Greenhouse Reset: Repotting, Chopping, Extending & Cleaning

Welcome to the best time of the year. Growing season is just about to get started. I have an empty greenhouse that needs attention and in today's video we're going to take all of these plants out, we're going to repot them, extend them, chop them up, whatever they might need. And then we're also going through my house and we're taking plants that have overwintered indoors back outside to hopefully have a beautiful clean and lush greenhouse by the end of this video. This is by far my favorite part of the year. This is the most exciting thing for me to do. I live for this moment and I'm so excited that it's finally here. Let's go! Hello everybody and welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is now the third time going into spring and having a greenhouse. So by now I kind of know what I'm doing, more or less. I suppose it's still always an ongoing learning curve but I have a bit of a strategy. So all of the plants that you see in here are plants that have overwintered in the greenhouse, so they're obviously not looking their very best. So it's time to get on top of them, you know, clean them up a little bit, give them a repot and set them up to thrive over the next six months, eight months or so. And of course it is looking quite empty. Majority of the plants in the greenhouse actually moved inside into various rooms indoors, most of them upstairs in my rescue section. They've overwintered over there but they're not loving it, especially upstairs in my rescue section. The hot air rises so it's really dry and hot up there but not like tropical hot, you know, like winter artificial heating hot. And I've had lots of pest issues up there as well. So it is time to bring them back down because I think if I really want those plants to thrive and recover from winter they will have the best chances in my greenhouse. Last night it was 12 degrees but looking at the forecast it seems to be going up from here, certainly no more single digits. So I'm feeling confident bringing some of my indoor plants back outside so they can get used to the conditions that they're going to grow in over the next eight months before it gets too hot and the sun gets too strong and so on. Basically a bit of resilience building but also the indoors is a bit messy. I don't like it that messy. I actually want to declutter my house a little bit and have more quality instead of quantity of plants indoors. So kind of two birds, one stone. I get a bit of my house back and my plants are probably going to have a better time out here anyway. Now back to the greenhouse actually. I haven't done much with the greenhouse over the last three months or four almost five months to be honest. Kind of from May onwards the temperatures aren't really warm enough for me to have misting. So I haven't been misting in the greenhouse. Actually last week it was kind of warm. I did a little bit of misting in there but I don't have a schedule set up for the misting just yet. The whole idea of the misting is to cool it down but in winter it's actually too cold in there. I do not heat my greenhouse. The whole idea is for me to set up a garden and greenhouse that works with the natural conditions that Sydney has to offer rather than trying to heat the outside world. So it is kind of a bit of survival of the fittest but you know over the years I'm getting better and better and I end up with more and more plants on the back of a winter. So I am kind of narrowing down which plants can actually thrive in my garden year round. But when I put more plants in here I obviously have to start being a little bit more diligent and monitor the humidity levels and the temperatures because the sun can be really really strong especially when it hits it in the afternoon through the glass. So I need to monitor those two and then start setting up a misting schedule. But that misting schedule is gradually going to increase as we're approaching summer. Now with high humidity there is the need for a fan and airflow which I've got in the corner over here and that fan stayed on throughout winter as well. Which leads me to today's sponsor Jackery. Jackery is the global leading brand in portable power stations and solar generators with over 13 years of experience in the game and over 5 million units sold. I have been using the Jackery Explorer 2000 plus over the last three months and it's been an essential part of my greenhouse. Whether there's misting or not the greenhouse is always a high humidity environment and especially in combination with cold temperatures that can cause fungal issues. 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Now obviously this all sounds good in theory but how do I charge the power station in the first place if I don't have power out here? Two options. Most of the time I take an extension cord from inside and I plug it into my power station and within an hour or so it is fully charged and I only have to do this approximately every five days depending on how frequently I schedule the fan. And the second option is solar charging. The Solar Saga has a 100 watt output and on a sunny day I can just quickly take it out flip up the stand and plug it into my portable power station. Now of course the solar solution requires sun. Unfortunately I don't get all too much direct sun in my garden this time of the year but as we're approaching summer there'll be more and more afternoon sun hitting the greenhouse and then the solar panel is going to be a great way of continuously topping up my portable power station. Originally it's really designed to take you off grid. You can use it on a road trip, when you go camping, even if you just have a picnic at the beach. And of course I can use my portable power station for many other useful things out here like powering my gurney, keeping batteries for my garden tools charged, charging a speaker for entertainment, or probably my favorite use of them all, continuously charging my old iPhone that I often set up to shoot time lapses that can last over many weeks when new leaves are unfurling. Alrighty we need to get going so I'll make use of the convenient handle and wheels to wheel this out of sight. But if you want to find out more about Jackery and the Explore 2000 plus please check out the link in the description down below and they're running some great discounts on their website at the moment. Thank you again Jackery for sponsoring this video and for sponsoring airflow in my greenhouse. But now it's time to look at the plants that will benefit from all that beautiful airflow and by the end of the video my Jackery will be fully charged. Alrighty guys got a nice tub of airword mix over here that I just need to stir around a bit. Maybe I'll get a tool. I've got pots, I've got moss in case we need to do some extensions, I've got a bunch of grow verticals that I pre-made last night, and I've got a coffee most importantly. Oh let's sit down. I think baby is out of frame but he's sitting there so we need to keep an eye on him because I still have an open fence. We do need to take all of the plants out whether we repot them or not that we'll find out. Obviously only going to repot something if it needs it. All right today's airword mix is a lot of coicopeat and tree fern fiber in there. Obviously a lot of perlite. I love perlite. Now I do want the mix in here to retain moisture quite well. Do you want a cushion? You want a cushion for your chair? Now I want it to retain plenty of moisture because the greenhouse is going to be a really hot environment but at the same time with frequent misting and me just going around hosing everything to water, I also want it to drain really well. That's where the perlite comes in. Of course there's still my normal chunky components like bark and cocoa chips just to put a few air pockets in that mix as well because the airword roots are really going to love these air pockets. Hey darling. Syngonium albo, we call it fantasy over here, podophyllum albo, albo, it's a letter, albovigada. Now it's done quite well in outside actually despite the cold temperatures and I'm just really excited to see this thrive now. There's plenty of cuttings in there and the idea is that it's a really lush horizontal display. But nothing to do over here. What I'll do, I'll just park it outside and what we're going to do is we're going to hose all of them down as well because they were in the greenhouse and yes the greenhouse is not fully insulated so it gets rained on a little bit but these leaves wouldn't have really gotten cleaned I suppose. I mean they don't get dirty dirty in the greenhouse either but I think clean leaves are healthy leaves and actually I could do that in the greenhouse. Anyway, I parked them all on the side so that we've got an empty greenhouse for cleaning. Hey baby. Monstera siltipicana also survived winter out there like nothing happened. Nothing here to do. I could take these sort of vines and put them back in the pot but I think the pot is lush enough. I want this to eventually start trailing down. I think it could be such a cool trailing display. And this silver bent moranta I actually only recently put in here like last week. So I have had really good success with morantas in my greenhouse. I definitely want to add a few more into the greenhouse this summer. Alocasia cuprea. I think we would be in a position to give this a repot. I don't think I've repotted this in three or four years and she's doing well right but I think there's just only so much potential for her to continuously thrive. I think she deserves a repot. This one has been repotted recently. Monstera peru. It's just not loving life over winter but I'm surprised it actually survived. That's a positive and now I'm just waiting for it to regrow by itself. Yeah go in the greenhouse. You can play in the greenhouse. I will use a dirty old pot. Now when I repot plants outdoors in my greenhouse I always try and keep as much of the existing mix as possible. What I also want to do over here is I want to get these nodes closer into the pot. So I'm going to pot it up quite deep so that hopefully they will keep growing more roots. Now I often also reuse substrate that I got from plants inside when I did a repot out here but not really for the plants in my greenhouse. That's really for big plants like I think you can see the corner of my thermometer film over here. They will need like a 50 centimeter pot. It will take so much volume. It will take like a whole bucket of this and I'd rather take this bucket of aeroid mix and pot up 20 nice plants with it. The thermometer film doesn't need it so all of my recycled aeroid mix from indoors and so on goes into plants like that or big palm like huge containers right. Now I often get asked hey couldn't it be possible that there's root rot in that mix? Do you still use it? Yes. It's also just organic. Yes. I suppose in theory it could spread but I've even had root rot in the same pot as having thriving roots. I left it. Nothing happened. It's a risk I'm willing to take I suppose but if it's a really really bad mix and I feel like it's infested with something and so on then I might just discard it but I would say 99% of times I would just reuse my mix and give it to a larger plant that doesn't seem to care too much. Recently I got my Discordia scala out of dormancy and I took out all the potatoes and hang on nah false alarm and this was kind of the leftover mix. Now I usually miss a few of those little potatoes when I separate them out and then like last year I had one coming out of my thermometer film for example because exactly what I was just explaining that leftover mix I just didn't use for plant like that. Turns out I forgot a little corn or forgot a little potato in there or rhizome or whatever it might be. Honestly I think my brain will never remember that. So this year I just thought you know what why don't I just take all of that leftover substrate put it back in the pot put it in my greenhouse and see if anything sprouts from here. So yeah could be that this is going to just be in pot of dirt for forever but we'll find out. Thrilling. Thrilling. This is my maiden hair fern and I cut it back completely because I dehydrated it severely last year. That was my doing. It actually usually likes winter. It likes the cold temperatures but it hasn't come back to life. So yeah I think I'll just park that right next to the Discordia scala and see if it wants to come back. I don't know why the camera's set up so low. I'm like hovering over here and this one was a stingray that I only bought at the beginning of spring. Didn't even get the chance to repot it from its spawning spot but it disappeared. So let's have a look into this mix and see if there's any combs I could rescue. Oh hello. Hey I gave you your own chair over there. I'll just squeeze in. You happy with that? So nice to be back outside isn't it? Yes I know I can't believe we still don't have a fence. Oh yeah the rhizome is completely gone. I found it but it was completely rotten and no combs or at least no surviving combs. Maybe the combs also rotted away. Well that is unfortunate. To be honest when I went to Bunnings and I saw it I only bought it because when I was in Brisbane they had a beautiful specimen in their greenhouse over there and then my delusional brain was like yeah I'm just going to put one in my greenhouse and it's also going to have an amazing time. Completely forgetting that it was like June, middle of winter. I don't really know why I put it in the greenhouse. Like I just my brain was not involved in that decision making process I think. So yeah look that was definitely my doing. Is what it is huh? Yeah hello. Hey what are you doing? Are you a little monkey? Yeah I know this cushion is too big for the chair. I took the wrong one. All right next one. Look at my Spiderman jewel orchid. So cute. Flower spikes coming in. This has never been repotted in its life in three years or so. It's always been in the greenhouse its whole life and I think it could do with a smaller pot to be honest because like 80% of the pot is just empty I feel like. But I don't want to disturb it while it's so happy so I'll just do nothing with it. And over here is a begonia that needs a little bit of water. In my last video I significantly chopped it back. I'm just really after these new re-shoots. The problem with this begonia is when it gets large it has really really long petioles going everywhere and it just kind of takes up too much space. So I figured why not chop it back. Just wait for all these re-shoots. How cute are these hairy little leaves over here. I want it to be a small display just a pop of color not aiming for size over here. So despite the fact that this has also never been repotted in three years I do have some worm casting granulates on top so there was nutrient provision. I don't really feel like I need to repot this. You're way too cute to be in the corner of death my darling. Come on. No. Good boy. You can be here. Be under the table. Be in the greenhouse. Do something. I've been contemplating giving this a bit of a chop but it is actually growing so nicely over here again. New shoot over here in my hand. Obviously growing from the top over here. New shoot coming out of the pot over here and this is like an old vine over here but I'm feeling like it's okay. If I chop this old vine off I'm basically getting rid of this new growth point over here which I would rather like to keep because it's also nice and convenient from within the pot. I chopped off all of the ugly leaves already. There's new pitches coming in here now. This time of the year this plant throws out pitcher after pitcher so I don't want to do anything about it now or like repot it or anything like that. I think the best I can do is just kind of keep this one a little bit tighter to the display. So I just cable tie that to here. It's really just more about creating a compact display because this plant is going to grow so well. This plant is going to grow so much so quickly. I just don't want it to go everywhere. But this one also fell in my recent video but I think the problem over here sometime last year I thought it would be a good idea to use this mesh pot. It dries off way too quickly. So I'm going to just give this a different pot. Don't worry last year I cut it back completely because it had aphids. This year no aphids. This year just severe dehydration. But I feel like it could come back from this. It's syngonium erythrophyllum. Okay the roots don't look all too healthy to be honest. Let's have a look at this. Yeah the roots are not that healthy. I suppose if you let something dry out too much and then rehydrate it that's often the case. Cold temperatures in the greenhouse would certainly not help. But I think I'm just going to pot this up as it is like this and just hope for the best. Yeah sounds good. Again quite clearly not a plant I like am all too attached to. Otherwise I would have done something about this a little bit earlier. It's not the first time I noticed that it's dehydrating too quickly. Guys don't hate me. They were all severely dehydrated. Damaged. Weren't looking good. They'll never recover. You can see all of the stems over here now. I just rather have this reshot from the pot so I've got nice lush growth that is compact rather than like new leaves coming out down here. If it even wants to come back I suppose we'll find out. Already here I've got to lipstick plant. Actually this was outdoors over summer. I'm not too sure why I put it back in the greenhouse to be honest. I don't think it needs it. I actually think this would be a great pop of color on my fence because my fences are going to be quite empty. Pop it here. You can't see it but I'll show you later. That's actually quite nice there. I like it. Obviously nothing to do. Not that I've ever repotted that plant in three years. Yes you go take over the chairman darling. All right here we've got a Ripsalis Pacheco with lots of other names. Leon vs Catanula. I don't really like these ferns hitchhiking up here. Pull them out. New growth. That's positive. Absolutely nothing to do. I like the Ripsalis hanging because it gives me kind of like this tropical vibe without them taking too much light away. So I'll also have nothing to do here. This is another carnivorous plant. This carnivorous plant has never grown a single pitcher for me. There was one on there. I think I recently had to chop it off. That one pitcher that it had that's the one that it came with but it is growing plenty of leaves here and it's activating a new shoot here and somewhere else maybe. I don't know. Look I don't mind it. It's looking kind of I don't mind it but I haven't really figured out what makes it grow pitches. I don't have issues with the other one. The other one grows pitches well for me but I suppose not all Nepenthes enjoy the same conditions. I think some like it colder, some like it warmer, some flower in winter, some flower in spring but I've had this for at least a year and a half now. So we've gone through all of the seasons and I didn't like any of the seasons. But at least it's tolerant to my conditions in the greenhouse year round so it will always add greenery. That's a positive. All right we're getting there. This is another Ripsalis I believe. Was that the one? Yes that recently had lots of flowers that looked so beautiful but we finished flowering. That also has this fern hitchhiking at the top which initially I thought was quite cute but now I'm just getting a bit sick of it. It's looking a bit too messy for my liking. Oh there's some flowers left. A little bit dried out but it looked like this. Almost like the little snow bells? Snowflakes? Snow? You know what I mean. These spring bulbs. So I don't mind the fern overall and the fern is gonna re-sprout so quickly. I just need to trim this off a bit. This is getting out of control and I don't think it looks very nice anymore. I think this looks a bit better now. I definitely chopped a few of the Ripsalis off as well. Okay nice and tropical. And here's a little Adansonii. I just wanted to turn this into a lush pile. So before winter I'd between all of the nodes and there are new shoots and new leaves but yeah it definitely needs the growing season to look a little more impressive. But thanks for surviving. That's already a good start. I can't say the same about the Chevronii but good thing is I have a large Chevronii in my living room and that actually lived outdoors last year and I took it in for winter so I suppose it was a good idea to take the whole plant in for winter and only leave the bottom part out here. But yeah there's a whole video on that Chevronii coming soonish I hope. Nobody can see you. That's better huh? All righty. While we're thanking plants for nothing thank you Philadelphia for doing nothing over the last three years. This is actually a separate shoot this leaf over here. I need to chop this off. The top didn't look all too good. I'm hoping that this reshoots from the base but it's never done anything for me like ever since I've had it. It's never really looked good. So I think this year I'm gonna try and give it maybe a little bit more light to see if that changes anything because if nothing changes nothing changes huh? So smart my baby. Monstera indonesian marble. I've done a whole plant spotlight on this plant recently. Now only one thing that I want to do over here is see this is coming off the pole. I want to get this back onto the pole. Yeah and in that plant spotlight that I did I basically explained to you that you know this plant has done nothing for me or very little for me in the last two years of growing it. So I'm now going with an ignoring approach. I mean in that plant spotlight I was talking about how annoyed I am at this plant so I'm not going to put any effort into this plant whatsoever. Monstera saponata. Also second winter out there. Obviously didn't do amazing but it did amazing over spring. So I'm excited about it not having died and hopefully it can grow really really well over the upcoming growing season. And I think it's looking good. Not too much damage. Actually the thing that annoys me the most is the inconsistent leaf display but that's because of the way that the light hits the greenhouse and there's only so much I can do about this but I like it. I think in summer I'll get more light coming from the front again and then these leaves should fast forward a little bit more. Could also be a good candidate for my wall of aeroids but I'm still waiting for the fence to be completed before I start putting more plants on there. And over here is my Monstera deliciosa variegata. Also overwintered. Plenty of room on the pole. Pots looking healthy and not root bound at all. So again nothing to do over here. Park that on the side. Some cacti. I'll pop them back outside. I just put them in the greenhouse because I can control water better in there. But over summer they obviously prefer the higher light out here. Could probably repot this just for stability purposes one day but we'll find out. And this is the agave I got from my visit at Cactus Country. Oh little baby. Ah one more. How did I not see that? Corsinianum. Not looking its best but I think I might be able... Should I give it a new pot? This pot is literally held together with cling wrap. But it looks healthy. I think probably just do nothing. I'll just let it regrow again or grow and then once I see like one or two leaves in a row then maybe I'll consider chopping off the bottom part so it doesn't look so ugly. But I don't want to introduce more shock right now. Plenty of room. Everything feels firm. So yeah I think sometimes less is more. Alrighty now the greenhouse is truly empty. We do need to clean it up but let's stick with the plants for now. Let's go and get some plants from upstairs and see what they need. Alrighty first plant. Actually didn't come from the attic upstairs that came from the living room. A medium medium silver. This has actually always lived in the greenhouse up until last winter. And I somewhat regret this decision because I put it too close to the grow light. You can really see this white yellow discolorations where it got burned on this side of the plant. Not so much on this side but at least it survived. It didn't even drop a leaf but the year before it actually survived in the greenhouse and also didn't really drop a leaf. So I feel like I overdid it over here. I could have just done nothing and I think I would have had better results. Whatever. On a positive note this leaf is now pushing out here. This shoot over here is pushing out a new leaf and there's another shoot over here and a fourth one stuck down there. There this white thing. So plenty of new leaves coming. Actually there is technically a fifth shoot down there somewhere as well. So plenty of new growth happening which means we need to extend this pole. The pot is looking healthy. Very healthy roots in here actually but not root bound to the extent that I feel like I would need to repot it. I think I'll just pop an extension on this and we're good to go. Do I need this table? Do I need this chair? To be honest I was expecting to do way more repotting actually. Now usually with my plants in here I like to give them aerod mix because I'm having an easier time re-moistening it. Dry moss gets hydrophobic so when you hose it down the water just kind of pearls off and I suppose hosing things down is the convenient way of watering everything here and that's how I want to do it. I don't want to slowly re-moisten something with water bottle upside down and so on. No. But I could see how this plant one day ends up inside because I love it. So I'd rather give it moss because inside using aerod mix in the pole is an absolute nightmare because it gets so messy. So moss absorbs the water neater and thus creates less mess. So I prefer that indoors, works better with the water bottle upside down technique and so on. Given that there's four plants in here I definitely want to make this quite dense. Poke a lot of moss in here because four plants have four root systems and so on. So I need to give them enough media. I think that's the problem for some of these initial poles over here. They're almost like concave. They're caving in instead of bulging out so there's not enough media in there and obviously it's also leaning a little bit so it's not the most stable but that doesn't really matter because I'm going to hang it in the greenhouse so it doesn't need to stand. All right, I overlapped the poles by two cable ties as always. Sweet plastic, plastic, mash, mash. Plastic, plastic, mash, mash. And I don't need to give it additional stability via garden stake because again I'm just going to hang it. So it could only fall from the hook. It can't really cave in and obviously I hope it's not going to fall off the hook but I'm just saying that falling off the hook is not prevented by a garden stake. And if you're wondering why I put this pencil over here I didn't have a chopstick handy but basically with this I just started pushing this back onto the pole. It was coming off and see it was kind of coming off here a little bit. I put the pencil there or brush there and now it's more in the center again. I'll keep it in there just for a little bit longer. I'll park that on the side as well. It's looking so good though, you know. All righty, this one is a bit of a problem. Have a look at this. Pinatipatita. Also done a video on this. This is severe thrips damage. See all of the red bits? See all of this red bit? Also severely dehydrated multiple times throughout winter and aphids. So this plant has had a terrible time and not just this year. Last year as well. So I'm going to cut off any ugliness, any little stem that hasn't rooted. I'm going to pull off. I'm sorry these are so ugly. Could not stand to look at those. But I mean I'm just cutting off the leaves. They're still active growth points. But this, look at this ginormous stem that was over summer last year and then I tried to recover it over summer last year. Did not. But this teeny tiny stem coming out of this thick stem. Now that's obviously reshot. So let's keep it that way. But I would love this plant to reshoot a few more times. So I'll just chop a few more times. Honestly at this stage I feel like I have absolutely nothing to lose with this plant. It's obviously hiding me. Park it back in the greenhouse and hope for a better season this year. Philodendron rugosum. Has actually done quite okay over winter. Definitely a few yellow leaves. But has also grown new leaves. Never really been my favorite to be honest. More like a filler. But it's okay. It's actually been very low effort. So I don't mind that at all. But does it look good is the question. Probably not. Should I maybe try and grow this a little lusher? Maybe. Where did I put my scissors? Do I have the desire to chop this? Yes. Especially down here. I'm going to get rid of this ugly leaf. Okay. Did three chops. So I've got three pieces here. Hoping they will reshoot. But then I've got this big mother plant. I don't think there's a point in extending this one more time anyway. I don't think it's really going anywhere. If you know what I mean. It's kind of consistently giving me the same leaves. And the leaves aren't that great. It's supposed to have nice texture and thrips damage. This is thrips I believe. Yep. Pretty sure this is all thrips. By the way, I did get on top of the thrips. So I don't think my plants actively have thrips at the moment. I used contender spray to treat it and I haven't seen any recently. So I'm not going to treat them again. But I also just hope that the thrips hide the outside. Yeah. So that texture is nice. So I think it would be nicer to just have more leaves rather than aim for large leaves. Because I don't think they're going to get very large ever. Orange marmalade. I repotted this recently. Put it in my rescue section. And it's already sending out a new leaf. So I'm happy. I'm trying to put effort into this plant this year to grow it nice and large. Bottom part of my Milano chrysum also has severely suffered through the thrips as you can see over there. But again, I can't actually see thrips on there right now. So I think we overcame that. It's just the existing damage. So I'm not hesitant in chopping leaves off over here quite liberally because they're ugly. And I'm aiming for the plant to just reshoot. So maybe I'll chop it in a few bits. Actually, this is... I'll just let it do its own thing over here. I think the plant just needs to be left alone for a while. And the indoor ones, the big mother plant, is absolutely thriving. So it's just a double up. And double up is really the general theme of my greenhouse as well. I have a lot of double ups. When I do chop and extends and I've got the bottom part of a pole, I like to put it in the greenhouse and see if it maybe thrives in the greenhouse more than inside. Plus, that's a really inexpensive way of filling your greenhouse. Philodendron titanium, which is a very choice and serpents hybrid. Got one shoot here and then this shoot is producing a new leaf. Happy days. Now, it is technically reaching the top of the moss pile, but I have no desire to extend it. I'd rather have this... Actually, don't I? Yeah, I think it makes no sense. I think once this has grown two or three nodes or so, I'll do something about it. But I don't want to extend it for now because, I mean, it just looks ridiculous as it is. And I'm going to chop this ugly leaf off. This is the bottom part of my El Choco. Now, this has suffered severely through thrips as well. I'm going to cut off all of these ugly leaves because in the greenhouse, they're just going to stick in all directions. They look so bad. I mean, look at this. Maybe it doesn't come across on camera as badly. I'll show you them close up. They all have to go. What about you? Are you healthy? No. All right. Harsh, but it's going to work. Trust the process, my friends. Okay, so we've actually got a few shoots over here. I've got one here. I've got one here. I've got one here that's pushing out a new leaf, so that's all good. And I've got one down here. I will just have to let this plant do its own thing. And she was loving the greenhouse last year, so I'm just doing nothing over here. Might as well give it a new pot while we're here, because we haven't, we have hardly repotted anything. I made all this airworms for nothing. Might as well. Yep, definitely a few rotten roots over here. Majority of the roots will be in the pole, right? Could have even just not given this a pot at all. Here, I wanted to show you these leaves. See, they have all of these. That is thrips damage. Look at this over here, thrips damage. Look at this one. So dull, right? Look at this thrips damage at the top here. Syngonium frosted hard. A few ugly leaves. And I also gave it this extension too late. The plant was already up to here by the time I put the extension on down here, which means that none of these roots had a moss pole to attach to. That's why they're not attached. So I'm going to help it out with a cable tie. Yeah. Now I hate doing that. I hate being late to the extension because I'm not optimizing the root system, but it's a nice compact plant. So it's great for the greenhouse because it doesn't spread so much. All right. Needless to say, this Homo lumina has not had the best time over winter. So I'm thinking she's going to have a great time either in the greenhouse or even in the garden directly. We'll find out. See how much space I've got. This one is a Sissus discolor, and I would love for this to hang in my greenhouse a little bit. You can see it's just activating a bunch of shoots over there. So I'm going to see if I can hang this somehow. And a little allocator over here. Variegated Macaritzia, I think. Actually, is that a smart idea to put it out here? Yeah. Am I giving it a bigger pop though? Also, yeah. There we go. Pop this in the airwag mix. Not too many left for now. I'm sure I'll go through multiple iterations. Philodendron bilinum has been in the IKEA cabinet his whole life. Not really doing much though. It's not, I'm not too sure. It's a Bilicoysum pastesainum hybrid, and it seems to be somewhat climbing actually, but I don't really want to give it a mothball. What I want to do is I just want to chop a few of these older leaves and then pot it deeper into the pot so it can expand its root system. And hopefully then it gives me some more significant leaves. It has decent roots. Sorry, I'm too lazy to bring you closer now. What I need to do is I need to clip off these lower leaves so I can put it deeper into the pot. You know what I mean? The newest node is up here now. So all of these nodes you saw before in the substrate, and hopefully that's going to establish a nice root system. And then hopefully this plant can grow into something nice over the season. I'm going to try it in the greenhouse. And then next over here, we've got an Allocasia jacqueline that came back from a thick rhizome. I tried this actually for years and finally this year did something in just moss. So I want to just take this and pot this up. Now just moss was quite a success. So you would think I'm going to stick with that, but obviously not, because that's boring. But look at the rhizome. I'll come closer. Sorry guys, I know I'm a bit lazy today. Look at this rhizome that it shot from. And there's a second shoot over here with roots. Some roots dangling here, some here. It might even look like it's activating a few more shoots. So I'm thinking I'm going to pop this up, just an aeroid mix. And hopefully it's going to have a really good time this summer. Let's see what else I've got. Single node cutting repotted of domesticum. Working on a separate video of that. And I've got the main plant in my Ikea cabinet, but I thought, you know, if I can try it in two different environments, see if it likes the environment. And if it does like the greenhouse, then I might put the whole mother plant in the greenhouse as well. And over here, I've got some cuttings of variegated melanoi. Let me pop that up. My mother plant is not doing too well. Why not take these propagations and try them in a different environment so that I have a backup in case the mother plant does not want to survive. Wow, this moss is compacted. Why did I make it so tight? What a mess. I'll just pop this up and ignore it. And hopefully one day I'll come back into the greenhouse and it's like so beautiful with the most amazing variegated leaves. And yes, I acknowledge it looks like crap right now. Velvet alocasia, not looking its best, but it's growing, even flowering. So I think nothing to do over here. Maybe just a bit of cosmetic cleanup. This is a new addition I got from Grow Vertical. It is a Dean crossed with, I'm not too sure. It just says Dean cross, but I thought let's put it in the greenhouse. And another plant I got from Grow Vertical, it's the bi, not bipolar, bicolor, has really red backs, green fronts, and the petiole is half, half. Going to be an epic climber, but when Tim gave it to me last week, he said he literally just potted it up in there. I can see the first new root here, but I'm gonna let this reestablish before we pot it and put it on the pole. I think this is going to be stunning on the pole, but maybe give it another month. And those are all of the plants. I don't know if you guys can tell, but towards the end of all of this, I'm getting really agitated because of all of the mess. So I would love to clean up the mess and then be coming back to watering, cleaning, and arranging. Let's do that. You need to move out of the way though. Let's water these first so they can drain a little bit. Okay, take care. They're coming back on Friday for the fins. That's good news, no? Good enough. Let's clean up the greenhouse. I'm not going to go all too crazy. Just a few spider webs for now. Eventually I want to gurney the whole greenhouse, but I think specifically, I want to gurney it from the outside. I don't have that much time today though, because Tim is going to pick me up in about 30 minutes and we are heading to the growers. Oh, there's my Hoya by the way. I can't move her because she's twirling around here. So we're going to the growers to pick up plants for my first workshop that's happening this Sunday. So we're going to pick up the plants because we're going to repot some plants in that workshop. And there's actually only one ticket left for the workshop. So we've already organized a second workshop for October and that workshop will be a mosspole specific workshop. So it's going to be the ultimate mosspole workshop basically. And I'll leave a link in the description down below. So if you're in Sydney and you want to partake in the ultimate mosspole workshop, there's an opportunity, but let's not get too far ahead of myself for now. I need to work on the first workshop first, which is the more general houseplant 101. That's going to be on Sunday and we're going to go to the growers to pick up some plants that we can repot. And I've got the goodie bags ready and everything. And yeah, I'm getting excited, but also nervous. So the more I can prepare, the better I'll feel about everything. All right. Let me just quickly clean the floor as well. Let me give you a closer look. I have you on wide angle because it is a small space, but it is looking significantly fuller now, despite the fact that pretty much every plant hardly exists, right? So let's just call it potential room for improvement, but it is looking good. I think the imidium medium in the middle is definitely kind of the showstopper like that. It's looking good. And then the shelf over here is looking a little bit empty for now as well, but you know, it's the beginning of spring. It's not bad, right? Definitely room for more, which is great, right? Because I mean, we're at the beginning of the growing season and over the next six months, my plants will hopefully all grow, which means that there's going to be lots of chop and extents. Chop and extents come bottom parts of the poles. I like to move them into my greenhouse. I am planning on doing a bunch of alocasia content as well. And I think this environment might be good for some of these alocasia. So don't worry. We'll definitely fill it over the next couple of weeks or months, but I think it's a nice baseline to get started. Everything is looking happy, healthy, clean, fully watered. Just one thing missing, airflow. Because it's getting a little bit hot inside the greenhouse, this is going to live behind the greenhouse in a really shady and cold corner. And I'm going to put it in a box that stops it from getting wet as well, obviously with airflow and all of that. So let me wheel it over there. The fan is scheduled to turn on every day at nine and turn off every day at five. That is approximately sunrise and sunset. Sun rises a little bit earlier, but by the time this space gets sun. So at night time, I don't have the desire to have the fan on. That just means that the battery lasts a little bit longer and so far so good. As I mentioned at this stage, it is very unpredictable. For example, right now it is 42% humidity, which is obviously not high enough for my liking. So that would be great for misting. But then last week it also rained quite a lot and it was 90% humidity and so on. The temperatures are at 20 degrees at the moment, so nothing to be concerned about. But if it's a hot day and the sun hits the greenhouse through the windows, it could easily go above 30 already. So at the moment, this time of the year, I need to be really careful and agile. But that is fun to me, right? That is part of the plant hobby. I enjoy looking at the weather, assessing the conditions and then supplementing the conditions accordingly to make sure that my plants are happy and healthy and grow up in a nice, warm, humid environment. I suppose that's the skill of being a grower rather than just being a plant collector. Alrighty, on that note, it is time to turn on the misters, get this environment nice and humid, which probably means that I should be vacating this space. Again, Jackery, thank you so much for sponsoring the portable power station in this video. Thank you guys for watching. 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