I Got My Own Mall Plant From A DEAD MALL! | Retail Archaeology
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- I was recently able to get my very own mall plant from a now closed dead mall. I grew it from clippings I took on the last day the mall was open. I also took some pictures with my floppy disk camera.
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Hey everyone, sorry my voice sounds weird. I'm getting over an awful sinus infection. It should be back to normal next video. Also on a happy note the 2 other leaves I had actually started growing roots. I went to throw them out yesterday and noticed they finally sprouted tiny roots 😁
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Hope you feel better quickly, I love these videos!
That was a fun video Erik, thanks!
And keep us updated on the mall plant...I hope you have a greener thumb than I do 😄
Joe from Canada
Keep us updated on the plant.
I've been posting updates on the community tab of this channel and on my social media accounts 🙂
Honestly, you could have just walked in with a dolly and a safety vest, and walked right back out with an entire plant complete with a genuine mall planter box.
Thought that was what he was going to do.. I would have those pots are awesome!!😄
Erik: "There are certain things I love to see in a mall."
Me: "Skylights."
Erik: "For example, big grand skylights."
Taking plant clippings from malls is a great idea. I would love to see you take more from others and have a little "mall garden" going in your backyard.
Oh man that's so cool. Fantastic idea...I hope the clone survives!
It's doing well. Also, those 2 other leaves actually started growing little roots 🙂 I was going to throw them out yesterday but noticed they both had little roots forming finally.
Hi! Resident crazy plant lady here! I LOVE this idea! Buuut to make sure your cutting survives, I would recommend that you actually plant that propagated cutting into a much smaller pot for now, I would say a 4" pot would be ideal until it is fully established. The reason being is that if you plant a small cutting in a giant pot, the roots aren't able to reach through the entire pot, through all the soil, to drink up the water you provide it... so the roots are going to be sitting in this wet mucky mess until the soil eventually dries out on it's own. This, in turn, can smother the roots and deprive them of oxygen, causing something called "root rot", which is exactly what it sounds like. This more than likely will cause the plant to die. ALSO, if you do happen to see this comment and repot it, I would recommend that you use a more chunky soil, like an orchid bark mix (I like the brand Black Gold), as this helps aerate the soil so oxygen can get to the roots AND it helps the water to drain through the soil more easily, preventing root rot. The pot you have now appears as though it doesn't have proper drainage holes on bottom and is going to trap most all of the water you would give the plant in the soil, again causing root rot. SO, tl:dr, repot in a 4" pot, with orchid bark mix. Water once every 7 days for the 4" pot and about every 10 days or so whenever you repot into a 6" after it's established. They enjoy bright indirect light, around 50% humidity, and can either vine downwards or climb up if you provide it a moss pole (the leaves actually can get MASSIVE if you provide enough light and give it something to climb up). Anyway, hope this helps! Sorry this was so long. I need to get a life.
I moved it to a smaller pot 🙂 The pot I used had a built in drainage system, there was a grate in the bottom that the soil sits on top of and allows excess water to drain into a reservoir in the bottom. I thought using the bigger pot would give it "room to grow", I didn't realize it was bad for the roots. Thanks for the advice!
@@RetailArchaeology You're so welcome! In a few months (probably around 6 or so) after he's established his root system and has put out a decent amount of new growth you can probably up-pot him but only go with a pot that is an inch or two bigger in diameter (that's the general rule of thumb for up-potting most plants). Please please please keep us updated on it! And if you're able, snag more mall plant cuttings because I think this is such a cool idea!
Man I hope your plants do well. Thats a nice way to save a piece of history and have a memory. Its a neat plant as well. I think we had one like it growing up.
loved the oldschool camera photos, and the plant thing was a neat idea!
That’s golden pothos. Don’t worry about how long you left it in water. They can live permanently in a bowl of water. It wants indirect light, like a room with a window but not in direct sun.
The elements of the mall. Plants (Earth), Fountains (Water), Skylights (Air), And I guess neon is fire...? Anyway, I hope you're getting better, Erik. Definitely looking forward to seeing an update video on the Power Square plant in the future!
Good choice on the Pothos. That should grow for you just fine, they're nice and easy to get going again. Good luck with your new Mall plant!
The mall lives on through that plant!
I take cuts off plants all the time!
CloneX is great for rooting cuttings-
Having genetics from a dead mall would make a cool garden!
Use a razor blade for a sharp cutting before dipping!
Mall Plant starts might become fashionable...
Ever do guerilla gardening with seed bombs or by taking a pepper shaker full of wild flower seeds & doing stealth planting? 🌱🌿
@@utubepunk this seems like the best kind of mischief 🙂
@@utubepunk I do that but with seeds I have extra of. Hopefully next year thousands of Malabar spinaches will appear, if they do, it will be total anarchy here on the farm.
Nice souvenir! You should try to get a hold of a genuine mall planter to transfer the plant when it gets too big for the pot.
Absolute magic. I went to the states in 99 for a semester as an exchange student. I bought one of these cameras whilst there and and your video brings back all these memories.
Awe I love it! Pothos and ZZs are such easy plants it’s great!
I remember my high school photo class kept one of these under lock and key and only brought it out for "Digital photography is the way of the future" talks.
It's a good looking little plant, I hope it grows well.
I hope your mall plants grow up to be good, and healthy!
You should water the cutting in ASAP so the roots stay damp until it settles in a bit! Those are amazing plants. Once they get established they are amazingly productive for the little care they need. They can grow dry roots in the air, but since those roots grew in water I would start them out in damp soil for sure. Love your channel. It's totally awesome.
A cup of water works for me, I've gotten grapes doing it.
Fun video! Keep us updated on the plant adventures! Not gonna joke, I may have to make a trip to my somewhat dead mall next weekend to do the same thing 😆. Long time watcher and always enjoy your videos. Thanks!
Surprisingly my local mall put mall plants in the food court after getting rid of most of them in the 2009 remodel.
Never thought about taking clippings from dead mall plants! Even though it sounds like something I would do. However, I'm not about to step into my own dead mall around where I live due to high crime rates in that mall lol, not worth it. Also, the photos are so neat!
The 1st Retail Archaeology video of 2022
make sure to keep them indoors like in a mall, they are not designed to survive the brutal AZ sun.
I’m so sad this mall is gone. It was a huge part of my youth. School shopping, ice cream at the little cafe. I even brought kids here when I was babysitting to play on the rides and walk through the toy store for something to do!
You can use something called Rootine or Routone something along those lines, as it depends on the company that sells its. It promotes advantageous roots forming so you can plant your trimming. I used to run the green house on campus in college and was allowed to take free clippings of anything.
they probably would have just given you an entire mall plant in its pot, but I get what you are trying to do clipping it
it’s fun that you are giving plant the ambiance it is used to lol
I have a pothos too! I found it in a vase by a dumpster one day, took it in, and I haven’t managed to kill it since. It’s been through three moves, and I constantly forget to water it. A great plant for a dead mall.
Very cool--love the idea of a transplanted mall plant! There are a few malls near me that I wish I thought to do that before they changed to the more clinical look & removed their planters.
Hope that plant has a nice long happy life
My mom cut a piece of Sunrise mall plant before it closed in 2019 and now its huge lol
I just imagine the mall security seeing you walk around with a bandolier and a camera. They stop you and go "what's in the pouches?"
And you go "floppy disks."
really nice pool
Love that intro man really nice
That intro takes me back to watching blue seed on stars.
Thank you for these epic! intros! They really bring me back.
You planted the seeds of success!
I hope you get better soon! Thanks for the upload.
Aw hell yeah new vid i hopped on the vid so fast!! suuuper great watch and info :00
:D yoo love the floppy disc camera dang i need one, also love the pics
Also super cool you got some clippings from the plant
Seeing that Siesta Mall pot made me watch an old Siesta Mall stream! I miss those!
Love the channel❤️
I think it’s cool you got a plant. Shame you couldn’t get a mall planter to go next to the pool for it
Great video
Thanks for sharing, otherwise people like me would have never gotten to see any of this, Liked, potting the plant 🌵 was a very nice touch, glad you did this
Waiting on a Mall Plant series. Don't know how I managed to not get the notification on this one.
That is one gorgeous pool you got there! Love it! 😍
Love the mall plant idea! Please keep us updated.
This is such a great idea! I love it!
My parents took me for after school shopping here, too! I hope that plant does well.
Good show🙏🏽👍💯
Wow! How interesting! Thanks for this! Appreciate all your ways of seeing! : )
The vibe of this yeeesh so good my guy
Two of my favorite things: dead malls and plants! This is a cool idea and clipping plants from dead malls is something I've thought about.
That was my first digital camera. I remember how impressive it was for the time. After I upgraded I sold that one to the body shop I worked at. We would keep the floppy in the cars file with all the pics of the repairs. Now we just use an app on our phones
I love that idea! A whole mall plant windowsill, or container garden, would be amazing. 😀
Nice idea!!! Cool
What a great idea!
Looking forward to plant updates! 💚
New to your Channel today hon and I really love your content and I love this plant you got I probably would’ve tried to find the management and ask them if I could take one home but hearing that it’s still gonna be used for something they probably would’ve said no but I love that you got a clipping of it and you did a wonderful job planting it I’m sure with that kind of love it will grow big and be a happy little plant🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚💚💚💚 looking forward to watching your videos🌸🌼💕🌺🪴💐😀🌱💚❤️🌻🌼🌸🪴💐❤️🌈💚🌎🌸🌼
What a great idea to take cuttings from the mall plants. I hope you'll give updates. We can watch it's growth like a child. :)
I learned digital photography on a Mavica in like 4th grade. Brings back memories!
I'm wishing you the best as a shed a tear for Metro Center. Love your channel.
I think I now want to do this, if any malls near me I'm fond of ever become dead. And if only there was a way into Charlestowne Mall, since I'd love to save a plant or 2 inside that mall.
And also great pics, you got on that floppy disc camera!
Always liked Power Square Mall. Used to take my mom and nephews shopping at VF and they would ride the coin operated rides. I loved the bookstore and fudge shop. Sad to see it go
Ahh I remember diving through my neighbors trash who was a doctor back in the day. He always threw away the coolest stuff. He threw away a box of floppy polaroids/ kodak discs. In that pile was also a Tandy 1000. As an 8 yo child I'm pretty sure it weighed 1000 lbs. Finally up three flights of stairs up to my bedroom where I set up the tandy. It fired right up and I inserted 1 of thousands of floppies. Well needless to say I only made it through 1 disc and I think that may of been the end of my Dr. neighbor guys marriage. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ He did have a sick Chrysler Lebaron convertible he would take me around town in. Shit I'm having old people flash backs...... cant hold them back! He used to pay me $20 a day to walk his dog. I'd shovel his driveway and he would give me a crisp $50 bill.
(Omg please stop me I'm put of control. ) He used to build model ships and airplanes and I got them all from the curb after the divorce. And the cat. I just wont mention the time I walked in on his wife dropping a robe. Because kids in my time used to just bust up in the cool neighborhood houses with AC and watch their cable and eat snacks. Everyone knew which house was off limits. I apologize for the boomer rant. I'm not well
Thumbs up for use of the Mavica...... Haven't seen one of those in forever!
I love the pool area reminds me of my uncle in Phoenix
Keeping with the vintage camera theme, any chance of filming with a VHS camcorder? As always, amazing content!
Retail Botany 👍🏻
Great video! 👍😁😊
Was the art academy going to keep the plants? I love this idea, great video!
this is a time I wish youtube had a heart button
Devil's Ivy, you say?
Well obviously, we're naming him "Lucifern"
you know .... I'm 38 years old, and I never paid attention to the plants at my malls!
I like vintage coin operated rides as well. Something that's forgotten about.
Cool
I like your channel, it's cool
What if you did a whole garden of just plant clippings from all the malls?!
I used to have one of those Sony cameras!
great video... you're the best(don't tell Dan Bell or Doomie Grunt). anyway, love it & I'm subscribed🤘
I’m so mad I didn’t get a Power Square pothos
nice pool.
Thanks!
Dead Mall. Dead Tech Digital Cameras!?
Count me the hell in!
Shout-out to foilage, LMAO.
I think that's a Golden Pothos. They're very hardy. I'd like to have one, but my cats attack houseplants.
Or commonly called Devil's Ivy
Almost looks like Home Depot bought the mall. The orange kinda gave it away. They really need to turn old department stores and old malls into paintball/airsoft arenas. Could you imagine the battles and probably the insurance you'd have to carry to own and operate. OuCh! 😳
Do you ever shoot on film? I have a holga camera that I use expired film with. Sometimes I also use a disposable camera as well. Really gives good 90s vibes.
Not really but I'd like to start messing with a film camera.
that's a real treasure you have there. Just pray you can keep it alive. Knowing me I would probably kill it since I don't have a green thumb as my brothers do
That was my first digital camera!
I would like the people convert the old dead malls into a homeless center or low cost housing than just tearing the malls down though.
I love the music on your channel. Where can I find it?
Hey if you fertilize those clippings, maybe you can grow your own mall?
maybe you should take cuttings from plants every time you go to a mall
All I could think of at the end was WALL-E.
what do you do for work bro?
I'm a software QA manager.
got the same Sony bro ! HAHA
Where do mall plants go after their mall is closed? Other malls?
What are the chances of another limited run VHS copy of an episode occuring again? Big fan, take care