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I live in the south of England and have around 100 houseplants. After watching another video of yours about your aroid mixture, I repotted all of my plants. Almost all of them look tremendously better since. My Sansevieria seem to be on steroids since the repotting. My Calathea have never looked better. I had an issue with fungus gnats before the aroid mixture and now they are non existent in my home. Watering my plants is so quick and easy now, whereas before it felt like work. Everything is so much more organized and fun since discovering your channel just a few months ago. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's been a real game changer for me.
Lava rock is pretty available over here in the US because we often use it for landscaping and in grills too. If you look for plant stuff, it'll be more expensive to find, so look for landscaping lava rock. We also often use it as a biomedium for aquarium filters. Good bacteria loves to live on it- and it's cheaper than a lot of other biomediums like ceramic rings
It's so common here, I found a HUGE bag of grilling lava rock in a thrift store of all places. Do keep in mind quality though, some of it is gonna be finer textured than others. For example, I also recently bought a bag of lava rock meant for piling into a decorative gas fireplace, and it was WAY heavier and less porous than the charcoal rock.
I ran into the same issue when researching the whole activated/non-activated charcoal thing. I ended up buying a random bag of 100% charcoal meant for the BBQ (make sure it is not briquettes or something to that effect, just plain charcoal) and I smash it up into smaller chunks (outdoors and wearing a mask) and use it for my substrate mixes. I can add a larger amount of it this way as it is much more affordable, and so far my plants seem to like it (I've been using it for over a year).
@@alexiasmith6120so long as there is absolutely no accelerant at all. So if it started out as just (untreated)wood or if you purchased a bag of charcoal which specified it was made of only wood without accelerant, it’s perfectly fine to use. If it’s for indoor plants, I’d give it a little rinse first.:)
Love the video.. Just a little bit about oxygen in water.. Plants (and other aquatic life like fish) don't take away the oxygen from H2O molecules when they breathe it. Water can have dissolved oxygen gas in it, and this is what aquatic life breathes. Loose O2 molecules can stay suspended in water for very long periods of time, and can be an indicator for the suitability of water for aquatic life. Which is why water propagations need to have their water changed once a week, as the dissolved oxygen levels decrease. Often times, an aquarium air bubbler can circumvent this reduction, but it's still better to change the water instead to prevent algae build up. Hope this helps! :)
Great video Jan...lotsa fun to watch. Apparently if you use a fire pit or fireplace in which you get charcoal from burnt wood you can use this as long as it doesn't have any organic matter or fats etc mixed into it. Emman (from Emman's Garden on RUclips) does it all the time for her orchids and they thrive.
I mainly use pine bark (mulch actually, huge 50L bag for 6 bucks), perlite and lava rock. For some harder to find ingredients I go to fish and reptile stores - aquarium and terrarium stuff is great.
Thank you for this video! I'm a chemist and I would like to make a small comment concerning one sentence you said in the beginning of the video. I hope this not rude and if it is, I apologize. You said it is important to have oxygen in the potting mix for the aeration. In this case, we're speaking about atmospheric oxygen (O2, which is made from two oxygen atoms bonded together, we should call it dioxigen to be rigorous). The oxygen atom in water (H2O) is bonded with the two hydrogen atoms and is not O2, so it is not available for plants and does not contribute to the aeration of water when you're rooting a cutting. I hope this comment is ok, I really like the very rational processes behind your plant care so I thought this information could interest you.
Although what you said about the oxygen being bounded to the hydrogen atoms is true, there is also dissolved oxygen in water, free to be used by every living organism
I'm with you! Quick draining chunky mix for most of my plants! I even used it in 2 baby ferns that needed some help with their root system and viola! They are doing beautifully! I end up watering them twice a week, but I love tending to them.
Watching you inspired me to make my own potting area and have my different substrates in bins, it’s SO CONVENIENT. But my deck is a mess, had to buy another broom 🧹
I don't even want to think about the time I spent watching other videos on mixing various substrates and making lists of 40% of this, 25% of that, 20% of the other thing, and 15% of something else. In the next video, another grower would use different materials in different percentages, and each felt like theirs was the best. Your approach is so much more realistic. Thanks!
Hi Jan :).... Your plants are looking so stunning.....those roots are just as amazing.....Looking forward to a mix video again....I have all my seperate ingredients so this will give me the motivation to mix and start some long needed repots! Thanks for all your hard work...your channel always brings so much joy :)
So, I know nothing about how charcoal effects plants, but I have a fishpond and I can tell you what it does for them! Charcoal is activated by adding it to salted water, which aerates the stone to literally release air bubbles when it’s saturated by water again. Non-activated means it’s unsalted and therefore, not aerated. When added to the water, it absorbs impurities and co2 and converts it to oxygen, so we add it to the final chamber of our pond filter. It helps keep the algae down and the nitrates from being too high, and in florida that’s a necessity. I’m assuming it also releases oxygen to your plants when you water, however I’m not sure of the benefits of it if it’s inactivated, beyond maybe the nitrate absorption.
Substrate mixen ist auch schon eine Wissenschaft für sich 😃 Ich experimentiere da auch immer gern herum. Ich bin vor etwa 2-3 Jahren nahezu vollständig auf Hydrokultur mit Blähton umgestiegen, weil es das Gießen so viel einfacher macht und solche anorganischen Substrate einen Befall mit Trauermücken unmöglich machen. Keine Ahnung, ob es die auch in Australien gibt, aber in Deutschland sind die allgegenwärtig wo auch feuchte Erde ist. Kommen die einmal ins Haus, verbreiten die sich wie blöd. Später habe ich viele Pflanzen auf Seramis umgestellt. Das ist auch ein Tonsubstrat, funktioniert aber anders als der Blähton und ist auch nicht als Hydrokultur geeignet. Das gießt man ganz normal und die einzelnen Tonsteinchen speichern das Wasser dann. Zuletzt habe ich noch mineralisches Substrat probiert. Das besteht aus Lava, Bims und Zeolith. Das ist im Vergleich zu den Tonsubstraten allerdings recht schwer, da muss man etwas aufpassen. Bei einer Pflanze hat es die Wurzeln irgendwie zerdrückt. Oft mische ich auch Seramis und mineralisches. Die einzige Pflanze, die ich wieder zurück in einen Erdsubstrat-Mix gesetzt habe (Zimmerpflanzenerde mit mineralsichen Substrat aufgelockert), war meine Calathea crocata. Ich hatte das Gefühl, die mochte das Seramis nicht so gern. Aber allen anderen scheint das Substrat weitgehend egal zu sein, was aber sicher auch an den ähnlichen Eigenschaften liegt. Alle halten die Wurzeln feucht, während gleichzeitig super viel Luft durch zirkuliert. Ich habe mich ne zeitlang etwas "verrückt" gemacht, was den pH-Wert angeht, da Blähton diesen mit der Zeit erhöht und bei Pflanzen die Nährstoffaufnahme hemmt. Da man ja aber ständig neues Wasser gibt und dieses nicht Monate lang im Topf lässt, ist das mit dem steigenden pH-Wert eigentlich hinfällig. Meine Orchideen habe ich auch eine Zeit mit Blähton als Hydrokultur gehalten, was super funktioniert. Man muss nur schauen, dass die Wurzeln nicht unten im Wasserreservoir sind. Aktuell stehen meine Orchideen aber in Sphagnum und auch das gefällt ihnen gut. Ich verwende auch nur unglasierte Tontöpfe, die gewähren nochmal zusätzlich Zirkulation im Wurzelraum und sehen auch einfach klasse aus :D
I read that BBQ charcoal has added chemical ingredients which aid combustion, but can be harmful to plants. And I'll take a Margarita please, no salt. Cheers.
Does anyone in the US have any links for where to purchase these products? I have had really really bad luck buying from Amazon, and the big box stores don't have the right mix for me. The local plant stores that actually carry these items only sell them in super small quantities. Filling up an entire tote like Jan has would probably cost me $1000
bartender jan. i'll have two shots of perlite, please. thank you for this video - it's a very concise and helpful explanation of all things related to aroids and potting. 😊
Hi great informative video and nice done - definitely enjoy watching you having fun with the process. I recommend using fern fiber for propagation - i have been doing all my propagation in fern fiber with close to 100% success (including tip cuttings- I notice you have problems with these) - I use straight fern fiber on a heat mat in high humidity - would be fine without the heat (just a bit slower) but humidity impt - so maybe in the cabinet. Much easier as no messy frequent water changes.
I am learning so much from your videos. I like that you make everything make sense to how plants work and what they need. I live in the states and l am just starting to get into paying better attention to my plants. I also love learning about all the different types of plants. Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊😊
Greetings from Seattle, US Horticultural charcoal is not entirely the same as grilling charcoal. most grilling charcoal have flammable agents/properties added into them. Unless you know how the charcoal is made, It's best to keep using Horticultural Charcoal. Great videos and Thank you for constantly sharing.
coco peat is not actually shredded into tiny bits they are actually the dust/meat from the coco fiber when u tore it apart they just fall from the fiber...
Was given a cuprea. Ut looks leggy compared to the size of the leaf. Is this normal? I see your and it’s a stunner. I have already reported and feed weekly. Any help?
Afaik horticultural charcoal gets cooled rapidly with water. This causes it to form many small bubbles, increasing surface area and such water and especially nutrient retention. For most non-aroids (and some aroids too, like caladium) really appreciate a mix of just coco peat and perlite, about 1:1. Even my more succulent-y plants like my hoyas and my jade plant really like it, but I let them dry out quite a bite between waterings...
I use lightweight expanded clay Pebbles more as a soil amendment than I do as a growing medium. I do find them as well as perlite as a rooting medium quite helpful because then I can just add them to a chunky growing mediums
This is great, you explained everything so well so I learned so much. I'm a little bit obsessed right now with making my own aroid mix. A very good excuse to be playing in the dirt.🌋🏖🌅🌱
Hi Jan, wonder have you ever explored combining your aroid mix with wicking rope for self watering convenience? if you have tried, how was your experience? I have my monstera thai constellation on aroid mix, and I am exploring to set it up as self watering (adding a wicking rope through the mix at halfway point and having a water reservoir below)
Your video is very educational. In glad my ingredients are not very far from yours. I reside in a tropical island. We may have similar conditions. I use chuncky pearlite, charcoal, coco chips, vermiculite and peat mix for my potting mix. I use the smaller perlite for smaller plants. I just change the ratio depending on the type of plant im potting. Oh and I also sometimes use those round brown rocks that looks like LECA.. i think it is LECA but its called Orchid Rocks here...
Fellow Europeans 🙋♀ where do you guys buy quality ingredients? I went to a pet and aquarium store the other day, they have a lot of stuff similar to the ingredients used here. Any helpful experiences? Also: amazing video, thank you for your attention to detail and the comprehensive explanations!
It seems to me that sand from the beach (besides the point thats its better to leave it there) is salt, so thats not good for your plants. You need 'sweet' sand.
Thanks for the brain download, so much interesting and informative content. For those in the UK & Europe Soil Ninja is excellent to buy substrate from.
I believe orchid bark is pine bark that eas treated so it can be used as a potting medium. It might depends on what the wood chips might be treated with. It could cause some ph imbalances. I have never used wood chips so can’t speak from experience though :)
thank you so much for all the information! I would like to ask two things: 1- when repotting do you preserve the original medium or changes it all? 2- what do you do with obsolete substrate? it goes to the trash or can we reuse it somehow? thanks a lot and greetings from brazil. im just starting my urban jungle here :) the channel is helping a lot!
I LOVE Buddy Stone! It's like pumice but made from recycled glass from landfills. It's great for aroid mix and also as LECA. I'm in the US so I'm not sure if it's available in other countries but check it out. A bag that is the size of my torso weighed less than 5 pounds and was around USD 30.
36:46 absolutely heavenly! I need all of my plants to drain this way!! Beautiful! I have a lot of smaller pots. For example 4", 6" and some 8" pots of basic pothos and Philodendrons. I seem to get root rot frequently. It's been better but still not as great as I'd like. I'm hoping that I can use some of the information in this video to help my plants be happy and healthy. 😊
What an excellent and professional tutorial Jan! I have learned so much from you! The only Alocasias I have right now are Frydeks. Thanks to you and your chunky mix tips, all 3 Frydeks are thriving! Mine never went dormant during winter and all are sporting at least 6-7 huge leaves each with constant new leaves still coming. No signs of older leaves dying off. My goal is FRYDEK TREES...no 3 leaf Frydeks in this house. Thank you! ❤🙌🌳
6:29 This is a common misconception. The oxygen atom in a water molecule is not the same as a molecule of oxygen in the air. There is some molecular oxygen dissolved in water though. The reason plants are able to root in water is because in water there are less microbes that compete for the molecular oxygen than in soil. Additionally, water roots are different from soil roots.
Adorei! ❤ Vou procurar os ingredientes aqui no Brasil, espero encontrar a maioria. A dica do final, para não usar terra foi sensacional também. Obrigada por compartilhar seu conhecimento 😊
Jan loved the video and since getting in the US GT Foliage solution my plants are looking so much better. I’ve been mixing lately pon, tree fern and perlite to very good success but I do want to try the orchiata. Love your set up💚
Thank you so much for this video, the best I've found on how to choose the appropriate mixes for my plants. ❤ I'm prone to underwatering, so I guess super chunky is not for me right? 😅 I've yet to kill any of my plants due to root rot.
Fantastic video very informative as always. The tree fern fibre is a game changer for me, I am rooting, and growing Hoya in it, as well as some rather expensive ( expensive for me) seedling Anthuriums they 💚 it the roots are amazing and grow so quickly!
I love this, thank you so much!! Very informative and structured really well. Definitely have learnt more from watching this, which made me think things in perspective about my plants and mixes. Luv it!
Wonderful video, great info. Is the "black volcano rock" you referred to Fluval Stratum? It is from volcanos, looks a lot like caviar. It is amazing for many uses. I found it when pink princess cuttings were super slow to root. Put them in stratum, not only do cutting root quickly, but it also helps fight root rot. Everything roots faster in it. More people are starting to use it as their substrate when cuttings are at plant stage. I have a few plants in it, I don't think it's what I want to grow in, I prefer a mix much closer to yours. But, I'm still new to plants, trying many things. I love your videos, you have helped this plant newbie so much. Thank you!
🌱🥂💚 I would be a regular at your " plant bar" 😹 Great set up you have organized there. Thanks again for the esthetic, informative, easy to follow video!😻
Fantastic video as always! Because I listen to your videos on the iPad and my husband doesn’t know any plant terms he now says node with your accent. Don’t get me wrong, I adore your accent but it made me chuckle.
the crazy fact about potting mix is actually you can plant your aroid in "only" one substrate (pumice only, coco chips only) and they will grow the same compared with another "complicated mix with a lot of ingredients" (as long as we provide nutrient, right care and ideal environment), I've done so much experiments about this complicated and grandio stuff, and this is my existential conclusion. haha
Jan, I want to know where your containers and shelves are from! I started getting my soil amendments in bulk but storing them in a small apartment is proving difficult. (Aussie city rents, am I right?) Your set up looks like it might be perfect for my new balcony though!
Would you ever pot straight from propagation seedling in water to moss poles? I have about 10 monstera cuttings which are in water with secondary roots and ready to go, but after watching this I'm wondering if you would put them in different mix for a while before moving to the pole?
I found this video super helpful. The info for the mix of smaller plants will help me with my smaller syngoniums. I also realized I was using too much of a chunky aroid mix for my alocasia purple sword.
sending love from the States...I learn so much from you and you get credit for every moss pole I make and grow my Airoids on...I created 20ish over our long New England winter and it kept me sane!...thanks a million for sharing your hobby and learning experiences!...x
I know you had to move out of your apartment, and it probably seemed like a pain in the ass at the time, but this new home is serving you (and Brett) very, very well! :)
Wowwww. You're amazing , thank you...Can you tell me where you buy your clear pots for planting plz? I have a tendency of buying large pots for all my plants when i watched your videos, i've been doing it wrong all along...
Water *is* H2O-but the oxygen in that molecule is bound to hydrogen and unavailable to the plant. However, there is molecular oxygen in the form of O2 from the atmosphere dissolved in the water. Small correction but thanks for the video!
I love the creativity in this video! Like how you showed each potting amendment in reverse every time you would talk about it. Definitely leveling up the content!👏🏽
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Love the bar-keeping intro, so creative! 😂❤
All those years of working as a bar tender finally came in handy haha :D
Yes! So fun, I loved the little syngonium garnish. Permanent intro maybe?? Lol
More a Bark-eeping Intro haha
Agreed - very clever!
@@sydneyplantguy I want to tell you a bar tender 😊 please can u write for us what u mixing because you mix a lot THX
I live in the south of England and have around 100 houseplants. After watching another video of yours about your aroid mixture, I repotted all of my plants. Almost all of them look tremendously better since. My Sansevieria seem to be on steroids since the repotting. My Calathea have never looked better. I had an issue with fungus gnats before the aroid mixture and now they are non existent in my home. Watering my plants is so quick and easy now, whereas before it felt like work. Everything is so much more organized and fun since discovering your channel just a few months ago. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's been a real game changer for me.
Omg that made my day!!! Thanks so much for your comment :) happy growing!! :)
I love in east of England. Where do you recommend getting all the 'soil' from please?
the best part about this is that he was holding the scoop and still used his hands to grab each ingredient.
habits :D
Lava rock is pretty available over here in the US because we often use it for landscaping and in grills too. If you look for plant stuff, it'll be more expensive to find, so look for landscaping lava rock.
We also often use it as a biomedium for aquarium filters. Good bacteria loves to live on it- and it's cheaper than a lot of other biomediums like ceramic rings
It's so common here, I found a HUGE bag of grilling lava rock in a thrift store of all places. Do keep in mind quality though, some of it is gonna be finer textured than others. For example, I also recently bought a bag of lava rock meant for piling into a decorative gas fireplace, and it was WAY heavier and less porous than the charcoal rock.
I ran into the same issue when researching the whole activated/non-activated charcoal thing. I ended up buying a random bag of 100% charcoal meant for the BBQ (make sure it is not briquettes or something to that effect, just plain charcoal) and I smash it up into smaller chunks (outdoors and wearing a mask) and use it for my substrate mixes. I can add a larger amount of it this way as it is much more affordable, and so far my plants seem to like it (I've been using it for over a year).
Can I use regular charcoal? Since I made a fire almost every day in my back porch and have plenty of charcoal
Thanks for sharing :)
@@alexiasmith6120so long as there is absolutely no accelerant at all. So if it started out as just (untreated)wood or if you purchased a bag of charcoal which specified it was made of only wood without accelerant, it’s perfectly fine to use. If it’s for indoor plants, I’d give it a little rinse first.:)
@@alexiasmith6120 You can use charcoal meant for aquariums
You want to use natural lump charcoal, not the little formed briquettes.
Love the video.. Just a little bit about oxygen in water.. Plants (and other aquatic life like fish) don't take away the oxygen from H2O molecules when they breathe it. Water can have dissolved oxygen gas in it, and this is what aquatic life breathes. Loose O2 molecules can stay suspended in water for very long periods of time, and can be an indicator for the suitability of water for aquatic life. Which is why water propagations need to have their water changed once a week, as the dissolved oxygen levels decrease. Often times, an aquarium air bubbler can circumvent this reduction, but it's still better to change the water instead to prevent algae build up. Hope this helps! :)
Great video Jan...lotsa fun to watch. Apparently if you use a fire pit or fireplace in which you get charcoal from burnt wood you can use this as long as it doesn't have any organic matter or fats etc mixed into it. Emman (from Emman's Garden on RUclips) does it all the time for her orchids and they thrive.
I mainly use pine bark (mulch actually, huge 50L bag for 6 bucks), perlite and lava rock. For some harder to find ingredients I go to fish and reptile stores - aquarium and terrarium stuff is great.
LMAO I'm definitely asking for a syngonium garnish next time I order a drink 😂❤
That should be standard at every aroid mix bar :P
Thank you for this video! I'm a chemist and I would like to make a small comment concerning one sentence you said in the beginning of the video. I hope this not rude and if it is, I apologize. You said it is important to have oxygen in the potting mix for the aeration. In this case, we're speaking about atmospheric oxygen (O2, which is made from two oxygen atoms bonded together, we should call it dioxigen to be rigorous). The oxygen atom in water (H2O) is bonded with the two hydrogen atoms and is not O2, so it is not available for plants and does not contribute to the aeration of water when you're rooting a cutting. I hope this comment is ok, I really like the very rational processes behind your plant care so I thought this information could interest you.
Thank you for clarifying :) appreciate it :)
Although what you said about the oxygen being bounded to the hydrogen atoms is true, there is also dissolved oxygen in water, free to be used by every living organism
I'm with you! Quick draining chunky mix for most of my plants! I even used it in 2 baby ferns that needed some help with their root system and viola! They are doing beautifully! I end up watering them twice a week, but I love tending to them.
Love it chunky !!!
Watching you inspired me to make my own potting area and have my different substrates in bins, it’s SO CONVENIENT. But my deck is a mess, had to buy another broom 🧹
I don't even want to think about the time I spent watching other videos on mixing various substrates and making lists of 40% of this, 25% of that, 20% of the other thing, and 15% of something else. In the next video, another grower would use different materials in different percentages, and each felt like theirs was the best. Your approach is so much more realistic. Thanks!
Thank you:)
Hi Jan :).... Your plants are looking so stunning.....those roots are just as amazing.....Looking forward to a mix video again....I have all my seperate ingredients so this will give me the motivation to mix and start some long needed repots! Thanks for all your hard work...your channel always brings so much joy :)
Thank you so much :)
So, I know nothing about how charcoal effects plants, but I have a fishpond and I can tell you what it does for them! Charcoal is activated by adding it to salted water, which aerates the stone to literally release air bubbles when it’s saturated by water again. Non-activated means it’s unsalted and therefore, not aerated. When added to the water, it absorbs impurities and co2 and converts it to oxygen, so we add it to the final chamber of our pond filter. It helps keep the algae down and the nitrates from being too high, and in florida that’s a necessity. I’m assuming it also releases oxygen to your plants when you water, however I’m not sure of the benefits of it if it’s inactivated, beyond maybe the nitrate absorption.
That makes a lot of sense !! Cheers :)
I really didn't expect to watch the whole thing but here I am at the end. Very helpful though thank you!
Thanks :)
Substrate mixen ist auch schon eine Wissenschaft für sich 😃 Ich experimentiere da auch immer gern herum. Ich bin vor etwa 2-3 Jahren nahezu vollständig auf Hydrokultur mit Blähton umgestiegen, weil es das Gießen so viel einfacher macht und solche anorganischen Substrate einen Befall mit Trauermücken unmöglich machen. Keine Ahnung, ob es die auch in Australien gibt, aber in Deutschland sind die allgegenwärtig wo auch feuchte Erde ist. Kommen die einmal ins Haus, verbreiten die sich wie blöd. Später habe ich viele Pflanzen auf Seramis umgestellt. Das ist auch ein Tonsubstrat, funktioniert aber anders als der Blähton und ist auch nicht als Hydrokultur geeignet. Das gießt man ganz normal und die einzelnen Tonsteinchen speichern das Wasser dann. Zuletzt habe ich noch mineralisches Substrat probiert. Das besteht aus Lava, Bims und Zeolith. Das ist im Vergleich zu den Tonsubstraten allerdings recht schwer, da muss man etwas aufpassen. Bei einer Pflanze hat es die Wurzeln irgendwie zerdrückt. Oft mische ich auch Seramis und mineralisches. Die einzige Pflanze, die ich wieder zurück in einen Erdsubstrat-Mix gesetzt habe (Zimmerpflanzenerde mit mineralsichen Substrat aufgelockert), war meine Calathea crocata. Ich hatte das Gefühl, die mochte das Seramis nicht so gern. Aber allen anderen scheint das Substrat weitgehend egal zu sein, was aber sicher auch an den ähnlichen Eigenschaften liegt. Alle halten die Wurzeln feucht, während gleichzeitig super viel Luft durch zirkuliert. Ich habe mich ne zeitlang etwas "verrückt" gemacht, was den pH-Wert angeht, da Blähton diesen mit der Zeit erhöht und bei Pflanzen die Nährstoffaufnahme hemmt. Da man ja aber ständig neues Wasser gibt und dieses nicht Monate lang im Topf lässt, ist das mit dem steigenden pH-Wert eigentlich hinfällig. Meine Orchideen habe ich auch eine Zeit mit Blähton als Hydrokultur gehalten, was super funktioniert. Man muss nur schauen, dass die Wurzeln nicht unten im Wasserreservoir sind. Aktuell stehen meine Orchideen aber in Sphagnum und auch das gefällt ihnen gut. Ich verwende auch nur unglasierte Tontöpfe, die gewähren nochmal zusätzlich Zirkulation im Wurzelraum und sehen auch einfach klasse aus :D
I read that BBQ charcoal has added chemical ingredients which aid combustion, but can be harmful to plants. And I'll take a Margarita please, no salt. Cheers.
Hello,
Can I use spaghnum moss instead of microfibre for my moss pole filling?
Thank you and have a nice day
Most if my poles are filled with sphagnum moss :)
Does anyone in the US have any links for where to purchase these products? I have had really really bad luck buying from Amazon, and the big box stores don't have the right mix for me. The local plant stores that actually carry these items only sell them in super small quantities. Filling up an entire tote like Jan has would probably cost me $1000
I just made my very first moss pole yesterday. It was so fun. Thank you
Happy planting :)
bartender jan. i'll have two shots of perlite, please.
thank you for this video - it's a very concise and helpful explanation of all things related to aroids and potting. 😊
Thank you!! :)
Thanks for the long, comprehensive video Jan!
Your channel + SwedishPlantGuys is all anyone ever needs when it comes to plants! 😊
Thank you :)
Hi great informative video and nice done - definitely enjoy watching you having fun with the process. I recommend using fern fiber for propagation - i have been doing all my propagation in fern fiber with close to 100% success (including tip cuttings- I notice you have problems with these) - I use straight fern fiber on a heat mat in high humidity - would be fine without the heat (just a bit slower) but humidity impt - so maybe in the cabinet. Much easier as no messy frequent water changes.
I am learning so much from your videos. I like that you make everything make sense to how plants work and what they need. I live in the states and l am just starting to get into paying better attention to my plants. I also love learning about all the different types of plants. Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊😊
What a brilliant video. I enjoyed every moment. So easy to understand. Looking forward to more tutorials.
Thank you :)
Wah... alocasia cuprea super big 🥰😍😘
Greetings from Seattle, US
Horticultural charcoal is not entirely the same as grilling charcoal. most grilling charcoal have flammable agents/properties added into them. Unless you know how the charcoal is made, It's best to keep using Horticultural Charcoal.
Great videos and Thank you for constantly sharing.
Thanks for clarifying :)
I was like -: where’s soil !!😂😂
coco peat is not actually shredded into tiny bits they are actually the dust/meat from the coco fiber when u tore it apart they just fall from the fiber...
Was given a cuprea. Ut looks leggy compared to the size of the leaf. Is this normal? I see your and it’s a stunner. I have already reported and feed weekly. Any help?
Might be looking for more light :)
Afaik horticultural charcoal gets cooled rapidly with water. This causes it to form many small bubbles, increasing surface area and such water and especially nutrient retention.
For most non-aroids (and some aroids too, like caladium) really appreciate a mix of just coco peat and perlite, about 1:1. Even my more succulent-y plants like my hoyas and my jade plant really like it, but I let them dry out quite a bite between waterings...
I use lightweight expanded clay Pebbles more as a soil amendment than I do as a growing medium. I do find them as well as perlite as a rooting medium quite helpful because then I can just add them to a chunky growing mediums
Sounds like a great idea :)
Hello from Denmark. Really enjoy watching your videos...🙂
Hueys Mixing Adventure
I prefer big soil ingredients bcs I hate clean my house after repotting 😅
I use pumice, perlite and pine bark and it works 🎉
Jan, thank you so much for such an in depth video! I’m looooving the new space and enjoying “ hanging out” in your courtyard with you! ✨🪴✨
Thank you Jill :)
I am a Flight Attendant gone for a few days. I have lights on timers. Would this soil mixture work in self watering pots?
As long as the mix has water retention capacity it should work :) best to choose the medium based on the plant, not the vessel.
Yes. Shaken not stirred
This is great, you explained everything so well so I learned so much. I'm a little bit obsessed right now with making my own aroid mix. A very good excuse to be playing in the dirt.🌋🏖🌅🌱
Hi Jan, wonder have you ever explored combining your aroid mix with wicking rope for self watering convenience? if you have tried, how was your experience? I have my monstera thai constellation on aroid mix, and I am exploring to set it up as self watering (adding a wicking rope through the mix at halfway point and having a water reservoir below)
I personally haven’t :) i usually top water :)
I use Jan's mix and use self watering pots as I can't keep up with watering. Chunky mix is fine with self water pots with wick
Your video is very educational. In glad my ingredients are not very far from yours. I reside in a tropical island. We may have similar conditions. I use chuncky pearlite, charcoal, coco chips, vermiculite and peat mix for my potting mix. I use the smaller perlite for smaller plants. I just change the ratio depending on the type of plant im potting. Oh and I also sometimes use those round brown rocks that looks like LECA.. i think it is LECA but its called Orchid Rocks here...
Fellow Europeans 🙋♀
where do you guys buy quality ingredients?
I went to a pet and aquarium store the other day, they have a lot of stuff similar to the ingredients used here.
Any helpful experiences?
Also: amazing video, thank you for your attention to detail and the comprehensive explanations!
Thank you:)
I order from Soil Ninja and Sybotanica
It seems to me that sand from the beach (besides the point thats its better to leave it there) is salt, so thats not good for your plants. You need 'sweet' sand.
Makes sense :) we want that sweet sweet sand !!!
Thanks for the brain download, so much interesting and informative content. For those in the UK & Europe Soil Ninja is excellent to buy substrate from.
Thanks for sharing :)
Genius. X Thank you. The most comprehensive information on the Internet.
Thank you for great information. Can orchid bark be substituted with wood chips?
I believe orchid bark is pine bark that eas treated so it can be used as a potting medium. It might depends on what the wood chips might be treated with. It could cause some ph imbalances. I have never used wood chips so can’t speak from experience though :)
Where do you get your clear nursery pots from? @sydneyplantguy
OMG! One potting mix on the rocks please! 😅
thank you so much for all the information! I would like to ask two things:
1- when repotting do you preserve the original medium or changes it all?
2- what do you do with obsolete substrate? it goes to the trash or can we reuse it somehow?
thanks a lot and greetings from brazil. im just starting my urban jungle here :)
the channel is helping a lot!
Casca de Pinus
Pedra Pomes
Perlita
Coco chip
Sfagno
Fibra de coco
Vermiculita
Carvão
Areia
I LOVE Buddy Stone! It's like pumice but made from recycled glass from landfills. It's great for aroid mix and also as LECA. I'm in the US so I'm not sure if it's available in other countries but check it out. A bag that is the size of my torso weighed less than 5 pounds and was around USD 30.
Black lava rock is heavier than pumice
36:46 absolutely heavenly! I need all of my plants to drain this way!! Beautiful! I have a lot of smaller pots. For example 4", 6" and some 8" pots of basic pothos and Philodendrons. I seem to get root rot frequently. It's been better but still not as great as I'd like. I'm hoping that I can use some of the information in this video to help my plants be happy and healthy. 😊
What an excellent and professional tutorial Jan! I have learned so much from you! The only Alocasias I have right now are Frydeks. Thanks to you and your chunky mix tips, all 3 Frydeks are thriving! Mine never went dormant during winter and all are sporting at least 6-7 huge leaves each with constant new leaves still coming. No signs of older leaves dying off. My goal is FRYDEK TREES...no 3 leaf Frydeks in this house. Thank you! ❤🙌🌳
Amazing !! So glad so hear you’re getting good results :)
6:29 This is a common misconception. The oxygen atom in a water molecule is not the same as a molecule of oxygen in the air. There is some molecular oxygen dissolved in water though. The reason plants are able to root in water is because in water there are less microbes that compete for the molecular oxygen than in soil. Additionally, water roots are different from soil roots.
Thanks for clarifying
Adorei! ❤ Vou procurar os ingredientes aqui no Brasil, espero encontrar a maioria. A dica do final, para não usar terra foi sensacional também. Obrigada por compartilhar seu conhecimento 😊
Jan loved the video and since getting in the US GT Foliage solution my plants are looking so much better. I’ve been mixing lately pon, tree fern and perlite to very good success but I do want to try the orchiata. Love your set up💚
Thank you :)
"Shaken, not stirred" 😂😂😂 I'm here for it!
I would think fish tank charcoal (used in the filters) would be acceptable
Thank you so much for this video, the best I've found on how to choose the appropriate mixes for my plants. ❤ I'm prone to underwatering, so I guess super chunky is not for me right? 😅 I've yet to kill any of my plants due to root rot.
Can somebody please let me know if I can foliar feed my monstera with liquid fertilizer?
You can use the foliage focus in weak dillution as a foliar spray :)
@@sydneyplantguy Thanks my man!🖖
Fantastic video very informative as always. The tree fern fibre is a game changer for me, I am rooting, and growing Hoya in it, as well as some rather expensive ( expensive for me) seedling Anthuriums they 💚 it the roots are amazing and grow so quickly!
Thank you for this video!!
I really can benefit from it.
That intro alone made me subscribed. Love a dirty potting mix, martini.😂
Looks like my aquarium mixes.
Meanwhile my potted plants get whatever dirt & compost is in the yard. =p
Cuprea so so beautiful . HERMOSA
Can’t believe how neat and tidy he is! Get a life already 😂
I got a life, it’s just neat & tidy!! Who likes sitting in their own mess ?! 🤷🏻♂️
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I love this, thank you so much!! Very informative and structured really well. Definitely have learnt more from watching this, which made me think things in perspective about my plants and mixes. Luv it!
OMG!!! Seriously the BEST video! Thank you for being so thorough and also for being so EXTRA!!!
Thanks :)
This was so helpful! You have definitely inspired me to stop using store bought soil and start making my own!!
Happy growing :)
Never use sand from the beach, it has salt in it and thats not good for your plants.
That makes total sense !! Good to know :) cheers
Wonderful video, great info. Is the "black volcano rock" you referred to Fluval Stratum? It is from volcanos, looks a lot like caviar. It is amazing for many uses. I found it when pink princess cuttings were super slow to root. Put them in stratum, not only do cutting root quickly, but it also helps fight root rot. Everything roots faster in it. More people are starting to use it as their substrate when cuttings are at plant stage. I have a few plants in it, I don't think it's what I want to grow in, I prefer a mix much closer to yours. But, I'm still new to plants, trying many things. I love your videos, you have helped this plant newbie so much. Thank you!
I think so :)
Is that accent.. Dutch and Australian??
German/Australian
🌱🥂💚 I would be a regular at your " plant bar" 😹 Great set up you have organized there. Thanks again for the esthetic, informative, easy to follow video!😻
Fantastic video as always! Because I listen to your videos on the iPad and my husband doesn’t know any plant terms he now says node with your accent. Don’t get me wrong, I adore your accent but it made me chuckle.
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the crazy fact about potting mix is actually you can plant your aroid in "only" one substrate (pumice only, coco chips only) and they will grow the same compared with another "complicated mix with a lot of ingredients" (as long as we provide nutrient, right care and ideal environment), I've done so much experiments about this complicated and grandio stuff, and this is my existential conclusion. haha
Exactly !
Thank you for this vidéo 🌿💚🇫🇷🙏
Thank you for the information ❤❤❤!😊good to see you again take care sending love 😘🥰🌱🌿🪴🪴🪴
Thanks :)
Jan, I want to know where your containers and shelves are from! I started getting my soil amendments in bulk but storing them in a small apartment is proving difficult. (Aussie city rents, am I right?) Your set up looks like it might be perfect for my new balcony though!
Hey :) the shelf is from ikea & the containers from bunnings :)
@@sydneyplantguy Thank you!! 😊
Would you ever pot straight from propagation seedling in water to moss poles? I have about 10 monstera cuttings which are in water with secondary roots and ready to go, but after watching this I'm wondering if you would put them in different mix for a while before moving to the pole?
Yes I pot them straight from water into aroid mix + moss pole
No soil
Yup, another seminar. Comprehensive. Thanks
Thank you 👍🏻
I found this video super helpful. The info for the mix of smaller plants will help me with my smaller syngoniums. I also realized I was using too much of a chunky aroid mix for my alocasia purple sword.
This is a very important video! I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and I’d say every newbie with plants needs this video!
Thank you :)
Wonder why you need 45 minutes
I changed the speed to 150 and much more pleasant
sending love from the States...I learn so much from you and you get credit for every moss pole I make and grow my Airoids on...I created 20ish over our long New England winter and it kept me sane!...thanks a million for sharing your hobby and learning experiences!...x
Thank you :) happy growing !!
I know you had to move out of your apartment, and it probably seemed like a pain in the ass at the time, but this new home is serving you (and Brett) very, very well! :)
I was a blessing in disguise :)
I really enjoyed this video, one of your best. Love to see you supergluing the bark into bigger pieces. Did make me laugh.
Haha !! Thanks :)!
Wowwww. You're amazing , thank you...Can you tell me where you buy your clear pots for planting plz? I have a tendency of buying large pots for all my plants when i watched your videos, i've been doing it wrong all along...
Thanks :) they are from bunnings :)
Water *is* H2O-but the oxygen in that molecule is bound to hydrogen and unavailable to the plant. However, there is molecular oxygen in the form of O2 from the atmosphere dissolved in the water. Small correction but thanks for the video!
Makes sense :) cheers!
I love the creativity in this video! Like how you showed each potting amendment in reverse every time you would talk about it. Definitely leveling up the content!👏🏽
Thank you :)
Great to see your updated aroid mix today as I’m ordering my monthly supplies from Amazon tomorrow. Thanks for sharing Jan!
Best intro! 🍸🌱❤ I appreciate your potting mix information and I want your outdoor potting station!
Excellent mixes but what about worm castings?
Thanks :) I personally don’t use it but you can toally add it :)
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This was so helpful!! Love it 😍