I made my own pon by purchasing things from Amazon. I found a great lava rock pumice mix, vermiculite, Zeolite, charcoal, and someone suggested Fluval stratum as the fertilizer. I am excited to mix my own and try it. The only reason I wanted to try pon is due to my Alocasia Polly that failed. Maybe those plants will do better in that media instead of soil. Lechuza pon is so expensive that I feel in my time of creativity, that I come up with my own creation to see what happens. Thank you for the wonderful and informative video. I may have made one mistake, I washed my media due to heavy dust from the pumice lava rock mix and put my plants in it. I will make sure to put the others in a catch pot.
I think that Lechuza Pon is better than Leca for moving plants from soil to hydroponic is the issue of grain size. The Leca pebbles are too large for fine roots. If you can find Leca pellets as small as Lechuza Pon pebbles, please do a video on these. I cannot find Leca pellets of that size, but they may be out somewhere.
Thanks for this very informative video! I’ve skipped over so many other videos that just can’t seem to get to the point. I’m seriously considering converting to pon. One thing I am curious about is cachepots. I have several IKEA pots I love and like you, prefer over those ugly plastic self watering ones. However, some of my cachepots are not glazed on the inside. Will this cause a problem with leakage/damage to my cachepots?
I water my plants in pon with fertlizer, regardless if pon has a slow-release fertilizer in itself.. doesn't really matter. I find the plant still grows healthily.
Hi Josie, when you refill the reservoir, do you just 'water the pon' and let the excess water sit in the cachepot, or do you take the inner pot out to fill up the reservoir then put it back in? 😌
For me, I like to water the pon to help settle the roots, especially if it’s a newer setup. But it doesn’t really matter… the water gets wicked-up by the clay, regardless. But if you want to get really OCD, certain plants do not seem to enjoy “top watering”, such as African violets, I don’t know why that is. And I have found nearly ALL species of plants appreciate bottom-watering, or reservoir filling rather (than watering the substrate).
I think it’s possible to over-fertilize if you’re using FRESH, brand new Pon, especially the name brand Lechuza, because it contains the pellet or granulated fertilizer. Some people might not know any better and just add liquid nutrients, before the roots have the chance to absorb the pellet nutrients… this could cause problems, like excess nutrient buildup. But most pellet fertilizers are time-released, and say on the label “will not burn”, like Osmocote…so the problems could be more like leaf yellowing? Excess nitrogen toxicity maybe..
The idea that Lechuza Pon is better for converting soil plants comes from their own marketing, and I have never seen a dramatic difference between leca or pon in this respect, so I suspect that's where it ends. Any plant going from dirt to semi-hydro needs to have it roots well scrubbed (ideally with a soft bristle toothbrush), alternatively just reroot them.
Im having a much bigger succes with growing peperomia and alocasias. I was struggling a lot with the leaves falling off of both of these types of plants and they were barely surviving. I live in central Europe and the air is quite dry here, so i think i was underwatering them a bit, but then i started watering them more and i overwatered them and had to save them again. When i switched to semi hydro (peperomia is in vermiculite and alocasias are in leca), they started to grow as any other normal plant and we all had a big breath of relief :D recently i put most of my plants in semi hydro in lechuza and it seems to be working very well :) its winter and what i chopped is growing roots and what i didnt is growing leaves ❤️
Oh my goodness, gracious! Where do I begin with questions.🤔 I currently have all my plants in leca. If I convert them to pon, would that shock my plants?😬 I found this video super helpful as I'm spanking new to pon. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Wow great video, but did I miss the watering part in pon ? Will the water for Hoya or other plants need to be P.h. Balanced when fertilizers are applied ??? I'm a subscriber, ❤️ your channel !!!!
Heyyy, thanks for the comment 😘 I didn’t even think to include that part lol but you don’t need to adjust the ph of plants in pon. The zeolite is supposed to provide the ideal environment for plants meaning it regulates the ph. I don’t know the science behind this but that’s what Lechuza says anyway 😂 hope that answers your question
2 года назад+1
New subscriber here. Really appreciate this video. I learned about pon last year from a YT from England and his plant that he converted was one happy sucker. This video was very informative (like his). I recently put about 7 plants in pon (maybe 10) and only 2 are looking a bit unhappy. I suspected that so I am not freaking out. One has good roots and it wasn't doing well in spanish moss, so I moved it to pon. I am expecting it to get better or start showing happier signs within a month (to play it safe). As for the other plant, I think it will get better within a week.
@ the pink princess is a surprise and philos tend to be white resilient. As for the anthurium, those tend to like a lot of air to the roots so maybe it finds pon too suffocating? Just a theory, I don’t really know 😂 give it a couple of weeks and hopefully they’ll both bounce back
2 года назад
@@JosieYapsALot Yeah, I’m thinking they are both going to need a moment. With Spring around the corner, I feel they will gather themselves and pull through. Thanks for your response.
Great video, very imformative. Just one question, at around the 10:30 mark you pulled the nursery pot out of decrotative pot with water in, will this not cause root rot as its sat in water? Thanks in advance.
Hey AJ, plants in pon work a little differently than plants in soil. If this plant was to sit in water in soil, yes, it would probably sooner or later develop root rot. However that doesn't happen with plants in pon. The only way your plants can get root rot in pon is if you let the roots dry out too much and then water it (this is called 'dry rot'). So I'd just watch out for that and you should be fine :)
i found this really informative thank you! I do have a quick question tho, is there any plants you wouldn't recommend in general to be housed in pon and leca in general? or is it quite a universal substrate? thanks in advance!
I think I wouldn’t recommend bushy plants like pothos as they are quite difficult to pot up but other than that I can’t really tell you any specific plants. I have most of my alocasias and hoyas in pon and those are doing fine but not many other plants, sorry 😂
Hello Thank you for your video . Very clear and full of Infos . I have a question ( cause you said in the video that To transfer the plants from soil to PON can be really stressfull and they can also dye ) so what do you suggest ? I would like to try this system with some of My plants but also i m afraid To lose them .... Cause sometimes It s really difficult to clean completely the roots . Also i have repotted some plants some days ago in soil 🙈🙈🙈
Hi, I think I mentioned that it's best to only convert cuttings into pon rather than already established plants. However if you want to convert a plant from soil I'd make sure it's one of the more resilient ones like pothos/philodendron, as those are most likely to succeed. There is a chance of the converted plants doing poorly for a while or dying completely so I wouldn't recommend it but it is possible, hope that helps!
Ok I have a few questions here 😊 I converted all my Hoyas to pon they were all young plants …I did everything right so I thought and have not used a reservoir as yet as they say to wait a couple months … . And now most of my Hoya have root rot 😖😩 is this because I put wet Hoya roots into wet pon and then top watered a week later? I now now so confused and am doubting the whole process . Any help would be appreciated.
Hiiiiii, sorry to hear about your plants! it’s possible that the roots rotted because they were too dry between waterings. Sometimes when they dry out too much and suddenly receive water, it’s too much of a shock for them. I have a water reservoir with all of my hoyas and they are doing well so maybe try that? Hope that helps!
Yes but I think I overwatered them!! U didn’t wait For a few weeks before putting reservoirs ?? Thanks for your reply much appreciated! I just think the wet pon and the wet roots were a bad combination to start with but I will try the reservoirs and c how they go .
Enjoyed a lot from Japan! What’s your take on using non-drainage hole pot for Pon? Some RUclipsr use that way. Appreciate your input. And, how often do you replace the water in the pot? A bit worried the water-rot. Thanks!
I made my own pon by purchasing things from Amazon. I found a great lava rock pumice mix, vermiculite, Zeolite, charcoal, and someone suggested Fluval stratum as the fertilizer. I am excited to mix my own and try it. The only reason I wanted to try pon is due to my Alocasia Polly that failed. Maybe those plants will do better in that media instead of soil. Lechuza pon is so expensive that I feel in my time of creativity, that I come up with my own creation to see what happens. Thank you for the wonderful and informative video. I may have made one mistake, I washed my media due to heavy dust from the pumice lava rock mix and put my plants in it. I will make sure to put the others in a catch pot.
One year on, how are you getting on?
I think that Lechuza Pon is better than Leca for moving plants from soil to hydroponic is the issue of grain size. The Leca pebbles are too large for fine roots. If you can find Leca pellets as small as Lechuza Pon pebbles, please do a video on these. I cannot find Leca pellets of that size, but they may be out somewhere.
Thanks for this very informative video! I’ve skipped over so many other videos that just can’t seem to get to the point. I’m seriously considering converting to pon. One thing I am curious about is cachepots. I have several IKEA pots I love and like you, prefer over those ugly plastic self watering ones. However, some of my cachepots are not glazed on the inside. Will this cause a problem with leakage/damage to my cachepots?
I water my plants in pon with fertlizer, regardless if pon has a slow-release fertilizer in itself.. doesn't really matter. I find the plant still grows healthily.
Hi Josie, when you refill the reservoir, do you just 'water the pon' and let the excess water sit in the cachepot, or do you take the inner pot out to fill up the reservoir then put it back in? 😌
Great question !!
For me, I like to water the pon to help settle the roots, especially if it’s a newer setup. But it doesn’t really matter… the water gets wicked-up by the clay, regardless. But if you want to get really OCD, certain plants do not seem to enjoy “top watering”, such as African violets, I don’t know why that is. And I have found nearly ALL species of plants appreciate bottom-watering, or reservoir filling rather (than watering the substrate).
My plants use wicking cords to get to the water faster. Their water roots roll around the moist wicks and follow the path directly to the water.
I think it’s possible to over-fertilize if you’re using FRESH, brand new Pon, especially the name brand Lechuza, because it contains the pellet or granulated fertilizer. Some people might not know any better and just add liquid nutrients, before the roots have the chance to absorb the pellet nutrients… this could cause problems, like excess nutrient buildup. But most pellet fertilizers are time-released, and say on the label “will not burn”, like Osmocote…so the problems could be more like leaf yellowing? Excess nitrogen toxicity maybe..
Unfortunately, the only pons available in canada is $100 for 18 litres. I'll see if I can't get the materials. Good vid btw
Is it still that expensive? Here in EU they're less than €20 for 18 litres (Amazon DE). I'm already on my second 18L bag.
The idea that Lechuza Pon is better for converting soil plants comes from their own marketing, and I have never seen a dramatic difference between leca or pon in this respect, so I suspect that's where it ends. Any plant going from dirt to semi-hydro needs to have it roots well scrubbed (ideally with a soft bristle toothbrush), alternatively just reroot them.
Im having a much bigger succes with growing peperomia and alocasias. I was struggling a lot with the leaves falling off of both of these types of plants and they were barely surviving. I live in central Europe and the air is quite dry here, so i think i was underwatering them a bit, but then i started watering them more and i overwatered them and had to save them again. When i switched to semi hydro (peperomia is in vermiculite and alocasias are in leca), they started to grow as any other normal plant and we all had a big breath of relief :D recently i put most of my plants in semi hydro in lechuza and it seems to be working very well :) its winter and what i chopped is growing roots and what i didnt is growing leaves ❤️
I enjoyed your video nice speaking voice and most importantly great explanations
Thank you Jane! 💕
Thank you! Very clear and helpful.
Oh my goodness, gracious! Where do I begin with questions.🤔 I currently have all my plants in leca. If I convert them to pon, would that shock my plants?😬 I found this video super helpful as I'm spanking new to pon. Thank you. 🙏🏼
I love the phonetical pun - Lancelot and Plants a lot...
Hehehe 🌝 I’m glad someone appreciates it
The Queen dragon living the pon life 😊.
Wow great video, but did I miss the watering part in pon ? Will the water for Hoya or other plants need to be P.h. Balanced when fertilizers are applied ???
I'm a subscriber, ❤️ your channel !!!!
Heyyy, thanks for the comment 😘 I didn’t even think to include that part lol but you don’t need to adjust the ph of plants in pon. The zeolite is supposed to provide the ideal environment for plants meaning it regulates the ph. I don’t know the science behind this but that’s what Lechuza says anyway 😂 hope that answers your question
New subscriber here. Really appreciate this video. I learned about pon last year from a YT from England and his plant that he converted was one happy sucker. This video was very informative (like his). I recently put about 7 plants in pon (maybe 10) and only 2 are looking a bit unhappy. I suspected that so I am not freaking out. One has good roots and it wasn't doing well in spanish moss, so I moved it to pon. I am expecting it to get better or start showing happier signs within a month (to play it safe). As for the other plant, I think it will get better within a week.
Heyyyy, I’m glad you liked the video!! Just out of curiosity, what are the two plants that aren’t doing well?
@@JosieYapsALot my anthurium crystallinum and my philodendron pink princess. Do you have any thoughts?
@ the pink princess is a surprise and philos tend to be white resilient. As for the anthurium, those tend to like a lot of air to the roots so maybe it finds pon too suffocating? Just a theory, I don’t really know 😂 give it a couple of weeks and hopefully they’ll both bounce back
@@JosieYapsALot Yeah, I’m thinking they are both going to need a moment. With Spring around the corner, I feel they will gather themselves and pull through. Thanks for your response.
Great video, very imformative. Just one question, at around the 10:30 mark you pulled the nursery pot out of decrotative pot with water in, will this not cause root rot as its sat in water? Thanks in advance.
Hey AJ, plants in pon work a little differently than plants in soil. If this plant was to sit in water in soil, yes, it would probably sooner or later develop root rot. However that doesn't happen with plants in pon. The only way your plants can get root rot in pon is if you let the roots dry out too much and then water it (this is called 'dry rot'). So I'd just watch out for that and you should be fine :)
@@JosieYapsALot Ahh thats good and i feel reassured!... Thank you very much for your reply :)
i found this really informative thank you! I do have a quick question tho, is there any plants you wouldn't recommend in general to be housed in pon and leca in general? or is it quite a universal substrate? thanks in advance!
I think I wouldn’t recommend bushy plants like pothos as they are quite difficult to pot up but other than that I can’t really tell you any specific plants. I have most of my alocasias and hoyas in pon and those are doing fine but not many other plants, sorry 😂
Hello
Thank you for your video . Very clear and full of Infos . I have a question ( cause you said in the video that To transfer the plants from soil to PON can be really stressfull and they can also dye ) so what do you suggest ? I would like to try this system with some of My plants but also i m afraid To lose them .... Cause sometimes It s really difficult to clean completely the roots . Also i have repotted some plants some days ago in soil 🙈🙈🙈
Hi, I think I mentioned that it's best to only convert cuttings into pon rather than already established plants. However if you want to convert a plant from soil I'd make sure it's one of the more resilient ones like pothos/philodendron, as those are most likely to succeed. There is a chance of the converted plants doing poorly for a while or dying completely so I wouldn't recommend it but it is possible, hope that helps!
Ok I have a few questions here 😊 I converted all my Hoyas to pon they were all young plants …I did everything right so I thought and have not used a reservoir as yet as they say to wait a couple months … . And now most of my Hoya have root rot 😖😩 is this because I put wet Hoya roots into wet pon and then top watered a week later? I now now so confused and am doubting the whole process . Any help would be appreciated.
Hiiiiii, sorry to hear about your plants! it’s possible that the roots rotted because they were too dry between waterings. Sometimes when they dry out too much and suddenly receive water, it’s too much of a shock for them. I have a water reservoir with all of my hoyas and they are doing well so maybe try that? Hope that helps!
Yes but I think I overwatered them!! U didn’t wait For a few weeks before putting reservoirs ?? Thanks for your reply much appreciated! I just think the wet pon and the wet roots were a bad combination to start with but I will try the reservoirs and c how they go .
I know it recommended not to start with a reservoir but I always do and most of my plants do well.
Can I plant my poinsettia in pon,all so I have christmas cactus I would like to do that one as well,Thank you.
How do I know how much water to put in the reservoir?
Thanks for this super helpful video! I love your pots, and you're super sweet! ☺️🪴
Thank youuuu! Glad you found it helpful! 💕
you can definitely combine the two :3
This really helped, thanks 🌿😊😊
Glad to hear it!
How many plants of 6 inch can you do with 6 lt bag
Do you have any Calatheas in pon?
I do have one calathea in pon but it’s one I transferred from soil because it had root rot and it is not happy 😂🥲
Can I put my poinsettia in pon?
Enjoyed a lot from Japan! What’s your take on using non-drainage hole pot for Pon? Some RUclipsr use that way. Appreciate your input.
And, how often do you replace the water in the pot? A bit worried the water-rot. Thanks!
I find the Lechuza pots pretty ugly too :-)
Haha glad I’m not the only one 😂