Loved this video! I’d be very interested to see a follow up after a few weeks. I’ve imported from them (the Ecuador site) a few times now with mixed results. And I also love the blue on you 😊
Awww thanks, it's one of my fave colours 😊 glad you enjoyed the video, yeah I think in a few weeks will do an update and like your experience I know for a lot of people the experience has been mixed.
Slight addition spoken to Soil Ninja and they have informed me that their bags can be recycled at recycle centres that take carrier bags, which is awesome 👏 👏 👏 👏
i got a swrpens as a tiny starter plant its steadily getting bigger. i. finding that buying smallest i can teaches me a ton, and i dont lose much if it dies. my warocqueanum starting gwoing, took a fall, the. got repotted and lost all but one, that 2as only 3" long. now its putting out another and the emergent is as long as the previous leaf and it's rolled still so. im hopeful!
I was going through the footage during editing and didn't realise I was that excited, but to be fair I just got my 3rd order yesterday since filming a week and a half ago 😅😅😅😅 what have I done 😂😂😂💚🌿
I ordered anthurium luxurians and philodendron Amazon sunset & el choko red. We have ecuagenera here in germany, so it took only a few days to arrive. I was so afraid, because AFTER i ordered, i looked a lot of unboxing videos and got scared 😱 But my delivery was perfekt and as i could see, yours too. So beautiful!!
I found soil ninja at my favourite garden center and I squeeked when I found worm poo. Its very expensive from amazon and wanted to try a small bag. I've not had it long but I have added to a lot of my pots and I am a huge fan of worms. I'm the crazy woman that picks them up and saves them. I have their slow release feed too. But only on one plant which had not done much but that is so the plant not the feed. I wanted thier cactus mix too but I could not lift the bag. I will have to do an order as those pots are lovely. The plants you picked are lovely. I normally don't like what people order. I have not ordered out of the UK due to fear. But I've had plants and cuttings from the UK turn up in way worse condition then yours. But had a steplia take 11 ish days yo arrive last December and it was fine. I ment a friend yesterday and saw what she had with her and was oh shit where rhe hell is that gonna go. Its a huge monstera hehe. So having the where is this one gonna live. Its a fun game. And makes my years playing tetras worthwhile hehe Great video. Have fun and good luck
Very nice selection. I received my ecuagenera order on Friday too. Super healthy looking plants and huge too. I also potted them straight into soil ninja coarse semi hydro after soaking them for 48hrs . Fingers crossed they settle in ok . Good luck with your beauts mate and keep us posted with settling in updates
Love that coarse “pon” mix. I’ve been loving mixing large perlite/pumice with bark and coco chunk chips. With my helicopter care style more chunks/air = more success. I love the deeper pots too. It’s hard to find that size/depth clear locally for me. Last spring I went to ecuagenera in apopka FL and got queen anthurium, palliduflorum, philo luxurians and they are all thriving. I am waiting for the prices to come down to try some of their anthurium crosses. Thank you for sharing another great video!
Awww see you are like me so that give me great hope that the corse mix will work for me too. Ohhh great selection you picked up and definately give it some time and the crosses prices should reduce, we have all seen it time and time again. So glad you enjoyed 😊 💚 🌿
Great unboxing! Enjoy your new green babies and yes, please share an update after the holidays or so. Curious to see how your El Choco Red fares. Hugs and hi fives from Czechia!
I'm always excited to see import plants unboxing video, please make the update vid after maybe a month or so. In my experience after I bought many plants from Ecuagenera, some of them are declining after a few weeks even they arrived with healthy leaves & good root system, maybe they're just more fussy than the others. I hope yours are strong enough & have a successful acclimatization.
You sure got some cool plants. The Anthurium Villenaorum is a really hardy one. Totally easy going. Just do not overwater it. Myself, I struck again by the black friday sale and ordered from Ecuagenera Europe 2 lovely plants. Plus 3 from Ecuador which I am waiting for. I have hardly got loss by my former orders and I am a maniac and put them in my living room straight away. ( I love the risk) LOL. Funny enough they all survived.
Oh no, I have a serpens in chunks right now from them, it was only 2 leaves , it perked up in water but then had a meltdown , I really hope yours does better, killed the roots, leaves etc, I do have what looks like little nubs starting but wow it had a hissy. The 2 anthuriums are doing great though , first new leaf right now on both , provides some encouregement after the heartbreak with the other one .... that villenaorum is on my wishlist now, so interested to see how it does for you. Thank you for the video.
P. serpens is doing fine for me, but a month ago I found spider mites, near the leaf blades. It had slowed down. It seems more spider mite prone than other plants I have. Keep it in check and spray it often with soapy water. you got a very nice one.
What a beautiful haul ! I hope they all do great for you. Let me tell you, my queen has been in my living room, under 32% room humidity and it’s doing just fine. So I’m sure it will do great for you ❤
My experience with imports are pretty similar, my anthuriums are rehabbing much faster than my philodendrons. I think it’s because anthuriums have hardier roots. My anthuriums were able to branching new roots out of the older roots and they were able to keep their leaves. Whereas my philodendrons roots simply just die off and would need to regrow from newer nodes, they would also drop the leaves they had because of the root loss.
Yeah I think that is likely going to be the same with my experience, the Anthuriums so far seem like they haven't skipped a bear, I think the philodendrons based on the roots I saw, might be dropping most of their leaves, but glad I did it finally to see what it was like
Loved the video Memo, really interesting with the Soil Ninja and yes great to get worm castings 😊 And all the luck with your new lovely plant’s… I have very stupidly ordered a Hoya New Guinea Ghost, luckily in the UK But 🥶 ! Us plant collectors can’t help are ourselves 😆
Awww glad you enjoyed 😊 💚 🌿 thanks hopefully they all settle in OK. Ohhhhh I hope the hoya arrives OK 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🍀🍀🍀🍀 I know it got cold all of a sudden. But hopefully hoyas are a bit hardier, so with any luck it should be ok as long as it is not travelling for many days. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I hope you get some bird's nest anthuriums, like cardboard anthurium or some other type of Pachyneurium. You might like the very thick leaves and orchid-like thick robust roots. They can grow very tall and no janky support sticks needed at all that's how thick the petioles and leaves are.
Congratulations on the new plants! and good luck getting them settled in :) I am in the group that would enjoy an update video in a few weeks or months when you feel the moment is right. I really liked the Soil Ninja unboxing too - not available in Canada (yet?) but gave me a lot to think about!
loved the unboxing! i have bought from Ecuagenera ( Ecuador site) several times and never had an issue with the plants themselves. it did take a long time ( 6 weeks drom time of order.. i live in northeast US)...but i expected that...i can't wait for spring for my next order.....🌱
Good luck with rehabing the plants, I hope they will all recover from the transport well and soon🍀🍀🍀 I will be curious to see a follow up how it went both with Soil Ninja and the plants 🙂
@@Houseplantygoodness DPD is delivering mine tomorrow lol. Love all the plants you ordered although I can’t see what people see in that particular Monstera, probably just me, I do love the queen so everyone has plants that they prefer. I have my young queen in my living room that I try and keep around 55/60% humidity and purchased her from someone that kept her in a cabinet, so believe it is possible in yours for sure. I have everything crossed and 🙏🏼 all yours survive even if you don’t have anywhere to put them lol.
"We don't do heat packs" Uh, I ordered last month (January 2023) and they added a heat pack. Although, it didn't work as the plants came completely and utterly frozen. I probably shouldn't have ordered a Philodendron Luxurians living in Wisconsin in the dead of winter - but I digress. They're sending me another order for free though, which I find extremely generous. I love Ecuagenera.
Hi :) El Choco reds are variable, a had some with pale greenish red abaxial and some with really nice red abaxial. The plant that has really strong red abaxial is verrucosum amazon sunset, it is georgous plant but difficult to shipp. But if you’ll rehab it it is really nice:)
Woah! The prices for those established plants are seriously that??? Right here it's not even enough to get a seedling for most of them! 😱 Nice! I really should try importing some. Been wanting a Serpens for the longest time and it's hard to get here.
Yeah I was suprised too, it was during a sake, but same as you here for some of those plants it wouldn't even buy a seedling. The serpens is gorgeous for sure. The only risk on import is if they go back to a chonk
@@Houseplantygoodness Ahh sale. I just checked the prices after watching your video. It was quite decent even without sale. But like you said, the risk factor. Although the anticipation can be overwhelmingly fun 🤩
Ohhh I would love to hear your feed back do they ship outside the UK ? Loving your background today and blue is definitely a great Color on you !! Whoa great unboxing 😮🎉😍🪴💚😀 loving all the plants and great B roll footage nice to see everything up close as I sit here getting ready to mount a stag horn fern in my own collection wish me luck 🍀 lol 😝 have a great day 🇨🇦
Awwww thanks, yeah I think they ship to quite a few countries around the world. I know that blue was a bit intense, but I thought why not I love bright colours. Ohhhhhh I hope the staghorn fern mounting is going well.
I have used soil ninja for a while now. I usually get the giant base mix sack and add in the bark and extra bits I like because it’s so much cheaper. The base mix lasts for ever. Also the monstera at the end is just stunning, I’m to afraid to kill it tho 😂
I unboxed an antherium pallidiflorum from Ecuagenera Europe yesterday. 2 big leaves, 61 and 57 cm without the petiole. To bad the "small" leaf is broken near the petiole but their customer service is excellent. They are sending me a new plant :) after I sent some photos. But I do live in the Netherlands, not the UK
Happy for you that they finally arrived, they seem in really good shape too…I will give ecuagenera another chance come spring hopefully a better experience than this previous ✌️
I am debating giving them Bother try, based on the plants arrived. But will probably decide closer to the time to see how the plants do after shipping.
It is most unfortunate that you and the others from the UK who ordered experienced poor communication and delays from Ecuagenera. I'm sorry that you had that happen. I've done two import orders from them (Ecuador) to the U.S. and had great/quick communication with them both times from pre-order to post-order follow up emails. I'm not saying that to in any way diminish your experience but to say that I am surprised and disappointed on your behalf. The anthurium I ordered acclimated much easier and more quickly than the philos. In fact, I lost two philos over time while trying to rehab them. Despite that, I was pleased with the experience of importing from Ecuagenera. It's important to have realistic expectations (as you do) for any import orders and understand that the plants you receive are not going to be plant shop beautiful and may need time to acclimate if not rehab. I look forward to seeing an update video about these plants. Thank you for your channel and all the work you put into your videos.
I ordered a batch of plants from Ecuagenera Europe 2 weeks ago and they put in heat pack for me without extra cost.😊 Maybe lots of request about heatpack they have updated their service.
The regulations about importing live plants are the same around the globe : NO SOIL and official phytosanitary document. I can imagine that Ecuagenera does not have growing facilities in Europe. Therefore, when you order from their "European" or other foreign site, your future plants already traveled from Ecuador to some kind of intermediate place and and will continue travel to your address either bone dry (without moss) or wet, rotten or frozen (with moss). The same sad story going on with POP UP orders. A big shipment is moving from state to state in US, and from one country to another in Europe. You are lucky if you live near the first stop ! I have ordered from Ecuador many times. But only the most desirable plants, so rare and unique that I will cooperate with customer service to pay for the most upgrade shipping, correct number of heat packs, scheduled delivery, etc. For example, I cherish my Geogenanthus with FUZZY RED HAIRED LEAVES. We have Ecuagenera's greenhouses in US but the assortment and availability may differ. So, if you are after low price and shipping, go ahead and get a "wet stick" from nearest Etsy seller, that is how your "import" ends up in many cases, had enough of it from China, Indonesia, other places. I love and appreciate all my Ecuadorian plants, and I remember how hard I worked to pay for everything.
great video :) funnily enough I was thinking of trying to import warocqueanum from Ecuagenera just recently but a prospect of it scares me a little given the fact how dramatic the plant can be. would be interesting to see how you get on with it / maybe tips & tricks? :)
I bought a Queen from Ecuagenera and did an orchid show pickup in California. Paid under $30 for a seedling and it had one leaf like jelly - definitely shipped before being hardened off. Took 3 months and it just put out a beautiful perfect new leaf. The regale I bought from them had a yellow leaf that dropped immediately. And it is just a chonk still in the same 3mo span.
Question: have you ever delt with stem rot on Alocasia and how do you treat it? I lost both my tiny dancer and my Micholitziana. It's weird because both plants were very healthy and the roots were fine, even as the stem rotted. The stem didn't go black like with root rot. The leaves and stem stayed green. Really fast the stems turned very mushy and whole petioles started falling off until the whole stem collapsed, without ever turning black. So it wasn't like I could scrape off the dark parts and spray with peroxide. I'm pretty sure it was caused by me overwatering. I'm a cronic under-waterer then I over compensated 😔 How do you treat that? Thanks so much for any thoughts!
Please please PLEASE do a update! I have found my ecuagenera plants tend to die back to stumps and have a higher failure rate then equaflora/Tropical Plants. Equaflora arrive as if they never went thru shipping for me, and I have not lost one yet 😊
I ordered from Ecuagenera Europe this year and my experience wasn't great. Eventhough the shipping only took three days, the plants were bone dry. Some of the roots were already gone. Obviously they forgot to water the plants before shipping. The package was very flimsy and the leaves of the philodendron were quite damage. They don't seem to care about plants or customer satisfaction.
Oh no I am sorry to hear about your experience, I know from a few people from the EU who reached out they came to an agreement with Ecuagenera, did that not work for you?
@@Houseplantygoodness The plants turned out okay after cutting off the dead stuff and watering them. But I'm a bit hesitant to order again. For now I'm more interested in more common plants anyways.
Crazy with UK orders "Brexit makes everything better" 😑I ordered three plants last year and the Pedatum is awesome. The Effusilobum really suprised me and grows huge leaves.
I really enjoyed your video BUT I wished you’d have moved it along during the unboxing and not dilly dallied and given a lengthy story time for every single plant a 1hr video is really hard to watch.
I love your sarcastic little laugh! Your a real cutie! 🥰
Loved this video! I’d be very interested to see a follow up after a few weeks. I’ve imported from them (the Ecuador site) a few times now with mixed results.
And I also love the blue on you 😊
Awww thanks, it's one of my fave colours 😊 glad you enjoyed the video, yeah I think in a few weeks will do an update and like your experience I know for a lot of people the experience has been mixed.
Another great video!!! I love the unboxing. You have the best attitude about the "little things" and it's a joy to watch!! Thank you!
Awww thank you 🙏 glad you enjoyed 😊 💚 🌿
Slight addition spoken to Soil Ninja and they have informed me that their bags can be recycled at recycle centres that take carrier bags, which is awesome 👏 👏 👏 👏
i got a swrpens as a tiny starter plant its steadily getting bigger. i. finding that buying smallest i can teaches me a ton, and i dont lose much if it dies. my warocqueanum starting gwoing, took a fall, the. got repotted and lost all but one, that 2as only 3" long. now its putting out another and the emergent is as long as the previous leaf and it's rolled still so. im hopeful!
Oooohhhhh ahhhhhh exactly the same noises I made unboxing my first soil ninja order! 😂 love the stuff!
I was going through the footage during editing and didn't realise I was that excited, but to be fair I just got my 3rd order yesterday since filming a week and a half ago 😅😅😅😅 what have I done 😂😂😂💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness set yourself up for an addiction that’s what you’ve done 😂😂
I ordered anthurium luxurians and philodendron Amazon sunset & el choko red. We have ecuagenera here in germany, so it took only a few days to arrive. I was so afraid, because AFTER i ordered, i looked a lot of unboxing videos and got scared 😱
But my delivery was perfekt and as i could see, yours too. So beautiful!!
Yes please for an update in a few weeks!
I really like the angle your filming at. Great video 💯😀
That Queen is gorgeous!
Awww, let's see if I can keep her happy 😬🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Truly enjoy your videos! So inspirational.
I found soil ninja at my favourite garden center and I squeeked when I found worm poo. Its very expensive from amazon and wanted to try a small bag. I've not had it long but I have added to a lot of my pots and I am a huge fan of worms. I'm the crazy woman that picks them up and saves them. I have their slow release feed too. But only on one plant which had not done much but that is so the plant not the feed.
I wanted thier cactus mix too but I could not lift the bag. I will have to do an order as those pots are lovely.
The plants you picked are lovely. I normally don't like what people order. I have not ordered out of the UK due to fear. But I've had plants and cuttings from the UK turn up in way worse condition then yours. But had a steplia take 11 ish days yo arrive last December and it was fine.
I ment a friend yesterday and saw what she had with her and was oh shit where rhe hell is that gonna go. Its a huge monstera hehe. So having the where is this one gonna live. Its a fun game. And makes my years playing tetras worthwhile hehe
Great video. Have fun and good luck
Very nice selection. I received my ecuagenera order on Friday too. Super healthy looking plants and huge too. I also potted them straight into soil ninja coarse semi hydro after soaking them for 48hrs . Fingers crossed they settle in ok . Good luck with your beauts mate and keep us posted with settling in updates
Love that coarse “pon” mix. I’ve been loving mixing large perlite/pumice with bark and coco chunk chips. With my helicopter care style more chunks/air = more success. I love the deeper pots too. It’s hard to find that size/depth clear locally for me. Last spring I went to ecuagenera in apopka FL and got queen anthurium, palliduflorum, philo luxurians and they are all thriving. I am waiting for the prices to come down to try some of their anthurium crosses. Thank you for sharing another great video!
Awww see you are like me so that give me great hope that the corse mix will work for me too.
Ohhh great selection you picked up and definately give it some time and the crosses prices should reduce, we have all seen it time and time again. So glad you enjoyed 😊 💚 🌿
Yes please do an update. Thank you for the soil purchase review.
Very entertaining please lets have a follow up video. PS love Soil Ninja
Awww same here, definitely a fan now. Will for sure do a follow up
Great unboxing! Enjoy your new green babies and yes, please share an update after the holidays or so. Curious to see how your El Choco Red fares. Hugs and hi fives from Czechia!
High fives back 🙌🙌🙌 yeah after your experience I am keen to see how it goes, will likely do an update video in a few weeks time 😊
I'm always excited to see import plants unboxing video, please make the update vid after maybe a month or so. In my experience after I bought many plants from Ecuagenera, some of them are declining after a few weeks even they arrived with healthy leaves & good root system, maybe they're just more fussy than the others. I hope yours are strong enough & have a successful acclimatization.
You sure got some cool plants. The Anthurium Villenaorum is a really hardy one. Totally easy going. Just do not overwater it. Myself, I struck again by the black friday sale and ordered from Ecuagenera Europe 2 lovely plants. Plus 3 from Ecuador which I am waiting for. I have hardly got loss by my former orders and I am a maniac and put them in my living room straight away. ( I love the risk) LOL. Funny enough they all survived.
Aw yay I’m so glad you’re happy with the Dean McDowell, Memo! ❤
Yeah completely over the moon thank you thank you thank you again 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Oh no, I have a serpens in chunks right now from them, it was only 2 leaves , it perked up in water but then had a meltdown , I really hope yours does better, killed the roots, leaves etc, I do have what looks like little nubs starting but wow it had a hissy. The 2 anthuriums are doing great though , first new leaf right now on both , provides some encouregement after the heartbreak with the other one .... that villenaorum is on my wishlist now, so interested to see how it does for you. Thank you for the video.
Anthurium roots always remind me of udon noodles. 🍜😂
Completely agree! 🍜🍜🍜🍜
P. serpens is doing fine for me, but a month ago I found spider mites, near the leaf blades. It had slowed down. It seems more spider mite prone than other plants I have. Keep it in check and spray it often with soapy water. you got a very nice one.
Waiting for my Verrucosum Fantasy . Can’t wait and I’m not messing with the root ball this time , just adding my aroid mix around it with terracotta.
What a beautiful haul ! I hope they all do great for you. Let me tell you, my queen has been in my living room, under 32% room humidity and it’s doing just fine. So I’m sure it will do great for you ❤
My experience with imports are pretty similar, my anthuriums are rehabbing much faster than my philodendrons. I think it’s because anthuriums have hardier roots. My anthuriums were able to branching new roots out of the older roots and they were able to keep their leaves. Whereas my philodendrons roots simply just die off and would need to regrow from newer nodes, they would also drop the leaves they had because of the root loss.
Yeah I think that is likely going to be the same with my experience, the Anthuriums so far seem like they haven't skipped a bear, I think the philodendrons based on the roots I saw, might be dropping most of their leaves, but glad I did it finally to see what it was like
Loved the video Memo, really interesting with the Soil Ninja and yes great to get worm castings 😊 And all the luck with your new lovely plant’s… I have very stupidly ordered a Hoya New Guinea Ghost, luckily in the UK But 🥶 ! Us plant collectors can’t help are ourselves 😆
Awww glad you enjoyed 😊 💚 🌿 thanks hopefully they all settle in OK. Ohhhhh I hope the hoya arrives OK 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🍀🍀🍀🍀 I know it got cold all of a sudden. But hopefully hoyas are a bit hardier, so with any luck it should be ok as long as it is not travelling for many days. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Soil Ninja are amazing, I've now converted most of my collection to semi hydro using their products. It worked out so much cheaper than other brands.
I hope you get some bird's nest anthuriums, like cardboard anthurium or some other type of Pachyneurium. You might like the very thick leaves and orchid-like thick robust roots. They can grow very tall and no janky support sticks needed at all that's how thick the petioles and leaves are.
Congratulations on the new plants! and good luck getting them settled in :) I am in the group that would enjoy an update video in a few weeks or months when you feel the moment is right. I really liked the Soil Ninja unboxing too - not available in Canada (yet?) but gave me a lot to think about!
loved the unboxing! i have bought from Ecuagenera ( Ecuador site) several times and never had an issue with the plants themselves. it did take a long time ( 6 weeks drom time of order.. i live in northeast US)...but i expected that...i can't wait for spring for my next order.....🌱
Hmm. I want to say blue is your color. It looks great. Happy American Thanksgiving!
Good luck with rehabing the plants, I hope they will all recover from the transport well and soon🍀🍀🍀 I will be curious to see a follow up how it went both with Soil Ninja and the plants 🙂
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Nice unboxing 😍 Your prices are a third of what the US prices are. Good luck with all them, hope you do an update on the plants. 💚
Awww thanks, yeah they were a great price when I bought them as they had a sale on. Most definately will do an update soon 😊💚🌿
Funnily enough I ordered my first substrate order from Soil Ninja today.
Awww that is awesome I hope you love their products as much as me. I am on my 3rd order already 😅😬, currently waiting for dpd to deliver 😊
@@Houseplantygoodness DPD is delivering mine tomorrow lol. Love all the plants you ordered although I can’t see what people see in that particular Monstera, probably just me, I do love the queen so everyone has plants that they prefer. I have my young queen in my living room that I try and keep around 55/60% humidity and purchased her from someone that kept her in a cabinet, so believe it is possible in yours for sure. I have everything crossed and 🙏🏼 all yours survive even if you don’t have anywhere to put them lol.
"We don't do heat packs" Uh, I ordered last month (January 2023) and they added a heat pack. Although, it didn't work as the plants came completely and utterly frozen. I probably shouldn't have ordered a Philodendron Luxurians living in Wisconsin in the dead of winter - but I digress. They're sending me another order for free though, which I find extremely generous. I love Ecuagenera.
Hi :) El Choco reds are variable, a had some with pale greenish red abaxial and some with really nice red abaxial. The plant that has really strong red abaxial is verrucosum amazon sunset, it is georgous plant but difficult to shipp. But if you’ll rehab it it is really nice:)
Woah! The prices for those established plants are seriously that??? Right here it's not even enough to get a seedling for most of them! 😱 Nice! I really should try importing some. Been wanting a Serpens for the longest time and it's hard to get here.
Yeah I was suprised too, it was during a sake, but same as you here for some of those plants it wouldn't even buy a seedling. The serpens is gorgeous for sure. The only risk on import is if they go back to a chonk
@@Houseplantygoodness Ahh sale. I just checked the prices after watching your video. It was quite decent even without sale. But like you said, the risk factor. Although the anticipation can be overwhelmingly fun 🤩
Ohhh I would love to hear your feed back do they ship outside the UK ? Loving your background today and blue is definitely a great Color on you !! Whoa great unboxing 😮🎉😍🪴💚😀 loving all the plants and great B roll footage nice to see everything up close as I sit here getting ready to mount a stag horn fern in my own collection wish me luck 🍀 lol 😝 have a great day 🇨🇦
Awwww thanks, yeah I think they ship to quite a few countries around the world. I know that blue was a bit intense, but I thought why not I love bright colours. Ohhhhhh I hope the staghorn fern mounting is going well.
I have used soil ninja for a while now. I usually get the giant base mix sack and add in the bark and extra bits I like because it’s so much cheaper. The base mix lasts for ever. Also the monstera at the end is just stunning, I’m to afraid to kill it tho 😂
Ohhh that is such a good tip for keeping the costs down and you can customise the mix to your liking, very cool.
I unboxed an antherium pallidiflorum from Ecuagenera Europe yesterday. 2 big leaves, 61 and 57 cm without the petiole. To bad the "small" leaf is broken near the petiole but their customer service is excellent. They are sending me a new plant :) after I sent some photos. But I do live in the Netherlands, not the UK
Oh no I am sorry about that, it is interesting you say that, I have heard the EU Ecuagenera is very good at fixing any issues.
Happy for you that they finally arrived, they seem in really good shape too…I will give ecuagenera another chance come spring hopefully a better experience than this previous ✌️
I am debating giving them Bother try, based on the plants arrived. But will probably decide closer to the time to see how the plants do after shipping.
@@Houseplantygoodness the acclimating can be fun or can be heartbreaking, ..slowly slowly wins the race 😊 🪴
I read that Soil Ninja is coming to Europe. I would so love to do the project management for their localization.
Ohhh interesting I did hear whispers about it maybe going more international, maybe reach out to them and see 😊
@@Houseplantygoodness I just sent them an email. No use to just do wishful thinking, right? :D
It is most unfortunate that you and the others from the UK who ordered experienced poor communication and delays from Ecuagenera. I'm sorry that you had that happen. I've done two import orders from them (Ecuador) to the U.S. and had great/quick communication with them both times from pre-order to post-order follow up emails. I'm not saying that to in any way diminish your experience but to say that I am surprised and disappointed on your behalf.
The anthurium I ordered acclimated much easier and more quickly than the philos. In fact, I lost two philos over time while trying to rehab them. Despite that, I was pleased with the experience of importing from Ecuagenera. It's important to have realistic expectations (as you do) for any import orders and understand that the plants you receive are not going to be plant shop beautiful and may need time to acclimate if not rehab. I look forward to seeing an update video about these plants.
Thank you for your channel and all the work you put into your videos.
I ordered a batch of plants from Ecuagenera Europe 2 weeks ago and they put in heat pack for me without extra cost.😊 Maybe lots of request about heatpack they have updated their service.
The regulations about importing live plants are the same around the globe : NO SOIL and official phytosanitary document. I can imagine that Ecuagenera does not have growing facilities in Europe. Therefore, when you order from their "European" or other foreign site, your future plants already traveled from Ecuador to some kind of intermediate place and and will continue travel to your address either bone dry (without moss) or wet, rotten or frozen (with moss).
The same sad story going on with POP UP orders. A big shipment is moving from state to state in US, and from one country to another in Europe. You are lucky if you live near the first stop !
I have ordered from Ecuador many times. But only the most desirable plants, so rare and unique that I will cooperate with customer service to pay for the most upgrade shipping, correct number of heat packs, scheduled delivery, etc. For example, I cherish my Geogenanthus with FUZZY RED HAIRED LEAVES.
We have Ecuagenera's greenhouses in US but the assortment and availability may differ.
So, if you are after low price and shipping, go ahead and get a "wet stick" from nearest Etsy seller, that is how your "import" ends up in many cases, had enough of it from China, Indonesia, other places.
I love and appreciate all my Ecuadorian plants, and I remember how hard I worked to pay for everything.
great video :) funnily enough I was thinking of trying to import warocqueanum from Ecuagenera just recently but a prospect of it scares me a little given the fact how dramatic the plant can be. would be interesting to see how you get on with it / maybe tips & tricks? :)
I bought a Queen from Ecuagenera and did an orchid show pickup in California. Paid under $30 for a seedling and it had one leaf like jelly - definitely shipped before being hardened off. Took 3 months and it just put out a beautiful perfect new leaf.
The regale I bought from them had a yellow leaf that dropped immediately. And it is just a chonk still in the same 3mo span.
P. rubrijuvenile is the species name given to what was known as P. El Choco Red.
Love soil ninja, I use it and mix my own ❤
Amazing, yeah I fully get why now that I have used them, already on my third purchase 😅😅😅
@@Houseplantygoodness and I’m glad your trying leca xx
Love the background 😍! What grow lights do you use on the underside of your shelves?
Awww thanks, so on one side just regular led strips on the other, the Gro Cruiser black 600. This one amzn.to/3XGrq02
Oh man my serpens didn't last long. I managed to save a node that hasnt budged in the last couple months but it was FINNICKY
Yeah I have heard that from so many people and also based on my experience... So far so good (let's see if it lasts 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
@@Houseplantygoodness good luck!! Sending nothing but positive vibes
Question: have you ever delt with stem rot on Alocasia and how do you treat it? I lost both my tiny dancer and my Micholitziana. It's weird because both plants were very healthy and the roots were fine, even as the stem rotted. The stem didn't go black like with root rot. The leaves and stem stayed green. Really fast the stems turned very mushy and whole petioles started falling off until the whole stem collapsed, without ever turning black. So it wasn't like I could scrape off the dark parts and spray with peroxide. I'm pretty sure it was caused by me overwatering. I'm a cronic under-waterer then I over compensated 😔 How do you treat that? Thanks so much for any thoughts!
The Villenaorum grows and blooms like stupid for me. Maybe I should put it next to my Queen for her to follow suit.
Ohhh good to know, I thought it might be a good one to try and yeah definately maybe it can be a good influence on the Queen 😉
Please please PLEASE do a update! I have found my ecuagenera plants tend to die back to stumps and have a higher failure rate then equaflora/Tropical Plants. Equaflora arrive as if they never went thru shipping for me, and I have not lost one yet 😊
Did you know they do live sales on instagram on Wednesday and Friday
I ordered from Ecuagenera Europe this year and my experience wasn't great. Eventhough the shipping only took three days, the plants were bone dry. Some of the roots were already gone. Obviously they forgot to water the plants before shipping.
The package was very flimsy and the leaves of the philodendron were quite damage.
They don't seem to care about plants or customer satisfaction.
Oh no I am sorry to hear about your experience, I know from a few people from the EU who reached out they came to an agreement with Ecuagenera, did that not work for you?
@@Houseplantygoodness The plants turned out okay after cutting off the dead stuff and watering them.
But I'm a bit hesitant to order again. For now I'm more interested in more common plants anyways.
Crazy with UK orders "Brexit makes everything better" 😑I ordered three plants last year and the Pedatum is awesome. The Effusilobum really suprised me and grows huge leaves.
I really enjoyed your video BUT I wished you’d have moved it along during the unboxing and not dilly dallied and given a lengthy story time for every single plant a 1hr video is really hard to watch.
90 percent useless palaver