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It's dangerous tho because I feel every time that I manage to keep them alive a little longer than before and I keep thinking this time will be the one where I can keep it through the winter. Maybe this year...?
A couple of really low maintenance Calatheas that I’ve found are the Freddie and the rufibarba. I rarely water mine maybe like once every two weeks and mine are doing great. Barely any brown crispy tips. So if you are looking for a low maintenance beautiful one, I would recommend those.
I cater to the needs of a lot of orchids that need special attention, but calatheas are really much much worse, maybe because orchids are much slower growing and don't spit out crusty leaves like they are spamming you with poo emojis.
I’ve experienced the same. I tend to buy a lot of plants. Then thin them out according to my space, likes, and dislikes. No guilt. It’s just the natural order of collecting.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve bought over 30 new pieces over the past two months. Husband thinks I’m crazy but I fully expect the number of them will be reduced over the next 6-12 months . Like the Calatheas I bought some time ago and only have the last one. So ridiculously high maintenance in all regards that I’m not touching one in a shop ever again regardless of how pretty they look.
"I cant get my hoyas to stop bloom" is something I never thought I'd hear anyone say, hahah. orchids are the most boring plant if you dont get them to bloom. when i see them in the store, i wanna buy it but i've never gotten one to bloom twice so it's no use buying them for me
Phalaenopsis bloomed for me after I learned they need 62° F overnights, minimum. Bonus when I started setting my thermostat to that my Vanda bloomed after caring for it 5 or 6 years (first time ever since I purchased it in bloom), although with the Vanda I was also giving it warm baths everytime I watered it, about body temperature. That was it, easy, just lowered the bedtime thermostat. It is so much more fun when they bloom for you, I agree! Also, FYI it was an immediate response in my phals.....I remember they put out tiny spikes within 2 days, amazing
@@BuenosDiasPlants yes, this was easy to give them in Idaho, at least with the ones that were essentially waiting for those nighttime temperature drops to send up flower spikes. That is their signal. I just set the overnight thermostat to 62°F. That was enough. I would not go under 60° and not over 64°. Some of my collection spiked immediately, others didn't and I think that was because they were maybe summer bloomers. The winter bloomers spiked. This was in the autumn. The temperature was the key for me. That was really the first success I had getting them to rebloom. A friend of mine who had tons of success blooming orchids mentioned offhand to me later how she loved sleeping cold and never had her thermostat over 60° at night. I didn't learn this from her but the data and experiences coincided. Both my vanda and several phals flowered. Good luck to you!
@@ofhismercy109 yep! I live in northern Idaho and when I read about the temps they like I moved mine where it would get those temps at night and its bloomed for me 5 times in the last 2 years.
I am so happy you're publishing these very realistic videos. You have kids now, a business, of course you're busy af. I love your honesty. Wishing you all the best with BB2 ❤️
When I was pregnant with a boy (didn’t happen with my girl) everything made me nauseous and smells bothered me so much. I love bacon. The smell of bacon suddenly made me run to the bathroom and wretch my guts out violently. I love my husband. He doesn’t smell bad. Suddenly the smell of him turned me off to the point that I had trouble hugging him. It was truly weird, because none of this happened prior to being pregnant with my son. Pregnant with daughter? None of these issues, completely different pregnancies in every way. After the baby boy was out-I was golden. I could fry bacon and hug the man without issue 😂
Hormones changing absolutely changes smelling. I know couples, personally know couples, who break up because once the woman started the pill, she couldn’t get turned on anymore because he no longer smelled good and in fact smelled “bad” to her. I began progesterone recently, and I’ve noticed that on random days my husband will smell bad; he’s a clean man and smells WONDERFUL, but on random days I can’t stand the smell. The other day I was near a bakery and the smell of coffee and fresh bread smelled like chemicals or burning plastic. Bread and coffee!!! Two of the most wonderful smells isn’t here world. Luckily this isn’t every day or even often.
Last time i was pregnant ( didn't Last because of a miscarriage), i had the feeling i smelt everything 1000× ! It was horrible ! I even couldn't stand the smell of some parts of my house even when i asked people if there was a smell they would say no ! It drove me crazy, plus the hormones, i kept telling my husband that we have to move 🤣 and he kept telling people that getting pregnant turned me into a X men 🤣 For my son, 7 years ago i didn't have any "symtoms" of pregnancy it was a Dream ! Evrery pregnancy is different even if it's strange😊
“Don’t hate me if I talk about your favorite plant” 😂 😭 You’ve helped me resurrect a graveyard of plants I killed last summer, and I’m sure those babies are grateful for it. I LOVE your channel. Also saw your coffin planter from a year ago and Its been added to my list of things to make! Best wishes for your family and your little nugget on the way! 💕
Most of these are plants you've just gotten tired of, not necessarily regret buying. But that's totally okay too :) Always appreciate your videos. Congrats on your new baby!
As i am looking at this vid and know that your having the bby right now, i hope you have a safe and quick delivery! May you and your bbyboy be healthy and well! much love!
I liked the content of this video, but every time I hear you say something where you call yourself a “dumb dumb,” I cringe because you clearly are not dumb and I hate the negative self talk. It’s not just this video, but it’s the majority of your videos where I hear you do that. I think highly of you and your knowledge and experience with plants, so please don’t talk down on your opinion and what you have to say. You’re awesome, keep up the good work!
i inherited a large, root bound peace lily from my grandmother and immediately untangled the miles for roots and broke into 2 plants… they are just now looking happy again and that was almost 4 months ago! such babies 🙄
I think Orchids get a bad rep pretty often. I see them being referred to as grandma plants in the plant groups I'm in (which is true for me as well, my grandma always had them and it's the reason I got into them). But there's so many interesting species with lots of different colors and flower shapes. I love mounting them to pieces of wood and getting them to bloom is so rewarding to me. I wish everyone could get the same gratification out of them!
Spikey plant idea - I keep some of my favorites in a fake decorative birdcage so they can be lower and get better light but they are inaccessible by my cats. I don't have kiddos so they could probably still stick their fingers in. It's a pain when it comes time to water, but thankfully they don't need it often.
Honestly I regret buying string of hearts all the time… they grow super long in the summer just to die in the winter bc of lack of light… then of course if they get pests, you’ve got no chance since it’s impossible to handle or turn over the leaves without 87.7% of them falling off 😭
I had the same problem with my peace Lily getting too big. What I did was I went in and divided the peace Lily up and took my top three or four sections and potted those up and then gifted or sold the rest of the little babies. I ended up with a much more manageable size plant.
I get bored with slow growing plants too. I try to balance it out with owning fast growing plants. The slow growing plants get shoved to the back and forgotten about haha then it feels exciting when I occasionally check their growth
The only thing I regret is purchasing a calathea before I understood how to take care of them because it died within 2 weeks, and also purchasing a pack of baby lithops instead of just getting well established ones because those also didn't make it. BUT, even with the list of plants that I didn't do well with and they died or I gave them away, I still love having gotten to learn from it all, so it's hard to say that it's a true regret. Thanks for sharing your opinions, I love to hear stuff like this and see if I feel the same or not :)
I love lithops, but there's alot you need to know about them before taking them on. I hope you give them another try sometime! I pot mine in straight pumice, they only get some water when they start to wrinkle and never when they begin to loose their set of leaves for the season. Their also cool season growers and go dormant around mid summer which means no water!
maybe the obliqua nodes keep growing runners because they are trying to look for a place with more nutrients? my adansonii kept growing leafless nodes when i forgot to fertilize them and when i did, it regrew them immediately! i heard this can also happen from lack of humidity but since your nodes are on sphagnum already, maybe its more on the nutrients side
Girl...I feel ya. I'm sensitive to smells. You are not alone. Lavender busts my head open. I love that you are being real. This is one way that we can learn from each other. Someone may be able to share awesome ideas that will help so many plant parents. I just love watching you! You look so stunningly beautiful BTW. Your glowing. ❤
That is a totally normal way every collector goes by. Believe or not, 5 years ago I had about 300 varieties of African violets. Now I have only 50 of the most favorites.
@@katrinav.8503 There are ten thousand registered hybrids and a few hundreds are pending registration. You can check the prices on ebay. Sometimes old hybrids are trendy again and the price will go up to the sky. I remember 3 years ago one leaf of "Ann" for propagation was sold for $202 and 40 cents. Actually you can look at Violet Barn for other plants too. They always have nice begonias and hoyas.
Have you thought about splitting up your peace lily into two plants? I had the same problem with my Philo burle marx, I couldn't find a pot big enough so I just separated it into two 10" pots.
I’m in the same kid/pet boat when it comes to cacti! My hubby and I say when the kids grow up we will collect again 🌵🥰 but I also want to rescue senior dogs 🤷♀️
I don't have experience with obliqua, I would love to be able to get my hands on one some day. But something you can try as an experiment is putting " crazy keiki cloning paste " its used for orchids to push out keikis but in tropical plants and other plants in general it pushes new growth from nodes as well. So my assumption is maybe with the extra nutrients and whatnot they might get bigger growth instead of the issue your having? Who knows but worth a try
@@gabrielpatten6939 that's quite possible. I mean think about it, larger fenenstraitions probably have something to do with himudity. Maybe cuz naturally they would dry out easier with leaves like that so they probably do require Ron's of humidity to be happy
Such a good video! It’s so normal and ok to regret/change your plants depending on life circumstances and what you can currently deal with. Thinking of you and praying for you today! 🤗🤗❤️❤️
I understand the issue with peace lilies. My toddler would not eat green vegetables but was quite happy to taste test the philodendrons. I had to put everything green in a pot up high and it was quite challenging. He's 36 years old now and seems to have survived, but I didn't have peace lilies till he outgrew the urge to snack on my house plants.
I feel like you have to love the foliage of orchids as well as the blooms to keep them in a mixed houseplant collection. I am avoiding certain kinds of orchids even though I like the blooms because I know I will be annoyed with them the rest of the time. Bird of Paradise is so huge for an indoor plant! Really understand that one!
I have a lot of orchids, and some are constantly bloom, a lot depends on the orchid. Some I really like the plant itself, like ornithocephalus gladiatus and acianthera pectinata. I don't think influencers have delved very deep into orchids, just grabbed one from IKEA and said "oooh orchid", and are really missing out on how diverse they are.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 funnily enough my prettiest foliage is actually my steadiest bloomer - paph. Wardii. Great leaf patterns and an unique flower. On the other hand I adore Cattleya blooms but dislike the look of them when not in bloom enough that I don’t have any in my collection right now. It really does depend on the orchid!
@@velvetvert9431 Leptotes have similar blooms, a lot of blooms at a time, a lot more often, and the leaves generally look like stubby pencils instead of that cattleya paddle. leaf. I really like the succulent/ strappy leafed orchid plants though. laelia lundii is similar, has a seasonal blooming season in winter/spring, but the plant to me at least is interesting enough not in bloom.
Hoya bloom hack - lower light! I found my Hoyas bloom constantly in my grow tent or west/south window but once in an east/north window, they barely ever bloom. Only thing Ive found to keep my smelly lacunosa from driving me nuts.
Harli, basically like myself you are in a different phase of your life. I have grown 99% of the plants you have showcased on your channel, the majority of them before I became a parent during my single years. Later raising kids and my career became my priority and my gardening moved outdoors, now as a disabled senior I’m more focused on terrariums and aquatic gardening as I said different phases of life, growing healthy children is a full time endeavor. Congratulations on the new baby.
I feel you on the BOP. I want to love the three I have. It’s amazing how often I’ve heard how easy BOP are to grow. I’ve struggled and feel like it’s not worth my level of expectations
Hoya tip, put one of those mesh baggies around the blooms. It’ll collect the sap and let it air dry (And you can eat them!) and then you can dump the little baggie into the compost and use it for he next one
Strelitzia can definitly be re-balanced. Repot and turn the rootball, then refill the soil back around it. But its definitly a two person job since they are so big. And orchids can be fun! They are epiphytes so you can tie them to a piece of wood and hang it anywhere, the roots will attatch themselves like they do on trees in nature. Or let it be the table centerpiece on a cool aquarium root. They store water inside the roots so the wood and roots need to be submersed in water 30 minutes a week then allowed to drip dry. Or let them live in a pretty glass jar and watch the roots adhere themselves to the glass, and they are so pretty when newly watered and they are bright green and full of water. Or maybe a glass sphere that can hang somewhere. When you have the orchids placed high up and then you get the flowers cascading down... so pretty
If you have plants under grow lights, especially LED's, see if the "invisible" light is more in the red or blue spectrum. I Watched a documentary on light physics and growing and I forget which one did what, but one color promotes flowering and the other promotes growth. 🤷🏽♀️. Worth a shot looking into maybe.
I've been doing some research on growing lights. It seems a mixture of red and blue is what is recommended. Much better than white. I can't remember which promotes more blooms, either. I want to say red...
Have you tried keiki paste on your obliqua nodes? I wonder if it would encourage them to grow a baby plant instead of a runner. It works on other aroids, but I don't have an obliqua to test it out on.
4:59 I hear a lot of people say succulents barely grow or don't change much but mine grow super quickly! Especially in summer it's cool to see them change to vibrant colors and blooms. Plus there are so many cool succulents that people don't even know exist, collecting them never gets boring.
I feel the guilt in your voice and your face as you explain why you don’t love the plants as much 😌 it shows you care about the impact on their self esteem 😆
i’ve heard that hoyas bloom seasonally and basically it happens when they get more water after the dry season. people trying to induce blooms would want to simulate a dry season and then water more heavily after a bit, so maybe if you want to stop them blooming you should water more consistently and just keep them more hydrated! i’ve also found in my own experience that my hoyas tend to bloom when i water them after forgetting to water for a long time, so i think there’s some truth to it. good luck!
I would LOVE to have one in my collection but from what I hear, growing it out of a node can be tricky..so It’d be awesome to know as much as I possibly can before I put my money down for it… 😍😍😍
I'm regretting some of mine but just because I'm a little overwhelmed right now...So I'm give some plants to friends! P.S..I have always wanted a Cocker Spaniel and seeing your cutie made me finally take the plung!! I got my girl 3 weeks ago😍
I completely agree with you about the hoyas. I am newly pregnant and have over 200 hoyas in my house. My least favourite hoya bloom, Hoya thomsonii is currently blooming and I hate hate hate it! I have a huge plant and I'm tempted to sell it just because of the scented blooms. But then I might regret it once I'm not pregnant anymore. We shall see!😌
I love your content Harli, and your beautiful personality. Keep doing what you're doing! I can't wait til your shop is open so I can support all of your hard work!!
If you should ever decide to try tricolor alaglonema pictim again, I have experienced great success growing it in pon. When I ordered it, it had three small leaves. After about a year I may need to transplant it because it has basically outgrown its pot. I also use stress relief for aquatic pets and plants in my water when watering.
I have the Peace Lily sensation, mine is in a cooler hallway and the only light comes through an east facing front door. Mine stands to the side of the door in a self watering pot and it loves it there. I think they prefer a lower light situation. I think yours would be happy where it is. My regret purchases have been my Crassula species plants as I have been left with 4 plants from 18 bought. They just got decimated by something that caused their leaves to go black and then cause the plants to collapse. It wasn't overwatering as they were only watered every 3-4 weeks. I will just keep to the Ovata varieties as they're more reliable.
Peace Lilly is easy to divide. Keep the small one and share the rest. From the looks of your plant, it can be divided at least 5 times or more. I'll take some hoya and PL if you want to trade. I have red stem pilea and pepperomia for baskets and other stuff. Let me know if interested. Good luck 🤞
Take that BOP outside in the summer, I have a 30 y/o plus BOP that was touching my ceiling, take it out all summer and all the new leaves are much more manageable height and standing straight! Make sure to cut the older leaves as new ones come in! 💚
I'm in the same boat with my Hoya's! I had them outside all summer so the blooms didn't bug me. Now, I had to bring them inside and they won't stop blooming!! Plus, they're huge now! They grew like weeds outside. They're blocking all the light in the window...
The hoyas: just keep them in slightly lower light than you normally would :) They will stay green and lsh but will not bloom anymore and not grow as much. All the best from Germany!
Peace Lilly Sensation option: Separate the plants and grow it in tall, narrow hanging containers using only water; soilless. Sooo much easier to keep some plants in just water when they do very well that way.
Yes to the BOP! I bought a tiny baby one last year and now it’s taller than me!!! And it does lean everywhere even in a large Southern window. I need to get it out of my house before I CAN’T get it out of my house.
Thank you for explaining why you regret because I've been wanting to get a bird of paradise and peace lily but I haven't because my apartment is so small with limited lighting. After watching this video I don't feel the need to get them anymore. 😁
For Hoya sap, I wipe some cold water onto the area (or preferably I dip the area into cold water) and it seems to stop the secretion. Yuck, hate that word, haha.
If you ever decide to get rid of your burt it's absolutely one of my favorites and it looks like you have the dark flowers too(I think mine will have lighter blooms but still waiting), I might have something cool to trade! Or just buy but I'm sure it'd be easy to sell if you take that route. Totally understand the blooms making you nauseous, everything made me so SICK. Even just visually seeing things would make me sick. Thank goodness for the anti nauseous medications, those honestly did so much for me.
Oh boy, I understand. I've felt the same with my orchids. 25+ . They take an entire shelf system and then some! To mix it up I put all but 4 on a 5ft moss pole and hung it from the ceiling. The sherry baby and a few others that grow similar to SB I left in orchid pots. They are way to big to fix to the pole anyway. Cactus and succulents!!! Omgoodness. Like 50++😳😬 🥴. I put them all on 3 10 ft wall shelves. Well most of them. They really looks nice and opened up a lot of space. We've had the Orchids and cactus a very long time. They needed a new way to be displayed. The orchid moss pole is really doing well. Thanks for your video. Rest up baby, #2 is going to be quite the adventure . Happy for you n Ryan💞🪴🌱 🌵
I understand what you are feeling with the Hoya. I recently had my lacunosa bloom and it won't stop. I'm really allergic to the flowers on the lacunosa, so I've had to cut the flowers off, not the peduncle just the flowers. It's the same allergic reaction I get to lily flowers in bouquets. So far all of my Hoya that have bloomed do not smell good to me, but I love hoya foliage so much.
Tip on your sensation peacelilly, cut the leaves off until you have 12-20 the leaves get bigger that way and not the whole plant! def buy grow lights that are high! Like in your ceiling fans. most of your issues deal with low light and FULL spectrum grow bulbs would fix it!
I do agree peace lily is a fussy plant, I ended up passing mine along. Cactuses and kids don’t mix. My 2yrs old likes to grad and touch them all the time, also giving them adequate lighting is challenging. I have grow lights for my small collection.
True. I got an Aloe from a friend and and it tried to get bigger than our dog. I had a hard time watering it.. couldn't get so close. They are fascinating however, if you have a good location for a beastie.
I honestly completely agree with bird of paradise and orchids, i mean, what are you gonna do when the BOP outgrows the only room it could fit in? Also, orchids get BORING, they grow so slow, and after blooms, and even during blooms theyre just kinda "there."
I keep buying calatheas because I love their foliage. I keep pushing my luck with them. I really don’t know what this says about me because as a beginner I’ve been warned by all you planty gurus so stay away from them but I just can’t and then I regret even before I get them in the mail lol 🥺 but they so pretty! The only one I’d probably not buy again is the vittata cause that one browned on me as it “stepped” into my home. The Orbifolia is also kinda ugh. I had a traumatic experience with my first Peace Lily. I still can’t talk about it.
I LOVE how beautiful the BOP is, but I've refused to take her on bc I know I can't give her the space and light she needs 🥲 I think it's important to be responsible plant parents and re-home the ones we can't care for.
God I feel you on the obliqua nodes.. I bought two for 120 each. One of them rotted in my prop box and the other one sent out a long steak of nodes before quickly dying when I tried to switch it to my soil mixture. Would've loved to have a beautiful Obliqua growing in my house but I won't spend money on that gamble anymore and I don't have the money for a pre-established plant, rip :(
Its so funny with your peace Lily how the back is so little since it lives in the corner because my bamboo did the same. For some reason I didn't expect it and it grew and grew and one day I saw the back. So naked! 😂
Let your cacti live outside during the summer. Bring them in when it gets cold and keep them dry. They will basically go dormant until you put them out again in the spring. Anyway it's what I do with mine.
hi! when youre pregnant youre extra sensitive to smells, i personally stopped being able to tolerate the smell of dogs 😬 so it could hopefully just be a pregnancy thing!
Omggg haha you're cutting off the peduncles!?! And here i am desperately waiting for them and trying lol. If you don't want blooms but want to keep the plants, I think less light might be worth a try? Mine that are in the brightest light are the ones that have bloomed. Good luck!
Hi Harli, I know it'll take awhile for you to get to this. But my question is how do you use hydrogen peroxide? Do you pour it in water or just pour it on strate? Thanks!!
I completely agree with bird of paradise. I did not do my research when I bought it (white bird of paradise) I gave it away at 5' wide and 6' tall. I was living in a high rise with SW exposure, so light was abundant. It just got way too big for me in a normal large 1 bedroom condo.
You should get one of those really tall pots. You'll probably never need to repot. And you won't need a stand or table for it. I've seen them at Lowe's
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Thank you for this!! My next collection I want to start is Hoyas good to know they are messy
I regret almost all of my calatheas. Mine rarely are without some ongoing problem. Difficult and stress-inducing. Best admired from afar imo.
Same here! I will never but another calathea. They just need the utmost attention.
It's dangerous tho because I feel every time that I manage to keep them alive a little longer than before and I keep thinking this time will be the one where I can keep it through the winter. Maybe this year...?
A couple of really low maintenance Calatheas that I’ve found are the Freddie and the rufibarba. I rarely water mine maybe like once every two weeks and mine are doing great. Barely any brown crispy tips. So if you are looking for a low maintenance beautiful one, I would recommend those.
I cater to the needs of a lot of orchids that need special attention, but calatheas are really much much worse, maybe because orchids are much slower growing and don't spit out crusty leaves like they are spamming you with poo emojis.
@@Ash-vw9ec yeah, freddie is really easy, i never grew rufibarba, I stick with marantas and ctenanthes for the look without the mood swings.
Best wishes for a speedy and safe "unboxing" of your newest member of your family 😊❤🌱🤰👶
I’ve experienced the same. I tend to buy a lot of plants. Then thin them out according to my space, likes, and dislikes. No guilt. It’s just the natural order of collecting.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve bought over 30 new pieces over the past two months. Husband thinks I’m crazy but I fully expect the number of them will be reduced over the next 6-12 months . Like the Calatheas I bought some time ago and only have the last one. So ridiculously high maintenance in all regards that I’m not touching one in a shop ever again regardless of how pretty they look.
"I cant get my hoyas to stop bloom" is something I never thought I'd hear anyone say, hahah.
orchids are the most boring plant if you dont get them to bloom. when i see them in the store, i wanna buy it but i've never gotten one to bloom twice so it's no use buying them for me
Phalaenopsis bloomed for me after I learned they need 62° F overnights, minimum. Bonus when I started setting my thermostat to that my Vanda bloomed after caring for it 5 or 6 years (first time ever since I purchased it in bloom), although with the Vanda I was also giving it warm baths everytime I watered it, about body temperature. That was it, easy, just lowered the bedtime thermostat. It is so much more fun when they bloom for you, I agree! Also, FYI it was an immediate response in my phals.....I remember they put out tiny spikes within 2 days, amazing
@@ofhismercy109 Wait, this is interesting. Im trying to make one phalaenopsis re-bloom. So they like cold-ish temperatures at night?
@@BuenosDiasPlants yes, this was easy to give them in Idaho, at least with the ones that were essentially waiting for those nighttime temperature drops to send up flower spikes. That is their signal. I just set the overnight thermostat to 62°F. That was enough. I would not go under 60° and not over 64°. Some of my collection spiked immediately, others didn't and I think that was because they were maybe summer bloomers. The winter bloomers spiked. This was in the autumn. The temperature was the key for me. That was really the first success I had getting them to rebloom. A friend of mine who had tons of success blooming orchids mentioned offhand to me later how she loved sleeping cold and never had her thermostat over 60° at night. I didn't learn this from her but the data and experiences coincided. Both my vanda and several phals flowered. Good luck to you!
@@ofhismercy109 wow, that’s cool!! maybe I have to buy an orchid now and try this, Phalaenopsis are quite common in my stores if I remember correctly
@@ofhismercy109 yep! I live in northern Idaho and when I read about the temps they like I moved mine where it would get those temps at night and its bloomed for me 5 times in the last 2 years.
I am so happy you're publishing these very realistic videos. You have kids now, a business, of course you're busy af. I love your honesty.
Wishing you all the best with BB2 ❤️
Put your Hoyas in lower/less light to stop the blooms.
Why don’t you prune the roots of your PL to control its size and keep it in the same pot?
And here I am looking thru the comments to figure out how to MAKE mine bloom lol. I'll just invert your advice, thank you! ☺️
When I was pregnant with a boy (didn’t happen with my girl) everything made me nauseous and smells bothered me so much. I love bacon. The smell of bacon suddenly made me run to the bathroom and wretch my guts out violently. I love my husband. He doesn’t smell bad. Suddenly the smell of him turned me off to the point that I had trouble hugging him. It was truly weird, because none of this happened prior to being pregnant with my son. Pregnant with daughter? None of these issues, completely different pregnancies in every way. After the baby boy was out-I was golden. I could fry bacon and hug the man without issue 😂
Hormones changing absolutely changes smelling. I know couples, personally know couples, who break up because once the woman started the pill, she couldn’t get turned on anymore because he no longer smelled good and in fact smelled “bad” to her. I began progesterone recently, and I’ve noticed that on random days my husband will smell bad; he’s a clean man and smells WONDERFUL, but on random days I can’t stand the smell. The other day I was near a bakery and the smell of coffee and fresh bread smelled like chemicals or burning plastic. Bread and coffee!!! Two of the most wonderful smells isn’t here world. Luckily this isn’t every day or even often.
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Last time i was pregnant ( didn't Last because of a miscarriage), i had the feeling i smelt everything 1000× ! It was horrible ! I even couldn't stand the smell of some parts of my house even when i asked people if there was a smell they would say no ! It drove me crazy, plus the hormones, i kept telling my husband that we have to move 🤣 and he kept telling people that getting pregnant turned me into a X men 🤣
For my son, 7 years ago i didn't have any "symtoms" of pregnancy it was a Dream ! Evrery pregnancy is different even if it's strange😊
Same here with both boys!
This happened to me when I was pregnant with my 1st child (a girl). The smell of her dad's deodorant made me sick
That pregnancy glow something else😭 wishing you the best of luck👍🏼
when she’s getting ready to have a baby and still uploads🥰😂
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Best of luck in the hospital today!! ❤️❤️
Thank you 🥰🤞
“Don’t hate me if I talk about your favorite plant” 😂 😭
You’ve helped me resurrect a graveyard of plants I killed last summer, and I’m sure those babies are grateful for it.
I LOVE your channel. Also saw your coffin planter from a year ago and Its been added to my list of things to make!
Best wishes for your family and your little nugget on the way! 💕
Most of these are plants you've just gotten tired of, not necessarily regret buying. But that's totally okay too :) Always appreciate your videos. Congrats on your new baby!
As i am looking at this vid and know that your having the bby right now, i hope you have a safe and quick delivery! May you and your bbyboy be healthy and well! much love!
I liked the content of this video, but every time I hear you say something where you call yourself a “dumb dumb,” I cringe because you clearly are not dumb and I hate the negative self talk. It’s not just this video, but it’s the majority of your videos where I hear you do that. I think highly of you and your knowledge and experience with plants, so please don’t talk down on your opinion and what you have to say. You’re awesome, keep up the good work!
IKR I just want to hug her and say "dammit you are AMAZEBALLS!"
i inherited a large, root bound peace lily from my grandmother and immediately untangled the miles for roots and broke into 2 plants… they are just now looking happy again and that was almost 4 months ago! such babies 🙄
I think Orchids get a bad rep pretty often. I see them being referred to as grandma plants in the plant groups I'm in (which is true for me as well, my grandma always had them and it's the reason I got into them). But there's so many interesting species with lots of different colors and flower shapes. I love mounting them to pieces of wood and getting them to bloom is so rewarding to me. I wish everyone could get the same gratification out of them!
Spikey plant idea - I keep some of my favorites in a fake decorative birdcage so they can be lower and get better light but they are inaccessible by my cats. I don't have kiddos so they could probably still stick their fingers in. It's a pain when it comes time to water, but thankfully they don't need it often.
Baby’s almost hereee!! Congrats guys💕 hope everything goes great!!👶🏼
Honestly I regret buying string of hearts all the time… they grow super long in the summer just to die in the winter bc of lack of light… then of course if they get pests, you’ve got no chance since it’s impossible to handle or turn over the leaves without 87.7% of them falling off 😭
I had the same problem with my peace Lily getting too big. What I did was I went in and divided the peace Lily up and took my top three or four sections and potted those up and then gifted or sold the rest of the little babies. I ended up with a much more manageable size plant.
I get bored with slow growing plants too. I try to balance it out with owning fast growing plants. The slow growing plants get shoved to the back and forgotten about haha then it feels exciting when I occasionally check their growth
The only thing I regret is purchasing a calathea before I understood how to take care of them because it died within 2 weeks, and also purchasing a pack of baby lithops instead of just getting well established ones because those also didn't make it. BUT, even with the list of plants that I didn't do well with and they died or I gave them away, I still love having gotten to learn from it all, so it's hard to say that it's a true regret.
Thanks for sharing your opinions, I love to hear stuff like this and see if I feel the same or not :)
I love lithops, but there's alot you need to know about them before taking them on. I hope you give them another try sometime! I pot mine in straight pumice, they only get some water when they start to wrinkle and never when they begin to loose their set of leaves for the season. Their also cool season growers and go dormant around mid summer which means no water!
Aub divided your Peace Lilly and prone the roots.
You can sell off the divisions.
maybe the obliqua nodes keep growing runners because they are trying to look for a place with more nutrients? my adansonii kept growing leafless nodes when i forgot to fertilize them and when i did, it regrew them immediately! i heard this can also happen from lack of humidity but since your nodes are on sphagnum already, maybe its more on the nutrients side
She keeps them in loose growth compounds let them get root bound!!
Girl...I feel ya. I'm sensitive to smells. You are not alone. Lavender busts my head open. I love that you are being real. This is one way that we can learn from each other. Someone may be able to share awesome ideas that will help so many plant parents. I just love watching you! You look so stunningly beautiful BTW. Your glowing. ❤
That is a totally normal way every collector goes by. Believe or not, 5 years ago I had about 300 varieties of African violets. Now I have only 50 of the most favorites.
I never knew they are so many!!!
@@katrinav.8503 There are ten thousand registered hybrids and a few hundreds are pending registration. You can check the prices on ebay. Sometimes old hybrids are trendy again and the price will go up to the sky. I remember 3 years ago one leaf of "Ann" for propagation was sold for $202 and 40 cents.
Actually you can look at Violet Barn for other plants too. They always have nice begonias and hoyas.
Have you thought about splitting up your peace lily into two plants? I had the same problem with my Philo burle marx, I couldn't find a pot big enough so I just separated it into two 10" pots.
I’m in the same kid/pet boat when it comes to cacti! My hubby and I say when the kids grow up we will collect again 🌵🥰 but I also want to rescue senior dogs 🤷♀️
The good thing about senior dogs is that they move slowly
I don't have experience with obliqua, I would love to be able to get my hands on one some day. But something you can try as an experiment is putting " crazy keiki cloning paste " its used for orchids to push out keikis but in tropical plants and other plants in general it pushes new growth from nodes as well. So my assumption is maybe with the extra nutrients and whatnot they might get bigger growth instead of the issue your having? Who knows but worth a try
Not sure if it's true, but I've heard they send out runners when there's too little humidity. They require a ridiculously high level of humidity
@@gabrielpatten6939 that's quite possible. I mean think about it, larger fenenstraitions probably have something to do with himudity. Maybe cuz naturally they would dry out easier with leaves like that so they probably do require Ron's of humidity to be happy
Such a good video! It’s so normal and ok to regret/change your plants depending on life circumstances and what you can currently deal with. Thinking of you and praying for you today! 🤗🤗❤️❤️
I understand the issue with peace lilies. My toddler would not eat green vegetables but was quite happy to taste test the philodendrons. I had to put everything green in a pot up high and it was quite challenging. He's 36 years old now and seems to have survived, but I didn't have peace lilies till he outgrew the urge to snack on my house plants.
Lol!
I feel like you have to love the foliage of orchids as well as the blooms to keep them in a mixed houseplant collection. I am avoiding certain kinds of orchids even though I like the blooms because I know I will be annoyed with them the rest of the time. Bird of Paradise is so huge for an indoor plant! Really understand that one!
I have a lot of orchids, and some are constantly bloom, a lot depends on the orchid. Some I really like the plant itself, like ornithocephalus gladiatus and acianthera pectinata. I don't think influencers have delved very deep into orchids, just grabbed one from IKEA and said "oooh orchid", and are really missing out on how diverse they are.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 funnily enough my prettiest foliage is actually my steadiest bloomer - paph. Wardii. Great leaf patterns and an unique flower. On the other hand I adore Cattleya blooms but dislike the look of them when not in bloom enough that I don’t have any in my collection right now. It really does depend on the orchid!
@@velvetvert9431 Leptotes have similar blooms, a lot of blooms at a time, a lot more often, and the leaves generally look like stubby pencils instead of that cattleya paddle. leaf. I really like the succulent/ strappy leafed orchid plants though. laelia lundii is similar, has a seasonal blooming season in winter/spring, but the plant to me at least is interesting enough not in bloom.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 Thank you, I will definitely end up with more orchids on my wish list!
Yes! I kept my jewel orchid afor the foliage and my bamboo orchid bc it blooms without any work lol. The others I have slowly ignored to death.
I’ll be happy to take all the Hoya off your hands 🤣🤣. Seriously, wishing you and the family all the best. Congrats again 💜💜
Hoya bloom hack - lower light! I found my Hoyas bloom constantly in my grow tent or west/south window but once in an east/north window, they barely ever bloom. Only thing Ive found to keep my smelly lacunosa from driving me nuts.
Harli, basically like myself you are in a different phase of your life. I have grown 99% of the plants you have showcased on your channel, the majority of them before I became a parent during my single years. Later raising kids and my career became my priority and my gardening moved outdoors, now as a disabled senior I’m more focused on terrariums and aquatic gardening as I said different phases of life, growing healthy children is a full time endeavor. Congratulations on the new baby.
I’d be interested in your channel. You should start one!
I feel you on the BOP. I want to love the three I have. It’s amazing how often I’ve heard how easy BOP are to grow. I’ve struggled and feel like it’s not worth my level of expectations
Hoya tip, put one of those mesh baggies around the blooms. It’ll collect the sap and let it air dry (And you can eat them!) and then you can dump the little baggie into the compost and use it for he next one
Strelitzia can definitly be re-balanced. Repot and turn the rootball, then refill the soil back around it. But its definitly a two person job since they are so big.
And orchids can be fun! They are epiphytes so you can tie them to a piece of wood and hang it anywhere, the roots will attatch themselves like they do on trees in nature. Or let it be the table centerpiece on a cool aquarium root. They store water inside the roots so the wood and roots need to be submersed in water 30 minutes a week then allowed to drip dry. Or let them live in a pretty glass jar and watch the roots adhere themselves to the glass, and they are so pretty when newly watered and they are bright green and full of water. Or maybe a glass sphere that can hang somewhere. When you have the orchids placed high up and then you get the flowers cascading down... so pretty
Your videos are so cute I love people who are genuine
Congrats to you on your new Sprout😂
Since hoya love light, maybe they wold be less likely to bloom in a low or lower light area.? I'm hoping you have a healthy speedy delivery! Love you.
If you have plants under grow lights, especially LED's, see if the "invisible" light is more in the red or blue spectrum. I Watched a documentary on light physics and growing and I forget which one did what, but one color promotes flowering and the other promotes growth. 🤷🏽♀️. Worth a shot looking into maybe.
I've been doing some research on growing lights. It seems a mixture of red and blue is what is recommended. Much better than white. I can't remember which promotes more blooms, either. I want to say red...
@@janetwilliams4475 red is for blooms and fruits. "balanced spectrum" is more for plant growth.
I got a node from Etsy for like $40, and one year later it has quite a few leaves and now I'm getting a runner. Can't wait to prop!
Have you tried keiki paste on your obliqua nodes? I wonder if it would encourage them to grow a baby plant instead of a runner. It works on other aroids, but I don't have an obliqua to test it out on.
4:59 I hear a lot of people say succulents barely grow or don't change much but mine grow super quickly! Especially in summer it's cool to see them change to vibrant colors and blooms. Plus there are so many cool succulents that people don't even know exist, collecting them never gets boring.
That big breath before your “BYEEEE” is definitely screaming pregnancy vibes!! 💕💕💕 ahhhhh
I feel the guilt in your voice and your face as you explain why you don’t love the plants as much 😌 it shows you care about the impact on their self esteem 😆
i’ve heard that hoyas bloom seasonally and basically it happens when they get more water after the dry season. people trying to induce blooms would want to simulate a dry season and then water more heavily after a bit, so maybe if you want to stop them blooming you should water more consistently and just keep them more hydrated! i’ve also found in my own experience that my hoyas tend to bloom when i water them after forgetting to water for a long time, so i think there’s some truth to it. good luck!
I love this video! And you are glowing!! ❤️An oblique is at the TOP of my wishlist! Could you make a video about them?
Yes definitely!
I would LOVE to have one in my collection but from what I hear, growing it out of a node can be tricky..so It’d be awesome to know as much as I possibly can before I put my money down for it… 😍😍😍
I'm regretting some of mine but just because I'm a little overwhelmed right now...So I'm give some plants to friends!
P.S..I have always wanted a Cocker Spaniel and seeing your cutie made me finally take the plung!! I got my girl 3 weeks ago😍
Same!!! I am trying to minimize but some plants I just can not part with
I completely agree with you about the hoyas. I am newly pregnant and have over 200 hoyas in my house. My least favourite hoya bloom, Hoya thomsonii is currently blooming and I hate hate hate it! I have a huge plant and I'm tempted to sell it just because of the scented blooms. But then I might regret it once I'm not pregnant anymore. We shall see!😌
I want it!
I love your content Harli, and your beautiful personality. Keep doing what you're doing! I can't wait til your shop is open so I can support all of your hard work!!
If you should ever decide to try tricolor alaglonema pictim again, I have experienced great success growing it in pon. When I ordered it, it had three small leaves. After about a year I may need to transplant it because it has basically outgrown its pot. I also use stress relief for aquatic pets and plants in my water when watering.
Correction: API Stress Coat
HAPPY BIRTH DAY HARLI+ NEW BB+ G FAMILYY
I have the Peace Lily sensation, mine is in a cooler hallway and the only light comes through an east facing front door. Mine stands to the side of the door in a self watering pot and it loves it there. I think they prefer a lower light situation. I think yours would be happy where it is. My regret purchases have been my Crassula species plants as I have been left with 4 plants from 18 bought. They just got decimated by something that caused their leaves to go black and then cause the plants to collapse. It wasn't overwatering as they were only watered every 3-4 weeks. I will just keep to the Ovata varieties as they're more reliable.
Congratulations on the baby’s arrival!!!! I’m excited to hear about him. Hope you have a great day!
Peace Lilly is easy to divide. Keep the small one and share the rest. From the looks of your plant, it can be divided at least 5 times or more. I'll take some hoya and PL if you want to trade. I have red stem pilea and pepperomia for baskets and other stuff. Let me know if interested. Good luck 🤞
Orchids are slowwww growing. The excitement is getting them to flower once a year vs. pushing out a new leaf every couple of weeks.
Take that BOP outside in the summer, I have a 30 y/o plus BOP that was touching my ceiling, take it out all summer and all the new leaves are much more manageable height and standing straight! Make sure to cut the older leaves as new ones come in! 💚
I have never liked the smell of Hoyas. But the flowers are so, so pretty.
The deep breath before the “byeeeeeeee”
I'm in the same boat with my Hoya's! I had them outside all summer so the blooms didn't bug me. Now, I had to bring them inside and they won't stop blooming!! Plus, they're huge now! They grew like weeds outside. They're blocking all the light in the window...
The hoyas: just keep them in slightly lower light than you normally would :) They will stay green and lsh but will not bloom anymore and not grow as much. All the best from Germany!
Split your peace Lily in half then put back on smaller pots. They do well with it.
I agree about the orchids. They are pretty but I like it when plants put out new leaves
Peace Lilly Sensation option: Separate the plants and grow it in tall, narrow hanging containers using only water; soilless. Sooo much easier to keep some plants in just water when they do very well that way.
Your Peace Lily sensation is why I bought my 2 gorgeous Peace lilies!!
Yes to the BOP! I bought a tiny baby one last year and now it’s taller than me!!! And it does lean everywhere even in a large Southern window. I need to get it out of my house before I CAN’T get it out of my house.
I love how you regret your Hoya blooms, yet I can’t get mine to bloom for the life of me 😂😂
I love my Hoya’s.
Thank you for explaining why you regret because I've been wanting to get a bird of paradise and peace lily but I haven't because my apartment is so small with limited lighting. After watching this video I don't feel the need to get them anymore. 😁
Maybe placing the Hoya is less light could stop them from blooming? Mine do well in medium light too, just don't bloom.
For Hoya sap, I wipe some cold water onto the area (or preferably I dip the area into cold water) and it seems to stop the secretion. Yuck, hate that word, haha.
If you ever decide to get rid of your burt it's absolutely one of my favorites and it looks like you have the dark flowers too(I think mine will have lighter blooms but still waiting), I might have something cool to trade! Or just buy but I'm sure it'd be easy to sell if you take that route.
Totally understand the blooms making you nauseous, everything made me so SICK. Even just visually seeing things would make me sick. Thank goodness for the anti nauseous medications, those honestly did so much for me.
Oh boy, I understand. I've felt the same with my orchids. 25+ . They take an entire shelf system and then some!
To mix it up I put all but 4 on a 5ft moss pole and hung it from the ceiling. The sherry baby and a few others that grow similar to SB I left in orchid pots. They are way to big to fix to the pole anyway.
Cactus and succulents!!! Omgoodness. Like 50++😳😬 🥴. I put them all on 3 10 ft wall shelves. Well most of them. They really looks nice and opened up a lot of space.
We've had the Orchids and cactus a very long time. They needed a new way to be displayed. The orchid moss pole is really doing well.
Thanks for your video. Rest up baby, #2 is going to be quite the adventure . Happy for you n Ryan💞🪴🌱 🌵
Hey Harli, do you think increasing the duration of you grow lights would help promote more foliage vs flowers?
I understand what you are feeling with the Hoya. I recently had my lacunosa bloom and it won't stop. I'm really allergic to the flowers on the lacunosa, so I've had to cut the flowers off, not the peduncle just the flowers. It's the same allergic reaction I get to lily flowers in bouquets. So far all of my Hoya that have bloomed do not smell good to me, but I love hoya foliage so much.
That's so sad! I love the lacunosa smell. Hope your allergy is manageable ❤️
Tip on your sensation peacelilly, cut the leaves off until you have 12-20 the leaves get bigger that way and not the whole plant! def buy grow lights that are high! Like in your ceiling fans. most of your issues deal with low light and FULL spectrum grow bulbs would fix it!
I do agree peace lily is a fussy plant, I ended up passing mine along. Cactuses and kids don’t mix. My 2yrs old likes to grad and touch them all the time, also giving them adequate lighting is challenging. I have grow lights for my small collection.
True. I got an Aloe from a friend and and it tried to get bigger than our dog. I had a hard time watering it.. couldn't get so close. They are fascinating however, if you have a good location for a beastie.
I honestly completely agree with bird of paradise and orchids, i mean, what are you gonna do when the BOP outgrows the only room it could fit in? Also, orchids get BORING, they grow so slow, and after blooms, and even during blooms theyre just kinda "there."
I keep buying calatheas because I love their foliage. I keep pushing my luck with them. I really don’t know what this says about me because as a beginner I’ve been warned by all you planty gurus so stay away from them but I just can’t and then I regret even before I get them in the mail lol 🥺 but they so pretty! The only one I’d probably not buy again is the vittata cause that one browned on me as it “stepped” into my home. The Orbifolia is also kinda ugh. I had a traumatic experience with my first Peace Lily. I still can’t talk about it.
I LOVE how beautiful the BOP is, but I've refused to take her on bc I know I can't give her the space and light she needs 🥲 I think it's important to be responsible plant parents and re-home the ones we can't care for.
I'm just getting back into hoyas. Looking forward to the blooms! About Peace Lily, maybe later on you could separate some of the plant.
God I feel you on the obliqua nodes.. I bought two for 120 each. One of them rotted in my prop box and the other one sent out a long steak of nodes before quickly dying when I tried to switch it to my soil mixture.
Would've loved to have a beautiful Obliqua growing in my house but I won't spend money on that gamble anymore and I don't have the money for a pre-established plant, rip :(
So true. Thank you for being so honest Harli
Good luck today!! Special prayers for you all today!!!
Thank you 🥰
Its so funny with your peace Lily how the back is so little since it lives in the corner because my bamboo did the same. For some reason I didn't expect it and it grew and grew and one day I saw the back. So naked! 😂
Let your cacti live outside during the summer. Bring them in when it gets cold and keep them dry. They will basically go dormant until you put them out again in the spring. Anyway it's what I do with mine.
Appreciate the honesty and insight..please follow up with what plants you love to keep and your valuable tips 😍
hi! when youre pregnant youre extra sensitive to smells, i personally stopped being able to tolerate the smell of dogs 😬 so it could hopefully just be a pregnancy thing!
Ur peacelilly is looking soo good , what is the soul u used & how did u fertilise it
I'm the same with orchids.. I like them when they bloom but when they don't it's just unnecessary shelf space
If I’m seeing a bunch of runners, more light is necessary for the leaf to establish better!
Omggg haha you're cutting off the peduncles!?! And here i am desperately waiting for them and trying lol. If you don't want blooms but want to keep the plants, I think less light might be worth a try? Mine that are in the brightest light are the ones that have bloomed. Good luck!
Hi Harli, I know it'll take awhile for you to get to this. But my question is how do you use hydrogen peroxide? Do you pour it in water or just pour it on strate? Thanks!!
Mix it in water for sure!!
"Pokey plants because..... My dogs are dumb." Girl... truer words were never spoken!
Same … I love my cacti but I can’t seem to get them to do well with artificial lighting so they are now living their best lives at my boyfriends house
I completely agree with bird of paradise. I did not do my research when I bought it (white bird of paradise) I gave it away at 5' wide and 6' tall. I was living in a high rise with SW exposure, so light was abundant. It just got way too big for me in a normal large 1 bedroom condo.
Amen to the orchids! But I did get one to grow a baby on the stalk with that special paste
You should get one of those really tall pots. You'll probably never need to repot. And you won't need a stand or table for it. I've seen them at Lowe's
I agree with you with orchids.They are beautiful when they are in bloom but once the blooms are gone the leaves look ugly and boring 😮