Hello plant people my name is Nora also known as the Leca Queen on instagram. Welcome to my channel
thank you so much for joining me this is the place where we talk about indoor plants anything
from leca to moss poles. Today i'm going to be walking you through how I make a simple moss pole.
And you know I love love moss poles. I got some of my gorgeous plants behind me and all these plants
are on a moss pole. So this is my Snow Queen that's living on a moss pole so that's a moss
pole back there Satin Pothos on a moss pole, El Salvador Monstera on a moss pole, Pothos Golden
Ivy on a moss pole. I just love poles, they're absolutely beautiful and I make all my poles
it's just cheaper for one and it's easier to customize the pole to the plant when you
can make it yourself. So I'll show you all the things that we're going to need. So we're going
to need a piece of mesh I like to use the soft metal kind of mesh and this comes in a big roll
like that so it's like huge it's really really huge you can have heaps making keeps and heaps
of poles from that so I just cut that off and it's very soft all you need is a pair of scissors and
you cut off what you need. Sphagnum moss, I like to soak my moss in the Growth Technology
Foliage Focus or in Growth Technology Clonex Clone Solution just you know that's just that
the moss itself has is primed with the nutrients so once the roots start to grow into it there's
something for them to eat. We will also need some cable ties just small table ties.
We will also need a propylene sheet. So this is an A2 size sheet and it's 0.8 millimeters
in thickness. I will put a link to all the items that I use below, and this is what I use
behind my pole. Something to cut the sheet and I've just got my cutting sheet there
just to make things easier I've also got a ruler just to help guide my cutting and a hole punch
or a perforator depending on where you come from. I also like to use a metal rod so I use this metal
rod to provide stability and just to make sure that the pole is stable, strong and not falling
off. I'll show you what I why I do what I do in a second I'll use my Snow Queen to demonstrate.
What that sheet does is it keeps the moss moist for longer so you can imagine you've got this you
reduce the surface area from which the water can evaporate off the moss so it stays moist longer
but another thing that's really useful to have about this is the fact that once the roots start
to come through the moss they will start jutting out what we want is the roots to go down and not
jut out so what this does is basically acts like a wall so the roots will hit the sheet and they will
start to grow down. So what we need to do is cut a piece of the sheet that will go behind that. So
that's what we want to do but we want this sheet to be curved
so we want the size of this sheet to be wider than that so I will make this a bit
wider so about so much just a few centimeters wider
this is a blade so be as safe as you can be and I will just slice.
So I've cut off my sheet and that's how that compares size-wise so I'll be able
to make a D shape like that and have that cup. You will use your hole punch to make holes
in there in the propylene sheet so start right at the edge there the corner there
making sure it's close to the edge.
Punch your hole that is what we're looking for and then you are going to make
two holes
right at the top
like that, two holes on either end
and I will show you what you need those for
in a minute. And that's what you'll have you'll have two bottom one there and all across there
including on the other side. I will now demonstrate how I attach this mesh to that
so what you want to do is align the top of the mesh to that and wherever that ends
so we are now going to use our cable ties. I like to use cable ties because I just find it easier
to work with. So you've got your cable tie
and you are putting it through
through there and through there
so making sure that the head of the cable tie is against the sheet and I will then secure the tie
and we've got something like this. So that's what that will look like that is on the inside
so that is what that will look like
and this will be the inside so that will go on the inside we will cup that like that and those cable
ties will be on the inside so that we don't have the heads of the cable ties jutting out of there
so we now have our sheet that has two holes at the top
two holes there a hole there a hole there and holes throughout there and holes throughout there
so you now grab your scissors and cut off the redundant bits of the cable ties so just cut those
so that will look like that
that is the inside. Our moist moss the moss is moist, not dripping and we want to fill the pole
with the moss so you're not putting too much moss and you're not squeezing that in
you want to leave enough room for the roots to maneuver you don't want the roots to be
struggling to get into the moss and you don't want them to basically be suffocated
by the volume of that so that basically will go like that so like I said you can
tailor your pole to whatever plant you've got you can make it smaller you can make it bigger you
could do whatever you want and that's the beauty of making your own poles so I think for what I'm
trying to do this is probably more than enough moss I'll leave that there get your cable tie
and we are starting again from inside the sheet into the mesh
and that goes and
that goes into the head of the cable tie
as you can see because we made
the backing sheet wider than the mesh it just naturally makes that D shape.
Once again
scissors cutting off the redundant pieces from the cable ties
okay so we're looking let's we've got something that is starting to look the business
what's really important at this stage is you've got these cable tie heads that are sticking out
if you left those like that and your plant starts to grow you're then going
to have torn leaves because those are sharp so what you will then do is turn them inwards
so flick that in
and as you can see that's a nice smooth surface I can put my hand through there
and there's nothing caught whereas that cable tie there is still there so all
I do is just flick that forward into the moss and that's gone so flick that forward
flick that forward again there and
there.
So we now have our moss pole smooth edges no protruding cable tie heads
smooth edges and if there's any protruding all you need to do is just flick them in
and they'll stay in. So you've got the entire length of the sheet at the back
you've got softly packed moss inside and you've got this redundant piece of mesh and because I
put my plants in leca I need this in order to help my potting up. So that's it this is your
moss pole that you can attach your plant to and as soon as you do that you will then start to get
magnificent large leaves on your plant so my next video is going to show you how you can attach
your plant that's living in leca and put it in a pot so stay tuned and thank you for watching