Popular Plants That I Just Don’t Like 

Lol!! Me too!

THIS! Lol I am really enjoying this although I feel like he’s holding back lol

One plant snob to another...no canna in my house......I loved this!

You have killed it! Love this post. Although, I live in zone 11b and cannas and alocasias grow beautifully here outside - just keep them moist at all times.

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I don't get it lol. My fiddle leaf is over 10 ft tall and it sits in my Minnesota dining room. I had no idea they were so temperamental because mine had always been so happy.

I've found they do best when you ignore them, mine only gets watered when it's completely dried out (once a month) and it's done very well

This comment made me laugh so much 🤣

@@inni5660 same. i have had a couple and they really take abuse/neglect lololol

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Devynn Rivers me too, also keeps buying ferns 😞

Mine were dying but then i misted them like craaaazy like twice everyday and kept them in INDIRECT bright light and they stopped yellowing and dying and became so bushy and im so fckin proud gosh

Honestly I can’t get a fern to die 🤷‍♀️

I’m in Australia so I just walk out the door and they’re everywhere lol

LOL this is so true about ferns omfg

Im a totally noob and fell for all the calatheas. Literally 4 of the, stromanthe tristar I have killed twice... now I’m sitting here going. Oh. What have I done?

I also love calathea... I have four

Me too. I just keep trying.

I love the ornatas bc my mum had them, but i killed at least 3. They're one of my favorites but he is so right😂

Same I have the green stripe one and it looks nasty all the time but recently I’ve put a humidifier beside it and it’s doing well now

Some of my plants I was SO ready to throw out surprisingly bounced back after I told them it's over, that plants only grow well if you only tell them nice things is a myth, threatening also works 😂

eyes closed Right 😂

Ooooh, the Crowley method! Nice.

@@eyesclosed3709 you need to read good omens if you haven't. The chapter where the demon is caring for his houseplants is everything. Lol

I tell my plants "who ever does not want to be here let me know so I can replace you"!

I ordered my alocasia odora variegata and once it got to my house, it immediately dropped two big leaves. It also seemingly had no pest issues but OF COURSE it got mealybugs AND spidermites like how dare you

That cracked me up 😂. I have 2 small ficus benjaminas and they do drop leaves

@@jhadc9335 Same XD I always think they only drop leaves in my presence XD

turra parker alocasia are known for pests. Get on tiktok and search spider mites- it’s always a damn alocasia, so I read up on it. I’ll never get another one.

Ahahahaha. He's hilarious and gorgeous haha. "Piss poor attitude" on the 1st calathea 😂

weird , I keep waiting for mine to die because it was one of my first plants and I came to dislike it with time ... but it's been thriving. It seems like they like severe neglect.

Mine had a new leaf when I looked over at it. I just ignore it and leave it in a bright corner spot near the window. My big one has three new leaves and I ignore that one too. He goes outside when the weather is nice and he lovesss it.

Lol! I don’t know whether to try loving my fiddle leave or despising the crap out of it. It dropped bunch of leaves when I tried fertilizing with Miracle Grow. Had to get a smaller one to fill in the ugly lanky trunk looks a beat up helicopter. M. Grow also killed severely a beautiful umbrella tree which was doing so well and all glossy. Never again M. Grow on inside plants hate it as well. 🤣 But I do love my huge alocasia have it by the dining room window and is so dramatic and gorgeous! Got a smaller one as well which finally grew a healthy leave, many leaves at first came out and they would go limp and die all mushy. But this last one is beautiful! 😍

@@backintimealwyn5736 LOL 😆

Haha

Hahahaha! This made me really laugh 😂

LOL that's too funny.

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That is too funny!

😂😂 quit trying. Ignore the needy bastards. They will thrive. Or die. Same outcome, just you aren't exhausted.

Facts. The struggle is real

Your comment gave me life!!!! It’s everything I feel 😂

😂 😂 Omg you're so right 😂

I stuck my dying one in a half-assed terrarium, and it is loving life now. I think it just really needs that extra humidity.

Kim Fletcher thank you 🙏

Yes, my Ornata actually loves me but among my prayer plants, the Stromanthe Triostar is the one that stresses me out the most. I think it has the most beautiful leaves but I can’t keep them pretty.

😂😂😂 this made me laugh too much. Is it weird I heard it in a olde English accent. How extra

My triostar is really laid back, just has the average humidity in my unheated kitchen, I think its actually in cactus compost as it was all I had at the time, it stays on the dry side, with bright indirect light, shielded by begonias

I truly believe the draw of that plant is the rarity of it, not the look.

I’ve been laughing about this comment for the past 5 minutes 😂

YES!!!!

Yes! It's an ugly plant to me. I don't even like the adsonaii. And I'd never spend more than $50-$60 on a plant.

Exactly, that's what my mom says......but me crazy about them...

Yeah, that remark make me laugh so hard :D :D So true. At the beginning of the winter I dared to move mine Ficus Beniamina approximately 3 meters away from the window (ran out of place by the window) and it dropped 1/2 of it's leaves :D (I can laugh because the spring came and it's going all right now)

I had the same relationship with my last avocado :D

I looked over at my four leaf Ficus benjamina as he said that, haha.

theactionindex they grow from rhizomes you can just cut them back and as they grow back they’ll be more acclimated to your environment but if you don’t have 50% humidity or higher you’ll always have issues on and off

@@amanda1838 Good to know! I'm thinking a good portion of my issue is water (I have city water) so maybe distilled or rain water could be beneficial.

I'm on my second Ornata and I can tell you it's going to the garbage very soon :D

theactionindex yes they need to have distilled or rainwater only. All calatheas do. I would flush the soil out with distilled too, just water HEAVILY and let all the water run through the bottom of the pot since you’ve been using tap.

@@amanda1838 I have at-least 50% humidity in summer thanks to proximity to the sea. This, however, was not enough for my Calathea. It was not C. Picta, but still, I am going to try and see if that helps.

I just know that little bastard is going to throw up new leafs just to spite him.

Same here 😅

Same!!

I have one too. It's been more or less fine so far, but I can tell it's a finicky plant and probably won't hold out for the long haul. Unless you have basically jungle-level humidity in your home, it's probably going to die.

So true 😄

@One Nation Under God my fiddle leaf fig is more than one year old now. when i bought it online, its leaves have black spots underneath. some leaves have brown tips. i left it in the garage with indirect bright light. the leaves fall off one after the other. i did not give up on her. i researched online as to how to care for this kind of indoor plant. at present its doing fine and had several healthy leaves.

stockinettestitch Yeah I think Calatheas are a hit or miss type of plant. I’ve had some since the beginning of my journey and 0 problems with them so I love some of them, but when they don’t like it in your house I do imagine they can drive you crazy! 😜 my warscewiczii is one of the loves of my life at the moment lol I just can’t stop looking at it.

Agreed, I bought one upon recommendation and I'm slowly killing it 😓😭 and I have 50+ plants so it pissed me off

Yes, completely agree-- they completely turn me off now! I have an orbifolia but it's a nightmare. I also have a musaica which is definitely an easier one, but I don't appreciate the attitude of calatheas.

It's weird, I got an ornata on a complete whim (it was like $4 and I was okay if it died for that price 😅) and it's doing fine in my house I run at ~55% humidity in here tho, which is probably saving it lol

Great video. Not negative at all very informative. I've had house plants for over 30 yrs. I have a parlor palm that is over 20 yrs old. I do very well with most house plants but one that hates me is peace lily. No matter what I do I cant keep them alive for more than a week. I've never had any of the plants you mentioned but they look finicky. I cant stand anything that drops leaves they are too messy.

I hate plants. When co-workers take vacation and ask me to water their plants, I used round up. One day, I am going into a store, fill up my cart with plants and empty them all into the trash.

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Well it did look pretty awful, hard to love a plant like that haha

I'm not a fan

I also hate fiddle leaf figs....actually i hate all fig plants as something i'd grow. I only value them because of genetic diversity and a world is better to have more species, similar to my liking and appreciation for a tapeworm.... but theyre crap

@@oliverA4936 i like eating figs though. We've got a big fig tree in the garden that does great even with frost. Ficus plants in the house are definitively stress-inducing though

Even with my adansonii...everyone i showed said "oh no what happened" 😂

im fucking sad bc my kitten did that on my variegated adansonii 😟

This description is so on point. 😂

Yesssss

I had on years ago when it was huge and it was about $5 now the groups, $3 a node or something ..i may just break mine down and make $20.000 bucks

Jay Gusler 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Same! I always think they’re so cute in the store but as soon as I get them home they stretch even if I put them in a south window, I can’t keep them small and cute

air probably too dry

Same with me, at first I love buying succulents but they die easily for me but I still got a few succulents that I propagated and I put some in our backyard lol hoping it will still grow more there but then foliage and tropical plants are now the ones I really adore and they dont die as easily as succulents lol.

They need as much light as possible, (south facing window) so if you don't have that and can't supplement with a grow light many of them with start to etiolate and look a little crappy although some like aloe vera, sanseveria and rhipsalis can take lower light. They need incredibly well draining soil, 70% perlite some can even live in entirely pumice or an equivalent gritty mix and lastly they like lots of neglect. I love my succulent and cacti collection and have been appreciating them more and more this spring as everything else in my house is so demanding. My succulent collection is in a room I don't spend a lot of time in and I tend to forget about them but they continue to thrive on my neglect. I water them maybe once every 3-4 weeks. They could do with a little more in summer but they will survive, they'll just get shrivelled and are usually revived quite easily. They need way less water in winter, almost none for cacti. They come in such a huge range of interesting shapes, it might be worth another go at some point given the right light and soil.

I agree, wasted a lot of money on the succulent fad. If I lived in a hot sunny dry state, I would grow outside, but they don't like being inside.

One of my very first plants was a pretty large fiddle feaf fig and it is still going strong in my bedroom and putting out big new leaves. Lol maybe you all have such problems because of too much water+too little fertilizer? Mine is in a large plastic pot and has a thick layer of expanded clay aggregate under the dirt layer. I water it with fertilized water every 7-10 days depending on how warm the time of year is and occasionally spray the leaves, especially the growing point on the top with fresh water.

Tamieka D 😂😂😂 Why do we love those dramatic suicide plants?? We always love what isn’t good for us.

Tamieka D : Best. Comment. Ever.🤣

I love the drama of this comment lol. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who names her plants!

Yeah, I've got scale on some plants, what can you do...

I had a maiden hair fern that gave me anxiety. That's on my list of 'never again' plants. I'm with you!

mind sharing your top lists of favorite plants?

@@DD-fh6gy String of hearts, golden and satin pothos, monstera deliciosa, Peperomia pepperspot/ruby cascade, and I love all my jade plants! Crassula ovata - normal jade and also the gollum jade! They grow easily, not fussy. String of hearts definitely gives lots of satisfaction as well as the pothos. Just give em lots of light!

I agree 100%, IMHO there are two types of plant people, the Collectors that will pay big dollars just to own a rare plant. Then the real plant people that truly love the plants and care for them, developing a life long true love of plants.

@@barblester826 SOooooo true!!!

What zone are you?

So true!! I live in Hawaii though..

Alice Walker probably overwatering. Succulents need a very well-draining soil mix.

My string of pearls is literally in plant ICU right now. Stay tuned. #compostbound

Death strings 😂😂😂

@@kristiewommack2635 mine too, almost died because the roots rotted. Tried soil propagating and 2 of the 10 strings I managed to save started growing. The other 8 are water propagating right now and have roots. Fingers crossed

Have you tried Donkey/burro tail succulents!? EXCELLENT for cold drafty homes! Plus tolerant of most lighting AND cuttings are super easy! Neglect gives them life i swear!💁

mines doing well but has not bloomed again...frustrating :)

Mine was a big drama queen, until I just stuck it in the spot I thought she liked and left her there... cut off the new flowers that teased me for a while, never grew full and then withered down as the older ones started turning green. Now, on the other hand, after I ignored it and cared for the newbie plants coming into my collection... guess what! She starts blooming and craving attention 😂 Like I said, they're drama queens.

Yup living the sass

I was drawn to this vid right away. I always want to know folks likes and dislikes. Good call, was great

I slightly disagree with some of his “opinions” becouse they are based in that he cant keep alive the plant,take the ficus benjamina for example ,he has lost leaves an most surely died,but only becouse its a plant that LOVES direct sunligh,mine is in my balcony(west facing)and it thrives ..its also a plant you should proon ,like roses... so basing an opinion in not being informed of the care ,or triying to make it grow somewhere it shouldnt ,I dont think that gives the right to say its not a good plant .Will still keep watching his videos ,and have learned a lot from him..but many coments on this video,are clearly based on plats he has killed due to not caring for them correctly 😩❤️

Hey, everyone has his/her plants that one does not like. I have Opuntias and don't like them for the same reason you don't like them. Still, they're a great pest deterrent in my front yard, and I do like the blooms. I also hear you on the Ficus set: I have the variegated Ficus Benjamina -that someone threw away- and thankfully, I was able to wrap it in plastic to get it home and it sits above my humidifier, and loves where it is. Nevertheless, if there was an overrated plant that I don't like, it is the Alpheandra squarosa - the Zebra plant! Buy cut flowers instead! Thank you, Nick!

He probably thought that because we now live in a world where no one is allowed to have an opinion that might possibly make another human being sort of uncomfortable or force another person to critically think.

@@MrDanylui Again I am so with you. I respect Nick, but he has more plants than he can handle and does not give them the proper light. F. lyrata is totally light loving and like, direct sun loving.

Me too. More than one actually.

Yo cacti being an easy beginner house plant is a fucking lie I tell ya!

Me and Stromanthe Triostar.

As an indoor cactus/succulent gardener, I've killed so many of them. They really are easy but it still takes time to learn how to do it right. Depending on the conditions you have in your house it can be a dance to get everything in balance for them to really thrive and some do better in a given environment than others.

Actually, killing a cactus is not hard😂 just water it three times a week, or literally never, it will die

Haha. I just bought mine yesterday and was super happy to have found one.

I recently purchased one too and I already have 3 new leaves coming in! 😁

And canna lilies are 😍😍😍

That was exactly my reaction. Honestly my Birkin never let me down. I got it for a few cents, it never outgrew its pot so it's still displayed perfectly and it's standing 16 feet away from the east-facing window, and still growing happily.

Ugh my ex killed my bambino :-(

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Hahaha

I relate to this comment. LOL

In New Zealand they go for $4500 I wanna pass away because of that price!

I thankfully managed to buy mine before they got really popular. its crazy how much they are going for!

@@dyingwaffle8359 Lesson learned, buy a seemingly underrated plant before it gets popular 😂 My aunt has an old pink princess philodendron, and ever since it got popular and expensive recently, the mother plant has been harvested 4 times and given to many of my relatives. More recently, she's given us another baby of it so that's a plus 😂

They want lots and I mean lots of light! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-exfuylF8DsU.html

Dont give up! It needs a water reservoir container so it’s constantly moist. And they need light

Mine is doing absolutely great. Growing like mad in bathroom. Near west facing window. The trick is hydrospike, i think. It just takes water when it needs it.

@@deejeff8846 mine was in my bathroom right underneath a northern attic window that gets a little bit of direct sunlight but with tainted glas. Thought I had found the perfect spot but nah. I'll put a Sansevieria there instead 😂

I have 4. They are divas but worth the work

I am so feeling this one 😅😂

Great idea!!

I'm a fan of pothos: all its varieties and the cousin philodendron. Unfortunately, the big box stores where I live don't carry them as much as they should have. They are the best "common" house plants in my book. They are always beautiful and lush.

Ah, good ol' dependable spider plant. Edit: and pothos!

My first plant was a pothos. She hangs in the best window in the house and is called "my queen" when I take care of her. That and my Monstera Adansonii are equals. I'm still getting to know the rest of my plants, but the humble spider is quickly moving into third place.

Yah hate crotons

Petra is easy . I’ve forgotten to water it . And it’s wilted but came back . The others I’ll kill

Where in India do you live? I am in Delhi and find that the Alocasia Orosa is the only one that works with me. The others now have one leaf each.

What do you mean they're meant to be on the rainforest floor and not in my room in northern Canada where there's no sun all winter and it's dry as the desert?

He just try to say… if they keep dying u should think that they tropical plant so if u want them to br thriving u should chance ur room in jungle atmosphere or green house 🤪… is the same like trying to grow tulip , cherry , almond in tropic place u rather choose death 😂😂😂

@@aiorlin8722 say it with me...SARCASM......

Right? They always look gorgeous in store. But they’re finicky lil beeshes.

Sealinum same !

I've had mine for 4 months, no pests and lots of growth. I love it

Had the same issue with my alocasia zebrina, lots of little pest flying everywhere! Awful experience and so hard to take care of, throw this ingrateful BIH* in the trash

A nice spray down on the leaves and top of soil with diluted solution of neem oil ($9 at Lowe's) and dishsoap (just make sure it doesn't contain bleach, dawn will do!) when you purchase the plant should keep the worst at bay, as well as letting the top of the soil dry out (try bottom watering) so the little buggers can't multiply.

I totally agree! Anything "string of" doesn't look good in my opinion.

Same!!! Hate them all lol

I just pin them back onto the top and cut and propagate literally mines been bushy for years and they flower. I don't do much they hang off the balcony door or on window and I just water when it's super dry and light fertilise in summer every now and then I like in the UK. Try it :)

@@KaynadianGinger the only “string” plant that I like is string of pearls tbh. Everything else in my opinion just looks bare and like it’s dying

It's so interesting how some plants just take to the conditions you provide and give you no troubles whether or not they are hard plants to grow and then others will hate you no matter what you do! I have a watermelon peperomia that has been dying since the day I bought it almost three years ago. No matter what conditions I give it, it'll perk up a little bit and then spiral down again. It's down to two leaves and I have one other healthy least hopefully propagating in water but that has never worked for me before. Maybe I should have thrown it out before now, but I don't like giving up on plants! People say it's so easy to care for and grow and propagate, but I'm doing everything as by the books as I can and it still hates me!

LoL

Lol it was sooo sad :(

LOl, then you don't want to see mine. I just showed one in my Costa Farms collection video and it's nothing more than dead twigs. That plant hates me. Believe me, mine makes his look good!

Same.

They're like fresh-cut flowers. You bring them home and enjoy them for a day or two, and then they die.

Same! Mine always drop leaves. My partner recently bought one and I refuse to water it. It's "his" plant. It's definitely gonna die.

I've killed....I mean, several have died. I bought two more and said it was the last time, and theyre SURVIVING and putting out new leaves. I'm stunned! Sunny window and heavy water in the tub about every 1.5-2 weeks.

I absolutely DESPISE them!!! They don’t look natural to me, they just look sick 😂

Sylvie Dionne especially for that price tag!

I agree!

Definitely not worth the hype

I just can't justify it because of all the genetic degradation from propagating the same plants over and over and the highrisk or reverting that those things have. If the super colorful variegation was a sure thing for the life the the plant it would make a little more sense to me. On a good specimen all those colors can look beautiful and really unique, but considering the high chances of degradation, reverting to all green, or turning all pink and therefore no chlorophyll, it's literally not worth the high price tag. I just don't think most of the people paying this prices understand the problems inherent in that plant. I'll take my chances and wait to see if a better, more stable version can be tissue cultured en masse and get one for cheap or maybe trade for something else in my collection, but I have better, more rare plants to spend my money on!

@@AlbinoAxolotl I agree, I LOVVVEEE the pink but I'm not about to dish out $100 on a plant that may not stay the way I bought it for, especially when all the pink princesses on the market are tiny and low quality

No comment has ever been more true..

"buying future garbage" indeed

FACTS.

I don’t like the colored ones or the juvenile ones. But I do love my large leaf butterfly syngonium, she gives me lots of love ❤️

I love syngonium! They thrive over here in India. Least maintenance required.

Haven't had one yet but I gasp Everytime I see that pink green arrowtype leaf.. 😃

In any other context this would be weird

Glovana Jn Baptiste I literally got some quills stuck in my thumb and didn’t know and it became infected 💀

Its on my wish list

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That’s funny 😆 She knows her plants tho 🌱

@@tonyaglover3971 but we love her

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the fucking tea

nickasarbata yes! I have a dwarf flf, it’s put out one leaf in the last year and that’s about it, it just exists. I wanted one so bad when I got it, now I pretty much ignore it until it’s leaves start to droop

nickasarbata my Fiddle leaf died so quickly that I thought I had imagined having one.😏

Kathy Macomber LOL! Maybe that’s where they belong: in our memories.

nickasarbata yep( or a bad dream)!

Lol mine only started growing new leaves after sticking it under a grow light. It definitely lost a bunch of leaves when I first started figuring it out but with the grow light, I just have to remember to water and fertilize it out and it does fine

Even vegetables are prettier than ficus lyrata

I hate it too such a diva!

@@nikolaybondarev7407 You should see mine! Mine is honestly really beautiful as well as big and it was one of my very first house plants as well. I've never had a problem with it!

Same! I have jumbo elephant ears in my yard 5 feet tall and I love them. They make my yard look so exotic and are fun to smack and drum on.

I'm very envious right now, I've killed 2 or 3 polly and then I gave up. In my case they hated my house, they were happy outside but in the fall when I had to put them inside they lost all the leaves and then they started again in spring until they didn't anymore

lmao

Did you banish it to the outdoors or the trashcan

I just bought one a few days ago. The nursery stuck it on a shelf while I ran to their restroom, but it fell over and broke half a paddle off. So, without thinking, I grabbed the paddle with my bare hands. Hey, I paid for that paddle! And then I paid by picking little needle hairs out of my fingers for the rest of the day.

Honestly same like it’s just really droopy and idk what I can do to fix itttt

Wow, that's one of the easiest plants for me. We even had one that was neglected and looked completely brown, dry, and dead, but we figured--why not try watering it? And it came back. We started calling it the Lazareth plant. If it's droopy & you've been watering it, stop watering for a while. If you haven't been watering it, give it a drink & it perks back up within an hour or two. (At least in my experience.) You can check the soil to see if it needs watering by sticking your finger down in the soil 1 or 2 inches. If it's wet, wait. And if it's dry go ahead and water. Make sure it has good drainage. You can also check to see if there are roots growing out of the bottom. If there are, you can either trim the roots (if you like the size & don't want it to get bigger), or you can split the plant & put them into multiple pots, or you can put the whole thing into a bigger pot. They like indirect light. In a window, or by glass doors that get a lot of indirect light has been a good spot. Another thing you can do for them is to wipe the leaves off with a damp cloth to remove dust from the air & pollen (or whatever it is) if it's flowering. Sometimes they are grown in water, but I think they do better in potting soil. (I don't have any experience with other mediums.) Good luck, to you guys!

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YES. I had a huge one that was so low maintenance and I loved it until it got too happy and shot up their huge flower things and proceeded to pollinate my entire living room several times. I gifted it lol.

Same! The leaves keep twisting on themselves and get yellow and black edges.. I hate that plant!!