I’ve been putting away buying Hoya polynura thinking I would have to give her more light that I simply don’t have at this moment. You have no idea how excited I am to find out I can try putting her in my north facing window. My low light lovers are all my scindapsus plants
As someone with over 30 variations of scindapsus - I gasped. Do they grow at all? Most variations are such slow growers that they really need the light to put even a few leaves on. Unless you are maybe referring to 'scindapsus' from big box stores that are actually epipremnum or pothos? (they like to miss label them as scindapsus)
Good news for my Polyneura! Now I know why it's kind of bleached. I really love your specific vids like this, great info, clear & concise. Thank you! And that Lux hybrid is stunning! This size is just wow! - And so glad you mentioned Leucantha, i just got one bc the photo had this gorgeous salmony colour - like the pic on the right 23:31. Mine arrived just green, disappointing. I put it directly under a grow light just a foot away, yikes!
When people say low light plants they always put grow light other than Snake plant and zz plant. I was waiting for the video in which they show their live location of low light plants without grow light and have been successfully growing them. Thank you ❤️
I will watch all the low light plant videos ! Lol. Also love that you picked tried and true ones. Sometimes having a plant for just a year doesn’t seem enough to say it’s easy/likes low light imo. Would love to see a similar video about your OG plants (whichever ones you deem fit that). With updates and what care they can tolerate, etc!
Yes! My jewel orchid also was looking sad after being in the sunny window. So she’s now further from the light. Love that orchids will bloom in winter cause she’s so cute! ❤
We’re getting the sun here in Oregon too. We’ve had a couple days of partial sun but today is full sun ☀️. Rain again tomorrow and maybe over the weekend. Network, more sun too. I hope you get more bright sunny days. Here in the PNW we do enjoy our sunny days, especially in the winter.
Ma'am. This video made me strangely nostalgic.. I got into plants during lockdown and had no clue what I was doing. I'd search care tips for specific plants or planty topics and would learn so much! That's how I found you in 2020 🥰 And while I still learn so much here, it feels a lot more like cheering on a friend 🫰🏽💚🪴 (and yeah, parasocial relationships are weird lol but that's modern life for you 😅)
God bless you, I live on the east coast and get plenty of sun, not only does it make my plants happy it makes me happy, I can't imagine weeks with no sun 🌝
Thank you so much,my condo sits in like a valley,hardly any sunlight. I use a lot of grow lights & I see a few plants from your video that I will be purchasing 👍🏽
Loved your tried out collection and a very thorough explanation with what you mean ‘low light’.its always confusing.Happy New Year beautiful. 🎉 💚💚🌱🌿🪴 Natalie
I love the Calathea - Warscewiczii. I thought I was going to loose mine, but it has bounced back. The leaves have grown quite large, similar to when I bought it. I have placed it in an east facing window, behind a sheer curtain. I love the velvety feel of the leaves. Calatheas are divas, but when they grow well they look spectacular. I love the Cast iron plant. The Milky Way version is beautiful. I think the most resilient low light plant that I have are the Pothos. They are amazing.
So many unexpected plants! Thank u for sharing. I'm thinking my Hoya Obovata that is on the struggle bus, similar to urs is perhaps because I've given it too much light. Same with my Hoya Chelsea...and Hoya Australas. The one other plant family i would have mentioned are ALL of the prayer 🙏 plants, not just the one Calathea u mentioned. All my Marantas, Calathea and Ctenanthes grow on side table tables in the interior of my home far away from windows. Speaking of which, as a former Washingtonian, born and raised in Puyallup,Wa...who now lived in SE Michigan the last 20 years. Nobody gets more gray days than we do. This time of year is horrible in MI. 😞
I totally agree with some philodendron preferring less direct -my Pastazanun completely did a 180 after moving out if direct light It is now Chefs kiss 😘
I have both the philodendron gloriosum and hoya polyneura in my north facing bedroom and they're growing amazingly. Thinking about putting my jewel orchid in lower light now because it's refusing to grow under my growlights. Happy new year!
In my old house, I had beautiful light. Now I am living in an apartment that doesn’t have great windows for plants. I am using grow lights. But I have a few that are doing well in one window. Looking for low light plants, this video is exactly what I needed to watch!
I have a jewel orchid, but she's a bit small. My mom accidentally knocked it off the table and snapped one of the stems. 😅 I have it propagating in water so I can repot it. But thank you for all of the tips 😌🤗
Thanks for the tip on the Jewel Orchid. LOL I have it under a grow light and it actually grew a stem and is about to bud, but i think i will move it now. LOL
I'm going to pull my hoya polyneura back from my SW facing window! I'd also add aglaonema to the list, though very highly variegated varieties would appreciate more light.This video was way more informative than the typical "low light" stuff I've seen. Thanks!
Thank you Fern for letting me know that my Hoya Polyneura would prefer being in lower light. I have it under a grow light and it really hasn’t grown at all for me. Hopefully now it will be much happier 💚💚💚
Oooh great video!!! Thank you because you opened my eyes to a few I didn’t know and now I’m realizing maybe that’s why the plants aren’t thriving oopsie lol I have a milky way cast iron plant!! Mine is pretty big lol my mom had the regular ones when I was growing up and I have those too. You know me…I love easy!! 😂 snake plants do pretty good in lower light but they will do even better with light. 😂 much love!! ❤️ 😊
You know you have two different Ludicia, burgundy one is L.discolor and the other, green one, is L.discolor var. nigrescens. 😊 I have a mini collection of them: discolor, discolor var. nigrescens and cultivars Sea Turtle and Spiderman. Love them!
also tradescantias work very well for me in low light, they do get very long internodes and their leaves sorta lose the purple silver touch and become greenish, but i still like them even when they do look a little wonky
My Ludisia Discolour (bought in summer 2024, so it's still small) is putting out its first bloom 🥰 I figured I'd have to wait a year or two for it to get bigger, so that was a pleasant surprise 😊
I have a Dwarf Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma that refused to grow for the longest time so I essentially gave up on her and put her in an extremely low light spot out of the way. Well guess what? She started growing! And growing well! So now I've moved my regular Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma into slightly lower light to see how she goes.
I have a regular one about 8 feet away from a south & an east window & directly in line with the mini-split heater & it's grown up the moss pole & onto the wall going both directions, seems to love it!
Love your channel so much, Fern!!! 🥰 Super great video. Now I want a polyneura lol. Also, I’ve found that my philodendron green Congo does really well in low light conditions. I have her pulled way back from a south facing window (I also live in the PNW) and she’s always putting out leaves! 💚
This is a great video! I knew the trick about up-potting rhiz/rex begonias to get them to be bigger, but I'll have to try the lower light too. Mine has a red iridescence; I wonder if that helps it too? I had always heard zzs were good low light plants, but I have the ravens and they definitely aren't!
No I had to get a clip on light for my raven zz it sat for over a year (maybe two) in a dark corner of my house. After three months of a grow light it’s out out three new branches (stocks).
I grow my maranta lemon lime in very low light and she still grows at a good speed but her leaf patterns change a little bit I feel like and also she didn’t bloom for a year So I guess you could grow your silver band in low light as well
I loved the video!!! I think it's so interesting that the glorious needs so much more light than the glorious, but the Melanochrysum needs definitely more light and is the more finicky parent 😂😂 I wouldn't rush to repott the Cast Iron as long as its happy but I definitely understand that you give your other plants a bit more care 😂😂😂 Also your Cabinet is looking awesome and that Watsoniana leave is the cutest 😍 💚
Have you looked at all of the different variegated varieties Cast Iron Plant question , there are way more than I initially thought some of them are pretty cool and unique
Ok corney but I'm so jealous your in Canada and don't have snow. I'm stuck in upstate New York and stuck in a snow globe. I'm in love with your Green space.
Well you’re in the north too so should be in low light part of the country. But your lot up by snow. Some times I wish we’d get snow where I live ( in Oregon in a valley? We only see a to get sleet abs freezing rain in the winter.
Thank you for the info regarding hoya mathilde. I keep moving mine, and she's not dying , but I expect more from her. I'm not a hoya person. I only have 3. I want a polynura but have to wait for a decent price. Thanks to you, I also want an antherium pallidiflorum. Then, my life is complete❤ My fav lower light plant is the red arrow syngonium. Dark blue green leaves with plummy backs of leaves. Check her out!
Okaaaay, now I need to move my Mathilde out of the west facing window!! You’re causing me to have to move all my Hoyas. Lol 😂 😊thank you so much for this video. I’ve got to go shift plants around. Any others, in general that should be low light?
I would have agreed with you on the calathea warzewicsii a couple of months ago, but since I cut mine back to stumps and left it under a grow light, it's regrown and the leaves seem perfectly happy being right under the light? It's so weird. It's in a really dense, cheap, water-retentive mix.
Snake plants do well, but lol guess that’s pretty obvious. But yeah my rattlesnake calathea loves love light, and gets limpy when I put her in the sun 😅
Maybe I should put my blueoil fern in a new location.. Its not doing anything where its sitting now.. I am sitting in front of my thai that hasn’t grown much in about 4 months. I’m showing her yours hoping she will be inspired to give me a new leaf soon 😉🥰😆
Ok, first things first. Your epic begonia video. You saved my begonias from a slow death when I self-identified as a chronic under-waterer after listening to your own struggle with it AND then you mentioned that your begonias were thirsty girls. 😮🤦🏻♀️. Now, I’m questioning my entire lighting situation because some of my plants look bleached out. What the heck?? Epiphany incoming.
I recently got a syngonium phodophyllum, I’ve read it prefers low light but it sounds to good to be true- I was wondering if you or anyone has any personal experience with syngoniums in low light conditions. ♡´･ᴗ･`♡
Fern, that calatheya is named after a polish traveller and its name should be pronounced in a polish manner like war-she-we-ch-ee. War like war, sh like in shop + e like in end, we like we, ch like in chance + ee like in eel.
Haha I have been watching Fern videos for years, and am still vibing to the song at the end
Wow, I've never seen a jewel orchid that large and in bloom. That's gorgeous 😍
Me either! I was in shock 🥰
@@andyandbeeme three.
I’ve been putting away buying Hoya polynura thinking I would have to give her more light that I simply don’t have at this moment. You have no idea how excited I am to find out I can try putting her in my north facing window. My low light lovers are all my scindapsus plants
As someone with over 30 variations of scindapsus - I gasped. Do they grow at all? Most variations are such slow growers that they really need the light to put even a few leaves on. Unless you are maybe referring to 'scindapsus' from big box stores that are actually epipremnum or pothos? (they like to miss label them as scindapsus)
Love this video! I like that you can sort of shop your collection to offer specific solutions for lighting issues
Good news for my Polyneura! Now I know why it's kind of bleached. I really love your specific vids like this, great info, clear & concise. Thank you! And that Lux hybrid is stunning! This size is just wow! - And so glad you mentioned Leucantha, i just got one bc the photo had this gorgeous salmony colour - like the pic on the right 23:31. Mine arrived just green, disappointing. I put it directly under a grow light just a foot away, yikes!
When people say low light plants they always put grow light other than Snake plant and zz plant.
I was waiting for the video in which they show their live location of low light plants without grow light and have been successfully growing them.
Thank you ❤️
Ravenna need light, more than regular zz plant.
I will watch all the low light plant videos ! Lol. Also love that you picked tried and true ones. Sometimes having a plant for just a year doesn’t seem enough to say it’s easy/likes low light imo. Would love to see a similar video about your OG plants (whichever ones you deem fit that). With updates and what care they can tolerate, etc!
Ooooo Hoya Leucantha is so pretty 😍 I love the color of the new growth 🌱
Yes! My jewel orchid also was looking sad after being in the sunny window. So she’s now further from the light. Love that orchids will bloom in winter cause she’s so cute! ❤
We’re getting the sun here in Oregon too. We’ve had a couple days of partial sun but today is full sun ☀️. Rain again tomorrow and maybe over the weekend. Network, more sun too. I hope you get more bright sunny days. Here in the PNW we do enjoy our sunny days, especially in the winter.
Hello Fern, I enjoy your videos so glad you took a break, you're coming out strong with your videos for 2025.❤
Such an informative video. Helped me know where to put some of my plants so they will do better. Your plants are beautiful!
Ma'am. This video made me strangely nostalgic..
I got into plants during lockdown and had no clue what I was doing. I'd search care tips for specific plants or planty topics and would learn so much! That's how I found you in 2020 🥰
And while I still learn so much here, it feels a lot more like cheering on a friend 🫰🏽💚🪴
(and yeah, parasocial relationships are weird lol but that's modern life for you 😅)
That’s how I feel, like she’s my friend irl.
I would chop & prop that last hoya. Great suggestions!
God bless you, I live on the east coast and get plenty of sun, not only does it make my plants happy it makes me happy, I can't imagine weeks with no sun 🌝
Thank you so much,my condo sits in like a valley,hardly any sunlight. I use a lot of grow lights & I see a few plants from your video that I will be purchasing 👍🏽
Loved your tried out collection and a very thorough explanation with what you mean ‘low light’.its always confusing.Happy New Year beautiful. 🎉 💚💚🌱🌿🪴 Natalie
Fern, I love this type of video. Thank you!!!
I love the Calathea - Warscewiczii. I thought I was going to loose mine, but it has bounced back. The leaves have grown quite large, similar to when I bought it. I have placed it in an east facing window, behind a sheer curtain. I love the velvety feel of the leaves. Calatheas are divas, but when they grow well they look spectacular. I love the Cast iron plant. The Milky Way version is beautiful. I think the most resilient low light plant that I have are the Pothos. They are amazing.
The dog at 9:20 SO CUTE ha
So many unexpected plants! Thank u for sharing. I'm thinking my Hoya Obovata that is on the struggle bus, similar to urs is perhaps because I've given it too much light. Same with my Hoya Chelsea...and Hoya Australas. The one other plant family i would have mentioned are ALL of the prayer 🙏 plants, not just the one Calathea u mentioned. All my Marantas, Calathea and Ctenanthes grow on side table tables in the interior of my home far away from windows. Speaking of which, as a former Washingtonian, born and raised in Puyallup,Wa...who now lived in SE Michigan the last 20 years. Nobody gets more gray days than we do. This time of year is horrible in MI. 😞
I totally agree with some philodendron preferring less direct -my Pastazanun completely did a 180 after moving out if direct light
It is now Chefs kiss 😘
I have both the philodendron gloriosum and hoya polyneura in my north facing bedroom and they're growing amazingly. Thinking about putting my jewel orchid in lower light now because it's refusing to grow under my growlights. Happy new year!
In my old house, I had beautiful light. Now I am living in an apartment that doesn’t have great windows for plants. I am using grow lights. But I have a few that are doing well in one window. Looking for low light plants, this video is exactly what I needed to watch!
I’m moving my plants today! Polyneura has anew apartment, girl!😂✌🏼🪴
Me too.
Okay the pot that the ludisia discolor is in 🧡🧡
And I need a polyneura 😍😍😍
Yes you do.
I have a jewel orchid, but she's a bit small. My mom accidentally knocked it off the table and snapped one of the stems. 😅 I have it propagating in water so I can repot it. But thank you for all of the tips 😌🤗
Thanks for the tip on the Jewel Orchid. LOL I have it under a grow light and it actually grew a stem and is about to bud, but i think i will move it now. LOL
I'm going to pull my hoya polyneura back from my SW facing window! I'd also add aglaonema to the list, though very highly variegated varieties would appreciate more light.This video was way more informative than the typical "low light" stuff I've seen. Thanks!
Your lush dark green Hoya Matilde 🤩has inspired me to shift mine in a shaded area 🤗
Me too. Mine is in a west facing window.
Thank you Fern for letting me know that my Hoya Polyneura would prefer being in lower light. I have it under a grow light and it really hasn’t grown at all for me. Hopefully now it will be much happier 💚💚💚
Thank you! I will try to grow my hoya Mathilde in lower light to try to have ronder leaves!
🌿queen fern 🌿 giving me life on a Thursday 😴
Omg! Your dog laying on the couch. 🤣 Love it
Oooh great video!!! Thank you because you opened my eyes to a few I didn’t know and now I’m realizing maybe that’s why the plants aren’t thriving oopsie lol I have a milky way cast iron plant!! Mine is pretty big lol my mom had the regular ones when I was growing up and I have those too. You know me…I love easy!! 😂 snake plants do pretty good in lower light but they will do even better with light. 😂 much love!! ❤️ 😊
You know you have two different Ludicia, burgundy one is L.discolor and the other, green one, is L.discolor var. nigrescens. 😊 I have a mini collection of them: discolor, discolor var. nigrescens and cultivars Sea Turtle and Spiderman. Love them!
Ohh yeay! I've been wanting to know which plants I can place in a lower light area in my home. ❤🎉
yayyy hope this helps :)
Great video, really good info thanks 😊
Yippee! Intentional is key, I’ve identified mine and only use scindapsis currently. Now to learn which ones I can shift also…
Exactly! I hope this video helps you find some new low-light options :)
very cool i looove the jewel orchid btw she is incredible
also tradescantias work very well for me in low light, they do get very long internodes and their leaves sorta lose the purple silver touch and become greenish, but i still like them even when they do look a little wonky
Hi Fern, this was a very informative and helpful video, thank you!
My Ludisia Discolour (bought in summer 2024, so it's still small) is putting out its first bloom 🥰 I figured I'd have to wait a year or two for it to get bigger, so that was a pleasant surprise 😊
I have a Dwarf Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma that refused to grow for the longest time so I essentially gave up on her and put her in an extremely low light spot out of the way. Well guess what? She started growing! And growing well! So now I've moved my regular Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma into slightly lower light to see how she goes.
I have a regular one about 8 feet away from a south & an east window & directly in line with the mini-split heater & it's grown up the moss pole & onto the wall going both directions, seems to love it!
Just moved my sad Hoya polyneura from a VERY high light area to my north window! Let's hope this is what she needs!
I’m moving mine today too.
Forever adding wishlist plants because of watching 🥰
Me too. I’ve found a lot of Hoyas from watching TH-cam videos. A lot of Ferns videos since she’s got so many Hoyas.
😅🫶 I'm so happy to see not just me growing these plants in lower light situation 💌 love it .
I’m gonna have to move my Polyneura. It’s right next to a grow lights. I’ve got a couple other plants I can move closer to the light. Win-win
I needed this video. I have that jewel orchid and it’s doing okay, but not like yours. I have it under a grow light. I will move it😊
Love your channel so much, Fern!!! 🥰 Super great video. Now I want a polyneura lol. Also, I’ve found that my philodendron green Congo does really well in low light conditions. I have her pulled way back from a south facing window (I also live in the PNW) and she’s always putting out leaves! 💚
I’m moving my Poly tomorrow based on your suggestion 👍
Maranta leuconeura - green & red both grow well in low-ish light and medium temps too, the darker the environment the darker their leaves become😃
This is a great video!
I knew the trick about up-potting rhiz/rex begonias to get them to be bigger, but I'll have to try the lower light too. Mine has a red iridescence; I wonder if that helps it too?
I had always heard zzs were good low light plants, but I have the ravens and they definitely aren't!
No I had to get a clip on light for my raven zz it sat for over a year (maybe two) in a dark corner of my house. After three months of a grow light it’s out out three new branches (stocks).
Really helpful content ❤...thanks.😊
you're so welcome 🌿
I grow my maranta lemon lime in very low light and she still grows at a good speed but her leaf patterns change a little bit I feel like and also she didn’t bloom for a year
So I guess you could grow your silver band in low light as well
My gloriosum is struggling and I literally just put it under a grow light, hoping to help it, but I’m going to move it NOW.
Great vid! 🥰
You holding that jewel orchid made me laugh. But when you held still we could actually see it in all its glory.
Okaaaay, now I need to move my Mathilde out of the west facing window!! You’re causing me to have to live all my Hoyas. Lol 😂 😊
I loved the video!!! I think it's so interesting that the glorious needs so much more light than the glorious, but the Melanochrysum needs definitely more light and is the more finicky parent 😂😂 I wouldn't rush to repott the Cast Iron as long as its happy but I definitely understand that you give your other plants a bit more care 😂😂😂
Also your Cabinet is looking awesome and that Watsoniana leave is the cutest 😍 💚
That pallidiflorium 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Do you have a video showing what you grow your pallidiflorum in?😊
I always chop and prop a Hoya that I don't plan to trellis. So I vote chop and prop lol
Have you looked at all of the different variegated varieties Cast Iron Plant question , there are way more than I initially thought some of them are pretty cool and unique
Lmao totally get accidentally neglecting the hearty ones, some of my other plants just need so much work lmao they can’t ALL have my attention
Ok corney but I'm so jealous your in Canada and don't have snow. I'm stuck in upstate New York and stuck in a snow globe. I'm in love with your Green space.
Well you’re in the north too so should be in low light part of the country. But your lot up by snow. Some times I wish we’d get snow where I live ( in Oregon in a valley? We only see a to get sleet abs freezing rain in the winter.
Puppy nap time!! Could you share good resources researching specific plant care information? I find conflicting information.
Chop and prop.
Thank you for the info regarding hoya mathilde. I keep moving mine, and she's not dying , but I expect more from her. I'm not a hoya person. I only have 3. I want a polynura but have to wait for a decent price. Thanks to you, I also want an antherium pallidiflorum. Then, my life is complete❤ My fav lower light plant is the red arrow syngonium. Dark blue green leaves with plummy backs of leaves. Check her out!
Okaaaay, now I need to move my Mathilde out of the west facing window!! You’re causing me to have to move all my Hoyas. Lol 😂 😊thank you so much for this video. I’ve got to go shift plants around. Any others, in general that should be low light?
that hoya is beautiful and now I need one lol
I would have agreed with you on the calathea warzewicsii a couple of months ago, but since I cut mine back to stumps and left it under a grow light, it's regrown and the leaves seem perfectly happy being right under the light? It's so weird. It's in a really dense, cheap, water-retentive mix.
I vote chop + prop that last Hoya too
7:59 Does that apply to the Broget variety too?
Love the jewel orchid. Are you still using Molly's mix?
Yo what's up Fern it's Jason how have you been doing I love your cup it's too funny😂🍵💖💖💖💯🤔
Snake plants do well, but lol guess that’s pretty obvious. But yeah my rattlesnake calathea loves love light, and gets limpy when I put her in the sun 😅
Maybe I should put my blueoil fern in a new location.. Its not doing anything where its sitting now.. I am sitting in front of my thai that hasn’t grown much in about 4 months. I’m showing her yours hoping she will be inspired to give me a new leaf soon 😉🥰😆
Ok, first things first. Your epic begonia video. You saved my begonias from a slow death when I self-identified as a chronic under-waterer after listening to your own struggle with it AND then you mentioned that your begonias were thirsty girls. 😮🤦🏻♀️. Now, I’m questioning my entire lighting situation because some of my plants look bleached out. What the heck?? Epiphany incoming.
My Calethia Mosaic also hates light
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I had a laugh when you were talking about being happy the Mathilde wasn't blooming.....they smell so awful 🤢😅
I feel like you could have used your lightmeter for this video and shown how much light the plant actually gets from their growing location.
Leucantha needs to trail but the “face smacking as I walk by…” vines are an inevitability with every Hoya as we know sadly
I recently got a syngonium phodophyllum, I’ve read it prefers low light but it sounds to good to be true- I was wondering if you or anyone has any personal experience with syngoniums in low light conditions. ♡´･ᴗ･`♡
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Fern, that calatheya is named after a polish traveller and its name should be pronounced in a polish manner like war-she-we-ch-ee. War like war, sh like in shop + e like in end, we like we, ch like in chance + ee like in eel.
This video came at a perfect time, I moved recently from having 4 huge west windows to now having just ONE East window 🥲
Okaaaay, now I need to move my Mathilde out of the west facing window!! You’re causing me to have to move all my Hoyas. Lol 😂 😊
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