Tried planting in pumice after watching your Dracaena videos. My dracaena stem cuttings rooted so nicely in pumice that I also tried it with my dieffenbachia cutting. After 3 months, those plants are still in 100% pumice. The Dracaenas are already shooting pups and the Dieffenbachia has nice roots and lush leaves. I just realized it has never lost a leaf since I cut it and placed it pumice. I will now try making the outdoor pumice system with my Caladiums and Ficus plants. I am very grateful I discovered your channel. Your videos are all so thorough, I learn so much from all of them. :)
This is a premium class! I feel bad for watching a 30 minute video with sooo much information for free. It needs to be on Skillshare or something. Thank you soo much for helping our plants be happy and healthy. I've switched to pumice on several of my plants and they are looking really good!
i just put a couple of my houseplants in pumice 👀 i'm scared lol. but i only realized with this video that you have to have a closed system for indoor plants with pumice. or do you? 🤔. i potted it in a pot with drainage holes just like soil. did you do pots without drainage holes?
@@jamessims9475 Yes it needs to be in a closed container. Otherwise you'd be defeating the purpose of a self watering system. There is only a 30% water retention in the pumice, which isn't a lot. If you have a pot with a drainage hole, you can use a 1 gallon milk carton as your insert. Just cut off the top half. Or cover the inside of a nursery pot with a thick plastic bag. Like a ziplock bag.
HOLLAHfoDOLLAH ok thank you for the tips. since i just reported the two and they look stable so far i will try to keep them as they are for now rather than stress them out with another repotting so soon. if i can keep them alive until next spring i will repot with the tips you mentioned. worst case scenario if they start getting super dry this fall/winter, i will just set the whole pot their in now (clay) inside the milk jug set up. thanks again.
Just brilliant! Thank you for so much quality information, perfectly and precisely explained. Off to Bunnings, (Australia), for some pumice. This is a game changer!
I watched this videos 2 years ago and my monstera in full pumice is beautiful, it survived tough 2 years and now I am back to report more plants with pumice. Thank you for your great and detailed teaching! Love it!
Brilliant! Genius! Living in the South of the US, keeping flowering annuals in pots during the summer is a challenge. I can’t wait to try this method - it gives me hope flowers will survive the summer heat!
Wow, just smiling 😃 , cause this is attention to detail, all the questions I usually search for, after watching other video's about planting and gardening.
I absolutely love your channel. You guys are so informative and make it all so easy to understand. I am attempting to use only pumice myself and was wondering how I would use pumice indoors if my pots have drain holes and now I know how to solve that problem, thank you so much.
I can't tell you how many times I have re-watched your video's, over and over again, especially all of the zz plants(Zamioculcas Zamiifolia)video's and the Pumice video's. I have learned so much! I absolutely love ALL OF THEM! I am trying to be patient, waiting on a new one to come out...😅 I will be super excited when it does! ❤😊❤
Beside the sponge, I think you can also use a coffee filter paper at the bottom of the pot. Thank you for your very informative video. I wonder if this is also how people design planters in office.
Completely sold on this system for my indoor plants now, and would like to know if there are any indoor plants that this would absolutely not work for. Thanks for the excellent step-by-step guide for setting up the pots -- great video!
I’ve watched both pumice videos and some Q&A ones. Great information! This video is actually talking about the pumice setup for pots with drainage holes, indoor and outdoor. This answers quite some of my questions. I have a major question left. You always talk about the pumice system for potted plants. What about cuttings? Instead of rooting them in water, then potting in soil, then transferring to pumice system, can I grow cuttings directly in pure pumice system? Or can I grow rooted cuttings in pumice? Thanks!
I’m giving it a try with just pumice. Using a screen type material to keep the pumice from escaping through the hole. The plants are thriving but I find I have to water quite often because the pumice drys out faster than coco coir (that’s what I use). I’m going to try this in a glass container with no holes to see what happens. Just pumice.
Great video! I’ve started using this method for planting my outdoor plants :) I would love to know how to repot the plants later cuz the roots attached to the pumice are quite delicate …
Greetings from California. Very happy to have found your excellent Channel! 1. I'm interested in keeping potted dwarf fruit trees in the patio area, and also outdoor container gardening of vegetables. Do the same principles apply or are there some changes required to make it work better? 2. Can you please explain how to fertilize/feed plants in a pumice-based system? 3. Is calcined clay appropriate for the clay component? 4. For people who don't have access to affordable sources of pumice, what are alternatives that provide similar characteristics? Thanks again, Marco
Hi plant guys. I am very happy I found your channel . My question is: what can I do to find if you allready have on your channel a video about something I am interested in. For example pachira aquatica.Thank you.
Hi, how would you go about with this system during winter, do you think the pumice is insulating enough or would it be wise to either wrap the pot in bubblewrap or even plant it into a styrofoam pot for example? I live in the middle part of Sweden and I plan on having it on my balcony on the 3rd floor, and since it can get quite windy up here I'm a bit worried about it getting too cold. Thanks in advance for any advice you may give, and love the channel and content, really good information allround, keep up the good work! 👍
Make sure you use new or washed cloth. I used cloth that I used in kitchen and was not properly washed. Not long time later it started to smell like sewer. Later I started to use thin nylon ropes. They are cheap and work well for me.
Hi 👋 plant guys... I love your channel! Im so greatful to have found you. My question is; will you guys be doing an outdoor flowering garden tips and tricks. Like when can we start to get the bulbs in the ground for next season
Can you please make a video about the pachira aquatica? It's quite an easy plant but I'd like to take care of it as best as possible. If it's not possible can you answer this question: my pachira aquatica is growing many new babies (don't know how to call it in English) on its trunk. Should I cut them? Thank you so much for all the information you share with us!
Also waiting for a video about pachira aquatica! :) I have this question too - if those "babies" on the trunk should be cut or not. What I've read, the main reason they should be cut is due to maintain decorative look. But the other reason is that the plant will concentrate on growing those babies on the trunk instead of proper growing the foliage at the top. Don't know if it's true or not. I've decided not to cut baby stems at the bottom, cause I actually like the way it looks :) And the foliage at the top seems growing ok as well.
i dont use inserts for outdoor pots. water thoroughly as needed and media needs to have very little organic matter, so as not to become too soggy. in summer (in my dry climate) i water outside pot plants regularly, sometimes even daily. if i was more organised, but i have limited spaces under carport, a drip irrigation system could be set up.
What about planting directly into the ground and not a pot? Do i still use a plastic liner , fill that with pumice and the sides to a certain height for the reservoir, place the plant root ball on top of that, then continue to fill the rest with pumice to ground level?
Assuming that my inner pot is 20 cm in height, is it possible to fill the inner pot with Leca (18 cm ) and put pumice ( 2 cm in depth) on top of the leca? Then after placing the plant on top of the pumice in the inner pot, to fill up the whole pot with pumice as in the video? Pumice is quite expensive in my country.
informative, but by outdoor I hoped this would answer whether putting lava rock helps for in-ground use, especially when there's a high concentration of clay and sand
One more question. I like to pot plants in plastic pots. I take them outdoor during warm weather. That’s when they thrive. Bring them indoor to be in decorative planters during winter. It’s much easier for me to transport and clean them with plastic pots before bringing them inside. It seems hard to use the complete pumice system if I don’t want to bring the decorative pots with the plants outdoor... Any suggestions? Thanks so much! I really enjoy your videos.
I watched this video again now and found the answer! I decided to use method 2 when watching the video the first time because it’s easier. Now I’ve realized that method 1 uses an insert pot which I could take outside. It’s more effort to find fitting inserts and drill holes (which I’ve never done) but it’s worth it! Thanks so much!
I would like to repot a Japanese Maple in pumice into a self watering pot but I'm not sure what will happen in winter to water roots that have grown into the water reservoir. Will freezing temperatures affect them and damage the plant?
I have recently started repotting a lot of our old plants that have been growing for years (8 years above). Some of these plants are in terracotta pots. During the process of transfer, I broke some of the old pots. I was told by someone that I can use these old terracotta pots as a substitute for pumice/perlite by hammering them and mixing the small pieces with soil. Is this true?
Chuka Udoji ...or give us a diy recipe for a pumice substrate similar to what you use. So far I have figured out pumice, 10-20% clay and something you call permanent nutritional material.
Have you heard of the SELF WATERING POTS here in the United States? Your system is NOT a “SIMPLE DO IT YOURSELF” way of planting outdoors. IT IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR A BUSY AMERICAN HOMES. We can plant in pumice using a self watering planter. I have been using the self watering planter ever since with 100% success. Your system is too much work; too much time; and too complicated.
