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How I Grow My Indoor Jungle in One Room - See my Setup!
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2021
- Hello friends! 💚
Today I wanted to show you how I grow my indoor jungle, all in one room. Yup. All 300+ plants on 5 shelves :)
Now, before we start, I want to mention this video is NOT a plant tour - that's a video I hope to bring out soon. I know it's way overdue 😫 It is coming though!
In this video, however, you will see some of the things I use that make it easier for me to grow so many plants in one room. I will take you through my setup and I will talk about some positive and negative aspects of it. Yes, it is definitely not perfect yet, but we are getting there. I feel we are 2 Omar shelves away from that moment.
Then again, I always feel like that 😂
I hope that you will enjoy the video - it's a bit long and I tried to make it as short as possible. The next one will be shorter, I promise!
Miro
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Did you guess the song or are you clueless? 👀 What is your setup and what are your biggest challenges when growing plants?
I’m so clueless, even if I know the song I don’t remember the artist or vice-versa haha.
My hardest part are very limited light options(and grow lights are a problem) and no humidity
I have no idea what the song is but I was wondering where are you from, and now that I have seen the road signs outside I know 😊 Greetings mate! Keep uo the great job!
IGGYYYYYYYYYYYY I'M SO FANCY. I have a question do you have plants in a dacha during the summer?
Yes to a watering video! I wouldn’t mind it being as chatty as this one, I’m loving this format :P
Haha 😂 I was worried this was too chatty 👀
@@BasiePlants it wasn't too chatty I like that kind of format you learn a lot as people talk about their plants and their life with their plants
No matter how you complain about the wooden shelf and other things, I still love your indoor jungle! Lovely setup for me!
Haha 😂 I do complain about them a lot! Sorry 😂 It's just, I always try to make it look better.
You are hilarious! 😂😂😂
Love the video!! 🙌🙌
Thank you! Happy to hear it made you laugh :)
This is another great video. I love the chatty style and there are lots of info nuggets in here too. :)
Thank you Melissa 💚💚💚
In Canada I never use a humidifier....if I can live here my plants can too....lol
Hahaha 😂Not all plants are meant to be grown inside, I agree.
On the Omar shelf I applied a thinnest plexiglass a bit dept than he shelf itself. The result is more space to put your plants and above all no water spill accidentally on the above shel and as I grow orchids I must pay attention of the stems. It s' so comfortable and so easy to wipe of. Have a great day! I love watching your tutorials above all the hoyas that I am trying to grow. Fm Italy
People: don't let your plants see this video. Watch it in the closet or they will punish you for not treating them like Miro treats his plants.
Begonias can watch this video. They will feel gratitude they are not owned by me 😂
Great video! I just discovered your channel in the last day or two and I've been thoroughly enjoying your videos! I knew I was in the right place when I saw your orchid video because I'm an orchid addict who loves everything. I will add you to my list of "feel good" channels because you're quite entertaining!
Since you asked about obstacles, try living in the Southern California desert! With humidifiers, I can barely reach 40% humidity. Some days when we have 0% humidity, my plants have to put up with 25% humidity. And for at least 4 months of the year, our temps are over 100 F. Yes, it’s a struggle but my plants do grow well including Philodendrons, Hoyas, and even a couple orchids. Enjoy your videos and your plant set up!
Oh wow! And here I am, struggling to get it down. Maybe I can send you some of the humid air and you can send me some of the dry air and we will all be in balance? 😂 I wish it could work like that. Hoyas and Philodendron will love the heat and some Orchids too. I would recommend a Vanda, they LOVE warm weather, but it would be a b*tch to keep happy in low humidity. They are gorgeous orchids but it's high light, high humidity, high temperature for them. Thank you for watching 💚
I’m in Tucson, AZ. Today’s humidity level is 18% in my kitchen. My plants have learned they adapt or else. I’ve lost very few Hoyas because of it. With 62 different types of Hoyas something must be working.
Good video..👍I too use water from my dehumidifier to spray the plants and my aquarium water to water the plants. I wish I had a dedicated room like you to keep all my plants, mine are scattered all over my house except for bathroom. You have such a good collection, beautiful..💝
This is my bedroom :) so not really dedicated for plants, but we share the space :) No plants in other part of the house allowed :D
I stand for your setup! 🌱😊 We all could use work with our setups. I’ve been pressured to get the glass cabinets for aesthetic, but my plants are growing really well with a soltech aspect light at the top and extra lights on each shelf. I have dry issues in my house so I have a echoholmes humidifier. Each house is is different. Also there you are! Love your content 🪴❤️🌱
I love the look of the cabinets and some plants might not mind the lack of air excange and airflow might be enough (with a small fan inside). But I wanted to do one with miniature orchids (that I don't yet own) and they would need air exchange. And putting aroids and hoyas inside... I don't know. They will eventually get big and I would have to move them out and get them to adjust to my regular enivonment, no? But it would work well for plants that stay small. Oh, I wish I had issues with dry air. Much easier to deal with than all this extra humidity.
@@BasiePlants I can’t Imagine dealing with all that humidity. That’s exactly what I was going to do ....put Hoyas and Aroids in the cabinet, but that would not work eventually.Moreover, then like you said when they get big would where would they go? Ahh so many decisions. I’m going to just go to IKEA for a day and figure it out.
Loved this video! Thank you! I have a two bedroom Apt. in NYC and only two rooms are really suitable for plants, so I loved learning about your one room!
Wow your plants are gorgeous! Thanks for giving us a tour of your plant room. Shelving has become a problem for me as well and I’m working on a solution. Whatever shelving I get needs to be adjustable allowing for growth. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
You're welcome! And thank you! I think they need a bit more love, haha :D So far, I am the happies with OMAR shelves from IKEA. But they can't infinitely be adjusted, so I thiink I will also need to trim down some plants a bit (at some point, not now :D)
Another great video, Miro! So enjoyable. To make it easier to clean wood shelves, seal them with clear polyurethane. Works like a charm for me! I do use trays often also. I live very far from an IKEA (so sad) I wish they had online store and delivered product. Good advice to give philodendrons moss poles early. Hard to add one later. I have low humidity and just live with it and choose plants accordingly (now). I do have one of those 4 shelf/ plastic wrapped, small greenhouses for propagation and plant hospital.
Oh, they do have an online store here. I was thinking of doing something with the shelves, even painting them, but I haven't gotten around to doing it. They are not as bad as I make them out to be, there are some solutions, but I am in love with Omar and how it is easy to adjust 😂
@@BasiePlants Thanks, Miro! I actually did not know that IKEA delivered to homes. I thought it was only pickup at store, but right now that option is not available due to virus so maybe that’s it. Or I was just simply wrong and they always home delivered. Anyway, most pots I wanted were out of stock but was able to get 3 pots and 2 hanging pots so let’s see how delivery goes with this order first. 😘
A big yes to a watering video please. Love your channel, love your plants and you are wonderful to watch. Thank you!
Thank you, you are very kind 💚 Water video incoming! In several weeks I hope :)
Hi Miro! I really enjoyed seeing your set up and having you explaining the pros and cons to each one. You have some really beautiful plants. I live in an older house, built in 1925. The living room and dining run together and there are windows only on the SE side, where there is a 2-story house, so don't get tons of light. ;-( There is one window on the front wall, facing E, but there is a closed in front porch, so again, not a lot of light. Those rooms hold the majority of my plants. I have a few in the kitchen and some very neglected Phals in my craft room. I'm working on treating them better. I don't spend a lot of time in there, so "out of sight, out of mind". Since the house is so old, the outlets are few and very far between, so grow lights aren't really an option. I don't know what the humidity is because I don't have the thingy like you do to tell me. ;-) It's all trial and error when I buy plants, they will either like the environment, or not. I just try to stay away from high light loving plants. I would like to see a plant watering video and a dance video. Thank you so much for sharing!
I also stay away from high light plants - I tried Vanda, and so far it is not a major success! 😭 Serves me right. Oh, I am sorry you have all these windows and other things blocking the light! But I definitely agree - out of sight, out of mind. It has happened to me several times to forget about some of my plants this way 🥲 Thank you for watching 💚
Thanks for this video. Your plants look gorgeous and well loved. Please do a tour! (I already enjoyed the hoya one). Also, where's your evil twin? hehe.
I will have to get a gimbal first and learn how to work one 😂 Even the B roll in this video is shaky af 😂 Evil twin took a day off to conspire against me.
Yes please on the watering video! I'd also love to see more of your African Violets, those blooms were beautiful 👀
Hi Miro, Thank you for the informative video. It shows you put a lot of love and effort into your plants and i enjoyed seeing your set up. You're right about all of us having different conditions. It took me awhile to learn how to keep my plants happy as we only heat with a woodstove. At times, It's a real challenge to keep them all happy but I finally got it figured out. I found for the most part my Hoyas do best with leca. I'll look forward to your next video. Be well and happy! Cheers :)
Wood stove would be a challenge! We used to heat the house like that too. It was always super hot around the stove and then as you get away from it, it gets quite cold, especially in the corners! I am glad you found a way to make it work though. I am not surprised they do well in LECA. It works well if it's warm and not too humid. Have a great day! :)
I would love to see more on your plant shelf hacks. How you did them.
My dedicated plant space is my newly enclosed Sun Porch. I do have plants in every room in my house except my guest bathroom as it does not have the lighting for them, no exterior window, and the space is small no good plant shelf area. I do keep my sprayer and watering cans in the tub and I use the tub for washing all my plants.
Phenomenal video! Thank you. I like all the ideas you've presented, as to the shelf arrangement, the "hack" for the metal shelf etc. Your plants look incredible. I'm having trouble typing this because of all the drool on my keyboard from looking at your plants and the starters. I also very surprised which the humidity levels you maintain. In my area this morning it was 27% - great for cactus but difficult for tropicals. Even spraying several times a day doesn't help.
With all those lights you have spread all over the house, I'm surprised you're not wearing sun glasses when they're all on!
I'd be interested in a video about you. How long have you been doing this? What got you started in collecting plants? Basically everything about your journey getting you to this point in your life.
Overall - a great video. Stay safe and stay healthy, you bring a lot of joy to all of us. we love seeing your plants and hearing about your trials and tribulations.
Thank you.
Oh, I wish my humidity was a tad bit lower. It was 85% this morning. My dehumidifier has been going on for 30 minutes and it's only at 79% now! Haha, actually, when I go to different parts of the house I wonder why is it so dark 😂 You might hear more about me in the next video! 👀 Thank you for watching 💚
@@BasiePlants I hope you're capturing that water the dehumidifier extracts from the air. It's rainwater!
I think you should make a separate video about calatheas, humidity and watering, because you have an important experience that can help other people to grow them.
I might! Though, I am definitely not a calathea expert at all 😂
I grow my plants in several rooms. My biggest challenge is balancing the right growing conditions and the aesthetics I want. Since my plants are all over my living areas, I want them to be displayed nicely. I've spent a lot of time getting shelving and grow light setups that are both functional and pretty. I've got good light (southeast and southwest windows) but I need to supplement with grow lights in gloomy winter. It is also dry here, so I use a humidifier for my Calatheas and find that my aroids and hoyas grow faster when I keep the humidity between 40 and 50 percent.
Also, thanks for sharing your setup and knowledge!
I always struggle with aesthetic. I know what is pretty and what is not. And I don't think my setup is. Unfortunately, what I find pretty wouldn't be very cheap and I wouldn't have as many plants then 😂 So it's a constant struggle between my plant obsession and my taste. I finished architecture and I used to design minimal spaces in my projects. Well, far away from that now 😂
You're welcome!
I’m all about functionality as well. The aesthetic is nice if you can but I really just want things easy as well. I just love your personality so I had to pause to say so! Haha 🪴💕
Also - nice things are expensive 😂 Thank you 💚
I really like your set up.I am surprised at the humidity you have. I'm lucky to get 27% in the winter and in the summer 40% is usually tops! I would think in your case you deal with mold a lot yes? One thing I would worry about, especially in my experience, is mealy bugs. One or two unnoticed in your jungle could mean an invasion in a few weeks or so. How do you handle the mealy issue?
BTW - We all enjoy your videos. Stay well and all the best....
Lighting is my greatest challenge. I grow plants in every room. My humidity is about 50-60 in the winter. In the summer it is at least 80 without a humidifier. I grow my Calathea and other Marantacae in self watering pots also. You have a great plant collection. I am in the northwestern USA.
Buy just plain LED light bulbs daylight 100-watt equivalent get a couple floor lamps at a thrift store and put those light bulbs in them and take the shade off... I have angel wing begonias better growing slowly under LED lights some are strip lights for under the counter 40 watt equivalent and my angel wing begonias are blooming they do not get any sunlight
That is so interesting to hear! For me, it is the other way around - humid winters, drier summers. So I sometimes run my humidifier in summer but it is sometimes a hassle to fill. And they do well with 50% humidity anyways. It doesn't go below 50% but it is not as crazy humid as in winter. Now, it can easily get over 80% if I don't pay attention. Light is also a challenge for me, but I now use regular LED lights everywhere to grow plants xD
Love ❤️ your plants. They look so well cared for. Video is informative. Love your set up.
Thank you
Your watering gear is super nice!!
You are a lovely, lovely person. It is a joy to watch your videos 💛
Thank you Marina
Yes watering video!! 😃
Forgot this, but yes, me too, I want to see this!
It will happen!
Watering video aka Miro spilling water everywhere. 😂
I have plants all around our small apartment, even in the bathroom, since it has a window! The main disadvantage is that you can never realise, how many plants there are in the house, until you have to ask a friend to take care of them for a while.
I am trying to find the balance between functionality and nice look. Ikea + a bit of diy should do the trick.
So lucky! I wish there was a window in my bathroom! Yes. It is easy to forget how many plants you have until someone comes to your house and they go.... what the heck. 😂 Anything IKEA goes.
Your plants are absolutely gorgeous. I too have problems with too much humidity and I live in Wisconsin USA. I would like to see a watering video, it’s always interesting to see how others do.
Thank you
I'm ashamed to admit I don't know the song. 😂 Something by Kylie?
Yes to a watering video. From an aesthetic viewpoint, I love the wooden shelves the best. Steel looks cold next to the plants, but I'm all for pragmatism too. Can I just say your collection is STUNNING. I'm so envious.
My plants are everywhere I can find room and I hang some plants with their saucers.
Lots of great info, as always, but I was hoping for a dance video. 😂😂
You know the song now! 😂 Watering video is a must. It will take some time though, haha. Yes, from the aesthetics point of view wood is amazing. I love it. But spilling water is a concern, dirt, and them not being very functional. Also, sometimes I wonder since it is unfinished, can pests lay their eggs there? 👀 Better not to think about it! Haha 😂 Oh, I promise a dance tutorial for 10K! 😂😂😂
Oh! I love this video. So happy I found your channel. Thanks to Kathi for directing me this way.
Hi Miro! Just discovered a deep plastic saucer that has hooks to attach to hanging planters. I too have problems watering hanging plants, my poor babies. Saw them on Amazon, haven’t ordered yet.
Unfortunately, we can't order from Amazon. Maybe one day.
Great video! Love your channel!!
Great video Miro again. Watering video will be great and I have to say you have a loads of plants 🪴😂👍
Thank you! Pfff, I have 2 pots here and there. 😂
“I’m accident prone” XDD same same. Can literally trip on a straight floor hahaha.
I would love to see the watering video!
Oh I trip on floor all the tme 😂 This morning I just walked straight into a closet that was ahead of me. Rude, the closet didn't want to move by itself.
It's like you read my mind with this video. Ideally I like my plants to merge into my living space, but I have to accept that such a setting only works 6 months a year in this part of the world. This winter went a bit wonky, but I have been thinking a lot about a plan I want to come up with for 2021. It was great to have some inspiration with your set up.
I am sure I will move everything around by the time summer comes. I would love to make an actual green wall but I have to be realistic 😂 I actually had a part about moving plants outside but I cut it out because of the length of the video. Most of the plants I moved outside suffered because the summer was hot and I couldn't keep up with watering and fighting off the snails 🐌
@@BasiePlants I totally get you. I moved a few plants outside for summer too, but not all turned out OK. In my case it was too much rain (yes, our summers aren't always that great). You also reminded I should look into our rainwater tank. The previous owner made the effort to build it, but nobody bothered installing a pump and actually using it xD
@@finestracheride I definitely need a rainwater tank. I use buckets at the moment but I would just love a huge tank. I would never have to get out in the rain and move my buckets around 😂
I can’t remember where I read this but dehumidifier water is supposed to be as good as rain/distilled, so you should be okay.
I live in Ireland where the light levels can be low, especially in winter. I try to use led bulbs to help growth. Bloody nightmare in old houses, there are always issues of some sort.
Love your humour 💚👍
I use LED lights 100-watt equivalent daylight and even my orchids and angel wing begonias are blooming under this light. I have some older lamps and a couple floor lamps and I took all the shades off so none of the light is diffused or kept from the plants by the lampshade. The orchids and angel wing begonias are in bloom so they're getting plenty of light. The walls are white and I think I'm going to put a couple mirrors behind the shelves there on to reflect the light back on them better than just the white walls
And distilled water is the same as what comes out of your air conditioning unit or your dehumidifier... Just keep your dehumidifier water tray clean because it can get yucky and slimy not sure if that would hurt plants or not. My need cleaned right now so I'm not using that water for my orchids or houseplants but when the containers are clean I use that water and the plants love it
Distilled water is a bit purer. Distilled water has a lower pH and lower ppm than dehumidfier water so it's not the same. It is very low in ppm (around 40 as I said) but I wonder what is in there :) Distilled water has a ppm of 0-3 so you must use some nutrient everytime you water because even rainwater is not that low in ppm - it's usually fortified with nitrogen.
Eh, old houses usually come with small windows. At least here. And I imagine in Ireland too? I can't see them putting too many windows as they probably tried to keep the heat in.
@@BasiePlants I think sometimes in Europe you are taxed on how many cupboards do you have or closets... My brother told me and Italy most of what you used in a kitchen wer not attached to the wall because of that and so when you moved into an apartment or a house there wasn't anything in the kitchen and there weren't any closets to put your clothes in because of Taxation. And I think years ago I'm talking about a hundred years or so you were taxed on how many windows you had on your house...
@@BasiePlants thanks for the info between distilled water and dehumidifier water... We'd all go broke that have hundreds of houseplants if we had to buy distilled water so it's good to save rainwater or your dehumidifier water because there's not fluoride which so many plants get burned route tips because of and because of all the other things they add to the water to keep it from rusting out the pipes that it flows through... And rainwater especially after a thunderstorm has a lot of nitrogen in it... That's why I after a storm in the summer everything looks so much greener... I used to watch someone on PBS TV when they were doing fundraisers in the spring and he talked about taking care of your plants outside in the spring I'm talking about flower gardens and he suggested putting in a hose-end sprayer a half a cup of dish detergent a half a cup of ammonia and I have a cup or can of Coca-Cola. The distant urgent was the wedding agent and helped the ammonia which had nitrogen he said ammonia was a thunderstorm in a bottle... stick to the leaves the Coca-Cola fed the micronutrients in the soil and the dish detergent help wash dirt and insects off of the plants...
Brilliant video & beautiful collection. Thank you 😊
Thank you 💚
Yes to watering vd!! I live in Arizona! 0% humidity except when it rains-which is not very often! Im still trying to organize my plant room 😩. I've found that you loose esthetics to have functionality! Bummer! So I've purchased black metal shelves instead of chrome ones!!😂😂 Ty for your time. Enjoy & learn something from your VD's! 💜
I tried to record a watering video, didn't come out great. I will definitely have to try again! I agree, the more plants I get, the more I lean towards functionality rather than aesthetics. But perhaps that's just me.
Hi Miro. You have beautiful plants. Love the video.
Thank you! :)
Just when I thought I had finally ran out of room for more plants, you show us the metal shelf hack. I can fit more plants in after all. 😛
There is no such thing as running out of space 😂
Thanks for the great ideas!!!
I am in Sydney Australia, I have plants everywhere about 40 plants in my two bedroom unit. I don’t like hanging basket and will never have them maybe just one. I’ve got some Hoya (most are Australis) recently so will see how they do with the coming winter. Don’t have any grow light or humidifier or etc etc. I have big problem with ficus lyrata. One now established and start to growth after 4 years hahaha. On is a stick i banished it to the balcony. One I just cut to the bottom. If that dies I won’t shed a tear hehehe. I have ficus Audrey and ficus lemon & lime o replace those. Yep they need lots of light. All plants need lots of light.😜 Australia is a lots warmer compare to your country, luckily, I only like 5% or less of house plant species I don’t really into the variegated hype (need more light to keep the variegating & slow growth) Hahaha plants. There is a big tall apartment complex built recently from a vacant lot on my west side, so that blocks a lot of light.
I think hanging pots are definily a pain. At least for me. Yeah, some look nice, I agree, but the maintenance isn't as easy, especially if you have a lot of plants. My Ficus lyrata was so good until it got thrips! Unfortunately, it didn't do so well after that 👀
@@BasiePlants yeh doesn’t attract me one bit about hanging plants. I do want trailing plants so I can trail them down from shelves and such
@@BasiePlants I think I have a carefree attitude when I’ve got my ficus lyrata. One from the nursery that is now doing well. One on the balcony that of course doing well. Two bought from Vietnamese store. One died, only is ok looking but not super healthy. I chop that one. Hopefully will see new sprouts. One now join his cousin on the balcony. It didn’t do well in door. Anyway, I have been more focus on giving plants more light. My zz plants suck in low light because the screened balcony door blocked out most light. I might remove the screen on the other part of the door to let more light in. We were afraid of being robbed or stone throwing. I am on the third floor with no lift so maybe that is just irrational fear
I bought a couple floor lamps and took the shades off of them and put 100 watt equivalency daylight LED light bulbs in them and it's enough light for my orchids to bloom... And I have under the counter LED lights 40 watt equivalent that are above or beside my angel wing begonias and three of them are in bloom and all of them are showing new growth
All my Phals and Paphs started to spike under a 10W light. For Cattleyas, 36W was enough. For Vanda, I've yet to find a light that works.
@@BasiePlants get a hundred watt equivalent daylight light bulb get a floor lamp and put that light bulb in don't put the shade back on and put your Vanda as close as you can to that hundred watt equivalent light bulb and I think that will do the trick
Yes! Water video! I like your set up. Maybe insist that your housemates let you have another room... you are so funny. I like watching your videos. And your english is perfect!
I will definitely have to make one. Excpet a lot of water spillage 😂 Ah, it would be a dream to reposses another room with plants but the reality is, I would probably still have as many plants in this room and I would just keep getting more plants xD
I have my Omar shelf outside. Now my outdoorplants live in there and in summer all my other succulents. You can hang your baskets in there, it´s so practical :) Our house is now full of plants. In my room I have multiple cuttings, waiting for spring to rise :)
Greatings from germany
Oh yes! I hang my plants on Omar as well. At one point I had plants on the levels and plant hanging on the side. But it looked like an overcrowded Christmas three 😂 Outside?! Does it rust? 😂 I treat my Omar almost as if its made of gold, I love it too much 😂
@@BasiePlants I bought it last spring. It is under a roofed terrace. But the outside humidity doesn´t defected it so far. :)
Would like to see a video on how you water all of your plants! Please do!
I hope to do one one day! I tried but it turned out like 💩
That paphiopedilum thumbnail 👍🏼👍🏼 mine just opened the first 2 of 3 buds 🤩
Nina 💚 Yes, they are lovely! My favorite orchids I believe! I will have to order more this year. Leeanum has 3 flowers open at the moment, waiting for one more!
Enjoyed this video. Interesting to see how others manage their plant collections.
I am happy to hear you did :)
The Safety 🕺
I would love for you to do a watering video. I've only been a plant parent for about a year now but I have accumulated over 100 plants and haven't figured out how to water them all efficiently. I sometimes don't see the smaller plants placed in front of the big plants in south-facing and east-facing windows. And by the time I realize I forgot to water them they are crying for a drink. Some have even gone to the plant garden in the sky.
You are so funny. Subscribed!
Well, thank you! :D I hope I can make you laugh more then xD
Yes to the watering video 👍
My plants will be glad I watered them. 😂
That begonia black fang. I NEED one.
I support your decision to get one 😂
Land down under! lol💚
My plants are mostly confined to one room, not strictly but just because that`s where the light is. Light is my #1 challenge, especially right now. I have one great big east window, which is perfect in the summertime but a little lacking in the winter. I also forgot how cold terra cotta can get, so some of the plants that were fine right up in the windowsill all winter last year in plastic pots will for sure get cold damage if I try that again. The good news is that spring is coming!
Yes, terra cotta gets quite cold. And if something is in SH, that would get too cold in a cold window. I find light issue the easiest to overcome with LEDs but humidity... it just kills me each time I turn it out and think how much electricity it sucks up. At least I get some good water out of it 😂 And yes, at least we can hope for spring!
If you go to Lowe's you can buy some metal shelves and they are great to attach the LED strip lights to for under the counter because I have mine tied with ribbon right now but you could easily use the zip ties. They're 40-watt equivalent and the orchids are doing great period. The Shelves come in black and chrome
There's no Lowe's in Europe .☺ I think Basie is Serbian if I remember right? I don't know how the covid rules are at his place but here in my country all non-essential stores (essential is only groceries and medical stuff) are closed since mid-December, so right now the only way buy stuff like shelves is either "click and collect" or ordering online.
He is! 😂 No Lowe's here. Unfortunately, the IKEA Omar is the least expensive shelf of that type here. And in my opinion, it is not the cheapest xD Ikea should take my suggestion and sell it at 50% discount. 😂
Sadly, no Lowe's here. I see that these shelves are cheaper in the US than they are in the EU. Excellent for zipties and LEDs. :)
Miro, "aesthetics" are a reason in of itself! Now, reward yourself for making such good videos and go buy yourself one. You really want to ;)
IKEA is out of the green OMAR shelves at the moment (the ones I REALLY want). Can you imagine? 👀
@@BasiePlants HOW DARE THEY?!
@@littleailurophiliac6418 😂😂😂
I would very much appreciate a watering video. Thanks!
Great video love all the info you shared ill have to apply a few to my plants if my method doesn't work.
I hope it works well for you! :)
Very interesting plants. 👍 🙂
Glad you liked them!
I also have an ikea tray under my hoyas because I am a lazy ass. And that’s how you can effectively spread your root mealybugs from one plant to another 🤌🏽 do not know what to do with this problem yet 🤪
I got rid of mealybugs on my beautiful Hoya that I bought this summer I just taking my thumb and pointing finger and squishing everyone that I saw and then spraying that area with alcohol it took me about two weeks to find all of them and that Hoya is now mealybug free I think it's tough if you just spray them to get them to die because of the coating on there body... I know it sounds gross but I love my plants and I hate the bugs
Sharing water is easy way to spread pests and other nasty things. I don't share water with hoyas and orchids but they are still on the rack trays as I spill water all the time and there are LEDs underneath so I would like not to get electrocuted. That's why they all also have cover pots in my setup (well that, and because I use net pots). some of my aroids are on the same tray together and they do share water, but I am not as concerned there. I find when we cram plants next to each other, pests transfer easily anyways because the leaves touch. I try to remove them with hand, the ones that I see. Then I spray the plants with paraffin and dish soap and sometimes I use pyrethrin if it's a tough infestation. They are not as touch as thrips, red spider mites or Boisduval scale (this one is a B*TCH!) I hope you can get rid of them soon. Just inspect regulary and try to remove as many as you can. Alcohol swabs work great too!
@@BasiePlants I guess you would freak out with the way I water my orchids! I get a big Tucker tote and fill it with Rainwater up to about a half an inch or an inch below the pot level of my orchids. I then mix up my nutrient solution and it which usually starts out with a Cal Mag supplement and I think the brand name is Cal Magic... I then add micronutrients and seaweed emulsion, about once a month I had a teaspoon of Epsom salts per gallon to that... And as an aside Epsom salts is magnesium sulfate magnesium is important for chlorophyll production and the sulfate is sulfur and thrips hate sulfur... I was told by Ed of Ed's orchids in answer to one of my questions on his UA-cam channel about sulfur and he told me that the Epsom salts will help to kill thrips and other bugs... So for used to be used buy gardeners before all these fancy insecticides came out they would sprinkle it on the leaves and the insects would die when they ate the leaf. Period. And last to my nutrient solution I add a weekend fertilizer for orchids most of the time the first number nitrogen is higher... But I mix it up and sometimes the middle numbers higher and sometimes the last number is higher. Rick of Rick's orchids on UA-cam got in touch with the better Gro people and I asked why there fertilizer didn't contain calcium. And since it didn't what did they do can I add calcium to their orchid nutrients. They told him that calcium would be destabilized or do something harmful to their fertilizer so it can't be added but the way they got calcium to their orchids was they bought pelleted lime and put it in the media when they reported and also sprinkled a little bit on top of their orchids once a month. So once a month but it's been more like two months now I put a few pinches on top of the medium I orchids are in which is parked and they're planted in clay pots some I'm transferring 2 slotted pots which I then put in a clay pot because which I then put in a clay pot because they will tip over and also the clay pot absorb the moisture that it sort of gives off in the area. I've never had trouble contaminating my orchids by reusing the same water over and over again. If you have healthy plants you don't have to worry if you have a new plant you're not sure of then do that one separate... Ed of EDS orchids uses the same water over and over when he's watering his orchids for doing an Epsom salts flush. I would waste too much water with my 70 orchids if I didn't reuse the nutrient solution. And after my orchids soak and that same Tucker tote off and on for two days that's how long it takes me to get them water because they sit in that tote for 20 minutes or half an hour I then use that water for my house plants because it's full of nutrients so the house plans get the leftovers and sometimes I water that nutrient water half and half so that I'll couple hundred plants get some of what the didn't use when they were soaking.
@@kathleenmurphy2379 I never had any problem sharing water with orchids either. I put them all in a tub with the same water as well. However, orchids don't seem to be quite as susceptible to mealy bug. At least I never saw a mealy bug on an orchid. But mealybug loves hoya and I do think that sharing water has caused cross-contamination with hoya. But what isn't cross-contamination with hoya? They seem to love to share the mealybug.
@@kyrad6543 the only problem I've ever had with mealybugs is plants I bought from the neighborhood Nursery. Both times I bought plants I couldn't buy anywhere else the one was the huge Hoya and I just got rid of them by squishing them with my finger and spraying that area with alcohol. It took me a couple weeks and I did keep them away from other plants so they wouldn't spread. I think the problem with the mealybugs as people think you just spray them with alcohol but they have a coating on them that I think protects them. And I don't soak my Hoya so I guess mine don't get cross contaminated that way... My other voices are in hanging baskets or clay pots and the ones that are in tiny clay pots are the ones doing the best they must like to have cramped roots
The LED under the counter lights that I use on a bookcase that only has a lip on it I can't drill holes in it I can't use zip ties... So I got some hooks from the plant Department hook them on the lip of the bookcase and then the LED under the counter lights had a hole at each end and I just strung the hook attached to the bookcase through the holes to hang the lights. They aren't above the plants they face the plants and the plants are against a white wall so the light reflects back and also reflects because the bookcase is white plastic. You could get those Keyhole screw in hooks... They're not cup hooks they just have like an eye on them and you could screw them into your shelves put a hook there or maybe use that to attach your zip ties since your shelves are wood you have the ability to use those either I screws or cup hook screws to attach your lights to
Yes, I ended up using the screw in hooks for the IVAR shelf, but it's much easier to ziptie to a metal rack than to measure out the distance, screw those hooks in and ziptie the lights to those.
"currently preferring smaller plants as if they don't grow. Because I'm delusional"
I am called TF out.
Hahahah 😂 Oh, it's true. I lie to myself like this all the time xD
@@BasiePlants i have justified it for my recent Hoya acquisitions and played it off like “oh they’re so small they can just fit in this corner” and now there is a small Carnosa army in my kitchen 🤦🏻♀️😅
@@FaerfolkDogs hahaha 😂 Oh I know that feeling. I am guilty of the same thing myself. And soon, they start to spill over one corner, and come for another. The vines don't make it easy on us, do they?
Your setup seems similar to mine. I'm also only allowed to grow in one room, and I also have no idea what I'm going to do with my small hoya when they get huge 😆
On the way you use the extra Shelf to put it coming forward or backwards depending on how you set up the Shelf get some heavy rocks and put on the opposite side on the very bottom shelf to weigh it down or put a couple hooks in the wall cup hooks or larger and then tie the Shelf to the wall so it's for stable just make sure but true the back of all the shelves that you're doing that great idea with you put your heavy or plants in the very back and the lighter smaller plants in the front... Are you might also want to get a couple broomsticks from the dollar store cut off a broom or a couple two-by-fours cut to size to put under the outer area of the shelves to support them
Yes, I do plant to use hooks to secure them to the wall. The free stanging shelf in space as is is okay, but if I bump into it, it would be easy to knock over. So I do plant to put it agains the wall and I think it would work better :) It would look less cluttered too.
@@BasiePlants I hope you don't mind when I make comments I love when people leave me comments and ideas on my Channel about plants and setups! I love your Channel
@@BasiePlants I'm glad to hear you're going to attach them to the wall back in the late 50s my sister decided she was three or four years younger than me but she needed something that was on top of my mother's China closet so she climbed up the front of it I guess she pulled out a drawer open the door and tried to climb on the shelves but the whole China cupboard fell almost on top of her and all my mother's wedding China was broken! And so many times we have the heavier taller plants on top and we end up making our shells top-heavy. I found out the hard way this past summer because I had plastic shelves outside that were solid plastic no air flow through them and had a lot of my beautiful house plants in beautiful cover pots on that shelf and the wind came through through the Shelf over and some of my best pots were broken. I then put a couple big rocks on the bottom shelf and some heavier Planters on the bottom and made sure I had lighter pots on the top shelf
Not sure if you've found a solution for the hanging plants (making my way through your videos lol) but I got a plastic drip pan, made holes in 3-4 places around the drip pan, do the same in the plant pot and attach with zip ties
“Pls no”🤣🤣🤣
you can use macrame hangers with your hanging pots and use a saucer without worrying about nighttime murderders!
I had macrame hangers before, but they irritated me as I couldn't get the plants out (someting I like to do every now and then, my personal OCD 😂)
Please do a watering video for the Hoyas
I feel the pain of lots of humidity we have the same issue, 70% ☹
I’ve been using dehumidifier water for almost 2 years 😅 Now you got considering getting pH down. Maybe I should test in again, but last time I did it was fairly neutral 🤷🏻♀️
When I tested mine, it was around 8. I use it for semi hydro, so I pH down to 6 :)
@@BasiePlants I would not be against you making a video about dehumidifier water 😜
This guy’s smart
Yes, show us your watering skills! ;-)
"Show us how you water the floor instead of plants."
@@BasiePlants 😂 and cleaning after ;-)
Still beautiful for me..❤️
gorgeous!
Thank you!
I do keep a ladder in my living room.. People do wonder.. But see all those hanging plants! 🙈🍃
I have one in my bedroom for the same reason 😂
Haha :D I have the IKEA ladder/ stool. The only issue is... I put plants on it and now I can't use it to climb it to reach my hanging plants.
😂 I hope you didn't use it to put more plants on it like I did.
... Found a Grey thing that at least looks like a ladder, screwed to my patio wall, home 4 micans and lemon lime ph. (I would lie if I wouldn't have thought about the watering ladder using her as plant stand..) 🎠
Oh those plant people 😂🌱💚🍃
Oooohhhhhhhh being aussie made me super curious!
Haha 😂 Oh, I am not sure if I should drop another clue 👀 Hm, it's a female 'singer'. Many consider this 'trashy' music 😂 but I just love it for cleaning and being silly. 😂
@@BasiePlants not Kylie?
@@alouella I don't think Australia is ashamed of Kylie :D
Do your Calatheas do well in 69% humidity? Do they push ou new leafs ? thnx
Yes! :) They grow all the time. :)
idk if the shipping guys are literally cutting the roots of the monsteras thai´s but i just saw the last video of kaylee ellen and she said that happen too her thai monstera´s too :c
Oh I was completely bamboozled. It arrived with no roots, in no packaging whatsoever. The mailman just handed me this huge banged up cutting and I was like 👀 👁👄👁 Okay. I guess this is it. 😂
love your videos !
Thank you 💚
I'm living in a small garage apt. Just started to purchase Hoyas due to the large interest in them. Do not have good light from Windows, need to get something to help them out.
I think some regular LED lights can help you out with that! I hope you find a solution that works well for you :) Hoyas are lovely plants to have.
your angle is perfect.
Thank you 💚
Would love to see a video on Paphiopedilums ☺️
I only got these two to bloom. But I love Paphs and DEFINITELY plant to get more this year. They are my favorite orchid but so darm hard to find here and import is challenging during COVID. Also, they don't have them in a nursery from which I can easily import. But I hope I can get them in the spring :)
@@BasiePlants ahhh ok! Then good luck finding more 😊👍🏻 I currently only have one, and I love it a lot ♡ it's a Paphiopedilum white lady
What do you do when you do not have rain water? or how big is your container for rain water?
I have about 200 liters of rain water. :) I collect it every time it rains and I have some old paint buckets in which I store it when I don't use it. I also use water from my dehumidifier. I prioritize my plants - if I notice I am running out of rain water, I will save it for hoyas, orchids and plants in SH and the rest will get tap.
@@BasiePlants Thank you very much for this answer. ciao from Italy.
You need more plants 😂 my babies have grown and I got my 1st hoya so maybe I should do a new video?
😂 I always need more plants. 👀
I envy your collection!😍😍😍 Miro, do you have Slavic roots by chance?
I do! :) Very strong Slavic roots 😂 Oh, it's not that great of a collection :D Most are regular plants except for hoyas and couple of aroids :)
@@BasiePlants oh nice! Do you speak any of the languages? Pozdrav iz Hrvatske :) you have a new subscriber
@@mdln2584 Naravno, srpski :) Pozdrav iz Srbije! :) Zagreb je divan 💚
@@mdln2584 I naravno, hvala!
@@BasiePlants nema na cemu :) btw odlicno pricas engleski, dvoumila sam se dal da uopce pitam hahaha
i really love your channel and have learned a lot. Just curious, what country do you live in?
Thank you! That's nice to say! I am in Serbia :)
@@BasiePlants I would have never guessed Serbia. very cool. Ive heard its a beautiful country.
I’m in Australia, in which country are youn.
One guilty pleasure song ? I've got a whole Spotify playlist of trashy songs.😅 (the name's "Power walking racoon"...if anyone wants some "time to clean the bathroom" songs)
...it's kinda messing up the algorithm though.
I've got the same ikea shelf for my plants. Just one though. One of the disadvantages of living a round room is that you can't place rectangular furniture without loosing valuable space.
I love IKEA shelves. I mean, even the cheap Hyllis is not the worst shelf. It's extremely cheap and works for small plants that stay compact. Unfortunately, most of my plants don't have that growth pattern 😂 The song that I was dancing too is considered trashy, yes 😂 And I listen to good music most of the time, but this is like, cleaning song.
Right now im struggling on being able to use my brand new grow tent i put in my basement...im in upstate NY ,US and im so afraid of using a space heater and burning my house down..anyone have a grow space in the basement?? If so what temp is it? Im at about 70 degrees is that ok for winter?
I don't have an experience with a grow tent. I might be getting one soon to test it out. I hope you find a solution & someone with more experience replies! I think Doug Chamberlain (Vermont Hoyas) grows all his hooyas (or most of them) in a grow tent in the basement. It might not hurt to try to reach out to him?
Hi, can you recommend a dehumidifier? I have the same problems as you. I had to bleach the mold in my kitchen on Saturday 🙈Thanks!
It sounds like you need to have a fan circulating the air so it doesn't settle and sometimes in the kitchen with all the dishwashing meal prep and cooking we add to the humidity in that area. My living dining kitchen area got so humid last winter because I had the humidifier on constantly the lock on the front door froze and it was hard to get into the house if the door was locked..
So this year I don't have the humidifier on constantly you have to also remember if you have a lot of plants together they create their own humidity as they transpire and the water evaporates that you use to water them with
@@kathleenmurphy2379 I live in an Art Deco house from 1902 in Europe, no air conditioning. The humidity on the Northern side of the flat is around 80 if I do not open windows, which I cannot do in the winter for a long period of time. I do not have as many plants as Miro in one room. Just about 50 per room :). The flat is humid even without plants and this year was very rainy. My plants enjoy the humidity. Me, not so much.
@@martinanemcokova917 if you get a dehumidifier the water that comes out of that dehumidifier you can use to water your plants. There's a lady in Canada who I learned a lot from about orchids her name is Carolyn her husband's name is Jack. They combined both names for the name of the UA-cam channel which is spelled j a c o l y n s orchids. She doesn't keep her orchids in a greenhouse she has but the greenhouse would have water dripping from the walls if she didn't run a dehumidifier in the greenhouse. She lets it drain into what was formerly a small little goldfish pond and that's the water that she uses to water her plants with. The dehumidifier also adds a little bit of heat to the greenhouse. She keeps her cymbidium orchids in there and her geraniums that she / Winters plus she has an orange tree and an apple tree in there. So get yourself a dehumidifier and you can always set it not to go on as often if you find out the air is getting too dry! Hope that helps a dehumidifier would help and it sounds like you don't need a humidifier going
My dehumidifier is from Gorenje. It is a Slovenian company and it was one of the cheapest I could find. They go from 200 euros and more here. Sadly, I don't have experience with any other brand :/
I suffer in 25% humidity in the winter so that my plants can have the humidifier. It runs constantly in order to keep the small room at 45% 🙃
I wish I could send you some of my humidity 😂 I could save on electriciy bill for the dehumidifier.
Me too, but Miro gave me an idea to plant more plants in terracotta pot, think it's worth trying.
P.s the snow in the window is amazinggggg!!!!
Yes! ❄️❄️❄️
Are you living in the same room or is this space just for your plants? I have a small apartment and really struggling with all the noise and harsh light my lamps produce 🙄
I live in the same room. It doubles as my bedroom/ work room. The lights do make a slight noise, it's kind of that... electric static noise. I am not bothered by the lights except when I go to the other parts of the house or to someone else's home and then they don't have 20 LED lights in one room and I am like... "Why is it so dark here? I can't see anything." 😂
@@BasiePlants my bedroom has 15 LED light bulbs and that includes the strip lights that are supposed to be under the counter and I can feel him in my bedroom at night because it's so bright no Shadows... if I try to take a nap I have to put on a mask or it's like trying to sleep at the beach without the beautiful sound of the water
@@BasiePlants 😂😂😂
Where do you get your cache pots for your Hoyas? I’ve been meaning to ask because I can’t find any like them
They are made by a company in Serbia. Unfortunately, I don't think they sell on Amazon, but IKEA has something similar and cheap!
@@BasiePlants thanks! Sadly IKEA doesn’t ship to my area 🤦♀️ I’ll keep looking!