Leave a little space at the top of the pole and place a small plastic cup with one drainage hole in it. Fill the cup with water and allow it to slowly drip into the moss. It's a great way to keep the moss damp especially while your away.

the bottom of the pole that is sitting under the dirt should be the same medium instead of the moss. helps a lot.

My other half works at B&Q head office and is listening to this. He is grateful for all the B&Q love!! 😍😍😍 xx

Love your video's! I cut the mesh leaving pins on one end. That way you can bend the pins to close the pole and you don't need cable ties.

My jade plants LOVE ugly cheap metal pots that rust. I'm telling you, plants planted in a pretty planter, a nursery pot, and a cheap metal pot that rusts, the cheap metal pot plant will be 3X the size of the others. It never fails. I know people say to put nails in soil so that rust will help (never had any success with that at all) but the cheap metal pots they LOVE THEM. LOVE.

I lived in Northern Michigan for a long time and my neighbor had the most BEAUTIFUL Blue Spruce trees. He hammered nails into the ground under the trees. The iron in the nails was like vita!!

I love your videos loads but always wish they were longer. Can you make a 3 hour plant chores please 😂 I live less than 5 minutes from B and Q so I will be going there asap to make a ton of poles thank you xx

You have such a great personality and spirit! I enjoy your videos so much and learn a lot! God bless!

And a good tip for your plant for the really thirsty ones you could take old bottles fill them with water and stab your potting soil with the opening part it works really well i went on a 15 day trip did it for almost all my plants they were fine

Your philodendron is looking beautiful! I went a little moss pole crazy last month and made four. My rhaphidophora seems to really like it at least!

I’ve just colour coded my plants with sticky notes for my partners parents who are staying at mine while I’m away. And left a guide with when to water each colour. Also I love the poles! Looking real good 😍

Thank you for such an informative video. I’ve been trying to find info about how to prepare my plants so that I can go away for a week or ten days. I live alone and have no one I could ‘trust’ to water my collection…so please, please share your prep with us. I’d love to follow along with your intriguing, mystery adventure too. I so very much enjoy your plant videos - that following along on your travels would just be so lovely!

Dunno if I’m the first one to say this but why not first attach the plant to the pole and then put the pole and the roots to the pot and fill with potting mix? Great video

Thanks for sharing this valuable video.

Great video, would love to see your road trip journey along with some plant prep x

Fab video, found this very useful. Would be cool to see what you pop on moss poles in the future and how they grow. So glad you managed to have a planty day to yourself. You definitely need to make time for non-camera planty days without feeling guilty 😊 Would love to see a vlog of you trip 💚

Claire, I love your videos and the consistent uploading🪴👸🏼🙏🏼

Glad to see another UK plant site 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Our weather is so different from some of the channels out there and it makes such a difference. Your channel and Sheffield based plants are my two go to channels for advice

I always put 4,5 inches of substrate in the bottom of the pole, an like the coated wire.

what should one do when the plant reaches the top of the pole? some climbers tend to grow pretty fast!

I love everyone of your videos! Thank you so much Claire for all the joy that you bring everyone of us plant lovers

Hi Claire thanks very much for your video. Two days ago I too went to B&Q and although I went for paint became emulsionally involved with a cheese plant that were selling off for all of £2. It is a large plant that needed support hence the moss pole. I have some of the wire mesh that you have used but found an easier and much cheaper alternative. I ended up making my pole from a roll of black plastic gutter guard. The material used to stop leaves blocking roof gutters. Soft and able to cut with scissors, I initially cable tied the mesh to a garden cane, packed with sphagnum moss cable tied together. Love your videos Claire keep up the good work

Oh I would absolutely panic leaving my plants for that long! Lol I used to only worry about who I could get to milk my dairy goat, but now my houseplants would be a whole other problem! Lol I hope you have a wonderful time with your friends!! It will be fun to see where you end up!!

Love your content but good on you for taking some time to enjoy your passion for yourself :) never feel guilty for it cos you deserve it

Another great video, every time I watch I NEED another plant (adds white princess to list)😍. I’m definitely going to have a go at making these moss poles, so Thankyou 🌱🌿🪴🥰

Adore your videos, like listening to a friend just chatting about green babies :) I am going away; hired our previous dog sitter to look after our garden as well as the indoor plants. Converting my Philodendrons and a Monstera to moss poles in a couple of weeks, found your tips very useful!

I was literally looking for a moss pole video on your chanel not later than this morning and here it is lol I love your videos by the way, I also try to refer to you when I have doubts or am looking for tricks and tips !

i have NEVER seen such a huge pink princess I AM IN LOVE

Can’t wait to see the update!

I've seen that mesh wire in B & Q - great idea to use it to make a moss pole Claire!

Great video but I would use less moss so as to get some air circulation for the aerial roots and also to prevent mold. About half as much would be perfect.

I used a slightly thinner gauge mesh and its a lot easier to shape.

Would really enjoy a holiday vlog! If your mum is looking after your plants whilst you are away, would be good to see her vlog her side 😅

I love the way your turned out I’m going to have another go, I tried to be clever and create a hollow centre filled with Leca. B&Q got some amazing bit just got a Velvety Calathea and Zebrina for £12 ❤️

Loved this video - thank you! I went away and made my first moss pole, I had to improvise a bit but feeling really satisfied with the result. Hope you enjoy the trip, looking forward to further vids 😀

Thank you for great tutorial With the green wire. Leaving longer lengths would work to tie in the plant stem

Hi from Tampa-St. Pete. Just found your channel and am enjoying it immensely. Nice job on the moss pole, I'm going to make one this weekend!

I am so fortunate to live in a tiny moutain town where people actually come to to get away.Soooooooooooooo I have no need to go anywhere and I love it. I live vacation time 365. Not saying I do not work my butt off living here with my plants and yard and animals. Last time I went away it was coming on fall and cooler weather so I just watered my plants and they were fine until I got home 8 days later. I boarded my dog and had some one coming in caring for my kitties but there was no plant care needed. This was 6 years ago.

Beautiful beautiful climbing plants! You did an excellent job on your moss poles!💚💚💚❤❤💚💚💚

Great video 👌👌👌👌

Subscribed as soon as you introduced your doggie hahaha she has a big personality it seems ❤❤❤

Hi Claire, just curious - how is your Brandi doing on her new moss pole? Have you done a follow-up video yet? Thank you for these great clips!

Yes please that road trip/prep and after math would be amazing. I have a trip in November and I'm worried about my plants so would love to know what you do.

For Claires friendly & supportive plant community; how do you make friends as adults - it's hard as an introvert to make friends, let alone people who share interest like plants 🪴🌿🤷‍♀️ any tips?

Hi! So I have a monstera delociosa and now that it’s going into winter I’ve noticed it needs water more frequently. I’m not sure if it actually needs more water frequently, or maybe just a warm mist humidifier, or if the soil is just old and she needs a repot because it doesn’t seem to be absorbing water as well.

Hello Claire! What a great idea with these moss poles! The plants will love it! My question is, if you wish to make them longer, how do you go about that?

Hey Claire, thank you for the video I am trying to make a moss pole now so I’ve come here. That big plant behind u I have never seen that in ur plant tour video’s. What is it?? It’s huge!!! 🌱😮

Hi Clare, Have you had any problems with thrips? I have made fresh sphagnum moss pole and after a while i had infestation of thrips. Since then I’m little scared of using fresh moss. I put boiling hot water over it now… I wish I didn’t do it as I’m killing poor moss, so i need some reassurance 😅🤗

Can someone link me the b n q metal sheet Claire used in this video? I am from the UK too but I am a newbie who started getting into plants in april. I started using amazon coco coir moss poles and had no idea about sphag moss pole which seems to be more beneficial for the plants and would love to make some to use them for my climbing plants.xx

I am a newbie with house plants as I just started collecting a couple months ago. I am loving your content. I now have 31 plants total (yes in 2 months)..lol. What all plants should you use a moss pole with?

Loving the hair! And now I’ll be off for a wonder around b and q in the morning 😍

I suppose its fine that the moss pole is a bit small and will need adding to in a couple months because that means you can make a video showing us how you would add length to these DIY moss poles and also care and maintenance and how to keep the moss hydrated and healthy

YESSSS and YES on both videos 🙏🏼😁

Love your videos! You’ve helped me a lot as I’m a newbie 😅 Perfect video as I was about to ask if you could make one about this exact thing! Enjoy your surprise trip! A video about the preparation would be awesome. Just got back from a three weeks long vacation and had to bring three of my dearest plants to make sure they wouldn’t die. They didn’t love it, but at least they’re still alive! 🎉 God sommer from Norway ☺️☀️

I would love to see some roadtrip content! How exciting! X

I was gifted a monstera deliciosa for my birthday almost a year ago. She seems to be doing fine, however I did not know anything about moss poles or aerial roots. Now her aerial roots are pretty long, how do I go about putting her aerial roots in the moss pole? Do I just shove them in? She has really thick "elbows" and looks like there maybe 2 parts or plants connected, I'm not sure. I could use some advise. Thank you so much and I love your videos.

I like your mosspoles very much. I'll sure give it a go myself. A few ideas for you to ponder. Using a length of PVC pipe with the diameter you would like your misspole to have, you could wrap your metal mesh around it and literally sow the ends together with some metal wire. When done you can fill the PVC pipe with moss and when it is fully filled use whatever gizmo you can think off that's seems suitable to push the moss out of the pipe making it so your mesh will also slide off the PVC pipe (maybe by closing the bottom of your mesh pipe with thread or mesh) so when you push out the moss it will automatically take the mesh with it. That should leave you with a regularly formed mosspole with excellent structural strength. You can enlarge the structural strength of your pole by threading some nylon fishing wire through your pol, making sure to "knot" your fishing wire on the mesh. By creating tension wires like this, your moss pole will have greater structural strength and not bend awkwardly. In that manner you can make really huge moss poles. Also, when your plant gets really big it might become top heavy, with all the light substrate these plants growe min. You might aleviate that by putting some pebble rocks in the bottom of your containers. Just a thought. You have one new subscriber 🙂

How have the plants fared with the wire mesh poles? The mesh used in fencing and sold in diy stores is sometimes advertised (incorrectly) as stainless steel. It is in fact galvanised and after even handling it briefly you will notice zinc rubbing off onto your hands. I believe high levels of zinc are toxic to plants so I was curious about the results of using these with mesh poles long term

If the cut sides of the wire cut the plants or anything, can't black or silver duck tape be put on the sides(depending on the color of wire) to prevent this from happening.

Hi claire! I just love your videos so informational! What a lovely friend to plan an amazing trip! Have an amazing time! 💙💙💙

Im so Interested how to prep my plants for holiday. I just started with plants and i am so afraid of loosing some during my holiday.

I just ordered some of the plastic poles that you can add on too off Amazon can’t wait to try something new tfs love the Brandi she’s a diva ! Oh it’s very stressful leaving my plants I have so many I don’t feel anyone I know could take care of them all . I had my boyfriend take care of them and he killed a PP . 😞

Stainless is the best. You don’t want to often have to redo those pole

Hi, wow this is first time I saw your video I really loved it. And your plants are so healthy and beautiful. Could you please let me know what kind of soil you used for them . I have some plants but they are not healthy or growing up. Please some tips for me for indoor plants . ❤

Could you tell me if you got the metal sheet from the garden section or from the building section please? I really need to make some of these. Great video x

Wonderful video! what brand is that mesh? I can't find the right mesh anywhere. Thanks

I’m needing to repot my pink princess… what kind of soil mixture would you use?

Nice video. Got some great tips

Hello, your videos are very helpful and I'm very grateful I found your channel. I've also learnt how to use KZfaq 🎉 Would you tell me what thickness of chicken wire you used for a moss pole? And what is the other channel you talk about? Many thanks 😊

How do you do your moss poles with semyhydro? Organic matter in the pon does not seem like a good idea, can I just fill the bottom bit with the the pon and the topp where the plant will attach to with moss? I have all my plants including my monstera deliciosa in pon now (thanks for introducing me to that) and it really starts to need a pole for climbing support

If im running low and whant sphag now i usually pop into pets at home and go over to their bioactive section for the reptiles and get some of that 😆 Impatience is dangerous lol

On the roll of plantwire you have a cuttingdevice. Just lay the wire between the flips and press the one sticking up. Dont ruin your scissor.

Nice 😊 Could you please tell us the breadth size of mesh you cut to make moss pole & also tell the potting mix ingredients & quantity.. love from India😊

Great video! I'm gonna try making one tomorrow. I hope you don't get to worried about creating content just for views, keep it fun!

I would love to see a vlog video of your road trip

Can you please link what mesh you used 🌿❤️

Brilliant video Claire 👍. Do you spray/ treat the moss poles too? I am sure I saw somewhere they can be prone to mould? I really don’t know though, so hoping you know best way to look after them. Have a great holiday .

Yes, Vlog your trip please! Will you have someone come over to water while you're gone?

I'm really conflicted with what to do with my Monstera Deliciosa and my Philodendron. I don't know wether to use a moss pole or use a plank of some kind. Any recommendations?

Thank you for this very helpful video! I'm in the US; we have The Home Depot and Lowes home improvement and garden center stores. I imagine these are similar to B&Q. What are some of the plants that require a moss pole?

Love your videos

Do yourself a favor and look into self watering moss polls. It’s just a rod of pvc in the center with a cotton string wrapped around it. Fill pvc and the cotton will bring the water to the koss

What do i do if i have several plants to get on poles but they arent quite ready for a re pot? 😅

I have galvanized wire. I'm assuming that's good since watering cans are made of it. Should I use it for a pole?

Stainless steel can rust. Especially with the moisture and humidity it'll probably be exposed to.

How long is the pole & how much L would you say you’ve used in it?

Can I substitute coco peat for spagnahm moss?

Can you tell me what type of moss you used for your pole n

do you water the bottom pot and the moss pole?

I tried this and I bought ‘sphagnum moss’ but it’s falling out of the holes of the wire. Your moss looks chunkier and mine is more like dirt. What kind should I specifically look for?

If it rust would it hurt the plant?? Would love feed bck bout this

I need a link to the metal sheets you use lol please please please

Would you use a watering bulb to put in the top of your moss poles?

Please tell me you’ve bought the ZZ raven??? There were so many and I managed home without one but I’m still thinking about going back 😅😂 I went to B&Q the same day as you and basically bought the same stuff, haha

B&Q is the US equivalent of a Home Depot or Lowe’s.

How do you grow your Branti so beautifully 😍

What size of wire netting do you have? I mean the diameter of the holes :) i wanted to buy one today at B&Q but they had only 25mm and I thought that the holes are actually to big and end up buying just perlite 🤣

Hiya thanks for this video it's super useful and I'm going to be giving it a go :) Can I ask could I use it for a plant that's planted in pon? Would the moss being sat in the pon rot?

You are so pretty! 😍

what kind of moss do you recommend, sphagnum?