Love coming to your channel knowing I’ll see some plants I’ve never heard of. So sick of everyone showing the same pink Princess in every video. Love how unique your collection is.
I have a variegated million hearts Dischidia. Man, I love that plant. So stinkin cute and the tiny flowers 😍. Thanks for this video. Had no idea they grow well mounted.
Great in terms of your single plant, yes. Terrible in terms of how important bogs, where it grows, are for a plethora of rare species and storing carbon =)
I have two dischidia ovatas. They are both very full and the largest one has 3+ foot vines. I have left them in the tiny 3 inch grow pots they came in, and are growing 3 and 5 feet away from a southern window. The pots seem like they would be way too small for so many long vines (filled with leaves), but they are very happy. I treat them like my hoyas and only water after they are completely dry. They also have a humidifier nearby. Definitely in my top 5 favorite plants I grow!
Hi Nick, I am a follower & Friend from Queensland Australia 😊 I luv watching your videos as they have taught me alot about my plants. Dischidia are Epiphytic by nature so growing on the wood plaques with moss is great. If you want to grow any in medium I have found Coco coir or coconut chunks are a great medium as it holds enough moisture and has enough air flow. They also like humidity I have found. If your in to the more interesting looking Dischidia I would recommend Dischidia Nummularia Dragon Jade or Bubbles as its also known as 😊
I was hoping you'd cover it in your video, but what do you do once a plant outgrows the plaque? Do you unwrap the wire and transfer the plant to a bigger plaque? Do you just cut off the parts that dangle freely and put them on a separate plaque? What about the original plant then? Eventually the roots will get too long and the older leaves will die, right? So then how do you go about replanting it?
canadian here! and i work in a plant store. i wanted to mention it depends what end of Canada your living in as to where plants are grown. generally most houseplants that take a few years are not grown in Canada, it costs too much to heat the greenhouses over many winters (think Ficus Lyrata or slow growing Sanseveria). so most house plants we get at our store are grown in Florida and sometimes Costa Rica, then come in through the port of Montreal or more infrequently in through Toronto. Small succulents and cacti are grown in Canada, typically in Southern Ontario or around Montreal. Out west (BC being an exception) from what I hear is a houseplant desert with 'common' house plants still being rare out there. We have students sometimes come in and load up before heading out west, either for themselves or to sell and make a pretty penny.
I lived in SW Ontario for 7 years and i just moved north and I am definitely finding it harder to find houseplants even here as opposed to London area (in ON).
Hi it's good timing watching you discuss about dischidia coz I brought home some yesterday when I went home in my birth town. I found it growing on fruit trees. Thank you very much.
I think i found my favourite plant family. dischidia seem so unique, fun and pretty! thank you for these videos ill be sure to add one of these species to my plant collection. Their so pretty looking!
Super informative. I clicked because I just got a strand of the Million Hearts Dischidia and don’t know what to do with it. What a cool idea to wall mount it. Thanks for sharing!!!
Hey Nick! Ty, I'm recently( due to you😊) very enamored with Dishidia and trust my ability and environment now to start acquiring them in Spring! I don't generally like wall mounted plants, but yours are always on beautiful Bark..... so, TY again my plant brother. Stay well, and Happy Holiday season.
I really love the way your dischidias are planted and displayed...on the plaques! The moss just adds a lovely natural look, and is good for holding moisture and not be too wet. Your plants are beautiful and unique. I have a large hanging dischidia (common thousand hearts) I've had a few years. It does get very tiny white flowers at times. I've noticed that, underneath the plant...it's getting leaf drop, but the top looks good and is getting growth. I think I need to hold back on the water..especially now in winter. It's one of my favorite plants.
Hi Nick! Just enjoy your videos, you're so sweet to share plant information with us, congratulations on 100k subs, have a Merry Christmas, hugs from Orange County, Ca 😃🎅🎄⛄❄❤❤
Hi Nick, I love your channel! I have to share this as I am still laughing my head off! am French speaking and your videos are always translated with French subtitles (part of my settings I guess) and although I’m not paying to much attention to the texts, this particular video translation caught my eye…. 😂😂😅😅…. These beautiful plants have a name « Dishidia » that resemble to another one…. Yep, you guessed it right! So the automatic translation picked up this-not-so-accurate-word to identify this plant. I never thought there were sooooooo many variation of this « word » in French…. It is hilarious!🤣😂😅
Love your informational videos!! I have a Dischidia Ovata that also has really long tendrils. It's recently starting to grow leaves on them. I grow mine with higher humidity in the bathroom and high LE grow lights. I think key is to make sure to only water when the leaves feel less firm. They don't like being watered too often. Can't wait to see more of your videos like these!
I just got my first dischidia a week ago. Dischidia major and it is is awesome!! I love how there are two different types of leaves and how spongy and unique it is. First plant I've ever had in moss and am quite intimidated at letting the moss dry out. I was planning on putting it in soil but I think I'll leave it now. It's so gorgeous on it's trellis! Love your channel btw and how it's always new and different from everyone else's!
Bonjour Nick,I love these plants!But a bit difficult to get in my country. Well,anyways,I enjoy your beautiful collection! 😉 Happy Xmas to you and your family🌲🎅
My new wish list plant...dischidia are so tiny and cute...I’m over big plants and so enjoying new small ones. Hopefully I can find one and try attaching it to a plaque! Thanks, and congrats on your award! 💕🇨🇦
You are so sympathetic! I love to see your fascination and admiration for these plants you are caring for and giving some simple advices. Compared to so many other plant posting people, who seem to me as simple collectors and trend followers that just want to show their pride for their mostly expensive or rare plants. Thank you 🙏
AAAAHHH!! Love this video! I love my dischidias and can’t wait to collect more. Definitely going to try your wood plaque/sphagnum moss display. Sooo cool. And you should add the Dragon Jade dischida to your collection :D
Dischidia imbricata looks so cool. I have a Dischidia nummularia on top of my kitchen cupboard in a pot, with its leaves trailing down. It's a really dark corner and I always forget to water it, but it's green and happy.
I had never heard of them before but coincidentally just got one today after stumbling over one (and there was only one) in my go-to plant store. exciteed!
My dischidia ovata is the fastest growing plant I own. It doesn't care that it's winter in New England. I was so surprised. I have it at a south east window and use a cheap miracle grow orchid spray fertilizer. It's my favorite plant currently.
Nick I am jelly! I cannot keep a dischidia alive!! I absolutely love them too... ugh. Buuuut I have not yet tried to grow them on a plaque with moss so you have given me hope today my fine sir. Hope. I'm gonna try. And I thank you. xoxo btw I love your sense of humor, you just make me giggle the entire video! 😍🤩💚🌵🌴
I imported a variety from The Netherlands a few years ago that is one of the ant plants that grow these big modified leaves that ants live in. It has grown so much and i love it so so much. It was labeled just as a Thailand species Dischidia. I now have several different types of Dischidia with a few mounted as well. I have some imbricata i just mounted on a large piece of raw cork bark marketed for reptile enclosures. I have a few growing on the cactus skeleton that i was able to stuff sphagnum Moss inside. I have the green form of the nummularia if you’re interested in a trade once spring comes. I bought two 2 inch pots from joshs frogs a few years ago and i have tons now. I am growing some in a hanging basket that cascades over my kitchen sink. I have to flop the vine to the opposite side of the pot when they start nearly touching my sink but also cut a bunch and have some growing as a creeping style inside a terrarium, some in sphagnum in a vase, some on that cactus skeleton wood. I love them. I have a few more types and scoop any type up when i see them. Since they are relatives of Hoya and Hoya are so hot, they are becoming an it plant now as well.
My fav video in a long time! Please keep doing these but I would literally pay to see you create one of these planks for us! I have searched through all your videos after seeing a hoya shingled that I had cuttings of. I never found the how to just the one where you showed it. BUT now I see all your shingles/boards/planks whatever you call them and I must learn more!!!! :-) Mostly if I do the 2 dischidia I have sitting here do you have some type of substrate under the spagh or is it just mounded up well? Thanks Nick and Happy New Year!
I grow my Dischidia ovata, about 1 m from a south facing window. It has long vines and even bloomed this fall! I've had it for three years now and repotted it once. I water it the same as with my hoyas, maybe every three weeks but it has succulent leaves and delicat roots so I'm very careful - I let the water rinse thrue the pot. Someone said they have it near a humidifier, I don't have a humidifier and it seem to love life - my climate is about 40-55% humid.
Oh I love dischidias! So funky. Pretty easy to care for too. Dischidia vidalii syn pectenoides is super cool too! Definitely check that out! One of my fave dischidias. Haha I love the ones that sorta shingle and the ant plant type ones. I prefer growing dischidias mounted they're easier to manage that way haha. They're epiphytic after all.
I have a large 8 inch pot of million hearts hanging in a west facing obstructed window and it grows like crazy. The flowers, while insignificant, actually have a very pleasant scent that I find reminiscent of cinnamon. I water it every 3 to 4 weeks depending on the season.
I remember watching this video when it came out and thinking quite literally 'ew' but now being able to come back and wanting them all! Its like ive caught the bug!
Hi Nick! I'm hoping to find some Dischidia as I love all of the ones you show. I didn't see this in the video, but when you mount Dischidia, do you add soil below the sphagnum moss, or are they just growing on the moss? I hope you'll address this because I think it's important to know. I know some of your other mounted plants have soil below the moss. I would love to have every one of these plants. Fingers crossed I can find some! 🤞 Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful plants with us1
Hi Nick! Please make a video about how to care for dischidia nummularia! I recently got mine from Steve's Leaves and I can't seem to figure out how to keep it happy.
Maybe more humid air around your quadrangularis for the leaves to developer, or a dome for awhile to see what happens. Mine did the same , so I mounted it on the back wall of my terrarium.
I would love a video explaining how to tell the difference between dischidia and hoya. They look so similar to me. Like pothos and philodendron until I learned to differentiate.
Love your variegated nummularia. Costa Farms sells then in hanging baskets labeled as ‘Pebble Beach’ but I’ve never found one. I can’t root nummularia for the life of me.
What kind of moss do you use for mounting? I've got a Million Hearts mounted with sphagnum and it seems happy but the moss doesn't look as good as yours. Thanks for the informative video!
Your imbracata is actually pectinoides. The imbracata has a pale, white-ish green (vs dark green) and its leaves tend to "cup" in more. Here in Asia it goes by different names, "kangaroo pocket" in the Philippines or "elephant ear" in Thailand where I currently reside. That should give you an idea what the leaves look like. Mine, I have several of them, each ends up look like a bunch of grapes! I also have a couple of pectinoides, these like to climb up more whereas imbracatas tend to droop, probably because their leaves can get pretty thick and heavy. One more thing, the pectinoides sometimes also cup their leaves to look like elephant ears, but those are rather thin and "fluffy"-looking compared to imbracatas.
Dischidia pectenoides is a synonym for Dischidia vidalii, which his plant is a hybrid of, but is NOT pectenoides/vidalii. That plant has clearly dimorphic leaves with one being a small laminate, pointed leaf, and the other a large complex domatia - it does not produce coin shaped leaves.
i'm going to hold you to it. XDDDDD while I listened to you, I snipped the dead flowers off my amaryllis and left the seed pods for the purpose of experimentation. :D two down, two to go. my apple blossom amaryllis put up TWO flower stalks and a baby bulb. each flower stalk had 5 flowers on it!!! Edit: also i forgot to add, I have 4 amaryllis bulbs
What you have been sold as D. imbricata is actually a hybrid of Dischidia vidalii and Dischidia sp. Camiguin Island, which is predominately the plant that is circulating in the US. True Dischidia imbricata (Blume) Steud. is not in US cultivation.
Thanks for sharing! I have a potted dischidia geri that is potted and not doing very well. I might mount it! How do you fertilize your dischidia mounted on sphagnum? Do you use a foliar spray, or do you just add liquid fertilizer when you soak them?
I'm currently obsessed with Dischidia but am having trouble finding sellers and information on the different varieties. Like no good info. I'm trying to figure out if the "apple leaf" is the same plant as "geri" like I can't find any info...
