My question is, arent we supposed to be making plant care easier, not harder for people!? Self watering pots can be great BUT ESPECIALLY for my beginner plant parents, they can be a bit tricky. If you continue filling, the plant will keep taking up water causing your plant and those roots to die. So it’s still very important to check your soil all the way through, before refilling. As far as these specific pots, I’m not a fan at all.
@sherryporsch9349
Жыл бұрын
Me either an hate the plastic cages or paper plugs. 💚
@MikehMike01
Жыл бұрын
they got the sale after that they don’t care
@garytaylor903
Жыл бұрын
Can you do a anthurium video I have a pink anthurium I've struggled with for years but seem to be okay with bromelaids
@dianaduarte3891
Жыл бұрын
Question? Lol what kind of plant is that it's pretty 😍 😅
@jessicaschlienz7599
Жыл бұрын
@@dianaduarte3891it looks like a dracena
@mhhhh5930
Жыл бұрын
You have seriously gotten me into plant care. I used to kill my plants as soon as I touched them but now they are beautiful and healthy thank you
@JoULove
Жыл бұрын
Same!
@baret8349
Жыл бұрын
Me too 😩😩. I killed a Bonsai last summer 🥺…now I’m going on a year with a healthy spider plant.
@martatofaleanu8393
Жыл бұрын
@@baret8349 I don't know how, but I managed to kill two Bonsai trees a few years ago. Now my house is full of thriving plants 😍🌿.....and a fake bonsai for now😅🌳
@kraziecatclady
Жыл бұрын
@baret8349 spider plants are usually easy, but I have one that has been a bit finicky over the years. I've had it about 3 years, but for a while it wasn't growing or making babies. Surprisingly, it actually needed better soil (fertilizer). Then I left it outside and a freeze almost got it, but I nursed it back. Then we moved and the new neighbors gave us a kitten. The kitten started chewing up the babies so I put it outside. The spot I put it was too bright and it got sun damage. Now it is back inside. I need to put it where the kitten can't get it. It's on a hook in the kitchen but the kitten climbs the counter and swats at it.
@Sandreline
Жыл бұрын
Big box stores don't care about the plant being healthy in the long-term. They just need to keep it looking nice long enough to sell it. When possible, always try to pick local nurseries instead. ✌🏻 They actually care about customer loyalty.
@jenniferk782
Жыл бұрын
My husband worked at Lowes in the outdoor lawn and garden center, and he said when he started, employees got an hour long training video for how to care for different plants (including indoor ones), but no one remembered anything. Big box stores also have insurance on their plants, so yeah, they don't really care if they live or die in the end :/
@crazy4beatles
Жыл бұрын
And sometimes not even that. I find way too many sad looking plants at big box stores. Completely withered leaves.
@vamanayana
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely true! I believe that another reason why these big companies dont care for the plants they sell is that a lot of amateur plant parents won't know that they need to look into these pots and will care for them like how the shopkeepers instruct them to. This will result in their plants dying soon, blaming themselves for not having a green thumb and keeping on buying from these companies everytime the plants die.
@kendalg5970
Жыл бұрын
Worked at the garden center and this could not be more true. Most customers don’t buy plants that look bad even if they’re healthy so the second it looks bad we mark it down and sell it on clearance
@TheOnlyKontrol
Жыл бұрын
@@itsmeorwhatever627😂 “local breeder” yeah imagine forcing animals to reproduce so you can make money of it. Sounds like a caring human…how about local animal shelter
@drikonrokon852
Жыл бұрын
As someone that uses self watering pots for both carnivorous and other plants, I can agree there's a certain way to use them, trick is do not refill the water until it's dry below and then wait a bit longer, because if it's constantly wet the roots will eventually die to root rot. (It's best to use them for plants that like moist soil )
@marieknight9385
Жыл бұрын
Agree, my Hoyas would hate it but my alocasia might love it
@Yoyocreative
Жыл бұрын
Ooh! Using those for venus fly traps would be perfect! 😮
@pinkyssj4
Жыл бұрын
My african violet loves it
@yland6003
Жыл бұрын
Yep use leca! It works great!
@drikonrokon852
Жыл бұрын
@@Yoyocreative I use a combination of long fiber moss, peat moss and perlite while having the bottom peat the middle the combo of long fiber and peat then the top being long fiber my carnivorous plant bog absolutely loves it (since peat is actually decade moss it makes a perfect bog set up) and again I do recommend waiting a bit before rewater since Venus flytraps can get root rot if not allowed any air in between waterings and the water gage is a big help
@childofpersia1213
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been replanting my houseplants and now everytime that I shake the pot to settle the new soil, I hear you saying “SCHIMMMY THAT SOIL!” 😂❤
@PlantswithKrystal
Жыл бұрын
Yay for the schiiiimmmmmyyy 🥹
@MinutePlant
Жыл бұрын
And "drown that hoe" is also stuck in my head whenever I -force- introduce someone to growing plants.
@meganandherplants4524
Жыл бұрын
Same 🤣🤣
@JessicaSugarTankLarson
3 ай бұрын
Same 😂 lol
@aglez9266
Жыл бұрын
My plants are doing so much better since I am watching your channel. Once you explain things it makes so much sense! Thank you for your hard work! 😊 You rock!!
@normalguycraig
Жыл бұрын
Can't get over how beautiful those roots are
@julesrainey
Жыл бұрын
Root porn right there 😍
@lizamay722
Ай бұрын
Me either. They wanted some dry soil for sure, but they're so bright and healthy still! Would've definitely started dying in a few weeks tho because of all that moisture 😱 that was terrible to see
@layahlayah5951
Жыл бұрын
I bought a spiral cactus that was like this. I was like you poor baby 😢😂!!! And funny enough I bought a pothos that was dry as a bone. She looked withered and I’m sure that’s why they put it on clearance but I put her in leca for self watering and you’d think it’s a whole different plant she’s so lively and green now lol. You’re creating an army of plant rescuers lol ❤😊!!
@boopledoo
Жыл бұрын
Honestly your last sentence is a goal haha. We could reslly heal the earth
@Bamu7597
Жыл бұрын
Self watering pot is a big no for me. No hard feelings, i just love watering my plants. Just a quiet and calm moment with yourself and thirsty babies, watching them suck up the water up their pot hole😂 It cures my anxiety better than talking to my therapist.
@teresaoneal5254
Жыл бұрын
Yes, yes, yes. Ü
@nom3nnescio
Жыл бұрын
So.. You really don't have anxiety. It's a serious mental illness and not some "haha watering plants cUrEd my aNxIeTy"
@dmo848
3 ай бұрын
Use more coco mixed in your soil you'll notice bigger plants also but will have to add nutrients. But I'm all for bigger plants
@subratanandy2142
20 күн бұрын
I use a self watering pot for my Golden dewdrop because the plant needs to be dried out or else it rots .water it once a week and it's good . Won't work for temperamental plants.
@iratheone
Жыл бұрын
Ok self watering pots work. Those that use strings. In fact I do a lot of my own self watering pots with cotton strings, since I’m working Full time and also a mom I don’t have time to water my plants on daily basis. My plants are outdoors. My alocasia, aglonema, pothos, they love the self watering pots. The humidity is perfect for them. And also it’s constant humidity, I often kill plants with irregular watering schedule since I’m busy, so the self watering pots work. When done properly.
@JoULove
Жыл бұрын
On two separate occasions I've bought peperomias from my local supermarket and each time they had root rot and died within a couple of weeks (I didn't know to look out for it) 😭 they let them sit in water all the time, very sad
@phaedra8020
Жыл бұрын
Maybe you can lift the plant out and cut the roots as soon as you get home.
@sarahg2665
Жыл бұрын
They’re great with leca, though! The only time I use self watering pots is for my semi-hydro plants
@tamarar7156
Жыл бұрын
I went to home depot the other day and the succulent and cactus plants section they watered everything and left plants drowning and soaked. Literally there was a plant that you can't get water in the tubes or it'll rot they were all rotting and had algea and mush. I felt so bad cause they are just going to throw all those plants away at the end of the week.
@donnahibbard1774
Жыл бұрын
Please tell your parents I think they did a wonderful job raising such an adorable, inspiring and intelligent women ❤
@bonitobonita9263
Жыл бұрын
Why just don’t appreciate her for being a nice person
@donnahibbard1774
Жыл бұрын
@@bonitobonita9263 Because she’s soooo much MORE. Are you jealous?
@bobrosstastic
4 ай бұрын
Your videos gave me the confidence to go dig in them roots and repot my plants that needed it. Now they're going amaaazing
@michelebeverly7319
Жыл бұрын
Love your videos, your energy is fantastic! Your tips are so helpful. Thanks for another great one!
@sunshinehahn1973
Жыл бұрын
I just found you and I’m hoping your knowledge will help me learn how to better care for my house plants, especially my late dad’s spider plant!
@icianthea
Жыл бұрын
The thing I hate with the big box stores is that they HAVE to have their plants in a decorative pot and charge you more for it. Ma'am, I've got better pots at home, please just let me buy the plant at a decent price.
@Golden_Mercedes
Жыл бұрын
i work at a garden center for a big chain store and sometimes we receive those plants with the planters broken so i would mark them down which made them reasonably priced. turns out i’m not allowed to do that anymore though they still want us selling plants with no pot for full price
@Purelylia
Жыл бұрын
“In big box stores they struggle with watering” understatement of the year 😂😂😂
@PlantaPalooza
9 ай бұрын
Ohhhh don’t squeeze the soil lol. They use all sorts of chemicals whether fertilizers fungicides or pesticides on those store plants. Just absorbing right into your skin 😢
@A_T216
Жыл бұрын
I've rocketed up to 23 pots of various plants since I started watching your videos. You've saved my babies from surviving despite my misguided care or from dying slowly, and I've had the confidence to take more on.
@Jeromeeb
Жыл бұрын
I got a bunch of these pots and the plants all are doing well. Zz plant, calathea, dumbcanes. People have been doing wicking strings for ages whats the sudden problem?
@corrinarose9106
Жыл бұрын
I think it depends on the plant. My birds nest fern has gotten HUGE & is really thriving. It’s in this very same pot & has been since the day I purchased it
@zap4980
Жыл бұрын
👍🏽 because ferns like moist soil 🪴
@PersistenciaMemoria
Жыл бұрын
I audibly gasped when you squeezed the soil omg that poor plant was drowning. 😮
@zoehenn
Жыл бұрын
I bought polly alocasia in self watering plant and was excited because I was worried it would get too dry (I’m bad at remembering) and it’s been a life saver my Polly loves it- I am nervous tho bc I don’t let it dry out in between but it seems to be thriving as of now.
@brandisdreamland
Жыл бұрын
I use them for my monstera and pathos plant i have and i don’t put too much water in them but they seem to be very healthy maybe sometimes people add too much water 😅
@sousafamilygarden
Жыл бұрын
💚Thanks nice video #SousaFamilyGarden 🪴🌿 😊😊😊
@anonymoose116
Жыл бұрын
I reuse those pots for plants i grow hydroponically with LECA. Theyre not trash, theyre just not good for plants in soil.
@Cvs1058
Жыл бұрын
I buy self watering pots, but just because I forget that i have plants that need water and care, so I have self watering pots 😅
@Kikipotts
Жыл бұрын
Best plant food for plants living in water ?🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@blueeeeberryyyyy
Жыл бұрын
I love going around and checking all my plants they are like my babies I love watering them
@Buckleupbucko
Жыл бұрын
Lmao I must’ve gotten lucky because ive bought that SAME Aglaonema from that SAME pot in Lowe’s about 6 months ago, never changed the pot or soil, and it’s still growing strong!! ❤
@liagrigori
Жыл бұрын
The plant whisperer ❤
@staceyhunt6769
Жыл бұрын
I've brought some self-watering thingies for my indoor trees after several died because they like to stay wet and we have had super high heat where I am. So balancing keeping them wet and general life with several extra need house members, I just couldn't keep up.I mourn my loss, but hope I can save my others. I will not, however, be using them on any of my other plants because most things hate it. Freaks me out how so many places are so hype about them when very few plants can realistically tollerate constant wet...
@noshamy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your Channel. Started to repott all my plants because of your Informations and hope they gonna get better now because they were more like in a surviving fight than just beeing Alive 😅 Edit: what soil do you use?
@deidraaitken8066
Жыл бұрын
You’re the worst! AND I LOVE IT!!!❤❤ You make me want all the plants and to repot them all and play with them all the time. Thanks for inspiring me and reminding me when I’m in the black hole of KZitem to at least go water my plants and repot them when they need it. You a gem.
@ic3f4iry
Жыл бұрын
Yess my favorite videos you do are ones like these where you get in those roots, this is what made me get into plants ❤
@simplyv2123
Жыл бұрын
I can't wait to be a plant mom.I'm happy I came across your channel
@nancydunston1215
Жыл бұрын
It's the most wonderful hobby. I'm sure I have WAY TOO many, lol. But, I love 'em all!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@robertapreston4200
24 күн бұрын
Lasagna?????? What?😂😂😂😂 Love your presentation... natural, cute, helpful. Lasagna?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@MrWolfheart111
Ай бұрын
Hi thanks, Love my plants. But I love to go backpacking in July/August as well. :| So I went mostly with rock gardens and succulents.... it worked well, but many fatalities with the others... My beautiful "City Lights" Dahlia... died. Hoping her tubers will live. Bless.
@heidilummus1
26 күн бұрын
My Alocasia Jacklyn was a rescue and came to me in a pot just like that one recently but It was dry, zero water when it came to me. I gave her water and got 2 new leaves!! Then quickly lost them both. Her roots are healthy. I don't know what to do for her. HELP!!!
@SharonLougheed
23 күн бұрын
If you're repotting your plant, unless you know from experience that it's safe, please do not grab the center of the plant and pull up. I repotted my plant philodendron yesterday, and while I didn't use this technique, I was still too rough. I discovered it hardly grew any roots in 4+ years, but the TWO roots it did grow were super long. I ended up breaking both of the roots. :( I got root hormone today, so here's hoping I can save my plant. ;_; But I assume Krystal knows more about these kinds of plants, so she's probably knows if it is safe to do that. Tho my pot was 10 inches, so that might also be a factor, cuz that would be a heavy amount of soil to pull up.
@fergustheragamuffin5091
3 ай бұрын
Those plants started as hydroponics, I know those cups well 😂. Anyways we found another way to propagate without those hydroponically, our cloner doesn't need those. But we had issues with choking too, these places should know to remove them before planting or at the very Least snipping the cage to prevent choking, but it show they DO NOT care about the plants Or their Customers. They make More money by giving them people plants DESTINED to DIE because They set them up for failure.... Big Corporations these Monopolies Gotta Go and STAY GONE!
@tanyasutherland5814
Ай бұрын
Videos like this is what’s really taught me how to let my plants thrive. I got a Venus fly trap recently - HUGE. It was very quickly declining, so I had assumed I overwatered it (yes I use distilled). Turns out it was trapped in a tiny netting, the roots couldn’t move at all.
@shelboney
Ай бұрын
I stand by using self watering pots and I have 90 plants. Some of my babies need more attention than others. I got some water wicking rope so I can make a lot of my pots into self watering. I always let my plants soil dry out before refilling, but I have a couple plants who are basically sitting in water all the time bc as soon as they run out they start drooping. That'd be my purple waffle and my kroton 😅 they NEED the wata 🤣
@tomikiawells6780
22 күн бұрын
I have quite a few plants in pots that I've made into self watering. Interestingly, I just purchased a plant yesterday, a ZZ, in a pot just like that😆. I'm planning to separate it into 2 or 3 plants and place them into one of my self watering pots in a few days, letting it adjust in it's new climate.
@DelightfulDissident
9 ай бұрын
That plant was looking at you sideways through the whole repot because CLEARLY IT LOVED IT IN THERE 😂 THOSE NOODLES WERE PRISTINE
@judivoorhees4619
Ай бұрын
I have a ZZ plant from a big box home improvement store and it came in a self watering pot. It has been doing great on my desk at work. I didn't think it would work out, honestly, but she's happy!
@josecorpuz1791
Жыл бұрын
That pot is still useful. You can put plants there that do not need to be watered a whole lot, maybe once a week.
@wickedbasket8858
Жыл бұрын
Or drill holes where holes should be.
@josecorpuz1791
Жыл бұрын
@@wickedbasket8858 agreed
@sarahphillips1064
10 күн бұрын
I just bought 4 of those and all the plants are struggling or dead two weeks later. I’m really disappointed in the design of the whole system and abt to replant the two living babies.
@RetroMonkey1999
Ай бұрын
I use self watering pots on all my succulents, but I DON'T use it as intended. The inside pot tends to have a bunch of holes in the bottom to let water in... but in this case, it's letting water OUT. I don't fill them with water, I just water heavily until the water starts running through, then I just let them dry out as usual. I would never use them as intended though, unless they're water plants!
@alyssagarrett4702
Ай бұрын
Yea I had to learn this the hard way when buying my first plant a couple of months ago. They had a zz plant in that EXACT pot. Again, it was my first time buying plants, so within a week I had root rot
@RZTree
3 ай бұрын
its so sad when I ask if a friend wants a plant and they say "no I will just kill it" and I always want to scream NO YOU WONT YOUVE JUST BEEN LIED TO
@Wolfygirl
3 ай бұрын
I hear about these being terrible, so I'm so confused why two I have from Walmart are actually thiving in them? One is an angel wing begonia and the other is a Raven ZZ plant. Is it because of the plant type, that I waited until everything dried out before watering the bottom, or have I just lucked the heck out??? They've been the only ones I'm cautious about repotting because they are doing so good!
@CheyenneWyntarArt
Ай бұрын
I loooove my self watering pots! If you’re reading this and newer to them but want to try them out, I started with the kind that’s made of clay! There’s the pot you put your plant in that’s unglazed clay, sometimes a Terra cotta, and that sits in another reservoir which you put water in. If not that kind (they’re pricey), try one that has a reservoir underneath the pot that the plant is in DOESNT TOUCH, but instead you put a cotton wicking string in the pot the plant is sitting in and it sucks up water as your plant needs it. I find the kind that has a basket that sits a little in the water is way harder to maintain and it’s super easy to under or over water. 90% of my plants are in self watering pots-either store bought or DIY-and it’s the only reason they’re still alive. 😂 the only ones that aren’t are my snake plant (bc they like to be neglected and dry out) and my plants on moss poles (which I’ll be converting to self watering poles soon!).
@headacheification
Ай бұрын
Can we not use the pot as cache pot still? Like if I’m not using the wick and self watering sustem at all. Just watering as normal in nursery pot but use the outer pot as cache cause they look nice? Or do they not work? New to plants. Help please! 🙏🏼
@PMabq
Ай бұрын
Self-watering pots are good only for plants that like having "wet feet" which is to say plants that are from a boggy, swampy environment.
@amberpoage4654
Ай бұрын
I work at a big box store. Im the person that waters the plants. The biggest issue is they dont teach about what plants to water every day and what plants not to. I take care of all the self watering pots, and I've been lucky to keep them alive for a long time. But i learned a trick with those pots. Never add water to the pots until it's completely dry in the bottom and not until the soil has dried. I also dont fill it with too much with water just enough to the top of the little window. I learned this from watching your videos about watering plants, and it's worked really well.
@kathleenkaufmann2084
Жыл бұрын
Are those Orchids? I agree, self watering pots aren't for everything. Orchids don't like wet feet at ALL!! Still working on getting those to bloom. That being said, I have 30 african violets loving the wick pots/self watering pots, BUT!!! you have to use the right SOIL!! It MUST have at least half perlite and vermiculite so it doesn't turn into a swamp! I've even got baby pothos, and Huechera growintg well in them.
@cypheri1339
Ай бұрын
The only plants I keep in self-watering pots right now are my spider plants and my inch plant. They are in the sort of self-waterer that use a cotton rope to draw small amounts of water up into the soil and I always make sure to let them stay dry for a few days before refilling when they do run out. Ideally I'll refill the reservoir when the plants juuuust start to droop a little. Most plants I wouldn't dare to keep in a self-watering system just because it's so hard to control.
@lyndashaughnessy7305
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I thought this was Great.!! Call it Wick & Grow. Well yes, my plant/plants definatly were drowning. As a beginer, maybe a little further along now, I gotta have more faith in myself & my skills. Thanks Krystel. I try staulking you every day*lol*😅
@ashleyalexander7388
20 күн бұрын
Mix substrate with 50% perlite, the roots need air. anything sitting in water needs to be 100% perlite or the organic material will degrade.
@bigmama1202
21 күн бұрын
Are those little cages really a problem? I only remove them when it’s time to repot more than a year after purchasing. I have over 250 houseplants
@b.carter564
Жыл бұрын
Oh! I thought I was bad at keeping it alive. I have thrown out a lot of dead plants.😢Thank you!! Now I will buy the replacements. Self watering?😂You still silly!😂💜
@starberst79
3 ай бұрын
It's heartbreaking to see the condition of plants in big box stores! Please consider supporting local and native plant nurseries. It's a great way to improve plants' well-being and contribute to preserving native species
@marnieclifford8604
15 күн бұрын
Im just getting into plants and i have those pots in my cart. Ill take em out lol. And let me just say i love you ithink you're plant teachings are sometimes hilarious 😅
@maddiesmenagerie8853
Жыл бұрын
Haha the BEST use for a self-watering plater in my experience are bog/swamp-dwelling plants! Like my carnivorous plants.
@2many_sodiumz587
Ай бұрын
Hate self watering pots for my plants, they just don't work for me. Gimme plain plastic nursery pots and terra cotta any day
@Mugelbbub16
Ай бұрын
I bought a four pack of roma tomatoes (I didn't want to buy a 4 pack, but that's all they had), and they're actually doing really well they're all in the same pot😅
@JessicaSugarTankLarson
3 ай бұрын
I think self watering pots work well with the correct soil mix and plants....im actually growing a thai con in a self watering pot lol...its actually thriving. I think its the soil mix that really helps the plant that is so susceptible to rootrot, thrive. Ive got three thais out of the cabniet (dont ask how many ive got going inside the cabniet lol). One in pon, one in lecca, and one in (ariod specific) soil mix. The pon one is the only one thats giving me problems but that could be that i didnt clean the roots perfect before the tranfer. They all 3 are in self watering pots and are kinda in different stages of growth so i cant call it a true experiment but lecca is winning lol
@robbie.gordon
Жыл бұрын
i have a snake plant and one of the leaves just up and died... idk what i did wrong. it was in bright indirect sunlight, and only got watered once it was completely dry, and when it was watered, i DROWNED THAT HOE! the rest of the plant looks fine and i just cut off that leaf, i think it was rotten at the base?
@riverivy6628
9 ай бұрын
Oh I've used these before- usually only when I'm leaving for extended periods of time and don't have the capability to water my plants. Is it okay to use these for that purpose or is it also bad? Also, what would you recommend for prepping plants for extended periods of not watering?
@kitakhat
Жыл бұрын
I don't even think it's the pot as much as it's the medium it's in. That coir stuff just doesn't work after a while. Then those cages are problematic of course. The plants, I think like the environment and humidity from below, BUT you just want to watch how full you keep the reservoir and watch for the roots growing out the pot. The pot is kinda trash, but great for new un-acclimated plant babies and propagating. Aglaonema are my fav no fuss plants.
@TheWiseOne6775
Ай бұрын
I use self watering pots and they are brilliant. You have to use a nice draining soil mix in them otherwise too much water stays in the soil. It's not rocket science it's kind of common sense.
@biancacolmenares620
3 ай бұрын
I’ve been taking care of plants and trying to be a plant person for years, over a decade and I don’t know if I I’ve ever seen such healthy looking roots… I have some things to think about 🤔
@Andysaid420
11 ай бұрын
I have about 13 orchids all in self watering pots. I've had great success. they're all super healthy and have rebloomed multiple times
@aimeetopaz
Ай бұрын
*slowly turns to look at her plant shelves and sees two of these* But to be fair, I got to them early before the box store drowned them and I’ve been taking good care of them since 😂 Once they have been drowned the pots gotta go!
@adampro1797
Жыл бұрын
She’s like my 25 yr old mom, 98 yr old granny and 12 yr old daughter all wrapped up as my bff neighbor 😂😂😂❤
@rebekahcastro5430
Жыл бұрын
Oh noooooo, I bought a ZZ plant in that exact type of pot! At least it was only $5 and totally salvageable. Now I've got three separate big juicy rhizomes with a few stems each. I'll definitely be tossing the pot now 😅
@chall5353
Жыл бұрын
Omg this was me yesterday freeing my new Chinese Evergreens from those awful plastic cases. The leaves starting dropping after getting brown spots so I pulled it out to repot it and what a shock the roots were being strangled. I was SOOO upset! Costa Farms do better, you almost killed my plants!
@cloudy2o333
Ай бұрын
Not sure what I did wrong, but I did this and have a big gap at the bottom of the pot. She seems happy enough, but it's weird for sure.
@auraortiz3811
Жыл бұрын
Wait, are you talking plants or toxic relationships 😂😂😂😂 jk! I love you vids 🩷🩷🩷
@elisemassey2818
Жыл бұрын
Awe really? I got an Aglaonema on clearance with this exact pot. I like the way it looks. I’ve heard you are supposed to let the soil dry in between refilling the water. Is that true? I have noticed the plant is yellow at the base which is conclusive with overwatering, but I didn’t change the soil out either. Should I do a total makeover? However, it is happy because it bloomed! I didn’t know they made flowers.
@redyummygummybear17
Жыл бұрын
That feeling when you just bought a fiddle leaf fig in one of those pots and HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS THE TRASH IT WAS IN
@sssojournerrr
Жыл бұрын
At the end of the video your standing in front of some hanging wall decor… WHERE DID YOU GET IT.
@instinctivelychelsea2905
Ай бұрын
I had good luck with this glass bubbles you flip upsidedown into soil but I'm noooo expert.
@Ghostroaster999
3 ай бұрын
I prefer growing most of my plants straight in water. No need for worries of over watering or under watering. For easy plant care. Plants in water. Way easier. Super pretty and simple
@meenha1976
Жыл бұрын
I don't have a green thumb, its actually a black thumb 😂, one of my carers goy me two plants twice, ones a cactus, the other ones a money plant, my other half does his gardening, and had soil sitting in the garden, since these two were thriving in the kitchen window, the cactus 🌵 was giving me a gorgeous flower, then it started dying off, I know I needed to put them in a bigger pot and feed them and change soil, they haven't done well after that. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Someone said the soil is very bad, its like extremely dry and no water was getting to them, so I brought some soil from amazon, being disabled I don't usually go out to store's z they're both hanging in there but they don't look happy like they were the first two years. I watched a video on the money plant and trimmed it so that the healthy branches can survive. Its not as shriveled as before. Its stopped dying. I wish I can share photos or video with you. Maybe you can pick up what I'm doing wrong. I know just watering the right amount may not be enough. I touch the soil to see the wetness/dryness level.
@VeganDoris
Жыл бұрын
I just checked on my 2 self-watering pots! One plant looks really good but the other has a lot of brown/pale leaves. I pulled the plants out of the pots. Both of them were damp only in the part that was touching the wick. Most of the roots/soil looked pretty dry. Too dry. I guess the healthy plant (a ponytail palm) likes that but the other (a neanthe Bella palm) does not.
@DuneDemon8
3 ай бұрын
I got a self watering pot but it has 2 layers. One that slips in to another and I use it for orchids but this way. I drill a lot of holes on the inner part, put the orchid in and when it is watering time, put water in the outer layer and the inner slips right in pushing water inside the medium and towards orchid roots. I leave the water in for maybe 3 minutes, drain the water out and assemble the pot again. Worked very well to have a nice looking pot for orchids.
@heathero.7643
Жыл бұрын
I exclusively use self-watering pots and/or pots with trays underneath. I go through and fill all the trays about once a week or so, the soil takes up the moisture on its own. I allow 3-4 days between the trays drying out before refilling.
@steelestandin08
3 ай бұрын
I just reported a pothos that I brought from a big box store in a self-watering pot. It was soooo dried out. I was afraid that I caused the plant alot of stress. Fingers cross I hope it survives.
@yland6003
Жыл бұрын
I love those self watering pots for my orchids in leca. Leca doesn’t break down over time like regular medium so it makes the self watering setup totally viable. It doesn’t work so well with organic potting mediums.
@mademm5148
Жыл бұрын
The major stores come from big greenhouses, that is why they come in simple pots, self watering pots. The stores they get delivered too should be watering them on the regular but they don't. Also customers who buy the tropical plants don't always know how to take care of them either. So I would say it's both faults.
@sandramalone3522
7 ай бұрын
Omg, I just bought 2 large self watering pots from Target. I haven't used them yet so what should I do?
@nancyjaminet3958
Жыл бұрын
What's up with the weird little tubers in my shamrock plant? I'm trying to keep it alive but right now it's saturated. HELP
@Bigreek100
Жыл бұрын
Yea. I've been trying to make my one store-bought pot work, but the problem I find, is that you can't see when water has pooled to the bottom. I made a similar contraption (pretty basic), but used translucent containers I had that stack perfectly to leave about an inch underneath for a sort of reservoir
@cv6442
Жыл бұрын
My dumb cane did well in a self watering pot like that for years. But it must depend so much on the type of plant and how much string they put through the soil. I also would let it run out of water occasionally. 😊 I now have a Ficus in that pot, but I dont think it likes it like the dumb cane did. May be time to retire it! 😆😆
@shaneda6317
Ай бұрын
Cause mine really died😢 I'm now afraid to buy spider plants. Can't they live in water?
@hellowilson5335
Жыл бұрын
I only use them for propagations. I testing it out since I heard plants in pin lowers pest rest and realized very quickly that I absolutely hated them. I’d rather deal with a random pest now and then than killing my plant quickly.
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