I love that you are an excellent parent

@alicelarez4311

Жыл бұрын

I would expect it, as caring for plants is parenting. And as he has so many that means alot of patience waiting to see what they do.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

You're too kind, mate :D

Thanks for the info about airponics system. I’ll give it a try.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Good luck, mate!

lol forget the us is in winter and you’re in summer hope the kids are in enjoying the pool! 😂❤ glad to be here. Keep on going. I love the in depth discussion on everything. Thanks.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, Brandon! :D Will do

So happy I discovered your channel!! About to binge watch everything😂

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Hehe thanks, mate :D Hope you enjoy it all

Nice seedlings. Thanks for sharing!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate

I love stratum for my tissue culture plants, I do a ton of thai constellations and moss+perlite was always so hard for me to regulate how much moisture was present for some reason. But stratum + a heated seedling mat have done me wonders! Stratum is also so easy to remove from plant roots as it washes and falls right off. It's a bit colder here year round and I find that the heated mat helps with root growth and provides my plants w/ more humidity

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Great tip, mate. Are you in Aus and get it here? Any suggestions where to get it?

@arg0thegreat

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 I live in the US unfortunately :( I found an AU website that carries fluval along with similar substrates ( AquaticSupplies AU). They're a bit expensive on that site compared to the price youd pay in a pet store - anything marketed as shrimp soil/substrate with a low pH is very similar and would work great! Id recommend checking out local pet stores or seeing if there are any other online AU pet sites that sell it!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@arg0thegreat Awesome, will see what I can rustle up :D

@joannanovara815

Жыл бұрын

I love to use stratum mixed with perlite for props

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@joannanovara815 I finally found some today that was affordable lol

I feel your pain on the moss situation. I've made up my latest prop box with pure perlite because I'm sick of trying to get moss off roots. I find if I leave any on I get root rot but it's impossible to get it all off. Hope those el chocos recover quickly and start throwing some beautiful leaves!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, 100% with you there. I think I'll try that or a mix of perlite and coco coir in the future. Probably much easier to deal with! Up late too, btw, mate?

@amelise

Жыл бұрын

Haha yeah you caught me insomniacs are us. 🫣

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@amelise lol pretty much... finally can be productive now that the family's asleep

@amelise

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 mine are teenagers so this is their awake time 🤣🤣😭 I think I just overdid the caffeine today at work. 😬😵‍💫

Yes! about all the moss advice

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

lol I know...

Hi! I'm in the hobby but certainly no expert, though I do grow 100% in semi hydroponics, for what that's worth. However I've never dealt with plants directly from TC. I've found that it's infinitely easier to start a plant in hydroponics from whatever condition I get it than it is to transfer into Pon or Leca after another substrate, including Moss. In my conditions (either grow tent at like 70 degrees F/85-90% humidity or even ambient room 65-68 degrees F/40-50% humidity) I've sort of found the same - it's easier to remove all the moss or even the roots altogether if needed and start in very chunky perlite before moving into Pon or Leca once water roots have grown out, with pretty limited casualties. The younger the plant, the easier this has been for me to do. I know it sounds nuts to cut off perfectly good soil or moss roots, but in my experience they just never do well in semi hydro unless 100% free from substrate, and that process usually hinders the root health anyway. I can't tell you how many plants I received in soil, cut the roots off completely, sometimes cutting the plant up into nodes to accommodate the loss of roots, and restarted that way and those plants always restart faster than when I try and transfer without removing the roots. Just my 2 cents, in case that's at all helpful, but always do what works for you and keep up the fun content :) Your videos always give me a much needed chuckle!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, mate. Yeah, I'm considering trying TC in the aeroponics system next time or maybe even using rockwool in hydro.

🐸🧦 I prefer rugosum with a hard 'g'.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I reckon that's the winner!

I use a big ol fish tank that I use for plants getting potted out of prop box's they get quite large quickly and makes acclamation a dream and very low maintenance might be good for tc transplanting

Hi Pete! Thanks for another video! I love them, they are always packed with educational info. Plus your humor is just to die for🤣. May I ask what editing program you use?

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate, thanks for the kind words :) It means a lot. I'm just keeping it simple at the moment with iMovie haha very basic.

@stitchyme6581

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 no problem😊. Thanks. I am looking to start a channel myself and so I am researching my options. Do you like imovie? Is it easy to use?

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@stitchyme6581 Yeah, incredibly basic but very easy to use for this kind of content where you're not including loads of fancy graphics. You can take it up another level with other things like Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro, but it's a steeper learning curve.

@stitchyme6581

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 thanks a lot for the input 😊 take care!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@stitchyme6581 My pleasure, mate. If you need anything else or want any other advice msg me on Instagram. Happy to chat any time.

Sometimes the smallest is the strongest.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Very true!

Missed seeing Peaches on her pedestal today ❤ You could try Fluval Stratum Pete it’s really good stuff and it will not stick to the roots like moss, have seen it used with TC and they got super results. I’ve grown corms with 100% success,also had a unroofed cutting and tried for 3 months to get it to root, in the end Stratum worked and I’ve finally got roots and a new leaf. 😊

@arg0thegreat

Жыл бұрын

I second this! I love using stratum for my TCs, the roots are so much easier to clean as the stratum literally washes right off

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, might have to true that in future. It's the aquarium stuff, right?

@KathyGallagher01

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 yes it is used in aquarium set up 👍

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@KathyGallagher01 very cool!

@joannanovara815

Жыл бұрын

I love stratum mixed with perlite for props

A turkey baster is a good one handed option for sucking up water like that. When I'm lazy and don't feel like bottom watering everything, I fill my jug and give them a few squeezes of water. Don't get a super cheap one tho that doesn't have good suction or you will spill everywhere 😅

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Hehe yeah I've used a large syringe for that a few times now hehe

alright!!! roots!

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

:D rooooots!

“That’s not a knife. This is a knife!”

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

lol Mick Dundee baby!

Besides Fluval stratum have you tried tree fern fiber. I understand that it just falls off the roots

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Nah, not yet. It's super hard to find here and really expensive.

I’m fairly new to your channel, as a former scientist I appreciate your technical information. Did you perform tissue culture on these plants? Do you have a laminar flow hood in your home? The online information hasn’t satisfied my questions on the origin of the monstera Thai constellation, as they say it came from tissue culture, in a lab, in Thailand. Tissue culture is a technique utilizing cells. Where did those cells originate if not from a mother plant? Or was the cellular DNA of the delicious mutated in the lab, grown by tissue culture, hence manmade and does not exist in nature? I would love to read the scientific article about this if it exhibits.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Hey, mate. I bought them through a friend who imported them to Aus. I'm interested in trying TC myself one day, but don't have the equipment currently. Nor the knowledge. Re: it being created in a Thai lab. Mutations can take place in the TC process, so I think what would've happened is that they were TC'ing normal Monstera deliciosa and a mutation occurred in an explant that became the "thai constellation". Further mutations have occurred in the Thais which gives us the variability in variegation amongst standard Thais as well as the other Creme Brullee, Yellow Star, etc. forms. That's my hypothesis at least.

@jangsy33

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts/response!...forgot to mention....leaving the clip of your son and daddy doodoo duties made for an amusing break🤣

Try using cal mag on the plants to stop them from tearing their leaves... fixed my problem with my melano and gigas doing the same...

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I'll see what I can do in future. It should be in the A+B nutrient solution though :S grrr hehe

@pedrocarvalho6391

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... I can't speak for the el choco, bc I got mine as a larger specimen with a cataphyll, my gigas however, despite having leaves larger than my hands is always super hungry and I have to increase my feed on it as if it were an alocasia... if it's not the cal mag and you have it in high humidity, then it has to be bc either it's missing the right amount of a nutrient, or it isn't able to properly uptake a certain mineral or such... your plants all look pretty good though so Idk what the issue is exactly, but I hope this helps somehow 😅😂😂

Hey Pete have you got any el choco reds for sale

Where do you buy your tissue culture plants from?

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate, eBay and Facebook groups :D

Have we met Mrs. Pete yet?

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

I think she's made an appearance in one or two of the older videos :D

Your videos are so much easier to watch now. No music when you are talking and at a decent level in the timelapses. I dont find the timelaps sections very usefull but they dont annoy me. Not removing enough spagnum from roots almost made me loose my anthurium veitchii to root rot. I think leaving a bit on is worse in leca than in pon though.

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate. Glad you're still enjoying the vids :D

@od.vandeveer

Жыл бұрын

@@petevsplants7516 yes, I like learning things and you have some useful advice (or in the responses on what you do,😜). Ie the advise on checking the growpoint of variegated monstera's. I am searching for one and just asked a photo of a grow point

@petevsplants7516

Жыл бұрын

@@od.vandeveer haha you're on it then! 100%... Get one that's like wagyu/candy cane and you'll be fine :D