Transferring Plants Into SEMI-HYDRO 🌱 Repot, Chat + Q&A With @goodgrowing

really quickly just smell those roots they smell so good I was about to do your inro then oh let me grab me coffee got me tea here too Chin Chin Chin Chin Chin Cheers Cheers Cheers right so what are we doing today Emma well Claire we're probably putting lots of things in semih Hydra we are indeed we've got some some new plants that you haven't seen yet in her collection you might have seen them in mine oh yeah actually yes you might have done Emma has brought me some plants very kindly from her collection today uh and then we've just got a couple of like little reaby things to do that is quite exciting we're going to chat a little bit about semih Hydro answer some questions that you sent in and that is about it but first if you're new here hi my name is Claire and this is Yolie I make videos all about house plant care sharing tips and tricks I've learned over the years to help keep your plants happy and healthy and yeah that is the plan for today's video so grab a beverage B beverage you know or some repotting for yourself yeah join us we hope you enjoy it let's get into [Music] [Music] it right so shall I I'm going to show a couple of the plants oh one you can actually see that I've just got from Emma and this is one that you've you've had in your collection for how long um probably like six or eight months I've had it for a while not too it came big but it has grown in I think at least three or four leaves since I got it it's beautiful um and I just don't love it anymore so I thought Claire could love it it is gorgeous it's an antherium doraki and um yeah I admired this one last time I was at your house on your bedside table is it um and I just think it's the most beautiful antherium I I think it's really beautiful too and I really like it I just I don't care about it enough for me to care about it that sounds really bad no it doesn't at all I think that makes perfect sounds like you've got plants and you're like I like them but they're not like I would just rather be somewhere that like with someone who really really wants to take care of it instead of just slowly dying and it's not dying at all but I know it's one that a lot of people hybridize like I I'm pretty sure my not very happy looking silver blush in there I'm pretty sure that's a doraki hybrids I think I've had a doraki silver blush hybrid is that did I is that one from me lost track quite possibly I feel like I give Claire so many plans at this point it could be it could well and would have had it for a while it's just it's changed forms and just there and there it as I say oh you it doesn't look good at the moment um but yeah this one Em's been growing completely in Moss at the moment and so we're going to get this one into semih Hydro I've had quite a lot of luck with antherium and semih hydro recently um we was going to say you're the one that got me into semih Hydro really and as responsible for all this I was banging on about it for years and then like CL was just like oh I don't know well I tried it at first and I just didn't get on with it and when we say semih Hydro we mean um the Lusa Pon either Lusa itself or Lusa equivalent that's what I soil ninja does one um which I think this is the soil ninjas fine semih Hydro it comes in two thick thicknesses um some are big rocks some are little rocks got their Co stuff as well and I do really like it yeah um course would actually be really good for that one if you fy pulling it out I I put all of my antheriums because they've got thicker chunkier Roots see in the co stuff because they like to have more air gaps yeah you're totally right I don't think I've got any more Co stuff but I have got um some leer that we can mix in with absolutely um so that will just lers just clay Pebbles and it would just help to where increase the airation a little bit things like this one where the roots are so fine um this is another one that I brought but but for Ross um because I know this isn't Claire's cup of tea but the roots are so fine on this is a purple passion plant they don't need as much um space between yeah and so the smaller stuff is actually better for things like this and I feel like alasas moras things with the finer tinier Roots yeah absolutely yeah also sorry there's like um sulfur spots on all of these um yeah like what it said the sulur treatment just like get up to do this what the Sul treatment you've done on all of your plants I'm sure a lot of you have watched them as Journey with the sua treatment but yeah so basically um it's a treatment that I found when doing research about flat mites because I started finding flat m in my collection specifically they were mostly on Hoya but one of my ethereums my warum had them on it as well and that was inside of my Ikea cabinet my Mill SPO so I was like well probably everything in here has them yeah and so when I was looking up treatments I I stum upon the sulfur treatment because the other option is like dipping them in in like hot water for a long time and so many people said their Hils wer melting when that happened I haven't even heard of that I did a whole bunch of research ages ago yeah it's really well rooted that one it's amazingly rooted um and so I've been doing sulfur treatments and from from the package of the sulfur thing it's also used to treat spidermites and thrips on some plants so I was like well if it does all of them well I was going to say is it kind of like di I don't know it's technically sulfur fungicide um um so like it prevents funguses growing on your plants but it also kills pests and I know I know it's probably not the best thing out there and I'm sure it would probably kill predatory mites if you were using them but I've taken a pause on predatory mites I paused my subscription to those purely to be treating my entire collection I that's so interesting I'm really intrigued to know how you get on with it I know it's been still new yeah but I mean like trial and error like it's something I've I've never tried doing that so I've been very interested to know how you get on yeah I mean I'm I'm I will be sharing it once I once I feel like I know whether or not it works yes I'll talk about that but for right now I'm just I'm going through it and treating every single one of my plants I should also say what I'm doing is I'm adding this one that was Ross's purple passion to my purple passion and we're going to put the both in semih Hydro because full one so finicky so finicky these ones oh my goodness they also just like anytime they don't have water for a second they are dramatic as anything aren't they they are like oh my goodness and they throw a tantrum and then they flop over they got to die I feel like that's the my main reason for putting things in semih Hydro is when plants are super duper sensitive like that I'm I can't be bothered and you know about it immediately and all you need to do is fill the reservoir also really quickly just smell those roots they smell so good they like very healthy oh my God that just smells amazing they kind of smell like a forest in a good way yeah yeah like when you go outside like on the walk we went yeah oh my good soor Emma took me on a run today I don't typically run but we R yeah no I know you've got really into fitness I'm so proud of you but I'm I'm not particularly a runner uh we ran 2K yeah 2 km yay and most of that was like a general incline as well because we were going up a track that was quite uphill so I think that is pretty freaking amazing for like a first run yeah we just so we discovered a really nice new walk at the end of it as well we ended up we were out for a while yeah so we ran we ran for probably about 15 minutes yes cuz if we were running 7 Minute kilm um and we did 2 km that's about 15 minutes um and then we walked for quite a long time after that yeah like another 30 45 minutes yeah needless to say Yoli is absolutely white I can turn the camera cuz she looks adorable excuse all the mess don't know if she's in shot there I'm assuming she probably is but bless her heart she is knacked now oh I've done it badly haven't I there we go there we go yeah yeah that looks good um any I need to wash these roots now that was like really fast to get the soil off so I was going to say in terms of semih hydro transfer so what we're both doing cuz both of these are currently being grown in organic matter so this one's obviously been in moth that one's being in a soil mix and when you are transferring things into in our case Pond or the Lisa Pond which is a nonorganic substrate it's rocks yeah it's really important to try you don't have to get all of it off but try and get as much of the previous organic matter Off The Roots just because if you don't do that it can make them much more prone to rotting and obviously with lovely healthy Roots like these we do not want that to happen I feel like those roots are much less likely to end up rotting then these sort of spindly tiny little things these just could just disintegrate yeah know I don't think they will um and I I'd say keep it in a slightly drier like don't go hard on the reservoir too early with this one because it is quite common for them to completely change their root system I was going to say they do the I've noticed that like physically by looking at Roots sometimes they like my um alloces that I transferred over to pond their root systems have become so much more spindly and like they wrap around every single little bit of the pond whereas before in soil they weren't as full they didn't really spread as much yeah it's like it's a very different way of growing um and and like there's different there's benefits for each and so I think it it's good to experiment with both and I'm really glad you've had much more success with semih Hydro in in recent years months this year pretty much since I've lived here because I I changed up in my collection when I was when I first moved here cuz obviously environments were so different and that's when I've come back around to semih hydro and it's just been working so well for me and I know like a lot of you have said like it's like please can you walk us through the process can you answer all these questions on it and it really is very straightforward I feel like maybe there's I don't know maybe I'm not always the best to explaining it but I feel got a couple videos if people want I was Emma's got some videos on it I'll link Emma's videos on it down below as well but it is it is just a much more straightforward process and perhaps sometimes the internet would lead you to believe it's basically just the case of transferring clean healthy Roots if you've got any root issues then obviously look at those first before putting them into another substrate but putting things into a environment where they will essentially just be able to absorb moisture from what is absorbed by by the pond so you create a little Reservoir at the bottom of the pot um we'll show you as we go through it but it's very very easy to do and I don't know why I didn't get on with it when I first tried it I think maybe there's quite a lot maybe that I didn't do right I think maybe I just didn't get all the soil off I think maybe I didn't fill the reservoirs enough or I filled them too much it is a bit of a balance and that's why I typically recommend using self-watering pots see I never use self-watering pots I do a bit of both I if I can use a self watering pot I will because I find it's much easier typically in self-watering pots they've got some sort of Wick or the the semi Hydro material itself we're going to go into like the science of it um they're they're mostly volcanic rocks and one of the things about volcanic rocks is that they they're very porous they've got lots of air gaps in them and so that will Wick up and absorb the moisture so from the reservoir if any of the rocks are in it it'll start pulling that water up whether it's got a wick or not and slowly if you've got dry Pon and a little bit of puddle at the bottom it'll slowly draw that up yeah um throughout and give like give the roots a chance to take what they want while still giving them a good combination of air between the stones and so that's why it's a really good balance because it gives you the right ratio of air and oxygen that your roots do need to live that's why root rot causes rot because there's not enough oxygen um while still allowing them to take what water they want so that was very technical of me sorry no I think that that was a very very good explanation thank you you're welcome but no I mean as Emma just said like for that reason it is it's much harder for your plants to get root rots in this kind of environment because the Iration typically is like pomis lava rock they do the porous the porousness of them means that typically they're not the roots aren't going to be as compact they are going to be able to absorb oxgen better and they are going to be less likely to rot so for lots of plants that like being kind of consistently moist so alacia Calia but sometimes people struggle to find that balance between consistently moist and saturated and Soggy I find that hard in so I find it really really difficult those are typically plants that will do amazingly in pond because they can just draw out the water they need without having to be overwhelmed by it so um so yeah step one bear root your plants Emma's done a beautiful job of washing those roots as you can see pretty much all like 99% of the soil is gone there's only a tiny bit left it's okay to have a little bit in there you're never going to get them especially with roots this fine you're never going to get them 100% clean no and especially if you've had it in spagna Moss I was going to say after the I'm going to try and get as much off as I can but I'm not going to even bother washing these Roots just because washing them is not going to make moss come off anymore I don't think I'm just going to try really I feel like the Moss that's left here is just kind of clinging to the roots yeah well you use water to let let it cling less do you reckon I never tend to I wash everything do you yeah I mean I I'm a scaredy care I'm like I I'll just do it because then I know I've done it and then it'll be hopefully better okay well I feel like if I don't do it now I'm going to jinx myself I wouldn't usually but I'm going to do it your always say I'm going to you don't have to this is your video do what you want anything goes wrong now I'm going to kick myself and things have gone wrong with my plants quite recently so I'm going to list in pwn as well andium in pwn as well I know also what pot did you want me to put these in um yeah that's perfect and I'll put clay pebbles in the bottom yeah bottom in the bottom um because the holes in the bottom of the pot drainage holes are quite helpful and important more so in soil things than in semih Hydro but you don't want the pond falling out the holes no um in fact oh I don't know what they are um maybe for another PL I've got um i' and I said this in a video the other day but I've started hanging on to Old candle jars and stuff like that and melting them down and getting rid of the wax and those glass jars I know um I think it's un plant Parenthood she grows all of her plants in not all but a lot or lots of her plants in just like glass containers in semih hyro drainage basically yeah and I do that with plastic I mean similar to this like plastic cups and stuff like that but they actually look quite nice when you've got glass containers so I I recently um went to a cherry shop and found a jar specifically to take a plant that I had in a plastic cup in no drainage with semih hydro and put it in a glass with semih Hydro no drainage because I think it looks so much nicer than the plastic ones does doesn't it and it's probably better cuz I feel like keeping things in plastic longterm probs not a good idea yeah I know I mean I've never experienced any issues from that but they always say like don't drink from a water bottle that's I told you that yeah I know cuz I was drinking out the same water bottle for like six months and was like it was like an old smart water bottle like that wasn't meant to be a reusable water bottle reusable I had no idea um yeah thanks I just didn't want you to get like BPA poisoning or some something like that yeah I don't know anything about that I think I I I read about this or maybe I saw Tik Tok or something but it was about like water bottle culture cuz in the states there's a huge water bottle culture what does that mean like like a reusable water bottle culture oh yeah I mean I think that's a very good thing yeah and like in the UK it's not nearly as big but like if you didn't have a reusable water bottle in in the St like at my uni you were like frowned upon it was like really oh well I mean that's a that's really good that it's like that I mean but we also don't drink tap water so do you not in the states I didn't know that um a lot of it's not not not safe to drink but like really mineral in processed and stuff we see we got a lot of fluide though that's why our teeth are so good see um so those are the roots they are beautiful those are stunning Roots aren't they gorgeous um and as I say I wouldn't usually but I'm going to now I'm going to just give them also all of this Moss can absolutely be reused because it looks perfect and I'm going to just give these a little rinse off it'll be worth it I promise I'm sure it will thank you Emma you're welcome just forcing CLA into good habits slowly I feel like this one almost needs a top pot I don't know if I've got another Tower pot I mean it'll be fine I know what you mean that I mean it can it it can Trail I just feel like it's very yeah like I know what you mean yeah and especially with a semih hydro cuz the stuff's dry right now it's not very heavy so they're much more prone to or a steak either way those are your two options I have a steak right here well there you go um that's probably not the best thing in the world for going in semih Hydro but thanks so with this one it's got quite a few aerial rots coming out at the top just there um so I think I'm probably going to do is fill the pond to about there and then maybe wrap some spag Moss around the top there I mean I would you don't even need to wrap spag around I don't have to but look at them all I feel like it would benefit from well they they'll eventually grow down into the semih hydro yeah I mean I was um a few people I was test to at the plants spot were like you should absolutely plant them lower um oh yeah you could plant that all the way to there yeah maybe I will maybe instead of doing the spag and moss add- on just pot it lower I know I know you're scared about doing that now I did that with my antherium V quite recently and it all went very wrong very quickly and I'm a little bit nervous about that now um rightly so that is that is fair but I think that was special circumstances in which it was an import plan and like you you can't you don't have as much control over imported plans as you do ones that have been acclimated to this this world to this world to the UK World there we go Russ love that you know what he really will I think that looks cool I welcome Ross oh I got dirt in my tea so good for you proceeds to drink it immediately I'm trying to think sizewise that should be fine you could even use this again but if you want a clear I prefer I personally prefer using a clear pot when I'm using semi hydr like a mour to the roots it is better like that um as long as you washed it it would be fine also a benefit of using sem hydr that you're far less pring to soil pests such a stronger snap do you want me to go outside and do that maybe actually cuz I was going to say I don't know how well you can tell on camera but I got this beautiful everywhere oh my God Hoya yeah I'll show you the Hoya properly in a minute this is a hoya calam Manan um and it arrived the other day but it is absolutely infested with fungus knats I don't know if you can see them all flying around in the bag there uh but yeah so this is going to be a complete soil change and depending on the root system potentially a transfer to semih hydro as well there's loads there's so many I know I'm happy to go do outside ex if you don't mind then you're be my guest but i' really thanks Emma yeah it might not be up to your standards but I'm you can go do this outside and I'm going to wash your pot properly so in my opinion okay in my opinion so this is what the pot is looking like I feel like all of those bits of dirt around there you know you know how we washed the roots off I wouldn't usually do that anymore I'm you want to wash the pot off you don't want the organic matter in there oh I know I feel like this is the littlest thing okay go one then go one then this I'll empty this and you do that oh my god I've got an Clarin Arium that's been out here for you just I forgot about it it's got a little Lea at least it's growing it's got the teeniest tiniest amount of root so this is the tiny tiny root system that this Hoya is currently got uh me and Emma were just debating whether or not putting it in semih Hydra is actually going to be the best thing but I was just saying I've had quite a lot of luck propagating Hoya in semih hydrates so I'm just going to give these roots a wash off and then probably pot it with a very shallow Reservoir it's what my gut's saying I don't know if you'll be able to hear this over the water but look how much cleaner that is now so much better this is what I mean it needs to be clean it doesn't need to I just I I was saying to CLA that I I'm of the mindset where I'd rather do a small thing now in order to have not have problems later and you know what that is the way to be that is 100% the way to be and I I should be promoting that more on my channel I am just a bit of a lazy plant parent I am too but I'm La I'm lazy for future me yeah that's I need to be a bit more like you in that sense cuz I am not like that uh but yeah I you're more than welcome to put up if you would like what kind of pots do you want me to put in I was going to say now that it's like have a look at it it's so so pretty pretty yeah I really wanted um I actually went on so I got that on Etsy and I really wanted a Hoya cisil um I've wanted a cisil for ages and I found a seller that I had one for a price that I was happy with it looked in really good condition I ordered it and then I also came across the calam Manan when I was on there and I had to get it it's beautiful and I think that cutting was a little bit Rotty at it's just I don't know if it's Rotty or if it's just like the bark is peeling off the stem I think it probably is like I was able to peel off all of that bit at the bottom like I don't know it just makes me nervous yeah I know what you mean like this is the kind of stuff like where I would take um like cills or something off of any bit that I put underneath the semih hydro because you don't want the organic material there it is coming off a little bit I mean it is still rooting out these it doesn't feel rotten no so like the the core of it is not rotten it's just that the like bark of it has come off it's kind I would say I would say probably semih Hydro but a shallow Reservoir yeah and basically what mean when we say shallow Reservoir basically just so that if it's a plant that is quite prone to rotting then it won't be absorbing too much like if you feel the reservoir too high then sometimes that mean that it just is a little bit overwhelmed and more prone to rotting so how much I don't know how much you put in yours but if it's a PO like that yeah I was going to say to about there um like the bottom quarter or third of the plant um in the in into into water I try not to let it empty out completely I try it happens sometimes um and try not to do too much because I put a layer up to there of pure um I guess clay Pebbles and semih hydro um so technically none of the roots are down at that level cuz you don't want it you don't really want a lot of the roots at the beginning at least to be underneath the water level yeah once they choose themselves to grow down into it that's fine but until then it's it's yeah it's risk of rot isn't it yeah but yeah so this one will go in a little cash pot with water up to about there yeah also if you're in any doubt filling the reservoir less and then just filling more often um is probably the way forward I mean I've got some that I F them kind of my aloca portadora is in pure pwn and it granted it does need a pot upgrade its roots have spread so much but I water that one pretty much every single day um and it just thank you um just PS itself um oo I feel like this would do really well in an aoid Tower pot I don't know I got something like this you could go no drainage yeah but personally so she's holding up let me let me have it yeah she's holding up a little glass jar which you totally can go no drainage in there I think that would be a better vessel personally this one because I if it's got a bottleneck if you do ever want to um take it out typically with Hoya Ro systems they don't spread as much something like this would be better because when you're pulling it out it's not doesn't have any like it doesn't have a bottleneck to go through and also like you say using a slightly taller pot with this Hoya you can pot it a little bit deeper as well so cuz it can root all the way up the main stem but you also don't need to put any semih Hydro so I would put you could put semih Hydro to there I'm or up to there yeah it doesn't really matter um but having something taller gives you more options there and because the leaves are so tall you don't I mean you still will because it goes over the bottom but you you have to put it on some sort of shelf in order for it to you can't just put on the table cuz it'll crinkle could you possibly pass me some Pebbles please to line the bottom of my pot line that pot um and we did also ask you to send some questions I know we uh got around for that just yet um but let me just have a look and we can answer some of them as we pot as we pot as we [Music] pot whatever I don't know what they are okay someone says is it sinful to purposefully not water a plant because I don't like it anymore and want it gone sinful I wouldn't say it's sinful but I would say frowned upon um no I mean I I I it's definitely not sinful and like I think we could like we've all done it right yeah um no I would say perhaps consider in if it's a plant that yeah if it's a plant that isn't on the brink of death maybe find it a nice new home with someone else because chances are if you don't love the plant someone else is going to love it but no judgment at all because I've definitely yeah done that as well yeah that feels very much like the confessions I was going to say we filmed a video this morning over on Emma's channel of heal plug plug um but it was a lot of fun and there were some really funny ones that came in yeah that one is kind of along the lines of some of them very much so um I feel like that is quite common though among plant parents to definitely and like I mean God if that's the work like we're like oh goodness it's awful that we do this and we we don't take care of one plant or like a few plants like yeah but we do we look after Lots it's fine collection this big so I I was saying um on my video where I talked about all my plants I've killed um in the past year yeah um people were like I can't believe you killed so many and I'm like I'd say like if I killed 20 out of 200 that's not bad though that's not bad at all like that was that 10% and also when you're thinking about the fact that some of them are going to be plants that have like had a lot of acclimating to do plants that are cutting nothing is 100% successful all the time we all like we things happen things happen that looks so nice in this little thing it's beautiful doesn't it the what we say glass containers they look lovely and then can just fill the reservoir and monitor it very probably about up to there I've also got lots in um spice jars spice jars yeah spice jars are a winner for me I've got this little one here that's in course semi Hydro so this is yeah this is a good showing of the difference between the coarse and the fine soil ninja semih Hydro this is the fine this is the chorus yeah makes a difference yeah I personally would have put this one in there fine but it's not my plants that's not my problem what got you into the hobby of keeping plants um oh this is I not one specific thing I don't think the the satisfaction of keeping things alive yeah the feeling of being able to just switch off and do something relax ing it's a very meditative process yeah it is and I think I've said before in my videos for someone like myself that's not very good at sitting down and being still and meditating which seems to be actually quite a common thing in the plant Community from some of the people that I've met um it's often very nice to have a meditative activity that is still and relaxed without having to try to be still like I don't have to think about things that are going on in my life or in the world I can think about this task right now yeah um which I think is hugely beneficial for someone someone mentally like I am yeah no absolutely no it's a really it's so important to have things like that and yeah plant care is selfcare kind of in a weird way 100% someone says I overwatered My agena Silver Bay Silver Bay I repotted it but leaves are still turning yellow help check it again well I was going to say it sounds to me like even if you've overwatered it and you've repotted it you've 100% done the right thing repotting if the roots have started to rot sometimes you might need to sometimes you might need to do either a root prune like pruning back any areas that are rotting or you might need to do something like a hydrogen peroxide treatment just to kind of eradicate The Roots rot completely um because just because like as I say you've 100% done the right thing in reporting but sometimes if it's in the early stages of rotting you might not have seen the rot or might be progressing like in bits that wouldn't have been visible that's kind of what you said I just repeated that sorry no not all I think that's interrupted and then said the same thing uh no I thought I thought you put it very concisely much more concisely than I did that's also important so what I'll do is I'll put that in this pot here here that doesn't have drainage and I will create a little Reservoir at the bottom of that and I think this plant is going to look beautiful beautiful beautiful look at that oh that looks really nice in that part that's gorgeous thanks s you're welcome um I'm currently taking them off of another one oh this is another one you brought me isn't it yeah so the funny thing is Claire took this plant in for me originally I did it was one of my imports uh that came while I wasn't home so CL took it in for me it is a filad dendrin domesticum variegated um and I've just not I've never really been that in love with it I'm just not a big yellow variegation gal I'm not on the hole either to be honest guess I was going to say it's kind of creamy variegation and I love the lower leaves but it's the like it's kind of it's gone a bit i' I've not treated it very well this is and new shoot is very thin and in fact I said to you earlier and I'm almost tempted to say do it now is to chop it there thinking about it yeah because then you chop it just there this section can be propagated probably again I would say in spum Moss and then this section put into semih hydro and you could even cut those in half you can cut it between those two nodes and then have two oh it's not aboutou out and then yeah that bit can go into Hydro this little bit here which now doesn't have any roots to I'm just going to let that callous and then I will pop that into I would say probably spagnos that tends to be my go-to propping medium for aroids yeah if that wasn't a Top Cut I wouldn't say leave this to callus off as well this bit but because this bit's going to be over the top of any semih hydro and not actually in contact with any moisture I think that shouldn't be an issue at all I'm going to rinse the Roots though they got spag on them um and this plant here is looking a little bit sad so this is actually one of Rosses this is one that he won in the raffle at the Scotland and other plants swap um and it's actually a wishless plant of mine and I know I've I've I've not pounced on it yet but I'm looking at it now and it's not looking great it's a philad dundr mexicanum um and I'm not quite sure whether or not this is just a watering imbalance slash acclamation issue or if perhaps there's something a little bit more Sinister going on it might be root rot related I'm not entirely sure so I think the best thing is I I meant to do this last week actually and I ran out of time so I've left it a little bit longer than ideally I would have liked to but I'm just going to get it out and have a look at the roots and the good thing is is it has got amazing area Roots going all the way up the main stem so if I did needs to chop back its current main root system and I feel like I would be able to get the plant back quite easily does it smell roty doesn't smell roty that looks roty but it is roty but it is uh yeah this is rotten oh no yeah it's not awful but it's not great um so this is kind of probably fairly early stages of root rot um they're not like mushy and gross but as you can see the roots are really quite dark and I know they've got soil on them moment bit if I brush them off a little bit more you can see even then the roots are really quite dark are they mushy as well um they're not mushy but what they're doing is if you oh the sheads come off I don't know what that's called but that almost like like the little hair bit in the middle of the root is left exposed and you can like pull the outer bit of the root off um and that is not a sign of healthy Roots either so I think you're wondering about that one pot I feel like the roots are a little bit too high up to put in something this size got another little glass container can do got one I think I probably do I've been holding lots of containers recently so let's have a look um also sorry I'm making really terrible faces when I get up because my knee is still messed up oh no um and so I can't kneel on my right knee kneel I basically I fell over when I was running and I bruised my knee quite badly um not today no not today that's perfect yeah um and so I can't I I still can't kneel on my right knee and it's been like 2 weeks ouch yeah we were saying with talk about this last night and I said em was like I think you should probably go to the doctor that hasn't sorted itself out seene cuz it was a of a foly tip by the looks but yeah it wasn't pleasant and it was really embarrassing as well like people saw me people saw me I was running up some step and people saw me literally goof oh that's horrible and like I had my headphones in cuz I was listening to music and I don't think I heard anyone say like oh are you okay or anything and then I realized I was probably just lying there like looking like like an absolute idiot for one and also ignoring them completely when they were trying to help me I'm such a horrible oh God I was embarrassed more than anything else I mean it shouldn't be embarrassing it's something that everybody does from time to time but yeah like it's not it's not the worst thing in the world but I just felt like oh of course I've fallen over um Emma what would you do here cuz I think I chopped this plant up I need to feel the roots in though yeah I feel like I don't I I don't think any of them are they they look quite dry and I feel like if you then put them in soil and water it the correct amount they would rock see I think this is probably what's happened here I think this plant has been allowed to dry out for way too long and then it's been watered through and that's what's caused the root ROP chops seies and props I think it's a chop and prop job yeah cuz all of these smaller roots that they're just like coming away yeah Okie do cool this plant is being chopped up sorry Ross sorry Ross um it's either that or it's dying so I feel like this is probably a better choice yeah what's your favorite succulents SL cacti oh in fact I skipped a question we'll go back to that one in a minute what are your favorite succulents SL cacti in your collections I'm really obsessed with my variegated Euphoria it's also my favorite cacti in your or succulent in your collection it is a lovely one my my normal EOB is probably my favorite I also love the Bloomer Tiller that you gave me yes I'm so glad you loveed that one doing so well yeah you've cabined that one haven't you oh yeah my little Cactus cabinet I love that idea and yeah it's doing amazingly in your care cuz I was not paying that plant enough attention I mean I don't pay any attention either it's just in a bright area in actually semih Hydro I was going to say you've been growing some without the reservoir just walking them through normally you've been doing that for a while now haven't you nearly a year cuz we parted them up in December was that a whole year ago yeah so I started growing C and succulent a year ago now which is crazy isn't it that's why I rewarded myself with the Euphoria because I was like I deserve it I you do um but essentially what you can do instead of having a water reservoir like all of these plants will have um in like no drainage or in in that cash pot you would put them in the semih hydro with it with drainage holes not in something like a glass jar and every month or so I think I try and do it around like the first first of the month because then that's a good way for me to remember I will then water those through let them drain through or sit them in um a reservoir for like half an hour an hour let them soak up that's a really good idea and then take them out let them drain yeah then put them back away ni and it it's worked for the past year now so that's brilliant I was going to say I know some succulents are thirstier than others like cacti I feel like that's perfect for but I've got some succulents that are So Thirsty there there are some that would need that I think I have in my collection that would probably prefer getting watered more frequently yeah but at that point I I would cuz this is where I get lazy I'm like I'm going to do all of them at once whether they want it or not is it the best thing probably not but it's all chopped up it's okay the root yeah I say I think I've chopped back all the Arial Roots just because they were dry and a little bit Rotty um again I think I'm going to spagner Moss them uh but the question that I just accidentally skipped but I think is a really fun question is which plant would you steal from each other's collections I think I know which one I'd steal from yours I think there's a few what is it um your fat boy though your fat boy not a fat boy my U meloney my fat boy but not fat boy we'll put a picture on the screen because oh my God it's such a be yes it's a m Melone Melone I thought it was a um Marsh no uh I knew it was not a marsh but I thought maybe it was a Congo no it's not oh it's beautiful I believe it's a melon um I was sold it as a as a fat boy which is a Merm but it's not a maram this was like literally 2020 when I got it like Co times it's the nicest plant and I love it love it and I like it sounds really bad but I kind of like that not many people have it yeah I know it's kind of like you with your nesty eye I was going to say it's a cool thing like it doesn't have to be like a rare plant but it's just quite fun sometimes to have them be like no one else knows how cool this is yeah like I I have it and I love it and nobody else has it that I know it did start to Tiny put up or put out a tiny little baby the other day and I was thinking if that got big enough for me to cut it up I was going to give it to you but it hasn't I had to repot it and I think it got knocked off in the repot because like it was literally like this big on my plant is like this big oh my God I was going to say your plant is huge it takes up a lot of space that's the only thing yeah it is a space sucker space sucker space sucker oh you answer your question oh I'm sorry I'm so sorry I want your Splendid yeah I really I've got like a bunch of tiny little baby Splendid cuting where the leaves are all like this big and I'm like I want that one yeah no Freddy I do love so nice I I wish I wish it grew that big or your portadora I love your portora the that you gave me died I know it's that it quite quickly unfortunately yeah it's it's one that is just very susceptible to I mean alloc with the give it it was like a big chunk it wasn't it didn't have leave or anything it a rise like that big it was it was this was it yeah it was it was this big around than this big it wasn't your big one you have your big one but I gave a big one to Sarah as well I thought I gave no I I had I had a smaller one and but what I was going to say is there are lots of other questions that have come through but I feel like because we started answering them quite late in this video we haven't got through all of them um which means we're going to have to get together again soon to do another video we can do that cuz it's fun cuz we haven't filmed together in ages no it's been so long yeah it's been play and we've got through we've like whizzed through what would usually take me like an hour and a half to get through so it's it's fabulous I thought this would be like enough to keep us going but we've we've done it very good progress I mean I am I'm like bam bam I I just to get it done like you're so scarily official we were saying this as well before I was like with and I completely understand like washing the pots out and washing the roots is a good thing to do it is a good thing to but you're so Vigilant with your plant care in terms of of like the neat like I'm like I don't measure my Moss poles and like everything you do is just very I I wish I could be yeah but I wish I could be a bit more like that because I do think I'm just a little bit haphazard sometimes with my approaches there's pros and cons to all of it because when I can't be anal I like I said I'm mentally unwell no I'm fine don't worry I'm good I'm I'm all good I'm all good yeah yeah I'm all good um but yeah we uh we hope you enjoyed this video thank you for joining us and if you did enjoy it please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel have a lovely day and I will see you 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