Love to hear that!

Is that right 😂. My wife probably thinks the same about me 😅

I find it very therapeutic cleaning the plant leaves and after they look so happy fresh and lush. When I see them, it takes away the edge life is always throwing

@@maureenahern-luna5877 absolutely!

I mean, honestly, pretty much all of my plants get direct light and I've had fairly good success with it. I think you just gotta let them adapt and balance out their care with the amount of light you give them. If they have more sun, they need more light and more fertiliser. If they're in a dark place, they need less light and fertiliser. Kinda like exercise: Trying to run a marathon whilst only eating McDonalds is gonna do far more harm than good, Same thing with plants and light.

Shouldn't "moan" for having to do the simplest of chores.... Just a thought 🤷‍♂️ I agree regarding your comment!

Thanks and glad it was useful 😁

Ooo which channel was that? Think I know who it was

@@SheffieldMadePlants That Foliage Life

@@zpan5265 ah cool, new channel to check out.

I was just about to ask how to clean plants without touching them. Perfect!!

Gotta be careful with that though... its dead easy to really overwater them that way. But its great to do with very thirsty plants that are prone to spider mites. Like english ivy, potted citrus plants, ficus, fastia, alocasia..

Great to hear! Thanks for watching 😁

Im newish to plant keeping and this channel is my go to bible if i want to know anything.

Brill thanks Becky

You’re a ⭐️. Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoy the context.

Great stuff 👍

Thanks very much Gail!

Can't ask for more than that, thanks!

Exactly. Thanks Dustin

@@SheffieldMadePlants What about absorbent gravel with drain in pot?

@@VanjulBhatt93 not sure what the benefit is?

@@SheffieldMadePlants Usually for better drainage I suppose?

@@VanjulBhatt93 I’d just have the drainage holes

We live and learn 😅

Nice idea!

A few of them are rebellious 😂

If they’re happy that way then good stuff 👍

Exactly, if you know what to look for, plants will tell you what they need.

Great, thank you Nancy!

Super, thanks for watching 😁

That sounds really good 👍

Great job saving the plant!

Every day’s a school day 😁

@@SheffieldMadePlants 🤣🤣

Thanks Gina!

All good for learning 😁

Right! I've killed a beautiful palm, 2 ferns and an umbrella plant. Smh I loved them but didn't know how to care for them.

Cheers John 😁

Thanks 😊

Good tips thanks 👍

Very true. That’s something I struggle with particularly upstairs.

Thank you. I’ve never seen a snake plant bloom. The advantage of living in the tropics! That and you know everything else!

Great stuff, thanks for watching.

Glad it helped!

I’ll have to try a closed terrarium

Since plants generally don't take well to a change of environment: Once you have a glass box over them to provide moisture, you'd theoretically have to keep that glass box over them for the rest of their lifespan for the plant to thrive. Aesthetically: Is it worth it?

​@@SheffieldMadePlants okay but misting my spider plants made them perk up immediately, why is that?

Thank you Josephine!

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Good job 👍

But can I ask why do it?

of corse! personally i really love plants, i mean who doesn’t, since i have a smaller collection it makes me really happy to do simple things like wiping leaves, checking for pests, things along those lines and misting is part of that! sure there are much better ways to increase humidity but i have found personally that misting works for my life style and habits

Thanks

I don’t know why this advise is still out there! Ah well next time you come to repotting you know you don’t have to 😁

Glad you liked it

Cheers!

Peace lily leaves are a bit more robust maybe

Cool thanks Tommy!

Absolutely 👍

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Thanks Jillian

So nice of you

Yep it’s completely different with drainage holes and no problem

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My pleasure!

Seeing good results?

Glad I could help!

Good old fashioned water 😁

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Short term it's not so bad. If left there it will start to cause problems.

Spraying and wiping for pests is good to keep them at bay for sure

There’s been some studies that showed soil sat on top of gravel hold onto more water than if it was solely soil in the pot, leading to potential root rot. Why bother with anything other than soil in the pot? I can’t understand something like LECA but in that case you’re only using LECA and not mixing it up. Even with LECA root rot can be a problem.

@@SheffieldMadePlants I agree with you about the gravel, but are there any studies on other kinds of drainage materials? Indeed, gravel doesn't absorb water and thus is not very good in carrying it away from the soil. But LECA or pumice ARE good at this :) Why bother? To prevent bottom layer of the soil from sitting in the water. It's probably not a big deal if one uses fitting plastic nursery pots and has enough experience, like you do. However, there are beginners in this world, and dense soil mixes, and pots with poor drainage (or even without drainage holes at all). It'd be much harder to get good results without a layer of porous stones in such cases.

@@SheffieldMadePlants I think only one drainage hole is not enough for some plants, i make extra 4 to 5 drainage holes and then make one inch layer of very small pieces pf brick,then soil

I've tried this with a Calathea and I didn't have much success.

@@SheffieldMadePlants there's probably a better way to care for them, but my white star seems pretty happy so far

@@TimelyCookie keep it up 👍

Super, glad you like the videos. Perlite on the soil is indeed for fungus gnat prevention, but honestly I don't think it does much. Cinnamon seems to be working well. I think the roots will still find a way through the hole, it won't be sealed. Why do you want to see the roots coming out of the hole?

Just hearing about cinnamon. Do we just sprinkle over the top soil and how often?

Try to resist if you can 😁

@@SheffieldMadePlants ~ I will 😢 but as sad as I am it made me realise how hard it must have been for my parents to not be able to touch me, even as a little kid, they’ve never been able to give me a hug ~ and I love this about plants, they are teaching me sooooooo much, I only started collecting them last year and already they’ve changed my life and they teach me so much 🤩 I couldn’t love them more if I tried so I will definitely be doing my best to keep my hands off 💗💗💗

I have had my Hoya Queen and Princess on my kitchen island for years, and I love to touch and rub their beautiful leaves. They grow like crazy and give me pink leaves from time to time.

That’s the key I think. They prefer consistent humidity more than anything

Excellent point about water not being able to evaporate quickly indoors.

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What are you growing?

@@SheffieldMadePlants I grow determinate tomatos in a greenhouse. Currently I have the Little Bing variety.

I’ve not heard that one before

Is it doing ok now?

@@SheffieldMadePlants I hope it's going to be. It just happened a few days ago. So far, it seems to be doing alright. I would think that if it had shocked it, it would have done it by now. I potted it up in a very good soil mix with lots of nutrients. It was also so root bound that I had to bust the pot with a hammer. Which also showed evidence that many roots were stuck to the inside of the pot. This was a huge, very mature plant. I paid a pretty good price for. Which is kind of disappointing for that reason. I hope it makes a big recovery. Wsh me luck!

@@bhumphries1360 Spider plants are pretty robust so should bounce back

I’ll give it a go 😂

@@SheffieldMadePlants have you seen the videos of the plants they actually train to make music?? There's a whole band of plants that actually tour and play music. I am so not kidding. These plants learn to manipulate their energy, essentially, to make different sounds. There are sensors on the leaf connected to a synthesizer. When they want to train a new plant, they put it next to one that's been trained and they've found that they learn twice as fast than when by themselves. Then there's the tests conducted in the 70s on emotional reactions of plants. There's a book on it. They killed an insect and some shrimp and the plants were in another room and had quite violent reactions. And they reacted extremely to the yard care guys when they came to do the lawn. They also tested them with a human thinking about burning their leaves and got a severe reaction. Plants are sentient, in my opinion, and do experience emotions. What is emotion? Energy in motion. You should check that out. I always ask their permission to eat the ones from the garden. I think it's important to honor any life form. And I always ask them to pull back their spirit if I'm going to trim them so they don't feel any pain. I do that with the grass too before I cut it. And the trees before they get trimmed. We don't know exactly what they feel but I figure better safe than sorry. Here's something else and they've done testing on this. If you lick your seeds prior to planting what you intent to eat, then the plant will actually provide the nutrients needed because you put your DNA on the seed. I realize I sound like a crazy hippie but I looked at the research and have tried talking to and ignoring plants and playing certain types of music for them and have seen results. Something else interesting is the tests Emoto did on water. The structure of the water actually changes when you put an intention into it. So by simply saying thank you and I love you to the water it responds by physically changing its structure. Likewise when "I hate you", and other negative statements were made to the water, the structure became very disorganized. My point is, if we can change the structure of water with a simple intention and thought, think how much water the plants use. So even if there's not conclusive evidence on the sentient plants, a change in water structure prior to watering will affect the plant. Look into it. Don't believe what I say, research what I say, or do your own experiments. I've personally found that plants overall do significantly better when they are treated as living sentient beings. They do like to interact and some love to be touched. Not all, but some. The main difference between people with a "green thumb" and those without, in my humble opinion, is i, for example, have almost none of the knowledge you have, but I treat my plants like little beings and someone without a green thumb treats them like they are furniture/decorations. That alone has helped my plants do well. How many people do you know with plants that last decades, multiple moves in and our of flats and they do exceptionally well. My favorites are ferns. I have Bostons I've had for more than 20 years. I split them up each spring and make more. I can get 2 or 3 ferns out of one. Some really large ones I put in the flower beds. Not Bostons, asparagus and ponytail ferns. I cover them if we get a freeze below like 28F. 32 is freezing in Farenheit. Thanks for the videos and talking with me. I appreciate both!!! I am trying to propagate some schefflera plants. We'll see if it works. I did some just the leaves and stem and one that was the top of a 6 foot tall schefflera. It needed to be a bit shorter. I haven't been cutting back my plants, so after watching a bunch of your videos, I thought I'd try doing a few plants. Thanks again!!

@@rainncorbin8291 thanks Rainn some very interesting stuff

Fair play if you want to add something at the bottom. I'll be sticking to good old soil all the way. Thanks for watching

@@SheffieldMadePlants @Sheffield Made Plants This no rocks at the bottom issue has been just oversimplified. You could use some wicking substance sponge/ cord/ cloth to bring down the perched water table or increase the overall porosity of the medium. In the end it's also about how much water the plant can absorb. Obviously, different plants have different requirements, many of my thriving ferns pretty much stand in a constantly saturated perched water table.

Charcoal (NOT the brickettes kind!) actually works better than rocks at the bottom for good and lightweight and porous drainage. Cacti really like it.

@@SheffieldMadePlants You are both wrong: Basically any absorbent matrix that can hold water, like soil is able to hold onto water because the pore size is so small and the water is held by the intermolecular forces between the water and the particles. There is a maximum amount of water that can be held this way, and it is a balance between the absorptiveness of the material, the particle size (really the pore size) and gravity. Let us consider the standard, lets say six inches tall pot: When you water to saturation what happens is that water fills all the spaces in the soil. Gravity then pulls the water out until a balance is reached between the forces of gravity and the capillary forces. This results in the soil pores being completely filled at the bottom of the pot, while being open at the top of the pot. If you want to test this for yourself fill a clear container with water and poke a drainage hole. You will see a layer of open soil above a layer of totally saturated soil, with the balance depending on the soil composition. When the soil is saturated oxygen cannot diffuse in and it is this that causes root rot. Plants can tolerate this for some time, however, and a healthy plant potted in the appropriately sized pot should be able to consistently clear this water through transpiration within a couple days (this is important for what i am about to say). So what happens when you add rocks? Assuming they do not get mixed up with the soil, you end up with two distinct layers. The particle size of the rocks is so big that waters runs right through it and does not saturate them. However, the composition of the actual soil is the same. Just because the soil is held a few inches up by the rocks does not mean it cannot get saturated with water. As before, the bottom few inches of the soil get completely saturated. Except now because the soil is held a few inches above the bottom of the pot, the line of saturation is also higher, and closer to the crown of the plant (i.e. where the roots meet the lower stem). The problem is NOT that the roots will grow down into the water, it is that the water is held closer to the base of the plant. This is what people are really concerned about when they worry about rocks in pots, as the base of the plant is much more vulnerable to wet conditions than the fine roots. Plant roots will often grow down into the water table in nature and in cultivation if you place them on a tray with wet rocks. I think rocks in pots, is, however, kind of double debunkable: the people who say its really bad are also kind of wrong. Plants are really tough and they don't rot out in 5 seconds. As I said, when the plant is healthy and in good soil it should have no problem clearing away excess water at the bottom of the pot. Raising the level where saturation occurs to being closer to the crown really shouldn't be that big of an issue if your growing conditions are appropriate. If this weren't the case than shallow bonsai pots would not work, since they also hold the zone of saturation closer to the base of the plant. By reducing the total volume of soil you also reduce the total amount of water the soil can hold. In a drying environment (low humidity, high airflow, high heat) this very well could mean that a pot with rocks will dry faster than one without, simply because it has so much less water total. Rocks only really increase the risk of rot in a situation where the soil is drying very slow, or if someone is overwatering (cold winter indooors). Rocks in pots could be a viable way to deal with a lack of drainage holes (I just avoid such containers as a rule) as it will create a reservoir of space underneath the soil where water can drain to, though said water does need to come back out somehow. Mostly rocks in pots just take up space and don't really do anything.

Thanks for watching David

Yep consistent humidity is what they want 👍

Thank you 😊

Is that to raise the level?

@@SheffieldMadePlants sometimes a little too 🤣👍️ actually it's for not having to take every plant out of the Pot every time. So if there is any (little) excessive water, it can stay away from the roots 😀

@@the.selfteaching.artist that’s alright then 😁 The gravel isn’t in the pot with the soil right

@@SheffieldMadePlants yes! It isn't 🙈 I'm so sorry for my bad english 🤣 But I guess you guessed it right 😆😘

Yeah that’s the way for them apparently

@@SheffieldMadePlants cool thank you. I it’s a lot of fun. I really feel like a good plant parent. Mostly i just enjoy it. lol. It also gets really hot here in California sometimes and i hope it cools them down a bit.

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The only croton I’ve had died within a couple of months 🤷🏻‍♂️ They seem to be very fussy about any change so try not to move it at all

Looks nice too

The misting everyday is the problem.

Just give plants consistent humidity by picking a spot in your home that’s not near vents etc and leave it there.

Yes also to high humidity in homes increse problems with mold and mites etc, before puting a humidfier in there is a good idea to have a sensor in the home to mesaure the RF % is within recomended levels.

u could invest in a greenhouse

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Soooo many things I thought I knew. This explains my complete failure to keep a single plant alive in my house over 12 years. All I have left is a spider plant mown down by the cat, the remains of some aloes that are rotting off and a near translucent leafed thing that just looks paler by the week as I alternate overwatering and forgetting about them for a month. I don't know if I can be reformed, but I'll try again. Just got a humidifier at a garage sale. Now I have to convince neighbours and friends that I can be trusted with another living thing.

@@eternalfizzer haha you can absolutely be reformed. A few more videos and you’ll be a pro 😉

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Don’t see why not 👍

I wouldn't suggest this, the chemicals in canned air dusters may damage or burn the plant. If you look up "succulent tools," most sets contain a little air duster that's just a plastic bulb that you can squeeze to blow air onto the plants. I've found that it works well for dusting and it's much safer than canned air.

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Yes bottom watering is fine for any plant. Will you cut off the top growth?

Good question 😁 I tend to either just leave it or brush it off or blow it off.

Yep, why not?

I get rid of dirt with a fine brush

@SheffieldMadePlants Oh okay. Thank you so much and thank you so much for your videos.

I’d be worried about root rot in the transition. How come you want to make the change?

@@SheffieldMadePlants I was just thinking of convenience but it was just a thought...thank you for your input

A little bit but probably not noticeable unless you have a lot of plants.

@@SheffieldMadePlants bummer was hoping it’d help my daughters college dorm! Thank you!

Thanks and let me have a look

Hmm never heard of that plant. Looks wild. Could you repot without breaking up the soil? Literally out the rootball in new soil in a bigger pot without touching it?

@@SheffieldMadePlants The plant is interesting if you're a biologist or have some knowledge of plant evolution. Anyway, I'll surely repot it from the germination pot. But, let's say, I had it for 5 years and I couldn't change the pot, then how could I change the soil? :) It's a tricky one, I might as well ask at the universitiy botanical garden.

I think it can work. Problem is you’re misting leaves on indoor plants which I don’t really advise

@@SheffieldMadePlants So, the difference is indoors, there isn't the air circulation?

@@artfuldodger7838 yeah just have to be careful with mold but I guess if you’re not doing it every day it should be ok

Sadly, once a leaf goes brown there's no saving it, so best to cut it off if it's looking ugly. Calatheas are really tough for beginners. They need high humidity to stop them going brown and it's hard to give them that. Lots of people say rainwater or distilled water helps. Keep them out of the sun and keep the sun moist and you might have some luck. Either that or get a humidifier.

@@SheffieldMadePlants thank you soooo much! I'm learning from you a lot

@@Hanna.Verarte glad you like it, thanks

Outside is always good. If it’s working then don’t listen to me 😂

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