From the top of my head before watching the video: -Alocasia plumbae 'Flying Squid' (still a cool plant) -Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Stingray' (kinda awkward) -Pilea peperomioides 'Mojito' (I try not to introduce any viruses into my plant collection and this plant is just rustling my jimmies) -Philodendron Birkin when it's unhappy -your aunt's crusty old Phalaenopsis that just survived the last decade on a table -that grey, dusty "public office" Aglaonema Edit: The last two obviously haven't been rare for decades.
So my husband walked in and sat down to watch this with me (streaming on the tv) and says about the Birkin “oh that’s a pretty plant,” and then on the Godzilla “oh that’s cool.” So I filled him in, “babe, it’s an ugly plant video.” He thought it was hilarious. 😂
I actually think the Philo Birkin looks very striking! Those stripes are so clear and clean along the leaves. I only just got one a few months ago and it looks so nice on my kitchen table. It did have a bit of transition shock and a couple leaves turned to goo but it's looking very healthy now. We'll see how it does in the future.
I really like my Birkin. The stripes are different and my OCD loves them. Lol It’s loving it at my house and I couldn’t ask for an easier plant to care for.
Totally agree. It’s such a unique and pretty plant. There’s nothing else like it. Rare plant collectors don’t like it because it became “common” almost immediately.
I get why stores/shops sell plants like this...but it annoys me to pay more for a pot I really don't want just because they're selling the plant in it.😑
@LimeyKat.....I, too like the looks of them but didn't know if the variegation will keep on them as they get older. Please comment your care and the amount of light for them if you will......thanks!
I have had birkin for like a year. It doesn't get a lot of light and often gets underwatered but it doesn't seem to mind. Now that I look at it closely, the bottom leaves may be starting to fade. I actually had the opposite issue as on of the plants in the pot kept growing too much variagation. I had to cut it several times. The new leaves are still gorgeous, the growth pattern is very compact and over all the plant looks still amazing.
I really don't get why Alocasia Jacklyn is on the list tbh 😂 but to each their own. I've added a baby Jacklyn to my collection maybe 1-2 months ago. I really love it. The stems look very mushroom-y to me and the shape of the leaves is so unique. It opened its first true-to-form leaf about 2 weeks ago and it's currently unfurling the second, the ones it had when it arrived are still baby leaves. Is it a bit weird? Yea. Okay, a lot. The texture is really odd. But it's lovely in its own way. I have a few plants I got just because of how odd and out-of-this-world they are, and I know this one would fit, but no, I got the Jacklyn because I saw pictures and I fell in love ❤ EDIT: I sent this vid to a friend who is not into plants. For Mint Adansonii he said "it looks zombie" and I can't unsee it now 😂😂😂
@@irinad.7802 right? And the more I look at it, the more it looks like something out of a movie. Like a plant you don't even expect to be real. It's giving LOTR vibes 😂 or Jurassic Park.
Oh poor Birkin! I bought it maybe a year ago for cheap in a garden centre and I love it. The stripes actually scratch my calathea itch pretty well, which is awesome because calatheas keep dying on me. There is something about it that reminds me of calathea ornata or white star... I haven't seen any leaves fading so far, may it be maturity thing maybe? Or alternatively it takes a very, very, very long time..
I used to agree on the Strawberry Shake. The leaves just look so muddy. But then I saw a really big one one. Taken as a whole, the plant was stunning. So, now I have a small one, and I’m on that long, slow road to having a big one and making it all worth it. 😂
I feel the same way about baby pink princess. Not very pretty young, but kind of impressive in the right spot in the right house. I still don’t have one because I can’t get past the ugly stage.
Bought a P. Bob Cee in 2021. It was 100 Euro and until today I sold 6 cuttings. When it grows bigger it is a really nice plant and it is indestructible. I do love it.
For me its the stingray alocasia and alike, they just kinda look like they didnt develop properly before unfurling and like theyll break off any second xD
10:09 oh I adore my Bob Cee! He’s huge and the anchor plant for my variegated monsteras. I’m obsessed with philodendrons with fingers like tortum and polypoidiodies 💚
I agree with all of them except the Alocasia tandurusa (Jacklyn). I love my Jacklyn that it’s actually one of my top 5 favourite plants in my collection. It’s so big and is currently able to hold on to 8 big leaves . The pattern is beautiful and it’s texture is so unique. And the mama plant is consistently producing corms that I have been gifting to my friends.
I find this video hysterical . Loves silver hates Brandtianum, loves reticulated, hates the Jacklyn. Laughing so hard. I love this channel, but this gave me huge laughs
I like my birkin and paraiso verde! I have troubles with both still... The birkin I bought as a baby plant 6 months ago and the white stripes aren't that great yet. The paraiso verde needs to be potted into a heavier pot because it can't stand on it's own (I have a pole) and is currently leaning against the window. I have managed to grow variegated leaves but it's the summer and the room is at 26 degrees.
For whatever reason, I kind of like the color palette on the variegated black cardinals 🤷🏻♀️ It’s definitely not what I’m typically drawn to, but that one catches my eye for some reason. I don’t have one, and I’m not searching for one, but I’m thinking I’d probably buy one if I stumbled across it, lol. I enjoy hearing your planty opinions, thank you!
It's interesting to me how most of the time I'm on the same page with you on plants that look sickly, but I absolutely LOVE the Jacklyn (Reticulata too tho). Also, I don't think it's hypocritical at all. How you feel about the way a plant looks (or how anything looks for that matter) is a very personal experience that just doesn't always seem to make sense. And I don't think it has to.
Question! I know that there is like s black market for rare plants from the wild, but is there like a list of which plants are like " not done" to buy because it is promoting stealing plants from the wild?
Right now a lot of higher end anthurium are being poached in South America. Most recently, it's been papillilaminum, dressleri, and kunayalense. We are talking, every single plant being ripped from their environment 😢
Plants like the strawberry ice, black cardinal & the one with patina looking leaves. I didn't care for them because the leaves (at least in the examples) looked like the plants were really dry or shriveling up. Your video set up looked cool. Background, top, hair & makeup all a similar palette. 😎
Lol, your emojis make me think you like them; ‘sickening’ can mean good or bad, of course, too. Haha. I agreed though, variegated Anthuriums are bizarre, and VELVET variegated Alocasias, like ‘Frydek’, or even ‘Polly’, are just odd to me. Like, nature is just “doing the most” visually and texturally. Something about variegated Alocasias really DOES (literally) look sick… like, you wouldn’t want to to touch them kind-of sick.
I like the variegated Black Cardinal because it's so soft and muted. And I have a Birkin (I paid 8$ or something like that for it) and I think that they can look really good but mine gets to a point when I think it's finally looking good and then it gets "nope" and looks like trash again for six months. So I have a love hate relationship with it. I like the strawberry shake for the same reason I like the variegated cardinal.
Ok I hear you on the regular strawberry ice. But I have 2 galaxies that are to die for! The prettiest hot pink coloring and one of the leaves is kind of ghost looking (the pale pink color). I wish I could post a pic cause it’s just so pretty!! And it doesn’t have those gross poop brown leaves
I totally agree about the Syngonium strawberry ice, Adansonii mint, black cardinal vargata (absolutely HATE the look of this one), philodendron bob cee, philodendron Brandtianum, syngonium Godzilla, philodendron strawberry shake, Amydrium medium variegated.
I agree so far except the Jacklyn is one of my favs, I love the funk it gives, just got a Paraiso Verde in a trade, wasn’t sure about it, thin leaves, looks a bit sickly, but it’s “growing on me” I’m not a fan of very many syngoniums at all, they all look frail and sickly to me. I have a Philo birkin though, it’s just different, strawberry shake looks unwell to me, not for me, nor any begonias, not attractive with those hairy leaves,
i remember being super excited when i heard black cardinal was variegated bc i thought “oh my god a black and white plant, what could be more perfect. but any variegation that’s brown is so ugly. people dodge yellow bc it can look sickly? no BROWN IS LITERALLY A DYING PLANT. the only plant i can slightly handle with brown is caramel marble and that’s bc it has a nice leaf shape. my personal thing with variegated plants is if the base plant already isn’t that interesting *to me personally* ahem philodendron erubecens, any self heading philo, or just anything with a simple leaf or leaf pattern, variegation doesn’t add anything worthwhile or can make the plant look even worse. i personally have zero interest in jose buono bc i find the leaf boring and the variegation doesn’t add much. id rather put up with the difficulty of a florida beauty bc i love the shape. does any of this make sense???
The Black Cardinal Variegated looks like it is dying. From the shot you showed, it didn't have any shine to it. Are we sure it's variegated and not dried out. I'm pretty sure that is what one of my plants looked like when I forgot to water it and found it behind a few big plants like months later
The thing with the Birkins was that the ones in the garden centers weren't pretty. Like they have very little but if the stripes and more plain green leaves. It literally looked like the plant was reverting. I had brought 2 and was very disappointed. I think I brought them from Lowe's and they were barely variegated and both died kind of quickly of root rot. Probably because Lowes tries to drown their plants regularly.
Idk if it's just me, but I wouldn't ever want to buy philodendron prince of orange. I just feel like everytime I'd see a yellow-orange leaf I'd be worried it's dying. Maybe if it were a very bright orange or deeper like a red based orange, but it just looks sickley to me.
LOL I love my Paraiso Verde -- but I had to park it directly under a grow light to get the variegation back (and I don't disagree with a single thing you say about it, either!) I don't quite love my Birkin, but I don't hate it, either. It's almost the opposite of the Paraiso Verde, too much light and the leaves turn all white and die and it just gets ugly fast. I've had to chop off all the top twice because it was all white and sickly. I picked a plant (from the garden center) that was one Birkin and a pair of Congo Reds in the same pot. Reds are enormous and healthy and look so much better than the Birkin ever will.
Can’t stand Brandtianum but not really because of the silver leaves. I don’t understand how it’s made it to garden centers as it’s so difficult to grow! It looks so ugly trailing, but if put on a pole it doesn’t want to behave either. New leaves constantly came out misshapen or stuck for me even though it’s not an erubescens. I’ve only ever owned 1 but I’ll never do it again. So many nicer silver plants out there.
Ha ha ha!! I totally have a bin on nothing but Strawberry Shake cuttings and they’ve been in there so long that I forgot about them. Because they do nothing for such a long time 😂
The strawberry shakes are, for some reason, everywhere for me locally and they're $75 USD for a three leaf plant. They must be selling since they're at that price steadily and I just cannot see the appeal. It's the same pink/burgundy, non blocky variegation for me that just doesn't catch my eye.
Lols, been eying those birkings many many times but still haven't bitten the bullet. I wonder what makes them ugly to some peopple. As for me I find anything with fairly clean stripes/veins and strong contrast/weird color very appealing. Somehow not the brownish tint or too small/blurry pattern on the plant or some of the silver varigation tho. Calatheas are the best and anything with proper warm jungle vibe.
I got the birken in 2020 I think and I think I spent mayyybbbeee $20. I wouldn't have spent much more than that. It's still thriving. The older leaves do fade a bit with the striping. I don't know. I wouldn't buy it again, but I don't hate it.
Oh no I just ordered a strawberry Ice! Lol...we will see...gonna show it on my channel when I get it...couldn't really tell what was going on in the photo, but I took a shot.
The jacklyn is beautiful! Def was on my plant wishlist but I’m going to stay far away from Alocasia I am not into spider mites! I have placed my Polly and silver dragon outside and I spray every two days and wash down the leaves. I only kept my black velvet in door in front of my humidifier and I wipe and clean the leaves. The Birkin is growing on me. The more it puts out new leaves the more I love it lol. It’s just a starter plant. I must say I did not like it at first. I want a BOB CEE SOOOO BAD 😂❤ oooouuu and now I want a Phil Verde thanks 😂
I have a Strawberrry Ice 😂🍓 I did pay a fair whack for it and definitely won't make the investment back, but I do kinda love it all the same, when it puts out growth with really high variegation I love the cream and pink. But I get the dislike for the darker leaves it can look muddy.
I agree about all of these especially the Jacklyn. The Zebrina is by far superior in that kind of pattern. However, my paraiso is grown in normal house conditions and he’s pretty damn nice.😉
One plant I learned that I can’t stand cuz I fought so hard to keep alive and now I’m trying to propagate is a Cordyline 😅 I hope it propagates so I can give it tf away I do not want to be a plant killer but that will def make the list of plants I do not like !
To each her own. It's awesome that there are so many varieties of plants so people can get what speaks to them. IMO, the Birkin depends on the variegation. I love mine, but it's quite light colored. I love my Jacklyn and Godzilla. I think my Brandi is stunning. Strawberry Ice is on my wishlist. I love the mix of colors.
The black cardinal variegated fits well with the color of your shirt and eyeshadow 🤣 you said looks a bit dirty..... I don't think so. It's just a color that makes plants look sick, close to dying. Maybe the reason we don't like it.
I really didn’t think I’d have any of these but I actually DO have. Philo Birkin! But I paid $5.00 for it. Does that make it any better? Lol! I have noticed the white stripes are fading over time and it’s under a grow light. 🤷♀️
I have the philodendron bradndtianum. Bought it twice. Once a year or two ago and another just recently. Killed the first one but never found out why it died. They were $7.88 CAD each so no big loss. I also bought the birkin twice. Bother times it grew very aggressively for about 4 months then died suddenly. I very carefully made sure it care instructions were followed perfectly but it died anyway. The first birkin I bought around the beginning of covid and the other a year ago. The birkin were also $7.88 CAD a piece both times. I didn't realize that any of these were rare or expensive. I though they were just a fad plant that swept through the plant shops. I like both but not a lot. The rest of the plants on the list have a leaf only a mother can love.
In my experience, the Philo 'Rojo Congo' (aka. reverted Birkin) can look perfectly fine up top while it's root system rots away or dries out and dies. Your's probably grew too many roots, began drying out too quick, and didn’t show symptoms until it was completely cooked.
I do love the alocasia Jacklyn I finally got one a couple of weeks ago. But get your point. I like the bob cee because it reminds me of beetlejuice but not enuf to get one For the rest yeah big time. I find a lot of variation makes the plant ill and when they crisp as well. Nope not for me. But I like things others wouldn't Hope your shoulder is doing better. Have fun
so for us in germany, i work at a garden center an we sell birkins, and the reason i absolutely hate them is 1. i think they are boring af, but 2. they almost aalways turn completely white and then you need to cut them off, because they dont grow further than this, and they do this really fast, like on that picture you showed, its probably like 3 more leaves and you can cut them and i think its not because of to much light, i had one and it also turned white, it was standing beside a north-facing window
Phil. Brandtianum-I agree. There’s a type of silver that I love, and a type I really dislike, and I struggle to put my finger exactly on what the difference is. Maybe contrast? I love scindapsus argyraeus, but really don’t like exotica. And the Brandtianum is one I now see in grocery stores, and keep asking why I don’t like it. I’m not sure, but I really don’t. Birkin-I’ve actually come around on this one. I thought it was really ugly when I first started seeing it, but then I saw one at a friend’s house that was quite beautiful. I still would never have bought one for myself, but another friend gave me a pup from hers, and I have enjoyed watching it develop. So no, not worth lots of money, but for now it’s a welcome member of my plant family. Alocasia tiny dancer-I loved these but soured on them. The one I had just kept getting spider mites no matter what I did until I threw it away. And, as usual, the big box store specimens I see are just not appealing, so I don’t think I’ll ever try one again. Shangrila is growing on me as I see them more often, and Godzilla looks cool to me, though.
I noticed Kaylee say something really stupid in this video 19:00. This surprised me. She is usually much smarter than this. She said no plant can completely new, they are all "hundreds of years old". No Kaylee, some ciltivars can be literally less than a year old. They are the result of random gene mutations and such mutations are happening all the time and always will. Epipremnum aureum Gold must be the most common house plant in the world today, and the yellow variegation (and hardiness) that made it so common was unknown until 1960! And there are thousands of such examples. Species can be very old of course, but NOT all ciltivars.
I think tiny dancer is stupid. I think they made the hybrid and it turned out stupid but they decided to give it a snappy name and people would suck it up
Kayleeeeeeeeee, pleaseeee...😭The secret to Paraiso... It's *L I G H T* -- not heat! When people with as big a following as yours, spread that bunk temperature theory, you set folks up for *FAILURE* (especially the less-experienced portions of the community, who are still trying to build a knowledge base and practical understanding, and who look to your word as gospel guidance) which means every time you say this, you're proliferating frustrations and reinforcing needless resentment for what is actually a *super* easy plant... When it can just get what it needs... (Which just so happens to be *LOTS* of light!🌞) Edit: Now... As far as it being an "ugly" plant, that's fine -- I totally respect y'all's opinions... But *at least* give folks the proper info to grow the poor plant, so it can be judged it at its best!!! 😂
I agree with most of these, especially Ph. brandtianum - it literally gives me public toilet tiles vibes. I would also add most variegated alocasias and anthuriums, Pink Princess, Ph. joepii and all these narrow-leafers. Jacklyn is beautiful, but impossible to grow for me, for some reason.
Strawberry Ice kind of looks like a bunch or random organs that were just removed from someone in an emergency operation.
What! The Birkin is one of our most sold plants at our shop!!! People LOVE it
From the top of my head before watching the video:
-Alocasia plumbae 'Flying Squid' (still a cool plant)
-Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Stingray' (kinda awkward)
-Pilea peperomioides 'Mojito' (I try not to introduce any viruses into my plant collection and this plant is just rustling my jimmies)
-Philodendron Birkin when it's unhappy
-your aunt's crusty old Phalaenopsis that just survived the last decade on a table
-that grey, dusty "public office" Aglaonema
Edit: The last two obviously haven't been rare for decades.
So my husband walked in and sat down to watch this with me (streaming on the tv) and says about the Birkin “oh that’s a pretty plant,” and then on the Godzilla “oh that’s cool.”
So I filled him in, “babe, it’s an ugly plant video.”
He thought it was hilarious. 😂
Guess beauty is dependent on the eye of the beholder lol
That being said I don’t think the Birkin is ugly
Some of these are on the wishlist now 😭
11:51 Actually in my experience the brandtianum needs so much humidity in order to put out a decent leaf... They always come out half formed or ripped
thats kinda why i say they're the mermaid humidity plants lmao
Agreed mine took well over a year before I got any size up from leaves it took a full 4ft pole before it started behaving
I agree! I have mine in a small terrarium and it grows really well. I just propagated it and it seems to be doing well too. 😊
@@jenvee9110 I'd imagine the humidity would help
I am giving mine away. Even after putting it on a moss pole in fairly high humidity ( >60) it still has deformed leaves that are very flimsey.
I actually think the Philo Birkin looks very striking! Those stripes are so clear and clean along the leaves. I only just got one a few months ago and it looks so nice on my kitchen table. It did have a bit of transition shock and a couple leaves turned to goo but it's looking very healthy now. We'll see how it does in the future.
I really like my Birkin. The stripes are different and my OCD loves them. Lol
It’s loving it at my house and I couldn’t ask for an easier plant to care for.
I saved a smashed Birkin two years ago and now she is is so big and pretty!! Agreed!@@Lela-plants
Totally agree. It’s such a unique and pretty plant. There’s nothing else like it. Rare plant collectors don’t like it because it became “common” almost immediately.
I like Birkin too and agree to the rest including Jacklyn. 😅
I spent $30 for my Birkin, and that was because it came in a decorative terra cotta pot. Now I have 12 from that one, and I love them.
I get why stores/shops sell plants like this...but it annoys me to pay more for a pot I really don't want just because they're selling the plant in it.😑
I got mine for like £8 ish and it was like four plants 🧍
@LimeyKat.....I, too like the looks of them but didn't know if the variegation will keep on them as they get older. Please comment your care and the amount of light for them if you will......thanks!
I got my Birkin at Trader Joe’s and promptly and irrevocably murdered it
I have had birkin for like a year. It doesn't get a lot of light and often gets underwatered but it doesn't seem to mind. Now that I look at it closely, the bottom leaves may be starting to fade. I actually had the opposite issue as on of the plants in the pot kept growing too much variagation. I had to cut it several times. The new leaves are still gorgeous, the growth pattern is very compact and over all the plant looks still amazing.
I really don't get why Alocasia Jacklyn is on the list tbh 😂 but to each their own. I've added a baby Jacklyn to my collection maybe 1-2 months ago. I really love it. The stems look very mushroom-y to me and the shape of the leaves is so unique. It opened its first true-to-form leaf about 2 weeks ago and it's currently unfurling the second, the ones it had when it arrived are still baby leaves. Is it a bit weird? Yea. Okay, a lot. The texture is really odd. But it's lovely in its own way. I have a few plants I got just because of how odd and out-of-this-world they are, and I know this one would fit, but no, I got the Jacklyn because I saw pictures and I fell in love ❤
EDIT: I sent this vid to a friend who is not into plants. For Mint Adansonii he said "it looks zombie" and I can't unsee it now 😂😂😂
Same! I love Jacklyn!
@@irinad.7802 right? And the more I look at it, the more it looks like something out of a movie. Like a plant you don't even expect to be real. It's giving LOTR vibes 😂 or Jurassic Park.
I love the Alocasia Jacklyn myself , they remind me of reindeer
I love jacklyn too
I never get the appeal of adonsonii ever since its launch. The latest version is more holes than leaves lol...
Oh poor Birkin! I bought it maybe a year ago for cheap in a garden centre and I love it. The stripes actually scratch my calathea itch pretty well, which is awesome because calatheas keep dying on me. There is something about it that reminds me of calathea ornata or white star... I haven't seen any leaves fading so far, may it be maturity thing maybe? Or alternatively it takes a very, very, very long time..
I used to agree on the Strawberry Shake. The leaves just look so muddy. But then I saw a really big one one. Taken as a whole, the plant was stunning. So, now I have a small one, and I’m on that long, slow road to having a big one and making it all worth it. 😂
I am the exact same!! I used to think it looked crap, but then I started to think otherwise so bought one, but then it reverted 😭
@@Screamsinlowpoly boooo!
They are incredible and they grow fairly quick.
I feel the same way about baby pink princess. Not very pretty young, but kind of impressive in the right spot in the right house. I still don’t have one because I can’t get past the ugly stage.
Monstera oceana looks like something is on the leaves that I want to wipe off and clean!
Bought a P. Bob Cee in 2021. It was 100 Euro and until today I sold 6 cuttings. When it grows bigger it is a really nice plant and it is indestructible. I do love it.
Shangri-la pothos is one of my favorites because its hideous lol
Philodendron Brandi and Birkin are lovely.
For me its the stingray alocasia and alike, they just kinda look like they didnt develop properly before unfurling and like theyll break off any second xD
10:09 oh I adore my Bob Cee! He’s huge and the anchor plant for my variegated monsteras.
I’m obsessed with philodendrons with fingers like tortum and polypoidiodies 💚
I agree with all of them except the Alocasia tandurusa (Jacklyn). I love my Jacklyn that it’s actually one of my top 5 favourite plants in my collection. It’s so big and is currently able to hold on to 8 big leaves . The pattern is beautiful and it’s texture is so unique. And the mama plant is consistently producing corms that I have been gifting to my friends.
Yeah I was so surprised, one of the most cool looking plants ever, not ugly at all
How does it hold so many leaves? Mines huge but can only sustain two leaves. How much light do you provide and do you water/fertilize it a lot?
Unpopular opinion: 90% of syngoniums are crap and no amount of variegation can make me like them
I find this video hysterical . Loves silver hates Brandtianum, loves reticulated, hates the Jacklyn. Laughing so hard. I love this channel, but this gave me huge laughs
I totally agree on Monstera Oceana. It looks like there is something wrong with it. I also have problems with Birkin - it is green .. totally green
Agree, the Oceana looks like it has Leaf Miner damage.
I think we need to come up with a playlist called plantroversy and start with this vid lol
I like my birkin and paraiso verde! I have troubles with both still... The birkin I bought as a baby plant 6 months ago and the white stripes aren't that great yet. The paraiso verde needs to be potted into a heavier pot because it can't stand on it's own (I have a pole) and is currently leaning against the window. I have managed to grow variegated leaves but it's the summer and the room is at 26 degrees.
For whatever reason, I kind of like the color palette on the variegated black cardinals 🤷🏻♀️ It’s definitely not what I’m typically drawn to, but that one catches my eye for some reason. I don’t have one, and I’m not searching for one, but I’m thinking I’d probably buy one if I stumbled across it, lol. I enjoy hearing your planty opinions, thank you!
I’d say one you forgot to include is literally ANY croton! They’re awful lol.
I love the birkin!
This was entertaining I’d enjoy another video like this
I just got a strawberry ice. I had been wanting one. Its a starter but i tend to really love splotchy pink plants.
It's interesting to me how most of the time I'm on the same page with you on plants that look sickly, but I absolutely LOVE the Jacklyn (Reticulata too tho).
Also, I don't think it's hypocritical at all. How you feel about the way a plant looks (or how anything looks for that matter) is a very personal experience that just doesn't always seem to make sense. And I don't think it has to.
Question! I know that there is like s black market for rare plants from the wild, but is there like a list of which plants are like " not done" to buy because it is promoting stealing plants from the wild?
Right now a lot of higher end anthurium are being poached in South America. Most recently, it's been papillilaminum, dressleri, and kunayalense. We are talking, every single plant being ripped from their environment 😢
@@kdoxie914 good to know... :(:(
Yeah matches my icks. I don't hate Jacklyn because it reminds me of Jurassic Park lol. I DESPISED Godzilla. Gave it away.
Plants like the strawberry ice, black cardinal & the one with patina looking leaves. I didn't care for them because the leaves (at least in the examples) looked like the plants were really dry or shriveling up.
Your video set up looked cool. Background, top, hair & makeup all a similar palette. 😎
i feel like we missed an opportunity to call out variegated anthuriums/ those really marbley alocasia because they look sickening 😍😍🤩🤩
Lol, your emojis make me think you like them; ‘sickening’ can mean good or bad, of course, too. Haha. I agreed though, variegated Anthuriums are bizarre, and VELVET variegated Alocasias, like ‘Frydek’, or even ‘Polly’, are just odd to me. Like, nature is just “doing the most” visually and texturally. Something about variegated Alocasias really DOES (literally) look sick… like, you wouldn’t want to to touch them kind-of sick.
Yes and verigated watermelon Peperomia!
@@lucyloo8965 omg YES its too much omg i just looked it up 🤢🤢
Hope you make a video of mint var plants and compare which one looks good in mint
I think you should do ‘conventionally ugly plants’ that you actually like. For example: Joepii (even tho I’m absolutely obsessed with it as well).
i love how on so many levels I am agreeing and then there is the Jacklyn, I love that plant :D
Painted lady and yes please another. Also, I do like that you included ease of care.
I like the variegated Black Cardinal because it's so soft and muted. And I have a Birkin (I paid 8$ or something like that for it) and I think that they can look really good but mine gets to a point when I think it's finally looking good and then it gets "nope" and looks like trash again for six months. So I have a love hate relationship with it. I like the strawberry shake for the same reason I like the variegated cardinal.
Can you do a video update of your Hoya collection and/or Hoyas you want to get in the near future?
Shingleing plants make my skin crawl. And I TOTALLY agree about the Brandtianum and Berkin. I do love the Jackolyn tho♡ Great video.
Just wanted to stop by and say you look absolutely gorgeous and your hair looks amazing! Have a great day Kaylee! ❤
I know her eye makeup is gorgeous!
She does, she looks so fit and her face is lovely. Good for her!
I like the Jacklyn and the reticulata is on my wishlist
Every single variegated Anthurium
Ok I hear you on the regular strawberry ice. But I have 2 galaxies that are to die for! The prettiest hot pink coloring and one of the leaves is kind of ghost looking (the pale pink color). I wish I could post a pic cause it’s just so pretty!!
And it doesn’t have those gross poop brown leaves
I totally agree about the Syngonium strawberry ice, Adansonii mint, black cardinal vargata (absolutely HATE the look of this one), philodendron bob cee, philodendron Brandtianum, syngonium Godzilla, philodendron strawberry shake, Amydrium medium variegated.
The "ugly" syngoniums actually look good Halloween presents esp. the Strawberry Ice.
I agree so far except the Jacklyn is one of my favs, I love the funk it gives, just got a Paraiso Verde in a trade, wasn’t sure about it, thin leaves, looks a bit sickly, but it’s “growing on me” I’m not a fan of very many syngoniums at all, they all look frail and sickly to me. I have a Philo birkin though, it’s just different, strawberry shake looks unwell to me, not for me, nor any begonias, not attractive with those hairy leaves,
i remember being super excited when i heard black cardinal was variegated bc i thought “oh my god a black and white plant, what could be more perfect. but any variegation that’s brown is so ugly. people dodge yellow bc it can look sickly? no BROWN IS LITERALLY A DYING PLANT. the only plant i can slightly handle with brown is caramel marble and that’s bc it has a nice leaf shape. my personal thing with variegated plants is if the base plant already isn’t that interesting *to me personally* ahem philodendron erubecens, any self heading philo, or just anything with a simple leaf or leaf pattern, variegation doesn’t add anything worthwhile or can make the plant look even worse. i personally have zero interest in jose buono bc i find the leaf boring and the variegation doesn’t add much. id rather put up with the difficulty of a florida beauty bc i love the shape. does any of this make sense???
I totally agree with you on the two alocasia. The zebrina is so cute.
Also, are you planning on doing a rare plant index for Epipremnum?
The Black Cardinal Variegated looks like it is dying. From the shot you showed, it didn't have any shine to it. Are we sure it's variegated and not dried out. I'm pretty sure that is what one of my plants looked like when I forgot to water it and found it behind a few big plants like months later
The thing with the Birkins was that the ones in the garden centers weren't pretty. Like they have very little but if the stripes and more plain green leaves. It literally looked like the plant was reverting. I had brought 2 and was very disappointed. I think I brought them from Lowe's and they were barely variegated and both died kind of quickly of root rot. Probably because Lowes tries to drown their plants regularly.
Agree! Specially with that Birkin. I do however like the Brandi.
I like the Burkin tbh
The two I don’t like is the adansonni mint and obliqua (the “rarest monstera” apparently).
„Like something vomited on this” 😂😂 EXACTLY!!
Lol, I love my brandtianum 😂 And I have the birkin too. But 100% agree on the rest
I never liked the Brandtianum from pictures. But then seeing it in person I fell in love 😍
I have a Birkin and I personally like them
Love your outfit/ makeup combo
Idk if it's just me, but I wouldn't ever want to buy philodendron prince of orange. I just feel like everytime I'd see a yellow-orange leaf I'd be worried it's dying. Maybe if it were a very bright orange or deeper like a red based orange, but it just looks sickley to me.
LOL I love my Paraiso Verde -- but I had to park it directly under a grow light to get the variegation back (and I don't disagree with a single thing you say about it, either!)
I don't quite love my Birkin, but I don't hate it, either. It's almost the opposite of the Paraiso Verde, too much light and the leaves turn all white and die and it just gets ugly fast. I've had to chop off all the top twice because it was all white and sickly. I picked a plant (from the garden center) that was one Birkin and a pair of Congo Reds in the same pot. Reds are enormous and healthy and look so much better than the Birkin ever will.
Can’t stand Brandtianum but not really because of the silver leaves. I don’t understand how it’s made it to garden centers as it’s so difficult to grow! It looks so ugly trailing, but if put on a pole it doesn’t want to behave either. New leaves constantly came out misshapen or stuck for me even though it’s not an erubescens. I’ve only ever owned 1 but I’ll never do it again. So many nicer silver plants out there.
Ha ha ha!! I totally have a bin on nothing but Strawberry Shake cuttings and they’ve been in there so long that I forgot about them. Because they do nothing for such a long time 😂
Alocasia Jacklyn is GORGEOUS!
The strawberry shakes are, for some reason, everywhere for me locally and they're $75 USD for a three leaf plant. They must be selling since they're at that price steadily and I just cannot see the appeal. It's the same pink/burgundy, non blocky variegation for me that just doesn't catch my eye.
Lols, been eying those birkings many many times but still haven't bitten the bullet. I wonder what makes them ugly to some peopple. As for me I find anything with fairly clean stripes/veins and strong contrast/weird color very appealing. Somehow not the brownish tint or too small/blurry pattern on the plant or some of the silver varigation tho. Calatheas are the best and anything with proper warm jungle vibe.
I got the birken in 2020 I think and I think I spent mayyybbbeee $20. I wouldn't have spent much more than that. It's still thriving. The older leaves do fade a bit with the striping. I don't know. I wouldn't buy it again, but I don't hate it.
In Oz we have variegated birkin….. I’m torn. Better than a regular birkin but eh…. Can’t decide.
Oh no I just ordered a strawberry Ice! Lol...we will see...gonna show it on my channel when I get it...couldn't really tell what was going on in the photo, but I took a shot.
The jacklyn is beautiful! Def was on my plant wishlist but I’m going to stay far away from Alocasia I am not into spider mites! I have placed my Polly and silver dragon outside and I spray every two days and wash down the leaves. I only kept my black velvet in door in front of my humidifier and I wipe and clean the leaves. The Birkin is growing on me. The more it puts out new leaves the more I love it lol. It’s just a starter plant. I must say I did not like it at first. I want a BOB CEE SOOOO BAD 😂❤ oooouuu and now I want a Phil Verde thanks 😂
I bought a birkin once and ended up hating it so much I just have it away. I just never got a thrill with it. To each their own
I have a Strawberrry Ice 😂🍓 I did pay a fair whack for it and definitely won't make the investment back, but I do kinda love it all the same, when it puts out growth with really high variegation I love the cream and pink. But I get the dislike for the darker leaves it can look muddy.
Have never liked the philodendron brandtiatum but the alocasia jacklyn is gorgeous.
I love the look of the syngonium Godzilla,where do I get one please? thanks
Your hair is so icy rn, I’m loving it! 💕
I fell for the Jacklyn because we share the name 😂. And I love it’s weirdness and it’s very unique in my collection
I agree about all of these especially the Jacklyn. The Zebrina is by far superior in that kind of pattern. However, my paraiso is grown in normal house conditions and he’s pretty damn nice.😉
One plant I learned that I can’t stand cuz I fought so hard to keep alive and now I’m trying to propagate is a Cordyline 😅 I hope it propagates so I can give it tf away I do not want to be a plant killer but that will def make the list of plants I do not like !
To each her own. It's awesome that there are so many varieties of plants so people can get what speaks to them.
IMO, the Birkin depends on the variegation. I love mine, but it's quite light colored. I love my Jacklyn and Godzilla. I think my Brandi is stunning. Strawberry Ice is on my wishlist. I love the mix of colors.
The black cardinal variegated fits well with the color of your shirt and eyeshadow 🤣 you said looks a bit dirty..... I don't think so. It's just a color that makes plants look sick, close to dying. Maybe the reason we don't like it.
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Jacklyn - one of the most beautiful plants. I have 1 big and 3 babies from corms
I don't know maybe it's something wrong with my taste but I LOVE every single plant on this list...especially the syngonium godzilla...
I really didn’t think I’d have any of these but I actually DO have. Philo Birkin! But I paid $5.00 for it. Does that make it any better? Lol! I have noticed the white stripes are fading over time and it’s under a grow light. 🤷♀️
Birkin is a good-looking plant, looks healthy, it's a sporty girl with a good figure, no flab, no flops
They are fated to be the one plant that go all white and die or the one who reverted to the imperial red genetics.
I have the philodendron bradndtianum. Bought it twice. Once a year or two ago and another just recently. Killed the first one but never found out why it died. They were $7.88 CAD each so no big loss. I also bought the birkin twice. Bother times it grew very aggressively for about 4 months then died suddenly. I very carefully made sure it care instructions were followed perfectly but it died anyway. The first birkin I bought around the beginning of covid and the other a year ago. The birkin were also $7.88 CAD a piece both times. I didn't realize that any of these were rare or expensive. I though they were just a fad plant that swept through the plant shops.
I like both but not a lot. The rest of the plants on the list have a leaf only a mother can love.
In my experience, the Philo 'Rojo Congo' (aka. reverted Birkin) can look perfectly fine up top while it's root system rots away or dries out and dies.
Your's probably grew too many roots, began drying out too quick, and didn’t show symptoms until it was completely cooked.
I do love the alocasia Jacklyn I finally got one a couple of weeks ago. But get your point.
I like the bob cee because it reminds me of beetlejuice but not enuf to get one
For the rest yeah big time. I find a lot of variation makes the plant ill and when they crisp as well. Nope not for me. But I like things others wouldn't
Hope your shoulder is doing better.
Have fun
so for us in germany, i work at a garden center an we sell birkins, and the reason i absolutely hate them is 1. i think they are boring af, but 2. they almost aalways turn completely white and then you need to cut them off, because they dont grow further than this, and they do this really fast, like on that picture you showed, its probably like 3 more leaves and you can cut them
and i think its not because of to much light, i had one and it also turned white, it was standing beside a north-facing window
That is what happened to mine. The white leaves were ugly not like white varigation, and yes I cut them off.
I think the black cardinal var looks like the leaves are yellowing off to die…. I think that’s why the variegation looks blah
i actually like syngonium Godzilla, but can't stand the syngonium rolli 😂
Phil. Brandtianum-I agree. There’s a type of silver that I love, and a type I really dislike, and I struggle to put my finger exactly on what the difference is. Maybe contrast? I love scindapsus argyraeus, but really don’t like exotica. And the Brandtianum is one I now see in grocery stores, and keep asking why I don’t like it. I’m not sure, but I really don’t.
Birkin-I’ve actually come around on this one. I thought it was really ugly when I first started seeing it, but then I saw one at a friend’s house that was quite beautiful. I still would never have bought one for myself, but another friend gave me a pup from hers, and I have enjoyed watching it develop. So no, not worth lots of money, but for now it’s a welcome member of my plant family.
Alocasia tiny dancer-I loved these but soured on them. The one I had just kept getting spider mites no matter what I did until I threw it away. And, as usual, the big box store specimens I see are just not appealing, so I don’t think I’ll ever try one again. Shangrila is growing on me as I see them more often, and Godzilla looks cool to me, though.
Agreed on all of these except the jacklyn lol! Most pink anything syngonium don't do it for me.
Brandi's grow wonky as all get out
I noticed Kaylee say something really stupid in this video 19:00. This surprised me. She is usually much smarter than this. She said no plant can completely new, they are all "hundreds of years old".
No Kaylee, some ciltivars can be literally less than a year old. They are the result of random gene mutations and such mutations are happening all the time and always will. Epipremnum aureum Gold must be the most common house plant in the world today, and the yellow variegation (and hardiness) that made it so common was unknown until 1960!
And there are thousands of such examples. Species can be very old of course, but NOT all ciltivars.
I think tiny dancer is stupid. I think they made the hybrid and it turned out stupid but they decided to give it a snappy name and people would suck it up
Kayleeeeeeeeee, pleaseeee...😭The secret to Paraiso... It's *L I G H T* -- not heat!
When people with as big a following as yours, spread that bunk temperature theory, you set folks up for *FAILURE* (especially the less-experienced portions of the community, who are still trying to build a knowledge base and practical understanding, and who look to your word as gospel guidance) which means every time you say this, you're proliferating frustrations and reinforcing needless resentment for what is actually a *super* easy plant... When it can just get what it needs... (Which just so happens to be *LOTS* of light!🌞)
Edit: Now... As far as it being an "ugly" plant, that's fine -- I totally respect y'all's opinions... But *at least* give folks the proper info to grow the poor plant, so it can be judged it at its best!!! 😂
I agree with most of these, especially Ph. brandtianum - it literally gives me public toilet tiles vibes. I would also add most variegated alocasias and anthuriums, Pink Princess, Ph. joepii and all these narrow-leafers.
Jacklyn is beautiful, but impossible to grow for me, for some reason.
I'm never going to be able to unsee brandtianum and public toilet vibes now. LOL That's how it shall forever be known in my head now!
We need an update on your hoya collection! Its been fooooreverrrr!
100% agree with you on Jacqueline vs Zebrina!
I love the Birkin! And i agree with you for the rest :)
That strawberry shake is sun stressed, they grow super fast once actually established and veriggation is totally random
The alocasia zebrina looks a lot like the patterning of a calathea musaica
I bought the alocasia jacklyn and I thought it looked sick when I finally got it. It's on currently hating me right now
I love the Thai translated name for the amedrium medium variegated - grilled hand it hits the nail on the head