Houseplants That I Don't Bother Buying Or Growing Anymore 

Sometimes the 'I love them aesthetically' part is not even true.

And the “their behavior is absolutely piss poor” after fit perfectly 🤣

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Once you are Indifferent about them , you know your truly over them ,it can take years for the rage and sadness to go completely

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I used to be just like you until my collection got up to 33 plants & like a moron I transplanted them all into terra cotta to match the rooms tile they’re in & now I have to water them like every two days. They’re all doing really good, but I’m getting tired of constantly watering them.

@@nicolekelly7580906 I have had the same experience! I loved the look of terra cotta with the rest of my decor. but plants soon died... I learned that terra cotta outers, with plastic inners seems like it might be the best solution, hope it's available for you?

I have a mix of needy and easy plants, I just try to make sure I don't helicopter my plants that don't want to be fussed over. 🤣

Same here!

You're smart to know what kind of plants work with your parenting style. It's the most important thing.

🤣 truth!

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yup maiden hair.. it just drops dead with a look.. even if u look at it lovingly, .. it has a suicide mission to die :(

@@LoriFahy they just need water everyday or every other day and they’ll reward you

I love pothos, just because they give so much, and if you give them a little, they give you even more.. 😍

And we've all known people like this, too.

@@2close2themoon Ha, too true. 😆

Lmao

Why is it dying???

Why your plant budget must be huge. They are so expensive that when they die it’s painful in my heart as well as my wallet

@@tristanchung8831 maybe it all depends on where in the world you are. In the Netherlands and Indonesia these have been tissue culturered like crazy, and 3 sorts are available. (White fusion, white tiger and Louisiae.)

@@Fire-Queen that is true price is only dependent on local retailers. Over here in the UK white Fusion Calathea sell for around £70

For some reason calatheas and marantas do fine for me. I have a calathea dottie was almost dead when I bought it (marked down at a big box store). It only had two leaves that were covered in pest damage. Gave it some love and it doesn't even look like the same plant anymore, it's growing like crazy. I also have a lemon lime maranta trailing down the side of my tv stand that's doing very well.

yes, because that's their original home. While in Europe or in the US...that's a different story

I have a parlour palm that is about 6 feet tall. I keep it in a centrally heated sitting room, next to a now-defunct fireplace, lit only by an eastern-facing picture window on the other side of the room! However, when I bought it 30 years ago, it was just a tiny 6-inch high plant. It IS slow-growing. And I nearly killed mine by underwatering it. I must have read somewhere that it's best not to water palms too often! Anyway, once I realised my mistake, I started drenching it nearly every day. I also repotted it into a larger, taller pot. It rewarded me by putting on a foot or two of height and bushiness in about a year. It now flowers regularly as well. It's a great plant, and not hard to care for, if you don't mind waiting for it to become jungle. But don't stint on the water.

Same here in Florida everything thrives outside, you put it inside it dies.

They're super susceptible to spider mites if you keep them indoors-- when they're outside, there are other beneficial insects and environmental factors that keep them in check

I think Ponytail Palms are good for more dry areas, but that's because they're pretty much succulents with how absolutely chunky their trunks are. The only issue is that they're slow growing, and that you can't play with their leaves despite wanting to ruffle them up every time you look at them.

I had one and i wanted her to love me. I set up a humidifier I watered her daily, I set a timer on her light... and she was like "ur not good enough for me" and died... Even her humidifier was on a timer! Meanwhile I live in one of the colder parts of Canada and I have a citrus tree in the same room and it has been alive for 3 years and has produced fruit two of those 3 years... I would have thought if I could grow a citrus tree that the maiden hair would be a breeze! This said, I would definitely try another if i found one with a good price again! I had only paid about 4 dollars for her. I think maybe she was overly coddled and didn't get a chance to be an independent woman :P

@@MarisaAndChew perhaps it was a problem with fluctuating temperatures? I've noticed that these guys only pop out of the walls in the beginning of summer/late spring when we get storms coming in and the heat is about 26c° to 30c° in the day in bright shaded areas. Once it gets drier than 65% humidity and the temperature drops to below 25c° they immediately die back or struggle real bad. Not to say they are dead though, the same ones sprout from the same cracks once spring/summer rolls around again. I hope you manage to find a reasonably priced one and succeed this time! :)

@@linwong1494 the room i have it the indoor temp doesn't fluctuate more than maybe 4 degrees all year but its more like 18-21 so it could just be far too cold for it! I wonder if the one I got was ripped from a natural habitat potted and sold or if it was raised in a nursery its whole life. It was quite small. I know there are import/export laws on plants but a lot of people get around them. I did get it at a real store not ebay or somewhere though. Maybe I shouldn't give one another try since I keep it so cool in here year round. Or, maybe I should look for one that is much larger and established. This was a 4 inch pot and not overly large but was healthy and had a lot of growth, perhaps it was just too young and tender for my temperature though! Oddly, I never see them in our garden centers in summer when it is actually 26-30 outside! Grrr

I live in Vancouver Canada and have pretty mild winters.. i actually put one maidenhair fern outside last summer since the soil was getting flies because of so much watering. I though it had died down in the winter but i was pleasantly surprised to find that it is growing new leaves now. Meanwhile my indoor ferns are dying :(

Where I live it’s about 60% humidity in the summer and 80% in the winter and my ferns STILL get crunchy because they want more humidity. I ended up putting them on a window sill right above my 20 gal fish tank (lidless) and they are doing much better now. But I swear with the level of humidity they want they should just become aquarium plants 😂

Inwant to try one they are on sale right now but just know I'll kill it

@@patriciawhite1206 I've seen them growing in nature. They are tougher than you think, but they live with water, out of cracks in the limestone.

My mom has one and it keeps dying, coming back, getting a fungus, dying, coming back again! She said it’s normal and they die off several times a year and hers has grown quite a bit since purchase. She’s a botanist that specializes in plant tissue culture so I trust her lol.

I bought 6 a few years ago - 3 went in the garden, 3 came inside. The ones in the garden didn't even last the summer, but the indoor ones are still going - and one of them has even propagated itself into two other pots! They do get yellow leaves sometimes but they're still doing well enough. I don't give them a ton of light but maybe I'll try more.

Yes! Yo tengo de todos modos un mini humidificador alrededor de todas mis prayer plants para asegurarme que sean felices haha

@L. P. aww haha

high humidity may be healthy for plants for humans between 40% and 60% is better for the health. Above is too high and under is too dry.

Is he wrong though?

This video is the answer to accept that my 4th Stromanthe is going to be buried soon. 🤣😬

I swear prayer plants need to be pushed five to six feet away from a west facing window and given DISTILLED water. They are LOW LIGHT plants! So much fun to watch them move their leaves from day to night 😊

Same. I think it has a lot to do with the humidity of the state you live in. Here in eastern Michigan (I live right on Lake Erie) My prayer plants do amazing, always have. In the winter the humidity gets to 40% in my home, but in the summer since were right on the lake it’s very high. I might get the tiniest crispy edge here and there but they still grow vigorously throughout the entire year. Plus you’ll be all good once you learn that perfect balance of keeping them damp, but not to damp, letting them dry out but not dry out LOL. I personally love prayer plants.

Prayer plants are my absolute favorite- I own at least 8 varieties that I purchased last year. Some species are just so much more finicky than others. I have a triostar and white fusion that I purchased in 4” pots that are now in gallon pots and thriving with almost no brown tips. But my red maranta and vittata have a bit of brown on almost every leaf and it drives me nuts. I only water them with distilled water and they still look like trash. So frustrating

Same. But I only have three species. Calathea makoyana, C. rubifarba and Stromanthe triostar. I have real trouble with Peperomias which Nick loves.

I use tap water for my maranta and it’s doing fine. I bought it as a cutting a month ago, and it’s already working on its second new leaf

My first makoyana was thriving, then it died.I have another sent for free when I bought 4 of another. I have her in my bathroom window with medium light and humidity.

Drop the link please 😫 maybe a new humidifier is what my calatheas need!

Parlour palms are soo easy to care for though 🤣 I’ve got one that’s been alive for almost a decade now. I neglect it so much😬 Edit: the parlour palm I have is Chamaedorea Elegans

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Same. I think mine got shocked from repotting and decided to give up on life.

I was gonna say, don’t worry it’ll kick the bucket soon enough on it’s own! Lolz I have killed so many parlor palms. They kept sending them to me as replacements or in my mystery boxes from the sill, and I just started giving them to my BFF when they were near death. She’s got that good light and probably sorcery tbh that makes plants do a 180 when they land in her house, although she tends to have a hard time with the plants I normally do really well with. So, a good way to deal with a plant you’re fighting with is to pawn it off on your friend who has the opposite luck with plants as you do, and rehab her butthole plants, and then talk about it with her ALL THE TIME ;)

@@faustineli375 hmm, that might be the problem!

Yes! That in combination with a self watering pot, it bcomes every once a week :D

I’d like to make a comprehensive list of the plants that _want_ the gravel/compost soil covering and the plants that hate it, bc I have had to adjust my snake plant, zz plant, Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, etc. by emergency removal of the rocks after I realized it was a problem for them. They made a little palm I had get mold at it’s base, but I think there are definitely some plants that would love it like a fern. Maybe fittonia? Begonia?

@@rainbomg Definitely Begonia. And Anthurium.

decorative moss is great for this, cute to look at and provides more air flow than pebbles!

@@joankennes3230 yessss yes very good

*_"I gave up on ferns and palms before I even started with them"_* In plain English; you're just too lazy to learn what a plant needs.

@@lev2727 uhhh yeah dude, _exactly_ What the plant _needs_ is to *not be in my house* 😜

I've recently discovered Calatheas as a favorite of mine; have four of them and a Maranta. They've so far been doing great in my apartment with a North-facing window. I used to want the Tenanthe Triostar, but then I saw a White Fusion! It's apparently THE biggest diva of the Calatheas, though, so I plan to wait until I'm sure the rest of mine don't die before I get one of those XD

@@Kirorokat1132 I have 2 and I am still trying to figure out what they want.

Me and my mom very recentyl got into plants at the same time and we both are drawn to calathea variants and had no idea how finicky they are.

My mother loves st Augustine. We go to Florida every year (we're in New York). I've never been to the graveyard, I'll have to check it out. I love maidenhairs:)

In the desert you would need to grow an Adantium under a glass dome! 😘

So accurate

What about the foreground? (; 😂

... That's sexual.

nick is eye candy

my cat ate every frond down to the nub, and I was so crushed. it was literally just a trunk with little bumps where the fronds were. Amazingly, new fronds are growing, and even a new sprout coming up from the soil! I could NOT believe it!

🥹 this may save me and my calatheas

@@picklepirate good luck! I’ve also had the best results when converting stressed calatheas to first put them in water (filtered/distilled) for up to two weeks before putting them in pon so they can recover from the initial stress of having their roots so unsettled

@@aniliname thank you so much for the information! calatheas can definitely be drama queens. My pon just came in the mail! so, let's see what happens. I appreciate the comments

@@picklepirate Good luck! Here's a recent video from Plant Friend Down the Street on getting started with pon :)

I keep wanting to buy one but all I see about it is how terrible it is to take care of 😭😭 they’re so pretty tho!!

Me too, I never knew what I did to them that they hate me so much 😂

Hate fittonias! It’s in the name, fit! Drama

Worst plant ever

I have trouble with them and Ive never even owned one

Apocalyptic!!!!!😀😀😀😀

My stromanthe literally just gets my half finished flat bubbly water and it flourishes I don’t know how I do it

WAIT! Would this make calathea easier to keep?! I love them and want them so bad but I've killed 3 in my 8 plant keeping years so if this would solve my problem then you would be my hero

Just go for it :) everyone has a hard plant group they're great with and an easy plant that they kill. My hard plant is ferns, my easy plant is African violets. Can't keep an African violet alive to save my life, but ferns love me. Maybe prayer plants are your good plant :)

I also spray my prayer plants daily (soil and leaves), especially during summer, and they are growing like weed.

I have had mine for over 40 years love it massive now I keep it by patio doors it seems to love it there

Are you a vampire 😂

1000 years of division. You must be a British colonist!

ALL of my prayer plants are in the bathroom 😄