Thank you for mentioning neglect during difficult times. Its kinda like a best friend since Kindergarten, you may neglect that friend or vise versa but they are there waiting to help you when you are ready. That is exactly what your plants are doing for you now. Especially the neon pothos. I pray that every day brings you smiles and happy memories as you tend to the plants, like when you are drowning that ho!! Krystal I am so happy I found your shorts and now I am thankful for every longer video you make. I am looking out for the pothos next. I want a ponytail but I am scared of it. Don't want my eyes scratched out.
Yes agreed! That friend that you can lean on no matter what is going on. She’s definitely very special. Thank you for your kindness, thank you for your love. It means so much and maybe a small ponytail palm instead to start instead of a big baby 🥰
@@PlantswithKrystal I will try that out. You are inspiring me to try things I never thought I deserved like the fruit roll up plant you had on a short recently. Anyway I appreciate you replying. Threw me off as I usually don't get replies.
I am also scared of ponytail (and also dracenas), but I am more scared that I would kill it, succulents dont seem to want to be friends with me. Still love them though and admire them in stores for now.😂 Maybe one day I will get the courage to try again ...
I was a serial black thumb and had zero interest in plants. Then I visited a plant pop up stand and asked "whats the hardest plant to kill for beginners?" And the person directed me to a tiny Golden Pothos aka "Devil's Ivy". She's my very first plant and paid too much for her now that I go to big box stores and see how much they typically charge but whatever. She's absolutely thriving and 100% sparked my interest in plants. She gave me hope that I can have a green thumb, too. And now I'm addicted to visiting the garden section at stores and nurseries, learning about different plants and their care, watching plant videos and plant care videos such as yours. I'm still getting beginner plants to better boost my confidence but my very first pothos has a big place in my heart. I dont have any of these that you recommended except for the pothos and now I'll be on the look out for them if I can provide adequate care for them in my home. ❤
I appreciate your transparency in mentioning neglect during the difficult times, as well as talking about the Pothos which brought comfort to you. I recently lost my father and the one thing that made me smile a bit during all of this has been re-potting plants from the funeral and caring for them. They will forever hold a special place in my heart! I love your videos and am happy to have such a positive space to visit to continue learning about plants!
That is so beautiful. I inherited my parents plants and knew nothing about plant care. Unfortunately I killed the Jade tree, but the Aloe Vera plants have made it through. Big hugs.
A pothos is always the first plant I recommend to anyone. You’re absolutely right, they will stick with you through thick and thin. The amount of growth they put out when given perfect conditions is so rewarding to see. I love your content and I’m very lucky to have found your page, thank you 🖤
I propagated mine and gave the new guy to a friend of mine who isn't great with plants but loves vine type plants. Those things stick around and are so resilient, and she loves the little thing
That's why i've killed two in the last year.... whatever. I find it always amazing when they clean and desinfect the plant and mess with the roots ..... if i breathe on my plants wrong..... they're out....i guess i have passive-agressive b.... for plants😢
I first bought my Dracaena marginata in an IKEA store in 2013. It survived many location changes and several phases of overwatering AND underwatering. After 10 years and lots of leaf losses I finally repotted it because there wasn't much soil left and the plant grew very long roots... What a survivor!
Love my pothos. He started as one crappy strand in those crazy gift baskets that have 5 plants that should never be together in the same pot lol. Now he is doing great!
My boyfriend and I broke up three days ago. I was too sad to watch RU-vid and take care of my plants. This is the first video after these hard days and I want to thank you for your fresh and funny way of informing us❤️❤️
Spidey plants are my forever rec for if someone is starting out with plants. They're so forgiving if you neglect them, they're very easy to understand if they need water or sun or rotation or repotting, they come in fun varieties, they're forgiving even if your cat hole punches half the leaves, they give out a million babies if you keep it happy for like 10 minutes. 100/10 always recommend spider plants. Also Pothos, I just think that they're so versatile and everyone calls them basic but I think they're stunning and you can get varieties and verigation and you can propagate them in like a week they're insane. And then my other fave for easy maintenance is ZZ plants. Idk what it is about them but I think they're just the cutest and they desperately WANT to be neglected. Water that bish once and she's good for like 1-3 months. And the leaves are so shiny and she's so sturdy. I love them I think they're so cute.😊
Oh my gosh, I totally agree on the ZZ Plants! When I forgot to water mine before a three week road trip I came back to two new shoots!! Who knows how long it had been since I watered it before that 😂
I also have a pothos that survived severe neglect while I was going through difficult times but now she’s thriving and I appreciate her even more for it 💛
i will always always always recommend pothos! i haven’t watched the video all the way thru but i swearrrr you can’t kill pothos no matter how hard you try, and they’re even easier to propagate!! also your ponytail palm is G O R G E O U S
I have been watching you from the Philippines 💕💕💕 I think you're nice person, All your plants are great,, they're beautiful,,, Ilove you're hoyas,,I Am going to look for that today,,, promise,,,, good day 🌷🌺🌹💮🌼🌻☘️🌿🌱🌾🍁🏵️🌻🍃🌾🍁🍂🥀🌻🥀🌹
I'd recommend snakeplants to anyone who sucks at watering. Internet says they can go 2 weeks without waterin, but from my experience an older well established plant can go a couple months and still be fine. They have so thick and leathery leaves, so not much water can escape the plant
Agree 100% about pothos, so easy and prolific growers so easy to propagate and share with friends. And just want to say you are one special lady that always makes me smile when I watch you. Thank you for being you 💚
A Pathos was my very first plant. My girlfriend named it, and its probably my favorite plant. I also really like my snake plants but pathos has a very special place in my heart.
I turned the spare room in my apartment into a lil greenhouse, and every time I’m in a major depressive episode (which is more often than not nowadays), all of my plants except my snake plant and one of my Aloe plants dies. So needless to say I was looking up neon pothos before this video was even over. Thank you 💚
I have a Hoya that I keep in a 4” pot. It was originally a cutting from one of my great grandmas plants that she’s had for over fifty years! It’s so rewarding seeing it grow over the years and to have that connection. The mother plant is just a sight to behold, it covers a solid 5 foot by 5 foot wall and has tendrils that span another ten feet almost encapsulating the entire dining room. I hope i can grow mine that big eventually !
Just the video I needed. I’m a beginner plant parent about to move to El Paso after a lifetime in Georgia. Excited to start having plants in the new house to keep an oasis of green in the desert! Thanks for suggesting beginner plants Krystal!!
Whew - you will have a learning curve with the Tx. hear and dry air! 30 yrs in Texas, and am still sad when everything outside dies in August😊😂 Best wishes!!
I thought that this would be a serious one but I was not let down, the ending about best friend was hilarious esp we have the same plant best friend - neon pothos😂
Queen wears the crown,( line around the leaf) Princess wear the gown!!! ( in the middle of the leaf) My Princess is doing so well but that Queen is a diva!
My dracaena is huge! I never repotted her to like five years and then decided she had stopped growing! The roots were so intense that I had a heck of a time getting it out of the ceramic pot! There was actually more roots than dirt! She is growing again.
I have a Ponytail Palm I got from a friends huge outside in the ground palm that froze in 2021. She thought it was trashed & I talked her into letting it be. 2 baby palms came out of the rotted stump. 🌱🌵🌻
I love all your beautiful plants and thanks for describing the plant and water conditions. I have all 4 plants you were just showing. I wish I can find a large hanging hoja princess. It’s one of my favorites. Thanks for always making me laugh girl.
Girl you floor me!😂🤭😆🤣 When you started talking about the Heart Leaf Philodendron and went into the Southern Tent Revival voice 😆Your explanation of the Pothos being your best friend to eat ice cream with & watch videos ☺️🤭 You are so so funny! You could do Stand Up comedy I swear. Totally agree with all your picks. I do the "Taco Test" on my Hoyas and succulents + the dry dirt for most of my Hoyas. So if the Hoya leaf is somewhat firm and doesn't bend to a taco it's fine. If the leaf makes a taco easily it's water time baby! ✌️🫶🤙💚🪴🌱🌵🌿☘️🍃
I put my pothos in my bathroom, all I did was tell it it looked beautiful and barely watered it and it was twice the size in a week and a half!! I have four new leaves now and it keeps producing! I looove pothos!
Girl, because of your videos I had to go buy a few new plants; A ponytail palm, a twisted lipstick, a pinstriped prayer plant, and two different peperomia plants. I could use some help with the prayer plant, some of her leaf tips are crusty. I enjoy your videos because you explain things so well, and are very relatable. Thank you!
DEAR KRYSTAL, I HAVE JUST PURCHASED THREE OF THE PONY TAIL PALMS. I AM GOING TO USE A PILLOW CASE OVER THOSE LEAVES SO I DO NOT GET CUT. THIN SKIN AS I AM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME SHARING, LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. ANNETTE QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA.
A plant that I put through severe neglect due to not knowing enough about it is my peace lily. I still got pictures from when it looked so sad, with dull and frilly leaves and seemingly no will to live. Now it has fresh soil, a good spot (indirect light but close enough to a window) and I should have re-potted it already because when I gave it fresh soil and a bit of fertilizer, it had a growth spurt that is still going. It now is several plants in one pot and they all deserve their own pot to grow into amazing plants that self-pollinate and clean the air, while looking beautiful with their wide, shiny green leaves and they will get beautiful white flowers several times a year.
So many dracaenas have peace out'ed on me. But I have another one! We shall see how long it lasts. Peace lily is supposed to have been easy care but I went through so many. Got a pothos too, quite recently, it loves my hallway. I want to get a hoya because when I was at school and our classrooms were freezing in the winter, those plants survived and thrived. :) What I have noticed from my personal experience, a lot of the time my plants died after I repotted them, even though I tried to pick the correct soil. So now I hardly ever re-pot anything unless it is completely coming out of their current pot.
i just wanna say how much i adore you, your content brings me so much joy and you’re the reason i got into plants. i’ve been following you for about a year now and after rescuing a crispy spider plant i’m in love with plants. such a rewarding hobby. you’ve also inspired me to get both a ponytail palm and a yukka, both are doing great so far thanks to your care advice !!
I love my crimson princess & queen. All my hoyas are just so easy to care for!! Oh yes, my all time is my original heart leaf philo, she's stuck with me through so many years of gross neglect, then I learned consistency and she was loving life, then more neglect. Such a trooper! - OMG, I just realized she's still in the original 4" pot with the same soil (what's left of it) - oh that's embarrassing! Poor thing, 15 years in my care, yikes! Ok today I'm going to repot her and give her a great life from now on, thanks for inspiring me Krystal!!
I couldn't take my eyes off the little white fella in the background. Is that a plant pot with a drain "spout"?!!! OMG that would be hilarious. I wish I made pottery.
Love all your jugs of water in the background. I do the same. I have 8 gallons of water on the ready at all times. For all my baby's. I just repotted all my indoor plants. And had my 13 year old grandson help me. Not because I needed the help, but because he wants to learn. Plants are therapeutic. I really love your channel
The dracaena marginata 🎉🎉 Mine is fairly small and wasn't doing much, it just had one stem and one ponytail. I had it for almosy a year and it just didn't seem to do anything. Your channel gave me the confidence to CHOP! her top off and propigate the top and hope that the poor little dried up stem would grow! It finally did, and I have been DYING to tell you how thankful I am for your existence! Your advice also helped me save the life of my aloe vera. It was HUGE and my husband was emptying old water bottles into it without me knowing 😢. She's little now, but she's ALIVE! ❤❤❤
Love a pothos, I have one big mother plant & at least ten glass jars of cuttings around the house 😅 Also, gotta mention a ZZ, mine has survived through alot of neglectful periods of life. ❤ Loving these long form vids, all the way from Australia 👌🏼😘
My ponytail palm makes me the happiest of all mine. Next in line...my Swiss cheese plant and my variegated philo brasil, no 2 leaves are the same. Thanks for the content. -A new plant mom.
I love my monstera siltepecana. I chopped it back to just a few leaves in December and it has exploded with new growth. I'll always have snake plants as well.
A NEW VIDEOOO, every day I check to see if you upload an I get SUPER excited to watch and when post these omg it’s the like so exciting like when you see a beef
My biggest recommendations for beginners are the plants that really kicked off my house plant love - all things tradescantia and all things Coleus! My first tradescantia was a single zebrina cutting from a friend three years ago and I have done Everything to it! I propagate it constantly and have given So many away because it just grows SO fast! It’s so fun to watch, and the purple and green stripes are so beautiful! Same with Purple Heart; that is my /absolute favorite/ of my collection. I started two years ago with one broken stem of two leaves and a flower in water, and it bloomed over and over at least 10 times before it quit flowering and started growing. Since I planted in soil it’s been knocked over, forgotten, stems have broken off and poked back into the soil - I mean really just about everything - and it just keeps putting out beautiful new stems constantly ♥️ even though I thought I’d killed it so many times! I just love plants that I can interfere with 😂 that’s why I love coleus so much too. They come in so many colors and variations, and if they get leggy (which so many of mine have!) you can just chop the tops off and stick them in water or back in the soil with some rooting hormone to get many many new plants! If they get completely dried out they might not come back so you do have to be more diligent than with others, but it can absolutely tolerate overwatering and the best part to me is that anytime new leaves are coming in you can pinch them off so four leaves will come in instead! Then you just keep doing that with every new set of baby leaves and watch it explode!! It’s so therapeutic 💕
My favourite is the dracaena. It's often called boring, I assume because it's so easy and therefore common. But in my opinion, this doesn't make it less majestic and beautiful.
Pathos was one of my early favorites, and first to propagate. My sisters gave me a plant for my dorm when I was 18, I some kind of succulent with round green leaves that has little red flowers. I was like ‘what’s this?’ To which they answered ‘it’s a plant, just water it’. Repotted that mofo like 10 times, not because it needed it, just kept knocking it over drunk coming home, totally survived freshman year somehow. By the end of the year I had like 10 plants in my dorm (a friend stole a dracena from The dining hall because she knew I liked plants, figured out how to propagate etc.) and the first thing everyone said when they came in the room was ‘wow, plants’ I loved that reaction. Have been a plant dad ever since. They chill me out and have helped me get through difficult days as well. I find it so satisfying to watch them grow. Great channel Krystal. I am American, but live in SE Asia where the plant life will blow your mind. Pothos just grow everywhere and climb the trees, and have yellow and green marbled leaves the size of dinner plates, biodiversity is no joke here. I highly recommend you checking it out here, Thailand or Malaysia, near the equator. Cheers 🤜⚡️🤛
ZZ-plant! Mine has survived overwatering, root rot, and even frost, honestly don't know how it's still going, but it's got one stem left! You go Groot, you keep on growing! 🤩🤣
I just got myself a ponytail palm. It’s got a huge luscious top, but the stem is about a quarter of what yours is. I absolutely love it. I went back and forth for about an hour in the nursery because I didn’t think it was practical with the size and two cats. Soooo worth it. It’s my favorite plant right now and makes me so happy.
ohhhh myyy your ponytail palm is absolutely stunning! That is one that I've been wanting to get but I'm not letting myself until I first take care of my plants that need extra attention, especially my rescue peace lily.
Pothos was my gateway plant. When my kids were babies I killed allll the plants. Now that my kids are older, I have the brain space for plant friends again! During the first lockdown in 2020 I bought a giant pothos on a whim, and she’s still going strong. I have propagated many babies from her, and now I’m up to about three dozen plants around my house. The obsession is strong. 😆
Seriously love your videos and your vibe. I am super neglectful of my houseplants (I regularly kill succulents, but keep my veggie garden alive and thriving... go figure) but I grew up with houseplants, and they make a home more homey. Watching your videos and shorts are inspiring me to be a better plant parent.
id love to see more vids like this! also vids about plants that beginners maybe wanna avoid! i get so happy seeing your videos come up, and you e inspired me to get my own plant collection going! thanks for all u do!
I love your channel as I am definitely a plant lady. I especially loved the ponytail palm but I am so limited by space. In the summer my plants love life on the deck but when winter comes my dining room is overtaken by my babies. Thank you for your tips and your enthusiasm!
I have all those plants you were just talking about and easy to take care of and I just love them all. My favorite is pony tail palm and that very tall plant I forgot the name of it
@plantswithKrystal I blame you for my recently plant purchases. I got lucky today after watching this video. I went to my local plant nursery and they were having a buy one get one half off sale. I got the most beautiful ponytail palm and a Swiss cheese monstera.
Yeah, neon pothos, also one of my favorite plants! Apart from that, I love philodendrons, recently I got Philo Moonshine and those bright yellow leaves are just a delight for my eyes! Oh, and lately I also have a new found love for Begonias (because I rescued one LOL), especially those with the metallic silver color leaves, oh my god, so pretty! Krystal, I so enjoy your funny videos and shorts, always get excited when one pops up in my feed. Not only do I get a lot of great tips but also a ton of severe entertainment. 🤣I have to thank you in particular for your tip in relation to rescue plants, you sometimes take them out of the soil, rinse the roots out completely and place the plant into just water for some time. I have done that with a few of my rescue plants now and boy! Because of your wonderful tips those plants are putting out new growth! (Insert jumping madly on the couch emoji). Seriously, thank you very much, you taught me many things but if I have to point out one of them it would be this massive LOVE (for plants, for life in general). Wishing you nothing but the best, to me you are an amazing inspiration and I am so glad that I found your channel! And I look forward to more great tips and more laughing moments with you. Sending hugs.♥
I feel like no matter the plant I always pot in well draining soil and no matter if they require a lot of water/ moisture they have survived a lonnnng time and look so good. You can never go wrong with good draining soil.
Thank you! I love my heart leaf Philadendron and my Draecenas. You don't hear about them enough! And a Pony Tail Palm is on my wish list this year. Great video.
My grandpa has a pothos that my mom claims was purchased for my great-grandmother’s funeral… i can’t say exactly when that was but i was not born yet and i’m almost 25 now! It’s pretty much down to one vine now, but keeps on truckin even though I don’t think my grandpa has watered it in years, it only gets watered when i go visit!
I love your videos, your opinions, your honesty, how you educate us by what has worked for you and for being so down to earth o yeah thanks for making me laugh ❤
@@PlantswithKrystal De nada you are doing an amazing job keep up the good work, you got this Reina 👑 I am glad I found your channel ya le dije a mi familia to subscribe to your channel
Krystal you are the bomb - I have most of the same plants. Particularly fond of the Ponytail, but mine are 1/3 of the size. My fav is a fiddle leaf fig that LOVES it's corner, and is giant! Your commentary is a hoot - keep it up! 😂😊❤ Lib grandma in Tx.
My Mom took to gardening, succulents were her jam, later in life. She spent HOURS researching the what, how, etc. I wish she was still with me, always, but specifically because she would have L❤VED this channel and you! Between thinking about her, especially as Spring is just around the corner, and watching your posts, I'm starting to get the "maybe she was on to something" feeling. 🌿☘️🪴😊
