Getting Tropical Plants & Houseplants Ready For Winter pt. 2

Hey, what's up gardening friends? Jeff here at Tropical Plant Party. How's everybody doing? I hope you're good. I'm great. Toby. You wanna say hi? No? Okay, you good boy. Picking up from right where the last vlog left off. I need to come in here cut these alocasias out first I need to clear this area though and You know all that fun stuff This is just going to be a very casual midweek vlog Which I don't typically do but just didn't really fit in with last week's vlog Time-wise and then it's probably not gonna fit into this weekend's vlog time-wise So it's just a good chance to get a better look at some of the plants I've had a lot of people ask me in the past for tours of just like the house plants Which is really hard to do when you have them tucked in with all of your other things so this would be a good time for me to pull things out get a closer look at some things and You know just sort of hang out. It's gonna be casual not going overboard with anything here got to take it easy because there is a lot and I mean a Lot to do these next couple of days. This is just gonna be kind of looking at some of the plants Nothing too dramatic. For starters. Oh my goodness. Look at how big these impatiens have gotten. These are just gigantic They're really big like knee height almost to my waist not quite Excuse you. What are you doing? Let's get out of there with a lot of plants I come and just cut them back the impatiens though. They just snap up so Seems unnecessary to go through all that a little bit faster just to come in Snap them get them out of there. These Hamelia Pattens I could I'm not going to do this But if there's something that you plant as an annual these are definitely something that you can give a little trim to Bring them inside put them someplace cool. That's not too terribly bright and they'll overwinter Beautifully just give them a little drink like every couple of weeks. Nothing too much Basically, they'll go into kind of a dormancy and it's really simple I'm not going to do that because like space is limited and precious. So They got to go. Oh And I actually prefer the small leaf form the door form of the Hamelia Pattens these firecracker plants Which I do have some of those and I'll take those in these guys though. I'm just gonna cut them out of here I don't really think I'm going to have room to go overboard Bringing something like this inside. I wish I did but yeah, just doesn't seem to be likely There's a lot of other stuff that needs to go in the house Another fun thing about getting in with the plants and checking things out is sometimes There's some little surprises like what's this? What's going on here? Why is there a Synogium? Growing in here. I didn't plant this here. I Wouldn't plant that here. This got so much Sun Up until things filled out. Why is there? It's a cute little arrowhead vine in here. Very bizarre my guess would be that probably at some point like just a scrap of one of them got Thrown into the mix mix of plants over here. Huh? Okay. Well, that's fun. That's a plant I'll hold on to because they're fairly easy to overwinter and bring inside But uh, yeah, the rest of stuff's gotta go Gotta get the annuals out. Hey that rooted in real well, didn't it? No, not real. Yeah, that can be one of the issues with using micro irrigation The not the irrigation the micro emitters. They're like sprayers Sometimes you don't get as deep of a watering with those so you have to let them run a little bit longer and Yeah, so for an area like this I'll be more specific with my drip heads Next year and actually put heads around the plants actual drip emitters instead of using the Sprayer, I think there's just probably too much foliage in here. And so there were things probably blocking some of the plants That would be my guess There we go. Well, these are looking great. I couldn't see them as well when all the Annuals were over here in this area, but They did fantastic. I mean I could tell they did well because they were sticking up above everything But I really was more interested in what was going on down there as far as trunking goes and they really they did their thing They've got nice trunks on them. Lots of suckers coming up. I Will say though there is a problem It's kind of hard to see but there are some mealybugs on there and y'all know That's something I've been battling for years and I've been on the fence with these as to whether or not I wanted to go ahead And pot them up and keep them growing during the winter time because I had one that I left growing actively last year in a pot the other one I left go dormant and I left go dormant. I let it go dormant. I I can't tell a difference between the two I don't know which one was the one that was a dormant which one wasn't they bounced back so quickly So or the one that was dormant like caught up so fast that because of the mealybugs There's no I mean, I only see a few but I don't want to see any I'm going to store these dormant and all that Really means I'm gonna cut the foliage off dig them up knock the dirt out of the root balls And they'll just hang out in a cool dry dark corner for the winter time, which is really more convenient Anyways, the only drawback to that is you don't get the instant gratification when you bring them back outside, but that's alright They grow quickly. I mean, this is all all of this is new growth this year for the most part Did a little bit of pruning so Yeah, why not just cut them back and let them chill That's just what makes the most sense to me as far as what to do with these guys It just seems like keep it simple It's one less thing to have to worry about in the winter time while I have everything inside. So Cut those back. Yeah There we go. They were kind of rooted in sort of heavily, which is a good thing That just means the plants are healthy getting this cheap tarp to use for all my clippings was like One of the best things I did this season It's been so nifty when it comes to yard waste I can just drag it around with me put all my scraps and clippings like in a couple of days not in this video Probably the next one I'll be having to cut all this out and all that stuff and we don't just toss on a tarp and drag it to the Yard waste it saves so much time keep things that doesn't look tidy But it's better than everything being on the patio and there's a little bit of spillage and yes, so with these like I said, I probably will put them in a Large empty pot because they're gonna need something to kind of help hold them up I'll figure that out when it's time to move them in right now I'm just kind of pulling the plants and getting them ready start moving things around Here's a croton which I have a lot of I have so many crotons. I don't know what I'm gonna do So I know for sure the bigger crotons will be coming in these were in the shade That's why they're not as colorful and this one is a variety. I really like it's the mother and daughters. They have this cute little Extra leaflet they put out on the end of their stems. It doesn't really appreciate being moved inside. Most of them don't they tend to Throw quite a fit and defoliate. So I'm prepared for that to happen since these ones were in the shade though. I Think that they should be okay. Hopefully they will respond better to being moved in. I don't know though. We'll see it's never killed them They just like go yeah drop their leaves for a few weeks and then they put out new ones But I prefer they don't do that because all that does I have to clean all that up and I don't feel like having to Do all that cleaning Dracaena, I think this one's called like lemon lime lime sizzler Something like that. I can't remember. It's really really pretty though. It's definitely one of my favorites Oh, did I plot that? I thought I left this in its pot Okay. Well, I'm going to have to pop that up into something else. That's not great. Didn't mean to do that Okay, look at that. Okay. All right that worked out. Okay Typically with these arrangements that are meant to be very very temporary I just leave them in their nursery can and drop that into the pot It makes things so much easier Because you can just reach in and pull them out knock a little bit of that soil off of there and they're good to go I mean you can clean up better than that. That's not gonna do. This is the false Aurelia it grew a ton this year and it's in a very small pot that Could be an issue this winter. I don't know Just as far as being able to keep the poor thing hydrated in that little pot I'll have to play around if I need to repot it. I'll repot it Just not the ideal time to be doing so but I can really did grow a ton though Great plant really nice resilient plant. You'd be my helper Toby. No, you're looking for squirrels I know what you're doing. You're gonna trick me This croton is the one that if you've been following for a while this past spring I had a big Alexander palm that got blown over and it smashed one of my crotons The one that smashed it's recuperated well for the most part But it's still oh goodness get off. Excuse me. I have hydrangea petals over me now It's still a little bit wonky But I'll put it in the line up and see how that goes Make up my mind when I have them all gathered Chances are every single croton is gonna come in. But if it looks like I'm gonna have to be picky then The one that's all messed up would probably be the one to go. I don't know though Luckily, I don't have to make that decision right now right now just gathering plants lining them up for a closer Look getting a nice look at the foliage and you'll see I need to do some cleaning in there Lots of leaves and this one have to make sure I keep out in the open if I tuck it in there I'll forget that this needs to be refilled with soil. I just dropped it in a nursery can hasn't been potted up yet Isn't it a beautiful plant though? so that's why I kind of want to do this part separately just for people who like to get a different look at the house plants kind of go through them and See them together on their own somewhat I mean the backdrops just a mess right but you don't know what's going on out here Kind of hard to keep things tidy when you're tearing everything apart. Isn't that just the coolest trichina though? Absolutely love it. The foliage is nice and glossy and it's grown quickly, too. I mean It's really gotten up there's at least I almost said doubled in size not quite that much but it's doing well Okay, Norfolk Island pine Did okay it not much to it. It's just like I got it last year mostly for the video So I could do a video on them and I really like it. It's just like I didn't I Don't know doesn't spark joy anymore, but I'm not going to Get rid of it It doesn't need a repotting and it needs really need some cleaning up all that is Basically where it was tucked in wasn't getting much light. So oops, my bad and the philodendron by pinnate at the dome Actually, this has been renamed. Yes. It's not a philodendron anymore, right? Still by pinnate at the dome go ahead and get a bunch of that stuff out of there Keeping things clean when you bring them in really does help cut back on pests like a leaf like this I'll try and rinse it but it's just so chilly. I would probably actually prefer to just go ahead and remove a Leaf like that. What are you doing? You hanging out with your flamingo friend? This is new he doesn't usually get up there you cute Toby you being cute Definitely got some growth out of the sky this year, but it's all kind of wonky I think next year I'd like to put this in a spot that gets a lot more Sun partially because this area over here where That little serenity garden area that is an area where it gets a decent amount of Sun Throughout the summertime, but it's mostly morning Sun and then like around September It's just dark and so I should have shuffled things around but I didn't Down here doing some other repotting things not an ideal time. This majesty palm is just it's there I don't y'all know how to about majesty palms This chef Lara here that I just dropped right when I hit record. I got this you can see two bucks on clearance years ago with the Intention of doing one of those neat bonsais with these guys where you prune all the foliage off and you train them to put out aerial roots It's been like three years and I still haven't gotten around to it, but it's just such an easy plant I'm like, well, I keep it around in the wintertime. I've just kind of been throwing it under my plant shelves It gets a little bit of morning light Splash of water every now and then but I just don't really worry about it and it does fine. It's been doing really well like that Okay, opinion is a remit. Look at how messy this one has gotten What a mess this was tucked away way back into the corner where I couldn't really do anything with it I'm gonna come in make sure all that's trimmed out when I bring it in I think I'm just probably gonna cut this in half this winter and maybe start with the alakajas and see how it does because I just The if they if I keep them and that's just because if I keep these are in bits growing actively during the wintertime they tend to get when they stretch out because the artificial lighting just isn't intense enough for them the lighting I have anyways and they get kind of limp and scraggly looking the mealybugs very much enjoy them and They get in my way. They get too big. So yeah, I'm probably gonna try this one dormant See how that goes. You don't know till you try it. This is Just the cutest new little thing. I've never seen him do this before. It's usually a Tucker thing. What'd you doing Tobes? Just busy being cute. You busy being a cutie Toby. Hi Toby. What's wait You're avoiding eye contact would you do No, I'm sure you're fine. You good boy Yeah, you said you're a good boy. Good boy, Toby Another plant I got with the intention of doing a video on it and never did so that's something I'll work on this winter Another plant that's been very simple and easy to grow I don't have much to say about it. It's just kind of sort of like the chef's lair It's just does its thing. I water it gets fertilized. I check on it, but Haven't had any troubles with it I mean that's actually been the case for most of the plants out here the Norfolk Island pine a Little bit of damage there from I think just being squished into a spot without enough air circulation around it at that What is this flaming? No Tahitian flame. Hedichium. It's the butterfly ginger I love this butterfly ginger not a houseplant, but not really hardy here Although none of my gingers are hardy here and they do okay in the ground But this is one that I had a much harder time Obtaining they might be more common now, but a few years ago They were pretty hard to get a hold of just keep it potted up during the winter months and kind of sort of like I'll be doing with the alacazars. Just let them chill. They'll get a splash of water every now and then But not much. They're just gonna sort of hang out and I Ideally want to get them into a dormancy, right? That would be the point. Just look at Look at that foliage isn't that pretty there are plenty of other hedichiums that are variegated This one. I've just noticed grows a little bit more vigorously not a ton Like it's not a crazy super fast grower But it's been just more sturdy than some of the other variegated types that I've tried this Pothos, I mean it's done what pothos do this goes all the way back into that berm and then Comes around here and done a lot of growing now. This is a plant where I really like I did not Do anything with it this year. I want to repot it though because it's in this beautiful Tadavera pot You can't even see it because the pothos hangs over So that might be a winter project to get that done. Go ahead and pull this out. Yeah, look at that Lots and lots and lots of growth. Like I said, that's not really surprising. That's what they do They go nuts as long as they can seek out moisture. They just keep moving the foliage up high Got bigger But I just think that this pulls nowhere near big enough to Get this to a point where it's climbing and it would get the thinnest rations This is one of those hydrangeas that didn't do well like from the get when I got it But I'm gonna go ahead and cut it back. See how it does in the spring I didn't take it back because they'll just throw it away. So I was like well We'll give it a shot and see how it does next year. Anyways, I do think that that could use a repotting for sure Not like I said, that's not something that's happening right now just you know, this is just sort of like let's talk about the plate time That was an intense voice crack second puberty is Very real. So yeah, that's that. I'll try and figure something out with it I do want to pull it from that pop though. Look at what a gorgeous pot This is I could do something so much nicer with this than have something in it That's going to hang over and I don't think that I can put a pole in this that's big enough like I said to Accommodate all that. It just doesn't seem reasonable. I don't think that's gonna happen Dracaenia Marginata tricolor Beautiful plant. This was one of those like Pre-assembled drop-in containers from the big box stores and it had these three Dracaenias and I was like that's a really good price It was like I want to say $15 and this Dracaenia has Definitely doubled in size if not more it's gotten some wonky growth on it because it fell over a few times And like that's all it took but I think that'll straighten back out. No problem These are a really really really easy to grow plant. This was an extremely resilient plant Like I said, though, they really for the most part all of them have been I don't really have anything out here That's too challenging to grow but I just I get impressed with things that do a lot of growing I like that do something show me what you're worth It's you know, it's nice to get to see all the growth and everything and of course One of my favorite croutons nothing special about just regular crouton, but really big look at how big it did Definitely do some growing this year too. I was gonna say it didn't grow very much But for the most part everything from right around here and up most of that's new growth Because this is where there was some foliage burn. I got this like basically straight off the truck at the nursery and I've talked about it before how with things like croutons and just a lot of tropicals in general it's nice to get them when They're already sitting out in the full Sun because I know that the plants acclimated and it's good with it This one apparently wasn't the case. So it got kind of scorched but it recovered just fine Look, I mean you can see that's good. Nice and healthy plenty of growth on it. This one has been in the Sun I should have I really really really should have pulled this one and moved it to the shade about a month ago I just didn't Have time for it. I mean when I look back on it, it would have only taken a couple minutes So I should have done it. But now what's probably gonna happen is I'll move it in Where it's gonna be under artificial lighting And it's gonna throw a fit like I talk about the other croutons drop a lot of its foliage if not all of them It's what they seem to do for me unless I acclimate them to lower light conditions. So I don't know just get into it Oops again, not a big deal. It'll flush back out So I'm not really too concerned about that And there have been times that I have acclimated them and they still drop their leaves like sometimes They just one of those plants that when you move them around They throw a fit which is the case with a lot of alacajas The ficus lorata is one that I've really noticed. I moved that one that fiddle leaf fig Throws a fit not as much outside That seems to be more of an indoor thing when I've moved it around out here in the backyard It doesn't complain as much about it like complain. I mean drop foliage and Get kind of wealthy All right, we talked about all this and last weekend's vlog Handled as much of that as I could and as I will for this video Let me worry about that right now and then remember these it's from the Colladium video These are those frog in a blender bulbs need to go ahead throw those into a paper bag Drop them in here with the others that way I can just keep them separate So I know what's what I'll probably pop some holes in here. Okay, that's not it. There's always Plenty more to do but that's just a little Glimpse of the house plants and sampling of what needs to be done over the next few days whoo almost forgot Gently put some holes in there Somehow the bottom of that box got a little bit damp. So I'm gonna leave that to dry for a bit And then get to finishing up the garage and move the plants inside and that hi. How you doing, sweetie? You say hi Yeah, you so sweet the camera kiss you so nice whoo, I Love that curtain so much. It's gotten so big and these gingers remember in the spring when I said I was gonna put maybe a palm over here where that spruce was I still need to get that stump out the gingers. They finally came up did their thing and they were so big I was like, well, that's that's a terrible idea. You wouldn't even be able to see the palm this year and The the other point Wow, look at all those weeds. I couldn't get back there. See things were kind of I mean I could have I didn't feel like trying Oh the other point the trying to overwinter a palm outside of its growing zone in a colder zone I prefer to get them to the ground as soon as the temperatures in the springtime hit like 50 at the minimum when that means ground temperatures, too And by the time I was back in town cuz I did you know a little bit of stuff out of town over the summer It was kind of late in the year I mean it was like mid late June and I would have preferred to if I were going to do a palm in the ground to get that in the ground like I Don't know even mid to late April. It depends on the season the weather and everything cuz that's all Variable and that's all variable. There are variables and it changes Oh time to stop talking Anyways the next vlog I was going to the there's noise going on next door. I don't know what it is, but it won't stop I'm sorry. We'll just go back in the house that works, too It was all that noise and that obnoxious pumpkin as I was saying in the last vlog I said I would do a midweek vlog with doing things with the plants and then setting up the grow space. I realized She didn't that she's not in the mood to vlog. That's fine. I realized though that that's like Gonna be hard to do because the growth space setup is something I do over like period of weeks I move the plants in and rearrange things get them even more cleaned up I clean them up before I bring them in but I go even further with that and then I get plastic put up and it's A process. It's not something I can really do in like one day for a video So I'm going to film that as I go the next vlog. I will be moving the plants in I have to it's me 24 degrees in a couple of days. So they got it. Everything's got to come in So, yeah, that's that's the update there Okay, well not everything like the queen palms. They'll be okay. I'll lay them on their side same thing with the windmill palms Oh, sorry had a bubble in my throat Those are plants with they'll be okay with that I mean 24 degrees is very cold But the ground is still warm because this is like an abrupt weather change So I'll lay them on the ground having the pool is the only reason I'm confident With doing that because otherwise I wouldn't do that I don't think but I know if there's a nice warm body of water there. I'll lay them down throw a tarp or burlap Or something over them. They'll be okay for one night. It should be fine but you know I'm saying the tropical tropicals like the what is that foxtail palm adenidias the Monsteras the heliconians. I'm just gonna cut them back Well, that'll all be you know I'll make sure that those sorts of details are in this upcoming vlog over the weekend And then after that once everything's with the growth space, I'll have a separate video out for that That sound okay? I hope so. That's what I gotta do What was the point of this vlog? Didn't really have one just an update with some of the plants closer look at some things And I didn't with everything going on there's no time for a midweek video So this just made the most sense to me right I like it. I think this was okay Hopefully you thought so too give the video a thumbs up makes big difference for the videos and for the channel So thank you and subscribe as well and hit that notification bell upload multiple times a week and that way you'll know when new videos Come out have on my social media links down below in the description I'm an Instagram way more than anything else say goodbye to the pretty ginger flowers I don't think they'll make it to the next but well. They'll be in the next vlog I'm sure I'll go through like last looks before that cold hard frost comes through, but I'm gonna. Oh, I'm gonna miss them Anyways, hope everybody's doing well. Thanks for hanging out Well, we just kind of pull some plants up and have a good look at them taking things easy nice casual hangout Hope you having a great day great life, and everything's going beautifully for you Too close pumpkin. I'm sorry and of course as always and most importantly everybody keep on growing