Just don't have the ice touch the plant itself. It's the only way I've kept my orchid, monstera, and the black leaf thingy (technical term/name) alive all this time! I'd water the peace lily and spider plant that way too but it'd touch the plant so I can't. I am legitimately shocked my monstera and orchid are alive and keep sprouting new leaves/blooms tbh. They also get horrible life, I don't even know if they know they are plants!
I used to do this with my orchids, because I didn't know better (in my defence I was 7). My oldest orchid surprisingly thrived on the ice method for 13 years, it didn't like the transition from ice to regular water.
@@yellowishgreendragon.-. for real, the orchids at work have been watered with ice cubes for 10-15 years and thrive and I was like I can do! And suddenly my normally toxic to plants thumb is supporting this orchid for a couple years now. Magic ✨. I grab ice for my iced espresso. And if it's weekend, I grab ice for my plants 🤣. All the good at plants people get mad tho but idk what else to do. My plants don't even like sunlight and humidity, it's like they understood what it would take to thrive in my neglectful and wrong environment and they rise up, literally 🤣
@@kathrynlynnkipfmiller9110 and prune your plants, just like nature? Grow a tropical plant in the PNW or a desert plant in a tropical climate, just like nature? 🤣😅 It goes all ways!
Love this information. I kept one of these after one of my colleagues left one in the office. He thought someone would take care of it over the holidays. I did. Taking care of it for almost 2 years now. This year I missed the moment to put her in a darker space, so she doesn't grew any new red leaves. But all green... totally fine for me! ❤
One year during Christmas, some people vandalized the area where my mom worked. It was her morning to clean the salon and she found a pointsetta that had been uprooted and thrown through an open vented window. She took it home and we had that plant for years.
Share this with someone you know might kill their poinsettia 🫣 Just because the colored leaves will die off, doesn’t mean the plant is dead. Here’s some more care tips! Poinsettias change color in response to shorter winter days. Avoid putting your poinsettias anywhere near a drafty window or a heat source like a fireplace or space heater. You’ll start to fertilize once a month with an all purpose fertilizer once the flowers and colored leaves are gone! Getting it to rebloom: By July, you’ll start to increase sunlight if possible so keep closer to that sunny window or in space that gets a few hours of morning direct sunlight outside. By fall, you’ll decrease the amount of light they’re receiving and have in full shade (in tropical climates) inside away from the window or further away from grow lights to hopefully jumpstart the blooms for the following year. If you found this helpful, consider following along for more planty tips and leave any questions down below!
I bought 2 baby ones last December, and when I would go on vacation, my coworkers would forget to water them because they thought they naturally died after the season passed 💀 and they would unalive themselves by dropping all the leaves. Buuuuttt they always came back when I rewatered them and gave them TLC. 1 year later, they're still minis because of all those repeated unalivements, but they're starting to give me those red and white leaves ❤ can't wait till they get fuller with those beautiful colors.
Thank you! I recently bought my mom a giant one from Costco for finishing chemo treatment and I really want it to flourish.❤ Do some varieties keep their coloured leaves?
My neighbor's have them growing in their gardens and they are about 15 feet high ... until I lived here in Central Mexico, I had no idea they're so tall
About 10 years ago I saw some in someone's garbage and grabbed them. We're in east central Oklahoma and I planted them and they are beautiful!! No flowers, but they are HUGE with gorgeous dark green foliage. I drove by the house we sold recently and they're still there. Still looking good 👍
I thought they needed 14 hours of darkness, at some point, when dormant, I believe. What do you do to keep it going for 3 years? What zone, etc.? Thank you.
@shellbellbutterfly I just saw this! I've read that you can start upping the darkness in October to make it go colorful again for the christmas season? I've never done that, but this year she did give me a few red leaves for the first time since she dropped them all. I've actually never pruned mine (maybe that would help!), but the leaves do die back and re-grow in cycles. So every once in a while she goes bald on me and I think I killed her, but she just needs time to grow new leaves. I'm in Zone 7, hope that helps! Good luck!
Every time I buy a new plant I come to your tick tok and you tube for all the plant knowledge so I can take car of my plants ❤😊 I was just looking for how to keep my poinsettia long term! Thank you 😊
@@PlantswithKrystal I thought they needed something like 14 hours of darkness, at some point; when dormant, I believe. What do you do to keep it going & what's the longest time you've kept one going? Thank you.
I love your videos! They’re hilarious and I’ve been able to finally keep plants alive 😁 thank you. I showed the people at my job your videos and now we understand why there was a disgusting smell coming from a really old poinsettia that we had for 4 years ... I have now learned that we over watered it 😁
I’m here for every video to get a good laugh. The Tequila picture in the background kept me here a little longer than usual.😂 Scared of cacti but love Tequila and Agave!💜
I concur!!! I bought one the November before last for 5 bucks at my local grocery store. Its now 4 feet tall and the trunk circumference is almost 50 cent coin size. Eastern washington (zone 6b I believe) Its been in an eastern window its whole life. ❤
True! I knew a woman who had a huge one poinsettia that she brought out every year onto her heated porch. I have no idea how many years she kept it alive. I think she had to recreate the growing conditions of its native habitat, like you said.
My great uncle on my mom's side had a huge farm for these in California, along with a beautiful spanish style home, I believe near San Diego. When I was young, he would hold weddings for our family there and I'd go running off into the greenhouses and the land around all the time. So pretty. Idk if its still running, but I hope so. He was a very kind man from what I can remeber and I wanted to get married there so bad as a child. I haven't thought about that in years. Thanks for the memory boost with this beautiful plant!
In Hawaii, we have these plants growing in the gardens! In Kona, there is a house with the entire front yard that is on a slope is Poinsettias. Absolutely stunning!!
I bought my neighbour a cuetlaxóchitl about 3 years ago. A few months ago she gifted it back to me, as it's grown so big. It has been a STRUGGLE. It's 15 degrees warmer in my room than her kitchen and I have a lot more light, thanks to my SF2000. I have to water it 2-3 times more often than she did or else the leaves start dropping. Now I just need to change the soil and hope I can keep it happy.
I still have all the ones my grandma collected over the years thanks for this video I really want to make sure they stay around for a long time I miss her so much but her plants make me feel like she is still around
Omgggg hahahahaa YOU CRACK ME UP!!! And your videos are insanely helpful. Even if I wasn't a plant person, I would be all about watching these videos! ❤
Thank you so much, my grandmother just passed and I have two beautiful living arrangements from her funeral, one with a beautiful pink and red poinsettia that will need repotting and now I know how to keep her alive ❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU for this info! Subbed ❤
I just cut all mine up and put the stems in water and they’ve got roots!!! Then I kept the part with just the sticks in the dirt and it’s growing new leaves!!! I’ll now have two poinsettias 😉
Mine have always died around the new year before i found your channel. I was always made to feel like i wasn't watering any of my plants enough but it turned out i was watering them too much. My poinsettia is alive and well because i Neglect it lol. I wait until its starting to wilt and them water the heck out of it. It now has my bedroom window all to itself because nothing else will fit 😅
I feel like the people that say to water your plants with ice are the labor and delivery nurses that only allow ice chips. The plant and the about-to-not-be pregnant lady are both saying the same thing, "WATER!" 😂
I literally rescued a poinsettia from my mother last year because she let all the flowers and leaves dry up and drop and was about to throw it away. I've since revived it but it hasn't flowered yet, but I love seeing how bushy and green it is compared to when I got it from her
A few years ago, I left my poinsettia outside for decoration. I thought because they were around during the holiday, they are tolerant of cold weather. Yeah, that poor plant died! I did research to find out they are a warm weather plant. Tfs this.
Did you know that their actual original name is Cuetlaxochitl. They got named poinsettia after a colonist that took some to the north. So now the more you know 😮
I had one poinsettia plant that lived for 4 years until i had to have a family member care for it for a couple of months. I now have a another poinsettia going on 5 years old. I fertilize it in spring and fall and water once a week. I cannot seem to kill them!!
Poinsettias are my favorite. My husband was on the military, and we traveled a lot. But he always made a point to get me a poinsettia for the holidays and I’d try to keep them for as long as I could! Then… I got cats. 😢 I love my cats but I had to give up my poinsettias for them.
No wonder it survived when I forgot where I set it down somewhere after I was just gifted this. When I came back to school after Christmas I saw it there, leaves fallen off but the branches were still in tact and it’s doing better now 😅 I’m sorry poinsettia for forgetting you there lol
I have found with these in my home that I care for them like my Crotons. I keep them in a plastic planter so its light weight and every three days touch the pot if it feels light give it some water. Not a drown that ho amount but a some water so it doesn't dry out and they thrive.
Literally was at a store with Poinsettias yesterday and thought maybe I’d like one someday. Then I thought, “I don’t even know how to take care of them. I’ve never seen anyone take care of one. They’re completely foreign to me!” And put aside the idea. Thank you!
Could you please please do one on "Christmas" cactuses. The rectangle pokey leaves and beautiful red or pink flowers on them. Idk a lot at all about them, but rescued one this year lol. I want her to lliiiiivvveee lol
My favorite type of that plant is the crown of thorns I have one that’s at least 35 years old and it’s huge and gorgeous and I have a few new ones one variegated which is soon to be my fave
I have a red one for three years now. It just sits in a south window and it is starting to throw off the red brachs finally. I also have a 2yo marble, thought it was toast after it dropped everything immediately after I bought it. But chopped her back and it slowly regrew and is now in full flower. I don't even put them in the dark or anything. The short day hours thru winter were enough.
Remember that they need around 12 hours of darkness every day for about a month to get the color back, otherwise they'll stay green (put a bucket over it at the same time daily, a month before christmas or whenever you want it)
okay, this might be a stupid question, but i had the thought and i’m genuinely curious. do you find your house to be more refreshing and energy-restoring, maybe feeling different? with all those plants, you’re bound to have higher oxygen levels, i assume. (especially with air circulation during the winter!) i’m just wondering if maybe the air feels different or if you’ve noticed any beneficial changes to your mental/physical body besides being elated by your plant babies?
