Plant Chores In The Grow Room || Saturday Vlog

oh my look it look it look it look look first snow of the year kitten look snow you never seen you want to see the snow hey what's up garden of friends Jeff here how's everybody doing hope you're doing well I'm great it's snowing kitten look look kitten what is all that stinky what is all that what's happening got white floes falling from the sky little Tails twitching what's that about you see the snow you see this snow you're looking at the ground you're looking for Birds aren't you you don't care about the snow maybe she cares about the snow I'm not sure um I should probably bring in the Bismark pal oh he so soft and Floy I would imagine it's probably not going to be happy about this even though it's not sticking it's not supposed to stick it's ground is still very warm luckily I still have a lot of bulbs to plant made a big dent but there's still a lot to go no plan for this week just uh probably going to get some worked on in the grow bace maybe dig up the Chinese fan pal it's also one that's not going to be a very big fan of the snow but the mules The Windmill Palm they should be fine because the low is only some oh my God that's magical that is so pretty the low is I think like 33 or something so I'm not worried about the snow on the plants outside have to keep an eye on the crowns of the palms for ice but otherwise this is just it's so pretty this is beautiful let me turn my get turn this lamp off so you can actually see through the oh it's so pretty I can't wait to see how it sticks hopefully it sticks it probably won't but no actually I think it might to the spruce that spruce tree is so pretty when it gets snow on it I can't even tell you how happy and excited I am right now even though there's still you can still see there's some bulbs on the table that's all that's left but uh it's about 700 of them um excuse you that was an alarming Interruption I think that that was because of the draw string on my pants that could have been really bad it's not for you don't play with that area not okay look at it's oh it's so nice get it nice big fat flakes too it's not the little kind that you can barely see like look at those things they're big chunky snowflakes that's what I like to see they predicted snow I didn't believe them because it's St Louis they're usually wrong about snow forecasts just a couple of days too late could had white Christmas I think it was like 61 on Christmas Christmas Eve it was like 67 I was running around outside with shorts and a hoodie on most of the day doing yard work it was a great Christmas Eve that's all I don't know what the rest of the video is going to be like but I wanted to make sure everybody got to see the snow a lot of you live in places where it snows a lot so this is not very exciting too but we don't get a ton so I get very excited when I get to see the snow especially cuz last year we got snow but it was mostly at night time so never got to sit back and just relax inside and watch the snow it's in you mind if I come through here knocking your toys all over the place I got to get through here I bet turbo will be happy turbo you still love the snow what you doing floof what you do Flo you making it distracting trying to get downstairs yes you are turbo there he is what's going on outside want to see the snow want to see the snow what is that no not that exciting okay his first snow he stood outside and he ran around and tried to eat the snowflakes still fun and exciting uh yeah I don't think the Chinese fan palom is going to like the snow and then the bisaria which is still outside I think I should probably bring that in and then I don't know we're going to pick up doing something I don't know I I wasn't ready to start vlogging but I wanted to show the snow so here we are I don't even know where to start out here there's so many just little things that need to be done like that looking at this spym here it could use some fertilizer it's got weird growth on it it always has had odd growth on it the not sensation Domino the sensation that's next to it it's always had this weird like crippled not crippled crimpled up foliage you see how the leaves are just odd and I don't know if that's normal the ones I see at the stores don't look like this one but I've had it for 2 years and that's no 3 years this is how it's always looks so I I don't I don't know what's wrong with it I would speculate maybe it's a virus but if it is it's not a very contagious one because it's been floating around on the same water that I used to water every single plant that's out here and again it has for 3 years so I don't I don't know what's going on there maybe some fertilizer tablets that might help I don't know I actually I kind of like the stiff foliage that it has sorry Foliage for the pronunciation Geeks out there it's like a nice stiff somewhat cuffed Leaf when they come out of the middle it looks kind of cool different from a lot of spop FMS but it also just looks kind of sickly if that makes any it should make sense I there's no other way to describe it it looks odd this just isn't how they're supposed to look the sensation I need to be very careful holding my camera over the water like this that got put in here a few weeks ago it was in a video and it's doing really well in here and the variation is starting to come back much stronger since I moved it in here if you don't remember this was growing in the back one of my fish tanks and a tiny little bitty pot and it was time to upgrade it to something much larger and the variegation had really started to go away on it and the whole point of this plant was supposed to be a nice big variegated spym and and so I thought okay well maybe I got a lemon maybe it reverts I don't know it's not a variegated plant that's been around all that long it's pretty new to the market but very popular I think we'll be seeing these a lot in the next few years more than likely is even the variegated ones they're all over the place it's not a hard plant to get a hold of but I haven't seen a lot as far as people reporting them losing their variegation and whether or not stable I just think it was getting way too much light I had a little ring light up plant grow white that was I it was as far away as I could put it but it was still basically right over the top of the plant and that was causing some I guess the plant to be like U we need to put out all the Corell variation is not going to work here and so I speculated that maybe if I moved it out here one better environment lots more space to grow in that larger floating container there that would be better for the plant had to be upgraded to new pot no matter what but also further distance from the grow lights they're pretty far up there maybe it would start putting up more variegation and it looks like it has the two new leaves two newest leaves on there they' got some nice color on them it's a yellow variegation not really a fan of yellow variegation but overall the sensation spym it's a type of peace lily if you don't know what I'm talking about speth ofms or peace Liles the sensation is one that gets huge and they have really big fun paddle-like foliage on them as opposed to some of the other variegated spop films that well you know there a lot of neat spop films out there I have been on a spym kick in my brain I haven't gone out and bought them just the one but in my mind I'm just like oh I want one of these and I want one of those and I was thinking about placing an order to get some and then I remembered that there's a great Nursery it's kind of it's like 40 minutes away so it's not that far but in my mind it's really far away but I'm thinking sometime the next few weeks it might be fun to go down to a place called plant Haven film there before they have a great selection of plants it's one of the few places that's open here during the winter that sells plants it wouldn't surprise me if they probably have some neat spop films they usually have a good selection of plants that aren't all that common to find in nurseries things usually have to order online last winter when I was there they had lots of aoid that weren't really big on the market yet they're getting there you know we're starting to see the Belles the gloriosum and a lot of crystallinum and several others out at the nurseries more so local nurseries than big box stores but if they had all those before I was seeing them at the other nurseries then maybe they'll have some of the neat spop phylums I don't know just a thought just thinking out loud here wasn't really a point to much of this other than look at how weird my Domino looks it's a weird one it's cool but it just always looks sick because of the ruffle texture to the foliage also I haven't seen a lot of them that are quite this big this one's over 2 feet tall it's gotten very large over the last few years so maybe it's just that comes with size but I feel like it's been this weird wonky shape for basically as long as I've had it except for when I brought it home from the nursery it just looked like a normal Spath ofum with the speckly white stuff on the leaves anyways I but I need to water that's what I'm doing right now plants need water just a light drink for a lot of them cuz it's not all that warm in here things are still dry enough because the heater is running essentially nonstop that I thought it would be a good idea to turn the hose on and give things a drink this coconut palm H do I need to you know that that's not what they're supposed to look like right here's a healthy coconut palm and there's this coconut palm don't know exactly what happened to it I have several ideas that one specifically I had over here in front of that white garage door and uh for like a week or so there there's a hole up there in the ceiling that goes to the attic that hole was open to get Christmas decorations out and it was sitting underneath that hole and it wasn't terribly cold but like when you would walk underneath there you could feel the cold air rushing down so I think that that probably had something to do with it you know just a week with 40° air blowing on it that's really all it would take so I moved it up here onto the Shelf where we would get blasted with heat and uh just going to have to really stay on top of some TLC with it if I can get this Leaf right here that FR that's ready to open up if I can get that one to push out and open up probably in the clear not really in the clear until you start to see another growth start to pop up from the middle but uh I don't know I've seen coconut pumps look like this before and it's not usually a good sign I don't I don't think the good things are going to be happening to it moved it it's closer to the lights it's going to get much more warmth right there it's a very very very warm spot that's basically all I can do and then hit it with fertilizer I put some slow release in there but I should probably hit it with a pretty strong liquid nitrogen F not liquid nitrogen a fertilizer high in nitrogen for it to help it go ahead and push that new foliage out and get it going again these things happen went ahead and push the hose down down there into the water maybe things won't be quite as noisy sorry about that some people enjoy the sound of the water some people find it really annoying to each their own I usually find it relaxing but coming through the audio almost just tripped and fell that's what that noise was through the microphones different story this is Banana's out of control got to do something about this oh what exactly am I going to do about it I just I'm just going to cut it back it's too big it doesn't fit on these shelves anymore and this is a variety that stays very small doesn't need a lot of trunk on it to trunk pseudo stem on it to produce an infloresence if you don't know what I'm talking about bananas usually need a certain amount of their pseudo stem which is what a trunk is on a banana it's a pseudo stem it's not actually a trunk it's a series of leaves so what looks like a trunk is actually the bases of the foliage goes all the way down to the ground and that's why it's called a pseudo stem but with bananas typically you need to maintain a certain percentage depending on the type of banana of that pseudo stem in order for them to produce an infloresence and give you a nice show a fun set of bananas this is a super dwarf I think it's a little prince but I'm not positive had this one for a couple of years now it's been an absolute trooper and generally in the winter time this is only the second winter I've had this one but just speaking with bananas in general usually they need a pretty good cleanup in the winter and that's where we are now this has been inside for a while now this has been inside since October so it's definitely overdue for a clean up try and get all these old Leaf bases out of there I only do this because of the pest problems that I've had out here over the years the less dead decaying matter that there is the less issues I may have to deal with really it's just about eliminating a lot of hiding spots for things or areas that would be harder to spray and get into with me bugs and things they really know their way around a plant they are so good at getting down into the crevices and it can be difficult to eliminate them because of that and because me bugs have become pretty resistant to most pesticides so they're tricky to get rid of because of that not resistant to Nemo but you got to really stay on top of it I think I should probably make a cut right around here about halfway through I need to I don't what am I going to do that with okay not the cleanest cut because I didn't have a tool long enough out here to go all the way through it but it's fine it'll do going to get lots of New Growth to pop out of that middle there all these outer layers are going to Brown and have to be removed over the months which is fine that has opened up some light in here things were just too shaded morani anoms not getting enough so move that down there this over here is a diso cactus and it needs a new container I'm going to move that to my desk so I can remember to get on top that need to order something for it I think everything else over here is okay there's more pruning I could do back there on that heliconia but this is the main thing was opening things up to get more white in here cuz that banana it was just it was too much I said the banana shelf was looking pretty good I think that this Musa no no could use some TLC it's looking sad I don't want to wait and let that get any worse let me get my lights on you might want to be able to see what I'm doing right there we go that's better it's in a 6in pot one of these right here I'm just going to It's a Small Bump up not a huge upgrade this isn't the time of year for a huge upgrade I try and keep things warm out here but not necessarily actively growing banana warm it's just kind of like keep them trotting along warm kind of where's my so I'm going to need soil for this I don't necessarily like to play favorites but for the No No banana I am going to go up the ocean Forest it's more pricey so I don't use it all that often it is really good stuff and I only want the best for this banana and that's also because this just is not necessarily the right time of year for repotting one of these guys ocean forest with all the good stuff in it drains really well good amount of Organics in there it's got some sand and some grit to it which I talk about a lot it's nice looking stuff good soil that shelf over there that we were just at that was just watered a couple of days ago so I'm not worried about the B water this it looks pretty good it's a nice looking root system would have thought would have seen more going on with the roots by now but that's okay it's pretty good and I feel like the ocean Forest as far as moisture holding capacity goes should be pretty comparable to what this banana was already in I think hopefully can't say for sure go ahead and get that back filled not a very big back Vil so it's going to be one of those ones where I have to very tediously poke the soil down into the cracks but I think that's okay I really I don't know I thought about just bumping this straight up into a 10in container because it's a banana that grows pretty well similar to a zabina a rojo something like that but it's just not the time of year for this and the time of year is probably okay just because they're under artificial lighting things do stay fairly warm in here but there are days you know it drops into the teens outside and uh that makes it harder to keep things very warm out here it's still probably in the upper 60s low 70s but banan like 77 and up is The Sweet Spot to get growth out of them otherwise they just kind of hang out and chill this has been a sturdy one though I've had it since it was just a teeny tiny little it was just a few little leaves from tissue culture and it would probably be much bigger than this by now had I repotted it one of the like 50 times I brought it up during garden tours last summer but I yeah I just forgot better late than never top that off just because I assume when I water this in it's probably going to burp out whole bunch of so I might even top dress this I don't think I need to don't think it necessarily needs to be top dress it really just going to depend on the soil we have to wait and see how well it holds in moisture cuz the air I keep the humidity up as much as I can out here but it does get fairly dry if the heater is running a lot and that's pretty much only an issue in like mid January into mid-February is that can you see it I wondered about that you see what's going on in there it's that timeing year spidermite season it makes sense the banana has been growing and then its older foliage just withering away for seemingly no reason at all because it's still pushing out growth so now I I get it now see the spider mites as well over there on the shelves that's the thing with bananas with those leaves how they hang over I've been spraying monthly I'm not doing the beneficial Predator thing this year thousands of dollars into it last year had no luck with it so this year systemic sprays knee pretty good stuff and systemic granules and for fungus Nets and fruit flies it's what I've been using for years stuff works great it's just a powdered basilis and gensis you just mix it with some water water into the plant and boom plung as SS are going the nice thing about the systemic spray is that it kills on contact it leaves behind a residue so it helps kill for a while after that and it's systemic to an extent I haven't I mean I querly because I've been using it and they're here so how systemic is it I don't know but it's more than likely systemic enough to get these guys taken care of I don't know if that didn't make any sense I may as well have just not said anything at all just then yeah with the foliage that has that much on it I prefer to try and catch the mites as I'm cutting it as I'm messing with the leaves help contain them keep them from falling and being able to just spread around and go all over the place probably not necessary more for p of Mind by figure why not get that tied up contain the critters they can't spread around and then options here are to grab a NE mixture soap mixture something of the sort and just saturate what's left on there I'm just going to take it inside to the sink and rinse it off really really well and then make sure to get the systemic applied and have to remember that when I'm spraying for the spider mites I'm doing that monthly to flip the plant and get the sides of the leaves and pretty much guarantee that that's what happened there haven't seen signs on them on anything else but I'm sure if they were that heavy on one plant they're probably on more so just we get to do this again it's going to be last winter 2.0 except this time a whole different arsenal of things going on here I also should have mentioned this I've added some systemic granules into the top here and I'm going to water those in give that a soak so that it can do its thing I don't there are lots of different of systemic granules the one's from Boney pretty good and then there's the bay they make one that's pretty good the bio Advance protectant feed for more like boring insects I've had really good luck with that not insects that are like not entertaining insects that chew into the trunks to the you probably knew what I meant look what I found I knew I had to have a hanging basket around here that I could use with all the annuals and things I plant up during the growing season there's no way that I did didn't have something that I could move that deso Cactus into for I need to do the part where I actually water the granules into there this is a I don't know it's not a huge upgrade upgrade upgrade to the pot that this is already in but I'd say it's plenty big enough this is not a plant that needs a a huge setup for its roots so I'd say it'll do okay as far as the potting mixture goes this Cactus has been in that same blend for like I don't even know probably 5 years this is long overdue as you can see from looking at it I'm thinking I'm probably going to use this see if I can get it into frame here I need a bigger desk can you see it this is a blend that I used when planting up an aeonium and just lots of cactus and succulents it's a basic potting blend just allpurpose potting soell that I've added some grit too so there's some planted aquarium gravel it doesn't need to be planted aquarium gravel I just happen to have a bunch of that laying around that I couldn't use in my tank so thought I would blend it in with this mixture there's some bark some pearlite it's just a nice well- draining Airy mix however looks great giant tub next to the cactus the doo Cactus it's a tropical Cactus but still an epithetic one being an epiy that does mean that its soil blend needs to drain very very well but it being a tropical one means that it does need some moisture retention because they're from areas where they get a good amount of precipitation because I have the bag sitting right next to me I'm going to throw some that ocean forest in there be like two three scoops three scoops that should do it the reason is this is just a hot mess I need a bigger desk out here oh I don't you get it I don't have to show you any blending up soil the disocactus are ones that can take a higher moisture holding capacity that's all I was getting at from the beginning and then somehow ended up just getting lost with the fact that I don't have a tall enough Tri triod in my desk isn't big enough to film something like this right now something to be aware of this pot can you the drainage hole it's indented it's up higher so that water will hold itself down low inside of the container that is not good for a cactus but my drill is dead because I've been planting bulbs left and right when the batteries recharge I'll come and just pop a little hole probably here here here and you know all around just enough that water can't sit down in there because that will be a problem I do not think that the plant would appreciate all that going on see the problem isn't that the tripod can't go taller this tripod goes pretty tall it's that there's not a lot of floor space to set it back down higher the tripod the more room that it's going to take up on the ground CU those legs spread out they spread out lot keep yeah see you can see that is a very airy blend it's typical kind of like what you'd see with an aoid which is what I was thinking this would probably need is basically an aoid blend no what I'm moving it into is not an aoid blend but it's aoid blend is sh Airy and well draining that's the key is Airy well draining and we'll hold on to some moisture doesn't need to hold on to very much moisture but I would like for it to hold on to more than it has been because as you can tell from looking at it it hasn't been all that easy keeping this one hydrated largely just because it's been overdue for a repot for a while I mean probably like 2 years okay that is going to make for a much happier diso Cactus get those clips back in and this will be good to go this should last it for a few years they're not plants that need to be repotted all that often probably a couple years ago would have been a good idea than this one or at least to have refreshed the soil some on occasions I have like just tossed handfuls of soil in there when I've noticed as having a really hard time keeping it hydrated this was really just to a point where it needed a larger pot with a nice fresh blend of mix around those roots and I'm not giving this one a soak like I am with the banana cuz the banana needs that systemic this one I don't think it needs the systemic and even if it did it would be getting it in a different dosage than the banana banan's at full strength of cactus so I'd probably go he strength I don't think it needs it the weird thing with the spidermites right is how particular they can be with plants I looked over that shelf after the clip where I cuddle the foliage off the no no over there and uh nothing I don't see any others over there but again it's harder to see them over there so when I do a full on watering tonight I'm not going to water all the plants on camera it makes way too much noise there things get humid and steamy it's it's not a pleasant thing to try and film I've tried it before it didn't work out but when I'm done watering I'm going to go through with that systemic spray that I showed y'all before and make sure to get the undersides of the leaves on everything over here on those plant shelves I've been good about using that spray on everything from like here and over haven't done a ton with the shelves just because the AIDS and I wanted to see if the like basically how well the stuff worked and if it was too potent I don't want to use anything too potent on all the AIDS over there but I haven't had any issues with it on any of the plants so far it's Boney so it's pretty gentle maybe not all that effective but so far like the plants that I was having a lot of problems with mbgs on haven't been having issues with them since I've been using the systemic although Cottin's still been a problem I think I'm just going to have to take all the leaves off of that one I tried the systemic thing it's been 2 months and it's not doing anything and I've been spraying with neem and with that systemax the stuff I've been talking about this whole time they're still on the croen but everything else haven't been seeing them Jan January and February is where those things tend to Peak and we are just about there like this is the last video of the Year isn't it I oh my I actually forgot happy New Year everybody probably wrap all this up before I start moving on something else this is not getting a soak because of the systemic like I talked about and because it's a cactus it doesn't need it the good watering should be good enough for it I'll get it mov back over there to the shelves that should be a much happier plant and sometime in the next few weeks this should start to set flowers the doo Cactus have the most amazing flowers they're small mediumsized dainty yellow flowers they smell so freaking good when this thing flowers the entire grow space smells like cinnamon and vanilla very sweet and spicy scent I enjoy it a lot and I look forward to when that flowers and that was one of the reasons I was like okay I got to get on top of this this thing really needs a new container and some fresh mix because well I want it to do its best and I've had it for a long time it's been a trooper over a plant but you can see from looking at it the poor thing is just so freaking thirsty the paddles on these should be not very plump cuz this isn't one that has really big plump foliage and you it's not so thirsty that it's like limp but it's on the verge of there and it's just been so hard to keep the dang thing hydrated so that's going to make a big difference banana it's had about I don't know 15 minutes to soak at this point so I'll probably lift that out let it drain that's going to go back over onto the plant shelves and just have to stay on top of the names and everything else names and soaps and once a month hitting things with that systemax stuff and and uh making sure to get on the bottoms of the leaves and may end up having to increase the amount it's possible have to wait and see if these things are going to continue to be problems and there will be situations where you have to wonder is the stuff not working very well or is it just the type of plant that it's on there's a laot that goes into systemics they have to be one the right type the right strength and they don't work on all plants plants that have active growth usually the best way to go need be able to transport whatever's in it to the ends of the foliage where the insects are in order for it to do anything right and that is the other reason that I made sure to cut all of the foliage off of the No No so that the new leaves that come out minus the one that's right there everything else that comes out of there it's should be fairly well loaded with the systemic that's down in there one would hope that depends on the active growth I wanted to move the no no to this shelf over here because it's just better lighting and it's warmer but I think I should wait I should give it a couple weeks stay on top of this spray make sure the trunk stays nice and clean and free of pest I I feel like if there's spidermites here there's probably spider Ms up there like I said atmin c& them now that I know that they're out here I'm going to have to do everything I just talked about and really just get on top of spraying things down and I will use that water to water the plants around the banana because it has some systemic in it not a lot but it's got something in there anyways yeah that's that's all odds and ends had a good time got to see the snow the snow is so pretty made me so happy we might get more tonight I'll be so excited if we do any yeah Happy New Year's everyone hope you have a good one tomorrow's New Year's Eve right the day after this video comes out I don't I don't have a calendar in front of me but I'm pretty sure Sunday's New Year's Eve hope everybody has a great time and enjoys themselves U comment down below say hi I love talking to everybody what's been going on in your Gardens or with your house plants I should say for most people at this point yall know what's going on over here at that time of year just pest controlling repots anyways all right as always and most importantly everybody keep on growing [Music] byebye