Where are they now plant updates! in this video I'm going to show you some very special plants I
did some very special things too in 2022 and I'll show you how they're tracking. First up
is my Epipremnum Aureum N'joy or Snow Queen as we call it in Australia. The N'joy is a slow grower
so making this moss wall in winter with this particular plant was not going to lead to a very
luscious looking moss wall in a few months, but this moss wall is making a lot of progress this
is what it looked like back when I created it was pretty small but as you can see we're getting some
new leaves coming through and those vines are coming up that most wall there's one two three
four there's five vines on there and they are coming up really nice look at the variegation on
the leaves there it's looking very very good this plant is sitting in a very nice warm well lit spot
and that's why you can see that that variegation is looking absolutely fantastic it is living in
leca as you might know there is that plant there and that's the back there so the reservoir is
inside there and I keep it in this white cache pot just because I don't want algae to develop
in that nutrient solution and to be on that leca but overall I'm very happy with what this plant
is doing I use my trusty precious spray to keep that moss wall moist and all I do is just zap it
that way and because that moss wall is very thin using that pressure sprayer is more than enough to
keep that moss wall moist and turn it around and I spray it at the back as well because as you can
see those aerial roots have come through that Moss wall and are now going straight down into
the leca so spraying it this way is actually enough to keep that Moss wall moist so that
right there that is quite addictive I love doing that and I love to see how the nutrient solution
just seeps into that Moss wall so I do use growth technology foliage focus when I'm spraying my Moss
wall I'm going to give this Moss wall a year and I know that after that time this Moss wall is just
going to be absolutely magnificent I'm going to have all those gorgeous leaves just going all the
way up to the top and it is going to be striking. Next up is my Monstera Adansonii Monkey Mask,
this plant was an absolute star in my collection before I moved house a year ago when I moved house
obviously conditions changed this plant looked terrible and just tanked. I did some rehab on
it I've got a video that shows how I did that just check above and I made some cuttings it
just really couldn't be saved in the state that it was I made some cuttings I repotted it and I
basically recreated that moss pole and look at her now! look at those luscious luscious leaves the
plant is really taking off that's what she looks like now she looks absolutely fantastic I gave her
one of my plastic sheet back Moss poles and she's really really responding very well to this one you
can see some of these leaves like that one that was one of the older leaves where the plant was
not doing very well that's what I kept and used as cuttings and that's pretty much on its way out
really I mean I could clip them off and the plant will be doing just fine so I'm really loving how
this is going fabulous internodal spaces there this is going to be a lovely lovely bushy Moss
pole it looks absolutely fantastic so the lesson therein is sometimes you just have to start again
if a plant is not doing what it is you want it to do or the vision that you're you've got in
your head for how this plant needs to look is not being actualized it's okay to start again so you
either redo the most pole worst case scenario you can even just get yourself another plant because
remember this hobby is about making you happy my Monstera Adansonii Monkey Mask looking peachy.
Next up is my spider plant this is my curly Bonnie spider plant this plant is absolutely
fantastic she's glorious she looks absolutely brilliant I had this plant it was it was living
in soil actually when I first got this plant I could never get it to do well at all I moved it
into leca and it became glorious and then when I moved house I kind of lost interest in it I
wasn't watering it as much as I should have been and it tanked in the video above I show you how I
gave it some rehab I decided I was going to love it again and I was going to bring it back to its
former glory and here she is this is her living in her 14 centimeter cache pot but look at those
leaves there's very minimal brown tips she's got some pups going on over there and she's got some
new pups coming there as well and I think that's a flower yeah if you look here there's a little
white flower that's coming up there this spider plant is absolutely happy one of the things about
spider plants especially when they're living in leca I don't know about soil now because I
don't know too much about soil at this stage they love to drink they drink drink drink drink drink
all the time and they have the most gorgeous root system look at that look at that plant
over there those roots are just to die for it is doing so so well I think it's safe to say that
I have given my spider plant a fantastic rehab and she is loving life again. broke on some pups!!
I used my Monstera Thai Constellation to demonstrate that it's okay to trim the roots of your plants
that are living in semi-hydro if they become excessive and when I did this I got a lot of
oh my God are you crazy why are you doing that I'd never do that that's cruel that's terrible
I got all sorts of comments but I want to show you this plant that is my Monstera Thai Constellation
she survived that and not only did she survive it she's striving this is her here this is her newest
leaf that's the newest leaf there it is huge and I expect that probably the next leaf that's going
to come out of this one there's actually a new leaf that's already lining up there there's a
new leaf there lining up almost coming out when that leaf comes out I suspect that it might even
have a secondary fenestration I don't know but all in all this is what happens I'll show you what's
happening with her roots now that is her root system so that plant has completely recovered
from that root trimming and is doing really really well now those are her roots she's living in leca
that is her reservoir over there so that just goes to show you it is okay to trim your roots
your plant will be just fine and sometimes that is just something that you have to do if there
is a lot of roots especially when your plant is living in semi-hydroponics the conditions for root
growth are just too fantastic so sometimes they just go a bit insane and you just need to get rid
of them that is my Monstera Thai Constellation loving her life after root trimming now you all
know that I love me a Syngonium! Syngoniums are fabulous plants that are relatively cheap very
easy to take care for give you fabulous bang for your buck and just look absolutely amazing one
thing that Syngoniums love to do is they love to climb last year I created a Syngonium moss wall.
I wanted to get a big group of different kinds of Syngoniums put them on a lovely Moss wall
and watch that grow and make it something like a living wall I would love to do that I would
love to do that but anyway I'll show you what my Syngonium Moss wall is now doing this is my
gorgeous Syngonium moss wall here as you can see a it's alive so that is a win but not only is it
alive those plants are thriving look at this Panda over here she's looking absolutely glorious that's
a new leaf there that plant is starting to stalk so the plants are now starting to attach to my
Moss wall this plant is still very early days with this plant I only really just made this more small
about a few months ago so there's still quite a long way to go but I'm really happy to see that
my plants have survived the transition they're starting to attach to the Moss wall and new leaves
are coming and things are looking really good this Moss wall is actually a plastic sheet back mossful
a little bit different from my enjoy Moss wall I really wanted to do something different and just
to show you that you can apply the principles of a plastic backed Moss pole into a plastic-backed
moss wall so that is my gorgeous baby here doing so so well living in her lechuza pot
and I'll show you how easy it is that's her there I can just pick her up you can see the roots that
are showing at the bottom there and you can see the nutrients in solution dripping so very easy
to handle very easy to flush that leca very easy to change out that nutrient solution that there
is my Syngonium moss wall loving life last but not least is my Golden Ivy Epipremnum Aureum this is
my plant here this plant used to be massive it was the biggest plant I had in my collection it
gone all the way up to the ceiling it was over two meters high there was nowhere else for me to go so
I had to chop it I chopped the plant up check out the video in the link above I chopped up the plant
and I actually transitioned it from soil to leca so I gave away the bottom bit that was planted
in soil and I transitioned the top bit into leca and this is the plant here she is alive and she is
thriving so when I chopped up the plant it was all the way over here so all this here is new growth
that has happened since I've put the plant in in leca so this is where we were at when I chopped
up this plant that's how big those leaves were I think she needs a bit of a drink she's a bit
dry and I was a bit careless with her I left her out in the sun you know she would fall down so
the leaves are not as pristine as they could be that's my bad so from here to up there all this
is new growth look at that look at how big that is so things are starting to really look good
this here is the newest leaf or trying to see if I can show you look at that variegation it is just
really yellow it's looking really really good more new leaves everywhere and I think it's safe to say
that this plant has exceeded my expectations I would love to show you what the root system is
looking like in leca but I can't pick it up and make this video at the same time so that'll have
to wait until I've got an assistant to help me so as you've seen the new leaves that are growing are
not as big as the older leaves and why is that the plant has been diverting a lot of resources
to creating a new root system because the only roots that the plant had were the roots the area
roots that were held within the moss pole so those leaves are a little bit smaller and that is to be
expected the size will get bigger as the plant continues to climb and settles further into the
leca I expect this plant to really take off this year she will be great again check out this video
and see how I chopped up my gorgeous big plant and converted her into leca I'll see you there
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