"I am not buying a humidifier. End of discussion." This is a WHOLE mood. I left the most humid part of my country for a reeeeason. I am not making my house humid on purpose.
My black gecko colocasia chose spider mites all winter and is now compost. My Natal Mahogany sat in a dark, lifeless corner and grew a foot taller for no reason 🤷🏻♀️ You really find out who your true friends are once winter comes.
As a conservative Christian male I just want to say I can't stop watching your videos. You're informative and hilarious. You seem to be more knowledgeable than most of the big plant channels.
My silver dollar vine did nothing all winter. 5 months later my boyfriend drops a pot on it and snaps it in half and it's finally pushing out new growth.
I'd say one of my snake plants actually did do great over the winter because it's now blessing me with a *~flower spike~* and I didn't even know snake plants could even bloom.
lol you musta neglected it hard then, they only flower when it doesnt get watered for a super long time, its the plant getting ready to die so it shoots off seeds to reproduce . Water it now that its flowering or its good as dead
My grandma gave me a rather rough looking spider plant during the dead of winter and i am happy to report that it’s been thriving and is currently flowering. It brings me joy 🤩
Alocasias are my biggest plant heartbreak. Used to have a huge collection of them and paid a lot of attention to them, but they all randomly went downhill at different times for no apparent reason.
I had a Hoya Polyneura and put it in a south facing conservatory. It proceeded to throw all it's leaves away and died in the most dramatic way possible.
I started plant collecting when I was 16 but since my dad is in the military I’ve lost all of them to moving. But since moving out I’ve had a spider plant that has hung with me for the past two years and this last winter has sprouted out most of its growth. Now ever since February of this year I’ve finally gained the confidence of collecting plants again and I’m now an owner of 65 house plants ! 😅
You’re the first plant tuber I found and followed and now I’m into plants after binging every video you have, several times, and I do have notifications on. Because. Obsessed. Your dead sarcasm and editing skills are next level. I love you. Please make more videos.
I'm so glad you are back. I've been binging all your videos these past few weeks. I'm happy that your channel has grown considerably since your last post.
My mother-in-law gifted me a lemon lime Maranta cutting back in November, which has grown exponentially. I have been able to successfully propagate it through the winter and it has even flowered for me twice so far!
My grocery store that I go to regularly sometimes gets alocasia pollys, and every time they did I would go and longingly stare at them for some time, while seriously considering buying them. I never went thru with it because I was afraid that it wouldnt last in my home, and this video gives me more ammunition to fight against the temptation to buy them, so thank you for that. Im glad i never did and had to go through the heartbreak of seeing it slowly die :(
Of all my plants, my snake plant is SO chill. No drama, and the one time there was a little issue, it corrected itself on the first try. Truly first my baby.
dude i bought a snake plant in December and just watered it in april. he was so curled up and dry i watered him twice in 3 days before he actually perked up. he's fine now
Okay but weirdly enough, my black velvet alocasia THRIVED this winter. And by that I mean she now has two small leaves instead of two tiny leaves. I dig the whole “ditching the oldest leaf when growing a bigger and healthier one” mindset. The growth pattern I desperately need to learn to adopt tbh
My snake plants are amazingly resilient and they are surviving if not thriving. Even through the winter. I did have a 12 year old moonshine that lost it’s roots from overwatering this winter, so I did the bad thing and repotted it so I could downsize it’s pot. I have barely watered it and it is still alive. It also produced a lot of props for me over the winter that I’ve given away/traded. I also took home a broken snake leaf from Home Depot and after being in water for months it’s finally starting to root.
My string of hearts got so much longer this winter. I also repotted it into a pretty dark blueish-teal ceramic hanging pot that hangs just behind my bed frame. 😌
I'm new to plants so when none of my plants died this winter I saw that as a success. I did however annihilate the majority of my plant population when I moved into a new apartment last year by putting my plants on top of the radiator close to the window (so dumb) by the time winter came and I noticed, it was too late :'(
My hoya sheperdii grew three peduncles this winter, all bloomed by March, and then the plant completely died from a mealybug infestation. I live in Wisconsin; the fact that it bloomed at all was a miracle.
Omg I died when you were like, ‘I’m part chihuahua’ *shakes* 😩❤️ My Hoya Chelsea absolutely grew like crazy for me this winter. I took so many cuttings from it. A plant that didn’t do well for me this winter was my sanseveria moonshine. It doesn’t grow like at all.
All of my sansevieria aka dracenea did well this winter. I also managed to propagate a dieffenbachia and agleonema for funsies. I lost a haworthia limifolia variegata to rot and a few echeveria to pests. Glad I got to see your face today!
My monstera deliciosa did really well this winter! :) It's only been a year since I've had it and it's been pushing out at least 4 new leaves. Currently it's right next to a south facing window, so I think it just really likes the light.
Let me say this, I just love you. You make me laugh but you always give good practical information mixed In with your satire. Don't leave it so long for the next video, yours are so refreshing (and I'm a plant TH-camr myself 🤪🥴).
“You are also fucked (and you have malaria)…simply brilliant. By the way, Nick Alexander was the name I had given a character who had vastly diabolical yet completely charming tendencies. You are that incarnate. I was laughing so hard, I cried tears. Thank you for combining that deliciously acerbic wit along with some serious botanical brains. Bravo.
I’ve had a dragon palm for like three years and she did so well this winter! Texas even had a weeklong winter storm and she kept growing like crazy. In the other hand, my begonia maculata very much suffered 🤧
I genuinely love that you are like "Miracle Gro is fine". I do a lot of gardening and I've seen more than few new gardeners get read for filth for even mentioning MG in gardening groups. Can we just accept that people can access what they can access AND some people just want to enjoy plants without spending a billion dollars or a million years researching GMOs.
🎉Yes! 🎉New video to enjoy! This winter my Hoya tricolour grew unusually well. My weather conditions are just like yours, so considering how "dark" it got I was not expecting it to double in size. ❤💋🤗
I just had like the worst day and I’m literally crying thank you for putting this video out and putting your time and effort into editing.. the side snippets are the best you are straight up my favorite don’t leave me for that long again 😭🤣
You and that damn calathea lol, you always bring that one out to show everyone. It is quite nice. Especially when you showed it up close the leaves are really pretty.
My hibiscus did AMAZINGLY well this winter and even bloomed! Pretty good for a plant found in a dumpster a couple years back! PS I'm so happy to watch this new video. You and your hysterical personality make the world a better place. :)
My Hoya publicalyx and australis Lisa have grown INSANELY during the winter. The publicalyx almost tripled in size and I had to repot and trellis it. The australis Lisa grew from just a few leaves to having FIVE vines with tons of new red and black leaves! I know Hoya are usually slower growing but nothing can stop these babies and I love them so muchhhh.
As someone who literally have wild colocasia/alocasia outside our house, I'm telling you those plants needs a lot of water and sunlight to grow big. They usually grow best when there is a flood during the rainy season.
I was so thrilled when I saw a 38 minute video from you, you're always so much fun and informative. One of the most botanically knowledgeable youtubers I've found. I had a bad alocasia experience this winter and I think certainly I won't be pursuing the genus as long as I live this far north. I do have one, a common variety called "low rider", which seems to be coping well, but I didn't get it until February or so. Meanwhile, we moved a pilea pepperomoides down from where it was living in a north facing window to my west facing table and it just took off in leaps and bounds. I started fertilizing it before spring because the growth was insane and I wanted to support it. Doubled in size in about a month. I have a bog standard monstera deliciosa that's actually three plants in one pot, and all three of them popped new growth the second we got slightly longer days and more light, so that's a winner. And then there's the maidenhair fern, perpetually neither alive nor dead until one of us loses the battle of wills. (I have thumbs so the smart money is on me.)
I’m obsessed! Such a good idea to do this video! I refuse to buy a humidifier also and I live in Toronto so our winters are a nightmare for plants! My rule is if the plant can’t survive without grow lights and a humidifier it’s not for me!! I have a pretty big collection also so I find it’s about finding the right plant for your environment more than anything else!
Thank you for this question, I've been wanting to share one of our best overwintering turnouts! This past winter was the first time my wife and I overwintered our outdoor plants. We collected some v nice alocasias and colocasias over the summer, but we only had room to move in a couple, including our Alocasia Regal Shield, which was doing SO WELL in the humid southern summer. We set the Regal Shield up in the bathroom corner with a personal grow light above her and, lo and behold, SHE SURVIVED ALL WINTER!! Besides the loss of two large leaves on either side of her, that beauty was plumb happy in that spot! We held back on putting her outside until all the late spring frosts finally subsided, but now she's back out and putting out some new leaves. :))) I hope y'all had some good experiences as well, stay confident!
Totally with you. I had several tradescantii (?) of which only a few survived and only because I took some cuttings (which kept on struggeling as well until spring came around!).
My phone pushed your video on me and I am so happy it did lol I LOVED THIS. My mystery epiphytic cactus somehow did both the worst and best for me this winter idek. Fell to mealybugs, I repotted midwinter, chopped it to bits, and made three new little pots of cuttings that are THRIVING. 😅
I treat all my alocasias, colocasias and caladiums like they're Dahlias. Come autumn just either let them drop their leaves or cut them off, dig 'em up and put them into a dark, dry, and cooler(not freezing, just slightly lower than room temp) place. Once spring rolls around and the weather allows it, shove 'em back into dirt and let those babies grow back. Bulb-plants rarely do superwell indoors in the winter in my experience, they want to rest, so let them.
100% I live in south Florida and all of my elephant ear shaped leaves, etc. go dormant. I only made that mistake once when I thought they were dead but found the bulbs while emptying the soil.
Your videos give me such joy. As a former birder ‘sooty albatross’ gave me a chuckle. My maranta leuconeura ‘lemon lime’ went crazy this winter, and I was propagating it left and right.
This made my whole year!!!! ❤️ 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 I need to become a patreon. This winter has been a great season for almost all my hoyas, but my Calathea (insert Meryl Streep) Makoyana is not doing too swell 🙄 this video made me forget all about Covid-19 and lockdown and Mondays. Thank you, Nick! ❤️
Great video Nick! I will NOT have a humidifier either and live in northern NV, USA. So, I’m on a journey to find plants that work in my drier environment. Love your Hoya polynura!! Just started trying orchids. Have a phalaenopsis and an oncidium. Rehabbed a watermelon peperomia from Walmart and it’s doing OK! My Phil Brasil is my fastest, biggest plant and love it! Can only keep a rattlesnake calathia (distilled H2O) the peacock one finally died. None of my Hoyas have flowered yet (owned for ~year now) maybe my linearis (string of hairy toothpicks! Fantastic!)will be the first! Please continue to make videos as you make my day and make me laugh, my dear! (Dragon scale alocasia is $75 in local store, won’t risk it, but have an Ivory Coast that is doing great, no pests either)
@@phytosexual I’m lazy so I don’t take them down I just spray them on the wall and watch the water drip down to the carpet as my boyfriend watches in horror hahaha
I think this may be your best video/editing Eva! I live in NC so not a latitudinal issue here, and most days it's 90% humidity here and 60% in my house without my humidifiers ( they only work for me in the winter months), so really I didn't need this video, but I needed your humor from this video! I've had a rough couple of days and you seriously brightened my mood even just for the length of the video. Ok I may just binge more of your videos, even though I've seen them all already. ✌️💚🪴
My coleus all did well this winter, but my alocasia polyneura dried up to a single leaf that has remained half unfurled for the past several months lol
I ordered my first linearis because of one of your videos. Cost me $13.99 plus shipping and I received a stem about 3-4 inches long with 4 leaves. It lost one leaf every week, so I tried sticking it in every imaginable grow medium - water, sphagnum, potting soil and succulent soil - to make it do ANYTHING besides lose another precious leaf. When it was finally reduced to a dying stem, I gave up. So, I did what any insane person does - I immediately bought another for a little less money that was about 8" long with about 8 or 10 leaves on it about 6 weeks ago. It's not dying! Yay! But it's also not growing. I even took it on vacation with me (along with 8 other new plant bebbehs) cause I didn't trust the BF to care for them like I do. I even divided it into 2 plants. The cutting is still alive and I haven't lost any leaves on either mama or bebbeh linearis. But yours, after a year, is fabulous. And mine just sit there, staring at themselves. Am I doomed to failure in the linearis world? Is there any hope? Should I buy another, even bigger one?
Buying a bigger plant is not the solution. I have mine potted in a 70:30 peat perlite mix. I let it dry thoroughly. I pot it quite small. Established plants I give direct western sun, unestablished I give Bright Indirect Light. Hope this helps.
My alocasia zebrina did bad this winter. It got spider mites FOUR times. None of my plants, even the surrounding plants, had spidermites. I guess it was the sacrificial lamb, so in the end thank you 14 dollar alocasia, you suffered so the others could thrive.
Rescued a Rio stem that was all that was left of an office plant abandonment casualty. Never really liked how rios look before, but watching this one come back from a wetstick into a full little plant over the winter has made it really....grow on me.
My sister’s golden pothos had a rough winter but we added some more from a cheap Walmart hanging basket to fill it out like you showed in your video and he looks so much better now! Love your videos :)
Yes! Thank you, so happy to see a video from you, always enjoy! So jealous of your linearis, mine got lost in shipping and took a while to bounce back, but it's been growing a lot, so I'm excited! The plant that did the best for me 2 winters in a row now and the first to need potted 2 years in a row and graduating to the largest pot available this year is surprisingly... my calathea rattlesnake! I know, I'm shocked too!!! My house is COLD in the winter! My alocasia made it all winter and JUST got spider mites so I chopped it down and put it outside and idc what happens... it was too close to my rattlesnake for comfort!
My philodendron brasil also did great this winter, it pushed out a lot of new growth in obsessed with it and great video, super entertaining as always!
Oh gosh, I just loose it when I’m watching your channel, I have to pause to compose myself, wipe the laughing tears out of my eyes so I can see, then continue watching. Pause -compose-watch again! You are the best!
I just need to say that this was the video that got me started on my Hoya madness. It was seriously love at first sight when I saw the linearis and the more I knew about hoyas, the more I loved them. I now own five (w five more on my wishlist) ... and I only saw this video 2 weeks ago... The linearis was, by far, the hardest one to find too!
Thankfully this past winter I didnt lose as many plants as I did the winter before, having a huge humidifier and adding grow lights helped. Ones that did the best I would say are my pothos and snake plants. Every winter for the passed 6 years they have always done well and still thriving.
They are the almost indestructible houseplants. I refuse to buy a humidifier, partly because my house is cool and I think it would lead to root rot or fungal problems.
@@phytosexual It is a pain in the ass. If i didnt love calatheas and alocasias so much I wouldnt have one either. I know Im a glutton for punishment. I cant help but feel thoroughly satisfied knowing I successfully kept most.....not all but most of them alive.
Omg! I randomly landed on this video because it showed up on my homepage and I’m so glad it did. I’m dying laughing of your sense of humor and your editing! 🤣 Just this one vídeo alone was enough for me to subscribe!
Hi Nick, You Always make me laugh out loud in your videos. I love your plant-focused manic energy. I am In Australia (so can't be in your comps) But I wanted to partisipae. We are heading into winter now down under. So what plant did well this "Summer" your winter was my Rhaphidophora tetrasperma. it was a 4 node plant in mid-2020 and now it's an 8 vine up a 90cm pole. He exploded over Summer. If you don't hear from me in 3 months send a search party. My Rhaphidophora tetrasperma has probably suffocated me with his new growth. LOL thank for the giggles Nick, Love your work and lustrous locks.
This winter my begonia maculata decided to drop some of her leaves because I looked at her the wrong way, as well as dry out most of her tips because who doesn't like those crunchy ends. But she also consistently puts out new leaves, which she decides to dessicate as well. So yeah. Mind you she stands by a humidifier. We love a finnicky queen.
NOTHING did well for me this winter! But at least anything that died waited until Springtime when I was busy being thrilled by other things doing well. Thanks for the video. You are so fun :)
I live in Seattle and my colocasia did really well! It had a lot of new growth in winter for whatever reason. My peperomia ruby glow frikin melted though per usual.
My string of turtles produced MANY a turtle-ling for me this winter, whereas my Calathea White Star is now just a potted stem that I shoved to the back of the greenhouse cabinet in shame.
Instagram @phytosexual & have a nice day!
Was missing you, so happy to see another video. I can't have a humidifier, I have too many books.
"No! I will not have a nice day!"
Hi nick just wondering - what do you have against humidifiers? Lmao
following!
My maiden hair fern died 😥 but my coleus got huge!!
"I am not buying a humidifier. End of discussion."
This is a WHOLE mood. I left the most humid part of my country for a reeeeason. I am not making my house humid on purpose.
Fungus among us
Even when it's a really bad day, you can cheer people up with your sense of humor and editing skills!
Thank you 😊
DEFINITELY...
Are you in film school Nick?
My black gecko colocasia chose spider mites all winter and is now compost.
My Natal Mahogany sat in a dark, lifeless corner and grew a foot taller for no reason 🤷🏻♀️
You really find out who your true friends are once winter comes.
As a conservative Christian male I just want to say I can't stop watching your videos. You're informative and hilarious. You seem to be more knowledgeable than most of the big plant channels.
Appreciate you.
legit was so happy to see a new video from you, your stuff is a blast
Thank you, I've just had a wild 2 months with just about everything.
Me too!
My silver dollar vine did nothing all winter. 5 months later my boyfriend drops a pot on it and snaps it in half and it's finally pushing out new growth.
LOL! Oh no! Thats a pretty aggressive way to go about it but if it works😅
I usually aggressively grow when pots are dropped on me too.
Sometimes trauma is the only way
Seems like a BDSM kind of plant.
@@tuanaoliveira I am a bdsm kind of plant
I'd say one of my snake plants actually did do great over the winter because it's now blessing me with a *~flower spike~* and I didn't even know snake plants could even bloom.
Their flowers smell so lovely 😍
lol you musta neglected it hard then, they only flower when it doesnt get watered for a super long time, its the plant getting ready to die so it shoots off seeds to reproduce . Water it now that its flowering or its good as dead
@@cIeetz what a plot twist
My grandma gave me a rather rough looking spider plant during the dead of winter and i am happy to report that it’s been thriving and is currently flowering. It brings me joy 🤩
I felt so attacked when you listed every alocasia that I killed this winter. You really didn’t need to come for me like that
At least he didn't call you a cheater! I mean, the humidifier is for me. Can I help it if the plants also benefit from it? lol
When you kill an Alocasia keep the bulb it will have a rebirth once it warms up. Except if the bulb is mush, then yes it’s definitely dead.
Truth hurts - Lizzo
Alocasias are my biggest plant heartbreak. Used to have a huge collection of them and paid a lot of attention to them, but they all randomly went downhill at different times for no apparent reason.
I had a Hoya Polyneura and put it in a south facing conservatory. It proceeded to throw all it's leaves away and died in the most dramatic way possible.
:( I'm sorry for your loss maybe it was not transitioned enough.
I started plant collecting when I was 16 but since my dad is in the military I’ve lost all of them to moving. But since moving out I’ve had a spider plant that has hung with me for the past two years and this last winter has sprouted out most of its growth. Now ever since February of this year I’ve finally gained the confidence of collecting plants again and I’m now an owner of 65 house plants ! 😅
You’re the first plant tuber I found and followed and now I’m into plants after binging every video you have, several times, and I do have notifications on. Because. Obsessed. Your dead sarcasm and editing skills are next level. I love you. Please make more videos.
New video out now ;)
Yaaaas, I needed the sass today. And you definitely delivered.
You have the best sense of humor ever. I live for you roasting your plants. Please don't stop making content.
I'm so glad you are back. I've been binging all your videos these past few weeks. I'm happy that your channel has grown considerably since your last post.
Thank you so much!!
My mother-in-law gifted me a lemon lime Maranta cutting back in November, which has grown exponentially. I have been able to successfully propagate it through the winter and it has even flowered for me twice so far!
My grocery store that I go to regularly sometimes gets alocasia pollys, and every time they did I would go and longingly stare at them for some time, while seriously considering buying them. I never went thru with it because I was afraid that it wouldnt last in my home, and this video gives me more ammunition to fight against the temptation to buy them, so thank you for that. Im glad i never did and had to go through the heartbreak of seeing it slowly die :(
Avoid at all costs.
Of all my plants, my snake plant is SO chill. No drama, and the one time there was a little issue, it corrected itself on the first try. Truly first my baby.
dude i bought a snake plant in December and just watered it in april. he was so curled up and dry i watered him twice in 3 days before he actually perked up. he's fine now
@@elliel9082 should water it at least once a month if not once every 2 months and fully soak the pot
My monstera deliciosa did well and grew 3 new leaves over winter. Love your humor and you are my fav houseplant TH-camr! So funny and informative!
String of toothpicks is great name for Hoya lineraris especially since it doesn't have a common name 😂😂😂
Okay but weirdly enough, my black velvet alocasia THRIVED this winter. And by that I mean she now has two small leaves instead of two tiny leaves. I dig the whole “ditching the oldest leaf when growing a bigger and healthier one” mindset. The growth pattern I desperately need to learn to adopt tbh
Oh and I killed a croton so RIP
:(
Hardest working youtuber. I can’t imagine editing these. Thank you. They are always informative and hilarious. 😀
Thanks so much, love your channel as well :)
My snake plants are amazingly resilient and they are surviving if not thriving. Even through the winter.
I did have a 12 year old moonshine that lost it’s roots from overwatering this winter, so I did the bad thing and repotted it so I could downsize it’s pot. I have barely watered it and it is still alive. It also produced a lot of props for me over the winter that I’ve given away/traded.
I also took home a broken snake leaf from Home Depot and after being in water for months it’s finally starting to root.
Congrats, snake plants are the best. I just got a bantels's sensation. I love the stripes and long skinny leaves.
My string of hearts got so much longer this winter. I also repotted it into a pretty dark blueish-teal ceramic hanging pot that hangs just behind my bed frame. 😌
Mine is struggling so hard to stay alive.
I'm new to plants so when none of my plants died this winter I saw that as a success. I did however annihilate the majority of my plant population when I moved into a new apartment last year by putting my plants on top of the radiator close to the window (so dumb) by the time winter came and I noticed, it was too late :'(
My hoya sheperdii grew three peduncles this winter, all bloomed by March, and then the plant completely died from a mealybug infestation. I live in Wisconsin; the fact that it bloomed at all was a miracle.
Mine is in bloom currently!
Omg I died when you were like,
‘I’m part chihuahua’ *shakes* 😩❤️
My Hoya Chelsea absolutely grew like crazy for me this winter. I took so many cuttings from it. A plant that didn’t do well for me this winter was my sanseveria moonshine. It doesn’t grow like at all.
All of my sansevieria aka dracenea did well this winter. I also managed to propagate a dieffenbachia and agleonema for funsies. I lost a haworthia limifolia variegata to rot and a few echeveria to pests. Glad I got to see your face today!
My monstera deliciosa did really well this winter! :) It's only been a year since I've had it and it's been pushing out at least 4 new leaves. Currently it's right next to a south facing window, so I think it just really likes the light.
My monstera hasn’t grown a single leaf in 3 years lol…
My scindapsus pictus did extremely well this winter, it kept on pushing out new growth the entire time 😌✨✨✨
Bahaha the chihuahua tremble 💀
“I mean it’s the law, as much as I’d like to be in handcuffs” HAHA I burst out laughing Oml I needed this
50 shades of green
"As much as I'd love to get in handcuffs" SIS MISS MAM KINKY
Let me say this, I just love you. You make me laugh but you always give good practical information mixed In with your satire. Don't leave it so long for the next video, yours are so refreshing (and I'm a plant TH-camr myself 🤪🥴).
“You are also fucked (and you have malaria)…simply brilliant. By the way, Nick Alexander was the name I had given a character who had vastly diabolical yet completely charming tendencies. You are that incarnate. I was laughing so hard, I cried tears. Thank you for combining that deliciously acerbic wit along with some serious botanical brains. Bravo.
Thank you, I hope to portray a dynamic persona.
@@phytosexual You already embody that dynamism. Simply brilliant.
I’ve had a dragon palm for like three years and she did so well this winter! Texas even had a weeklong winter storm and she kept growing like crazy. In the other hand, my begonia maculata very much suffered 🤧
I genuinely love that you are like "Miracle Gro is fine". I do a lot of gardening and I've seen more than few new gardeners get read for filth for even mentioning MG in gardening groups. Can we just accept that people can access what they can access AND some people just want to enjoy plants without spending a billion dollars or a million years researching GMOs.
🎉Yes! 🎉New video to enjoy! This winter my Hoya tricolour grew unusually well. My weather conditions are just like yours, so considering how "dark" it got I was not expecting it to double in size. ❤💋🤗
I just had like the worst day and I’m literally crying thank you for putting this video out and putting your time and effort into editing.. the side snippets are the best you are straight up my favorite don’t leave me for that long again 😭🤣
Every window is a northern window! Truth.
Thanks for the video, it’s been sometime.
You and that damn calathea lol, you always bring that one out to show everyone. It is quite nice. Especially when you showed it up close the leaves are really pretty.
It just does, so. well. I could care less about rare plant if it's being a diva.
My hibiscus did AMAZINGLY well this winter and even bloomed! Pretty good for a plant found in a dumpster a couple years back!
PS I'm so happy to watch this new video. You and your hysterical personality make the world a better place. :)
My Hoya publicalyx and australis Lisa have grown INSANELY during the winter. The publicalyx almost tripled in size and I had to repot and trellis it. The australis Lisa grew from just a few leaves to having FIVE vines with tons of new red and black leaves! I know Hoya are usually slower growing but nothing can stop these babies and I love them so muchhhh.
As someone who literally have wild colocasia/alocasia outside our house, I'm telling you those plants needs a lot of water and sunlight to grow big. They usually grow best when there is a flood during the rainy season.
We lack sunlight, also I think the lack of air movement or something makes them predisposed to more diseases, and they rot easier indoors.
I was so thrilled when I saw a 38 minute video from you, you're always so much fun and informative. One of the most botanically knowledgeable youtubers I've found. I had a bad alocasia experience this winter and I think certainly I won't be pursuing the genus as long as I live this far north. I do have one, a common variety called "low rider", which seems to be coping well, but I didn't get it until February or so. Meanwhile, we moved a pilea pepperomoides down from where it was living in a north facing window to my west facing table and it just took off in leaps and bounds. I started fertilizing it before spring because the growth was insane and I wanted to support it. Doubled in size in about a month. I have a bog standard monstera deliciosa that's actually three plants in one pot, and all three of them popped new growth the second we got slightly longer days and more light, so that's a winner. And then there's the maidenhair fern, perpetually neither alive nor dead until one of us loses the battle of wills. (I have thumbs so the smart money is on me.)
My monstera peru actually grew a bunch this winter
Like you, lotsa love for the Brazil. Each new leaf like a work of art this winter.
I’m obsessed! Such a good idea to do this video! I refuse to buy a humidifier also and I live in Toronto so our winters are a nightmare for plants! My rule is if the plant can’t survive without grow lights and a humidifier it’s not for me!! I have a pretty big collection also so I find it’s about finding the right plant for your environment more than anything else!
Pretty much all of my plants can survive without grow lights but i'm trying to get them larger, instead of them sitting around all winter.
I found an unpotted snake plant laying in a pool of water at my local Lowe’s. They let me take it home, it’s doing great.
This introduction summoned me... 🤣❤💯
Thank you! I am from New Jersey and do not use a humidifier or grow-lights. My Norfolk pine had a rough winter but most of my Phalaenopsis did great.
Your humor is amazing lol seriously had me rolling. My golden pothos did well this winter, however, my peperomias suffered. RIP.
Thank you for this question, I've been wanting to share one of our best overwintering turnouts! This past winter was the first time my wife and I overwintered our outdoor plants. We collected some v nice alocasias and colocasias over the summer, but we only had room to move in a couple, including our Alocasia Regal Shield, which was doing SO WELL in the humid southern summer. We set the Regal Shield up in the bathroom corner with a personal grow light above her and, lo and behold, SHE SURVIVED ALL WINTER!! Besides the loss of two large leaves on either side of her, that beauty was plumb happy in that spot! We held back on putting her outside until all the late spring frosts finally subsided, but now she's back out and putting out some new leaves. :))) I hope y'all had some good experiences as well, stay confident!
I don't have a regal shelled but it seems like myself and everyone else has problems with alocasia Polly :(
my hoya australis had an amazing winter 💕 she’s now climbing up the kitchen window
Absolutely adore your sense of humour. Best on TH-cam by far!
My tradescantia Nanouk died a slow death this winter.
RIP Pinky
2020 - 2021
Totally with you. I had several tradescantii (?) of which only a few survived and only because I took some cuttings (which kept on struggeling as well until spring came around!).
My phone pushed your video on me and I am so happy it did lol I LOVED THIS. My mystery epiphytic cactus somehow did both the worst and best for me this winter idek. Fell to mealybugs, I repotted midwinter, chopped it to bits, and made three new little pots of cuttings that are THRIVING. 😅
I treat all my alocasias, colocasias and caladiums like they're Dahlias. Come autumn just either let them drop their leaves or cut them off, dig 'em up and put them into a dark, dry, and cooler(not freezing, just slightly lower than room temp) place. Once spring rolls around and the weather allows it, shove 'em back into dirt and let those babies grow back. Bulb-plants rarely do superwell indoors in the winter in my experience, they want to rest, so let them.
Some alocasias and colocasias do not store well, but definitely caladiums are great.
100% I live in south Florida and all of my elephant ear shaped leaves, etc. go dormant. I only made that mistake once when I thought they were dead but found the bulbs while emptying the soil.
Your videos give me such joy. As a former birder ‘sooty albatross’ gave me a chuckle. My maranta leuconeura ‘lemon lime’ went crazy this winter, and I was propagating it left and right.
I didn't even know that was a thing, it just sounded like something they would say.
This made my whole year!!!! ❤️
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I need to become a patreon. This winter has been a great season for almost all my hoyas, but my Calathea (insert Meryl Streep) Makoyana is not doing too swell 🙄 this video made me forget all about Covid-19 and lockdown and Mondays. Thank you, Nick! ❤️
Glad I could help distract :)
Great video Nick! I will NOT have a humidifier either and live in northern NV, USA. So, I’m on a journey to find plants that work in my drier environment. Love your Hoya polynura!! Just started trying orchids. Have a phalaenopsis and an oncidium. Rehabbed a watermelon peperomia from Walmart and it’s doing OK! My Phil Brasil is my fastest, biggest plant and love it! Can only keep a rattlesnake calathia (distilled H2O) the peacock one finally died. None of my Hoyas have flowered yet (owned for ~year now) maybe my linearis (string of hairy toothpicks! Fantastic!)will be the first! Please continue to make videos as you make my day and make me laugh, my dear! (Dragon scale alocasia is $75 in local store, won’t risk it, but have an Ivory Coast that is doing great, no pests either)
“Costa Karen & supertunia just the tips” were my fav lol your so funny 🙊
Surprisingly all of my mounted orchids did rlly well this winter
I refuse to take down mounted orchids to soak or mist them. So much work even though it looks cool.
@@phytosexual I’m lazy so I don’t take them down I just spray them on the wall and watch the water drip down to the carpet as my boyfriend watches in horror hahaha
I think this may be your best video/editing Eva! I live in NC so not a latitudinal issue here, and most days it's 90% humidity here and 60% in my house without my humidifiers ( they only work for me in the winter months), so really I didn't need this video, but I needed your humor from this video! I've had a rough couple of days and you seriously brightened my mood even just for the length of the video. Ok I may just binge more of your videos, even though I've seen them all already. ✌️💚🪴
My coleus all did well this winter, but my alocasia polyneura dried up to a single leaf that has remained half unfurled for the past several months lol
I ordered my first linearis because of one of your videos. Cost me $13.99 plus shipping and I received a stem about 3-4 inches long with 4 leaves. It lost one leaf every week, so I tried sticking it in every imaginable grow medium - water, sphagnum, potting soil and succulent soil - to make it do ANYTHING besides lose another precious leaf. When it was finally reduced to a dying stem, I gave up. So, I did what any insane person does - I immediately bought another for a little less money that was about 8" long with about 8 or 10 leaves on it about 6 weeks ago. It's not dying! Yay! But it's also not growing. I even took it on vacation with me (along with 8 other new plant bebbehs) cause I didn't trust the BF to care for them like I do. I even divided it into 2 plants. The cutting is still alive and I haven't lost any leaves on either mama or bebbeh linearis. But yours, after a year, is fabulous. And mine just sit there, staring at themselves. Am I doomed to failure in the linearis world? Is there any hope? Should I buy another, even bigger one?
Buying a bigger plant is not the solution. I have mine potted in a 70:30 peat perlite mix. I let it dry thoroughly. I pot it quite small. Established plants I give direct western sun, unestablished I give Bright Indirect Light. Hope this helps.
My Krimson Queen exploded this winter. No blooms, just tons of beautiful new growth. Excited to see what happens in the coming months!!
My alocasia zebrina did bad this winter. It got spider mites FOUR times. None of my plants, even the surrounding plants, had spidermites. I guess it was the sacrificial lamb, so in the end thank you 14 dollar alocasia, you suffered so the others could thrive.
Rescued a Rio stem that was all that was left of an office plant abandonment casualty. Never really liked how rios look before, but watching this one come back from a wetstick into a full little plant over the winter has made it really....grow on me.
Hehe
The supertunia names, staaawwwp 🤣
I KNOW, I ABSOLUTELY LOST IT WITH THE PROVEN WINNERS AD
The golden pothos cutting my sister gave me never stopped going buckwild
YAY!
My Norfolk pine is just a bald dead stick after winter... but I’m in denial it’s dead so I still water it from time to time 💀
They're actually massive trees and usually aren't the best longterm houseplant.
@@phytosexual that actually makes me feel better. I thought I was a bad plant parent
The video made me smile! Almost as much as my cactus that did strangely well this winter.
Literally all my Alocasias are either dead or thinking about suicide right now...
My sister’s golden pothos had a rough winter but we added some more from a cheap Walmart hanging basket to fill it out like you showed in your video and he looks so much better now! Love your videos :)
Great, glad I could help!
So happy you are back! I know she's basic by my big leaf golden pothos grew out of control this winter. I love her big leaves.
Yes! Thank you, so happy to see a video from you, always enjoy! So jealous of your linearis, mine got lost in shipping and took a while to bounce back, but it's been growing a lot, so I'm excited!
The plant that did the best for me 2 winters in a row now and the first to need potted 2 years in a row and graduating to the largest pot available this year is surprisingly... my calathea rattlesnake!
I know, I'm shocked too!!! My house is COLD in the winter!
My alocasia made it all winter and JUST got spider mites so I chopped it down and put it outside and idc what happens... it was too close to my rattlesnake for comfort!
My philodendron brasil also did great this winter, it pushed out a lot of new growth in obsessed with it and great video, super entertaining as always!
Thank you!
Oh gosh, I just loose it when I’m watching your channel, I have to pause to compose myself, wipe the laughing tears out of my eyes so I can see, then continue watching. Pause -compose-watch again! You are the best!
All of my scindapsus pictus did so well for me this winter I love them even more than I did before💕
I just need to say that this was the video that got me started on my Hoya madness. It was seriously love at first sight when I saw the linearis and the more I knew about hoyas, the more I loved them. I now own five (w five more on my wishlist) ... and I only saw this video 2 weeks ago... The linearis was, by far, the hardest one to find too!
It's literally my favorite and I forget it's a Hoya because no other Hoyas in the trade really look or behave like it.
Thankfully this past winter I didnt lose as many plants as I did the winter before, having a huge humidifier and adding grow lights helped. Ones that did the best I would say are my pothos and snake plants. Every winter for the passed 6 years they have always done well and still thriving.
They are the almost indestructible houseplants. I refuse to buy a humidifier, partly because my house is cool and I think it would lead to root rot or fungal problems.
@@phytosexual It is a pain in the ass. If i didnt love calatheas and alocasias so much I wouldnt have one either. I know Im a glutton for punishment. I cant help but feel thoroughly satisfied knowing I successfully kept most.....not all but most of them alive.
Omg! I randomly landed on this video because it showed up on my homepage and I’m so glad it did. I’m dying laughing of your sense of humor and your editing! 🤣 Just this one vídeo alone was enough for me to subscribe!
Thank you!
my english ivy really blew up, something about those overcast winter days and a south-facing window really made him happy
You are hilarious! Much needed voice to this seriously competitive plant world! Thank you!
Thanks!
Hi Nick, You Always make me laugh out loud in your videos. I love your plant-focused manic energy. I am In Australia (so can't be in your comps) But I wanted to partisipae. We are heading into winter now down under. So what plant did well this "Summer" your winter was my Rhaphidophora tetrasperma. it was a 4 node plant in mid-2020 and now it's an 8 vine up a 90cm pole. He exploded over Summer. If you don't hear from me in 3 months send a search party. My Rhaphidophora tetrasperma has probably suffocated me with his new growth. LOL thank for the giggles Nick, Love your work and lustrous locks.
I've been hearing a lot of people with RP's doing well for them. I saw one at a big box store but it looked terrible. Maybe own the future.
Surprisingly my Calathea white fusion did well for me over the winter!
“Is that whimsical?” YES BABE YESSSSS TO ALL THE VIBES.
Also can we talk about how Nick is rubbing/ smelling all the plants 🤦🏽♀️😂
This winter my begonia maculata decided to drop some of her leaves because I looked at her the wrong way, as well as dry out most of her tips because who doesn't like those crunchy ends. But she also consistently puts out new leaves, which she decides to dessicate as well. So yeah. Mind you she stands by a humidifier. We love a finnicky queen.
Both my hoya did well this winter! Specifically my hoya publicalyx kept on growing throughout despite the lack of sunlight in the Midwest!
the ~calathea~ with the abba sound will stay in my head forever
My golden pothos had nothing but finally started new growth at the end of April.
literally my favorite plant youtuber. the funniest out there
My philodrendron Brasil and lemon lime philodedron both grew so well that I repotted them together, twisted around a stake! Looks awesome!
That must be very cool looking!
My hoya Linearis did really great this winter as well and has peduncles starting! It's my favorite!
NOTHING did well for me this winter! But at least anything that died waited until Springtime when I was busy being thrilled by other things doing well.
Thanks for the video. You are so fun :)
Try some of the good plants I mentioned maybe. Best of luck.
The amount of laughter your videos bring me is immense, you rock
I love rocks.
Thank you! No humidifiers for me either!
I live in Seattle and my colocasia did really well! It had a lot of new growth in winter for whatever reason. My peperomia ruby glow frikin melted though per usual.
Peperomias are kind of succulent so I underpot and wait until the soil is all but hard.
My string of turtles produced MANY a turtle-ling for me this winter, whereas my Calathea White Star is now just a potted stem that I shoved to the back of the greenhouse cabinet in shame.