OK, this is THE MOST USEFUL DIY SOIL MIX VIDEO. Yes I said that in caps. Thank you! Next step for me is prep a chunky high drainage mix and a small high drainage mix. Then when I'm ready to plant, I can add how ever much bagged soil or sphagnum I think is appropriate to the mix for water retention. At least that's what I got from the video. Plus some laughs. Plus tips on fiddleleaf. Thanks!
As I was watching, every time I thought, "Yeah, but what about...?", you answered the question. Such a useful, thorough video. I also really appreciate your calming demeanor, and that you aren't speed-talking or talking at full volume. It makes it so much easier to absorb the information you're giving and to enjoy learning from you.
Lee...thank you. I needed to repot epiphyllum plant, she is 18" dia and 16" tall pot, she is massively big. She has lots of new growth and she got two new flower buds developing at this time, in which she didn't flowering in 3 years time. But i got 2 buds soon to be flower. I am going to mix soil as per your video for this plant. These types of soil is expensive in the markets. Thanks again. ❤
Finding the right soil for my plants was always a pain in the butt 🤣 especially with cactus, these guys just hate getting new soil for some reason. If I leave them for years in the same pot they are happy but dare me giving them fresh soil 🤣🤦♀ And we actually have one plant who's just to big to give it new soil 🤣 we have one Monstera which is 2m high and 2.5m wide in a 80cm pot with tons of gigantic leaves 🤣 this guy has to sit in his old soil bc there's no way I'm getting this big guy out of the pot 🤣 But speaking of monstera, my uncle once had one, double the size of ours, it was just a huge room with this plant filling it almost up and he actually managed to get it to bloom, I never saw a Monstera bloom, and the flower was gigantic 😳 but it was a one time thing in 50years. Anyways thanks so much for the video! ♥
Great video. My fiddle leaf fig and peace lily needed me to learn more to keep from killing them. I’m still learning but I really appreciate all your advice and videos. They help so much. I’m trying to educate myself on my indoor plants, monstera, peace lily, prayer plant, cactus.
Oh showing us a comparison of how the different mediums drain by pouring over water like that was a really good idea. Helped me to understand better! :D
I’m on my second bag of the repotme aroid mix, and LOVE it. Using that and plastic orchid pots for all my plants, which means things dry out faster, but I don’t mind having to water more frequently.
Yes I do have a really long Monstera I can't report. It big, it's hanging and I have it climbing all around my kitchen and dining area in braches all around the ceiling. So I'm doing the best I can to provide for it. But it looks pretty good. I have another one too climbing around som shelves and I have successfully liftet it with my husband to feed it some more soil. So far so good 😊. Just found your channel and learned so much. Thank you. Now I'm gonna give my Philadendron some poles and maybe repotting some of them again to do it 'right'.
What should I use for pilea mollis? I have coco coir, pumice, cactus/succulent soil, and also worm castings And a friend just gave me some LECA. I never used it before but she said I can crush it up & mix it to make a mix more well draining?
I needed this, because I was falling through the rabbit hole thar is costly soil amendments. Horticultural charcoal is very expensive where I live. Perlite can only be found online, or in small quantities in aquarium shops, as well as pumice. I do invest in 60 L bags of coco coir and perlite, and I plan to invest in 20 L bags of washed sand, and potting soil. I buy big bags of horticultural pine bark (15 - 30 mm) instead of orchids bark, as the latter is quite expensive. I don't reuse soil because I'm not knowledgeable enough about pests yet, and because it is too much hassle. With these ingredients I can make cactus soil, epiphyte soil, hemi-epiphyte soil, and what like to call delicate root system soil. It's still quite an investment, isn't it? Talk about an expensive hobby.
I dont have houseplants beside Aloe but thats also a good video for other plants. I use a well draining soil for my dragonfruits. They are a tropical climbing cactus and love a little more water than other cactus but it should also be well draining especially if you life in a country that have a lot of rain like me in Austria (in the wintertime, my plants are in the basement). In the soil is perlite, clay pebbles, pumice and sand. 1 third is some fluffly pottingmix I bought from a company in the netherlands but I don´t know whats inside besides perlite, but the plants like it
When selecting the best medium for plants use what plants naturally are adapted to, cactus and many plants prefer sandy loam, sand is actually one of the best permanent mediums for plants, peat moss is so dead it can last for about 5 years before final decomposition. Plants prefer natures way, the soil;sand silt and clay combinations are home to their roots, in nature dead and decaying matter is Always on top of soil. Water is essential to plant growth as well as air.
If you just want added drainage then using leca instead of perlite is better. It retains less moisture. Although onestly the difference is very slight so I'd say you need to be knowledgeable enough to know this already to even notice a difference. I myself don't really notice it.
If money was no issue, would you consider using pumice as the only or primary form of substrate? It’s obviously expensive up front, but can be reused for many years.
Put my dracaena in succulent mix? That makes so much sense. I've got a dragon tree I was worrying about. Yeah, gonna need to look in to this more and watch this again.
what do you think about all those coco coir mixes that are all over right now? like everyone seems to hype coco mixes with wormcastings and stuff like its the best thing ever.
Always mix your own, i'll die on this hill. Plant choice isn't the only factor. Your home humidity, your fert schedule, your watering schedule, whether or not you have adhd (i do, it really matters for your ability to make certain schedules work), there are just too many variables for store bought mixes.
I bought a snake plant from a local nursery last month and haven't watered it yet. The moisture meter i got (after watching Sheffield Made Plants) constantly reads wet only for this plant. It is producing new pups, so I'm scared to repot it. I'd also like to try putting in just water with pebbles, cuz I'm terrified of fungus gnats. But i have no idea what kind of soil it's in now, i just know that it's wet and not happy - some of the larger leaves had some nasty brown spots that I had to cut down. What do I do?!
my mother in law wanted to help out around the house when she came to visit and watered my monstera... which I had been bottom feeding because I hadn't changed the soil yet. It was THRIVING this way and I wasn't ready to repot so- if it's not broke don't fix it. Well... when she watered it, from the top, it caused many leaves to turn brown. I clipped some, but I still have damaged leaves and now I'm dealing with yellowing. It's been 5 months since this happened and I'm having a hard time getting it to reset. I'm thinking of repotting it now as it likely needs it, plus give it the proper soil it needs... 2 questions. Can I clip off all the damaged leaves (about 3) and hope it regrows and how long should I wait to do that after repotting?
To clarify there is no specific difference between bottom watering or top watering IF you were fully saturating the soil every time. So there may have been something else going on. I would suggest inspecting the roots, you can also DM me on instagram. Removing dead leaves won't cause them to regrow on a Monstera, unfortunately.
I had a lifesaver plant which I assume is more of a succulent. I changed its soil, it was in a dense soil so I changed it into an aerated soil and it turned yellow and rotted I don’t understand why. Maybe the shock.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's such a cool looking plant. Could have been the shock, you might be right. I try my best to leave succulents alone I only seem to have good luck with them when I leave them in the same pot for 3 years and just use diluted liquid fertilizer.
Is Perlite for plants the same perlite they sell in Hardware stores for way less than half the price? I tried ordering it online here in Europe and Perlite labeled for plants is just to expensive.
@geslinam9703 thank you! I've now gone soilless and I'm using well draining mixes using Coco coir, pumice, sand, perlite, bark, grit, and all sorts of other things!
Hi and thank you for your content, maybe you could upgrade this video with an eco firendly version of soil mix as sphagnium in store bought soi mix is an ecological disaster, maybe only uses coconut bark ?
ruclips.net/video/djxGbg2-HLw/видео.html Canada has world leading ethical harvesting of peat lands. It really would depend on where you get your products from. If I were to buy coconut products the amount of shipping and water usage would be much worse ecologically. You'll have to research what products your own country produces locally (to reduce shipping) and sustainably.
boiling water also works for soil, makes it sterile as hell but, worth it, the only downside is, it keeps the soil compact and traps the heat, and for some reason depending on the ingredients in your soil, can make it neglect water and drain even slower, but reverts after it has completely dried you can also use hydrogen peroxide to sterilize soil without harming the plant, and provides nitrogen like crazy, but im not sure it completely kills off eggs and larvae.
Theres an error, water does Not cause root rot, water in decayed and decaying matter does some things, reduces oxygen in the water and growing medium, increases the sewer gases by increasing decay, if your medium is soil; sand silt and clay roots do not rot because of good water retention and permeability/air flow, Cheers for trying, its not your fault for this, the university and colleges teach that water causes root rot and even though its not true they won’t relent.
Thanks for watching! Remember to check out my soil mix for Monstera and philodendron for a healthier plant.
ruclips.net/video/tPeffsP_K5c/видео.html
Can you post your soil recipe's with rough percentages in the video description for this video and the monstera video please? :)
OK, this is THE MOST USEFUL DIY SOIL MIX VIDEO. Yes I said that in caps. Thank you! Next step for me is prep a chunky high drainage mix and a small high drainage mix. Then when I'm ready to plant, I can add how ever much bagged soil or sphagnum I think is appropriate to the mix for water retention. At least that's what I got from the video. Plus some laughs. Plus tips on fiddleleaf. Thanks!
As I was watching, every time I thought, "Yeah, but what about...?", you answered the question. Such a useful, thorough video.
I also really appreciate your calming demeanor, and that you aren't speed-talking or talking at full volume. It makes it so much easier to absorb the information you're giving and to enjoy learning from you.
This.
Calm demeanor.
I've been around plants my whole life and I have never seen this much detail about the soil. Thank you for sharing
Bro I’ve been definitely looking for a channel like this, well articulated not a bunch of wasteful bla bla, I’m a fan
Hi Leee.. Glad you didn't take 30 mins to let the explanation begin. Your videos are soooo Helpful.
Lee you’re the best plant dad, my plants thank you and so do I ❤
Lee...thank you. I needed to repot epiphyllum plant, she is 18" dia and 16" tall pot, she is massively big. She has lots of new growth and she got two new flower buds developing at this time, in which she didn't flowering in 3 years time. But i got 2 buds soon to be flower. I am going to mix soil as per your video for this plant. These types of soil is expensive in the markets. Thanks again. ❤
one of the best plant channels 👌
Finding the right soil for my plants was always a pain in the butt 🤣 especially with cactus, these guys just hate getting new soil for some reason. If I leave them for years in the same pot they are happy but dare me giving them fresh soil 🤣🤦♀
And we actually have one plant who's just to big to give it new soil 🤣 we have one Monstera which is 2m high and 2.5m wide in a 80cm pot with tons of gigantic leaves 🤣 this guy has to sit in his old soil bc there's no way I'm getting this big guy out of the pot 🤣
But speaking of monstera, my uncle once had one, double the size of ours, it was just a huge room with this plant filling it almost up and he actually managed to get it to bloom, I never saw a Monstera bloom, and the flower was gigantic 😳 but it was a one time thing in 50years.
Anyways thanks so much for the video! ♥
I’ve learned more in this video than the 2 years I’ve started with plants! Thank you
Great video. My fiddle leaf fig and peace lily needed me to learn more to keep from killing them. I’m still learning but I really appreciate all your advice and videos. They help so much. I’m trying to educate myself on my indoor plants, monstera, peace lily, prayer plant, cactus.
Oh showing us a comparison of how the different mediums drain by pouring over water like that was a really good idea. Helped me to understand better! :D
Seriously the best video about this topic I’ve seen. You didn’t just say what to use but you explained why, that’s awesome thank you!
thanks for your precious advices, I re-use old soil outside in the garden, I mix it with new one and worm casting !
I’m on my second bag of the repotme aroid mix, and LOVE it. Using that and plastic orchid pots for all my plants, which means things dry out faster, but I don’t mind having to water more frequently.
"New videos every time I film, edit, and upload a new video" killed me, you ARE my real dad 😂
Yes I do have a really long Monstera I can't report. It big, it's hanging and I have it climbing all around my kitchen and dining area in braches all around the ceiling. So I'm doing the best I can to provide for it. But it looks pretty good. I have another one too climbing around som shelves and I have successfully liftet it with my husband to feed it some more soil. So far so good 😊. Just found your channel and learned so much. Thank you. Now I'm gonna give my Philadendron some poles and maybe repotting some of them again to do it 'right'.
Plant nephew. Great job..I see this is a 3yr ago video Are you still deep into your plants. You're quite informative
Great, easy to digest content. Thank you!
Lee, I watch your videos over and over. I enjoy your content!! Keep on potting Darl!!
The visuals of soil drainage too, perfect!
Great information!!! I have it a thumbs up simply because of your comment about picking off bell peppers from your pizza. 😊
You did an excellent job! You explained everything, and gave great examples.
❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Love it. You explain things so well. For the first time ever, I feel like I stand a chance at becoming a gardener 🤩
Thank you brother!!! I needed this. Keep up the great work 👍🏾
What should I use for pilea mollis? I have coco coir, pumice, cactus/succulent soil, and also worm castings
And a friend just gave me some LECA. I never used it before but she said I can crush it up & mix it to make a mix more well draining?
Fantastic video with so much excellent information! Subscribed!
Thank you for the detailed information and verbal pleasantry.
I always wondered if i should reuse my soil, but always forget to look it up. Thanks for the tips!
Add Compost to old soil
I would suggest using COARSE GRADE perlite
. put a couple inches of it at the bottom of the Pot , and of course throughout the Mix .
Thank you so much! This was very useful!
you're right dude, green bell peppers are disgusting ! great video
Not as bad as pineapple.
They're amazing
Your videos are exceptional my friend, well done!!!
Liked before I even watched, sharp channel bro.
I love your videos, i stumbled on you when i was figuring out my monstera
Great informative video. And now... what is the best soil for indoor EDIBLE plants?
I needed this, because I was falling through the rabbit hole thar is costly soil amendments. Horticultural charcoal is very expensive where I live. Perlite can only be found online, or in small quantities in aquarium shops, as well as pumice. I do invest in 60 L bags of coco coir and perlite, and I plan to invest in 20 L bags of washed sand, and potting soil. I buy big bags of horticultural pine bark (15 - 30 mm) instead of orchids bark, as the latter is quite expensive. I don't reuse soil because I'm not knowledgeable enough about pests yet, and because it is too much hassle. With these ingredients I can make cactus soil, epiphyte soil, hemi-epiphyte soil, and what like to call delicate root system soil. It's still quite an investment, isn't it? Talk about an expensive hobby.
What a well organised and informative guide. Simple and understandable! Thank you. 🫶🏻
this was seriously so helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So useful!! Thank you!🎉
You're so welcome!
Plant-formation.. Dude you are amazing thank you. Hopefully I can get some better results for my Boston Ferns.
i love your channel thank you for all the info and the love for the fun plant hobby!
Yep, you have helped me out a great deal 😊 Thanks!
I'm glad I could help!
Thank you for taking time to comment. I do really appreciate it.
I dont have houseplants beside Aloe but thats also a good video for other plants. I use a well draining soil for my dragonfruits. They are a tropical climbing cactus and love a little more water than other cactus but it should also be well draining especially if you life in a country that have a lot of rain like me in Austria (in the wintertime, my plants are in the basement). In the soil is perlite, clay pebbles, pumice and sand. 1 third is some fluffly pottingmix I bought from a company in the netherlands but I don´t know whats inside besides perlite, but the plants like it
Thank you Lee! I can completely relate to the green peppers on the pizza analogy!! And I have a variety of plants, so this is Very Helpful, peace
Cooking your soil, makes perfect sense since as a child , I used to make mud cakes😂, thanks brother 😊
Love your tutorials. ❤❤❤
Most informative video..thank you🤗🤗🤗😍😍❤❤
When selecting the best medium for plants use what plants naturally are adapted to, cactus and many plants prefer sandy loam, sand is actually one of the best permanent mediums for plants, peat moss is so dead it can last for about 5 years before final decomposition. Plants prefer natures way, the soil;sand silt and clay combinations are home to their roots, in nature dead and decaying matter is Always on top of soil. Water is essential to plant growth as well as air.
Very good info on plants soil thanks
If you just want added drainage then using leca instead of perlite is better. It retains less moisture. Although onestly the difference is very slight so I'd say you need to be knowledgeable enough to know this already to even notice a difference. I myself don't really notice it.
Thanks for the very informative video.
Very informative
If money was no issue, would you consider using pumice as the only or primary form of substrate? It’s obviously expensive up front, but can be reused for many years.
Thank you!!!❤
this is great so helpful thank you!
Excellent! Thank you!
Put my dracaena in succulent mix? That makes so much sense. I've got a dragon tree I was worrying about. Yeah, gonna need to look in to this more and watch this again.
Great video.
Thanks brother 😊
Thanks Lee:)
what do you think about all those coco coir mixes that are all over right now? like everyone seems to hype coco mixes with wormcastings and stuff like its the best thing ever.
10:10 😆 thank you for this! so helpful :)
Question, can I mix Leca instead of wood Bark for better drainage?
Always mix your own, i'll die on this hill. Plant choice isn't the only factor. Your home humidity, your fert schedule, your watering schedule, whether or not you have adhd (i do, it really matters for your ability to make certain schedules work), there are just too many variables for store bought mixes.
Great content on your channel 👉👈
"oo that's the name of the channel :D"
Good video.
What's the ratio you use to make the drainage mix of perlite/orchid/charcoal/coco coir? Is it all 1:1?
I bought a snake plant from a local nursery last month and haven't watered it yet. The moisture meter i got (after watching Sheffield Made Plants) constantly reads wet only for this plant. It is producing new pups, so I'm scared to repot it. I'd also like to try putting in just water with pebbles, cuz I'm terrified of fungus gnats. But i have no idea what kind of soil it's in now, i just know that it's wet and not happy - some of the larger leaves had some nasty brown spots that I had to cut down. What do I do?!
my mother in law wanted to help out around the house when she came to visit and watered my monstera... which I had been bottom feeding because I hadn't changed the soil yet. It was THRIVING this way and I wasn't ready to repot so- if it's not broke don't fix it. Well... when she watered it, from the top, it caused many leaves to turn brown. I clipped some, but I still have damaged leaves and now I'm dealing with yellowing. It's been 5 months since this happened and I'm having a hard time getting it to reset. I'm thinking of repotting it now as it likely needs it, plus give it the proper soil it needs... 2 questions. Can I clip off all the damaged leaves (about 3) and hope it regrows and how long should I wait to do that after repotting?
To clarify there is no specific difference between bottom watering or top watering IF you were fully saturating the soil every time.
So there may have been something else going on. I would suggest inspecting the roots, you can also DM me on instagram.
Removing dead leaves won't cause them to regrow on a Monstera, unfortunately.
I had a lifesaver plant which I assume is more of a succulent. I changed its soil, it was in a dense soil so I changed it into an aerated soil and it turned yellow and rotted I don’t understand why. Maybe the shock.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's such a cool looking plant. Could have been the shock, you might be right. I try my best to leave succulents alone I only seem to have good luck with them when I leave them in the same pot for 3 years and just use diluted liquid fertilizer.
Awesome
Is Perlite for plants the same perlite they sell in Hardware stores for way less than half the price? I tried ordering it online here in Europe and Perlite labeled for plants is just to expensive.
Hi, would you consider making a video on mixing soilless potting mixes? I'm thinking of going soilless to try and get rid of my fungus gnat problem
Try a mix that has less peat moss. You can mix your own, but there are plenty you can buy ready made.
@geslinam9703 thank you! I've now gone soilless and I'm using well draining mixes using Coco coir, pumice, sand, perlite, bark, grit, and all sorts of other things!
I Water from the bottom , and Add a Top Mulch of pebbles and Sprinkle powdered Cinnamon on top . Gnats don't like it
Hi and thank you for your content, maybe you could upgrade this video with an eco firendly version of soil mix as sphagnium in store bought soi mix is an ecological disaster, maybe only uses coconut bark ?
ruclips.net/video/djxGbg2-HLw/видео.html
Canada has world leading ethical harvesting of peat lands. It really would depend on where you get your products from. If I were to buy coconut products the amount of shipping and water usage would be much worse ecologically. You'll have to research what products your own country produces locally (to reduce shipping) and sustainably.
I need help with my soil to get more air in it I have a thailand gaint colocasia and I need help bro
I have 2 large bags of Fox Farm soil would that be ok to use?
boiling water also works for soil, makes it sterile as hell but, worth it, the only downside is, it keeps the soil compact and traps the heat, and for some reason depending on the ingredients in your soil, can make it neglect water and drain even slower, but reverts after it has completely dried
you can also use hydrogen peroxide to sterilize soil without harming the plant, and provides nitrogen like crazy, but im not sure it completely kills off eggs and larvae.
How does hydrogen peroxide increase nitrogen? I thought peroxide was H2O2 which is just hydrogen and oxygen
Okay i juat repotted all my plants in regular soil mix!!! Now i want to amend my soil... Whats the best way to do this without shocking my plants???
@@offplanet740 use 25% of your new soil combined with your old soil on each repot.
Awesome video. Hoping you can do one on fiddle leaf fig tree
It's on the list!
@@KillThisPlant cool...would love to know your potting mix for fiddle tree. Thanks again!
If you check out my aroid soil vid ( ruclips.net/video/tPeffsP_K5c/видео.html ) I use this mix but with maybe 50/60% potting soil.
I subscribed when I heard plant parent haha this is accurate (:
In EU I have no problem finding pumice or lava at good price while perlite price doubled over last few years XD
Can I replace orchid bark with random willow tree bark pieces that I picked up from my garden floor?
I'm all for trying things. I would check to see if willow bark has a high likelihood of rotting first or try a small test plant.
What about mixing LECA with soil??
can i use orchid bark instead of perlite directly?
Yes
What about peace lily?
Theres an error, water does Not cause root rot, water in decayed and decaying matter does some things, reduces oxygen in the water and growing medium, increases the sewer gases by increasing decay, if your medium is soil; sand silt and clay roots do not rot because of good water retention and permeability/air flow, Cheers for trying, its not your fault for this, the university and colleges teach that water causes root rot and even though its not true they won’t relent.
Awesome information! How dare you talk crap on bell peppers though >:(
😉😉
8:05 Are you baking your soil?? No, I'm making mud pies
Thanks for all, my GF says you are my master ahaha
Haha, happy to help!
5:00 or you can use clay balls.
I love pumice
Whhaatt!? I love green peppers on my pizza! 😅lmao
Coco coir is hard to find? Bruh.
The names sickk dogg
Dad :O
Pinaple. That's what you mean. The disgusting things ona pizza. It's pineapple.
That's okay, I'm tossing that old bug infested soil. Thank you