Glad I’m not the only one with peperomia. I have never failed so hard so fast with a plant. 😂 Makes me feel better when sometimes certain plants just aren’t a good fit
Have you ever tried a spider plant in pon? I just got my second free baby, and since I over-potted my first one, got root rot and tossed it, I decided to put this one in pon. Crossing my fingers I don't kill this one, too!
Interesting! I have really good luck growing the regular silver sword but the narrow form of the plant is really hard to grow for me. No pest pressures on either for me.
I’m genuinely curious how you’re watering/fertilizing your spider plants when you have them? They are extremely sensitive to impurities in water like calcium. Living in a desert myself our tap water is extremely alkaline, and has a lot of present minerals, and I’ve found that using Stress Coat (without aloe included) works to combat the sensitivity to impurities.
Just to add context, Stress Coat is an additive you add to fishtanks to balance the water out and remove harmful minerals that will hurt your fish. They make a few different types of that product (aloe included helps the fish develop a protective barrier. The aloe with clog things up though, like a sprayer if you use that to water all your plants. (It won’t hurt the plants though, just fyi!)
@@OttahPopKidI'm in the SE. It's plentiful in the winter and spring. Summer is iffy and depends a lot on the tropical storms and hurricanes. Definitely have my stash of stress coat 😁
I killed the last 3 spider plants I had. Managed to grab a little ‘un from a runner off the last plant before it shuffled off and so far that’s doing ok. I had great success with them when I was younger (in a south west facing, unheated room so pretty cold in winter). I grew up in a soft water area though so the hard water I’m using now could well be the problem. Going to try api stress coat from Amazon and a wide bowl to collect rainwater. 🤞
I'm on my third attempt to keep an oxalis triangularis alive, and it's FINALLY staying alive year-round thanks to a) after a few hours of rest, keeping a grow light on it at night and b) watering it way more frequently than I thought I would need to, that bitch THIRSTY.
They’re all so different! You figure out one and then the next will totally rot with the same care. There are a few that I just won’t keep anymore. Not worth fighting for. But I do have several that thrive and I adore.
For me right now it's only three. Chinese money Plants, string of anything's lol, and pothos 😂 I have never been able to successfully grow a pothos and I have no idea why. Chinese money Plants have seemed to be big pests magnets for me and never are actually happy. And I can propagate string of what have you's easily... I'll pot them up and they'll grow well and be happy for a while and then randomly kick the bucket 😅 no clue why
I tried a spider plant last summer. It went badly lol. Between my little ninja cat eating pieces of it and my own incompetence the spider plant never stood a chance.
Peperomia HAAAAAAAAAAAATE me. Obtusifolia is the only one that doesn't hate my guts, lmao. I don't know why I can't grow them, they just don't like me. My variegated frydek keeps growing well and then dying back and then growing well and then dying back like...Bro what is you doin? It's difficult for me, too.
Alocasia Nebula is my nemesis! I e had three so far. I’ve not managed to get them past two leaves! I have a decent size alocasia collection and I’ve deal with the fuss a lot but the Nebula Takes the piss 😂
Ok, my plant list....pepperomia prayer plants calathea variegated Euphorbia ingens 😢 pothos Scindapsus my nemesis (5) cannot make this plant happy, alocasia (2 ) zz raven, spider plants. I think I have a little bit better understanding of pothos so far so good. The succulents can also be tricky I live in Northern California the air is dry.😮 I feel that it takes time to understand the plants and the environment. My price cap is low for plants. 🎉 oops, almost forgot my other nemesis Syngoniums.
My spider plants look happy, but I don't know why. Some are next to a window, some are in dark corners. Some have pots with drainage, some don't. Sometimes I fertilize them every other week, sometimes every other year. The only thing I do intentionally is watering them when the leaves turn pale (and by "watering" I mean drowning them and hoping the roots won't rot). They even survived a huge scale infestation where I had to throw away most of the plants from that room - with the spider plants, I just cut off all of their leaves and waited for new, scale-free ones to sprout.
I am genuinely so shocked to hear that about your spider plant experience. My first ever houseplant was a spider plant and it grew so insanely well with so little effort than it gave me the false confidence to go buy and kill so many other types of plants 🤣 my spider plant I propagated from my mother’s spider plant and is currently overfilling a 16” pot. My spider plant is definitely plotting world domination if it ever makes it out of that pot. It just goes to show how strange plants can be and what some people swear works for them doesn’t always work for others.
I'm glad I am not the only one who had no luck with silver sword 🙄 I can confirm that they are a trip magnet and don't size up 🤷🏼♀️ I got a baby frydek from the Eden lab and it has grown great + sizing up very fast! I would highly recommend 💚 no need to spend lots on a big plant 🤞🏻✨️
I'm sure you of course would already know this, I'm simply commenting for those that wouldn't know, but Frydek specifically refers to the variegated plant. Frydek means variegated. The all green is Micholitziana. It must be way different with plant prices in the UK versus Canada, because alocasia frydek isn't very expensive here anymore for a decent size plant. Depends on the amount of variegation and the seller, but they have come down a lot in price in the past year or two ☺️ I hope the prices come down for you in the UK soon too!! I would definitely recommend getting a bigger specimen if you can!
"Ugh, I feel this so much! 🌿 I've tried my hand at certain houseplants countless times, only to watch them wither away despite my best efforts. It's beyond frustrating 😑 Sometimes I wonder if they're secretly plotting against me! 😅
Same with the Silver Sword! Now that I know what thrip damage looks like, I’m pretty sure that’s been the problem but I think I’ll never try again. I have philos that I love but I don’t think in general I’ll be adding more to my collection.
Yep Ive struggled with silver sword for a long time but now for some reason ever since I put it on a moss pole it's picked up. So far so good with no thrips but give it time I'll probs end up with them on that cos I have them on other plants 😩 Same too with the spider plant....always crisping and looking unhappy ( even in self watering pot) 🤷🏻♀ But totally agree with you on begonias in semi-hydro. I have 4 diiferent types and they are all doing great since putting them in that set up 👏🏼😻 My Florida Ghost is constantly pushing out large white leaves before turning minty and she's loving life in my north facing window (Sydney) with a sheer curtain. Same with my Thai Con next to her...they are both in semi-hydro (LECA) and they are going gangbusters even now during our winter. Thanks for sharing your experience Emma 🥰
I have 3 of these plants. My melo is newer so the jury is still out on it. Seems ok but with every new leaf, one dies. My spider plant is doing great! No drainage, water once a week, bright indirect light! But I have killed them before as well…..😂 Silver sword….had to put in my greenhouse till it outgrew it. It’s alright. Grows like my pink princess. Leaves get stuck….don’t particularly like the growth pattern….wouldn’t but again.
.. Dearest Emma, that Begonia is a real Beauty ☺️ I know, because I've got the exact same plant and there's no one more easy than her 😊 it's an old plant, from the time of our grandparents and before them.. I got my 7 year old mother plant in a west facing garden door with upstairs balcony to shade the view.. She loves it and is growing as if she got paid for it (130cm.. So far).. The child are placed in front of an east facing window and she's getting huge.. Maybe I should try semi hydro, because yes, they are pretty thirsty 🤗 the Begonia Ice I can't find anywhere, or any other cane begonia, unfortunately.. .. I gave away both my silver swords.. I struggled for a very very long time to figure out what they wanted, but no matter what I did it wasn't right.. I loved the colour, but that's just not enough really.. .. I'd love to have a Florida ghost, or Florida beauty, but they are not to be found anywhere around here, so I will end up buying from the Netherlands instead 🤗 .. Spider plants are so easy it's crazy.. Only thing is, my cat think it's for her that I got it, so, they are in a hanger in my living room (above the coffee table) where she can't reach.. Usually it would have been outside at this time of year, but since the nights are constantly below 15 degrees, there's no way my plants are going outside.. And that's really sad because they love being outside during summer.. But not this year.. Got 2 pepperomia like yours in my kitchen window, south facing, and they love it, but that's the only pepperomia that I can get along with.. All the others I gave them away.. Certain types of calathea, but maybe it's because my cats use them as their private scapegoats when things are wrong (in their opinions)??.. .. Question.. Corms from Alocasia, when they root, what do you do then??.. Pot it or wait until leaf are showing??..
Think mentioned before, but i am over Philodendrons. But my actual 'death plants' are succulents, spider plants, and angel wing begonia (rex are fine!).
Scindapsus moonlight. Always dies sooner or later. Never looks nice. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I was thinking what could be the problem with your Silver Sword, I have two at home and one in my office and no problem at all.
I feel u with the Melo, mine has sadly always looked trash. Shame though about silver sword 🗡️ weirdly that’s one of my easiest houseplants to size up ALTHOUGH i find it very tricky to propagate… Anyone else? I failed at that a lot.
im so happy to see everybody has that plant that they love too hate. marantas are mine. my red and lemon maranta just kicked the bucket. i tried and tried to make it work 🙃. ( RIP). It wasn't even a week and i did it again. i was minding my own business and i found a 8-inch pot full, full for 10.00 each. im such a sucker. working on plant number 5. smh. trying hydro this time. wish me luck. 😅😅😅 by the way, i was successful with my silver sword by water propagation. now im trying to figure out if i want to put it in pon or leca. it seems to like the water.???
I have struggled with Alocasias. But I have found just the right spot for my Silver Dragon. It took a while to acclimate to its spot, but now it is pushing out leaves. I love it. I want to try a Melo and a Dragon's Breath, but I have to find them first. A plant that I have tried to grow more times over the years than I have fingers, is the Poka Dot plant. I am trying one last time with a tiny one in a terrarium. I 100% agree with you on Spider plants. I have stopped trying. I get them fairly large and then they die.Not good long term plants for me and my cats can't leave them alone. My high out of cat reach spots are reserved for toxic to cats plants, sigh. Funny story, my daughter has also tried many times to grow this plant, because it is one of her favorites. Her partner Bry decided to get one against her advice. Azure told him that if the plant survived for six months, she would marry him (they have lived together for 6+ years). They are now engaged, lol. To
LOVE this video. I watch all your videos and learn so much from you. It's a comfort to know that even you struggle with some plants. I've been trying to hard with Alocasia corms but they just keep rotting, even using all the methods on your corm prop video 😂
For some reason, I do really really well with the curly spider plants, but struggle with the regular spider plants. I don’t know why, their care is the same. I have a baby that I got from a regular spider plant that I offed (😮 😩) and it’s a year old, but he and I we’ve been struggling this whole time. I’ve found it does best in plastic pots with a lot of drainage as well as a chunky mix and me triple checking if he’s completely dried out or not. I don’t know why I keep him!
Begonias are the bane of my existence. Everytime I buy one because they are really pretty, they start to struggle and die. The one that lives the longest is a silver spot, but boy, it´s struggeling. And I never have been able to figure out what I do wrong. Spidre plants however? easy. You just ignore or mistreat them, they love that. And if they get thrips, really dousing them in a mix of oil, water and soap works well. That way it get´s really into the smalles hiding places and solves the investation within two weeks. I showered them and then applied the mix every three days with intervalls of water spraying, after two weeks I did another shower round to get rid of the oily residue. I basically waterboearded them for two weeks, and they loved it :D
I also had a bad time with the alocasia frydec, I bought two corms from a plant friend and one was 100% white made like 4 tiny leaves and finally died and the other one was like 80-90% white, it now was 3 leaves and is alternating completely white and about 80% white. So my friend gave me another corm for free and the new one has a awesome variegation, still a lot of white, but definitely a sustainable amount. The new one is about 6 month junger and already bigger than the other, same conditions, just more green in the leaves (and a bigger corm to start with)
I bought the silver sword on an impulse. I’m starting to hate it as I grows WAY TO FAST in a year I have more cutting than I know what to do with because I can’t bring myself to throw them away
SAME with those type of Pepperomia!!! 😩 and what hurts me the most is that they’ll be good for a good 6months and then one day they just decline and die I don’t get it. I do have a plain green one that had been doing the best I’ve had it for over a year now but fingers crossed 🤞 she’ll stay alive 😅
Hi, I have a couple that I have had that have had 3 strikes your in the garbage. The first being the spider plant, like you can' t keep one alive at all. The other being the lily plant had it 4 times and it still died. I also stopped getting plants with delicate leaves or stems. Never again.😠😁😂. Good luck😀
Hell and thanks for the vid. I grow my spider plants in no drainage, PON with a leca reservoir and they are growing great guns, I think they are so much thirstier than people generally claim.
I know what you mean about that silver sword. I got mine as a baby plant and it grew out into the ugliest thing I had ever seen and the leaves had the Cinderella syndrome. 😅 so I finally decided to just cut it up and I stuck it in a self made propagation container and said live or die. So I watches it for a while and it didn't die. And it finally started growing and I put it in a pot. So now I have 3 plants in there and they've gotten over the Cinderella syndrome. Even had to stake them and put them in a bigger pot. It is a pretty plant but it is very fussy
The only peperomias I can grow are the obtusifolia and heart leaf. I got the heart leaf as a small two or three leaf cutting and now it's a long trailing plant. I was shocked at my success. On the flip side my silver sword is downstairs in my family room in front of a window and is one of the easiest plants I have. It's leaning against a moss pole not even rooted in, and it's sizing up with the lobes.
I have so many spider plants I can't kill them no matter how much I ignore them and have a ton in and outdoors BUT can't grow devils ivy 😂 I'm barely doing well this year with a few plants. 😅
I enjoyed this video. There are plants that I have given up on. One is the pepperomia. I have kept them alive longer than in the past, but I don't think they are worth the trouble. I like plants that change over time. I did finally have success with my silver sword. It wasn't doing anything until I put it in a portable greenhouse for the summer. It was on a moss pole and finally rooted into it and produced the sword shapped leaves. If you can get one to grow it is nice because the petioles are short and close together, at least mine is. I am slowly giving up on Alocasia. But have found that they do best when purchased larger. I am keeping only the ones that do well for me, keeping on more than 2 leaves. Anyway, I do think you are very enjoyable to watch because you seem so relaxed in your videos and it seems as if you are sharing more than most utubers do when it comes to their ups and downs with their plants.
Having a watermelon peperomia two years ago as one of my first ever 'proper' houseplants has seriously warped my ability to judge my skill as a plant parent XD Very reassuring to hear you with all your experience and knowledge have struggled too. Mine is still alive, but there have been some close calls along the way! Haven't killed my spider plant yet but it's only been two weeks XD
I feel you in regards to the Chlorophytum cosmosum, I have tried about four or five times with the the Monstera delociosa. I will not try again in my current home.
I don't honestly have a plant I always struggle with. I usually am stubborn until I "get" them. After that I sometimes give them away because I just want to figure out why they are struggling before 😅 But generally I am an overwaterer so most fails have definitely been my fault 😂
You are a MISTRESS OF PLANT CARE!! You ROCK! I hope you're thinking of providing a course for payment! Thanks for sharing your passionate knowledge and love of plants! 🤗💕🌱🌿💕
I had such a big regret went with my silver sword. It was growing huge. I had two plants in one pot, big leaves, gorgeous, but it was early on in my plant journey, and it kept getting floral nectarines, which I thought was some kind of sickness or bugs or something so I just kept wiping it and cleaning it and I eventually killed it and now I can’t find one anywhere. Live and learn
My curly bonnie spider plant has separation anxiety I think. It gave me some babies I removed from the mother and potted up together, and both the babies and mother started going downhill and looking crispy and sad. I recently potted them back up together in a larger pot and now they're all thriving... 🤷♀
It's calatheas for me .. I've had 3 different ones and all of them died on me. I just don't have the conditions they crave and would never, not even if I were gifted one, want a calathea again. 🥲
