Houseplants Are in & The Growspace is Full! What's Next || Saturday Vlog

Kitten! Kitten where'd you go? Where'd you go? Kitten! Come on! Come on out! There she is! What you doing? Hey kitten! How's it going? How's it going? Did you say hi to everybody? You say hi? You're just here to beat me up. He just showed up to beat me up. Oh such a sweetheart! So sweet and affectionate. Look at her, she just goes limp as soon as you touch her and then bites you and it's time to eat you. Yep expect lots of tears, scrapes, and holes in my hands over the next, I was gonna say a few months, probably more like a what a few years? I still have scratches all over myself from pumpkins sometimes. What are you gonna do? What's the plan here? What's the plan here? You coming down? Never stops. Never stops. This is the most hyper kitten I think I've ever been around. She plays and plays and plays. Sleeps and plays and that's what kittens normally do, but not this one. Mostly play. A whole lot of play. I have to leave you for a few minutes. You're gonna be okay? You're gonna be okay? You'll be all right, yeah? I'm gonna go out to the cursed space and show people some stuff. Yeah she should be fine. She's pretty good at entertaining herself. Jeez, those things are sharp. Those things are really sharp. I should be using a toy and I wouldn't have to worry about my hands getting torn up, but she's so soft and fluffy. This is the softest cat I've ever touched in my life. She's so freaking floofy and silky and sharp claws. It's got those sharp kitten claws. Let me get that. Did you get it? Cute collar, right Turbo? It's her first time wearing a collar. Uh, bell on this. Way too dangerous. She keeps getting it stuck in her mouth. That would drive me crazy. I wouldn't want a bell hung around my neck at all times. However, it would be nice to know where she is, but I have an air tag holder to put on this, so that'll solve that problem. Even though it's a safety collar that should pop off very easily, I caught her pulling on that bell a few times. It wasn't coming off. I don't want her to hurt herself. Okay, I think she's done. It's time for a nap. No, it's never time for naps. Hey Turbs, you gonna see your kitty? Yeah. You guys are gonna be best friends someday. Almost there. She wants to give her kisses so bad. Just a couple days ago she wouldn't let him get this close. If, but if you're laying on the ground and I were to drag a toy over him, she would run right across him. No problem. If there's a toy involved, then they can get pretty close, but she is sleepy. She's very sleepy. Okay. All right, let's go look at some plants. You can't come. You have to stay here. You can't come with me. You gotta stay here. Sorry Turbs. Uh, GrowSpace. Hey, what's up garden friends? Jeff here. How's everybody doing? If you're doing well, I'm great. Got a kitten. We'll talk more about her in another video. Still some adjusting to do. Still learning about the kitten, about her personality. It's also Halloween. Hence the skeletons and mermaid skeletons. Do mermaids have skeletons? Probably not. Like more of a cartilaginous type of fish. Pumpkin, not that into the kitten, but she's getting there. Cats take longer to adjust. Uh, McDowell's inside. Done some growing. It's gotten bigger since last time y'all saw it. And it was just a couple of leaves that were sideways. Yep. Okay. That was fun. End of that story. Here's what I'm sure y'all really want to see. GrowSpace, full of plants. Everything got moved in over a period of a couple of days. It dropped down to 28 last night. So that was the final push. About two things left outside at that moment. So it didn't really matter. I was able to spread out the moving of the plants this year, which was really nice. Normally we just have a random ice storm or something that comes in or sudden dropped to like 25 when it's been in the seventies and then you have to rush to move everything in. But a few days to do it. And it was much more enjoyable to do things that way. Very, very much more enjoyable. That was a weird way to say that. I'm going to try and turn the heater off. Sometimes it listens and sometimes it doesn't. I think it listened. Here we go. Some quiet. That's much better. Still some cleaning up to, like I said, I just got everything in here. So not a ton to show at this point. Well, there are a lot of plants. There are plenty of plants to show. I haven't placed anything yet. And that's because, well, there's more I want to do in here before I get everything set up to being exactly how I want it to be. So for the most part, a lot of the plants are on the shelves, but you can see there's still a good amount on the floor spread around in here at the power palm over here. The new palms, their video should have been out right before this one on the ground. Monstera, Mataphyllum, this guy over here, the Freckles, Croton. I'm going to be moving that one up here onto these shelves, but there's still some things I want to do with the plants and it's going to warm up in just a couple of days. And I figured it would make the most sense to be like maybe repotting or doing major prunes on them to do that outside of the grow space. And I would like to give everything at least one more spray, like heavy, heavy drenching spray before setting them down exactly where I want them to go. So even though I've moved everything in, I think I'm probably going to be moving it all back out in a few days. Well, in a week, I don't have to do things that way, but I know I'll just be kicking myself in the long run. Don't do one more heavy, heavy spray on everything that's out here because the mealybugs this year were very tricky this summer. They were a mealybug that just did not want to die. No matter what I used soap name, I think it's more just that they're multiplying faster than I could spray and get rid of them. And the troublemaker plants, as far as those mealybugs are concerned, are over there in the corner. So the big Croton, the variegated philodendron, one of the bonsais is over there and then a coconut palm. I sprayed those down extremely heavily with just a neem and some soap right before moving them in. But they need a few more sprays. The Croton that's back here, I'm thinking I may actually defoliate it, which I know probably sounds crazy. Like, well, why would you do that? But it would be a lot easier to just take all the leaves off of it, just strip it down and heavily wash down all of the wood that's on there and make sure to do a heavy drench in the soil to kill anything that might be down there beneath, you know, down around the roots. That's it's a lot of work. It's going to make the plant look kind of ugly for a while, but in the long run, probably the way to do things because the Croton is very difficult to spray for bugs. The foliage on it is so waxy. It's so hydrophobic that anything that has moisture in it just repels and beads right off of it. Even neems and soaps, you know, the soaps, the great thing about them is they're sticky and tacky. I've tried adding a little bit of soap in with the neem oil, which doesn't really do much in theory. It would help it stick, but, you know, it's oil and soap, so they don't really go together. And this Croton, it's a trooper. So even if I do strip it down, it'll put out new leaves within a few weeks by the time the holidays roll around. I mean, that's what holidays like Thanksgiving. I should probably know what the holidays are before I start saying that kind of stuff, shouldn't I? Years, January into February, it will flush back out and have new growth on it. And I won't be constantly trying to get a spray into it. Right. Just seems like the way to go. That might be the right move. I'm also considering maybe tenting off the plants that have been a problem. I know that they're in here with all the others. You think, well, what's the big deal? But they've all been together. And I realize that as well, but I don't really have a choice. 28 degrees. I had to move them in. It didn't really have anywhere else to put them because the house is just chaos right now from the construction going on inside the home. So I could tent off those plants and potentially bug bomb them. I'm going to hold off on that and do a few more sprays first and see how they're looking. And then let some time pass, probably about a month, and see if there's been a resurgence of any bug. And if there hasn't been, then I will not rip the leaves off. If there has been, then the foliage is coming off of that one. I know it sounds harsh, but trust me, it will be fine. It'll be totally fine. It's a croton. Half the time it drops its leaves on its own anyways. They're diva plants. I also didn't set anything. Pardon the voice crack. Didn't set anything up on the shelf in the middle of the pond this year. Let's see a reason to. The heat from the heater up there, the very dry air that blasts down, really does a number on the plants that I put there. Prior to having this new fancy heater, plants did really well in this spot. There was always humidity around them, which of course the plants enjoyed. But last year I had the metanillas up there. They really didn't seem to appreciate. There were a lot of crispy leaves, so I have them off to the sides this year. I also have added a table to this side of the grow space so I can keep things up and off the ground. So there's now a table on each side of the pond here. Eureka Palm over here in years past, up until last year, I had that sitting right over here. There was also a fish tank in the spot that is gone. Don't need that out here anymore. That freed up a nice amount of space. Not necessarily going to fill it with a plant. I mean, I'm sure I will. But that wasn't the intention. It was more just sort of not having to squeeze my way around and in between everything. And then there'll be much more up off the floor once I move some things out and do some rearranging on the shelves. There's a whole game of Tetris. There are a few more lights that need to be installed. I have a light that needs to go up there, so there'll be a light coming from both directions on that shelf. I was going to put another light up on this shelf above the begonias. I should go over there since we're talking about them. I brought a lot of begonias in this year, and they are up over here. This is a drier spot, and it's usually where begonias do better. Just have to wait and see how they do. I do think having one more grow light above them would probably be something they would appreciate more than likely. Begonias can be very easy to overwinter so long as they don't get sopping wet. The better the light is, though, the better the flowering will be, because they'll keep flowering all winter long as long as they have enough light. So it's one of those things I'm just going to give it some time. I don't want to go buy another light and waste the electricity and the time putting one up if I don't have to. I have enough begonias to basically fill up this entire shelf. There will be some other plants up there that can take the drier conditions, like the Lichty Split, the Metaphyllum by Panaediphidum, that's up there. I'll have another Croton that goes up there, and some Ficus Elasticas that will go up there as well. Just plants that like things more on the dry side. Look how great the Bird's Nest Fern is doing. It was tucked away by the fountain in the backyard, so y'all didn't get to see it that well during the summertime when it was outside. It was getting a good amount of shade and a ton of moisture, and it has just grown and grown and grown. Things turned into a beast. Oh, and this shelf is going to be bananas and Heliconias, and there's some Elocasia just hanging out there. I talked about that Epipenipanetum last time. It's had a rough go. The summer was really hot, and it stayed in here all summer because it has rooted itself to the wall. It's growing up the walls in here, so I couldn't take it outside. I could have, but I didn't want to strip it off of the walls. But it's perking up and actually seems to appreciate the increase in humidity since I brought all the other plants inside. This guy, this is a Ditto Cactus. This needs a new pot. Look at that. Almost literally hanging by a thread there. And then everything else are things that y'all have pretty much seen, just this stuff sits in disarray at the moment. So Bougainvillea, I'm going to let that hang out over here because it's warm and it's dry. That's generally it's jam, right? Bougainvillea. Sorry, Bougainvillea. I've always called them Bougainvillea, but I know that's not how you're supposed to pronounce it. They usually like this condition. So see how that does right there. It could end up just being really upset about it and dropping all of its leaves and everything. Typically, when I overwinter a Bougainvillea, I try and keep them in more of a cool, dry situation. Think more like Mediterranean style overwintering with the same thing I would do for oleanders or gardenias, citrus trees, those things don't have a space for that anymore. This whole garage is hooked up to that giant heater. So it's just it's warm, pretty much warm in here everywhere. The closer you get to the garage door when it's really cold outside, the cooler it is, but not enough for plants that I just like to keep more on the dormant side. Does that make sense? Hopefully it's going to stay there. We'll see what happens with it. I think it'll be great. And if not, that's OK. Just learn it and learn it as we go here. Strawberries and cream heliconia that is in the aquaponic system. I want that thing to just have moisture and access to the nutrient at all time because it is a nutrient hog. Need to divide that up. So that's another thing that'll be going on in a week or so when I'm pulling plants back out to work on them before I bring them in here. Otherwise, I think that's all there is to say. The gingers, they're still doing their thing. When these go dormant, I just pull the foliage off and I just shove them underneath the tables, make sure they stay dry. That's it. That's all I do with them. Sometimes they'll keep going well into January. It just depends. Every year is different. I have a feeling this is going to keep going for a while, though, because it's still pushing up those big, pretty ginger inflorescence on them. Hibiscus are still growing and flowering. The hibiscus had been in here about four or five days now. I brought those in first. It's looking good to the tie. I didn't I didn't do it. That was me. I didn't do that. Someone was walking through here and thought, oh, these leaves are in my way. And they just snapped those. When I say someone, it was somebody who's working on the construction in the pool. I had been leaving the garage door unlocked. They could come in here and warm up because it's pretty cold outside. And they were keeping some of their stuff over there on the table, like their gloves and boots underneath the heater to dry off. And someone decided that they didn't feel like just walking around these leaves. They just they just snapped them. I it ticks me off. But at the same time, it's just a plant. And I'm not going to assume that the majority of people understand what it takes to grow a leaf on a monster, which is really nothing. They grow very well on their own. It's just it's a tie. So it grows more slowly to leaves. That's like a couple of months worth of work there. Work meaning like you splash it with water sometimes. It's just it's more it's just rude. You don't just snap people's leaves on their houseplants. That's the thing that bugs me about. It's not because of what it is. It's just why. Why would you do that? But like I said, I don't care. I'm over it. Here's the bananas. Some other plants that still need to get put away. I still have a gorilla cart full of smaller plants that are over here. A lot of plants that were not necessarily last minute decisions. I knew I was going to be bringing in the oleander and the spindle palm. And then I have a moose of Florida over here. But like the Persian Shield, I know it doesn't look great, but that's because it just was ripped out of its planter a couple of weeks ago and I hadn't planted it up in anything. So I didn't know if I really wanted to bring it in. Then I was like, I'll just bring it in. So it's just some sticks on a root ball right now. I will be cutting all that down to like this much wood and potting it back up. And there's a really big, pretty begonia in here somewhere. It's heading down there. You can see that better when I get it hung up over there with the begonias on the begonia rack. The light there needs to be replaced. I put an order for that so that can be here hopefully next week. I want to make sure that when I have plants moved out, that that's also when I come in here and work on the lighting. It's not that easy to walk around in here with ladders when there's, you know, you need a place to put the ladders. You can't have plants all over the place. Right here. This is a big improvement I have made out here this year. It's just I know it's just a garden. It doesn't seem that exciting. This thing is hooked up to a beast of a pump and it I don't know if I'll be able to show it to you. I hope so. There it is. Big, big, very heavy. And it's loud and gurgly too. I believe that's a quarter horsepower. Might be a half. I can't remember. Sump pump does about 5,000 gallons an hour and it actually has enough pressure to pump water through a garden hose. There are a lot of pumps that are very powerful. When you hook them to a garden hose, you just don't get much pressure. With this, I'm getting about the same pressure as I would get from just the garden hose that's hooked up outside that I can't use in here because we have to turn our water off during the wintertime. The reason this is so exciting, at least for me, is because I can control the water better by being able to put a valve in a switch. There's a switch that attaches to this so I can walk around and water and switch off, walk around water, switch off without making a giant flooded puddle on the ground, just a river of water rushing through. And if I need to use anything that works through an injector system, then I can do that with this right here. No problem. It'll work just fine. I need to use a broad sprayer for some neem, something of the sorts that'll screw right onto the end of the hose and it'll be just like I'm outside. It's just going to make life so much easier being able to have something that I can hook to the end of the hose, a hose end sprayer, right, in the grow space. So if I want to go through and fertilize with a conventional fertilizer, I can do that without having to mix into a bucket and try and use pumps and the whole entire injection system. It's annoying and I don't enjoy it. If it's not that easy to do, then not as likely to stay on top of it either. This is going to make that more of a possibility. I still I have a what a hose holder that can attach to this, but I don't have the pieces yet to attach it to there just yet. But when I do, that's going to be great. I'm this is I'm so excited about this. That's going to be a freaking game changer. Having a hose out here that actually has the pressure of a hose and the functionality of a hose. The water in there isn't pure. By any means, there's lots of tannins and there's debris in there. So I won't likely be using a spray head on there because it's just going to clog up. I've tried and they clog up very, very quickly. But even without that, it's going to speed up being able to water and being able to blast the plants off. They get dusty and sometimes I confuse the dust with spider mites and then spend several months trying to treat for spider mites when they weren't even really that big of a problem to begin with. Being able to blast the foliage, that's going to be so, so, so nice. And I haven't decided yet about the shelf. I know this is like my second, third time coming around back to that because I never completed the thought there. If I don't end up keeping plants on it, then I'm going to take it off because it's just kind of silly to have it there for no reason at all. Right. I did adjust the angle of the vents on the heater up here, but you're really not supposed to adjust them too much according to the manual. Supposed to be opened up all the way and having them pointed down, shifted down, can slow down, restrict the flow and potentially overheat the heater. So I don't want to adjust them down too terribly far. As is right now, the air is mostly blowing into the area where this desk is instead of more directly into the pond. Some of it's blowing in there, but not as much as last year. Last year, it was really blowing right into the center of the water and getting the plants that were up there. Regardless, the crates got to go. Those look bad. They just happened to end up there during the chaos of getting everything moved inside. I'm stoked. I'm so freaking happy to have this done, to have everything inside. It's a big part of every single year because it's a fairly big project. Feels good to have it done. It's not like I get sad about having to do this because there's so much reward in having done it. Does that make any sense? Oh, and I'd like to install another grow light right around here. I just have to prune that frond off the areca palm, get out of the way and have one right up there to shine down in here because it's hard to get enough light onto that areca palm. So some of the trunks are pressed directly or some of the stems, I should say, some of the fronds are pressed directly up against the ceiling because it's gotten, it's gotten pretty big. This thing's done a lot of growing. It's a beautiful plant. Eventually I'm going to have to chop some of those trunks down to keep it fit in here, though. Feels good to have it done. Who's ready for indoor gardening 2023-2024? What was I saying in the last tour? Off-season. Off-season gardening. That's how I think of it. Like November into February, I consider that the off-season because it's just inside doing the indoor gardening stuff and then all of a sudden it's game time. Warms up, get outside and start getting things done. You can spread the plants out. They don't like being pushed this close together. There are some benefits to it humidity-wise. If they're actually sharing soil, there are a lot more benefits to it. But they're not. So that was a point that I didn't need to make. Be interested to see how the coconut palms do. I'll probably be doing some moving. I don't know if I'll be keeping them exactly where they are. The main thing with them is to not keep them too wet and not let them get too dry. That's, that's going to be the challenge. I'm keeping the humidity in here lower this year too, only because I noticed when pulling some of the Halloween stuff out from the attic, there is like sludge on some of the totes. So I think the humidity last winter was somehow getting up there. I had painted the ceiling in here with three coats of a, I don't even remember what it's called. It was a high gloss water resistant type paint that's like has the kills and stuff in it, like a liquid barrier. But still there's some gaps over there that so you can access the attic and you can even see it when it snows outside. If you're in the driveway, you can look up and there's a perfect rectangle on the roof where the snow melts. That's where the heat comes up. And there's, maybe I just need to find a better way to seal up that hole. It'd probably be a smarter thing to do both for just resources for holding in the heat and to keep the moisture out from up there. Regardless, I turned the humidity down to 50%. It was like 75% right now it's reading 33%. That's not great. That's because that garage door was just open for several minutes though. And that lets all the humidity out when that happens. When I bring the plants back in, after I move them back out to spray them up and clean them, spray them up, spray them off and clean them off some, I might plastic the area like I used to do. Uh, something like that. It's a lot of work, but it does have its benefits. The heater won't have to run as hard and, uh, the humidity won't be as much of an issue every time the garage doors go up and down and up and down. Majority of the plants out here do not care about that. However, the, uh, Anthuriums, the Waukeganum and the Luxurians, they throw a fit having those doors open and closed and the humidity going up and down, up and down. And so I could, I could spend a lot of time and money plasticing off the area like I have done in many, many, many, many times for many, many years. Or I can just tell those plants to kick rocks. I was really trying to find a way to say F off without cursing. It shouldn't have been that hard and maybe just not keep those plants. That's what I would prefer to do, to be honest, because they haven't really brought me much joy. So there's no reason to keep them in my life. I don't like to fight things. If the plant and my growing style don't go together, it doesn't go together. And I just won't grow that plant. I think that's much easier than making huge adjustments for just a couple plants. I'd rather just not have them to think just to go away. Those are all things to think about. Still got plenty of time for that. I hope everybody's doing well. I know this is a weird video. I have some stuff going on that I will talk about next week. It's all good stuff, but I can't talk about it yet. And it's making it so that the videos have had to be pretty quick, short and fast paced for lots of reasons. But next week that should be over with. At least come next weekend's next weekend's vlog. Come next weekend's vlog talking. It's so tricky to talk sometimes when you're not actually talking to someone. Trying to stay on point and don't ramble, that just becomes even more difficult. Probably already surpassed the no rambling thing at this point, right? I think so. Oh, pool liner. It's finally in. Can't show it to you because there's somebody out there working on it. I don't know why it's taking so long. A project that was supposed to take four days is we're up at like six weeks now. But hey, the liner is installed, so that's good. Supposed to be done in a few days and like actually full of water again. If that's the case, you all find out next week and next weekend. There's gonna be some fun stuff going on because I went to Lowe's to get a bag of potting soil and ended up leaving with four bags of potting soil and a entire flatbed full of plants, clearance plants, all things for outdoors. But they're neat looking plants. I mean, there's nothing unusual, but one of them is a fun, unusual plant. It was a great deal. The rest of them is just like winter annuals, but could have some fun planting some stuff up. Have to just wait though. Not there yet. It's killing me too. I want to get out there and plant the plants, but it's 28 degrees. I can warm up for a few days. That's some other stuff that I got to handle. Like I said, we'll talk about it next week. So I hope everybody's doing well, having a great day, great life. Everything's going absolutely beautifully for you. Bananas looked better. I need to repot this. That soil in there is just doing nothing for this plant at this point. Don't do it. Don't ramble. It's got to stop. Don't do it. But down below, say hi. Did the winter blast come through and hit everybody? It's Halloween today and trick or treaters are probably pretty cold. In fact, it's getting dark. I'm surprised no one showed up, but it's not that surprising. It's really cold out. And of course, as always, and most importantly, everybody keep on growing. Bye.