I live near Barcelona and last summer I found a huge Boston fern next to a garbage can. It was brown and crispy in spots, and I just cut all that out, and put it in the shade. I keep it outside, even over our winter (down to 5 degrees c), and it’s now really happy. Lots of new growth.
I don't own an anthurium regale, but I watched a youtube video (in German) from a couple of botanists, who also have a shop for exotic plants. They commented that the regale sizes up quickly, always builds a ring of roots before it grows a new leaf (due to it growing on steep river slopes, so it has the support for the new leaf), goes full risk with its foliage (big leaves, but few of them) and the one thing that will block it from flourishing is low humidity. Apparently it can tolerate lower light and less nutritients, but anything less than 60% air humidity will cause crisp brown edges and less growth. They even jokingly said they do sell the plant, but don't really recommend it. I hope that helps. I still like it, but wouldn't buy it, tbh.
I just bought one from Ecuagenera (it has two leaves, one big and one medium size with no cosmetic damage)😢😂... Once I saw video reviews on the plant I started to shake... I should have done my research before buying it 😅... Let's see how it goes...
@@22dolxxxphin22I have 2 big ones from Ecuagenera that are doing fine. Also make sure you get enough airflow. Regales find every excuses to turn brown lol
Re: Anthurium Regale: I was stuck in the "one leaf" club for almost half a year until I stumbled upon @plantgayforlife 's videos!! He has this really interesting way of rooting his anthuriums in a mix of semi-hydro substrate (leca or chunky perlite reservoir on bottom, mix of sphagnum / bark / tree fern / charcoal on top) in glass vases!! When I first saw his videos I was like...what the heck...no way this would work. And I thought about my struggling regale, so I decided to try it. Sure enough, its been 3 or so months since the switch and she's managed to keep her old leaf (a little crusty but looking glorious still) AND now has a stunning new leaf! Its had both leaves now for over a month and I'm very happy. Thought I'd recommend to you to see if it helps yours!
@@Ricardo-fv2qi yeah totally! Not sure if the hyperlink will work but I'll try: ruclips.net/video/pjnhD87m_1Y/видео.html If it doesn't for some reason, the title of the vid is "Repotting Plants In Glass Vases Couldn't be EASIER" Hope it helps!! 🌿
Hi Claire! I own a scindapsus silver hero myself and only recently have nailed the care for it. I own around 150 houseplants and the scindapsus had been a wishlist plant since the first day i started collecting plants. I had it under a grow light and near a humidifier and it just wasnt doing well for me. The keaves went soft and floppy and were starting to turn brown. So i changed its location to a room that gets hardly any light and no humidifier and i completely forgot about it. I didjt water it for weeks ir even go into the room where it lives and one day i remembered it was there and went to check on it and it was looking better than it ever had. So my advice is to forget about it. It doesnt need a grow light and thrives well on underwatering. Hope this helps! Love your channel!
Thank you for this advice! I'm just about getting some scindapsus and I was wondering which light they prefer. I had similar story with my pothos - all of them like my office room with low light caused by a huge tree in a front of the window 😄
.. I've got a lot of them too.. I just love them, but.. They don't like too much water.. Meaning, you water through, and then you wait until completely bonedry (and that may take a while depending on the weather).. They like indirect bright light, no grow light, no direct sun, no bright direct light.. They are not very fuzzy, they just don't like what everyone else wants 🤔☺️
Boston ferns are super easy when you know 4 things. 1) they love bright bright sunlight 2) they love tons of water. An automatic drip irrigation system outside is best- every other day 3) they love humidity- Houston/ Louisiana humidity 4) they naturally sprawl out extremely quickly when healthy, this makes potted plants die when not constantly DIVIDED to about 1/3 the size and then put back in the pot at least yearly.
I live in northeast, US. Boston ferns are often sold as annual outdoor plants since they do great in our spring and summer and quickly decline in the fall lol
My Boston ferns are directly in pretty pots without drainage. Before I also grew them in a big glass pot. In my experience when you don’t ever let them dry out and give them plenty of indirect light they are the easiest ones, no pests or other drama
My tiny baby Anthurium warocqueanum (5cm pot) is doing fine here's what I do: south facing window, tree in front of it so bright light, sometimes direct, sometimes filtered, a bug screen which blocks some amount of light I guess in pon, in a candle holder that is a good bit bigger than the pot which means more water evaporates, especially since it sits on some pon to raise it up in the holder and improves circulation to the roots slightly I presume humidity between 40-70% (I have a bunch of plants in that area, humidity drops when I have the window open) window is usually open when warm enough I live in Germany, it's very mild here currently, like unusually mild for summer
25:34 what about notching your Dubai Claire? You could notch all the way down the stem and potentially gets a few new growth points to chop and prop from? 🤔
I was given a boston fern last year, it was beautiful, but very quickly while in my care, it crisped up and i thought it was dead. i cut it right back, and pulled the remaining stems away from the rootball as there was so much root system and it was rock solid. then planted into a self watering pot. i was sure I killed it. but now its so full and thriving. I went a little mad buying plants last year, but now, I've decided I don't want any more climbing plants. Apart from the monstera, all the others I feel totally happy to give away to someone else. i dont keep up with moss poles well enough and they seem to grow so quickly, which usually is great, but it just means more work for me lol. I'm limited on space but genuinely do love my other plants, my zz plant, spider plants, ferns, sanseveria, alocasias and monstera, Hoya and pothos, i also love my cacti that i keep in my porch. but I've decided philodendrons and other climbing plants are not for me.
The two on the struggle bus for me (next stop Bin Central) are the Alocasia Black Velvet and the Hoya Krimson Queen. With the Black Velvet . . . mistakes were made. I've had it quite awhile, but I potted it up too soon after I bought it. It dropped all but two of its leaves. After that, it was doing the one-on-one-off routine for quite a while. I thought it was starting to look better, but then it tried to bloom and gave me two tiny leaves. I cut the flower off, but it hasn't grown any more and it lost a big leaf. I think I'm down to one droopy big leaf and two tiny leaves at this point. Space is limited and it's taking up valuable real estate. I think I'd try again with it, because I do think it's a beautiful plant. But I'd buy a bigger, more established plant and I'd leave it the heck alone for a long time before trying to mess with it at all. I didn't really think I wanted a Krimson Queen, but I saw one in a grocery store that had really nice variegation, so I bought it. It got mealybugs and then started going downhill. I've had it isolated for months, sprayed it multiple times, put a systemic insecticide on it, soaked its roots in hydrogen peroxide and water, repotted it, etc., but I found another mealybug on it recently and it's still not looking great. I don't think it'll be with me much longer.
About the Anthurium, it is probably the weather. Here in Brazil they grow bigger than the apartment. 😂😂😂 Try giving it a bit more light and put a humidifier close to its pot, so the moisture goes upwards. I hope it helps. You are very beautiful and I love your channel. ❤
Thanks again for another amazing video. I look forward to them! Big stress reliever for me to watch you kinda stress out about your plants 😉 love ya! 😂
anthuriums in no drainage was a gamechanger for me. plant gay for life has great videos on that. i just take a glass vessel, put a layer of leca on the bottom as like a water reservoir and use sphagnum moss as substrate on top.
I killed two Queens and I bought one small seedling recently. I put it in pon as soon as I got it and it’s thriving in my bathroom. The humidity there is around 50%. I use silica and a liquid fertilizer to feed it. I hope that helps. I have couple plants that I am not giving up on.
Regarding the portadora, there's a DIY mix that includes peppermint and tea tree soaps as those are meant to be repellant to spidermites, so if you haven't yet, perhaps give that a try. There are lots of different recipes, I use 1 cup of water with 1/2 tbsp tea tree castile soap, 1/2 tbsp peppermint castile soap, 2 tbsp 70% isopropyl and 1/2 tsp 3% peroxide. I also tend to add a drop of neem sometimes because I find it can shine the leaves up nicely. Fair warning, open a window and run a fan when you spray it as it can be a bit much.
ALOCASIA’S ARE HEAVY FEEDERS! They need a synthetic fertilizer like 20 20 20 or 24 8 16. If they don’t get enough the plant will consume the oldest leaf for strength to make a new one. It will start with discoloring the leaf then the petiole will start to droop. I’ve seen it in all my alocasia and fertilizer always fixes.
Hi hi! Your Domesticum certainly has thrips. Thrips need a STRONG systemic poison. Your predadtory mites and other treatment may not of worked. She also would thrive on a moss/soil pole. This type of philo climbs high and needs something to attach to to get nice, healthy, big leaves.
I have a lovely baby Anthurium Warocqueanum. I have it for 3 months now. It's happy, healthy, giving me new leaves. I think the game changer for her, and all of my Anthuriums, is a layer of sphagnum moss on top of the soil. And keeping that slightly moist.
I gave up on anthuriums. Not going to spend anymore money on them. I have struggled with some philodendrons but they are starting to grow now except for that mamei. I do not know what to do for that plant. I have finally put it in water to see what it does. It's actually growing a new leaf 😮 I also struggle with some of my baby aglaonemas and have even struggled with two of my huge aglaonemas. Not sure what their problem is but I had to chop them and they seem to be trying to come back but I don't know. I have also been struggling with my peperomia ruby cascade. That plant has been gorgeous and spring came and it grew for a while and then just started dying on the top. I trimmed it back to see if it can revive. The only place I can grow ferns is in the bathroom and outside in the humidity and heat.
With the Dubia, have you considered chopping the plank so you can prop without damaging the existing roots. Thank you for sharing, we all have those tricky plants we keep wanting to master (alocasia flying squid is my current tricky one).
My queen is in semi Hydro at the moment. She throws a fit if she dries out at all, so that’s why I put her in semi Hydro. She doesn’t like it when it gets really cold, she doesn’t like it when it gets really hot. And she has gone downhill a little bit since I got rid of my humidifier. But right now she looks like a stump because there were thrips and I just cut the leaf off to save her. but I’m confident that she will come back.🤞
Yeah with the Dubia, it’s probably just time to chop it all up and prop it. Start over and get a new one going up a fresh plank and sell the rest of the viable cuttings after they root.
Very helpful, thank you! Please could you do a video on humidity levels. How are you maintaining high levels in the UK during winter when we have our heating on. 🇬🇧❄️❤️
Dopey question that you've probably already thought of... but have you tried water conditioner (like for fish tanks) for the plants with the crispy leaves?
I am just getting into Hoyas and have found the airflow to the roots is critical to making them happy. I suggest you remove the hoya from the cache pot to allow more airflow. Good luck. I really appreciate your videos.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Portadora but I’ve had two years of two leaves maximum and I just cannot get it to flourish. Strange you have released this video today because I was looking at this plant last night and thinking I may need to pass it on because it just doesn’t love me 😢
I got myself a pink version of a Aglaonema plant, very young one with a flower bud in the center. I put it in a warm humid room, with no direct sunlight. Yet within a week I had lost 5 leaves because every time it got bright in the room, the plant would just not have it. I put two layers of curtains up and moved it to the very edge of the room and yet... It's still losing leaves. So frustrating. If I put it in full shade it will stop growing.
For Anthuriums layer moss on top of soil, they will draw humidity from it. The big velvety leaves need the moisture moss provides. Anthuriums are my absolute favorite. Happy planting 💚🌱
Here in Oklahoma Boston ferns are a plant that grow well outside in the spring & summer in the shade with lots of water. I've tried to bring inside with no success. But still them outside!
My best advice for the queen would be to have it in a chunky aroid mix (both drainage and no drainage seems to work for me) and keep the substrate moist. I've noticed the plant holds onto less leaves in semi hydro (and leaves do seem a little unhealthier too). I also keep mine in the darker spots of my apartment and they seem to prefer it there! I have 2 in a cabinet and another 2 in ambient and it's not seeming to make too much of a difference :) not sure what all you have already tried but maybe one of these tips may help 💚
Hi Claire, I'm wondering, how do you take care of the plants when you go on a vacation? Because I have several plants and don't know how to manage it while on vacation Thanks to you I've learned so much about plants, and I've extended my wishlist with so many cool new plants! I really love your content and the videos that you make about doing chores, it really helps me while I'm doing stuff I would otherwise procrastinate!
A trusted friend or family member, printed out pictures of the plants, a notebook, glue stick, and a pencil to write the instructions for care under each plant picture. That's how I've always done it.
I had to open my computer to comment on the Boston Fern. I live in Alabama, USA -- so the South East of the US. You always see these hanging on people's porches. They grow so great here. You usually see a row of them hanging -- like a big Boston Fern between each porch column. I have sun ferns. And I can't kill that thing. I bought it last year and it did SO AMAZING in stark full sun and 90+ F degree days all summer. So I overwintered in in pretty medium light in my bedroom. Then I split it. I've never split a fern, but I had to get out a hacksaw to saw it into three pieces and they've done just as amazing this year. And I didn't even re-acclimate it when I put it back outside. And they don't need a ton of water. I wonder if mine is just a freak. I got it at the hardware store. I'm struggling with a free cutting I got at a plant swap -- zig zag cactus. I've had it rooting for months. It looks like nothing has happened. It put out a few tiny roots, but no growth -- WTH? I actually just ordered one that will arrive tomorrow. LOL I'm going to repot the new plant and put my cuttings in the same pot. Also Lemongrass. I spent SO MUCH effort getting new lemon grass to grow this year - ordered seeds 5 times I have it all around my pool. But they are already insanely root bound in 5 gallon pots and dry out so fast. And I think when they say "full sun" -- they didn't mean Alabama full sun.
Hey Claire, what do you think about the idea to put a plastic rope inside a mosspole? Like a selfwatering pot and on the end you put a plastic bottle or something like this? I thought about it for a while but I have no plants on a pole. Do you have any experience with this? What do you think about it? Would this work? Thank you! I love your channel! Greetings from Austria 🥰
.. I've got my Alocasia's in Leca and that is perfect.. I never really think about if they need water, just taking a look in the bucket every now and then to see if there's any water.. If not they get a very good drink and I can leave them with their water until next time.. .. You can send your dubia to me, and I'll bring it back to life 🤗 some Hoyas need to mature before doing anything.. It can be up to 3 years sometimes.. Slow growing for sure..
I have an anthurium warocqueanum and I keep mine in a terracotta pot in relative low light and a semi well draining mix. I water it when the leaves curl slightly. I have almost had it a year and it's just now putting out it's first leaf since I got it. I haven't lost any and it will have 4 total once the new one hardens off. I dont feel super confident with it yet, but what I have been doing seems to be working fine.
Hi Claire I enjoy your plant enthusiasm. I saw you at the Malvern show. Will you be at the NEC this weekend? I’m only a beginner with houseplants. I love my outdoor garden but it’s hard work.
We still do not understand the plant world well enough. I have 3 year old monster. It grew one leaf in those 3 years and they are all very juvenile .... also ... a cork-screw rush ... RIP, but that was my fault. My Boston Fern was my pride and joy, but this winter she took lots of cold damage as it was too big and doesn't fit anywhere anymore, She is on the mend now, though it's hardly a summer :-) Thank you for sharing the video with us.
I had a regale and it lasted less than a year. Lost one of its two leaves after a couple months and the huge leaf lasted almost a year before it finally fell off. Then the stump slowly died off. Some anthuriums are great, others don't like me. I've never had luck with forgetii hybrids, either. I also had one of those domesticum variegatas and it never sized up, it was just a skinny vine with small leaves. after three years I gave it away.
Maybe try to grow your Alocasia portodora outside on the balcony over the warmer months. You can keep and enjoy this beautiful plant, but don't have to worry about spreading pests. Maybe it will even be less attractive for pests, with the rain, sun and wind taking care of your plant. I think it is worth a try before getting rid of it
If I remember correctly Claire always used to keep it on her balcony but it still kept getting pests. I would be terrified to get it back inside over the Winter with all the pests on it 😅
Hi Clare from the USA, Missouri. Just a little trivia, for you Philodenron (11:20) and the Alocasia (19:35), you may want to put them in clay pots with holes. They like to breathe. At least my Philodenron loves its clay pot. Hang in there and God be with you!!! 🙂
Regarding Alocasia - Leaf Shine does wonders when it comes to spider mites. A friend of mine is an alocasia collector and this is her top hack for keeping them happy and healthy
Can just stick a stick into a pot instead of a moss pole if want to see how it takes to having a pole if what's it's missing is climbing. Moss poles are annoying to deal with, sticks are easier while providing support (tho can't do that self watering thing)
my Anthurium warocqueanum is the easiest anthurium i own. i would just put it in lechuza pon mixed with some chunky pumice. bright light but not direct cus the leaves burn. but i swear chunky pon is the way to go with anthuriums
normal lechuza made my clarinverium get some rot. (still alive and puhsing new leaves ) i would mix it and and put some moss on the top of the pon as well :)
The Dieffenbachia is so beautiful but I never know what’s going on with that one. They are so fussy. Can’t figure them out. The rubber plant is another one my mystery list!😢 Thanks for sharing with us your conundrums!
I will say when it comes to your philodendron, that I’ve noticed whenever I have a plant growing in those kind of tall jars with the small top… that nothing does well. Something about the oxygen and how it moved in the jar: I know that seems insignificant. But ever since I realized those, aka using test tubes and such… they don’t ever work for me. But even talk jars tht are narrow. If the top opening is one third of the height or so with no other air… it fails. Where as every other jar seems fine: and it’s been many many times that I’ve noticed this being the case. Something to consider Sorry if it sounds silly but it was a very frustrating thing for me as I have lost a lot of plants very slowly because of these jars. I’m convinced of it.
@@lisamac8503 I have success when it comes to the wide mouth jars and weirdly though I normally agree with the statement as a whole, my Hoya that was in water rooting for like 5 years, that my mother gave to me per request because it was just declining and the root mass was huge.. I don’t think she knew what to do with it and I was scared as well cause acclimating that to an airy mix was precarious to say the least… I filled up a hanging wide mouth glass vase with bark, moss and leca and it’s actuallly very very happy though it sat there for months with no sign of improvement. Now it’s flourishing all at once and quickly. So it def can work! But thanks for agreeing! I was filling silly for saying anything :P
Hi Claire!! I agree. P. Domesticum is a weird wonky fella. I agree I’m not super into mine either. As for the queen, I’ve had such good luck. I’m grateful because I hear there a challenge. I have her in tree fern soil in a clear pot. Cache pot for additional water. She lives in my Milsbo wide at around 60 percent humidity. I hope yours comes around. Little sad to see your OG Dubia looking a bit sad. However, she’s given you so much joy! I’m sure someone would be happy to re home her. Anyways sending love from FL! 💚
That Regale needs humidity and several hours of dappled sun per day....really good sun. It should be 3-4 ' back from your window. Check your calcium levels/ magnesium too. Good luck.
Lmao I’m sorry but your coffee machine is terrifying 😂 (I am not one to talk, when my roomba randomly decides to empty itself it sounds like a jet plane taking off in my living room).
I struggle with the Doryaki mine always keeps 1 leaf maybe 2 but it flowers readily. The other plant I struggle with is the Metallicum. I've had it for nearly a year and it hasn't put out 1 leaf for me. It came with 3 and now it has 2. I don't understand what it wants from me.
I suspect the trouble with the Philodendron Deomesticum Variegata is the lack of oxygen to the roots. The container has a very narrow top which doesn't allow for much respiration. Before you ditch it, try the semi-hydro in a wider-topped container with ample holes set into a separate reservoir for the water. I would love to see an update on it if you do try this. Thank you for all the information you give. I enjoy your videos so much!
I keep my anthurium crystallinum rather moist (but no water in the big pot it stands in). I water it every other day. Since i do this, it gives me a new leaf per month. The substrate has to be moist. Good luck!
My ferns really thrive in self watering pots. My variegated domesticum don’t give me any issues but I don’t know what your humidity is like and what you’re feeding them. I have pretty high humidity and all my plants get fertilized with a maintenance dose of my regular fertilizer at every watering. I also use cal mag and a supplement that has microbes and mycorrhizae, fulvic and humic acid, etc, as well as worm tea. I also add liquid silica for all my variegated plants as well. It sounds like a lot but my plants have responded tremendously. I use horticultural oil on my plants as a preventative to cut down on pests as well. It’s time consuming but worth it in the long run.
I just got a homalomena in a dirt self watering set up and it made me think I should try a fern in this setup. Is that the way you grow ferns? I have like humidity so maybe that won't even keep em alive but I might gamble $20 on the project... 🤔
@@gypsylee333 Yes, I keep my ferns in self watering pots. I have an asparagus fern (and she is HUGE), a variegated brake fern, a bird’s nest fern, and a rabbit’s foot fern all in self-watering pots and they’re all very happy. My humidity is somewhere between high 60-s to mid-70’s most of the time. Sometimes it creeps a bit higher even. It’s never below about 68. A few of the fronds on my bird’s nest got wilty at first when I put her into the self-watering pot but she recovered within 24 hours. The others never had any issues. I believe ferns like crocodile ferns and golden zebra bamboo ferns would also love this setup. The substrate I use with these is a chunky soil-dirt (you could use whatever you want but I use fox farms ocean forest), cypress mulch, perlite, and 5-6mm leca for added aeration. You could skip the leca if you wanted to.
@@dark_joule thanks for the reply, my humidity is much less here but I think I'll gamble... Which fern do you think could deal with lower humidity best? The rabbits foot? Omg I need to stop myself 😅 I have too many plants right now I should avoid the headache ones. 🤣
@@gypsylee333 I think I’d actually try it with either the bird’s nest fern or a golden zebra bamboo fern if it were me. The others like a much higher humidity. You can get away with about 50% with those two. I’m not sure what yours is. I think all ferns are headaches. 😂🤣 They’re just beautiful so we put up with them. lol
I am so glad I no longer crave any plants and managed to sell half of my previous collection already. I still have 130+ plants but I am done with the obsession and eventually will get to 40-50 plants and only those that dont die when you leave them for a week. it was an expensive experience and I just calculated that I spent £890 on plants that just died on me and in total over £5000 on plants, plant accessories etc, . so expensive learning lesson but i have learned from it and will never make a similar mistake again.
Agree…fell in love with Anthuriums…I have a few in my collection however, all these crosses and new hybrids, you can’t keep up with it. I decided early on I would just get the anthuriums that tugged at my heart strings. I think I’ve got 10 at the moment. Hoyas and carnivorous plants are a different story. 😂
Don't worry about the money you "wasted" - it was an experience that you've paid for and now you know it much better :) Also by that time it did bring you joy and happiness, and that's the best thing to invest into ;)
@@my.journal.lab27 That is very true. For two years I loved that hobby and during covid - watching the plants grow and tending to them gave me so much internal peace and happiness. But I wish i was more into the common plants and not the super rare as the prices at the time were sky high.
I think channels like these feed our addiction in a bad way..jst like watching makeup videos makes u buy all kind of makeup crap that ull never end up using..this woman here is making money taking care of her plants nd showing off all exotic plamts she hs got..she hs no other job to do bt 4 us normal ppl that hv to work, taking care of so many plants is simply impossible!
I have a collection of almost 200 plants and I have a little of everything. Philodendron, anthurium, Hoya, monstera, cactus, succulents, etc. But my absolute hardest plants that I can’t figure out and I kill constantly are Pothos and snake plants! I don’t understand how people say that they’re great beginner plants and that those are the easiest plants to own. Ugh!
my portora is also a huge pain, I eventually caved and used systemic treatment on it. And I have a variegated alocasia polly plantlet that is miserable
I have a pink Syngonium that is giving me grief 🤦♀️ I had it I less light leaves browned, increased the light brown leaves 🤦♀️ Repotted the plant no change 🤷♀️🇨🇦
my philodendron pink pincress is just my biggest pain i love it so much but i need to do something to make it actually grow leave and not them dying before they get out of the shell
Respecto al Helecho Boston , yo durante años me empeñe en tenerlo colgado en el salón y siempre terminaban por morir hasta que hace algunos años decidí colgar está bonita planta en mi terraza exterior cubierta y voala ! ...se hizo la magia , cada año esta más y más grande y bonito , al principio prnse que no sobreviviria a mis inviernos ( yo vivo en el pais vasco ) pero no fue así , lo único que controlo más los riegos pero está feliz , quizás sirva de ayuda a alguien . 💌
The Regale has found a sad death with me xD one thing I've learned when it omes to difficult plants: to measure the PH level can be the magic key to keeping them happy. If you havent dont that, try it. My Anth. Waroq absolutley suffered with me as well. It then stared to glow up, had a baby and then both died (!?) Never unterstood why. Such a mystery
I'm so scared to transfer my Alocasia Frydek out of my Cabinet. It was a Christmas Gift and it grows so beautiful and has such stunning variegation, so its not a big struggle plant (for now!) :D my struggle plant is my Monstera Dubia, which doesnt root in its moss pole and air layering doesn't work either, its really strange :D
Imagine if you’d never chopped your Dubia, how long the vine would be by now! 30ft or 10m even?!? It wouldn’t be surprising to see a huge wild Dubia vine where the top was thriving (as your fenestrated section is) but having lost all of its leaves closer to the ground. Just a trunk/stem at the base and newer, larger leaves higher up. That’s what I see happening, but with the sections split up, the base is nearly bare now. I think maybe the base is just spent, it’s done it’s duty very well.
3:12 the decorative pot is hilarious. It’s animating how the plant feels 😂
I live near Barcelona and last summer I found a huge Boston fern next to a garbage can. It was brown and crispy in spots, and I just cut all that out, and put it in the shade. I keep it outside, even over our winter (down to 5 degrees c), and it’s now really happy. Lots of new growth.
How lovely of you to save it! I also have plant I saved from the roadside 😃
I don't own an anthurium regale, but I watched a youtube video (in German) from a couple of botanists, who also have a shop for exotic plants. They commented that the regale sizes up quickly, always builds a ring of roots before it grows a new leaf (due to it growing on steep river slopes, so it has the support for the new leaf), goes full risk with its foliage (big leaves, but few of them) and the one thing that will block it from flourishing is low humidity. Apparently it can tolerate lower light and less nutritients, but anything less than 60% air humidity will cause crisp brown edges and less growth. They even jokingly said they do sell the plant, but don't really recommend it. I hope that helps. I still like it, but wouldn't buy it, tbh.
I just bought one from Ecuagenera (it has two leaves, one big and one medium size with no cosmetic damage)😢😂... Once I saw video reviews on the plant I started to shake... I should have done my research before buying it 😅... Let's see how it goes...
@@22dolxxxphin22 I wish you the best of luck with it!
@@22dolxxxphin22 it will be fine. I just keep mine with wet feet and water it in the shower
@@22dolxxxphin22I have 2 big ones from Ecuagenera that are doing fine. Also make sure you get enough airflow. Regales find every excuses to turn brown lol
I was about to comment the same 😂 the channel is called 'Jungle Leaves'
I ALMOST bought Baby Tears and Maidenhair Fern the other day, then, I thought, "why are you trying to break your heart AGAIN?" I put them back. 😆
👏👏👏 good for you! This is me with calatheas and stromanthe. They are so beautiful but I’m OVER the spider mites
Re: Anthurium Regale: I was stuck in the "one leaf" club for almost half a year until I stumbled upon @plantgayforlife 's videos!! He has this really interesting way of rooting his anthuriums in a mix of semi-hydro substrate (leca or chunky perlite reservoir on bottom, mix of sphagnum / bark / tree fern / charcoal on top) in glass vases!!
When I first saw his videos I was like...what the heck...no way this would work. And I thought about my struggling regale, so I decided to try it. Sure enough, its been 3 or so months since the switch and she's managed to keep her old leaf (a little crusty but looking glorious still) AND now has a stunning new leaf! Its had both leaves now for over a month and I'm very happy. Thought I'd recommend to you to see if it helps yours!
Is there a particular video of theirs you would recommend? There’re a ton of them on their channel 😅
@@Ricardo-fv2qi yeah totally! Not sure if the hyperlink will work but I'll try:
ruclips.net/video/pjnhD87m_1Y/видео.html
If it doesn't for some reason, the title of the vid is "Repotting Plants In Glass Vases Couldn't be EASIER"
Hope it helps!! 🌿
@@cjarce444 yeah, definitely worked, thanks 🙌
Hi Claire!
I own a scindapsus silver hero myself and only recently have nailed the care for it. I own around 150 houseplants and the scindapsus had been a wishlist plant since the first day i started collecting plants. I had it under a grow light and near a humidifier and it just wasnt doing well for me. The keaves went soft and floppy and were starting to turn brown. So i changed its location to a room that gets hardly any light and no humidifier and i completely forgot about it. I didjt water it for weeks ir even go into the room where it lives and one day i remembered it was there and went to check on it and it was looking better than it ever had. So my advice is to forget about it. It doesnt need a grow light and thrives well on underwatering. Hope this helps! Love your channel!
Thank you! I’ll be trying this with mine
Thank you for this advice! I'm just about getting some scindapsus and I was wondering which light they prefer. I had similar story with my pothos - all of them like my office room with low light caused by a huge tree in a front of the window 😄
.. I've got a lot of them too.. I just love them, but.. They don't like too much water.. Meaning, you water through, and then you wait until completely bonedry (and that may take a while depending on the weather).. They like indirect bright light, no grow light, no direct sun, no bright direct light.. They are not very fuzzy, they just don't like what everyone else wants 🤔☺️
@@aingealtara1479 so true! xD
Boston ferns are super easy when you know 4 things.
1) they love bright bright sunlight
2) they love tons of water. An automatic drip irrigation system outside is best- every other day
3) they love humidity- Houston/ Louisiana humidity
4) they naturally sprawl out extremely quickly when healthy, this makes potted plants die when not constantly DIVIDED to about 1/3 the size and then put back in the pot at least yearly.
yes im in louisiana, they defintely love heat and humidity. i spritz mine every morning:) careful not to burn them tho
I use wicking pots - just makes an amazing difference to stretching the watering out.
I live in northeast, US. Boston ferns are often sold as annual outdoor plants since they do great in our spring and summer and quickly decline in the fall lol
South central Pennsylvania here, I second that!!!😮💨
In Southern California they thrive outside year round. My neighbor has a huge one
@@lisadodd9753 So not fair lol😏
@@butterflymuse2707 🙋🏽♀️😁
18:10 - 18:36 is so good. Love your reactions Claire ❤
My anthuriums (including regale and warocqueanum) absolutely love being in tree fern fiber-based “soil”. I also add cal-mag every time I’m watering 💚
My Boston ferns are directly in pretty pots without drainage.
Before I also grew them in a big glass pot. In my experience when you don’t ever let them dry out and give them plenty of indirect light they are the easiest ones, no pests or other drama
16:20 Joli’s sweet face in the background watching you is just the most wholesome thing 😍
My tiny baby Anthurium warocqueanum (5cm pot) is doing fine here's what I do:
south facing window, tree in front of it so bright light, sometimes direct, sometimes filtered, a bug screen which blocks some amount of light I guess
in pon, in a candle holder that is a good bit bigger than the pot which means more water evaporates, especially since it sits on some pon to raise it up in the holder and improves circulation to the roots slightly I presume
humidity between 40-70% (I have a bunch of plants in that area, humidity drops when I have the window open)
window is usually open when warm enough
I live in Germany, it's very mild here currently, like unusually mild for summer
Love your content and the way you deliver it!
Thank you so much, that's so kind of you x
25:34 what about notching your Dubai Claire? You could notch all the way down the stem and potentially gets a few new growth points to chop and prop from? 🤔
I was given a boston fern last year, it was beautiful, but very quickly while in my care, it crisped up and i thought it was dead. i cut it right back, and pulled the remaining stems away from the rootball as there was so much root system and it was rock solid. then planted into a self watering pot. i was sure I killed it. but now its so full and thriving.
I went a little mad buying plants last year, but now, I've decided I don't want any more climbing plants. Apart from the monstera, all the others I feel totally happy to give away to someone else. i dont keep up with moss poles well enough and they seem to grow so quickly, which usually is great, but it just means more work for me lol. I'm limited on space but genuinely do love my other plants, my zz plant, spider plants, ferns, sanseveria, alocasias and monstera, Hoya and pothos, i also love my cacti that i keep in my porch. but I've decided philodendrons and other climbing plants are not for me.
The two on the struggle bus for me (next stop Bin Central) are the Alocasia Black Velvet and the Hoya Krimson Queen. With the Black Velvet . . . mistakes were made. I've had it quite awhile, but I potted it up too soon after I bought it. It dropped all but two of its leaves. After that, it was doing the one-on-one-off routine for quite a while. I thought it was starting to look better, but then it tried to bloom and gave me two tiny leaves. I cut the flower off, but it hasn't grown any more and it lost a big leaf. I think I'm down to one droopy big leaf and two tiny leaves at this point. Space is limited and it's taking up valuable real estate. I think I'd try again with it, because I do think it's a beautiful plant. But I'd buy a bigger, more established plant and I'd leave it the heck alone for a long time before trying to mess with it at all. I didn't really think I wanted a Krimson Queen, but I saw one in a grocery store that had really nice variegation, so I bought it. It got mealybugs and then started going downhill. I've had it isolated for months, sprayed it multiple times, put a systemic insecticide on it, soaked its roots in hydrogen peroxide and water, repotted it, etc., but I found another mealybug on it recently and it's still not looking great. I don't think it'll be with me much longer.
About the Anthurium, it is probably the weather. Here in Brazil they grow bigger than the apartment. 😂😂😂
Try giving it a bit more light and put a humidifier close to its pot, so the moisture goes upwards. I hope it helps.
You are very beautiful and I love your channel. ❤
Thanks again for another amazing video. I look forward to them! Big stress reliever for me to watch you kinda stress out about your plants 😉 love ya! 😂
anthuriums in no drainage was a gamechanger for me. plant gay for life has great videos on that. i just take a glass vessel, put a layer of leca on the bottom as like a water reservoir and use sphagnum moss as substrate on top.
Then you need to flush the pot frequently to get rid of accumulating salt and bacteria, which can be such an annoyance.
I killed two Queens and I bought one small seedling recently. I put it in pon as soon as I got it and it’s thriving in my bathroom. The humidity there is around 50%. I use silica and a liquid fertilizer to feed it. I hope that helps. I have couple plants that I am not giving up on.
Regarding the portadora, there's a DIY mix that includes peppermint and tea tree soaps as those are meant to be repellant to spidermites, so if you haven't yet, perhaps give that a try. There are lots of different recipes, I use 1 cup of water with 1/2 tbsp tea tree castile soap, 1/2 tbsp peppermint castile soap, 2 tbsp 70% isopropyl and 1/2 tsp 3% peroxide. I also tend to add a drop of neem sometimes because I find it can shine the leaves up nicely. Fair warning, open a window and run a fan when you spray it as it can be a bit much.
ALOCASIA’S ARE HEAVY FEEDERS! They need a synthetic fertilizer like 20 20 20 or 24 8 16. If they don’t get enough the plant will consume the oldest leaf for strength to make a new one. It will start with discoloring the leaf then the petiole will start to droop. I’ve seen it in all my alocasia and fertilizer always fixes.
In my experience anthuriums love Pon and semi hydro….That has changed my whole anthurium game. Also I have a reverse osmosis water filter.
Hi hi! Your Domesticum certainly has thrips. Thrips need a STRONG systemic poison. Your predadtory mites and other treatment may not of worked. She also would thrive on a moss/soil pole. This type of philo climbs high and needs something to attach to to get nice, healthy, big leaves.
I have a lovely baby Anthurium Warocqueanum. I have it for 3 months now. It's happy, healthy, giving me new leaves.
I think the game changer for her, and all of my Anthuriums, is a layer of sphagnum moss on top of the soil. And keeping that slightly moist.
I also put a layer of moss on top and that seems to help.
I use a watering globe on my boston fern indoors it stays beautifly watered
I gave up on anthuriums. Not going to spend anymore money on them. I have struggled with some philodendrons but they are starting to grow now except for that mamei. I do not know what to do for that plant. I have finally put it in water to see what it does. It's actually growing a new leaf 😮 I also struggle with some of my baby aglaonemas and have even struggled with two of my huge aglaonemas. Not sure what their problem is but I had to chop them and they seem to be trying to come back but I don't know. I have also been struggling with my peperomia ruby cascade. That plant has been gorgeous and spring came and it grew for a while and then just started dying on the top. I trimmed it back to see if it can revive. The only place I can grow ferns is in the bathroom and outside in the humidity and heat.
With the Dubia, have you considered chopping the plank so you can prop without damaging the existing roots. Thank you for sharing, we all have those tricky plants we keep wanting to master (alocasia flying squid is my current tricky one).
My queen is in semi Hydro at the moment. She throws a fit if she dries out at all, so that’s why I put her in semi Hydro. She doesn’t like it when it gets really cold, she doesn’t like it when it gets really hot. And she has gone downhill a little bit since I got rid of my humidifier. But right now she looks like a stump because there were thrips and I just cut the leaf off to save her. but I’m confident that she will come back.🤞
Ive got a scindapsus tricolor and snakeskin and they don't grow normal leaves unless they're climbing. All my other scindapsus are happy trailing.
Yeah with the Dubia, it’s probably just time to chop it all up and prop it. Start over and get a new one going up a fresh plank and sell the rest of the viable cuttings after they root.
Very helpful, thank you! Please could you do a video on humidity levels. How are you maintaining high levels in the UK during winter when we have our heating on. 🇬🇧❄️❤️
Hey Claire
The scindapsus silver hero needs a mosspole for short internodes. It wants to climb, then the leaves will also become significantly larger.
Dopey question that you've probably already thought of... but have you tried water conditioner (like for fish tanks) for the plants with the crispy leaves?
I am just getting into Hoyas and have found the airflow to the roots is critical to making them happy. I suggest you remove the hoya from the cache pot to allow more airflow. Good luck. I really appreciate your videos.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Portadora but I’ve had two years of two leaves maximum and I just cannot get it to flourish. Strange you have released this video today because I was looking at this plant last night and thinking I may need to pass it on because it just doesn’t love me 😢
I can confirm the sc. silver hero wants to climb on something, it’s growth is much better after attaching itself to the wall 😅
I got myself a pink version of a Aglaonema plant, very young one with a flower bud in the center. I put it in a warm humid room, with no direct sunlight. Yet within a week I had lost 5 leaves because every time it got bright in the room, the plant would just not have it. I put two layers of curtains up and moved it to the very edge of the room and yet... It's still losing leaves. So frustrating. If I put it in full shade it will stop growing.
For Anthuriums layer moss on top of soil, they will draw humidity from it. The big velvety leaves need the moisture moss provides. Anthuriums are my absolute favorite. Happy planting 💚🌱
Here in Oklahoma Boston ferns are a plant that grow well outside in the spring & summer in the shade with lots of water. I've tried to bring inside with no success. But still them outside!
Bottom water your ferns, about 2cm of water and check them every few days. Only add water when it is empty.
My best advice for the queen would be to have it in a chunky aroid mix (both drainage and no drainage seems to work for me) and keep the substrate moist. I've noticed the plant holds onto less leaves in semi hydro (and leaves do seem a little unhealthier too). I also keep mine in the darker spots of my apartment and they seem to prefer it there! I have 2 in a cabinet and another 2 in ambient and it's not seeming to make too much of a difference :) not sure what all you have already tried but maybe one of these tips may help 💚
Hi Claire,
I'm wondering, how do you take care of the plants when you go on a vacation? Because I have several plants and don't know how to manage it while on vacation
Thanks to you I've learned so much about plants, and I've extended my wishlist with so many cool new plants!
I really love your content and the videos that you make about doing chores, it really helps me while I'm doing stuff I would otherwise procrastinate!
A trusted friend or family member, printed out pictures of the plants, a notebook, glue stick, and a pencil to write the instructions for care under each plant picture. That's how I've always done it.
@ewe392 Thanks! That's a great idea!
And I really like the idea of having all of my plants with pictures in a notebook. It just sounds so cute :)
.. She gets Emma to take care of them ☺️
@aingealtara1479 oh thanks, I haven't heard it yet in any episode I watched! :)
I think you need to cover the base of Anthurium Regal with Spagnum Moss give it a little bigger teracata pot..
It's not messy... Always looks nice .
I had to open my computer to comment on the Boston Fern. I live in Alabama, USA -- so the South East of the US. You always see these hanging on people's porches. They grow so great here. You usually see a row of them hanging -- like a big Boston Fern between each porch column. I have sun ferns. And I can't kill that thing. I bought it last year and it did SO AMAZING in stark full sun and 90+ F degree days all summer. So I overwintered in in pretty medium light in my bedroom. Then I split it. I've never split a fern, but I had to get out a hacksaw to saw it into three pieces and they've done just as amazing this year. And I didn't even re-acclimate it when I put it back outside. And they don't need a ton of water. I wonder if mine is just a freak. I got it at the hardware store.
I'm struggling with a free cutting I got at a plant swap -- zig zag cactus. I've had it rooting for months. It looks like nothing has happened. It put out a few tiny roots, but no growth -- WTH? I actually just ordered one that will arrive tomorrow. LOL I'm going to repot the new plant and put my cuttings in the same pot.
Also Lemongrass. I spent SO MUCH effort getting new lemon grass to grow this year - ordered seeds 5 times I have it all around my pool. But they are already insanely root bound in 5 gallon pots and dry out so fast. And I think when they say "full sun" -- they didn't mean Alabama full sun.
After u asked me to ignore the box, I was looking at it the whole time 😂
Hey Claire, what do you think about the idea to put a plastic rope inside a mosspole? Like a selfwatering pot and on the end you put a plastic bottle or something like this? I thought about it for a while but I have no plants on a pole. Do you have any experience with this? What do you think about it? Would this work? Thank you! I love your channel! Greetings from Austria 🥰
.. I've got my Alocasia's in Leca and that is perfect.. I never really think about if they need water, just taking a look in the bucket every now and then to see if there's any water.. If not they get a very good drink and I can leave them with their water until next time..
.. You can send your dubia to me, and I'll bring it back to life 🤗 some Hoyas need to mature before doing anything.. It can be up to 3 years sometimes.. Slow growing for sure..
I have an anthurium warocqueanum and I keep mine in a terracotta pot in relative low light and a semi well draining mix. I water it when the leaves curl slightly. I have almost had it a year and it's just now putting out it's first leaf since I got it. I haven't lost any and it will have 4 total once the new one hardens off. I dont feel super confident with it yet, but what I have been doing seems to be working fine.
We're on the same regale boat haha. It got three leaves at a time at one point but they all rotted off and now it's back to a stump.
Hi Claire
I enjoy your plant enthusiasm. I saw you at the Malvern show. Will you be at the NEC this weekend? I’m only a beginner with houseplants. I love my outdoor garden but it’s hard work.
Try lechusa pon for your anthuriums, works wonders.
I use pon and self watering for my regal its not to big yet but has several healthy leaves
We still do not understand the plant world well enough. I have 3 year old monster. It grew one leaf in those 3 years and they are all very juvenile .... also ... a cork-screw rush ... RIP, but that was my fault. My Boston Fern was my pride and joy, but this winter she took lots of cold damage as it was too big and doesn't fit anywhere anymore, She is on the mend now, though it's hardly a summer :-) Thank you for sharing the video with us.
I had a regale and it lasted less than a year. Lost one of its two leaves after a couple months and the huge leaf lasted almost a year before it finally fell off. Then the stump slowly died off. Some anthuriums are great, others don't like me. I've never had luck with forgetii hybrids, either. I also had one of those domesticum variegatas and it never sized up, it was just a skinny vine with small leaves. after three years I gave it away.
Really enjoyed this. Your videos are always so fun!
Maybe try to grow your Alocasia portodora outside on the balcony over the warmer months.
You can keep and enjoy this beautiful plant, but don't have to worry about spreading pests. Maybe it will even be less attractive for pests, with the rain, sun and wind taking care of your plant.
I think it is worth a try before getting rid of it
If I remember correctly Claire always used to keep it on her balcony but it still kept getting pests. I would be terrified to get it back inside over the Winter with all the pests on it 😅
Hi Clare from the USA, Missouri. Just a little trivia, for you Philodenron (11:20) and the Alocasia (19:35), you may want to put them in clay pots with holes. They like to breathe. At least my Philodenron loves its clay pot. Hang in there and God be with you!!! 🙂
Regarding Alocasia - Leaf Shine does wonders when it comes to spider mites. A friend of mine is an alocasia collector and this is her top hack for keeping them happy and healthy
Oh my goodnesssssss ! That Boston fern my biggest challenge cute but difficult to care for with me … goes wrong with me. 🙃
Can just stick a stick into a pot instead of a moss pole if want to see how it takes to having a pole if what's it's missing is climbing. Moss poles are annoying to deal with, sticks are easier while providing support (tho can't do that self watering thing)
Did you check for flatmites? They are very common on hoya's but have no problem with other plants..... Not visible without a microscope......
my Anthurium warocqueanum is the easiest anthurium i own. i would just put it in lechuza pon mixed with some chunky pumice. bright light but not direct cus the leaves burn. but i swear chunky pon is the way to go with anthuriums
normal lechuza made my clarinverium get some rot. (still alive and puhsing new leaves ) i would mix it and and put some moss on the top of the pon as well :)
The Dieffenbachia is so beautiful but I never know what’s going on with that one. They are so fussy. Can’t figure them out. The rubber plant is another one my mystery list!😢 Thanks for sharing with us your conundrums!
I will say when it comes to your philodendron, that I’ve noticed whenever I have a plant growing in those kind of tall jars with the small top… that nothing does well. Something about the oxygen and how it moved in the jar:
I know that seems insignificant. But ever since I realized those, aka using test tubes and such… they don’t ever work for me. But even talk jars tht are narrow. If the top opening is one third of the height or so with no other air… it fails. Where as every other jar seems fine: and it’s been many many times that I’ve noticed this being the case.
Something to consider
Sorry if it sounds silly but it was a very frustrating thing for me as I have lost a lot of plants very slowly because of these jars. I’m convinced of it.
You are correct Plants do awful in glass jars of any kind I think it is lack of air but that is just my opinion They tend to stay stunted
@@lisamac8503 I have success when it comes to the wide mouth jars and weirdly though I normally agree with the statement as a whole, my Hoya that was in water rooting for like 5 years, that my mother gave to me per request because it was just declining and the root mass was huge.. I don’t think she knew what to do with it and I was scared as well cause acclimating that to an airy mix was precarious to say the least…
I filled up a hanging wide mouth glass vase with bark, moss and leca and it’s actuallly very very happy though it sat there for months with no sign of improvement. Now it’s flourishing all at once and quickly.
So it def can work!
But thanks for agreeing! I was filling silly for saying anything :P
Hi Claire!!
I agree. P. Domesticum is a weird wonky fella. I agree I’m not super into mine either. As for the queen, I’ve had such good luck. I’m grateful because I hear there a challenge. I have her in tree fern soil in a clear pot. Cache pot for additional water. She lives in my Milsbo wide at around 60 percent humidity. I hope yours comes around. Little sad to see your OG Dubia looking a bit sad. However, she’s given you so much joy! I’m sure someone would be happy to re home her. Anyways sending love from FL! 💚
That Regale needs humidity and several hours of dappled sun per day....really good sun.
It should be 3-4 ' back from your window.
Check your calcium levels/ magnesium too.
Good luck.
Every plant you shared is a plant that makes me feel punchy😂
My Scindapsus silver hero does the same thing. Very leggy. I had in it a cabinet so it was getting light. I'm wondering if it was too much.
Think it’s wandering away from the light? 🤔
Do you use CALMAG for the anthuriums? My regale has grown it's first undamaged leaf since i do that every watering.
I love your dog ❤and all your videos 😀
I struggle bus with my anthurium as well. I want it so badly but I feel like it hates me 😂
My portadora is the same! I have to pest treat once a week also 😅
Lmao Ross at the end. So cute
Great video as always 👍 Could you please do a video about you spider mite treatment for alocasia?
Lmao I’m sorry but your coffee machine is terrifying 😂 (I am not one to talk, when my roomba randomly decides to empty itself it sounds like a jet plane taking off in my living room).
Anthurium has been my other challenge. But I’ve learned in the past year, less water is more for it…..indirect light & monthly fertilizer.
I struggle with the Doryaki mine always keeps 1 leaf maybe 2 but it flowers readily. The other plant I struggle with is the Metallicum. I've had it for nearly a year and it hasn't put out 1 leaf for me. It came with 3 and now it has 2. I don't understand what it wants from me.
Metallicum likes slightly cooler temps!
@@pietandPrince Thank you that's great info because I do keep it in my very warm plant room. Guess I need to find it a new home.
i have the same issue on scindapsus silver hero even after getting it on a moss pole.
I suspect the trouble with the Philodendron Deomesticum Variegata is the lack of oxygen to the roots. The container has a very narrow top which doesn't allow for much respiration. Before you ditch it, try the semi-hydro in a wider-topped container with ample holes set into a separate reservoir for the water. I would love to see an update on it if you do try this. Thank you for all the information you give. I enjoy your videos so much!
I keep my anthurium crystallinum rather moist (but no water in the big pot it stands in). I water it every other day. Since i do this, it gives me a new leaf per month. The substrate has to be moist. Good luck!
In the U.S. most of us just grow Boston ferns as an outdoor annual.
My ferns really thrive in self watering pots. My variegated domesticum don’t give me any issues but I don’t know what your humidity is like and what you’re feeding them. I have pretty high humidity and all my plants get fertilized with a maintenance dose of my regular fertilizer at every watering. I also use cal mag and a supplement that has microbes and mycorrhizae, fulvic and humic acid, etc, as well as worm tea. I also add liquid silica for all my variegated plants as well. It sounds like a lot but my plants have responded tremendously. I use horticultural oil on my plants as a preventative to cut down on pests as well. It’s time consuming but worth it in the long run.
I just got a homalomena in a dirt self watering set up and it made me think I should try a fern in this setup. Is that the way you grow ferns? I have like humidity so maybe that won't even keep em alive but I might gamble $20 on the project... 🤔
@@gypsylee333 Yes, I keep my ferns in self watering pots. I have an asparagus fern (and she is HUGE), a variegated brake fern, a bird’s nest fern, and a rabbit’s foot fern all in self-watering pots and they’re all very happy. My humidity is somewhere between high 60-s to mid-70’s most of the time. Sometimes it creeps a bit higher even. It’s never below about 68. A few of the fronds on my bird’s nest got wilty at first when I put her into the self-watering pot but she recovered within 24 hours. The others never had any issues. I believe ferns like crocodile ferns and golden zebra bamboo ferns would also love this setup. The substrate I use with these is a chunky soil-dirt (you could use whatever you want but I use fox farms ocean forest), cypress mulch, perlite, and 5-6mm leca for added aeration. You could skip the leca if you wanted to.
@@dark_joule thanks for the reply, my humidity is much less here but I think I'll gamble... Which fern do you think could deal with lower humidity best? The rabbits foot? Omg I need to stop myself 😅 I have too many plants right now I should avoid the headache ones. 🤣
@@gypsylee333 I think I’d actually try it with either the bird’s nest fern or a golden zebra bamboo fern if it were me. The others like a much higher humidity. You can get away with about 50% with those two. I’m not sure what yours is. I think all ferns are headaches. 😂🤣 They’re just beautiful so we put up with them. lol
@@dark_joule I love the golden zebra, if I ever see one at Lowe's or something I'll give it a chance. 👍
Try not to kill an anthurium challenge: Difficulty - Claire 😅
I am so glad I no longer crave any plants and managed to sell half of my previous collection already. I still have 130+ plants but I am done with the obsession and eventually will get to 40-50 plants and only those that dont die when you leave them for a week. it was an expensive experience and I just calculated that I spent £890 on plants that just died on me and in total over £5000 on plants, plant accessories etc, . so expensive learning lesson but i have learned from it and will never make a similar mistake again.
Would rather invest that money on learning an important skill such as caring for plants, than buying crap
Agree…fell in love with Anthuriums…I have a few in my collection however, all these crosses and new hybrids, you can’t keep up with it. I decided early on I would just get the anthuriums that tugged at my heart strings. I think I’ve got 10 at the moment. Hoyas and carnivorous plants are a different story. 😂
Don't worry about the money you "wasted" - it was an experience that you've paid for and now you know it much better :) Also by that time it did bring you joy and happiness, and that's the best thing to invest into ;)
@@my.journal.lab27 That is very true. For two years I loved that hobby and during covid - watching the plants grow and tending to them gave me so much internal peace and happiness. But I wish i was more into the common plants and not the super rare as the prices at the time were sky high.
I think channels like these feed our addiction in a bad way..jst like watching makeup videos makes u buy all kind of makeup crap that ull never end up using..this woman here is making money taking care of her plants nd showing off all exotic plamts she hs got..she hs no other job to do bt 4 us normal ppl that hv to work, taking care of so many plants is simply impossible!
I have a collection of almost 200 plants and I have a little of everything. Philodendron, anthurium, Hoya, monstera, cactus, succulents, etc. But my absolute hardest plants that I can’t figure out and I kill constantly are Pothos and snake plants! I don’t understand how people say that they’re great beginner plants and that those are the easiest plants to own. Ugh!
How often do you water the snake plants?
my portora is also a huge pain, I eventually caved and used systemic treatment on it. And I have a variegated alocasia polly plantlet that is miserable
4:39 I can't pay attention to you when I don't know where you got that pot from 😭
I have a pink Syngonium that is giving me grief 🤦♀️ I had it I less light leaves browned, increased the light brown leaves 🤦♀️ Repotted the plant no change 🤷♀️🇨🇦
Claire, If this was made into a mission impossible movies, what title would you want it to be called? 🤔🤣
my philodendron pink pincress is just my biggest pain i love it so much but i need to do something to make it actually grow leave and not them dying before they get out of the shell
Thanks for sharing your struggle plants!
I think the Dubia is just old now? Is that even possible?
Respecto al Helecho Boston , yo durante años me empeñe en tenerlo colgado en el salón y siempre terminaban por morir hasta que hace algunos años decidí colgar está bonita planta en mi terraza exterior cubierta y voala ! ...se hizo la magia , cada año esta más y más grande y bonito , al principio prnse que no sobreviviria a mis inviernos ( yo vivo en el pais vasco ) pero no fue así , lo único que controlo más los riegos pero está feliz , quizás sirva de ayuda a alguien . 💌
The Regale has found a sad death with me xD one thing I've learned when it omes to difficult plants: to measure the PH level can be the magic key to keeping them happy. If you havent dont that, try it.
My Anth. Waroq absolutley suffered with me as well. It then stared to glow up, had a baby and then both died (!?) Never unterstood why. Such a mystery
For me it’s every alocasia in soil, once i have them in lechuza or something similar it’s a lot easier
I'm so scared to transfer my Alocasia Frydek out of my Cabinet. It was a Christmas Gift and it grows so beautiful and has such stunning variegation, so its not a big struggle plant (for now!) :D my struggle plant is my Monstera Dubia, which doesnt root in its moss pole and air layering doesn't work either, its really strange :D
Imagine if you’d never chopped your Dubia, how long the vine would be by now! 30ft or 10m even?!? It wouldn’t be surprising to see a huge wild Dubia vine where the top was thriving (as your fenestrated section is) but having lost all of its leaves closer to the ground. Just a trunk/stem at the base and newer, larger leaves higher up. That’s what I see happening, but with the sections split up, the base is nearly bare now.
I think maybe the base is just spent, it’s done it’s duty very well.