This fad of buying rare plants for ridiculous amounts of money is just a status thing in my opinion. As you say, people are buying these plants without knowing the first thing about them and are sadly setting themselves up for failure
If the people have the money, and want to learn about the plant, why is that ridiculous!? It takes jumping in to learn. Even if they kill a bunch of plants, they are leaning about themselves as they do so was well, so win win for everyone! Knowledge is why we're here. 🤷🏼♀️
@@cherieizm I get what you mean I guess, but people tend to be drawn to „rare“ plants just because they are expensive and „everyone wants them“. There are so many pretty and unknown plants that are still very cheap, yet seldomly someone wants them because they are not considered to be „rare“ and that is pretty sad
I don't think that it's ridiculous if it brings joy to the person who spends the money. Some people enjoy showing off their financial "status" and even though I don't really get it, it's ok if they can afford it. I mean there's no point in buying designer handbags, diamonds or sports cars eather, and people still do it. The highest that I have ever paid for a plant is 13,90€ but some people like to spend money and that's fine. For me it's exciting to find something cheap or get a cutting from a friend. There is an element of rescue or relationship with the plants for me but that's not for everyone.
Status? How? Showing off for visitors or strangers on the internet they'll never meet? Even those struggling will splurge when they really want something. Not everyone posts what they buy, but this is a hobby that many enjoy sharing and being one of the first to buy a certain plant.
Hi Claire! Thanks for another lovely video! Since you have been exploring more soil science topics lately, I just wanted to recommend another RU-vidr I enjoy watching - Gardening In Canada. Ashley is a soil scientist and has taught me a ton regarding soil microbe balance & heath. One of the primary ways she has influenced my habits is with regard to under-watering: she posits that many planty parents are prone to causing dry rot whereby the plant starts to air-prune its roots that have dried out completely (think, the soil version of allowing a moss pole to dry out completely). This then leads to overwatering once you reintroduce water to the system. It also causes significant die-back of the beneficial microbes in the soil which depend on consistent moisture to survive, and gives bad anaerobic bacteria more opportunity to wreak havoc when water is reintroduced since there are fewer good microbes to maintain balance. The analogy she uses to help grasp how dry you should allow soil to get is to imagine a sponge fully wrung out of all excess water - once the soil reaches that stage it should be watered again (even if it’s a plant that is “drought tolerant”). Another way to conceptualize this is to water no later than whenever the soil has ~20% moisture left. I totally agree that in general under-watering is easier to come back from than over-watering, but I think this explanation just helped me conceptualize what I should be looking for as far as how much the soil should dry out before I water again so I thought I’d share! I have definitely noticed much more consistent, happy growth in many of my plants (particularly fine-root plants such as peperomia species) ever since I stopped allowing any of my plants’ soil to go bone-dry. 😊 All the best, Leanne
I never bring home a plant without doing research! It's a set up for failure if you don't. I'm also really studying up on light and soil nowadays to make better choices for my planty friends!
I love your early videos where you were the novice expert. She was great! And i also love that you can break down that info now from the experienced expert perspective. Your whole plant parent journey is beautiful to witness 🌱🪴🌿🌵💚
Fantastic content and very informative! I think building your collection slowly is such an important part of being a plant person. It's A LOT of work to care for plants, and it only requires more work as they grow. I learned this the hard way too, having 50+ baby plants meant at around 3-4 months, lots of repotting and moss pole making was needed, and around 6-8 months, AGAIN! And its something I've learned to prepare for now, but at first it was a BATTLE!
I love your videos, they are very informative and I love your English accent, I live in South Texas and we can grow so many plants here in pots and in the ground. I have philodendrons and alocasia outside, and they go dormant in the winter and pop back out every spring, such hardy plants and so full and beautiful in the summer, people actually stop to admire my yard.!!!
On the note of soil, I have been growing all of my 105 plants soil free in just fertilized water for 6 months now! I have major anxiety, and so being able to monitor the roots of my plants at all times has been amazing! And I’ve found that basically all plants can live in water indefinitely so long as they are provided nutrients through liquid fertilizer, and that rotten roots are removed and pruned. I’ve only had one casualty, and my room is so clean without needing soil! Def recommend if you stress about things like watering or what’s going on below the soil!
Are you referring to leca by any chance? Have you done soil to leca with a mature plant before? I haven't been able to find a RU-vidr with mature plants repotting into leca.
Love you videos, so excited to wake and see this new video ❤️ I'm a new subscriber and patreon and I've spent my week binge watching all ur uploads 😍 your videos are so chill and at the same time exciting! I wish I lived in UK as you seem like someone I'd love to call a dear friend, you can tell through your videos you are authentic in you kind and caring chats ❤️ thank you for creating this space to escape and find someone who loves plants as much as I do
I did all of the "don't do's" The hoya fever hit me and that's when I finally stopped and stood still to look at what I really wanted and what I could realistically care for. I am so glad that you covered this very important subject.
I have found most of the plant community that I have reached out to for advice has been snob. They see your message or comment & ignore them. That is what put me of reaching out to anymore of them. I just do my own research now & hope for the best. Maybe because you have a RU-vid channel why they are lovely to you. It comes to the point where I don't even want to leave comments no more because they only talk to whom they feel can help their followers to go up. It's actually quite sad because they want you to comment below just for their engagement to go up but will not answer you 🤷🏾♀️
You are a breath of fresh air. It’s hard to find genuine caring people in this world however, you are the me of those and foster kindness and compassion. Keep up your amazing content and just be yourself. That is why I am here!
It's always good to start with common plants. I seriously want one that is high priced, got a green version that is easy, killed two of them, trying green version again, with better soil mix. If I can keep it alive and like it I might try the variegated version. I do try it with the simple ones first. Look up care tips, but start with the basics. It's much easier to learn on a cheap plant, than get a super expensive plant that quickly dies. Check out several videos, talk to people in your area for care tips.
I do have a question...I have just put my monstera standleyana on a moss pole. I am concerned about keeping the pole moist without over watering the plant itself. Aby advice??? 🤷♀️💚🪴 Thanks for your videos. I have learned so much from you - thanks 😊
So glad I watched this video till the end where you've said you made true friends through the plant community and you've found your tribe through a shared interest 😊
I build my pots drainage up with Tesco kitty litter. Non clumping. It's clay, same as leca and also absorbs moisture and retains the nutrients. The roots love it once then punch through the drain holes.
@@sarah9314 just lifted a thin leaf croton gold dust today to give it a good water and the roots pulled up several clay balls from the decorative pot. They are bright white and extremely healthy. It's a tip I got from growing aquarium plants. They often have a course, clay based substrate to allow plenty of oxygen for the roots and it holds the nutrients and promotes healthy bacteria growth too 👍🏼
How do you research the natural conditions? Do you just google search and sift through loads of information and just try to decide what feels right to you and your plants?
I think that medium is the key 100% to success with plants. I am soil-less (more most plants). and my plants thrive. I use coco coir for moisture retention, reptile bark (fir bark), perlite, worm castings and charcoal. The amounts depend on the plant.
Thanks Claire, since watching your videos, I've gone from 10 to 130 plants. My three plant tips, 1. use an app to track progress and get reminders, obviously checking with moisture meter when it prompts you. 2, if you have a fish tank when you do a water change save a couple of buckets full, plants will thank you for the preconditioned fish poop water rather than using tap water. And 3, agree with Claire on soil mix, make your own mix, I've got two kinds, one for regular and one for succulent and cacti, both with perlite and bit of bark, and for the latter added grit.
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Ow gosh! My poles dry up the second day after watering. I have seen bottles method, wicking meh]thod, but never thought about simple cup... amazing hack!
This whole Beas my experience as well! No more impulsive buying,learning so much from RU-vidrs like yourself! Thank you Claire for keeping it real,you and Emma are two of my favorite! Natalie Australia
Hi I'm here in New Zealand and will be Autumn soon, would you be able to do a video on what to do when your plants go in to dormancy please, really appreciate you sharing experience with your plants
Just found this channel and I am loving it! On the topic of soil and fertilizer I realized how important they can be because of plants I bought from Home Depot. Often these big stores are using the lowest quality soil and the nastiest fertilizer because they just need the plant to look good in the moment so you will buy it. I have propagated a few plants I bought from there and most of the original plants in the store's soil died while the cuttings in the soil mix I made are doing great.
OMG I'm definitely new to the hobby but I've only 3 rn, I had 5 but lost 2 recently and I want to buy more but I'm forcing myself to really really research and educate myself before adding anything else. Going to really focus on providing optimum plant care through the end of the year for the ones that I have before buying anything new. Also, I am going to be starting my YT plant channel next year and want more experience under my belt before making my first post! Thank you for your content!!!
talking about soils, I had no pests for a long time, but since I began to do my own mix with bark, I noticed some little flies here and there ..... I will try to reduce them with those sticky little yellow traps .....
@@brenfays3255 in facts I have found a very good way to kill all the fungus gnats, it is called Bacillus thurigiensis israelensis (BTI). the brand "Mosquito Bites" is an alternative or the brand "Blam BTI", you mix it with water, you water once and you get rid of those little pests for one year or more ....
I love your approach to growing plants more naturally. It feels a bit like we want plants to be too perfect, too clean and fast growing for being a living part of nature not designed for instant gratification!
I see building up a massive collection common in a lot of hobbies. I'm a long term fishkeeper and seen many even in like 6 years buy a lot in the first year or few then disappear. I think it's best to wait, evaluate your interests.
Your feed I watch is wonderful and about taking time with plants and knowing about it best way as well I only started on two plants got pink dragon and other one in same line pink I got rescued from b&q not pay top price so learn as well got few bits start for year as well I done corns off two plant and in soil cos try learn grow hopefully see it next 4 week 😅 yea need do 5 step in rescue plant check b&q and garden centers update give your green fingers for old and new RU-vid viewers and thank you hard work time posting thes 🐕🌱🌿🌵❤️
When I got into orchids, the house mouse got into them too and gnaw a few. It didn't kill them but wounded them enough that they died. The rest died from a blight. I had 200+ orchids due to impulse buying. I had one left but it too died.
I spent to much on core poles and have switched them out with moss poles now. Might use the coir ones for hoya in stead of a trellis because I think they would benefit less from moss (though I will try that as well since hoyas are epyphytes as well and some get air roots). Just wathed houseplantygoodness and he mentioned your splendid, its doing better than his in leaf size and he'll put it on a moss pole now.
Hi Claire, found your channel about a month ago and love your videos. I have several questions: why plastic pots rather than clay? I noticed you don't have saucers under your plants…both hanging and surface . How do you water them without water going everywhere? And, what do you do when leave for holiday..how do you keep the plants from drying out? I know you said you err toward underwater it but that can only go so far. Thanks again for your channel!
For germination there is no need for light as seeds germinate in the dark (...I mean underground in nature), but as soon as they germinate they should receive a certain amount of light depending on the type of plant.
Nice listening to you Claire, good chat😊. Do you still sell plants (rooted cuttings) nowadays? I saw in one of your plant tours a lovely hanging plant, quite close to a Hoya liniarus but I don’t think it was a Hoya! I’m sorry about the spelling of the Hoya L. I should go back and find the video 🤔 sorry. Looking forward to your next one, oh... and thanks for all your info 🙂😍
Early on in my plant collecting I thought that plants needed to be repotted after buying them, and I still think this is true in some instances, but I also got wrapped up in the pots themselves. I though that plastic nursery post were bad and that all plants needed to be in pretty pots because that was what I was seeing on the parts of the plant community that were in my feed. Ive since realized that decorative pots can be easily fitted over nursery pots for the sake of a picture or video appearance. I’m still training myself that nursery pots aren’t evil and that there is no need to go out and spend $40 on a pot for a $12 plant.
Of course I had to get a Monstera Deliciousosa because everyone else had one and the leaf size attracted me. It got big fast and I decided I hated the work involved in taking care of such a large plant.
Lovely video as always, I'm so glad you put out the content you do. I find them so relaxing and of interest to me....also that's one mahoosive corm lmao I did lol when you first showed it 😂
So one message here in this video is that there are some things you don't get out of books or on Google. Some things can only be learnt from experience.
I’m not new to plants but I’m new to proper plant care 😂 I’m curious how you keep your plants so big and healthy in such small pots! The first thing people tell me when I have issues is that “it needs a much bigger pot! The pot is way too small!” But yours look so incredible in such teeny pots. How?
I've tried to find your P.splendid video, I'd like to find out more about that moss pole I see which you covered in plastic. My significant other is allergic to moss so I can't have 'moss' poles so would like to research other medium filled poles if possible...can you post a link to that video please? I would greatly appreciate it!! x
Thank you for the video and your thoughts! I have a question regarding moss poles🤔 Moss is quite expensive and hard to find where I live so I was wondering if one could mix it with pine bark/orchid bark instead of coco chips (as I have a big bag of that at home)? 🤔 or only use pine bark… not sure🙈
Where did u find your tuber that size I would live to find some please let us no.I watch u a!l.the time .I love watching your video. I'm Jeannie from Wisconsin.
I do love my plants, but we can't get Liquid Gold 😕 Leaf in the USA...please get Amazon 😢 UK to send it to our country!!! I have asked you, personally but you did not respond 😒...I do enjoy your videos..and agree with your Philosophy on plants...
@@tessie7e777 oh...u mean ukamazon has a link to the 🇺🇸 USA..I know that AMAZON in the USA does not carry Liquid Gold fertilizer as in UK..ARE YOU on FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM..YOU could contact 😀 me on those...
I tried to put the link but it also got deleted the one that I find on Amazon. The bottle is completely different so I don’t know if this is the one and also it just says Gols leaf so I’m confused 😢
You need a closer microphone your voice volume is too low. I have to turn up my volume to max to hear you and then your intro music is very loud when it comes on. Then voice is low again so have to turn the volume to max again.
These are all such good tips! Getting new plants for me can be a bit anxiety-inducing so I end up spending lots of time researching the natural habitat of the plant I'm acquiring, and I also want it to be something plant youtubers touched upon whenever they make a specific plant care video. As for something I wish I'd known sooner, I wish I waited out before buying a plant, first so I could consider whether I really need it or not, and second so that I would notice that plant prices actually drop a lot and the plant that I would've bought for a lot of money would've been purchasable at half the price 3 months later. If I knew that back then, I would've had more money to splurge for rarer plants that I want now. Just a suggestion: I feel like your opening music is a bit too loud compared to your voice, do you mind turning it down a little?
