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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:15 Overwatering
10:42 Aiming for pest eradication
13:19 Potting Plants up too early
14:50 Growing the wrong plants
16:47 Inconsistency
17:47 Going too hard, too fast
20:04 Not enough airflow
21:37 Misjudging light levels
25:04 Moss Pole construction
28:11 Waiting too long to give your plant a pole
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46 Comments
I’ve been growing plants for maybe 20 years and I still freak out when I see a thrip. They are the worst. I’m actually relieved if a plant has spider mites…they are easy peasy…a gaggle of thrips…nope! I wipe those suckers out immediately!
“Airflow is important for your health. I pretty much have my windows open at all times.” Me sitting in my living room during a northern Michigan snowstorm 🥺
I’m so glad you showed the jacklyn. I just grew one from corm.
Freaking out over leaf damage. When I first started I’d buy a plant and if a couple leafs turned yellow or weren’t perfect in any way I’d freak out and love it to death. Now I let the leafs drop I don’t worry about it unless it gets really bad then I inspect and come up a plan.
I used to completely clean the roots and soak in pest/fungal sprays or whatever and it just ended up shocking and killing an already struggling plant. Now I typically just increase humidity and chill, sometimes checking the soil w/o disturbing the roots.
Hi, im new to the channel. You should do a video on how many grow lights you have in one of the plant rooms that you're growing in. For example, the living room.
The most impactful lesson for me learned this growing season was: let cuttings callus over before putting wax on them 😅 I rotted all my monstera chunks that were meant to be a little experiment, over the course of 3 to 10 days. And actually, this also remains the first and last time I ever got wax involved into plant propagation. Lol
Love your videos, Jan! Thank you for keeping me enjoyable company while tending to my plants 🙏🤗
When Jan speaks about plants, I really listen carefully.
Very informative and helpful, like always. Thank you, Jan. Now that I’ve put many of my plants on moss poles, and I’m using your aroid mix, I am still in the “unsure and anxious”phase; I don’t feel confident that I can accurately tell if the mix is dry or not. The moss poles seem to dry out quite quickly, in a few days. Anyway… still learning how to care for my beautiful plants.
Pests… 😩 It’s an ongoing battle. Thus far I have not lost the war!
Thank you again for the great clip.
Excellent presentation – thank you 👍👍
I think fighting pest are part of the whole experience! It's a new challenge and it keeps you interested in another angle of the plants. A don't love them but I feel so good when they don't kill my plants and are eradicated for that event. It part of the fun! 😋
Love your videos and explanations! Hello from Mexico city.
Thanks for sharing this Jan it's a great list for people starting out. 100% my greatest mistake when I started my indoor plant journey was thinking that a bag of stuff marketed as indoor potting mix is the ideal medium to grow indoor plants in. It really is just a bag of disappointment with fungus gnats in it.
It's encouraging to see that someone like yourself who has amazing plants went through learning from mistakes. I'm seeing a huge difference from using your formula for a soil mixture. Thank you for taking time to make these videos and share your knowledge.
I remember that explanation of making sure your plant can "see the sky". It made a big impression on me as well, and I now use that advice while placing every plant in my apt.
Lots of love from india…
Wisdom as always. I've been doing things your way for a month now and I'm seeing results already. Keep your methods coming Jan. Thank you. 😊🙏
please English Subtitle beacouse i watch from myanmar i cant understand everything you say
Good advice! I went from 2 plants to 60 + in a dark studio (Oregon) apt since lock downs. I even killed a Pothos. A fiddle leaf fig was a poor choice. 27 grow bulbs in various pendants and medusa lamps later😂…they are all happy including Fiddy. The abundance of grow bulbs also keeps unwanted visitors from staying very long..😂😊.😎
Overwatering and using generic potting mix was my first mistake! Fungus gnats galore! Clear pots, chunky mix, and fertilizing has been the biggest game changer. Now onto buying good quality grow lights and moss poles. Thank you for all the hard work you are putting into your videos. By far has been the most help for me!
Hi, amazing tips. Can you please share a video or link how to change store bought plant to home made aroid mix. ( wash off all soil / peat moss) wat to do if the roots are small or the plant is still in tissue culture plug ????
How soon after getting a plant do you repot it into your own potting mix? Or does it depend on root development like you mentioned in the video? Thanks!😊
Of all the great content in this video so far, I have an answer to your thripes inquiry 😆 The insect is called "Thripes". So you can have one Thripes (like that ever happens) or multiple Thripes. Now, back to the video, lol.
Question about not potting up too soon. I have a beautiful albo cutting that has a huge aireal root and its whole root system is coming off of it. I was terrified from day one about what you "just" said! That one aireal root snapping off and losing the whole root system. It's only a single node cutting. If I put her back in water you think she'll be able to grow more roots from that same node, or am I stuck? Thanks!
Question: I have notived that all of your large aroids are always in very small pots. Is there a reason for this or did you just chop them? I am curious because I too try my best to acheive large beautiful leaves. Yes, I am aware of the plats' likes and dislikes to being root bound but yours are always doing so well. Could you eplain? Thanks
Great video Jan. In your medium you use coco chips, can you tell me where you get these from and how do you buy them…ie in a compressed block or loosely. Thank you 🙏🙏
I thought I was using a chunky potting mix, but I've realized it's probably not chunky enough so I'm going to decrease the amount of coco coir and add coco chips or more bark.
Great video !!! I'm shore we're all guilty of most of these at some point. Mine is the rush to pot up once I see roots. If anything, plants teach us patience!! Thanks for all the vids!! Plant love from Nova Scotia Canada!! 💚
My mistake was not realizing how important fertilizing is! Keep a consistent schedule or you’ll run into yellowing leaves!
Wait, your Plowmanii matured that much and put out that HUGE leaf in the last three months? That's incredible!
Jan, your videos are so helpful and inspirational! You are a delight to watch and there's something very relaxing about your videos. I will be trying out my first ever moss pole with something similar to a grow vertical system later this week. I did a lot of research on the best pole but your plants speak for themselves and I was sold on a moss pole. When you're free- do please update us on the grow vertical system that you filled with coco chunks a few months ago. Would love to see the progress. All the best from India
HEY! Great content, awesome videos!
Question for you; I watched your Oxalis video and it left me with an obsession to obtain. Well yesterday I ascertained the extraordinarily rare specimen. I have two in 150cm pots. I want to keep them in a wide but short cylindrical planter for dining table centre piece. Can you advise on soil conditions/light/ federalising. How deep roots go etc??
Thank you!!!!
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Best plant channel on YOUTube. You’re a master at what you do.
By sharing so humbly, you become the expert.
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I may be wrong, but I thought root rot was primarily a fungal issue. This is important as the treatment for bacterial and fungal pathogens are different.
I have -5 wind, rain and snow… so i cant open my windows for more than a few minuttes
Hey Jan! I made my poles 90cm and 6cm diameter with loosely stuffed moss pole (high quality moss as well), but I find that I still need to water them every two days. I water them thoroughly like you do with the fiji bottle upside down. They are all in a chunky aroid mix and the water drains to the bottom of the pot after about 20 minutes from watering from the top of the pole. My plants are still juvenile so I get that the top is drying out way faster because the plant is at the bottom. But IDK how I can keep this up, watering every two days. For context I am in the NJ, USA area so we get cold dry winters and hot dry summers. All my plants that are on a pole sit directly behind a 6 liter humidifier. I need HELP! LOL
I would love to see what you could do with orchids in that chunky mix and with regular feedings. I have a lust for every plant and so therefore I have WAY too many to give them each the specialized care they need, but I admire your discipline immensely. You could put the orchids in the pot with the vines and it would give you a bit of bling there at the base.
How do you get rid of excess water from your freely draining mix? Do you have to empty the cachepots after watering or have you perfected how much water is just right?
Lightning is so important! I was killing a lot of air plants and wondering where I was going wrong, turns out air plants do like a lot of light
wow, I really love and appreciate you videos because you actually explain yourself extremely well!! Do you recommend to water Philos by immersion? I normally water all my plants that way
My biggest mistake by far… Not quarantining new plants. I have gone through the pest Olympics for my laziness 😭
I think a big reason the mistakes in potting medium can be attributed to is the misconception that roots grow primarily vertically. Many diagrams of plants/trees even display this myth, like the roots are a mirror image of the stem growing towards the sky. The reality is that in nature the vast majority of root systems are in the top 6" or so in the soil; they need oxygen and organic matter, neither of which exist in deeper layers. Even plants in prairies, the most densely speciated plant systems in the world, keep their roots near the surface. When roots get that "rootbound" look when they curl around the inside of the pot, they are most definitely just looking for oxygen (unless the pot is mostly roots, then it's definitely rootbount lol).
Wow you have many pricy plants sir ! I' m your new friend and i am also a plant lover ! Thats why i enjoy watching your video sir ..
I think one thing you should have mentioned is that you don't need to change everything about your care all at once because then you don't know what worked and what didn't. Experiment and see how it effects the plants over time. Also don't buy plants that you are not willing to lose the money from until you are more experienced.
Hello. I have a monstera deliciosa plant that has been planted for 7 days and it is somehow bored, does it need anything or does it need more time to get used to the soil?