This Method of Watering Plants Makes Them THRIVE
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I look forward to new videos from you every time. You are now my favourite plant RUclipsr😻🌱
Thanks!
Mine too 🤩
For hydrophobic soil, I sometimes like to poke some lil holes with a wooden skewer. It also helps to loosen the soil.
Thanks, great idea!
Great video! I would never water over a sink without having a dishpan or something to catch the water. It saves precious possibly fertilised water and stops bits from washing out of the pots into the drain
I use the terra cotta spikes for our outdoor plants and they’re great. I have two self-watering pots and I like them, although I don’t find watering the rest of my plants the normal way to be a burden. I bottom water all my plants, even my very large peace lily and frilly fern. I have two moisture meters and they’ve been a game-changer for me. Best plant tool ever.
@@PlantPerson58 Who knew!? If it weren't for Sheffy, I still wouldn't know about them.
I actually take my plants to a large 3 inch deep pot and water them for 35 minutes. And the pots are much heavier when I first started and now that I have the moisture meter I check the soil . My plants seem to love it !
The poor spider plant must have gotten at least seven waterings during the making of this video 😧
*No spider plants were harmed during the filming of this video*. 😂
@@ohnoyce😂😂
The main point of the video is that it’s not the quantity of water but the frequency of the watering.
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I noticed that a lot of my water mix would just run down the drain, so I started putting a bin underneath it so I could then pour back into my container and continue using the water &/ or have some plants bottom water in it. Also, I have a fine mesh sink strainer just in case perlite, etc. spill out which does happens a lot 🫠
Watching Sheffield Made Plants videos is the single most important thing you can do for your plants.🏵🌿🌾🌱🪴🌵☘️😂☘️🌵🪴🌱🌾🌿🏵
2nd is watering.
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Mr Sheffield.... you really should get yourself a water butt! It will save all that water conditioning and having to buy distilled water for the carnivores :D I bought a large cheap black bin from Amazon cut a hole in it's lid and then adjusted/cut the downpipe from my conservatory guttering to feed through the lid. It's always full and my plants absolutely love it! Haven't used tap water for over 2 years.
Hi Rich, great video. One tip for watering that works for me besides the water meter I count1,2,3,4,5,6 then I know the plant is getting enough. Also I let my orchids sit in water for about 15 minutes to let bark time to absorb the amount of water they need. I did get a humidifier to help those I together who need humity. Love all your videos as you know. Thanks for your help with our questions. Your answers really,really work. Thank you. Love Billie
I would like say to Richard u are brave because u are handle tropical plant in temperate region u are really awesome 👌 👏 👍 😊😊
Thanks!
I have a tip for you! When taking cacti out of their decorative pots, take a tea towel, forl it, wrap around the plant with enough force to hold onto it and pull up. Should come out fairly easy! Also a good way to make sure you do not get stabbed when repotting spiky friends..
Two videos in a row with your money tree front and center for a moment....Have I mentioned how much I love your tree? I would love to see how you have gotten it to be so even and large.
Thank you so much for sharing another amazing tip filled video! Have a great one.
Money tree video coming soon
@@SheffieldMadePlants Did I wear you down? hahahahaha
I just picked up a new one this week, so I am very much looking forward to this video!! Well, I look forward to all your videos.
I was drastically under watering my agave. The leaves were constantly curling. I move it inside so I can keep a better eye on it. It’s now much happier being fully hydrated when needed.
Took me a whole year to work out how to handle my plants in terms of light, feed, water etc. They're thriving now❤
Always look forward to your videos ! It would be neat to do a community experiment- like co plant a pothos and philodendron together, or mass propagating succulents
Now , maybe I can be a better plant mom to my cacti 🤔 This video has helped me in many ways ! I am sure I have some questions but I will watch your video again. Thankyou thankyou👍
Another great video! I’ve learned so much from you in the last few weeks. My plants are looking healthy and happy thanks to all your tips. 🌟
Great stuff 👍
Your Croton is looking great!!
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Good Morning Mr Sheffield!!! Another great video on watering and feeding a variety of plants. I enjoyed your drip drip method for moss poles but I got rid of all moss poles and use cedar planks. Hope you have a great week and cant wait to see your next video!!
Thanks!
can always use a wooden skewer to check if the soils wet
A good tip for moss poles is putting a plastic cup (with holes in the bottom) at the top of the moss pole, then you can fill them all up in rounds and let it soak through gradually and it is a lot less work :)))
This is amazing!
@@cb945 i first saw it on wildfern’s channel
Great tip!
Thank you so much for these watering tips. I will use them gladly.
Good morning ☀️ Mr. Sheffield, another great 👍🏻 video! Have a great 👍🏻 day!❤️🪴🌹🌻🪴🌻
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@@SheffieldMadePlantsYou’re welcome 🪴
For plants that hate becoming dry - even once - like Boston Ferns, I have found the smaller terracotta spikes with integral transparent water reservoirs invaluable. I quickly realised that I hadn’t appreciated how thirsty they get when the relative humidity of the air is low, rather than being made thirsty by the heat per sa. This now obvious to me phenomena, had caused me to miss judge how often to check them. Now, I just need to glance at the reservoir and that also provides me with a large margin of safety. For these type of plants that always like moist soil, they appear to do very much better with this watering regime with no brown crispy bits but lots of lush strong foliage.
For your carnivores, have you thought about a rain gutter down pipe diverter and barrel? You can then use rain water for all your plants. Alas, buying de-ionised water is cheaper than distilling water yourself. Just worked it out that at 25.5p per kWh it would cost about 18 ½ p per litre just in electricity.
Beautiful plants and great video😊❤
I mostly water from the top but I do bottom water some things that are pretty root bound. I stopped misting so much over the years. It can cause a lot of problems if your not careful. It doesn't do too much for humidity anyways unless your spraying constantly.
Because of fungus gnats, I started bottom watering. So instead of walking around with a watering can, I now pick three or four plants every day, and I don’t even need to stick my finger in or use my moisture meter… I just press down on the soil, and if it’s hard and doesn’t spring back, it means it’s probably wet down the bottom. But if it is springy and has a bit of give in it then it’s probably dry and needs a drink. So I take each and every one of my plants to the sink these days instead of using a watering can and I fill up the sink and let them sit in there for an hour before returning them to their spot. they all seem very happy and I have amazing growth with everything at the moment so I’m doing something right!
As for the fungus gnats… I have tried bottom watering, mosquito bits, neem oil, cinnamon, and clear plastic gnat catchers… and I’m thinking that the cinnamon seems to be working the best. However it might be just a cycle… They may all just be dormant at the moment and come back and annoy the crap out of me in a few more weeks.
EURGH fungus gnats 😖
I bought the sansi grow lights bc of you (and bc they are having a sale), and i LOVE them so much more than another brand other youtubers recommended! My light meter reads them as giving enough light! Thank you so much Mr. Sheffield!
Great stuff 👍
Looking forward to my curly jade being as big and full as yours.
I'm quite sure I mentioned that I mist both my fern/spider plants. The misting saved both of them. The fern especially because it was littering my carpet around the clock. I mist them once in the morning and that's it. The spider plant stopped yellowing immediately and although growing slower than expected, it's producing new growth which is good to see. I side with misting sparingly and thoroughly water distilled.
Nah I hose the whole room down sir 😜 Keeps the humidity up
Could you also make a video about types of molds in the soil and how to deal with them. I feel like I’m the only one researching this and no one is talking about it.
Excellent presentation,thank you 🌈✌️👏
Glad you enjoyed it
Lovely video! I’d love to see how you glaze the inside of your terracotta pots.
Thanks!
I live n Florida. Humidity is the least of my problems 😮
great content thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Watch Sydney Plant Guy's ultimate moss pole guide! He had a convenient top-down watering method which might interest you. Love your vids!
uff I am early on this one!
I was just wondering how best to water my Monstera!
I got a moisture meter for my pot plants.
You can also poke your cacti. They become softer, when they need water. (Dont't get poked back though)
I have an Opuntia with long, thin paddles, and for the past two years she's been my "water monitor" for all the cacti and succulents. When her uppermost paddles start to shrivel, I know it's almost time to water the cacti; I actually do it when her paddles start to bend over (immersing everybody in a shallow bin until they're completely soaked). Once she's been watered, her paddles stand back up and fill back out within 48 hours, and the cycle starts again. And I haven't lost a single cactus or succulent to over/underwatering since I started relying on her.
You could demonstrate this better if you had a plant in a clear pot. All of my plants are potted in clear pots with drainage & aeration. I water over a drip tray & let it sit in it for 20 minutes or so. I keep 2 so I can move it over to a dry one once it’s saturated and pour what’s left into the next plant, so I don’t waste fertilizer. When you can see all the dry places throughout the pot it’s easy to see just pouring water from the top doesn’t saturate the soil.
Great video 😊
Thanks! 😊
Water from bottom. Sit for 5mins for small to medium. And 10mins for huge pots. Leave to drip excess in sink. Done. Less chance of fungus gnats and rot
hi Rich, quick question. if a pot has too much water and the weather is bad so it'll take time for the plant to absorb it, what can we do? repot?
You can place an absorbent towel, tissues, or old newspapers under the pot to help soak up the excess water. Replace them with fresh ones as they become wet until the pot is dry
Stick a tampon in the soil. Tried and tested success
Fix the issue by repotting into lighter potting mix
If it's a small enough pot I take it to the oil-oven(flat-topped) and place it on top, with a metal table protector between. The heat will gently dry out the soil, and my fussy little... plants, seem to enjoy a little heat-time. Alternativly, if you have a bathroom or something with heated floors, put them there until drier.
If it happens regularly, then be very sparse with the watering, or as you fear; re-pot.
I mist evry once in a while but mostly on leves that have not unfurled yet and i frequently mist my asparagus fern and begoina amphioxus
How do you keep all those leaves looking so clean? They are gorgeous plants. I have hard water so I can’t just use that.
Ah my water is soft luckily
Love learning through your videos,but I miss some of your humor,hope all is well.Hi from Maine😊
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Can’t get the soil mix here in USA, hopefully they will soon. I do use potting soil and add a big bag of pearlite. I use organic seaweed fertilizer that stinks up the whole house but that’s life. I sit the plant in a bucket for at least 1/2 hr then water from the top. Now it’s fall here in Florida so I will not be watering that much and using moisture meter. I also have carnivores they are looking great except the Venus flytrap that has gone dormant since August, may put in the refrigerator till spring not cold enough here in south Florida.
Terra Cotta pots is best for succulents and cacti in my experience. I have some of the same succulents in plastic pots and terra Cotta. The terra Cotta succulents are doing much better compared to ones in plastic
How do you spray off your plants without getting soil everywhere
Misting is pointless, it increases the humidity by a negligible amount for a maximum of 7 minutes.
Seeking advice:
1. My pagoda cactus was outside on a south table for a week. A squirrel knocked it over repeatedly. Now she's turning yellow and getting a little hard. Any recommendations, folks?
2. Brought my hahni snake to the shop I bought it from for advice because the tips of some of the spears were softening. They told me I was under watering so I watered her and now more leaves are soft. Thoughts?
You had to say wrinkly toes!
Bottom water & water stay in the bottom pot; how long before draining out the water so no root rot?
The next day for me
Hey! What's the beautiful plant sitting in your kitchen window sill??
Tradescantia tricolor?
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thanks! I keep seeing people call it a Wedding spider plant and I had never heard it called That before 🤔
If you lie the moss pole down it is easy to water.
hey can i ask i found Oxalis (creeping) weed in my pot it looks very nice can it be planted in those wide shallow takeaway containers? it's very tiny
If there's not too much soil maybe
Im just going to ask this here since i have nowhere else to ask:
On my prayer plant i have very tiny white bugs which you can barely see with the naked eye (a lot smaller then mealybugs). Are these pests? And how do i get rid of them.
Do they hop?
can someone tell me what the plant at 4:34 is called, it looks interesting
Ripple Jade
what's the pretty plant at 4:31?? omg :0
Ripple Jade
But Mr Sheffield I thought you said misting our plants is an old wives tale and not necessary ? 🤔
Yes and I did here
Some of these meter readers are hit and miss. I returned one as did not work at all. Despite watering thoroughly it kept reading dry. I have one at the moment sometimes it reads dry after I have watered the plant and other plants it reads correctly. Difficult one really.
Same thing with me. I bought one but it would read dry all the time even if I just watered the plant earlier in the day. I just use bamboo/ wood skewers to check but also have an Excel spreadsheet of all my plants with notes and keep track of the last 2 waterings per plant. From there I know which plants I don't have to check to water for at least 2 weeks, 3 1/2 weeks, etc. This helps me try not to over water which I have a problem with 😅
Yes like me I make a note on an app called calendar notes when I water my plants as having so many I cannot remember which one was watered and which I had fertilised. @@chleda15
@@chleda15 yes I use an app to make notes when I have watered my plants otherwise it is difficult to remember which ones I have watered.
Why not just use the terracotta as cover pots?
Have you noticed if any of your plants prefer room temperature water vs. cold tap water?
Seem fine straight out of the tap
can somebody help me? My Pinguicula is getting holes on the leaves, leaves are not as sticky as they were before and the leaves wilt very fast - what could be wrong with it? I only watered with destilled water 😢 it's on my kitchen counter beside the fruit basket and is supposed to catch all the nasty flying things but it doesn't anymore (it gets only morning direct sun) Help, please 🤣
Submerging a succulent feels soooo wrong. Utter nightmare fuel
It’s akin to desert weather patterns. Some deserts go weeks without water and then it all dumps down at once! The soil is completely saturated, but then the water drains away quick
But my living room doesn’t quite reach the same daily temperature spikes to get rid of the water. I worry it will get over watered 🥲
The right pot size and any good cactus/succulent soil mix will ensure the water leaves at the right pace! You’ve got decades of horticultural knowledge on the internet now to take advantage of!
It works great, though. I immerse all of my cacti and euphorbias in a shallow storage bin of water every 4-6 weeks. I let them sit for about 20-30 minutes before pulling them out, letting them drain, and putting them back in their cachepots. I used to kill cacti due to either overwatering or underwatering, but haven't lost a single one since I started immersing them a couple of years ago. I buy cheap cacti at Ikea and big-box DIY stores, and they're all thriving.
More trouble than looking after a new born baby. Ridiculous.
I'd rather water plants than take care of a newborn any day
@@Nenezilla same, and I've had 3 of them!
You obviously don’t get us, so nevermind.
Have 5 kids watering plants by far the easiest compared to a newborn. Even the pickiest of plants