My grandmother was English and I miss her so much, but you reacted to these EXACTLY like she would have done, and it made me so incredibly happy. She always said "What do you want to do that for?" and "Don't need that!"
The cling wrap on the glass is a great one! I never thought of that. Not only would it hold the cutting in place, it would keep mosquitoes from accessing the water surface.
Watching those cacti get ruined was devastating. Especially since those large ones are at least a decade old. No need to graft cacti unless you have a neon one (they don't have chlorophyll so need the root stock to do it for them).
That graft could never have worked bc you have to line up the vascular ring in the center of the cacti for them to sustainably connect. Theres only one center per specimen. They MIGHT try to grow together but they wouldn't live too long without the vascular rings lined up. And yes I may not have the exact proper terms but that's what it is.
That corn one is hilarious. Because the plants aren't corn, are they? All those little round leaves? I wonder if we're missing something. Those ARE beetroot greens coming out the top of that beetroot, though. It's a good way to grow the greens, as people do like to eat the greens, which are very similar to spinach.
Growing beet leaves from the tops of beets actually works! I often grow leaves from the tops of radish, carrots, from the base of celery or spring greens and spring onions too. Won't make huge amounts but good to add to a salad for a bit of food diversity!
@@SheffieldMadePlantsI see your cunning plan to make me watch it again!!! 😂 Anyway, I did and think it is indeed beet and beet leaves. The pink stalks you think is (mini) rhubarb are the old stems of large leaves that have been cut off. Wish I could send you pic of ones I'm growing at mo!! Do you have an email address you use for this channel?
Looked like the young beet leafs on the beets in my vegetable garden 😊 but those bright red leafless stem seemed a bit our of place. If those would be older leafs they'd be darker, so things are definitely brightened up a lot
I have a variegated jade, its so pretty. The edges are pink from the sun. 😊 I love when you do videos on these hacks. They are SO ridiculous. Always a huge plant massacre, I cringe! ....I was waiting for the return of the toilet lettuce 😂😂😂
Thank you for making this video! I have always thought the 5 minute videos were ridiculous, but some people I know get sucked in by them and then are disappointed when most of the “hacks” don’t work. I own a variegated jade plant, so they do exist in the real world. Mine has more contrast to the variegation than the one in the video. It is highly variegated with creamy almost white stripes and half moon leaves contrasted with dark green, a bit darker than my normal green jade. Because of the high variegation, it grows much slower than my normal jade plant. I wish RU-vid would let me show you a picture. I live in the United States, and once in a while we get the variegated jades at my nearest Lowes garden center, though not terribly often.
I loved the pretty rocks with the plants in them. I think it just creates more work for myself changing the water every week. Once i rooted the top of a pineapple plant in water and put it in dirt when it had a good amount of roots. It looked good but the bugs also loved it.😮 your videos are enjoyable to watch because you have a good sense of humor. Have a blessed day.
Indeed the nail is a risky business🤣🤣🤣 I did it after seeing one of the fake videos & sadly I killed my massive variegated jade plant. I was so upset. Had to go & buy another one & said never to watch the fake videos I block them if they pop up. I won't take a chance. Thank you for addressing this to other viewers. & love your informative content
Thanks, Richard. I'm off to smash eggs and slosh soy sauce all over my precious plants. Unfortunately, I haven't got any butter or mayo so I'm thinking furniture polish or engine oil for a nice, glossy-leaf finish. What can possibly go wrong??!! 😂 (wax on fresh cuts prevents bacterial infection, I've done it, it works!)
Thank you for being you. I have learned more from you than plant are as Amanda. Love to listen to you explain issues with plants. Keep on keeping on. USA plant lover
I recommend neem oil for glossy leaves. It also helps against pests and mold and stuff. And it's environmentally friendly and totally harmless (aka, no poison or anything).
With Lucky Bamboo propagation, the purpose of the wax is to seal the wound to prevent stem rot. It doesn't promote growth. It only helps prevent death.
Those hacks looked amazing. I need to go down to the kitchen to get some tools for experiments....I think the bottle was water/mustard cress. We used to grow them in egg shells, but they need moisture so we put cotton wool at the bottom
Banana peels actually release a lot of nutrients. I’ve tested seed germination with and without peels and the peels sprouted faster and stronger than the seeds without the peels. But I don’t think it works in all scenarios. Also had friends say the wax dip prevents root rot. Haven’t tried it myself.
I lay banana peels on our counter and let them dry (in our dry climate, takes only 2-3 days), then I use them as aquarium fertilizer. Shove them all the way down into my deep substrate where they can decompose and feed rooted aquatic plants. My hygrophila seems to especially love that! EDIT: ORGANIC bananas only. No way I'd want to know what the pesticides and such on non-organic stuff might do to my fish and shrimp.
I'm going to mix the watermelon planter with some crushed raw eggs, and some cooked corn on the cob with soy sauce. Then I'm going to butter any leaves. I believe these all work.
When I see the natural foodstuffs being used, I just think "BUGS" I use those sticky butterfly shaped pads you stick in the soil and it catches so many bugs
Regarding the bamboos and the wax: I read somewhere that if you cut it to propagate, you should seal the cut with wax to keep it from any infections. Must be a non-petroleum based wax
All the videos I watched on lucky bamboo said to seal the top of cuttings with wax, at least until the cut dries and seals on its own. I've done it myself and although I don't know about infections, it does stop the stem from browning at the tip
Yes I’ve seen people put candle wax on the cut ends, but it will absolutely not grow from the main stalk that was cut. It would branch out from the sides. I don’t know why people put all that effort into making a completely fake growth pattern on these videos!
Mandy Larsen I'm honestly much more interested in how they achieve the special effects than the actual topic of the video. A much more interesting video would be the short itself and then a sped up super cut of them cutting down a plant and then showing it in reverse to make it seem like it grows. I believe that is a genre that exists on RU-vid, random videos and then showing behind the scenes. It's much more interesting than cutting a plant to put a different plant on top of it
Some of those are a bit sus... but I did the rusty nail hack with my African Violet a couple years ago. I'd had it 5 or so years, still in it's og pot, same soil... and it flowered for the first time since I'd bought it. It's the iron oxide - "Rusty nails can provide the iron to help your plants thrive. The iron will reboot your plants’ ability to synthesize chlorophyll and improve these structures and functions of their chloroplasts. The rust also increases the acidity of the soil...".
The grafting of succulents/cactus on top of dragon fruit root stock or other fast growing column cactus is a common practice. It helps the grafted cactus grow faster then it would normally.
You actually CAN grow some mushrooms using coffee grounds. The mushroom they're "growing" in that video doesn't look right, though. Probably the most common one to be grown with coffee grounds are oyster mushrooms (pleurotus genus), but they do better if you mix it with sawdust from a tree that it can grow on (it's favorite is poplar). They can even be grown in plain cardboard, and I've even seen oyster mushroom mycelium eating a cigarette butt in a petri dish.
Looks like the first one is an extremely ambitious attempt to graft several cacti together. Plants have to be a certain amount of genetically similar in order for that to work, so odds are at least a few of their grab bags were incompatible, and likely the cut on the large one was too severe for it to survive.
2:47 those blue peddles look like a very common fertilizer over here, but you're supposed to put it on top/top layer of the soil and it slowly melts with watering...maybe it's supposed to be that to help the plant? it looks really nice anyway!
What I didn’t know and learned today was: 1. Rusty nails turn red to blue. Doing it asap. 2. Water and slits in clear wrap and putting individual leaves in. I will be multiplying my plants asap.
The wax one is a good way of propagating plants like bamboo and dieffenbachia, obviously it doesn't do what they say. It prevents infección and stem rot. You put wax on the tip that way it doesn't rot and a shoot will start from a node.
I haven't laughed so much at a video in a very long time. Makes our work with soil and pots and plants look outdated silly stuff. Loved your comments, reactions and puzzeled face. Thanks but I'll stick to my old fashioned indoor plant care chores. I have enough on my (house garnening) plate. Thanks for this, great entertainment 😂
i do the plastic wrap trick to root succulents, except i keep the water below where they can touch so it reaches for the water instead of being submerged and going into shock when i move them to my normal windowside prop bins! I've been able to reroot/get pups off leaves that had only previously rooted, i just picked them off to restart
I actually think the bottle in the bowl wasn't too bad of an idea. I think it helped keep the leaves arranged and pointed outwards rather than floating around in the water without structure. The rest of the hacks, though, absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. XD As can unfortunately be reliably expected from 5 Minutes Craft. Also ohmygosh what is that beautiful plant behind you! The one with the purple red leaves?
you can make your own plant fertilizer by boiling banana peels in water Then you stain out the peels This could be why a lot of videos use banana for their plant hacks
There are several different variegated jades 😊 I have 3 different types. They're lovely 😍 I really wish these terrible "tips" were illegal lol it confuses newbies
Based on the baby plants that they appear to show growing out of the corn cob, I suspect they put seeds for another plant between the corn kernels. Those are DEFINITELY not baby corn plants. TOTALLY wrong leaves. LOL
All in all, 5 minute crafts is ridiculous, enough to give one a migraine trying to get through a video to find a good hack - and you must be applauded in taking on that task for us! I think the purpose of the water bottle in the middle of the bowl was only as a weighted object to keep the cuttings tidy and from floating away.
I just recently purchased a variegated jade plant. I had never seen one and had to have it. I don’t know how to post a picture of it here. I also picked up a prehistoric looking aloe called Aloe Krakatoa.
Around 3:45... that's not new corn plants. Anybody that has seen corn growing can tell you those little spindly leaves are just some sort of grass/weed. That is not how baby corn plants look like. And yes, cooked is cooked.
The one with the period pad was so strange. For starters, the plant looked like it was in a plastic pot without drainage which will keep the moisture longer anyway. The pad has a layer of plastic so maybe it’s supposed to prevent the water from sinking deeper into the pot. If the roots aren’t long enough, why not plant it into a smaller pot? 😅 To me it looks like it will most likely cause the soil below the pad to rot, wouldn’t it?
Maybe the bottle was to keep the leaves out of the water? I don't think it would work very well. Variegated Jade IS a thing & very beautiful! I want one! Nope! That's NOT corn sprouts!! As if cooked corn would sprout in the 1st place! I've worked in plenty of vegetable gardens, corn grows wide blades, not strings! Again you're right. I grew a Mango once. I just stuck the unpeeled seed in a pot & it grew nicely. I missed the weather one night & an unexpected cold snap hit that & I lost it & an avocado plant! I was so proud of them!! 😥 I MIGHT try the Watermelon, but put it out in the yard as a novelty, then pot it up when the waterman is gone. Never mind! The critters would eat it first! Spiky Watermelon? Never saw one! Cucumbers have little spines. There are spiky melons, but they don't look like cactus like that one did! Nope!
The bottle I would think would help keep the leaves from sliding down into the water completely. That watermelon hack would stink up to high heaven in a couple of days. Have you ever put a eaten slice into the trash and not take the trash out right away? Pew!!! Using a raw egg would tend to stink also, I would guess. In the 70s, I heard to make your leaves shine use mayo to shine them. I did on my 2 giant split leaf philo. They died. LOL
