Jeff you are so entertaining. I laughed so hard my side ached. So glad you DID IT! Any other channel seems so boring that I always come back to your channel. Love when you take us shopping. Keep those videos coming.😊
Read you where not alone! Thank goodness my heart was in my throat the whole time. I was thinking you could had jack up the trunk? Then the root ball would had been in the air? At least you got it done! Thanks for the Pumpkin fixed, she's so adorable!
Sorry, but I had to laugh about this video. This is exactly the kind of situations I often find myself in. I have plants that I've owned for 30 or 40 years. Repotting is crazy! I just repotted a large philodendron that was hung up on the pot just like that...but the pot was thick, heavy pottery. It almost killed me! I'm almost 69 years old...getting too old for this chit! 😂 Your garden is beautiful!
The perspective of you in the pot 🙆🏼♀️ yeah... thats huge! Great shot... such fun on your videos. I know it wasn't fun doing this alone, but ... you in the pot 👍🏼👍🏼
This video was painful to watch! I was scared that you were going to get hurt or that the palm was going to fall into the pool. I'm glad all ended well. 🙂
Hi Jeff! OMGolly, I was holding my breath through a lot of this and was rooting for you! Kudos, job well done! Where there's a will there's a way. You in the pot was priceless! LOL! That really showed the size of the pot. I read all of the comments and am so glad that you didn't hurt yourself, and that you had help standing by, if needed. I saw that you went plant shopping, too, and filled 3 carts. I'm looking forward to that video. It was nice seeing Charlie, Cosmos and Pumpkin. Toby and Turbo must have been sleeping. How is Diego doing? Thank you so much for sharing!
Jeff I hope you are doing ok. That was not an easy job, you needed a team of people to help you. I am just happy you got that plant repotted. I love that palm tree.
I dont know if this would work but I would have put the soil in and then cut a circle of cardboard to wedge in on top of it to keep it in place while you tip the pot on its side. The root ball would sit on top of the cardboard, but it would break down fairly quickly. Not sure it would stay in place with all the rolling, but worth a try next time maybe? Oh, and next time ask for help!!!! I was worried for you! Kudos for you patience though... I would have been swearing, or crying or both 😄
Lol! Good tip! Next time the palm will be 25 ft tall and ill let the people with the crane do it. Oh I had people around me and offering to help but I really wanted to do it myself. More fun that way.
That was definitely an adventure. Looks like me trying to take on a bigger project I’m not quite sure how I’ll get it done other than just tackling it head on and doing it. You gave me the pointers for the 15 ft foxtail palm I need to repot. I missed seeing Turbo, the little rascal, today.
Really was an adventure. Yeah I could have spent a lot of time planning something out to make it go more smoothly. But that would have required tools, lumber etc and taken a lot longer. Sometimes it's easier to just do it the hard way and get it done.
A day late and a dollar short to give you some advice to make it easier. You might have been able to put a car jack under the trunk near the base and used it to lift the root ball off the ground to let you get the pot on easier. Wouldn't have aided in lifting it, though, that's where you need a second person or a pulley. Also, glad it wasn't me having to do that.😉
I might have tried putting a couple of 2x4s in the pot, then rolling the rootball onto them and lifting the ends to slide it down into the pot. I realize that might be difficult to picture in your mind, but I think it would work. 😺✌️
😆 that would have probably helped in some kind of way. Rolling it into the pot worked fine though, standing it back up, that was more difficult, but only took 3 tries. Could have been worse, and it was fun.
OMG Jeff! I hope that did not lay you up for a week. No easy task for sure. Loved you climbing in the pot to show us the size 😂 you are too cute. I guessed 15 ft. On the size of the palm, 2 ft off not bad. 😊 Love your personality, energy, and always look forward to watching your videos. I really appreciate your knowledge. Thank you. Stay safe, happy, and healthy
Hope your back is not ruined tomorrow ;) Have you ever thought of making your own pots out of something like palletwood? Most places give it away so you can have any size pot you want for free ;)
😅 back and everything were totally fine. I'm just grateful to be able to do these sorts of things again. I've thought about building my own containers, but I dont trust the storage company who take the big plants in the winter to move them around on and off of trucks and forklifts without those getting broken.
Right when I was seriously trying to wrap my head around how big that new container is, you helped us out by climbing inside it. It was a good moment 😂 And that thing is yoooge! ETA: this is some high drama! Who knew gardening could be such a nail biter.
Maybe you should of like put a decomposing thing above the 5 inches of soil and then kind of attached it to the bottom somehow then the soil may have not slipped out and a couple of friends' a rented small lifting bulldozer lol just don't hurt yourself Jeff ok but that was a job huh but doing it alone scared me. Knowing me I would just leave it lol, because lifting is like oh a great challenge your tropical plants are beautiful though I guess we all love them.
Good idea! I wasn't alone, I just refused to let anyone help me. Needed to do it on my own and am glad that I did. No pain or discomfort afterwards, considering everything I actually thing it went smoothly😆 lol... shows how low my bar of success is after having repotted so many problems child plants.
Absolutely! Already filmed that. Went to a nursery yesterday that was full of the "rare" houseplants and the tropicals were like 75% off! Filled up 3 carts 😁😆
Need to know the size of that new pot and where to find? My queens aren’t quite this big yet, (9-10’) but as they grow I’d love to find a pot like this
Way behind on my playlist, but life... Is there no way to use a jack or something to "lift" the palms trunk so it's base is off the ground? Couple bags of soil or mulch under it every few feet or something? Still leaves the fun & games of getting it vertical again, but just a thought. We got 6.5" of rain on Monday and we have green grass again! No (major) flooding too close to me, although there are pockets of damage all over north texas. But green grass means I need to start mowing the grass again. Boo! Lol. Back to the playlist on 1.5-2x speed to play catchup.
Oh...that was highly entertaining. 😁 How old is that particular palm? I'm thinking about potting some queen palms, but if they get that big and unwieldly too quickly, I may rethink my vision lol Thanks for that great video!
Queens grow fast! I got this one maybe 3 years ago, possibly 4 and it was in a 20 gallon container at the time. Was already big when I got it, maybe 8 to 10 feet tall at that time? Hard to remember since it's been a long time.
This video had me laughing my ass off. Only because I went thru the same thing a couple of days ago. What I do for large pots is I go to Lowe's and buy the hard plastic whiskey barrel water garden liners for 20$ and drill drainage holes in the bottom...if you care about how it looks all u gotta do is buy some spray paint and paint it any way you wanna, you can also buy stencils for a more decorative look and they last quite awhile...all of my 8ft+ tall flowering tropical trees are planted in them...the bottoms are broad and makes it harder to tip over...i also use plastic 55gal drums cut in half...they are indestructible
@@TropicalPlantParty I cannot thank you enough for your videos! Love your yard & pets! Went to DTLA to order flowers for services this week & found plants 🥰 there was a couple places I wanted to see but I was with non planty people!
Oh boy I forgot to tell you, we’re FINALLY getting some rain. Not a lot but I’ll take anything that’s falling out of the sky that is wet and will help my plants get the moisture they need.😊🌺💚🙃
Jeff, why did you delete my comment about Tyler Mossop’s 300 pound pumpkin? His video is cute and he resolved his problem with ingenuity that could help others who garden alone. 🤷♂️😸✌️
Hey! I haven't deleted any comments. If it contained a link then it could have been auto removed or something. 🤷♂️ i checked mu folder for comments that are being held for review and I didn't see anything there. Weird. Sounds like a useful vid to watch. I'll look it up. Thank you!
omg, I kept sweating through this, if they could only cooperate a bit, or if only you were two people...like one could lift the trunk near the rootball, and the other one could just slide the pot on it, but doing it alone, boy...
I've recently made a list "monsters", about people repotting huge plants, it only had two videos in so far, and this one is now third. I've had Garden Answer repotting 200 year old schlumbergera and summer raine oaks repotting a ZZ - if anyone knows some good repotting adventures videos, please let me know so I can grow a list... oddly enough "list" on my native language, means "leaf"
