Rehabbing, Pest-Treating + Pottering With Plants 🌿 Plant Chores and Chat

I was going to start this video with a nice aesthetic shot of making a cup of tea and then I saw the state of my kitchen and decided against it. For anyone who's interested this is my advent calendar tea and today I am on the joy. But I wasn't actually planning on filming this morning, I've just been kind of setting up to have a plant care morning to myself but I kind of fancied doing it with you guys so I thought I would just bring you along for more of probably more of a realistic morning of plant chores, what I kind of do on a weekly basis. So yeah that is what we are going to be doing today. But first if you're new here, hi my name's Claire and this is Yoli. 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 as usual this is probably going to be quite a long video because I've got a lot to get through this morning so if you've got plant stuff to do as well then feel free to do it along with me. Make a cup of tea, put some comfy clothes on and yes I hope you enjoy it. Let's get into it. So I thought I'd start with something that I've been putting off for a couple of weeks now and I don't really know why I've been putting it off, it's just something that needs to be done but you know when things just get a little bit niggly sometimes and the longer you leave them the harder it is to get started. That is how I feel about these plants. So I've got two very unhappy or I mean one more so than the other but not very happy looking pothos plants that have been through by Ross's office area and to be honest I think they've just both been really really neglected over the last couple of months in the time that Ross has been moving in and I think I think what I'm probably going to do I'm going to get them both out of their pots and have a look at the roots. This one's looking much perkier and healthier but it has lost quite a lot of leaves and this one's just looking very straggly and it needs a good prune back but I'm thinking I'm probably going to pop them up together and try and get kind of a bigger fuller healthier plant going. Oh and I have not wiped my potting mat down in quite a while it is very dirty that's going to be a job for later today because I can't be bothered to do it now. Also since Ross moved in we've acquired so many remote controls I honestly only know what one of them does. Where do they go? I don't know they don't have a home and it stresses me out. Okay right oh they're very tangled but this one is the slightly healthier looking one but as I say like look at that stretch there that's a whole bit of vine with no leaf at all and it's very unlikely that new leaves are going to stem from that point unless I give it a good chop back. So let's start with this one I think it's going to be easier to do than one at a time it's really hard to know where to start when there's this much vine but I think probably starting with just a chop back of that sparse area is probably going to be the best thing maybe start a little prop box so yeah got that big long one so I'm just going to put that to one side and I can decide what to do with that afterwards and then the other vine although there's a little patch that hasn't got any leaves I think I'm going to leave that I think I'm going to leave that as it is and then the rest of the plant looks okay. So I know with epipremnum for some strange reason they are the easiest plants in the world on the whole they're really laid back they can take a lot of neglect but sometimes I find that when you repot them and you mess with the roots a lot they they go downhill very quickly they can be quite sensitive to change oh in fact I'm just looking at the roots there's a lot of healthy roots here there's a lot of very full pale ones which is good but there's also some that are a bit smushy towards the bottom so saying about not messing with the roots too much I think I'm going to have to because I don't want yeah look at that that's literally just pulled away um I don't want there to be any rot that spreads further up the plant so I'm gonna just gently detangle them the best I can oh yeah there's some that definitely need a trim back like look at the end of that root there can you see oh that literally just pulled away but the good thing is the majority are actually looking okay this has been in this elho pot and although it's had a nursery pot inside it I don't think there so this is one of Ross's plants from his place I don't think this has been taken out to be watered so this could explain why why it's got a little bit of root rot I also said this in a video the other day but since Ross has moved in I've been really really bad at monitoring the plants in the kind of office bedroom area I think just because like I'm very I'm very good at like dealing with what's in front of me like it's rare it happens but it's rare that this room gets very neglected plant wise um I think because I'm in here all the time I kind of just potter around with my plants throughout the day I can kind of address things as and when I see them but I've always found to be honest I've always found that room a little bit harder to keep on top of and I was speaking to my friend Emma about this a while ago and she was saying that maybe this is before I did did like the room the room transformation and put the mezzanine in and everything she was saying that maybe it's because it's a bedroom it's more of a relaxed space maybe I feel like I don't want to be as productive in there and although I think there is absolutely some truth in that I think it's also just I don't go into that space often enough it's easier to turn away from the issues in there it's what I'm saying in this room I'm kind of faced with things if they're going wrong and I have to deal with them um whereas in there I just kind of play ignorant a lot of the time so yeah that's if anything got even worse since Ross has been here uh hence why these have waited such a long time to be dealt with and we did actually have a plant care evening in there together also I am that's all I'm going to do to those roots I'm just going to lightly detangle them I'm not going to worry about getting all the soil off I'm pretty happy with them on the whole I've got most of the rusty bits off so I'm gonna say that one is good to go and I'm gonna have a look at the the worst plant um but no as I say we had a plant care a plant care evening together through there the other day and it was really nice actually I um I brought my big yucca in from the balcony something that I've been saying I need to do for such a long time and oh my god my yucca has got so big this year I don't think I've really clocked her growth because because obviously she just kind of gets fuller and bushier and more pom-pom like it's not always as easy to kind of see growth as it is for example in a pothos plant where it's kind of constantly getting longer so I brought her back in and I was just like I honestly don't know where this plant's gonna go uh I still think that I might need to maybe keep it outside my front door of my flat I'm not sure how my neighbors are gonna feel about that but it just takes up so much room so our plant care evening started with trying to find a home for the yucca and then we just got a little bit carried away and ended up doing lots of watering which was really fun and definitely necessary but yeah this is the one that is looking not good at all and it's definitely going to be needing some pruning back it's got lots of yellowing leaves I've actually pulled quite a few yellow leaves off it already so it's not looking as bad as it was it was looking awful the other day um but I can see actually it's got like a dead section of vine just here so I'm just going to chop that back it's rare that you see this actually but you can see that vine has gone completely yellow so I'm not even going to try and chop and propagate that I'm just going to put that in the bin pile and then with a lot of these I think it's just going to be the case of kind of neatening up the ends because this one's got big gaps towards the ends of the vine and I think if I just give them a little bit of a trim back it should just encourage some more growth points to activate further up the vine yeah like that look that is just completely there yeah apart from that most of the foliage looks okay I can feel from the soil of this plant that it is very very very dehydrated so again let's have a look at the roots I have a feeling it might potentially be a little bit similar to the other one because again it's been one that's been hanging without drainage however these roots actually look fantastic this one's in a much better mix as you can see it's got some perlite and stuff mixed in with it whereas this one the first one was just kind of a very dense soil mix um so that probably helps to explain why this one hasn't been affected as badly um it's kind of hard to lift it up and show you because it's very crumbly but yeah look the roots on that look really really good so in terms of potting them together trying to think what size pot I'm gonna need let me have a look thinking maybe something like that I think that's probably like a 15 centimeter or something yeah I think that's gonna be loads of room perfect and that also leaves quite a bit of space as well so that when I've chopped and propagated the other cuttings that I chopped off the plants then I can essentially just pop them all back up together and get a lovely full plant going so that is the plan cool let's do it I've just got some of Soil Ninja's base mix here which will be absolutely fine for these ones sometimes I mix in other things like horticultural charcoal and bark and stuff but for a pothos plant I think this should be absolutely fine oh there was another little pot in the soil mix and I just put it into the big pot oh hello what are you doing oh hello darling hello darling I assume this is a present for me is it a pony it's a pony you got me a pony say hello Ross hello Ross that's the um the start of the Christmas shopping arriving I feel like this is probably the most organized I've ever been with Christmas shopping and I know I'm saying that in is it the first week of December it is it's the first week of December so yeah this is definitely the most organized I've ever been with Christmas shopping I usually leave it right until the last minute because the thought of it stresses me out and I don't know what's in that parcel I ordered some things the other night and I oh in fact I have a feeling I do know what it is um in fact I'm gonna come closer just in case you can hear um but I decided to put together a jigsaw puzzle with Ross's face all over it because there's a picture of me that he's got and it is the worst photo in the entire world and when I was getting back from holiday about six months ago he blew it up like massive and stood at the airport arrivals holding it um and we always joke that he can't take a bad picture so I've been compiling bad pictures of him that I've now made into a collage and put onto a jigsaw puzzle that I think has like 2000 pieces or something so I have a feeling that could be what it is but I can't remember exactly have you guys started your Christmas shopping yet if you're doing Christmas shopping things I think to be honest me and Ross are like Ross is probably one of the only people I'm doing presents with this year I'm not doing me and my mum haven't done presents for the last few years just no particular reason just it saves the hassle and it saves money and have any of you got big Christmas plans again I still am not quite sure what I'm doing and I feel like I should know by now because it's December uh but right okay that pothos plant is potted up and whoa it's looking so much better already uh it's obviously still not as full as it could be but I'm going to give it a good water through after I finish filming this and hopefully keeping on top of it now it will get back to health fairly quickly oh that's a bad place to put it isn't it Claire that's gonna fall right off the table though there we go um and then these sections here to be honest these little straggly bits down here they're I'm so bad at throwing things away plant wise but to be honest like that vine's starting to yellow I don't think I'm even going to try propagating these bits I think I'm literally going to just put them hmm in the bin because I've got I've got so many pothos cuttings already I've got a huge section here I'm going to propagate that bit as well don't need it I need to get better at this I need to get better at being a little bit not brutal but just not having to save every single of every single plant all the time because otherwise I end up with so much plant chaos of things that I can't keep on top of I can't look after properly and I've done that with pothos plants so much because they do propagate so easily and I'm always chopping them up so yeah those bits are for the bin and this section here I think I'm going to probably do a really long water propagation I think I'm going to just get that into a glass or something like that and it should root absolutely fine and then this bit I think I'm probably just going to chop into individual little wet sticks and I'll just put them into a propagation box and then in a couple of months time I'll be able to just pop the propagations straight back in with the main plants and yeah it should be a gorgeous full plant again so yeah that's all of the wet sticks that I've got I don't really need that many but I'm going to just whack them in a prop box and if I take some to the next plant swap it's not the end of the world and the other thing I could do as well if I wanted to make this plant a little bit fuller I was going to say quicker I don't actually know but would be quicker but what you can do is you can just kind of take one of the vines and wind it around the top of the soil and then pin it down into place because then all of the nodes will just activate and help to encourage some new growth points and in fact that's the bit that I could do it with quite well because I have got a sparse bit at the top of the vine so maybe I will do that so yeah this is typically easier to do when the soil is a little bit wet because obviously it's very dry at the moment I don't know how well it's going to stay in place but basically all you do is just take take the bit that doesn't have any foliage and just lay it onto the surface of the soil and then to help it stick what I like to do is take little crocodile clips like hair clips like that and just kind of bend them oh there we go not staying amazingly in place but yeah just use them to help to encourage it down into the soil and once that's had a really good water and the soil kind of holds its shape a little bit better that should just secure that vine in place a little bit more than it is at the moment and then all of those aerial roots be able to grow down and in theory new growth should then be able to spring from every single node here as well just helping the plant to fill out so yeah I'm gonna give it a water and then yeah the clips should stay held in the soil a little bit better there we go I will just leave it to drain and then hopefully I can get it hanging again also I went out for a walk with Yoli before filming this video and my hair got soaked and it's drying very strangely it's kind of curly but frizzy but not but oh no and then something that I've been meaning to do for a while it's just a little thing but it's fill up my monstera dubia moss pile with sphagnum moss because when I extended it fairly recently actually but when I extended it I basically just decided to leave a gap there because it didn't need moss at the top but this plant is growing like crazy I know I've given you a few updates on it recently but like that is its most recent leaf and it is coming out like an inch more by the day so I think in the next couple of days it will probably be unfurled and I did actually have fungus gnats living in the moss pole for a little while and I've been watering it through with nematodes and I've been using yellow sticky traps and I haven't seen any for a while so I am gonna just take this off but yeah as you can see there have been quite a lot of them so yeah I'll probably keep that to one side it does still have some stick on it in fact I might put it in my cabinet because I have got fungus gnats living in my cabinet at the moment but yeah then I'm just gonna fill the rest of this up with moss and I know some of you have asked about using moss poles with semi-hydro because I am growing my monstera dubia in a latus upon mix at the moment and so long as you don't fill your moss pole so that it's going down into the semi-hydro then I found it to be absolutely fine I typically just fill my moss pole to the point at the bottom where no moss is coming into contact with semi-hydro if that makes sense and that's worked really well for me I haven't had any issues any issues doing it that way so that's what I have found to work best and semi-hydro for this one is keeping this plant so happy I wasn't quite sure about it when I first made the transfer to be honest because I like I haven't grown monstera in a pure semi-hydro mix ever I don't think I've done it long term ever before and it was a little bit of a gamble but I was just loving latus upon at the time and I was like I'll give it a go and you know what it's kept the plant very happy so I'm glad I did it oh but this actually isn't done up at the back here so I'm gonna need to find some cable ties I'm not sure I've got more cable ties have I got found two and they will do for the time being but ideally I'd like them going all the way up so I'm gonna have to hop on amazon later and order some more or just get into the cupboard of chaos I'm sure I've got some in there somewhere and just give it a little water through and in fact the main stem of the plant as you can see is starting to go a little bit off that way so in a similar way to what I did with the pothos plant I'm just going to use a hairpin crocodile clip and I'm just going to encourage it to stay central on the moss pole just because it makes life easier and it looks nicer as well the metal grid is quite useful because you can just literally push it in and it will kind of hold it in place and then obviously once this starts to put out aerial roots and kind of grip onto the moss pole then I can take it away and I'll be able to just carry on doing it as the plant moves up I've also been meaning to put the cup back on top of my philodendron splendid moss pole for absolutely ages and I just haven't done it so I've been watering it manually which has been a little bit more effort than I'd like um I have spoken about this before but I basically just use like any any recycled plastic cup and I just make a teeny tiny hole in the bottom of it and then I can just fill it up with water as and when the pole needs hydrating and it will just work quite well that way and I am using distilled water purely for the fact that I can't be bothered to go and fill my watering can again and this is right here there we go so that should just slowly filter through and keep the pole nice and hydrated also look at this new leaf that she's about to give me it's just starting to emerge and it looks like it's going to be ginormous I'm so excited to see it and then the shingling section of my dubia here I absolutely love the shingling section but obviously it is still growing very very quickly I actually thought keeping it over here at this time of year it would slow down because this doesn't receive that much natural light but as you can see it is just growing off the plank and I've chopped it back how many times have I chopped it back since I took the big section off it two three this is the third third or fourth time chopping it back and obviously like the growth that it's giving me at the top is lovely like it's still fenestrating beautifully and I know that more and more the kind of large form dubia is being kind of I was gonna say wanted in the plant community so I think I'm just going to continue to chop and propagate and then I can either pop some back up with my big form and just get it bushier or I can potentially swap it for something else because yeah if you look at the back of this section the aerial roots just there are crazy once I've chopped it you'll probably be able to see a little bit better but yeah I'm just gonna do what I keep doing and just give it a chop that's what they're looking like so as you can see that is going to root really really well and that is the cutting which is really beautiful and what I found works best so monstera dubia propagation is something that I've kind of struggled a little bit with over the years because I think unless you start with aerial roots it can be quite difficult to get the cuttings going and what I found works really well doing it this way is if I let it grow off the plank when I see the aerial roots are getting to a point where they're wanting to kind of grip on and attach to something I'll give it a chop I'll leave it for kind of like half a day to just callous over just to avoid the risk of it rotting once it's calloused I'll put it into sphagnum moss to start with and then once I can see that the aerial roots have kind of started to take and maybe grown to like an inch or two then I transfer it to semi-hydro and that is how I've been doing it so far and all of them have rooted this way so that's what I'm going to continue to do because yeah that's a really beautiful cutting and whether or not I keep it for myself or I give it to someone else I feel like I feel like I can get it growing well so for now I'm just going to put it to one side and then probably either later this evening or tomorrow I'll put it up and I've just noticed that one of my philodendron jose bueno's leaves is starting to yellow and although that can be normal at this time of year typically with this plant that is not something that I've encountered before so I'm just going to give it a little check and make sure whoa it's crammed in it make sure that everything is okay with it oh my god so I have staked the plant now I haven't got it on a moss pole I have just staked it even though it has got really good aerial roots in fact the aerial roots have gone fairly crazy since the last time I properly looked at it so maybe maybe I should switch it out for a moss pole um but yeah I can see that leaf is obviously on its way out and I've got another little one here oh it's a little bit it's hard to tell if that's pest related it's a little bit mottled on the back of the leaf I'll bring it by the grow light actually so I can show you yeah so often bringing it up to the grow light you can just see a little bit better and I actually can't see any signs of pests but do you know what I mean like it might just partly be because it's yellowing but it doesn't the texture of the leaf doesn't look quite normal it almost looks like spider mite damage can't see any other signs of spider mites on here so I think I'm probably going to just check the rest of the plant so yeah I've taken this leaf off the plant obviously it's not bouncing back it's not doing the plant any favours I can't see any actual pests on this leaf at all so I'm just going to have a good check over the rest of the plant okay so it's not spider mites it's thrips I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see that well because they are very immature thrips they're still the very pale yellow ones but I can see a couple on the back of this leaf oh so I'm gonna have to give this plant a pest treat and it probably means I should definitely check all of the other plants in that area but my monstera deliciosa was right next to it my large fall monstera so I should probably give that a check over oh as well but yeah for now I'm gonna just mix up some horticultural soap and give this one a really good wipe over I spotted a little patch of sunlight so I thought I would bring the pest treating over to do over here so yeah it's not bad from what I can see it's literally only a few but that's the only thing that I can think of that would have caused the yellowing and kind of mottledness of that leaf because typically in the time that I've owned this plant I found it to be really really hardy and it's literally given me no grief at all so um so yeah I'm just giving both sides of the leaves and stems a really good wipe over and then I'll keep this plant isolated for a week or two just to kind of monitor it and see how it's getting on and hopefully I've caught it early enough but it should be fine but as I say I will just give my monstera a check over as well and I've just given my monstera a look over in its position like in the place that it's been and I can't see anything and on the whole bar being a little bit dehydrated it looks fairly healthy so I'm hoping that I won't have to treat this plant but I thought I'd just give it a little water as well because it is definitely definitely due for a water and this is one that I feel like I this is such an underrated plant I feel like I don't speak about enough on my channel it's one that makes me so happy and if you were here over the summer months you'll know that I had a few issues with this plant I basically brought it outside to my balcony to get a bit of extra sun because the way that I've been able to get this plant to size up to the way that I have like with all of its big large fenestrations is primarily through high lights so I thought I'll put it on the balcony that'll be great for the plant and anyway I did not do the acclimation process gradually enough at all and I ended up burning the plant really badly and I was absolutely gutted because I was like oh my god I'm gonna lose lose some of the beautiful fenestrations I'm gonna have to chop the leaves back and I did actually mention this in a confessions video that me and Emma filmed quite recently on her channel but I basically decided to this so there were lots of very dead brown patches on the plant's leaves like that that you can see there and I decided to paint them instead of trim them back and this isn't something that I would necessarily recommend doing but if there's a section of the plant that is like papery brown and dead you're technically not doing the rest of the plant any harm so it doesn't look amazing unless you can probably hear it feels very crispy but like look at the back of the leaf I'll put some clips in so that you can see a little bit closer but you look at the back of the leaf and then the front is not like an exact colour match but I think it just looks a little bit better and as I say it's meant that I haven't had to chop some of its most beautiful leaves back so yeah plant confession right there and yeah like I say although I can't see anything I am just gonna give it a little wipe down I can also see a really big aerial root that the plant started putting out I'm just gonna bury that down in the soil to encourage it to root down further and offer the plant more nutrients so I know I've got quite a lot of plants over here that need attention I've been looking at them for a few days and I just haven't got around to doing anything so I'm gonna have a look at them one by one and see what needs addressing oh in fact I can see one oh my god I can see a dead one this is sad god this has happened quickly I mean it's not the end of the world because I've got like a million of these plants but it's a little pilea peperomioides one of my propagations that has just given up with life look at that oh my goodness literally that happened so fast okay right well that's one that's one for the bin but like I say I have got so many more and this is my hoyer crimson queen and I got this one out of a prop box in a patreon video recently because I chopped this plant up about I think about eight months ago also I was gonna say I'm watering them I've got my little watering station set up here and I'm just gonna if nothing else looks fine just give them more water through um but yeah I chopped this one up about eight months ago and it's just been living in a propagation box and it's it's been doing really well but I just haven't got around to doing anything with it and it was giving me some amazing aerial roots like the aerial roots have just kicked off and I was like okay I think I'm gonna chop this plant up instead of keeping it as one long vine and get it put it up to kind of hopefully be the start of a big full plant so yeah that is what I've done and it is quite a slow growing one even in the prop box it's been quite slow growing so I'm not expecting anything miraculous but I'm hoping that as time goes on it will give me some lovely growth and then I've got a very random cutting of a Paraiso Verde here I've got loads of Paraiso Verde cuttings now to be honest and I should just pop them all up together and I just haven't got around to doing it yet but this is one that's in semi-hydro so it's very very easy to just kind of fill the reservoirs up in fact quite a few in this area are now in semi-hydro so it just makes my life so much easier but look at the variegation on that leaf isn't that beautiful it was doing better in my cabinet to be honest but I just ran out of room in there so I've had to clear out quite a lot of stuff yeah here I've got another little pilea propagation that is doing well this is one in semi-hydro again easier to monitor I'm trying to work out if that's a pest a pest of some sort on the new leaf like if you look at the teeny tiny little leaf that one there I don't think it's gonna focus there's something there and I can't work out if it's I'm gonna squish it whatever it is I think it's just fluff but my brain always gets scared it goes straight to mealybugs it looks fine otherwise and this is one that I keep meaning to put up this is one of my little cuttings and I think it's so pretty but I just haven't got around to potting it with the mother plant yet so that's something else on my list my never-ending list and this is a plant that is massively thriving on neglect it's my peperomia ice queen I got this when I first moved in and although I mean like it obviously could be doing better its growth is very much forward facing did I say pilea or peperomia if I said pilea I meant to say peperomia um but I've not always had the biggest success rates with peperomia they can be they can be quite finicky plants and this one arrived in not a great condition to be honest like it wasn't looking amazing when I first bought it but I put a few sections of it into my prop box and it seemed to take fairly well and I've potted a couple of sections back up with it now and it's a plant that I really just don't do anything to like this is my first time watering it in at least two weeks I let it go pretty much bone dry as you can see it's not in the highest light spot in the world like I don't currently use grow lights under this section and it's just giving me loads of new growth which I'm really quite surprised about because it doesn't feel like it should be um but it's clearly happy so I'm not going to worry too much but yeah I just love the color of its leaves I think it's such a gorgeous plant I don't really know why this one is in terracotta definitely doesn't need to be it's just in a little cup I just think it looks nicer like that but this is the upper perineum skeleton key and I've said in videos recently but I've I've just kind of given up trying to achieve the skeleton key form but I quite like what it looks like like this it kind of looks similar to the Sibu Blue and I'm just really enjoying growing it like this so yeah there it stays and this is one of my recent imported plants this is the variegated philodendron burl marks this one's doing so well I'm genuinely so happy with how this one's doing because I wasn't sure I don't know I just like it seemed because they're not not a sensitive plant I just wasn't sure how well this one was going to do because it wasn't as robust and resilient seeming as some of the other plants that I imported and also again as I say not in the highest light spot but it's given me lots of growth in the time that I've had it and it's currently putting out two new leaves as well so again it's clearly happy and I can see that this leaf just here that's starting to unfurl has really beautiful variegation so I'm super excited about that and its roots look really healthy I know I've shown off this pot before but I really like it I made it out of clay and I really want to make some more pots soon oh I can see a mealy bug so this is my Hoya Albo Vittata I think it is Hoya Bella Albo Vittata sorry and yeah you look under that leaf just there pretty sure that's a mealy bug so yeah I'm not going to put that plant back in with the rest of the plants until I've given it a proper check and probably a little spritz down with alcohol aha I've just discovered a source of fungus gnats so this is my variegated Hoya Macrophylla and it is just in moss at the moment and often moss is damp moss is just like a breeding ground for fungus gnats um and this water does have nematodes in it so obviously that will kill the larvae that will stop them reproducing but it won't deal with the symptom which is the adult flies and I have got oh it's got stuck to but the thing that I just took off the Monstera dubia moss parcel I'm kind of thinking maybe I'll lay this down behind the plants and then hopefully that will just help to deal with that oh I've always got to be so careful with the yellow sticky traps they don't get stuck to the foliage of the plants because if they do it rips so easily this is another Peperomia that I'm never quite sure like I'm not like this is gonna sound bad but I'm never quite sure how it does so well um it's a Peperomia obtusifolia and obviously it's pretty much non-variegated it's pretty much reverted but it's one that I'm growing in semi-hydro so I've got I've got um I can't remember if this is actually Letuzapon I think it is because I see some fertilizer uh but yeah I've got Letuzapon and then I've got this little draining tray that I put it in this is actually this pot was a gift from one of you at the plant swap and I think it's just beautiful um but yeah I just typically fill a very shallow reservoir for this plant and let it feed but again bearing in mind it's a semi-succulent it doesn't get much light and it's in semi-hydro so those are two things that you wouldn't have thought it would like but again it seems happy so I don't quite know how but I'm just going with it and I'm just keeping on doing what I'm doing until the plant tells me otherwise so yeah oh however oh damn it I was gonna say usually I fill the reservoir with the plant in place because obviously it's such a shallow reservoir that if you fill it a little bit too much which I have just done then you risk spilling water everywhere which is what I feel like I'm about to do and the name of this one always escapes me it's uh it's a Tananthi of some sort I can never remember exactly what it is I'll put the name on the screen uh but this is one that I put into semi-hydro about eight months ago now I think oh just poured some out the pot um but it has literally been the lowest maintenance easiest plant in semi-hydro and I know this is one that some people have messaged me before saying that they're struggling with quite a lot and I've said it for Calathea as well which obviously is in the same family but semi-hydro is literally like your best friend when it comes to plants like this because apart from the occasional pest check all I do now is literally just fill up its reservoir and make sure it's got water in there it is so simple and I was just checking on my Raphidophora foraminifera and this is one that I got as a cutting at the plant spot recently I was just checking on it and I stupidly went to pick it up by the stem and I pulled it out of the little gyros propagating it in but I can see it has got it has got some really good roots and I'm not quite sure if I would have chosen to pot it up at this stage I think I might have left it another I don't know a few days a week but I'm kind of thinking I mean let's get over into the kitchen and I'll get the moss off and I'll think about the next step because I have some thoughts I've just attempted to clear a little bit of the kitchen mess so that you don't have to look at it um but yeah so I'm gonna just take as much moss off as I can just so that I can have a proper look its root system isn't huge but I'm thinking I'd quite like to get it into surprise surprise semi-hydro just because all of the other Raphidophora bar my tetrasperma that has recently gone wrong but bar that one have done really well in semi-hydro oh my goodness and it's starting to give me a growth point as well yay I'll put a picture of what this one looks like on the screen when it's matured because oh my goodness it gets the most incredible fenestrations but the fenestrations are really close to the center of the leaf like right where the main vein runs down and that's so unusual and it's very monstera like and I don't have anything I was gonna say I don't have anything like that in my collection I guess the closest I've got would be the large form of my monstera dubia but as I say that one has pennies at the outside as well so I'm really really excited for this one and I'm so happy it's rooting because whenever you get a cutting particularly if it's not a top cutting if it's a mid cut it always makes me a little bit more nervous because I'm like oh god it feels like stuff's more likely to go wrong with it especially at this time of year when there's not as much natural light the temperature's a little bit colder it's not ideal propagation conditions and I've tried so hard to keep it as stable as I possibly can for this plant and I'm really happy that it has worked okay so I've got as much of the moss off as I possibly can and granted it is a very small root system but look they look so healthy so yeah I'm gonna use a very very small container because obviously these are tiny roots I don't want to overwhelm them but I think they can probably take the transition to semi-hydro at this stage if I do it very gently and gradually so yeah cool let's do it so I've got this jar which I know is fairly fairly big it's not like the smallest container in the world but apart from that I've only got very old plastic cups and I feel like I want uh I mean I could go in I could just wash that jar out I'm going with that jar again however what I was thinking what I was thinking is I could just fill the semi-hydro lower in this I'm just being lazy aren't I could absolutely just reuse the jar you know what I'm just going to give this a wash out and I will reuse the same jar this is just me creating more tomorrow Claire problems so I'm going to do that first therewith okay amazing that took all of five seconds I don't know why I was being so lazy about it um also side note if you guys don't have one of these bottles you should absolutely get one I'm sure they do them in bigger sizes but I actually got this idea from someone on my patreon who was showing how she watered her plants when we did little plants or videos recently but I um I just find them really useful for going around and like topping up propagations you literally just fill them with water and then just squeeze them and water comes out uh yeah I find it much easier than filling up a full watering can and oh for goodness sake also I've just brought soil over instead of semi-hydro that was again there we go the bags look very similar um but yeah I don't know why it's just I'm finding it easier to keep on top of some of my smaller plants just going around with this I think it's definitely just a mental thing that I don't think there's any kind of logic in it but it's helping me so who knows maybe maybe it would help some of you as well and I know some of you are asking about whether or not I rinse my semi-hydro before I use it and to be honest I used to be in fact I say used to be I still sometimes am really bad when it comes to this again it is just pure laziness I just can't be bothered but since the rotting the rotting incident with my alocasia sinuata I have been much better at it and I did actually get all of this bag out and give it a really good rinse through and then strain it and put it back in it's not the end of the world if you don't rinse it and I've got a lot that I as I say a lot that I don't rinse for but if you have got a plant that's a little bit more susceptible to root rot and obviously alocasia are not only more susceptible to root rot they're also really susceptible to rhizome rot so I just wanted to make sure I was getting it right so the answer is currently yes I do give it a wash give it a strain and then use it but it's not always completely necessary but yeah cool right I'm just gonna fill a little reservoir probably to about there for that one put it back in the same spot it was in before and hopefully when I show you it again we'll be looking at some new growth because I'm so excited about this one I'm so excited oh just another little update for you my phyllodendron which again was a plant swap one I'm not sure how well you can see because I know the light's behind me at the moment but the last time I showed you I said it was giving me a little new leaf which is really exciting it's also got another one coming up there now as well so this one's probably going to be next on the list to pot up it seems a little bit slower to root it has got one main root that I can see running down just there but I think I'm probably going to give this one another couple of weeks maybe and then put it up but yeah it's one that I'm really really excited about I've said it before but I didn't have the most luck with the melanochrysum and this one is probably the most similar visually phyllodendron that I've had it's obviously got the really dark velvety leaves it seems to have a very similar growth structure so yeah I can't wait to watch this one grow and seeing as I haven't found anything I am just going to put this one back in its spot where it was before because to be honest it's fairly isolated in this corner like it doesn't come into direct contact with any other plants and it's also just obviously a very big plant to have to keep in complete isolation I actually don't have space to be able to do that so this feels like the best possible option and then I'll keep the Jose Bueno away from it for the time being and then hopefully it won't be too long until I can get them both back into their spots and they will be fine again and looking lovely and healthy because yeah it's always a bit of a nightmare when you've got lots of plants crammed quite close together if they start having issues with pests but I'm hoping fingers crossed I have caught this soon enough oh but yeah those are that's pretty much everything I wanted to get through today I've still got a few little bits of watering and stuff to do but I never feel like that's particularly interesting so I'm probably just going to crack on with that off camera but yeah I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did 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 stay sexy plant lovers