Japanese Variegated Monstera | Care & Buying Tips for Cuttings | Rare Plant Haul & Unboxing | Ep 42
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2020
- I received some variegated monstera (albo borsigiana type) from Japan. These plants came from monstera_albo on Instagram, who is a wholeseller (NOTE: She only accepts orders of 12 plants or more). This is the first time I've imported from Japan, but they seem to be exporting more rare plants and offer an exciting alternative to Thailand and Indonesia.
These plants are rooted cuttings, which should not be confused and treated like fully rooted plants. I offer some thoughts on how I plan to care for these cuttings that come with aerial roots and not soil roots. I also discuss things some things to look for when selecting variegated monstera as well as some other odds and ends.
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Wow those are some amazing Albo cuttings that can definitely be split for more plants. Thanks for sharing and so can't wait to see updates☺👍❤.
I totally agree about the ones with more green! Gorgeous plants! 💚🌿
Those are beautiful cuttings Jimmy! Let us know their progress!!!
It will be interesting to see the progress of these at some point! 🌿✌🌿
So many!! They're looking really fabulous!
Amazing monstera albo 💚🤍💚🌿 thank you for sharing Japan plant order.
Awsome specimens! I'm gonna check them out for sure. Thanks for all the awsome advice too! 👍
i love how every time you say chop you also do a chopping hand motion lol. i also just wanted to leave a note saying how useful your videos have been to me. im super new house plants in general, let alone collecting, and every video has been super informative and really helped guide me through buying and care. huge thanks!
Haha thanks so much for tuning in and the kind words! Cheers! Stay well!
Great video Jimmy.... Love...Love this Monstera elbow.? Thinkvu said. Sure it's way over my price but glad some one like u can share it's beaury with us. Will love to see her/him when all settled in Soil... Just got my 1st ...Monstera deliciosa.... From. ....Planterina..
. sm but so Beautiful.....Only 4mos really into ....indoor plants... Always loved plants....innies & outies. And at 74 yrs. I've killed lots more than grew....better at outdoor ones... Working with ...MOM NATURE...lol... Now after finding ...Planterinas. .... site & watching ALL HER VIDEOS. I am so hooked & my plants. are doing great + bought many more
Thanks Jimmy for Sharing...
Planterina is a great channel and one of the few I follow often. I like her emphasis on common plants and fundamental care techniques. Cheers!
Gorgeous cuttings! 👍🏼💕🌿
You must've just had the humidifier running!! LOL, you're background looks like my bedroom after I've steamed the babies out. Those are some beautiful cuttings! Thank goodness they did so well after two weeks boxed up!
Maybe it was the humidity but for some reason the colors were totally off during recording lol. Maybe I need to tone it down the day before next time I film haha
I wish I had a friend to send me something like that!! Very nice
They are all beautiful!!!
WOW WOW WOW I HOPE ONE DAY I CAN OWN AN ALBO MINSTERA IS MY DREAM PLANT. THESE CUTTINGS ARE PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL
Wow..thank you.I have only just discovered this form of Monstera....love them !!....cheers from Australia
Cheers Susan! Hope to visit your country later this year if not next :)
@@LegendsOfMonstera ...Hi...just working my way thru your videos :). Lovely country here...and depending what parts of the country, you'll find a huge diversity in plants/ landscapes just as in the US.
I love how u are a plant lover 💚
Jimmy the stem expert 😁 . I think I would grow them a little differently but my monsteras live outside in South Florida
You’re good at covering the scientific aspects of a plant but you got a remember it’s a being. Greet it with love and affection. If you were taken captive delivered in a box to someone’s house you would hope they would greet you with love instead of a dissection ha ha but seriously get those monsteras some love man💚
I think this has a lot to do with what happened to my Philo Painted lady. I’m pretty sure it had areal roots rather than soil roots and I placed her straight in soil and ended up with rot right away. I was able to re root her in Sphagnum moss thankfully but thank you for this information because it makes a lot of sense! Beautiful plants you received 🙌🏻
I only point this out cus I’ve made the same mistake before lol. Tis life right?
Legends Of Monstera haha absolutely 😆
I hope we get a follow up video with how these guys end up doing!
Perfeição!!!! Eu amo essa planta.😍😍😍😍
🙏🙏🙏
Its all bout plants😍😍😍
I am on my way to pick up some montera💚
Wow , that's going to be a beautiful plant. It looks rare and expensive!( note to self: check Jimmy's dumpster out back look for unwanted plant propagation pieces)
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Hi! I'm new to your channel, and I love how informative it is!🌱
I was wondering.. when you cut the aerial roots (or even stem rot), do you let it callous before putting it in water?
When you transition to soil, do you put the cut part if the stem in the soil? How do you know the stem isn't going to rot any further?
How do you water the plants that you have in moss? Do you just spray the top, or do you dunk it in water? Do you add fertilizer when watering moss?
I noticed that you cut your all white buds off nodes- doesn't that mean that that node is spent? Or can there be more than 1 growth per node?
Beautiful ❤️ can I have the link where I u got them from.
Beautiful new plants! 🌿 Do you have a video where you talk about the blue trays you have many of your plants in? I am always wondering about those when I watch your videos.
I don’t have a specific video for it. I did mention it in my queen anthurium video. They are toddler feeding bowels from Target 😅
Practical, as always. :) I thought maybe some cool bottom-watering technique you were developing or had found.
Good video, i always go for the amount of variegation on the stem as an indicator of how variegated the plant will be.
I’ve been convinced about the importance of the stem along the way. I wasn’t when I started. Cheers man!
Beautiful cuttings!! I suppose living in Cali, you don’t have to worry about the plants freezing during shipping. I’d be worried about the white stem.
I agree living in Cali makes many aspects of plant care much easier. Yes, the white one may become problematic over time haha
I found that young aerial roots can be placed in water or soil. Once they become aged they won't do well at all. I also places a growing aerial above a cup of water and it went straight in - this can actually be used to give a plant extra water and nutrients or root a head cutting before you cut it!
I have to add: I use fertilized water from my aquarium.
With big cuttings I place it in moss and see where roots come, once it is viable, I cut it. Big cuttings have a lot of nutrients stored in them and they will have more energy if not cut.
Almost full white plants should get artificial light to make the day longer. It doesn't have to be a plant light, but highly efficient bright LED spots will already help. It should have 100 to 120 Lumen per Watt. This won't change the colour of the plant, but help its energy and health.
Thanks for the tips! I do have a lot of light supplementation and I suspect I should be able to cut something somewhere in a month or two. Will do an update video haha.
Would love to see update on those beauties
I love your videos they are very informative. I’ve spent about $2000 on Monstera albo this year and haven’t had much luck with quality. How do I order from Yumi ? Thank you
Hi Jimmy can you please link a store from Japan please. Thank you
Can you share where u get it
Hi Jimmy! I love your channel it has helped a lot, I have an albo tip cutting with 3 leaves that I popped straight into an aroid mix after watching your previous propagation video. It’s been in soil for over 2 weeks now with no progress and after watching this and learning that long aerial roots struggle to take off in soil im a bit concerned that mine wont take off as it only has one aerial root thats about 15 cm long. Would it be a good idea to pop it in water instead? Thanks 😊
Hi man. I’ve had really bad luck with long aerial roots going into soil. I suspect if my mixture were much more airy and well draining, such as like an 80% perlite mix, maybe they would do better? Not sure what you use. If you are concerned, you can always take it out and see what’s going on. If it’s rotting, it surely would show signs by now. If it’s doing fine, maybe you found the right mix for you :)
What do they look like now? Do you have an update?
Maybe I am unable to count, but this weren't 12 plants? 😄
Omg you’re right! I’ve been fooled!! 🤣🤣
How to buy that ?
what was the price
May I know where to order please? I live in Canada
Those are lovely, generous cuttings. I know some sellers who would cut it into sections and try to get multiple plants. I have gotten cuttings like this with dried aerial roots. I wish I had this video then. I would have tackle it differently. Will you eventually be selling them on your shop?
I’m not sure. These specimens have a long way to go before sale so they won’t be ready till probably autumn if they do go on the shop. Cheers!
how to ship plant from japan to philippines
Where u buy in japan ?
Sooooo, I have a question: if I buy a variegated cutting, with a lot of GREEN (which is cheaper) and just a little bit white, will this affect future leaves? Or could they have a lot of white even though the ‘mother’ leave hasn’t?
It's pretty random how the new leaves will be. I tend to go for the 60-70% green, but that's just my preference. More green usually means faster growth and more leaves and more chances to roll the dice haha
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I just bought (very cheap) the cut of monstera and the leaf I have got is almost , so I am looking forward to experience how I can grow the plant, also hope to have more white leaf plant. It is a wait and see game. But seeing, that mother plant has more marble white leaves as well giving me hope? 😊 Or maybe I have no luck? We will see. I am so excited 😊🤞
How plants can Be variegated ???is it from nature or human make it varieties
I want one badly
Is in my wish list 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Can you give me the contact where I can buy the some competitive variegated monstera? I am from Indonesia and I need easy way to have this.
Hi! Can ask you if do you know any monstera grower/supplier in Japan that can do overseas shipment? Hope for your favourable response. Cheers
Whose the seller ??
Jimmy... do albos grow new leaves slowly? I purchased one in November 2019. It took until late March to put out first leaf and other leaves now getting brown spots....help! Please😞
Usually when the albo will be "dormant" in the new leaves department when it's developing roots. I suspect you should start getting growth soon given the weather is warming up =)
Thanks Jimmy!!
Any luck after two months? I want to see how they did in water since you mentioned before that you aren’t a fan of water propagation.
All the ones in this episode started rooting and have been sold locally. I have a few from a later batch that I will do a rooting video about (before they sell).
Niceee can’t wait. Love your videos btw!
This maybe a question you get alot and I'll understand if you don't want to answer...so here it's, I want to ask if you're willing to share your seller. 😊 Thank you very much and am really thankful of your videos eapecially for somebody like me who's just starting with this hobby.
The seller of these albos is mentioned in the video and also in the description. Hope that helps. Cheers!
Thank you very much, sorry I was paying attention alot when you're talking 😊
Update pls I've gotta no... love you videos
How much did these cost? Are they cheaper from Japan? How did you manage to order with less than 13 plants if they are wholesalers that require 12 plants minimum? Did they remove al the lower leaves for customs?
I also don’t get why these wouldn’t be possible to tissue culture when they tissue culture a Thai Constellations, PPP, White Knight, White Princess, etc. if you manage to figure it out, please share!
Nice cuttings! Can you share the information please.
Thanks for watching. Not sure what you mean by sharing information. The seller information is in the video and description.
Thank you!
How much was the plants
Think the prices vary depending on how many you buy, but you need to buy at least 12 I think.
how much are they asking for 12 plants..if you dot mind me asking.. ..do you plan to sell some of yours?
Hi Dr Jimmy, another question, do you have to have certain permit to buy from them? I have been meaning to buy a more matured albo plant, however, pricing here in California is way over what I can afford ....
The exact pricing depends on how large the order is. They also only do orders of at least 12 plants. You can order up to 12 plants per shipment without an importing permit in the US. If you want more than 12 plants, you can split it into multiple shipments to get around that restriction. Cheers!
Light levels do affect the pants decision about how much variagation it can afford to make for it's next leaf, even if it doesn't change the leaves already formed.
finflwr no light levels do not effect the genetic mutation within the plant that’s a common misconception, it may help boost growth but it will not directly give more variegation.
@@emilym155 From my personal growing experience, any variegated plant I have grown will give new growth with more green elements in it's variegation patterns if I've had it in a lower light situation. Whereas the lighter elements of the variegation will predominate when I've had it placed in a brighter spot. I've been growing plants for over twenty years now and my personal experience has shown this to be a consistent habit of any variegated plants. Yes, the genetic element of variegation is within the plants cells, but the distribution of chlorophyll within that tendency is something that the plants will decide on an ongoing basis, adapting to it's circumstances. Just this winter I had a variegated pelargonium (Happy Thought Red) that I had to bring inside for overwintering. Pelargoniums grow relatively fast, so it was a very good example. Initially I put it in a quite a shady place (as I became rapidly swamped with all the plants I shouldn't have bought during the summer and now had to fit into my house, lol) and it continued to produce leaves though they were less variegated and some lost the variegation altogether. I then purchased several additional growth lights, whereupon the plant promptly returned to growing it's newest leaves with superb variegation again. I've had countless similar experiences. My Variegated rubber plant that was in a North facing window for most of its life, before I moved it to a couple of feet from a South facing window at the beginning of last year, has completely different variegation in the leaves produced in the two different locations. An increase roughly of about perhaps 10% to at least 30% with increased mint green areas too (happy to share photos of it). Perhaps an experiment is in order using a cheap robust plant that could be split and placed in two different light levels? I move my plants around seasonally as I alternate between putting some plants out for the summer then they have to suffer through the darker winter months here in the UK inside my house. All the variegated plants I've grown for some time show the same tendencies. Perhaps a very loose human parallel is how our skin will produce more melanin if exposed to sun, though our genetic propensity for melanin (yes I know melanin is protective whereas chlorophyll is something else entirely, but they both relate to sun exposure, though with sun they need less chlorophyll and we need more melanin) is unchanged, and we'll become paler again if not exposed to sun? Though our melanin increases quicker, with plants they are on a slower schedule and produce the right levels of chlorophyll needed for their current light levels in their new growth, as they detect the need for change. Perhaps something you can only accept once you see it happen over time. Not obvious to those with perfect permanent homes for their plants perhaps as the plants rarely experience any notable changes..
@finflwr I think the association with light and variegation probably originated from some plants where light does affect variegation. For variegated monstera though, this is not true. Light affects contrast but not current or future variegation patterns as far as I know and as far as I’ve gathered from much more experienced growers.
@@LegendsOfMonstera I'll have to conduct some experiments with mine then. But when it's a little bigger than the two leaf baby it currently is ; )
Where can I find this woman's Instagram to water plants off of her in Japan or China or wherever what's the name of the page
Dr of what?
He said once he worked with kids, but he doesn't seem like a pediatrician to me.
neonatologist
Yup, neonatologist. Cheers!
Wow, I get my plants from China in 3 days , sometimes 4
I’m ok with monstera being in their boxes for up to 3 weeks, but that’s pushing it haha
From where did you normally buy
@@adityasingh004 myhomenature
It's "sphagnum" not "spagnum", so the pronounciation is with an "f".
I would have a heart attack if I had to wait 2 weeks.
Haha I think it depends on the plant. Monstera do very very well for a long time. I suspect 4 weeks is their breaking point.
I ordered from Steve leaves and Gabriella plants and watch the mail like an expectant Mom🥴