Here's a WICK-ED pole hack that I came up with recently, much like the bottle trick: 1) Buy some braided nylon rope (between approx. 1/4" and 1/2") and run it through the middle of your moss pole when you initially fill it. Leave about 2-4 inches of extra rope hanging out the top and bottom of your pole, and leave about 2-4 inches of unfilled space at the top of your pole. 2) Use a small terra cotta pot or drinking glass as a reservoir for watering your pole. With terra cotta, I like to thread my wick through the drainage hole in the bottom, which prevents it from draining too quickly. With a closed bottom glass, you can just fold the rope over the top of the glass with enough extra rope to reach the bottom of the glass. 3) Once your wick is situated in the cup/pot, you can push it into the empty space you left at the top of the pole and cram some moss/substrate around it to hide it from view. Tug the wick from the bottom to remove any slack. Your pole is now ready to be potted with your plant. I always pot my poles with my plant, all the way down at the base of my pot. It's sturdier this way, and the crowding from the pole will further encourage your plant to root its way up the pole. Now you've got a normal-looking moss pole with a hidden reservoir and gravity fed wick, which guarantees your pole will stay totally and evenly moistened, and its extremely easy to water as you do your rounds, requiring no extra tedium. When your plant has outgrown its pole and you need to add another segment, repeat these instructions from the beginning, leaving extra rope at the top and bottom. Disconnect your reservoir from the top rope, tie the two wick sections together, fill in the gap atop your old section, connect the poles, lightly tug the wick from the top until the slack is gone, pop your reservoir back on top of the new section, re-situate the wick, and spot fill with substrate as needed. Infinitely expandable, super cheap, and highly effective.
Okay will this not work my tap water is Sky High dark blue on the test strips my filtered water out of my refrigerator is yellow acidic so when I mix half and half it's neutral I learned that from having a fish tank I know it won't take out all the bad stuff but will that work in the water part of having the water neutral?
I always put my roots into the pot. When i needed to do a chop, the top cutting had 5 leaves but all the roots had established in the pot so the plant has behaved like it didn't even notice that it's bottom half got discarded. It was a physical job but it was fun to see that those roots turned into normal ground roots below the soil! I had been putting off the chop bc i didn't want to lose all my big leaves and i didn't want to deal with air layering so it was a lovely surprise to be able to have a 5 leash top cutting that was ready to go right back in the pot! The yellowing the leaves stopped spreading that day and i put a coir stake behind it to try and force it to stand tall. The issue before was it was growing horizontally after having grown up and bc it was growing so fast i couldn't keep up with the water, but i also don't have the time, space or money to have gone bigger than the 12 inch pot it's in. I had actually asked Lee about the top cutting and he pretty much said more than a2 or maybe 3 leaf cutting wouldn't work, so I'm very happy that all my air roots had been established in the soil and made it so simple! I 1000% recommend directing them to the soil, no damage to the house, and they essentially air layer themselves for easy cuttings later!
Love your channel so much Mr Sheffield, you never stop educating me on being a plant parent🥳🌱🪴. I’m definitely going to try keeping the roots in water on my monsteras, especially the mint, albo and the aurea.So true that the aerial root anchors the plant, that’s my favorite way to use them.
Failed to say what it was ??. Boiled egg shell water cooled is fabulous for plants indoors and out. My peace Lillie had one white leaf/ flower a year then I started to crush eggshells into my bottle of water to feed my plants and she’s started having 4 to 5 in the summer. Plants love it
5:20 wetting aerial roots to encourage growth is very beneficial! They are very hydroscopic so they will soak up all the water you spray on it and grow faste. I do this to encourage the aerial roots to grow faster into the moss pole.
I have a split leaf philodendron that’s been with me for 34 years and I’ve just cut them off after they get too long. No one ever talks about split leaf philodendrons. They must not be very popular.
@@nisar8009 oh yeah? Maybe I'll grab one again. I had bought one from the garden center when I first got into plants, I was thinking I killed it but thinking harder I remember I left it out by the koi pond when I moved 🤔 maybe I should buy one again, they are a pretty plant. I guess people just think of it as a basic garden plant? You're right I never see RU-vidrs talk about them.
I love philodendrons in general and they do well in my space, but I too thought they needed more direct sunlight or they don't split. Good to know! 😊 I've got some southern exposure (but not right in it), so may work.
Mr Sheffield, please help- how do you help a lady whos stubborn hubby won’t let her interfere with his beloved potted palmtree, and now there are real, tiny mushrooms growing from the soil around it?! That can’t be good right👀
I'm downsizing at the moment, the Monsteras are just getting unruly. By the way, I'm unsure where abouts Mr Sheffield lives but there's a new plant ship popped on Holme Lane at Hillsborough Corner. There are some interest choices in there
I got mine last summer as a baby. I live in Louisiana sometimes the temperature gets close too 100 degrees. Mine stays in the direct sun all day long & only gets water when it rains. My money tree is over 4 feet tall. I do absolutely nothing too it & it's so absolutely beautiful.
i heard that aerial roots on orchids (in a pot) are a sign of wet feet. could it be also in monstera? i've put in a moss pole for monsteras i have, filled with chunky coir and dressed on front with peat moss.
Can you do a video talking about how to properly care for a cat palm? I have a cat palm that is growing but is not 100% happy. Sometimes it will starting turning yellow on the tips of a few of its palm fronds. I have tried a lot of different things and nothing has seemed to be the whole answer. I would really appreciate some guidance from you as you seem to very knowledgeable about all the these different plant species. I have a lot of house plants including a money tree. Thanks.
My monstera has thrips, most of the leaves have damage yellow, or brown patches so I don’t think I can take cutting/ cut it down and start again. The new leaves came out all gnarled. It’s absolutely soul destroying when you managed to get a plant growing well and then pests move in and spoil your good time. I never got along with moss poles hard to rewet the moss.
You might want to isolate the plant or even put it outside if you can. Then spray it down. I used both need oil and an insecticide once a week or whenever I see them. It really depends on the plant and the egg gestation period but I 2-3 weeks seemed to work for my yellow thrip infestation. Plus being outside for summer really picks up the growth rate. Aaron for moss poles, I get it. Drilling a hole in the top of a water bottle and letting surface tension water you pole is one hack. But your environment could have it dry out every 2 days.
Amazing. Rich, my junior monstera has about 5 baby aerial roots showing. I can't wait until it matures to see how they grow. We are working on it's third new leave right now. That's five altogether. They are getting bigger but still solid green. I love it. Peace and Love Everyone.
Its interesting how there are so many ways of watering plants that work 😊 I like to take my plants out of the cover pot, put the nursery pot in a bowl, top water until it comes out at the bottom, leave to soak for 20-30 minutes and then put the plants back.
Its interesting how there are so many ways of watering plants that work 😊 I like to take my plants out of the cover pot, put the nursery pot in a bowl, top water until it comes out at the bottom, leave to soak for 20-30 minutes and then put the plants back.
