DOUBLE THE IMPACT - using the chop & extend method to make a lush plant

In this video I am giving my philodendron atabapoense a chop & extend.
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[@camerlengograziedio]

Having a choice doing your plant stuff outside is priceless.

[@carolstuff]

It grew so fast! If I lived in Sidney, I’d take a ride over to AJ’s & buy that monster…love it!

[@Nightsoil626]

Love these chop and extend videos, could watch them all day 😊

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@caloyabella]

i bought big and tall plants after watching your vlog 😍 inspiring 😍

[@TiTiSuwardhi]

Wow! Love your plants!!!! So bushy and greeeeeen ❗️love your channel - full information! watching from TUSCANY Italy cheers xx

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thank you :)

[@jillianleblanc9370]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful plants I'm always watching your video very beautiful collection

[@aylaloup-lestatJun]

Thank you for this vidéo 💚🇫🇷🙏🌿

[@karenmyers9146]

Love watching you working on your plants and their moss poles. You are an inspiration to all us plant hoarders I mean collectors and growers. Keep the videos coming and we’ll keep watching them

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thank you :)

[@surgeinc1]

Maybe on a future video you could cut open a moss pole with the remaining roots, to see if they rotted, hardened off or dissolved and became part of the substrate.

[@roobertjuh]

I am so jealous of you living in a place where you can grow all your beautiful plants outside. I'm running out of place indoors, and especially with winters here I'm not the only one suffering winter depression - I wish there was such a thing as growlights for humans. Keep up sharing all the good planty vibes ❤️

[@gabeoleinik4435]

Hey you may not see this but oddly enough there actually is a product that’s exactly what you’re talking About. Look up lights for seasonal affective disorder. You’ll see them referred to as SAD lamps. They basically mimic the sun and can help out with winter depression. Hopefully that’s helpful 😊

[@dr.venuswilliams7556]

Caring for the plant outside is even better than inside. Your new place offers that. Your videos are in my favorites choice to watch. Thank you.

[@KathyGallagher01]

Interesting to see the update on the plant. It’s done well and not suffered the move and bing outside 👍. Missed seeing Brad 🌱💚

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

I love this plant.

[@waktukaksugeng9540]

Thanks for your tips how to make ataba growing well

[@Self-Love-e9p]

Jan...😊 STUNNING!!..😍❤️.. I like watching this lovely video!.. After watching your videos, I love 💖 Philo plants. ( Before I didn't like them because the leaves grew in unpredictable directions!..). You've managed to arrange them beautifully and then you always display your gorgeous plants at the right place / angle, so that I can enjoy them well!..🥰.. I LOVE this video because you showed all of us how this Philo Atabapoense faced its processes becoming climbing and mature (through the chopped and extended). Now this Atabapoense with 2 shoots has new experience to growing mature outdoors!..😊.I'm looking forward to watching its nice growth!. 💓.I'm soo proud of YOU because you do your BEST for your gorgeous plants...from small to mature patiently!..💐🌈🥰. Jan...😊 Thank you soo much for sharing this brilliant idea for growing this beautiful plant, Philo Atabapoense!.😍 ..YES!!.🥰.. GREAT!!..💞💓💐🌈🌸🥰💚🤗😊..

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@Self-Love-e9p]

@@sydneyplantguy Jan...😊 You're welcome!..💖. Many days it rains heavily here in the evening, but by learning a lot from You about Loving Plants ..💓..so " No Worries to much " in my life!.. Our plants will be fine!.. I APPRECIATE You!!..💞❣️💐🌈🌸🥰💚🤗😊..

[@kathleenlewis1954]

Big respect 🪷 monster plants

[@Optimisticnature123]

Your plants are so gigantic beautiful and healthy ❤😊

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@milliem4897]

WOW. Just wow.

[@sylviagutierrez7676]

You are a pro at this,I must try it !👍 💚🌱🌵☘️💚

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :) i’ve had a lot of practice :)

[@mollyeverglade3655]

I've noticed this upward root growth about my atabapoense as well! I popped one of my tiny props on a mini grow vertical pole when it had two leaves about, probably, not even two months ago. Mistake. It has already reached the top. 🤣 I'll have to extend it. I can't wait till it starts growing lovely big leaves.

[@samdesai8172]

One of my favourite plants of yours 😊😊😊🐈

[@robynfisher4455]

They must be loving all that great light outside. Got everything crossed for them as it gets colder ❤

[@BoBoBenton]

Literally just caught up with the first video on Sunday. This has come at a perfect time for me! Great content as ever Jan

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@user-hn2hn9uo7r]

😅 Это какое-то волшебство! Такие шикарные растения!

[@WickedNattyRoots]

Like a boss as always, this video totally inspired me to build moss poles and give my plants something to climb. Also, so cool seeing all your plants outside, I'm sure the plants appreciate too. And you're right there is something about plants chores, re-potting totally recenters me as well, thank you for sharing! 💦🌱💫

[@pgr8dnlvr]

Your videos are THE BEST! Wishing you luck and happiness in your new place. Thanks so much for all you share 😊

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@nandaniabegunasekara-cu7mm]

So godd it ,i like it❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@sunnymelbourneplants]

Another awesome video 🎉 this atabapoense is living its best life! What a beautiful and dramatic piece 🌿😍

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@fluorexence4112]

the chop and extend content always satisfy me and i hope you can make more videos about this ! ❤❤❤

[@SteveNoblin]

It all makes since to me now! 🙂

[@thatplantguy93]

Added my very first extension to the first plant I ever put on a moss pole. My favorite, verru. 🥰

[@Chromico]

Can't believe that's only 5 months of growth. Being in a location that you can have your plants outside year round really makes these things go nuts.

[@sydneyplantguy]

It was growing indoors up until 3 weeks ago, so most of the growth would have been due to great indoor conditions :) let's see how she likes the outdoors going forward :)

[@Caeilia]

such a beautiful plant!

[@stephenmudry7826]

Awesome! I'll be so excited when my monstera is ready for its 1st chop and extend!

[@jjs811]

Your videos are so much help. I know you talk about the pots and pot size in some of your videos. Any way you could do a video all about the pots and sizes you use for starting out plants at different levels to mature plants? Thanks again for sharing all this knowledge with us.

[@Dyeguy117]

I just got my first Atabapoense today. I’m super excited to see its growth. You definitely were my influence to get one. Yours looks so amazing. I hope I can grow mine out like yours. ☺️ I always love and enjoy your videos. Keep ‘em coming! 👊🏼

[@elenaescot2133]

Beautiful huge plant!

[@giardinodialberi8751]

I guess Sydney has no philodendronophiliac insects. I had my first Philodendron outdoors where the six-legged culprits contributed some "fenestrations" in my leaves. I love watching your collection move outdoors so I can work up the courage again to summer some plants outdoors!

[@sydneyplantguy]

We will find out :) so far haven't notice any issues :)

[@jsmith4179]

I’ve learned more from Jan than I could ever hope for. You’re the man. Would love to see what you do with a dark lord/ppp/painted lady style philodendron

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :) neither of those appeal to me :/ so won't add them to the collection, sorry :)

[@katarzynam4937]

15:30 magic! 😀

[@bob9108]

I just built my first moss poles and 1 more will be done during the next days. I am so excited to see if and how my plants will mature on them :D

[@manabushltd3250]

Fab video, great to see you and the plants enjoying those courtyards! I have followed this atabapoense all the way through all of its videos - great to see if maturing - gives me hope for my little one!

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@aleksandrao-r4484]

I love to learn from you! I have only 2 plants on moss poles but it gives me a lot of fun. Probably I will try with other species.

[@elizabethkey6578]

Love it❤️❤️❤️

[@clearwaterbeachhomesearchm5957]

Look at you doing chop and extends in your own back yard. 🎉

[@merielangharad977]

Great Video as always. I was as gutted as you were when you had to move out of your flat but I really like the new place and the filming outdoors must be a dream. No living room mess (I'm a neat freak too, lol). I hope you and Brad are settling into your new home 💙

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thank you:)

[@yovanaliracuellar]

¡Gracias!

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thank you 😊😊

[@tamaracross9]

Wow your atabapoense is making me miss mines...It got root rot and I didn't catch it fast enough to save it ...I had no idea they could get this big. Now I have to get me another 1 or 2 cause I love big leaf plants.

[@MyLocsMyPlants]

heyyyyy we're outside alright 🎉!!

[@EverythingWithToshaK]

Another great video! 💚🪴

[@andiincali.4663]

It's not a chore, it's therapy! Plant therapy is what it is. It benefits the plant and it helps the human as well.

[@sydneyplantguy]

Yes !! well said :)

[@christopherelizondo318]

i've noticed with atabapoense that the roots definitely are very wild compared to other roots for philodendron that i have

[@christophertaylor9826]

Your fabulous 👌

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :)

[@MrNosajwhitey]

can't wait until i can get the right stuff to try this method probaly in a months time i'll have a moss pole

[@andyx6827]

Love it as always :) Could you make a video about the plant-growing differences in Germany vs. Australia? How much faster do things grow? How much more light and heat do you get? How does the availability of plants and resources compare? Pests, humidity, apartment differences etc. I would love to know :D Or did you not grow anything yet back when you lived in Germany? Greetings ❤

[@sydneyplantguy]

I have never grown plants in Germany so have nothing to compare... sorry :P

[@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887]

Australia is also a really huge country with a vast range of climates from quite cold in the south through deserts and tropics up north.

[@andyx6827]

​@@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887 I know that Australia is huge :P But I also know that even the colder areas are nowhere near as cold as most places in Germany, so it doesn't change anything about my comment^^ And I also know that he lives is Sydney, which is in fact pretty warm, so your point isn't even relevant in any way :D

[@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887]

I'm interested in how they go outside over winter in Sydney. Here in SW Victoria I'm heating my plants indoors by now, lol! You have a bit more warmth up there but do you think the tropical plants will do ok outside all winter there? I'm totally with you on the 'chores' thing - tending to my indoor plants is how I relax from life's real chores..!! :) :) :)

[@sydneyplantguy]

Time will tell :)

[@stevem3194]

I’m a pretty vanilla guy. I didn’t realize I had any fetishes until I heard you pronounce philodendron adabapoense. ❤

[@sydneyplantguy]

😅😅😅

[@jannamozdzer4100]

Great video as always. Theoretically you could do that with any plant you wanted to have more plants on by potting the bottom portion with the top and redirecting the new shoots, right?Or am I not thinking this through correctly?

[@marionmcdaniel8017]

Saw your conversation with the Leca Queen loved it question for you the plants in the courtyard will they stay there all year l know nothing about the Aussie climate 😮

[@sydneyplantguy]

Australia is a big place with many different climates :) sydney can get cold dueing winter but never freezing :)

[@sherryporsch9349]

💚💚💚

[@dharris214]

Awesome video, Jan! Are your plants loving being on your patio since the move?

[@sydneyplantguy]

Thanks :) it's still nice and warm outside so they are loving it !! :)

[@tazibabe]

I live in Canada and have been watching your videos faithfully. I love them. I finally bought most of the ingredients for the aroid mix but I'm usually water my plants every 2 weeks and I'm just curious how should I modify your mixture for that type of watering schedule? Should I put a small layer of coco chips in the bottom of my container? Thanks in advance ☺️

[@holemaster69]

You grow plants very well i have just started. Have a question maybe you will answer. I use foliage focus. Your water bittles look alot darker than mine, can yiu speak to the concentration lvl of feed?

[@reneemassimini2187]

I love your videos!!!! Would love to know about the plants that you have mounted on the fence behind you. What are they?? I am in south Louisiana, really hot, humid and can be quite rainy in the summer. I have a lot of fence i could something like that!!!

[@sydneyplantguy]

They've only lived there for about a week so once I have made more learnings with the new set-up I will definitely share it :)

[@abc-bm3yu]

Put the bottom part to climb your gum tree!! Where the dubia is

[@greenbeard.affliction]

I was thinking the same thing, we could see the progress on that too 💚

[@robynfisher4455]

Would look great, but Eucalypts shed their bark regularly, so maybe roots would not be able to stay attached?

[@sydneyplantguy]

Yeah you're spot on :) it probably won't attach

[@duncanlittle8482]

The reason the moss poles stay in the pot is due to friction. It’s similar to when you interleave many pages of a book together with another and you can’t pull them apart. When you pull on the pole it pushes the potting mix together creating more friction which holds the pole in place. If you were to gently wiggle the pole it would come out. So weirdly enough the fact that you hold it by the pole and pull it is actually the force that’s keeping it in the pot.

[@sydneyplantguy]

Makes total sense !! Cheers :)

[@jampintos2219]

💚💚💚☘️

[@litsnombre6390]

You have healthy and extra large philodendrons....what is your potting mixture pls?...thanks

[@litsnombre6390]

I checked your videos and saw saw your aroid mix.....thanks for sharing, i'm learning a lot from you.

[@haruto5021]

Nice video, unfortunately there is a lot of noise in the background

[@politiclpanties]

I’ve noticed with both of my atabapoense their roots tend to grow upwards, even in water propagations the roots grow upwards and out of the spout of the vessel of water! It’s so strange i haven’t experience it with any other plant…

[@jacquelineibacache8526]

Hola.. no entiendo que dices pero creo que las imágenes lo dicen todo, te quiero preguntar algo. ¡¡ QUÉ HACES PARA QUE CREZCAN TAAANTO TUS PLANTAS!!!!!!! 😮😂 Un gran abrazo desde Chile.

[@dogblessamerica]

That boy has so much root in the pole, you could almost do without the pot entirely.

[@sydneyplantguy]

Yes the pot is just decoration 😂😂😂

[@rubengrande2413]

Hi there, which fertiliser do you use ?? Im also in Australia

[@sydneyplantguy]

I use Foliage Focus. Info in the description :)

[@misspapo3444]

Plant guy lifts pot by pole: this pole is kept in the pot by…. Universe: MAGIC 🎉

[@mgjgk]

Could you please provide details of your potting mix ? I am potting my philodendron on soil ( 40% normal soil , 10% sand, 20% vermicompost, 10% coco peat, 10% pearlite, 10% bone mix) .

[@sydneyplantguy]

My aroid mix video is linked in the description

[@bloody_me6401]

Immer wenn ich deine Videos sehe, kann ich nicht glauben, dass deine Moosstäbe nur 6cm um Durchmesser haben 😂 ich hab moosstäbe in 6,5 und 8 cm Durchmesser und der 8cm sieht mehr oder weniger aus wie deiner 😂 meine in 6,5 sind sooo Mini. Die wollten nicht mal meine 50cm Monstera halten. Krass wie anders etwas in einem Video aussehen kann 🙈

[@valariawhite647]

Having the poles outside now, do they tip over in the wind?

[@sydneyplantguy]

As shown in the video I hook them to the fence :)

[@lunity1111]

It’s just depressing seeing these in the Uk 😂😂😂

[@zwicknagel]

Jan, kannst Du bitte mal die Redewendung "proof is in the pudding" ins deutsche übersetzen? Danke.

[@sydneyplantguy]

‘Probieren geht über studieren’ ist glaub die beste übersetzung :)

[@zwicknagel]

@@sydneyplantguy Danke!

[@jackiedelacruz6172]

Is that pvc?(green)

[@christina3478]

Do you reuse your moss? And if you do what if at any point do you decide that it’s unusable

[@sydneyplantguy]

I do :) I usually just judge it by the look ... eventually it becomes kind of brittle and doesn't absorb water well anymore.

[@robynisrael1015]

🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

[@cajbrg]

If this plant is outside? Why don't you keep all 3 poles??? Then it is more lush

[@sydneyplantguy]

I could but it’s getting busy outside too :) i rather have a bit more variety

[@cajbrg]

@@sydneyplantguy curious to see the variety taking shape.

[@lewis5605]

What's type of mesh do you use for the pole?

[@sydneyplantguy]

Coated wire mesh :)

[@virginiamartinez391]

💚🌿💚🐾😻🐾

[@mugo87]

Sidney can you send me a cutting of this plant ,I pay

[@Gonlil80]

What´s AJ´s?

[@sydneyplantguy]

No that's at my old home

[@justyna1033]

Could you add subtitles in Polish to your videos?

[@ccaatthheerriinnee]

Question: where is the proof?

[@sydneyplantguy]

You are looking at it :D

[@jyvaineorchids2255]

Sorry, my hand slipped and i disliked by mistake, i likes your vids a lot actually.

[@karenjenkins277]

I did that before too 🙈

[@Mariii__]

You can remove the dislike lmao

[@sydneyplantguy]

Cheers :)

[@Dieppaloveplants]

I did it before i have chubby finger but the good think u still can press like ❤❤❤ we looove Sydney videos💚💚💚

[@karenjenkins277]

@@Mariii__ I did 😊

[@chevive7]

Mate, you are awesome. Could you please share with us how you get your plants to grow so evenly?? my have branches that goon all different directions! please share.

[@sydneyplantguy]

If you have a consistent light source from one side, the plant should grow quite evenly. I sometimes have to use little metal pins to pin the plant to where I want it to attach next. I have a full video on how I style my plants too :)

[@chevive7]

@@sydneyplantguy appreciate your help my friend, thank you Will look for that video