Productive Plant Chores + EXCITING Updates 😆 Fun Repotting, Propagating + Rehabbing

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, my name's Claire and this is Yoli. I make videos all about houseplant care, sharing tips and tricks I've learnt over the years to help keep your plants happy and healthy and I haven't filmed a video in about two and a half weeks so this feels slightly weird but I've just got back from holiday and of course I have got lots of planty things to be getting on with so that is the plan today. I've also got some super exciting growth updates that I want to show you and some not so exciting things that have gone a little bit wrong as well. So yes, I hope you enjoy it, let's get into it. So something really, really exciting that's happened in the time that I've been away, my Hoya latifolia sarawak has suddenly kicked into action and started doing amazing, amazing things. She's obviously blooming here, not all of the little flowers have popped yet but she's putting a beautiful bloom and she's also giving me a new leaf and oh my goodness this makes me so excited because this Hoya is kind of my pride and joy plant. I absolutely adore it but it is the slowest plant in the world to grow. I've had it for I think about a year and a half now and it came with these three leaves and it's only given me one leaf in the time that I've owned it so every little bit of growth with this plant is honestly the most rewarding thing so that's making me super excited. It's also put out this really long tendril and as you can see there are some other leaves on there as well so I really hope this is the start of the plant starting to give me some lovely beautiful growth and fill out a little bit because she's been just quite upright and I don't know very, let's just say very statementy for a very long time but hasn't really given me much else in the growth department but obviously she's blooming down there and I don't know if I've ever seen a Hoya put out so many peduncles at one time. I don't know if you can see the top there but all of those are peduncles so she's going to have, I mean how many are there? There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven there and there's another little one just there so she's going to be blooming like crazy and although I love her blooms and I think she is such a beautiful plant when she does flower I'm kind of in two minds about whether or not to keep all of the peduncles I might chop them back I'd be really interested to know your thoughts on this actually if you've got any any input then please do comment it down below but I just really want to encourage the plant to kind of push lots of energy into foliage and not so much the flowers so that's kind of my thoughts at the moment but I'm not going to do any chopping on that today so yeah do let me know but something slightly annoying that I have noticed as well is she does have a few mealybugs around the top by the peduncles up here I'll probably have to put some clips in because it's not that easy to see on camera but that is the first thing that I'm going to be tackling it's it's not awful there's only a few but I know that if you don't tackle them quickly they spread so quickly and especially with hoyas and especially hoyas that are putting out new growth new growth can be affected by mealybugs really really badly so yeah that is what we're going to start with so as I say I can only see a couple of mealybugs at the moment but in my experience when there are just even a couple there's often more or there's just like little baby ones that you can often miss and the way that I treat mealybugs is just with isopropyl alcohol I'll link the stuff I get down below I just get it on amazon fill up a little pot of it and use a little paintbrush and you just literally paint the mealybugs and it kills them instantly I don't particularly like doing it but mealybugs as I say they spread so fast and they can bring down your plant very very quickly so yeah it's it's the most effective thing that I found that isn't too chemically because I'm really trying not to use chemicals I did have to use chemicals on my monster adubia before I went away because again mealybugs and I wasn't going to be around to monitor it but on the whole I don't like doing the chemical thing with my plants just because I like trying to keep things as natural as possible often towards the top of the leaf where the petiole meets the leaf as well just there that's where they tend to gather and as I say they do tend to affect the newer growth I think just because it's softer they do tend to affect the newer growth quite a lot so I'm gonna have to just really closely monitor this plant especially like the little diddy leaves that it's got coming out on this tendril ones like that often can be taken down by mealybugs very quickly so yeah I'm just gonna have to keep this plant as isolated as I possibly can potentially give it a shower down with some horticultural soap if things don't get better but I'm really hoping that that's just a one-off I am however gonna keep this out just because I have struggled with mealybugs a bit over the last few months and I'm not convinced that I won't find more as I go around so I think that will stay there for the time being and then yeah I need to figure out what to do with this really long tendril what I did before when it started tendrilling is I attached another another just kind of like bamboo cane stick to the top of this plant and I wound it around in an anticlockwise direction to try and get some growth going and it wasn't really working again Yoli's tail whacked some of the leaves off so I did eventually decide to just kind of take sections of the tendril and put them in my prop box they are rooting really nicely in there so I'm hoping at some point I might be able to pop them all up together and get a lovely full plant going but yeah that's that's just an update on this one and one that's making me really happy and really really excited and then another pretty exciting update is on my philodendron splendid that also gave me a new leaf in the time that I'm away this is its new leaf and look at how beautiful that is it hasn't completely finished hardening off yet so it's got that beautiful kind of readiness to the back of its leaf which I absolutely love and this is kind of this as you see the moss poles just wrapped in clean film this is what I tend to do when I'm not going to be around to monitor and hydrate my moss poles over a long period of time I was away for eight days and because I did do a chop and extend on this plant fairly recently literally all of its root system is currently in the moss pole there's barely anything in the soil so that's literally what's keeping it going so I'm just going to take the clean film off and hope this plant was actually here give it a bit of a check over it's amazing though how hydrated this method does keep the pole like I know I had Emma my friend Emma who's good growing on YouTube and my friend Lottie as well come in and just kind of do some plant maintenance when I was away which was very very nice for them but Emma did say she was like this moss pole was hydrated and she came in and she didn't come in for I think about six days so it is a very good method in theory if you didn't mind the look of it you could just keep your moss poles wrapped in clean film all the time it would actually be quite a good way of doing things I'm just going to keep this to one side and I'll use it the next time I need to keep a more full hydrated oh that's annoying the new leaf I've got slanted ceilings the new leaf has just hit the slanted ceiling and it's broken I don't think it's going to mean that I have to chop the whole of the top bit of that leaf but that's very annoying it's just so big now and but I can't see anything that really needs addressing with this plant I can't see any signs of mealybugs again I will be keeping a very careful eye on this one just because it's a foliage plant like this does not mean that they can't get mealybugs I had mealybugs on my bird of paradise a little while ago which I've never had before so I just yeah we'll be keeping everything under very close supervision but I'm super proud of this plant and super super super happy with how it's doing I'm just actually going to encourage some of the aerial roots that have grown out of the pole back into the moss just because obviously they won't be able to absorb any moisture otherwise they are so fragile I'd be very very delicate and gentle doing this this plant would actually probably long term do better on a thicker d-shaped moss pole just because it's so well rooted in here at the moment it's got such a big root system of aerial roots oh it's going to be a tricky thing to make that transfer but I think at some point soon I might have to do it and a plant that I was struggling with quite a bit up until recently was my anthurium magnificum and oh my goodness look at the size of the leaf she's just given me this one was starting to push up before I went away and I was so excited to watch it size up and I've come home to this and it's just making me unbelievably happy because all of the other foliage I've just had as I say just ongoing issues with and I haven't been able to put it down to pests I couldn't quite work out what was going on but I did change this one over to semi-hydro I know I'm banging on about pon and semi-hydro so much in my videos at the moment but honestly it is for a good reason because that's when she gave me this beautiful leaf and there's no sign of browning there's no discoloration there's obviously this little tear here and that is actually down to me I tried to help the leaf unfurl when it was very very small and I know I'm always saying don't do that and this is the reason why because as the leaf sizes up you will be able to see the damage and you do risk damaging the leaf it is obviously just an aesthetic thing but I'm a little bit annoyed about it and it should really teach me not to fiddle with leaves in the future I will try I will try but yeah I just wanted to give you an update on her because I'm so unbelievably proud of how well she's doing and the other thing that's literally burst into life in the time that I've been away is the growth on my euphorbias and I absolutely love it when these ones start giving you new growth because firstly they are so unbelievably quick but just look it's so adorable and all the little spikes are currently they haven't like hardened off they're so gentle and kind of squidgy and so yeah that's my big euphorbia apparensis and then my variegated euphorbia is doing the exact same thing how pretty is that and the little branchy bit she's got at the bottom there as well oh I just love it when these plants grow it makes me so happy and one more positive update before I get on to some not so good ones is that my little bear paw cactus is flowering and I haven't had this plant that long in the grand scheme of things I've had it since it was quite small but I think it's only been maybe like five or six months since I've had this plant and like because I haven't owned the plant previously I wasn't sure if they had to kind of be really big and mature to be able to flower and I saw these starting to come out again before I went away on holiday and I thought that I'd missed them I thought maybe by the time I got back the flowers would have died off and they just keep coming like there's more and more there's one ready to burst just there there's another one just here and it's absolutely adorable and this plant has actually really sized up in the time that I've been away as well I think because it is naturally quite a slow grower when I'm seeing it every single day I don't always notice growth in this plant that much but stepping away for a bit and then coming back to it it's really nice to see how well it's doing and yeah again I'm not sure what I should do in regards to the flowers if it does keep blooming for me should I chop them back to encourage more growth it is really really gorgeous though and I kind of don't want to so again let me know what you would do but yeah I'm so proud of this plant and getting into the nitty-gritty I've got things like this this propagation rail that is just not doing well at all as you can see there's lots of dying plants in here and one of my little maranta lemon limes there has completely died and I'm so sad about it and obviously they have all still got water in there but I think this is probably just down to the heat in the time that I've been away honestly it has been so warm and I've said it before but my flat just hoards heat I stepped off the plane from Spain the plane from Spain when I got off the plane from Spain it was hotter in the UK than it had been when I was away so I can only imagine how warm things got in here so yeah that's definitely on my list and needs to be addressed but there's a couple of things in my cabinet that I want to deal with first one of them is these are actually Ross's plants as you can see they're very pink and colorful but these have all been propagating in water and although they look really good and they're growing beautifully as you can see the water's gone very very sludgy I suspect there might be a little bit of rotting in there and I just feel like if I leave these for any longer they might not be savable so that is the first thing that I want to do and then the other thing my cabinet my oh everything's growing like crazy in here and my alacasia sinuata again is looking really healthy I adore this plant and I'm so happy with how it's doing but I did take it out just to have a look and see how it was doing last night and it looks black at the bottom and I know that when alacasia starts to rot it can go downhill so fast and I just want to make sure it hasn't spread to the corn and so yeah that is very high on my list of things to do so I'm gonna set up a little potting station and we can get on with it oh my goodness this is so heavy oh stay upright so starting with Ross's plants I'm just gonna get them out one by one and just have a look oh god there's so many so many roots in here I feel they formed a ball so separating them is going to be a little bit tricky I'm going to have to do it very gently I'm going to try and just get the tradescantia out first if I possibly can okay so this is the little tradescantia nanook nanook I never know how to say it cutting um and the roots look okay it has got a little bit of like a rotten leaf or something on it um but it hasn't got a huge root system but I think it should be ready to be potted because I'm going to do these in semi-hydro I think it should be ready to go into semi-hydro in my experience of doing like propagation in semi-hydro um and transferring cuttings to semi-hydro I found that you can transfer them a little bit sooner than you might do if you were transferring like a plant to a substrate such as soil just because I think because it is semi-hydro semi-hydroponics it does mean that the root system can just continue to develop and it isn't thrown into shock in the same way if you put it in something completely different if that makes sense does that make sense I feel like I know what I'm saying um but yeah I'm just going to keep my little plastic cups that's how I'm doing lots of my semi-hydro growing at the moment and to be honest like I know some people said don't use plastic but I so far have had no bad experience doing it that way and I've got so many plastic cups and containers that I hang on to so yeah I'm thinking that this should should do the trick I'm going to fill it to about there and pop the little cutting in it otherwise looks really healthy it hasn't grown that much in the time that we've had it this was um this was a Scotland plant swap plant and I I mean I'm not a massive Prada Scantra person on the whole anyway I've only got a couple in my collection but the ones that I've got are really quite fast growing I've got the Albo Vittata and the Variegated Flumensis and both of those grow so quick and I don't know if it's because this one's I don't know like any of you that are more experienced with the Namook do let me know your growing experience does it just take a little while for it to get going but yeah I'll just fill a little reservoir of water like that in a minute and then hopefully that plant should continue to grow beautifully I'm actually looking at the roots so this is there's two plants here this is a Begonia Maori Haze and this is a I'd never actually heard of this plant before but it's an Erestine Herbstii I think that's how you pronounce it and both of their roots are very very very intertwined and I think what's causing the rottiness that I can see in the water is the Begonia has dropped some leaves and that's what you can see the black bits there so I'm just gonna take the rotty bits off and do my best to separate them there's actually two Begonia Maori Hazes in here and a lovely woman called Lydia gave me and Ross them at the plant spot and she gave one to me and one to Ross and I was thinking about putting them up as separate plants but I'm thinking I might pop them together and part of the reason being that Ross is actually moving in quite soon he's gonna he's gonna move in here and we're gonna live together in the one bedroom flats with a big dog and 300 plants it's gonna be very interesting but I feel like I feel like it can be one plant that we both appreciate it's probably more his kind of plant than mine in general if anything but I just think it's beautiful like it's not overly colourful it's more kind of like a slight tinge of purple with lots of silver and I do think it's stunning it's so fragile okay I've got them apart and it looks okay but there are sections of root that look a little bit sludgy on this one so I think I'm going to grab my scissors and I'm going to do a little bit of root pruning because I don't want it to start rotting and then bring down the whole plant so yeah I'm going to give them a little trim back and then I'm thinking I might also just give them a bit of a wash off so that if there's any kind of rotty residue or anything like that then it can be gotten rid of before yeah that's looking much better although the root system isn't as big I think that stands a much better chance now I think I might actually do that with all of the sections just give them a bit of a cleanup and yeah this one's looking very sludgy although it is still looking very perky it's lost a couple of leaves when I was taking it out of water but it's looking pretty good I don't know how much of this is actually root rot and how much of this is just it hanging on to what was in the water before this is weird actually looking at the roots when they're in the water I'll see if I can bring this a little bit closer and try and show you they look really healthy when they're in the water and then they just look a little bit dark when you take them out so I think considering the plant looks healthy I think I'm gonna risk it and just go ahead and pot it up as is without taking too much off it obviously like with all of these I will be monitoring them super closely and if anything does go a bit wrong in the next few days few weeks then I can rethink and this plant it's kind of like I've said it before but it's kind of like the alternanthera party time it seems to root like that in water I actually thought it was a type alternanthera when I first saw the plant but yeah I popped it in water and literally within a couple of days it had roots which is just crazy so yeah let's let's pop them up I was saying over on my Patreon yesterday I am like me and Ross are getting very creative with like space saving ideas and things that we're going to do to try and optimize room in the flats because when he moves in he's he's also starting a new job that means that he's going to be working from home as well so we're like obviously although my flat is a like an amazing size for me and Yoli it is quite a small space when you think about two people working from home full time especially doing what I do and kind of creating chaos everywhere I go so we've got some really exciting ideas and I will I'm going to be doing kind of like behind the scenes stuff over on Patreon but when it's done I'll definitely be sharing it over here because yeah I don't want to say too much because it's very early days at the moment it's just kind of a thought um but it could be really really cool what we're thinking of so yeah as I say I'm super excited to document that and kind of take you through that it will also involve creating some brand new like plant spaces as well I'm going to actually be able to have a little bit more space to do planty stuff uh if it works but yeah I will oh no I just broke up a leaf I will keep you updated uh okay um that was actually the original leaf that this plant came with so that's a shame um also what am I doing I feel like I'm not quite back in my flow of things I've just started doing something to that plant when I haven't finished potting up this one I haven't started potting up this one um I think I'm gonna do this one I've got an old little uh spice jar of chilies here and I've just taken the label off it and I tend to use that a lot for like little ones um these are really practical containers and I honestly never throw them away so yeah they they make great little jars for growing in fact I'm gonna put a little bit less in so I can try and get a few more nodes towards the bottom in to semi-hydrate that looks about right it's looking a little bit wonky at the moment but I think once it gets going and once it hydrates it should hopefully straighten itself out I think I'm going to keep all of these three that I've just done in my cabinet still for the time being while they adjust I don't want to change up their environment too much while they're also obviously going through a lot of other changes I've just given their roots quite a significant prune back and hopefully that will mean that they'll adjust quite quickly and then I can think about bringing them out of the cabinet if I want to um but the one that I'm clearly eager to get onto my Allocasia sinuata as you can see I've already shown you but the bottom looks really black and it is giving me lots of lots of kind of new growth coming up there so I think the plant's definitely going to be savable but I oh that is rotten that just fell away all the roots you can see in there just literally fell away okay okay we need to just firstly see how far and how much roots I'm going to need to take off with Allocasia as I say the roots rotting is one thing and usually the plant is savable if the roots are rotting but if the bulb starts to rot and goes squidgy then there's really nothing you can do to save it I've tried so many things so many times when that starts to happen and it's pretty impossible so as I say luckily this one does feel very firm and full it's just the roots that are in a bit of a state and again obviously this isn't semi-hydro this typically doesn't happen as often with plants and semi-hydro it tends to be much more an organic substrate thing but like I said about the props through on my propagation rail in my bedroom I think it's probably just because it has been so hot this room I mean currently it's sweltering in here but this room gets to kind of like 30 32 degrees and there's been times when my cabinets have got up to like 40 degrees celsius and obviously I haven't been around to like open doors open windows open my cabinet doors and this one lives right at the top of my cabinet so I think it's probably just been sitting in very warm water and obviously warmer water encourages bacteria to grow and does not help with things like rot but yeah the good thing is the bad roots have pulled away very easily and it has still got some healthy roots on that so I think just transferring this to a different container and changing out its substrate and probably just actually giving these roots a wash should be fine because yes you can see it has still got some very healthy ones and it had a I assume a little corn at the bottom and that has started to rot like that is oh I just squished it it's so squishy so I've just removed that but everything else looks good which is good because I love this plant and again I'm just going to give it a little rinse off get it into a new container with some fresh semi-hydro think I'm going to put it in this little coffee cup I know it doesn't have much of a root system now to fill that at the moment but considering how quickly its roots spread when I put it into the last cup I think this should do the trick and again like I said with soil obviously with soil you have to be quite careful about pot sizing up too quickly but with semi-hydro so long as you're monitoring it because you are just creating a reservoir it doesn't tend to overwhelm the roots so yeah feels like the right decision cool right let's fill the reservoirs I just walked past my big Alocasia portadora and got majorly distracted and started checking that plant and it's got spider mites again honestly that plant is like I've never known a plant that is such a magnet for spider mites and it is next to quite a lot of my other plants that are also slightly susceptible to spider mites so I'm going to have to give all of those a check over but I think I'm probably going to have to get my Alocasia portadora in the shower and I mean I know I keep saying as well like I am using the predatory mite sachets and they are very very good I haven't had massive pest issues with any of my plants in quite a long time since I've started using them but some plants that are just very very susceptible can still if you're not around to monitor them can still like it doesn't completely eradicate pests is what I'm saying but I don't think anything really does but I'm kind of tempted I don't want but I'm kind of tempted to go in with chemicals on my portadora just because this is such an ongoing issue and it's something that I just haven't been able to get to the bottom of yet so if any of you have got this plant and you don't have these issues let me know what you're doing right because it is just ridiculously ongoing and yeah cool all of those are watered I'm gonna put them back in my cabinets and then hopefully they will continue to do well this is the one that I'm the most worried about but I'll let you know this one has previously been on the top shelf and I'm not sure if it's gonna fit up there anymore there's quite a lot of weight on that shelf I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing here okay it seems stable I'm gonna trust that it is so yeah this is my allocation portadora and you can see all there that's all spider mites and spider mite damage so let's get this plant into the shower shall we just thinking about it I don't want to go in with chemicals just yet I'd really like to avoid it if possible also you're right by the extractor fan sorry if this is a little bit loud but I'm just going to go with horticultural soap for the time being monitor this plant for a couple of weeks keep it isolated and if I'm still having issues then then I will consider chemicals but for now this is how I'm going to do it and I completely forgot to mention this when I was in my cabinet a minute ago but another very exciting update in there is that my anthurium regal leaf has finally sized up and hardened off and oh my goodness it's the most beautiful leaf she's given me since I've had this plant because I have struggled with this plant so much and although although the leaf looks fairly healthy on the whole it does have some damage on it and I've given it such a thorough pest check and I can't see anything and Emma reckons that maybe it could be flat mite related I've literally got it right under a bright light I looked really closely I can't see anything but I think I'm probably going to need to get a little microscope and just give it a proper check over because I don't want anything to happen with this plant and if it is flat mite related it could potentially explain some of the other issues that have been going on with it as well it has done amazingly since I've got it into semi-hydro it's got oh my goodness the most insane root system now just look at that and I know actually I probably need to pot it in a taller pot so that these roots up here can get a little bit more hydration but yeah I think the first port of call probably to check it for flat mites and since it's been in the cabinet for such a checking out my whole cabinet although everything else looks pretty good but yeah that's that's something that I need to do at some point also I've just noticed my Hoya Wilbur Graves is giving me a new leaf and it's really pinky it's obviously got quite sun stressed under the light oh this light is not doing it justice I'll put a clip in but it looks so pretty aside from that cabinet wise though I mean everything on the whole is doing pretty well like it's just exploding with growth I feel like it looks much fuller than it did when I went away and that's because everything has grown so dramatically my Philodendron Fuzzy Patiole in here is giving me new growth which is really exciting also my Philodendron El Choco Red that was the first leaf it gave me that it pushed out in my care and obviously it's a little bit I mean it looks it looks okay but it just doesn't look as lovely and kind of glossy as the other ones had but it is also yeah you're giving me look at that it's so pretty so yeah I'm really excited with everything going on in here at the moment and a good update as well is that my Begonia that I was a little bit worried about that I transferred into semi-hydro from a pop box before I went away it was looking like it was dying when I left and it has bounced back and it's looking lovely and conditioned it's putting out lots of lovely growth so yeah that's making me very very happy indeed in my bedroom cabinet as well something that I have been putting off doing for such a long time and I'm just gonna get it done is chopping up and propagating the runner my oh no oh Claire on my Imidium Silver because it's ridiculous I've been saying it for such a long time and now I think it's the time to just get it done I thought as well as my Imidium Silver runner I would just give you a couple of prop box updates because I've just noticed a couple of exciting things I haven't opened these up since I've been home and I'm not going to go through all of my prop box now I've left most in the bedroom but my little Alocasia corms these are Alocasia Green Shields and they've all rooted amazingly and this one's actually giving me a little leaf and I know I've had loads of questions before about how I propagate Alocasia corms and I do it in a few different ways to be honest this is what Emma refers to as the shallow water method and it is exactly that it's just putting the corms into I'm using a humus tub and just putting like a milliliter of water on the bottom leaving it somewhere bright somewhere warm and then they should start to root and sprout and that's what all of these ones have done but if you look at this actually this is a pond prop box that I started a while ago and I'd never made a pond propagation box before I didn't know work and everything in his rooted really really nicely and but I did put some Alocasia corms in this as well and I might need to put in some clips I'm not quite sure if you'll be able to tell they're just at the back there and their roots have spread amazingly as some of them are starting to give me leaves as well and I did this at the same time as the shallow water method one and these ones have actually done better quicker so I think if I was to just suggest one way I would probably say go in with a semi-hydro prop box and do it like this and I won't take you through everything in the propagation boxes now because we've been here for a very long time but everything looks really good so I'm really happy about that um but the ones that I wanted to give you kind of like a bigger update on I guess uh this one maybe isn't that exciting to you but it's very exciting to me uh my philodendron micans in my bedroom has just been not in a good way for a very long time partly down to neglect on my part I don't know why it's in a corner where I just kind of forget about it a bit so I had lost lots of leaves and it was getting very runnery so I decided to take some cuttings I think about four days before I went away so this is probably about three weeks worth of growth maybe four weeks worth of growth but I put some wet sticks into this propagation box and just look at them these are at the stage now and they've got really good roots on the bottom as well these are at the stage now where I'd be able to pop them up again and create a brand new plant so it happens so quickly and again I do put this down to the heat because it's been so warm and the thing that I really love as well is obviously the micans tends to be very kind of dark and velvety in its foliage when it's new they're so bright and green and so pretty oh hello Yoni hello baby girl Yoni's wanting to go out so I uh think that should be the next thing on the cards after this um but the last propagation box update is my philodendron white princess and all of the sections that I took of this plant have rooted and are putting out new growth which is great um but in this prop box just look how beautiful that is it's a complete ghost section and I know that obviously that isn't sustainable growth it doesn't contain any chlorophyll I just gave her a treat and I think she thinks that's lovely um but for the time that it is like this I just think it's stunning I so wish it was sustainable um but yeah I think probably I'll have to kind of take a proper look at the root system in all of the substrates that I've got it in but maybe within the next week or two I might pop them all up I'm trying to work out whether or not I want to do several plants or I want to create a massive plant Yoni's now having a drink um but I kind of think I might create a massive plant so yeah again let me know what you would do but I've got I think about eight or nine sections of white princess and I just think a massive full plant would look amazing so yeah very excited about that um and yeah the two things that I want to do now are the imidium silver which honestly these runners are ridiculous and I don't even know how well they'll prop because some of them are quite thin and spindly but I'm going to give it a go so I'm going to do that and I'm also just going to pot up these little alacasia corns just because I'd like to get them going a little bit um but I don't know where the lid for this tupperware box is this is what I usually use to make prop boxes so I will find that later or I will just use cling film and create a lid that way maybe I'm just gonna fill the box with sphagnum moss it feels so nice to be doing planty things again honestly like I was I was obviously missing Yoli when I was away but I was also just thinking about my plants so much and wondering what I was going to come back to and it just makes you realize like when you take a bit of a step away from it for a while for me anyway a lot of the time it just makes me realize how much I love it like it just becomes so much a part of daily life when there's always so much to be done and watering and this and that but like I don't know I just love plant care more than anything in the world I really really really do and I don't know if doing this with the imidiums I don't know if this is gonna I don't know I might get some leaves from what I've heard like I've chatted to some of you guys about it and so many of you have said that you've had the exact same issue with the runners and I know you can get out on a moss pole but even then I've seen people say that they're still very very runnery uh so now I'm asking you for all the help but again if you've got any tips let me know this is a plant that I've never really been able to strike a good balance with and the leaves that it's got I love and I think they're beautiful and if it could just be like that always I'd be so happy but it just hasn't worked that way for me this thinner bit here I'm not sure how well that prop get I don't know if you can really gauge on camera but it's so thin I have tried propping this before and it just rotted so I might maybe put that to one side maybe create a separate prop box for that and just do the thicker sections in this hope that gives me a good chance also I realize I didn't explain what I'm if you look at the runner here you can see there's bumps running along it and those are the nodes those are the points where new growth comes from and where it will root from some of them do actually have little aerial roots already and so what I'm doing I'm just separating those sections and then I'll encourage the little aerial roots down into the moss and if anything's going to happen that's going to be the way that it'll happen yeah look at that I think this is just because it's rooting so well because it's been in a really high humidity environment like my bedroom cabinet I don't actually have any fans running in my bedroom cabinet anymore I know I mean I know supposedly you're meant to create very good circulation for your plants and yes I think that is the case but if you think about propagation boxes they don't have any circulation and although they can rot you don't typically struggle with like mildew and mold in there so yeah I've stopped running fans in that cabinet and it's working just fine for me so yeah obviously this is going to be quite a packed prop box but oh I'm just laying them down and encouraging the little roots into the moss and then I can just keep the moss hydrated either with a lid or as and I do hope that soon they might start to give me some growth and then maybe I can put them all up together and get a lovely full plant I don't know I don't know what my plan is for this plant at the moment but we'll see and then with the alacasia corms I'm just going to get one out if I can oh they're literally all attached together their roots are crazy instead of putting them up right in a pot I might actually just use this for the time being as a little pot because there's one two three four five there's six bulbs here six corms and they are going to grow very very quickly and they probably will need to be divided fairly soon like within the next few months but for now if I just pop them like that I think that should be okay and then I can just monitor them and again I have spoken so much about the success I've had with alacasia in pond so I am going in with this isn't actually pond this is the soil ninja equivalent which is pretty much the same thing but it doesn't contain fertilizer um so yeah I'm gonna do them in this and I mean to be honest I probably don't need to untangle them that much but I just want to make sure they're all in there in the right direction whoa look at these roots I'm guessing them to actually sit up right it's quite difficult because some of the roots because this one's obviously like been lying on its side some of the roots are coming off at weird angles so if I have to cover them in a little bit of pond that's not the end of the world it should be able to break through fairly easily I think it's just adorable look at it the green shield is probably one of my favorite allocations I think I know it's considered well in the UK anyway much more common nowadays but I just love it and in theory because obviously they haven't grown that tall yet I can acclimate them quite slowly I can keep the lid on until they start to reach there and then I can start taking the lid off and on the note of alacasia it wouldn't feel right to end this video without giving you an update on my favorite plant my variegated alacasia frydeck which is doing so well this is the one that I was really really worried about when I was away because I know it can be very sensitive I just managed to strike a balance that works for this plant like it gave me so much grief for such a long time but it's putting out beautiful growth I've started rotating it a little bit more to try and get its growth a bit fuller and this leaf that it was pushing out when I first came home was going that way and now now it's going this way so yeah I'm just loving this plant and it has got another little oh I can where can you see it's got two plants in there now it's had a little corn pop up and so in theory I could divide it I think my focus for the time being is just getting it as lovely and full and big as I possibly can and then I will think about potentially dividing it and making two separate plants but it is my pride and joy I'm so proud of this plant I love it I just love it and I'm so happy that I finally found stuff that is working for it so so yeah I am I've got I've got loads of other plant things that I need to get on top of honestly like well there's another situation with me bugs through my bedroom but that's going to be a much bigger job because it's on my massive hearty philodendron I've got just an endless list of things to do at the moment so expect lots more plant videos plant videos plant chore repotting dealing with monstera videos uh in the next in the next few weeks because I've got a lot to do um but yeah I really hope you enjoyed this video and as always if you were doing plant stuff along with it I hope you managed to get lots done if you did enjoy this video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel have a lovely day and I will see you in the next video hey sexy pot lovers