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Did you just say you don't like free mystery plants. Or maybe you coughed and we heard something different. Lol

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Very interested in this topic 💚

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Good for you with pulling back. And AWESOME job with the crochet! Keep texting me pics!

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for me i cure social media burnout by buying plants in my wishlist . lol. try it its very effective.

Thank you for talking about this! 💚 Definitely would like an update on how you’re doing after 90 days and how you’ve taken advantage of the extra time 😊 An update on the monstera also 🙏

Ha I don’t make content but the spazzy arm movements are so relatable. That’s a daily feature for me.

How do you protect your joy in the things you love?

Thank you for sharing your plant life on U2 and congrats on your first year! 🎉❤. I started after I loss someone close. I’ve always had a couple of plants; but my mother was a real plant mom. I wish that I had loved them like I do now when she was here. 11:52

Thanks for the updates!

I'm just about to try this! I'm gonna use coco mix with perlite and a deeper tub than you did as maybe that'll help give more aielfow/space between the plant and the "dome"

What's in the no drainage glasses

Yay, I love your unboxing/repot/update videos! Yeah, it’s funny how right after we express some disappointment, fate decides to prove us wrong 😄 Where do you keep your Cuprea and how much light is it getting? Because those leaves look like they’re trying to run away from too much light (or maybe there’s a light source under the pot that is attracting them) - not yellowing or floppy, just twisting down away or towards something. The anthurium looks good. If you have two already and you don’t need this one, maybe you can swap with someone or sell it or giveaway? I like the leaves on the second Hoya (forgot the name) the veins are so dark and prominent! Hope they grow well for you ❤️

Beautiful! I’ve had my Hoya compacta for 2 years and no blooms. They have grown a lot of foliage!! And I’ve even propagated them. No blooms. 😢

This is pretty cool!

I'm 48 and started TH-cam last year! Thank you for sharing your journey, I'm about to reach my anniversary and I'm planning a one year reflection myself, that's how I found this. Keep up the good work!

Those containers look so great, I wouldn’t have guessed they were ice buckets and not pots! 😄 Not having to water as often when you have so many plants is a big plus, hope it works out well for you! The only no drainage experience I have is with smaller plants in perlite or LECA. And since semi-hydro needs flushing, I found it a bit impractical since I had to fill and tip over and the roots got disturbed often. I think a no drainage setup would work well for me as a temporary solution, until the mineral buildup and algae gets to be too much for me

If I had any velvety plants, I’d definitely touch them too much 😄 The one in my home that I do like to touch is my asparagus fern. It’s so fluffy 🥰 And I’m waiting for my fuzzy crassula propagation to grow for that reason 🤭

Congratulations on the anniversary! 🎉 My journey into plant care started about a year and a half ago but there were always plants around me in my life. Until I was 7, we lived in my paternal grandparents’ house and they had a big garden, vegetables in the back and grape vines and mostly spring bulb flowers in the front, as well as a couple of fig trees. My grandma also had pelargoniums and some sedum varieties in outdoor pots and later acquired a peace lily and maranta as presents. They always looked so full and I never saw her do anything special to them besides watering and repotting them. My mom used to have a tiny jungle corner when we lived in our sunniest apartment but was never really good at it and has since given up the hobby. Then, when I moved for university, I lived with my then boyfriend at his mom’s place and she had plants everywhere and I would care for them while she was on holiday. Then I moved out and tried having houseplants of my own but they didn’t last long. Until fall of 2023. My son and I spent the summer with my parents in my late paternal grandparents’ house, where they now live with my maternal grandma. She likes having plants but due to health issues she can’t take care of them anymore, so I did that for her. At the end of summer she gave me a basic anthurium (flamingo flower) and that’s what I consider the start of my plant journey. It’s funny how this connects back to my very early childhood when I lived in that same house. If I have to self-analyse, I guess it was a yearning to go back to that time, when I always seemed to have dirt under my fingernails and played on a blade of grass between my thumbs (it makes a sound when you blow on it 😅). Now I dream of having a house of my own, with a garden and enough space for houseplants. Sorry for the essay 😅 Love you and appreciate you so much for making me think about stuff like this 🫶

Awwwww! Congrats on a year! That's a great accomplishment! I also started "collecting" in 2021, but I grew up with plants in the house. And I always had a few plants in my apartments and such. But in 2021, I decided I wanted to acquire the plants I remembered from my childhood home...and that started with a dieffenbachia and an asparagus fern! Then it snowballed into my current collection of 180 (give or take).

Thank you for sharing your plant journey with us. I have always had 2-3 plants since my early 20s however in 2016 we moved out of our home state, we knew no one so my plant collection grew slightly. Then April 2020 we moved back to our home state (California). My collection tripled or maybe quadrupled during that period, I now I too have over 100 plants. I lost my mom December 2022, she loved plants. Caring for my plants now makes me feel so close to my mom. In fact last night I was thinking I need to do with my Begonia Maculata- she is straggly and the leaves are small. The Begonia was gifted to me at my mom’s funeral service. This morning I get on TH-cam and your video pops up and you’re holding your begonia maculata 🥺😭. Plants have a way of helping you through or just helping you cope with life. Again, thank you for sharing your journey. But getting back to your beautiful Begonia Maculata - what is your secret to such a lush begonia?😍 congratulations 🎉 on your 1 yr anniversary!

Amazing!!!

Oh girly I hope this works for you. For some reason mine don’t do well in no drainage. I moved all mine back out for the most part. Alos like it anthuriums not so much. Just my experience. I found using drainage with a cache pot is what’s worked best for me. I also fertilize weekly and I think it not having a means to flush worked against me. 😭 when they are small I may use no drainage but once they size up at the rate they need repotting the cache pot has worked best. 💚💚💚 I also top all Ariel’s with moss until next repot.

Love those pots

I did that and mine rebelled.

I need a King. And I like those pots for you. I LOVE using my thrifted glass, but yeah, they can get heavy!

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Finally! A concise solution with something i already have laying around. Thanks! My friend gave me clip on lights that she didn’t want. I thought I didn’t have anything to clip it on. Looks like I do. Now I can get on with what I was really doing 🫡

What a fun idea! Feel free to ignore me because I know you are not a hair channel but I love your hair. The way the gray blends with the dark is so beautiful. I started getting gray in the front and it’s made me more aware of how other people manage their gray. I am hoping that my gray will grow in as beautifully as yours.

I think it turned out lovely! It'll be interesting to see how the leaves do long-term.

I thought you were going to make an indoor compost! Not a decorative bowl! What an idea. Can you update on how it holds up long term??

That’s amazing! It’s so glossy and whimsical, looks like a bowl you’d find in a fairy’s home 🧚🌿 Makes me think about making an entryway catch tray from a monstera leaf 😊 Also, I love your positive vibe, keep it up! 🫶

I think it's beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Have you ever crafted with plant scraps before? If so, what did you make?

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Happy new year!

They're beautiful

I NEEEEEED THOOOOSSSEEEE!

I love all your new pots! 😍 The hoyas look great in them, never mind that they’re in smaller nursery pots 😊 The thrifted one has the same droplet pattern as my ceramic Starbucks tumbler, I love touching it 😅 The one you have your anthurium in I think is my favourite, I love the combination of glazed and matte textures. Great finds and I loved seeing what plants you used them for

So darn relatable!

Do you have a biglots in your area? They are going out of business and could possibly have very good prices on some pots.

I love a good catch pot for all my plants

I really don't use cover pots. But I do thrift glass bowls and plates for drip trays and vases for no drainage potting. My collection is mainly terra cotta and glass. (DANG your String of Pearls is LUSH!)

Nice selection! I had no idea Amazon had such nice cover pot options! I gradually collected mine over the years at different nurseries. I saved zero monies haha

Love all the planters 😊 They’re all super cute 🥰