- (sighs) Well,
(chill music)
Ms. Rona finally came by to say hi,
so your girl is quarantining for the next five days
until she comes up with a negative test.
But I have like very incredibly mild symptoms
which I'm really happy about.
Proof that the vaccines work I guess,
But yeah, I'm just hanging out.
And so I figured, you know what?
Might as well just finally stake my monstera.
The first monstera I ever did a lack of video on
on the channel has grown exponentially
and needs to be staked.
We're just chilling.
We're just chilling, hanging out.
Because I got nothing else to do
because I can't go anywhere until I'm not covidey.
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- So as you can see, it is on the ground
which is something you don't want to have to happen.
The reason it's doing that though is that
remember that monsteras are epiphytes,
if I'm saying that correctly.
They utilize the other plants around them to grow
and grow on them to make themselves taller
and get towards the sun.
So when you bring them into the home,
it can be a bit of a struggle for them
if you don't stake them
because they have nothing to grow on.
And so this happens.
They'll kind of just be on the ground
and not going anywhere.
And they begin to take up a lot of
horizontal real estate in your apartment.
Space is at a premium and you want your plants
to grow up rather than out.
You're so big.
So these are the stakes I bought.
Again, I will link to them for y'all in the description.
If you're curious, they're stackable,
so you can actually like keep going if you need to.
I think the whole idea behind moss poles in general too
is that when you kind of get water on them a little bit,
that helps with the plant as well
because then there's a little bit
of moisture on what they're growing on, which is nice.
Especially for monsteras, they do like it moist
This guy, I probably should have staked him a lot sooner.
I didn't, but I probably should have,
because then I have been able to get him
to really be like vertical, so like right now,
I think he definitely is leaning towards one side.
How to stake him in a way that doesn't hurt him, you know?
Because again, he's already bent.
You see how he's already bent, you know,
a really specific way that I can't really change anymore.
But what I might do is try to stake in the center
and kind of have him wrap around the stake in the center
and see if that'll work.
Ooh, this is a good thumbnail, hold on.
That's cute.
Let's do like a laugh one, see who likes to laugh. (laughs)
Oh, okay, and it looks like it's all coming from one side.
Quite a few dead roots on this side.
You see, all of that needs to go, and that's not weird.
I'm not surprised to see this much dead root in this plant
because again I haven't switched him out in quite some time,
and so I haven't really been in here
to clean out all of this dead root.
Wherever I can see these dead bits though,
you know, just taking them out.
So I went ahead and just put all of the leca in my sink
and I'm using the water to kind of
sort of vigorously clean it real quick.
Alright y'all, I'm back.
Cleaned my leca.
Water was real dirty.
I purposely was like, I'm not filming that. (laughs)
They don't need to see how dirty it is,
I'm not filming that.
But I already have my peroxide solution.
It's just one part peroxide to four parts water,
so pretty diluted, so that way it's not too, too strong
on the plant and doesn't hurt it.
But it also minimizes the potential
for mold to become an issue.
Roots are looking ready.
Debating on if I want to trim them down a little bit.
Um, I don't think I do.
I'm gonna let him do him.
And I'm generous, very generous with the spray.
I'm trying to do this to where it won't spray the camera.
Don't want mold to, it hasn't been an issue,
but I don't want it to be an issue.
And I do this for all of my plants that I switch out.
You see I'm still spraying.
I'm talking to y'all I'm still spraying.
So now I'm gonna, well first I'm gonna go rinse this out
but then I'm gonna spray it.
Let's put of hair up.
Because hair is starting to get in the way.
Real Loose like, okay good enough, alright.
That's good, now this guy.
Ooh, this is when it actually would be helpful
if Mr. Hallease was here
because he went to the grocery store
because I can't go anywhere.
Oh yeah, he hasn't tested positive by the way.
Been negative this whole time.
I think this is how I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna like have it be this way.
Glad we thought through that.
Glad we had that conversation everybody.
In the comments below, y'all tell me,
because I'm concerned about the stake getting moldy.
You feel me?
I'm concerned about the stake molding
and then what I'm finna do if the stake molds.
Know what I mean?
So like what y'all be doing to minimize stake mold
or do you just live with that?
Like that's just the life, the stake lives, you know?
But that's something I'm kind of nervous about is
because this stake is hella wooden.
You know what I'm saying, it's hella wood.
And wood and moisture aren't generally BFFs
in my limited life experience.
I think it will be sideways for a second
because I need to stake it like here,
and then tie another one, yeah, I like right there.
And basically it'll be growing that way for a second.
But that's okay because since I'll have it staked here,
and I'll turn it towards the window,
that'll hopefully help it to, you know, and go up.
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