I AM SO EXCITED!! #AnthuriumVeitchii has arrived 🤩✨🥹🌱🤭 I’...
I AM SO EXCITED!! #AnthuriumVeitchii has arrived 🤩✨🥹🌱🤭 I’m screaming LOOK AT THE THE THE SHAPPPE!! Welcome home GARY! We are SO HAPPY YOURE HERE & look at those ROOTS 😌🙂↕️🌱🥹🤩 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #Anthurium #AnthuriumAssembly EEK!✨🤩🌱
2” pot with drainage
Last watered 6 months ago
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@ThatOneGay YESSSSSS BHAHAAHHA they can get even bigger too of course! I want to challenge myself for FULL Growth 😌🤩✨🌱 (bahahah we will see for reals) 👏🥹😳🌱
@ThatOneGay EEEK I WILL FOR SURE POST UPDATES!! I’m doing my research on potting mixes & double checking plant care info (humidity, temp) and constantly checking my house environment bahahaha. I need to repot soon since it’s roots are ready!!🤩✨🥹🌱 eeek I’m so excited!!
@WelsomeRhodotus YES but I wasn’t sure if it would thrive in the water, would you think wicks style??? Orrrr😳🥹
@Prentyce 100% wick style!!!! I washed the soil off mine and plonked it into a wick style setup in LECA without a water transition first and it grew roots into the reservoir below within a few weeks!! It had a ripped leaf from being shipped and I thought that would have fallen off for sure but it still looks gorgeous and has no issues at all!
@WelsomeRhodotus WOWOWOWOWIEEE!! Eek I’m so excited! Done and done 😆🥹 I will have to add some sulfur right?? They like acidity? Or alkaline i forget
@WelsomeRhodotus I only have a few water soluble things, so pls tell me what else is needed!! I have the propagation drops, silica and sulfur. That’s is it☺️
@PoisedAlbo thank you SO MUCH! I will be doing moss rings 🤩✨🌱 mandatory!! Can I chop down all the dead ?? I see some decay at the base and I’m scared for root rot 🤩🤭
@Prentyce ok so I prep my nutrient solution for already rooted plants like your baby here as follows:
1. ideally starting off with rain water (I used to buy distilled but it gets expensive so I stopped), I fill up a 5 litre plastic bottle (actually I do a few at a time cos I have so many plants and some have massive reservoirs!). If no rainwater is available I use tap water and add a solution usually used for aquariums to remove the chlorine and chloramine from the water - this is due to my local tap water (it’s called Stress Coat +). Give the bottle a really good shake.
2. I then add my nutrient/hydroponic fertiliser according to the quantity for hydroponics on the bottle - that’s normally 5ml per litre of water. I use the Growth Technology Foliage Focus one as it’s made in Australia and that’s where I’m at :) I think you can also buy that in the northern hemisphere via Amazon but there are plenty of other hydro fertilisers available :) Then shake shake shake again to distribute.
Every second or third batch I add in silica - it’s also from the Growth Technology brand. This one requires the silica to be added first, shaken in well and left to stand for at least 15 mins before adding the nutrients. Because I’m lazy, this one isn’t added in every watering 😅😅
3. I then add in another additive from Growth Technology called Root Zone. It’s an added extra and not integral, a bit like the Superthrive one. Shake shake shake!
4. Then the chemistry starts! I use an inexpensive digital ph meter I bought on eBay to measure the ph of my nutrient solution. My tap water is super alkaline and the alkalinity increases even more with silica added. I bought some liquid ph up and ph down solutions and use a 1ml syringe to add in ph down to the nutrient solution bottle until the ph is in the range of 5.5 to 6.5, shaking and measuring in between. I find it doesn’t need much when I’m using rain water but tap water requires quite a bit of faffing around. So no Sulfur for me as I adjust using ph down :)
5. Anyway after that, I change the nutrient solution in all the pots according to their various schedules :)
My biggest takeaway is making sure you measure the ph because then you can make adjustments with accuracy. I also recommend buying some different size syringes for all the different additives. This way you can sort of just have one for each different type of additive you’re working with. I mostly use 20ml, 10ml, and 1ml syringes. It takes all the guesswork out! Hopefully that isn’t too overwhelming! 😅😅
1. ideally starting off with rain water (I used to buy distilled but it gets expensive so I stopped), I fill up a 5 litre plastic bottle (actually I do a few at a time cos I have so many plants and some have massive reservoirs!). If no rainwater is available I use tap water and add a solution usually used for aquariums to remove the chlorine and chloramine from the water - this is due to my local tap water (it’s called Stress Coat +). Give the bottle a really good shake.
2. I then add my nutrient/hydroponic fertiliser according to the quantity for hydroponics on the bottle - that’s normally 5ml per litre of water. I use the Growth Technology Foliage Focus one as it’s made in Australia and that’s where I’m at :) I think you can also buy that in the northern hemisphere via Amazon but there are plenty of other hydro fertilisers available :) Then shake shake shake again to distribute.
Every second or third batch I add in silica - it’s also from the Growth Technology brand. This one requires the silica to be added first, shaken in well and left to stand for at least 15 mins before adding the nutrients. Because I’m lazy, this one isn’t added in every watering 😅😅
3. I then add in another additive from Growth Technology called Root Zone. It’s an added extra and not integral, a bit like the Superthrive one. Shake shake shake!
4. Then the chemistry starts! I use an inexpensive digital ph meter I bought on eBay to measure the ph of my nutrient solution. My tap water is super alkaline and the alkalinity increases even more with silica added. I bought some liquid ph up and ph down solutions and use a 1ml syringe to add in ph down to the nutrient solution bottle until the ph is in the range of 5.5 to 6.5, shaking and measuring in between. I find it doesn’t need much when I’m using rain water but tap water requires quite a bit of faffing around. So no Sulfur for me as I adjust using ph down :)
5. Anyway after that, I change the nutrient solution in all the pots according to their various schedules :)
My biggest takeaway is making sure you measure the ph because then you can make adjustments with accuracy. I also recommend buying some different size syringes for all the different additives. This way you can sort of just have one for each different type of additive you’re working with. I mostly use 20ml, 10ml, and 1ml syringes. It takes all the guesswork out! Hopefully that isn’t too overwhelming! 😅😅
@WelsomeRhodotus ooooh okay!! That makes perfect sense!! I do need to order some stuff asap then BAHAHAH whoopsies!!! I might repot the anth in soil in the meantime (it takes 2 weeks to get anything from Amazon 🥹😭 I live in the boonies lol) eeek! But I need it for my PP, my new philos in the mail!!! And my Thai con🤩🌱🌱🥹 I’m so excited! Thank you so much! Now my plants will actually thrive ☺️🤭🌱✨🥹👏🥳
@WelsomeRhodotus are youuu growing anything on a pole in Leca??🤭🥳 could we do plastic sphagnum moss poles??
