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this thing has not budged nothing nothing oh maybe a little maybe a little not a lot it's a deiser I didn't get the water out of this thing in time and it froze solid for a few weeks and then I realized that I still can't get the water out cuz both of the pmps are broken so I was like okay we'll just throw decer in there not going to do much it'll just keep a hole open in the ice which is really just something you need to do for a fish but it's better than nothing hey what's up Garden friends hope you're doing well I'm great don't if I even finish that since I have been crinkly lot plastic get that out of the way I have been prepping for a storm it's supposed to get cold again not terribly cold but I think the loads are supposed to be in the upper 20s maybe some dips into the teens in next week looks like there might be some 10 to 11° so I thought that I should move some more of the plants in here so I brought in the beautiful varigated bamboo and the yua recurva folas which I just I know I keep talking about just look at the trunks on these These are getting so big so big and so nice and these are all plants that can take this cold but I'd just rather them not I mean what's the point that they were put 20 ft that way may as well stick them in here it's mostly actually to protect them from the wet not the cold especially the yakas the Oleander is kind of for both right it doesn't it it shouldn't be experiencing too much cold and wet won't do all that well it's the awesome pretty limits it's been very cold hearty and I brought in a few other little things too that doesn't really matter I'm mostly just excited for some snow I hope we actually get the snow Palms are still looking okay I think everything in here is good to go everything has had some watering over the last few days been doing my best the hoses aren't hooked up you know so it makes it harder to get water out here to them but everything has had a gentle drink uh I'm hoping that things warm up some more soon so I can really come out here and give everything a very heavy drink get the hoses back back get the what am I say get the hoses hooked back up think can water more appropriately uh nice deep watering that's really what they need the main thing is to not let these guys dry out when you're trying to keep them dorant for the winter time that was too long of an INT that wasn't even an intro I just started I went and just kept going that's probably going to be the tone of this entire video things are a little bit weird right now can talk about that some more later I suppose is that too loud hero is saying we'll talk about that more later I suppose is what I was saying I have a whole bunch plants they need to be unpackaged unboxed and tended to you want to go inside baby what are you doing you hear you hear a dog friend you go check it out if you want to I went to Lowe's several days ago and picked up some plants sorry I didn't bring y'all with me I should have I know bad bad vlogger wasn't thinking and then I have a whole bunch of plants that came in the mail today from Herz or Walmart well Herz via Walmart go in going ooh and some seeds got some fun new seeds here I want to get planted up as I'm looking canas realizing that I'm actually missing a pack of the seeds where's the spearmint I had spearmint I don't know where it went found them they're under the couch of course that's where everybody keep their seeds right got some new pants excited about new pants not of my pants fit they're like falling off me everywhere I go and are you going to be sad I don't want to leave you alone I'm sorry you could come out but I think you're going to be bored out there turbo actually there's not enough room for you're too big too much dog I love you I love you so much but you can't go out there we had a walk we played we did things you got to play with your cousins he's lonely but it's not going to be long I promise okay we go to gr space get the heater turned off since the audio works and um I'm I think I'll just let him you can come it's going to be a problem but I'm going to let him come yeah it's necessary you wow okay he's never wanted to come out here with me you really want to go out there you're going be so bored don't act like I didn't tell you turbo oh he won't be oh forgot got to turn that off well okay you missed it he ran back inside lost interest quick not that surprised by that now I realized when I came out here that there's actually a lot to go over in this video there's been a lot of plant stuff happening as far as like purchases go lots of things happening have the spearmint here I also have some peppermint upstairs as well as what's in here those are things that I want to get seated into all the hydroponic Gardens I've been showing at the beginning of the last well not the last but some of the more recent Vlogs in the beginning I've been setting up these hydroponic Gardens so that I could compare them to the A garden and a lot of the seed I use just didn't take it was old seed so I'm not shocked by that so I ordered some things that I would want to grow and I figure other people might like I like spearmint it's an easy one and peppermint I think they both taste the best in like a tea so there's that and then this right here is a fun tropical that uh we'll have a look at that whenever it's time to get to the seeds the radishes those aren't going to go in the hydroponic garden I don't know how well that would work out it's just that time year I'd like to get some of those planted up and finally I have my plant to go in the wart pipe it's been one of those things where I had a vision in my head of what I wanted to put inside of this pot SL pencil holder that's how it was labeled but I just couldn't find exactly what I wanted and then eventually I was patient and found it on Etsy it was kind of pricey I'm not thrilled about the cost but I think it's going to be worth it so that's actually it's right here you want to just do it I can just you want to see it we'll just jump right into that sitting here on the desk so may as well have a peek oh look at them balls cute right it has a it has a label but it's stuck in there and it's not a name that I'm going to bother trying to say out loud it's a fairly common Cactus the teer cactus geometricus there we go it's a thing weow on these fun balls usually two to three high and they spread out they're kind of fun they have kind of an auna or auna however you want to pronounce at s quality to them but you know just balls that was too much Zoom but I did want to get y'all in there so that we can have a look at the glockhead so this one isn't covered in big spines you see there's some big spines you see all those little bitty ones right there that white stuff those are glockhead those are tiny little fiberglass like needles Cactus spines that get into your skin and they're really annoying so I am going to hold off on potting this up until I remember to grab a couple sets of gloves and some paper some things that I'm going to throw away to wrap around it we'll get that potted up I think that's going to look really cute in there also I need to make up some Cactus mixs I don't think I have anything that's pre bagged I'm just going to have to you know just add some sand to a mix I'm sure I have something around here okay I started to go grab my containers to start mixing up some nice Sandy mix and everything and I told myself to go ahead and just stop because there are a lot of plants sitting on me right now and I think it would be good to go ahead and get them sorted out because everything is going to need to be watered so I'm going to start off with the plants I picked up from Lowe's a lot of what I got was on clearance they had a huge shipment of plants come in just boxes upon boxes so a lot of what they had in stock already was on clearance and I'm all about clearance plants and I got lucky and they actually had some stuff that I really liked this one right here is labeled as string of frogs FAS which uh yeah okay that's fine we'll call it that a common name for you can see why right it looks like a string of frogs I like them because they look like a nice miniature Ivy and these do really really well in terrariums not going to be as fussy as an ivy they can take some drier conditions they need to stay consistently moist but they're not going to be like ivys where what is the pro why don't you here I'll put it right there will that work there we go that could be like with an ivy where if you don't have just the right moisture and you aren't being pretty on top of how you're maintaining the plant where they might just rot or become infested with spider mites although these can be pretty prone to spidermites too so not saying that this is going to be foolproof in that sense but my main thing is that it's good for terrariums that's going to be the main theme here with pretty much everything that you're going to see is that these are largely plants that I want to use in terrariums you see that graceful habit of this it's a graceful and has that jungly vibe to it it's be great in fairy gardens or in terrariums however you want want to do it so many uses for the string of frog I just think it's cute I said looks like a miniature iy have another miniature plant when we get to the Herz plants it looks really cool but before we do that let go ahead and move on to the rest the rest of the plants from wo is what I meant to say yeah remember these were in clearance okay so some of them might be looking a little bit rough but they're going to be fine these are plants where as long as you give them the moisture that humidity and some warmth they'll open back up and look great in no time this we got a little bit smashed but it's all right oh look that beautiful hemigraphis right here waffle plant beautiful I love that one and that's what this was I just started zooming right through didn't even show you what these were just a variegated waffle plant really pretty grade again for the terrariums this one's called Snow White the snow white waffle plant hemigraphis alternata EX plants and then in here this one just says mystery plant on it Wick and grow but it's a pilea dark mystery as far as the pile is go this one has a larger leaf on it really shiny and glossy with a silver on the inside the more light these get the more that color intensifies they don't need a lot of light I would say moderate medium light is what's going to keep them happy uh speaking of keeping things happy oh these next plants they're just all I'm going to kill them okay well ideally not but made in hair ferns I cannot grow these unless they're in a closed system something to hold in moisture otherwise they do not do well for me so going to have to be very on top of making sure that these got a dome or something over them right away and then am I going too fast I just I don't know I'm in the mood to look at the plants and get them unpacked do we need to appreciate the maiden hairs a little bit closer this is the rosy Maiden in here are they going to give a Latin name I'd be impressed if they did that look at that 8 Anum scotum scutum scotum rum yeah so not the same as the perennial types right these aren't the ones that we have out in the garden but very similar and just as delicate right the radi atoms well actually there are some radi atoms I'm pretty sure are going into zone six maybe even zone five I don't know but main thing is house plant not something I'm going to be trying out in the yard another great one similar to the larger Pia back there this one right here is the PanAm oh that makes me think of cyber Punk do youall play cyber Punk that's a really fun game okay neither here nor there a rounder Leaf same shiny appearance with that gloss they kind of glisten right is is that a theme here it's a theme for me when it comes to choosing terrarium plants are just trying to indulge that winter wall that we go through through I know a lot of you probably know what I'm talking about where I just miss the plants I'm really drawn towards greens and glossy the more glossy the better because it just feels more Lush and more vibrant and just something about it makes me happy and again with the terrarium stuff that's what I like to see and that aside appearance-wise these are just great terrarium planes pile is fantastic to put inside of a close system okay there's another Maiden ha FR I'm looking at down here it's not this one's not looking very good but I think it has some potential yeah I mean it it's got hope different type this is the Venus the bronze really commonly sold the bronze idium hispanism yeah hispidulum the name on that one so when they look like this this is something I would probably plant up cut back all the way keep glass over it keep it consistently moist and warm meaning like over 75 but not over 85 and it should resprout look just fine so that's I know it doesn't look great but remember clearance these were all on clearance well I think maybe one of them wasn't but the majority of them were on clearance uh which is why I also picked up one of these guys right here I love them I have tons of them I don't need any more but it was so cheap and they make me so happy this is a Tania the C pink quill common name for that one being sold as a bromad yep just bromad the more light this gets the more vibrant pink to magenta this will become and they put out little purple flowers that come all the way up the side of this infloresence they start from down low and work their way up so if you're going to buy one of the flowers are up top like around here the purple flowers I wouldn't bother cuz it means it's pretty much done flowering and then this dies off and the plant doesn't look as great another thing I absolutely love about this plant is that they smell fantastic not everybody can smell it but I like it it's kind of a sweet spicy cinnamon to vanilla scent it's very nice it's a very good smell okay another one I know we're zooming through these but there's so much stuff to do fonia right it's just a great fonia ruby red fonia love them they're fantastic these also some of these are have this lean to them because they were sitting in that bag overnight I went to Lowe's yesterday so that's why they're looking like that they'll straighten back out I didn't expect them to have a Bend so quickly but it happened fonias are great I I they need things consistently moist that's very important with them they like it humid another do I have to keep saying it a great terrarium plant the everything I've gotten with the exception of that Cactus and the next two plants are terrarium based plants things that I want to use in a terrarium or I just want to have around because they smell nice and they make me happy otherwise there are plants I like to put in a terrarium okay this one's stupid it's real stupid don't judge me but I like the pot and it was small and I thought it was cute because it was small but it's stupid you want to talk about why it's stupid we can do that first we should go over what it is it's a money tree a pachaya right a pyra pachay I don't care how you say it very common house plants but I don't usually see them this small and stupid they're usually really big or they're the same size but not braided this is ridiculous and I kind of liked the pot I thought it was cute the other reason I got it was because this is a plant people have asked me to talk about but I never wanted to buy one I had one years ago I didn't want to get another one so I figured okay well I'll go ahead and just get this one it's on clearance I like the pot it's cute and stupid this is not an ideal setup for this plant talk about that whenever I talk about the care for these but if you know anything about them you know they do like some moisture and they can actually grow relatively quickly and this size container just isn't going to do for a very long time and yeah it's actually I feel like the soil that it's in might be draining a little bit too quickly but they're also somewhat versatile so we'll give it that I just thought it was cute the next one is not looking great and it has a bag stuck to it my hands are full hold on and the reason this one isn't looking great is by no fault of lows I dropped the bag I did it's that's kind of what happened with all these here I probably should have said that to begin with but it's going to be okay because this is a very very very tough sturdy plant that will live for a very long time in fact I just need to give it a little bit of TLC and I'm guessing within a week that this will probably be straightened out all on its own it's in a self-watering container which I don't really think is necessary for these but right now I'm going to say that it helps this is a d bakia and it just has the prettiest variegation on it I can't remember the name on this one it just says D and Bach yet it's a popular one so I should have the name in my head I should remember but I don't and I'm sorry that I don't but maybe y'all can help me out and comment down below if you remember what this particular D and bakia is called there are so many different types this one I just love the variegation on it it's so varied in random it's not chaotic it's not too terribly splotchy I just think it looks so cool doesn't it I really like how it just looks like a normal normal-ish Green Leaf that's been highlighted with the white when you have the lighter Edge on a leaf it just makes the foliage looks like it's glowing and this has some glow to it doesn't it isn't it just beautiful I think it's fantastic I don't have DM bakia right now I haven't in a long time because of the toxicity which is kind of crazy because I grow a lot of plants that are pretty dang toxic but for some reason D and bakia is where I've drawn the line I don't know what that's about so I've decided that I should start getting some more because they're very long live they're very easy plants to have around they're very adaptable when things go wrong with them once you start to have some stem on them you can share them back to nothing and they'll resprout and start looking great again I bring that up because sometimes they get spiderm or melee bugs and once they're large enough no big deal cuz you can just go in cut everything off wash them off and basically just start the whole thing over they don't care these things are thugs just got to keep it away from Curious mouths like I'm saying whenever I talk about plants that have some toxicity and they'll be totally fine and like I said this one it's going to look great again pretty soon it just this needs to just needs to Rite itself back up it's going to be fine I promise okay so now I need to get everything cleared off of here so that I can make room for the next load of plants which are all plants from Herz I'm debating do I go ahead and put this on the plant shelves that will straighten out a lot faster but that's also where I spray it's just NE though I don't never use chemicals or I was thinking that I shouldn't put this on the plant shelves and then spray it and then move it in the house later cuz I don't like anything the house has been sprayed but I don't that shouldn't be a problem it'll be fine okay look at and just like that everything's cleared off barely had enough room on the plant shelves for everything managed to make it work I still have some of the other plants over here because I wanted to give them some more water keep an eye on them probably going to come in here and trim up some of that brown stuff in the DM bakia now we can move on to everything from Herz I did have to open the box without y'all I'm so sorry but it's cold outside and it was sitting on the front porch I wanted to get it popped open as quickly as possible so I mean you're not missing here's what the inside of the Box looks like these were laying on their side I'll pick that up later and there's a heat pack in here that really didn't have much heat left in it but is in there it's cool now it's been a couple hours I don't fully understand and I've talked about this in other videos what is the point of putting a heat back in a cardboard box cardboard doesn't insulate very well so if you're not going to wrap the whole thing up like just wrap the entire box in this foamy material then add the heat pack like I could understand that but that's not that's not what they do whatever it's fine we'll probably start with these two because they're all kind of ducked together there we have scissors scissors would be useful I don't see any so okay I have a box cutter and I guess can make that work just need to be oh this haveu tears no problem I don't need scissors just be very gentle here and try my best to not actually break the plants up see how easily that tears that just splits right apart perfect don't need anything special for that at all come in here these all should be perfectly fine I do think I might be missing a plant I think I am but oh well we'll figure that out later oh look at look at the gloss look at the shine isn't that just beautiful especially with the background the waterfall and everything all bored out camera came to work today this is looking fantastic you might be wondering what is it it's a heart Fern really really really common Fern for terrariums I also as I mentioned with some of these other plants don't do very well with these if they are not uh surrounded by glass the heart ferns can be pretty sturdy though they just going to stay consistently moist I love a heart Fern absolutely love them I don't remember ordering this one so there were two plants that I mainly did the order for and they're not here the two plants I wanted the most aren't here so I don't know what that's about I'll have to check the invoice later the whole reason I placed the order isn't here I added other things because it's like well if you're paying for shipping may as well get some more stuff right yeah and this is all nice stuff I'm happy with these things too this is a button Fern really great texture to these something about button ferns reminds me of a like a Lykan or something thing is that weird do you know what I mean like they have I don't know kind of a a weird aquatic or not even aquatic eptic vibe to them but not the case really pretty Fern lots of fun in terrariums they have a lot of texture to them they don't get huge which is one of the reasons that I like them for terrarium they stay more on the smaller side which is more fitting cuz there is a plant here that you're about to there right now another Fern that will get rather large for a terrarium for like a glass type terrarium if you have a really big huge setup this would probably be fine this is I believe the ribbon lace Fern is that what we're called this yes it just says ribbon Fern but I'm pretty sure it's the lace ribbon Fern when they have that variegation in there fun plants have that trident shape to them lots of character look at the variations in color I love the way the White and the green Fades together in the center and they have that hint of green in the vein that Fades out really pretty nice texure to them these can get tall so if you're put them in like a jar something you're going to have to sand top of pruning them or I don't know repot them every few years or re terrarium them every few years okay next Plant not that exciting because it's a repeat I wanted two of these they're just really nice plants I like to have around for different plant crafty projects so I ordered another one the nurseries don't have much in stock right now they will in a few weeks but this time of year there just isn't much going on so I wanted to have my own supply of things that I can work with if I decide to do some terrariums if you haven't caught on to the fact that I want to set up a terrarium that's why I have these terrarium type plants here that's not what this is for though this next one I'm in a maybe in a really big terrarium this would be great but it' have to be pretty big because this is a climber that can get decent Siz leaves on it not huge huge but a little bit larger than some of the others the price in this was just too good not a plant that I've oh wow oh it's so pretty has some shipping damage uh maybe cold damage I'm not sure but it's not going to die it's a variegated n sonai and and it pretty wish it looked a little bit better but you know sometimes these things with the fenestrations don't always ship that well and uh it's an edin Soni edin son ey so I don't really care about that it's plant that is super sturdy and I'm not going to have to do much to get this to look really nice it's even got two gross in there too look well this one only has one leaf on it that doesn't look very good but there's still nodes on that one growth down there so it has potential to keep growing and this other growth is one that's looking much much much better I'll go ahead and let that leaf yellow out in case that stem down there is pulling something from it but otherwise wise I'd say trim that off yeah it's a nice looking plant moist not dry looks pretty nice yeah I think that's going to be really pretty could put it in a basket I'm going to put it in something with a pole so it can climb or actually I have other ideas but those are going to have to wait till the summer time to we do anything more exotic with them but I think that that's everything minus the plants that I was really excited about that they didn't send I don't know where they are overall what I have here looks pretty good I did just now in between Clips email the seller Herz and said hey there's three plants missing or they being shipped separately the shipping notification I got this morning saying that the plants were on their way said there would be eight items in the package so 1 2 3 4 five three missing plants I don't know maybe they're being shipped separately find out about that later at the very least I'm sure they'll refund them I am going to give these all some time get the plas stick removed from everything and move them to a spot where they're not going to get blasted by the heater maybe give them a day or so until I start to do anything with them I would like for everything to just sit and chill for a little bit they've all been shipped and then all those plants from Lowe's you know they have some stress to recover from too so I'm going to do my best to just let them be let them relax I think the next thing to do would be to go ahead and get this Cactus potted up cuz it's just sitting here without any pants on need to get that set up so that it doesn't start to freak out on us oh but first yeah I need to get all this taken care of remove those Plastics and everything come back in get that thing potted up okay not a from the bag pal Cactus mix I have opinions about that by the way palms and Cactus don't need the same soil blend but regardless this will work it doesn't matter this is just standard allpurpose potty mix this is fine white sand actually probably too much fine white sand you know when you buy at least with Miracle Grow when you buy their pom and Cactus mix it's the same base it's just has more sand in it and maybe some less bark but it's not a tremendous difference right it just needs to be a nice well- drained Airy blend of soil that's what Cactus me nice well- drained I like to have some grit actually I don't don't have the materials right now but I usually like to have a few different various sizes of pmus or lava stone to put into the mix but I don't have any right now and this sand is going to work just fine at making sure that everything drains nice and quickly and you know not all potting mixes are created equal not each bag is the same so I have multiple bags of just Miracle Grow over there and one of them is really heavy and dense and I'm not going to use it I'm going to spread it in the Garden it's Mucky it's going to hold on too much water whereas my other bags are light and fluffy you can feel it in the bag sometimes that happens at the store you can feel it if you lift up the bag and it feels heavy don't buy it you want the bag to be nice and lightweight you should have to rehydrate this when you bring it home with those Brands anyways big Brands like Miracle Grow there are some others that are just supposed to be a little bit more dense because maybe they are meant for moisture retention or they're known for having a lot of organic materials in them that's going to bulk them up and make them more dense but if it's a Peete base allpurpose potting mix and the bag's really really heavy and then you pick it up if you're able to actually see this well and you're clumping it just forming into a ball that's bad don't buy it the bag that I have right now that's like that it sat out in the cold for a while and I think that it just spoiled that happens sometimes but I have had it happen where I was going through the pallets at the store and would have to dig down kind of far to find bags that weren't all saturated and Mucky yeah okay so you see this look at that beautiful Sandy blend like I said i' be good to add some more grit to it but this should be just fine for the cactus the main thing is to not overwater it already have to be careful about overwatering right because this is a deep pot that is a plant that wants things very deep so need to make sure then keep that mind I'm going to just be giving it little drinks of water from time to time it's not a good idea to put anything in the bottom for drainage oh this does have a drainage hole drilled in it I don't know if I filmed that or not I don't think I did but in a video few weeks ago I mentioned that I was going to add drainage to them so it does have a hole there see that great big hole didn't put anything over it could put a coffee filter or some screen I have a lot of screen around here that I could have used but chose not to because CU I forgot about it Go just now that's okay that's how we do things sometimes try and get that soil up into the lip I have some more Decorative Stone that I maybe could have used in this it doesn't need it this is going to drain just fine I need to stop obsessing over the stone it really doesn't matter that looks pretty good need to have a nice size well in here to go ahead and get that third ball down into I guess the baseball oh baseball almost time for spring training don't know if anybody cares about that any Cardinal fans out there any of yall left pull that to the sides it's holding pretty well I'm happy with that oh yeah I need to need to W my hand on something okay figures I have a tripod here this is probably the time to use it right don't need to be holding the camera with one hand and trying to hold the cactus with the other the spines on this like I mentioned they're not that bad it's all these fine little hairlike ones that I want to void so typically with cactus I would maybe take this paper right here that would work fine oh look at that nice gritty mix can have some of that take that fold it up used to do this with newspaper back in the day when I got newspaper now sometimes I'll use old towels or Rags uh sometimes I'll use paper that's about to start looking not too great that I used to line the bird cage stuff like that make sure I'm repurposing those things as much as possible and then you just kind of make a Tong with them also you can just use tongs tongs work fine but I wouldn't use tongs that you plan on eating with because of those little Glock kads that and it's just it's best to separate food things from plant things unless it's edible plant stuff you know what I mean I am going to want to make sure this is centered because it will look so stupid if it's not centered the whole reason I even thought that this might look kind of cute is because of the I don't want to say monopodial Habit to it but kind of monopodial it is it's this is monopodial sort of it is it's not branching so we can use that terminology fill in gently pack it in quick and simple okay are you ready I mean you can already kind of see it so it's not that dramatic of a reveal I haven't top dressed it yet it's so stupid I love these Cactus so much there's not much to them they're just stinking cute I haven't grown the tiro Teo geometricus in a long long time so I'm not going to try and talk about the care because I need to do some refreshing in my mind and the only reason I bring up is cu I do think I probably should have planted it a little bit deeper but we're not done yet because I haven't top dressed it yet don't give me grief over it okay I wanted something colorful that would make me happy and it's going to make me happy also it's all I had sitting around and it's going to do just fine right this will work I do think that just a plain neutral Stone would look wonderful but I'm not really a plain neutral kind of person so I don't have any plain neutral Stone right this oh okay I mean come on it this doesn't need to look classy it's a WP pipe and it looks freaking awesome I do think that one of Moon Cactus you know just the ones grafted on top of some dragon fruit stock a red one some of you suggested that too I think Michael you would suggested that would have looked great in here cuz it kind of looks like the piranha plants that come out of these but I just I wanted the balls look at the balls they're just so stinking cute they're so stinking cute and really I think easier to take care of than the moon kicks I mean Moon Cactus are fairly simple but you end up having the stock on the bottom that wants different care from the actual Moon Cactus on top those gymnasiums don't necessarily want as much water and if they are being grabbed onto the epip phylums which they usually are those want more humidity they end up growing much more quickly too so you end up needing to do things differently you end up having to prune them and it just becomes stupid over time I do have some other interesting pots coming in the mail that I will Pro probably do something like a moon cactus in but for this nope I think this is perfect I want to put googly eyes on it I'm not going to cuz I feel like y'all would get mad at me if I did I met a couple googly eyes right there that'd be sticking cute okay that's going to do it for now pick up later do something else probably just get some seeds going something like that I don't know there's a lot going on right now okay time for a very quick update on the countertop hydroponic Gardens not a lot to say other than um no like what the crap this is the poppy you may as well just grow these under a potato that's a pathetic grow white nothing's happening there nothing good anyway is happening with that one I have had some bad seed germination which I mentioned I'm pretty sure so what I've done is I've gone through and reeded one side with peppermint the other side was spearmint and then some of the other holes that were more towards the back was some Emerald Towers basil it's a basil that gets the tall and narrow seems more fitting for something where the space is so incredibly crammed it' been about 3 weeks in 3 weeks should be seeing germination on More Than This and like I said some of those seeds I put in here were really old the uh peppers and tomatoes weren't that old so I've had good germination with all of those well most of them not all of them accidentally it looks like I got a tomato in over here I'm not sure how that happened so I was being really careful but I guess not careful enough that it's a weird Pepper with a split leaf but I don't I doubt that's the case right other things that are happening in here um not much just some of them have a little bit of mold in them little tiny amaranthus coming up there but yeah going to have to wait give it more time the one advantage to the poppy is that I can lower this grow light down really close if need be but that doesn't seem to be making a difference with it having it with it having with having it down the well that's why I meant to say yeah that just is not working not working well for me but it is at least an improvement over a few weeks ago cuz a few weeks when I set this up I couldn't get the dang thing to turn on but eventually I found a power brick that was working with it and not burning out after 24 hours like the others were so yeah this is the update we're at the two we Mark some stuff going on not much it's more like actually no 3 weeks this is the 3 we Mark so that that does make a difference everything in here should have sprouted by now I did mention that this bathroom is pretty cold but not as cold as the guest room over here where the arrow Garden is I want to put the arrow Garden in the colder room to help you know maybe balance out that variable it' be better to have them all together but there's there's nowhere to put the arrow Garden in here it wouldn't have happened we go had to turn the light on in there look at the arrow Garden so this is 4 weeks of growth I'm going to say we got a pretty clear winner here but I'm going to going to go ahead and let this run through and give it a full probably 2 or 3 months with everything to see what happens and how they're doing when I've been doing the fertilizing and everything every couple of weeks this has only had one fertilizing now because well it took him two weeks to get going and then I gave him another week to set some Roots down and everything and then I did the liquid fertilizer that came with it so yeah I need make sure there's been some of that routine look at these tomatoes look they're already already covered in tricomes like absolutely covered that's a really good sign of Health on these plants and buds that should been the first thing I point out is they're already covered in Buds and these are I don't even know how tall are these maybe 4 in if even yeah probably 4 in they go down a little bit further none of these were pinched they're just nice and stiff uh one thing though I should mention there's not enough room in here everything I put in here are like super dwarf varieties that are meant to be grown on countertops but it's just it's still not enough room which I assume is why a lot of people do things like um not basil lettuce in these it has that more upright growth to it you can squeeze a lot more in there I could rearrange you know these are in pod so I could pick them up and move the tomatoes to the outside so they're not shading the pepper so much but I think I just want to leave it let it be and just see what happens but I'm pretty sure it's going to have a clear winner here that's going to be the tomatoes and the peppers inside of the arrow Garden yeah look at how nice and healthy Lush and stiff the growth is on these this is without a pinch they're just nice and healthy and that's because high quality or at least decent quality I'm going to say high quality look at that growth that's high quality on that G white for $44.99 that was the price on this it was on sale so think it was like 50 or 70 something like that but still this is clearly the winner but like I said I'll I'll keep going I'm going to see what happens P this is if I were to pick one up this is one I'd want to grow best deal best light not a lot of space I wish it were bigger that that would be nice if there was an option for maybe for different trays you could put in them that were all the same but with different configurations with the holes there are I actually don't know if the arrow Guardian came with them but there are little caps you can put on these so if you decide that you don't want to use all of those holes then you can cap them off so that's an option but it would just be nice if it were big because I don't want to just grow two plants in these nobody does I think that I'm getting ahead of myself though I need to give us some more time I do think this light is strong enough that at least some of the peppers will be able to come through but look at how shaded some of them are back here right there's one in the very back that's not doing anything but it was a late starter that pepper seed back there just started growing like a week ago whereas all these other started about a month ago so yeah all right there's the update oh there we go it's the next morning and there's some you can't see it I don't think I think you can see it there's some steam that was the idea here was I just wanted to get that stuff melted so I can get I have little micro pumps I can put in here and try and pump this out what I think I might do it's probably not a great idea I know this is knocked over it just keeps blowing over so like you just hang out there it's the best way to protect it and it's still out here cuz occasionally I've been setting it up and putting it in there because sometimes the Sun comes out and gets warm in there this the little pumps I can pump it out or I might just take a couple tarps and toss it over this entire thing because that little heater ice melter thing that goes in ponds to keep a hole open for oxygen for fish it's it's working really well I should grab a themometer probably and see what that no that's that's warm I don't think that's going to freeze if I throw a tarp over there I think it'll be okay that would be ideal cuz I just don't want this thing to crack that'd be bad I was supposed to drain this down in the fall and cover it up like I always do but instead I forgot and I'm very fortunate that it didn't crack with those single digits that we had a few weeks ago hey look at the ES bistra look at them looking pretty good right this one over here also looking pretty good that's after having what 12 13 inches of snow on top of them you know the snow insulates so makes sense these actually are some of the best looking esped dises I've had in mid-February usually they die back to the ground once you have a very mild winter and despite all the snow I would still call this a pretty mild winter because we haven't dropped below zero yet it's been pretty decent outside a sloppy camera work with the snow coming I thought about maybe bundling up the needle Palms again but I don't think I'm going to they can handle some snow cold temperature supposed to be like 11 they'll be fine spurge silver Edge the right on that one that is held up very well also considering how cold it's been don't think anything else other than the Roo are up the saxifraga kind of but for being a Zone 4 is that what this ISS Zone 3A I expecting it to St looking a little bit nicer than this but that's not bad nice thing about is it should bounce up back and look very nice pretty quickly Roo looks the best that's a champ talk about a really sturdy hearty Evergreen that doesn't look like a boxwood or a pine tree or a holly something fun and unusual okay there's the uh un promptu impromptu update nobody asked for I'm going go back to the grow space it's cold just thought you know it's supposed to be having all the snow and everything coming through should give those updates with what's going on oh I need to move this inside I think that should go in oh oh wow this might be some of the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen turbo approves I know I keep saying we're going to go into the grow space but then the snow started happening yall know I get so excited about this I didn't know he was going to be doing that I'm sorry anyways yeah yay yay snow as I was saying look it look how big these flakes are remember these moments all the people who comment why don't you just move to Florida I love the snow I know there are places I could live where all the plants would grow outside year round but this way I get to have my cake and to I'm trying to catch one I can't catch it oh they just crumble they crumble as soon as they hit that's too bad I want to see what one of these guys look like they're freaking huge oh while have everybody out here think about making some changes over here underneath the Taylor junipers these roses right here which are very pretty um they get a lot bigger than I thought so I wanted more of a drift kind of situation here so I'm probably going to swap these out with Drift Roses I can't decide between the apricot peach or the I think it's called pretty pink it's a kind of a light blush pink there's one that's a really vibrant pink but I think that would fight with the more muted tone of the Taylor Juniper so if anybody has any input I appreciate cuz I just can't make up my mind it's going be one of those twoo or maybe the reminiscent pink roses from Proven Winners but those go like 2 and a half to three F tall and I really want something with more of a mound so do like three of those and might come in here with some box Woods some Sprinter box Woods cuz I just I need a hedge I miss having Hedges okay yeah that's enough now we will really go into the grow space I promise maybe is this so pretty I don't want to go inside neither does he he's having the time of his life you having so much fun turbo yeah I know you love the snow this perfect Labrador weather I keep picking up like different projects keep actually picking things up thinking oh I should do this but then I'm missing something I have a whole bunch of seeds it's mostly chives and radish I'd like to get planted but I'd like to put them in kind of a like a cute container and I don't have any right now oh another flower opened up on the brass saola is that pretty beautiful flowers these are things that need to be repotted or somehow need some kind of work that's why they're sitting here I swear I wasn't going to keep plants on this thing and here we are there's plants on the thing dbak is looking better it's been a day U actually when I was outside this morning or the last clip when I was outside that was the next day things have been kind of wonky around here I was thinking need to do some pruning on this stand back and have a nice end that was my face basking the glory of how beautiful it is and uh you know cut it up need to cut it up because it's actually it's shading a bunch of stuff that's over here I noticed how thly the growth was getting on this hibiscus here and it's not blooming quite as much as it has been I think that that's because this is blocking out a good amount of the light so need to make some Cuts going to leave the newest growth and then just come in and this is oh these are so big there we go get that off of there wish I knew what to do with this now should I go ahead and leave that one I don't want to overdo it cuz they seem so happy I'm going to let it open up another leaf for from here and then I'll prune that one off maybe I should just try and I could tie these together maybe if I can find some twine would that help a little not much actually getting that one leaf out that seemed to help quite a bit as far as the plants go everything's looking pretty good I do have some pretty thirsty guys over here and oh oh look I have to show you this remember the heart Fern probably if you've been watching the video from the beginning there was a heart Fern in the beginning look at it look at it what the heck it's only been 24 hours I gave it a light watering clearly not enough remember I told yall I have to keep these things with a dome or something over them or else they just die so I put this whatever this thing is on top of it and I've been letting it soak up some water I could actually probably pull it out from that water now and just set that some place where it can rehydrate that thing didn't last very long I dumped the water out of there and put the bowl back on top of it yeah they just they don't like me never done great with those unless they're inside of something in clothes I was not joking about that only took a day that thing's fully dried up iguana food oh it's so colorful looks appetizing I I think this is where I'm going to go ahead and wrap things up I said there are some other things that I could do right now but everything I can think of I'm like missing something to get it done oh but I did hear back from Herz like within I think 20 minutes of emailing them and they said oops about forgetting the Bonas and they're sending them out so not a big deal they're they're shipping them back out I I don't know if I want to talk about it oh look how good my skin looks with a greasy lens that's not reality oh now my skin just looks greasy that didn't work out I just wanted to end things and give a quick update something that I've been talking about that's been going on for a while and that's in regards to Toby my dog Toby we'll talk about it some more another time but uh he's gone now and that's why things have been a little bit weird in the video had to help him along the other day he just couldn't walk anymore did everything we could for he's 14 and 1/2 years old so you know what what can you do went to a lot of different vets and you know it's just he had some muscle wasting and you couldn't walk then there's not much you can do for him I had this special harness was carrying around on for several days but it got to a point where he was just not able to support his own weight the night before we took him in he was doing that thing like you see marathon runners do where he'd make it to his water bowl and be wobbling and just fall down that's no way to live so uh Toby's not around anymore there will be a better dedication to him than this I just thought since I had mentioned it prior that I would let everybody know know what's going on and why things were maybe a little bit off in this video a little bit scatterbrained because it's just awkward pretending everything's okay when everything's not okay yeah I can't talk about it any more than that because I'll absolutely just lose it and I don't want to lose it I try and keep this place nice and happy want this to be a positive environment and yeah that's enough of that we can go back look at some plants I did want to mention I didn't talk much about the te Cactus and I just thought I should say when I was watering that in that was just an initial watering to settle the soil during the winter months these really shouldn't be watered very much they like things very warm and to be more on the dry side because you know it is a desert type Cactus right so I was giving a lot of water but that was to help settle the soil and I kept it on the desk where the heaters been blunt that helps dry things out some on that note hope everybody's doing well having a great day a great life and everything just going wonderfully for you comment down below say hi I do love talking to everybody and what's going on in your garden with your house plants not many of you out there gardening right now are you soon hopefully soon it's supposed to be pretty cold for the next week or two that snow it was like this much barely got any snow but it was beautiful there's spring stuff all over the store I ran to the grocery store today and they had like all kinds of spring Decor out I'm so excited we're almost there all right as always and most importantly everybody keep on growing bye bye [Music] oh [Music]