Foil For Growing Plants

hey guys so in yesterday's video you may remember that I talked about South America and rostra and these draw sure I need things to be a little bit cooler and they grow a little bit different to our other draw strong so that means we have to get the tinfoil out [Applause] [Music] welcome back to the channel today guys and in today's video like I said we will be talking about South America and rostra and how to look after them and a little trick that I use with be tinfoil and this does actually help I've used it before on drost religion and other plants that like to have that plus kept a little bit cool and I've spent in a little bit why tinfoil actually helps with that South American drosera at rostra native to Mexico and Brazil basically the whole of South America what they all share in common is that they like to be kept cooler than the normal trust row you can kind of say that there are similar and growing to highland Nepenthes which means that they like to have very cool environments high humidity but what is different to Holland pennies is a lot and a lot of lat so the trick that I've learned over growing my fans and one that I've used fairly recently the past two or three years is using tinfoil to keep the roots cool so what you do is you want to take this tin foil and you want to wrap it around the pot and this actually keeps the sun rays off of the pots and keeps the particula and this helps keep the plants growing even if the environment is a little bit too warm and allows them to grow outside with all your other draw so you don't have to build an entire separate greenhouse for them okay we've got our pot we've got some tin foil some tape and some scissors here so that we can measure out some foil for these pots so what I want to do with the foil is that I want to measure out six sleeves so we have four South American rostra titania and Roscoe reach our Donatelli and rita both like to have cool roots and obviously the south american brass rod I have to just stay cool in general so what we need to do we need to form six sleeves so we can just simply start it on top of each of the pots and one thing that you could do that you could put it on this they put on the foil sticker on rollover and then see how much she used but I will use a measure tape measure so it can just be a little bit more accurate and I want to use the widest diameter of the pot so obviously the top because that's what it's going to fold and sit on and that sits at 32 centimeters which is always be quiet a bit of tempo so I'm going to measure this out cut it off cut it in half so you can make 2 per and hopefully I don't use all of the tin foil [Music] [Music] [Music] so you just wanna set your pot at the top take your foil it's very difficult for you maybe just difficult for me and just stick the foil on to the top so now you can you have an anchor point that you can actually wrap the foil around and yeah I realize that forgot to measure length ways we can actually fit three pots in one stroke so these two strips will actually fit at three pots so that was my mistake but you all will fix it for the next one wrap it around just like this and leave with a little pad at the top because that can fold over but just make sure that you have it tap you don't want to slip off of the time show you pull it nice and size all your arms always double check it's just to make messes all and then just take this top bit down here the end of it onto the body of the tin foil and then just fold over the top just like that there we go that's is how you do the foil he is gonna gently press the foil altogether and just raise up the colander and there you go now we have one sheet that we can put onto another plant but obviously so we take this cover onto this pot so now we just need to unstick it and slide it off [Music] there you go spit it off another pot should just be able to come right over the mole and there we go this is our starting bit of oil and that's fine now we can just stand this on to one of our pots little get one I can shave that so yeah we have to dress right tomentosa can you see if I can show you the seeds come on the tangle plants tiny anyway got your box and just start it in obviously press the foil nicely around the font so it has a good grip and then simply just stagger tag back in and there we go we have our first farms with its foil on so I'm just going to do this and I hope that I can do it a little bit inna because obviously the first time doing something in a long time looks open messy and you can think of better ways to do it so let's do some off [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] was a little bit easier but so cutter could do especially because there's so much extra length the bottom which obviously that was my mistake in the first place I'm starting it around the pasta didn't cut up cause difficult so just use the pasta to prop it up and then slide it up and around but the next one that we make it will be obviously easier because we know this a-rod's lens now and I'll beat the bottom 2/3 so whatever has much extra space so let's start doing that too [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so I just finished up the foil sleeve for the transfer area over here and then I just started worrying a little bit if aluminium foil leeches into water and obviously that makes me a little concerned that it does it doesn't but anyway for now it's not very necessary to have a spoil for the regr so I'll use arisia are just like this and I'll keep the foil in the cupboard because very soon then I have to move the region into its own pot anyway because it has to get fed Osmocote pellets and these pellets will leach nutrients which will kill all the other seedlings so this will be used very soon anyway but as I said I'm just worried about the aluminium leaching into the soil and I'm not sure that's I mean into the water and I must thought that will of the plants so I'm gonna keep the foil on for the South American crop because I'm a little bit more worried about them than anyone else but I want to keep them in their own water trays like this I'm a snowball up the bottom of the kindest yet I'm served all up the bottom layers of foil here so that the water is not directly in the foil and then I'll just monitor them like this yeah I'm confused because I'm not sure if it does get you into water or not and I can't really found anything on Google so what what do you guys think do you guys use this before how does it work for you I've used it before but I remembered that I had a VGA I don't like sitting my region in water top water every day and that's that's a reason why I never had to worry about the aluminium sitting in water I also had it around a cephalo to some darlingtonia but they were all top water and obviously the top water despoil is not staying in water and worried about its leaching into the water so let me know what you guys think um and then I'll take it from there but anyway we have our four open up okay I'll just put them out sorry for the bad quality I had to bring our third tray and pack them in there one two three four and those are HR and I took some of the putts here and I put them around just to make sure that any Sun coming from the sides wouldn't hit the side of this pot and yeah everything was moved up still using the bin because I want to get us I want to get a steak someone recommended that I get a steak down the middle put the roll over it's a really good idea but our friends over here I was gonna be redundant can't see it on film but anyway there will be lots of metal stakes that I'll be able to use when they finish off with that so now we have this empty tray here or the trickle area about half of them sprout so this tray is looking about empty as well and there's a couple more pawns in there that I want to move tomorrow then the Sun is back up put them outside and the full Sun as well yeah and these are all the seeds of the tuber straw stress so they're all Sonia terminate so yeah now we have three trays out in the Sun yeah hope you guys enjoyed this little bit more information on south america drosera and keeping their roots cold so yeah thank you guys see you next time you [Music]