10 plants I hate...that everyone else loves
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I live in Brazil and found your channel recently. I really like your content and I would like to show my gratitude by sending you a Brazilian plant. What do you think? Is there any species you would like to have?
@@Bataklan2008 thank you. I don't have anywhere you could send it to at the moment though. What Brazilian plants are there?
For the tradescentia nanouk I think it needs alot of light. That seemed to help mine
I appreciate hearing someone who works as a plant expert admitting their difficulties and failures with plants.
Thanks 👍
Every plant person I know has told me that they have killed plenty of plants. U see 30 living plants in their home, they probably had twenty or thirty more that died.
@@77cuzigetatemore truth. And its not even your fault most of the time. The misinformation out here is REAL
@@77cuzigetatemore trial & error. It’s mostly trial & error with plant enthusiasts
Re the purple one, tradescantua nanook, I just sit it in a spot that's not super light, and the stems get leggy and start to go brown. I cut it back, and put the cuttings in water and replant when it starts to root.
Not a disaster
This video was hilarious. I was cracking up at the string of hearts. "Life's just too short." "My takeaway from that video is I couldn't be bothered." 😂 "I'm supposed to live with an ugly plant for three months."
Hehehe thanks!
I was cracking up to 😂
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Yeah, this video is pretty funny.
I like your honesty about these plants. I have a limited places to put plants and oh yes, I do not want any plants that look dead for even 1 month. I like your humor even though it hurts us when we have plants that don't stay alive or look dead. Have a blessed day.
Thanks Faith. Glad you liked it 😁
I have a String of Hearts for about 40 years. It's the very same plant and it had , along all these years, periods of glory and periods of not so much glory. It has been all it´s life in a glassed china clay pot with no drain. A "few drops" of standard tap water once in a while, it´s enough. Never had leafs droping or geting brown. During all this time I changed soil 2-3 times. No more. I live in Portugal.
Wow 40 years. Very impressive
I grew my entire plant from a single small cutting with four leaves. It is two years old now and I just recently upgraded it to a slightly bigger pot (it was in a teacup before). It is thriving! 10 1/2m long strands
I feel it’s England that is the problem. Not enough bright indirect sun. I can grow most plants from my zone of 10b here in Southern California.
Grow well in Northern California, they need to be dry out before watering and need a bit of sun.
I have one in a terracotta pot that is over 20 years old. I have never repotted it,just occasionally add some fresh soil on top. I always let them get pretty dry before watering again, and have them in a very bright location. One of my favorite plants
I have two big peace lilly's and they bloom twice a year. I don't use anything special, they get just water. Never had any problems getting flowers in them and I have them for years now.
They must get a lot of light and a lotta love!
Still, it must be about conditions, which not necessary may be replicated elsewhere. They do grow outside for me in the summertime.
I've noticed when they sit next to a computer they tend to look way more healthier. No idea why. XD
We have one in my office that sits in a north-facing window and gets watered when it droops and reminds us. It blooms a couple times a year. I never knew it was so special!
@@SheffieldMadePlants I have 2 peace lilly's - one at work and one at home. The one at work blooms pretty continuously for most of the year. When one bloom dies, I cut it off and another one comes out fairly soon. Its a fairly small plant though. the one I have at home i've had for about 3yrs and it hasn't bloomed in over a year. when I first got it the stems/leaves were huge and tall with blooms but then something happened and they all died off and it came back nice and compact and bushy now, but still no blooms. weird.
My Monstera Adansonii is my crowning pride and joy, I had no idea people had issues with them. Mine is in my bathroom so it gets plenty of humidity and there's only one window which casts indirect bright light, year-round new growth constantly, and pretty much no browning. I don't even let it grow up anything as I hate moss poles and just never bothered getting it a trellis. Instead it's grown incredibly bushy and full as any 'legs' or 'bends' in its stems I simply tuck it back into the curve of the pot. In fact, one such long stem is slightly resting on it's direct neighbor Calathea Rufibarba, the absolute only calathea I can keep alive purely bc of the bathroom conditions I think lol
Sounds like a lovely plant 👍😁
mine is my favourite plant, but has never been happy with me. although, I think I've finally got it right, as its growing new bigger and leaves finally
I was surprised too cuz Mine is getting ridiculous, I had to put it outside for the summer cuz the moss pole is too tall 😂
"life is too short" 🤣
Love it and I agree! There are so many options for beautiful plants, if a few are too much trouble and don't work for you, move on and get something different. Great video 😁👍
Hehe thank you 😁
The tradescantia doesn’t like to be moist between waterings. Let it completely dry out then let it stay dry for a few more days before watering. Then water it only ONCE thoroughly and let it dry out again. I have several types of this plant and I live in Canada - so moderate climate - and this plant likes to be dry most of the time and then a little wet a little of the time. Kind of like a succulent. 👍😀
Cool, thanks for the tip
And they want light, for me artificial light in winter, especially the coloured ones. And then I still have the problem that, because of the dense foliage, it's always difficult to know when or, better said, since when the substrate is dry, or not.
For indoor succulents, I think the growth of the plant is what tells us when to stop watering. That is to say, they almost always etiolate, so let them take on a little color (the new shoots are almost white) before the next watering. Even if we only water when the soil is dry, the plant could overgrow and look spindly and pale (and weak). They need the same amount of light that they would have outdoors, but that amount can be given indoors over a longer period of time.
I call mine the no-peace lilies, because they are so fussy. I don't really care if my plants bloom (any of them), I love their leaves for their different patterns and textures.
😂 that's excellent!
I like that they droop when they need water but the new leaves always seem to shrivel up. I got it a grow light to see if thats the issue
@@chiquita683 it may be that you're consistently waiting too long to water, so the new leaves don't get enough water to form. Though they can handle it sometimes, it's much better for their health to not get to the point of drooping before they get water :)
I find that the spathiphyllum toreli blooms way more often than other peace Lillie’s mine bloom profusely
Ugh mine are always giving brown leaves I tried splitting it up putting half into leca but it is still doing it so far 😖
I saved my Peace Lily's from Walmart. Both are still small, but have sprouted multiple spaths over the course of me having them. A little bit of coffee grounds and cinnamon, and they perked right up! Although I do that for all of my plant babies. I like to rescue plants from Lowes and especially Walmart every once and awhile.
Great stuff 👍
we have three peace lillies in the house- only one blooms, but all i care about is the leaves. I love their darker green colour and how they can go from really small leaves to such big ones. I've also never had problems with brown tips (which I occasionally have with most other plants), and when you forget to water them, they'll let you know, and after watering they'll straighten up like you've done them no wrong.
honestly, i think these plants are beautiful
You're right they droop as soon as they are dry and perk right up when watered
I completely agree with your stance on the expensive variegated cuttings. $60-$100 for a cutting to be shipped? Price isn’t worth the risk. Meanwhile I got a healthy, young Deliciosa for $20!
Exactly!
im always surprised by how much the price of these plants differs across the world. i live in europe, and i bought my rooted, juvenile (already in soil, but no fenestrations yet) monstera albo for 20€, and entirely mature, big and beautifully fenestrated thai cons go for 99€ at my local garden center.
that said, i would never buy an albo cutting for more than 15€ given how much a risk they are - aside from unrooted ones potentially never rooting, if there's not enough of a stem yet to properly investigate beforehand you could risk getting one that ends up growing entirely white leaves and killing itself that way, or it might eventually just revert to all green and then you have a normal monstera you spent 100$ on... id be soooo frustrated haha
From my understanding a variegated monstera is really rare and is dependent on a mutation that is why they are very expensive, if you’re not a plant enthusiast then it wouldn’t make sense to buy one because you wouldn’t appreciate all that it is. If you’re just wanting a few house plants then yeah get a normal monstera, but there is a reason for the variegated price.
For me its spider plants! Everyone says they are so easy to keep yet I've killed one and my second attempt isn't looking too hot either!! I do own a variegated monstera though I have to confess. I paid £50 for a well rooted top cut and he has produced 3 new leaves since I've had him so must be doing something right there. I love alocasias but all but one of mine are looking very sad right now so totally understand the hate on them!
Spider plants are tricky no doubt. They often get brown tips. I'm glad your monstera cutting went well 👌
I've managed to kill so many spider plants no matter what I do. Tried different locations, substrates, etc. Nothing seems to work. 😅
@@hallotschuess1133
I feel you there! Just decided they are clearly not for me. If I lose this second attempt (it’s not looking good for it!) then I’m done and it will go on my banned list 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants They really are! Put the monstera up on a pole at the weekend so fingers crossed he will like it!
@@hallotschuess1133 I've got a video on it on the channel
I absolutely agree with everyting except for the albo monstera. If you can get a happy and HEALTHY one, it's an absolute joy to grow, and a living work of art.
Trouble is I've heard people have so much bother with them 😬
Yea I got blessed with mine to
I got a monstera albo - at my old flat I had the perfect room for it. It thrived, it grew multiple leaves in a few months. I was loving watching it grow bit by bit. Then I moved. It's grown nothing all year, it sits there mocking me with it's stagnant growth
Might be going through a bit of shock with the move. Hopefully will bounce back
I think that when leaves turn brown it's a kind of stress response to a changed environment. I always just cut brown leaves off, and then after a while, the plant perks up a bit. I think most plants can adjust to changing cultivation, it just takes a bit of time.
That makes sense.
That makes sense if you've just moved the plant or just acquired it. A little more annoying, though, when it just persists no matter what you do, and you've had the plant a long time.
Haha! I love how straight forward you are. New plant mom here & I am thoroughly enjoying your videos. To the point & informative.
Much love from NYC
Super, thank you 😁
That's interesting! My string of hearts is the plant I pay less attention to and yet it's looking super pretty!
I do have to agree on everything else though, especially the variegated monstera craze. There's no way I would spend so much money on a cutting!!
My favorite variegated plant from my collection is actually a marble queen pothos. Gotta appreciate the simple stuff 😂😍
Yes! The marble queen is gorgeous
I rescued a pothos when I left a job. I didn't realise it was a marble queen and now it's back to looking so perky and happy. It's gorgeous 😍
Your channel is not only very informational but entertaining as well. You have made me lol several times. I totally enjoy watching you and have recently purchased several of the items you recommend, moisture meter, grow lights, and the liquid to remove chemicals from tap water. I haven’t used them yet because they just arrived yesterday. I excited to try them!
Lovely thank you Lori!
Hi. I love your channel as well. What’s the liquid to remove chemicals from water ?
I use API stress coat
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank you, I'll buy some. I already filter my water but it's still not enough. Does it also work good against limescale? How much do you put in one liter water?
@@elrevah one drop only
And here I am looking at my Tradecantia thriving on a west facing window, sometimes I completely forgot about her, so she was dry most of the time, watered with tap water and in a dryer climate, during the winter there was even a heater runner underneath her😅 My house doesn’t have space for weak plants, you want to live? better adapt❤️ As for the Peace lily, I took from it’s soil and just put it in water and has white bloom most of the times, not even using any fertilizer
You’re a pro 👍
I’ve loved my peace lily more than I anticipated. It was given to me as a housewarming gift (I don’t think I would have ever voluntarily picked one up). I love how dramatic it is. It puts on such a show when it gets thirsty, and then perks back up in less than an hour after getting what it wants. And frankly…it seemed to thrive on that sort of treatment. Since I put it in a self watering container it’s fine, but it has never looked as robust as right after it threw a fit and got what it wanted out of it. I desperately want a specimen of its larger cousin…but I don’t think I have room for both it and my monstera. #plantproblens
I think you're spot on. They seem to like the neglect 😁
I got one about a month ago 😬 Placed it in an east side window, watered it when needed and it just gave me brown stems and sadness 🫣👎 Then I read that they like to live in the bathroom, so I moved it up there. There's a west sided roof window up there and I'm not sure there's any difference 😬 Time will tell!
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I sure would like to know 😅
Your narrating cracks me up.. "stressing about whether its gonna raise like a phoenix in the spring -- I dont need this kinda stress in my life" lmao
😂😂
I love my peace lily but I got so stressed learning how to take care of it my husband asked whether it was really bring me peace 😔
Haha I guess not!
1 of my peace lillies, that I've had since summer 2022, bloomed over the weekend 😢 it's never been given any hormones or whatever. Just been watered and cared for diligently for a year. It bloomed 8 weeks after I changed its soil and transplanted it to a slightly bigger pot.. 😭 and I love my peace lillies because they're drama queens 😂 they tell me when something is up and I never have to guess with them..
That’s true they show as soon as they are thirsty
I personally love dracaenas but I can see how they seem boring. Like snake plants, they act more as a space filler than anything because they grow so slowly haha. But I love how low-maintenance and drought-tolerant they are, and once you've had them for a while, you really realize how much they've grown!
They are definitely space fillers 😁
I so agree with you about the peace Lilly. Received one when a family member died, and have managed to keep alive for many years, but what a diva!
😂
omg you’re so effortlessly funny i cannot
Thanks 😊
I’ve a 5 year old peace lily that’s never flowered. Sad to think it’s never been happy enough to flower but Its grown into a beautiful plant with a flurry of lush green leaves and I love it.
Still a nice plant!
I have 14 Monstera Albos. A nursery was closing & a worker said all plants are $7. I bought them all. 😁
Wowsers
I have a peace lily that is 14 years old, It is pretty big. Get blooms sometimes. I now have two smaller ones that were gave to me ,will see if they bloom this year. I think everyone has had plants that they have trouble growing. I have some plants that are very old. They were handed down to me from different people , I have a dracaena that is over 20 years old. I am a plant mama. lol Thank you for the video ,keep up the good work.
Thanks Nora. Well done on keeping your plants so long. Must be very satisfying to see them grow into adults 😁
I bought a monstera adansonaii 3 months ago and am growing it in fluval stratum hydroponically in my 150 gallon pond. I live in Florida so it never gets that cold here. It is doing fantastic and has grown tremendously. the pond is above ground and is on my screened in porch. It gets sunlight in the morning
Sounds good
I never knew I could spend hours watching plant channels on TH-cam but you, Kill This Plant and the rest of you guys are brilliant. I've started a plant collection since leaving England. I'm in a drier country at the moment still cold but with bright sunlight. Now I'm just burning leaves 😂 Anyway the English ivy I left England with somehow survived after over a year.
Thank you. Kill this plant is great. Very funny. Where did you move to?
One of the best video on this channel 😂😂 super funny
It feels good to hear the difficulties of other plant parents, and complaigning about "popular plants" instead of just "do this and that, easy, and you will have a beautiful plant"
"Such a Diva" 🤣🤣
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
My Monstera Adansonii was ridiculously leggy until I put it on a moss pole. The roots have grown into the moss in the pole, and now the leaves are getting big (nearly 20cm long and 12cm wide). I'm also getting new leaves every couple of weeks (I had a grow light to supplement over winter). It looks really lush now!
I really disliked it as a trailing plant - lots of tiny leaves and leafless nodes. It wasn't too great when I trained it up a stake, either. I think it really appreciates attaching its roots to the moss pole.
Yeah definitely. It strengthens itself by growing roots into the moss 👍
Thanks for that tip! I started with a gift cutting at Christmas. Once it rooted I planted it. We have 3 leaves now but the moss pole I mail ordered is huge!!! So I used a branch to tie up its huge main leaf. I must search for a smaller moss support!
@Laura Sheffield Nice! Good luck with your plant. 🙂 Another good youtuber to watch if you want big lush leaves is Sydney Plant Guy. That's who I got the idea for using a moss pole from.
OMG finally someone who understands me!!! Paying hundreds for 1 cutting is a NO!!!
Like my sister loves expensives gins or coffees!
Nope! I prefer spending hundreds on things who can't die or goes in the toilet!
Glad I'm not the only one 😅
I have a hack for peace lillies: put fake blossoms in it. They can look very natural, and together with the real leaves, nobody could tell.
Very cheeky 😂
There won't be yellow pollen everywhere so I think I could tell 😁
Black velvet loves my house for some reason😂 Not only its doing well, the leaves are getting huge😮
I’m jealous 😅
I love variegated pothos plants, their cheap, pretty, stable, and if you let them climb they get big and beautiful. Super easy, awesome, and cheaper.
I totally agree!
I agree with all your selections and can add more. The spider plant always gets brown leaves and looks terrible after a while. English ivy i love but cannot grow so it looks good. The “strings of” plants never last for very long. I have whittled my collection down to hoyas, sansevierias, pothos, and several common philodendrons. These are the plants that look like they like living with me. Oh and i have a couple large dracaenas that get ugly brown leaves but are great in the background😊.
Spider plants yes, the brown leaves can be a nightmare. English ivy I don't understand why you'd want as a houseplant. It spreads enough in my garden!
@@SheffieldMadePlants english ivy is so beautiful. Where i used to live in alaska there was none outside. I bet your garden is beautiful.
@@sheilacasper2030 it really does take over here
If you like the variegated English Ivy maybe look at the Fatshedera Lizei it's a hybrid of it and I have one doing pretty well for a while not a ton of growth but it's winter.
I've lost count of the # of times I've tried English ivy. To no avail. I'm pretty sure our humidity is just too low here, and I'm not willing to baby it by constant misting or adding a humidifier (black mold here LOVES when people use those). I even tried growing it out of the back of an aquarium, which I've found works great with plants that require high humidity. It survived, sort of, for months, then finally died. It's one I've definitely given up on.
This is all so encouraging! I learn a ton and get the equanimity to buy a new type now and then because I have plants doing well, and see that everyone has frustrations and fails. And the joy of living with the plants is terrific! Wish you all much green happiness 😊🦋🌿💕
Thank you 🙏
Yes yes on the Albo! I feel the same on the regular peace Lilly but I do like the domino.
This is so so true … I kept thinking it was just me … finally relieved to see an expert face the same
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I can so relate to your list!! 😆 I actually have luck with my string of hearts…but it’s not very full. But the rest of your list? Yeah I’m with you 100%.
Hehe thanks 👍
I don't have a nanouk, but I've found with tradescantias (and other plants that are easy to propagate) that if the original plant isn't doing well, chopping and propping will give me a much healthier plant! Then I can keep the watering consistent from the beginning to avoid browning, plus the new baby plant is already used to the environment of my home so it turns out a lot more hardy and happy than the mother plant (which is probably in shock because it's no longer in a greenhouse).
Very good. Chopping and starting again is a good strategy 👍
Your comments on the alocasia are hilarious lol and I totally relate when it comes to the string of hearts, it looks like a sad stringy mop!
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Every word true 😊great channel
Thanks so much
Thank you! I've had most of those plants die on me too. Always was told or have read that these were easy to care for plants. It’s refreshing to hear someone else say that they too have had issues with these plants. (Misery loves company I guess). One day l'll get it right.
They say that in the shops to get you to buy them 😅
Thank you so much for your willingness to be vulnerable. That is the necessary factor for growth and more learning!
Thank you very much 😊
I'm right beside ya on every plant you have listed! And thanks for the few giggles along the way 😊
Yay! Thank you!
I bought a peace lily, the same brand you showed in the video, in January and she's still alive and thriving. Her name is Catherine. I was shocked to see that she has continued to bloom! Even as I write this there are two new flowers that are starting to push out. I'm so delighted because I never expected her to bloom after I took her home from the nursery because everyone said it wouldn't happen. I have her on the windowsill of a north facing window which gets a lot of indirect light, and right beneath her is a radiator. I was sure these conditions would kill the plant because of the heat coming from the radiator, but nope. She's growing so beautifully and all the leaves are healthy except for some having brown tips. I don't give her anything except water. She drinks A LOT. I have to give her a drink every 3 - 4 days, otherwise she starts to pout. She's so dramatic, I'm pretty darn sure she's a bratty teenager. :)
If it works it works 😁
I hung two small Monster Adansonia in my tropical fish tank with the roots just in the water. They grow so fast and healthy under the fish lights that I had to pot them. They have continued to grow very well.
Very nice 👌
I love your videos, they are informative and very entertaining at the same time. Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to keep us in the know.
My pleasure! Glad you like them 😁
I love my Tradescantia Nanouk from the beginning, because she needs so little and looks so beautiful 😍 I have her in a planthanger on a southfacing window and shes happy there.🤷🏻♀️
I don't need this stress in my life!!
I have 2 kids and 3 dogs to worry about, too.
😂😂😂😂😂
And I totally agree with you.
I absolutely love plants, but I would NEVER buy one of those overpriced plants.
My most expensive plant is the bird of paradise,and it blooms so beautifully,worth the $26 dollars I paid for.
And I do own a string of pearls plant that is absolutely stunning ❤️❤❤❤
Nice to have have a flowering bop 👍
My first andansonii was difficult but once i got the perfect place for it and figured out a watering routine it grows like crazy. I have 2. They’re top 5 for me.
Mine would be if it stopped messing around!
Your wandering Jew loves humidity & lots of indirect light, like a kitchen or bathroom if you have a window. Use a humidifier near it or a humidifier tray. They really are a beautiful plant.
I'm .no expert so my observation may not be worth anything , but here goes . I 've lived in a place with a very hot and dry summer , a relatively cooler winter and very heavy monsoon rains which last about four months of the year .
The monsoon period was the only time whe.n new growth didn't have brown tipped leaves , so it may be a question of humidity in the air .... the plants grew on a veranda so not exposed to the rain . Best wishes from India!
Thank you Maureen! I think you're right, humidity is so important. You've got plenty in your climate 😁
@@SheffieldMadePlants It's not always humid but now that I'm on Bengaluru ( Bangalore ) where the climate isn't so extreme , plants tend to respond more favourably ( and I'm delighted !)
With the string of hearts, I can advise they like morning light and like succulents, don’t require lots of water.
I water mine once every 10 days or so and have it outside in the morning sun and shaded in the afternoon and it is thriving g and has the most vibrant leaves, the tops being a soft and dark green and the underside of the leaves a deep purple colour.
Sounds great!
The monstera adansonii making the list surprised me, but your reasoning makes sense - unless you want them to cascade from the top of a cupboard (I have one doing quite well), they are straggly indirect-light hogs. I put two outside in hopes of improving their condition - one is filling out but the other has stubbornly stopped growing. A cutting is growing well in my aquarium, so I'm thinking that might be the best thing for everyone, really.
I didn't know that chain of hearts was so fussy, but I agree with you that it looks messy, so I've not tried to keep one.
At least the Adansonii is easy to propagate. I just tied the one in this video onto a trellis this morning and cut away the offending leaves. Looking a bit better for now.
It's funny :) Dracaena is one of my favourites. Of course, this Dracaena arrangement with the 3 trees in one pot with different hights even bores me! But I love the plant, when it grows tall, quirky and windy! I have very high ceilings and I love some green up there! Meanwhile it doesn't uses much space at the bottom! Maybe I just like trees! :)
That’s a big plant if it’s getting to the ceiling 😮
Beautiful!
Monstara younger brother is mine too!! My mom got me one for my Birthday last year and she recently passed away. I am trying everything to keep it alive. I repotted it so I am crossing my fingers.
That's a nice memory to have. Hope you keep it happy. Maybe I should make a care video for it
@@SheffieldMadePlants
That would be great:)
OMG I have been wanting the variegated monstera forever, but I have not found one yet. I have the classic one and love it. I also have a smaller one and it’s doing great. I love your videos and look forward to all your useful info.
Thank you 😊
My verrucosum plug plants were like £10 each and have grown very well and fast in an ikea cabinet on a moss pole, after only 6 months in the cabinet its already almost outgrown the space, and all that growth was during winter. So for me this plant has been very easy so far.
I definitely need to increase the humidity. One day I'll have an IKEA plant cabinet
Thanks for your video. I have some plants that just don't like me I am convinced. The one plant I have "tamed" is the string of hearts and its because of my 6 year old granddaughter. 2 years ago when she was 4 she "helped" me with my string of hearts and took all the tangled mess and wadded it up in the top of the pot. I was a little upset and then I decided to let her pot it in one of her pots after I cut off the tangled mess. Hers is twice as big as mine is now and so healthy. Every time she sees it she tells me that just because I am bigger does not mean I always know better than her. She's not wrong! lol
Wow i need to get my kids repotting my plants then!
This video was funny!!!😂😂😂 shady shady shady (no pun intended) you are! My peace lily just opened and bloomed today. My first and only flower in 7 months. But I agree, a peace lily can become a problem lily the minute you buy it. Just needs love
The problem lily 😂. Glad you found it funny!
I had the peace lily on hydro. They are very easy to turn into hydro plants. And it bloomed the whole year non stop, for years. I give it a solution of normal plant feed using a 10 liter solution instead of 1 liter.
Nice!
True they do so well in just water, I put a Betta in & it fertilizes the water😂 I used to raise Betta's years ago, give them a minimum of two gallon container so they are happy too.
My monstera adansonii has been very fussy but somehow survived four years. Now I keep it in the bathroom and its thriving!! The high humidity + lots of indirect light have turned the leaves into such a beautiful lush green :)
It may be close to their native habitat - after all, there is industrial strive to push "exotic" plants from faraway places to domestic markets - which is problematic after sale, because of fundamentally differing conditions.
You've found the right balance 👍
@@seksualusis Yes, I think so too - the bathroom is probably the clostest to a rainforest out of all the rooms in a house.
@@seksualusis You are right and that is why I choose the good ole common plants to love and be with me.
This makes me feel a bit better. I have some plants that just seem to hate me, and all my friends seem to get on fine with theirs!
Glad it was helpful 😁
0:33 😂 That face!
Fwiw my spathiphyllum blooms sporadically all year, leaving messy pollen all over the place
That darn pollen!
I've solved the dracina delima I have the thin version as well as the thicker leaf version. I now almost never have to pick any leaves off. What I do is only water them a little bit from the top once a month and when I do I always water them around the rim of the plant pot so as to not get the water directly on the base of the plant. This really works! I call these rent plants as I only water them when I pay the rent. I also use plant lights on mine as well
Rent plants 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants solved my when to water delima
the one i completely agree with is the venus fly trap. I got one for my birthday but once the summer season was coming to an end it started going dormant and all the leaves turned black. Not worth it to keep a dead looking plant for 2/5 of the year.
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I love my dracaenas. One was gifted to me by my grandpa and I always try to give her the best live she deserves, my other one stood literally in front of my door all alone, dried out, sad, forgotten, yet alive. After some time i took the huge plant with me, gave her some love and today she is a bombshell. They both look like exotic palm trees, effortless, elegant with an unbreakable will to live, able to push through every drama, rewarding me with pretty leaves. Yeah we are friends now😊
Wow that’s some love there!
I love my Adonsonii. I keep it trimmed and create new ones constantly. It loves the spot I have it and I never move it.
I’ve just trimmed mine back. See how it does
I never had that issue with the peace lily. Mine seemed to bloom all the time and sat happily in front of an east-facing window for years.
I was thinking of buying a couple of the plants on this list, but your reasoning for not liking them is spot on with my own. Appreciate all your content and knowledge!
You’ve got a good’n 😁 Lots of folks struggle to get the flowers back consistently. Thanks for watching
For me, it's a frosty fern, or a Selaginella kraussiana. I've had two, and they were beautiful until they weren't.
I avoid ferns for exactly this reason 😅
I like the peace lily and even when they don't bloom.
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What much of you said is very true. I was glad to hear some plants that gave me trouble and dyed were plants that you mentioned
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I agree with many of the plants you have listed here. Non more so than the MOnstera Adonsonii. To me it looks sickly even when it is growing well. As for peace lillys. I grow alot of them and in my experience no special feed is needed to make them flower. I put them on my east facing bathroom windowsill and last summer over many months they almost flowered themselves to death with a constant stream of flowers. Dracena are huge divas as well though I have to plead guilty to owning a monstera albo and Thai constellation lol Great videos. As a former shefiielder myself love the image of sunburn in the sahara lol
Hehe thanks Annette! You're doing something right with your Peace Lilies.
I agree about spending to much money for a plant. The very reason that the plant may die on you within a month or less just doesn't seem at all worth it. Then again, I never even give plants a second look when the price tag shows something ugly! Thanks for the video. P.S I love Dracenas! I have 2 different species in my home. Sorry, you find them boring. It's great that there are so many different species of plants for us all to choose from. This way we all get something we love.
That’s true there’s tons of choice
My adasonii is my favorite plant in my collection. It's about 2.5ft tall and is actually 2 combined (my OG was bought just over a year ago and had 2 stems. I found another on clearance for $5 instead of $15 and it's rehabbed quickly). It's so full and dark green. I also live in Florida, which probably helps with all my philodendrons, monsteras, pothos and other tropical plants. All of the brown spots on my adansonii are from Ramone Fluffybutt, who is nearly 7 and a 16lb feline house plant menace.
Hahahahaha. You're always very amusing! Most of your trouble plants I've had success with when I've placed them all together in a terrarium with a sun lamp suspended over. They are in a dark area too. They also HATE being moved. Almost all of my plants are in a pons mixture too.
That’s a good setup!
Callisia repens pink panther is in a similar family, and you have to bottom water them and give regular haircuts, then plunk those pieces back into the soil. They turn brown when the water gets on the leaves and have shallow roots ( or the callisia does, anyways ) so a shallow pot and bottom watering would be best.
Also, I LOVE my pink variegated string of hearts. it's so freaking low maintenance! mine even had blooms recently. i use grow bulbs though guys!
Nice one, thanks for sharing. Callisia looks lovely
I'm so with you on Tradescantia. I got a bunch for free a couple of years ago. Gave some of it to my sister who lives about 10 miles from me. Hers have grown so abundantly she continues to give it away. Mine kept dying over and over each time I tried even though I have tons of happy, healthy houseplants. I eventually gave up. For me the popular one I can't keep alive is Rattlesnake plant.
They are a nightmare for sure. I've not had the pleasure of a rattlesnake yet
Treat them like succulents. They like to be dry before watering and don't enjoy water on leaves. Some species like the purple heart have very thick roots to store water like ZZ plants and its super easy to over water. My daughter liked them when I asked her to choose some plants and this is the only way I've gotten them the thrive 😆
Everybody deserves a bit of rest and relaxation, even plants 😄 I don't begrudge them their winter dormancy. My fly trap is rewarding me for my patience with tons of flower stalks.
But I keep mine in the backyard, in full sun. So it doesn't totally go brown and crispy, it just kinda hunkers down.
Not a lot of people talk about fly traps! I was glad to see you mention it, even if you hate it haha
I wish I could keep mine in my garden!
Totally with you on monstera A and Alocasia Black Velvet but in love with my peace Lilly. But thanks for your special video. Appreciate you sharing all your knowledge and experience x
Thanks very much for watching and commenting!
Pinguiculas are great if you're looking for a carnivorous plant that doesn't get terrible looking in the winter. They look like succulents, and some have a succulent period in winter, where the carnivorous leaves are replaced by succulent leaves!
Thanks for the tip
@@SheffieldMadePlants Another recommendation is tropical/subtropical Sundews specifically Drosera capensis being large enough to eat fly and sturdy enough to grow in bright a windowsill. The only downsides being it has is absurd seed production and fast leaf turnover.
the only “common” plants i have are Majesty palm and Blue spruce, the rest are pretty exotic to houseplants. (ex: Bambusa multiplex, Trachycarpus fortunei, Carnegiea gigantea, and Epiphyllum.)
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"This plant's mission is to turn brown as soon as we get it home." Bwahahaha! Love that!
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This video was great! I especially agree with two of the plants:
T. nanouk: I couldn’t make this plant happy no matter what I did. It propagated well, always looked great at the beginning, but then, inevitably, everything browned. Not pretty. I struggled for MONTHS with this plant and finally gave in. I didn’t need to live a stressed life because of a plant!
String of ANYTHING!: I tried them all and couldn’t get them to survive. The only plant of this kind that I have left is a tiny String of Dolphins that someone gave me because of their disappointment with it. It is growing well, has survived a repotting, and is vining around the pot. However, no dolphins! All the leaves are growing FLAT, no puffiness at all.
Thanks for proving it wasn’t just me!
The trad brown mess is real 😅
OMG! Thank you for hating Dracaena as much as I do! I work as a plant care tech maintaining plants for offices and stores in shopping malls and this plant is always in distress or about to have a fit. It doesn't help that none of the pots I work with have any drainage holes, which makes proper watering always a question mark even with a water meter(godsend!). This easily damaged, yellow, polka dotted, brown tipped, bulky, pest loving, boring plant is rarely happy no matter how much consideration I give it. And if it looks good it is probably new and will start to decline in no time. I thought this job would be a lovely, peaceful experience...wrong! I am nervous all day, every day, about all these different fuss pots!! lol
Wow what a stressful job! Sounds great in theory but 😬
@@SheffieldMadePlants Exactly!
I was laughing so much reading your comment. My husband has dracena that is almost 15 yeas old and looks absolutly horrible. I hate that thing but he loves it and refuses to get rid of it so I am stuck with that thing 🙄
@@lee-ann1589 I hate that thing but I won't hurt it because I know how he likes it. I don't do that kind of things...bad karma 😉
So sad! I have one and I adore it! Its thrived for me although it always suffers a bit in the winter. But the growth when I put it on my porch in the Summer is so rewarding! It brings me so much joy! Y'all are really missing out😆
I think with a lot of plants they need consistently and higher humidity especially if it comes from a rainforest environment. Some also seem to need a good amount of top down light and need to be turned 1/4 once a week. I hate Watermelon peperomias and Pileas most peperomias in general. They give them the perfect light, humidity and fertilizers that make their leaves look big and full when you buy them and then they start curling, turning brown and falling off if they don't get the exact same conditions they were used to in the green house. I mostly buy plants that I know can make it through a Canadian winter with a little help from growlights. I stick to succulents like snake plants and jades and string of pearls are a struggle until you give them top down light and get on a good watering schedule, once you get in them in the right spot they get very easy to take care of. I just got a ponytail palm which I'm obsessed with and they are very easy. I love all pothos, I have about 6 verieties and the easier philodendrons (philodendron Brazil is probably my favourite, just try to kill it, it is impossible). I also love the easier Hoyas like hoya carnosa even though they grow on the slower side, I love their perfect waxy thick leaves that never turn brown. This turned into a plants I love list lol.
Thanks Chelsea. Agree with all of that. The Brazil is definitely hard to kill 😂
I really enjoyed this video. You’re straight face delivery is quite funny.
Glad you liked it 😁
I am florist, so maybe it is not relevant but I have string of Harry for more than 10 year and propagated every year, I barely watered mine every 2 weeks in uk and no direct sun and they very happy.
I bought my adansonii to learn how to grow plants on moss pole. Its cheap and fast growing, small mistake won't kill this plant and i already increased size of the leaves :)
That's very true. Also easy to propagate if things get really bad
My first 'fancy' plant which got me hooked on plants was a monstera albo. Still my favourite and thriving 💕 grown it from a tiny 3 leaf baby to 13 leaves of which the last two has the gorgeous holes in them.
One of my other favourites are a pease lilly diamond, sooooooo amazingly pretty and so far not given me any trouble.
Personally, I hate alocasias because they are major divas and calatheas because its just too dry where I live so they get nasty brown 🍂
That's some great growing there! To keep an Albo from going brown 😮
I love maidenhair ferns-go weak in the knees at the sight of them. Once in a great while I will buy a big, thickly-fronded one just to enjoy it until it inevitably dies away.
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This is why I stick to low maintenance plants I have and love Golden Pothos. Thank you going to check out more of your vids
Thank you 😊
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Your welcome
I do love the look of a monstera albo but also can’t justify spending all that money on a cutting or plant that will immediately get brown spots. I have 84 live houseplants (on last count) and two fake plants. Those being a fake string of pearls and a fake monstera albo, it has satisfied my desire to have them in my home, without going through all the costs and heartache of killing lots (or lots more) of them. They’re also on this perfect ledge in my house (handily in my zoom background) which is directly over a radiator, thus unsuitable for any living plant, win win!
A good way to keep a happy Albo for sure 😁
I've got three 'strings of' - heart, variegated heart, and bananas. They do well in my conservatory but think they would go really stringy with less light.
Also definitely water them only when the leaves start to feel less plump, by dunking the plastic pot in water for a few hours.
As for tangling, well, I also crochet, so if you are used to patiently unravelling and un-knotting balls of yarn, then no problem ;)
I'm far too impatient for that 😂