I spent most of the week waiting for the snow to melt and clear a path to make it possible to move some of the more cold hardy tropical plants back outside. The snow never melted enough to get a dolly through the pathways, so I went on got some begonias repotted. These Angel Wing Begonias from Costa Farms Trending Tropicals were never labeled so I can't say for sure what type they are, but they are sturdy and pink polka dots on the leaves, similar to begonia 'whimsy' except the spots are maybe smaller. I pruned the begonias, repotted them and went on talking about general indoor gardening things like plans and plant updates. Oh! The plant mail I unboxed which looked dreadful is doing surprisingly well and it's proper name is Aphelandra squarrosa 'snow white.' I forgot to update in this video and will try to remember for next week's vlog.
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So pretty. So much snow. Traffic is going slow. Harry's being very respectful, which is very nice.
Don't know what I'm doing. I was supposed to get on the highway way back there, but the ramp was
closed because of an accident. Like a little car went flying off the highway. But fine, just in a
big ditch full of snow. I'm running out to do a couple of errands. I don't know if there's any
point in vlogging. The last few times I've been out the music's been really loud in the stores
and with the N95 mask you can't, maybe I didn't even need to be doing any of this. Probably
shouldn't have started with this. Well, it's pretty. It's good to see how pretty things are.
Now, back to moving. So, time to put the camera down. Look at all of these cute little niradas.
Fiddle leaf bush. Not usually that impressed with these, but for some reason I think they're
adorable. Hey, that's a good price. You see I'm talking about the music. It is insanely loud.
There's no glass in there. Look how big it is though. This thing's huge.
This would be cute to like stick a fern inside of there. Something like that. Bulbs. Oh yeah.
We already have all these. Dahlias, gladiolas, caladiums. Fun boxed ones. Good selection.
The snow piles are so big. It's like going through a maze trying to figure out how to get around out
here. So much fun. And those are the little piles. There are some huge piles back there by Walmart.
This was all pretty pointless and unnecessary, but at least I got to see some snow. Very pretty
snow. Helping off nice in the neighborhood, I also got some absolutely beautiful, stunning roses while
I was there. The flowers have been slim picking since the start of the pandemic, but they did
have some that looked pretty nice. They said cayenne. The color is a bit intense. They remind
me of some roses that I really like. They're called cherry brandywine, which I don't see very
often, but they're absolutely stunning. I'll show them to you when we get back to the house. Probably
shouldn't have gotten them because it's like 18 degrees outside, so I had to book it out to the
car. They should be all right. Okay. All right. Excuse me. The snow is very deep. Oh, that's,
that's great. No, I do not have boots. It doesn't snow here that often. I mean, it does, but not
like this. Actually, I think that's why. I'm pretty sure I do have a pair of boots, but I don't know
where they are. Never wear them. You see the, there's a spot in the ceiling of the garage where
apparently some heat's escaping. Eh, that's good to know. There's a spot that I need to put some
insulation over. Hey, baby. Are you sleeping? You have a good nap turbo? Sorry for waking you up.
You're such a good boy. I thought you were Toby. Where's Toby? You're in Toby's spot. Hey, what's
up, garden friends? Jeff here. How's everybody doing? Hope you're doing well. This is the side
of the tank. They have lots of room. Hope you're doing well. I'm great. I don't know if I already
said that. I'm distracted. Trying to find Toby. Where'd Toby go? In your Toby. There he is. Hey,
baby Toby. How you doing, baby? Such a good boy. Good boy, Toby. Go outdoors. It's a beautiful day.
Want to go? You need to, you don't, he doesn't want to. That looks like something that it's not.
That's a de-stuffed dog toy. Yes, I know you want to go outdoors. You always want to go outdoors.
Want to go outside? Okay. This is because, well, turbo stuck his head through the screen. That's
the bottom of the screen that was over there. Always an adventure with the dogs. Nose starting
to melt. Took a while. I think we got up to 63 today. 63 and there's still an awful lot of snow
on the ground. It was just beautiful. What a beautiful week. Did y'all enjoy your snow? Comment
down below. Did you have a good time? I know it was a bit much in some places. All right, Colby,
I'll leave you alone. You keep sleeping. Go ahead and get these windmill palms moved back out.
They've been taking up a lot of room in here for a few weeks, like three weeks. Pobelesco bark.
Forgot he was in there. He was hidden. I just now noticed that. I need to take him downstairs and
put him away. I think there's still too much snow to move those outside because they need to go
right there. I could go get a shovel, but I don't want to. They're in the garage tucked away behind
all the plants. Yeah, see, there's still a lot of snow on the ground considering it was in the 60s
today. It was beautiful. Hi, Toby. He's such a good boy, Toby. That was fast, Turbo. Come on in,
good boy. You know the rules. Do your stretches. Do your stretches, Turbo. Good boy. Nice stretches.
Here you go, Toby. Picked up some roses. Aren't these just beautiful? They're called cayenne.
They remind me a lot of the cherry brandy wine roses, which are my favorites, but they're not
as coral. More of a hot pink. I did go through and pull the bed pedals. There's still some left
in there. I think I have a plant in the mail. I got a notification saying I've been delivered.
I don't see it out there, so I'm gonna go check the mailbox, see what that looks like, and then
maybe, hopefully, get out to the grow space and get some work done out there, play around with
some plants, do some repots, some rearranging, and just have fun with plants. That's all I feel
like doing right now. I just want to play with my plants. There it is. Found it. It was in the mailbox.
I didn't realize it was gonna be so little. Set this up. Some prime cinematography. See if I can
get my camera to balance here on this splatter guard. Hopefully that'll stay in place, and this
is full of packing peanuts. Fun. I love packing peanuts. Not really. Let me find a bag. I have a big
bag in the garage where I store these. Anytime I get a box with packing peanuts in it, I hold
on to them because sometimes they make a good additive for drainage and pots and potting mixes
environment-wise. I feel like it's better to try and find a use for them than even attempt to
recycle them because the recycling doesn't usually even take them. I don't get things in the mail that
have packing peanuts anymore. It's not the kind that can't be dissolved. There's that. And then
here is the plant. Oh no. Uh-oh. Oh no. That doesn't look very good, does it? Kind of mushy. The center
does still feel kind of firm, so hope for the best here. So this got lost in shipping. This isn't the
fault of the vendor or anything like that. I mean, this is, it's actually, it's from Walmart, but you
like, kind of drop ship sort of. They sort of outsource their plants, so it's from a different
grower. I think the name is JM Bamboo. It's an, it's an aphalandra that's supposed to have like
extra variegated foliage on it. Here's the picture. Isn't it beautiful? I'm not disappointed. This is
what I expected to happen. Like I said, not the fault of the vendor, so I'm not gonna get mad
about it. Might still be some life down inside all that mush, maybe. Maybe the stem's still firm.
Ah, get it cleaned up and put on the plant shelves and just see what happens. Oh, I'm so sad. Poor plant.
Uh, where are you going? As soon as I hit record, you gotta run away. Uh, it's like two days later.
Here's what's been happening. Hey Toby, what you doing down there? You hiding out? You like being
in your little shelter down there? He loves laying down there behind those barstools. I don't know
why I said here's what's been happening. Not much. Not much has been happening at all. Looks a little
different out here, doesn't it? The snow melted. Yay! Except not really. It's nice that it melted over
here. Still some ice over here though. Actually a significant amount goes all the way around to the
driveway. The problem is this is... Well, I need this pathway here in order to get the plants out of the
garage. So I don't think that's happening. At least not for a few more days. I am so sorry. Did I come
outside without you? Come on. Come on. Standing at the door whining and screaming at me. Yeah, good boy.
Good boy. You got your toy. So, uh, yeah. The plan was to bring the plants out and make room in the
garage to do a bunch of rearranging and it's that... Well, I can't. I want to, but still waiting on that
to melt. There's some plants we can repot. We'll go out and have a look at what's going on in the
grow space. I would like to get some things moved around though, but it's all right. A few more days.
Not that big of a deal. Just do it next weekend. What you doing, Turbo? All right, time to go inside.
Come on, baby. Good boy. Good boy. Oh, everybody's here. Got everybody. Got the Toby down there.
Both the cats right here. Oh, I know why. I know why. It's dinner time. Will you do your stretches, Turbo?
Turbo, do your stretches. Good stretches, Turbo. Good boy. Yeah, good boy, Turbo. Toby, you get one
just for being a sweet Toby. There you go. All right. I guess we'll just get some repotting done.
Can at least have a look at some plants. See what's going on out there.
And I just realized some of y'all may have no idea what I'm talking about here.
So the last like couple of weeks I've been talking about how I would like to do some
rearranging with the plants out here. Mainly that there are a whole bunch of plants back here
right along the backside of this pond that I would like to bring forward. At least a few of them I'd
like to bring forward and mostly I'm just going to scoot a few things around. It's really not that big
of a deal. But the problem is with the extreme cold temperatures we were having most of January,
I had to bring in the more tender temperate plants that are generally out most of the winter time.
So those would be the plants like the windmill palm, who is just flourishing. Look at that.
So fun. So neat. And that's neither here nor there, though. So some big windmill palms,
Mediterranean fan palms, basically all the stuff that's right here that's in the way of me being
able to get to the things that are right there. I've still been able to get back and water them,
but I need more space to get it and like actually grab them and get like up close to them to move
them around. And until I get these plants right here, these, these, and there's a big mule palm,
two mule palms, and oh yeah, once those are out, then I will regain that space. I just wasn't
planning on these being in here this long, but January was exceptionally cold. Looking at the
10 day forecast, if that snow melts in a day or two, which will be after this video comes out,
so it's kind of useless for the vlog, but once that snow does melt, they'll be good out there
for probably at least two weeks. We'll be in the clear temperatures above, I think 20 is the lowest
temperature I see in all these. I normally will leave out into about 15 degrees, so they'll be
good maybe for the rest of the month. I don't know. I kind of doubt it, but maybe. My main thing right
now is that just I would like for them to be able to get back outside because, I mean, why keep them
in here when they could be out there? I can't have the Eureka palm out there. It would die. I wouldn't
be very happy outside with these temperatures. Same thing with the Dracaena, you know, but all the temperate
ones, they should get out of here. Get in my way. There are still plenty of- oh, I just said all that talking.
All that talking with that loud fan on. I'm so sorry. That was probably really loud and obnoxious.
I have some plants that need to be repotted, intended to, which is something I would like
to get done. So I'm gonna rummage around, see if I can't find two probably eight inch pots, I think
would do the trick, and get these pruned up and get them looking a little bit better. Looking kind of
scraggly as it is right now, huh? All right, gathered some pots. More than I need just for the begonias.
I ended up going around and just picking up all the plants that I thought needed to repot or were
like way past it. Like I have all these little tiny baby oleanders here that they took a hard
freeze before they came in, so not exactly looking all that hot. Get a better look at them.
See if I can guess their fate when I get them repotted. And then the stromanthe. Back here there are
two. You can kind of see. Yeah, one there, one there. Those both need to be repotted. That's something
that I was waiting to do until the spring, because I didn't think that it would be appropriate to do
it this time of year. Normally not something you would want to do in February, but it's nice and
toasty in here. And they want to grow, so it just makes sense, I think, to bump them up into some
bigger containers so that they're a little bit easier to manage. I've been having to water those
stromanthes quite a lot over the last couple of weeks. Like, a lot. Watering out here, so much more
fun, but I don't have to worry about it getting really cold and the plants rotting and dying. In
fact, I just watered three days ago, and this morning when I came out here, this metonella was
really, really thirsty. I had to spend some time getting that one rehydrated. It's amazing the
difference between now and when I brought the plants inside, or up until I got that heater
installed. Prior to having that heater, I was not watering the plants very often. Like, at all. I think
between November 1st, when I brought them in, and when I had the heater installed, I had watered
this entire growth space maybe five times. I think it was four. I'm adding one on just in case. When
it's not very warm, you don't need to do an awful lot for the plants. You just kind of want to leave
them alone. Don't want to wet when it's only in the 40s and low 50s, but now we're in the 70s and
low 80s, which I have actually been trying to dial down because I don't know if I can keep up with
that watering. I'm trying, but it is a lot to keep up with, and I'd rather find like a good, like, happy
medium with everything, right? Something that's maintainable. Things don't need to be 82 degrees
out here. I have a cloth that I've soaked in rubbing alcohol, and when I go between plants, I
just like to put the snippers in there. Keep that over there. This is plastic. That rubbing alcohol
is not going to hurt anything. All right, so first thing, the begonias. How are they even still alive?
Actually, I know how. Here's what happened. So both of these during the summertime, spring, summer, and
most of fall when they were outside, were sitting just on top of the soil, and some containers had
mixed arrangements in them where the drip was hitting them. So these had both rooted out fully
from the bottoms of their containers into those decorative planters, so that's what was keeping
them going. They don't have that going form anymore. They're just in these tiny little pots, and that's
there's a lot more going on up here than can be easily maintained from down here. So the options
are to cut them back and just leave them, which would be easier, or go ahead and repot them, though
I think a prune plus repot would be the way to go just to get them looking nice again. So it's going
to look drastic, but it's just what we gotta do for the plants to come in here and take off like
about 50% of that growth. It'll be good for the plants. It's going to help encourage it to flush back
out from down below, put out some new leaves, and most importantly, help send out some new roots to
get itself re-established into the new containers. It's easy enough to do. I mean, what'd that take?
10 seconds? These begonias, begonias, they are really easy to root and propagate, which I could
do. I know they're going to have people ask me why I'm not doing that, and the simple answer is
just that I don't, I don't want any more. I'm good with the two that I have right here. They've been
nice sturdy plants. Don't need any more of them. This one, all that growth going in one direction.
I didn't mention what these were. I believe these are the whimsy begonias, begonia whimsy. I'm not
positive. There's another one that looks very similar to this one. It's just a nice big green
leaf on it. I think it's an angel wing type with pink polka dots. Very pretty, especially during
the summertime, where it's just, you know, when they don't look like this. Absolutely gorgeous
plants. Overall, these have been really easy and simple to grow. I should cut out the skinny,
scrawny parts. I don't really want to do that, but may as well just to keep the form growing
properly. Too many things are going off in weird, wonky directions with the plants, and you have to
start worrying about just, well, just the weight being distributed in an odd manner, right? So you
have one branch that's like doing this, like that, when the rest want to come up through the middle.
It's not the most ideal for a nice, bushy healthy looking plant. What? See that up there? Why did I
leave that there? That shouldn't be there like that. Neither should that one with that curve on
it. Anybody else ever get the clippers in your hands and things almost get out of control? I
know that that looks really drastic and extreme, but it's not. It's going to be totally fine. Now
I need to do something with all this. What did I do? Why didn't I bring a trash bag with me?
Finally give these plants the upgrade they deserve. They've been such troopers. I think I might have a
smidge too much soil in there. Just a little bit too much. Yeah, that's better. I tend to like a
heavier lip. I talk about that whenever I replant, replant, whenever I repot things. Just makes it
easier to get it in. Whoa! All right, well that startled me. Did y'all see it? Got a garden and
hanging out in the container there. Yep, it's alive. All right, the worm can stay. It's not
not going to hurt anything. Begonias have very delicate roots. I'm just going to very lightly,
lightly tickle the edge of that and get it down in there. Let the worm enjoy its new home. That
should be one happy worm. It just got upgraded to a castle. Talk about having lots of room for
activities. Gonna be loving life in that pot. This is just standard potting mix. It's a SPOMA
potting mix. It already has the like starter stuff in it. That's why I'm not
messing with any of that in here. I don't know if I even would mess with that indoors. The
organic fertilizers like Garden Tone, Plant Tone, the ones from Job's, all of them, it's not just
SPOMA. They tend to, at least when I've used them indoors, become just like major attractors for
fungus gnats. Understandable. It's a lot of organic material that's decomposing there. I'm sure that
gnats absolutely love that. They love all that stinky stuff. But that's also what those lovely
fungus gnat trips come in handy for. Which, by the way, when I did that Heliconia potting video,
I put those in all the pots and I never mentioned what they were. I had a few people ask me.
My bad. I should have said what was going on there. So just throwing yellow stickers into
the containers. Not going to lie. A little nervous to open this one up because that worm
startled me. I'm not afraid of worms. It just it scared me. And the earwigs out here, sometimes
they get gigantic. But I'm not afraid of worms. I'm not a big fan of being startled. Ah, centipede.
Don't like those. The one bug that I don't mess with. No. No. I know. They're good. They're
beneficial. Man, have you ever been hit by one of those things? It hurts. No. I can find a stick or
something to tease the roots with that one. I'm not going to kill the centipede. It's a good bug
to have around. They eat the other bugs. But I just I don't want my hands in there with it. You
There we go. Okay. Survived. Not that big of a deal. Is it in here? I'm going to fill this back
in as quickly as possible. Can you tell I've been raising and training a puppy the last few months?
My initial reaction to seeing something I don't like is just saying no. Bad. Bad plant. No. All
right. That's going to do. That's good enough. There goes the centipede. It got out. It broke
out. All right. Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, that was fun. I don't know if it
was on camera. I have no idea. Centipede got out and then that ate up like 35 minutes of me trying
to find it so I could catch it and toss it into the plants. And I didn't, which is fine. So a
little bit about me. I don't like centipedes. I respect them. I think they're cool. I don't kill
them because they're very beneficial. Centipedes probably didn't eat in the earwigs and doing all
kinds of great things. It's just when I'm indoors, they make me very uncomfortable,
particularly if I'm filming a video because I'm surrounded by things, by lights and cords and
it's just, I can't get away. And that's, that's the thing is it's just, it's maybe the lack of
control. Maybe that's what it is. I don't know, but it's, nope, not for me. Don't think so. Not
happy right now. I know there are going to be people who are like, Jeff, you're being ridiculous.
The stings don't even hurt. Yes they do. Shut up. It's not like the worst thing ever, but it's
startling and I just don't like to be startled. That's my main thing. Like I said, I don't kill
them. I respect them. They're good to have around. Just not, not in an enclosed space. No, sorry.
Happy to have finally gotten that done for them. I'm going to try and squeeze this in back here
with one hand. I don't know if I can though. There we go. Right back there. Go ahead and
give these begonias a nice drink. Burp the soil as they say. Get all those bubbles out. They should
be much, much, much happier now. So I've spent some time thinking about it, like a solid minute
and a half. And I really think the best thing to do would be to just re-pot the rest of them
outdoors where I have more room to escape. And really just, it's so messy. It's a lot easier to
do outside. So in a few days that snow will melt and can just pop those into some new planters,
shake the soil off outside. That's what I would prefer to do. Much less to have to deal with in
here, dirt wise and centipede wise. At the same time though, I really, like I said, I don't mind
the centipedes being in here. I just don't want them that close to me and my area. You know,
I'm sitting right here. I don't want them that close to my body, to my lap and my legs. That was
fun. Quite the adventure. These oleanders here, like they're moist and I think that this is just
cold damage on them. There's still some flexibility in here, but you can't always really tell just
because it's green doesn't mean it's alive. This one back here looks a lot better. I really,
with oleanders, I usually leave them, with oleanders, I usually will leave them outside
into the teens, uh, at which I just, that was a dumb thing to do with these. They're too small
for that, but I think they're going to be okay. They've been sitting back over there in that
corner where it's just a smidge bit more dark. So maybe having them over here, also where it's
warmer, it's much warmer from like the back of that pool and forward, that might help. So give
those a couple of days and see what's going on with them. Maybe being up by some brighter lights
and in one of the warmer spots, I'll see if that makes a difference in these stems.
I don't know. We will see. My other oleanders are looking pretty good, but it's a much larger,
more established plant that is used to taking some cold. They should be all right though. They
have some flex in their stems. They should pull through. No updates to get on the Gloriosum yet,
other than I popped it back inside of the reservoir container once I knew that all the
moisture had drained out of the soil. It's a little bit torn as to what to do there,
but I know what I shouldn't do is keep moving it around too much. So there it will stay. And
if the soil takes more than a couple of days to dry, then I'll go ahead and lift that inner
container out. I had already done that and then it dried a lot faster than I wanted it to,
so I put it back in. There's a lot of airflow over here. I have three fans going plus the heater,
so that's four fans just to keep the air moving down from the ceiling. I have one fan on the
ground to blow the cold air up and just keep things turning, even though it is very humid in here
still. Dried fairly. I mean, it's not that fast. It's like two and a half, three days.
Have a few little plant updates before moving on and ending the video. In here there's an
Anthurium crystallinum and it's, well you can't see it, but doing well. It basically died back
to just a nub at the same time that Gloriosum did, which this one I'm pretty sure was because of the
colds. And I put under this bell here and it's just flushing back out. Doing really well with
that. Heliconias, not much action from them. Wasn't expecting much action. It's only been
a week since I potted them up, but there is still the one in the back that had the little nub.
That's got a whole entire leaf getting ready to pop out on it. So it's loving life. That doesn't
happen all that often with those, so that's great. Usually, like I mentioned, you lose the stalk.
This part right here. Normally that'll hang on for a while and then it'll die back and the new
growth will come up from down below. So that's what waiting on here. Waiting to see if the grow
room is warm as it is. Is it still gonna be warm enough to get Heliconias rooted? I don't know.
I think it should be, but can't say for sure. Have to wait and see. Got some action from the
tomatoes down here. When I potted these up, remember the seed packet kind of just
dumped out. There are a few too many in each one of these. They're looking good. They're just
starting to put on their first set of true leaves, so that's exciting. I'm gonna have to thin those
out very heavily. And then all of the seeds. Actually, I think it's time for me to take this
dome off of here. I'll wait until morning because I want to get this set up onto the
self-watering mat. Is that a snail? No, it's just soil. Lots and lots and lots of growth on the
artichokes and the oregano. So the oregano, the same thing happened. The seed spilled.
Now there's way too many in each cell, which isn't that big of a deal. Once those get a little bit
bigger, they should be fairly easy to split up and divide. And like I said, this is going to have to,
I'm going to have to lose that humidity dome here. They really don't need it anymore. I didn't expose
too much air movement in there. I just wanted to hold this on until the oregano got just a smidge
bigger. My experience with oregano has always been that if it dries out just a smidge too long,
then it just, boom, dies very, very quickly. And that's kind of just the way things grow
as seedlings in general, right? But the oregano is so much smaller than the artichokes, which I
wasn't expecting things to be that way. Just wanted to give that some more time. Although
really with the humidity out here, these drying up shouldn't be an issue. I just want to get
them onto that self-watering mat before I remove that. The artichokes, this is a surprise. If you
remember when I planted these up, I was talking about how the oregano is more than likely going
to get started way before the artichokes. And artichokes got going within, what, like five days?
Really, really, really fast. Much faster than last year or really any other year that I've grown them.
So I will have to dig around and find my little stand that goes in there and the self-watering
mat to go underneath that and get that lifted up. The seedlings can be more exposed to some air
movement. They need that, you know, that air moving around and help produce nice strong roots.
Geranium up here, doing great. Got lots of new little leaves starting to pop out on it.
Beautiful pink flowers. I'm so happy I brought that one inside. And then an update on the
flowers here on the windmill palm. We can get in here and have a better look. It's a boy. See that?
That's pollen. So I had been thinking it was a female because up until today, everything on here
was very flat and the color had kind of washed out on them. Now it's the pollen that's actually
coming out on them. They are a brighter yellow. So I just had assumed that because they shot these
in fluorescence out so quickly that it wouldn't necessarily take them an additional week to just
go from looking like this to actually having the flowers on them. They're clearly male at this
point. There's a good amount of pollen on there. Doesn't matter. I don't have a female to pollinate
this with, but it looks cool. Looks very pretty. And I can always bag some of that pollen up,
put it in the freezer and wait for one of my others to flower. But it took this long for this
one to flower, so I don't really know if it's worth it. I'll think about it. It wouldn't hurt to go ahead and
just shake some into a wax packet and freeze it. See what happens. And then lastly, great big beautiful
new leaf on the monstera over here. They look nice. That thing shot out really fast. Way faster than
they usually do during the winter time. During the winter, normally when a leaf starts to come out,
generally it takes like two and a half weeks or so for them to open and unfurl out here, but this
is about a week faster than that. So that's great. And it's going to be hard to get this to focus
because I can't really reach in here all that well, but it's like, yeah, I already got another
nub and they're ready to start pushing out once this one's done unfurling all the way. That's
exciting. Looks like it has some decent variegation on it too. My monstera I've talked about before,
it doesn't have the best variegation, but I don't care. I still love it. I've had this plant for a
crazy long time. So every single leaf that opens up is just fun. Variegated or not, I don't even
care. I like the deliciosos regardless of that variegation, but it does look like this one's
going to have some bigger patches in it. That's fun because that leaf is still kind of in that
softer stage. These monstera leaves, they open up and they tend to look rather small and then
they slowly get bigger and bigger and bigger over the course of a week or two, something like that.
This is the last one that had opened up and that was back in, I don't know, maybe October,
I want to say something like that. And then it stalled out and just, just been hanging out. And
then within about maybe three days of that heater being installed, it started to push out that
new leaf. That's a plant that was happy to have some more heat. It was doing fine otherwise,
but it was just kind of hanging out. And typically during the winter time out here,
when I have things like wrapped in the plastic and there was more heat, I would usually get like
three or four leaves of the monstera. With it having not put out a leaf in like two months,
I'm glad to see that it's happy and moving and growing again. Always fun watching the plants
grow, especially when they're ones that we've had for a really long time. I got that plant when it
was, I don't know, maybe 18 inches tall, something like that. Got off eBay for like $44.99 years ago
before the rare plant craze and everything went on. That was a pretty typical price for a Thai
at the time, especially one that size. It's done an awful lot of growing since then. I'm going to
wrap it up because with the ice and everything outside, there just isn't much I can do right now.
I got the begonias repotted, which was great. That was fun. It was an adventure and you know,
all this other stuff. We'll get that done next week. Really can't imagine. I would think three
more days and that rest of that snow and ice should be melted enough that I can get those
big plants. I could carry the little plants around, but it's just these big ones that need
to go onto a dolly. If there's a big mule palm back there, there's another mule palm over there
and those windmill palms. I guess I could just push them out to the driveway, but I'd rather not.
I like them out in the backyard outside the door where I can see them. It just brings things back
to life. It looks so nice having them outside on the patio when everything else is just brown and
cold and dormant. Comment down below. Say hi. Love talking to y'all. And of course,
as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye bye.