I actually prefer these "favorites" spaced out by months. As you mentioned, there's likely more to share in terms of variety, insights, growth, changes, etc. than if you "made" yourself choose a handful of plants just to fit a shorter turn around schedule.
I wouldn't want a monthly favorites but if you've got plants doing something different that would be good like "plants currently in bloom". I know not everyone is into the flowers and I'm kinda one of them but i have alocasia and a hoya and it's fun to set what to expect!
I love to hear about the "journey" of your plants. The fusion white is sooo pretty. I'm glad you were able to save her from the mites. It's good to see a success story.
With the beneficial bugs, either only get a very small amount or wait until you see some form of pest. They are too expensive to buy for a maybe since they die when they're out of food. Just my recommendation. Blanche looks great!
This is educational. I wasn’t sure if I could re-bury my Bambino so I am trying to air layer it. It would save a lot of time if I could just go ahead and bury it without waiting for those roots to develop.
I'm a underwaterer. My Pepperomia Hope ....which I treat as a succulent has not come back from the damage of waiting too long to water her. Some of her leaves are curled and wilted, but she appears to still be growing so that's a plus😊
I am so glad to see all the Calathea in your vid, as they are my favorites. Actually, I am obsessed with all the prayer plant varieties and I own a vulgar amount of them, lol! Most of mine are putting out new growth, like crazy, with the exception of the lubbersiana, which is not looking so great right now, but will bounce back, with better watering, as, unlike you, I am a chronic under-waterer. That is mainly why they crisp, when in my care. I'm gradually moving all of them into self-watering pots and I have found that it has made the difference. Since the large pots can be super expensive, I have devised homemade self-waterers, with old t-shirt strips threaded up into the soil of a nursery pot. I then place it in a cover pot that contains a layer of gravel at the bottom, only deep enough to keep the bottom of the nursery pot out of the water, but allowing the fabric to absorb the water sitting in the gravel. Another nursery pot, cut down, can also be used at the bottom of the pot. Works like a charm (so far...knock on wood)! I recently acquired my #1 wish list Calathea, the warscewiczii (you might remember me asking about your props), and she is about the size of yours...so, so beautiful and so unbelievably velvety!!! So now I have both, the zebrina and the cw, and the only way I could be happier is if I could buy more! Your fusion has made a remarkable recovery! Mine is doing really well too and looks a lot like yours!
I had to re-bury the main corm of my alocasia pink dragon...and that was before I knew whether or not it was a good idea. I also had to cut off two different flourecents...one before I re-buried it, and once since. BUT I've been so blown away with how HUGE its leaves have now grown (much larger than my face), and I love it. My bambino has always been a favorite of mine, but this year, it decided to go dormant on me. However, I can already see one of its corms starting to shoot out another stem. I'm not certain how to keep them from going dormant. Last year, my alocasia Polly went dormant, and this year it seems to be fine (lost a few leaves, but six of them are still going strong.) BTW...I enoy your videos so much, and you help me appreciate the plants I do have. Thank you!!! 🪴🥰
It's pretty much proven that you should leave the inflow on your plants unless they stink as they're using the hormones and already used the energy to grow it and often times they will throw out more and more of you keep cutting them. Where if you leave them and they're not pollinated they will die back and give their nutrients back into the alocasia and more importantly finish their hormone cycle! Ive heard/read that most alocasias will get 2 inflow close together in time and then they generally go back to leaves but people who cut them off often say they just keep producing them over and over, I guess cuz their hormones didn't complete. I need to plant one of my pink dragons deeper, she has lifted herself up a ton this summer, it's not leaf loss in her case! I have like 40-50 random alocasia corms from my others in the prop box though so I've been putting the deeper pot off 😬
Interesting. It was a master gardener at his own nursery that actually told me my pink dragon will thrive and do better if I cut the flower early...so I did. My alocasia pink dragon is the healthiest and largest of all my alocasias.🙂 But everyone has their own opinions.
@@charissecarrigan2945 honestly? I think BC there are so many hybrids of alocasia and so many that are essentially straight out of the jungle, that the need for it to reproduce aka flower, is likely individual to each plant. Like, if you cut a flower and it flowers again and you cut it and it flowers again it makes sense to let it do it's thing and let nature run it's course, but if you cut one and your plant doesn't instantly throw out a new flower and goes back to leaves it's obviously right for that individual plant. The pink dragons and ivory coast and morrocan are all hybridized and in my experience they tend to shoot out a lot of corms, so their reproduction may be more about the corm than the inflo🤷🏼♀️ that's just a guess though. I know that generally speaking, any part of your plant is best to leave on if the plant is healthy as when it begins to whither it sends a boost back into the plant that it otherwise can't do if you cut it. A study I read recently actually says that plants "scream" and make sounds when they're in distress, it's at a wavelength we don't hear but might actually be responsible for attracting pollinators and even predators. I found that interesting BC they make a similar sound when healthy tissue is cut as they do when they're otherwise distressed, example in need of water badly. Ive cut inflow and I've left them. My newest personal choice is to leave them until the first is open then remove both. I have a pink princess with inflow right now and my Polly and my silver dragon. The pink princess has one open and the other about to buy the first one is already drying so I'll be cutting those, the Polly only has one and it's slightly opened so I'll leave it a bit longer and the silver dragon is the same as the Polly. I have a pretty good write up from Reddit about whether to cut inflow or not but I can't share links. You don't need Reddit though to search on it. I think most ppl are off the mind the plant continues to waste energy and in reality it's not, the plants hormones and stuff changed long before we even knew a new growth was starting and it was genetically an inflow and through the hard part of growing by the time we can see them to cut them.
Your welcome! And that’s so interesting that they’ve gone dormant for you. I’ve never had any of mine do that. Do they stay indoors year around or do you take them outside part of the year? Just asking because maybe that’s enough of a shock that they end up going dormant.
Great video, as always 💟 I was wondering if you could do a care video about String of Turtles 🐢 and/or peperomia in general? Edit to add that I enjoy seeing your calathea and ctenanthe so much! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
I completely understand why you space out your "favorites" videos and enjoy them the way that you make them. I like that not only do you show us that they're doing well and are pretty, but you also add in some educational info. Since you mentioned your peperomia prostrata and it's flowering like crazy, I have a question that I've been trying to find the answer to...my peperomia prostrata is flowering a lot as well! It's not nearly as long as yours but it has definitely popped off since I put it in my grow tent. My watermelon peperomia is flowering as well...I'm wondering if it is possible to cross polinate peperomia? And if so, how would you go about doing that...ie. how would you know when it's in the male phase and then the female phase!? You're always so good at science-y things like that and if you don't know the answer you seem to be very good and figuring out the correct information. Thanks in advance! Love your favorites!
I was wondering yesterday how your VSOH was looking! Mine is getting crazy long, but not full, so I keep chopping and propping to get it to fill out. It’s not coming along fast enough, though! 😣
Hello,I subscribed yesterday and today,thanks to you and this video I gave a second chance to two of my alocasias...I'll tell you whether they take this opportunity to live or decide to exit my green kingdom 🌿. Greetings from Poland,Irena
So what does it look like in the wild when the corn overgrows the soil does it naturally just stay sticking out or does it somehow sink down deeper into the soil itself?
WOW! That was a jaw dropping selection of huge,healthy and stunning plant’s! You should be so proud of yourself! Have you noticed how most of the plants you showed today match your top so much,it really suits you as well. ❤🪴👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I actually prefer these "favorites" spaced out by months. As you mentioned, there's likely more to share in terms of variety, insights, growth, changes, etc. than if you "made" yourself choose a handful of plants just to fit a shorter turn around schedule.
Aww the white flowering plant is so pretty... beautiful 🖤✨🖤
Yes, did you grasp what it's called? I'd like to search for it myself
It’s a cyclamen. There are multiple color varieties as well, all beautiful.
Oh WOW the Tananthe is so big. I love how full she is...good job 👍 caring for her 😊
Thank u for that Alocasia tip of burying deep. Just today I noticed baby corms on side of stem.
Beautiful Blanche is beautiful. Lol 😉😁🤗
Amazing Chain of Heart ❤️ so precious 💕🎉
I love a favourites video. I am always amazed how my mind changes with my collection.
Yes, the Calathea should definitely be on the favorites list. She's stunning! 🌱🌿🌵😙
Rose 🌹 is gorgeous...love 💞 her 😊
I wouldn't want a monthly favorites but if you've got plants doing something different that would be good like "plants currently in bloom". I know not everyone is into the flowers and I'm kinda one of them but i have alocasia and a hoya and it's fun to set what to expect!
Oh my goodness! You make me think that I care for calatheas. Yours are beautiful. I want my SOH and SOT to look like yours. Plant goals!
You can do it!💚
BLANCHE IS STUNNING!!! 😍
I have never seen that Calathea around me, and now, I must have! What a stunning plant!
I love to hear about the "journey" of your plants. The fusion white is sooo pretty. I'm glad you were able to save her from the mites. It's good to see a success story.
Your plants all look great, especially the beautiful Calatheas! Many thanks for sharing. Always fun to watch! 👌🪴🥰
With the beneficial bugs, either only get a very small amount or wait until you see some form of pest. They are too expensive to buy for a maybe since they die when they're out of food. Just my recommendation. Blanche looks great!
I enjoy your videos 📸😊 thanks for sharing your favs with us❤
You are so welcome!
Lol Theo "mom you wanted this one fenestrated right? Cuz i can't undo this!"
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I love your succulent ❣️🌵❣️💚
Thank you!
This is educational. I wasn’t sure if I could re-bury my Bambino so I am trying to air layer it. It would save a lot of time if I could just go ahead and bury it without waiting for those roots to develop.
I'm a underwaterer. My Pepperomia Hope ....which I treat as a succulent has not come back from the damage of waiting too long to water her. Some of her leaves are curled and wilted, but she appears to still be growing so that's a plus😊
Fingers crossed she bounces back!💚
I am so glad to see all the Calathea in your vid, as they are my favorites. Actually, I am obsessed with all the prayer plant varieties and I own a vulgar amount of them, lol! Most of mine are putting out new growth, like crazy, with the exception of the lubbersiana, which is not looking so great right now, but will bounce back, with better watering, as, unlike you, I am a chronic under-waterer. That is mainly why they crisp, when in my care. I'm gradually moving all of them into self-watering pots and I have found that it has made the difference. Since the large pots can be super expensive, I have devised homemade self-waterers, with old t-shirt strips threaded up into the soil of a nursery pot. I then place it in a cover pot that contains a layer of gravel at the bottom, only deep enough to keep the bottom of the nursery pot out of the water, but allowing the fabric to absorb the water sitting in the gravel. Another nursery pot, cut down, can also be used at the bottom of the pot. Works like a charm (so far...knock on wood)! I recently acquired my #1 wish list Calathea, the warscewiczii (you might remember me asking about your props), and she is about the size of yours...so, so beautiful and so unbelievably velvety!!! So now I have both, the zebrina and the cw, and the only way I could be happier is if I could buy more! Your fusion has made a remarkable recovery! Mine is doing really well too and looks a lot like yours!
Yay! So glad you were able to finally get a CW💚
Your videos are interesting
Thank you for another great video!
You’re welcome!💚
Great video as always, your white fusion is stunning, makes me want to try one.
You should!
I had to re-bury the main corm of my alocasia pink dragon...and that was before I knew whether or not it was a good idea. I also had to cut off two different flourecents...one before I re-buried it, and once since. BUT I've been so blown away with how HUGE its leaves have now grown (much larger than my face), and I love it. My bambino has always been a favorite of mine, but this year, it decided to go dormant on me. However, I can already see one of its corms starting to shoot out another stem. I'm not certain how to keep them from going dormant. Last year, my alocasia Polly went dormant, and this year it seems to be fine (lost a few leaves, but six of them are still going strong.) BTW...I enoy your videos so much, and you help me appreciate the plants I do have. Thank you!!! 🪴🥰
It's pretty much proven that you should leave the inflow on your plants unless they stink as they're using the hormones and already used the energy to grow it and often times they will throw out more and more of you keep cutting them. Where if you leave them and they're not pollinated they will die back and give their nutrients back into the alocasia and more importantly finish their hormone cycle! Ive heard/read that most alocasias will get 2 inflow close together in time and then they generally go back to leaves but people who cut them off often say they just keep producing them over and over, I guess cuz their hormones didn't complete. I need to plant one of my pink dragons deeper, she has lifted herself up a ton this summer, it's not leaf loss in her case! I have like 40-50 random alocasia corms from my others in the prop box though so I've been putting the deeper pot off 😬
Interesting. It was a master gardener at his own nursery that actually told me my pink dragon will thrive and do better if I cut the flower early...so I did. My alocasia pink dragon is the healthiest and largest of all my alocasias.🙂 But everyone has their own opinions.
@@charissecarrigan2945 honestly? I think BC there are so many hybrids of alocasia and so many that are essentially straight out of the jungle, that the need for it to reproduce aka flower, is likely individual to each plant. Like, if you cut a flower and it flowers again and you cut it and it flowers again it makes sense to let it do it's thing and let nature run it's course, but if you cut one and your plant doesn't instantly throw out a new flower and goes back to leaves it's obviously right for that individual plant. The pink dragons and ivory coast and morrocan are all hybridized and in my experience they tend to shoot out a lot of corms, so their reproduction may be more about the corm than the inflo🤷🏼♀️ that's just a guess though. I know that generally speaking, any part of your plant is best to leave on if the plant is healthy as when it begins to whither it sends a boost back into the plant that it otherwise can't do if you cut it.
A study I read recently actually says that plants "scream" and make sounds when they're in distress, it's at a wavelength we don't hear but might actually be responsible for attracting pollinators and even predators. I found that interesting BC they make a similar sound when healthy tissue is cut as they do when they're otherwise distressed, example in need of water badly. Ive cut inflow and I've left them. My newest personal choice is to leave them until the first is open then remove both. I have a pink princess with inflow right now and my Polly and my silver dragon. The pink princess has one open and the other about to buy the first one is already drying so I'll be cutting those, the Polly only has one and it's slightly opened so I'll leave it a bit longer and the silver dragon is the same as the Polly. I have a pretty good write up from Reddit about whether to cut inflow or not but I can't share links. You don't need Reddit though to search on it. I think most ppl are off the mind the plant continues to waste energy and in reality it's not, the plants hormones and stuff changed long before we even knew a new growth was starting and it was genetically an inflow and through the hard part of growing by the time we can see them to cut them.
@@MarisaAndChew I'm glad you are enjoying your alocasias...as I am enjoying mine. 🥰
Your welcome! And that’s so interesting that they’ve gone dormant for you. I’ve never had any of mine do that. Do they stay indoors year around or do you take them outside part of the year? Just asking because maybe that’s enough of a shock that they end up going dormant.
Great video, as always 💟 I was wondering if you could do a care video about String of Turtles 🐢 and/or peperomia in general? Edit to add that I enjoy seeing your calathea and ctenanthe so much! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
It’s in the works!💚
I completely understand why you space out your "favorites" videos and enjoy them the way that you make them. I like that not only do you show us that they're doing well and are pretty, but you also add in some educational info. Since you mentioned your peperomia prostrata and it's flowering like crazy, I have a question that I've been trying to find the answer to...my peperomia prostrata is flowering a lot as well! It's not nearly as long as yours but it has definitely popped off since I put it in my grow tent. My watermelon peperomia is flowering as well...I'm wondering if it is possible to cross polinate peperomia? And if so, how would you go about doing that...ie. how would you know when it's in the male phase and then the female phase!? You're always so good at science-y things like that and if you don't know the answer you seem to be very good and figuring out the correct information. Thanks in advance! Love your favorites!
I’m not 100% positive on this but I am working on an upcoming peperomia care video so I’ll add it to my list of things to research for that video
I was wondering yesterday how your VSOH was looking! Mine is getting crazy long, but not full, so I keep chopping and propping to get it to fill out. It’s not coming along fast enough, though! 😣
Hello,I subscribed yesterday and today,thanks to you and this video I gave a second chance to two of my alocasias...I'll tell you whether they take this opportunity to live or decide to exit my green kingdom 🌿. Greetings from Poland,Irena
Greetings, and welcome to the planty fam!💚
Can you show how you propagated your succulent flower?
So this is one of the first videos I did so don't judge on video quality, but this shows how to do it: th-cam.com/video/vamob_-rJpk/w-d-xo.html
Gm edagdwg God bless you enjoying your picks love them all have fun a fan linda j. Peace
Loved this video. What location do you have “strings of turtles and hearts”. Maybe this will help me with my own. Thank you
My string of hearts are in a southern window and my string of turtles is in an East facing window.
Aloha, where did you buy your warscewiczii and how long have you had it. I would like to purchase a healthy calathea like that
I got it from a local plant store here…..I’m trying to recall which one though….. I think it was Calloways but it might have been Ruibals.
So what does it look like in the wild when the corn overgrows the soil does it naturally just stay sticking out or does it somehow sink down deeper into the soil itself?
They die back to the soil in the winter typically and then new plants push back up from all the cormlets (corm babies) below the soil
I'm curious about the pots with no drainage on the on the Anthurium and the Alocasia. No rotting issues with that?
All my pots have drainage.💚
Ahh, thanks! Makes much more sense!
Enjoyed this, could you spell that beautiful succulent grafafairia?. Thanks
Graptoveria💚
@@AlohaPlantLife sorry I tryed thanks 😊
@@AlohaPlantLifeGraptoveria what. Purple Delight, Titubans variegated??.
@@yvonnevigil7489 honestly I’m not 100% positive but I have in my notes that it might be an Opalina
@@AlohaPlantLife very helpful thank you
WOW! That was a jaw dropping selection of huge,healthy and stunning plant’s! You should be so proud of yourself!
Have you noticed how most of the plants you showed today match your top so much,it really suits you as well. ❤🪴👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I did not notice that but you’re right!
@@AlohaPlantLife especially the undersides of most of the leaves! It actually looked really nice! 😊