Not really on topic, but over the weekend my boyfriend asked me for a plant tour and followed me around the house while I told him about all of the plants for half an hour. I felt like such a proud parent!
As a new plant mom - 1 year ago this month - I truly appreciate how honest you are about your feelings about your plants. You make me feel much more comfortable moving forward because if you can lose a plant, when I do - which I have - it feels a little less tragic! Lol
I am going through very hard time at work and I feel down and shuttered, watching your videos is refreshing and makes me hope of better times, thanks for the positive energy to put into your work.
I love videos like this because they’re so genuine (not that your other videos aren’t-I really enjoy your chatty style, along with Emma's and Memo's, because they all feel so real, like you’re thinking things through and problem-solving with us). You’re not just showcasing your best plants as if competing for the prettiest or biggest; you're being honest about the challenges, which is so validating. It’s comforting to hear about your struggles with a plant in your environment, especially when it seems to thrive so easily for others. I’m the same way-I’ll fall in love with a plant from someone else’s collection, but it just doesn’t thrive in my space or suddenly decides, "No, I don’t like it here anymore." The best part about being in a plant-loving community is that we can swap plants when something isn’t working or trade cuttings to experiment with, all without spending a fortune.
I have lots of euphorbia, and they always need a lot of time to root (i had some propagations for almost a year before they put a roots). But last year i had some accident with 2 of my euphorbias and i had maybe 10 cuttings. So i experimented with them even if this sounds against common sense 😂. I let them callus and i put most of them in soil, but i put some of them i perlite and water (the water was touching the cutting) and they rooted in just a week. And they transferred well to soli afterwards. The temperatures should be high for rooting. But after that I transfered all cuttings to perlite and i use this for rooting ever since :) i hope this helps
Begonias…I have found that they need to dry out between waterings. I struggled with the first one for over a year, then finally figured out I was overwatering it. Now it is finally growing again and I bought another one and it has produced lovely pink flowers!
I enjoyed this one. I like it a lot when people share all the shades of plant parenting experience. Also it was very helpful. It made me think that maybe I want just half of the whole wishlist of mine.
It’s fine to not like a plant, I went through a phase and got “so” many, however then went through plant burnout. Now I have plants in my collection that I totally enjoy caring for and give them the needed attention, and they bring me so much joy.. “we are all plant murderers 😂”
could u do an anthurium beginner video at some point ? bcos its a trickier genus but theyre so pretty and advice on where to start and semi hydro vs soild and watering etc could be really helpfulll 🫶🏻🫶🏻
I was shocked to hear your standleyana takes forever to root!! I always prop mine in water and they take a matter of at most a month for their roots to be big enough to be potted up. A trick someone told me a few years ago is if you've got a plant that's stubborn to prop (in water, anyways) is to stick an easy-prop plant like a pothos in the same cup/prop container and it'll jump start the process!
It's good to watch such videos and get reassured that we are not alone 😂 I got rid of dubia , standlyana, trads and few parasio verde which kept reverting
Thanks so much for this video and, it’s so true and real life that we lose plants, thanks for validating that ❤ I had a little hurricane bird’s nest fern I was so excited about, I think I must have gotten the nest wet too much and it rotted, it just looked slowly sadder and sadder till I had to bin it. I think I would try again now that I’ve learned to care for bird’s nest ferns better :)
I meant to put this on your previous video. The Hoya Aceh, Aceh is pronounced “ah-chā.” Aceh is a province in Indonesia. That probably indicates where the plant where originates. There are many types of the Hoya Aceh. But I’m kinda with you, I find nothing special about that particular Hoya. Re: dead plants. As Monty Don has said, you don’t become a good gardener when all your plants survive and thrive without any troubles. It’s when things go wrong and you have to solve (or fail to solve) a problem. Troubled plants that make you smarter. And some plants just die. I remember trying to “save” my parsley growing on my patio, frustrated that it seemed to be dying. Then I found out it is a biennial: it lives two years and dies. There was nothing I could do to save it. 🤷♀️ Just get the dead plants out fast. I read somewhere that dead plants in the background bring down your mood/mental health, even if you think you’re ignoring it, according to some study.
I was all gung ho, about succulents for quite awhile, then all of a sudden, I just lost interest in them, and gave a whole bunch away. I still have a few, but I feel by next year, I will be finding homes for them as well. Have decided to keep more cactus than succulents. But I have a real mixed bag of plants. LOL . But I her you on just losing interest in a plant. It really does happen
As for the last begonia - it's not a bego oldemore, but either b. alleryi or margaritae. Mine likes being really snug in its pot, with excellent drainage - also seems to be quite sensitive when it comes to temps/humidity drops.
I just took my pothos off its moss pole & traded it for a cute little painting. It wasn’t doing anything for me. I don’t typically enjoy common plants. So I have the moss pole for a plant I love.
My biggest recent failure was my Alocasia Dragon’s Breath’s leaves dropping and I then discovered all its roots had disappeared 😢 Inspired by you, I also bought an Oldemore cutting from Etsy which is looking much like yours after taking forever to root. Countless others I have lost but the Dragon’s Breath was a wish list plant so I’m particularly sad about that one..
I find Anthurium a difficult genus for me to wrap my head around. I’m going to give my current Anthurium collection to my daughter because she’s better at growing them than myself. My niche is Hoya and it’s funny because she finds Hoyas a bit tricky. At the moment, I am also dealing with darn mealies. I honestly think it’s mealy bug season right now. I haven’t had to deal with them for a couple of years, just the occasional spider mite. Touching lots of wood! My daughter dealt with thrips for a good part of the summer. Great video! This year, I’ve thrown a few plants in the bin & given away quite a few. I’m constantly propagating it seems. I gave up on string of anything…killed them all. 😬 You made me laugh when you said, “Oh no! It’s dead! But do I really care?” Literally my thought on a few plants that went in the bin. 😂
I found mealy bugs on my lemon lime maranta. They do get down in there where the new leaf is coming. I caught them in time though. Today I found them on one of my succulents. Ugh.
A few years ago I had a red hibiscus. I lost it to white flies because at the time I knew nothing about pest treatments. I had a Thanksgiving cactus which I don’t remember what happened to 😅 There was a Rex begonia that I lost to underwatering on my hot balcony, a cactus, some avocados I started from seed… Lots of other ones that I don’t remember from the time I was dipping my toes in plant care. I hope I’m better at it now and I only lose plants that I fall out of love with 😄
I was so excited about my string of turtles when I got it. But it just seemed unhappy in my care. I didn't over water it, it was in good light, it just always seemed not as plump and full as when I got it. Not only that but it was so freaking fragile! I could barely move it an inch without loosing leaves, even when I first got it. It was more of a pain than a joy. When it finally died I was actually relieved and I know that sounds awful
I have a large begonia collection; and the secret I believe is to let them dry out to the wilting point before watering them. I understand that their fine roots rote easily and that is the best way to prevent that from happening. I do not think that a no drainage/pon set up is the way to go with begonia and african violets as well.
Thank you for this video. Now I know its fine to not like some of the plants and I do not feel like a failure... :) Begonias... I tried a few times, even succeeded to grew new beautiful healthy plants from chopped leaves (the leaf rooting)... but after I gave away most of them (swapped), the ones in my collection just died... I just don't seem to understand them. They are the most difficult I tried to grow so far and for now they are banned from my house :D
I just recently trashed my Aglaonema 'Pink Princess.' I was so in love with that plant when I got it. I had it in a lower light area and it started growing straight upwards, so I moved it to a brighter light area. Then it started getting round, brown dry patches all over its leaves. I could find anything that really explained that, so I bought another one as an insurance plant. I thought maybe the patches were sunburn, so I cut off all of the affected leaves, potted it up with the second plant, and moved it to more of a medium light location. It seemed to do pretty well for awhile, and then the brown patches started coming back again. I tried a few more things, none of which were successful, so I pulled the plug. Maybe it had a virus or some other kind of infection, but I won't buy that one again. I have a few "not for me" plants that I consider rehoming. They are growing pretty well, but I just don't love them and I'd rather use the space for plants that I love. But, for now, they are still here.
I only started collecting plants last year so I’m still finding out what plants even want to grow in my apartment at all. Euphorbias, hoyas and surprisingly alocasias are my happiest plants. Philodendrons just want to die on me. All I have left is a big Silver Sword that’s enjoying its life in my laundry room. Shockingly, monsteras don’t do well here at all, either! I only have a small dubia that’s growing tiny leaves (but she’s cute, so she gets a pass) and an albo that chose violence and is now regrowing nicely from three nodes. I am literally doing better with a variegated frydek (which is my second biggest plant now!) than with a common monstera deliciosa (that I’ve killed two of so far). Wild.
I'm new to your channel and thank you so much for this. I laughed a lot but then sorry for the loss of your babies. I'm reviewing all your videos and hope to come across one on Hoya's. And maybe if you could clear up something for me. My mother who has passed had a wonderful Begonia that was not a perennial and grew all year and I think was fibrous, but I can't figure out what it was. Do you have any Fibrous Begonia's?
I just lost my blushing philodendron to overwatering. The container that it came in when I purchased it didn't have any room for the water to go, so it sat in water for two days before I noticed the leaves starting to go limp. Long story short, it eventually died.
I had a similar experience with my dieffenbachia....I have a very different variety growing out of the base of my 'speckles" one and it looks very different, with no speckling....very bizzare! And as for killing plants, i killed d threw away my Phil. Brandtianum....I just gave up in the end after battling 2 years with it; straight into the compost pile😮💨😩
I was worried after seeing your original biophytum sensitivum plant video about it going to seed and then dying because mine was doing the same thing but, mine hasn’t died! 🤔 and some of the seeds have started sprouting in another plant that they happened to land in after being shot out 😂 the mother plant isn’t looking the best but it’s definitely still alive and continues to flower 🙈
Everyone, who has multiple plants to take care of, is basically a serial killer. I am definitely starting to belong to that category 🤣 So far, since I started my planty journey back in June 2024, I managed to kill a bird of paradise and at least two handfuls of various propagations. My second bird of paradise is doing amazingly. It came as two-plants-in-a-pot. One just unfurled new leaf and the other one started to grow a new leaf. I keep them in nutrition solution and the roots are growing in all directions 😍
To be honest, I’ve gotten rid of many plants because of pest. I just couldn’t deal and didn’t want them to spread. Currently, I’m dealing with flat mites on Hoyas. Any tips Claire?
I got my first BoP about a year and a half ago, and it ended up getting spider mites. I was a newer plant mom at the time and completely freaked out and over-treated it with a homemade dish soap and vinegar remedy. It burned so badly and never grew normal after that…. Then it died… Now I have 2 BoPs and they are just chillin.’ I just clean them and water them when they need it and they’re fine lol. 😂 😬
I love love love you and your content! I wonder if maybe you do a bit too much chop and then maybe you should get rid of almost everything that you prop, I think maybe you just want to alleviate your guilt about the chopped plant and then you prop it and really you don’t love it anyway so maybe you could think about just getting rid of the whole plant before you chop and prop and just let yourself know that it’s okay and give it away. And I wonder if maybe you might think about changing your pest management routine to make it more effective for the whole collection affected. Maybe less pests treatments and more prevention treatments would help you stay in love with some plants, and finally I think maybe you could wait a good while when you see a plant that lights up your life, and maybe see after a while if it still does it for you or maybe after a wait time, it might not light up your life like it first did when you first saw it? I hope this makes sense and please 🙏 know that I really appreciate you so much, your videos absolutely make my day and I watch them over and over, till the next one, but sometimes you need someone on the outside looking in. I hope 🤞 that I have not offended you or your followers in any way ! Lots of love ❤️ Ginger
Well said! Question about pest prevention methods.. what do you use for prevention? I am on the hunt for something that preferably i can water in bc alot of my plants are in semi hydro.
@@staywildmoonchild2318 I have never had pests I allow spiders to roam my plants this had always been my prevention I have about 150 plus plants-I do not spray water on my plants (Use a cool mist humidifier) I buy lady bugs for outside plants in the spring-
@@staywildmoonchild2318 I am not sure 🤔 I know that a peppermint Castile soap with alcohol and water mix is good for leaves and cleaning and wiping and even some pests treatment as well as preventative maintenance is good. Now that being said I know that the runoff goes into the substrate and hasn’t harmed the roots. I think I would have to do an experiment with a plant in hydro to see how it reacts. Great question though thanks
Two plants besides orchids I killed (and was sad): I was doing the process of transferring two alocasias into pon. I do this by cleaning the roots from soil and then putting the plants into water for a couple of weeks, removing the rotting roots and watching new water roots grow. It works well - except you have to change water from time to time to make sure it’s free of algae and rotting matter. But I went on a vacation for 2,5 weeks. I had someone come and water the plants once, so I didn’t ask them to change water and clean roots because well… they’re a normal person and not someone obsessed with Alocasia roots 😂 but anyway when I came back home from vacation, the water on both of them was full of algae and all roots were rotten to the point where it spread to the rhizome. Alocasia jacklyn and Alocasia dragon breath… I was so sad. But I also was prepaired to have lost some of the plants after such a long vacation. But a few months later I got new ones and they’re now transferred into pon and are doing really well! ❤
Claire my ring of fire is in a self watering pot it has been shooting leaves down in the drainage holes they were all white so I thought they were roots but they are leaves it’s not a prop plant so I’m beside my self as to what I should do. What are your thoughts?
It’s funny because I haven’t bought a calathea / marantas because they remind me of bugs (some leaf shapes). Like beetles or something. Haha! I think I would lose interest fast with it. I find a lot of people love those. I also have a Standleyana I don’t care for anymore.
The main way I "kill" plants is when my cat knocks over plants in pont and they dry out while I'm out of home. I saved the philodendron Brazil by cutting it up and propagating it in water and my Monstera Peru is proping right now for the same reason. But he knocked over my Syngonium Neon Pink and I just bined it afterwards. I was so excited when I bought it cause I love pink in plants, but the way the leaves just took forever to unfurl whilst looking crooked and the actual color of them just wasn't doing it for me, so I just gave up. Also gave away all my peperomia. Those things just suffer under my care, I seem unable to work out the watering for them.
I love plants. But I just don't enjoy growing some plants. I think it's a combination of my growing environment at home and how I care for plants. I have South and North facing windows. All the plants love any sort of position near the south windows. Not so my north windows even with grow lights. I live in the Northern USA and have 5% humidity during winter. This is a true growing challenge, and one can only fill a humidifier so much. I guess it just comes down to how much you love a plant, what your basic environment is like, and how much sacrifice one is even able to make to grow a plant. At the end of the day, gifting a plant to a friend where it thrives and grows easily is truly the sensible choice.
Yes me too!😀 spider plants, prayer plants, crotons, ivy. All these I have gotten 3 times and all 3 times they died. They get 3 strikes your out for good, never again.😂
Only you could chop a plant and grow an entire new species. Lol , the plant knew that you had mixed feelings about it so decided to change completely. Wow! 😅
Mealybugs were my enemy, until I found Diatomaceous Earth Powder, it takes a while to work, but my plants are free. I used the food graded one because I have a dog.
Monstera Adansonai is all trouble for me, i liked it ,got 4 of then trough the years ,all of them started fine then trips..yellowing..black spots.separated in another room .i am done with it.😬 I got tempted to buy one again cause i saw a big Adansonai for only 5 euro in a super😊marked ..realy?? No I didn t buy
Same here. The first one looked lovely to begin with but after a while I couldn't find anywhere where it thrived. Tried cuttings and they didn't work either. I won't buy another. The other is Ceropegia, String of Hearts. They never do well with me but I can't resist trying again. Triumph of hope over experience!
I most definitely will take some that you no longer want. Your videos help me a lot and your plants are so beautiful. I got into plants to help my depression and they really have helped. I love philodendrons and so much more
Ysdy I was so sad and when my husband arrived I told him, I've already gave up since 2 just died. I guess I killed .... More than 500+ plants & cuttings from succulents all died except 1 cactus, all herbs died except mother of herbs, indoor plants 95% died so I guess I had enough ..... Then husband said to me: STOP touching your plants. Me: oh yeah, me screaming BLACK THUMBBBBB. 😅 Me: ( just looking at them - lucky it's Springtime down here. Imagine killing plants in springtime😅)
I have already died a lot of plants, during depressive phases, but I also know no one, with many plants in which not a lot have died. 🤷🏻♀️🙈😄 So all fine 🤭
My opinion only -but do not get more plants than you can realistically take care of Becoming overwhelmed,getting sick of taking care of certain plants and hoarding is not healthy If you have a few they will mean much more to you Yes plants do get sick and die (I am not a big fan of chopping plants for no reason *more cuttings* ? I think it can weaken the mother plant and are than more likely to get infestations ) I have never had luck with spider plants yet can grow orchids from seedlings Also know your limits Some plants are tricky to take care of Be realistic in your choices not what is the latest **rare** plant that you must have Great video (:
Correct! That's either a begonia alleryi or begonia margaritae. A lot of shops and even private sellers tend to mislabel it nowadays. I've seen it being sold as incarnata/metallica as well (aka one of the parents of that hybrid).
@@lillamy2896 metallica is how shops often mislabel it as, but the real metallica has quite prominent leaf serrations + structure overall. the similarities come from the fact it's one of the parents for the one from Claire's video. ☺
The Purple Sword has been one of my fussiest plants. Mine somehow looks really nice, but only because I watch it like a hawk lol. Wants to be SUUUUPER moist all the time or else the ends of the leaves will die off immediately lol. I’ve learned I’ve got about 12 hours between when it starts to droop and when the tips start to brown if I don’t water it 😅
Its crazy hw she hypes a plant only a few months ago only to completely write it off after...a perfect conniving saleswoman, I mst say...jst to push this obsessive consumerism further!
Also overconsumption is tricky with plants. The majority of houseplants die, and they will probably die in the shop or be thrown out when a new batch comes in which would be overconsumption. At least purchasing it gives someone joy and you can pass it along or propagate it, whereas if it's left in the shop it'll become compost
How's one's subjective perception of something seen as pushing others to purchase it? Everyone makes their own choices... Have you never bought food your friends recommended that you ended up not enjoying after trying it yourself? Or clothing that you wore but stopped loving and passed it on? Genuinely curious. If someone watches a planty video and feels coerced to purchase plants mentioned in it not because they genuinely like them, but because they are "pushed"... then the problem lies elsewhere, I'm afraid.
I jst think it's misleading to first make videos on these plamts labelling them as" best houseplants".. plants I am loving "," my favourite houseplamts" plants I cannt live without".. only to chuck them away only a few months later as if they mean nothing to her nd saying I am done with these plants or even more problematic were her words that " novelty has worn off" it almst makes me question her credibility nd assume that she is paid hefty amount 4m plant seller shops to promote certain plants nd rlly doesn't care abt them nd gets rid of them as soon as her mission of promoting plants is accomplished ....i get it that she does receive free p.r sample from rare plant shops to promote the shops bt hyping those plants as the "best houseplants" without rlly knowing much abt the care of those plants nd whether they will survive in her home or nt is jst misleading as ppl will crave for such pla nts nd will also spend hundred of pounds to acquire such variety knowing hw expensive those rare plamts are only for her to say after few months that the" novelty hs worn off so I got rid of it" ..bt then mayb thats exactly wht she is here to do! its nt giving full picture to her audiance nd jst provoking ppl to buy plants blindly ...this is vicious nd mindless cycle consumerism that these influencers promote.
Not really on topic, but over the weekend my boyfriend asked me for a plant tour and followed me around the house while I told him about all of the plants for half an hour. I felt like such a proud parent!
That is so sweet of him! 🤩
❤❤❤❤awwwww stoooppppittttttttt. Thats the most romantic thing ever. ❤❤❤❤❤
That is so sweet 🩵 I hope my man asks me for a plant tour 😂
As a new plant mom - 1 year ago this month - I truly appreciate how honest you are about your feelings about your plants. You make me feel much more comfortable moving forward because if you can lose a plant, when I do - which I have - it feels a little less tragic! Lol
thank you for not making me feel so alone. good to hear that even the experts loose some plants sometimes!!!
I love how you seamlessly pronounce those names! Such a pleasure to my ears. lol
I am going through very hard time at work and I feel down and shuttered, watching your videos is refreshing and makes me hope of better times, thanks for the positive energy to put into your work.
I love videos like this because they’re so genuine (not that your other videos aren’t-I really enjoy your chatty style, along with Emma's and Memo's, because they all feel so real, like you’re thinking things through and problem-solving with us). You’re not just showcasing your best plants as if competing for the prettiest or biggest; you're being honest about the challenges, which is so validating. It’s comforting to hear about your struggles with a plant in your environment, especially when it seems to thrive so easily for others. I’m the same way-I’ll fall in love with a plant from someone else’s collection, but it just doesn’t thrive in my space or suddenly decides, "No, I don’t like it here anymore." The best part about being in a plant-loving community is that we can swap plants when something isn’t working or trade cuttings to experiment with, all without spending a fortune.
Bingo! 🙏👌👏👏👏
I have lots of euphorbia, and they always need a lot of time to root (i had some propagations for almost a year before they put a roots). But last year i had some accident with 2 of my euphorbias and i had maybe 10 cuttings. So i experimented with them even if this sounds against common sense 😂. I let them callus and i put most of them in soil, but i put some of them i perlite and water (the water was touching the cutting) and they rooted in just a week. And they transferred well to soli afterwards. The temperatures should be high for rooting. But after that I transfered all cuttings to perlite and i use this for rooting ever since :) i hope this helps
Thank you! I think that'll help me ❤
Begonias…I have found that they need to dry out between waterings. I struggled with the first one for over a year, then finally figured out I was overwatering it. Now it is finally growing again and I bought another one and it has produced lovely pink flowers!
I enjoyed this one. I like it a lot when people share all the shades of plant parenting experience. Also it was very helpful. It made me think that maybe I want just half of the whole wishlist of mine.
My Peace Lily is not peaceful. I struggle with it all the time.
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I love the alocasia purple sword so so much and have killed it twice 😢😢 So I love them now from afar lol
It’s fine to not like a plant, I went through a phase and got “so” many, however then went through plant burnout. Now I have plants in my collection that I totally enjoy caring for and give them the needed attention, and they bring me so much joy.. “we are all plant murderers 😂”
Perfect plant therapy today! ❤😊
could u do an anthurium beginner video at some point ? bcos its a trickier genus but theyre so pretty and advice on where to start and semi hydro vs soild and watering etc could be really helpfulll 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Yes this! Also, would love to know which anthuriums didn't do well in cabinet life!?
You guys gotta check out Youdontevengrowhere - she is an anthurium queen!
I was shocked to hear your standleyana takes forever to root!! I always prop mine in water and they take a matter of at most a month for their roots to be big enough to be potted up. A trick someone told me a few years ago is if you've got a plant that's stubborn to prop (in water, anyways) is to stick an easy-prop plant like a pothos in the same cup/prop container and it'll jump start the process!
Some things just need their own environment to thrive and be happy.
That is the crux of the situation - providing the exact conditions they would normally experience in their native environment.
@alexnelson9512 I know, but sometimes they just don't survive even with the perfect conditions, sadly.
It's good to watch such videos and get reassured that we are not alone 😂
I got rid of dubia , standlyana, trads and few parasio verde which kept reverting
Thanks so much for this video and, it’s so true and real life that we lose plants, thanks for validating that ❤ I had a little hurricane bird’s nest fern I was so excited about, I think I must have gotten the nest wet too much and it rotted, it just looked slowly sadder and sadder till I had to bin it. I think I would try again now that I’ve learned to care for bird’s nest ferns better :)
Does anyone else mouth along to the intro in claires accent or is that much me?? 😂
this is an important topic..thank you
I meant to put this on your previous video. The Hoya Aceh, Aceh is pronounced “ah-chā.” Aceh is a province in Indonesia. That probably indicates where the plant where originates. There are many types of the Hoya Aceh. But I’m kinda with you, I find nothing special about that particular Hoya.
Re: dead plants. As Monty Don has said, you don’t become a good gardener when all your plants survive and thrive without any troubles. It’s when things go wrong and you have to solve (or fail to solve) a problem. Troubled plants that make you smarter.
And some plants just die. I remember trying to “save” my parsley growing on my patio, frustrated that it seemed to be dying. Then I found out it is a biennial: it lives two years and dies. There was nothing I could do to save it. 🤷♀️
Just get the dead plants out fast. I read somewhere that dead plants in the background bring down your mood/mental health, even if you think you’re ignoring it, according to some study.
I was all gung ho, about succulents for quite awhile, then all of a sudden, I just lost interest in them, and gave a whole bunch away. I still have a few, but I feel by next year, I will be finding homes for them as well. Have decided to keep more cactus than succulents. But I have a real mixed bag of plants. LOL . But I her you on just losing interest in a plant. It really does happen
Love these real life plant videos! When you yave a big collection there will always be keep trying and so we just let go
Thank you ❤
Hoyas! 😭 I love them so much but I just can't keep them alive
I have 100 Hoyas and they do so well but alocasias are another story. I'm about to chuck mine!
As for the last begonia - it's not a bego oldemore, but either b. alleryi or margaritae. Mine likes being really snug in its pot, with excellent drainage - also seems to be quite sensitive when it comes to temps/humidity drops.
I just took my pothos off its moss pole & traded it for a cute little painting. It wasn’t doing anything for me. I don’t typically enjoy common plants. So I have the moss pole for a plant I love.
I love videos like this
Pretty sure my calathea roseopicta coughed while I was watching this 🤔
lol!!!
Are you sure it wasn't a death rattle? 🤣
@@soberplantguy 🤣
My biggest recent failure was my Alocasia Dragon’s Breath’s leaves dropping and I then discovered all its roots had disappeared 😢
Inspired by you, I also bought an Oldemore cutting from Etsy which is looking much like yours after taking forever to root. Countless others I have lost but the Dragon’s Breath was a wish list plant so I’m particularly sad about that one..
I find Anthurium a difficult genus for me to wrap my head around. I’m going to give my current Anthurium collection to my daughter because she’s better at growing them than myself. My niche is Hoya and it’s funny because she finds Hoyas a bit tricky. At the moment, I am also dealing with darn mealies. I honestly think it’s mealy bug season right now. I haven’t had to deal with them for a couple of years, just the occasional spider mite. Touching lots of wood! My daughter dealt with thrips for a good part of the summer. Great video! This year, I’ve thrown a few plants in the bin & given away quite a few. I’m constantly propagating it seems. I gave up on string of anything…killed them all. 😬
You made me laugh when you said, “Oh no! It’s dead! But do I really care?” Literally my thought on a few plants that went in the bin. 😂
I found mealy bugs on my lemon lime maranta. They do get down in there where the new leaf is coming. I caught them in time though. Today I found them on one of my succulents. Ugh.
They wiped out my Hoyas. Love them though so I’ll try again.
@@BarandaHusband haven't found any on my hoyas. I'm looking at all my plants every day now
A few years ago I had a red hibiscus. I lost it to white flies because at the time I knew nothing about pest treatments. I had a Thanksgiving cactus which I don’t remember what happened to 😅 There was a Rex begonia that I lost to underwatering on my hot balcony, a cactus, some avocados I started from seed… Lots of other ones that I don’t remember from the time I was dipping my toes in plant care. I hope I’m better at it now and I only lose plants that I fall out of love with 😄
I was so excited about my string of turtles when I got it. But it just seemed unhappy in my care. I didn't over water it, it was in good light, it just always seemed not as plump and full as when I got it. Not only that but it was so freaking fragile! I could barely move it an inch without loosing leaves, even when I first got it. It was more of a pain than a joy. When it finally died I was actually relieved and I know that sounds awful
I agree. The one I have now is about to get the pitch into the bin! And never again. They're so cute but a big pain
I’ve never liked my Adansonii… from the day I got it in the mail. Every time I walk by it I give it the side eye. It’s on borrowed time….
I have a large begonia collection; and the secret I believe is to let them dry out to the wilting point before watering them. I understand that their fine roots rote easily and that is the best way to prevent that from happening. I do not think that a no drainage/pon set up is the way to go with begonia and african violets as well.
Thank you for this video. Now I know its fine to not like some of the plants and I do not feel like a failure... :) Begonias... I tried a few times, even succeeded to grew new beautiful healthy plants from chopped leaves (the leaf rooting)... but after I gave away most of them (swapped), the ones in my collection just died... I just don't seem to understand them. They are the most difficult I tried to grow so far and for now they are banned from my house :D
I just recently trashed my Aglaonema 'Pink Princess.' I was so in love with that plant when I got it. I had it in a lower light area and it started growing straight upwards, so I moved it to a brighter light area. Then it started getting round, brown dry patches all over its leaves. I could find anything that really explained that, so I bought another one as an insurance plant. I thought maybe the patches were sunburn, so I cut off all of the affected leaves, potted it up with the second plant, and moved it to more of a medium light location. It seemed to do pretty well for awhile, and then the brown patches started coming back again. I tried a few more things, none of which were successful, so I pulled the plug. Maybe it had a virus or some other kind of infection, but I won't buy that one again. I have a few "not for me" plants that I consider rehoming. They are growing pretty well, but I just don't love them and I'd rather use the space for plants that I love. But, for now, they are still here.
I only started collecting plants last year so I’m still finding out what plants even want to grow in my apartment at all.
Euphorbias, hoyas and surprisingly alocasias are my happiest plants.
Philodendrons just want to die on me. All I have left is a big Silver Sword that’s enjoying its life in my laundry room.
Shockingly, monsteras don’t do well here at all, either! I only have a small dubia that’s growing tiny leaves (but she’s cute, so she gets a pass) and an albo that chose violence and is now regrowing nicely from three nodes.
I am literally doing better with a variegated frydek (which is my second biggest plant now!) than with a common monstera deliciosa (that I’ve killed two of so far). Wild.
Thank you for sharing
I'm new to your channel and thank you so much for this. I laughed a lot but then sorry for the loss of your babies. I'm reviewing all your videos and hope to come across one on Hoya's. And maybe if you could clear up something for me. My mother who has passed had a wonderful Begonia that was not a perennial and grew all year and I think was fibrous, but I can't figure out what it was. Do you have any Fibrous Begonia's?
I just lost my blushing philodendron to overwatering. The container that it came in when I purchased it didn't have any room for the water to go, so it sat in water for two days before I noticed the leaves starting to go limp. Long story short, it eventually died.
I had a similar experience with my dieffenbachia....I have a very different variety growing out of the base of my 'speckles" one and it looks very different, with no speckling....very bizzare! And as for killing plants, i killed d threw away my Phil. Brandtianum....I just gave up in the end after battling 2 years with it; straight into the compost pile😮💨😩
The Monstera Esquelete does look like Monstera adansonii so much.
I was worried after seeing your original biophytum sensitivum plant video about it going to seed and then dying because mine was doing the same thing but, mine hasn’t died! 🤔 and some of the seeds have started sprouting in another plant that they happened to land in after being shot out 😂 the mother plant isn’t looking the best but it’s definitely still alive and continues to flower 🙈
A lot of the plants I have had died 😢 I’ve noticed I haven’t had the time lately. 😢😢😢
I'm in the process of downsizing. It's so hard to choose which to keep ❤❤
Definitely finding my taste has changed so want to rehome ones that I am just not enjoying and we have all killed a few 😜
Everyone, who has multiple plants to take care of, is basically a serial killer. I am definitely starting to belong to that category 🤣 So far, since I started my planty journey back in June 2024, I managed to kill a bird of paradise and at least two handfuls of various propagations. My second bird of paradise is doing amazingly. It came as two-plants-in-a-pot. One just unfurled new leaf and the other one started to grow a new leaf. I keep them in nutrition solution and the roots are growing in all directions 😍
I just got my Monstera Standelyna at a box store in the states for only $20. Was so shocked when I seen it as we don’t get anything good here hardly
To be honest, I’ve gotten rid of many plants because of pest. I just couldn’t deal and didn’t want them to spread. Currently, I’m dealing with flat mites on Hoyas. Any tips Claire?
I got my first BoP about a year and a half ago, and it ended up getting spider mites. I was a newer plant mom at the time and completely freaked out and over-treated it with a homemade dish soap and vinegar remedy. It burned so badly and never grew normal after that…. Then it died… Now I have 2 BoPs and they are just chillin.’ I just clean them and water them when they need it and they’re fine lol. 😂 😬
I have a monstera Dubai that has a huge weed growing in its moss pole. Should I remove it?
I love love love you and your content! I wonder if maybe you do a bit too much chop and then maybe you should get rid of almost everything that you prop, I think maybe you just want to alleviate your guilt about the chopped plant and then you prop it and really you don’t love it anyway so maybe you could think about just getting rid of the whole plant before you chop and prop and just let yourself know that it’s okay and give it away. And I wonder if maybe you might think about changing your pest management routine to make it more effective for the whole collection affected. Maybe less pests treatments and more prevention treatments would help you stay in love with some plants, and finally I think maybe you could wait a good while when you see a plant that lights up your life, and maybe see after a while if it still does it for you or maybe after a wait time, it might not light up your life like it first did when you first saw it? I hope this makes sense and please 🙏 know that I really appreciate you so much, your videos absolutely make my day and I watch them over and over, till the next one, but sometimes you need someone on the outside looking in. I hope 🤞 that I have not offended you or your followers in any way ! Lots of love ❤️ Ginger
Well said! Question about pest prevention methods.. what do you use for prevention? I am on the hunt for something that preferably i can water in bc alot of my plants are in semi hydro.
@@staywildmoonchild2318 I have never had pests I allow spiders to roam my plants this had always been my prevention I have about 150 plus plants-I do not spray water on my plants (Use a cool mist humidifier) I buy lady bugs for outside plants in the spring-
@@staywildmoonchild2318 I am not sure 🤔 I know that a peppermint Castile soap with alcohol and water mix is good for leaves and cleaning and wiping and even some pests treatment as well as preventative maintenance is good. Now that being said I know that the runoff goes into the substrate and hasn’t harmed the roots. I think I would have to do an experiment with a plant in hydro to see how it reacts. Great question though thanks
Can you do a video on growing in no drainage?!
Two plants besides orchids I killed (and was sad): I was doing the process of transferring two alocasias into pon. I do this by cleaning the roots from soil and then putting the plants into water for a couple of weeks, removing the rotting roots and watching new water roots grow. It works well - except you have to change water from time to time to make sure it’s free of algae and rotting matter. But I went on a vacation for 2,5 weeks. I had someone come and water the plants once, so I didn’t ask them to change water and clean roots because well… they’re a normal person and not someone obsessed with Alocasia roots 😂 but anyway when I came back home from vacation, the water on both of them was full of algae and all roots were rotten to the point where it spread to the rhizome. Alocasia jacklyn and Alocasia dragon breath… I was so sad. But I also was prepaired to have lost some of the plants after such a long vacation. But a few months later I got new ones and they’re now transferred into pon and are doing really well! ❤
Yeah. It's completely natural that even if you love all, some point just start to neglect something.
I murder Begonias left, right and centre 😂😂😂 I have ONE growing in my aquarium, and I dare not touch it.
Claire my ring of fire is in a self watering pot it has been shooting leaves down in the drainage holes they were all white so I thought they were roots but they are leaves it’s not a prop plant so I’m beside my self as to what I should do. What are your thoughts?
yay this intro sounds like old one!
"Leaves falling off" (green white), maybe cooler environment?
It’s funny because I haven’t bought a calathea / marantas because they remind me of bugs (some leaf shapes). Like beetles or something. Haha! I think I would lose interest fast with it. I find a lot of people love those.
I also have a Standleyana I don’t care for anymore.
I just bought a sensitive plant gonna go live it a go but wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work😢
The main way I "kill" plants is when my cat knocks over plants in pont and they dry out while I'm out of home. I saved the philodendron Brazil by cutting it up and propagating it in water and my Monstera Peru is proping right now for the same reason. But he knocked over my Syngonium Neon Pink and I just bined it afterwards. I was so excited when I bought it cause I love pink in plants, but the way the leaves just took forever to unfurl whilst looking crooked and the actual color of them just wasn't doing it for me, so I just gave up. Also gave away all my peperomia. Those things just suffer under my care, I seem unable to work out the watering for them.
I love plants. But I just don't enjoy growing some plants. I think it's a combination of my growing environment at home and how I care for plants. I have South and North facing windows. All the plants love any sort of position near the south windows. Not so my north windows even with grow lights. I live in the Northern USA and have 5% humidity during winter. This is a true growing challenge, and one can only fill a humidifier so much.
I guess it just comes down to how much you love a plant, what your basic environment is like, and how much sacrifice one is even able to make to grow a plant.
At the end of the day, gifting a plant to a friend where it thrives and grows easily is truly the sensible choice.
Can you show us, how your Philodendron Esmeraldense and White Princess is doing?
Yes me too!😀 spider plants, prayer plants, crotons, ivy. All these I have gotten 3 times and all 3 times they died. They get 3 strikes your out for good, never again.😂
yay! even the seasoned growers lose plants..and toss the non thrivers and the meh ones. thank you!
When is the anthurium video coming?
omg haha I have killed so many plants over the years. kinda sad, but then again it's normal :P. always nice to see that I am not the only one hehe.
The rad x lux leaves remind me of silverbeet 😂
Only you could chop a plant and grow an entire new species. Lol , the plant knew that you had mixed feelings about it so decided to change completely. Wow! 😅
Mealybugs were my enemy, until I found Diatomaceous Earth Powder, it takes a while to work, but my plants are free. I used the food graded one because I have a dog.
Monstera Adansonai is all trouble for me, i liked it ,got 4 of then trough the years ,all of them started fine then trips..yellowing..black spots.separated in another room .i am done with it.😬
I got tempted to buy one again cause i saw a big Adansonai for only 5 euro in a super😊marked ..realy?? No I didn t buy
Same here. The first one looked lovely to begin with but after a while I couldn't find anywhere where it thrived. Tried cuttings and they didn't work either. I won't buy another. The other is Ceropegia, String of Hearts. They never do well with me but I can't resist trying again. Triumph of hope over experience!
Succulents Hate me😢
We all toss shitty plants babyyyy! It’s supposed to be FUN 🍃 and when it’s not, meh … get rid of it. ❤
I most definitely will take some that you no longer want. Your videos help me a lot and your plants are so beautiful. I got into plants to help my depression and they really have helped. I love philodendrons and so much more
Ysdy I was so sad and when my husband arrived I told him, I've already gave up since 2 just died. I guess I killed .... More than 500+ plants & cuttings from succulents all died except 1 cactus, all herbs died except mother of herbs, indoor plants 95% died so I guess I had enough
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Then husband said to me: STOP touching your plants.
Me: oh yeah, me screaming BLACK THUMBBBBB. 😅
Me: ( just looking at them - lucky it's Springtime down here. Imagine killing plants in springtime😅)
I have already died a lot of plants, during depressive phases, but I also know no one, with many plants in which not a lot have died. 🤷🏻♀️🙈😄
So all fine 🤭
Cabbage 😂
I like the sensitive plant, so much, but I've managed to kill 2 of them. So won't be getting another. For me it's waste of money sadly
"Wasnt doing anything" have you checked how big they grow in nature? Maybe it was limited by natural growth limit?
My opinion only -but do not get more plants than you can realistically take care of Becoming overwhelmed,getting sick of taking care of certain plants and hoarding is not healthy If you have a few they will mean much more to you Yes plants do get sick and die (I am not a big fan of chopping plants for no reason *more cuttings* ? I think it can weaken the mother plant and are than more likely to get infestations ) I have never had luck with spider plants yet can grow orchids from seedlings Also know your limits Some plants are tricky to take care of Be realistic in your choices not what is the latest **rare** plant that you must have Great video (:
Wholeheartedly agree. I have 20 plants and feel this is my space and care limit.
Its not a begonia oldemor.
Correct! That's either a begonia alleryi or begonia margaritae. A lot of shops and even private sellers tend to mislabel it nowadays. I've seen it being sold as incarnata/metallica as well (aka one of the parents of that hybrid).
@@Blinki_plants Looks like a metallica. I got both of them
@@lillamy2896 metallica is how shops often mislabel it as, but the real metallica has quite prominent leaf serrations + structure overall. the similarities come from the fact it's one of the parents for the one from Claire's video. ☺
@@Blinki_plants And glossy European spruce green color. The oldermor is olive green
I have totally let plants die because i just dont want to deal with them😅
I haven’t reach that yet but I think I’m not far from it… haha
The Purple Sword has been one of my fussiest plants. Mine somehow looks really nice, but only because I watch it like a hawk lol. Wants to be SUUUUPER moist all the time or else the ends of the leaves will die off immediately lol. I’ve learned I’ve got about 12 hours between when it starts to droop and when the tips start to brown if I don’t water it 😅
Begonia should be in pon.
Concerning those plants that were sent to you as gifts. You come across as ungrateful and a little high and mighty 😉
Have you seen the new genius of plant recently found? Geogeganthus ciliatus.
Its crazy hw she hypes a plant only a few months ago only to completely write it off after...a perfect conniving saleswoman, I mst say...jst to push this obsessive consumerism further!
Why are you watching then?
Also overconsumption is tricky with plants. The majority of houseplants die, and they will probably die in the shop or be thrown out when a new batch comes in which would be overconsumption. At least purchasing it gives someone joy and you can pass it along or propagate it, whereas if it's left in the shop it'll become compost
have you never gone off a plant? she literally said plants that she had fallen out of love with
How's one's subjective perception of something seen as pushing others to purchase it? Everyone makes their own choices... Have you never bought food your friends recommended that you ended up not enjoying after trying it yourself? Or clothing that you wore but stopped loving and passed it on? Genuinely curious. If someone watches a planty video and feels coerced to purchase plants mentioned in it not because they genuinely like them, but because they are "pushed"... then the problem lies elsewhere, I'm afraid.
I jst think it's misleading to first make videos on these plamts labelling them as" best houseplants".. plants I am loving "," my favourite houseplamts" plants I cannt live without".. only to chuck them away only a few months later as if they mean nothing to her nd saying I am done with these plants or even more problematic were her words that " novelty has worn off" it almst makes me question her credibility nd assume that she is paid hefty amount 4m plant seller shops to promote certain plants nd rlly doesn't care abt them nd gets rid of them as soon as her mission of promoting plants is accomplished ....i get it that she does receive free p.r sample from rare plant shops to promote the shops bt hyping those plants as the "best houseplants" without rlly knowing much abt the care of those plants nd whether they will survive in her home or nt is jst misleading as ppl will crave for such pla nts nd will also spend hundred of pounds to acquire such variety knowing hw expensive those rare plamts are only for her to say after few months that the" novelty hs worn off so I got rid of it" ..bt then mayb thats exactly wht she is here to do! its nt giving full picture to her audiance nd jst provoking ppl to buy plants blindly ...this is vicious nd mindless cycle consumerism that these influencers promote.