That makes a lot of sense actually! I started making my own soil about two years ago and I’ve never gone back! ***for cactus/succulents** 3:2:1 ratio - quick draining soil, perlite, sand.. if I have it, I love adding the coconut coir.
This! This is what I needed someone to tell me… I couldn’t figure out why my beautiful plants that I bought at the store died on me, against all my efforts care and love I invest in them 😓😔😭
Lots of big box stores purposely overwater and over fertilize. I give a few days for plants to adjust then I check roots. Sometimes death plugs also play a part in their demise.
Hahah I'm also a non native speaker and after reading your comment I noticed this too 🤭 The tonality of his voice is very pleasant and i understood every word perfectly
Ive found the reverse usually, the soil plants come with usually doesnt retain water at all because its basically mineral sand they water hyperegularly.
I just gushed about you to my boyfriend, Im so glad your videos started popping up for me over on Facebook and then over here. You're so informative, insightful, yet calm and efficient, it's such a lovely combination to watch, and you're one of my favorite plant people to watch right now 💖
@@handrewmillan4293 also, is your only comment on Tanner's videos ever to tell me my ex should leave me? I dont even know why you thought he should, since you didnt elaborate, but.... Ya know... If you wanna spend your free time doing that...
Thank you for that explanation! After buying some ‘wish list’ plants from a wonderful grower they died after a few months with me. I assumed their mixture was better than what I make so I didn’t rush to change it, without thinking about the drastically different environments.
How many years did it take to get that big? I just got a 3 foot white bird and living in an apartment, don't want it to get that big. She's on the balcony for the summer, only gets a little evening sun.
We had amazing bird of paradise growin up. Pruning season wasnt so fun but doing it with my great-grandma was! Also, with my grandpas. Love your videos and they would have loved them too!
YES!!! I have several Bird of Paradise plants that are slowly turning and brown & yellow. I water them every 7-10 days, and they're still having issues. Now I understand the reasons for the issues. I was attempting to wait until the spring to replant. I will replant them immediately. Thank you for this information.
I love how you explained this for people. I always say the same thing. You can’t not grow in your home the same way they grow in the greenhouse. They are not the same. ❤
Yes this is so true and I can't stand the soil big box stores use. I hate it. Its also difficult to get the soil off the roots when repotting. Ikea is notorious for this.
One of my new plants was starting to suffer because of the soil I used to pot it, it was regular potting soil I have for all of them but because I covered the soil with gravel to keep my bird out of it (she likes to peck and eat perlite 🤦🏻♀️) it wasn’t drying out enough between watering I think and it started suffering so I got a chunky mix and so far it’s been good
I found just the opposite to be generally the case. Plants are usually in quick-drying soil when you buy them. But my advice is pretty much the same as your's. Re-pot the plant when you get it home. Because the soil the plant is in is likely not the right kind of soil for the plant at your home. I mostly re-pot them with Miracle Grow houseplant soil.
I love plants and have been trying my hardest to start gardening and keeping plants in my home. They just make me feel alive and help me with depression. But is it weird lately I’ve felt bad for keeping them? Like, I feel kinda guilty for “caging” they in a pot and keeping them inside. Like, I feel like it’s caging an animal that would thrive more in the wild, but on the other hand I’m like well… I’m protecting it from insects and pests and taking care of it. I mean, I also cried when I was about 5/6 yrs old when my parents sold our Geo Metro. I thought we hurt it’s feeling by selling it and getting something newer. I cried when we drove away from the lot and felt soooooooo bad 😆
You're not weird, just emotional and empathetic. Those are lovely traits to have in today's society. I bet you can't watch those animal rescue videos or charity ads without tearing up or like me, change the channel. I appreciate you. Thank you for having a heart and soul.💐🦋🌺🐝🌻🐞🌾🐿🥀🐕🌸🐈🌿🚙🤗😇✌💚
But I have read not to change out the soil immediately after I bring the plants home... I have seen more than one of my plants in soil that are not suitable for them.
I have an orchid I’ve managed to not kill for over a year. I need to repot it, but I am scared to mess with it. It’s still in the original pot it came in from Walmart. 🤦🏻♀️
Omg so true!!! I just had to deal with such a plant who kept threatening me for no reason only because the nursery it came from PW were keeping in air light because they have to ship. Now I put in ground and it kept showing sign of suffer but I was persistent and after 1 month it's improving!!!
Well now it makes sense. When I was young my mom gave me a plant I don't know what they're called but I recognize them when I see them. I created like 20 plants off of that, and I had this healthy jungle in my house. Got married, picked up a kid in the bargain and all my plants died. Apparently the plants didn't like her (and to be fair I was a bit distracted with marital bloss and such) In the last decade, single again, I started trying house plants and can't keep one alive to save my life.
See, that's part of where I went wrong trying to move my lucky bamboo to soil! I got the moisture retaining potting soil recommended and ended up trashing it, insanely expensive though it was, because barely 2 weeks in and I had fungus gnats everywhere! The bamboo has been surviving in water since, and I would love to move it to soil because it's freaking huge now, having gone from nearly a bud vases that were grossly too small and barely enough water for the size (probably about 8" tall from the roots for the tallest). Now the tall boys in a separate vase are roughly 2' and the little guy that was pulled because it was comedically too small to be with the stalks it was tied to, went from maybe 3" to roughly 8" now. Also, the tall boys have had so many shoots and so much leafy growth that I'd love to trim and propagate but I'm terrified I'll do damage to the original and fail on the propagation. 🙈🥺
If you don't have easy access to an already mixt well drained soil make it yourself by buying the components seperatly. I do mine with cactus soil, perlite, bark and charcoal. Some will add leca and coco bark too.
Yes, I need to know what kind of soil more specific like exactly showing the bags what they look like what you mix in my husband is like the wizard that’s what I call him. We get the mixtures of soil and perlite and vermiculite sand etc. put it in the wheelbarrow and mixes and stirs like a witch 🧙🏼
When you repot would you save the soil that came off this type of plant or just toss it? I’ve heard you can sanitize soil pretty reliably so as long as you added nutrients and treated for pests it may be salvageable?
I love how people “rescue” plants and animals for shops. See to do this you end up paying for them and the shop gets a sale and replaced their stock with another plant/animal in the same or worse condition for the next person to “rescue” and keep the cycle going. Skip the big box stores and find local breeders or nurseries and get them from people doing stuff responsibly in the first place…
Hiiigh tanner! 👋🏾 whens the best time to germinate seeds in zone 9 for BOP? I was gifted seeds from Honolulu & im scared to get em going the seeds looking like nothing ive seen before 🥹
Im trying to find a soil similar to what the plants come in as it doesn't retain the water so long! I use miracle gro soil and it is constantly damp, never drying out! I water my plants loke once a month because of it! What is best to use for soil that doesn't stay constantly damp?
Tropical greenhouses usually water plants daily, and have higher humidity, so the soil mix is purposely designed to drain water rapidly. (The soil dries out quickly) Acclimation stress is the biggest hurdle for any new plant. Plants adapt to their environment as they grow. So changing a plants environment invalidates a lot of progress.
Its actually a big scam from the stores. The plants look beautiful all displayed straight from a greenhouse. Then in our homes they die. It made me so sad and it hot me down. I hated seeing the top layer of soil go white with mould! I didn't over water but the soil retains moisture even from the air! So now i know to repot into better drier draining soil!
I mix the soil it came in, cleaned away from the roots, with a mix of peat, perlite, and orchid bark, maybe sand, moss, or other soil, depending on plant type. I periodically poke all my plants with a skewer or chopstick to help with air and drainage, as well. Basically throw a bunch of stuff in a 5 gallon bucket and mix.
A plant I had got root rot once. Now i mix my own soil mix and i add so many amendments that i have to water everything every few days. Even my snakes get watered every week in my chunky ass mix😂 Otherwise i will love them to death.
would love to see a video on the mixtures you generally go for, for types of houseplants :)
Yes please!
Exactly show your products so we know what to look for, would really help. This was a eye opener, thanks for sharing.
That makes a lot of sense actually! I started making my own soil about two years ago and I’ve never gone back!
***for cactus/succulents**
3:2:1 ratio - quick draining soil, perlite, sand.. if I have it, I love adding the coconut coir.
This! This is what I needed someone to tell me… I couldn’t figure out why my beautiful plants that I bought at the store died on me, against all my efforts care and love I invest in them 😓😔😭
:-(((((((
Lots of big box stores purposely overwater and over fertilize. I give a few days for plants to adjust then I check roots. Sometimes death plugs also play a part in their demise.
Water only when soil is dry not on a schedule its an easy mistake to make.
You're not speaking fast and you're English is so smooth! It sounds really clear to a non native! Thank you so much
Hahah I'm also a non native speaker and after reading your comment I noticed this too 🤭
The tonality of his voice is very pleasant and i understood every word perfectly
Your english*
It’s the accent i struggle with.. i can’t understand a word he’s saying.. English accent is my thing..American accent is something i can’t fathom 😮
Finally, someone explained very clearly why we should to report plants form the shop
Great information! No one ever talks all’s about why you should change your soil. Thank you for that tid bit of knowledge !
I love that you called rescuing, I always feel that way
Hi! What soil(mixture) did you use for this plant?
Ive found the reverse usually, the soil plants come with usually doesnt retain water at all because its basically mineral sand they water hyperegularly.
I just gushed about you to my boyfriend, Im so glad your videos started popping up for me over on Facebook and then over here. You're so informative, insightful, yet calm and efficient, it's such a lovely combination to watch, and you're one of my favorite plant people to watch right now 💖
your bf should leave you asap
@@handrewmillan4293jokes on you, i was the one that broke up with him (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
@@handrewmillan4293 also, is your only comment on Tanner's videos ever to tell me my ex should leave me? I dont even know why you thought he should, since you didnt elaborate, but.... Ya know... If you wanna spend your free time doing that...
@@IthinkIneedAhug oh your ex, sorry, good on him
Thank you for that explanation! After buying some ‘wish list’ plants from a wonderful grower they died after a few months with me. I assumed their mixture was better than what I make so I didn’t rush to change it, without thinking about the drastically different environments.
Can you be more 'specific' with WHAT type of soil mixture you use to keep house plants living longer & healthier?...👀
Thank you so much!!! I love ur straight to the point videos❤❤
I had a bird of paradise in my front yard.
It was larger than my car. Took a full day to dig it out. Strange root system.
That sounds beautiful!! What I would give for a bird of paradise
How many years did it take to get that big? I just got a 3 foot white bird and living in an apartment, don't want it to get that big. She's on the balcony for the summer, only gets a little evening sun.
Very helpful and makes so much sense. Thank you!!
I Love to watch you because it is so informative.
We had amazing bird of paradise growin up.
Pruning season wasnt so fun but doing it with my great-grandma was! Also, with my grandpas. Love your videos and they would have loved them too!
Makes so much sense! Can't wait to have a house one day so I can build my own greenhouse
YES!!! I have several Bird of Paradise plants that are slowly turning and brown & yellow. I water them every 7-10 days, and they're still having issues. Now I understand the reasons for the issues. I was attempting to wait until the spring to replant. I will replant them immediately. Thank you for this information.
I love how you explained this for people. I always say the same thing. You can’t not grow in your home the same way they grow in the greenhouse. They are not the same. ❤
This makes so much sense!
Yes this is so true and I can't stand the soil big box stores use. I hate it. Its also difficult to get the soil off the roots when repotting. Ikea is notorious for this.
Try to gently wash the roots next time to get that horrible poor quality soil off them before replanting with good nutritious lively type of soil.
One of my new plants was starting to suffer because of the soil I used to pot it, it was regular potting soil I have for all of them but because I covered the soil with gravel to keep my bird out of it (she likes to peck and eat perlite 🤦🏻♀️) it wasn’t drying out enough between watering I think and it started suffering so I got a chunky mix and so far it’s been good
THANK YOU -I’m so tired of losing nice plants once I get home as if I did something wrong in the first 3 weeks 😂😂😂 I will try again with this new info
Love the shirt! Born in Oregon😁 shout out 2 u from Applegate!
It’s the name of our store!
Great words, thanks for the tip!
New to houseplants & have lost plants with THAT type of soil. They die of root rot. Repotting survivors this past week. Lesson learned the hard way.
Thank you for helping me understand why these plants always come in the crappiest soil ever.
When doing that you should put plant in a pail of water first than replant, it make it a happy plant when replanted.
it’s great to have plants you don’t have to water often, but when the soil doesn’t dry out, there’s a higher chance of rotting… please repot!!
Repot and report.
Hell mine are always dry!😂 I need a humidifier desperately in my house it gets a ton of light because it’s all windows pretty much and it’s super dry!
I do the same. I hate that Coco coir that they use in all these. Then we have to spend more money buy more soil and amending it to put in plant.
Omg I’d never considered this! It explains why I buy beautiful new plants then as soon as I water them they rot!! Thank you!
Nice sharing
I learned a lot today about my store bought plants. Thank you so much! 💕
I wonder how many shocks they get before they get to our homes? Every change of temperature - especially here in Scotland.
Thanks!
Very interesting to know.
Any regular Indoor pot mix also works fine.
I found just the opposite to be generally the case. Plants are usually in quick-drying soil when you buy them. But my advice is pretty much the same as your's. Re-pot the plant when you get it home. Because the soil the plant is in is likely not the right kind of soil for the plant at your home. I mostly re-pot them with Miracle Grow houseplant soil.
You've taught me so much 🎉 thank you 🎉
I love plants and have been trying my hardest to start gardening and keeping plants in my home. They just make me feel alive and help me with depression.
But is it weird lately I’ve felt bad for keeping them? Like, I feel kinda guilty for “caging” they in a pot and keeping them inside. Like, I feel like it’s caging an animal that would thrive more in the wild, but on the other hand I’m like well… I’m protecting it from insects and pests and taking care of it.
I mean, I also cried when I was about 5/6 yrs old when my parents sold our Geo Metro. I thought we hurt it’s feeling by selling it and getting something newer. I cried when we drove away from the lot and felt soooooooo bad 😆
You're not weird, just emotional and empathetic. Those are lovely traits to have in today's society. I bet you can't watch those animal rescue videos or charity ads without tearing up or like me, change the channel. I appreciate you. Thank you for having a heart and soul.💐🦋🌺🐝🌻🐞🌾🐿🥀🐕🌸🐈🌿🚙🤗😇✌💚
They're not animals who need to roam and fly. Your plants will be happy if you give them what they need
I almost always repot new plants immediately into plastic orchid pots with a fast draining soil with little to no peat.
Subscribed! Quick to the point, learned something! Thank you 🎉
Thank you for the sub!
For whatever reason...8 months after I disappointed 2 house plants...RUclips brings you to my feed. I'll stick around just in case!
Never thought that thought before! Thank you so much for education us plant dummies. 😅😊
Thanks ❤😊
We have incredibly dry air here so the moisture rich soil is great for me 😅
Thank you 👍
Finally someone explains it to me
Dagnabbit!!! Why didn't I know this BEFORE I tried to figure out why my "RESCUES" are struggling 😑 😢
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But I have read not to change out the soil immediately after I bring the plants home... I have seen more than one of my plants in soil that are not suitable for them.
That made sense! Thank you!❤
I have an orchid I’ve managed to not kill for over a year. I need to repot it, but I am scared to mess with it. It’s still in the original pot it came in from Walmart. 🤦🏻♀️
What brand and product is "chunkier"?
thanks for that info
I need soil recipes!
On the bright side, looks like you got about half a cubic foot of peat moss with our plant.
Where do you get that giant scoop!!?? 😊
I need to do that for my monstera! Thanks!!!
Omg so true!!! I just had to deal with such a plant who kept threatening me for no reason only because the nursery it came from PW were keeping in air light because they have to ship. Now I put in ground and it kept showing sign of suffer but I was persistent and after 1 month it's improving!!!
Thank you for this information
Show the soil bag
That's very informative
Well now it makes sense. When I was young my mom gave me a plant I don't know what they're called but I recognize them when I see them. I created like 20 plants off of that, and I had this healthy jungle in my house. Got married, picked up a kid in the bargain and all my plants died. Apparently the plants didn't like her (and to be fair I was a bit distracted with marital bloss and such)
In the last decade, single again, I started trying house plants and can't keep one alive to save my life.
See, that's part of where I went wrong trying to move my lucky bamboo to soil! I got the moisture retaining potting soil recommended and ended up trashing it, insanely expensive though it was, because barely 2 weeks in and I had fungus gnats everywhere! The bamboo has been surviving in water since, and I would love to move it to soil because it's freaking huge now, having gone from nearly a bud vases that were grossly too small and barely enough water for the size (probably about 8" tall from the roots for the tallest). Now the tall boys in a separate vase are roughly 2' and the little guy that was pulled because it was comedically too small to be with the stalks it was tied to, went from maybe 3" to roughly 8" now. Also, the tall boys have had so many shoots and so much leafy growth that I'd love to trim and propagate but I'm terrified I'll do damage to the original and fail on the propagation. 🙈🥺
THANK YOU❤
❤ happy planting 🥰🌿💜🥰
This was so helpful
Great info!
He's correct, rescued.
I noticed this after loosing a lot of plants. Plus the soil level is to high on store pot.
So are you saying that the potting soil from these big box stores is good enough to use? I don't need to go to a speciality store to get better soil?
To a point, yes. More quality always helps though
If you don't have easy access to an already mixt well drained soil make it yourself by buying the components seperatly.
I do mine with cactus soil, perlite, bark and charcoal. Some will add leca and coco bark too.
It would have been helpful if you said what soil mixture and fertilizer you use.
I just use ABG mix for literally everything, no matter the situation. Cannot go wrong with ABG mix.
Where do you purchace ABG mix
Could ypu add material to the old soil to make it better?
Yes! Perlite or a chunky cactus mix! I add perlite, chunky sand, and charcoal chips when I dont want to waste the soil a plant came in.
Your thoughts on self watering pots?
Can you provide the soil brand you used?
Yes, I need to know what kind of soil more specific like exactly showing the bags what they look like what you mix in my husband is like the wizard that’s what I call him. We get the mixtures of soil and perlite and vermiculite sand etc. put it in the wheelbarrow and mixes and stirs like a witch 🧙🏼
🎉Thank you
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When you repot would you save the soil that came off this type of plant or just toss it? I’ve heard you can sanitize soil pretty reliably so as long as you added nutrients and treated for pests it may be salvageable?
I love how people “rescue” plants and animals for shops.
See to do this you end up paying for them and the shop gets a sale and replaced their stock with another plant/animal in the same or worse condition for the next person to “rescue” and keep the cycle going.
Skip the big box stores and find local breeders or nurseries and get them from people doing stuff responsibly in the first place…
What!!! Thank you!
Hiiigh tanner! 👋🏾 whens the best time to germinate seeds in zone 9 for BOP? I was gifted seeds from Honolulu & im scared to get em going the seeds looking like nothing ive seen before 🥹
Im trying to find a soil similar to what the plants come in as it doesn't retain the water so long! I use miracle gro soil and it is constantly damp, never drying out! I water my plants loke once a month because of it! What is best to use for soil that doesn't stay constantly damp?
Tropical greenhouses usually water plants daily, and have higher humidity, so the soil mix is purposely designed to drain water rapidly. (The soil dries out quickly) Acclimation stress is the biggest hurdle for any new plant. Plants adapt to their environment as they grow. So changing a plants environment invalidates a lot of progress.
This is true for some greenhouses, but definitely not all!
Tanner you didn't slap that pot?...😊
Its actually a big scam from the stores. The plants look beautiful all displayed straight from a greenhouse. Then in our homes they die. It made me so sad and it hot me down. I hated seeing the top layer of soil go white with mould! I didn't over water but the soil retains moisture even from the air! So now i know to repot into better drier draining soil!
Wow, just bought a majestic palm, 2 weeks went by and still wet. Why is it better for the soil to dry out quick?
I just plant my Birds of Paradise in the back yard and let mother nature do her work.
If you do something like that shouldn't you make sure all the roots are surrounded by dirt, no air pockets?
How often should I water the bird of paradise & how should the lighting be ?
is it alright to reuse the soil the plant was in a new, homemade soil mix with some pearlite?
I mix the soil it came in, cleaned away from the roots, with a mix of peat, perlite, and orchid bark, maybe sand, moss, or other soil, depending on plant type. I periodically poke all my plants with a skewer or chopstick to help with air and drainage, as well. Basically throw a bunch of stuff in a 5 gallon bucket and mix.
Thats no soil, its coconut coir.
I put my bird of paradise in the ground. I live in panhandle of Florida. I cover it when I know it's going to be very very cold
Soil mix please? What makes up chunky soil? Thank you!!
“Rescue plants” from the store? 😂😂😂
A plant I had got root rot once. Now i mix my own soil mix and i add so many amendments that i have to water everything every few days. Even my snakes get watered every week in my chunky ass mix😂 Otherwise i will love them to death.
What do you mean by "a much chunkier soil"? I'm watching from France and I don't understand. Would special soil for succulents do?
What kind of soil do you use again please?