple litter boxes in multiple areas with a variety of (unscented, ideally) types of litter. A really good one that is dense like soil is arm&hammer cloud control. It’s really good. I use that one, the crystals, and sometimes various others so there’s always a variety. I have 3 or 4 litter boxes for 2 cats, you’re technically supposed to have at least as many litter boxes as you have cats, with one extra; so 4 cats = 5 litter boxes and so on.
It also could be that the litter box has a lid, a lot of cats find this very scary bc they can’t see potential threats and they can be ambushed coming out. Not coincidentally, a lot of cats enjoy ambushing their siblings coming out of covered litter boxes, because cats are glorious little jerks
Yes, as I'm learning definitely helpful for pets that like to dig in or eat soil.
Would you enjoy making a video about water for plant care - i.e. tap water vs rain water vs reverse osmosis water vs who knows what people use? I use tap water for all my plants and they thrive (I am in South Africa and the tap water is good), except my carniverous plants and terrariums. They need spring water which I collect from a literally water spring from the mountain.
ok, look at you @lilmissbeats living an idyllic af life, I see you! 🩵
Girl get out of here with your streams and holy tap water. Honestly if you don't live near air pollution rain water is great, tap water depends on your locality, and reverse osmosis is the most consistent and best.
@@phytosexual lol! Maybe a video about water is in order?
I love your new back drop! And you kill me. 😂
Excellent video.. why do the big box stores glue the top dressings on some of their plants? It’s annoying.
This is the WORST oml.
Aesthetics, and if they weren't glued they'd go everywhere during the shipping process.
Yay Nick is back and sarcastic as ever!
I will always bring the satire.
Thank you Nick, you truly speak plant. I mean I thought the plant was talking the entire time! 🤣But seriously please do not stop making such amazing content, it's always a joy to watch AND I always learn something from your content! 💚😎💚
Just bought a new camera so you bet im going to be making videos for some time.
@@phytosexual hurray! That literally made my day!!!
As video editor, love the way you garnish every joke and word of advice with hilarious visuals.
As an Echeveria collector, you have offended my entire race.
As you being an echeveria you offend my lack of light in the winter.
God the silent intro with the Martha Stewart style zoom ins on the bowl as you poured in rocks is a masterclass in comedy and I’m only 20 seconds in. 10/10 I would subscribe again
That was not even intentional lmao.
You never fail to disappoint 😂
Thank you!
I always get scared you are never coming back between videos🤣
I've moved to the South Sandwich (I'm not sure which sandwich (I hope pastrami)) Islands to research the deviant mating rituals of southern tawny backed sub-antarctic goose necked storm petrels. Bye
its obvious the amount of work and editing that goes into this. worth it. brava
I swear to god, people are like 'you left', and I'm like no I was making this video. Thank you!
I'm crying, this is absolutely fantastic
Blasting sand works well also. For those that like black over white sand. I stopped using it because I found that fungus gnats would still find a way. Maybe it’s because it was in the store bought soil originally or whatever. Without a benefit to doing the sand top dressing it seemed like you said… an added extra step that would just complicate care. By the way I absolutely enjoy your videos 😂❤
Thank you :)
No tea no shade no pink lemonade, but finally a plant UA-camr that’s funny and entertaining. It doesn’t feel like I’m watching ‘a day in my life’ vlog.
"ok guys im going to show you the underside of my bathroom sink"
For a tiny plant I think that natural garnet sand which are garnet crystals is a nice top dressing. (In Idaho miners would locate garnet mines by looking for small piles of garnet sand next to anthills. Garnet comes in many colors but the ruby red color is the most spectacular.) Another possibility is forminerfera sand. Take a stroll along Hoshizuna no Hama (Star Sand Beach), located on Iriomote Island, and your feet will become encrusted with tiny star-shaped "tests," or shells, produced by microscopic, unicellular protists known as Foraminifera. When Foraminifera die, their shells remain in the sea and the tide brings them ashore. In the case of Hatoma, Iriomote and Taketomi islands in Okinawa, this results in beaches sprinkled with star sand.
Always a good day when you upload
Unless you get hit by a bus then maybe not but ill try to schedule around that.
I love your channel. All jokes aside, I’ve used rocks in the tops of my succulent and cactus collection for 20+ years. I mostly collected succulents and cactuses for the past 20+ years. But for somewhat different reasons to what you mentioned. Rocks can help keep the soil warmer for longer. (Even lighter coloured pebbles get warm after being in sun). I live in a cold temperate area in Australia. So, during winter, the rocks in the tops of pots seem to help my succulents and cactuses be happier in colder temperatures. For some succulents, the rocks keep the foliage off the soil and less likely to getting damp and rotting.
I have some rocks in the top of my peace lily and a begonia to stop my cats from digging in the soil. I’ve used larger rocks to hold down an aerial root on my monstera to the soil of the pot.
I feel like they are much more beneficial outside than inside. Greetings from not Australia.
Just clicked and I'm laughing already 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you :)
Nick! It's been a hot minute--thank you for another well edited diatribe 👍 I will admit that I bought some chunky coconut coir from Costco (say that 5 times fast) to mix in my soil, but it was too chunky, so I've top dressed a couple plants with it. It's light and airy and kinda nice looking.
Whatever works :)
I'm so happy that I found your channel.. Getting realistic data about plants while remembering those memes is what I need at my age... Would you consider making a video about substrates and/or the principles of propagation in general? I have been propagating in lava rock and for "easier" plants plain water... I'd love to up my game.
The alliteration subtitles helps my smooth brain understand.
Being un-evolved is the new minimalism. Some day I hope to ground myself down into primordial soup.
I've been patiently waiting for your next vid! Thank you! 😊 😅 🪴 🌱 🌿
Ok i physically recoiled at the top dressing. You're going to make my therapist so rich.
I'm secretly getting commissions from therapists by throwing people into crisis so they get more patients.
@@phytosexual it's working worrisomely well, it's time to increase your cut. 🤣
It's nice to see you back and in fine form!
I'm always in fine form :)
Love the information on deserts and New Mexico in particular. I live in New Mexico and can say nothing lives in just the sandy areas, but we have tons of vegetation. Will say though, we DO have a lot of cattle skulls out there...
I literally just thought that was in movies. Who's leaving a bunch of dead bovine heads out in the desert.
I've only used rock to help prevent water from splashing soil on my plants leaves since it's in a location that I can't remove it from (since it's a vining plant and it pretty much anchored itself in) and I'm using river and lava rock combination. But for my Madagascar Palm I'm using lava rocks as a top dressing because I had bird problems, a wren kept harassing it's soil and I got tired of refilling it but for the rest of my plants I don't top dress 😂
Specific solutions to specific problems, but influencers make nothing but blanket statements for plant care unfortunately.
@@phytosexual I believe as long as they are happy why change it, I had a coworker that put crushed marble on to her mango tree soil and it absolutely killed it (she did that to keep a squirrel away) so I told her for next time use lava rock since they are ph natural in most cases
love the backdrop
Thank you, I'm working on improving it.
I top dress my plants with the little clay and beeswax figurines my kiddos make. Or plastic animals.
I used to make fake nails out of baby bell cheese wax. It was iconic, but they were quite soft.
@@phytosexualan Icarus manicure
I tried top dressing some things with fine sand a while back, and immediately it was stained brown lol. Never again.
mmm sand
You surely brigthen my day
Not the keyboard cleaner for the unintended purposes LMFAOOO
I'm thinking of more.
Incredibly hilarious and high quality content as always!
Thank you!
As someone living in a mice infested environment, I use rock toppings to prevent the mice from digging in my pot... But sometimes they chew on the plant. It kills the plant either way.
Well for those not living in a dungeon... There are definitely exceptions.
your videos bring me Joy everytime you grace the internet with them. just saying.
Thank so much!
Hahaha. Hi Nick, I found your channel last evening and I haven't been able to stop watching. Keep it up. All the best from Sweden ❤
ok don't die :)
God, I did the stone thing once, way back, and I was convinced that it would change my life.
It took a month for me to hate myself for believing something some dude named Chad on Instagram had said.
But oh well, you live and you learn, I guess - and sometimes, it's while crawling around your bedroom floor to collect pebbles that fell out when you tilted your plant 0.0001cm too much.
Lmao forget about repotting. Also the name Chad was your first warning.
Yay, you just made my entire week
I made my entire life because I'm inescapably myself no matter how many times my soul has almost drifted out of my body :)
Who doesn't love confetti rocks!!!! Welcome back........always good content.
Instead of rice or upcycled cosmopolitan magazine shreds I'm going to have people throw rocks at my wedding.
you honestly should have your own tv show. 10/10 no notes.
I'm ready.
Thank you for the new video. Ive missed you! This one was fun!
Thank you!
The asmr value of this 🤌🏽😘
I'm going to turn this into a completely unwanted plant ASMR channel.
I just really like you 😊. I love you way you talk, love the intelligence and your wit! Keep rockin'!
ME TOO…🌸💕🌷
Thank you I will keep on (rock)ing
@@phytosexual
I hope so.
I just f'n love your videos, Thank you!
Thank you!
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Smooth criminal.
Im definitely late seeing this one but just wanted to pop in and say you're awesome and I'm always excited when i come across your video gold.
The ball of 3 pairs of headphones rly got me
wow you guessed right
I’m so happy to see a new video from you!
Thanks!
3 minutes into this video and subscribed. You’re everything I need rn 😂♥️
You’re back! YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!
I never left
New subbie. I'm enjoying the energy on this channel 😂
The way you pronounced “rotisserie’ . I will forever pronounce it that way.
did I say rotiserary instead lol
I missed your notification the other day but I caught your video today. I bought you a coffee as always. Great video as always and have a great day. ☺️🤗👋👍❤️🌱🌿☕☕☕☕☕
I always see them. You're so sweet.
The hair flip is everything 🇨🇦❤️🔥
Thank you willow smith really inspires me.
5:45 I've been giggling through like three of your videos now, BUT THIS ENDED ME I'M CRY LAUGHING🤣🤣🤣 So many of these plant hacks overcomplicate things, and as someone who is still struggling to keep their plants alive, it gets so overwhelming. Plants are hearty things that have existed in nature for millions if not billions of years. Except for adjusting the environment to suit its indigenous needs - adding or not adding rocks to the top of the pot, watering from the bottom versus the top, misting or not misting, is not going to make or break that plant.
5:35 so nick is the one that’s buying food from TJ Maxx
dam right I am, and those corn nuts were actually gross
would you mind saving my plants from despair and death, by making a video on plant care for beginners? my orchid, and my pony tail palm are giving my side eyes for help, but every time i try to google plant care, i get like ten suggestions, all of which goes together like oil and water. i think my plants hate me
I heard that putting some rocks (not covering the whole surface lol) around where the leaves of a succulent might touch the dirt, keep them from being damaged by any moisture in the dirt.
But I only do it with succulents and only near the base. I used white stones...had no idea about black rocks vs white lol glad I didn't get the black ones.
Now i doubt the choice.
Wouldn't know the sun is to absent to grow succulents here and electricity is too expensive to blast all my plants with grow lights so agalonemys it is :)
Absolutely love your videos, you crack me up! Finally someone who can articulate❤
Please upload more videos, I’m such a fan of your commentary and memes 😂
Martha Wainwright’s brother Rufus Wainwright is the one to listen to. Fantastic voice. Solid songwriter. So good looking.
I discovered him when I was researching her.
Yeah I do it outside in the garden but like only because it looks like a fucking warzone without it on the paths and the few pots I have with succulents to match it.
It's all aesthetic. I don't think I'm magically making it better. I'm just living my shallow life trying to make my wife feel like a damn princess in the cottage garden of her delusional dreams like we aren't two lesbians with kids that can't keep anything where it belongs.
I ordered $600 worth of roses. That's like... Eight roses.
Don't worry I have no idea what I'm doing
I get my roses for the Walmart clearance rack, but good on you for making your fairytale dream with your wife.
@phytosexual hahaha yeah we're getting "own root" aka ungrafted roses. We have a bunch of Hella old grafted ones so they're reverting.
I keep coming back to see if he's posted but its looking like a lana del ray music release over here
I’ve been using tea tree oil to fight fungus gnats, and it’s actually fantastic! One watering with it lasts like 3-4 months, and only smells for like 2 hours surprisingly.
3 seconds in and I’m already dead. Deceased ☠️
I hooked ya.
I top dress my plants with rocks because my number one plant pest is cats and they think dirt is fascinating and delicious i guess
what a life.
It's so perfect. Like it. Don't change you are my shining star
Your house is in its platerina era 💅
I am planterina.
As a white homophobic heterosexual Christian male I can't get enough of you. Plants are the bridge we needed.
Thank you for your honesty, also this is a christian channel like I said.
@@phytosexual I know life limits everyone, but I wish you uploaded more content. The way you deliver causes me to retain what you've said infinitely more than anyone else.
I just wish I could have you for a day at my house and garden and stupid lawn edge of clay dirt which won’t grow potatoes. I’d have you analyze all types of things I’m doing wrong including killing many species repeatedly, over fertilizing, engaging in flower-bottom rot and dumping non-organic bloom crap in my non-blooming plum tree. HELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPP
Honestly I'm not versed in growing garden plants outside any more than standard care like taking the suckers off the tomatoes. Also if you want to grow anything in clay you will need to add some compost to break it up. A rototiller would help if you have or can find one.
@@phytosexual heyyy I love that. Three years in and I figured out the sucker thing. I started to realize my clay planted folks were too “stuck” so had a feeling but haven’t added anything. Would sand or something similar be best? I will also do roto
Seasonal Chlamydia!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
hot girl summer
Best plant channel ever!! 👏👏👏
You’re backkkkk❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I never left :)
@@phytosexual I know it takes you time to create all this amazing content
I found your channel last week and I'm working through some of the old videos.
This spring I decided my house was barren so I bought a few house plants - one of which (calathia) I almost killed the first month. In November I bought my first real haul of about 20 house plants and now I'm trying to learn something about it.
By the way, I want your thesaurus. Actually, I suspect you use several thesauruses (thesaurii ?) to create your brilliant melanges.
Absolutely perfect 👌🏻🥲💀
Thanks!
Are you in the UP??? I am!!! Love your videos sweetie!! I needed to find this!!! Im new to this weather and I'm going crazy with plants!! 😆 🤣
"Drown that ho!"
I SCREAMED
Welcome to plant-tok I only traverse ironically.
@@phytosexual I think I'd need to be made of sterner stuff, to be able to deal with *waves around vaguely * all that. Ironically or no! 🤣🤷🏾♀️🤔
The impromptu "PAY ATTENTION" really caught me off guard 😂
5 Reasons to Not Avoid Top Dressing:
1. Naked plants are too temping and I must restrict their freedoms lest I be forced to sin.
2. I have multiple bags of sand in various sizes just SITTING THERE for YEARS. What else do I use them for?? Drainage????
3. I ran out of my supersized container of corn nu- I mean, mosquito bits, I’m too poor to buy more, and please send help I keep hearing O Fortuna playing in my apartment and I’m being carried off by a swarm of fungus gnats as I type pleas-
4. Many a houseplant has withered and perished when I fall into my depressed stupors and unwittingly subject them to The Drought of the Epochs. Top dressing buys me a little more time to overcorrect and kill them via The Flood of the Epochs instead.
5. Out of pure spite for this video.
I sincerely hope the fungus gnat larvae consume you for desecrating my video.
Lmao the beginning “now we’re gonna top dress” (dumps every rock imaginable) 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I luv it!!! 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴
I wanted to make sure didn't miss any spots that demons can hide in.
@@phytosexual 😂😂🤭🤭🤭🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪴🪨🪨🪨🪨
I mean, the reason I read was to prevent the plant leaves from being in contact with wet soil. I've literally never heard the rest of this stuff.
And with sand it apparently helps prevent certain pests getting in.
3:48 must be quantum mechanics, the fungus gnat is the observer
Thank you for the asmr at 9:04 😩
There are multiple people that liked it surprisingly, I thought it was just going to be sarcastically annoying.
some fairy lights would really tie those echeverias and rocks all together I think
and hopefully set it on fire