A Realistic, Chilled Morning of Plant Care 💚 Treating Pests, Repotting + Watering

[@wandashaw3551]

An organizing/cleaning plant video? YES PLEASE!! I love those kinds of videos, gives me so much motivation to stay on top of my own plant chores!! :)

[@jallison3379]

I second that!!

[@MollysMantra]

As a former smoker, you got this! Just remember 5 days turn to 6. 6 turns to a week. A week turns into two weeks. And so on. Take it day by day and if you have a slip up? Don’t count that against yourself. 💜 so excited for you!

[@YingjiaWan-k8u]

I love how honest you are with your quit vaping, addition, and mental health history! You are so brave for sharing this with your followers and committing to it on camera. It's a hard journey, so don't get frustrated if bumps appear, and don't be too hard on yourself when minor lapses happen - just keep things under control and be accepting of it and be proud of yourself for sticking to this. As a psychologist, I would also like to add that it will be incredibly important to surround yourself with people who not only do not smoke but also are genuinely supportive of you quitting smoking and can hold you responsible, especially among this time. The social support has such a strong effect. Good luck!

[@saaammage]

Any plant chore video from you is amazingly peaceful as a viewer. I'm having a bad day after a mic mishap but you're keeping me company while editing and making me feel more sane about my plant chores being similar!

[@meaganpollard098]

Ohmygoshh, perfect timing🌿☺️ Was just looking for a new planty video to watch and you're one of my favorite creators🫶

[@brandonturley13]

I watch a lot of plant care channels and your talking about nicotine / vaping is very inspiring and refreshing. I don’t feel like many people talk about life stuff with plants. Love hearing it. I’m still puffing but I’m proud of you

[@zuzia7628]

Claire, have you thought about overfertilizing your anthurium regale? Anthuriums are very sensitive and react if you fertilize them too often or too much. So the amount which is perfect for other plants, could be too much for anthuriums. This could be the reason why the leaves have these spots. Thank you for another super video!

[@jillbirdy2777]

I've been watching you since you unboxed your Hoya Sarowak. I think you are just a lovely person and I'm so proud of you for quitting smoking. I smoked for many years until a friend's mom got lung cancer. I quit that day. 25 years ago. You can do it. I'll be praying for you! Blessings!

[@ThatGirlShelbyy]

Congrats on the almost week with no vape!! My boyfriend used one to quit but ended up never quitting the vape, it just replaced cigarettes for him. We both got Covid in January of this year, and he hasn’t touched his vape since then. Thankfully, he’s a lot happier without it

[@Ommnya]

Quiting vaping is harder then quiting smoking. . The first week(s). After that, it's increadably easy. At least for me. Hope it's the same for you. I never crave a sig or vape ever. It's like I never even started either of them.

[@Ommnya]

Back story. Started smoking wen I was 14 and smoked until I was 33. Then I switched to vape and I quit that November 2022. (At 39)

[@natashaoreilly7072]

I hope you’re having a beautiful day Claire 🧘‍♀️✨🌿🧚🤍

[@Catando]

Yeah!! im proud of you for quitting smoking/vaping! I was a heavy smoker myself and I would highly recommend the book "easy way" by Alan Carr . Literally this book made it so easy for me to quit smoking. No grumpyness, no withdrawls, no craving. It feels like ive never ever smoked in my life. You can do this ! 💪

[@Jordan-le8rc]

“Why am I talking about lightbulbs…” you’re preaching to my soul about home-tending that’s why

[@finefoliage]

Yes yes yes, love those relaxed planty videos!! Keep 'em coming 😃

[@sunshineandariesg7382]

I love your videos! I watch you while at work and when I have my morning coffee before heading out. so relaxing!

[@charissecarrigan2945]

I wanted to say that I really like these less "formal" videos. Because I often do some of my planty things while you are. I had to "almost" laugh, because I was going after mealy bugs on my hoya rosita, while you were hunting down yours. 🙃😂

[@fluwelenvoetjes]

I love this kind of video's because they make me do my planty things also. Its stimulating. I'm glad you stopped vaping as well as smoking. Good job! 👍 So many young people are vaping now because they think its more healthy but in fact its 40 times more bad for you.

[@hedgewitch59]

Great video Claire. I just had to drop a note to tell you how my husband stopped smoking. He got a tablet called Zyban. It's an antidepressant but after 40 years, he just stopped and 15 years later he hasn't had a puff. My addiction, on the other hand, is plants and there's only one way to fix that! Buy more plants. 😂 Thank you for your vid. It's like dropping in for a coffee. 😊

[@loisrheaume535]

I am so glad you are aware of fungus mycelium. It is so important. It may be the thing that can alleviate a lot of problems. They even found fungus can eat plastic!

[@miranda57]

Perfect timing. I love your long videos. I have plant burn out and you inspire and motivate me so much. Much love from Los Angeles!❤

[@Autumn-pw2xz]

I love watching all of your videos! I think a cleaning/organizing video would be great!!

[@lindaleef]

So glad you mentioned your Stoptober progress! As soon as I started the video I was waiting for you to share. Keep going Claire you will be so proud of yourself! It will be a true accomplishment-nicotine they say is up there with the toughest to break and look at you pushing thru the early days! Go Claire! My suggestion abt the cleaning video is make it a Q&A! That way you get your less favorite chores done and we get something to replace the planty stuff! Win win!

[@kayrobinson64]

Clare very chatty video, and may I say you look so lovely & relaxed. Best wishes from London 😊

[@Thathippiekittykat]

I was watching your video while decorating my plant pot with my yarn as you pointed out in your styling videos. You do have such a lovely gentle voice… almost therapeutic. I’d love to see if anyone has tried ladybirds. For me I’d get creeped out 😂

[@tessie7e777]

I’ve used them outdoors when I had an aphid infestation on my roses. I love them so much, I’d be sad to see their dead little carcasses around my home when they stop finding food to eat.

[@roots_and_ruin]

From experience - ladybirds are not fun to have in the home, they get EVERYWHERE 😂

[@sydtheplantdoc]

Very proud of you for making the hard choice to stop vaping after successfully stopping smoking! Anyone who at least tries is a rockstar and you’ll certainly help at least one person with this video!

[@jullsneska9323]

Hi Claire, thank you for another great video! My perfect morning routine starts with a cup of coffee, your videos (new and old ones), and a planty care time 😊 I have a small collection of 12 plants and they all bring me joy.

[@cassandraCC]

I quit smoking some years ago and it's one of the feats I'm most proud of. I think it coincided with my starting meditating. Meditation is something really special, it makes you conscious of what you are and why you do things against your own good without judging yourself. It's a simplistic description, it's just how I see it and I I like to recommend it to everyone. Everybody might find their own path though. I hope you'll find yours, your boyfriend looks the right person for you. Good luck for everything!

[@iammiable]

The comment you made about light bulbs and it being boring felt so much like a FaceTime and I adored it

[@JustPlaysGames123]

It's been a year without vaping for me! It is still on my mind but mostly it's gone! You got this!

[@MOTHERHUSH]

I love yer long videos. So cosy and chill 💚🌻

[@ThatGirlShelbyy]

Perfect timing ❤ I’m about to start some plant care and maybe a repot as well, so now I have something planty to watch while I work 🪴🥰

[@Turtle-wife27]

I love that mushroom documentary as well, it’s super fascinating! Love all your videos as well!

[@camille5173]

Hi Claire ! I heard about Mycelium thanks to a rock band that I love, King Gizzard and the Lizard WIzard. This is the name of the opening track of their album Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, a freaking cool album. In case you'd be interested 😁 Cheers from Bordeaux🍷

[@loisrheaume535]

You go girl!! Keep up with your smoking cessation. Love your show!🥰

[@StaceyHerewegrowagain]

Your always such a pleasure to watch ❤ Love your plant collection and love your personality so much ❤ Keep being you❤

[@charleeharmoney1991]

I watch these videos to get my plant chores done! Since they are one hour long than I know when to stop before my neck pain gets too bad (I get too focused to notice) Also I would love to see a video on your Hoya propagation!

[@ChristineGrimoldby]

Love watching your videos whilst doing dishes or when little ones napping ❤

[@OMM-kl1zu]

Hi Claire. Yes, please do make a video on making your own pots!!!! Marantas are notorious for getting mealy bugs. Every autumn I'm doing a pest control treatment on them, regardless of if they have been put outside for a vacation or kept inside. I have a red vein maranta, black maranta and rabbits' foot maranta. I would love a lemon lime maranta.

[@beyoutube76]

enjoyed this Claire. When you showed your fern I realized I had my Crocodile Fern hanging outside to get some light after repotting (Whew, it will be in the low 40f in the morning here in southern Colorado. You water like I do, reusing the drained water. And I still love your newer camera!

[@maltajade9058]

Tell us you are SUPER DUPER into semi-hydro without telling us ..shows !succulents! propagating on semi hydro. ❤😂❤😂

[@hwilson8572]

Claire, for me personally my semi weekly watering check, involves cleaning and pest management. Yes it is time consuming, but I put on planty videos while I do my chores. I find personally a clean area is beneficial to my collection, and clean leaves make for healthier plants and healthier plants are less susceptible to pests. So win win all around.

[@jpgypsyxo]

I’m very skeptical of the pon. I’ve always had success propagating cacti and succulents, I’d really recommend soil. You only want the tip of the leaves where the roots will grow touching the substrate. If the leaf gets saturated, it will rot! ❤

[@giovannifina85]

Claire the fenestraria succulent can be propagated only via seed, care tip for your next try, water only when the plant looks wrinkly from at least 2 days. Because in nature the plant is exposed to the sun only with their little translucent tips the rest of the plant is buried in the sand, so the plant is a very slow grower that didn't need water for months in my experience

[@thatplantguy93]

20:02 my rubrijuvenile is just growing in ambient home conditions; 20-40% humidity, 60°F at night-70’s during the day (16/20°C) and it won’t stop. It’s slow, but it sizes up like a thai. Every new leaf is almost a time and a half bigger than the leaf before.

[@tessie7e777]

I adore my peperomia incana, as well. So soothing to the touch!

[@JustPanss]

I love all of your videos! I hope you have an amazing day!!! Also did you do a video for Joya compactoa?💚💖

[@Idkseemskindafishy]

I would loooove a cleaning video that I can put on to help me motivate to clean as well lol😅😂

[@deegrows7589]

Love hanging out with you doing planty things 💚✨

[@mermaid000pranu]

I always look forward to such videos from you!

[@thelioness3305]

In thegardening world we use Mushroom comost ALOT. It is amazing. I was turned onto it years ago and it is amazing.

[@Mudi2783]

You look stunning Claire!✨

[@loufaucon5520]

I have an El Choco and it’s just sitting in my living room and doing perfectly well ☺️ I’m in London for reference. Xx

[@thelioness3305]

WOULD LOVE TO SEE A CLEANING ORG VIDEO! Motavates me.

[@MrsM7612]

I have philodendron fat boy, it’s one of my favourite plants, I treat it as any other philodendrons in my collection (just water it less frequently) and it grows beautifully for me and has really big leaves. It has maybe 4 small leaves and then the next ones are significantly bigger with the last 3 really big.

[@skullthearcobaleno2923]

Hi Claire, lots of love for you and your content! In my experience, begonia don't do very well in higher temperatures and prefere it slightly cooler. So moving it out of the cabinet might be a good idea. Also, I know you love semi hydro, it's not best for every plant and I find, that plants with thinner, almost hair like roots, do better in a veryyyy soft and airyyy soil mix. Maybe you'll give this a thought. I, for example, use a mix of perlite, coco fiber, fine bark, activ charocol and coco coir.

[@jackieharmer2385]

I quit smoking 2 years ago and you can do it too. I read the book “ the easy way for women to quit smoking by Alan carr .” I can’t recommend this book enough, I could not of quit without it. I got a second hand copy from world of books. 😊

[@chrislynch1011]

🇦🇺 🙋 I like both style of your videos, but I get a lot of my own chores done when you do these ones. I laughed my head off when you talked about ladybirds landing in your dinner. That said, the company should be sending you ladybird larvae - they eat way more than the adults. I love it when we have the same plants - my lime calathea had just sprouted 2 new leaves. The purple sword, I bought mine in January - I think, as a rescue plant. I tried doing all the right things, letting it acclimate etc. It put out 5 flowers in a row, which I cut off. It slowly lost 4 of its 6 leaves. I put it in semihydro, I haven't lost any more leaves, and I now have 2 new growth points popping out. So, it's taken A LOOOOOONG time to show any real signs of improvement. Indoor bugs - pyrethrum spray at approx half strength Congrats on making it through your first week, fingers crossed 🤞🤞 for many more.

[@melanieklarofficial]

Good for you!! You go girl!!

[@Planty-Mandy]

Well done on your progress in quitting! You should be very proud! I’m happy to see you reusing your water. I’ve been dumping mine on my outdoor flower pots but within the next few weeks, winter will prevent that here in Canada. I feel bad just pouring it down the drain. Maybe I’ll do more bottom watering as well.

[@GellyBeans782]

i’d love a plant cleaning video!

[@jennifersteiner5777]

I would love a tidy up video! :)

[@a_small_world_arising]

I have an El Choco Red and I don't have a cabinet for it. It's been living quite happily in normal room conditions so far in relatively bright light and is putting out seemingly healthy new growth. But I've only had it for a few months and the winter months could change things. For context - I live in Cornwall.

[@my.propagation.corner]

I’d love an organising/clening plants video!

[@nakikiish]

I would totally watch a cleaning video.

[@eunoiaplanter]

so bleak that my silver hero cutting from you didn't make it! it's such a beautiful plant and also not super accessible here. Fingers crossed I come across another soon! 🤞🏻

[@littleheaven70]

I always enjoy a good chores video! It helps me get my own chores done 🎉 I hope I’m wrong, but at around the 32 minute mark when you hold the fuzzy petiole up to the camera, I think I see a mealy on one of the stems in the background, up near the leaf.

[@danaghostlaw3322]

Hello, just a quick note about Rhaphidafora Decursiva! I find that plant to be a crawler. I am about to put it in a oblong pot to see what happens. As always sending good vibes from Paris Texas, and I love your videos! ❤

[@jennieleon5087]

The Rhaph decursiva is a crawler, it grows very fast horizontally and I have already had to chop off several chunks of the mother plant in the last six months, and some of those cuttings were mature chunks that have produced 5 fingered leaves with the first or second leaf. I haven’t tried, but I couldn’t possibly see how you could grow this up a pole. T would be like pushing an elephant up a hill 😅 x

[@davidpfister902]

hi Claire, my EL choco Red lives in appartement conditions near a north east window ( I live in the north est of France) and its giving me beautiful big leaves. Its in soil ninja semi hydro. I dont think he needs the extra humidity and light of a greenhouse cabinet ;. Just to let you know... Thanks for all your video that a watch for now a few years with pleasure

[@KellyNellas]

So glad you are still working on quitting nicotine! 🎉 …and yes! I love cleaning videos. 😂

[@christelarmstrong9598]

❤ your videos thank u

[@Gryphon792]

My El Choco lives out in my plant room in regular old household humidity and is thriving. I agree with trying to bring it back out of ur cabinet, but a warning, they seem to take a long time to acclimate to any new situation and I have nearly always lost a leaf any time I've moved mine.

[@amh0013]

1:05:02 I only ever get 1 or 2 random mealy bugs. Don’t know how, don’t know why but I see one I freak out and then I don’t see anymore. Toes crossed I never see and infestation and that you don’t have one either!

[@aliciafair-manson2870]

Hi! I have a Rhaphidophora Decursiva. I have it on a coir pole. She gets very long very quickly so wrapping her around a pole keeps her tidier. I don't think a moss pole would be necessary to upsize as my leaves are dinner plate sized. She is so easy care! I have her outside under a patio and she is loving life out there now that it's Spring in Perth ❤

[@pennyred6195]

I started smoking v late in my 30s. I smoked as a bf I had smoked and I picked it up. I managed to stop by vaping. 4 years now. I just vape the oil without nicotine. A lot of it is ritual and the vape and filling it up batteries coil changing all seem to substitute well. Sometimes it reminds me of a dummy. Self soothing for adults. Good job you in making the transition.

[@lindaedwards4632]

The raphidophora decursiva will climb or sprawl, it’s a beast 😂 The leaves will naturally split as it matures regardless of pole or not 😀🇨🇦

[@luciasvoboda7344]

I'm currently treating mealybugs on my hoya linearis with lacewings. I've had good success with them against spider mites and they seem like the omnivores of predatory insects 😊 Additionally I was thinking maybe the philodendron that don't do well in the cabinet are just more heat sensitive 🤔 since you pointed out that your cabinet gets so hot

[@lisaplanty]

Decursivia sends out really long runners I’ve had to cut mine a couple time so Now I’ve started it on a moss pole, it’s a bit difficult though as you have to turn it sideways, Emma potted hers recently. It’s almost like they are crawlers.

[@brunosabeckis1739]

Just some advice on personal experience. Don’t think that you are stopping or quitting smoking/vaping, it makes you think that you have “lost” something you like. I was a smoker for at least 30 years and one morning I just woke up and decided that as from that moment I am a non-smoker (not giving up anything) and it worked! Friends (smokers) when visiting didn’t want to smoke in front of me, but I told them no problems, go ahead it doesn’t bother me and it didn’t! By the way, my “fat boy” is doing the same as yours, and I’ve had it for nearly a year.

[@wendyacker245]

My el choco is on a moss pole and the newest leaf is huge also in a tent

[@michaln1080]

Does Claire have a tutorial about transfering plants from soil to pon?

[@chubaka9432]

Super beautiful with that hair color

[@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013]

Claire's boutta start growing mushrooms along with her plants.

[@christiegross1453]

I quit smoking over two years ago now. I vape also. I was a heavy smoker. I find that in the beginning I vaped all I need to. I feel so so much better! I still vape and compared to chain smoking cigarettes it’s way better! I’m not saying it’s healthy but it what it is for me. It’s a much better choice for me and my own health and I’m thankful that I can vape. Your plants will be grateful too even if you didn’t smoke around them just having poison on your clothes and the odor can’t be good for them. If I can do it you can do it! I quit with my husband and I smoked for 32 years! Don’t let people down the vaping you do whatever you need to do to quit the cigarettes first!

[@theannoyingsidekick]

On Dragon Tail plant.. Sadly I recommend putting it in a pole QQ Mine was not on a moss pole (it did have a stake I think) and it gave me runner after runner.. even after chopping it ..

[@ratmannlibertyhound6755]

Begonia Rex is one of the first plants I got when I started in plants. I struggled with it eventually gave up on it. 6 years later still cringe at the thought of try another Begonia

[@dwightphillips2556]

Begonia like cooler temperatures. Bring yours out of the cabinet and it will do fine.

[@jessicam8479]

I always wonder how mealy bugs travel. I wish I could see one moving to a new plant. I had one on an orchid and knock on wood there haven't been anymore or any migrations since I treated the plant. There was just one.

[@hwilson8572]

The raphi just have mine on a bamboo trellis. Be warned, mine grew 1.5 meters in less than a year 😮

[@michelletaub1163]

Do you use Mycorrhizal Inoculant Fungi? It’s helped my plants lots! Pottery videos sound lovely, thanks : )

[@luisamartina9711]

I have a raph decursiva and I noticed it wasn’t growing fenestrated leaves until I had it growing up a trellis I don’t have it on a moss pole but it does want to climb

[@txblondie924]

On your fuzzy, I might have spotted a mealybug at the base of a leaf .

[@ShonjiPowerOf2]

I thought Painted Lady was an upright philodendron, should they be on poles? I have baby Ring of Fire, Black Cardinal and P. Of Orange and I still have time to put a pole in but honestly don't want to 😅

[@christabelneo19]

Hello! I really really hope you’ll see this but where did Emma get the vape thing from?? I’d love to get one of these too

[@ronjakh]

my choco grows in 40% humidity. A lot of plants, particularly anthurium, like a drop in temperature at night, so cabinets are not necessarily good for all of them

[@mindfully_growing]

All I get from the decursiva is runners and I am so sick of the plant now 😅 I’ve even got it in a trough planter and everything

[@lisamiddleton2638]

If you leave those corms in place in the Alocasia pot… will they sprout in there?

[@robertgibbs2842]

Have you ever tried a peace lilly in semi hydro? How do you think it would work? I have a peace lilly that is struggling.

[@lavernablack1950]

So I have tried lady bugs against mealy bugs. I got mesh bags, mesquite head coverings, put the plant in then released some lady bugs inside. It was easy to still water the plants and the lady bugs were contained but to be honest it wasn't very productive. That plant still has mealy bugs.

[@amandaihfe3791]

I grow my raphidophora decursiva as a crawler