I got my burle Marx flame to grow by putting it under a lot of light. Like really close to the light. Its slower but it does grow. It grew around 8 leaves in a year from a single leaf cutting.
I love mine too, I got my corm from a friend. It's shitty It got famous in such shady circumstances but now this plant is beeing mass produced via TC so no worry about poaching. Also in lower light its not getting those light chlorotic spots on a leaf.
The common spider plant disappoints me. Lol “oh! These are so easy to grow!” “Is a great beginner plant “. No. They aren’t. They hate me, my house, my humidity, just everything. Lol
Haha. Me too. I just dumped the last one into the bin. Never again. Well, maybe if someone gives me a few babies for free, but I'm never going to spend another cent on them.
Yes, thousands of them grow around my house as a perennial ground cover. Put one in a pot and it’s half dead in a month. Tried one in the greenhouse.. dead. lol!
Wait to water them till when the leaves look silvery instead of straight green. I used to kill them all the time and now I got like this huge crazy mom plant and another at my office from doing that
Our Spider plants do fantastic in both a S and W window as they like a lot of light. The S one gets moderate to high humidity (kitchen). I have a small one thriving in an E window tho it gets dry tips cos humidity lower in there. Also, like my syngoniums, it doesn’t tolerate my local tapwater at allll. So it gets captured rainwater, melted snow, or distilled water.
Can’t wait to try your new fertiliser. Last year I used liquid gold leaf but didn’t notice any improvement in my plants. I ordered your fertiliser about a week ago and it’s not been dispatched yet , any idea how long it takes for delivery ? Thank you 🙏
In regards to the fake pinks... Do you think the variegated micans is potentially just failed attempts at the pink micans? It's variegation does tend to look pinkish (for now let's set aside how the plant looks sick af I guess)...🤔 I have no experience with the var micans (because again, it looks ill) at all, just speculation
Its not considered a rare plant anymore I don't think, but the ultimate cat fish has to be the philodendron pink princess. It looks amazing as a baby plant, but just looks shit as it starts growing. It looks better once it hits the mature stage, but getting it there is a pain in the bud with all the leggyness, leaves getting stuck or rotting off before they can unfurl. The subreddits are full of people asking for help with their PPP for a reason.
Im still trying, I now have 6 plants as ive propped it and we are still green!!! It gets 25’c and under grow lights, I love to know how friggin warm and bright it needs to variegate
My Burle Marx flame actually grows quickly but I'm in S FL. I get about a new leaf a month with my latest leaf the size of a dinner plate. Nothing disappointing in my experience
Same for me tbh. Mine grows very nicely. And not gangely at all. The oposite happened. I had to use an execto knife in order to chop it, since the internodal spacing was so damn narrow. I had mine in bright light, high humidity and gave it a mosspole.
Philodendron Brandtianum, I wish someone would have told me what a shite grower this plant was, and there is no bushy trailing to be had. It took me way too long to give up on this plant, because I was not hearing chatter so I thought it was purely me. Ugh, now I can't get rid of this plant because I think everyone is aware of how bad it is.
I threatened to throw mine away and it finally started giving me leaves again. We’ll see what happens 😅 gave me two beautiful leaves but now it’s back to its shenanigans. My two moss poles I have are pink princess and brandtianum and I’m constantly thinking I should demote them and from pole status and give my other plants a go. 🥲
Oh my god, I was JUST looking at mine and snarling at it right before I read your comment!! Mine is on a bamboo circle and the stem grows like crazy but not the leaves. I was just thinking of trashing it this years. Or rather, sitting it outside this spring...survival of the fittest! Maybe it'll perk up outside. I've had it for three years and given it the best conditions I could indoors!
Pink princess philodendron attracted me to plants to begin with. I bought a baby, and I have never had more than a splash of pink. I’ve almost tossed it a few times. That said, now I love beautiful green plants and I’m happy I fell for the Pink Princess to lead me to this hobby.
PPP was in such high demand that people were propagating it like crazy and selling every one of their cuttings without any quality control. I bought two small plants in 2021, one of them has completely reverted and is currently sitting in the compost bin and the other, which has shown just a tiny bit of variegation, has been chopped and propped this afternoon to see if I can get a bit more variegation on the propagates. Anyway, they can be really pretty but there are so many bad ones out there that I feel like it gained a bad reputation.
I only love the pink princess because I happen to love the reverted, dark green version. I suggest getting an extremely highly variegated specimen. I’ve been seeing a highly variegated, marbled, tissue cultured, version in big box stores. It seems stable.
Try propagating it a lot mine had only a few speckles here and there so I cut the whole thing up and put it under more light and now I’m getting almost half moon leaves
You should just buy a different specimen that has more pink on it when you buy it. I've had one for a couple years, every leaf has bubblegum pink cuteness and it got root rot so I just chopped her up and if anything the new leaves are even MORE pink and stunning. It's such a good plant when you get a nice one, give it another chance now that they're cheap! Just buy one with lots of pink online where you can choose a specific specimen.
Regarding the Tandurusa, I was very active in the FB groups back then when it suddenly popped up. Jacklyn openly admitted to poaching it, saying that she pulled it out of the ground and snuck it onto the plane back to the states. She tried to defend herself quite a bit after she got a lot of shit for it, which didn't go well. Many of the posts were deleted but there are screenshots of the person's original posts and the comment sections, albeit difficult to find.
I purchase my stingray as starter. It grew inside, but once I put that outside during the Spring and summer, it took off. I love this plant and you know what else does too? Spidermites.
Man, i was SO into the plant communities and all the drama in 2020. Its wild to kind of have fallen out of it for +-3 years and now im coming back to it. Oh my god the pink congo throwback
Was coming in to say the Lupinum, LOL. I bought one from you in 2020 (I'm in the states) and was able to save it from the shipping trauma but my god it still likes to pretend it is on the brink of absolute death. But it's still putting out leaves! Small ones, still in small form but we've had several rescue missions. Looking forward to purchasing from you again in the future! I love your channel and have been here for years. Looking forward to the day your feed may be available across the pond. :) I'd absolutely be interested in watching your personal plant list of Disappointments!
I find the Monstera Burle Marx Flame grow at a very decent pace. I mean, it grow at the same speed as my Thaï Constellation, which isn't fast, but decent. Actually I find both very similar in speed og growth and amount of happiness the give me: both mature quickly, both dont give me leggy stems etc... But I keep mine in dry air and blast it with south facing window sun. It's suspected to come from an even dryer forest than "sierrana" so I kind of treat it like a cacti/aroid hybrid.
I don’t know what it is about my Pink Princess but she’s been nothing but bad vibes and gnarly leaves. My mom has the mother plant and it’s 10+ years old and massive but all the pieces I’ve gotten from her have been disappointments.
I am from where the Alocasia Jacklyne just grow in some people’s backyards (if you’re in the countryside in the mountainous area), I’m not sure I would call it poaching if it’s from someone’s backyard. Locals called it Tandu Rusa which means Stag Horns.
No it’s not poaching if it’s native to your country or land but it is poaching for people to go into the forest that are protected and take them after they have completely wiped the plants from where they could be found regularly.
So the disappointment of my life was philodendron verrucosum. Their growth pattern is horrible as their stems elongate to reach god in heavens and they just have this toxic relationship with spider mites, I just can't with that plant.🙅🏻♀️
Cercestis Mirabilis is one of my favorite plants, leaves bigger than Gloriosum and she still has the juvenile pattern on the leaves. Also super easy to propagate
I put mine into pon and it’s been super happy. The leaves are sizing up nicely, it’s fine in ambient humidity and indirect light. It is a slow grower but the pay off when you get a new leaf is worth it and it’s been super easy to care for (at least for me).
I'm on my 3rd attempt with Philodendron Florida Beauty. I love the way they look, but they fail to thrive for me every time. My Florida Ghost is big and beautiful. Florida Beauty? Leaves turning brown and dropping at a rapid rate.
Ohmygod yes 😭😂 it was in my second round of plant purchases ever, I about gave up on the whole hobby. It took a good 4 months to finally die with me trying everything I could to save it 🥲
They’re so finicky! They want super high humidity, lots of indirect light, and so much water but not wet soil. I splash mine with water daily. Then change nothing. They want all conditions consistent or they pitch a total diva tantrum.
The Alocasia Tandarusa (Jacklyn) is one of my absolute favs, just trying to actually grow one… One of my big disappointments is the Rhaphidophora Decursiva, dragons tail. SNAIL growth! I’m still waiting for a new leaf 1.5 years in
I PROMISE you the Dieff Cheetah is the answer to the Pictum Tricolor. The leaves are big with bold green camouflage pattern and it’s WAY easier to grow. My plants puts out a leaf every 2 weeks and even faster during the growing season
I stay away from “jacklyn.” Like you said, the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth. I’m sure there are now-common plants in my collection that had poaching/collection/exporting controversies back in the day which have been forgotten by the general public over the years. But I can’t see a tandurusa without thinking about the whole 2020 situation
I have a paraiso verde. I paid $12 Canadian for it. The first leaf that came out in my home was full on green. Am I disappointed? Meh, whatever. Summer is coming and those of you that live in Ontario know that our summers are hot and humid. Maybe I'll get some more mottled leaves. If not, then I'll chop and prop and make a bushier plant and live with the green leaves, they are still pretty. But for me, my most disappointing plant is the pink princess. I hate it. I despise it with every fiber of my being. I paid $7 for the first one, pre-pandemic, and I paid $12 for the second one, last year. I have four of them now and they all grow horribly. Every single one of them has the same problem - the leaves get stuck while trying to emerge. Every single leaf. Why haven't I tossed them out? I'm not a plant murderer 😂
I don't personally have one, but a friend of mine does have one. Midwestern US, so we've got very hot and humid summers. My friend hates this plant, even in the height of the summer hers throws leaves that are meh at best.
Alocasia Jacklyn is a bamboozle! I didn't know about the poaching scandal but I've tried to grow this plant in my home several times and it always dies for no reason. My Alocasia Reticulata has grown great, for me btw.
Ugh I’ve had a melano for 4 years and it’s the most annoying plant in my collection, they leaves either don’t properly form or they just never size up bigger than a fist 🤦🏼♀️
I had mine for 2 years now, from a tiny 7cm leaf to 80cm leaf now. I have it on a 2 meter moss pole outside the garden in a very bright area, with aroid mix. And I water it everyday. But I live in a tropical zone.
Oh man I’m glad to know the history of the Jacklyn now. I’ve been humming and hawing over it for the past few weeks since I learned about it. Yucky people
I don't know if I have a Monstera BMF with super good genes or something, but mine grows very nicely and quite fast too (indoors in Finland). One of my favourites, definitely.
I have a Paraiso Verde, but it's not variegated. It has 3 stems which makes it fuller, and I think the problem with the one you showed was that it's stretching. My leaf nodes are much closer together, almost on top of each other. I love it.
Yeah... I don't know any Espírito Santo that was no stolen from Brazil. It has been a long long time that Espírito Santo was not being sold because the extinction danger. But yet, many Americans have and Europeans and whoever can pay for the stolen plant
Oh my gosh… some plant communities in Australia have been showing a ‘pink monstera’ 🤦🏼♀️ philo pink princess x monstera. Still up to their rubbish schemes
Hiya! I have an Alocasia Tandurusa because my Partner brought it home for me thinking it was a Philo. He found it at a local Dollar store & it was untagged and selling for $15 (US). I don't hate it, actually! Growing quite fast & I do rather like the look of it. I've followed the controversy over it and it doesn't phase me. I will keep it growing with my other Aroids & Orchids and see how it sizes up. I do particularly like the "Voo Doo Lily-esque" Petioles and I'm quite glad one made it's way home to me! 👍🌱☺️
I remember watching your pink Congo video. I love the reverted form. Not a fan of pink plants. I have seen the pink Congo on Ebay recently. I have an alocasia jak I did know anything about the conspiracy. I love it. I didn't know about poaching. My love for mine is not diminished but I so understand why it might.
Like the pink Congo there was a thing afew yrs ago with dyed moth orchids, blue was the usual colour around but other colours too, it did say on the label it was dyed but I could not get my head round paying £30 £40 for a dyed white one you could get for £10, but people did
I have a Jacklyn. I like it a lot. I heard about the controversy, but already had the plant. Not gonna punish the victim, so it still thrives in my cabinet. Would I buy it knowing what I know now? Probably only if it was being sold sans the name Jacklyn.
The Brandy; the Melano; the Pariso; the Gigas have been my biggest dissapointments. Of course the Pink Princess, but I haven't given up on that one for some reason. I also couldn't get the Peru to grow. Gave it away. How about a video of plants that out performed your expectations.
I actually got a paraiso and a jaclyn a couple of weeks ago and then just learned a few days ago about the paraiso needing heat for the variegation. Which completely explains why it's only putting out green leaves in my 70 degree living room. Super disappointed, but I don't think I paid that much for it so I'm just sucking it up. The Jaclyn I had no idea about the back story of it. I saw an adult and thought it was gorgeous, so when I saw someone selling a smaller plant with a couple of leaves, I grabbed it. The day it got here ll of the leaves were curled up really bad. I've lost one so far, but I had to put it in perlite in a plastic cup humidity chamber under a grow light and it's still not really doing anything Still a bit curled but I'm just disappointed. Definitely not what I was expecting. The adansonii actually explains a lot. I bought. single leaf cutting of a vareigated one (not a mint) and no matter what I do for it, it's just curled on the edges and feels dry, even though it's not. We live and we learn I guess. Thank you for always giving us the best info!
Personally I love the philodendron paraiso verde, I live in a tropical climate so the heat sensitive variegation isn't a problem, and I've found that once they get high amounts of light, and regular feed the peioles don't get too dangly.
Variegated devil's backbone. Had it on my WL and the same day I bought it I started to hate it. I still have it even if I have cut it back and not watered it for months. So it's strong and survives against all odds but ... Nah thanks.
Would be cool if you did a video similar to this one, but instead of plants that let us down, it’s plants that you predict WILL let us down (like we are currently living in a hype).
I highly disagree with few of the plants specially the strawberry shake, I wish I could share my one’s picture here but it’s massive and I chopped it down several time and grew few and sold few too.
My parasio verde has grown so big and mottled varigation. I kep it under light and a heat mat in th winter as a baby. Put it outside in humidity and sun on a pole and she busted loose. She's gorgeous.
I had a tandurusa and I couldn’t look at it in the same way after hearing the poaching story…not that I’m so righteous or virtuous in any way, but it marred the plant for me. Still think it looks cool, but I’ll never own it again
I got lucky with my strawberry shake baby. Its so beautiful and got sold to me way too cheap. It has lots of pink in it. I didnt understand the hate because of the one I got, but when I looked more into it, I found out I was really lucky
late to the party, but my rare disappointment goes to the p. jose bueno: not bueno at all when I found out the elder variegated leaves were turning from creamy to green-ish 😪
I love my tundurusa. I think it looks so cool…the shape is so unique. That one felt personal, i never that or herd any one say that this plant was disappointing
I got three paraiso Verde on sale too cheap to pass up at a grocery store. They do grow well, and multiple vines in the pot helps the look a lot. I've accepted the fact they are going to be green, but I do like the bright pink ruffled edges on the leaves 😊
Yeah, it doesn’t hurt when they’re cheap! 😂 Still a cute plant, even green. Just don’t spend an arm and a leg expecting it to look like the pictures lol. But then again, Kaylee and some others don’t like the growth pattern. Subjective, but understandable
She wants to see our plants but what platform should we send her photos on! I have a bushy Pictum Tricolor and I want to show her that beauty’s potential 😄
I need to say, my Pictum Tricolour is a freaking bush. It wanted a bit more of a shady place, not that much light. Also regular feeds. I kinda neglected it and, but it flourished. One of my most favourite plants ❤
I got my burle Marx flame to grow by putting it under a lot of light. Like really close to the light. Its slower but it does grow. It grew around 8 leaves in a year from a single leaf cutting.
O AND ....Your skin is GLOWING IN THIS VIDEO!!! SO BEAUTIFUL ❤
She's gorgeous, but it's the ring light - it's what they do.
Noooooo, not jacklyn! I love mine 😂
Same!
I love mine too, I got my corm from a friend. It's shitty It got famous in such shady circumstances but now this plant is beeing mass produced via TC so no worry about poaching. Also in lower light its not getting those light chlorotic spots on a leaf.
I love them too!!
Love it when Kaylee Ellen comes on! I click so fast, and my work days go by so much faster!! 😂❤
The common spider plant disappoints me. Lol “oh! These are so easy to grow!” “Is a great beginner plant “.
No. They aren’t. They hate me, my house, my humidity, just everything. Lol
Haha. Me too. I just dumped the last one into the bin. Never again. Well, maybe if someone gives me a few babies for free, but I'm never going to spend another cent on them.
Yes, thousands of them grow around my house as a perennial ground cover. Put one in a pot and it’s half dead in a month. Tried one in the greenhouse.. dead. lol!
Wait to water them till when the leaves look silvery instead of straight green. I used to kill them all the time and now I got like this huge crazy mom plant and another at my office from doing that
@@myheartsvagina ok, going to give it another try!🙂
Our Spider plants do fantastic in both a S and W window as they like a lot of light. The S one gets moderate to high humidity (kitchen). I have a small one thriving in an E window tho it gets dry tips cos humidity lower in there. Also, like my syngoniums, it doesn’t tolerate my local tapwater at allll. So it gets captured rainwater, melted snow, or distilled water.
I was not ready for the Drycolor reveal😭😭😭
oh my god my lupium is the most disappointing plant I own. And for some reason I still try to get my spindly vine growing. Ugh
Calathea white fusion!! 🤦♀️ it’s beautiful! But pest magnet! If a plant is going to get a pest! It’s that one!
I've had two philodendron snowdrift, both died. I was very disappointed with it. The pink princess and white princess are awesome.
I didn't know about the Jacklyn- I do have one and I love it 😊
Growing it in minus 2 degrees 😅😅😅
Can’t wait to try your new fertiliser. Last year I used liquid gold leaf but didn’t notice any improvement in my plants. I ordered your fertiliser about a week ago and it’s not been dispatched yet , any idea how long it takes for delivery ? Thank you 🙏
I reember buying tiny tiny lupinum and silver sword very exited and hating thwm right after....
Philodendron serpens disappointed me sooooo much with allll the efn burn and just doesnt root into mosspoles
In regards to the fake pinks...
Do you think the variegated micans is potentially just failed attempts at the pink micans? It's variegation does tend to look pinkish (for now let's set aside how the plant looks sick af I guess)...🤔 I have no experience with the var micans (because again, it looks ill) at all, just speculation
Pink princess....
Its not considered a rare plant anymore I don't think, but the ultimate cat fish has to be the philodendron pink princess. It looks amazing as a baby plant, but just looks shit as it starts growing. It looks better once it hits the mature stage, but getting it there is a pain in the bud with all the leggyness, leaves getting stuck or rotting off before they can unfurl. The subreddits are full of people asking for help with their PPP for a reason.
You are glowing with confidence! Something has changed or else you have a really good night last night 🤭😛 bow chicka wow wow
😂 the Paraiso verde catfishing everyone 😂
I’m still determined to like it! I’m convincing myself it’ll lighten up in the summer and that’ll make it worth it 🤣 At least I got it cheap lol
@@ohrats731 me too I haven’t given up hope ……yet😬
Me too, I put mine in my conservatory, it size up but the variegation is not there. I will propagate it now.
I have mine growing indoor by the doorway and it is growing perfectly. That being said, I live in the tropics 😊
Im still trying, I now have 6 plants as ive propped it and we are still green!!! It gets 25’c and under grow lights, I love to know how friggin warm and bright it needs to variegate
My Burle Marx flame actually grows quickly but I'm in S FL. I get about a new leaf a month with my latest leaf the size of a dinner plate. Nothing disappointing in my experience
Same for me tbh. Mine grows very nicely. And not gangely at all. The oposite happened. I had to use an execto knife in order to chop it, since the internodal spacing was so damn narrow. I had mine in bright light, high humidity and gave it a mosspole.
youre in S FL lmao youre absolutely spoiled 😅 of course its grown fast and is sizing up
Philodendron Brandtianum, I wish someone would have told me what a shite grower this plant was, and there is no bushy trailing to be had. It took me way too long to give up on this plant, because I was not hearing chatter so I thought it was purely me. Ugh, now I can't get rid of this plant because I think everyone is aware of how bad it is.
I threatened to throw mine away and it finally started giving me leaves again. We’ll see what happens 😅 gave me two beautiful leaves but now it’s back to its shenanigans. My two moss poles I have are pink princess and brandtianum and I’m constantly thinking I should demote them and from pole status and give my other plants a go. 🥲
Ugh seriously
I almost bought one in Walmart the other day, glad I didn’t lol
I warn people at the nursery whenever I see them considering one. We need to look out for each other, right?
Oh my god, I was JUST looking at mine and snarling at it right before I read your comment!! Mine is on a bamboo circle and the stem grows like crazy but not the leaves. I was just thinking of trashing it this years. Or rather, sitting it outside this spring...survival of the fittest! Maybe it'll perk up outside. I've had it for three years and given it the best conditions I could indoors!
Pink princess philodendron attracted me to plants to begin with. I bought a baby, and I have never had more than a splash of pink. I’ve almost tossed it a few times. That said, now I love beautiful green plants and I’m happy I fell for the Pink Princess to lead me to this hobby.
PPP was in such high demand that people were propagating it like crazy and selling every one of their cuttings without any quality control. I bought two small plants in 2021, one of them has completely reverted and is currently sitting in the compost bin and the other, which has shown just a tiny bit of variegation, has been chopped and propped this afternoon to see if I can get a bit more variegation on the propagates. Anyway, they can be really pretty but there are so many bad ones out there that I feel like it gained a bad reputation.
I only love the pink princess because I happen to love the reverted, dark green version. I suggest getting an extremely highly variegated specimen. I’ve been seeing a highly variegated, marbled, tissue cultured, version in big box stores. It seems stable.
Try propagating it a lot mine had only a few speckles here and there so I cut the whole thing up and put it under more light and now I’m getting almost half moon leaves
@@kayleeradney954 oh wow! I just might do that! I tried cutting off the top, but it didn’t seem to help much. Drastic measures may be necessary. ;)
You should just buy a different specimen that has more pink on it when you buy it. I've had one for a couple years, every leaf has bubblegum pink cuteness and it got root rot so I just chopped her up and if anything the new leaves are even MORE pink and stunning. It's such a good plant when you get a nice one, give it another chance now that they're cheap! Just buy one with lots of pink online where you can choose a specific specimen.
Melanochrysum… beautiful plant, impossible to size up
From my experience it actually sizes up quickly, currently at 50 cm leaves
For sure. Such a picky plant. There are so many other philos that size up quickly with way less effort.
I've been through 2, gave up. And I'm fine with that.
But really Kaylee…tell us…does the Burle Marx flame not grow???😂😂😂
IT JUST DOES NOT GROW!
@@KayleeEllenOfficial I was cracking up how many times you repeated this. 🤣
I love my Paraiso Verde! She is super gorgeous when in bright light and hot. The color is fantastic. Truly a fave.
Regarding the Tandurusa, I was very active in the FB groups back then when it suddenly popped up. Jacklyn openly admitted to poaching it, saying that she pulled it out of the ground and snuck it onto the plane back to the states. She tried to defend herself quite a bit after she got a lot of shit for it, which didn't go well. Many of the posts were deleted but there are screenshots of the person's original posts and the comment sections, albeit difficult to find.
But her plant sparkled the popularity. It's not the mother of the millions of tissue culture plants out there.
Alocasia Stingray. The best it ever looked was the day I bought it at my local shop. Years later, I still have everything else I bought that day.
Agreed
Oh wow I love my stingray. It grows real well for me.
so today I bought both a stingray and a tandera... i'll cherish it while i can 😂
My Stingray growa well for me. We've had our ups and downs due to spider mites but we love each other.
I purchase my stingray as starter. It grew inside, but once I put that outside during the Spring and summer, it took off. I love this plant and you know what else does too? Spidermites.
Man, i was SO into the plant communities and all the drama in 2020. Its wild to kind of have fallen out of it for +-3 years and now im coming back to it. Oh my god the pink congo throwback
Was coming in to say the Lupinum, LOL. I bought one from you in 2020 (I'm in the states) and was able to save it from the shipping trauma but my god it still likes to pretend it is on the brink of absolute death. But it's still putting out leaves! Small ones, still in small form but we've had several rescue missions.
Looking forward to purchasing from you again in the future! I love your channel and have been here for years. Looking forward to the day your feed may be available across the pond. :)
I'd absolutely be interested in watching your personal plant list of Disappointments!
I love my paraiso verde. My plant room stays about 80 degrees and it’s in high light so mine is always variegated.
I find the Monstera Burle Marx Flame grow at a very decent pace. I mean, it grow at the same speed as my Thaï Constellation, which isn't fast, but decent. Actually I find both very similar in speed og growth and amount of happiness the give me: both mature quickly, both dont give me leggy stems etc... But I keep mine in dry air and blast it with south facing window sun. It's suspected to come from an even dryer forest than "sierrana" so I kind of treat it like a cacti/aroid hybrid.
I don’t know what it is about my Pink Princess but she’s been nothing but bad vibes and gnarly leaves. My mom has the mother plant and it’s 10+ years old and massive but all the pieces I’ve gotten from her have been disappointments.
I am from where the Alocasia Jacklyne just grow in some people’s backyards (if you’re in the countryside in the mountainous area), I’m not sure I would call it poaching if it’s from someone’s backyard. Locals called it Tandu Rusa which means Stag Horns.
No it’s not poaching if it’s native to your country or land but it is poaching for people to go into the forest that are protected and take them after they have completely wiped the plants from where they could be found regularly.
I recently got at a small paraiso verde for $7 on clearance. At that price point its just a fun plant to try out.
Also, if you live in a place with strong seasonal changes it basically becomes a temperature blanket plant 🤣
Those Alocasia Pollys were always a trap 😭
So the disappointment of my life was philodendron verrucosum. Their growth pattern is horrible as their stems elongate to reach god in heavens and they just have this toxic relationship with spider mites, I just can't with that plant.🙅🏻♀️
Lol to reach god in heaven!!
This is my rare plant disappointment as well
LOL! I thought I was the only one who feels this way. I have done everything to include cutting the plant back and it always get mites no matter what.
Sunshine Greens is still out there on Etsy selling pink Congo and much worse
Cercestis Mirabilis is one of my favorite plants, leaves bigger than Gloriosum and she still has the juvenile pattern on the leaves. Also super easy to propagate
I put mine into pon and it’s been super happy. The leaves are sizing up nicely, it’s fine in ambient humidity and indirect light. It is a slow grower but the pay off when you get a new leaf is worth it and it’s been super easy to care for (at least for me).
I'm on my 3rd attempt with Philodendron Florida Beauty. I love the way they look, but they fail to thrive for me every time. My Florida Ghost is big and beautiful. Florida Beauty? Leaves turning brown and dropping at a rapid rate.
Plants aside... Your earrings are super cute ❤
Calathea. White. Fusion. My second ever houseplant. Scarred me for life
Ohmygod yes 😭😂 it was in my second round of plant purchases ever, I about gave up on the whole hobby. It took a good 4 months to finally die with me trying everything I could to save it 🥲
They’re so finicky! They want super high humidity, lots of indirect light, and so much water but not wet soil. I splash mine with water daily. Then change nothing. They want all conditions consistent or they pitch a total diva tantrum.
Also would love to hear Kaylee’s person top disappointing plants
My monstera Flame 🔥 is a super fast grower puts out a leaf every month almost 5 feet tall now. It came from Ecuagenera. don’t give up on this plant😊
Yes, very disappointed in the Aglaonema Pictus tricolor.
I chose the Dieffenbachia Reflector.
I love mine.
My Homolomena Camoflauge is a really great (and MUCH CHEAPER) dupe for the A. Tricolor. I have a Diff Reflector and I love it!
The Alocasia Tandarusa (Jacklyn) is one of my absolute favs, just trying to actually grow one…
One of my big disappointments is the Rhaphidophora Decursiva, dragons tail. SNAIL growth! I’m still waiting for a new leaf 1.5 years in
I PROMISE you the Dieff Cheetah is the answer to the Pictum Tricolor. The leaves are big with bold green camouflage pattern and it’s WAY easier to grow. My plants puts out a leaf every 2 weeks and even faster during the growing season
I stay away from “jacklyn.” Like you said, the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth. I’m sure there are now-common plants in my collection that had poaching/collection/exporting controversies back in the day which have been forgotten by the general public over the years. But I can’t see a tandurusa without thinking about the whole 2020 situation
I have a paraiso verde. I paid $12 Canadian for it. The first leaf that came out in my home was full on green. Am I disappointed? Meh, whatever. Summer is coming and those of you that live in Ontario know that our summers are hot and humid. Maybe I'll get some more mottled leaves. If not, then I'll chop and prop and make a bushier plant and live with the green leaves, they are still pretty.
But for me, my most disappointing plant is the pink princess. I hate it. I despise it with every fiber of my being. I paid $7 for the first one, pre-pandemic, and I paid $12 for the second one, last year. I have four of them now and they all grow horribly. Every single one of them has the same problem - the leaves get stuck while trying to emerge. Every single leaf. Why haven't I tossed them out? I'm not a plant murderer 😂
I don't personally have one, but a friend of mine does have one. Midwestern US, so we've got very hot and humid summers. My friend hates this plant, even in the height of the summer hers throws leaves that are meh at best.
Alocasia Jacklyn is a bamboozle! I didn't know about the poaching scandal but I've tried to grow this plant in my home several times and it always dies for no reason. My Alocasia Reticulata has grown great, for me btw.
Jose Buono disappointed me, because reverted quickly after bringing it home…
Kevin from Hakunalaplanta loves his Burle Marx Flame. He just mentioned in his March favorites about how fast his grows
Everything grows so fast for Kevin. He’s magical
Ugh I’ve had a melano for 4 years and it’s the most annoying plant in my collection, they leaves either don’t properly form or they just never size up bigger than a fist 🤦🏼♀️
I had mine for 2 years now, from a tiny 7cm leaf to 80cm leaf now. I have it on a 2 meter moss pole outside the garden in a very bright area, with aroid mix. And I water it everyday. But I live in a tropical zone.
I was SURE Frozen Freckles would be on the list! I'm still tempted by TC Jacklyn - it looks so prehistoric!
Kaylee, I’m so happy you mentioned pink Congo… I literally lol’d when you said “did someone say scandal?”
Oh man I’m glad to know the history of the Jacklyn now. I’ve been humming and hawing over it for the past few weeks since I learned about it. Yucky people
Yes, I’m going to skip that one now as well.
I think burle marxe flame is a great one for people who have enough space to put it in a corner and forget about it. Long-term project.
I have a Parasio Verde and i love it. I want a Burle Marx Flame, and Adansoni Mint, but now i need to reevaluate that.
I don't know if I have a Monstera BMF with super good genes or something, but mine grows very nicely and quite fast too (indoors in Finland). One of my favourites, definitely.
I have a Paraiso Verde, but it's not variegated. It has 3 stems which makes it fuller, and I think the problem with the one you showed was that it's stretching. My leaf nodes are much closer together, almost on top of each other. I love it.
Yeah... I don't know any Espírito Santo that was no stolen from Brazil. It has been a long long time that Espírito Santo was not being sold because the extinction danger. But yet, many Americans have and Europeans and whoever can pay for the stolen plant
Oh my gosh… some plant communities in Australia have been showing a ‘pink monstera’ 🤦🏼♀️ philo pink princess x monstera.
Still up to their rubbish schemes
Haha, new zealand is even worse 🤦🏼♀️🤣
Hiya! I have an Alocasia Tandurusa because my Partner brought it home for me thinking it was a Philo. He found it at a local Dollar store & it was untagged and selling for $15 (US). I don't hate it, actually! Growing quite fast & I do rather like the look of it. I've followed the controversy over it and it doesn't phase me. I will keep it growing with my other Aroids & Orchids and see how it sizes up. I do particularly like the "Voo Doo Lily-esque" Petioles and I'm quite glad one made it's way home to me! 👍🌱☺️
I don’t know a single person who has the verde that doesn’t curse it 😀🇨🇦
I totally agree you with Paraiso Verde, monstera peru Verigated and Adansonii Verigated, strawberry shake😊 disappointed with them
Xanthosoma Mickey Mouse or whatever tf it’s called!! One of my first BIGGGG purchases and it was UGLY and DIED😭😭
I remember watching your pink Congo video. I love the reverted form. Not a fan of pink plants. I have seen the pink Congo on Ebay recently.
I have an alocasia jak I did know anything about the conspiracy. I love it. I didn't know about poaching. My love for mine is not diminished but I so understand why it might.
Like the pink Congo there was a thing afew yrs ago with dyed moth orchids, blue was the usual colour around but other colours too, it did say on the label it was dyed but I could not get my head round paying £30 £40 for a dyed white one you could get for £10, but people did
For me personally, phalaenopsis and dendrobiums ain’t it. They grow so slowly and are fussy, I just can’t be bothered
My Lupinum has been small for three years now. My hederaceum grows bigger leaves.
I have a Jacklyn. I like it a lot. I heard about the controversy, but already had the plant. Not gonna punish the victim, so it still thrives in my cabinet. Would I buy it knowing what I know now? Probably only if it was being sold sans the name Jacklyn.
The Brandy; the Melano; the Pariso; the Gigas have been my biggest dissapointments. Of course the Pink Princess, but I haven't given up on that one for some reason. I also couldn't get the Peru to grow. Gave it away.
How about a video of plants that out performed your expectations.
YES! The Verrocosum and Brandi. I will never purchase those again.
I actually got a paraiso and a jaclyn a couple of weeks ago and then just learned a few days ago about the paraiso needing heat for the variegation. Which completely explains why it's only putting out green leaves in my 70 degree living room. Super disappointed, but I don't think I paid that much for it so I'm just sucking it up. The Jaclyn I had no idea about the back story of it. I saw an adult and thought it was gorgeous, so when I saw someone selling a smaller plant with a couple of leaves, I grabbed it. The day it got here ll of the leaves were curled up really bad. I've lost one so far, but I had to put it in perlite in a plastic cup humidity chamber under a grow light and it's still not really doing anything Still a bit curled but I'm just disappointed. Definitely not what I was expecting.
The adansonii actually explains a lot. I bought. single leaf cutting of a vareigated one (not a mint) and no matter what I do for it, it's just curled on the edges and feels dry, even though it's not.
We live and we learn I guess. Thank you for always giving us the best info!
Update: The jaclyn unalive itself into a pile of mush.
Personally I love the philodendron paraiso verde, I live in a tropical climate so the heat sensitive variegation isn't a problem, and I've found that once they get high amounts of light, and regular feed the peioles don't get too dangly.
*Crying in Midwest USA*
I’m just getting mine started in Central Florida and I’m so excited for it.
Variegated devil's backbone. Had it on my WL and the same day I bought it I started to hate it. I still have it even if I have cut it back and not watered it for months. So it's strong and survives against all odds but ... Nah thanks.
Would be cool if you did a video similar to this one, but instead of plants that let us down, it’s plants that you predict WILL let us down (like we are currently living in a hype).
I highly disagree with few of the plants specially the strawberry shake, I wish I could share my one’s picture here but it’s massive and I chopped it down several time and grew few and sold few too.
I live in Cairns Qld ..Australia ....the wet tropics ....and monstera aurea does my head in !!
The A Pictum Tricolor is seeing a massive resurgence in Florida and they’re selling 4” plants for $100. I don’t understand the frenzy.
My parasio verde has grown so big and mottled varigation. I kep it under light and a heat mat in th winter as a baby. Put it outside in humidity and sun on a pole and she busted loose. She's gorgeous.
I had a tandurusa and I couldn’t look at it in the same way after hearing the poaching story…not that I’m so righteous or virtuous in any way, but it marred the plant for me. Still think it looks cool, but I’ll never own it again
Pilea peperomioides 🤦🏻♀️ why can’t I grow them
I got lucky with my strawberry shake baby. Its so beautiful and got sold to me way too cheap. It has lots of pink in it. I didnt understand the hate because of the one I got, but when I looked more into it, I found out I was really lucky
Yes, I have a Burle Marx Flame. It does not grow! Well, it does, insanely slowly, almost 4 leaves per year.
Me in the corner with my tandera and paraiso verde: Sjj, don't listen to the big mean screen, I still care for you
😁
late to the party, but my rare disappointment goes to the p. jose bueno: not bueno at all when I found out the elder variegated leaves were turning from creamy to green-ish 😪
I want an Adonsonii mint but the specimens I'm seeing have the worst varigation. That's what's disappointing
I just bought a large Andisoni at my local Lowe's for 12$ on sale.
I love my tundurusa. I think it looks so cool…the shape is so unique. That one felt personal, i never that or herd any one say that this plant was disappointing
I got three paraiso Verde on sale too cheap to pass up at a grocery store. They do grow well, and multiple vines in the pot helps the look a lot. I've accepted the fact they are going to be green, but I do like the bright pink ruffled edges on the leaves 😊
Yeah, it doesn’t hurt when they’re cheap! 😂 Still a cute plant, even green. Just don’t spend an arm and a leg expecting it to look like the pictures lol. But then again, Kaylee and some others don’t like the growth pattern. Subjective, but understandable
Pilea peperomioides or however its spelled. I could never seem to get a well balanced plant with consistent growth habit.
My Burle Marx flame doesn’t grow! It’s so frustrating.
Philodendron Subhastatum is a disappointment for me,. Its red underside of the leaf disappears as it matures…
She wants to see our plants but what platform should we send her photos on! I have a bushy Pictum Tricolor and I want to show her that beauty’s potential 😄
Instagram! I don’t have the app but her handle should be linked in the description under this video 😊
Try growing Catasetum orchids indoors....
Kaylee bringing the mint drama back again 🙈🫣
I loved the "jacklyn" online but when I saw how hairy it was in person , I knew it would be epidermis heaven!
I need to say, my Pictum Tricolour is a freaking bush. It wanted a bit more of a shady place, not that much light. Also regular feeds. I kinda neglected it and, but it flourished. One of my most favourite plants ❤
It's a Thai con 2.0 absolute waste one leaf in nearly a year ...just can't look at it 😢
My varigated peru has popped out a ton of new leaves and none are varigated 😑 though it didnt crisp up so there is that. So disappointing