This is one of my favorite plant channels. Every video is so sensible & helpful. We don't always need hour long video's on topics. Keep it direct and easy to put into action. 💕
@karenbooth. I do that as well! I cut a few identical lengths and place them at the bottom of decorative pots like stumps for the plant pot to sit on. It's also so handy when a decorative pot is wide enough but is too tall. I hope you're having a wonderful day, and happy growing 🌱🪴🌞
I found a trick for cactus and succulents. Your point that plants suffer from a lack of oxygen and not a lack of water also applies to these. You can feed a cactus a lot of water as long as it drains quickly again. So I water the cactus over a sink and then place the holed bottom on a towel to quickly leech the rest of the water out. Of course the soil needs to be sandy/gritty as well for this to work. But my cactus is totally happy and growing even faster now that there's lots of fresh water coming in (and leaving quickly again).
I'm in California and use a little watering can so that I constantly have to walk back and forth from sink to plants. I call it my cardio workout. I'm going to use your cactus tongs idea as I've started collecting. But I'll only start watering from below when rain falls up. Haha.
Adding a piece of broken flower pot to cover the holes in other pots is something ive always done until recently when I found some mesh circles and squares in various sizes from a well known Chinese on line retailer, they work really well and are very inexpensive. I still save broken terracotta to use in the garden though but all my houseplants now have mesh hole covers.
I save used dryer sheets to place in the bottom of the pot before adding the soil keeps it from coming out. I also throw in a handful of pebbles on top of the dryer sheet also helps from having too much water in the bottom and makes better drainage. So start saving your used dryer sheets as a good way to recycle! Thanks for all the great tips you give us because every bit of knowledge makes us better plant parents!
I just tired bottom watering for the first time (on my braided money tree) and was shocked, by how much it took in… but this will help avoid other problems caused by top watering. Thanks from Canada 🇨🇦
Great advice Richard. I place my plants up on milk or pop bottle caps in bottom of their saucers after there watering bath. I use three spaced evenly around the edge of the pot to allow a bit of air flow under the pot. Your mirror trick is brilliant! I use something similar on my rolling backers rack propagation station I set up using the shiny aluminum reflective Insulation bubble wrap all around it to make a light chamber with the grow lights rigged in it. It really speeds up the cutting props rooting up. 👍
I did this for a while until I found out they were too shallow for the purpose. I started collecting flat gravels here and there instead. Same principle - 3 per pot :)
ah, great idea, Allen. Living in a big city, I often lack of some pebbles or such so will collect some milk caps now. I'll pick out two out of the recycling bin right away ;) Plus- I also use those stools, Richard. I've got three of them (so far)
I use a cheap cat litter tray for bottom-watering multiple plants. Cheaper than trays from garden centres. I also use it to mix soil when I need to re-pot a houseplant. Instead of using another saucer (which are oddly expensive where I am), I cut up a few little lengths of pool noodles and place them in the bottom of the decorative container for the plant container to sit on. I also like to use patches of window flyscreen to keep soil from falling out of pots with large drainage holes. I love using stools, stepping stools, and footstools as plant stands. I have a trailing plant that I keep on a dark wooden barstool that sits on a halltable. Looks rather nice. Thank you for a great video.
Genius tips! Really cool ideas :-) To raise the pot in a decorative pot - I use a few cm of lecca, so that the water can drain safely there. Also it serves a bit like a water reservoir for when I´m on holiday - plants go after the leftover water and water themselves :-)
Very useful hints! Thank you. I have recently become interested in indoor citrus plants, which are very susceptible to root rot. Your advice is very helpful.
Lol, great information! I use all of these ideas myself and they work great. The only difference with mine is I don't have those Ikea stools, but i do have a few wooden ones I've thrifted. On two of them they have a lower support system to stabilize the legs, where i cut a piece of wood to fit, and voila, i have another little spot to place a smaller plant or two 😊
The milk jug is such a great idea! I have to go back and refill my watering can when watering my plants. I use that an a jug. Didn't think to just use a bottle, the simplest things we don't think about! My lights have been game changers for dark corners of my room. The plants on my desk now have a light over them and they are growing like crazy!
I use the little platform inside the pot for a while now. It's really useful. One downside however is that it starts to mold underneath the cup,lid (or whatever you put in there) after a few months. Not because there is water standing inside all the time, because I remove it. But because of the moisture and humidity building up underneath. Have to put in a new platform every other month. But I have many left over things anyway I can use.
I thought of using my silicone tongs before I saw it on your video. When I was done, however, there were a lot of spines stuck in the tongs. So it is now my permanent cactus handler. Advice, make sure you use tongs you are ready to sacrifice to a new, really great purpose.
just started watching your vids, which i love. special treat: glimpses of your littlest artists and the woman brave euff to live with you in the jungle. so charmed. plus i learn things.
Great tips. My favorite one is using tongs for cactus. I only have 1 but it's a variegated and growing faster than most of my other plants. Soon I will try the tongs to repot. Have a blessed day.
I’ve been recycling my juice containers for year’s and year’s now. I let the tap water sit opened for 48 to 72 hours before watering my plants. So far so good. I’m a novice orchid plant person; I would like to see vids on better orchid care hacks if at all possible?!
This is the first video from this channel I have watched so I am not sure if Richard talks about Orchids on his channel. I follow a very informative and helpful Orchid channel called Missorchidgirl, Danny has really helped me save my Orchids after following bad advise on caring for Orchids, I am.happy to say my Orchids are recovering well and most are growing stalks for flowering season here in the Southern Hemisphere.
honestly lots of good tips in this vid! you think you've heard it all but you have some really good ones here :D especially watering before propagating, never would've thought of it that way!
i love seeing your sub count growing + growing each time i watch a new video (i watch + like almost every one you post). you really deserve it, thank you for all of the wonderful plant advice, tips + tricks! i would love to see some videos on how to prune plants to get the shapes you want. i have about 15-20 "baby" prop plants, all under a year old so as they start growing more, i am getting curious as to what i should be doing to them to get more of the shapes/ looks i may want from them
Some fab tips there, will be keeping an eye out for a tray like that one and will be saving my next milk bottle for sure!I know the pain for running out for room for them all, I've just hit 100 again after some deaths over winter, but it doesn't stop me buying more! Got 4 bargains reduced from Dobbies yesterday, a string of dolphins for £4.49, a calathea orbifolia for £4.49, a green oxalis for £3.99 and a philo mamei for only £5.99! Couldn't believe my luck!
some of my 'tips': > when it comes to repotting, try to use as less soil as possible. i prefer to use humus or compost and even i use a small amount of them (as in less than 25% from my mix). to play it safe, i prefer humus with coarse bits on them > be creative with kitchen scraps (egg shells, discarded vegetables, even fish scales or bones). i often use the water i use to wash rice/pasta to water my plants > use mycorrhizae fungi to provide even more nutrition uptake and overall better plant health (trichoderma and glomus are a good starter) > underpotting is better than overpotting (this often depends on the kind of plants; my anthuriums and cacti love this, so far) > pay attention to ph: more organic content in soil, less ph count; more mineral content in soil, more ph count (this may require more research tho)
Great tips, as always! I really enjoy watching your videos and learned a lot about taking care of my plants.There's also one quite good trick for the cactus one (and other fragile plants, like burro's tail), you can use a couple of long wooden sticks to lift the whole plant directly from the soil!
I know u don’t have Canadian tire & don’t know about Home Depot or Lowe’s or Walmart but they all have garden sprayers mine is a 5 gallon & its awesome! Can also adjust to a mist or a stream and use inside & out. I don’t know what I would do without mine. Love it!
Getting stabbed by your cacti is all apart of owning and caring for them, nearly impossible to 100% not to. One excellent way I've found in minimizing this potentially painful experience is to roll up a couple of sheets of newspaper( or the like) and loop it around the cactus and lift it up. The salad tong might work well as long as it's a dedicated plant tool, you'll be hating life if you get those needles in your mouth!
Im so glad to see the mirror tip! Its a something i picked up from interior decorating, its such a great way to maximize on natural light if you have limited or poorly placed windows, which I unfortunately have to deal with currently :c
I would have never thought to use the water conditioner I use for my fish to treat my plant water, that is genius. I had to learn the hard way to never and I mean NEVER use outdoor soil indoors. Talk about an infestation.... Thank you very very much for this video!
I like using 1/2 gallon milk jug to water my plants. I mark on the side of jug 2 cups, 4 cups, 6 cups, etc so I know how much I am pouring. I use the Cup Method to water my Fiddle leaf z figs. If plant is two feet it gets 2 cups, etc. I add my fertilizer to the water so it’s ready to use. Works great…give it a try.
Here is another solution to the dirt flowing out of drainage holes: window screening. You can get a small length at hardware stores. Either the flexible or stiff versions work well, cut into square just a cm or two (or 1/2 to 1 inch) bigger than hole. That way if you are not in the habit of having terracotta or just don't break a lot of porcelain pieces, you have something on hand. Another solution to plants sitting in water in decorative pots, some small sized gravel or similar. The water drains, keeps from bottom of plant pot and can be added in different amounts. Cheers!
These tips were great - thank you! Like you, take my plant to the water instead of watering direct. I either stand them in the bath or in shallow plastic storage containers so I can keep an eye on them and remove them when they've had enough. It's a good way for me to check and feed them at the same time. Then I stand them on large wire cooling racks (for baking) to drain for a bit before I put them back in their pots. I also put a raise in the bottom of my cover pots but mainly because I like the plant to be higher up in the pot (but not sticking up over the rim). I use cut down plastic containers such as hummus pots to make them the right height as I find plant saucers are often too wide. Plastic milk bottle tops work well for my small pots. AND I also use the same IKEA stools (great minds)! Your calathea looks amazing btw. I have one but it's quite new so much smaller. The undersides of the leaves are gorgeous.
Thank you for finally including an answer to a question I've been facing for a while - do Mirrors help at all with plants? I just got a glass vitrine for most of mine plants and it happened to have a mirror in the back, unfortunately also blocking out light they used to get from a north facing window. I've tried to find out if the light from mirrors help at all but i turned up with nothing. They still get a lot of light from other directions, I was just afraid they might miss the additional light from the north window though.
A good middle-of-the-road solution to stop soil from washing out the drainage holes is to use a piece of anti-mosquito netting. Reliably stops erosion while letting water flow more freely than a coffee filter would. The only downside is that plants with thin roots can get a bit of their roots tangled in the netting as they reach repot time.
U can put that terra cotta or rocks or stones in the bottom in the bottom or or catch pot to just raise the inside pot enough to keep it out of the water can also increase humidity & possibly be self watering
I sometimes put something in the bottom of the pot to raise the plant up, if the nursery pot is a bit smaller, so that the rim of the nursery pot is at the rim of the decorative pot and not 5cm below. I think your saucer is a little big and doesn´t leaf a lot of space for the water though. I like to use small plastic lids, or containers or leca or even rocks if I want the planter to be heavier so my toddler doesn´t tip it over :D Leca and rocks of course also reduce the space for water, and make it harder to empty out, so just good for the last few drops. This way you can also make a self-watering pot, just put a wick in the nursery pot and use the space in the bottom as water reservoir.
I'm the same. I like them to be higher up in the pot and use cut-down plastic pots to raise them up a bit. It's annoying how low down they are otherwise!
Here in France, milk is most commonly sold in a sort of paper container. We do not have big jugs like you do in English countries. But now I think I will buy a real water dispenser(?) to do bottom wattering, that long neck one in the video is very convenient.
Hi I'm new to plant keeping, with the gardening tray method, should I be worried about any bacteria or root rot or fungus travelling between plants through this method?
I have built in bookcases beside my fireplace across from south facing windows. I put 12 x12 mirror tiles in the back of the bookcases and my plants love it !
Since it's so sunny here in Florida, we have awnings to shade the windows. And porches too. This cuts down on interior light. I'm seriously thinking about checking out your grow lights.
When I visited a lady's house in Sydney, Australia, I noticed how incredibly her houseplants were flourishing. I asked her secret. The most notable secret: water from the bottom. This helps prevent soil related fungus gnats and helps prevent over watering.
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Such common sense, easy.. why didn't we thank of these brilliant
Thanks!
This is one of my favorite plant channels. Every video is so sensible & helpful. We don't always need hour long video's on topics. Keep it direct and easy to put into action. 💕
Wow, thank you!
I agree, loving the info.
Exactly.
Great video! Another way to create a platform inside a pot is to slice off a piece of a foam pool noodle. You can cut it to fit and they’re cheap.
That's a great idea!
@karenbooth. I do that as well! I cut a few identical lengths and place them at the bottom of decorative pots like stumps for the plant pot to sit on. It's also so handy when a decorative pot is wide enough but is too tall. I hope you're having a wonderful day, and happy growing 🌱🪴🌞
I collect milk bottle tops and put them in the bottom of the cover pot plants are not sitting in excess water
I love how you get right the point without wasting our time rambling off point. I know that means extra time spent in editing. Thx.
I appreciate that!
Oooooh the lid stream hack! Love it (especially the decorating idea 😅)
I found a trick for cactus and succulents. Your point that plants suffer from a lack of oxygen and not a lack of water also applies to these. You can feed a cactus a lot of water as long as it drains quickly again. So I water the cactus over a sink and then place the holed bottom on a towel to quickly leech the rest of the water out. Of course the soil needs to be sandy/gritty as well for this to work. But my cactus is totally happy and growing even faster now that there's lots of fresh water coming in (and leaving quickly again).
Thanks for the tip
I'm in California and use a little watering can so that I constantly have to walk back and forth from sink to plants. I call it my cardio workout.
I'm going to use your cactus tongs idea as I've started collecting.
But I'll only start watering from below when rain falls up. Haha.
👍👍👍
I use my toddlers Legos as platforms inside my decorative pots and I can even adjust how high or low it can get
Nice idea 💡
I'm so glad I stumbled on this channel. When you garden, helpful hints are a joy. Thank you so much.
Thanks for watching 😁
Adding a piece of broken flower pot to cover the holes in other pots is something ive always done until recently when I found some mesh circles and squares in various sizes from a well known Chinese on line retailer, they work really well and are very inexpensive. I still save broken terracotta to use in the garden though but all my houseplants now have mesh hole covers.
I save used dryer sheets to place in the bottom of the pot before adding the soil keeps it from coming out. I also throw in a handful of pebbles on top of the dryer sheet also helps from having too much water in the bottom and makes better drainage. So start saving your used dryer sheets as a good way to recycle! Thanks for all the great tips you give us because every bit of knowledge makes us better plant parents!
Nice tips thanks 👍
Yes! This guy! I've finally got plants that look happy :)
Great stuff 👍
I just tired bottom watering for the first time (on my braided money tree) and was shocked, by how much it took in… but this will help avoid other problems caused by top watering. Thanks from Canada 🇨🇦
Great to hear!
I love it when you say "give it a good drink".
😁
Great advice Richard. I place my plants up on milk or pop bottle caps in bottom of their saucers after there watering bath. I use three spaced evenly around the edge of the pot to allow a bit of air flow under the pot. Your mirror trick is brilliant! I use something similar on my rolling backers rack propagation station I set up using the shiny aluminum reflective Insulation bubble wrap all around it to make a light chamber with the grow lights rigged in it. It really speeds up the cutting props rooting up. 👍
Great ideas 🙌
I did this for a while until I found out they were too shallow for the purpose. I started collecting flat gravels here and there instead. Same principle - 3 per pot :)
ah, great idea, Allen.
Living in a big city, I often lack of some pebbles or such so will collect some milk caps now. I'll pick out two out of the recycling bin right away ;)
Plus- I also use those stools, Richard. I've got three of them (so far)
@@fannyfroeschl is there a link to the stools?
I use a cheap cat litter tray for bottom-watering multiple plants. Cheaper than trays from garden centres. I also use it to mix soil when I need to re-pot a houseplant.
Instead of using another saucer (which are oddly expensive where I am), I cut up a few little lengths of pool noodles and place them in the bottom of the decorative container for the plant container to sit on.
I also like to use patches of window flyscreen to keep soil from falling out of pots with large drainage holes.
I love using stools, stepping stools, and footstools as plant stands. I have a trailing plant that I keep on a dark wooden barstool that sits on a halltable. Looks rather nice.
Thank you for a great video.
Thanks for sharing 👍
I cut the bottom of old plastic pots that plants have come in from the nursery and tip it upside down in the bottom of the pot for drainage.
Like it 😁
Love, Love, Love your hacks!!! Especially, because you've put them in practice. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing your videos/advice.
Thanks for watching 😁
I've gotten lots of hints from your videos! I found out some of things I was doing were wrong! Thanks!
Happy to help!
Genius tips! Really cool ideas :-) To raise the pot in a decorative pot - I use a few cm of lecca, so that the water can drain safely there. Also it serves a bit like a water reservoir for when I´m on holiday - plants go after the leftover water and water themselves :-)
Great tip!
I do this too.
Great tips! I like to thrift cashe pots for my plants and the riser idea is gold.
Great stuff 👍
Very useful hints! Thank you. I have recently become interested in indoor citrus plants, which are very susceptible to root rot. Your advice is very helpful.
I have a parlor palm and I bought a pot with a built in Bolton reservoir. The plant LOVES IT. The top soil is moist as well without top watering.😊
Bottom watering for the win!
I use window screen material to stop soil from running out of the pot
Nice 👌
Thank you, those ideas are so helpful. I’m so sick of losing house plants 😩
My pleasure 😊
I absolutely love your channel
I'm so glad!
Richard at 7:38 your living room view shows a beautiful pink plant on the top shelf at the window. What is it? It’s gorgeous!
That's a Begonia. Here's a video on it ruclips.net/video/gvvsj9jn-nU/видео.html
Awesome ideas. Thank you.
Lol, great information! I use all of these ideas myself and they work great. The only difference with mine is I don't have those Ikea stools, but i do have a few wooden ones I've thrifted. On two of them they have a lower support system to stabilize the legs, where i cut a piece of wood to fit, and voila, i have another little spot to place a smaller plant or two 😊
Great tip!
Thank you, Sir! You're videos are always helpful.😀
Glad you like them!
The milk jug is such a great idea! I have to go back and refill my watering can when watering my plants. I use that an a jug. Didn't think to just use a bottle, the simplest things we don't think about!
My lights have been game changers for dark corners of my room. The plants on my desk now have a light over them and they are growing like crazy!
Great stuff 👍
I repurposed a fabric softener bottle as they come with spouts. I thought I was a genius!
Great tips. Mod of the coaster idea. I like to line the bottom of my cache pots with LECA to keep the liner out of the water.
Sounds great!
I use the little platform inside the pot for a while now. It's really useful. One downside however is that it starts to mold underneath the cup,lid (or whatever you put in there) after a few months. Not because there is water standing inside all the time, because I remove it. But because of the moisture and humidity building up underneath. Have to put in a new platform every other month. But I have many left over things anyway I can use.
Does it not wash off?
I thought of using my silicone tongs before I saw it on your video. When I was done, however, there were a lot of spines stuck in the tongs. So it is now my permanent cactus handler. Advice, make sure you use tongs you are ready to sacrifice to a new, really great purpose.
I agree with that 👍
always I learn from your videos !! Small tips is big change,I liked watering ideas thanks n more,thanks
Happy to hear that!
Great ideas, !Another useful solution to space is Retro plant stand with several shelves specially cane is so pretty.
Great idea!
Richard YOU DEFINITELY ARE MY GO TO PLANT MAN❤❤❤
Wow, thanks
just started watching your vids, which i love. special treat: glimpses of your littlest artists and the woman brave euff to live with you in the jungle. so charmed. plus i learn things.
Thank you so much!
Very nice. Thank you. I especially like the idea of using bkn terra cotta to prevent soil from leaking out the bottom hole in a pot.
You bet!
Great tips. My favorite one is using tongs for cactus. I only have 1 but it's a variegated and growing faster than most of my other plants. Soon I will try the tongs to repot. Have a blessed day.
Glad you liked it 😁
I’ve been recycling my juice containers for year’s and year’s now. I let the tap water sit opened for 48 to 72 hours before watering my plants. So far so good. I’m a novice orchid plant person; I would like to see vids on better orchid care hacks if at all possible?!
👍👍👍
This is the first video from this channel I have watched so I am not sure if Richard talks about Orchids on his channel. I follow a very informative and helpful Orchid channel called Missorchidgirl, Danny has really helped me save my Orchids after following bad advise on caring for Orchids, I am.happy to say my Orchids are recovering well and most are growing stalks for flowering season here in the Southern Hemisphere.
I keep buying stools from Goodwill for my plants ❤️ lint roller 😱 genius !
👍👍👍
Love the videos mate, have learnt a lot from you. I also love the humor you add at times as well. Gives me a laugh.
Thanks!
Whuuuut???? These are great! Thank you! ☺️🙌
Glad you like them!
Love the artwork on the milk carton.
😂 a masterpiece
honestly lots of good tips in this vid! you think you've heard it all but you have some really good ones here :D especially watering before propagating, never would've thought of it that way!
Glad you enjoyed!
i love seeing your sub count growing + growing each time i watch a new video (i watch + like almost every one you post). you really deserve it, thank you for all of the wonderful plant advice, tips + tricks! i would love to see some videos on how to prune plants to get the shapes you want. i have about 15-20 "baby" prop plants, all under a year old so as they start growing more, i am getting curious as to what i should be doing to them to get more of the shapes/ looks i may want from them
I appreciate that! Thank you 😊
Wonderful and creative ideas! Thank you. ❤️
Thank you! 😊
Great tips. Thank you!
You bet!
Fantastic tips. Thank you Richard😊
Glad it was helpful!
Loved it the support for growth you use!!! We don't have this in Brazil!
Thanks!
Some fab tips there, will be keeping an eye out for a tray like that one and will be saving my next milk bottle for sure!I know the pain for running out for room for them all, I've just hit 100 again after some deaths over winter, but it doesn't stop me buying more! Got 4 bargains reduced from Dobbies yesterday, a string of dolphins for £4.49, a calathea orbifolia for £4.49, a green oxalis for £3.99 and a philo mamei for only £5.99! Couldn't believe my luck!
Bargains! 😁
Great tips!
Thank you 😊
some of my 'tips':
> when it comes to repotting, try to use as less soil as possible. i prefer to use humus or compost and even i use a small amount of them (as in less than 25% from my mix). to play it safe, i prefer humus with coarse bits on them
> be creative with kitchen scraps (egg shells, discarded vegetables, even fish scales or bones). i often use the water i use to wash rice/pasta to water my plants
> use mycorrhizae fungi to provide even more nutrition uptake and overall better plant health (trichoderma and glomus are a good starter)
> underpotting is better than overpotting (this often depends on the kind of plants; my anthuriums and cacti love this, so far)
> pay attention to ph: more organic content in soil, less ph count; more mineral content in soil, more ph count (this may require more research tho)
Thanks for the tips 👍
Great tips, as always! I really enjoy watching your videos and learned a lot about taking care of my plants.There's also one quite good trick for the cactus one (and other fragile plants, like burro's tail), you can use a couple of long wooden sticks to lift the whole plant directly from the soil!
Great tip!
I absolutely love your informational videos. Great stuff!
I appreciate that!
these are all great ideas and thank you Richard! I'm going to incorporate these right away! You always have information videos - thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
I use small river rocks covered with cheese cloth. It drains quickly and the roots stay healthy.
Love your channel! Keep up the good work! 🪴🫶🏼
Thank you! Will do!
I know u don’t have Canadian tire & don’t know about Home Depot or Lowe’s or Walmart but they all have garden sprayers mine is a 5 gallon & its awesome! Can also adjust to a mist or a stream and use inside & out. I don’t know what I would do without mine. Love it!
Do you use that to water then?
Getting stabbed by your cacti is all apart of owning and caring for them, nearly impossible to 100% not to. One excellent way I've found in minimizing this potentially painful experience is to roll up a couple of sheets of newspaper( or the like) and loop it around the cactus and lift it up. The salad tong might work well as long as it's a dedicated plant tool, you'll be hating life if you get those needles in your mouth!
Haha that would be rough
Im so glad to see the mirror tip! Its a something i picked up from interior decorating, its such a great way to maximize on natural light if you have limited or poorly placed windows, which I unfortunately have to deal with currently :c
Great stuff 👍
im glad i didnt have to use my brain to figure this one out thank you so much
Those tables from IKEA are nice...great tip !
Thank you 😊
I would have never thought to use the water conditioner I use for my fish to treat my plant water, that is genius. I had to learn the hard way to never and I mean NEVER use outdoor soil indoors. Talk about an infestation.... Thank you very very much for this video!
My pleasure 😊
I love your videos. So much good information.
Thanks so much!
I like using 1/2 gallon milk jug to water my plants. I mark on the side of jug 2 cups, 4 cups, 6 cups, etc so I know how much I am pouring. I use the Cup Method to water my Fiddle leaf z figs. If plant is two feet it gets 2 cups, etc. I add my fertilizer to the water so it’s ready to use. Works great…give it a try.
Sounds good 👍
The plastic lids from yogurt, hummus, cream etc work well with holes to lift the plant up a bit up inside for drainage
Great shout 🙌
Here is another solution to the dirt flowing out of drainage holes: window screening. You can get a small length at hardware stores. Either the flexible or stiff versions work well, cut into square just a cm or two (or 1/2 to 1 inch) bigger than hole. That way if you are not in the habit of having terracotta or just don't break a lot of porcelain pieces, you have something on hand. Another solution to plants sitting in water in decorative pots, some small sized gravel or similar. The water drains, keeps from bottom of plant pot and can be added in different amounts. Cheers!
I agree. I have been using screens for a long time.
Thanks for the tip 👍
I use landscaping fabric.
And, used and washed chux type dish cloths, mesh fabric type, which you might throw away, can be used at the bottom of pots to keep soil in.
Amazing tips! Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
These tips were great - thank you! Like you, take my plant to the water instead of watering direct. I either stand them in the bath or in shallow plastic storage containers so I can keep an eye on them and remove them when they've had enough. It's a good way for me to check and feed them at the same time. Then I stand them on large wire cooling racks (for baking) to drain for a bit before I put them back in their pots.
I also put a raise in the bottom of my cover pots but mainly because I like the plant to be higher up in the pot (but not sticking up over the rim). I use cut down plastic containers such as hummus pots to make them the right height as I find plant saucers are often too wide. Plastic milk bottle tops work well for my small pots.
AND I also use the same IKEA stools (great minds)! Your calathea looks amazing btw. I have one but it's quite new so much smaller. The undersides of the leaves are gorgeous.
Great minds indeed 😁
Bottom watering is fantastic. I agree totally with you. My plants are doing so much better after i started bottom watering. Thank you.
Great to hear!
Thanks Richard another great video
Thanks 👍
Off to Scotland shortly - hoping my hacks keep everything watered and safe til i return!!!
Thank you for finally including an answer to a question I've been facing for a while - do Mirrors help at all with plants?
I just got a glass vitrine for most of mine plants and it happened to have a mirror in the back, unfortunately also blocking out light they used to get from a north facing window. I've tried to find out if the light from mirrors help at all but i turned up with nothing. They still get a lot of light from other directions, I was just afraid they might miss the additional light from the north window though.
Yeah mirrors reflect some light back
A good middle-of-the-road solution to stop soil from washing out the drainage holes is to use a piece of anti-mosquito netting. Reliably stops erosion while letting water flow more freely than a coffee filter would. The only downside is that plants with thin roots can get a bit of their roots tangled in the netting as they reach repot time.
Thanks for the tip
I use bottle caps in my decorative pots to help drainage.
Nice!
This is gonna up my watering and cuttings game! Thanks!
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Great tips. I’m so glad I found your channel.
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant, love it❤
Thank you 😊
Fantastic tips. Brilliant delivery.
One question though ... can you ever go on holidays?
Who can you find to mind all those plants?
Thanks! They're fine for a week 😁
U can put that terra cotta or rocks or stones in the bottom in the bottom or or catch pot to just raise the inside pot enough to keep it out of the water can also increase humidity & possibly be self watering
You can use anything I guess 😁
I sometimes put something in the bottom of the pot to raise the plant up, if the nursery pot is a bit smaller, so that the rim of the nursery pot is at the rim of the decorative pot and not 5cm below. I think your saucer is a little big and doesn´t leaf a lot of space for the water though. I like to use small plastic lids, or containers or leca or even rocks if I want the planter to be heavier so my toddler doesn´t tip it over :D Leca and rocks of course also reduce the space for water, and make it harder to empty out, so just good for the last few drops. This way you can also make a self-watering pot, just put a wick in the nursery pot and use the space in the bottom as water reservoir.
Thanks for the tip 👍
I'm the same. I like them to be higher up in the pot and use cut-down plastic pots to raise them up a bit. It's annoying how low down they are otherwise!
Great ideas!
Thank you! 😊
When it comes to watering my plants, I'm a bottom as well!
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You are SO clever!
Thank you 😊
You're welcome. 👍🏾
I'm having great success adding water conditioner to my watering routine. 😃
Thanks for the very informative tips,any ideas on what I could put in the bathroom that has no windows and is dark
No windows at all? All plants need some light
Here in France, milk is most commonly sold in a sort of paper container. We do not have big jugs like you do in English countries. But now I think I will buy a real water dispenser(?) to do bottom wattering, that long neck one in the video is very convenient.
It is!
Nice informative video. I am from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤
Thanks and welcome
Hi I'm new to plant keeping, with the gardening tray method, should I be worried about any bacteria or root rot or fungus travelling between plants through this method?
I don’t think so. There shouldn’t be too much sinister that can transfer
What is the plant on the top of your blue cabinet that dangles down with pink blossoms? It’s lovely!
On the left? Lipstick plant
Great video! I learned a lot!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow!! That's awesome!!
Thanks!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
I have built in bookcases beside my fireplace across from south facing windows. I put 12 x12 mirror tiles in the back of the bookcases and my plants love it !
Nice
Since it's so sunny here in Florida, we have awnings to shade the windows. And porches too. This cuts down on interior light. I'm seriously thinking about checking out your grow lights.
They’re good!
Nice! Thanks.
You bet!
Can someone post an Amazon link to a nice sized gardening tray like in the video? I've been searching and can't find one
More excellent advice, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
When I visited a lady's house in Sydney, Australia, I noticed how incredibly her houseplants were flourishing.
I asked her secret. The most notable secret: water from the bottom. This helps prevent soil related fungus gnats and helps prevent over watering.
Great stuff 👍
Thx for the tips.
You bet!