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Plants are just so interesting…my first thought was to let it go and see what happens, does it just get exhausted without dormancy?! Why does it do that? Oh and nice to see leaves on your Plumeria, I can’t grow those at all! 🌱🌸

So what would be the right medium for a nobile indoors, I have what was a large plant but hasn't bloomed for a couple of years, canes are a bit dry and has loads of aerial roots,what should I do?

Very lovely video but background music is irritating. I have subscribed anyway! Just some constructive feedback ; )

Hi Geoff. Thanks for showing us whats doing well in your greenhouse. I watch a lot of orchid related videos and have rarely come across anyone that has something nice to say about Nelly Isler. They seem to be so difficult to grow well, even for experienced orchid growers. Regardless of you not giving plants in the greenhouse a lot of attention, there are still some very nice blooms. I love seeing flowers regardless of what they are so keep them coming Geoff. I would very much like to get a Nepenthes but worry that there's not enough humidity inside our house at present. Any suggestions?😊

the Syngonium is looking quite nice. I should have bought the Syngo podophyllum aurea when I saw it but I bought Monstera standleyana aurea instead and that plant is aggravating.

Hi, Geoff! Lovely to see your greenhouse again, thank you!😊 I am in Argentina, so it's winter now. We had a few polar waves, something very unusual as our winters are rather mild, so some my orchids that I keep outside are in bad shape, as I do not have the space to bring them all in. Most have resisted and are well. I did not water them during the cold spell, to help them cope better. We will see!

this is what I tried explaining to an orchid growing youtuber who went from a SW facing conservatory to a N facing and has been having trouble with their plants ever since. There is only a short period during the summer when any sun comes in, otherwise the plants are in perpetual shade. It doesn't matter that the conservatory has a clear roof, they are only getting bright shade a few months of the year and dense shade most of the year. It is hard enough growing warm (or hot) growing orchids in the UK, when they aren't getting enough light it is even worse. You would think that losing all of their vandas would serve as a clue that the light is poor, but no, blame it on anything else.

I use copper mesh and its worked for me

I use Yankee candle lids you put them all over the garden full of beer. Another lady used oatmeal but I told her ants will come. So yeah I did the beer method and it can be cheap stuff.

Thank you 🙏 make the time to videos

To get rid of slugs and snails put a bowl of beer near the plants that are being chewed on. I don't know if it's poison to them or they just get drunk and fall in and drown. I keep it in my greenhouse all year. I replace it every few days as they don't like it when it goes stale.

I get to continually start my plants over and over again, so I set up my pot and pour over a couple cups of boiling water over the soil the day before I plant... That worked for me... My plants were in my room so I constantly had these things in my iced tea... I leave out a half cup of Arizona green tea w/ ginseng at all times... it collects a lot if they are bad... they love the stuff... it works like the sticky traps... but with the boiling water I can almost drink my tea again without first checking for gnats

So nice seeing you again! Aside from the Streps the other plants look pretty good to me…hope you are enjoying the summer, we hit 101 last week ( east central NJ) 🥵🪴

Hello can i do propogation from cuttings in rainy season? its raining in our country right now.

Hey Geoff long time no see, glad to see your videos again. BTW if you want to heal pretty much any ailments, or just to feel the best you possibly can, check out the carnivore diet, it saved my life. I know it sounds crazy, (I did too) but @ 55 yr old I healed so many ailments, and I feel like I'm in my 20's again.

Welcome back Geoff! Good to see you!

I’m new to houseplants and found this video very helpful.😊❤

I like the idea but I wouldn't want the water dripping down as it will annoy my neighbours. It'd be good to find some way of catching excess water.

I find my Buckleberry can take a LOT more light than many of my other Bulbs. That has always been great for me in terms of growth and flowering.

I note the comment that they don't need to be too wet but would they form roots in one of the misting propagators with a reservoir of water in the base which sprays water over the base of the stem and encloses the rest with a transparent lid which retains humidity. I use this to propagate most things but sometimes certain things root better placed in little pots of perlite and compost standing above the water and just benefiting from the humidity. Have you ever tried just rooting them in water for example? Thanks

Thank you! I've been having terrible luck with mine. Hope this will finally save them.

This is the most straight forward, informative. educational video by far I have seen while searching for how to mend browning leaves and straggling vines on my Wandering Jew. I had no idea. Thanks so much. I will add that I keep mine outside on a covered front porch, lots of humidity, 6 hours of sun and very hot summers in the Carolinas. Can these be successful under those conditions? One of them is thriving while the other is peaked looking. I am repotting but after watching this, I will use your information to probably separate into a few pots. Neither are currently in hanging planters, but both are raised on columns that allows plenty of hang.

one thing ive noticed that no one really seems to talk about is the way their roots grow. i have about half a dozen planted in a 20" pot which is large. i filled the lower 2/3 of the pot with filler for drainage, and the top 1/3 is soil. ive done this because of the way wandering jews tend to completely consume the soil with their roots. i planted these about 3 months ago, and now i have a circular disc of soil which is hard like wood. the roots have SO thoroughly filled the soil, that now its more root than soil. its obviously a capillary type root, but it an important factor to growing them, no one seems to cover properly, atleast that ive seen. their roots are so aggressive, that my use of small branches to direct the vines has become problematic. the roots will not only consume, but grow right in to wood, or really any organic material. so if i leave a stick in the soil for a week or two, and then go to pull it out, i rip dozens of roots off, which have grown in to the wood of the stick. the reason i filled 2/3 of the large pot with filler, was because my last batch in this pot completely consumed the entire 5 gallon pot of soil, and it became impossible for water to drain properly, root rot set in and i refused to let that happen again. i used promix, which ive had great luck with, but id love a comprehensive guide on how to deal with their all consuming root growth

We have 7 of these "rios" hanging by hooks on our fence. All bought at the same time. The pink ones are still flowering but the red ones are only "vining" but they look very healthy. (We had no problem with them last year (different plants; we lost those due to freeze).

Thank you for making this video! I bought this kind of orchid for the first time last year and it had one stalk with lots of flowers. I was very confused when it came around to this year with 5 new stalks shooting up and no flowers, but thanks to your video I know to just leave it alone and let it do its thing. Thank you!

I started growing them this year and I'm totally addicted to growing and collecting them!

Wow your nursery is gorgeous.

Ordinary begonia houseplants

Thank you so much, I’m new to houseplants and I have them outside on a overporch, my wondering Jew has something going on and I think this might be the issue because it’s been unusually humid here, Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I just subscribed 😊❤

Hi, thank you for the video. I am trying my hand at my first Zygopetalum. (Which I got from Aldi today of all places...😂).

Hi Geoff! Those blooms are lovely! Thank you for the advise.

Brilliant tutorial- just what I've been looking for, thankyou so much! xx

If you're using bug clear on flowering plants...be aware it will also kill the bees that go to these plants..

I really like that yellow hill, it would look great mixed with the purple and blue trads.

Double video speed wasn't fast enough to get to the point

Where did you get the yellow sticky traps. I would have to buy a package of 32. I only have five plants and do not plant to get any more. I received these beautiful plants when my 29 year old daughter died 4 months ago and I simply do not want them to die.

Pinched out the top?? 🤷🏾‍♀️

I'm not a collector of rare plants, but I was thinking of at least one or two orchids. I have a very cold little flat in UK and no idea what orchid I should pick first. Thank you for sharing that video.

Great info on those snails, luckily not suffered yet ! Have one Strep, do the regular with the Dibleys feed . Taken some cuttings as well will see how they progress.

I haven't seen any IG posts or new videos for a while now, I hope that you are doing OK and you're just busy with summer.

I'm wanting to get a "Nightmare" Streptocarpus, which looks absolutely amazing, but I've never tried growing it.

When IS the BEST time to repot?

What's the name of the white one Geoff?

Awesome information! I have been doing research and you are correct no one has a good tutorial on how to tidy the plants as they go dormant. i am definitely going to start pulling leaves and stems out and no more cutting.

I grow Streptocarpus. I have some mini and some regular varieties. I just purchased 4 new hybrids from Violet Barn in NY. Now usually when I get a plant, they look great and soon after bringing them home, I live in California in USDA Zone 9b, they start to bloom and they bloom a lot but as winter approaches, they slow down and then never come back. I have yellow leaves, saggy leaves, just sad looking plants that never bloom as profusely as they did when I brought them home. I do know that they like bright light, and I have mine under LED grow lights and I fertilize with a balanced fertilizer once a month. What else can I do to get them to look as amazing as yours? I also keep my house between a low of 65F (18C)(at night in winter) to a high of 78F (25C)(during the day in summer).

I've propagated all my begonias in water and all of them grew into nice full plants

Can you propagate the flower stalk like a leaf pulling??

When it comes to Drosera I believe each variety of needs their own grow guide. Because people who are new to carnivorous plants might get confused. You wouldn't grow tropical Drosera the same way you grow a temperate or tuberous variety.

They don't produce spores. Thats why mostly they are not ferns i guess.