How I Didn’t Kill My Boston Fern 

You definitely brought her back to life and she is looking great and that variegation is beautiful 😍

You are absolutely right patience is a virtue. I have a Boston fern growing outdoors in a planter and each year fall I drag it indoors cool basement under fluorescent lights. Water it through winter and looks a little sad by the time spring rolls around and out it goes back in planter. Each year it is more massive. Yours is a success. 💚🇨🇦

Wow. Very rewarding revival. Beautifully grown fern. Good job! 👍

I'm glad you posted this video. I brought a fern for outside & kinda forgot about it about time 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ I've been cutting the dead parts off & think I'll bring it in.

Yours looks so much better! I have one from my mom and three more little ones. One miniature and two I saved from the clearance rack. I’m learning watering is so key with these! Hoping to revive the ones I rescued from the clearance rack

Love your shirt 💚 Your Fern looks so good, love that it’s variegated 😀

It looks so pretty in that pot! You did a great job. Ferns like high humidity too. I am not drawn to ferns but after seeing this video and that beautiful variegation on that one I want one. I never saw one with variegation on it. Thanks for the video.

I've seriously enjoyed watching this series!! Hope there's more to come in the future! ( not that I'm hoping you'll have a bunch of half dead plants that you need to revive or anything though, lol😁🤦💚

Love your vids Erika, keep up the good content. 👍🏼😊

So satisfying!!! It looks so good 😍 I've been wanting a fern for a while but every time I see one I'm like I'll buy it next time. This video convinced me lol

It's looking great!

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants

Your videos are all very informative, experimental, and the results can be seen. I have heard so many say that plants inTerracotta pots need more watering. May I suggest to You and the Other Tubers, that I assume before using the pots they’re not prepared for repotting? That means taking the pot and placing it in a bucket of water fully submerged.When doing that You will see air bubbles coming from the pot . This shows the amount of air still in the Terracotta pot. By submerging it in water, the water is soaked into the pores of the Clay. When the pot was burnt the moisturizer in the clay left tiny air pocket that boiled and popped when drying out. Those air pockets are where the water goes when watering it, resulting in the Pot being watered and not the Plant. When the air bubbles stop coming from the pot, THEN Your pot can be used for repotting. And the result will be a plant that doesn’t need any more watering as one in a plastic pot. Because the pores in the clay are waterlogged. Just a suggestion. I used plastic pots only for the convenience of price and weight. But I use Clay pots in My larger Yucca and Ficus which I don’t have to constantly lift. So next time You buy or use a Clay pot, try My tried and true suggestion and enjoy the beauty of Nature. Great job with the Fern. ✌🏿

You did a good job on the plant it looks good

You have some beautiful collection in your home 💚

Your top has a fenestration!

Beautiful plants 😍🌿👍

It's so satisfying watching you make your mixture ☺ I feel so calm lol maybe do a plants asmr with soil making? Idk ahaha would be interesting 🤣

sucha beautiful plant great job omg!

I actually bought this plant after seeing it in your tour haha

Oh this is the first plant I ever strangled in a blind rage! God I did everything for that plant and it just wouldn't grow! Interestingly enough it survived the initial strangling and several other stranglings and to this day three years later it's still just barely clinging to life right at the back of my outdoor greenhouse.

What’s the update? I’m struggling with mine! I water it often but I don’t think I have a good humidity for it! 😕

Do you put anything over the drainage hole in the pot?

Good job🙏 so beautiful. I’m a fern mom and I was thinking do you have some special lights as in a green house? Sorry if my question is stupid but I’m just thinking about how to have my fern growing more. Love from Iceland

I'm trying to revive a Boston Fern. How often did you user fertilizer?

Question. I have a beautiful baby and she thick thick ;) do I need to get in there and get all the browning and dead stuff out? And should I be seeing new browning constantly (also a ton of new growth)?

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I have a difficult Boston fern. He's miserable! I'd started to revive him and get some overhang, then my toddler ripped most of the leaves off resulting in bald fronds. I was so upset I've barely watered the ugly plant and it's looking sad! I've had it 1yr and have such a love hate relationship with it. Every time I walk past it I threaten to give it way

What was the name of the fertilizer you used? Cause that fern looks amazing

1:57 Funny to see, how even planty content creators struggle with the pot issue. Honestly, my main hurdle at this entire indoor gardening story is my severe lack of fitting pots...

To clarify, its not a new species of "Tiger Fern" discovered in the wild. Its a regular Boston fern bred to respond to the huge demand for variegated leaf form of everything. Renaming botanical plant names with cute animal or food names is another big trend. Botanical name is written Nephrolepis exaltata var. Tiger or just Boston Fern "Tiger". But retailers aren't going to write it that as it sounds intimidating. Simply writing Tiger Fern is more memorable and forms an instant emotional connection so they are easier to sell. But also more confusing as it sounds like a whole different new fern so people can be confused into paying alot more. The so called "Fluffy Ruffles" fern is the exact same situation. They charge 2x the price as original Boston Fern and sell it in smaller pots. These new cultivars are stimulating new interest in old plants. BUT they also pushing up prices and these plants are harder to care for. People pay more but they bring more disappointment as the tend to have shorter, less healthy lives. They give a new name (and higher price) to make you think its something totally different. I'm seeing this trend everywhere in plants - slightly different leaf form, new cute name to confuse, much higher price, quicker turnover as they die quicker.

Are you a classical guitarist too? It sort of looks like you have short nails on the left and long on the right.. just like a classical guitarist.. if not you should give it a shot.. Fern looks great.. mine is yellow and I think it needs a bigger pot and some fresh dirt.. btw, aquarium water is great for sensitive indoor plants.. skip the distilled.. that actually sucks out the nutrients..

What plant fertilizer did you use? What is the name please?

It looks beautiful!! Do you use a humidifier?

You should actually remove the”ugly”old leaves when it comes to ferns, damaged or drying out fronds sap energy rather than providing nourishment to your fern. Remove drying and dying fronds below the part of each frond that is doing poorly . All the best with you refurbished boston.

Tiger fern is also know as a variegated Boston fern same thing 🙂

Pot is perfect for the beauty. You look especially darling today!

Hi there from not so sunny Dublin 👋🏻love, love your channel💖could you help me with a recent purchase? Bought Nertera Granadensis/coral bead/pin cushion plant coz it was so pretty but I've no idea how to best care for her. All vids I can find are either time lapse of it blooming or non English speaking vids with no English translate 🤷🏼‍♀️have you any advice before I harm this pretty lady😁💖

lol so use a grow light, got it. What about the people who dont have any of that you have? Not saying i dont but just out of consideration-