hi everyone it's marianne
and welcome to My Wasteless Life
for today's video
i'm going to give you some of my plant updates
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where i take you along my plant journey
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tricks for houseplants and sustainable lifestyle
on today's video i'm going to
give updates on some of my plants that i've
been getting questions about
plants that i said that i would
give updates on
and plants that basically i've talked
about in my previous videos
since my last plant updates video so
today i'm going to share with you about 10 plants and let's get started
so the first plants that i'm going to give you updates on are
My pothos that I converted into LECA
and if you've seen my pothos in LECA video
you know i'm a skeptic when it comes to LECA
i'm not really into the LECA hype
but i thought giving it a try before i completely knock it out and
after i converted my pothos into LECA
the first week or two was probably very stressful
for me because my plants were
experiencinga lot of yellowing
which i was kind of upset about because
those are the leaves that had a variegation
that i kind of want to maintain
but unfortunately they were the first
victims of my LECA conversion
and during the first week i also find
myself checking it every day to see if
the capillary action is actually working for the plants
so that was a bit stressful during the
first week or so
but after the first two weeks when i
noticed my plants are no longer yellowing
and all of them are actually starting to have new growth
when it comes to leaves and the roots
i kind of laid my hands off
them and just let them be
to the point that i actually forget to
flush it or change up the water in the LECA
but once i got into the habit of checking the water levels
at least once a week and also flushing the plants in LECA every two weeks
then it became pretty smooth sailing for them and i must admit when i traveled
to chicago for the weekend
those are the plants that i was least
worried about when it comes to their watering levels
because i made sure that i top off the water before i left
so yeah enough me babbling and let me show you the pothos that i had in LECA
so the first one is this golden pothos or hawaiian golden pothos
this is the one that i was kind of upset about
during the first week of the LECA conversion because
this is the one that had leaves that looked like the hawaiian golden pothos
and with the golden pothos is actually very hard to distinguish
between different forms already
so i was really upset when the two leaves that
has the distinct form of the hawaiian golden pothos were
the ones to die out so now it pretty much looks like an ordinary golden
pothole maybe this leaf is showing the hawaiian golden pothos form but
for the rest of the leaves it's just pretty much an ordinary golden pothos
and all these are new growth like i think the one two
three and the baby one here this one are all new growth
adding this thread for self watering for me actually helped
but more so for my peace of mind that i am sure that the water is actually
reaching the roots of the golden pothos
and this one was
mostly by my kitchen sink
so i was able to top this one off and
flush this one quite regularly compared to the other
ones that i have in LECA that i keep in my bedroom
so the next one is my glacier pothos
this is probably the one that did the
best in LECA
it only suffered minimal leaf loss
i think maybe just like one or two
and the root growth has been amazing on this one
as you can see
it has already outgrown the pot and the
roots are coming out of the drainage hole
and i just keep it like that
it's okay for now
i don't think i'm gonna convert it into a bigger pot
i might just trim off the roots
you can see how healthy and thick the
new roots are so i'm really happy about that
and the next one is the scindapsus pictus argyreus
the single leaf cuttings that i converted into LECA
this one did suffer i think the most leaf loss among the three which i was
kind of upset about because this is the one that was propagating in sphagnum
moss and it did so well in sphagnum moss not a
single leaf loss and the leaf that died was actually the
largest one from the propagation but as you can see
this leaf right here is about to die out as well and this one
too so i don't know what's going on with that
i did add a few more cuttings into this one as well
the root growth in this one is not as fast
as the other two
but it's healthy it's doing well now after the
initially leaf loss
even though i'm losing like a couple leaves
here and there still
yeah that's my scindapsus pictus argyreus in LECA
and in my pothos in LECA video i
also put some of my hoya cuttings and succulent cuttings
into LECA and this is the hoya crimson queen right now
there's significant root growth not much
but there's significant root growth so
this one i didn't expect to do as well as it did and honestly i rarely changed
water on this one because the water don't seem to
go down as fast i think i changed this once or twice
just to be able to flush the water and it has new growth which is i'm really
excited about
as far as the string of turtles that i
was also propagating in LECA
i took it out of LECA pretty much
almost immediately and i'm going to show you why later
when i give you an update on my string of turtles
i lost the footage for this one so i'm re-filming it on my camera phone so
sorry for the change in quality but this is my monsteraseltepicana that
i also converted in like a this was originally in soil
and i switch it up in LECA
i believe i did show it a little bit
in my yellowing leaves video as well
and when i
transplanted this i took out it
i took it out of the soil clean it let
it propagate in water for i think
a day or two maybe even up to a week
before i transferred it in to LECA
and this is what it looks
right now it looks really healthy but kind of like
with my pothos in LECA
it did still suffer
some yellowing leaves and i believe there's actually at least one yellowing
leaf right now
which is one over here and this one
actually suffered root rot while it was in LECA
when i came back from chicago
i decided to flush this plant
so when i flush my pothos in LECA
i sometimes do
take it completely out of the LECA
and repot it and with this one
since i was still seeing some yellowing
not a lot but some yellowing
i just decided to check on the roots
and i saw a lot of root rot
and i'm going to insert a photo right
here of the roots when it was suffering
from root rot
and that was like the most root rot
i experienced in a plant
so what i did then is i just cut off
the roots that were rotting
repotted it in LECA and
so far so good
it's been doing really well
and hopefully it continues to stay that way but as you can see how long it has
been trailing already
but yeah so this one has been working
out for now
and hopefully it stays that way so
speaking of my monstera siltepecana
you know that the mother plant has been
experiencing a lot of yellowing leaves
if you've seen my yellowing leaves video
and since applying all the remedies
that i mentioned in that video
the yellowing has stopped a lot but it was still continuing
and since applying all the remedies that i mentioned in that video
the yellowing has gradually slowed down but it hasn't stopped
so taking cues from my monstera siltepeca in LECA
and also from a cebe blue pothos that
is growing in a smaller pot i think my
monstera siltepecana would fare better
if i separate the individual
plants and put them in their own pot
instead of putting them all together in a large pot
that way it would be easier for me to pinpoint and troubleshoot
any problems my monstera siltepecana is having
and why it is continuing with the yellowing
so i've since separated the mother plant of the monstera siltepecana
into about four or five smaller plants
so ever since i did that the yellowing
has dramatically stopped
except for maybe one plant which i
forgot to water
because all of them are still in soil
only one is in water
and of course the other one is in LECA
so the ones in soil i'm still trying to be very diligent and make sure
that i'm on top of their watering
that they don't get underwatered but at
the same time making sure that they're not getting overwatered or getting too dry
the next one is my string of turtles as
i mentioned earlier
i tried to propagate some of them using LECA
and also in an earlier video my favorite
string of plants video
i tried propagating this using the
butterfly method
but that didn't work out it was just
started to rot off out
i guess it was too
humid for the peperomia cutting
so i had to take it out of that
and the ones that i had in LECA
it just keeps falling off the LECA
so what i did i just put them all on top
of this plant and so far it's doing well
i mean
i don't really know which ones have been the propagation cuttings or not
but this has looked a lot fuller ever since i potted
it up so i'm guessing the cuttings that i just put directly on top of the soil
actually did root and thrive
so i don't know if you can
see but this one i had this propagating using the
butterfly method but that didn't work out so i just put
it on top of the soil maybe about one or two weeks ago
and it has i think it is rooted
i mean there's a bobby pin holding it down but
when i tug it it doesn't really come off so i think this has started to root
and the ones that i had in LECA
but as you can see
the LECA ball is still there because
some of the roots was attached to the LECA ball
but it's doing well now so it's a lot of
fuller now from where i first potted it
so i do think
the propagation of some of the cuttings
by just putting on top of the soil work
best and as you can see there's a lot of
new growth on this string of turtles already
and i'm really happy about that but yeah
so that's the update on my string of turtles
so the next update i have is on my rhaphidophora tetrasperma
which i showed in my four starter monsteras video
even though rhaphidophora tetrasperma
is technically not a monstera it is
often called the monstera minima
and this is some rhaphidophora tetrasperma
cuttings that i have
because if you follow me on instagram
i posted over there that my rhaphidophora tetrasperma
has been experiencing
something really weird because i sprayed it with the neem oil solution that the
markings or the variegation in it is just bleaching
from that but that it but then a new growth was still having all those spots
and variegation but i'm pretty sure it's not variegation it's some type of disease
so when i put it on instagram and asked
and someone replied and they said yeah it's
probably some type of viral infection or some type of pest on it
go check it out so what i did out of abundance of caution
but really it's more out of panic is i cut off
all the leaves that had that variegation
and this is what they are now so far
this one has just been propagating in water
they have started to form some roots
and it's really interesting because
well i did see some pests on the rhaphidophora tetrasperma
they were pretty much gone after i washed it off and
all the propagations that i cut remained very healthy
and they kept that variegation
so i don't know what's gonna happen once they
start popping out new leaves i'm going to see
as for the mother plant let me show you what's going on with that
over here is the mother rhaphidophora tetrasperma or monstera minima
and this is actually two plants in one and when i cut it off something
interesting really happened
on this side on the first plant
it produced three new stems
so you can see there's one over here
and if i move that out of the way
there is another one
over here and there's another one right here like a small one
so that was really fascinating that it produced not one but
three new stems
and i was actually worried that the new
growth would not have any fenestration in it but so far it is producing
leaves with fenestration although not as fenestrated as the much
older leaves there is fenestration in them
and on the second plant
over here this one produced two new
stems after i cut it off
so this is a new stem right over here
and here's a new stem right over here and they also have
popped out new leaves with fenestrations not as
fenestrated as the bottom ones but fenestrated
nonetheless
but yeah so i'm really excited what's
going to go happen with this rhaphidophora tetrasperma
before i cut it off it was actually already up to this
tall it was already filling up the moss pole and now it's starting to fill it
back up again this one is a really fast grower and i'm really happy with this
plant and i'm glad that i was able to get it for
seven dollars at that time now the prices have went up
prices on plants have drastically went up over the summer
but yeah so that is my rhaphidophora tetrasperma
and the next plant that i'm gonna give an update on
sorry i also lost the footage
of this one so sorry for the change in quality
but it's my hoya kerrii
this is probably my most asked about plants
i always get messages about
this plant on my instagram dms
and even in my youtube comments
and i think that's because of my hoya kerrii propagation video
i did post a video update on that in my soil mix
videos but i think people are having a hard time finding it so here's another
update on this hoya kerrii
so this is the mother plant it had two
original leaves and has grown this much stem and two new leaves since
that propagation it actually grew new leaves on this side
as well
but i accidentally dropped this plant
and those leaves got bruised so i just took it off
and it started to grow two new leaves here as well but this leaf rotted off
and this is the only one that has survived and now it's also starting to
grow two more new leaves and what i noticed
about this hoya kerrii
is it would start growing two new leaves
but only one of the two leaves would actually survive
so that's interesting because even with this one
this is the first leaf that grew since i propagated it
the other leaf over here also didn't survive
it's just this one that survived
and the one that that got bruised over here it's the
healthy leaf that actually was the one that got bruised i took it off but the
other leaf that's on this side just rotted off and as far as the
propagations they all propagated really well it they rooted after
about a month and i have sold them since so i don't have them with me anymore
all i have left is this single leaf cutting that i propagated
i didn't end up selling this one because this one will not grow
into a plant this is just a single leaf cutting because this is the one that
i propagated without a node but so far it's still looking good even though it's
just a single leaf cutting
For my fiddle leaf fig
it has been doing really well in its new pot
and it's really happy in the soil that it's in
as you can see from this clip
the soil is actually growing mushrooms
because that's how healthy the soil is
and giving it a lot more humidity also
helped clear up a lot of the red spots
it was having on its leaves and i'm
really happy about that i'm really
excited about this
fiddle leaf fig and i'm glad that i kept it all
in one pot that i did separated into three different pots because i think it
looks much better this way
but as far as i can see from its current
growth it's doing pretty well so
hopefully it stays that way
and last but not the least is
my golden pothos that i had staked up
i wanted to put a proper moss pole
before i did this video
but i didn't have a chance to do it yet
i might do it later on this week
and as you can see it's about to outgrow the stake that i gave it so i really
need to give it a proper moss pole
the leaves that are growing are still
pretty large not as large as the ones that are currently at the bottom
but i'm still going to let it grow up and trail up to hopefully get
bigger leaves and maybe who knows some fenestrated leaves if you've seen my
chicago plant tour
i saw a golden pothos in person that is
actually fenestrated that is also staked up and the leaves
are so huge so that is kind of my goal for this golden pothos
i don't know if it's going to happen but that's the goal anyways i'm going to try
and see if i can make that happen
but yeah so that is my golden pothos
so those are my plant updates
if there's a plant that you wanted an update on
and i didn't mention it in this video
please let me know down in the comments
and i'll try to give you an update
here or in instagram or in my youtube
community post
but as far as my other pothos
i do have a pothos collection video
coming up very soon and i'll give you
updates on every pothos that i have
and that video would also include a
giveaway to thank everyone that has subscribed to my channel
i think by the time this video is up
i would have reached 4k
so thank you so much to all of you that has subscribed and joined me on my plant
journey here on youtube
so please do watch out for that video
and i know a lot of you discovered me
through my pothos guide videos
especially my pothos varieties video
i'm going to have a part 2 of that video
also real soon
so please also watch out for that
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