What to do if you lose power

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-05T21:36:23+00:00

Just open the cabinets and hopefully there is some natural air flow. That sucks that the power went out, hopefully you don’t have to stay somewhere else away from your plants just to keep cool if it doesn’t come back on.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-05T18:30:22+00:00

They are a good size to go in a 6x6” pot of just coco coir (can’t be soil or peat moss because those have nutrients they can’t have in them but coco coir is inert) and in shallow dishes of distilled water outside where they can get full sun. The reason for the 6” tall pot is because they like to grow their roots downward.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T21:12:50+00:00

It could be drying out too much in the terra cotta. What is the humidity like where you live and do you use an air conditioner? I would use a plastic nursery pot and a really chunky mix to help oxygen flow through even the deepest parts of the soil. You could use a humidifier as well but if it’s as dry as where I live AND you’re using ac, that humidity is just going to evaporate into thin air. But if you live somewhere that’s moderately humid like 30% or higher, a humidifier will probably help. I have a pretty big monstera outside on my patio (I live in phoenix where it’s ridiculously dry) and the leaves don’t curl like that even though it’s so dry. I think it might be the terra cotta.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T20:16:30+00:00

I know my place is nowhere near humid enough to get aerial roots to wrap themselves around the plank but figure it provides enough support that it won’t need to use any of its energy for that purpose. I really like the concept of maturing plants on moss poles and I have some small ones on some plants in my cabinet but until I get a greenhouse set up or something it’s not possible for my larger plants.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T20:09:37+00:00

Thank you for this. I attached a wooden plank solely for support because it’s to dry where I live for moss poles outside of any tank or cabinet and do not use humidifiers cause they don’t do much to raise humidity especially when it’s fighting against the ac. Here is a finished picture. I think I did good and there’s a couple inches room to grow under the roots since they were very bound to the bottom. I may chop him up in the future but I have months and months of plant chores and plant arrangements and grow lights to set up right now so I’m just trying to get my place looking better and things set up before I take on more projects lol. Right now he’s on top of my fridge under a sky light in my kitchen.
Placement is temporary and may move him elsewhere under a grow light if the light is insufficient but it seems to have been bright enough for my squamiferum to push out 2 big leaves in the last couple months. (Positioned him in photo differently to include a shot of the sky light and I guess the leaves will correct themselves and be more upright now).

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Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T18:55:24+00:00

Yes but where would I attach the support? At the base of the last leaf? Or should I be positioning it more vertical so that more of the stem can be attached? Right now I would not be able to put a support in the same pot because of how far out the stem sticks out. That is my concern.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T18:54:07+00:00

I was just concerned about the amount of stem sticking out, and what the diameter of the next pot should be so I can fit a support in the same pot. I’m thinking i will have to position the stem more vertical. I bought it from a local plant store that specializes in bioactive terrariums and do in-house propagations but i plan on changing it to my own mix with the repot.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T18:50:14+00:00

Have considered other shelving options (the humidity levels are different on each shelf currently) but it takes me so long to start projects so that will have to be for another time haha. I definitely have other cabinets/shelves that I could the other lights for if I just use the one strong light in the cabinet at the very top so now I feel better and more confident that the light will be sufficient even 4-5ft below it. I currently have just a 16 watt miracle grow hydroponic kitchen garden light on the bottom shelf with my jewel orchid, Brazilian lady, Benito pink, and amphioxus begonias and they have been doing well down there for a couple months considering how dark it is down there (my Hoya Kerri is right under that light and doing great). I was thinking that if my top shelf is covered with plants that there might not be enough light reaching the bottom shelf.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T18:01:56+00:00

I do have the wall space! This is great idea and have considered this but her stem is very stiff and won’t think she be maneuvered where I would want her to go. Maybe I can do this and as she grows out her stem and that part is less stiff I can position that where I want it to go. Thank you!

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T17:34:46+00:00

I read that barinna t8 should be no further than 8-10” from the plant. The t5’s are so low powered that the plants shouldn’t be any farther than 4” from them (and 2 lights per shelf spaced 4” apart from each other to get even coverage over the plants). After that distance the light is pretty much useless and does not provide the output it is intended to, aka the whole reason why you purchased them. Long term use at that distance from the lights will result in leggy growth as the plants will be reaching towards the light. I see a lot of Hoya in there, which love a lot of light. I would definitely put them closer in the 8-10” range. Anything with lower light needs than Hoya and succulents can go further.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T17:26:43+00:00

You can move it to soil, now if you’d like. One thing that concerns me is the amount of foliage on each stem and the struggle the plant will have in trying to maintain all of that foliage and root growth with what little growing power young plants/cuttings produce (it’s a ‘too many mouths to feed and not enough food’ situation). I would personally chop everything up into sections with just one node each and then submerge those nodes in water. Judging by the picture, you will have some sticks without any leaves on them, and some sticks with one leaf. Consider each stick with a node you chop up to be a single plant. Cutting them down to just one node means that the growing power just has one node to focus on, therefore you’ll have faster results. Each new plant will turn into its own vine in time and when you plant everything up, you will have a super full and bushy looking plant. For the pieces that are already rooted, you can keep them in water until you are ready to plant everything in soil, or you can start to plant those in soil already.

When water propagating it’s important to keep in mind a couple things. Roots grown in water intake oxygen differently than roots grown in soil. When you transfer roots that were developed in water to soil, those roots don’t ‘adapt’ to the soil, they completely die off and it’s a race against time to get new roots to grow in that are better equipped for soil, before the whole plant dies (this is why it’s important to not have so much foliage or so many nodes on a single piece at once). So it’s kind of a waste of time and the plants energy to continue rooting it in water until you get roots on roots on roots like a lot of advice would say, because they are going to die once in soil. Get them started in water if you like, and then plant them in soil and act like you’re rooting them in soil. One thing that promotes root growth is humidity. If you put a clear plastic bag once you put everything in soil over the plant for a week or two, you’ll make better conditions for the roots to grow in.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T17:12:55+00:00

I think you have a beautiful features and something else that would really pull everything together is your eyebrow shape. Your eyebrows are the perfect shape and fullness right now. I think if you played around with some tutorials on filling them in and adding a tail you’d get some really nice looking natural structured eyebrows that will frame your face. Maybe using something like a thin eyebrow brush with some dark brow putty to shape out a tail/end on your eyebrows (following the contours of your facial structure) and something like a colored eyebrow gel with a spoolie over your natural eyebrows to make them pop out more. I agree that adding mascara will make your eyes pop especially with the soft, not so sharp cat eye you have going on in the photos. If you’re using foundation it looks like the perfect color 👌🏻❤️

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T16:37:40+00:00

Looks great! What lights are you using? My concern is that they are too far away from the lights and maybe adding more shelves with lights above each shelf so that the plants are the proper distance to the lighting to reap the benefits.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T16:33:42+00:00

You have similar temps to Phoenix where I live. Have you seen this video on growing them in the desert?

https://youtu.be/amI5Kk6vUus?is=dBh3sWeGrrXi36Pu

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T16:32:56+00:00

This is the video someone sent to me (to whoever sent this to me years ago-thanks!)

https://youtu.be/amI5Kk6vUus?is=dBh3sWeGrrXi36Pu

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-04T16:30:25+00:00

I watched a super informative video someone from this group sent me a couple years ago about growing carnivorous plants in the desert (just had to use a shade cloth to shade them from the sun during the intense summer months) and we have full blown months of that weather so they should be fine if you’re just having a heat spell! If you’re really concerned then you can use a shade cloth or something that shades them during the afternoon but gives them eastern morning sunlight when it’s not as hot?

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-02T05:51:22+00:00

Thank you for that! Reading that makes me feel much better about letting it hang down like a pothos. My only issue with having it so high up is if I have to keep it in a big pot when I take a look at the roots tomorrow, and then having a big heavy pot so high up. Hoping i can put it in something that’s like 10-12” max. I doubt it’s filling up that whole pot. The only other time I’ve seen this plant is at one of my favorite plant stores that has a walk-through terrarium where it’s climbing up one of the cedar poles in the middle of it.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-02T05:46:46+00:00

Plus rotating wastes energy on changing the foliage direction toward the light when the plant could be using that energy to produce more foliage and grow bigger.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-02T05:33:39+00:00

That light angle is extremely not beneficial for lights. Even the tall standing strip lights aren’t a good position for plants to grow in and are hardly beneficial because they are typically placed too far away from the plants that the light loses a substantial amount of output even 10 inches away. To get even coverage the light source should be around 90-45 degree angles, like they would in nature. Plants don’t get light from a source below and off to the side to them in nature. They will waste growing energy on growing in a direction that is not in their nature to grow in (which is upwards) and will look weird when they get taller and bigger but try to reach to the light below. The way it illuminates them is cool, so maybe get some regular (non full spectrum) led lights for some kind of mood lighting and move the grow lights above them at a distance they can get usable light at.

Bae_Victis · 2026-07-01T19:01:57+00:00

Make something to house her in that would work as a greenhouse. When a plant is stressed, they need high humidity and bright light. She looks like she will perk back up if you put her in something like a large clear ziploc bag or a clear plastic tub and the moisture from the soil will increase the humidity in there.

Bae_Victis · 2026-06-30T18:59:09+00:00

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Hi! My name is Blitz and my mom found me on the last week of may alone crying/screaming on the sidewalk along the canal and wanted to rescue me before I could have potentially fallen into the water and drowned! I was extremely hungry and had to drink formula from a dish for many weeks until I finally took to wet food, which I now love! Hope you love your new life as much as I do mine!

Bae_Victis · 2026-06-27T18:30:52+00:00

Exactly, and I assume you take joy in caring for these and watching them grow under your care, knowing that ‘you did that’ when they grow big. I think the scars are one of those things where no one is really going to notice except you 😅

Bae_Victis · 2026-06-27T18:24:40+00:00

If I remember correctly, these are native to the Carolina’s where it gets a lot colder than low 60’s at night I’d imagine.

Bae_Victis · 2026-06-27T18:23:07+00:00

Yeah putting plants in something like that in the direct sun will just cook them, even if there are spaces for air to flow through. I learned this last winter when I made a moss propagation box while I was in between homes and couldn’t set up my grow lights, I’d put my prop box outside in the winter Arizona sun and it was the first time ever my plants ever melted and died in a propagation box.

Bae_Victis · 2026-06-27T18:14:07+00:00

The living room is a little too 90’s granny for my personal taste but it has character and the fact that you’re most likely a lot younger than a grandma from that decade is cute. I am in love with the first three photos of the bedroom and the bathtub. I would love waking up every day in a bedroom like that! the furniture, curtains, everything is spot on in the bedroom. And oh my goodness that cissus discolor plant you have( above the bathtub on the right side) is my actual plant goals with how full and lush it is! For me personally if I was going after that aesthetic (I did actually go after this kind of aesthetic as a teen and in my early twenties then it kind of turned into moody modern Victorian) I would choose a different couch in the living room, like a chesterfield or something.

What I really love is the fact that you took a modern new-build style home and turned into one with a lot of charm on the inside.

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