Hi, I am going to plant some plants in water today and I thought I'd bring you guys along with me.
(I've) already been to the gym this morning. I had a little upper body session so it's a little
bit of a mix of like chest and back and in case anyone was wondering the active wear set I was
wearing - the pants are from Alphalete but I would not recommend. Um, I've had two pairs break on me. Like,
the first pair was a small and they broke so I was like maybe I need a medium and I got a medium and
they also broke. Um, don't recommend, but the bra I was wearing is actually from the sustainability
collection from Muscle Nation which has been really great. So it's made from recycled materials
and I got a few of the sports bras in that set and I really like it because, well, you can see all the
back tattoos while I'm training. Also I didn't feel like wearing any makeup this morning, it's
a Saturday morning. Um, I'm going out for dinner with other Rachel, Erin and Darren tonight and so
because I have to put makeup on later, I didn't want to put it on now and have it sitting on
my face all day and getting all like crusty and nasty. So we're just going to be makeup free, I hope
you don't mind! We're all friends here, I think. So I wanted to share some plants that are just
really easy to keep living in water. I have just too many... I've actually started giving away plants.
I even took one to my hair salon the other day and I was like here take this. There's too many
cuttings, like it's just getting excessive now and like look at these ones they have attached
themselves. I really... if anyone knows a clean way to get them off, like granted I shouldn't have
let it grown up... grow up the wall but it kind of took off. This one, I was gonna say it's
not stuck to the wall but it is now, oh dear. So there's those and then in the lounge room, hang on -
the Rhaphidophora tetrasperma
crazy, crazy and then my (Monstera) adansonii. Oh and this!
It's just getting full "Jumanji" in here. So in my office on the shelves, so if my computer
is here, the shelves are here. I've got a couple of plants, there's water in there.
Also water in this one, water in this one. I'm gonna take some cuttings of some of my
favourite ones to live in water. I've also got some other plants which are in soil
which i'm just gonna convert over to water as well. I know there's semi-hydro where you can
use uh, leca but that just seems like a whole hassle for me and I do like the look of the
roots just growing fully in water. I think that's pretty cool. So, let's take some cuttings so that
they have enough time to sort of callus off a little bit before we transfer them into the water.
I'm just taking some cinnamon, I like to use this to help callus the cuttings a little bit quicker.
You really, you don't need much. This first one is very obvious and I feel like I talk about it
in every plant video and that's pothos, okay, aka Devil's Ivy. I'm just gonna, see these stems? I'm
just gonna take off the first like two leaves. This is the end that I cut from, I'm just gonna
pull off these leaves so they don't rot in the water. They're very easy to propagate. You would
have very bad luck to make a mistake with these. There was a node here as well and we just sort of
cut in between because it will grow out of these nodes here but where I cut I'm just gonna dip that
into some cinnamon. All you really need to do to get these to grow is just plunk them in water
and then they'll grow but you'll need to make sure that you are giving them just a little bit of
fertilizer every now and again, like not that often but enough to give the plant nutrients because
planting them in soil gives them nutrients and planting them in water does not. I'll show you what
I use towards the end of the video just so that you can get an idea. Okay, next up we have a heart-leaf
philodendron. I'm hoping that's in focus because I've got you guys on manual focus right now
and also check my very non-aesthetic bucket. I did want to film it outside. This morning it was like
really sunny and it was gorgeous, um and now it's rainy and super windy. The little bit of rain I
can deal with but the wind is so loud. So I'm inside with a bucket and a heap of dirt. As I was saying
anyway, this is the heart-leaf philodendron. I have a whole bunch of them. This one I actually grew from
a cutting. Oh, the dogs are coming to join us, but this one actually grew from a cutting. I've just
shaken off a bunch of the soil and what I'm going to do now is take my very beautiful lime green
bucket and I'm actually going to use the water in here just to wash off the rest of the soil.
this is probably one of the easiest ones to grow in water alongside with pothos.
You could also use this as just like a cutting so if you've already got one of these plants
just take a little cutting between the nodes, um similar to what we just did with the pothos
but because this one's already been in soil, like I said I've already
shaken off a lot of the soil, I'm just going to wash off the last of it here.
I think this looks so pretty here although I'm not sure how long I will keep it here because
our coffee table actually has wheels, so things get moved around a bit but I thought it would
look really nice on this tray that we have on our coffee table. So the tray itself is from the brand
Zakkia, the plant is just in one of my random mason jars, this little dish is actually a dip bowl like
just part of our tableware. I thought it would look cute on the tray and this room spray is
so amazing. I love the smell of it, I don't like anything that is like too floral or too feminine,
too dainty and light. I prefer scents that are, you know, more woody, dark, smoky at that sort of
vibe and this one is so nice it's got a mixture of like bamboo, cedarwood, sandalwood, leather... it's so nice.
Now I have to give an honourable little mention to the moss ball, look how cute
it is! It just lives in this glass of water, that's all it does. It just reminds me of like
a green meatball. It's easy to care for, just give it fresh water
and it seems to like bright light. I tend to keep mine on a little windowsill over there.
Tradescantia Tricolour - I feel like I always say that wrong, so don't come for me if I- I didn't say
it correctly. I just use plants as a hobby, I'm no expert. This is the only one that I haven't tried
in water but I've done some reading and apparently it does pretty well in water. For how long? I'm not
sure but everything was saying, especially if you take a cutting, it will sprout roots really, really
quickly - like within 24 hours it starts to sprout roots but I had two of these growing in soil. One
of which was in my office. I just wanted to take this one out of the soil and try it in water.
Look, for how much plant this is...
that's the roots. I've got another one floating around...
Today is probably not the best day to give an example of where I've put this, so this is
in my office which doesn't really receive much direct sunlight at all and it looks pretty dark
and dim in here at the moment just because it is raining and it's overcast. I've got
one big one here and then I put a little, look at this a little baboo, a little baby. So it's just
here with my pothos and care tips are pretty easy for this one - just making sure it's getting
enough indirect light throughout the day, um, if it starts to get leggy like I've got one back here..
you can see it started to get a bit leggy, like if the leaves were growing a bit further apart.
When I originally set that one up, see that is how long it is now, it was much further away
from the window so I just moved it a bit closer. These ones I might move, we'll see how they go.
Then we have a Peace Lily. This one of mine has been living in water
already, it's kind of empty now, I need to refill it but it's been living in water for ages. Just
going to go around, I would do this to any plant not just a plant that's living in water, I'm just
checking if there's any old leaves that are spent and used up like this (see?) but other than that this one
looks happier than the one that i have that's in soil. I found with the Peace Lilies you do need
to clean their leaves a little bit more than some other plants just because they are so big
and they can catch a lot. I've got my little jar here, I'm just gonna pop my, actually that might not
be deep enough... maybe it'll be okay. No, definitely not deep enough. Okay, oh also, while I'm here
see how the water is just where the stems meet the roots? You don't want to put it in too deep
or it'll just rot the plant because it's just sitting in water. I have my bigger jar
now and I'm just going to stick my pothos cuttings in there because they're looking
fine. It's been a little while since I cut them. Actually, "the magic of cinema" it probably feels
like a couple of minutes and I'm just making sure that the bottom nodes are in the water.
Alright, it's time for a quick little science lesson about PH. Now obviously PH does play a
role, um in soil when it comes to plants as well but I feel like it's a little bit more important
to understand it if you're just letting something live in water. If you're just popping a plant in
water for a short period of time, like it's a cutting and you just want it to sprout roots
or maybe you just want to leave it in there for a couple of months, it doesn't matter, uh
but if you are intending on keeping that plant in water for good and you want it to actually
thrive and do well I would say it's important to pay just a little bit of attention to PH.
I had to get things to show you. I heard a great metaphor that was if nutrients are the lock then
ph is the key. So having the correct ph balance is actually going to let your plants absorb the
nutrients they need. So ph ranges on a scale from 0 to 14. 0 being the most acidic and 14 being the
most alkaline with 7 being neutral. All plants are going to be a little bit different - some prefer
things a little bit more acidic, some prefer things a little bit more alkaline but for the most part
most plants will do well between 5.8 to 6.3. Now, I use one of these, it's just a little ph measurement.
If you don't want to get one of these you can get litmus paper which is a paper which changes color
and it changes color based on how acidic or alkaline the water is because when there's
no soil there's no organic matter, there's no microorganisms and there's no interaction between
like water and soil and the minerals that are in the soil. I only use four products because I like
to keep things reasonably minimal. I'm not trying to go out and have a whole hydroponic garden so
um, when it comes to fertilizer this is what I like to use, so, it's a two-part system. It's not just one.
The brand is 'Growth Technology' and it's called 'Optimum'. There's part A and part B. Ph up and ph
down and we use these to balance the ph and make sure that it's in the range between the 5.8 and
the 6.3. This is not a tutorial video, I just thought it would be something that you guys
should be aware of so when you do put things in water they still need nutrients if you want them
to grow and you can't just use your typical soil fertilizer on your water plants and the same thing
would be if you were to use leca. Um, while I'm here I wanted to let you guys know that I will put
up a blog post about this and I'm going to link all the products that I talked about so if you're
confused about anything I'll make sure that it is all there in the blog post for you so you can
refer back to that when you are transferring things over to water or making some cuttings
and putting them in water. So that blog post is going to be over on my personal journal which is
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nearly time for me to go out and have dinner with other Rachel and Erin and Darren, um, so
I'm going to go actually put on a face and maybe a change and I'm going to check back with you guys
in a couple of days or a couple weeks and we're going to see how all these water plants are doing.
Alright, it's been a week and a half now. I've had this for ages so
I was gonna do like a little look back on things and see how they're going but obviously
this one is fine because he's been in water for ages. The same as the Peace Lily really... the
Peace Lily's already been in water for a long time so that one is the Peace Lily there. Here is our
pothos going totally fine and it's got a new leaf coming through at the top here. Here's a heart-leaf
philodendron, I actually put another cutting in this bars as well because I bumped one of the
ones that's hanging from that plant wall in the bedroom. I accidentally got caught in a piece of
it when I was coming out from the wardrobe and it fell off so I just stuck it in here as well
and everything is going totally fine. There's some new growth on there too as you can see and then
finally, my little experiment, the Tradescantia Tricolour. This one has actually gotten more colourful.
So, I originally set this one up on the bookshelf in my office but then I decided to move it to a
brighter area. There- a few of the leaves died off which I expected because this plant had grown
for a while in soil and I was transferring it to water and that can happen a little bit sometimes
but other than that it has had some new growth already and the cute little one in my office
is doing nicely too. Actually, interestingly enough this little one didn't have any leaves die off yet.
Overall they're all looking good and I hope it gives you some inspiration
of some plants which you can pot up a little bit differently. I'll catch you guys in my next video!