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Not Worth It! Top 10 🚫🌿 | Houseplants I Wouldn't Recommend! 🙅♂️🌱
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2024
- Hello, Plant Lovers!
Welcome back to another exciting episode where I take a deep dive into the world of houseplants - but with a twist! Today, I'm sharing my 'Top 10 Houseplants That Underwhelmed Me.' Yes, you heard that right! Sometimes, not all that glitters is gold in the plant world, and I'm here to give you the inside scoop. 🌿👎
As a passionate plant collector, I always look forward to the joy and surprise that comes with each new addition. However, not every plant lives up to the hype. From the highly anticipated Philodendron paraiso verde to the elusive Monstera obliqua 'Peru', I've had my fair share of disappointments.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:29 Philodendron paraiso verde
07:32 Monstera obliqua 'Peru'
10:21 Variegated Peace Lily
11:53 Philodendron ornatum
14:18 Monstera adansonii Variegated
17:39 Philodendron spiritus sancti
20:39 Amydrium medium (Silver/Blue)
22:48 Philodendron brandtianum
24:40 Anthurium Lutheri
26:55 Philodendron gigas
28:26 Final Thoughts
In this video, I'll walk you through each plant that didn't quite make the cut in my collection. I'm talking about those that, despite my initial excitement, ended up being a letdown - whether it was due to their odd growth patterns, slow growth rate, propagation challenges, or just not living up to their aesthetic potential.
We'll explore a range of species, including the Variegated Peace Lily, known for its striking appearance but lacking in other departments, and the highly sought-after Philodendron spiritus sancti, which might not be the dream plant for everyone.
This video is part of a 2-part mini-series. Earlier this week, I released the first video about the plants that surprised me - make sure to check that out if you haven't already!
Remember, plant care is a journey, and part of the fun is learning what works and what doesn't in your own unique environment. So, hit the play button, and let's dive into this honest and open discussion about plant expectations vs. reality.
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My husband asked me why I was laughing so much, I had to show him the part with your Anthurium Lutheri🤣. There were so many plants that I felt bad for you with those disappointing plants. Oh, your ‘Cream Splash War Lily’ was awesome. My fave was your description on the fake Philo Ornatum. Thanks for sharing this unbelievably awesome video Memo!
This is so helpful. Of the plants you mentioned, that I have grown, I had the same experience.
T-Shirt Idea
Basically…
Growing Well
In My Care
Under My Conditions
Imagine the words are in cursive in one straight line. Now take that sentence and shape it into the leaf of an esmeraldense.
I Love the t-shirt idea! 🌿 That would look so cool. Now to find a lovely arty person to bring the concept to life 😊
Plants I don't care too much about (anymore) go into my kids rooms. Don't have the heart to throw them away but the real estate in my living room is too precious for plants that are struggling.
That's a clever solution for those less-loved plants! Kids' rooms can be great plant sanctuaries. 🌱
@@Houseplantygoodness They love it. It gives them a sense of responsibility and adds life to their living space. My 8 year old daughter inherited all of my Calatheas. Good luck with that little lady, hehehe 😀. But at least I put them all in pink pots.
@@slaviapolandia7541I quarantine my new plants in my son's room. In other words..... that's how I hide my new plants from my spouse until I can slowly creep them into my collection🤣💚🌿
Memo😂 scraggly ass leaves😂 love how you are so real and comical , with plants we all need a sense of humour. Thanks for all your videos. So informative and I must say every time I drop Pon , I think of you giggling and cringing. 😂
oh my!! I needed this video! I was on the fence between the pariso verde and jose b .. i went with the jose !!
Sounds like you made a good choice with Jose! 🌿
Hello, I agree with your idea of not wasting time on a pouty plant. I put it like this "there are to many beautiful easy to grow plants to waste time on whiners" I like your videos even at my old age I still learn from you. I've been gardening.inside and outside for 55yrs.
Paraiso Verde-Super fast grower I agree. Mine in less than a year is larger than I can manage as a 5’3” woman. I did chop and prop in water. Rooted like a dream and fast. Potted up in soil mix and doing fine. I don’t find it needy, I threw it outside for the summer, up to 107 degrees, green leaves. The second I chopped it, lighter, speckled leaves. I’m trying to sell it but no takers. The only plant I have on a moss pole with water bottle on top. Variegated Monstera adansonii 🤮, pain in the rear. Oh no, just bought a Gigas yesterday. Ve been walking past the melanochrysum because of their notoriety and grabbed the Gigas instead. Oh well let’s give it a whirl.
For the people who've managed to grow the gigas well, I think they look just incredible. You'll have to report your success in a future video.
It's always a journey with these plants! 🌿 The variegated adansonii can be tough. Good luck with the Gigas! As Dave says below some people who have managed to grow it well, do have spectacular specimens, so hopefully that will be you ☺💚🌿
Or failure 🤣
Key to gigas is moss pole! Mine is gorgeous and I live in a frozen tundra most the year
Another great video. I always learn from you.
Thanks, Tina! I'm really glad you're finding the videos informative and helpful. Always a pleasure to share plant knowledge! 🌿💚
Ohhh the drama. 😂 Thanks for the warnings!
The drama of plant collecting, right? 😂 You're welcome!
On the same page with you on the monstera. Like my Obliqua Peru, don’t love it. Hasn’t sized up too much and I haven’t successfully propagated a runner yet.
I have a Kunzo Tricolor. Still love the look and the variegation combos. The down side is it’s S L O W. Coming up on a year owning it. Got it as a two leaf rooted cutting. Might be up to ten now. I’d put the pace at about 10% of my normal adonsonii that’s pumping out monster leaves. I’ll let you know when I get it big. ETA 2026. 😂
Hey Richard, yeah, some plants just don't live up to the hype. Good luck with the Kunzo Tricolor! 🌿 It does look really cool 👀👀👀
I have a Spathy Diamond. I love it so much. I have her in LECA. I bought her 1 year ago as a starter plant. Now, she is living in a 25cm pot, which is full of her and i have to repot her in the Spring.
I reluctantly took a cutting of a Paraiso Verde at the first London another plant swap this year, and it's actually turned into my favourite plant with perfect variegation. I also have a variegated Peace Lily which is the Diamond variety, and again is one of my favourite plants. The growth isn't the fastest but the variegation really makes up for that. My Paraiso Verde is in sphagnum moss on a janky support stick and only watered when fully dry, and the Diamond Peace Lily is in pure pumice in a self watering pot that is never allowed to dry out. They're also both only ever watered with rain water and fed with liquid seaweed with one watering, then a silica only watering, and on the third watering get a macro & micro nutrient feed with added CalMag. They then have nothing but rain water before starting the cycle again. The humidity is always between 60 - 70% and until the cold temperatures started the room temperature was at a constant 23⁰C. Then someone had the heater in the wrong place and the temperatures were all over the place 🤦♀️ 😂 But now that I've sorted the heating situation out it is back to a stable 23⁰C 😅
When you shown that Philo ornatum before revealing what it was, I was like "what on earth is that?" That is definitely one of the most underwhelming plants I have ever seen 🤣🤣🤣
Oh wow!!! Such intricate dedication to your plants 😮 I'm amazed!
Hey Carey that's some dedicated plant care, now that I would expect anything less from the awesomeness that is you 🙌😂😂😂! 🌱 It's amazing how conditions can transform a plant's growth, glad the temps are now sorted too 😊 The ornatum can definitely be a bit underwhelming at times. 😂
You truly love and care for your plants and that is how it should be :))
@jackiewhitney5031 That means a lot, Jackie. Thank you, comments like yours make all my efforts worthwhile 🙌
what us ur verde secret to get to var
'Domino' peace lily is a grow slower. I used to have a big one bought in Costco, and I love touching the leaves to bits. 🥵 The texture is one of the nicer ones, reminding me of crumbly rice papers. I agree with you, it looks underwhelming as a juvenile plant.
oh oh, just bought a seedling paraiso...i will see how it goes 🪴 fingers crossed
Fingers crossed for your seedling paraiso! 🤞🪴
In my experience, philodendron gigas needs a lot of light to size up more than anything. It's a genuinely high light plant.
you answered every lutheri question I have been seeking. thank you.
Your face and oh lord moment ready to show the monstera Peru 😅😅😅
My gigas I got as a wet stick and have had less than a year… and I have 13” leaves. Key is a moist moss pole. Then it grows amazing. And I live in Buffalo NY-not ideal growing conditions in the slightest
❤ videos like this.
I think your peace lily is the Picasso. I got one and it also basically just looked bad the whole time. The domino is more of a Thai Constellation version of the peace lily and is a pretty hardy plant. I just recently discovered the Jessica and I sort of love it. It has more of a Birkin type variegation pattern ❤ (Washington, US)
yeah Picasso is too difficult for a peace lily!! i already killed one and the 2nd one isnt thriving
I started my work as a horticulturist in USA in 1998. I remember very well what a "Domino" looked like then. It was more variegated and less crinkled! And what they called "Domino" now had a different name, probably, "Gemini", as a Zodiac's sign.
Someone has to look through Aroid Society records to clean this mess....
As for the plant, I am happy with this modern Domino. My plant is stable and beautiful, never had any problem during the last 6 years.
Peace lilies can be hit or miss. The Jessica sounds interesting! 🌱
19:26 no lie, my spiritus went from seedling to 80cm leaves in 10 months
That's impressive growth for your spiritus! 🌿 Any tips you want to share would be very welcome
@@Houseplantygoodness its been an experimental journey. I feed it heavily with general hydroponics trio nutrients. I transferred it to pon and self watering when it was still young. I put it in a moss pole while young and it grew and sized up very quickly. It transitoned to cataphyl growth around 20cm leaf size. I took it off the pole when the leaves were about 50cm. Its under barrina t5 lights, id say medium light. Each leaf is about 5-7cm longer than the last
@@bermandustinwas it TC or seed grown? Where did you source it?
I love your philodendron ornatum 😂😂😂 it reminds me my ph. Fuzzy petiole 😅 for some reason it also doesn't unfurl its leaves 🤷 thanks for this content, I don't have any of todays plants and I know I won't buy them 😆
Glad you're enjoying the ornatum's quirkiness! 🌿 It's all about personal taste with these plants.
Cool video - these reviews always help me to edit my wishlist 😀 I´m suprised by the Spathiphyllum Diamond - it was on my wishlist. I wonder if all variegated peace lilies behave similar (I guess they probably do). I enjoyed the funny faces you made 😀
Memo, why don´t you give them away? It would make your life easier, save you time and precious space.
I´ll be looking forward to the next video :-) Have a nice day ☀
Thanks! 😄 It's always helpful to refine those wishlists. Giving away plants can be a great idea, might just consider that! 🤔🌱 Enjoy your day too!
This was a informative video. I love your gigas. What is the variegated plant next to it?
I don't know what I did to make my Obliqua happy but I cut off a three foot runner and now it just grew two new leaves in the past couple weeks. And it's just sitting in room air conditions at about 45% humidity. I figured it would never do anything.
I put my albo variagated adansonii on a mosepole and it grows so well and sized up in leaf size, but it stil had the brownings and I also don´t realy like the way the variagation deforms the leafs, so I sold it.
t's a real challenge with variegated adansonii, those browning sections... 🙄 Good call on rehoming it!
The Philodendron Gloriosum are growing very very slow for me. And the new leaf was stucked and ugly with brown stain from the beginning. Now are producing the second, more than 2 weeks. Very slow for me. Slower than a Hoya 😊
Gloriosum can be such a slowpoke, right? 😅 Patience is key with these slow growers! I find after it establishes itself it can get really fast
Oh dead that varigated adansonii 😏 we had 2 of these in at work for £65 each, they struggled and crisped so much no one bought the even at half price, myself and my colleague got give them free to a good home.... Lets just say im currently looking at an empty pot as ive had to chop it back yet again! I should just bin it but the guilt i would feel because i felt i was privileged to be able to own this plant in the first place. Crazy. But my spath diamond is an incredible plant though, buy mature though 😉
Very informative & enjoyable 🙏👏👏
Thank you! Glad you found it informative and enjoyable! 😊👏
Amydrium is actually growing fast in a deep terrarium, but agree with just abt everything else. Super done with my Paraiso Verde as it just IS blah and grows too wonky for me.
Interesting to hear about your terrarium success with Amydrium! Sometimes plants just have their own quirks. 🌱
There’s a reason *almost* everyone calls the Melanocrysum the Melanocrisis 🤣🤣
Every single person I’ve seen, has said they’re a pain
So true, Shelby! The Melanocrysum, or should we say Melanocrisis, sure lives up to its nickname. 😂 It's a challenge for even the most dedicated plant parents!
Paraiso grows way too big.. I’ve changed my profile picture to it to show I get the variegation .. mine is in a south facing window and has growlights on it indirectly.. the leaves are about 20” the f’n petioles omg they are about 3ft long it’s the sprawliest most gangly plant in my collection .. leaves beautiful -actual plant and how it grows nope , it takes up soo much space
Beautiful variegated leaves!
Paraiso can be a real space hog! 🌿 Your profile pic says it all so beautiful when you do manage to get the variegation to show
I really can relate to your choices. I had the Paraiso verde and it got beautiful leaves. No clue why but I sold it at the end. I still have the peace lily tucked in at the back somewhere . The plant I choosed was the adasinii indonesian Marble. That one grows fine by me. I am glad I didn't get tempted to buy the "Brat-ianum".LOL.
Relatable, right? 🌿 Sometimes even the prettiest leaves don't make the cut. 'Brat-ianum', love that! 😂
I took the Lutheri off my wishlist. I thought it was a pendant anthurium. Those petioles-just no…. Thanks for saving my wallet and sanity!
Totally get it, the Lutheri can be a bit of a letdown if you were expecting something else. Glad to help save your wallet and give you peace of mind! 😅💸
I got a monstera Adansonii variegated from a rescue maybe 9 months ago… the stem has tons of white striping and the white patches on the existing leaves immediately all burned off BUT I had lots of stem to chop and root up… disappointingly, I still don’t have any variegated leaves.. a bunch of green happy leaves on some choppings… but no white anywhere. I am so sad.
I had to laugh with you when you brought out the ornatum.
Glad you got a laugh! The ornatum does have its moments. 😂
I would like a varigated rhaphidophora tetrasperma but fear it might be similar to the varigated adansonii and just be a crunchy rumpled mess. They still cost too much for me to take that leap.
This was worth watching just for the spit take when you introduced the spiritus sancti 🤣🤣🤣 Maybe I'm just heartless, but I have absolutely no problem rehoming plants that don't bring me pleasure. It seems like there's always someone who wants free plants, if I'm too lazy to sell them. Curious as to why y'all hang on to them. Cheers from Iowa 💚🪴
Haha, glad you enjoyed that bit, I thought you might! 🤣 Rehoming plants can be a good move, keeps the collection joyful and manageable, I take the lazyness a step further and the thought of shipping plants even as gifts, when my days are full, makes me stress out, which is why I think I end up keeping them 😅🤦♂️ I know not a good reason at all. Cheers from across the pond! 🌿👋
That is not heartless at all. That my friend is kind and loving to a plant so it will go to a new loving home that will do what it takes to care for it and love it. People that just toss and trash them are heartless since they are a live plant!
Yes Gigas is a very slow grower. I have mine for a year now and it’s still the same two leaf cutting 🙄
I’d sent you an Instagram message about the spiritus sancti a little while back, maybe I messaged the wrong account. I agree, juvenile form can be underwhelming, but they are steady growers, given consistent feed, and environment, my plant went from seed to mature in a little under two years, holds 14 leaves and is a slow climber, nice tight internodal spacing, household humidity and until recently natural light.( I added more grow lights around for winter ) I followed the known rules for my paraiso warmth, humidity and high light and got green leaves, recently brought it in to my darker den, regular humidity and moderate light, seriously got my first highly variegated leaf😂 🤷♀️ My Gigas didn’t do anything special until I moss poles it, it needs to use the moss pole to root into to gain size up well and it will grow faster in the process, mine grew 6 ft over summer and tripled leaf size in the process. I understand people’s conditions and dedication to plants are all different and I totally respect that. But I just wanted to put out in the universe I don’t have special plant mom talent or a ton of time, but have had great success with these plants. I also have roughly 400-500 hundred indoor plants at this point 😂 love your videos!!!xoxo from the states!
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'Melancholy-crisis' - couldn't have said it better myself! 😂
Amydrium medium silver/blue likes NORTHERN window (as all blueish foliage). Otherwise it will be GREEN and leggy....
Great tip on the Amydrium medium silver/blue! 🌿 Lighting can make such a difference.
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My domino peace lily grew a ton in a year. It has tripled in size and doesn’t get a lot of light. I totally agree with the verde. Waaayyy overrated
Glad to hear your Domino peace lily is thriving! 🌿 And totally with you on the verde.
Yes, the Melanocrysum is definitely not for me. I’ve purchased 3 of them and the last one is getting ready to be tossed in the trash now.
It sounds like you've had quite the journey with the Melanocrysum, Diane. Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, some plants just don't click with us. Don't feel bad about moving on from a plant that's not bringing you joy. 🌿💔
is urs a hybrid, the stems are orange
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if u cant get the verde to var in that condition then theres no hope, so fussy
There are no bad plants, there are only bad gardeners.
True, it's all about the right care and conditions. 🌱
@@Houseplantygoodness 🙂
This Monstera, for me, is one of them Most ugly plants
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? 😄
@@Houseplantygoodness right! Thats why 'for me'