Expose them for what they really are: Overrated,not sustainable to grow in your home,not practical,not functional 😂 I immediately subscribed to your channel after hearing that 😆
Yeah, the biggest issue is that they require a lot of in direct light they're not fit to work inside of a home so they generally die unless you have a really big massive windows open 24/7. so not only do they need a humid climate, but they also need tons of lights which is really tricky. Because most homes are not design to have the lights blasting inside. I live in Florida, so I qualify to be able to raise the Plant but most homes here are not built with massive amounts of interior lighting unless you have a sunroof, or Florida room, which is rare nowadays. Even when I had windows, completely bathed in light and only had a little bit of a covering because of the side of the house being connected to a parking roof it still wasn't enough. They would probably work better if you had a walk up area that's connected to the house with light coming in on directions full blast but still covered.
I have one alocasia growing in leca. One is a sad stalk in a prop box. It dies back to a stalk every time I take it out of the prop box. I will never buy another one ever again.
I had a black velvet and it was doing SO good! And then one day boom. It said peace out and it never got better. Still to this day have no idea what happened!
I refuse to purchase another calathea unless I’m gifting it to someone I don’t like. They are way too fussy for a plant that refuses to die. I have 3.5 and don’t plan to add anymore. The .5 is for the one that I’ve left to die but refuses to..
I love calatheas sooo much. Right now, I've got 5 and two halves of them.. 😅 The five look okay.. 3 of the are in pon really enjoying their life. The two "half plants" are medallions I am trying to save in water for the very last time... Didn't succeed with pon. If I ever find a white fusion, I will probably get it. It is on my wishlist 😍 But I'm definitely not going to try more that once if the queen doesn't like me..
@@emmadoro my white fusion is thriving after being eaten alive by spider mites last year. It’s been good since but definitely a spider mite magnet. They’re beautiful plants I definitely would love to try the ones I have in Pon but they’re so finicky 😩
I just bought a Stella… it’s still alive and well after two weeks. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻(I didn’t know about Calatheas when I bought it, and It is keeping me awake at night 😂)
Alocasias are another plant that will only thrive in the tropics. My grandmother lives in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷and she doesn’t even keep them indoors! She grows stunning alocasia in the ground on the shady side of her house and lets Mother Nature do the all the work!
I live in the Central Valley of California. I only get, at most, a month of decent humidity. I only have 3 Alocasias left. I love them, but I can’t sustain the humidity they need without going broke! Lol
@@ghengis430 all of mine only has ever had tap water mixed super thrive 😬 and not a death yet or a crispy leaf. I swear folks scared me bad saying not to buy them but I have not experienced this. Well in the very first beginning with my large one but once I moved it from my bathroom to my walk in closet that seemed to fix my crisping edges some how
Wish I would have subscribed to you before I became a Plant Lover. Would have saved me time, money and heartache. Most importantly would have taught me not to get a plant just so I can be on the Plant Lovers bandwagon. That wagon has ran me over numerous times.
Hello, Oh,No!! 😮 not my precious Hoyas. I have (22) Hoyas & every one is exploding with growth. I absolutely love them. But I understand with your climate it might be difficult.I'm on my 3rd Mican & this one looks like its going to survive. The others you shown I have no interest either lol. Thank You very enjoyable
Same, and I'll never get any of those again no matter how stunning. Sometimes I wish my calatheas would die so I won't have to deal with them anymore. But so pretty. 😅
I would put ferns on this list because if I whisper too loudly about how the one rabbit foot I have is still alive, she’ll shrivel up from spite 😆 Also, if you can, get an in-line water filter. I swear all of my fussy plants quit acting up when I got one. It’s under my kitchen sink and makes everything so much easier. No more crispy tips from tap water, because the tap is filtered already. 🎉
@@claudiatorres9936 yes that true. I have many collection of fern, but now i focus on aroids, mostly colocasia(easy one), caladium, alocasia, xanthosoma, homalomena, cyrtosperma, aglaonema dieffenbachia, spathiphyllum and my favorite philodendron and monstera.
Love this video! ❤😂 Top of my list is Croton, any type, and I have the climate for them. They are far too dramatic and look awful if they decide to leaf drop, because they did not like your hairstyle one day.
Oh yes to your choices…for me, no to: ivy, African violets, begonias, palms, pepperomias, string of anything, gardenia, croton, orchids…but I keep trying them. Last one was a beautiful pink flowered black ruffled leaf African violet. But I did so enjoy it until it was down to 1 leaf ( now).I do have 3 Hoyas ( from watching Basie Plants) that are doing well-H. carnosa, curtisii, and ‘Crimson Princess’. Enjoyed this video, thank you! 🪴
Phalaenopsis orchids are easy if you just keep them in bark and soak them when almost dry. They like bright indirect light. Strings of anything can go to hell tho
Every plant youtuber ever nowadays: Video: You dont need special soil to grow beautiful plants. You dont need fertiliser for your plants. You dont need moss poles for your plants. ... Next video: These are the plants that are constantly dying in my care.
Poor alocasia! 😂. I must have a gift for them or somethng because i SUCK at keeping most plants alive but my amazonica has become my superstar! I got it when it was 7 i ches and now it has 17 leaves. Almost a year since i got it and it has flowered twice. I keep it under a grow light. I seriously dont think i am a talented keeper. I am just as amazed but this one has been super easy to care for. I also keep it moist at all times and i keep a layer of moss on the surface of the soil.
I have rescued one of my Alocasia from last winter, so, I decided to get another one but different variety last spring and it’s doing great so far. But yes they’re really are tricky to grow. I got me another Hoya last spring as well. They’re just so pretty looking even without flowers. But yes, I refused to buy some of those plants you’ve shown because for a fact that I am pretty sure I will have a problem growing them here at my place… oh there’s more… the vining philodendrons. I will never buy them again as well if they refuse to survive the winter. I have some growing Micans indoors and I think one of them I took outdoors. I actually laughed when you said, chop chop propagate… Cho chop propagate 🤣. I used to do that with Micans, pothos, and other vining plants of mine before. But I don’t do it anymore. It’s just so time consuming. Anyway, sorry for writing a book. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about the matter… …oh wait… you are also very welcome in MyLittleJungle 😊!!!
This was hilariously helpful. I'm glad I haven't fallen for the beauty of philodendrons at the plant shop. I see how they grow and you have confirmed my suspicions about them. I have recently invested in alocasias and calatheas. Right now, I'm willing to put in the work. They're beautiful. It seems for them high humidity is very important. Also, apparently alocasias drop leaves if they get 3 or more. That's just what it means to be a certain kind of alocasia. I really like this video about alocasias. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dNfjoxx8Cs8.htmlsi=NwqkV7EWZWlPk57-
Me watching your video a week after having bought my Gloriosum and Micans... 🤔 But I have to say that I am a bit confused. You seem so mad when *exposing the real nature* of those drama queens. 😅 But yours still look so nice. 😂😂 Except the hoyas (maybe..) They look nice as well but I can understand why you are disappointed. I haven't watched the whole video yet. But I'm already enjoying it so much 😊
I've killed two alocasias before. I finally decided to get another one, but it got mites right away! It took a couple weeks of consistently doing damage control, plus putting her into a terracotta pot to get her happy again. I water her thoroughly about once a week and give her just a bit of water a few times a week. I'm also sure to keep her in high humidity. So much work, but it's so satisfying to see her thriving!
I feel like half of velvet-leaved philodendrons are the easiest, and the other half are the hardest. But, you never know which ones are actually going to like your home conditions 😂
❤ I love your absolute honesty! You are so refreshing!! 💚 The backlash from negative reviews can be brutal! 😱 Some people have forgotten that we actually eat some of these plants. It's called "SALAD" 🥗 I look forward to more of your videos. 😁 Thank you 🙏 from a fellow plant collector across the 🌎 globe. Canada 🇨🇦
New subscriber here...West Virginia, USA. My jaw hit the floor when you said hoys! lol I've given up on begonias, "string of's", some philos, and tradescantia's! NEVER AGAIN! I really enjoyed your video...looking forward to the next one.
Genuinely shocked when I heard hoyas :O They're some of my absolutely favourite plants - easy-going and healthy. Never had a problem with overwatering - just keep them in a small pot and let them properly dry up between each watering. However, I live in a temperate climate and I'm not familiar with monsoons. Maybe the high humidity makes them prone to mildew?
It’s crazy how different plants can grow so differently in different environments bc my micans in an 8 inch hanging pot. Big thick and lush! I’ve had it for 4 years now grown from 4 cuttings I got in a mystery box. I have them growing all over my apartment in NYC climbing the walls. They don’t like bright light and they don’t like to dry out.
For some reason my croton is very happy from what he looks like. I guess I am lucky in that regard at least, my calathea on the other hand is fighting for her life...
Had to name my Alocasia Regal Shield Tyrese after shouting at him one day, "What more do you want from meeeee!". Tyrese currently has 2 leaves and I'm counting my blessings 😅
😂😂 I enjoyed this video too much! Unpopular opinion: I’ve never liked Hoyas! With the exception of the Obavata, I’ve never seen one that I’d care to have
What is going on? This video is hilarious and I am in agreement on the plant choices and the issues the average person may have trying to do well with them, but every plant that you have held up looks like sweet perfection. The calatheas you held up look like samples of lush healthy foolage plants. Your Gloriosum has less leaves than your before picture but the remaining foilage is again beautiful sized healthy leaves. How can a person claim that they are dismissing a plant for their poor output when growing and then hold up Instagram looking specimens?
Oh wow oh dear I guess I should be more appreciative of some of these plants. Most of my plants are extremely healthy and lush so there’s a sharp contrast with the ones I showed
Dude, you had me laughing the whole time. Thank you and for the most part you are RIGHT. But I have to keep trying with Marantaceaces and Plhilodendrons. I have to get it. I really appreciater and want those kinds of plants in my midst. OK, maybe I like a little stress. Take care now. Jesus Loves you and your family Handsome. John 3:16-18
I have black thumb and killed so many plants from succulents, herbs until indoor plants, and Hoya krimson princess is soooo aljve and thriving from 5 leaves last year now 4 vines and keep propagating now with 40 leaves. I guess bcoz i killed a lot of plants, i searched the hoya needs,, soil is 35% coco coir, 10,% perlite, 30% cactus & succlent potting mix, 10% orchid bark and 5% worm casting, sprinkle of slow released fertilizer. Pls try it, i have hoya krimson queen, matilde and pubicalyx, these are the only hoyas i dare to have 😅😅
Gen x here but ill see what you have to say 😉💚💚💚 my shinglers started growing up the walls and ceiling but im ok with it. We live in different types of areas bc my hoyas do well. My philodendrons are some that are growing up my walls and the leaves are getting massive 😊 absolutely beautiful 💚 i wish you could have that too! Try terrarium for thirsty ones or humid lovers maybe...
Oooh I’m so glad I found your channel! You’re hilarious btw. And even the plants you show that you say look bad look well cared for to me! I don’t like calatheas. The patterns on their leaves bother me, it brings out some primitive fear that I inherited from my prehistoric ancestors against poisonous bugs or something idk how to explain it. I know some people find them beautiful but I personally avoid.
I feel the same about calatheas, also alocasias, I've owned and killed both several times but I've also given calatheas away (the prayer plant one) as it made me feel uncomfortable looking at it. It's weird, isn't it? Lol
I have a GORGEOUS micans! I wanted it to fill out and grow bigger leaves, so i used to prop it to add back a lot. I also let it climb a trellis, so the leaves aren't small and ugly. I'm also an alocasia girlie! I have like 11 (and there's definitely a few more on the wishlist)! My oldest is 18mos. I have the care down to a science. They're an easy genus for me!
It’s okay to admit that you’re incapable of caring for certain plants. It’s also okay to admit you just don’t like certain plants. I personally hate money trees and Petra croton and I don’t even know why.
I found this video very entertaining. However, I want to say that Hoya are one of my favorite plants. If you want them to thrive you need to keep therm indoors, this way they are not subjected to rainy or dry seasons. As with most plants you need to put in the work for them to do well. I agree some are more difficult than others. As for the Micans, you are right. They do grow like weeds. I have a very large one that was crawling all over the walls. I used to propagate what I cut off. Now I just throw the cuttings away. For plants that loves water. Get self watering planter pots. I have almost all of my plants in self watering pots, except for some of the ones outside. I understand your dilemma because of your climate. Alocasia, are spider mite magnets. They test your patience for sure. Nice video. Maybe invest in some cactus plants. Calathias are horrible!
My solution to most of these plants has been getting into terrariums. Doesn't work for large plants (as not willing to get super super large terrariums).
Omg finally someone speaking FACTS about hoya! They're so fussy, I only have three but I think I'm going to get rid of them all soon because they annoy the heck out of me 😂 And yesss micans, mine looks so scraggly. Might try to grow it on a moss pole instead of having it hanging 🤔
Me laughing at my african man mad at plants 😅 strange but funny. West Africa is hot! Am glad the big lakes of Uganda keep us rainy and chilly. We ain’t that hot here. But these are many plants- what a hobby! 😅😅🎉
my mother had an calathea i tried my best to safe it but it was so crispy and woulnd stop browning we threw it out I'll never buy a plant again that needs high humidity to look good, sorry
I love your enthusiasm for whatever the plant subject. Always a pleasure to see your videos ❤, they give such a light hearted view of plant care, even when it’s still informative.
I’m with you about being over high maintenance plants! And accepting that some are just not going to do well in your climate. I want to enjoy my plants, not stress about how to keep them alive. 😂 The way you describe Micans is how I feel about Tradescantia. Grows like a weed, but requires constant chopping and propping to keep it looking nice. I’m over them lol. I keep my Micans in a corner that’s a little more shady, so it doesn’t grow as fast, but stays pretty compact.
This happened in every hobby. Shut down & shut in turned us into a culture of hobby freaks with most having excess income to splurge. Scale models, weight lifting & home gym equipment, cars, plants, table top gaming, painting, books, knitting, needle point, lego, video games, computer hardware... Etc. We're getting back to pre-2019 prices with some inflation adjustment. BTW I recently fell into aroids and tropical plants after growing orchids for the past 15 is years. Prices are so so so much better and really rare plants are easy to find via quality growers. Makes it more enjoyable for somebody new to the hobby. Less stress on feeling like you have to mother your plants with paranoia for fear your insanely expensive plants will die off. Orchid experience has me relaxed about our new anthurium wendlingeri. Even if it returns to Gaia, replacement is easy and cheap.
Aww, I really like my alocasias! Most of my established ones have 4 or more leaves and are always giving me corms. Best advice for me is to leave them where they like the conditions, maintain abt 50% humidity, and water them about one every 10 days if you have a nice well-drainin, semi-hydro or amendment-heavy soil mix. And my never-agains are ANY philodendron, most palms, homalomena, and calathea.
I agree with much of what you said here. Especially about Hoya, Gloriosum and others. With Alocasia, I have the Pink Dragon and the Dragon Scale. These are very persnickity plants. I had the Black Velvet, 2 actually, they both died. With the DS and the PD, neither one likes their leaves touching ANYTHING! Not touching a light cord hanging behinds them, the leaves of their neighboring plants OR the pots of their neighboring plants or even their own! The will get ugly spots from touching anything!!! But having said that, just because it has died back does not mean it is dead. The PD came back after I thought it was gone and now it has many leaves and even a few pups. Sometimes it's finding that sweet spot for a plant. Other times it's not worth the aggravation. But I highly recommend getting a moisture meter!! That will ease alot of the stress you are feeling about some of these plants, and you could maybe enjoy more of them. But on the other hand, you have over 500 plants, just get rid of the ones that don't want to be a team player. I LOVE Calatheas!! Put them in a self watering pot!! I started buying indoor grow lights just for my Calatheas! But a self watering pot is a fill it and forget it vessel. They are the one plant I will go the extra mile for.
with the gloriosum (and all the crawlers, really) it is possible to force the rhizome to curve so that you can keep it in the same pot longer. However, doing so stunts the leaves so they won't reach that huge size (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). My gloriosum should have a rhizome about 43 cm long but I keep forcing it to curve to keep it in the 20 cm pot. The leaves are smaller but the pot looks full so I think it is a fair trade off. It doesn't solve the heat problem, though they can be grown as understory plants in south Florida and they don't seem to mind the heat (days regularly 35 C in the summer) but this may be because they are growing in the ground where the roots stay cooler than in a pot.
For me, the plant that I can't seem to figure out the care requirements for is the Geo plant. Bought it last spring and it's almost dead. Almost. I have no idea how/why, I'm genuinely not sure if it's over or underwatering. Not sure if I'm gonna try again. Maybe in the future, we'll see. Calathea on the other hand, I have one (the easy one) and it's genuinely doing great (in the humidity of British climate). Otherwise I stick with succulents xD
Haha `I laugh at you young things. I don’t do anymore house plants except for my big jade plant I got two, gave away 2 & now putting feelers out to give last one away. Huge big jade plants that would cost some money but I want them to go to good homes. Never ever again…orchids don’t talk about orchids to me 😒
I’ve tried with a snowwhite waffle and accidentally killed her so hard. She’s started so well, but ended poorly. Although it ended sadly it’s made me step up my game.
Just discovered your channel. I love Alocasias, but I agree with you on the Calathea. I have a Rufibarba, which is all I can manage. It's in my bathroom, so it gets the humidity and I use a watering globe, otherwise I'd forget to water it. I also use a water conditioner because the water where I live is very chlorinated.
I love 💛 I have 3 calathea they are my favorite plants. I have an hoya too 🤣 but I have an Hoya australis, it’s an easy one, I do some research to have a easy one. I am agree with you every time I saw an article on web or a magazin say « those plant are easy » I am always 🤣🤣🤣 what the joke ZZ plant is easy, you can never kill this plant 😂
