“you can take your monstera frosted doorknob and shove it up your philodendron chocolate delight.” literally the best sentence I have ever heard in my entire life
This has been one of my favourite videos you've done in a long time. 😂 love it. On the side of calling something like a philodendron brazil verigated. It is veriegated, but the name covers the fact its verigated...like you dont say verigated pink princess, you just say pink princess or a tai consolation. Once a verigation is commen enough (with maybe some tc help) and it named its still has verigation, its just stable and covered bu the name. Only thing i can think of would be like asking for a sugar free coke zero, you fell me 😄
I would say that Philodendron "Brasil" is variegated. I rather like it because it's vigorous and simple to grow, and each leaf is a bit different from the last. Yet it's green and green and so won't have any photosynthesis problems. Great rant!
My Florida beauty had very mixed variegation and I waited for it to grow 10ish big leaves b4 I propagated it. Now I have 8 babies and it’s about 50/50 with 4 mixed variegation babies and 4 babies with almost all white or green. So yeah most propagations don’t have great results
I guess I am the one person who loves and stands by Florida beauty. I have several because I like them so well. They are tolerant of lower humidity and less ideal climate and keep putting out awesome leaves.
You mention heat stress. I received a Thai Constellation in the mail with package feeling hot. I checked temperature at 107 degrees in the pot. What do I need to watch for? Thanks
“Variegated Anthuriums are mostly ugly” is also where I’m at haha. Are there enough out there for a rare plant index? I’ve seen a rare few on IG that are striking and I wonder if they’re even real haha. Love the channel ❤
i DO think something like philo brazil or cream splash are variegated, my rule of thumb is if i have to deal with reversion, than that shit is variegated (not all variegated plants revert though, obviously)
happened to me B4 if I needed to buy Hoya Kerri albo coz of shape and variegation coz I have peperomia scandens variegata which I very much liked. Upon research, the shape and variegation are dependent on light & humidity which I am not keen, so I decided not to buy and I'm glad I didn't since I cannot provide it's need while I am anyways enjoying my peperomia.
Brazil is variegated for me, can it be brazil and variegated on top of the normal brazil? No? Then what is a brazil if not variegated? I see neon pothos as variegated too, yellow variegation though :>
I almost paid $350 for a fresh cut pink Micans & Aurea Micans. I backed out as it started to feel sketchy. This rant makes me feel so much better about that decision.
Would love to see some more in depth videos on some of these points! I also would consider Philodendron Brasil to be variegated. It’s a variegated version of Philodendron Hederaceum Green. The commonality of a plant shouldn’t affect whether or not we call it variegated.
It most definitely is, quite self evidently. It also reverts to regular green hederaceum. I wouldn't sell fully reverted green hederaceum cuttings as "reverted brasil", it's just regular hederaceum at that point. That instagram comment was fully unfathomable to me. It's not a name for a special plant, it's a thing those plants do, and if someone let's themselves be fooled by believing there's something even more unique about the plant when variegation is mentioned but the plant in question is already variegated, it's on them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling it variegation when it 100% is. Variegation is just pigmen error.
I disagree on the variegation debate with brasils and tinekes. It feels lightly gatekeepery to say they’re not variegated. They are! Just not in the way that’s currently popular, almost because they’re too “perfect”. I see the same thing happening with lab-created diamonds. People pooh-pooh them and say they’re not real diamonds, because they’re too perfect and artificial when they have the same physical, chemical, and optical characteristics as a diamond found in the ground. Tinekes/brasils ARE variegated; their variegation is just more perfect - in the same way a lab-created diamond is more perfect than a ground diamond. I think acknowledging that though would almost devalue more wildly variegated plants, so people argue they’re not REALLY variegated. Plants are plants. I love both kinds!
I’d love a full info and care guide on the blue oil fern. I recently got one and the info out there is slim! Obviously I can find bits and bops here but I’d like to know someone who has had actually had what their experiences are, problems they ran into how they fixed it etc
The all variegated parts of a Halfmoon Monstera absolutely doesn't have to brown/die off at all. If it's an aurea? Hell yes, that thing will brown 100%. An albo? Nope, not if you know how to properly care for them.
So glad you did this video. Ran across a lady the other day, she was so happy she finally had a Albo but she bought a half moon an all she was getting was white leaves. Felt really bad for her. She was clueless. So thank you 💚
Dear Kaylee, that was the best 28 minutes of comedy I've seen in years!!! Sweetheart you missed your calling!! You should absolutely be be doing comedy sketches!! I can't remember the last time might laugh so hard!!! Please, please, please do more rants!! The plant nut from Hawaii sincerely, Normand Sometimes it is what is beautiful that carries us.....
I've never felt more validated. I thought my var. Florida Beauty problems were just a fluke. Love your energy in this one and "chaos rules" is a good reminder anytime I look at my plants. Gotta love unpredictable nature. Keeps me on my toes!
Kaylee I wanted to talk to you about each one until I realized you hit ut spot on. Oh my goodness You were on fire and you are an absolute smile that is so big your face hurts. Thank you! ❤
Kaylee can you elaborate on ‘blocky’ variegation looking suspect? My understanding is that variegation often does have clearly defined margins (white knight) and can appear in ‘blocks’ while disease/damage/pests will have blurry margins.
Really enjoyed this rant! I’d love to see you take down some of the facebook communities. They seem to be some of the worst. Like, someone will post a photo of a new plant they are proud of, and then people will tear them down, commenting on how much they paid, how it was over priced, that it’s a crap specimen. Whatever. So many are such toxic spaces where people just seem to be dicks.
Omg I remember watching your video about the chemically variegated plants. I saw a big “local” seller sell a pink micans plant for over 500 dollars I was like oh noooo
I loooove this video :D Some var plants look like they are on the verge of dying due to spidermite attack. I;ve never understood that "mint" phenomenon except for the real monstera mint var 💚
I love this rant especially in her accent. But its true, I love variegation but the tricks out here from some of these sellers are a trip. When she said, get that ish checked out from the mother plant, hilarious. I recently left my pink princess outside in the sun too long and the burning looks a hot mess.
Oh man, the Florida beauty thing. Third time was the charm for me, at least so far, but I’m currently scared to breathe too close to it because I’m getting a high variegation leaf then a low variegation leaf, then high, then low, etc. Not 100% either way yet, but I need to sacrifice a goat to the plant gods or something because I won’t cope if it goes full flip flop.
I’d definitely say philodendron brazil is variegated, but it’s just not the kind of variegation we usually associate with when we talk about it. Brazil is a variegated cultivar of philodendron hederaceum, along with other cultivars of it like Rio, Cream Splash, etc. They can also definitely revert back to all green, which is what happens to all non systemic variegation. I have a Brazil myself and some vines have definitely reverted on me.
The thing that kills me is people killing themselves searching for carnivals or gabbys but to me all the cultivars of them legit all look the same. None more spectacular than another type but some cost x4 as much.
When you said … looks like a bird 💩 on the leaf. The first thing that came to mind is variegated Alocasia Frydek !! I have not seen too many I actually like! Anyone else?
I would call p. Brasil variegated, because it is. But I wouldn't label it "p. Brasil variegated" since that's unnecessary, or label it "philodendron hedaraceum variegated" since it has a cultivar name already
There are some variegations that I love, I find them absolutely beautiful, even if it makes them diva plants. There are others I really don't like (yellow variegations, I always have the feeling a plant is sick; pink variegations, not my colour;...) But I can't afford to buy a well established plant and all. I saved money for my birthday and went to a plant fair, I got a head cutting with 3 leaves of a montera variegata (it was at the end of April, the plant rooted superbly and gave me a beautiful new leaf) and I bought a single tiny leaf of alocasia frydek variegata, because I can't afford a bigger one. It's still pretty small, but it gave me already 5 new leaves and it keeps going. It get bigger each time and it's so pretty. Recently I stumbled across a calathea white fusion, I know it's a diva, but I gave it a try, because I think they are so beautiful. It was the first time I was seeing one in a shop, it wasn't very expensive (like 12€) so I went for it. I'm sure it'll struggle along the way, but I'll do my best to keep it happy. I can understand the hate, but I like some variegations.
This was nothing short of f#%king brilliant. As an ‘Albo’ Daddy, it’s been a crazy roller coaster ride. Wish I had this video as a guide when I first started collecting all the ‘Albo’s.’
I Did not expect to be laughing my ass off while clicking onto this random video… 😂 an informative comedy… you are so entertaining to listen to 🤓😂take my like and subscription!
😂 You crack me up Kaylee! I just love you! Your humor is unlike any other! Keep it up girl! Love it! Frosted doorknob! Lol what?! 🤣 Thanks for the laugh, thank you so so much! 😂❤ This is probably my favorite video yet on here.
I like how enthusiastic she is in this video. It shows just how passionate she is about innocent people getting scammed by scumbags that sell crappy cuttings that are fated to die.
I have 3 pink Princesses and the only one I've never had to worry about the leaves buckling is the one that I keep in front of the window in the bathroom.
Kaylee just going off unhinged for 28 minutes straight was a treat. As someone who started their plant journey with a variegated plant I relate to this so much 😂 But I'm obsessed with them so this is life now 😅🤷♂️
I listened to this again. I've been looking for a Florida Beauty, and all the ones I've found are miss-ID of Florida green with no variegation. I adore these rants, because I see things labeled as weird names, I've put in the correct information and they don't like me pointing out inaccuracies. I point it out, not to be mean, so people new to things can double check their facts. So thank you for your great work and help. Your honesty and integrity is absolutely amazing.
Great video! I never understood the sun stress thing. I see people selling Hoyas and they put “sun stressed” in the title like that’s a good thing. 🤦🏾♀️ Like you said, why would you want a stressed plant?
I spent 120 on a variegated philodendron I wouldn’t have bought because I already had one, albeit smaller, because of what I found out after watching a previous video of yours was just sun/heat stress. I wish I’d seen your video and this video BEFORE I bought it. It’s gorgeous and well established but the reason I bought it isn’t what I thought 😞
Just observed a seller selling a M. ALBO that had top leaves 🍃, all white, for considerably more than moderate variegation on her other ALBOS...THIS RANT IS NEEDED FOR EDUCATION FOR THE MORE IGNORANT AMONG US...
I made the mistake of buying a half moon monstera aurea and I finally just cut it back to the base after a year of full green, half moon (moon side dies off), full green, half moon (moon side dies off), etc. The original leaf is still alive and has the normal marbled variegation so I'm hoping it grows out that way this time around.
Oops I brought a Monsterra Peru. Lol. I only paid $20. I just brought. Pink Princess, Alocasia Black Velvet, Philodendron Silver Sword, and a Sansevieria Whale Fin. Each for under $20. All in 6 inch pots.
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Omg... omg... omg i got an idea for next rant video! Importing plants!111
Serendipity? Fate? You mentioned Whipple Way and that reminded me to check and see what prices were like these days.... what comes up on my Etsy search (is it me or is Etsy really getting weird lately?) but a "Variegated Philodendron House plant". It's a Philodendron Brazil. Put me in the camp who finds it annoying to label a Brazil a "Variegated Philodendron House plant".
I would call them variegated in a technical term...like in a teaching moment. However, if I was clocking the variegated plants I owned then I would not count them within that variegated "trophy" category. Maybe it is that kinda....All pansies are violas, but not all violas are pansies...🤷🏽♀️
You’re my absolute fav! Sooo clever and entertaining! I could watch/listen ALL DAY! You’d be a really successful radio host! Yup I accidentally ripped off the top growth of my pink princess doing that exactly , it was caterpilling and trying to help it, I broke it right off.. Isn’t the Brazil a variegated version of the heart leaf? I don’t know if it’s own plant honestly or a hybrid there’s different info online. I honestly prefer the natural forms of plants and animals, I’m not interested in a verigated hybrid that someone’s made. There’s a reason it didn’t do that in the wild. I like my plants to last.
This video really cracked me up 😂😂😂 I completely agree with the ridiculous names people are giving plants with “cool” variegation…. Can we just not????? 🤣
I don’t know what it is maybe the valid rage or what but your energy is hitting and your humour in this one is also deadly like dude can i subscribe again 🤣🙌🤣💙 plus extra points for the “i sell it but don’t buy it” comment the amount of times in different jobs I have said that 😂🙌 Honesty rage with love and I’m hear for it !
The absolute weirdest variegation in my opinion is Dracena Surculosa "gold dust"/"dotted gold" etc. To me it's the most sickly looking variegated plant I've personally ever seen. I got one as a gift which is how I came to know about it. I honestly hope it will lose the variegation for most part and become majority neon instead. That is, if I even keep it anymore. I also might or might not have let pests torture it previously, although I've payed my penances since. However, now that it's been growing during the summer again it's getting into the "so gross it's cool" gategory for me for not being absolutely hideous but more so WTF-inducing. I realize this could have been a comment on the ugly variegation video instead, but it popped into my mind here instead.
I'm curious to know your response on Techplant calling you out on his newest video for using "stupid names" like Thai version1/version2 (when we all know he's taking it out of context, but still).
I'm on the side that Brazil and Tineke are variegated. Variegated just means multi-colored, so any leaves that have multiple shades are variegated. It feels kinda gate-keeping like to claim otherwise, in my opinion.
😂😂😂 , yo no tengo ninguna planta variegada , no se pero no las veo tan tan atractivas ....ohhh perdón , tengo un Philodendro black Knight y está ok y la más modesta pero no por ello menos hermosa. el philo painted lady , bueno en verdad me gusta hasta la hierba y es verdeeeee 😂😂😂🤣🤣 , en fin creo que es cuestión de edad , llevo cultivando más de 35 años y me gusta lo que me gusta y fin . 💌
The philodendron brazil is literally variegated. You wouldnt call it a variegated brazil, but it is a variegated philodendron, I dont see why its different. Personally I just dont get why people go crazy for variegated plants.
Hi Kaylee , I enjoyed your Chanel, I’m living in London, have you got a shop which I can come over and by some plant, I’m interested in Hoya and aroid. Thanks. Ben
