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I live in a tropical country. It is hot and humid everyday with torrential rain in the evenings on most days. I am a brown thumb and most of my plants have perished except for my beloved Spanish moss, pothos and this asparagus fern. It looks so fragile but you can not imagine how resilient this plant is.
Here are my care tips for a healthy asparagus fern :
1. During active growing months, plant will be very thirsty, water 2-3x weekly after checking if soil is dry. If not, the new shoots (stems) can burst out fresh but wither away and dry out over time.
2. However, do not drown it with water, put a little bit at a time.
3. Do put it where it can get bright indirect sunlight. I put mine on my bedroom ledge during its active growing phase, it has a full view of the sky, it likes that very much.
4. Do not it where hot direct sun shines on it. I have done so and it burned my leaves and made them dry out faster
5. Fresh stems poke out of soil fat, like how asparagus would look like and then thin out over time as they get longer
6. Asparagus fern is susceptible to spider mites, mine got attacked in Jan 2023 because I wasn't aware what spider mites was and looked like. One day, I looked at the plant and the leaves looked like they were wrapped in web. It was gross. I took it to spray water on the leaves and it looked very pitiful after, all wet and soggy. Eventually I realized I don't need to be so aggressive with it, if you see leaves wrapped in web, just rub off the web. Tap the leaves and look for any spider that may lower itself, hanging on a web thread. Squish them.
7. Always check for spider mites weekly. Ensure you have a bright space to check because the webs are hard to see.
8. During active growing months which for me for Apr - Sept, feed it liquid fertilizer. I use Miracle Gro liquid fertilizer but you use whatever is in your country. Just ensure you don't pump the fertilizer straight into the soil. Dilute with a cup of water (1-2 pumps) so that it is not so potent and you can fertilize it weekly. This helps to grow the plant better as they get some strength every week because they the stem grows, it can grow super long.
9. Prop up the gangly stems with sticks or something you buy at the nursery. Don't get it flop onto the floor. Once it shoots out leaves, the stem will be even more heavy.
10. I bought the plant in Nov 2023 and repotted it in Dec 2023. Let it have some time to get used to your home and your watering schedule before you repot it to a bigger pot.
11. I repotted it into a plastic pot and put it inside a terracotta pot. This helps keep some of the moisture in the soil longer vs if I were to pot it directly into a terracotta pot. Even then, the soil was always dry because the asparagus fern drinks a lot during it's growth phase.
Any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section.
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@foodfam7651 29 дней назад

Thanks for the nice relaxing video

@lebooshdiaries 28 дней назад

Thank you for watching, have a good weekend yea!

@SunrayStar Месяц назад

I find it satisfying to snip browned leaves off houseplants with scissors; do you? It makes such a transformation in their looks. That asparagus fern is so pretty! I have never tried to grow one of those inside before. Here, they most often offer this plant for sale in outdoor garden centers for using as an annual in, for instance, an outdoor pot of mixed annual flowers. They will not be able to live outside over winter here, so that's why they're just sold as annuals. I am amazed that you were able to totally bring it back from having spider mites! I don't believe I have ever been able to save any houseplant that got spider mites on it. No matter what, I could not stop their spread on the plant, and the plants always ended up needing to be thrown out. Could it really be as easy as rubbing them out with fingers as long as you're diligent about frequent checking? I think the only thing I knew to do in the past was keep spraying with water, and that just did not work, but it always seemed to be what was recommended. BTW, that is really something that you collected a whole year of growth filming so that you could eventually do this video. Oh, there's your cute little orangutan at 11:26!

@lebooshdiaries Месяц назад

Yea I am amazed too, I literally sprayed water on its leaves after watching someone do this on YT. It was quite powerful each blast. I was so upset i told my husband it's probably gonna die. he said, nevermind, let it die, don't stress over this small thing. So i just left it there in front of my window and it didn't die. I didn't even know before that what spider mites were. Just one day, i saw something that looked odd. Like a few leaves were wrapped in cobweb like thing. And I thought, i don't remember the leaves being like this. When i looked closer, i saw tiny insects crawling in the web and my skin started to crawl. That is when i went online and saw that it was spider mites and best method is to spray the leaves. When it started shooting all these new shoots and grew taller, i couldn't spray this way. It only is applicable when it's small and short. So i had to squish it, no one taught me this, just a natural thing that came to me. See a bug, squish it, just like how i do with roaches. And I was very diligent, almost daily I look at it with the magnifying glass the plant showed tremendous determination to grow, so i put in effort to protect it. When i saw that it didn't die and just kept growing, i thought, this can be a good topic to share and started to video it from time to time. That is why i only have footage of when it started growing and not the first few months when I first bought it and how the first spider attack looked like. A lot of people don't really know this plant, so it's good to share what spider mites is and that they can get a very big plant out of something so small and fragile. Unfortunately though, for me, my plant is still alive but it seemed to have stopped growing. Some leaves have become orange so i had to snip it off and what's left is a bushy top. I talked to it, gave it fetiliser, sometimes epsom salt, fresh soil but nothing works. I think maybe it needs to be repotted but I don't dare to report yet. Maybe once all the leaves have browned and been snipped off, i will do so.

@SunrayStar Месяц назад

@@lebooshdiaries I don't know if this would be of any help for getting it growing again or not, but I have a houseplant book that has asparagus fern in it. It says to repot every spring using soil-based potting mixture, and that if you don't want to move older plants into a larger pot, then topdress instead. One other source backs that up and says that repotting every 1-2 years can help maintain plant health and encourage new growth.

@lebooshdiaries Месяц назад

@@SunrayStar Thanks! Exactly what i thought so. I did the top dress up twice already and the pot is full to the top with soil. So i can't top dress anymore. I've also given nutrients for it to grow. So i think i need to repot as last resort but only after all the leaves are gone.

@SunrayStar Месяц назад

@@lebooshdiaries Do you mean you only added more new soil to the top? (That's what it sounded like because you said you were out of room at the top.) In topdressing, you need to remove an inch or two of old soil first before replacing it with fresh soil. That means however much you can remove without too much trauma to the roots, but some light root removal is fine to do, in order to get some of that old soil out, along with some old roots at the top. The top of the old soil is always the worst, worn-out soil and contains those salts buildup from fertilizer (and water mineral residues too) that is not good for the plant roots, so it's good to first clear off completely that worst top part. Then, new fresh soil can do even better.

@lebooshdiaries Месяц назад

@@SunrayStar oh dear, yes i only add on top. I never scooped out any of the top soil. I got it wrong, i always thought top dress means just add on. I've always been adding on to some of my plants. It can get pretty messy tho to do this. I think i'll rather wait to repot later once all the leaves have turned brown. Thanks for this clarification!

@kitpaint9989 6 месяцев назад

yours looks beautiful! I had no idea they grow so ridiculously big when I bought mine. got mine 3-4 years ago and now it's over 3 metres tall 😭

@lebooshdiaries 6 месяцев назад

Oh wow! that is lovely to know, 3 metres!!! Do you prop it up with sticks or something? It's a creeper, i didn't know that either, so it can grow really tall if it's in the right environment. I am not sure if mine can grow anymore, maybe it may need a bigger pot but i don't know how to report such a tall plant with delicate leaves!

@ouraussieanimalfamily 7 месяцев назад

Wow that's a lovely plant that you saved! What are spider mites? Are they like spider eggs....?

@lebooshdiaries 7 месяцев назад

thanks for watching! no, a type of plant mites that infest plants and suck them dry. they make web like the spiders we know and they stay in the web and lay more eggs. very tiny, sometimes very hard to see the small ones with naked eye, at least for me. These old eyes. Spider mites is a common plant problem...some plants are more prone to it than others

@ouraussieanimalfamily 7 месяцев назад

@@lebooshdiaries Oh wow! Good know 😲

@karinhedman6903 7 дней назад

Thank you for this really beautiful and inspiring video🙏🏼 Please be careful offering this plant to your cat to play with - as I understand it, it is poisonous?🫶🏻

@lebooshdiaries 6 дней назад

Thank u! Yes, u are right, it is not good for cats but not enough to kill them if they ate a bit. That is why i don't let them bite it. Thanks for the reminder yea.