Houseplants are easy to care for and can thrive when given proper care and treatment. To ensure proper care, it is essential to provide them with enough light, water them regularly, fertilize them every few weeks, clean them off, and move them away from air vents.
Efficient houseplant care includes the right techniques for watering, fertilizing, and repotting your plants, routine cleanings and pest checks, and understanding your plants’ light needs. To keep potting soil moist but not wet, avoid overwatering or dry soil, which can damage the plant’s roots and prevent growth.
To arrange plants in your living room, follow these general guidelines: check the plant tag to determine the amount of light your plant needs, place the plant away from heat, scale plants appropriately to the size of your room, and hang them to fit your design aesthetic.
When decorating with indoor plants, consider your light and space, choose plants that work with your schedule, be mindful when watering, raise humidity levels when needed, and use multiple layers to create a cozy atmosphere. Watering weekly is crucial, as tendrils drooping indicates thirstiness.
To create an oasis of calm, consider your light and space, select the right potting soil mix, water indoor plants properly, fertilize them regularly, and control humidity levels. Fill a large plant stand with a variety of indoor plants, and consider adding faux plants for filler.
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Should I mist my plants daily?
Misting plants depends on the season and air quality in your space. It’s recommended to mist a few times a week, but daily if possible. If you live in an arid climate with high climate control, misting should be more frequent. If your climate is more humid and you don’t constantly run the heat or air conditioner, misting once or twice a week might be sufficient. Experiment with frequency to find the best schedule for your plants. It’s crucial to mist the right parts of the plant to ensure water absorption.
Is olive oil good for plant leaves?
Olive oil can cause damage to plant leaves over time due to its temporary, shiny layer on the surface, which attracts dust and debris. This can build up and get into the pores of the leaves. To clean and shine plant leaves safely, it is essential to follow the best methods for promoting plant health rather than diminishing it. Houseplants are beautiful, clean the air, and provide mental benefits, making them a valuable addition to any home or office.
How to look after a happy plant?
To ensure the health and growth of your Happy Plant, create a warm, humid environment that mimics its tropical African origins. Avoid exposing your plant to cold droughts and ensure it’s placed in a warm location with filtered light or shade. Keep the temperature between 10-30 degrees Celsius and mist it occasionally with water to maintain humidity levels. Inadequate humidity can lead to brown tips on leaves and stunted growth.
Regularly clean the leaves of indoor plants, as they require regular maintenance to keep them free of dust and debris. By following these guidelines, you can ensure your Happy Plant thrives and thrives.
How to make potted plants look nice?
The six tips for great-looking container gardens include starting with the right pot size, choosing the right plants, using a quality growing mix, watering diligently, fertilizing regularly, primping, pruning, and replacing. Plant size should determine pot size, as a single begonia will grow well in a 1-gallon container, while a 4-foot canna lily needs a pot that holds 10 times more soil. A larger pot also holds more moisture, reducing the need for frequent watering. By following these tips, you can achieve the same results as those seen in public gardens and urban parks, with your container gardens looking as good in September as they did in June.
How tall should my indoor plant be?
Indoor plants should be sized appropriately to fit the space and design. Large plants should be placed in open corners or on the sides of large furniture as anchors. Small plants should be placed in smaller rooms to avoid distracting the eye and outweigh the design. For larger spaces with high ceilings, go for taller plants. When shopping for indoor plants, consider room size and growth height on labels. For tabletop plants, keep the max height to 2.
5 feet, while for floor plants, the height depends on the ceiling height. A 3 ft clearance is recommended for airflow and avoid plant growth into the ceiling. Plants need at least 6-8 inches of clearance from other objects to allow good airflow and aesthetically look better. Place plants on sills or on the floor near large windows or sliding glass doors to connect with outdoor nature. When placing multiple plants in a room, use odd numbers to balance the space and create a sense of natural integration.
Are fake plants good decor?
Faux plants provide a multitude of benefits to any home space. They offer a softness, texture, color, and life that is absent in environments lacking natural greenery. Furthermore, they require minimal effort to maintain, which is an advantage over real plants.
Is it OK to decorate with fake plants?
Faux plants provide a means of introducing softness, texture, color, and life to any space in a home without the requisite effort for maintaining real plants. They can serve to brighten dimly lit spaces, introduce color, or conceal electrical cords and outlets, thereby maintaining a sense of visual appeal throughout the year.
How do I decorate my house with plants?
Houseplants are a popular and affordable way to bring the outdoors inside. However, they can be difficult to find and arrange for in your home. Here are ten tips for decorating with plants:
- Start simple and learn as you go. Start by purchasing plants from a local garden center and matching them to your design style.
- Liven up your bathroom with high-humidity plants, brighten up dark corners with low-light plants, create contrast with different-sized plants, make a statement with oversized plants, add color with plants, elevate plants with stands and planters, and there’s a plant for everyone.
- Start small by purchasing a few easy-to-grow plants and taking time to learn how to care for them.
- Avoid buying too many plants without doing your research, as this can lead to a houseful of dead plants later on.\n5
Do indoor plants like sun?
Light is essential for most plants to grow, but not all plants require the same amount. For instance, banana plants thrive in direct sunlight, Monsteras thrive in indirect sunlight, and Dracaenas prefer half shade. Knowing your plant’s needs and the type of light entering your house is crucial. Knowing if your plant gets too much or too little light can help ensure optimal growth and health.
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I had 15 or so mushrooms growing in my monstera soil a few years back. As I was such a new plant parent, I panicked like mad and threw the healthiest, glossiest monstera in the bin out of pure fright and terror. Honestly, one of my biggest regrets 💔. It was only a few weeks later I told a lady in the garden centre, who explained that it was simply super fertile and happy 😭. I wish this article was available, back then!! Learn from this, plant frens ❤️
✅Suggestion for watering with fewer trips to the tap: a pump sprayer. 👀 They are usually meant for chemical spraying, but when you take off the spray nozzle you have a 1 or 2 gallon watering can and the long handle and nozzle helps to reach plants high and those packed between others. It’s been a game changer for me watering all my babies. You can get different sizes and sometimes get them cheap at the dollar store. 😊 thank you for all your useful tips. I always enjoy you website!
I like the dunk method! Makes a lot of sense. I’d add about mushrooms that not only do they show your soil has nutrients, their mycelium is one of those things that break cellulose and lignin down and make nutrients available to your plants. They’re part of healthy soil, and if we grow healthy soil, we’ll grow healthy plants too!
Seran wrap with the holes reminds of an antique glass flower frog. Actually I have one from my grandmother, I’m going to dig it out and polish the silver part and start my cuttings like royalty ! I use an old two liter plastic soft drink bottle to water my plants, I know it’s 2 liters for adding fertilizer and it was what I grabbed years ago from the recycling when my watering can broke. If anyone sees me I just say yes yes 🧐 Gingerale is good for plants!
ANOTHER GREAT article!! I must say Mr Sheffield you REALLY have found your groove!!! Ive been perusal your articles since I started my plant journey and you have become more & MORE entertaining to watch AND more informative! So much fun & information packed in ONE article, its a REALLY great start to my day and reminds me of perusal informative articles as a kid before school(ahh the easy times). THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PLANT FUN! Youuuu my sir are the BEST plant YouTuber in my book! 👏🏾💕👌🏾🌿
Since I’ve found your website, you’re my favourite “gardener”! So informative while extremely entertaining. This article was providential, as I got so upset when I found quite a few mushrooms in one of my newly repotted pots. I thought the soil mix I’ve just bought was bad and I was so sad. I’m new to plant parenting and almost all of my plants are propagated by me from cuttings or leaves. I was so proud to have had succes with all of them (hoya, 7 colours of fittonia, a jade tree, english ivy, schefflera and a few more, that are still rooting) only to find mushrooms in my pots….. You’ve eased my mind and I’m grateful! Thank you for doing what you do!
one of my favorite gadgets I’ve enjoyed are condiment bottles with a nozzle and cap! I paid $1 for all of mine. I love watering my plants with them. Originally, I bought them to get rid of the many invasive vines donated 🤨 by my neighbor. When I’d gotten a clean cut, I used the bottle to apply the product with precision and no waste. And replacing the bottles is soo affordable! 🥳
I really like how you got more open with new articles, I love your puns and your hacks are really helpful for beginner plant parents just as much as more professional ones ❤ keep it up, I hope you enjoy making your content just as much as we love to watch it. But, to be honest, I can tell you love to do this!
Another basic helpful trick is to grab a few of those free flower food packets you can get at the grocery store fresh flower section and save the extra ones you get. They are great to prevent cuttings from rotting whether you keep them in the water or water the cuttings with the water. The packets contain some sugar that feeds the cutting and some antimicrobial to prevent rot.
The watering can hack really is a game changer, especially because most fertiliser producers give dosage by liter or 3L. And I often mix it with a bio stimulator so going back and forth to mix in my 700ml watering translates to a lot of walking that, silver lining, helps me reach my daily 10K step goal.
Yes, the moisture meter has saved me from overwatering my “snake plant garden.” At first, I assumed I should water it every three weeks or so. My meter tells me otherwise. They are thriving with much less water. Thanks for all of the other hacks. Like the idea of dipping for pests. Much easier than going leaf to leaf.
The problem with moisture meters is they either re ad “bone dry” or “wet wet wet”. They rarely register the in between zone. And the bigger problem is light meters. They tell you how much light is there at that moment. But the bigger issue is for how many hours it is so. A blast of sunlight for an hour at 4pm (but in shade otherwise) makes a spot seem sunny, but a moderate amount of light all day may very well amount to more light. And as cities build up more, that’s how shade patterns fall (due to manmade structures causing shadows). So it’s not so simple as just taking a reading or two.
Oooh love these. I am a massive admin nerd and created a Notion table just for my plants! I record its official name, its “known as” name, when I bought it, and the humidity, water and light requirements. I also add notes, a link to a reliable care page and a photo! I’m probably weird in that I actually put all my plants in large shallow storage containers to water them rather than take the water to the plants. I’d love to see a article on where and why you’ve positioned all of your plants and the types of light you give any that aren’t in their “optimal” position because of lack of space. So, “these ones are in east windows but this one should ideally be in an east window but there’s no room so it’s here with a grow light / hanging up to receive more light” kinda thing. I’m with you on the moisture meter. Mine broke yesterday and I was straight onto Amazon to get another one. That whole “poke your finger into the soil thing” is bobbins. You can’t tell if the roots are wet without getting down there to check.
I found Keep milk jugs filled with water .let them sit for at least 4 hours or always have them ready for watering. helps release any chlorine or impuritie gases from newly poured faucet water if you don’t get to put your plants outside during winter months. Not sure if collecting winter rain water and letting it go to room temperatures any good for your plants during winter. Haven’t tried that yet
Another great article! I’m basically a houseplant noob, although my Mom had them throughout my childhood. I figured I didn’t inherit her green thumb 😢 since I basically killed any green thing in my home. And that included the fake ones!! 😂 I have since acquired some a bit of skill, as I still have two beautiful and happy violets Mom gifted me 10 years ago. Since finding you website, I have been inspired try others and now own 10 houseplants besides my violets and they’re thriving! 😮 Thanks again for your short but sweet and full of helpful information articles.
a leafless cutting, often called a wet stick, is so fun to grow. sometimes they grow leaves first and sometimes roots 😀 you can grow them in basically every medium you can a cutting with leaf, you can even chug it in water if you want, though I prefer moss or perlite. I have a whole scindapsus runner cut in to single nodes in a perlite propbox right now.
Thank you for sharing that first hack! I’ve been dealing with thrips and mealy bugs on and off this past month. I’ve been using painter’s tape to keep the soil from coming out, which didn’t work well. Just tried this hack and it worked great! I have hope that I can permanently get rid of these bugs now! 😊
Helpful hint to those who live in a mosquito paradise region like myself. A bit of background first: In college, I took part in a mosquito egg collection for an experiment tracking the range of a particular species. The conditions for optimal egg collection was a container of standing water, in a shaded area, and with a stick (or similar object) submerged in the water and rising above the surface. The mosquitoes lay their eggs on the stick under water, then the evil hatchlings crawl up the stick and reek havoc on humanity! And for the hint: Be sure to empty anything that could possibly hold water in your yard and resides in a shaded area, ie., near bushes, under shelters, etc. Double check these after every rain or lawn watering. If you have a bird bath or pond that doesn’t have moving water, there are pellets/pucks that float and will kill the eggs but won’t harm fish if you have them. I’m not sure of the safety around birds though. If you have a lot of bird activity, no problem. You can also move your bird bath to an area that gets some afternoon sun. I know this was a bit lengthy, but I hate mosquitoes and the huge welts I get when bitten. Good luck.
THANK YOU for the amazing article again ❤ I’ll buy a turkey baster for sure, I don’t wanna waste kitchen paper anymore. Can I ask something 😊 -I have a monstera that grows two new big fenestrated leaves (the rest are not fenestrated) and then stops. There are some old tiny bottom leaves, I saw someone say it’s better to cut these old leaves to give the plant strength to make new bigger leaves. Is this true?
I recently decided to have one last chance at growing something. Since I moved here 13 years ago, everything died until you told us about the hard water issue. I’m your subby forever now. 👍🏾 My cousin gave me 7 cuttings and 4 months later they all alive and thriving. It’s a miracle. Enjoying all your tips and you making me laugh. Thank you. 😁
Im so glad to hear your thinking in a healthy way. I feel your desire to help as many people as you can but if you font take care of you and yours you cant br here for us. I adore listening to you and i learn SO much from you. Im delving into your older articles and im ok with that. You have inspired me in ways you just dont know. I didnt know anything about 30 min cities or anything until you came along. God is definitely using you in HUGE ways my friend. I wish i lived closer to Starky farm. If you need mods im willing. I would love to help you if im needed. Sending love and light. ❤❤❤
So many good tips & tricks Richard, thanks! I’ve got to watch this again and write them down. One note however, the plants that are supposed to help ward off mosquitoes don’t do a thing here in Nova Scotia. I had a garden full of them and I still couldn’t step outside in the summer evenings without being eaten alive 🤷🏻♀️. Perhaps our mosquitoes are more vicious here in Canada 😂
When I go to tropical countries, I often take leafless parts with me in my carry-on (monstera etc). I have a whole jungle at home that was once just tiny sticks in the over-head compartment. 😉 I also have plants at home in every space possible and jars with leaves all over the place, but no spouse to complain about it 😊
Thank you for another awesome article 😀 Out of interest when do you take the overflow of water out of your drip trays/cover pots? Just after you’ve watered? Or do you let them soak for a bit? I water mine by taking them to the sink or bathtub, or even outside for the really big ones, water them and let them drain before bringing them back in. Watering frequency depends on the plant but I go through all of them a couple of times a week, more in hot weather, and check each one either visually or with my water meter. I have a few I bottom water but the majority I drown and drain.
I tried using wooden chopsticks for baby climbing plants, but they always ended up growing mold right where the chopstick meets the soil. And yes, they were new out of the package. I ended up throwing away the chopsticks, carefully scooping out the soil with mold and replacing it with fresh soil. Now I typically use metal plant props, or sometimes I’ll jimmyrig some contraption using plastic straws or longer wooden sticks that fall off the trees outside. Perhaps the soil was too wet because it was seed starting mix and I had to water seedlings frequently. But I also think those disposable wooden chopsticks absorb too much water 🙁 I thought it was a great idea at first, but quickly regretted it.
I want to keep plants because I’m often bed bound and would like some life in here. Stuff like checking for bugs or roots or whatever seems so intimidating and for me more trouble than it’s worth. But some of these help make it seem not so bad. I’ll still probably start with an air plant or Devil’s ivy (pothos). But I had no idea you could get it to climb in doors.
I recently got little baby mushrooms infer my Maidengair fern!! This is the third time and I learned that sometimes, when I forget to air out my indoor greenhouses is when this happens!! So this time, I opened up my greenhouse, aired it out and tge mushrooms just dropped dead like hot potatoes lol!! Nature us anazing!!❤🥰🙏
Here is a tip for I save old broken plastic windows blinds. Make sure they are white. Cut them in half and use them as labels for plants or for starting seeds. The black marker will work fine if it’s not a Sharpie Extreme permanent marker. The fine point is fine to use. Ink from Sharpie Extreme permanent marker won’t wear off in any weather, and sun uv rays won’t fade the ink.
I swear by dunking my plants! Had a horrible thrip infestation for over a year just couldn’t get rid of them by the traditional method of a weekly wipe down. I also have way too many plants to dedicate a week of my life to wiping leaves down. Decided one day to dunk them all, and after 2 dunks, a week apart with some dish soap and neem, I’ve been thrip free ever since! Amazing tip!!
Hi there love your show You’re good and bad too 😂 I had a devils ivy,a lovely plant but it grew along the wall without any supports the Ariel roots stuck themselves to the wallpaper all the way to the ceiling it was nice and healthy,too healthy it had to go. Like you I love plants house plants garden plants all plants 😊 Great show Keep it up M
ROFL I been using that string and pin bit for like a decade now because my Pothos own my home lol great article! The bigger watering can is genius if not for the fact I have bad Arthritis and can barely hold/carry/lift things and honestly going up and down my ladder for all high plants with even a smaller watering can is very hard for me. But, never the less it’s GREAT idea! In addition to using cling film for propagating cuttings, I like using my water balls this way no one is drowning in water and they are all supported and get their water needs met works great. I save un-used chop sticks or ask for extra whenever I order food for this very reason they make awesome stakes and a bonus you get TWO stakes per chopstick set, also so do popsicle sticks and ask for extra paint stir sticks for your local hardware store and they ALSO are great stakes! When I trim off the flowering tips off my Basil I sprinkle the basil tips into other potted plants for the “bug” reason myself hehe. My plants always sprout shrooms I just leave them be.
I enjoy perusal your articles because like you i have my home atuffed wirh over 200 plants, mostly succulents and pepperomias, with 3 massive, massive spider plants. ( thought about entering Guiness Book for them) i am jot in the process of bringing ony succulents, its was 48 last night so time is running out . I have over half inside and working furiously to bring them inside. This brings me to the spider mite issues. I know they all have spier mites being outside. My solution is, i put a screen in my drain in the kitchen sink to catch debrris. I turn the plants upsidedown outside and get as much loose debris out as i can. Then i bring it inside and rinsie all the foliage while holding the plant sideways and run the water thru at a good flow so there is enough force to knock any bugs off. I shake off excess water and spray thr plant and folige with SEVEN (a harmless bug spray for plants) . Then i cover the soil with a systemic granules, slightly wet down the granules to get them melting into the soil. Sit them in an designated area for a few days to let them chill and let those treatments work. I add them back to my plant room with lights after that week is up. Seems to be okay so far, its the third year. If i have any outbreak of anything during thenwinter, i add a powder from BONIDE that stays on the plants nicely ( i pit it on the strm and in the crooks) the bugs are forced to come into contact with it eventually. I saw in thr article you sat your plant on the ground, i dont recommend that, i hope that was for the article.
For anyone who hates philodendron strung all over the walls but likes the leaves…here a trick a senior citizen taught me years ago…get a pretty pot thats about 6 or 7 inches across and wrap the stems as they grow,around the main stem, in the pot.. you’ll end up with a thick pretty plant that you can control the growth.. i’ve had mine about 45 years now and it just keeps on being beautiful and doesn’t get leggy like if it was strung around on the wall.
I got a plant meter that tests moisture, temperature, ph and light level. Then i tested it. It couldn’t detect a damn thing! Bright light in a window, kept saying it was dark. Put it in a freshly watered plant, still says it is too dry. Everything was ph 7. Only thing that changed was temperature. Not sure if it is defective or I am missing something but i was so excited for that thing and nada.
I once had a poinsettia that I put in a large pot and watered it every day with fertilizer. I’d mix a gallon of water with some miracle grow and give it a cup of that every day. Within a couple months it was about two feet tall and two feet across. Unfortunately it grew too fast, got too heavy to support itself and the limbs started breaking 😢 I tried to prune it and ended up killing it 😭
I throw my orchid outside each year when it gets above 13 celsius at night and it loves it, even when it got hit by heavy hail and now it looks mangey it’s still blooming like heck. The bad news is it now also has the only spider in Europe that has significant venom living on it, but that’s a new one I have to figure out. Also a hack for people without gardens, buy yourself a painter’s bucket (I paid 2 EUR for mine) and throw all the old, used soil inside, add some withered plant matter and coffee grounds, leave outside in the rain, just drain and mix it every couple of weeks. If you do that in spring, you’ll have amazing, rich soil in late summer. The amount of shrooms I get…
My sister tried an Ant pest control product for spider mites that worked great, when I googled what it was called in english it turns out it diatomaceous earth. And since she sprinkled it on the leaves it doesn’t get wet and stop working. I’ve done the dunking method but for really big plants that’s going to be hard.
At some time, I’m going to check out your online course (mites 😢!) & love the turkey baster idea! BUT I disagree abt the 6L water can. How many ppl have good enough tap water to not filter it first, esp with ‘fussy’ plants like calathea and peace lilies? 6 liters is too heavy for me anyway, so a 2-3L filter pitcher is a good option for the ladies (or other noodle-arms, like me). 😂
I love your hacks, especially when it’s something so simple i feel I should have thought about sooner myself. Lol….string and tack? And here I was trying to balance the stems on top of the tack. Turkey baster for emptying drainage plates? Duh…you make me feel like an idiot sometimes. Lol. Also, when you mentioned leafless nodes, I was sure you were about to talk about those pesky bare lengths of stem on vining plants that come from neglecting the plant a little too long. If anyone is interested, I found a great product to fix that. It’s a growth hormone made for orchids but definitely works on other plants. I’m sure many have heard of it but it’s keike cloning paste. It’s definitely worth a try.
Does the dishsoap also work on spin mides? I tried multiple times to dry off the leaves for the sticky mess and the mides on the bottom leafside. But they keep coming back… seems Line they are placed around the twisted body and there its pretty impossibel to get to bithput destroying the round plant design
Hi, not a plant related comment, but a wholesome one (I think) regarding the mosquito part at about 8:00 in. Mozzies are attracted to carbon dioxide, which is expelled by humans. Researchers found out that larger people expel more carbon dioxide than lean people and tend to get bitten more. I know this because I live in an equatorial place, with a few million or so mozzies to evade…. ….by being lean. Citronella works pretty well too
I live in Southern California and in the past, I didn’t regularly change the water in my propagation jars. That changed last year when I had a mosquito come inside and lay eggs in a few jars 😬 it’s not uncommon for them to follow you so one or two inside is normal. But there were about half a dozen flying around me one day and I didn’t understand where they were coming from. I’d left the water for so long it had off gassed, grown algae, and essentially turned into a mini pond. Yes it was a literal nightmare as I failed to immediately realize my error. Wasn’t untIl I saw that prehistoric tadpole bouncing around in the bottom of a jar one day that I realized what I’d done. it was traumatizing 😂 but that didn’t stop me from saving it and letting it hatch just so I knew which one it was 😂 (we have native and invasive species, it was the latter) I now diligently change the water weekly on all water props and keep them together in one area so it’s easier to spot if I miss something and it hatches 😵💫
I’m thinking, spider mite reproduction cycle is approximately 2 weeks I recall, and moisture and colder temperature hurts their reproduction success rate. So spraying the plant with soap water like Fairy and leaving it on the balcony in the autumn roughly every two weeks should help controlling the issue. Might even get lucky and have the plant “infested” by spider mite hunters. I think in general we might have the infestations more commonly in plants like snake plant that just never get watered and that like decent warmth, so there’s plenty of pleasant environment available. Regarding orchids, be careful with spraying them unless you place them under air current, because water in the root of the leaf can very easily cause crown rot which is somewhat of a death sentence to an orchid. Phalaenopsis tolerate losing roots, but crown can’t be reproduced. If you like rather natural looking stuff like hemp string and maybe knots, you can also avoid marks on the house. For example attach a string from A to B wherever you’d like to lead your vine, and you can do knots in the middle of the string like alpine butterfly (very easy knot, pretty neat looking too) to pull the vine through (leave the loop big enough in case you’re concerned of pulling and twisting your vine) the loops. It’s practically a clothesline for your plant. Or you can make taut line hitches (used these to tie tomato plants this summer, needed adjusting as they grew and the weather was more windy) along the string before attaching it and you have an adjustable loop (you can make this one around your vine but you need the end of the string).
Tired of that annoying white scale at the bottom.of your plants from calcium in the water? Boil the water then cool and put in a bottle or the watering can. Remove the scale; a bowl of water and half vinegar .. use a scrubbie with a drop of dishwashing liquid dip in the bowl and scrub the pot. Rinse well and your pot is new. Love your vid. My place has 30 plants! ❤
Having mushrooms in your plants pot is a good sign that the soil and enviroment is good for the mushrooms, but may not be for the plants you’re trying to grow. They will be like a parasite by using up nutrients that would otherwise go to the plants and they will self-propagate quite rapidly! As soon as they open up, out come thousands of little spores that will grow new mushrooms. Not to mention the fact that most mushrooms are highly toxic to humans when ingested ( I know this from personal experience 🤮 💩 🏥) and slightly toxic from just handling them. Great article though Mr Plantman, I really liked the plastic wrap over the jars for your cuttings! 👍
Will dunking my bushes spider plant that has scale, eradicate the scale? I removed all the scale I could find, but this plant is large and very bushy and you know how scale like to hide in all the crevices. It would be impossible for me to find it all and pick it off. Do you think dunking it in soap water would work so that I can bring my spider plant back in the house? And I hate the thought that this beautiful plant will be relegated to living outside the rest of its life and mine. 😩 Can you please advise me? 🥲
7:46 Make a song or a rhyme with the name of the plant, humm it in ur head like we do with music, and u’ll remember 😂.. when i was a kid, i was hyper and just always active and distracted … one way i dealt with remembering answers for multiple chocie and test and in general to just my memory really lol😂😂 id make a song or a rhyme about it, and i would always remember .. good luck. are minds are more powerful than we know, u would be surprised what we can remember when you put ur thoughts on melody.. 😂😂
i’ve always done what you’ve done whenever I did have soil now I have all my 200+ plants and water. But it’s a lot easier if you’re trying to get rid of spider mites to like you said so up the sink I actually take the entire plant out of the soil, because if you do not get rid of the soil and dunk it like you did all you’ve done is clean the leaves and then cessation is still thriving in the soil. I have never seen a plant only have spider mites or any kind of bug and just the area of the plant . I am really baffled on why you would suggest to do it this way because you have all people should know you don’t keep the soil. Big no-no.🧐 So what I do is or what I used to do is fill up the sink put a drop a dish soap medium warm temperature and take the plant out of the pot out of the soil and just put it in the sink in the sides and let it sit for at least 45 minutes to an hour. That’s just the first half of the process. I’m not gonna get into everything but I do know this method works. It will not work if you truly just put some plastic around the soil and just dunk it. What you’ve done is create more work than you need to. Consider bugs that you’re seen on the plant consider them in the actual soil itself. If you do not believe me go ahead and put your hands in there and get a flashlight you will see them jump all over the place. they are in the dirt and the dirt needs to go first and foremost otherwise you wasted every everything.