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I love the shower tip! I never thought of that thank you girl

Thank you so much Drea! I just hung my Soltech light and I love it. I am looking forward to seeing how it does with my plants.

Do you need fertilizer if you water with aquarium water?

Hi love your videos 😊 I have a question. How long does it take a new Calathea Peacock leaf to mature? Have several leaves that came out after I bought it two weeks ago and they are still looking new.

Yikes! That distilled water is interesting. Glad I never use it! 😅 Thanks again for this wonderful knowledge!

I will drench my plants with water first; then I pour my fertilizer water in the plant last.

Love your videos. I agree with everyone else you’re so knowledgeable and thorough when teaching! I use Jack’s Fertilizer 20-20-20, which I see you have there yay! It has all the micro nutrients in it except it doesn’t have calcium, so I add calcium-magnesium supplement too. I’d like your opinion on the Great White Mychroizom. So many plant creators use it, so I started adding it.

I was gifted a new Ficus Elastica, have been trying to get information on how to take care of her. Have read and heard that rubber plants like a little acidity? What are your thoughts on the acidity of the soil.

3:05 micronutrients. Not macro. Good video.

I had a Syngonium that I bought years ago. I called it the arrowhead plant. When I brought it inside in the fall, it was big and better than I ever seen it. Big leaves, very bushy. As te warmer weather approached, it began dying out. By the time the growing season came. It was gone. I had that plant before the internet. I was totally devastated 😢

I have and love the Syngonium tricolor, my favorite. I also love the red leaf one and the Albo. I also like the pink splash. I have others, but these head the list.

I would love an update on this to hear if it's still working well for you!

I dont really use them anymore but I used to cut up stick fertilizers in smaller chunks/granules and mix it in the top layer.

Have pint or 2 and u ok or d u like and shake off but better to stop take this things for ever

This is an incredible video! You did a great job (as always)! I look forward to more educational videos! ❤🎉

Hi, I am from India which is tropical so, I don't have pine barks here. What would your suggestion be? When I say tropical India is very diverse with all types of climates, my climate is dry mostly.

What is the big plant behind you? 😍

They aren't underated, the are once over hyped and over priced way back 3 years ago. They just lost there popularity.

Sounds like interbreeding 😂

Im new here... I dont know what TC is. .. oh what a beautiful colour your hair is..,

That's what gabapentin is for. My black cat has to be medicated in order for me to clip her claws without her trying to take my hand off! Unfortunately gaba has zero affect on my two year old cat, but he just squims getting his nails done. Rumer doesn't try to unalive me like Gypsy does! Everything will be fine. When and if they start washing eachother you will know that a bond has been completely formed between cats.

Twelve years ago my daughter adoped a orange and white kitten. She named her Lily. Lily had been born with twisted back legs. She could walk/run, but couldn't jump up on things. We had neen volunteering at a cat rescue at the time. Durging her eleven years of life, she had stomatosis (she drooled and had to have most of her teeth removed), neurological issues and she had several strokes. Every stroke the vets said she wouldn't recover, but Lily proved them wrong. She also had some issues using the litterbox and had to use pee pads. Side note, when Azure's partner first met Lily, he treated her just like any other cat. Anyway Azure hoped that she would reach the age of ten. Unfortunately in her eleventh year Lily had a stroke that she did not survive. My daughter loves the special needs animals. She became a vet assistant, almost four years ago. She currently has another young special needs cat, but that's another story. At one time we were owned by a blind tortie cat (probably where Azure developed her great love of special needs cats. Annie was truly wonderful) I am very proud of my daughter for adopting Lily and so lovingly caring for her. We really miss our Lily.

I got an alocasia as a gift last year and I have no idea what I'm doing with it, today I saw one of those corms getting out of the soil and really wondering what it was! What a coincidence I found your video 🤣

I bought my first plant January 2024. Now i have 7 and im realizing after like 6 months that i didnt understand the importance of drainage holes or that some pots are just meant to be cover pots. I am guilty of a few of these and this video has been super informative

Love your channel! Been binging all your videos. I love science and the fact that you go into such detail is wonderful. I have chronic anxiety and have found taking care of plants to be so helpful. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your story. Your honesty and bravery is so inspiring.

Does this work on thrips?

Maidenhair fern is the most difficult plant for me.

I’m definitely Team Hoya Curtisii over the Chain of Hearts. I’ve not had any success with ANY of the “chains.”

I had a lot of calatheas and they died on me, but I was so determined to get it right. This summer I bought one again and put it in a self watering pot and wha la its thriving. My orbefolia is in a self watering pot wit leca and also beautiful. However we are now in our winter season - hope they will make it.

Thank you for this tips 😍

I saw one with 4 leaves and the tiniest pot and then saw the price. 8$ for a 4 leaf plant but the money just flew out of my wallet. Later I saw what I thought was going to be a flower but it unfurled into a new leaf. Stunning plant that started my Begonia fascination. Dragon wing in the garden. A red and black Rex in the house and a few more common types around the yard.

PLEASE talk less and focus camera on plants more than yourself. we want to see the plants

Thanks for the informative video. I have only about 65 and find plants to water 3 or 4 days a week. I can't depend on memory to know which plants I fertilized during the previous watering. With all of your plants, do you have a system for keeping track? A computer program ?

Can we talk about how much more water plants require during active growing season vs. non-growing seasons? Example, I was keeping my orchids in a traditional orchid mix. Wrong…In our hot Dallas environment I had constantly dehydrated orchids UNTIL I started potting in just Sphagnum moss. Also, self watering planters on orchids? Yes. Here we need them. It is so interesting how all the things you are told are gospel really aren’t and how you have to adjust by your local climate in order to be successful.

I have recently been working with Orchids and finding I have to relearn everything I thought I knew about Orchids. The true measure of success will be come bloom season this winter. That being said, I will move away from the bloom boosters once they start blooming and do a balanced fertilizer until the blooms are done then start all over again. I have also been working with Espicia and I have always loved African violets so more experiments ongoing with different fertilizers.

Liqui-dirt is suspicious. A private lab analysis of their sister product "Noot" shows an alarmingly low percentage of macronutrients (or none at all) and demonstrates a complete lack of certain micronutrients it claims to have on the packaging. Liquidirt could be doing the same thing. Idk. Considering how much they sell, idk why they wouldn't get an analysis. Great video!

You are a wealth of knowledge 🫶 enjoyed as always! x

Thank you Drea. I need this video!❤🌿💜

I have found that natural fertilizers also attract animals. When I used fish emulsion or blood meal in my garden, the raccoons tore up my garden. The fish emulsion would attract my dogs' attention in the house. So I quit using natural fertzs at all. Plus the fish stuff smelled too! But what is the difference between a 10-10-10 and a 20-20-20? Does that mean it has more of those things? Is the 20-20-20 better because the numbers are higher? Thank you so much for explaining all this. You make it understandable.

Love how thorough you are, Drea. Again, this will be such a good reference tool for newbies. As an oldie moldie, I use this mantra for life "When in doubt, don't!" For plants, "When in doubt, if all else fails, read the instructions."

Pretty necklace ❤

im glad to hear you talk about protons and electrons . if you adjust you foliar spray you can get it to attract one another. i barley understand and sure cant explain

i think organic means micro organisms need to break things down before plants can use . id rather give them 85% phosphoric acid . lol i like sulfur mag more for some plants. calmag raises my ppm a lot . i use epsom and wollastonite if you can get nutrients to attach to humik you can feed a lot less,

plants love Molasses and wollastonite . Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral that may contain small amounts of iron, magnesium, and manganese substituting for calcium. and the are two kinds of nitrogen. i give both. i mix 5 parts 511 with 1 part general hydroponics micro

"Get in my belly!"

Balanced fertilizers are the biggest LIE on the net. Nothing I repeat nothing should be competing with the plant getting Nitrogen. Nothing. 3-1-2 ratio is the proper ratio for all plants whether in the ground outside or an indoor plant. Micro nutrients, Kelp, and Humic acid are also vital for plant roots, photo synthesis, and plant regulations of nutrients....Balanced fertilizers absolutely cause havoc on the uptake of nutrients and can bind up your soil over time...

Thank you! Great video!

You are the plant youtuber I have come across with the best general spread of knowledge - I always feel I come away learning something new.

This vid is really timely for me. I recently started using Superthrive Foliage-Pro because I moved some Alocasia over to semi-hydro. Its a Dyna-Gro product. I was looking for a feed that I could keep in the reservoir and the Superthrive was recommended. Its 9-3-6 with all the extras, although no sulfur. I have been using it for about a month, not just for semi-hydro, but all of my plants, and while it is a little too early to draw conclusions, many of my Alocasia, even the ones still in soil, are putting out new, HUGE leaves. The directions call for 1-2 tsp per gallon, 1 to 4 weeks, depending on your strength. I have a few one gallon milk jugs full of it, waiting for the next watering. I will keep an eye on the efficacy, to see if the pre-mixing loses its potency. That's something that I never thought of, although I have pre-mixed several different brands and never noticed a difference. Thanks for the tip.

"Muh-lib-den-um" :)