hi everyone it's Marianne and welcome to My Wasteless Life
in today's video i'm going to give you an update on my ikea greenhouse cabinet
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and i've had the ikea greenhouse cabinet for about three months now
i got the DETOLF cabinet a lot of people get the MILSBO one
but i went with the DETOLF because a is a lot more budget friendly
it's literally more than half the price of the MILSBO
and it's also what fits my space and what i like about my IKEA greenhouse cabinet
as you might have seen in my plant trends i hate video
i don't like indoor greenhouses that's made of the plastic tarp
so when the ikea greenhouse cabinet became a trend in the plant house community
i immediately jump on it not just because it's a trend but it's also
what fits my aesthetic and my needs for a indoor greenhouse
and i had it for three months and so far i'm really loving it
my plants have grown amazingly inside the indoor greenhouse
and since the video that i made where i assembled the DETOLFcabinet i have added grow lights in it
i've added the led purple grow light it only comes with three strips
the top has four shelves so ideally i should have four led grow light strips
but i was okay with three grow light strips because as you can see later on in my update
i removed one of the shelves because the plants have been growing really really well
and really really fast inside the greenhouse cabinet
and before i have them graduate the greenhouse cabinet i kind of
want to keep them in there for as long as possible
but i don't want the led grow light too close to them because
it's also been starting to produce some leaf burn
so now with it a little bit higher away from some of my plants at the bottom shelf
it just provides the right amount of light without producing any leaf burn
and i have rotated my plants that are
in the greenhouse it's not always the same type of plants that are in there
though some are kind of that is their home base
a lot of the plants that i have in there are my propagations or plants that really do enjoy
or would love the humidity that the greenhouse provides
i don't have any humidifier or any fan inside of the greenhouse
i also did not weather strip my DETOLF because i don't really think it needs it
DETOLF is quite sealed the only gaps that it has is by the sides of the door which is okay for me
because i want some air circulation or air coming in and out of the greenhouse
because like i said i don't have any fans inside the greenhouse yet
now i can get by without having one but come summer i do think i'm gonna need one
when the humidity levels are a lot higher than it is now during the winter time
and i don't have a hydrometer inside there too but because i do have this humidifier over here
that has a humidifier or humidity level indicator
i don't see the need of having a hydrometer inside of the ikea greenhouse cabinet
because if the humidity level inside this room is 60
i'm pretty sure the humidity level inside the cabinet is about the same if not higher
as far as any cons honestly i haven't seen any cons with my plants
i have no plants that have died or rotted inside of the greenhouse
all of them are actually doing really really well but like i said i do frequently rotate my plants
once the plant either get too big for the greenhouse
i kind of have them graduate from the greenhouse
like my micans it just have grown so fast
well it is in the greenhouse so now it has to graduate out of it
but some of my plants like the syngonium albo i do keep inside because when it is outside
the white variegation of the singular elbow
deteriorates a lot faster or dies out a little bit faster
but if it's in the greenhouse it kind of maintains
the white variegation a lot longer and the white leaves a lot longer
and the variegation of my syngonium albo is really really high and i kind of want to keep it that way
so i i'm keeping it in the greenhouse because it is
happy in there and i also have most of my plants in LECA inside of the greenhouse
so i think that's also helps with increasing the relative humidity
inside the greenhouse without using any humidifier
but yeah so that's enough me babbling let me take you to my greenhouse and show you what's in it
and the growth of my houseplants that are in my ikea greenhouse cabinet
so we're gonna start at the bottom of my ikea greenhouse cabinet
over here i have the monstera siltepecana one of the few ones i have left
as you can see there's tons of new growth in this one
and i think they're really loving the ikea greenhouse
because i used to have a lot of yellowing problems with my monstera siltepecana now it's doing well
and this is my rhaphidophra tetrasperma that has been suffering root rot
as you can see it has bounced back the leaves have perked up
and i believe some of the roots have started to grow but i haven't checked it yet
and i have some scindapsus argyreus in LECA
a baby monstera in LECA
my peperomia prostrata or my string of turtles
i cut off a lot of the flower stems but i can see some new ones starting to grow back
and here is my syngonium albo also in LECA doing pretty well
and this is probably the biggest change in my ikea greenhouse cabinet
is adding the wire grid inside the cabinet
i used to have it up here and my green wall i have a different one there now
and i added this one here which is kind of what my plan was all along
so i could hang up my smaller plants in here so it's not too heavy because this aluminum
frame is not that strong really
so i have one of my monstera siltepecana over here
an air plant this planter is magnetized so it's not actually hooked
and my dischidia iontha varegiata i think it's called
my philodendron brandtianum
a hoya curtissii
peperomia hope
tradescantia nanouk
my hoya kerrii albo
i just checked that it's starting to root thank god
and tradescantia fluminesces tricolor
and here is my shangri-oohlala pothos as you can see there is a new growth right here
the new growth the leaf is not as curled but as it matures it will curl to like the ones behind it
so that is the bottom shelf
and here in the middle shelf i have my anthurium clarinervium
which is i'm getting a little bit nervous
because the leaves are starting to curl but i haven't watered this ever since i've gotten it
but we'll see what happens so now it's still in the sphagnum moss from
the seller i haven't really repotted it change it out or anything
but i have put it in this glass container that has some LECA at the bottom
and my ficus benjamina variegata snow white
my hoya kerrii reverse variegated
my maiden hair fern
my scindapsus pictus silver splash that has grown two new leaves since i've gotten it
i got it as a single leaf right over here and i has produced two new leaves
my monstera adansonii narrow form no splits but i kind of like it this way
and i love how it's actually growing up and it hasn't started to wind down
and here's another rapidaphora tetrasperma that i'm trying to save
this is the second plant that i had potted up that i thought was gonna do okay
but the roots eventually rotted so i switch it out to moss
so yeah so that is the middle shelf of my ikea greenhouse cabinet
and let's head over to the top part
and here's the plants that i have on the top shelf of IKEA greenhouse cabinet
not as exciting as the two bottom ones but you still have some good plants over here
i have my monstera adansonii wide form in LECA
it's doing better now no yellowing i just need to be on top of changing out the water
and make sure to top it off so that it doesn't dry out
my philodendron brandtianum the one that you saw at the bottom
was propagations of this one so hopefully that would survive
and over here is my rescue orchid as you can see it's starting to form buds
and hopefully will bloom soon because i'm doing a video on that
and over here is my hoya compacta i do find that my hoyas and my more succulent like plants
actually do love the humidity in my ikea greenhouse cabinet kind of like with
this one as well
my ceropegia woodii vareigata is really loving it in here
and another propagations of my peperomia prostrata string of turtles
so basically when some stems or leaves fall off the mother plant i just stick it up here
and let them propagate
and so far it has been working
but yeah did i miss anything
oh this is my tridescantia fluminesis this one is also a very fast grower
again i have a repotting video of this either already up in my igtv or will be soon
or also probably in my youtube shorts
and last but not the least my scindapsus pictus satin
and this one is slowly starting to mature it's getting a lot greener
and i believe i have a couple of new leaves up here as well
but this one's about to die out as you can see
it is starting to yellow but that is cool give new way to the newer plants
but yeah so that is the inside of my ikea greenhouse cabinet DETOLF edition
and on top of it i do have a couple of plants my snake plant and the zz raven and not much else
i used to have the golden photos over here but i believe it is
getting watered so it's somewhere else
and i have the mister that i got for christmas from my sister it doesn't
really work or i mean it does work
but i don't know it's kind of hard to use so it's just a decorative mister right now
and my figurines katniss everdeen right in front of the rose of jericho
and a figurine of f4 it is from the show meteor garden
so before bts there was f4
but yeah that is my ikea greenhouse cabinet DETOLF edition
and that's the update on my IKEA greenhouse cabinet
if you have one let me know how your plants are doing in your ikea greenhouse cabinet
if you're thinking of buying one i know the exact ikea greenhouse cabinets are hard to find
because they're getting sold out pretty quick and ikea is not found in many places
so what you could also do is go to facebook marketplace just search for a curio cabinet
i'm pretty sure you can find one in facebook marketplace
that is either the ikea greenhouse cabinet secondhand
or something that looks a lot close to it and fits your aesthetic and needs
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