I love your videos! I live in the desert of Southern California, and for some reason I’m having a hard time keeping my euphorbias alive, except pencil plants that tend to grow like weeds, so these videos have been very helpful. I love seeing the hybrids you show. Do you create the hybrids yourself? If so, could you show us the mechanics of how that is done? Or is it something that has to be done in a lab with tissue culture and microscopes, etc.? Thanks!

have you done a video on baobabs? sand is the natural growing media but unless suitably coarse, even sand can retain too much moisture in pots. the problem with organic matter, which became fashionable thanks to nurseries using this cheap medium, is that it becomes hydrophobic with infrequent watering. giving trouble at every turn. nurseries get away with using this very cheap (bulk wholesale prices) medium, as they dont keep plants for long, passing on the problematic mix with plant to customer. best to get rid of it upon bringing plant home. orchids often get sold with peat as medium, which readily rots the roots as retains too much water for too long.

You're amazing!! Thank you so much for summing everything up in such a compact way! I've heard lithops are finnicky to care for so was really worried about what to do and all my research - you've covered everything I possibly needed!

you are truly the best plant channel on KZbin. I don't say that lightly either, I'm so happy that you are a thing and your videos exist. please never stop making them, cause you're just absolutely fucking awesome dude. sending love from Banff Canada!!

great episode

Except for Pachypodiums most Caudiciforums are not commercially grown in the USA🇺🇸🌵

Chopsticks are a great tool for separating tangled roots.

Great video! I was given a stephania erecta a couple of years ago. It went dormant no problem, woke up on its own and grew about 14 centimeters, pretty leaves, so overall it's going well. I really like it 😊 Question, if it's been mostly above the substrate for this long can I bury it fully to increase the size? Or no, leave it be. Question

Gotta harden them off slowly

So nice that you did a video on caudex plants, thanks!

You blew my mind with the haagocereus talk about crazy.

holy damn, where'd ya find that Rhytidocaulon paradoxum? Rhytidocaulon is my all time favorite genus, I have a beautiful macrolobum and I've been looking for paradoxum up and down with no luck.

Another fantastic video from the best channel on KZbin. I for one would be very pleased to watch a whole series on the hundreds of species of caudiciform 'types'!

I was hoping you would mention that ponytail palm. A few years ago, quite a few years ago I saw the biggest one i've ever seen in person at least. It was still young, maybe three feet tall and a foot and a half wide. I fell in love, but I couldn't get that one. About ten years ago I was lucky enough to get a potfall. I still have three of the five or six that was in the pot. This video has got me wondering if they are doing well or if I could be doing better. I estimate that the stems are putting on about a fourth of an inch a year around and maybe 3/4 inch in height.

Great information I can't get enough of this channel 🌵

Fascinating! I never realised I love caudex plants so much! If you left several young seedlings in a pot, would they eventually fuse together and create a kind of clump style super caudex?

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Love this video, but I always wonder: do you read your plant names when you say them in your videos or do you just know the botanical names offhand like that? Even if you are reading them your pronunciation is impressive

I just wrote to the seller on Etsy who sells the plant you showed. Just got the answer. apparently the plant is grown out of seed. How long does it take to grow such a big one???

awesome

Thank you very much for speaking out so openly out this very important topic!! Unfortunately the poaching hat hit its high during covid. people had nothing to do, sitting at home and searching the internet for new hobbies. Plants have hit the all-time high. Especially the Aroid Family. whole placed habe been ripped out. The beautiful Alocasias and anthuriums.....some of them with foot long stems and old roots. rare plant shops opened like never before. you tubers were the hottest things on earth, now they are reduced to videos how its ok to reduce the plant collection and plant burn out!! I myself am a lover of Hoyas. Oncd I the did the mistake to order from Asia and the customs here in Switzerland is quite harsh, most of them arrived dead and the one with historic roots, I was able to re-root. My bad, never again. so glad I saw your video... new in cacti and succulents. Now I know what to look for. I never buy or Etsy or e-bay.

Lovely video as always! Your videos are always so fun to watch 😊 Btw it’s nice seeing you experimenting with music again. Take care!

Love caudex and love that I found a channel that talks about them!

I tell everyone i like fat plants cuz they remind me of my mom 😅😅😅

"What lurks below" 👻

Amazing video as always mate, i really love the Weekly Uploads, caudex plants needs to have fame, wondeful plants indeed. Last night i saw one of my old fockea had lost its leaves in a weird way, not yellowing but like swollowing. It was rot inside the plant, prolly due ro a report. Atleast they are cheap plants but still suck when u lose a 5 year old plant...😢 A question tho, where in Australia are you, seems always to be hot😅.

After much internal debate I have decided that weird caudex plants really are my favorites, they are endlessly interesting. I’ve had 2 ant plants ( Myrmephytum selebicum) and had great success with them for years then they just declined and died. ⚰️ I will try again next spring…I’d like to see a part 2 of this if you have the time! 🌱🤗 🎃🦇🍁

I have a 2 year old baobab seedling. Would you cut it back to encourage thickening of the base ?

I have a 25-year-old Uncarina, 3 ft tall trained as a succulent bonsai with rocks and aloes crassula & bulbs, can't describe what the foliage smell is but yuck, need to do a video on that today. some of the shots when you are unpotting, what you are doing can't be seen, perhaps move the camera down so that the space above your head doesn't occupy the screen as opposed to what the work is you're doing that you're looking to illustrate, ant plants are often grown on wood and will colonize a branch, I had bad luck exposing roots better luck sphagnum and wired to a branch like a bromeliad or orchid. I have a couple of videos on my Channel and still need to do an update on my bonsai Australian bottle tree that I've had for 30 years, you're motivating me this morning as the weather winds down here in Minnesota to schedule vids. How did they take out the roots of the big one local to you? Bulldozers over the land will do that to oaks here as builders build, cities are mandating ground protection due to trophy oaks getting wasted as redevelopment occurs.

The controversy over what is and isn't a caudex has been mocked and discussed for decades, I have a 50-year collection of the cactus and succulent society of America's journals and at some point in the past 50 years people have potted up upside down root vegetables creatively and entered them as caudex plants in shows, sometimes pulling it off but getting some chuckle worthy moments along the way. all Cactus are succulents but not all succulents are Cactus is the tip of the iceberg.

Perfect

Now i have a few things to put on my shopping list

Interesting care video…that cactus is still quite pricey here in the US, at least where I am ( NJ). Are the orange flowers on the top shelf behind you on a Jatropha? Off topic but check out Only Plants, Sean’s you tube channel…the episode on Euphorbia francosii. Oh my gosh, the hybrids Tasson of Tasson’s Nursery does, and how it’s done, is amazing, just watched it. I first heard of E. francosii on your channel! 🌱

Hello! May I ask , please, have you encountered soil oribatid mites in greenhouse conditions? do you think they should be destroyed in the conditions of keeping plants in the apartment? I read that oribatide mites can only be destroyed with organophosphorus insecticides, it is impossible to use these drugs in an apartment. And I'm confused, because there is absolutely no information about soil mites.

Hmm. Very good point about the air movement in deserts. And now I'm wondering something.... I just turned on my forced-air heat, which always necessitates moving my plants around, so that the ones that enjoyed the floor vent air conditioning in the summer don't get fried. Of course, those are the leafy plants that aren't built to retain moisture. Would my cacti be likely to enjoy the air stream, even though they're mostly dormant? Should I try clustering their pots around the floor vent, now that the leafy plants have vacated? Never thought about this, before. Just always made sure to keep all of the plants away.

I didn't "understand the risks" when I collected these plants. I have two pachypodiums, lots of adeniums, and several euphorbia. Thank you for the education but now I am scared of my plants. Why aren't there warnings in nurseries about these dangers!

I tend to not water at all over winter.

Booba 👍👍

Thank you so much for sharing your process here! The mesh bags especially--I've not seen that before, but I suppose that makes sense because there aren't a ton of videos on youtube yet of hybridization processes. Thank youuuu!

Good to know it's frost intolerance

my one grow super tall but I having issus to with browning at the bottom and sides it looks a little ugly but is still a healthy plant and kept on growing taller and taller. is around 55-60cm tall now

I was extremely lucky and got mine for 8€ on eBay.

Stay away from fire sticks in landscape, it’ll start growing wild, get thick and will for sure burn you at some point or your kids … I removed it from my landscape years ago and I still see little sticks popping up here and there. It’s a menace outside a pot.

I don't even want one of these but I am watching anyway. I do always learn something and just enjoy your videos.

Fun video, Michael. As a passing thought, you never seem to add top dressing when you pot up a plant. Is this just a time issue, or are you against top dressing? Do you have a reason?

The Myritillocactus reminds me of some Echeverias..not to touch the powdery surface🌵

Hey how'd your euphorbia hybrids go?

that name is a mouthful 😉

Man , I watch all your videos and your presentation skills are both educational and unintentionally humorous at the same time . Feature more Agaves if possible.

How cold do you let yours get, like in an cold winter night?