this is the dumbest thing i bought for my plants 

The Sheffield plants segment was very Sheffield plants

Woah, that was trippy hearing Hipyo. I've seen his vids but had no idea he was a plant person. Pretty cool. I too am a plant and keyboard person. Amongst other things lol.

Great video!

As far as the shopping addiction I will say that happens in literally every single hobby. Crafters collect more materials than they will actually be able to use. Builders collect more tools than they actually need to build. It doesn't matter what you hobby is, buying the new things is usually the dopamine rush that pulls people in, once you have everything thats when you see if the hobby has really stuck.

Thanks, Lee! This format was awesome. So many of my favorite PlantTubers in one spot, and a few new ones to meet! I agree that hanging onto plants out of some soft of obligation feels silly. Plant trades (or "free to a good home" plant piles on a table at work) are a great way to share the love without feeling wasteful by trashing a plant that isn't bringing you joy. Some of my favorites were cast-offs from others. :)

Omg a multiverse episode 😱😱😱

I absolutely love Mr Sheffield’s bin😂😂😂

I FEEL THIS. Recently reduced my HUGE collection due to a move and only kept what I LOVED and.....I'm HAPPY!

Mr Sheffield tossing plants into the trash is so on brand 😂

omg what a treat to see Claire pop up! she's my fave!

I love the plant community. I’ve learned so much and have added plants to my collection that I discovered from different channels and I’ve been growing plants an incredibly long time. What’s important to me is only bringing home plants that I’m drawn to but that can thrive in the environment I can offer. There are many more varieties I’d love to own but currently don’t have the environment to support them. Agreed, it’s not the number or the rarity that’s most important.. get what you love, what is manageable for you. Growing and decorating your home with plants can bring you joy. 😊🌱❤️

Not the houseplant yt avengers LMFAO You had everyone in here omg

I really enjoyed how you incorporated so many other plant lovers opinions/comments…….

Sincerely, you make my favorite plant videos on the internet. Your perspective is unique and I appreciate your consistent candor.

I mean, are we recognizing that reducing a collection is now a trend because everyone spent years getting out of control? The pendulum always swings from one extreme to another.

I feel like you were reading my mind with the collection vs. Shopping addiction. It feels like so many plantfluencers have been trying to catch them all only for retail therapy and attention

Felt like I wanted to go to the hardware store today to “just look” and glad I watched this first. I personally find a lot of enjoyment in rescuing and propagating plants. Propagating helped me practice patience, and the slow going made the roots and leaves I did manage to grow feel more rewarding for having taken so long. I’m also hugely sentimental and I have certain plants from certain milestones that I want to keep for as long as possible, to remind me that I’m growing alongside them. I’m also cheap, so rescuing plants that I might otherwise toss gives me a challenge and saves my wallet. But finding ✨that plant✨ in a store, and knowing I must take it home will never get old.

I like the different perspectives! There's no right answer and the shopping therapy has always made me cringe because I have adhd, and I no what I'm chasing. Ha! But there's nothing wrong with a nursery and a coffee. You don't have to buy to enjoy! My favorite part of this hobby is propogating, experimenting, learning, and trading/ selling (not ever for profit, but more for community). I've been focused on growing my plants to look good. Ha! Making a plan for their growth. I also love just staring at a section of my collection. It's soothing to my nervous system, and I do it daily. If I could never buy a plant again, I'd focus on trading. :) Ultimately,I would be sad because I do love a new plant-- especially a baby or tc bag that I can acclimate and grow.

I love this video with all the other plant people!!

A good plant collection is how YOU want it. I don't listen to any of these rules. But maybe it's because I feel like the plants are my babies. Chucking my babies out in a bin actually made me a little angry. I'll be with you to the end little plant, you keep fighting.

Great video! It’s an important message and I love how you incorporated others to help you deliver it!

I’m a new plant owner. Looks like my decision to only have one so that I can take care of it as best as I can was a called bluff on my end.

Sticking a cutting into an aquarium > that ugly thing at the start. Much prettier, but get lots of the same benefits and the plant helps with the bioload I rarely can get myself to throw a plant away. When I succeed at saving it, it feels good. Also I live in zone 10 (SF), no snow/frost and average temperature of 50 to 60 year round, I can stick most house plants with pests outside to let the beneficial insects care for it. Outside of my terrarium/vivarium plants, but tend to not need that help (uvb, which some of my vivariums have, probably helps with pest prevention).

A good plant collection is Plants you enjoy coming home to and seeing grow. No one’s opinion matters more than yours

Loved this video. I've learned I really appreciate having a lot of little plants I can baby and watch grow. I still love to baby a struggling plant tho, and now I'm a lot better at it haha

Ugh on the second section he threw plants in the bin which are way nicer than my collection. One mans trash is another man''s treasure I guess lol.

Me personally, I like keeping my entire collection in jars

He said "With the plant market looking the way it does now" Is the plant market doing bad?🤔

For me I enjoy growing my plants out from plugs or cuttings. When they're big enough and I'm ready to move on, I sell them and start another project. They're some plants that are my babies and will never sell/ give away, but my enjoyment is the process of growing a plant and seeing them thrive❤ My newest project is a package of about 15 baby Philodendron White Princess at Petco that I got for $8.99! Couldn't believe it when I saw it, super excited to start soon😊

Bro casually got every plant channel I watch in 1 video

Man this was a great new installment of the Plantengers franchise. Meanwhile EverythingPlants and Techplant have their own spin-off (The great pothos race).

Thank you for this video I been go to Lowe’s every day for a year now just to look for new plants , I called it a new hobby instead of saying what it really is which is a shopping addiction but watching this really helped me these last two days I still go but haven’t bought anything. Yall woke me up. ❤ this is my third time watching this video 😭😭😭 all of yall was on POINT!

Awesome video my lovely friend 🧡

how did this turn into a therapy session? 😆🤣

Great video. Everyone featuring in it is so cool! I am confused about the title of the video and the connection to this planter thing

Wait a minute, Hipyo is part of the plant community too??? Damn, I didn't knew that

Cloner looks like it'd be great for tomatoes, roses or cannabis. Does seem a bit overkill for most aroids, but 🤷

I was so surprised when Hipyo showed up. I had no idea he was into plants, I only knew him for keyboards xD

Wow love the collaboration. Nice video.

Shopping addiction, dont most of us steal cuttings hahaha

This was such a sweet video, it just is such a beautiful and explicit depiction of the COMMUNITY in "plant community." Thank you so much for putting this together!

I'd even say the 2nd rule first mentioned (variety) does not apply for every collection. Many people collect just cacti, in which is an incredible amount of variety of course but they all like about the same circumstances. I do have both that and aroids etc, but I've seen very interesting collections with just cacti (and succulents but sometimes not even). It's what makes you happy as the collector, right? :)

Pete vs Plants had an aquaponic rooter. they really do work well, but he would sell his propagations, so it was worth having. 🌿💚🌿

How validating - cheers!

GIVE THEM TO MEEEEE

Love this content!! 🙏🏻🌿 Thank you!

I'm glad that i understood what I want from plants before i did everything i impulsive wanted, bc i saw that on the internet. I like low maintenance plants, sometimes i need a little break from taking care of my plants and thats ok :D thats why i love hoyas, they are my soul-plants, we give each other everything we need :D

This is such a good video!! Over 1 year ago I got a sick over watered Monstera and it always was a pain in the *** . It never recovered and just looked worse. Calatheas decided to die like overnight after moving in a darker appartement. Meanwhile I found joy in the most basic plants like pothos and ranking philodendron which can make beautiful leaves. So what? 🤗🥰

For me, I enjoy plants because I enjoy seeing them mature and grow large over time. I think that's why I've been drawn more toward philodendron and anthurium over the years. Yeah, maybe social media has influenced me, but I am fascinated seeing a tiny seedling grow into a huge specimen over the years. For me it's the journey. Even that being said, grow what makes you happy. I have a weird obsession w/ draceana massangeana (corn plant) despite it being extremely common and looked down on by some. I also am, for some reason, extremely intrigued by Anthurium Veitchii hybrids in particular, and am always on the lookout for more varieties. Do what makes you the most fulfilled.

I only get plants I like and that are easy. I only want 2-5 different looking ones from each plant family. Like, I personally only want very different looking hoya from each other and out of all of them only 3 (a Krimson Queen, a Publix Splash or Callistophylla). I have seen all the others, I just don't need or want it. I don't want plants that look similar to other plants, and if I can get a plant that looks almost identical but is easier than the other, I get that instead. I won't get a Melanocrysum if I can get a Glorious. And once I have the Glorious, I don’t need any similar looking plants. I don't need all the pothos, or hoya, or philodendron. I like specific plants in each family and get way more joy in finding those few for a decent price and growing them then buying a bunch of random plant just to have them. I never want to get overwhelmed so I don't go crazy buying random stuff. :)

Yeah, I admit I have been influenced into getting certain plants I don't like, pilea pepermiodes, zz, scindapsus. Monsteras too - yes I said it! I wish I had someone to give them too. It's hard for me to just throw them in the trash. I see 'life that is struggling to stay alive' because of me. Oh thanks for this vid, I just got an idea! I'll take them to the supermarket mall and put a sign that says FREE! - Yeah I'm excited about this idea, of clearing out the mistakes. Then I'll have more room & time for my ferns, marantas and calatheas :)

Damn brother, you spread the wisdom of the highest quality, I'm glad I found you finally after all the flashy and clickbaity content.

I think it takes reaching a certain level of maturity in the world of plant cultivation to learn 1) what aspect makes you happy, 2) learning not to be emotionally attached to a plant, 3) learn when to let go of a plant for various reasons, 4) and learn that one does not need to compete with the RU-vidrs and TTockers for plant collections. My thing is seeing if I can adapt plants or propagate to grow in a particular cultivation style. Get it to blooming stage (if reasonable), and then move on to another plant or species of plants. I just went through and dumped a bunch of small propagation growths, consolidated others. I greatly decreased the number of pots. I'm a lot happier, less stressed, and I don't miss them. 😁

I recently cut down my collection down to the plants that I really love, I had some that I grew for practice and did not really like and some that did not agree with my care. The challenging ones that I really like got switched to Pon, sometimes you have to admit that you don't have what it takes. But as a horticulturist by trade, it's too difficult not to see this as part of my job and a way to build a reputation. Anyway, I'm mainly collecting Monsteras at the moment, I started importing and getting into TC propagation because I would love to turn this into a small business. I'm also slowly getting into the vivarium/terrarium hobby and these natural-looking jungle plants can be difficult to find and there's very little on offer in that niche, most people end up with big box store and/or variegated plants in their vivariums which makes it look very unnatural, so I'd love to become a plant producer for reptile/amphibian shops.

Lee, this is such a refreshing take 😌👌 I’ve noticed lately that the number of plants I have are starting to visually overwhelm my space and distract from the style of my home slightly. There are only a couple of plants that I would really like to add to my collection, but when I find them, I’ll likely give away a couple plants first. Unless they’ve already been chucked due to more thrips 🙈😂

I think the "manageable" argument is the crux. Plants are living things, this is what sets this hobby apart from collecting... stamps or cars. If you don't take care of them on a weekly basis (and I bet I am not the only one that at least inspects some of my (few) specimens on a daily basis) they will eventually not be on their best and won't give you the pleasure you imagined. I think there is a lot to learn with the minimalist movement and if something is not adding value or giving pleasure, and probably stressing you out... it should go. I cannot imagine how some of these influencers can take like a two-week holiday from their homes when the background of their videos looks like a tropical rainforest. Furthermore, I would like to thank my wife for not letting my buy every single plant I see at the supermarket, it would quickly turn into stress, untidiness and more worries than we need and sorry to say, but I want to spend as much time away from my home (out in the world, enjoying it) than inside it, tending for plants =)

Great video that makes you think! I only recently started this hobby. 3 plants have now become 13... To be honest, I didn't need to have every one of these plants. Some were just cheap and you felt like you had to have more. I'm using the video as an incentive to buy specific plants rather than anything that's cheap and looks nice.

Yes to this 🙌🙌 The shopping addiction aspect of this hobby (or any hobby) is an important topic to address. I genuinely love caring for my plants and experimenting. Like you, I love the challenge and sometimes when I’ve conquered that challenge, I am happy to rehome them. I offered plants that had been treated, or where just not my favorite, to people locally who gave me a large storage bin that I would fill with mystery plants of which some were not easy to come by. I asked them to commit to providing adequate light and to retreat and quarantine until the pests were totally eradicated. My thought process was that most people willing to take on pests probably haven’t taken on many. But if the rehabs were contained and treated, the volume of plants could offset the required effort. I didn’t hear back from the two people who I loaded up with some rehabs and lots of lovely plants so who knows, maybe they ended up in the bin but at least I made an effort to save the plants without causing too much of a risk to their other plants. It felt like the right amount of effort for all.

Huh, perfect timing as usual. I've been thinking about making my collection smaller for a few weeks now, because occasionally the care feels overwhelming and I have some super stubborn spider mites pretending they pay rent (they don't). I still can't decide which plants to let go of, but it calms me to see that other folks in the hobby are going through the same.

I first started watching your videos when I was getting my first few plants about 2 years ago & I ldid manage to slowly grow my collection to about 50 plants. It was never really about the amount I had, but at one point early on, I realized it wouldn't be smart to buy more than one plant a week, because if I did that for a whole year I would have fifty-two plants. That being said I still managed to grow my collection to a little over 50 plants & now I am pretty much at my limit. Only a handful of plants have died in my care & I actually don't throw away 'ugly' or struggling plants if they are still alive. I tell myself to relax because no plant is perfect & when I take my dog for a walk I make sure to notice both the beauty of the natural plants outside that I don't own as well as the fact that even the most robust natural plant has flaws & regularly let's a part of itself die off so that way it can grow a new branch or leaf or flower or whatever. Thanks for the inspiration. PS I did not choose to buy a trellis or mosspole for my Monstera & it's lovely all the same, you don't always need to optimize everything, just be happy if the plant continues to grow new leafs

Love that you collaborate with other plant influencers I love! All my faves, especially you. Thanks Lee!

Learning and understanding the limitations of your space and accepting that you won't be able to grow all the plants out there as big as these youtubers because I live in the mountains took me a minute, and like you say if a plant isn't inspiring joy and just becomes a chore get rid of it. If you're not sure if it inspires joy then it doesn't! I knew my collection got too big when one day doing plant chores I just stopped and said 'this isn't fun or rewarding anymore." Love how you bring up the mental health aspect of plant ownership!

Sheffield is not a real grower..he's a RU-vid plant content creator! He knows little about actually growing plants.

interesting. I find joy in nurturing back struggling plants, and would like to keep each plant for my lifetime (or its, if i kill it), but i dont re buy plants i kill more than once.If its not dead ill give it away or experiment on it (leave it outside, let it dry out/be really wet) Thought id throw that out there in case other people feel weird about feeling the same way now. I somehow disagreed with every philosophy in the video.

Good points, thank you for a reminder that we don't need every single variation to feel happy about our collection.

I always enjoy the collabs! I also have no probs tossing plants. I would never dream of fighting thrips, ever. Screw it, plants die in the wild so they can die in my bin too

Love these videos including other plant creator. Always so interesting to hear different perspectives! I hope you can make another plant challenge soon ♥

Right now im selling my hoyas momma plants and some anthuriums and im in to colorful succulents like gymnocalycium astrophytums and aeriocarpus love them and im seeing more and more people getting in too the cactus collections plant story is crazy i been buying like crazy lol plas they r easy to care for 😊😊

This title and thumbnail was so misleading. surprise best advice and outlook on my current collection i didnt know i was going to find in this vid.

It was painful to see you bin some of those large tropicals. However, I also grow some just to see if I can. I usually give them away in the end.

SUCH A WHOLESOME VID ! also the fact that i know most of them lol 😅😅

I have five plants (along with a few pothos/philodendron and one peperomia that i really need to pot) and my goal is just to have something that I can take care of, to give me a visual representation of success/failure, and just to watch it grow. I have a monstera deliciosa and I love it because it's so much fun to figure out exactly how to maintain it and get the biggest most beautiful leaves, the bigger the leaf the better I know im doing. I have a fiddle leaf fig and I love it because i keep giving it haircuts and I get to watch it grow back with more and more branches. I have a monstera adansonii and I love that one because its new leaves are all so close together now that I don't having trailing up some string, its getting a little tall though, i might have to cut it back and bush it up. Also a different type of peperomia i have that I'm not very happy with so I think i might put it with something. and I have a snake plant that i like because I can just look at it lol. thats enough for me, anything more would be difficult to deal with for me i fear

Great, high quality video. Thank you for including other plant content creators to contribute their points of view. At the end of the day, we gotta put our own needs first. Still don’t want to see any of my plants die tho hah

Wow this video was so refreshing!!!! Great commentary 🔥

This video is 💯 what I needed to hear this morning. Time to say goodbye to some failed experiments.

Thank you! I have a monstera at my office that has been decimated by thrips and this was the kick in the pants i needed to get over my need to save it when its now soooooo ugly!

That shopping addiction thing hit hard lol, although I did recently downsize the crap out of my collection mostly cause it was outgrowing the space I had for it, I prefer it now that it isn't as dense and packed, I can prioritise what I like instead of just sticking things where they fit, I honestly want to get rid of my monstera cause it shades everything out and I have a thai constellation to replace it with but I'm a little too attached to it for that. I didn't really throw anything out as much as I cut back and restarted everything, but I think after watching this I might reduce it a little further and prioritise what I really enjoy. Also hypyo tech has a plant channel now? I'm typing this on the keyboard I built after binging his channel lmao.

I needed this post so much! I’ve been throwing out plants that give me problems, and feel so guilty about it. No more! Lessening in my collection is making me happier. I don’t plan on adding any more, any time soon.

This was an awesome video. Thank you for posting it.

I gotta say I like most of your vids and some helpful tips esp with monstera. However I disagree with the “just bin it” mentality in most cases. Waste is a huge problem here in the western world (especially here to your south in the US). Now you do bring up good points about not being super obsessive and letting things take over mental health and just buying to buy. However I’d like to remind all of us (myself included) that taking in a living creature, whether its fish, reptiles, dogs, cats, and yes, plants. IMO it’s our responsibility to take care of it, try hardest to keep it alive and thriving, and if in over head, think ahead of time and if its like “man i cant keep this thing healthy with enough fertilizer or watering and its grown so big” you should say “well, i need to see if i can rig up a system to keep it watered, have housemates help if willing, or offer to give away, someone will probably take it, especially if a good price for a salvageable plant or just free, like arranging pick up where you can leave it on your doorstep and the guy can just come by anytime and take it off your hands. If you know what i mean. The times I’ve broken my own rules and that I think it is acceptable to just throw the plant in the garbage, is discovering that it is infested with spider mites. The one time (so far fingers crossed) i had to deal with that is they hid in the base of the petiole and didnt notice them until a few weeks later when i noticed wilting and the webs, thought it was spiders, until i saw the mites, tried all the treatments suggested online first, including mechanical removal, isolation and spraying, they kept re-populating and killing off more of the plant, and i just didnt want to risk it infesting the rest of my plants, they were easily the worst pest experience ive had to deal with plants. The gnats are just a nuisance IMO. That is a reasonable reason to throw a plant out. Diseases. But other than that i wished we exercise more responsibility and do a cursory google search of ANY plant you plan on taking in. Ensuring to know the exact genus and species, and researching nutrient/soil medium and pH, watering, light, humidity etc. requirements for healthy growth before just buying things. Part of the problem IMO is not enough details on the plant tags or signage themselves, and I think we need to rethink the idea of “indoor/outdoor” plants because if you think of that the way nurseries and the plant industry define that (and how sunlight levels on the tags mean the different things between outdoor full sun and indoor full sun) none of those really help plant enthusiasts or casual buyers with any information at all. In fact, it means utterly nothing, as no plants are technically “indoor” as with perhaps some lab made experiments, many are just plants native to somewhere in the planet, you know, outdoors. So there’s a lot of things that don’t make sense.

I love all the different perspectives. A great video.

Love this bro .. first minute was Gold

I absolutely luv The Leca Queen

My plants aren't the trendiest. Or most exotic but I have 14 house plants. A few vegetables on my front porch garden. And 7 species of aquatic plants in my two fishtanks. And to non plant nerd friends who come over they re always impressed and I am happy with my bear paw, monstera, pothos, snake plant, wandering uhhh let's say dude for PC reasons , Boston fern etc.

Really good video! I have a small collection, 10 tropicals, 30 orquids, and about 40 succulents.. i only count the 10 tropicals as my plant collection, lol, they are more “needy” than the others. I do love to take care of them, and the others. But i just want one more (I saw it in IG, it has not gotten here yet, and the colors go real good with the others and gives variety) and then I am done. I also do not have much space in the apartment for more! But i do enjoy taking care of them.

Mich Claire love here ..... She's great ;

What I find interesting is that sometimes I end up reallying liking a plant I didn't expect to like that I just bought on a whim or hating a plant I really thought I would like. I think when a lot of us start out in this hobby we don't know what kind of plants are the ones for us so as we go we kill a bunch or throw them out because they just aren't our thing. I thought I loved alocasias because I LOVE regal shields, but that's really the only one I love. The spider mites are not worth the alocasia drama. I also realized I hate pothos or any of the smaller leafed vining plants because the vines go crazy and it's like taking care of long hair but their plants. As I've refined my plant preference my collection has gotten smaller and I'm happier and my plants are doing better.

Why throw away? There are always people looking for plants. Even infested ones. Put the plant in a transparent plasticbag or box, treat the pests and you have a happy new plant. As plantlovers we should never loose our respect we due to the plants.

I'm currently in the process of reducing some of my collection. I love the plants i have, and i would be happy if i never bought another one, but sometimes it's just too much. Love the video!

5:16 I love Alocasias and I have a shopping addiction lol

About throwing away plants: I think many complaints come from a point of having only a few plants so that you intimately know all of them. Used to be that. Now I've got to the point where the less interesting offshoots grow under a cope or die regime. Only the big bois get the all out treatment.

Seeing Hipyo in a Kill This Plant video gave me vertigo. Rare crossover between my hobbies.

I thought I could escape Cringy Sheffield by unsuscribing and "blocking"... I was wrong.

A “social media based plant collection” might be the most beta clown shit ive ever heard. Never heard something that made me want to not do something more.

Omg I'm in shock at the plants that were being thrown out. Put them outside for someone to take.

Real question now - what are those plastic/coir (?) poles everyone has??

Am surprised to see Hipyo. Did not know he had so many.

Nora and the glass of 🍷 is meeeeeee

Are you in Los Angeles? I'd be happy to come pick up a hand me down plant!😁 Yes... Does someone have a shopping addiction? Yes, that is a good question to ask oneself when buying anything that can be considered "A Collection". Excellent video young man! 👌🏾

Fantastic video 10/10