@9:28 Anna’s winning look here is absolute gold. Whoopi is off base here and based off of Sarah and Sunny’s faces, there was a poop storm happening in their earpieces lol
I'm lucky enough to live in New Zealand where tree fern is still not cheap, but it's not as expensive as it is in the US and Canada. I started using it a couple of years ago. At first just for propagating and growing seedlings, but it was so good I ended up using it as the main ingredient in my mix for pretty much everything. Now I use tree fern/bark/pumice/chunky biochar for any tropical plant. I just adjust the ratio of tree fern up or down depending on how moisture retentive I want the mix to be. I feel super comfortable keeping it moist because it's so airy. My jewel orchids love it. I can just snap bits off and jam them back into the pot and they root really fast. I use it mixed with coco chip and chunky perlite in my moss poles, and mixed with smaller perlite for growing anthurium seedlings. If I could only use three ingredients for any plant mix, ever, I'd choose tree fern, bark, and pumice.
ALICE!!!!!!!!!! This video was just impeccable……So so helpful! You & Charmaine are The Queens f youtube! I hope at this time Charmaine is hanging in there, and healthy! You are going to be an Aunt wether you want to or not 😂😂😂
I get durable scissors and chop up the tree fern when I get bags that are chunky like that. I've purchased about five 40 liter bags already and some are perfectly nice particles with no chunks, and some with massive chunks. It's like a gamble. The ones with really big chunks, I would put it in a food processor and do a rough chop on them and it will usually loosen up easier by hand.
I am so stoked you made this video. I bought the big bag of fiber and I haven’t mixed it with anything. I am so thankful I heard your take on the buffering, I feel so much better now. I read about it 2 years ago and I’ve never heard anyone talk about it til now. I’ve been washing (very thoroughly) my coco chunks. 3 times I might add, and completely drying them out. In total this takes almost 3 weeks. I’ve also been pre inoculating my coco chunks with rootwise and cal mag. I check weekly on this mix so it doesnt dry out. I feel ready now to do a fiber/coco chunk mix. I feel like sometimes I read stuff and it’s not true, so super stoked I heard the buffer info. If you’re using coco chunks def read up about it, and the particle charge info. There’s more than cal mag that can cause an issue. Ask me how I know.
I totally agree with everything Alice is saying about tree fern! I grow my anthurium seedling's in tree fern and perlite (Alice's and Charmaine's recommendation). I also have had nearly 100% success rate with rooting jungle cactus in it. rhipsalis, disocactus, and lepismiums looove it! I can stick in a cutting, dampen it, and roots develop in a matter of weeks. So glad I discovered this wondrous substrate! Thanks to Alice and Charmaine of course!
I purchased this TFF brand and mixed with PON, I will never do that again. It almost killed one of my Alocasias after the TFF started rotting. I haven trying for months to separate the fiber from the PON and it's been impossible. I brought another brand that is softer and fluffier, and I love that one much better. Thank you for bringing this to the airwaves. I mixed the Tezula brand with Fluval and put my Scindapsus Jade to see if that plant would finally start to grow, and it is doing outstanding. Also I have never seen mushrooms.
Great video. I hope it’s shared often because so many people could benefit from it. I’m also glad you talked about peat moss. I’ve stopped buying any products with it and it didn’t cause any problems. Small steps like this, made by a lot of people, can make a huge difference.
This has been a very informative video. I will reuse my soilless mix but my old pots that have a soil mix with mostly peat. I do throw that out. Thank you for this video. I think I’ll be trying tree fern soil in the future.
I am using Tree Fern / Aroid Mix for 1 year now for almost every plant and they all really love it :) Its still really hard to buy in the EU, small bags are way too expensive and I had to buy a big bag directly at Besgrow, the European distributor of Fern Wood. Keep up growing and the nice videos! :)
Yes! I'm in Getmany and just spent over €70 to get the "ingredients " for the Airoid Mix and Treefern Fiber. If I add the white shark it will make it €100 to get this plant tower project started!!! And with our weather this year, plant lighting is a must add, too! 😮 But when i see my Manjula Pothos thriving, it's such a joy. The price of happiness 😂
This was great! Thank you so much Alice!!! I love your explanations and concise information. I know you’re hard on yourself about these how to videos, but you’re actually so good at it! ❤️
Thank you for this video! I finished my last bag of orchid soil/bark and bought my first bag of tree fern and stocked up on more amendments alongside. I’m glad to hear more in depth understanding of scientific knowledge besides “I got sponsored by this fertiliser/brand and I just use it”, but to say they’re wrong or bad, but I appreciate seeing and hearing the backing! I also get so shy because I do try to stretch my plant resources and reuse soil, and I don’t feel good enough in comparison to the bougie plant parents who use special mixes and throw out the mix after a repot. I’m curious about how using mushroom compost as an organic element in a soil mix for indoor plants would fair, I’ve used it for my outdoor food garden and always found plenty of fun mushroom friends hanging out. I wonder if it would be beneficial to our indoor plants!
So interesting! I haven't looked into Tree Fren Fiber until I watched your video. I have a few anthuriums that are struggling in semi hydro and coco fiber. This sounds like it should be the answer. Thank you!
I agree with you on watering. It’s a big choir to me. I put it off a couple days. Then water a bigger number of plants. I’d rather do that than watering every day.
In my experience propping dracena takes forever! Next time tree fern soil!!! Thank you Alice for all your experience and knowledge you pass on to us! 😊
I'm not sure about other coco coir sources (bricks are never prebuffered), but jiffy grow bags are prebuffered and have a mix of cocochips and coir! I've had great experience with using prebuffered coco coir. I like tree fern as well, but I like that coco is more sustainable, I still use tree fern for smaller anthurium poles, since they don't often need upsizing or extending
I use tree fern fiber mixed with chunky pearlite charcoal and depending on the plant some pon mixed in and it works well for hoyas, anthuriums, philodendrons, monsteras, everything. I could mix in cocofiber/chunks to I suppose
First of all THANKYOU for all the information in this video!!! I am wanting to try something close to your mix. I picked up some 'orignal sea soil' to try (hoping that was a good choice 😅) My current substrate is coir (not buffered; new knowledge to me), TFF, pumice, chunky perlite, fine fir bark, bio char and pon. For various reasons I think I need to get away from the coir. I have a mass amount made; which would be a shame/loss to just garbage/not use 😢 I was thinking of sifting it; to remove the coir (when I do this I will lose the fine TFF also); but still be left with the majority of the ingredients. Do you think the coir would be removed effectively *enough*, to transfer those ingredients to soil? Maybe with adding some extra TFF 😅 Your mix doesn't have pumice either; so I would be adding pumice as it's mixed in with everything else 😅 Thanks Alice! Am excited that I may have found out what's going wrong with my current substrate; coir seems too advanced for me to deal with 😂
This has nothing to do with the topic of this video, but i just had to say, your SKIN is just absolutely flawless!! My goodness, you should do a video about your skincare routine lol seriously though 😂
I started using a tree fern "soil" because of you and my rootless KoS started rooting within a few days! I tried rooting it for over a month with no success in other substrates. Tff is amazing so ty! One question... what outdoor soil did you use? The one you mentioned you're going back to when you finish the pro mix soil.
@@youdontevengrowhere I'm curious also! I checked out 'seasoil' ; it seems like they offer a few diffrent products, is there one specifically you would reccomend over the others ?
Hi there, love your videos. I am going to try Treefern fibre mix. Can you please list the ingredients you have in your tree fern soil mix that you use for propagations and all the plants you listed you mentioned something about garden soil so I was wondering which one you use as well as tree fern and what else did you add? Thanks so much.
Ok so I have never rinsed/buffered my Coco Coir so that's interesting. In order to make everything stretch and use up my Coco Coir ( I've had a bag for over 2 years ) I mix my tree fern with soil and coco, perlite, bark & worm castings. I've had good results so far. It does explain why anything I had in just a Coco Coir mix did badly though. No root growth and declines mostly my Philo's.
I’ve started using (tree fern fiber) due to seeing your plants ❤ wouldn’t the mushrooms be from the great white? Honestly watching your channel has made me start getting anthuriums. My pocket book thanks you😂😂 Jjk . Love your channel
I don’t have Fir Bark can anyone give me a recommendation for a replacement? I have a feeling she probably won’t see my comment being that I am very late to the Tree Fern party!😢
We have tree ferns and its realy good for our aroids and anthuriums, but its illegal and expesive in our area. Thats why I only use Coco peat, Coco Chunks, Dead Pine Tree wood Bark, and Charcoal...if I have extra money I use Rice Hull. But aroids and anthuriums grow perfectly just with Coco Chunks Tree Barks And Charcoal We dont use perlite, leca, and stones because its expensive.
More carbon the better. Plants love carbon and release oxygen. Nature loves carbon, jungles love carbon. Control of everything we use energy for is political not nature. (although I understand the destruction of bogs isn't natural unless you live in a sod roofed house) Fun info for my recent obsession minus the $ to partake as wont.
@9:28 Anna’s winning look here is absolute gold. Whoopi is off base here and based off of Sarah and Sunny’s faces, there was a poop storm happening in their earpieces lol
Always awesome information in your videos. Nuggets of knowledge that have made my growing better so thank you!
I'm lucky enough to live in New Zealand where tree fern is still not cheap, but it's not as expensive as it is in the US and Canada. I started using it a couple of years ago. At first just for propagating and growing seedlings, but it was so good I ended up using it as the main ingredient in my mix for pretty much everything. Now I use tree fern/bark/pumice/chunky biochar for any tropical plant. I just adjust the ratio of tree fern up or down depending on how moisture retentive I want the mix to be. I feel super comfortable keeping it moist because it's so airy. My jewel orchids love it. I can just snap bits off and jam them back into the pot and they root really fast. I use it mixed with coco chip and chunky perlite in my moss poles, and mixed with smaller perlite for growing anthurium seedlings. If I could only use three ingredients for any plant mix, ever, I'd choose tree fern, bark, and pumice.
ALICE!!!!!!!!!! This video was just impeccable……So so helpful! You & Charmaine are The Queens f youtube! I hope at this time Charmaine is hanging in there, and healthy! You are going to be an Aunt wether you want to or not 😂😂😂
Awww thank you so much Mary 🥹🥹
I get durable scissors and chop up the tree fern when I get bags that are chunky like that. I've purchased about five 40 liter bags already and some are perfectly nice particles with no chunks, and some with massive chunks. It's like a gamble. The ones with really big chunks, I would put it in a food processor and do a rough chop on them and it will usually loosen up easier by hand.
I am so stoked you made this video. I bought the big bag of fiber and I haven’t mixed it with anything. I am so thankful I heard your take on the buffering, I feel so much better now. I read about it 2 years ago and I’ve never heard anyone talk about it til now. I’ve been washing (very thoroughly) my coco chunks. 3 times I might add, and completely drying them out. In total this takes almost 3 weeks. I’ve also been pre inoculating my coco chunks with rootwise and cal mag. I check weekly on this mix so it doesnt dry out. I feel ready now to do a fiber/coco chunk mix. I feel like sometimes I read stuff and it’s not true, so super stoked I heard the buffer info. If you’re using coco chunks def read up about it, and the particle charge info. There’s more than cal mag that can cause an issue. Ask me how I know.
I’d love to read more about it! The more I learn about coco the more I’m convinced it’s the least beginner friendly substrate 😅
You my new UA-cam friend have earned a new subscriber 👍🏻 thanks for this super helpful video
Rare for me to listen to a video more than once. This one i have
Hi Alice! Thanks for all your very useful information! 24:09
I totally agree with everything Alice is saying about tree fern! I grow my anthurium seedling's in tree fern and perlite (Alice's and Charmaine's recommendation). I also have had nearly 100% success rate with rooting jungle cactus in it. rhipsalis, disocactus, and lepismiums looove it! I can stick in a cutting, dampen it, and roots develop in a matter of weeks. So glad I discovered this wondrous substrate! Thanks to Alice and Charmaine of course!
I purchased this TFF brand and mixed with PON, I will never do that again. It almost killed one of my Alocasias after the TFF started rotting. I haven trying for months to separate the fiber from the PON and it's been impossible. I brought another brand that is softer and fluffier, and I love that one much better. Thank you for bringing this to the airwaves. I mixed the Tezula brand with Fluval and put my Scindapsus Jade to see if that plant would finally start to grow, and it is doing outstanding. Also I have never seen mushrooms.
Good afternoon Alice. I’m liking the video so far. You look very nice today. Hope you’re having a nice Sunday.
Thank you Lisa 🥹 happy Mother’s Day!!
@@youdontevengrowhere. Thank you Alice
Great video.
I hope it’s shared often because so many people could benefit from it.
I’m also glad you talked about peat moss. I’ve stopped buying any products with it and it didn’t cause any problems. Small steps like this, made by a lot of people, can make a huge difference.
This has been a very informative video. I will reuse my soilless mix but my old pots that have a soil mix with mostly peat. I do throw that out. Thank you for this video. I think I’ll be trying tree fern soil in the future.
Thanks!
I am using Tree Fern / Aroid Mix for 1 year now for almost every plant and they all really love it :) Its still really hard to buy in the EU, small bags are way too expensive and I had to buy a big bag directly at Besgrow, the European distributor of Fern Wood. Keep up growing and the nice videos! :)
Yes! I'm in Getmany and just spent over €70 to get the "ingredients " for the Airoid Mix and Treefern Fiber. If I add the white shark it will make it €100 to get this plant tower project started!!! And with our weather this year, plant lighting is a must add, too! 😮 But when i see my Manjula Pothos thriving, it's such a joy. The price of happiness 😂
Thank you this is such a informative and useful video 💗
Such a concise presentation. I'll have to re-watch it, I know, but thank you for putting it all together, incl. references.
This was an absolutely fascinating watch! You explain complicated concepts so clearly and simply. I don’t even grow anthurium! 😅
I have soooo been looking forward to this video 🥹 Thanks for all of your hard work queen 🌟🖤
Thank you love 🥹❤️❤️
Awesome video Alice! So much information! I use myco because of you and Charmaine ❤❤👯♀️👯♀️
🥳🥳🥳 I use Tree Fern Soil and TPS One bc of you and instead of a LECA reservoir I do a Pon reservoir.
And I suggest it to everyone! Thanks!🙏🏽
Pon reservoir works so well too!!
I've used PON in the past but it's so dang hard to get recently it's too precious to use as a reservoir.
This is an outstanding video Alice. Honestly one of your best♥️🌸
This was great! Thank you so much Alice!!! I love your explanations and concise information. I know you’re hard on yourself about these how to videos, but you’re actually so good at it! ❤️
Thank you for this video! I finished my last bag of orchid soil/bark and bought my first bag of tree fern and stocked up on more amendments alongside. I’m glad to hear more in depth understanding of scientific knowledge besides “I got sponsored by this fertiliser/brand and I just use it”, but to say they’re wrong or bad, but I appreciate seeing and hearing the backing! I also get so shy because I do try to stretch my plant resources and reuse soil, and I don’t feel good enough in comparison to the bougie plant parents who use special mixes and throw out the mix after a repot. I’m curious about how using mushroom compost as an organic element in a soil mix for indoor plants would fair, I’ve used it for my outdoor food garden and always found plenty of fun mushroom friends hanging out. I wonder if it would be beneficial to our indoor plants!
So interesting! I haven't looked into Tree Fren Fiber until I watched your video. I have a few anthuriums that are struggling in semi hydro and coco fiber. This sounds like it should be the answer. Thank you!
Thank you. I haven’t been reusing my tree fern but will be doing so now.
So much information! Thank you!
Thanks for your explanation. I enjoyed watching the video
I agree with you on watering. It’s a big choir to me. I put it off a couple days. Then water a bigger number of plants. I’d rather do that than watering every day.
You go girl!
Very informative video, loved it ❤
YAYYYYY!!!! I have been waiting for this video! I make a similar mix, but I want to know what YOU do! Thank you so much for the video!
Perfect timing for this video 🌱
Very informative. Thanks for sharing.😊
Thank you for this video :). Love your beautiful plants 🪴
Thank you so much!
In my experience propping dracena takes forever! Next time tree fern soil!!! Thank you Alice for all your experience and knowledge you pass on to us! 😊
Thank you Mary!!
Thank you for this information.
Finalllllly! Ive been looking for a good soil mix for my anthiriums .
YAYYYYYYY i'm definitely a tree fern newbie haha. Awesome video as always 😀
This is such a good video!! Thank you Alice!!❤❤❤❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Mahalo from Hawaii.
Mahalo! And thank you 🥹❤️
I'm not sure about other coco coir sources (bricks are never prebuffered), but jiffy grow bags are prebuffered and have a mix of cocochips and coir! I've had great experience with using prebuffered coco coir. I like tree fern as well, but I like that coco is more sustainable, I still use tree fern for smaller anthurium poles, since they don't often need upsizing or extending
I use tree fern fiber mixed with chunky pearlite charcoal and depending on the plant some pon mixed in and it works well for hoyas, anthuriums, philodendrons, monsteras, everything. I could mix in cocofiber/chunks to I suppose
First of all THANKYOU for all the information in this video!!! I am wanting to try something close to your mix. I picked up some 'orignal sea soil' to try (hoping that was a good choice 😅) My current substrate is coir (not buffered; new knowledge to me), TFF, pumice, chunky perlite, fine fir bark, bio char and pon. For various reasons I think I need to get away from the coir. I have a mass amount made; which would be a shame/loss to just garbage/not use 😢 I was thinking of sifting it; to remove the coir (when I do this I will lose the fine TFF also); but still be left with the majority of the ingredients. Do you think the coir would be removed effectively *enough*, to transfer those ingredients to soil? Maybe with adding some extra TFF 😅 Your mix doesn't have pumice either; so I would be adding pumice as it's mixed in with everything else 😅
Thanks Alice! Am excited that I may have found out what's going wrong with my current substrate; coir seems too advanced for me to deal with 😂
Great info; thanks so much for sharing!
This has nothing to do with the topic of this video, but i just had to say, your SKIN is just absolutely flawless!! My goodness, you should do a video about your skincare routine lol seriously though 😂
I started using a tree fern "soil" because of you and my rootless KoS started rooting within a few days! I tried rooting it for over a month with no success in other substrates. Tff is amazing so ty! One question... what outdoor soil did you use? The one you mentioned you're going back to when you finish the pro mix soil.
Once I finish the HP mix I plan on using either fox farm happy frog or sea soil!
@@youdontevengrowhere
I'm curious also! I checked out 'seasoil' ; it seems like they offer a few diffrent products, is there one specifically you would reccomend over the others ?
@@youdontevengrowhere Ty Alice!
Hi there, love your videos. I am going to try Treefern fibre mix. Can you please list the ingredients you have in your tree fern soil mix that you use for propagations and all the plants you listed you mentioned something about garden soil so I was wondering which one you use as well as tree fern and what else did you add? Thanks so much.
Fantastic video!
Thank you for this video!! It was great
Banger!! 🗣️🌱🙌🏾
Ok so I have never rinsed/buffered my Coco Coir so that's interesting. In order to make everything stretch and use up my Coco Coir ( I've had a bag for over 2 years ) I mix my tree fern with soil and coco, perlite, bark & worm castings. I've had good results so far. It does explain why anything I had in just a Coco Coir mix did badly though. No root growth and declines mostly my Philo's.
Those years I used primarily coco-based mixes I could never figure out why my plants couldn’t grow as big as other people 🥲
New subscriber. This was helpful. Thank you!
What would you add to tree fern fibre for anthuriums and some propagation thank you
So it sounds like you amend tps one with great white. Do you add silica or anything else? Also, how many mL of tps one are you adding per gallon? Tia!
Video well done. Thanks
I think that’s coarse #3 that you showed us. I’ve used #2 and that wasn’t big enough to add to the rest of the mix.
Can you tell me which compost based soil you used in the past and are going back to?
Which brand of perlite do you use? 🙂
I’ve started using (tree fern fiber) due to seeing your plants ❤ wouldn’t the mushrooms be from the great white? Honestly watching your channel has made me start getting anthuriums. My pocket book thanks you😂😂 Jjk . Love your channel
I also want to thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊
I actually think the mushrooms are wild fungi in the soil but I should get a mycologist’s opinion on it if I ever get the chance to speak to one 😆
What's the soil you use in your mix,thank you
Alice, are there any plants you don’t put in trees fern soil?
Not really 😅😅
Use BTI drops for fungus gnats! You wont regret it!!!
Can I use mycorrhiza in a hydroponic mix?
I do
Yes! So long as there is oxygen the myco can survive
It turns out that the type of fern is different from the one in Indonesia, in Indonesia the fern feels harder and stiffer
I don’t have Fir Bark can anyone give me a recommendation for a replacement? I have a feeling she probably won’t see my comment being that I am very late to the Tree Fern party!😢
Has anyone tried this mix with Alocasia? I would love to be able to use this for everything!!
Does someone in Europe, espacially germany, know where to get tree fern? I can't find a seller
I didn’t quite manage to find a German supplier but I found Smukhi (Netherlands) and Vivatech (France)!
@@youdontevengrowhere thank you 💕
You guys inspired me to be an antherium baddie lol I have so many and guess what? There's room 😅
Ok so I love anthurium baddie
@@youdontevengrowhere Hope all the success comes to you because!!! You are so true to yourself!
🤩❤️🤩
We have tree ferns and its realy good for our aroids and anthuriums, but its illegal and expesive in our area. Thats why I only use
Coco peat,
Coco Chunks,
Dead Pine Tree wood Bark,
and Charcoal...if I have extra money I use Rice Hull.
But aroids and anthuriums grow perfectly just with
Coco Chunks
Tree Barks
And Charcoal
We dont use perlite, leca, and stones because its expensive.
I thought tree fern was renowned for water retention 🤔
More carbon the better. Plants love carbon and release oxygen. Nature loves carbon, jungles love carbon. Control of everything we use energy for is political not nature. (although I understand the destruction of bogs isn't natural unless you live in a sod roofed house) Fun info for my recent obsession minus the $ to partake as wont.
oh man i need soil help can you mail me a bag of nice soil with fertilizers thx love you!
myco acts the same way as vitamines do in the human body.
The video everyone waited for. 🤌🏼
😅😅 thank you Svenson!