Comparing plant supports - Pros & Cons 

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I've put 5 of my plants onto moss poles following your instructions. I purchased some glass watering bulbs from Amazon and popped them into the top of the moss. It's so easy to water them every few days. I just walk along and fill up the bulbs and they drain through on their own.

That video is a class act! This channel is a class act! When I look at the jungle behind you, I thank you for showing why the house plant craze is not crazy, it's just a classy way to show how these tropical species become wondrous when they mature! Few channels are doing that. When I look at the jungle behind you, filling more and more space every week, I'm wondering when you'll start charging them rent since they're robbing your living space! Thanks for your hard work in building these helpful tutorials; your split screens are helpful elaborations of your narration. Your craft is a class act - both your plant craft and video craft!

Really appreciate all the work that went into making this video.! Love all the comparisons of different poles!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences. I’ve watched all of your videos and they are all great, your channel is going to blow up in time

I always appreciate all your input and tips!

Great informational video explaining all the different reasons why or why not to use different support options. It shows the reality of why your plants are thriving and achieving mature leaves in a relatively short period of time. Wish me luck as I implement your moss pole technique!!

After watching you for over 6 months now i took the plunge and did 7 moss poles. Love your detailed instructions and tricks to achieve beautiful plant. Hope one day mine can get as big Thanks again for doing your videos, very helpful

This video clarifies SOOO many confusing questions I had.. Thank you soo very much

You definitely convinced me to get a moss pole… as messy as they are. Thanks for the video! Your plants are gorgeous 😊

After watching most of your videos I decided I have to grow some of my aroids on moss poles, but I am trying something a little different. I have galvanized wire mesh on hand so I decided to use that instead of buying more rolls of coated wire and I think the galvanized wire is a little sturdier. I use the galvanized wire outside all over the ranch here with no problem of rusting. However, since I didn't think it would look very good with the silvery metal color I decided to wrap the outside of the pole with thin sheets of coir. You can get it in rolls that are 16 inches high which makes two of them perfect leaving the bottom 4 inches open. I cut the sheet a little wider than the circumference and soak the sheets in hot water for a few hours with a few water changes. I attached it with zip ties from the outside to the inside. It holds in the mess - I am adding potting mixture down the middle of the moss lining- thinking in terms of the moss pole being part of the pot. So far I have made 15 poles and they look so nice, kind of like tree trunks with no wire visible, just a few little specks of the black zip ties. I live in an arid region so I was worried about the poles drying out too fast. I hope that the thin sheet of coir will keep the moisture in. After just a few weeks the little plants are clinging to the coir and sending roots through it into the moss.

Your experience really helped me decide which stakes I should use to suit the plants I grow. Thanks a bunch

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about moss poles!

all info is good for gardeners - personal experience and your recommendations is appreciated

.. Almost 1 year and 9 moss poles later I can tell my plants are much happier (those who got a moss pole though) and I love them too.. I even found my empty water bottles, before returning them to the store, so they could be used for watering instead.. .. Before real moss poles, I used the coco fiber poles, but.. It takes forever to soak the fiber, and to keep them moist is more or less impossible.. The plants don't grow very nicely, they don't climb naturally and the stick in the soil eventually breaks.. After all it's just a stick on a plastic pipe wrapped up in coco fiber.. .. So, thank you so very much for every minute you put into explaining, showing and sharing.. I'm always amazed of how my Cebu Blue could end up one day, or how big the leafs on my Sodiroy can grow, just by looking at yours..

Just found this channel by accident, a happy accident. Got myself a small monstera plant that i feel has begun to "fall" off to the sides, and i am totally going to try making a moss pole of some sort to keep it upright. thanks for the videos :)

Thank you so much for this very informative video. I am one of your subscribers that can't get sphagnum moss in my country. But, I am looking into cocochips. After watching this video I was so glad to see you had actually tried it and you said some roots are starting to latch into the chip pole. I am going to give it a try as soon as my baby Splendid gets big enough. Thank you again.

thank you so much for your excellent explanation. all the questions that I had in my head are all cleared 👍

Thanks for this video! It is very helpful!

I love your content! Best platfluencer by far!

Thank you so much for this amazing video! Now I can finally know the pro and cons of all different types of poles. It helps me so much 🥰

Thank you! All your advice is so appreciated! 💚

Just the video I needed, thank you so much

A really good video! Helped me decide what I want 😁

If you grow Hoyas I can totally recommend a U shape shape bamboo plant trainer. They give you a huge amount of room to train those super long wayward stems that initially have no leaves on the them (I can do as many as two full loops with one stem piece). Once you tie these into the support, the plant then switches back into pushing out leaves mode. I have never seen my Hoyas grow faster since I started this.

Very informative. Thank you.

Excellent demo thank you for the info. I’m deep sixing my supports for a moss pole!!

Your video is very informative! Thank you!

Thank you! You answered all my questions. Great video!

Thank goodness for this.

Thank you so much for your work with these Videos

I like the look of that Squamiferum on the bark piece! I find that arial roots attaching to just about anything, makes bigger mature leaves... all that water roots stuff is great for propagation or keeping a small pot. I like how uniformed and well kept your moss poles are, thanks for making a YT channel.

I was looking for pros and cons of bark supports and couldn't find any decent information, but thankfully this video confirmed many of the assumptions I had about the potential difficulties of using them indoors without much humidity. Moss poles may be ugly but I'll stick with them for the convenience.

Thank you for all your wonderfulness, moss poles are a game changer. I decided to add some tree fern fiber to my sphagnum and it’s working out great. Can you tell me what kind, and where you get your large garden stakes for moss pole support? Thanks for providing us with consistent and very educational videos. You are such an inspiration!

I would love to try the grow vertical pole. I personally found what works for me best is the "lazy pole" by Charmaine from unplantparenthood. Don't have a lot of space so I just grow maybe a meter then chop and extend.

Whenever a new video comes from SPG, I know it’s gonna be good for me!

Just what i need It!!! Thanks from México 🌱

Very helpful information…thank you!! 🙋🏼‍♀️🪴

Thank you SO much for this! Trying to find a way to keep my giant monstera up; might try the vertical pole. I'm over aesthetics at this point and just need something sturdy!

thank you for this great video. I one of those unlucky people that can't manage to find large amounts of sphagnum moss. right now I fill in my poles with jungle moss which is easily available in my country and very cheap. but I hate jungle moss. it looks ugly and might carry pests and pathogens. thanks to your great advice, I'm going to fill one of my poles with cocochips and see how it goes

I came here from instagram, love your channel

Very informative - with thanks

Hallo Jan, wieder ein super Video. Kann es kaum erwarten das mein bestelltes Spagnummoos eintrifft. Dann werden wieder neue Poles gebaut.😀 Leider kann ich deinen Duenger in D nicht kaufen. Deshalb verwende ich Hydrokulturduenger. Da die Pflanze Wasserwurzeln bildet, hoffe ich dass es funktioniert. Sry, dass ich auf Deutsch schreibe, aber meine Englischstunden sind schon fast 50 Jahre her. Englisch verstehen und einigermassen korrekt schreiben sind halt zwei paar Schuhe.😂 Viel Erfolg und hoffentlich noch viele neue Videos.

Отличное видео, было полезно👍👍👍 теперь буду переходить на опоры для Ароидных из мха🌿

I really like all of your videos and I admire your success with plants. Could you make a video about the caring of oxalis triangularis?

Sydney Plant Guy and a cat name Brad 🪴😻 Thank you for another informative video 🥰 Made my first moss pole using your method (the best) for my monstera andansonii 🪴In one of your earlier videos you suggested using alternatives. I found using the zip ties didn't work for me, and used plastic coated wire instead. Very happy moss pole maker 😁

Thank you for this! I have a coco coir pole that’s barely holding up my monstera- I need to watch your other moss pole video to get something better for it 🪴

I would certainly like to try those flatten vertical poles.

Thank you Jan

Hey 👋 I dig you're videos. You got a cool thing going on. 😎 👍 I have a little suggestion to save you some work on keeping them poles wet. You need to get yourself an incredibly cool looking 5 gal white plastic bucket that has a lid. Then fill it with some water and mix in some of that awesome fertilizer you been using. Then drill a hole in the lid of that cool looking bucket. Then take your cool plant thats already planted and put it on top of that bucket. 😉 ✌️ Then get yourself a thick cotton rope and push it through that hole you drilled until its at the bottom of the bucket. Then take the other end of that rope and push into the cent of your moss pole. Should stay wet for a bit longer.... 😜 luv the videos dude! Keep it going

Thanks for the great comparison, that really helps when wanting to start with the hobby! Have you ever tried a living moss pole? I don't mean filling it completely with living moss but actually just putting some living moss on the outside to make it look a little less artificial?

That sodiroi is gorgeous

Great video! You said it all! :)

I love your yam discolor....so pretty......nice video for the video librairy :)

Thank you for the information, I have the coco coir moss pole and it doesn’t work. I’m going to take it apart and put moss on it

I don't think you're much of a Hoya guy (that I'm aware of, at least!!) but I have a feeling that the coco chip pole would work amazingly well with Hoyas and I'm going to try it out!

My Hoyas all sit on metal or plastic trellises. They wrap themselves around and are totally okay with that. Only thing they dislike is, if you change the position of their pot so they face different towards the sun. Just keep them in the same location and they're good to go.

When I moved into a very small house I gave my monstera away to a friend. I had grown it on trellises but didn't realize a moss pole might work. Do you think maybe an extra wide moss pole might work? If I can grow it vertically so that it doesn't flop all over the place I could get another one! Thank you for this very informative video, I now have about 6 moss poles, love them for all the reasons you state but also because I've gained more space having aroids grow up instead of hanging/sprawling.

I actually put a plastic backing in those normal round poles which looks better than the normal one and it works fine

Maybe the bark supports would be better for smaller species or epiphytic orchids and in a terrarium or greenhouse setting

Thank you for the comparison of different vertical supports! Very timely. I am curious, have you noticed pests hiding out in the poles, and if so, what do you do? I have noticed that my philodendrons and Monstera during seasonal changes or stress tend to get buggy (thrips!) and I have to really watch them. Thank you for your content!!!

I Will love see a video explaining what you use inside the pots ..I see you have some perlite and ? What is the others ingredients ?

Love your videos! Do you come from Germany? Keep on planting 😁

Thank you so much for all of the information. I'm a new plant caretaker and have a few pothos and a philo that I want to put onto moss poles. Can you tell me how you decide the length and volume of the moss pole? My pothos and philo are currently in 10cm nursery pots so my other question is how far ahead into the future do you pot for the plant you have today?

I absolutely love moss poles, but the problem that I have is that my plant with a moss pole that was in soil completely rotted because I had to water the moss pole every two days and the water from the moss dripped into the pot and the soil was always moist. When I have a moss pole in a pot with pon then it's perfect bacuse I keep my pon in water anyway, but the soil one was impossible. So now I experiment with making my moss pole kinda closed off from the pot. I don't know why nobody has this problem. I know you use very chunky soil mix, but even so it probably doesn't need to be watered as frequently as a moss pole. Mine definitely doesn't, and my room is humid af.

Hi! I’ve used your method but I’m finding that my poles are drying out within 3 days but the soil is still wet. I’ve used a VERY well draining mix so I’m not sure if I can make it more draining. Do you mist your poles throughout the week between waterings?

Just got some of these, and was going to put it in my dark lord philodendron. But I want the best for that guy! I'm making me one of these moss poles to night!

Great video!! will make one soon. how much moss do you actually need for one pole, like the one you showed in this video?

Startet building moss pes ever since I saw your content. Thank you for all your ideas and valuable tipps! 😊 so would you say that moss poles with e.g. bird of paradise or calathea orbifolia wouldn’t make much sense? Since they are nit climbers?

I'm in Victoria and I have quite a few moss poles that need to be watered up to 3 times a week, the potting medium which is quite chunky stays wet during and after all the watering. I don't water the pot, only the moss poles..how do you deal with that. I either keep the moss poles moist at all times and have constant wet substrate or let the poles dry to give the substrate a chance to dry down a bit

I’m always looking for an alternative to sphagnum moss due to the environmental impact. But it’s challenging to find a suitable one that has the same results. Ever tried leca in wire mesh?

BTW, is it normal for Monstera Albo(I don't know if it's deliciosa or borsigiana) to grow roots in moss pole and then it's roots come out from the other side of the moss pole and keep growing horizontally?

I‘d like to know if you ever tried using a mix of sphagnum moss and bark in your mosspoles. If you did i‘d like to hear from your experiences with it because I would like to try it myself. My thinking process behind it would be that the bark creates an environment more close to that in nature since most aroids climb trees.

i m a mosspole beginner and i m a little torn between the plasticback or no plastic back. besides watering more often, might think the rounds ones are just overall more flexible and more straightfoward? also in the cost and building process, just rolling a quick mosspole is really fast and easy to do and you just need some wire and moss and thats it. with a plasticback one, you have a lot mor materialcost in those plastic sheets and you need to cut everything to size and you holding it together takes more time and the entire process of making them seems to be so much more time consuming.

Currently I use coco coir poles and to be honest all of my roots grow roots into them. I feel like dry poles even resemble natural trees better than moss poles since my plants hold on REALLY tight. I've also seen some tries with burlap poles which seem to be a really good method aswell. I believe roots not only get attracted by moisture but also by darkness so roots even tightly grow around dry poles. The big downside is the fact that propagation is so hard since you can't really remove part of the plant from the pole. As of now my only method for big leaves is cutting the plant really low to use the already big root system to regrow a bigger plant than before while I can't really use the top... I'm afraid to use real moss poles because they dry out so quickly which would be devastating if I'm gone for like 2 weeks (I'm in Germany and only have south facing windows). What is your experience with poles getting too dry? Do all roots die off quickly or are they still fine?

Can you provide more information on what the metal mesh is? I'm having trouble finding this product at stores in the US. Thanks!

I feel like most people don't know about canopy soil. In an old growth forest, the organic matter builds up and the top layer is very often sphagnum moss. So to say climbers just climb up bark in nature isn't really true. A moss pole is ultimately more natural imo. Yes, they can and do climb up bark, but eventually they get so tall that that canopy soil really is necessary for them to continue growing.

i wanna see you growing syngoniums or calatheas. they have the best foliage also. however you are incredibly doing great

no "leafy moss" plastic hollow for stuffing poles covered. please do

All great information, except the misconception that the climbers need the aerial roots to turn into water roots to get large mature leaves. There are plenty of examples of large mature leaves on plants growing on walls and wooden structures etc.

How do I go about changing to a moss pole from a vertical pole?

Hey did you ever do an update on the coco coir chips? What about orchid bark?

My living room in couple of years 😜

Sydney can absolutely have these tropical plants outside. Sydney registers as a 10b USDA growing zone - it's warm enough to grow Monstera deliciosa and Philodendron sodoroi (and obviously most others) outdoors year round! Check out tropical garden tours on youtube : "3 small Exotic Garden Spaces in Sydney Aus" for one example. If you ever get a backyard - you could totally transform it into a lush jungle. Daydreaming now.

I like the Grow vertical, but can you extend them? If you buy another to extend is it hard to attach to the existing one?

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can i combine coco coir and moss poles? bcs currently my monstera adansonii is thriving on a coco coir and it climbs almost half of it so im thinking to extend it using my diy moss pole?

So how about coco chip pole now? Is it working well?

The coir stick is my worst purchase in my gardening history! So glad I disposed it finally. 😵

I have a video request : what are the sphagnum moss available generally? I read some sellers mentioning “good quality” sphagnum moss. So what makes it good? I have been using only one type which is super affordable, made in China. I’m curious to know what else is available as an upgrade option, if it makes sense.

When should I start giving my plants a moss pole? I have a baby philodendron pink princess should I give her one now? TIA

Hello 👋 Can I ask is yr mesh metal or plastic. It looks nice and strong because it stands up on its own. Could I have a link or an exact name for the mess pls? Thanks so much for the info. 😊

I would like to have moss poles, but they are 1) very dirty, things fall off into my substrate 2) since the roots grow into the moss I end with roots in moss. And that is a DISASTER for propagation and growing in semihydroponics

As a tomato grower I wouldn't recommend using a flimsy trellis like that. If you give them the right conditions tomatoes can become really big and heavy.

Where can I buy the plastic sheeting you use ..?

Where do you get your plastic pots in different sizes?

Nice Video pressed to your channel my friend

Not plant related but you have the neatest accent. One minute it’s Australian(?) next minute it’s … Finnish(?) Swedish(?) Sooo different. Love the video but found myself listening to you accent more than your advice haha I’ll have to rewatch!

Which mesh do you get from Bunnings?

Brad cito ❤️