Hello plant people it's Nora the Leca Queen. Thank you for joining me. Today I am going to be showing
you how I make a moss pole with wire mesh for a Syngonium. So I've got my two Syngoniums here,
I've got my Syngonium Panda that I've had for a while living in leca and I've got my Syngonium
Panda that I recently acquired that's been going through the long method of soil to leca
transition. So I will show you how to make a moss pole for a Syngonium. So as you can see this wire
mesh is quite small so syngoniums don't need a big moss pole a little one will do and I will show you
how I do all that and I will show you how I put up my moss pole as well so stick around for a few
tips and tricks and let's get this show on the road. For today's demonstration of how to make
a moss pole I am going to make it very specific I am going to measure out how much mesh you need,
how much moss you need and try and give you specifics for those who are really looking
for specifics. I hope it translates because of course the most that you might get is a little
bit different the mesh that you might get is a little bit different but I will try and I'll
give you what I've got and then you can try and translate that into your own situation.
So in order to do this we're going to need a few things, we're going to need wire mesh, of course
we are going to need some moist sphagnum moss, and we are also going to need some cable ties because
you know I would be lost without my cable ties. So I'll bring you down and we will get started.
This is wire mesh that I cut up earlier and it is, I've got my ruler here to help me, that is 40
that is 45 centimeters long so the length of that is 45 centimeters. I'll give you what the width is
the width is about 14 and a half centimeters so length 45 width 14. I am going to get my pot,
this is my growers pot that I want my plant to go in and I will measure how much of that moss pole
is going to be in the pot so that is that I'll just get my ruler and that is about 13 centimeters
13 centimeters off this wire mesh will be lying within the pot so I'll put my cable tie here as a
marker just to make it easier so I don't have to keep doing the measurements when I'm making the
moss pole and I'll just make a little cylindrical shape for my pole there to make it easier
to make. I now grab my sphagnum moss and I am filling my wire mesh so you're not
you know, packing that moss in it's just filling it ever so lightly
not too much so I've got that there and see this is where I've got my marker so I don't want to put
any moss over there because that's the part of the moss pole that will be held within the pot
so just fill that up a little bit and that's that's looking good.
That is, I think that is all the moss that I'm going to need
for this moss pole. Now in order for me to tell you how much I've used I've got my scales here.
I've got a little pot there and I'll just turn on my scales
and that is at zero and I will put this moss in there.
So give or take a few grams right so that is 166 grams. So I am using 166 grams
to fill this size of wire mesh. So I'll get rid of that and put my moss back in my wire mesh.
So again, it's give or take you know I mean it's very hard to be very specific with these things
but that's what I'm going to do and I will now close off my wire mesh
using my cable ties so that's looking good
and I will just overlap this by one box
like so. Overlap so there's
one this box and this box there are overlapping and that's how I'm going to secure that
that's there. I like to start from the top because then it just makes it easier
to align everything and have it looking good.
This is where I've got my cable tie and note how I don't have any sphagnum moss going there.
I'll use my ruler to just push that moss that's come through over there and I will then
pinch the two sides off the wire mesh like that and that prevents the moss that's on this side
going down to the bottom, very very simple okay and that right there
is my tiny, tiny moss pole. So I'll just clip off these little bits of cable tie.
Okay now that gives you
a moss pole with a diameter of about oh hang on four and a half centimeters so the diameter of
this moss pole is four and a half centimeters. And that's my little moss pole I'm gonna clean
this up and we're gonna go on with our repotting. My surface is now clean and I am going to grab
my little moss pole put it over if you want actually you know these ends of the cable ties
that are sticking out they do get quite sharp it's better to just flick them over so they're inside
the moss so when you're handling your moss pole you're not likely to get hurt but also
it's not going to damage your leaves so when you do that you don't have the sharp bits hurting you
over there. So I turn that over and I'll now grab my plants this is my little plant that's
been living in leca, I need to get the plant out of this and attach it to my moss pole I've got my
little plant here that was living in leca it's not necessary to remove all the leca from the
roots you might just end up damaging them so it's fine if they're bits that are left hanging about
that's absolutely fine. So I'm going to attach this plant to my moss pole before I put it up
this is my plant that's been living in my special sauce it's a lot bigger than my little one but I
want to show you look at those roots there's so many water roots that have sprouted pretty much
all those white roots over there like that one that one over there that one all those
this bit here this is a new root that has formed while it's been living in the special source
so this plant is going to do very very well so what I want to do is attach these two plants
to my moss pole and I'm going to attach the plants about where the moss is so just
at that level over there I've got my velcro planche ties to help me get the plants to stay
and that one goes like so.
That's the first plant there attached to the moss pole. Roots away from the sphagnum moss because
I don't want those roots getting root rot from the moist moss. Get my next velcro plant tie
and I get my other plant and that goes there as well.
I'm going to secure that.
So very just very gently tying the plant to the moss pole you don't want to end up damaging the
leaves with this process because that is not what we want at all and it can be a little bit fiddly
so being patient really really helps.
This is my Syngonium Panda that is now living on a moss pole now I know you might be thinking
this moss pole is pretty small, but this syngonium is only attached to the moss pole
right at the bottom it hasn't yet gotten enough aerial roots, it hasn't yet vined to a level where
it needs to be so big which is why it's nice to just have a little moss pole for a Syngonium.
There's no need to go overboard and you don't want to overpower the look of those gorgeous leaves
with the moss pole. So that's what that looks like. I am now going to put it in my grower's pot
got my 14 centimeter pot here I'll put a little bit of leca in there just to get things going.
So that's about a third and I'm just gonna swoosh that there if you wanted you could actually put
leca in there but I don't normally do that because unless you've got really big balls
of leca they do tend to fall out so most of the time I just, I'll just close that off and
flatten that out and that ends up looking like that and it's then easy to have this surface so
if you just give that a little curve this will lie nicely against the pot. So I'll do that
just shake that to make sure that that is going right to the bottom and that's how that will stay.
So that's my pot there and my roots are over there and all I'm going to do now is fill this pot
with leca. That's looking pretty good remember to shake the pot just to help the leca settle
and when the leca settles you'll find that you've got additional room.
Now you've got that little space at the back there, making sure to put leca to go in there
as well because that's what also helps anchor the moss pole so there's minimal movement.
Okay that's done, that is my Syngonium Panda. What a difference that makes! Remember what the plants
looked like when there were two small plants and now look at what she looks like living on a
moss pole as a lovely big bushy plant. I cannot wait to get this plant going, it's going to be
absolutely stunning so just keeping the moss pole moist and keeping the plant in a nice bright spot
that'll keep it looking glorious. I'll put this pot in a cache pot with Growth Technology Clonex
Clone Solution for about two weeks and that's only so the plant that's been going through the
long method can have a happy transition from water to leca and then after two weeks I'll put it back
in Growth Technology Foliage Focus. And that's my Syngonium Panda. Thank you very much for watching
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