I love this plant, I was looking everywhere four-five years ago and I still love it. As for the etymology, it means needle (rhaphis - ραφίς) bearing (féro - φέρω), probably in reference to the calcium oxalate crystals which have needle like structure cells (which all plants in the Araceae genus have and it's what makes them toxic to humans and pets) and four (tessera/tetra - - τέσσερα/τετρα-) sperm/seed (σπέρμα) in reference to its reproductive system/flowers (which again like all aroids it's a spathe and spadix inflorescence). I had done an entire video on this plant, including its etymology, when I finally got it way back when, but I don't think I ever uploaded it. Maybe I will if I start making videos again.
OMG Love this comment, hello plant etymology friend 😊👋👋👋👋 Definately worth posting that video and many more, we need more people like you on the platform, it would be so interesting to watch 💚💚💚💚😊👀🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness aaaw thank you for the encouragement, maybe one day, YT videos are so hard to make, especially if you are a perfectionist AND a procrastinator, like myself...
Hi, I have a Raphidophora Tetrasperma. Per your question about its growth habits, it is inindeed a climber. I've seen you ask this same question of climbing Philodendrons or Monsteras, since you've noticed some climbing plants do well crawling: All climbers can crawl. However, crawlers cannot climb and be happy. The reason climbers crawl is, in the wild, most crawling plants are not born against a tree, rather near a tree. Once they find a tree, they prefer to climb up it in search of light, rather than continue at ground level. I replicate those growing conditions with my potted climbers. I plant them at the edge of the pot. I encourage them to crawl across it, that way the aerial roots go immediately into the soil, thus increasing their root system and absorption of water and nutrients. Once they reach the end of the pot, I transplant them to a larger pot, where they'll continue to crawl, a pole awaits them at the end of that second pot. This creates a healthier, more robust plant, with a thicker stem and shorter internodal spaces. In the case of my Raphidophora T., it even generates multiple stems, which I grow up the same pole for a fuller look. My Raphidophoras don't stop growing at approx, 1.30m. I however, do increase their pot so their roots can increase to support further plant growth.
I got excited to see the plant you chose for this video. My tetrasperma and I aren't friends. We tolerate each other. I give her light and water she needs to surrvive. And in return, she just doesn't die. She doesn't grow but doesn't die. Now you got me thinking maybe I should repot her in more of a reclining position for her to crawl. I remember Kaylee Ellen once showed a picture of a tetrasperma trailing in a pot. It was so beautiful. Maybe I need to give that a shot. Because maybe this bitch be lazy and just wants to lay around.
Awww glad you got excited, I know the feeling I have some plants like that too, I care for them and the most they do is not die!!! 😑😑😑😑 I am looking at you Philodendron Lupinum 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 yeah it might be worth trialling that and see how it goes. Love the Bitch be Lazy comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌💚🌿
I really like the plant. I was attracted to it because it wouldn’t get big leaves. The “mini monstera” name is appropriate nickname, even if not a monstera. I’m cultivating GIANT leaf goals on my true monstera and my lil buddy is a mini substitute until I can get a Burle Marx Flame. I love your updates! Very original and needed. It’s what we want and need to know. You also have just enough flare and your personality translates very well in this medium. Keep it up and let’s make your channel grow!
Awww thank you so much Richard for your kind words, they truly mean the world to me and so glad you are enjoying the content. Wow yeah I feel you on this one the Burle Marx Flame is goals for me too, I have heard they can be very slow growing I think 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤷♂️💚🌿
I couldn’t agree with you more - it’s a very easy, hardy plant. I have fallen in love with it all over again. This time I have it growing on a moss pole & it looks great ❤👍
I just got mine a few months ago, stuck it to a moss pole and it’s growing like mad, 1/2 way up the pole already, got it under grow lights so the inter-nodal spacing is nice and short so far, I adore it so much
I've been noticing that I'm getting fenestrations on my leaves which makes me happy! I haven't seen many people show leaves with fenestration (talking about actual holes not just the splits)
Happy to see this review. I ordered it last week and am picking up my plant today from the nursery. I really like the content on more common plants. I’m still relatively new to plants and am not willing to make any substantial investments just yet.
I had to continuously cut back my Raphi, it grew like a weed with big thick stems. It grew side shoots every time I cut it back and the pole soon disappeared. I had 4 on a coir pole and it was around 3 metres tall when I gave it away. I’ve now got another pot of cuttings growing from my original plant. I don’t think many climbers will do very well without something to grab on to. It’s a bit like planting a cactus in the shade imo. I felt a little sad when I saw yours to be honest.
Your plant is so beautiful! My gosh, this is actually the only plant I’ve managed to kill in the past few years, I’m either doing something very wrong or very right 😂 either way I’ll definitely be revisiting this video before I decide to give it another go! Thanks as ever for taking the time to share your knowledge in another wonderful video 💕🌿
We get a new leaf most of the time and largest single vine is Aprox 2-3 meters in a tiny pot. Have two growing up bathroom wall with suction cup hooks. They hate being watered. We just leave them until they drop and really show they are thirsty
Hi, Memo. I know you listen to Mathew on his Plant Daddy podcast. He explained that the TC version has spade-like juvenile leaves, but over the course of about a year will grow the mature, fenestrated leaves that the non-tissue culture plant has almost immediately. Cheers.
Ohhhhh interesting, now you mention it, I think I remember that podcast episode, it was a while back, will have to go back and listen to it again, thanks for sharing Dave 🙌 💚🌿
Absolutely love common houseplants! Come on, don't tell me marble queen isn't just stunning! Bought mine for like 3 € and it's just spectacular. So yes, post some more common plants reviews please! About Raphi: at my local garden center it cost like 5€. I'm based in Netherlands.
I love my R. tetrasperma and have taken cuts several times which did very well., never dropping a leaf. Such an easy plant. No pests so far. I have had mine about 3 years.
I used to have this. I have limited space. So I had to let this go as for me, when I have a species of plant, I’d want to have a whole tonne of the same family. And at that point of time I didn’t really researched about Rhaphidophora. Then I went to a nursery and saw a HUGE TETRASPERMA! I didn’t think they can grow HUGE. The biggest leaf was like fingertip to elbow. Immediately regretted letting go. And also I researched and found that Rhaphidophora has a lot of beautiful fenestrated plants 😍
Ohhh that is so cool I have never seen one that big I bet it must have been really impressive. Yeah it is a Genus that I want to maybe explore a bit more when I have the space 😅😅😅😅🌿💚
@@Houseplantygoodness Ah GENUS is the word! Thank you! I was actually leaving the nursery plot when I looked up and saw it. Imagine giant leaf but tetrasperma shape. Immediately asked the owner “Is that a Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma?!”. Even for him was an accidental thing and not knowing it could grow that big 😂 And yup recently I’ve learned that there are plenty in the genus that can grow big.
I finally ordered some tetra cuttings online after watching your vid. I have a number of pots of albo pinnatum but no space for poles hence no split leaves. I am hoping that I can grow my incoming tetras well since I don't have split leaf plants in the condo now. P.S. try growing some bird's nest anthuriums please! Support sticks or poles are not needed for them. :)
I recognize the slowing down, mine has grown 10 cm the last 3 months, it’s now ca 70cm and on a moss pole (I did chop it as it was growing a green tail before the moss pole and it is fall so maybe that's why for me?). The latest leaf is small but it has a little hole in it tho, similar to older monstera leaves. I have seen some pictures online with maybe 25-30 cm leaves but maybe the leaf is closer to the camera than the hand? I’ve also seen “large form” mentioned but feels like 90% of the time that’s a way to get more money and not always a real thing. Thank you for yet another great video!
Ohhh amazing thanks for sharing, and also interesting on the large form, I haven't ever come across it, maybe it is a thing or maybe it just started from a mature cutting, but hopefully it is a real thing, I would imagine if it is that would be quite cool with some huge leaves. 🌿💚
I got my first one with immature leafs. I had no idea what it was. It looked like something that's hard to kill. That's my first climbing plant. When it grows it grows fast. Really fast. I am growing Monstera Peru right now. Peru is probably on top of my list as far as favorites go. Since I bought few pots of it it is growing. It doesn't grow too fast but it's growing now in the middle of winter. I don't have grow lights and it doesn't get much bright light or any special care other than I fertilize it almost every time I water.
I have a few species of Rhaphidophora (Tetrasperma, Pertusa, Decursiva), and they all stop growing new leaves in the winter (below ~18C in temp), but rather they focus on thickening their stem! My Monsteras and Philodendron keeps pushing out new leaves under the same condition, which makes me think that it's a Rhaphidophora thing haha.
Your right about the slow growth when it reaches its peak vine length , also Air layering prpagation method is very doable with RT ,other then that its an easy and beUtiful plant to grow!
Here in the US Lowes has a ton of them that just looked strange. It was bluer an skinny leaves. Kinda wish I’d picked one up. The one I’ve had since 2019 finally took off. 💚
Hmmm that is so interesting, maybe a different cultivar or maybe like Deborah says was it a mislabelled Cebu Blue? the Tetrasperma has much thicker leaves than the Cebu Blue I find, if that helps 😊💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness I don’t think so. It was when the TC Raphs came out from Costa Farms. Maybe a year before we started seeing Cebu Blue in hanging baskets. To my knowledge Costa never put Cebu Blue in a Pot. 💚
I just got one of these and am excited to see it climb! It's going in a room with great light and a humidifier, and I water it with fish tank water, with a trellis to go up.
I am dipping my toes on tissues culture and orchid seed propagation. To me, if you have some entry uni biology/chemistry experience then the whole process is pretty straightforward. You can find all the information and product you need pretty easily, and the setup cost seems reasonable too. I got everything I need for low/mid triple digit. However, it takes a long time to grow a TC seedling to something sellable/presentable, so that the biggest hurdle for TC is the time investments (especially so when accounting for trials and failures). Your nepenthes has such beautiful pitchers, any plan to give it a review?
Ohhh that is awesome thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with TC, yeah I would imagine if the know how is there it could be straighforward and relatively affordable, but the time investment, especially with failures might be a different story all together. Ohhhh thanks, I kinda always forget it is there, yeah I can do, I will add it to the review video "to do" list. 😊🌿💚
I got shipped a rhaphidophora tetrasperma a 3 years ago by mistake and she plant shop said I could keep it. The thing is my fastest grower no matter where in my house it's been and now there are like 15 babies that I've passed around! The thing is nuts! Love it though
I love watching your review series! I find it helpful even though my environment isn't the same as yours 😅 Anyway, there's a video from @TastefulNodes showing her entire rhaphidophora collection. She mentioned the differences between rhaphidophora tetrasperma tissue culture vs. not. Maybe you would like to check it out 😃
Awww I am glad Kitina, interesting this plant grows both in my conservatory (mother plant) and the propagate, which I have next to me for most of the review, sits in my kitchen with not great lighting, so this is one that can definitely get on ok with most conditions I would think. Also thanks for mentioning tastefulnodes, I will definitely check out the video as I am curious 👀😊🌿💚
I got mine a couple months ago. It had medium sized leaves. I potted it into my aroid mix on a moss pole. It’s rooting into the moss pole. My lighting & humidity is right for this type plant. I water with a weak fertilizer in the water with most waterings as all my other plants. There are no pests & the color is good. However,,,, the leaves are getting smaller & smaller to the point they look very juvenile. I can’t figure it out & it’s driving me crazy 🥴
Mine def gets thrips too (not much else). I treat it with systemic pesticides, and it keeps growing. I noticed that sometimes the 'growth' points will fall off when stressed. It can sometimes regrow at that lost growth point!
Hey Memo, love your content. I have just left a question on you plank vid from last year. But incase you don't see it I am intrigued to know how you got on with cork planks and if you are still using them a year on? Thanks Robyn x
Hey Robyn, ahhh great idea to post it here too 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 so my cork planks are still doing well actually and the plants are still loving them, some of the bottom cork that is touching the growing media needed to be clipped off an replaced, more for stability than anything else and I have found them relatively easy to extend as long as I can attach them to a longer support stick in the back. I hope that helps 😊💚🌿
My first one was like a tank. My next pot I bought have bunch of weak plants. It isn't easy for me to propagate. It's not like you stick it in soil and it just takes. No, it rots. Pothos is easy. Kalanchoe is easy. But Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma doesn't propagate in soil easy. Maybe in water. I haven't tried water yet.
Yeah I know what you mean, I struggled originally with it, but I think water propagation really was the big game changer for me when propagating this one, might be worth giving it a go 😊💚🌿
I had what I suspected was a tc RT last year. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about the idea of tissue culture but...this one was unwell and grew very strangely so I gave up on it
Its interesting but i cut my R. tetrasperma last year at about 0.7m and it is now growing with 2 tips which just reached about 1,5m this autumn and i noticed just this week that the developing leaves (still in the sheath) are browning and i am fairly certain they are dying for some reason. It has attached to the wall with my encuragement (scotch-tape for the win) and it was growing very fast all year. I am not sure why this is happening exept themperatures have obviosly decreased and since they have grown fairly high up, the tips get a little bit less light but that happened last year as well and it didnt have the browning then. Perhaps your theory about it prefering to crawl is correect? I am uncertain but it is something i will keep an eye on, as i had plans of cutting the two tips in spring anyway to make it branch even more. Also unlike most plants rooting the cuttings in soil has not worked for me. Thx for the review.
Awwwww yeahhhh Scotch tape for the win 😅💪🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏 ohhh that is so interesting, I had another thought with mine this winter, and it is weather the wall itself is cooler now that it is colder and it is causing delays in growth or issues with growth, might be worth (and I know this sounds odd) but maybe check the wall and see if it is cold? yeah I think someone else in the comments also mentioned that rooting this in soil really was not very successful. 💚🌿😊
It’s weird your growth end is so stumpy, mine doesn’t look that way at all! I find to be a pretty fast grower. I have it growing up a moss pole which it loves! I do agree that a moss pole hasn’t sized up the leaves much. I found when you take cuttings from them they shoot off from a bunch of different nodes at the same time which is kinda cool! I also found mine was very forgiving of over/under watering. I have no idea how long it was sitting in 4 inches of water (oops)
Hey Laura, that is awesome thanks for sharing your experiences with this plant too, also glad to know it is not just me that has left this plant sitting in water and it just keeps on keeping on. I am not sure about the stumpyness of mine, maybe it was the genetics of the one I got? not sure 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ but yes you are right I forgot to mention that it my review too, this out of all of my plants has loads of nodes activating on a regular basis when cut. 🌿🌿🌿🌿💚
@@HouseplantygoodnessI have mine growing in straight up water with a thin layer of large grain well rinsed sand lining the bottom of the bottle it's in 😊
I gave my GF one with a custom but short moss pole. It outgrew it but still remain straight like a tree, I think it's a dozen of nodes up in the air. Very impressive behavior. I dont find it is a crawler, my cuttings happily grow up directly. BUT new active nodes will have weird thin lanceolate leaves, sometimes longer than the adult leaves and I find this also weird. Surprisingly some scientific sources states the juvenile form is a shingler!
Ahhh wow that is really cool and completely makes sense with the nodes in the air, I have seen this with mine too. Ahhh the shingler might be why it likes having the growing stem against something, thanks for sharing the scientific info, I can always count on you Stalker to come through with some amazing information, thanks again 😊🌿💚
I tried this plant about 3 times Rip None of them are around any more Each time it just never grew or would just grow these tiny leaves Despite being in high humidity and good temperatures Under a grow light I think now I definitely would be able to do better but man this plant was shockingly difficult Got the plant thinking it was going to be easy ha Nope 😅
I had the same experience! I received several cuttings from a friend, rooted them and slowly planted them in soil. They never looked happy and just slowly died. The last one looked promising and randomly developed stem rot. I've never had a plant do that before and I have over 100+ plants. I like the look of the leaves but I don't like how thin they are. I gave up on this plant.
Huh that is so interesting, were the plants established plants or were the smaller rooted cuttings? maybe this is the issue that people had with tissue culture ones and I was lucky to not get a tissue culture one. I wonder if those were much weaker plants 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Very interesting thanks for sharing your experience, it is hugely important I think for these review videos to get that more balanced view. sorry to hear about the issues with this plant though 😔 I know it can be super frustrating when you are doing everything right and it just doesn't make them happy 💚🌿
That is so odd, my assumption would have been maybe TC, but if you say you got the cuttings from a friend I wouldn't assume TC, that is so odd, did you friend mention if they ever had any issues with their plant? Thanks for sharing btw this is so interesting 💚🌿🤔
@@Houseplantygoodness My friend had an established plant and as far as I know there were no issues on her end. She gave me tons of cuttings of her Brazil, micans, manjula, Rhaphidophora T, Monstera Peru, epi Albo, silver sword and a few others. The only one I couldn't get to thrive was this one! It's okay. I'm very happy with all my other plants 💚
Iam a underwater so I have one in a rectangular self-watering pot and I still manage to let that dry out, but it still is doing well. I need one of those bendable poles because it's crawling then hanging 🤔. The leaves are starting to get larger. Question how can you tell a plant cutting from a tissue plant?
Ohhh interesting that you are getting that kind of growth pattern, definitely the bendable pole would help I think. I think one of the other commentors mentioned a video from a TH-camr that went into detail on Tissue culture and rooted cuttings, might be worth checking it out. I think I will be checking it out soon, just out of curiosity. 😊🌿💚👀
Hi! I have been growing mine for a year and a half and it grew from 6" to 10'. I wait till it is bone dry before watering. I don't fertilize it often at all. It is placed in a north facing window with a good lighting. Hope this help.
Excellent thanks for sharing your experience, everyone's experience will help people who are thinking of buying this plant to have a better idea if it might work for them in their condition and care. 😊💚🌿
Mine got munched by thrips 😭 now I'm left with 2 or 3 tiny cuttings... On another note though... I know the video about the alocasia Dragon scale/ silver dragon has been a while... But! My dragon scale had at that time edema on 2 leaves (its in leca) I removed the water and the edema is gone! It takes couple of weeks but you can see it's getting smaller and smaller. So maybe that might be of help to someone. 😅
Ohhhhh noooo I am sorry to hear that, its always such a bummer when a plant gets thrips 😫😫😫😫 hopefully none of your other plants are affected and you caught them early 🤞🤞🤞🤞 ohhh very interesting on the edema element, I will definately check that out. 👀🌿💚
@@Houseplantygoodness unfortunately the thrips got kind of a lot of my plants... But at least I got cuttings from all of them so they didn't die completely. And now they are growing happily in a aquarium turned into a greenhouse. (even though I had a thrips infestation in there as well not too long ago 🙈)
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I love this plant, I was looking everywhere four-five years ago and I still love it.
As for the etymology, it means needle (rhaphis - ραφίς) bearing (féro - φέρω), probably in reference to the calcium oxalate crystals which have needle like structure cells (which all plants in the Araceae genus have and it's what makes them toxic to humans and pets) and four (tessera/tetra - - τέσσερα/τετρα-) sperm/seed (σπέρμα) in reference to its reproductive system/flowers (which again like all aroids it's a spathe and spadix inflorescence). I had done an entire video on this plant, including its etymology, when I finally got it way back when, but I don't think I ever uploaded it. Maybe I will if I start making videos again.
OMG Love this comment, hello plant etymology friend 😊👋👋👋👋 Definately worth posting that video and many more, we need more people like you on the platform, it would be so interesting to watch 💚💚💚💚😊👀🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness aaaw thank you for the encouragement, maybe one day, YT videos are so hard to make, especially if you
are a perfectionist AND a procrastinator, like myself...
Hi, I have a Raphidophora Tetrasperma. Per your question about its growth habits, it is inindeed a climber.
I've seen you ask this same question of climbing Philodendrons or Monsteras, since you've noticed some climbing plants do well crawling:
All climbers can crawl. However, crawlers cannot climb and be happy.
The reason climbers crawl is, in the wild, most crawling plants are not born against a tree, rather near a tree.
Once they find a tree, they prefer to climb up it in search of light, rather than continue at ground level.
I replicate those growing conditions with my potted climbers. I plant them at the edge of the pot. I encourage them to crawl across it, that way the aerial roots go immediately into the soil, thus increasing their root system and absorption of water and nutrients.
Once they reach the end of the pot, I transplant them to a larger pot, where they'll continue to crawl, a pole awaits them at the end of that second pot.
This creates a healthier, more robust plant, with a thicker stem and shorter internodal spaces.
In the case of my Raphidophora T., it even generates multiple stems, which I grow up the same pole for a fuller look.
My Raphidophoras don't stop growing at approx, 1.30m. I however, do increase their pot so their roots can increase to support further plant growth.
I got excited to see the plant you chose for this video. My tetrasperma and I aren't friends. We tolerate each other. I give her light and water she needs to surrvive. And in return, she just doesn't die. She doesn't grow but doesn't die. Now you got me thinking maybe I should repot her in more of a reclining position for her to crawl. I remember Kaylee Ellen once showed a picture of a tetrasperma trailing in a pot. It was so beautiful. Maybe I need to give that a shot. Because maybe this bitch be lazy and just wants to lay around.
Awww glad you got excited, I know the feeling I have some plants like that too, I care for them and the most they do is not die!!! 😑😑😑😑 I am looking at you Philodendron Lupinum 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
yeah it might be worth trialling that and see how it goes. Love the Bitch be Lazy comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌💚🌿
Which video did she show it please?
I really like the plant. I was attracted to it because it wouldn’t get big leaves. The “mini monstera” name is appropriate nickname, even if not a monstera. I’m cultivating GIANT leaf goals on my true monstera and my lil buddy is a mini substitute until I can get a Burle Marx Flame.
I love your updates! Very original and needed. It’s what we want and need to know. You also have just enough flare and your personality translates very well in this medium. Keep it up and let’s make your channel grow!
Awww thank you so much Richard for your kind words, they truly mean the world to me and so glad you are enjoying the content. Wow yeah I feel you on this one the Burle Marx Flame is goals for me too, I have heard they can be very slow growing I think 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤷♂️💚🌿
I couldn’t agree with you more - it’s a very easy, hardy plant. I have fallen in love with it all over again. This time I have it growing on a moss pole & it looks great ❤👍
I just got mine a few months ago, stuck it to a moss pole and it’s growing like mad, 1/2 way up the pole already, got it under grow lights so the inter-nodal spacing is nice and short so far, I adore it so much
I've been noticing that I'm getting fenestrations on my leaves which makes me happy! I haven't seen many people show leaves with fenestration (talking about actual holes not just the splits)
Happy to see this review. I ordered it last week and am picking up my plant today from the nursery. I really like the content on more common plants. I’m still relatively new to plants and am not willing to make any substantial investments just yet.
I had to continuously cut back my Raphi, it grew like a weed with big thick stems. It grew side shoots every time I cut it back and the pole soon disappeared. I had 4 on a coir pole and it was around 3 metres tall when I gave it away. I’ve now got another pot of cuttings growing from my original plant. I don’t think many climbers will do very well without something to grab on to. It’s a bit like planting a cactus in the shade imo. I felt a little sad when I saw yours to be honest.
Your plant is so beautiful! My gosh, this is actually the only plant I’ve managed to kill in the past few years, I’m either doing something very wrong or very right 😂 either way I’ll definitely be revisiting this video before I decide to give it another go! Thanks as ever for taking the time to share your knowledge in another wonderful video 💕🌿
This is very high on my want list. It will be mine oh yes it will be mine hehe
Great video very helpful
Awwww so glad you enjoyed it. Definitely a plant worth being on a want list for sure!!!! 😊💚🌿
Love the common plant series
Yayyyy 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊 I am so glad 💚🌿🌿
We get a new leaf most of the time and largest single vine is Aprox 2-3 meters in a tiny pot. Have two growing up bathroom wall with suction cup hooks. They hate being watered. We just leave them until they drop and really show they are thirsty
Yeah I think I would generally agree with you here, they tend to do best for me when I let them show me they are thirsty. 💧
Hi, Memo. I know you listen to Mathew on his Plant Daddy podcast. He explained that the TC version has spade-like juvenile leaves, but over the course of about a year will grow the mature, fenestrated leaves that the non-tissue culture plant has almost immediately. Cheers.
Ohhhhh interesting, now you mention it, I think I remember that podcast episode, it was a while back, will have to go back and listen to it again, thanks for sharing Dave 🙌 💚🌿
Absolutely love common houseplants! Come on, don't tell me marble queen isn't just stunning! Bought mine for like 3 € and it's just spectacular. So yes, post some more common plants reviews please!
About Raphi: at my local garden center it cost like 5€.
I'm based in Netherlands.
I love my R. tetrasperma and have taken cuts several times which did very well., never dropping a leaf. Such an easy plant. No pests so far. I have had mine about 3 years.
I used to have this. I have limited space. So I had to let this go as for me, when I have a species of plant, I’d want to have a whole tonne of the same family. And at that point of time I didn’t really researched about Rhaphidophora.
Then I went to a nursery and saw a HUGE TETRASPERMA! I didn’t think they can grow HUGE. The biggest leaf was like fingertip to elbow. Immediately regretted letting go. And also I researched and found that Rhaphidophora has a lot of beautiful fenestrated plants 😍
Ohhh that is so cool I have never seen one that big I bet it must have been really impressive. Yeah it is a Genus that I want to maybe explore a bit more when I have the space 😅😅😅😅🌿💚
@@Houseplantygoodness Ah GENUS is the word! Thank you!
I was actually leaving the nursery plot when I looked up and saw it. Imagine giant leaf but tetrasperma shape. Immediately asked the owner “Is that a Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma?!”. Even for him was an accidental thing and not knowing it could grow that big 😂
And yup recently I’ve learned that there are plenty in the genus that can grow big.
I finally ordered some tetra cuttings online after watching your vid. I have a number of pots of albo pinnatum but no space for poles hence no split leaves. I am hoping that I can grow my incoming tetras well since I don't have split leaf plants in the condo now. P.S. try growing some bird's nest anthuriums please! Support sticks or poles are not needed for them. :)
Awww that is awesome and don't worry I love a good birds nest fern, I have had a couple of them in my collection in the past too 😊💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness hope to see some birds nest/Pachyneurium vids :)
I recognize the slowing down, mine has grown 10 cm the last 3 months, it’s now ca 70cm and on a moss pole (I did chop it as it was growing a green tail before the moss pole and it is fall so maybe that's why for me?). The latest leaf is small but it has a little hole in it tho, similar to older monstera leaves. I have seen some pictures online with maybe 25-30 cm leaves but maybe the leaf is closer to the camera than the hand? I’ve also seen “large form” mentioned but feels like 90% of the time that’s a way to get more money and not always a real thing. Thank you for yet another great video!
Ohhh amazing thanks for sharing, and also interesting on the large form, I haven't ever come across it, maybe it is a thing or maybe it just started from a mature cutting, but hopefully it is a real thing, I would imagine if it is that would be quite cool with some huge leaves. 🌿💚
One of my easiest and favorite plants! And I love saying
I got my first one with immature leafs. I had no idea what it was. It looked like something that's hard to kill. That's my first climbing plant. When it grows it grows fast. Really fast. I am growing Monstera Peru right now. Peru is probably on top of my list as far as favorites go. Since I bought few pots of it it is growing. It doesn't grow too fast but it's growing now in the middle of winter. I don't have grow lights and it doesn't get much bright light or any special care other than I fertilize it almost every time I water.
This is the thing I find with this plant too, it is one that just keeps going quite happily when it is established without too much fuss. 😊💚
Love my tetrasperma! It was super easy to air layer and now I have two filling out the pot. It seems to really like the coir pole.
Ohhhhh I never thought to air layer it, such a good idea!!1 💡💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness It was my first-ever attempt and it worked beautifully!
I have a few species of Rhaphidophora (Tetrasperma, Pertusa, Decursiva), and they all stop growing new leaves in the winter (below ~18C in temp), but rather they focus on thickening their stem! My Monsteras and Philodendron keeps pushing out new leaves under the same condition, which makes me think that it's a Rhaphidophora thing haha.
Oh really🤔.....makes me wonder if I should be lowering the temps on mine for the winter...
Same
My rhaphidophora also stopped growing big leaves in winter but started growing really thick stems too😭 ig that's a common thing🤷🏽♂️
Your right about the slow growth when it reaches its peak vine length , also Air layering prpagation method is very doable with RT ,other then that its an easy and beUtiful plant to grow!
I SALUTE THE RHAPHI T. For Being Such A G💚💚D TR💚💚PER!!!
Completely, such a trooper. 💪💪💪💪
Here in the US Lowes has a ton of them that just looked strange. It was bluer an skinny leaves. Kinda wish I’d picked one up. The one I’ve had since 2019 finally took off. 💚
Hmmm that is so interesting, maybe a different cultivar or maybe like Deborah says was it a mislabelled Cebu Blue? the Tetrasperma has much thicker leaves than the Cebu Blue I find, if that helps 😊💚🌿
That was most likely the Baltic Blue Epipremnum distributed by Costa Farms through Lowes- dark blue-green, fenestrated leaves
@@krisfarnsworth620 Yea it was year before Baltic came out. 💚
@@Houseplantygoodness I don’t think so. It was when the TC Raphs came out from Costa Farms. Maybe a year before we started seeing Cebu Blue in hanging baskets. To my knowledge Costa never put Cebu Blue in a Pot. 💚
There is a blue ish form of the tetra. I had one but I killed it. Searching for another. They tend to have more elongated leaves
I just got one of these and am excited to see it climb! It's going in a room with great light and a humidifier, and I water it with fish tank water, with a trellis to go up.
Awwww I am sure it will not disappoint, it is such a reliable grower for me and I think a lot of people too💚🌿
I am dipping my toes on tissues culture and orchid seed propagation. To me, if you have some entry uni biology/chemistry experience then the whole process is pretty straightforward. You can find all the information and product you need pretty easily, and the setup cost seems reasonable too. I got everything I need for low/mid triple digit. However, it takes a long time to grow a TC seedling to something sellable/presentable, so that the biggest hurdle for TC is the time investments (especially so when accounting for trials and failures).
Your nepenthes has such beautiful pitchers, any plan to give it a review?
Ohhh that is awesome thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with TC, yeah I would imagine if the know how is there it could be straighforward and relatively affordable, but the time investment, especially with failures might be a different story all together.
Ohhhh thanks, I kinda always forget it is there, yeah I can do, I will add it to the review video "to do" list. 😊🌿💚
Love the common ones!
I got shipped a rhaphidophora tetrasperma a 3 years ago by mistake and she plant shop said I could keep it. The thing is my fastest grower no matter where in my house it's been and now there are like 15 babies that I've passed around! The thing is nuts! Love it though
Seeeee this is why I say everyone should have one at some point, they can be such reliable growers. Thanks for sharing your experiences too 💚🌿
This plant was a HUGE thrips magnet when I had it.
Great review!! I love mine :)
I love watching your review series! I find it helpful even though my environment isn't the same as yours 😅
Anyway, there's a video from @TastefulNodes showing her entire rhaphidophora collection. She mentioned the differences between rhaphidophora tetrasperma tissue culture vs. not. Maybe you would like to check it out 😃
Awww I am glad Kitina, interesting this plant grows both in my conservatory (mother plant) and the propagate, which I have next to me for most of the review, sits in my kitchen with not great lighting, so this is one that can definitely get on ok with most conditions I would think.
Also thanks for mentioning tastefulnodes, I will definitely check out the video as I am curious 👀😊🌿💚
One of my fastest growing and favorite plants. I do love saying rhaphidophora Tetrasperma!!
Love you info on this. Thank you
I got mine a couple months ago. It had medium sized leaves. I potted it into my aroid mix on a moss pole. It’s rooting into the moss pole. My lighting & humidity is right for this type plant. I water with a weak fertilizer in the water with most waterings as all my other plants. There are no pests & the color is good. However,,,, the leaves are getting smaller & smaller to the point they look very juvenile. I can’t figure it out & it’s driving me crazy 🥴
Mine def gets thrips too (not much else). I treat it with systemic pesticides, and it keeps growing. I noticed that sometimes the 'growth' points will fall off when stressed. It can sometimes regrow at that lost growth point!
Hey Memo, love your content. I have just left a question on you plank vid from last year. But incase you don't see it I am intrigued to know how you got on with cork planks and if you are still using them a year on? Thanks Robyn x
Hey Robyn, ahhh great idea to post it here too 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 so my cork planks are still doing well actually and the plants are still loving them, some of the bottom cork that is touching the growing media needed to be clipped off an replaced, more for stability than anything else and I have found them relatively easy to extend as long as I can attach them to a longer support stick in the back. I hope that helps 😊💚🌿
Thank you, that's really helpful 💚
My first one was like a tank. My next pot I bought have bunch of weak plants. It isn't easy for me to propagate. It's not like you stick it in soil and it just takes. No, it rots. Pothos is easy. Kalanchoe is easy. But Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma doesn't propagate in soil easy. Maybe in water. I haven't tried water yet.
Yeah I know what you mean, I struggled originally with it, but I think water propagation really was the big game changer for me when propagating this one, might be worth giving it a go 😊💚🌿
I had what I suspected was a tc RT last year. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about the idea of tissue culture but...this one was unwell and grew very strangely so I gave up on it
Oh and my more recent RT(received as a potted rooted cutting)has basically not grown. Should I try to grow as a crawler??!
Its interesting but i cut my R. tetrasperma last year at about 0.7m and it is now growing with 2 tips which just reached about 1,5m this autumn and i noticed just this week that the developing leaves (still in the sheath) are browning and i am fairly certain they are dying for some reason. It has attached to the wall with my encuragement (scotch-tape for the win) and it was growing very fast all year. I am not sure why this is happening exept themperatures have obviosly decreased and since they have grown fairly high up, the tips get a little bit less light but that happened last year as well and it didnt have the browning then.
Perhaps your theory about it prefering to crawl is correect? I am uncertain but it is something i will keep an eye on, as i had plans of cutting the two tips in spring anyway to make it branch even more.
Also unlike most plants rooting the cuttings in soil has not worked for me.
Thx for the review.
Awwwww yeahhhh Scotch tape for the win 😅💪🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏
ohhh that is so interesting, I had another thought with mine this winter, and it is weather the wall itself is cooler now that it is colder and it is causing delays in growth or issues with growth, might be worth (and I know this sounds odd) but maybe check the wall and see if it is cold?
yeah I think someone else in the comments also mentioned that rooting this in soil really was not very successful. 💚🌿😊
I’ve really enjoyed mine. I have it climbing on my canopy bed
It’s weird your growth end is so stumpy, mine doesn’t look that way at all! I find to be a pretty fast grower. I have it growing up a moss pole which it loves! I do agree that a moss pole hasn’t sized up the leaves much.
I found when you take cuttings from them they shoot off from a bunch of different nodes at the same time which is kinda cool!
I also found mine was very forgiving of over/under watering. I have no idea how long it was sitting in 4 inches of water (oops)
Hey Laura, that is awesome thanks for sharing your experiences with this plant too, also glad to know it is not just me that has left this plant sitting in water and it just keeps on keeping on. I am not sure about the stumpyness of mine, maybe it was the genetics of the one I got? not sure 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ but yes you are right I forgot to mention that it my review too, this out of all of my plants has loads of nodes activating on a regular basis when cut. 🌿🌿🌿🌿💚
@@HouseplantygoodnessI have mine growing in straight up water with a thin layer of large grain well rinsed sand lining the bottom of the bottle it's in 😊
Mine got a stubby growing tip, took forever for it to start going again but when it did it went bananas again.
Ohhh cool so maybe there is a chance for me to start going again soon then 🤞🤞🤞🤞💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness I wouldn't be surprised mine took like all summer and fall! I just noticed new growth on it a few days ago 💚
I love your laugh :)
I gave my GF one with a custom but short moss pole. It outgrew it but still remain straight like a tree, I think it's a dozen of nodes up in the air. Very impressive behavior.
I dont find it is a crawler, my cuttings happily grow up directly. BUT new active nodes will have weird thin lanceolate leaves, sometimes longer than the adult leaves and I find this also weird. Surprisingly some scientific sources states the juvenile form is a shingler!
Ahhh wow that is really cool and completely makes sense with the nodes in the air, I have seen this with mine too.
Ahhh the shingler might be why it likes having the growing stem against something, thanks for sharing the scientific info, I can always count on you Stalker to come through with some amazing information, thanks again 😊🌿💚
I tried this plant about 3 times
Rip
None of them are around any more
Each time it just never grew or would just grow these tiny leaves
Despite being in high humidity and good temperatures
Under a grow light
I think now I definitely would be able to do better but man
this plant was shockingly difficult
Got the plant thinking it was going to be easy ha
Nope
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I had the same experience! I received several cuttings from a friend, rooted them and slowly planted them in soil. They never looked happy and just slowly died. The last one looked promising and randomly developed stem rot. I've never had a plant do that before and I have over 100+ plants. I like the look of the leaves but I don't like how thin they are. I gave up on this plant.
Huh that is so interesting, were the plants established plants or were the smaller rooted cuttings? maybe this is the issue that people had with tissue culture ones and I was lucky to not get a tissue culture one. I wonder if those were much weaker plants 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Very interesting thanks for sharing your experience, it is hugely important I think for these review videos to get that more balanced view. sorry to hear about the issues with this plant though 😔 I know it can be super frustrating when you are doing everything right and it just doesn't make them happy 💚🌿
That is so odd, my assumption would have been maybe TC, but if you say you got the cuttings from a friend I wouldn't assume TC, that is so odd, did you friend mention if they ever had any issues with their plant? Thanks for sharing btw this is so interesting 💚🌿🤔
@@Houseplantygoodness
My friend had an established plant and as far as I know there were no issues on her end. She gave me tons of cuttings of her Brazil, micans, manjula, Rhaphidophora T, Monstera Peru, epi Albo, silver sword and a few others. The only one I couldn't get to thrive was this one! It's okay. I'm very happy with all my other plants 💚
Iam a underwater so I have one in a rectangular self-watering pot and I still manage to let that dry out, but it still is doing well. I need one of those bendable poles because it's crawling then hanging 🤔. The leaves are starting to get larger. Question how can you tell a plant cutting from a tissue plant?
Ohhh interesting that you are getting that kind of growth pattern, definitely the bendable pole would help I think. I think one of the other commentors mentioned a video from a TH-camr that went into detail on Tissue culture and rooted cuttings, might be worth checking it out. I think I will be checking it out soon, just out of curiosity. 😊🌿💚👀
Hi! I have been growing mine for a year and a half and it grew from 6" to 10'. I wait till it is bone dry before watering. I don't fertilize it often at all. It is placed in a north facing window with a good lighting. Hope this help.
Excellent thanks for sharing your experience, everyone's experience will help people who are thinking of buying this plant to have a better idea if it might work for them in their condition and care. 😊💚🌿
Easiest plant I've ever had I think.
Same Same 💚🌿😊
Some of my rhaphidophora tetrasperma cuttings weirdly are like stunted and are dwarfs! It's still fast growing but it's weird how a few mutated.
Ohhh that really is quite interesting, I am trying to think back on mine and I think this might have happened with some of my cuttings too 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@Houseplantygoodness huh, I wonder why it happens occasionally.....
Mine got munched by thrips 😭 now I'm left with 2 or 3 tiny cuttings...
On another note though... I know the video about the alocasia Dragon scale/ silver dragon has been a while... But! My dragon scale had at that time edema on 2 leaves (its in leca) I removed the water and the edema is gone! It takes couple of weeks but you can see it's getting smaller and smaller. So maybe that might be of help to someone. 😅
Ohhhhh noooo I am sorry to hear that, its always such a bummer when a plant gets thrips 😫😫😫😫 hopefully none of your other plants are affected and you caught them early 🤞🤞🤞🤞
ohhh very interesting on the edema element, I will definately check that out. 👀🌿💚
@@Houseplantygoodness unfortunately the thrips got kind of a lot of my plants... But at least I got cuttings from all of them so they didn't die completely. And now they are growing happily in a aquarium turned into a greenhouse. (even though I had a thrips infestation in there as well not too long ago 🙈)
I love mine it grows better for me than pothos. I just chopped mine so hopefully I didn't just kill it 😅
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Sometimes my rhaphidophora cutting has long air roots, and when I propagate in water, the air roots will rot. is this normal?
That plant is a pain in the butt and it hates me!
Tetrasperma = four seeds
yes it does, Vicia tetrasperma is a good example