I found your video on dischidias as I am trying to rescue mine. After watching your video, I think I must have over watered my small pectenoides on a sea shell!
Lol I was just complaining to my friend about the lack of detailed info on dischidias - it seems to boil down to “treat them like hoyas.” Thank you for this, I have an oiantha I’ve had for a year that I wanna keep thriving! Also your favorite Spice Girl lol i related to that deeply millennial statement
Whoaaa Im glad to be able to bring you some info on dischidia species and care! I think watering them correctly is the key to having them survive/thrive!
Before this video, never knew anything about dischidias. I have been a plant enthusiast for the last couple months or so (2 months to be exact🙂) and am so glad I found you, all your videos are very educational and entertaining to say the least. But in your videos my eyes are focused more on the backdrop, beyond the plants and into the background, hoping to catch a glimpse of that breathtaking view of a lake😍 This one did that for me so thank you. Btw before plants came along I was more of an enthusiast in beautiful interiors and its surroundings but your house is something else. Thank you again for sharing the beauty from your part of the world❤
Thank you so much for writing in! I’m happy you found your plant journey and that we are connected. Theres so many natural wonders for you to discover ahead!
So you’re a mind reader now? 😂 I was just sitting here on my lunch break at work, wishing I could find a dischidia nummularia near me. I have been looking for weeks. They are so precious. Time to relax and watch this video for the remainder of my lunch! ❤️🌿
Awesome video. Thank you! I just got my first Dischidia (pectinoides) at a wonderful nursery in the LA area that always has some goodies to discover. Years ago, I fell in love with everything about these plants (much like your expressed joy in this video) but only before my heart turned to succulents lol. I couldn't manage to keep an outstanding gifted 'Million Stars' subspecies alive and I never forgave myself. I've even found a few variegated 'stars' but only now feel the courage to try again with my new 'ant plant'. Wonderful informative video that I'll be using for reference in the future.
ahhhhhh.. i Love dischidias but now I love them even more! My favorite here is the Dischida Major 😍 Be still my heart!...or be still mine eyes! wait..uh...i don't even know if that makes sense or if I'm using that wrong. 🤦🏻♀️ Thank you for showing these beauties!
Sean tyvm for this video!! I have a Variagated million hearts and I needed to know how to care for it...now I know... And I was drooling 🤤🤤🤤 over all of your awesome HOYA's 😍😍😍. Love your Video's TYVM 😁
I got a hoya ruscifolia in early January and it has tripled or quadrupled in size! I have it planted in mostly spaghnum moss with a very thick and short spaghnum pole in the center. The only water it usually gets is when I spray the moss pole when it dries. I've noticed when I water it directly I get a couple yellow leaves. It grows faster than any of my hoyas.
I also nearly killed a dischidia, and now I realize I might have overwatered it+ from the top. Thanks for the info! Your plan collection is just so soothing to watch. 🌱 ✌️
very interesting indeed...I remember watching a YT documentary about a sycamore fig tree somewhere in the forest of an African country. What 's so interesting was that these trees, when they produce fruits, they allow wasps to live in them to help them in so many ways. Quite similar to dischidia
I just got my first dischidia at Ikea (of all places) and it is super cute and is looking very healthy even though it was absolutely soaked in water when I got it. Thanks for this very informative video. If I hadn't watched it I might actually have killed it, as I had no idea that they don't like water that much.
I bought a Dischidia Ovata today and I was SO relieved when you said it's the most forgiving one! Phew! I had never heard of this genus before and have fallen in love. So glad I found your video as there doesn't seem to be much information out there!
Thanks for writing in. Hope you have some success with your dischidia ovata. Squeeze an old leaf to test for firmness. If it folds easily and feels limp, its time to water. But if it feels hard and firm, it wants to be left alone. They are prone to overwatering
I have the oiantha variegata, didn’t do much for a year but now doing very well this summer, the ruscifolia that I’m struggling some with. I’m going to repot it in a bark mixture. The Geri, which I find pretty easy and the imbricata coming along slowly but steady. Love that rattle skull one, I’ve never seen that one. Tfs
You have made dischidia seem so much easier than anyone else has before. I now feel like I could actually grow some confidently - thank you 😊 very informative. Keep these types of videos coming!!
Haha thank you. It takes a bit of trying and failing to get them right! Just keep in mind my tips about watering (they hate water) and you will be fine!
Thank you for sharing your collection, I'm getting in dischidias now. I just got myself a cutting of dischidia nummularia & have put on a hanging medium. I can't wait for my one to get as full as yours. I love your videos 🥰
So glad to know such a good channel. I just come across this wonderful plant, discardia. Can you please take a video of how to mix or prepare the media for planting discardia? I use soil before I watch your video and they are not growing at all. Hope you can show step by step to how to propagate this wonderful plant, tqvm.
Hello, ill try to do a video on detailed dischidia care soon which will include soil and also propagation. Stay tuned and thanks for the helpful suggestion!
i never knew what these plants were called before but i remember seeing them often in gardens growing up. the dischidia major especially looks like a plant from prehistoric times, amazing! i’d love to try growing one myself, but it seems intimidating.
Hello, its not that hard to grow them! Just keep in mind they want to be attached to something rather than live in soil... and they need to dry out fast between frequent waterings.
Each plant is such a beauty... It's. Difficult to say I love this one and then you go on the next and I am like I love this one and then you go to the next and I am like here I go again... Love this one......too. Thank you so much for the tour and giving us the details.. It's Yay to Dischidia for this moment in time. Love it all 🙏❤❤
Just when you look for plant related videos and your favourite vlogger uploads new one 💚 happiness into million. I just love how your videos are long and then by the end of your videos I’m like 😴 in a positive way.. please keep uploading 🤗
Loved this video! Super informative, loved the detail you went into, and the peaceful informal vibes and the intuitive ideas around the plants and their natural states !
thank you so much for this Sean. A friend gave me a dischidia plant a few weeks ago. (I am in the PHilippines) My dischie is thriving and I am inspired by your "inverted" potting : ) Could be doing the same. Thank you again. xx
My first impression to this major is wierd and surprised. I thought it was fake rubbery imitation plants. But no, its real plant. Wird yet exotic. I bought 1 right away in a very cheap price
The coconut husks here are sold as potting media, usually for orchids. Im not sure they they are available there in your area. I’ll try to show it in another dischidia care video 😀
I love my Dischidia so I was so pleased to come across your video on care. My Oiantha propagation is slowly dying the leaves keep yellowing. I am afraid to water it. I live in zone 10B and keep it inside by an east facing window. When I put it outside was when I lost the most leaves. Please help😔
If you have enough foliage I recommend to propagate it. They are far easier to propagate than rescue. Send me images on my insta @bo.tan.ist so I can see also
Hi Shawn I just came across your video. I just recently recently purchased a dishchidia with coconut husk and I'm very excited about it. This video is very informative and I've learned alot about how to take care of this plant! I've never had a plant that was growing in coconut husk. How do I know when the plant is too big for the husk? Or how do I manage it with the husk? My husk has wire around it holding it in I can show you a picture if you like . Just want to make sure I'm gonna manage properly...thanks again !!
Hello I just propagated a plant with husk grown in a metal cage 😀 its a bit tricky with the husk, as moisture can actually reside in there for a really long time and theres no way to test the moisture before watering. The only time Im comfortable with husks these days if if I propagated them and had the plant get used to my watering habits from infancy 😅
@@onlyplants yes I'm realizing this hahha. I guess I just have to figure it out on my own. But my plant will eventually grow out of its husk? AMD how do I know ? And how do I separate it from the husk or is this something we even do? Sorry I've never taken care of plant in a husk ..i live in canada and it's not really common haha
onlyplants yeah that's the thing. It only gets soft morning light 😂 Idk how it survived! At first i put it at the best location, amazing lighting, but it starts to shrivel up.
I'm planning to order a big Dischidia Ovata with a really good price and your video came by which trigger my green light to go ahead. These dischidia definitely taking copies of strings of pearl, peperomia, hoya small leaves, some other hoya which could be made up of the Dischidia Spice Girls Hahaha Alright new genus in my wishlist. OMG I'm currently on Syngonium and Hoya craze.
so glad that i found dischidia video,i have also bought a number of dischidia from thailand and parent plant have also died ,next time please make videos on how to style them
You have to keep propagating them in order to save them haha. Plant insurance. Just remember to give them medium to bright indirect light and almost never water them.
Hi from Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA! This had been the most interesting video I have watched in a long time. I have a little watermelon Dischidia plant (cutting) and I love her more after your video! I love all the varieties you showed, would you sell some cuttings? If not, that's okay, I like your videos just the same! Have fun with your houseplants! Lillian
omg you have a beautiful collection!! i have a large plant spree coming in the mail so i watched your video for guidance on my new babies. could you share where you got those metal hanging pots with the removeable hangers i think they are so perfect!!
Hello 👋🏻 haha poor mans hoya I love it!!! But they cost so much more than hoyas here... and I have a feeling thats because they havent figured out to grow them en masse yet!
Thanks for this video! Got my Dischidia on July of this year and was trying to find a video on how to take care of it. I found none! Atleast a not so informative one. I'm having a really hard time maintaining mine to how it looked when I bought it :( now I know better, I think :)
I have a large Dischidia Ruscifolia in a 14in. pot. It hasn't been repotted in 2-3 years. Is it possible to divide the plant into to planters? I have a hard time finding a large enough hanging planter. Or can it be potted in a coco coir basket?
Ooh i would not divide it. Once the roots are disturbed they dont reattach well. You might get a lot of die backs. However, I do recommend propagating them. I have a video on the ruscifolia propagation on my channel, with updates at the end. You can cut single node cuttings for this plant 😀
Ahhh I love these! I've wanted a Dischidia nummularia (string of nickels) since I saw them growing wild in Penang last year :) So beautiful when they climb up a tree
as I am also learning a lot about hoya right now and I have several dischidia and many hoya, do you find the hoya/disch. that are almost identical also take identical care? ex. I have a few strings of curtsii and some oiantha (forgive spelling) and I am thinking about shingling them on a wooden plank. separate planks but do you think the curtsii wants the same no soil and very little water? thank you!
I'm trying to grow Dischidia Pectinoides, and a few other ant bulb leaved ones in the North of the UK.. I've tried to grow what you call the jade dragon and the watermelon (ovalia?) but sadly after lots of trying they have all died.. Your video is one of the first that says less watering is better, and with the evidence to prove it! I think the main issue I had must have been watering - but how do you maintain temp and light? The Pectinoides is now its happiest above the sink with very little direct sun at all, and quite a dark corner.. They were all quite happy up to winter, and the house sometimes went to 5 degrees or less - what would your biggest tips be for growing in the UK?
Hello I don’t think humidity affects them that much compared to other delicate houseplants but I wouldn’t stick them in low humidity next to a heater/radiator... with lower light levels in wintertime I would water them a lot less unless you can supplement them with artificial light 😀
Great and informational video! I just got a small cutting that I placed in soil. Do you recommend the zip lock method with soil or transfer it to coconut husks?
@onlyplants Hi Sean, did you do the video on Dischida grown in Thailand, how they best grow them? I couldn't find it by searching? Im in the UK and would love to get a link to this please
If you type in “onlyplants dischidia” in the youtube searchbar you should see that episode. Unfortunately I was not able to get plant care tips out of the owner as they spoke no english.
@@onlyplants ah ok. Thanks for the info, only I tried that, and couldn't find this other video unfortunately. Do you have a link please? Maybe you could find someone else from Thailand in the know. I do love this plant, it's one of my favourites and easy to look after
12.34 dischidia oiantha variegated, i have only this Variety. Your dischidia collection realy awesome. Maybe after this will collect more. Again Thank you for the tips on care. 👍🏻 Terbaik.
Idk if you will see this, but I have two dischidias, one imbricata and one oiantha. The imbricata I got about a month ago and when I moved it very close to my window (indirect light all day but no direct sun) it started showing some black dots on the leaves. I was scared it could be fungus or something. I recently purchased a oiantha and upon arriving I inspected it and saw very few of those dots. I also placed it near a window without direct sunlight and the dots seemed to have increased as well. Do you know if this could be light related? I have now put them further away from the window and I'm observing but I'm worried about them :(
A big Hi from India, Great channel, great content and great passion Sean. Wanted to know the growing and dormant season of Dischidias please. Which season would be best to propagate.
Hello, I dont think they have a dormant or growing season. They are tropical plants that grow all year round. However if you live in the Northern or Southern hemisphere you may experience shorter winter daylight hours 🤓
