Growing rare caudex plants: a guide to the girthiest of plants 

you are truly the best plant channel on RU-vid. I don't say that lightly either, I'm so happy that you are a thing and your videos exist. please never stop making them, cause you're just absolutely fucking awesome dude. sending love from Banff Canada!!

Another fantastic video from the best channel on RU-vid. I for one would be very pleased to watch a whole series on the hundreds of species of caudiciform 'types'!

Great information I can't get enough of this channel 🌵

So nice that you did a video on caudex plants, thanks!

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

After much internal debate I have decided that weird caudex plants really are my favorites, they are endlessly interesting. I’ve had 2 ant plants ( Myrmephytum selebicum) and had great success with them for years then they just declined and died. ⚰️ I will try again next spring…I’d like to see a part 2 of this if you have the time! 🌱🤗 🎃🦇🍁

Lovely video as always! Your videos are always so fun to watch 😊 Btw it’s nice seeing you experimenting with music again. Take care!

Love caudex and love that I found a channel that talks about them!

Amazing video as always mate, i really love the Weekly Uploads, caudex plants needs to have fame, wondeful plants indeed. Last night i saw one of my old fockea had lost its leaves in a weird way, not yellowing but like swollowing. It was rot inside the plant, prolly due ro a report. Atleast they are cheap plants but still suck when u lose a 5 year old plant...😢 A question tho, where in Australia are you, seems always to be hot😅.

I have a 2 year old baobab seedling. Would you cut it back to encourage thickening of the base ?

Fascinating! I never realised I love caudex plants so much! If you left several young seedlings in a pot, would they eventually fuse together and create a kind of clump style super caudex?

Perfect

Love this video, but I always wonder: do you read your plant names when you say them in your videos or do you just know the botanical names offhand like that? Even if you are reading them your pronunciation is impressive

awesome

The controversy over what is and isn't a caudex has been mocked and discussed for decades, I have a 50-year collection of the cactus and succulent society of America's journals and at some point in the past 50 years people have potted up upside down root vegetables creatively and entered them as caudex plants in shows, sometimes pulling it off but getting some chuckle worthy moments along the way. all Cactus are succulents but not all succulents are Cactus is the tip of the iceberg.

I was hoping you would mention that ponytail palm. A few years ago, quite a few years ago I saw the biggest one i've ever seen in person at least. It was still young, maybe three feet tall and a foot and a half wide. I fell in love, but I couldn't get that one. About ten years ago I was lucky enough to get a potfall. I still have three of the five or six that was in the pot. This video has got me wondering if they are doing well or if I could be doing better. I estimate that the stems are putting on about a fourth of an inch a year around and maybe 3/4 inch in height.

Great video! I was given a stephania erecta a couple of years ago. It went dormant no problem, woke up on its own and grew about 14 centimeters, pretty leaves, so overall it's going well. I really like it 😊 Question, if it's been mostly above the substrate for this long can I bury it fully to increase the size? Or no, leave it be. Question

Except for Pachypodiums most Caudiciforums are not commercially grown in the USA🇺🇸🌵

"What lurks below" 👻

I tell everyone i like fat plants cuz they remind me of my mom 😅😅😅

I have a 25-year-old Uncarina, 3 ft tall trained as a succulent bonsai with rocks and aloes crassula & bulbs, can't describe what the foliage smell is but yuck, need to do a video on that today. some of the shots when you are unpotting, what you are doing can't be seen, perhaps move the camera down so that the space above your head doesn't occupy the screen as opposed to what the work is you're doing that you're looking to illustrate, ant plants are often grown on wood and will colonize a branch, I had bad luck exposing roots better luck sphagnum and wired to a branch like a bromeliad or orchid. I have a couple of videos on my Channel and still need to do an update on my bonsai Australian bottle tree that I've had for 30 years, you're motivating me this morning as the weather winds down here in Minnesota to schedule vids. How did they take out the roots of the big one local to you? Bulldozers over the land will do that to oaks here as builders build, cities are mandating ground protection due to trophy oaks getting wasted as redevelopment occurs.