"Can you see me? Here I am" 😂 You made my morning. Thank you for another awesome educational video w/ in-depth explanations! I've learned so much from you. My plants thank you as well 😊

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Happy growing!!:) thank you!

I’m thinking that watching you enjoy Australian summer with your plants is what’s going to get me through the Canadian winter that’s coming! ❤

So I was just sitting here thinking about the Roman Empire and then.... You release a video 😂 lol

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

@katxgarden8431

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@carolstuff

9 ай бұрын

Love the “Chop & extend” the most as the big leaves become the bottom & bigger leaves can grow. Thanks for sharing Jan!

@valiaudet3415

2 ай бұрын

Me too😂😂😂🎉🎉

Been watching you for some time and enjoying every video. Somehow, this is the first time I've heard you mention the "train down" technique. I didn't even know it was possible. I use pvc sewer pipe with pre-drilled holes as my "moss pole" I can't chop or extend.... but I can do top cuttings and I can train down. So that's what I will do. Thank you for all your many contributions.

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Happy growing :)

Just what I needed, 2 of my plants have reached the top of the moss poles! That Manjula Pothos is mesmerizing,it looks like the leaves are painted with water colors,so beautiful! 😍 Natalie 🪴💚

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you :) hope this helped :)

@LosAngelesLaura

9 ай бұрын

How???????????

🎃 Autumn is upon us here. Thank you for the excellent content to keep 🌞 sunnier days on the horizon. Getting ready to reorganize my moss poles away from windows that all have a heat vent below. Going to use a mix of mother vertical and soltech pendants to hopefully keep everyone happy through winter. Eventually if and when my plants get as lush as yours I'm gonna need to lose some furniture and rearrange some more . Who needs guest seating? 😹😻

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you :) hope winter won’t be too harsh for you & your plants :)

Thank you for this video! I just started doing moss poles this summer (thanks to you), and now two of them have outgrown the pole!!! I can't wait to put more on poles next year

@sydneyplantguy

8 ай бұрын

Happy growing :) thanks !

That Manjula sets my heart racing. It's stunning! I'm running out of pole room though.

Good morning to you vary nice plants they all so beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful

I just love the pale blueish silver sections on your manjula! It’s so much more noticeable at that size. I was inspired by you to grow mine on a pole and it’s maturing so fast! 🤩

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Agree :) happy growing !!

I’m going to try this and plant it up with my mother plant to make it fuller thanks for your advice

My Squamy is at the top Of her pole. I’m so nervous to cut her but it’s time! The leaves are HUGE and we are both loving life right now 🥰 Thank you for all your advice.

I got all my moss, coated galvanized wire and zip ties and am ready to make my first moss pole today. I have watched the moss pole videos many times so even though I've never done this, I feel I know what i am doing. I did play around with the wire last night and noticed I did get 25.4mm holes in my wire (1 inch) so i cut Jan's 15 squares down to 8 for me. I'm excited to start my moss pole journey. The ony difficult part for me is figuring out which plant I should start with first. Thank you Jan for another great and informative video. ❤

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Happy growing!!

@heathersplants5708

9 ай бұрын

Jan, you make this look so easy, but it is not, lol.

Jan....🥰😍 SOO GREAT!!!...💞❤️💚... I really APPRECIATE this Video!..👍.. As always, your Gorgeous Plants make me AMAZED!..😍.. I really LOVE Yours!!..❤️💚🤗.. Mine at home faced hot Weather.. It made my Plants unhappy.. Luckily last night It rained here!..💓.. Now I can feel Good!.. because There is A NEW HOPE for them... for Happy Growing!..🥰❤️💚.. Jan...👍 Thank you soo much for sharing your Experiences!.😍. I really APPRECIATE your Loving Heart taking care of your Gorgeous Plants!!..💓💚.. HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!...🥰💞💓💐🌈🌸❤️💚🤗🥰💝..

Your Manjula Pothos is my absolute favourite! I got one myself, but trailing down. It´s very white so it grows slower than the other pothos I have. But it seems to be very happy. I love to touch the leaves, they feel pretty strong. So easy plant with just stunning markings on the leaves.

@lindsey4178

9 ай бұрын

YES! That manjula is incredible. I recently allowed myself to get a new pothos and looked at both manjula and N'joy. I chose the N'joy and I DO love it, but seeing his big beautiful manjula makes me think i need to allow myself to buy another pothos. Lol. Also, it makes me consider putting my N'joy on a pole to get it to have the BIG beautiful leaves.

I know that you've said most of this stuff like 10 times across your videos this past 2 years since I've been watching. but dang if this exact video was out when I was starting to chop and prop whewie I would have been a weapon just like you! Thanks for the content SPG :)

@SydneyPlantGuy the moss pole guru!

So much great information and advice! Thank you!

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

This video came in perfect timing, my monstera reached the top of my moss pole & I was in the middle of extending it when you posted I saw you posted this video. Thanks for all your wonderful & helpful content that inspires mine & many other people’s garden 😁.

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

🤩 Can't wait to be faced with these decisions😂

Good tips,great options , 💚🌱🌵☘️💚

Perfect timing, I was just wondering about this and will definitely use it when soon my first moss pole reaches the top :)

Good info!

Another great video! I was holding my breath when you bent that vine down 😳🥰. I have an Exotica I put on a pole and am just going to run it up and down to fill it out now. I have a Brazil and Golden Goddess on poles that's doing fantastic and will chop and extend soon. Thank you for all your awesome tutorials, I never would have tried moss poles if it had not been for your videos. Definitely upped my plant hobby. I really look forward to your content...missed Bradley today...lol. ❤🌱

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you :) happy growing !!

Great info!

Love your videos you do amazing and always show a brilliant personality

Another great video! You have totally gotten me hooked to moss poles. I have an experiment idea for you which might make an interesting video. You keep saying that the climbing plants growing their roots into the moss pole is an important factor which makes the plants mature (of course light and other things play a part as well). However, it could be that the main thing in maturation is just the fact that plant is able to grow up. I'm pretty sure that there probably is some plant hormone that for example, could be produced in the tip of the vine, which then spreads evenly to the plant (due to gravity). When the plant is laying flat or hangs, this hormone would be present everywhere in the plant. When the plant grows upwards enough, it could be that the top parts of the plant is released from the effect of this hormone, triggering these parts of the plant to mature. This is just a quick example of a possibility for what goes on in the plant. You could test this by growing the plant upwards so that it cannot root to a support, for example by attaching a string to the top of the vine and rising the string as the plant grows. Would be really interesting to see if the plant will show maturation in such an experiment or whether indeed the rooting to the pole is required. Auxin is a famous example of a plant hormone that regulates plant growth in relation to sunlight, gravity, water etc. if you want to start researching this topic. I'm too lazy to conduct such an experiment, I would like to watch you try it and in Australia you have the growing season ahead of you unlike me here in Europe.

@Euno123

8 ай бұрын

​@@heatherstephens9295 I don't have any practical use in mind, it would just be an experimental tool to see whether growing roots into a pole is really needed for maturation (or how much the moss pole improves this maturation), which is an interesting question to me.

thanks a very useful and informative video 😄

OMG, I love you so much! you inspire me to not be afraid to grow plants(jungle) in my home ( take a risk!) . Love your sense of humor. Could Please send me some of your Dioscorea discolor corms ( I've looked online and can not find them ANYWHERE 😪, I will buy it)Love ,love your content! my husband walks in the room and say "oh him again,🤣.

@sydneyplantguy

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! :) sorry I don’t sell any of my plants. Where abouts in the world do you live?:) maybe someone in the comment section has an idea where to get one :)

Glad I'm not the only person who grows the vines back down the pole 😂 I use plant velcro for mine, with the soft side against the plant. 💚

@em5140

9 ай бұрын

I do this too because I’m very limited for space and can’t extend moss poles. The plants never seem to be happy about it haha, always just shooting out a runner with no leaves but oh well worth a shot. I eventually cut it up and start new plant cuttings with wet sticks. Keeps me busy 😋

Hi! Thank you for your videos and advice, it has helped me a lot! I’ve watched your other videos and in one of them you showed that you have sometimes, when you chop and extend, put the top pole+plant on the side of the bottom pole to make the whole plant fuller or have multiple plants in a pole and then you extend. Is there a video or a way you can teach us how to to do that? I’d love to be able to fill a pole with plants all around it. Thanks!

Loving your channel & content.. you have re-inspired me to love aeroids again 😊

@sydneyplantguy

8 ай бұрын

Thank you:)

Perfect timing for this video! My micans is just about to the top of it's 2nd extension and I'm not sure if I want to extend again or what I wanna do 😂😂

After adding a 3rd pole on my mint adansonii and needing to add a 4th one within 2 weeks, I finally had to chop it. I don't have the space to add anymore to it as it is. I haven't taken it apart yet but I need to soon

@savannamm

9 ай бұрын

I should add that my poles are only 15" because that's what I could easily buy, I wasn't happy with the ones I made

Can you extend your moss poles across the ceiling? That would be so cool 😎

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FOLLOW UP: How many times do you allow it to go up and down the pole before the chop and extend? I enjoyed the breakdown 🤗

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Really depends on the plant & what look I wanna achieve :)

When you do chop & extend, what do you do with the bottom part of the plant?

Hey! You know that when you chop the top, plant will reshoot in two upper nodes to have better chances to survive. Plants have another grow pattern, and you said it right: when it’s vine goes down (backwards) then the plant makes less efforts to thrive its “top”. But the plant still have so much potential, and so much willing to grow, so one day it decides to reshoot in that node which is the highest in space to make a new top, and totally forgets its previous “top”. In your case it may reshoot at the top of the moss pole. And may not, who knows. By the way, didn’t you think of reverse not the plant vine leaf by leaf, but reverse the whole moss pole? Plant would be suffering a lot, but ones, instead of you and plant fighting against nature week by week and leaf by leaf until it’s over.

Have you gotten to the point with any of your poles where you have added so many vines/shoots (like your M. El Salvador) that there isn't enough room in the pole for all the roots? I don't think I've haven't seen you mention this as an issue, but I could've missed it. Great video, as always!!

@sydneyplantguy

8 ай бұрын

Yes and no, my micans pole was full and I couldn't train them down anymore but the pole still had room inside. Some of my larger monsteras though have fully taken over the poles & there is basically no more moss left :D

When you cut down a vine to allow for other vines to catch up on the pole, how far down the pole do you prune the vine usually?

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

I usually just take the top node :)

Just a thought. Doing a chop and extend in the fall and winter may be a good thing. Since the foliage growth is very slowed down, the plant may concentrate on root growth and not show any signs of setback on the leaves? I think I’ll try on my adansonii to see. It’s near the top of its pole now, so perfect candidate.

@sydneyplantguy

8 ай бұрын

From my experience the growth will already be set back in winter even without a chop but always worth trying :)

Happened to find your channel and been enjoying watching your videos. How do you keep those pots stable? I accidentally knocked over my monstera (on a jointed moss pole) and it fell off. Do you attach the pole on to the wall or do you do something else to prevent the pole from falling down? Thanks,

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

I just put them into a heavy decorative planter :)

With the chop and extend, does the top cutting actually send roots down into the new pot- or does it focus only on rooting into the moss pole?

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Really depends on the plant & how long it’s been growing on that pole :)

Can you chop the top and reroot it and put it back into the bottom of the plant to make it full?

Hi, i was wondering, I made some moss poles as you do, and I was asking myself: when the plants will be very high so I cut them with or without the moss, the roots that stay into the moss pole but that aren't related to the plant anymore couldn't rot ?

what if the pot is filled with too much roots? do you need to repot with a new bigger pot even if you chopped and extended the upper shoots..

Hi Brad 😂 I'm following u for so long time but really i can not remember your name. But Brad 😍😍😍 I wanna ask u something. Someone says that after 2-3 years moss are being toxic to plants. And we must not use them and change them. What do u think about this? I start to making mose poles after u, and u are my moss pole man 😇 So i want to ask u about that.

Do you ever take the top cutting off the pole and place it with the bottom cutting to thicken the growth. I have seen utubers do this by taking the moss and roots out of the top part, and take out as much moss as necessary to place it inside with the lower cutting. I just attempted this and not sure about the success as the plant is in intense shock right now with very droopy leaves.

Hi, great video ! I already saw it some weeks ago but a doubt has been going through my mind : In the up and down technique, when the chop and extend comes. do you also chop the up ↑ and ↓ down section from the top of the moss pole? You say in the video that you will have three vines but if you chop it just in the middle of the moss pole you will have 2 vines , one ↑↓ and the other one ↑. Hope I explained myself and thanks! 😊

@sydneyplantguy

8 ай бұрын

Yes I do :)

How do u prevent root rot wen roots reach water level...

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Do you take off lower leaves to pot or do you cut at leaf then plant the stem to 1st leaf as a chop and extend ?

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Some leaves might have to go as part of the chopn& extend :)

What is the secret behind the large leaves?

@getyourshinglesvaccine

9 ай бұрын

The moss pole and keeping it moist!

@lindsey4178

9 ай бұрын

A couple things. First, growing UP alone, on something like a moss pole, makes a big difference. I think it signals the plant to grow larger. You can even get regular pothos pretty large if it is growing upwards. Second, the moss pole staying moist allows the plant to make more roots at each node. Most of the time, you only get the roots under the ground but giving the nodes the right environment, they will burrow roots into the pole giving it more nutrients and water along the length of the plant. Also, when you take a cutting from your plant and propagate it, you will only maintain the leaf maturity on your TOP cutting and the original plant at the bottom. Cuttings from the middle of the vine may still stay a bit large but it will revert a bit to a more adolescent stage.

If my Manjula doesn’t look like that soon I’m just gonna cry 😫😫😫😫

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

You gotta give it some time :)

Neelolpalam kandittund But neelolpalam ithanennu ippol ariyunnu

Are you a bit german? 😊

@sydneyplantguy

9 ай бұрын

Born and raised there :P

@Pfuetzenspringer

9 ай бұрын

@@sydneyplantguy jup, hört man. Grüsse

Wow I never owned a moss pole before in order to grow my vining plants… but your video made me want to try this one day. ❤ 🪴

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