you are truly the best plant channel on UA-cam. I don't say that lightly either, I'm so happy that you are a thing and your videos exist. please never stop making them, cause you're just absolutely fucking awesome dude. sending love from Banff Canada!!
Another fantastic video from the best channel on UA-cam. I for one would be very pleased to watch a whole series on the hundreds of species of caudiciform 'types'!
I can guarantee this isn’t the last of my videos on caudex plants! I’ve been waiting so long to broach the topic properly because all my plants have been asleep… didn’t want to just feature a bunch of leafless potatoes 😂
@@AridZine Perfect! I've learned so much already and I'm really looking forward to learning a whole lot more. I'm always amazed at the species you've managed to aquire, many of which I've never seen in the UK and heaps I've never even heard of. Bring on the leafy potatoes... The only downside of watching your videos is that I need a bigger conservatory now (and more money) to feed my problem 😅
After much internal debate I have decided that weird caudex plants really are my favorites, they are endlessly interesting. I’ve had 2 ant plants ( Myrmephytum selebicum) and had great success with them for years then they just declined and died. ⚰️ I will try again next spring…I’d like to see a part 2 of this if you have the time! 🌱🤗 🎃🦇🍁
I could ramble about caudex plants endlessly… I’ve been waiting for so long to do this one, because everything has been dormant here. Needed some things that didn’t just look like little potatoes in pots 😅 anyway I’m sure there’ll be a part 2!
Fascinating! I never realised I love caudex plants so much! If you left several young seedlings in a pot, would they eventually fuse together and create a kind of clump style super caudex?
It’s not something I’ve ever tried… but I suspect they would just crowd out and compete with each other until there were only a couple of viable plants left. I do love the idea of a hideous merged monstrosity though!
@@AridZine You can do the merged monstrosity with the not-quite-caudiciform caudex cousin ficus plants. I did that by accident with my variegated ficus. There were two or three little saplings in the big decorator pot, and I just left them together because they were happy. Through many repottings, the top roots have gradually become exposed as swollen and all twisted up together. Still happy trees. 😊
Amazing video as always mate, i really love the Weekly Uploads, caudex plants needs to have fame, wondeful plants indeed. Last night i saw one of my old fockea had lost its leaves in a weird way, not yellowing but like swollowing. It was rot inside the plant, prolly due ro a report. Atleast they are cheap plants but still suck when u lose a 5 year old plant...😢 A question tho, where in Australia are you, seems always to be hot😅.
I have two baobas that I planted from seed. In my opinion the best way to get them to fatten up is to give them a big pot, let them grow tall and also to give them a shake every now and then. When you cut them down the just put out a lot of shoots but I haven't noticed them getting fatter from it. The shake is to simulate wind since I have them indoors.
@@moiraslater8526There are great videos on YT on how to grow them from seeds. But basically you file down the outer hard shell untill you barely see the inner white part. You should not file the whole seed but a specific part of it. Then you pit it in water and let it soak. You can then remove the outer shell but it's not always easy and you can damage the seed. They will sprout if you just file the outer wall down, soak them and then plant them in soil but it will take a longer time, maybe 2-3 months before you see the seedling sticking up from the soil.
@@vincent5981 my niece has boabs growing on her property in Kununurra. They are all very old and tall but also very thin and not bulbous at all. She said they get so much water as they are irrigated daily from the Ord River or are in the rainy season. Without drought Boabs aren't stimulated to store water so no need for the wide girth.
I was hoping you would mention that ponytail palm. A few years ago, quite a few years ago I saw the biggest one i've ever seen in person at least. It was still young, maybe three feet tall and a foot and a half wide. I fell in love, but I couldn't get that one. About ten years ago I was lucky enough to get a potfall. I still have three of the five or six that was in the pot. This video has got me wondering if they are doing well or if I could be doing better. I estimate that the stems are putting on about a fourth of an inch a year around and maybe 3/4 inch in height.
Ah, I’ll certainly revisit this topic and ponytails might get a look then. They’re great plants - I have one planted out in my garden. I think they do best planted in ground (most caudex plants do) if you can get away with it.
Love this video, but I always wonder: do you read your plant names when you say them in your videos or do you just know the botanical names offhand like that? Even if you are reading them your pronunciation is impressive
Oh, it’s much much nerdier. Not only do I know them offhand… almost none of my plants are labelled (I’m terrible at labelling anything) and so I’m remembering their names as I go 😬😬
Great video! I was given a stephania erecta a couple of years ago. It went dormant no problem, woke up on its own and grew about 14 centimeters, pretty leaves, so overall it's going well. I really like it 😊 Question, if it's been mostly above the substrate for this long can I bury it fully to increase the size? Or no, leave it be. Question
The controversy over what is and isn't a caudex has been mocked and discussed for decades, I have a 50-year collection of the cactus and succulent society of America's journals and at some point in the past 50 years people have potted up upside down root vegetables creatively and entered them as caudex plants in shows, sometimes pulling it off but getting some chuckle worthy moments along the way. all Cactus are succulents but not all succulents are Cactus is the tip of the iceberg.
I have a 25-year-old Uncarina, 3 ft tall trained as a succulent bonsai with rocks and aloes crassula & bulbs, can't describe what the foliage smell is but yuck, need to do a video on that today. some of the shots when you are unpotting, what you are doing can't be seen, perhaps move the camera down so that the space above your head doesn't occupy the screen as opposed to what the work is you're doing that you're looking to illustrate, ant plants are often grown on wood and will colonize a branch, I had bad luck exposing roots better luck sphagnum and wired to a branch like a bromeliad or orchid. I have a couple of videos on my Channel and still need to do an update on my bonsai Australian bottle tree that I've had for 30 years, you're motivating me this morning as the weather winds down here in Minnesota to schedule vids. How did they take out the roots of the big one local to you? Bulldozers over the land will do that to oaks here as builders build, cities are mandating ground protection due to trophy oaks getting wasted as redevelopment occurs.
Yeah, my camera work isn’t ideal here. Still figuring it all out on a shoestring production. Thanks for the feedback. As for the bottle tree… huge excavation around the base of the tree. Never stood a chance.
you are truly the best plant channel on UA-cam. I don't say that lightly either, I'm so happy that you are a thing and your videos exist. please never stop making them, cause you're just absolutely fucking awesome dude. sending love from Banff Canada!!
Big wraps! Appreciate the kind words. I’ll do my best to keep making them for as long as possible 🤘🤘
Great information I can't get enough of this channel 🌵
Appreciate it 🤘🤘
Another fantastic video from the best channel on UA-cam.
I for one would be very pleased to watch a whole series on the hundreds of species of caudiciform 'types'!
I can guarantee this isn’t the last of my videos on caudex plants! I’ve been waiting so long to broach the topic properly because all my plants have been asleep… didn’t want to just feature a bunch of leafless potatoes 😂
@@AridZine Perfect! I've learned so much already and I'm really looking forward to learning a whole lot more.
I'm always amazed at the species you've managed to aquire, many of which I've never seen in the UK and heaps I've never even heard of.
Bring on the leafy potatoes...
The only downside of watching your videos is that I need a bigger conservatory now (and more money) to feed my problem 😅
After much internal debate I have decided that weird caudex plants really are my favorites, they are endlessly interesting. I’ve had 2 ant plants ( Myrmephytum selebicum) and had great success with them for years then they just declined and died. ⚰️ I will try again next spring…I’d like to see a part 2 of this if you have the time! 🌱🤗 🎃🦇🍁
I could ramble about caudex plants endlessly… I’ve been waiting for so long to do this one, because everything has been dormant here. Needed some things that didn’t just look like little potatoes in pots 😅 anyway I’m sure there’ll be a part 2!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bill
Love caudex and love that I found a channel that talks about them!
Glad you found me! I could talk caudex plants for weeks 🤘
@@AridZine do it!!!! lol
So nice that you did a video on caudex plants, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely video as always! Your videos are always so fun to watch 😊 Btw it’s nice seeing you experimenting with music again. Take care!
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying them 😀
awesome
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Perfect
Cheers 🤘
Fascinating! I never realised I love caudex plants so much! If you left several young seedlings in a pot, would they eventually fuse together and create a kind of clump style super caudex?
It’s not something I’ve ever tried… but I suspect they would just crowd out and compete with each other until there were only a couple of viable plants left. I do love the idea of a hideous merged monstrosity though!
@@AridZine You can do the merged monstrosity with the not-quite-caudiciform caudex cousin ficus plants. I did that by accident with my variegated ficus. There were two or three little saplings in the big decorator pot, and I just left them together because they were happy. Through many repottings, the top roots have gradually become exposed as swollen and all twisted up together. Still happy trees. 😊
Amazing video as always mate, i really love the Weekly Uploads, caudex plants needs to have fame, wondeful plants indeed. Last night i saw one of my old fockea had lost its leaves in a weird way, not yellowing but like swollowing. It was rot inside the plant, prolly due ro a report. Atleast they are cheap plants but still suck when u lose a 5 year old plant...😢 A question tho, where in Australia are you, seems always to be hot😅.
Ah, that’s a real shame! I’m in Sydney… it’s been unseasonably warm so far this year.
I have a 2 year old baobab seedling. Would you cut it back to encourage thickening of the base ?
Ooh did you start it from seed. I have some seeds, not sure how to
Start them
I have two baobas that I planted from seed. In my opinion the best way to get them to fatten up is to give them a big pot, let them grow tall and also to give them a shake every now and then. When you cut them down the just put out a lot of shoots but I haven't noticed them getting fatter from it. The shake is to simulate wind since I have them indoors.
@@moiraslater8526There are great videos on YT on how to grow them from seeds. But basically you file down the outer hard shell untill you barely see the inner white part. You should not file the whole seed but a specific part of it. Then you pit it in water and let it soak. You can then remove the outer shell but it's not always easy and you can damage the seed. They will sprout if you just file the outer wall down, soak them and then plant them in soil but it will take a longer time, maybe 2-3 months before you see the seedling sticking up from the soil.
@@vincent5981 thankyou.
@@vincent5981 my niece has boabs growing on her property in Kununurra. They are all very old and tall but also very thin and not bulbous at all. She said they get so much water as they are irrigated daily from the Ord River or are in the rainy season. Without drought Boabs aren't stimulated to store water so no need for the wide girth.
I was hoping you would mention that ponytail palm.
A few years ago, quite a few years ago I saw the biggest one i've ever seen in person at least. It was still young, maybe three feet tall and a foot and a half wide. I fell in love, but I couldn't get that one.
About ten years ago I was lucky enough to get a potfall. I still have three of the five or six that was in the pot. This video has got me wondering if they are doing well or if I could be doing better. I estimate that the stems are putting on about a fourth of an inch a year around and maybe 3/4 inch in height.
Ah, I’ll certainly revisit this topic and ponytails might get a look then. They’re great plants - I have one planted out in my garden. I think they do best planted in ground (most caudex plants do) if you can get away with it.
Wow that’s nice and girthy😂
Super girthy 😂
Love this video, but I always wonder: do you read your plant names when you say them in your videos or do you just know the botanical names offhand like that? Even if you are reading them your pronunciation is impressive
Oh, it’s much much nerdier. Not only do I know them offhand… almost none of my plants are labelled (I’m terrible at labelling anything) and so I’m remembering their names as I go 😬😬
Great video!
I was given a stephania erecta a couple of years ago. It went dormant no problem, woke up on its own and grew about 14 centimeters, pretty leaves, so overall it's going well. I really like it 😊
Question, if it's been mostly above the substrate for this long can I bury it fully to increase the size? Or no, leave it be.
Question
That’s great! Once exposed, they should remain exposed - to rebury is just inviting rot and other issues.
The controversy over what is and isn't a caudex has been mocked and discussed for decades, I have a 50-year collection of the cactus and succulent society of America's journals and at some point in the past 50 years people have potted up upside down root vegetables creatively and entered them as caudex plants in shows, sometimes pulling it off but getting some chuckle worthy moments along the way.
all Cactus are succulents but not all succulents are Cactus is the tip of the iceberg.
The things that somehow inspire controversy among plant growers! Hilarious 😅
i recently got a antplant, its going well here in hot Cairns
Perfect place for it!
Except for Pachypodiums most Caudiciforums are not commercially grown in the USA🇺🇸🌵
Yeah a lot of this stuff is quite obscure and esoteric…
I really want a Dioscorea Elaphantipes 😭
They’re really beautiful!
"What lurks below" 👻
Gotta put a terrifying spin on everything 😅
@@AridZine It's almost Halloween!
I tell everyone i like fat plants cuz they remind me of my mom 😅😅😅
😂😂😂
I have a 25-year-old Uncarina, 3 ft tall trained as a succulent bonsai with rocks and aloes crassula & bulbs, can't describe what the foliage smell is but yuck, need to do a video on that today.
some of the shots when you are unpotting, what you are doing can't be seen, perhaps move the camera down so that the space above your head doesn't occupy the screen as opposed to what the work is you're doing that you're looking to illustrate, ant plants are often grown on wood and will colonize a branch, I had bad luck exposing roots better luck sphagnum and wired to a branch like a bromeliad or orchid.
I have a couple of videos on my Channel and still need to do an update on my bonsai Australian bottle tree that I've had for 30 years, you're motivating me this morning as the weather winds down here in Minnesota to schedule vids. How did they take out the roots of the big one local to you? Bulldozers over the land will do that to oaks here as builders build, cities are mandating ground protection due to trophy oaks getting wasted as redevelopment occurs.
Yeah, my camera work isn’t ideal here. Still figuring it all out on a shoestring production. Thanks for the feedback. As for the bottle tree… huge excavation around the base of the tree. Never stood a chance.