How to rescue a plant

To be honest, this really scared me off of importing. My friends and I bought 3 houseplants, all philodendron, through an import. We had planned on me taking care of them, acclimatizing them, propagating them, and each one of us gets a cutting. It went...ok i guess.
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[@ot7stan207]

Not gonna lie I thought you were holding a paper bag

[@KillThisPlant]

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[@ot7stan207]

@@KillThisPlant lol ain’t my fault it looks like that in the thumbnail. I thought it was in a bag for mystery !

[@KillThisPlant]

@@ot7stan207 😂 omg

[@janinebean4276]

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[@womtambsgans]

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[@Sandreline]

I appreciate when plant youtubers are open and honest about their struggles.

[@Kelps_K]

The way you edit with so much humor makes your videos so very enjoyable to watch, on top of the educational and informational plant content. Very funny video, keep up the good work! 😊

[@hedgewitch59]

I guess we're lucky in Australia. Quarantine doesn't allow plants in so no headaches. If they are imports they need to go through 6 months quarantine which costs $thousands for each plant. I'll leave it to the experts.

[@abbytonyardor3701]

For what it's worth I typically take my newly delivered cuttings and soak them for 24. Hours in distilled water. Then I root them in a mix of perlite vermiculite and orchid bark. After about 2 months I check them and go to soil. I just found your channel and I love what you do!!!

[@lanalong6736]

Oh my! 😂 I learned and laughed…a lot. Yes, a ‘Splendid’ take on plant recovery.

[@deon5329]

Loved this and your sense of humor. RIP philo splendid 🙏🏽

[@KillThisPlant]

pour one out for the splendid

[@aethissykes]

I recently bought my first cutting from Etsy, I've never bought a cutting online before, it is a silver sword philodendron and it's doing pretty great, it has three growth points and some little roots, it already has a tiny leaf sticking out of the biggest growth point, it looked kind of rough when it came but it's growing very fast now

[@greentape7817]

I actually love re-using those vacuum storage ziplock bags for propagations too, not only are they huge and pretty robust, but something about the 1-way valve on the bag just makes me feel better about the whole thing for some reason, like its somewhat airtight but not like, anaerobic environment airtight. This may be more important from a psychological perspective than a botanical one, but I worry less about things spontaneously rotting and dying in bags like that.

[@KillThisPlant]

They're really great. I still leave the top of the bag open a bit regardless of the vacuum seal.

[@xinetrevino4681]

You're so good at youtubing! I appreciate how funny and informative and honest your videos are, and they're a nice concise length (although if you do longer form videos in the future I'll happily watch those too). I subscribed to your channel quite recently and I think you've gained another ten thousand subscribers since then -- I hope your channel blows the heck up, it absolutely should, you do great work

[@KillThisPlant]

Thank you. You're very kind.

[@plantypittsburgh]

Do we have another Q&A video coming soon? Love em! You're definitely my fave plant KZbinr. Informative, funny and concise. Always leaving em wanting more.

[@KillThisPlant]

Maybe in December.

[@that.neurodivergent]

Hehehe the end made me giggle, can’t blame ya for wanting to keep that one to yourself 😂

[@nareegreel]

You are quickly becoming one of my fav plant youtubers 🤣

[@Sapientiam]

I bought a monstera deliciosa this summer for $17 and I just managed to kill it 😅.. It stressed me out since I had spent so much money on the plant, the dirt mix, pot and the time and energy on it.. Just for it to die from my over loving it with over watering and taking it apart time and time again. 🙈 I'm happy that I didn't pay any more on this thing. No more monstera deliciosa for me in at least a few years time lol😭😜🤣. I have to say that I've had several of these during covid but none that I've mishandled quiet like this though. And this was the one I payed most money for. 😅🤣 I need to add that I love your videos. You've been a great source of inspiration and information, so thank you 🙏❤️.

[@KillThisPlant]

Glad you like the videos!

[@TheTuidi]

Thank you for the informative and funny content 😂👏 I love it and your personality, always straight to the point, easy to understand, and a great inspiration for a plant parent ❤

[@KillThisPlant]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@reyhosein2533]

Dude, the splendid was giggling at the end, interesting video, happy planting. 😂😂

[@ildikojones7073]

So glad to see you again! Thank you for sharing this adventure of saving these fabulous plants with us. Every time I watch a clip from you, my confidence in my own skills grows. Thank you!

[@KillThisPlant]

Thanks for always leaving kind messages.

[@ildikojones7073]

@@KillThisPlant My pleasure. I’m just being sincere. You rock! 🤗

[@irene.143]

The added comedy to your content 🫶🏾😂🤌🏽

[@GraceEvangelist]

This man knows how to stick a landing. I laugh at every ending! 🤣

[@KillThisPlant]

Hah thanks. Glad you're enjoying them.

[@dianakoshman3365]

Second video I watch of yours. Thank you for being real!

[@flaekjaflintstone5656]

thanks for sharing :) i know the struggles also you had. what worked out good to me with propagate big leave plant was to cut the most parts of the huge leaves off do reduce the mass of plant which needs water so there is enough power to grow new roots but still enough leave for photosynthesis. keep on and good luck and thanks 😊

[@heatherdegreeff1092]

This was so informative and entertaining!

[@silmarlis9449]

Delightful vid, packed with great info, thanks again for sharing your wonderful insights

[@KillThisPlant]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@PushyMuse]

This was hilarious! Great editing. I've been tempted to get some imports myself.

[@raeannrees9706]

I enjoy this channel so much!!!!

[@KillThisPlant]

me too!

[@danaversal4726]

Keep up the great content 😊

[@FranktheTank319]

I just bought some philodendrons that I will be importing. This definitely helped me assuage my fears of dead plants. Lol I'll just stick to my homemade aroid soil, though. They're not rooted cuttings but growing plants.

[@single_use_planet_]

I'm a simple person, I see a philodendron, I cry because I don't have it yet

[@KillThisPlant]

Haha

[@janinebean4276]

The bell thing is KILLING me 😂😂😂

[@gabumonboys]

Honestly, I wouldnt even transfer from sphagnum to soil. Sphagnum has always been the best media Ive ever grown anything in. If you want you should transfer the sphagnum root ball to another mixture that contains a lot of sphagnum and perlite combined. Sphagnum is super easy to work with because you can tell when it it is dry, watering one part of the moss will osmotically circulate water to the rest of the moss. I grow all my expensive plants in sphagnum or sphagnum+perlite.

[@KillThisPlant]

What's your fertilizer routine while growing in moss?

[@ramenchuu]

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[@gabumonboys]

@@KillThisPlant I just make my normal strength fertilizers in empty distilled water jugs. Usually it is about 1 tablespoon of fertilizer for a gallon of water. But definitely go by the printed instructions. Whenever I need to fertilize, I just dilute the normal strength fertilizer to about half or a third. I dont think the sphagnum has too much effect on fertilizing. Some guy who directs a big botanical garden says that he fertilizes on the basis of “weakly weekly.” So essentially every week you use a super diluted fertilizer.

[@yolyrom7233]

This was great, especially the very end. I was 😂 so hard!

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Just found this channel and its so fun. Also wondering like can there be something be done about how we all internally institutionalized having a lawn. ( my grandma actually just made hers concrete. :( and like its a little world into homestyle diy science. And maybe understanding climate change in a more immediate way ?

[@KillThisPlant]

Get involved in local politics. Remove bylaws preventing construction of gardens in front yards. Support community garden in general as 3rd space. Add communal tool rental spaces to those gardens. Create incentives to grow local wild flower spaces on lawns. You're asking for an anti capitalist structural and cultural shift.

[@philippebartz8922]

6:46 introvert...... welcome to my world xD

[@VeryKinkyCurl]

Great vid! Once they see the Splendid actually survived. Wish I were a fly on the wall😂

[@moldytowelsmom]

Use a fork to get the moss off! It works perfectly! Will not hurt the roots if you are gentle

[@KillThisPlant]

Great suggestion. I'll try that.

[@moldytowelsmom]

Make sure it's extra moist too sorry! Lol

[@JessDivaTM]

i love this so much xDD my import i got in july is still slowly dying :) gives me some hope..

[@dh4767]

Fascinating

[@cillamoke]

You’re a champ!!

[@KillThisPlant]

sometimes! haha

[@NinjaXryho]

I'm sure you simplified for brevity, but IMO root rot isn't JUST due to moisture, but from anoxia which can result from over-moist media. Have you experimented with aquasoil? It's kinda trendy, but I'm having good experience with it. It's designed for total submersion, so I feel it's a great fit for transitioning plants to LECA. It's like a middle step. Aquasoil is clay and baked humus, seemingly very resistant to rot.

[@KillThisPlant]

I might look into that. We talking Fluval stratum?

[@NinjaXryho]

@@KillThisPlant Yep, that's one! I'm using a chinese knockoff of ADA Aquasoil though, just something I found at a local fish store.

[@coriroo9323]

Maybe try some other providers, if there is a next time? I know there are bad and good importers, though I haven't imported much myself yet. Overall though, I'd say you did a pretty great job! Even larger plant shops have imports die, and two outta three ain't bad.

[@RenegadeLK]

4:03 Yeah I bought some plants online and I'm having the same mush problems with the roots. I just put the surviving ones on two pots and praying they make it, time will tell if they do.

[@ruthmeow4262]

Not doing a propagation thing, but am doing a rescue. I have a bad habit of going through the discount plants at my local garden nursery for house plants. Lots of time they just need a bit of love, but I picked up a curly lipstick plant that looks like it was allowed to fully dry out for a while then flooded. The soil was dripping when I got it home. Roots still looked good, but not enough roots for the pot size. So, shook off all the soil, repotted into much smaller pots (there were eight stems) with damp soil and put them all in a clear storage bin under some led lights. After four days, there are signs of recovery. The leaves are starting to spread open. Why did I buy it in this condition? It was $5, not a loss if the plant doesn't make it, and if it does, I have the curly lipstick plant that I have been looking at all summer but never pulled the trigger on.

[@steveowlhollamac8065]

Awesome 👌 idea 💡

[@KillThisPlant]

Thanks, and it would have worked too if it weren't for those meddling roots!

[@steveowlhollamac8065]

@@KillThisPlant absolutely 🤣🤣🤣

[@steveowlhollamac8065]

Any , ideas 💡 on maintaining my three MASS CANE PLANT doing the WEATHER CHANGE in ST.LOUIS....?

[@KillThisPlant]

@@steveowlhollamac8065 usually it's just a matter of continuing to water when the plant needs it. Really depends on your home. If they were outdoors, focus on pest management when bringing them inside.

[@carolwilkeshoward5629]

Leca has been very harsh to use and I had to learn which plant’s could stand leca

[@plantypittsburgh]

This video made me LOL.

[@Kim-ts8nq]

Have you tried Tree Fern Fiber for rooting? It just falls off the roots when you take it out of the pot. Great for rooting and great to move to semi hydro

[@KillThisPlant]

I have not! Thanks for the suggestion I will look into that.

[@noraramos3798]

Love, love tree fern fiber, but man is it pricey! (Worth it imo tho!)

[@ThatGworl2023]

Leca has been good to me

[@cascadianroots]

Thank you for this video! I got a philodendron mayoi a few months back and I thought I started to kill it, it's pushing out a new leaf but the other not fully mature leaf it had, died in the process. It was just a small 2 leaf cutting when I got it, and watching the new leaf unfurl I thought it was going pretty slow compared to the Rhaphidophora tetrasperma I got at the same time lol. But hearing you say they grow fast and are pretty forgiving gives me hope 🥰

[@KillThisPlant]

Good luck with it. I love the leaf shape.

[@cascadianroots]

@@KillThisPlant I just checked on it and she's pushing out another leaf! I knew she was needing some extra humidity so I upped that. 🥰

[@KurlyKB_2023]

You’re hilarious 😂

[@mainsupp6853]

Did you check the water and soil ph?

[@abbyntexas4942]

Your hilarious! Love your videos!

[@janinebean4276]

I need plant friends I can split new plant purchases with!

[@FavOnIcon]

bought 12 plants "Venus flytrap to be exact" from italy $183.8

[@joannenardoni17]

What type of water do you use on your plants

[@KillThisPlant]

Just tap that I let sit out overnight. My city water is quite good.

[@writegirl2937]

Mr. Lee, you are an awesome plant rescuer!🪴 And that was too funny how you dropped those plants off and left without greeting your friends and kept that last plant for yourself!🤣🤣🤣🪴

[@that.neurodivergent]

Rewatching this because I’m thinking of getting some imports soon: what are the benefits of leca vs soil? Like if it’s technically easier in this case to transfer to soil what would the benefit of leca be? More air to the roots? Easier to check on their progress without much disruption?😊

[@KillThisPlant]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWGlkpanq7GJZsk This should help give more context.

[@that.neurodivergent]

@@KillThisPlant thank you!!

[@you_gullible_fucc]

What are your thoughts on using pumice/ perlite to acclimate plants?

[@KillThisPlant]

As long as you know how to manage moisture + humidity with that medium I'm sure it could work.

[@you_gullible_fucc]

@@KillThisPlant thanks!

[@vuninh2010]

Perlite would be a better medium for growing cuttings in my experience.

[@KillThisPlant]

Great. Always stick with what you're good at. I've never quite been able to manage perlite.

[@thatonedog819]

One of these days I'm going to play with rooting in water with an air stone. After all, it's the lack of oxygen that's a problem.

[@KillThisPlant]

I've used it in some cases

[@princepalmer3329]

Can u explain what air layering is please or do you have a Vidio on it?

[@KillThisPlant]

Air layering is rooting the plant from different nodes while it grows up a moss pole. It's a faster way to propagate plants.

[@princepalmer3329]

@@KillThisPlant thanks so much. It's getting cold now here in Britain and your info helps me too keep them alive. Watching more this morning.Nice one!!

[@TheReepe]

Do you know where exactly the plants come from Like are they harvested from the wild? That would be bad :/

[@KillThisPlant]

It was from a reputable grower.

[@jack27nikk38]

I thought you were mkbhd for a sec. (:

[@hpb19]

I am leary about getting plants online for that reason. It's the only way to get certain ones though.

[@albertotr1]

…I should buy a philodendron today.

[@KillThisPlant]

but which one?

[@diediedice]

Just bought a philodendron scandens micans today haha. Love this little fella already

[@emmt1256]

😂👍

[@zc1312]

Love this video! I am currently trying to combat a fungus gnat situation… it is mostly contained but I am still waiting to see if they completely die off or not. I have to say, it has been a stressful battle and seeing you make that peat moss tube is giving me PTSD of feeling super anxious about gnats using the moss as their new home. I have quite a few varieties of plants in my apartment and definitely a pretty big monstera deliciosa (that was how I found your channel). Any suggestions on keeping gnats away besides not over watering?

[@KillThisPlant]

I have made a video on fungus gnats. Hope it's helpful.

[@jennacook2505]

This honestly sounds like it’s the seller’s fault for shipping a plant unrooted if they know it’s unable to survive that.

[@KillThisPlant]

Could be! They were also stuck in outgoing customs for a month so who knows what could have happened.

[@z3nocl4ps43]

To funny 😂🤣😂

[@Sandreline]

In my (albeit limited) experience, when you have those long crunchy aerial roots spaghnum is best. A few months ago I recieve a Philodendron Rio with a bunch of MASSIVE aerial roots. There were literally some that were like 6+ inches long. I propped some cuttings in water and some in my spaghnum prop box. The cuttings rooting in spagh started shooting new white roots out of those aerial roots almost immediately. The cuttings rooting in water eventually shot out NEW roots, but the older aerials rotted and died off. With spaghnum propagating you just really want to make sure it's packed loosely around the node, and you're regularly letting the box get some air.

[@qaphqa]

Plants: they too are mortal!

[@KillThisPlant]

All of a sudden they choose mortality.

[@1146g02]

Thanks for your tips. Why do you call your channel "kill the plant?" No disrespect intended ..just curious

[@KillThisPlant]

It's easy to remember and I thought it was funny. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@1146g02]

@@KillThisPlant definitely easy to remember

[@jessek8114]

Ahaha. Sorry.

[@KillThisPlant]

No one is more sorry than me. 🥲

[@Kudachi144]

I just keep my plants in moss forever.

[@KillThisPlant]

How do you fertilize your plants in moss?

[@Kudachi144]

@@KillThisPlant I use superthrive and other stuff- but then- my roots are happy forever. All my rates go right into moss. Sometimes I layer in a littttttle dirt.

[@ONYXPages]

🪴

[@seethruyou255]

lol

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Black man to Black man- you need to get a shape up

[@FatCharlie215]

@@toytoy7527 maybe, maybe he's never known the joy of an up-town fade. Maybe we're wasting time with this discourse.

[@KillThisPlant]

My barbers name is Barry he says I should come in more often too.

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just grow cactus, indestructible in shipping. looks cooler too IMO.