Philodendron Birkin - THE MOST UNSTABLE PLANT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- The Philodendron birkin has gained a lot of popularity with houseplant collectors. However the Philodendron birkin has a glaring issue. Its very unstable. I see tons of people on facebook asking what is going on with their birkin. These plants have turned out to be extremely inconsistent and unstable but still beautiful and worth having. Its been fun to see all the variations the leaves have taken on and im excited to see how it looks years from now.
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I bet the three searches were either from the company who named it, researching the name before publishing it. Or could be some first samples that got released as a trial.
yeah thats probably what it is.
The number in the google trends is not 3 total searches. The number doesn't indicate volume but a number relative to the total Google searches on a scale from 1-100.
I think the variegated leave differences makes this particular plant interesting. I just got one from Walmart and I really like it. Guess it depends on what someone wants from their plants. I lean more toward the offbeat and unique.
Yeah it's very interesting!
I love the variegation and the white and dark green colour on that leaf is awesome
i actually really like the philodendron birkin and it’s reverted form (rojo congo) i just think that watching it be all “weird” is really fascinating.
same!
I'm with you, but I payed 9. for mine, so I don't feel like influencers ruined my life. Birkin has a stubby congo vibe with some strange chimerical variegation on newer leaves, it is what it is.
Me too! I've seen Birkin EVERYWHERE. But when I found one with funky variegation I fell in love. It reminds me of a small version of my pink princess!!! It reminds me of a white princes with some pink. How could I not be obsessed with that esthetic for the price 😍
Same! Which is why I’m here
My friends Birkin did the same 😂
I used to dislike it when it was popular (and expensive) but it's such an easy plant that I can't really complain. and now I'm happy I bought a small one a few months ago, I'll get to see the whole "journey" ❤️
enjoy the journey!
I've got this plant, it has 3 grow points and they each seem to be doing their own thing 😅 but I like it, it keeps me on my toes
The Birkin right now has to be the most fun philodendron on the market. So many plants thought to be stable flooded the market and now we have all these beautiful mutants. I have 10 Birkins which all seem to be pretty stable except for one. And it's so exciting to watch my little mutant grow
for sure! Its cool to see what kind of leaves they will put out!
I just bought a philodendron birkin a few days ago, and after seeing your vide I get even more excited to see what my plants will look like as it grows.
I have a mutant Birkin and love it. A friend has one with stable variegation and I find it boring. Mine has a different variegation on each leaf and is unique. One leaf started out almost white but has developed more green. I look forward to seeing each new leaf as it opens and then matures. Nature is cool.
I love mine. They're beautiful and interesting. It's a fun plant to own. I've had mine for about as long as yours. Mine threw one reverted leaf and has been stable since. I have 3 with no reversion.
I've had my Birkin for just under a year and it has been my most stressful plant to deal with, but I am absolutely in love with how unique it is.
It stopped putting out well variegated leaves for a while, and now it's putting out mixtures of pinstripes and rojo. Absolutely insane.
Wonderful! and yeah they are goofy, glad you are enjoying yours they are a lot of fun!
Love the philodendron thank you
I love mine. I have 3. I have one sitting in an Eastern window sill and it's growing like crazy with beautiful green and white stripes. I leave it there in the winter and the cool doesn't bother it.
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I love how it looks now!! I have one that was a recent purchase and it's just normal pinstriped. I read online that the old leaves are green, the new leaves are white. I don't know if that's true or if I even remembered it correctly. But, I love white leaves so if and when mine starts turning white, I'll know to keep an eye on it and if I have to, I'll put it in a lower light situation to force the green back into the plant. Hopefully that will work but I don't know.
I’ve got one that started green green. Went to the Pinstriping. Went to all white leaves. Now I’ve got a leaf that’s opening, half red congo and half pure white. It’s so bizarre that I wanted to understand. I appreciate your video!!!
Wow! Just bought one after wanting it for so long. Went to watch videos online and now this comment has me so excited 😊
The fact that it is unstable is so interesting! I LOVE how whaky mine is becoming
How did I miss the video....anyways it is very interesting to see the wide range of variegation on the leaves. It is definitely one of the more unstable plants out there in my opinion. Great video!
yeah its so goofy, so far mine hasnt stopped pushing out mostly white ones
I think the one Birkin with the white leafs mixed in. Is eye catching gorgeous!!!
yeah its a cool plant
I like it! 🤗
me too its a fun plant
I would love to see an update on your little Berkin project. I am goofy and acully just bought a nice looking Berkin with one red stem with 4 or 5 leaves showing the Red Congo. I just watched your video a week or so ago and HAD to buy this plant when I saw it just to watch what happens. The other Berkin I have had for maybe a year gets the fairly white leaves but they tend to get more green in them as the white leaf matures.
Seeing this red congo shooting out of the plant I bought today way above the green Berkin part gave me an idea to maybe under a bigger red congo with the berkins around it and do a nice floor plant.
I have this plant ❤️. thank you for sharing this video
You’re welcome 😊
Wow!! Yours are just beautiful! I bought a beautiful plant… but now I can’t get it to grow at alll…☹️🤷🏼♀️
i've never really been a fan of this plant, but seeing your wacky big one makes me re-think my choices!
They have come down in price a lot so keep a lookout, they are wacky but fun!
Thank you for this- I was wondering why all the new leaves were solid in color!
Glad it was helpful!
I've heard the variegation is most prominent when the plant is not super young and before it has matured greatly, at which point the leaves will mostly be green. (Taking a cutting is supposed to restart the timeline!)
Interesting, ill have to chop one up and see what happens
Yes
Funny! I just bought one today, looking like two different plants-no pure white leaves tho. It was wrapped and I didn’t notice until I got it home that is has an impressive colony of moss on it’s soil, so I’ll be repotting it soon (to leca?). Also bought a split-leaf philo which is a beautiful green, with large leaves. The “Birkin” name is a hoot (red bag). :)
How very odd! Thank you for sharing. 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Spike is probably from the Costa Farms Trending Tropicals release for big box stores. Mine not from CF grows nearly all white leaves, sometimes 2 or 3 at once then they slowly turn green after new leaves form. I bought a CF one on clearance (broken pot) for my MIL because it had a rojo congo off shoot that I cut off of the main plant and took for myself.
oh nice! thanks for sharing
Your Birkins are gorgeous! I like then either way! I just removed 3 little ones from mine...one I will try to keep as a Birkin and the other 2 I'm letting revert back so I can have a Rojo Congo!
I hope mine stay inbetween cuz its neat! Good luck with yours!
I really appreciate your video. I am a new plant person just learning. I am on SS and been wanting a varigated syngonium the prices there asking is outrages. It would take a great portion of my monthly check. I just can't spend that money on a plant. This is all new to me, the plants just give me something to do in my golden years but I am starting to lose intrest because the ones I like I just can't afford. Thanks for your concern about over charging these sellers are doing.
Do you have instagram? Or email? You can find me on instagram techplant.official or by email techplant.official@gmail.com I can send you some stuff. It's much easier to communicate that way then on TH-cam. Look forward to hearing from you
Nancy, I can send you some cuttings too.
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@@nancyscinicariello39 No, I"m someone else.
I'd rather not give my name, but if you're on Instagram, I can send you some cuttings.
Depending on where you live?
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Your berkin is very lush and interesting plant sending support from Philippines
Thank you thank you!
Its beautiful
Thanks!
I got one last year and my cats almost killed it( they keep digging it up) but though it small it is mighty..lol. I honestly don't care what it dose as long as it grows. Seeing it morphine and change and do its own thing I find fascinating and entertaining.
yeap its really cool! Im glad yours is still hanging in there!
Looking forward to your Birkin experiments!
Thanks, Ill try and do something cool!
@@TechplantChannel Oh please do tell me if that light affecting variegation hypothesis is true or not. Same with Marble/ Snow Queen pothos. I feel like everyone just says that there's an effect, but in reality it's just random.
I just purchased one yesterday, it is a very full pot with multiple plants, one of the plants is completely different! It has a couple half variegated leaves on the bottom, but the rest of the plant is red, including the stems and aerial roots! The leaves are much bigger than the Birkin leaves and there’s absolutely no variegation, the leaves are a smooth darker green with maroon around the edges and a lighter red/green on the back, very pretty. I chose it because I loved the contrast between the two plants. From what I’ve seen, I think it’s a Rojo Congo.. BONUS PLANT! 😂😂
Very cool! Yeah these plants ate unstable but a lot of fun
Yes it's converting back to a rojo congo
My new growth started white and then turned green over time
I would be interesting if on your bigger plant where the leaves are getting whiter to propagate it there.
i can try and see what happens
You can try it, but normally albino plants won't survice after being removed from the mother plant. They lack chlorophyll and can't make their own food.
@@aaronandrews3059 I wouldn’t propagated it for new plant, cut it off to see if you can bring back some green. A lot of people will do that if they are losing variegation. I probably didn’t explain that very good the first time🤦♀️
My Birkin recently sprouted like 20 little leaves from the base. 😳 I’m just going with it.
1st comment 😅😅 seeing the video now
Keep growing
nice!
A bit spooky about the 3 searchers in December.
Hi, Techplant. Mine is weird. It now has two almost black tips. On the bottom of the new leaf. Stranger than fiction.
I want this beautiful plant, wooow 😮😮😮😍😍😍
They are pretty common so you should be able to find on for a good price
Thank you for this informative video, I have been wondering about the white leaves of my new philodendron birkin. It is sad that the plant could be unstable, because it is so beautiful. I hope mine will stay with me for a long time
*Three random searches for the birkin*
A CIA agent: “I will find an office plant to outdo Steve from accounting!”
lmao
Mine's been pushing out all white leaves lately :( I've moved it farther away from the window in hopes that the green variegation will return, so we'll just have to see what happens.
Good luck!
Awesome video! I feel somewhat comforted because my birkin is all SORTS of weird. Mainly that it's had very minimal growth over the course of a year or two - and that it's "stalk" is floppy. It can't stand up on its own and it's only maybe 7-8 inches tall. What does it meeeeaaaannn???
Maybe more light?
@@TechplantChannel I thought so, too. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for your reply!
my Birkin gave me a couple of almost all white leaves but they became a bit more green stripped as they got older. so they didn't die
Nice!
Wondering if you have a video about how plants varieties are created. I just think it’s so fascinating but I don’t really understand the process.
most are made by cross pollinating similar species. Others are made by using radiation or other things that can damage genetics and cause mutation.
its really a lot of this and that, birkin comes from one leaf that was a mutant on a congo rojo with chimerical variegation, and they tissue cultured the leaf to the point that every walmart, home depot, and lowes is flooded with them.
Hi I also have a philodendron Birkin but unfortunately just issues. Due to lot of hummus I have many mikro organisms such as worms and bugs. I managed to control it a little bit. However now I have a fungus I think it is leucocoprinus lilacinogranulosus. I honestly don't know what to do anymore. Since I got it as a present it hasn't grown much. Does anyone have same issues or ideas what I could do I don't want to use strong pesticides of anything.
hi, do you have a video on tissue culture? or can you make one? I know some of the information is proprietary, but if I wanted to start experimenting what would I need to start. there's not much being done in this regard in my country, but we do have some weird fruit tree species / genera to be more accurate, that don't grow anywhere else in the world, and the only effort being done in that regard is to do genetic analysis. would it be possible for you to explain tissue culture process enough so that I can start saving these plants for future generations
I have a book but i have not read it yet. there are some really solid facebook groups about TC you could search. its a lot of info tho so sadly i cant explain it well enough
I had heard that the juvinille birkins don't have verrigation till they mature. All sorts of stories out there🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
yeah there are a lot lol im just sitting back and enjoying it cuz its not like i can do much about whatever its going to do lol
Can you do an update video on your birkins?
Mine is maybe 4 years old now and super slow growing, albeit super neglected too 😬
sounds similar to mine lol, Im not even sure what its doing, How about a youtube short? I think I only have one or two left and really not much to show for a long form video? if you hate shorts maybe ill do like a multi update video?
@Techplant I think a short would work. I enjoy your channel because you always show progress over time and go beyond looking at trendy plants. The short you did for the pothos was great for a follow-up!
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Mines about 6 inches and its hard to get the pin stripes , it keeps wanting to revert to green and ive placed in in bright light
yeah i have no idea how to sort of control it. once it gets bigger it should start doing more pinstripe and white leaves
I have one that I bought online and I keep threatening to toss it. The thing is crazy, and not very attractive. But, I hate tossing a plant so I hope for the best. 😳
Mine revert too
im pretty sure they all do unless you get really lucky
I purchased one last year.. sold it because I noticed one of the leaves came in a pinkish color and I didn't like it.
yeah they are odd, i wish the kept the pin stripes more
Been couple years.. any updates on those?
theres an update in my grow room tour, its baby is alive
One of your Birkin has scales. Check the leaves. Mine had it too
are you talking about the brown spots on the one leaf? its old bug damage from a while back but i will check em over again! thanks for looking out!
Gotta take care of the babies!
FYI Those are not "three searches/3 people", 3 is relative to the highest point in the chart (100)... Google Tends' charts are relative to trend peaks... So if the highest point on the chart (shown as 100) is, let's say, 500,000 searches, the 3 you have there actually represents 15,000 searches (3% of 50,000). Google doesn't disclose search volume/count, just trends as in 'peaks and lows'.
Wow even more interesting so there was a single large spike? How intriguing! Thanks for sharing
I think it's cool. Wonder if it could go mostly white and survive. Is that possible? Or does white mean completely malnutritioned and isn't a "plant" anymore? 😂 I want a white one.
we shall see, the white is a "healthy leaf" its just missing chlorophyll which is what makes plants green and its also the stuff that allows the plant to make energy from the sun. so if its white it doesnt benefit the plant in any way. so too many white leaves and it cant support itself. if you want a birkin i can give you one
i’ve actually seen completely white leaves survive, but it slows down the growth of the plant because the green leaves have to make up for the energy lost by the lack of chlorophyll.
are you giving fertilizer
yes, im using maxsea
How much do they cost? Do you have an idea?
About 15 bucks
@@TechplantChannel thank you so much
This plant looks like a plant from a grandmas house :D Small ones were cute, I hate the big ones
lol
it was me
ur going to jail for unstable plants buddy lol
Unstable & should be on meds! I have a green one and it has done absolutely NOTHING since I got it. The other Birkin, well...I don't think it is. It's not a Rojo, maybe a Red Emerald. Keeps pushing out new leaves though. Green & white Birkin pffffft!
lol
I have a left that’s half silver?!
thats pretty wild!
Everywhere I turn I hear about the “spooky” ccp. Even on plant videos about philodendrons :|
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So, it’s bipolar?
Seems like it lol
You’ve used the word ‘weird’ too many times. Here in Australis the variation is greatly prized.
whoops!
I actually bought one at Coles a month ago for $14.95, I just liked the look of the heavily striped leafs. I didn’t really have a good look at the plant until I got home and realised I scored well 😉 unfortunately it was the only one left at the time. I am worried though as I have got a completely white leaf coming in already. Sometimes you just get lucky 🍀 I suppose. They do have some nice plants there occasionally, I make sure every time I go to have a quick look.