I truly enjoy your witty and funny presentation. You had me laughing out loud several times. Thanks for confirming that it’s ok to lose your love for some of your plants…
"These figs are currently on a cross country road trip to see the worlds largest rubber band ball."😁😂😅🌿. I don't know where you come up with this stuff, but I'm so glad you do! You make me laugh so much, and I appreciate your extensive knowledge!
It's funny how you said the Thanksgiving cactus only blooms for like a week. Mine blooms randomly and gives me a hit of dopamine each time. I also got it from my neighbors trash after they moved, so that helps.
I disagree with your stance on Schlumbergera, but respect your points. I personally love how they flower during the darkest days of the year, give buds to look forward to a grand finale and are super easy to grow. Also one of the most freely/reliable flowering cacti and they stay quite compact compared to rhipsalis for example, which often bruise easily, are more finicky to flower and have flowers that are nowhere near as big or colorful.
Can’t believe my luck. It’s my day off, I’m doing plant chores today, I’m high as fuck, AND there’s a new video from Nick Alexander. Finally something good is happening in 2022
Thank you for saving me from another logees purchase. Soccer ball sized blooms seemed intriguing to me but watching another Hoya suffer in my care isn’t something I can handle. Your videos are the best.
i had dozens of plants and all were gorgeous but then i had to leave my house because of the war for 8 months and half of them died and i will now be living vicariously through your videos.
Love your sarcasm. Poland is great. There are so many castles, the carpathian mountains in the south, hot springs, nice budget accommodation and the best cheesecake.
I just found your content a few weeks ago and now am on a run of watching it all. Your vibe is iconic, it literally gives me more life than my P. Pink Lady probably ever had. THANK YOU!
Not me, in my cold, drafty house, feeling personally attacked by your take on growing warm weather plants in the wrong conditions. It's okay, I needed to hear it.
I just found your channel. I'm so thrilled right now. PlantTube has been devoid of genuine humor. There's some very knowledgeable and charming channels, but no one that seamlessly blends info and laughs like you. Thank you for the fresh air 😃
thank you for your videos!! when I want to choke out my coworkers I put one on and your humor literally saves my day. it doesn't even matter if I've seen the video before, it works. I am incredibly entertained and you teach me stuff sometimes too 🥳 also I wish I could have your voice narrating my life lol
I always have a hard time choosing which plants to get rid of... Gotta make room for the new interests somehow though. You have an interesting sense of humor that I appreciate. ✌🏽
Another great video !! Good thing that little bug didn’t end up in your hair when you were demonstrating how to view the pattern on the mosaica leaves !! De cluttering is almost therapeutic and someone somewhere is going to be thrilled to have your castaways ☺️
In 2020, I bought 2 Monstera deliciosa "Aurea" - 1 rooted cutting with beautiful variegation, and the other was a well variegated node ... since then, NEITHER of them have produced ANY variegation! 🤬I got an unbeatable deal on them - $1000 for the pair 😭....NEVER again! This is what happens when I get a ..... well, this is a family friendly channel lol... Great video Nick, good to see you again 😊👍
Loved this video and I love how honest and self aware you are, it’s important to be in gardening as much as it is in life in general. As you mature in gardening you learn , at least for me to not rush into the rare plant hype. Their prices WILL come down. Also rarity is so subjective, cause the Polynera although now common where you are, is still rare here in Nigeria.
Spat my drink out when you cut to the prison clip 😂 Your videos cheer me up when I'm surrounded by my plant collection that's beginning to languish in the harsh English Autumn..... xx
Yes! Some of my ficus hate the lighting in my home. I thought it was a watering issue since it was next to a west facing window. So I moved it outside under a shaded tree and now it is growing and stopped dropping leaves.
I have a few terrariums for the insects I keep, and I feel pretty good whenever I can move a plant in them to save space. Currently I have pothos, wandering jew, english ivy, Ficus pumila, Pilea depressa, baby tears and some species of Cryptanthus in there (which is currently blooming, so soon I'll have a few more). I am basically treating them like a botanical garden.
Whilst we animals were still coming up with assorted rat things the ancestors of cacti adapted to the desert then moved into trees then adapted to living in wet conditions then some of them came back to the desert and adapted back to living in dry conditions. However somehow of all the things produced by that process people decided to cultivate something that blooms for five minutes and gets its name from a British man.
I live in the Philippines some of those fruit trees which I recognise aren't even grown in residential homes in the city, because they require a lot of land to grow lol
Right tho. Like does loges think we have super dome sized conservatories? I'm sure they're going to tell people to grow breadfruit in their homes soon.
I'm from Poland and although we have sth more than people growing hoyas and post soviet architecture, I enjoyed your video a lot :) Keep up the good work!
I love my Ficus triangularis variegata! Yes she loves to drop her leaves but she did so well on my porch this summer. She came in for the winter today. I’m ready for the drop!
The pilea thing is crazy to me because my mom got me one as a birthday present in 2019. It was just a random little grocery store plant labeled as a "friendship plant". I knew nothing about it and just thought it was cute. Now, the shop I work at keeps getting requests for them, but the supplier doesn't have any. Meanwhile, I gave mine a "haircut" a few months ago and now have the original plant in a 7 inch pot, four more in 4 inch pots, a baby cutting in my propagation box, and 4 more baby plants in 2 inch pots. They're multiplying!
Thank you for your down to earth opinions about plants. I’d have to agree with most of your picks- the Hoya I’d chop and prop and make a basket- but I get it
The fact that you showed Ceropegia made me so happy. They’re my favorite genus of plants and I collect them. Finding non Woodii variants is tough though, so any love towards these crazy plants really makes me happy. I have to say though, my String of Hearts/Needles flower so much and so prolifically that I can’t keep them in my room anymore because they smell terrible to me even at a distance. Still love them, but at a distance for sure.
It’s frustrating when big chains carry large nursery farm plants and the nurseries don’t mark what the plant is so a buyer can at least research the care of it on their own.
I'm a calathea person (masochist I know) and was obsessed with the calathea musaica. But I'm also a cheapass and was not going to pay north of $40 for one. When it finally came down to costa farm tier, I saw it in person and thought "meh". So glad I passed.
I have a dozen or so different Schlumbergera cactus- Thanksgiving like the one shown, Christmas and Easter cactus as well. When my Thanksgivings start to bloom, they will produce for 1-3 weeks depending on the age/size of the plant. Many of my plants will then have a second round of blooms a few weeks later, although the second bloom only last average of 2 weeks. This is the species of plant that started my obsession and I still buy new ones every year when I spot a color flower I don't have. They can be a bit dramatic when thirsty but I love they provide bright blooms through the darkest months (Nov-March in the US).
Yes, this! The one at my house blooms aggressively from sept/oct to about may. Definitely worth having, especially if you can find a sunny spot and aren't at a high latitude.
The dry wit remains unmatched 😍☺️ Glad to see I’m not the only one in 🚮mood 😅 Sometimes it’s just time to part ways 🤷🏾♀️ Congrats on the sponsorship! 🎉
My mom has a holiday/christmas/thanksgiving cactus she grew from a dropped branch on my neighbor's sidewalk, and while it has thrived for, like, 10 years, it just sprawls floppily, shooting out new leaves/branches but never looking particularly pretty XD
Lol I have the obsessive buying habits with plants. I'm in NJ and I put alot of my plants outside for the late spring/summer. My plants have exploded and I literally have nowhere to put them inside. I'm begging my daughter to take some.
2020-21 was, uuhh, not a great year for my impulse buying of hoyas. It's so good seeing prices come down now and I'm absolutely okay with the average grower not being able to upcharge small cuttings and make a shitton of money off of them.
So enjoyed your honesty and great humor. I watched a many unboxing of very expensive plants, knowing for most people their climates would not grow such plants. Good lessons learned.
oh great to know you're Canadian should tag your video with location as it'll be helpful for those who watch your channels to know what climate your plants are growing in.
The randomness is quite entertaining. I think a trebuchet would be cathartic and a good way to launch unwanted plants ... well not into the sun, but at least a block or two over.
Both my Ficus triangularis variegata and Ficus moclome lost leaves like crazy inside (but with plenty of light during the summer in Florida). However, after being moved to a shady spot outside, they're thriving. Some plants just don't want to live inside.
Love your content, we want mooooore! I learned so much from your myth demystifying videos. PS. there's an awful lot to do in Poland that has nothing to do with its post Soviet history. Cost of living here is very low, so it's a cheap country to visit if you're living in NA/EU.
You got a sponsor 😍 You are as informative as Gardening in Canada, but you add the funniest freaking comments as you're teaching us. My FAVORITE one so far was the chapstick scene 🤣🤣 I would totally jump over a table for my chapstick. I rewatch that scene when I'm sad. You are amazing.
I don't know how I have just now come across your channel, but I'm so happy that I did. You are knowledgable and hilarious. I have been watching several of your videos a day, and I'll never stop. My new favorite 🤩
