Small Plants vs Big Plants | Houseplant Care Tips for Beginners
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Does size really matter when it comes to caring for your houseplants? Yes, it does matter and in this video I'll explain why and share some tips and guidelines on how to care for smaller houseplants vs bigger plants.
Its important to not only learn about the variety or species of your houseplant and what care requirements they need in order to thrive and live their best lives in your home, but its also important to understand the adjustments you'll want to make when caring for a smaller plant versus a larger and more mature houseplant.
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Do you prefer small plants or big plants? 😁
I used to prefer smaller plants, but now all the ones that made it are big and now I can not agree with you more, bigger plants are easier to care for in that they give you more wiggle room for error. So big plants all the way. But the accomplishment of growing them from a small plant is special. Ahh.... yeah, bigger plants for sure.
Big plants all the way 😏
I tried several baby plants to grow up, but they tend to die for me whereas more mature plants tend to do great for me!
Bigger more established plants do better when repotting and adapting to a new environment
Small plants
I have learned the benefits of larger plants 🪴 and how they are more resilient. Sometimes, if I fail it when it is small I might try to buy it again larger.
I do love big plants, but having small ones gives me the chance to have a large variety at home. It is also lovely watching them grow into bigger versions and comparing how far they have come. Smaller plants can also give you chance to afford a more expensive variety. Basically, I have and love both sizes at home ! 👍🏼🌿xxx
All good reasons why small plants are great to have. I also love the amount of variety on an fit at home 😅.
Small when I first buy plants because I like the feeling of nurturing something to grow; and large a year later when they aren't as big as I want them. I worry less about my established plants and I enjoy that. I take care of plants because it's supposed to relax and de-stress me, so I try to avoid plants that need a lot of helicoptering.
I love big plants 🪴and I cannot lie 😂😂😂😂😂..... I will get smaller plants because they are easier to sneak in the house without my husband noticing....😂😂😂😂
Hahaha. Small plants are pretty stealth. I hubby: “is this a new plant?
Jennifer: “Whaat, oh that’s been there for a while you just never noticed” 😆
@@CrazyPlantGuy 😂😂😂😂 yep, that's exactly how the conversation goes
There are some plants that I notoriously over/under water (adansonii, ferns and calatheas for example). I switched a lot of plants to semi-hydroponic in a pure rocky mixture of DIY Lechuza Pon (1 parts lava rocks, 1 parts pumice, 1/2 parts zeolite) and fertilize with diluted liquid fertilizer and many of my plants are living their best life. It's a good option for people who struggle with watering.
Have you used LECCA? Wondering how that compares to your DIY Lechuza Pon.
Ooh this is great suggestions. Thanks for sharing
@@anamiguel5980 I don't have much experience with lecca but there's lots of YT videos on people who've switched from lecca to pon and provided their experience.
@@dimsumgirl2860 Thanks for the response! I'll look up some videos.
Yes, size do matter. I like big plants and I cannot lie🤣
Bwahaha
I like to start with smaller plants because I feel very accomplished as it gets older. I don't feel so bad if it has issues or doesn't grow. Also the pricing is much less. My biggest joy is when my friends come over and make comments on how well my plants are doing.
So well put! I was just thinking about this yesterday. Thanks for such a thoughtful video!
Thank you for this video! I have watched a lot of plant care videos by lots of different people and you're the first person to address this topic! I had no idea size mattered :)
Thank you. You just confirmed my late learning of smaller plants and the adjustment of the soil to hold a little more moisture. I prefer small plants. Just bought a string of turtles in a 5 inch pot only $4.98. This is a plish list plant for me. Have a good one!
Oh wow a wish list plant for $4.98z that’s a great find. Congrats 🥳
Good info Christian, I will recommend this video to some of my friends and coworkers , they always question why some of their plant die. Thank you so much. Cheers
Thank you. I think for a lot of newbies when they hear genera plant care tips for their specific plant, they don’t really consider that you may need to adjust it base on the size of your plant and environment, which eventually can cause air of plant deaths 😬😅 glad you think this video will be helpful to some of your friends. ☺️
Many thanks for this video and for your excellent explanations! Well done!! 👌🌿🥰💚
This is so helpful. I have so many tiny plants that need more care than anticipated
Glad you found it helpful. Love having small plants but they do need more of my time for sure. 😅
Great info 👍 certainly gave me insight into better care for my smaller plants 🪴😀
When I propagate a string of hearts I butterfly the cutting's. I water it, place the container in a baggie and they grow super fast. I love large plants and small it's so satisfying to watch the small ones grow larger.
I have mostly smaller plants and enjoy watching them develop and grow 😊 but it kind of depends on the type of plant for me - like I’m still heavily lusting after a yuge monstera and my baby is going to take like a light year to get there 😅 so eventually i’ll probably end up getting a really big statement one (hi Costa farms Thai constellations 👋🏾)
Haha. Definitely agree having small plants and watching their journey is enjoyable but I too sometimes want that nice big statement price of a plant. A giant Thai would be a dream. ☺️
Thank you Christian for all this great info. Because of you and all your'e awesome plant videos, I am now a CRAZYPLANTGUY myself :p
I enjoy a mix of both.
Some plants are hard to get the hang of for sure. Hoyas are a learning curve for me.
Loved this video and I found it very informative. Please do more like this.
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful. ☺️
Great explanations. Thank you 😊
I like both big and small plants, depends what it is!
Why to get a smaller plant:
1. Joy of seeing them grow and thrive
2. Price - much cheaper
3. Space , smaller plants = room for more planes
Exactly…I really do get proud when I’ve grown one of my big plants from a baby one 😁
whenever i see your vids i look at my collection and get inspired to repot etc.. I'm not "lazy" just get overwhelmed lol
big plants make big jungle vibes impact! 😍i do love when small plants mature like philodendron or scindapsis!
I've noticed that some times when I bring home a bigger mature plant, it struggles more acclimating to my environment compared to if it were smaller or a seedling. For example, I bought a moderately mature philodendron verrucosum with super furry petioles and big leaves, thick stem, etc. It definitely slowly declined over the next few months as far as the foliage go, but the roots have remained good. Eventually a leaf got stuck unfurling and it stunted its growth. Although it kept growing, its foliage reverted big time as if it were a mid cutting. On the other hand, I also bought a small verrucosum that was pretty much seedling size. It has absolutely thrived and has never had a hitch. I'm not sure if it's because it's so much younger it's easier for it to acclimate compared to a mature plant that might experience more shock moving to a new home. But definitely an observation I've made.
I do agree in alot of cases with you, though. Small plants are typically definitely more fussy than more established ones in my experience. Just a few types I've noticed are the opposite as far as acclimation goes that I found interesting.
I’m finding out the bigger the calathea the easier they adapt and start putting out new leaves. The smaller ones even though I still have them they dropped most of their leaves at first but starting to grow back. So I no longer buy small ones.
Thanks for the tip. :)
I agree my 4 inch Calathea fusion which I just bought 2 weeks ago was struggling because of lack of water and heat had to place it where I can keep an eye on it regularly
I love small plants, because I love to see them grow.
Obsessed with this channel!
😊❤👍
Beautiful plant..thanks for sharing
Excellent info. Yea you can’t give a 4in pot the same amount of water for 6in or larger. 💚
I love gardening. Now a days I'm fever for plants is going up 😀. I like all type of plants what ever I can buy or get from anywhere. Last day I took stems of rose and keep in water to propagate. 😀😀 my neighbour through out after trimming his plant.
😂😂😂 I love it, very good information!
So helpful for newbs.
hey man, love the playlist to get people into plants and plant-care but i think u added a different kind of video to it by accident haha
I normally want a small established plant although I always love cuttings lol my string of hearts is in a 2 in terracotta and I'm constantly watering but I'm not gonna dare repot because it's happy lol
Very helpful thanks. I prefer smaller as smaller plants are easier to move.
Very useful video. 👍👍
I prefer buying small plants first so I can get to know how to care for things with the higher, more specific needs, and get to understand them better! I'm only a couple of years into pot gardening and been taking it slow, I want to understand what I'm doing and it would break my heart to get a big plant only to slowly kill it. I have sprung for a couple of bigger plants now though and some of my first plants are starting to get big, so I'm getting more and more confident! I'm fussy and tend to lean towards anxious helicopter plant parenting so it was a bit of a journey figuring out how to care well for them
Christian, that intro was very cheeky ☺️ but I’m here for it 😝 #caressit
I love getting plants when they're just itty-bitty. I can fit more of them in my house that way!
I find it better to bottom water small plants. This helps with keeping gnats away as well.
I was catching up on your videos and saw you were wanting an emerald green or global green! I have an emerald green I’d be willing to trade if you ever want 😊 (I’m located in Saskatchewan)
I have golden pothos , I bought 1.5 yr ago . Now I have 10,11 vase full of baby pothos 😀😀😀 and planning to propagate more. Warm greetings from india
Half of my string of hear died and I had to take many of the strings yesterday...💔
It hurt me a lot. For somw reason the root ball came out of the soil over and over again and then it dried and died.
It was growing so nicely...
You are such a teasing and naughty boy and I love you for that. 😂 I like 6'' - 7''. Pot size of course. Get your mind out of the gutter. 😛😂
My lemon lime maranta is yellowing and dying. 😭. It came with pests. I treated it and it was fine for a couple of months then started yellowing and died dispute reporting. I propagated one cutting, which rooted and looked healthy. I potted it and now it’s yellowing and dying too. 😰 I think I may be over watering it even thought I thought I was letting it dry out.
With bigger plants I never have a headache 😂
Bwahahaha....
What is your favorite brand of earthworm castings for VSOH?
Off topic question. Do you have to actually attach roots to a moss pole for the plants to grow bigger leaves? Can I just attach a plant to some sort of stick and have it grow upwards and still have it grow big leaves? I don't like the look of a moss pole. I have some bamboo sticks for my smaller plants
I've gotten some babies and some bigger ones, a nursery near me donates money made to nicus from baby plants so I like getting from there sometimes
What about small sized plants like peperomia caperata? They just have teeny tiny skinny roots that rot easily.
I’m guessing that even a more mature specimen will be more fragile compared to plants that can get really big?
Smaller plants = more plants 🪴
I'm definitely going to need to buy a bigger house before my babies get big
Agree. You can get so many varieties and great for small space. But once they get big you’ll definitely want to get a bigger place 😅
Just wondering which Safers End All are you using? the yellow ones listed under your description don't ship to Canada..
You can find them at Canadian Tire.
I prefer to start off with small plants. One reason is because the cost for the small ones are so much less and also I love to watch my babies grow. I feel proud of having raised them.
At one time i loved my plants grown bigger. However I made a mistake in repotting into really big pots.
I can already see the next video coming "TOP watering or BOTTOM watering. What is better and why." 🤣
I tend to buy smaller plants mostly based on cost and secondarily based on lack of space.
Argh I screamed at the intro! Lol
I’m not a fan of small plants but that’s all I can usually afford. They take so much more care😞💚🙃 Smaller plants also don’t usually have much of a root system either 💚🙃
Small plants to nurture into big plants :), also save so much money!
Wow Christian 🤭😧 that intro lol
I love my small plants, but yeah they def require more care and attention. I feel like small plants look cuter haha.
big one..
Small or medium size plant is okay. Not only they are cheaper but you'll be able to grow them by yourself!
How do you keep your cat away from your plants? I noticed you had some plants that aren't recommended when you have cats...I recently bought a monstera only to find out its not allowed for cats it's currently at My parents 😞
I prefer big plants. I love big leaves, they are easier to clean. Big plants also make a statement! Haha. What would my 3 FLF, Banana tree and my Calidora say.......I just don't know?! Have a great day. 🌸
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I accidentally kill eveything under 4 inches 😅
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Is it recommended to always use distilled water on all houseplants??
Not all. Some aren't quite as picky, but peace lillies and prayer plants for example would not like it and will show it on the leaves. If you do use tap it's best to let it sit so the added chemicals evaporate off which decreases issues with using tap water. People say 24 hours but for some plants I don't bother waiting that long every time. My dwarf banana plant doesn't seem to care. If you're unsure of the plant, distilled may be best. Or you can just risk it and see how the plant reacts if it is a less sensitive type of plant.
I love my smaller plants because they are so cute but bigger plants are way easier to take care of.
hi christian. ✌🏻
Good morning ☺️
Mmmmm... yes, all of it 🤤😛🥰😘
Big plants more thirstyyy 😁
Haha, they do get pretty thirsty but can at least forgive you if you forget to give them a drink 😅
Do you fertilize your plants?
Not really .maybe some plants that are struggling but for the most part I don’t. 😅
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Just...🤣😂😅
The bigger the less of a headache and better chance of the plant surviving
Please spike hindi ...hi iam riya form india
But he's not from India so he's going to speak in his language
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