This applied to my life so much. 😊 I’m taking a very similar approach but I believe I’m dealing with pests so I am trying to figure it all out. My anthuriums in pon root SO vigorously that I’m constantly sizing up they’ve all made it into the large soup containers.
I’m so glad! Very sorry to hear about the pests though. In my experience Azamax gets rid of everything but apparently it can be hard to get outside of the US. Hope everything works out!
Hi! Thank you. This was very helpful. I am just starting my anthurium journey🚗 I have had plants 🪴for many years📅📅 and have always🌈 loved ❤ this hobby.😁 I recently made some serious🤨 anthurium purchases💰and want to give them every opportunity to thrive. One of them is a veitchii👶 seedling and wondering🤔⏰️ if I should transfer to Pon or wait ⏰️until it gets a little bigger. Anyway, I love your plants in the background and what is your 🐕 dog's name? Btw, subscribed and liked👍 and look forward 🫡to more🍃 🌿🌿content.🤗
I've been really enjoying your anthurium videos! I've moved most of mine to pon and I'm having pretty good success. Do you have a video with more information about your nutrient enhanced water you are using?
Thank you! I don’t have a long form video but I did post a short recently. I think I posted it on the community page and asked for questions so that I can address them in a longer video ✨🪴❤️
I'm so glad I watched this. I have the tiniest, and when I say tiny, I mean like one inch long Monstera Burle Marx Flame I bought. I'm going to try this method for it.
Just be really careful it doesn’t get too moist. In my experience, monstera really don’t like having wet feet but anthurium really don’t mind. I probably wouldn’t refill the water on a monstera until it was dry or make sure to use a much taller cup and keep a little more distance. Finger crossed it works out well!
@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I'm really new to the plant world. I have a huge solarium where 99% of my plants are very happy. This is my first time working with a seedling. Do you have any advice? I have actual Lechuza sub, I have Pon, and I have a good chunky mix that is dirt/orchid bark based that has worm castings, Perlite, activated charcoal, and a premium propagation soil. She sent a Strawberry Shake as a gift that is equally as small. What would you plant them in? I promise, if I lose them, I won't blame you. I'm looking for advice from a trusted plant pro. I know you're channel is for entertainment and you give advice based on YOUR experiences. But as a newbie (I started my shop 4 months ago,) you are way more advanced than me. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you, darlin.
Ok so I gotchu on the strawberry shake - keep it in moss until it has nice roots about 2 inches long and then remove as much moss as possible and put it into your desired substrate. I’ve rooted fairly small shakes in aroid mix after airlayering in ambient humidity before (mine is about 60%). The trick is they need a well draining mix and a lot of light (mine tolerate some direct sun either in the morning or afternoon). You should fine as long as it’s got good roots when you transfer and it stays in good light and above 70 degrees until it’s established. For the Burle Marx flame, I think you have more options since it’s not variegated. A lot of people have really great success using the layering method with monstera, but they use taller cups and more layers than just pon and moss. Monstera love having water run over their roots but then to never be water logged. I grow all of my monstera in a soil-less aroid mix similar to what you described above. Just make sure it’s got a decent amount of root before you remove the moss from the root ball and try to transition it. I hope that helps!
yes indeed, I have started with pon (just two plants for now) but tomorrow I will put some moss around the top. If this works well I am going to try to put most of my plants in pon.
I am so happy to see that you posted! (worried that you burned out, got sick, or ???) Really enjoy your videos. And I am SLOWLY trying to go to PON, so another plus. At the point now for the ones in PON that I water about once a week for about another month before I'm comfortable with filling the self watering reservoirs. For me it's scary that I'm not sure where and if the plants are drying out. So far they are all really happy.
Hey! Thanks so much for worrying about me but I’m honestly fine, just busy. These videos can take a long time to edit and video editing is kind of boring to be honest… I’m a lot more active on Instagram if you’re ever wondering what I’m up to ☺️
Thx for this video, i have done this to 3 of my seedlings and all 3 have startes rooting down into the pon. I have prob watches ths video 10 times LOL. Do u at any point move them to a pot with drainage? I love no drainage but sometimes i feel like these guys stay too wet. No roots are brow or rotty...but i worry 💚
I agree about the square pots. It’s surprising how bad they are. I’ve never dealt with so much root rot until I switched half of my plants to those pots.
Love the video. This was very helpful... I have a luxurian in moss and I'm considering moving it this way to my DIY Pon mix. Do you recommend keeping a water reservoir beneath the pot containing the pon (with holes at the bottom so that it can wick the water up)? I usually use this method for my alocasias and they love it. I'm new to anthuriums and am debating if the reservoir and pon method will work well for anthuriums as well? Would love to know your thoughts.. :)
It should work. I usually just use cups with no holes bc I’m lazy and they usually outgrow the cup fast enough that I can just repot them before the pon needs to be flushed, but if you prefer to have holes then that should also work fine. But I do recommend keeping a reservoir. I have a lux hybrid I did this with and it worked pretty well. Plant is still alive so no complaints 👍🏻
I was hoping for a new video. Please reconsider posting your Amazon plant supplies, we are trying to achieve the same success you have with our plants.
Hello! So the goal is the plants don’t stay in the cups long enough to need to be flushed but if you want to keep them in the cups long term, you can poke holes in the bottom and then just stack them in another cup. Then just flush like normal. Hope that helps!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet Yes that helps a lot thank you! Also… thanks for the small grow tent video too btw. I’ll be buying one asap and it’s your fault lol. I love your content.
Such a clever way of doing it! I would’ve never thought to do it this way 🙈 thanks for sharing. I’m going to be trying orchid pon for my anthurium now. I’m thinking it should work well for those juicy roots. Have you tried orchid pon? Don’t see many people online using it..
thanks for sharing, I tried the method :) I have a question. How often do you water them? Needs to soak them in water like a hydro as in the usual use-case of Pon? Or, thanks to the surfaced moss, can that keep a good moisture level that also affects the Pon layer also? Great if you could share your input😀
Hi! So I usually water them when I notice their reservoirs looking low. I can always see since mine are in clear plastic cups. The ones that went into the prop box only need to be topped off every few weeks - not very often at all. The ones in my cabinet where the humidity is only 80% need to be watered ever 10 days or so. Hope that’s helpful!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I have another question! Seems you throw muddy water into your sink, haven’t seen any issues? I do the same way but another UA-camr sharing the Pon, warning that could cause issues in sync while it’s cumbersome to do outside as my balcony has no water tap so.. just wanted to check :)
I have a wire pasta strainer that catches everything that can’t go down the sink. Haven’t had any issues. Get the finest mesh possible and you shouldn’t have any issues. Hope that helps!
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 let 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!
What’s the nutrient water you use for pon? I’ve been wanting to try something different for my anthuriums. I’m about to transfer everything into pon today! Girl I have a doc block Michelle x Michelle, idk what possessed me to put her into moss from soil but I did and she’s been hating me for it. So I’m going to try to do this pon method alongside my ace of spades baby I grew from seed and all my other anthurium babies. Anyway pleaseee share what you put into your water I need something new asap! Love your video I’m subbing ASAP 💕
Thanks! 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!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet ok I have everything minus the tezula msu orchid fertilizer, I actually use dyna gro foliage pro, not sure if you know anything about that one, or should I get the other fertilizer? Okay and just so I’m understanding this correctly, add the cal mag first shake up the bottle a bit let it sit for a while then add the Superthrive liquidirt etc after ? Thanks for the quick response! 💕
Yes! The cal mag has to go in and be mixed in first. After that, I’m not aware of any other precautions with adding the other ingredients. Dynagro is probably fine. The ph balancing is super important too though. I use the general hydroponics system. Hope you get amazing results!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I’ve never used the ph balance testing. Your right I should do it tho. I’m soooo lazy girl 😫😫😫 but I’m going to have to. Thank you so much 💕
An anthurium or something else? Most things I would recommend taking a cutting and water rooting it and then putting that into pon. Most anthurium would probably be ok to do that but I’ve never done it so I can’t give specific advice on that. I would definitely rinse as much soil off as possible though and make sure that there were no damaged roots left. Honestly if the plant is doing well in soil, I’d probably leave it.
What do you think it is about the pots that make plants unhappy? The shape? The drainage? I have 2 plants in those pots and I just want to know if I should get them out lol
I can’t say 100% for sure that it wasn’t something I did wrong but I think the shape make its so that they sneakily have a lot more volume and I think they are just too big for the plants I put in them. I find they dry out way too fast too.
They do look a lot alike but my Esmeralda has fatter leaves. Hopefully I’ll be able to get them to flower some day and then I’ll have a better idea if they’re the same thing or not. 🪴❤️
You’ll see the veins structure sooner 😅 i have minimum experience , just received yesterday my esmeraldas and warocq x’s . F🤬ng Ecuagenera has zero skills in terms of packing plants, the plants are in bad shape mostly 😭
I’ve never tried it but in theory it could work… my preferred method for transferring a plant from soil to semi hydro is to rinse all the soil off and put the plant in water until it grows water roots and then put into semi-hydro. Lots of people do substrate layering methods though. I think Unplantparenthood is known for that.
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreetNot experts per se but have read thoroughly about using pon. I’m surprised you never came across this information with how knowledgeable about pon you are. Great video by the way!
Thanks! I only rinse pon every few months and even then I use a drain catch and don’t rinse that much. Some day when I have a yard, I’ll be able to do it outside but as of right now I don’t have another option.
This applied to my life so much. 😊 I’m taking a very similar approach but I believe I’m dealing with pests so I am trying to figure it all out. My anthuriums in pon root SO vigorously that I’m constantly sizing up they’ve all made it into the large soup containers.
I’m so glad! Very sorry to hear about the pests though. In my experience Azamax gets rid of everything but apparently it can be hard to get outside of the US. Hope everything works out!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I purchased azamax last week and am gonna climb this mountain of plants over the weekend. Thank you!!
Hi! Thank you. This was very helpful. I am just starting my anthurium journey🚗 I have had plants 🪴for many
years📅📅 and have always🌈 loved ❤ this hobby.😁 I recently made some serious🤨 anthurium purchases💰and want to give them every opportunity to thrive.
One of them is a veitchii👶 seedling and wondering🤔⏰️ if I should transfer to Pon or wait ⏰️until it gets a little bigger. Anyway, I love your plants in the background and what is your 🐕 dog's name?
Btw, subscribed and liked👍 and look forward 🫡to more🍃
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I really like your video. Hope to see your new videos sooner! ❤ from Taiwan 🇹🇼
I’m gonna try this on some of my seedlings. Awesome idea
This was a really good video, I’m definitely going to try this. Thanks!
I've been really enjoying your anthurium videos! I've moved most of mine to pon and I'm having pretty good success. Do you have a video with more information about your nutrient enhanced water you are using?
Thank you! I don’t have a long form video but I did post a short recently. I think I posted it on the community page and asked for questions so that I can address them in a longer video ✨🪴❤️
I'm so glad I watched this. I have the tiniest, and when I say tiny, I mean like one inch long Monstera Burle Marx Flame I bought. I'm going to try this method for it.
Just be really careful it doesn’t get too moist. In my experience, monstera really don’t like having wet feet but anthurium really don’t mind. I probably wouldn’t refill the water on a monstera until it was dry or make sure to use a much taller cup and keep a little more distance. Finger crossed it works out well!
@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I'm really new to the plant world. I have a huge solarium where 99% of my plants are very happy. This is my first time working with a seedling. Do you have any advice? I have actual Lechuza sub, I have Pon, and I have a good chunky mix that is dirt/orchid bark based that has worm castings, Perlite, activated charcoal, and a premium propagation soil. She sent a Strawberry Shake as a gift that is equally as small. What would you plant them in? I promise, if I lose them, I won't blame you. I'm looking for advice from a trusted plant pro. I know you're channel is for entertainment and you give advice based on YOUR experiences. But as a newbie (I started my shop 4 months ago,) you are way more advanced than me. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you, darlin.
Ok so I gotchu on the strawberry shake - keep it in moss until it has nice roots about 2 inches long and then remove as much moss as possible and put it into your desired substrate. I’ve rooted fairly small shakes in aroid mix after airlayering in ambient humidity before (mine is about 60%). The trick is they need a well draining mix and a lot of light (mine tolerate some direct sun either in the morning or afternoon). You should fine as long as it’s got good roots when you transfer and it stays in good light and above 70 degrees until it’s established.
For the Burle Marx flame, I think you have more options since it’s not variegated. A lot of people have really great success using the layering method with monstera, but they use taller cups and more layers than just pon and moss. Monstera love having water run over their roots but then to never be water logged. I grow all of my monstera in a soil-less aroid mix similar to what you described above. Just make sure it’s got a decent amount of root before you remove the moss from the root ball and try to transition it. I hope that helps!
My cirinoi are LOVING pon! 🥳
What a great idea, moss atop Pon.
yes indeed, I have started with pon (just two plants for now) but tomorrow I will put some moss around the top. If this works well I am going to try to put most of my plants in pon.
I am so happy to see that you posted! (worried that you burned out, got sick, or ???) Really enjoy your videos. And I am SLOWLY trying to go to PON, so another plus. At the point now for the ones in PON that I water about once a week for about another month before I'm comfortable with filling the self watering reservoirs. For me it's scary that I'm not sure where and if the plants are drying out. So far they are all really happy.
Hey! Thanks so much for worrying about me but I’m honestly fine, just busy. These videos can take a long time to edit and video editing is kind of boring to be honest… I’m a lot more active on Instagram if you’re ever wondering what I’m up to ☺️
Thx for this video, i have done this to 3 of my seedlings and all 3 have startes rooting down into the pon. I have prob watches ths video 10 times LOL. Do u at any point move them to a pot with drainage? I love no drainage but sometimes i feel like these guys stay too wet. No roots are brow or rotty...but i worry 💚
I agree about the square pots. It’s surprising how bad they are. I’ve never dealt with so much root rot until I switched half of my plants to those pots.
The struggle was so real with those. Idk what kind of plants they work well for but it’s not mine. Sheesh!
Love the video.
This was very helpful...
I have a luxurian in moss and I'm considering moving it this way to my DIY Pon mix.
Do you recommend keeping a water reservoir beneath the pot containing the pon (with holes at the bottom so that it can wick the water up)?
I usually use this method for my alocasias and they love it.
I'm new to anthuriums and am debating if the reservoir and pon method will work well for anthuriums as well?
Would love to know your thoughts.. :)
It should work. I usually just use cups with no holes bc I’m lazy and they usually outgrow the cup fast enough that I can just repot them before the pon needs to be flushed, but if you prefer to have holes then that should also work fine. But I do recommend keeping a reservoir. I have a lux hybrid I did this with and it worked pretty well. Plant is still alive so no complaints 👍🏻
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet
Thats so good to know.
Thank you... :)
I will give it a try... :)
I was hoping for a new video. Please reconsider posting your Amazon plant supplies, we are trying to achieve the same success you have with our plants.
Very informative thank you. I appreciate the update within the same video. How do you flush if using the deli cups with no drainage?
Hello! So the goal is the plants don’t stay in the cups long enough to need to be flushed but if you want to keep them in the cups long term, you can poke holes in the bottom and then just stack them in another cup. Then just flush like normal. Hope that helps!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet Yes that helps a lot thank you! Also… thanks for the small grow tent video too btw. I’ll be buying one asap and it’s your fault lol. I love your content.
Such a clever way of doing it! I would’ve never thought to do it this way 🙈 thanks for sharing. I’m going to be trying orchid pon for my anthurium now. I’m thinking it should work well for those juicy roots. Have you tried orchid pon? Don’t see many people online using it..
That’s great! I’ve never tried orchid pon but I’m sure it will work great.
thanks for sharing, I tried the method :) I have a question. How often do you water them? Needs to soak them in water like a hydro as in the usual use-case of Pon? Or, thanks to the surfaced moss, can that keep a good moisture level that also affects the Pon layer also? Great if you could share your input😀
Hi! So I usually water them when I notice their reservoirs looking low. I can always see since mine are in clear plastic cups. The ones that went into the prop box only need to be topped off every few weeks - not very often at all. The ones in my cabinet where the humidity is only 80% need to be watered ever 10 days or so. Hope that’s helpful!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet thanks that is very much appreciated
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I have another question! Seems you throw muddy water into your sink, haven’t seen any issues? I do the same way but another UA-camr sharing the Pon, warning that could cause issues in sync while it’s cumbersome to do outside as my balcony has no water tap so.. just wanted to check :)
I have a wire pasta strainer that catches everything that can’t go down the sink. Haven’t had any issues. Get the finest mesh possible and you shouldn’t have any issues. Hope that helps!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet wow, that’s the idea. Will try that level of mesh also thanks!
Very informative video, what’s in your nutrient water?
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 let 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!
Thank you awesome 👌 tips hello from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you! We love Canadians on this channel ❤️🪴
What kind of nutrients do you use? Can you give us the actual price?
What’s the nutrient water you use for pon? I’ve been wanting to try something different for my anthuriums. I’m about to transfer everything into pon today! Girl I have a doc block Michelle x Michelle, idk what possessed me to put her into moss from soil but I did and she’s been hating me for it. So I’m going to try to do this pon method alongside my ace of spades baby I grew from seed and all my other anthurium babies. Anyway pleaseee share what you put into your water I need something new asap! Love your video I’m subbing ASAP 💕
Thanks! 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!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet ok I have everything minus the tezula msu orchid fertilizer, I actually use dyna gro foliage pro, not sure if you know anything about that one, or should I get the other fertilizer? Okay and just so I’m understanding this correctly, add the cal mag first shake up the bottle a bit let it sit for a while then add the Superthrive liquidirt etc after ? Thanks for the quick response! 💕
Yes! The cal mag has to go in and be mixed in first. After that, I’m not aware of any other precautions with adding the other ingredients. Dynagro is probably fine. The ph balancing is super important too though. I use the general hydroponics system. Hope you get amazing results!
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreet I’ve never used the ph balance testing. Your right I should do it tho. I’m soooo lazy girl 😫😫😫 but I’m going to have to. Thank you so much 💕
You gotta do it! Not doing it undoes all your other efforts!
I am getting ready to try pon for the first time. With this method do you just continue to fill with water 1/4 or so of the way up!
Pretty much!
What do you believe the reaction would be if you were going to transfer a plant from soil (or coco coir) to pon?
An anthurium or something else? Most things I would recommend taking a cutting and water rooting it and then putting that into pon. Most anthurium would probably be ok to do that but I’ve never done it so I can’t give specific advice on that. I would definitely rinse as much soil off as possible though and make sure that there were no damaged roots left. Honestly if the plant is doing well in soil, I’d probably leave it.
Isn’t that rinsing out the fertilizer that’s in the Lechuza? And you should rinse that outside because it can eventually clog your drains.
I wonder if I should try this with the new plugs I just got. They’re small and seller says don’t remove the cloth. Hate that stuff.
You could always try a few and see how it goes
What do you think it is about the pots that make plants unhappy? The shape? The drainage? I have 2 plants in those pots and I just want to know if I should get them out lol
I can’t say 100% for sure that it wasn’t something I did wrong but I think the shape make its so that they sneakily have a lot more volume and I think they are just too big for the plants I put in them. I find they dry out way too fast too.
Do i just add water below the roots or all the way up covering the roots?
I try to keep it like 25% full
Interesting:) your waroc x waterb looks like waroc esmeralda, dont you think😉
They do look a lot alike but my Esmeralda has fatter leaves. Hopefully I’ll be able to get them to flower some day and then I’ll have a better idea if they’re the same thing or not. 🪴❤️
You’ll see the veins structure sooner 😅 i have minimum experience , just received yesterday my esmeraldas and warocq x’s . F🤬ng Ecuagenera has zero skills in terms of packing plants, the plants are in bad shape mostly 😭
What is the benefit to pon vs just water? Thank you!
Anthurium don’t root well in plain water, especially seedlings. I don’t recommend trying that.
Would you say I could do this if the plant is in soil and not moss?
I’ve never tried it but in theory it could work… my preferred method for transferring a plant from soil to semi hydro is to rinse all the soil off and put the plant in water until it grows water roots and then put into semi-hydro. Lots of people do substrate layering methods though. I think Unplantparenthood is known for that.
do not rinse the pon... all that grit is settling in your pipes
So weird how everyone in this comment section is an expert on plumbing…
@@PlantFriendDownTheStreetNot experts per se but have read thoroughly about using pon. I’m surprised you never came across this information with how knowledgeable about pon you are. Great video by the way!
Thanks! I only rinse pon every few months and even then I use a drain catch and don’t rinse that much. Some day when I have a yard, I’ll be able to do it outside but as of right now I don’t have another option.
What is pon?
From soil to pon same procedure???😦
Idk I’ve never tried that
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