On this video, let's discuss how to grow plants outside and how to go from something like this into something like So many plants So here we have my outdoor water sprite tank as you can see it's doing very well We got a lot to plant growth and I literally start literally started with one one plant and it's just spread out Took it out now water sprites a pretty fast growing plant. So you may not have the same exact results with every plant But yeah, this one is a great starter if you're gonna try it You can see we got some tadpoles that came in here. This one's about growing. We even got some legs on them I just leave the tadpoles in there So you can see down there I got some subwastra tank and I'm trying to grow that outside as well Not sure how it's gonna do outside, but we will see No down there you can see a cherry shrimp. That was kind of a cool surprise because I did not put that in here I don't know how I got in here more likely it was on a plant The water sprite I put in here was actually before I even had any shrimp so Not really sure. The only thing I can think is maybe the subwastra tank had it but it seems little too large for that to be of the case So this whole tank was simply done with just organic dirt Similar to what dust and fish tanks have shown us in the past and I tried it out and it seems to work great I gotta say so far Doing a dirty tank for plants seems to be the way to go I haven't had to worry about fertilizing it or anything like that Now that I may be may not be the case with all plants, but yeah, the water sprite has done very well there And I'm gonna explore this with other plants and see how it goes So real quick. I also see people sometimes ask what is the difference between submerged and emerged A submerged is all the plants. They're actually under the water Summary to this one Down here at the bottom that's completely submerged correct, so And then we got a floating plant you can still consider this submerged But it's gonna have some emerged leaves similar to this right here And all this right here is emerged and the plant and leaf structure will actually have a different appearance when it's immersed versus submerged So here we have an immersed plant And here's the submerged plant growth So with every type of plant you're typically going to have a big difference in the leaf structure So you can compare the two So the immersed is gonna be a little more narrow where it's emerged and be a little thicker Once again every plant will be different, but Typically when it's immersed you're gonna have more stiffer growth e stems will be thicker and You'll probably have a different color green to it So I've had the sturdy gallon tall sitting here. I think it's time to put it to work It is cracked and I got it for free off Craigslist No, if it's cracked, why is it holding water? I don't really know to be honest I left it out here and started raining and for the first few weeks It's hard to leak then It started to hold water after that So it's probably got something blocking it up maybe like leaf matter or just dirt who knows But the whole thing here is I'm just putting plants in here So I'm never really worried about it draining out if we didn't have a drains out the plant should be okay So what I did is I already went ahead and put dirt at the bottom I just put about an inch or two at the bottom of this tank Um, this is gonna be the dirt I actually use because I couldn't find the organic dirt that I typically use This is heavy So it's some organic moisture retaining compost by ecosystems I found that at my local Walmart and figured I'd try it out So I'm gonna put a light layer of pea pebbles or pea gravel on top of the dirt to cap it So the reason I'm capping it is not because I'm worried about dirt going into the water column because Once again, no fish. I'm not worried about that stuff Um, I actually prefer some of it to go to the water column because I feel like the nutrients with the dirt spreads a little better Into the water that way But I need to cap it because What has happened when I put just dirt in there it gets really light and fluffy So when I try to put something in there it kind of just falls apart It doesn't really hold down the plant that well So you put a light cap in there to help hold down the roots and keep the the dirt compact All right, so what I'm gonna go ahead and do is go ahead and empty out the tank of all the water I'll wash off the pea gravel and then I'll place it in the tank And we'll go ahead and plant something in there and refill the water and I'll get back to you when we get to that point So here you can see I put some pea gravel on top of the dirt I Actually ran out so this ends not gonna get any pea gravel down here this Quarter piece or whatever, but it's okay. I'm only gonna have one plant to start off with in here And I want to see what it grows out to in a couple months Now that one plant I'm gonna use is it's gonna be a crypt Start off with the note. Oh, excuse me. Start off with a nice root structure there. So we'll go ahead and just plant that in there I Not too deep now. I want to keep the Crown up above the rocks There we go So that's in there and Hope in a couple months it'll fill up with least half of this that'd be awesome We'll see crypt is kind of a slower growing plant. So Let's see So I hope you enjoyed this week's video If you didn't go ahead and give it a like If you're new to the channel Give me a sub. 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