r/SemiHydro

I recently moved my dragon tail into semi hydro after transitioning it in water from soil. It was doing great in water - nice and perky and finally sprouted some new growth.

It’s been in semi hydro in leca for about one week and it just looks bad :/ the new leaf is still growing growing growing but the rest looks so sad !! Is this part of its adjustment period? Or should I change substrates (maybe mix in some pon or something so there’s less air around the roots)?

I’m also not sure it matters, but I was checking out the reservoir and saw this mold on the string. This is my first time using this brand of planter and these are the strings they sent with it - none of the ropes/strings I normally use have grown mold. Could that also be a problem?

Wanting to set up my variegated alocasia frydek in a semi hydro setup. Please share any and all advice!!

Not sure if i should go the Leca/moss route or pon.

Please share any tips and pics of your setups!

Just repotted these three calathea in pon today, I just gave them plain water as per a Google search. How long until I start adding fertilizer to the water, etc? The two smaller ones are wick watering with a reservoir, the larger one is in a dexceder pot, whatever that is considered.

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I'm newish to semi hydro, but maybe was not that cautious, in that I have multiple plants in semi hydro without 100% knowing what I'm doing. Here are come TC alocasia I have in LECA and I just noticed there's considerable mold. (Also, crystalized salts -- I haven't been flushing the LECA, I just haven't had time or I'm lazy I guess). I use RO water and foliage focus, so I kind of feel like the mold shouldn't have much to grow on? I use the small (probably pint) size soup take out containers and I only let the water get 0.5 in up, which I think is appropriate?

Anyway, what should I do? I'd like not to lose these so should I repot or treat the mold?

I have these two plants that both appear to crawl or climb. I don’t have the space to let them crawl and nowhere to hang them near a light source, so up they go. Problem is, I don’t know what they are and I can’t tell them apart. One was in water and the other in 50/50 soil/perlite. I would like to put them in pumice semi-hydro with a tree fern fiber pole. Would this be an appropriate option for either or both plants?

•Pic 1-3 water

•Pic 4-6 soil

I decided to transplant some of my plants to LECA from soil and decided to use these pots, some with wick and some without. How do I know if water is traveling up the LECA? Or is that how it works at all?

It’s growing new leaves, but it also keeps getting yellow leaves. I fertilize it regularly, and I’ve had good results with this on my Monstera deliciosa. Roots looking fine to me.

Hey all! Im getting some PON next week bc this guy, and allot of my other alocasias need repotting, and I honestly just dont trust alocasias+soil after rotting my last green velvet. What should I know abt the transition to PON especially for such a little guy new to life? Hes needing to he watered every day/every other day in my greenhouse (usually 50-70% humidity, usually 75-82F) which is why hes going to be my first baby going to pon before moving his verigated sibling

This Alocasia Silver Dragon Aurea started as a tiny TC and hit its first flower in about 7.5 months. It has now produced 6 flowers in 14 months.

Grown in coarse semi-hydro substrate in a controlled cabinet with stable diurnal temperature control, humidity, airflow, and consistent feeding. I really think the lack of setbacks made the difference here.

It did start showing signs of reverting for a while, but the newest leaf is giving me some hope that the variegation is not done yet.

Still kind of insane to look back at where it started.

I'm literally sick right now. I've got 90% of my plants on SH (lecca/moss) everythings been doing great. I don't know what made me do a double take on this one (other than it's my favorite one... but I realized I had the moss to packed and to high up past the roots and this is what i found🥺😫 I've cleaned it up best i could PLEASE tell me this isn't toast. I know without a doubt I'll lose the leaf (it only had the 1) but is there any hope at all for a miracle?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been growing this musa nono from a TC in my office for a while now in leca. It’s getting pretty large for my tiny home office and now that warm spring weather is here decided to try to repot and see how it does on my screened in porch.

The looks way larger in person, and used an entire 1.76 cu ft bag of leca to fill it. So far so good. Plant has a little pollen on it now but seems to be managing the repot pretty well!

I added a pic of the roots from the old pot. I was able to get all the roots out undamaged by carefully cutting the bottom out of the old plastic planter bottom out

The pot has a drainage hole on the bottom with a rubber plug that should allow me to drain and flush periodically.

It needed about 7-8 gallons of water + nutrients to fill it up. We’ll see how it goes! 🙏

My Tropicanna Black and Cleopatra canna lilies were fighting for their lives on the patio in pots that were too big for them (my fault, I was (still am) a complete novice with potted plants). I was going to send them to the compost but I noticed how thicc the roots were and thought they might do well in LECA. It’s been almost three weeks since the transfer and the roots are EXPLODING… at least on the Tropicanna Black. I thought I ran out of LECA so the Cleopatras were sitting bare-rooted in the sun for a whole day, oops. They’re starting to catch up, though!

Ciao a tutti! Secondo voi va bene o sto sbagliando qualcosa?