Philodendron 'Pink Princess' 3-Yr Review | Don't come for me | The "It" pink plant | Is it worth it?
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- In this video I continue the plant review series, with the Philodendron 'Pink Princess'. Let me tell you this, after a while, this can get huge.
As with all of these reviews, the review is biased to my experience with the Philodendron 'Pink Princess' in my conditions.
As always I encourage you, if you have this plant too, to add your own review in the comments.
The format is the usual format for these videos:
Some background on my experiences with the Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Speed of Growth that I have experienced with the Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Ease of Propagation of Philodendron Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Common Pests for Philodendron Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Availability
Accessories and Growing tips for the Philodendron Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
My final thoughts and score on the Philodendron Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:40 Background
05:46 Speed of Growth
08:19 Ease of Propagation
12:08 Availability
15:27 Pests
16:54 Accessories
20:19 Final Thoughts
26:11 B-Roll
PPPP image used in thumbnail (background removed)
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Thanks for putting an honest opinion out here for us.
Try to get it to attach to a Moss pole and become tall. The variegation gets better when it starts to climb.
Haha I love your honesty about this plant! I’ve only purchased mine recently since the prices came down and I’m a big fan of the burgundy-brown, would be just as happy with or without the pink, so think my PPP is a winner - but absolutely agree with the points you make here 👍 (Finding I’m delighted by how resilient this plant is. Cleaned some initial root rot when I got it - your video on the subject was a huge help! - and as worried as I was, both vines and a pile of pups are still thriving and giving me new leaves! Thanks for your excellent advice! 😃)
Awww I am glad you are enjoying the content and so happy the root rot video helped 😊💚🌿
I feel bad that you had such a lackluster experience with this plant because it’s such a fun one to watch and care for haha. Maybe if you started with one that had better genetics, you would’ve had more fun growing it? Anyway, thank you so much for these reviews. The 3 min intro is a little wordy but the way that you share your thoughts and experiences with these plants, for better or for worse, is absolute gold!! Thanks again and please keep it coming!
I was waiting for prices to be acceptable. It's ridiculous how high the prices were few years ago. I ordered mine earlier today and can't wait for mine to arrive!
You are my go to plant guy. The way that you lay out these plant review series is very satisfying to me ahah. Please keep creating the stuff that you do as I feel like you have taught me so much!!
Awwww thank you so so much, so glad you are finding these videos helpful 😀🌿💚
I've had one early as well, a small one, greenish and gave it away after a few props cause i'd had it lol, it was this scragly thing stowed away in my bedroom. :) Then recently I rebought it as a big plant ! 20cm leaves, four growpoints ! fell in love and only cost 20 quid ! with lots of light less juvenile plants seem to do stay darker, almost blackish for a long time and they can grow huge leaves if you give them a moss pole, so now i'm loving mine. Not for the pink variegation, but for leave size and darkness and burgundy stems, wouldn't mind if it reverted actually, but then it will reward you now and then. Oh and the nice thing is that this plant is not man made, it's actually all from a variegated Erubescens plant found in nature, if my sources are correct. So I tend to call it Erubescens variegata, cause I always hated the name.
I didn’t see the big deal I the ppp until I saw it in person & I thought ok now I see!! But I wasn’t going to pay what they wanted for a small starter plant. Then Logee’s sent an email so the non perfect ppp& I jumped on it! And it grows faster then any other plants philo I have! It’s a beauty
Your channel deserves at list milion subscribers
Awwww thank you so much 🙏 🙏 💚🌿 it truly means the world to me 😊
I really mean it. Best plant content I ever watched. But I think that I know why don't know about your channel. It might be because some people are bit obsessed with "rare" unboxing, houseplant tours but not really paying attention on learning and long term success in growing plants😉🤔Just a theory, I might be terribly wrong😅🤣
I like variegated plants however, I don’t want to be stressed out with plants, I want them to give me joy and keep me connected with memories from my childhood ( I’m South American living in the States). I bought a “Burgundy Princess” a year ago because I enjoy dark leaves and the burgundy and pink stripes on the stem is beautiful, I bought it with not expectations of pink leaves. I’m surprised because occasionally I have leaves with pretty pink speckles… I think if expectations are high regarding pink, this is a frustrating plant. I’m content with mine, like the dark green, love the stem and the only special kind of care I give her is by the time she is trying to push a leaf, I turn on my humidifier to help her and she has not problem!
If you haven't made a video on your feral plants, I would love to see that!
I Love the really dark leaves❤🌱😍beautiful!!! The saying is to go by the variegation on stem...so far every leaf on mine has pink on them, stems are variegated also. Great thing is only paid $20.00 🤗❤🌱
Thanks for the interesting video. Your plants are gorgeous!
Those are definitely my feelings about this plant. I sold my cutting because it was just such a meh plant.
I'm glad you mentioned the planterina pink princess... back when she cut it up and sold the props, I got one of those (most expensive plant still to this day in my collection). It did its best this summer when i had it out on my covered porch with tons of humidity and had it on a moss pole. I was so excited it was thriving! Then I had that moment like you when your beautiful leaf snapped. I went into a local grocery store and saw 4" pots of pink princess. For $30. 🥺. That's when I decided to chop mine up. I still love mine tho because I feel like I got a real one, not a tc one that costa farms is putting out... so that helps me out when I see them so cheap nowadays. I still sometimes wish that I got something I really wanted back then, like a Thai constellation instead. But it is what it is and I love her just the same. That's how it goes sometimes. On another note, I feel like my leaves did get bigger while it was in the summer on the moss pole, so that was definitely helpful! And all the pieces I chopped are doing fine, so it does propagate pretty easily! And no pests for me as of yet 🙂 love hearing your experience! Your videos are some of my favorites!
Are your older leaves also darker?
@Miri Ates yeah, a bit. Maybe every other leaf or 2 will be green/burgundy, few pink speckles. The other leaves will have chunks of pink or streaks at least. Since i posted I had one of my cuttings pop me out a full on half moon 🥰😍 I would say mine is pretty consistently throwing out an even mix of those 3 leaves tho. Nothing crazy or super variegated. And now she's chopped up and we'll see if it changes! Lol
Sorry to burst your bubble but a TC plant is a real plant. I hate how silly my hobby has become bc of mindsets like this.
“Don’t come for me” 😂
Edit: omg the moving story where your one leaf snapped 😩 I felt that in my bones.
I’ve never laughed so hard and felt like where in tf is my receipt. I just got one yesterday and now have buyers remorse 😭🤣🤣
Totally agree with your rating. I have two large ones and find them quite dull.
I bought a few with very good variegation, and a few sold as burgundy princess with disclaimers that they are reverted pink princess. This is happy for me, because I appreciate it in either format. I love them, but I'm new to it, I appreciate both forms.
.. And while everyone else have known this plant since way back, I just got one today.. I got curious and wanted to know why it seems so "special" 😳.. Ook, it's cute, and the one I've got is a wee little one I'd say, just a baby really, so might take a little time to grow up 🤗
Just a little info 🤗
.. The "Pink princess" is a scandent hybrid.. Leafs are dark purblish-green with contrasting pink variegation.. The pink variable, emerging as large splotches, small streaks or occasionally an entire leaf.. These plants grows much better in low-light conditions and can suffer if exposed to bright light (sunlight or artificial plant light)..
Native range: hybrid / cultivar..
Type: herbaceous evergreen..
Family: Aracea..
Hight: to 130 cm..
Spread: to 50 cm..
Sun: Semi shade..
.. The "Burgundy princess" is also a scandent hybrid and the care is the exact same as the Pink princess.. But, the major difference between the "pink princess" and "burgundy princess" is in the color of their respective foliage.. The variegation of the Pink princess is pale pink in color, the burgundy princess has leaves that has much darker variegation.. Leafs blades are cordate, dark purple..
I got one from TC and that didn't go as pink as I though lt it would. I've grown mine on a moss pole and the leaf size increases but I haven't had more than pink speckles. The first leaves were pink and that was it, it's the dark leaves as you mentioned now. Every leaf struggles to open maybe because of my low humidity but honestly it's a pain. I might get rid of it this year 😅
however, the non tc ones seem to be more pink and it's more stable. The leaves don't get stuck and open a bit differently. These are till quite expensive here in Australia, bit I ain't spending $200.00 AUD for this 😂 thanks for a cool video!
My White princess has more pink than my pink princess, lol..its pathetic..the things I do love about it however, is that I have it growing up a moss pole and it has nearly black, quite impressive mature spade shape leaves..very goth. 🖤
I do live in hope that one day it might surprise me with a random pink leaf..won't hold my breath though! 😅
Experience from Norway - in 1 year growth - around 10 leafs. Exposed to direct sun speed up the growth and gives more variegation. Repotting speed up the growth as well. Movement to the ,,darker" window almost stopt the plant. Generally it started to be leggy and not one of my favourites.
I have two small PPPs and two white ones. Am thinking of planting all four plants in one pot and letting them grow up and intermingle. What is everyone’s thoughts? I am trying to reduce the quantity of pots and have successfully planted five varieties of maranta in one large bowl. Wondering if my pink and white princesses would look good together. Would appreciate some feedback before I go ahead. Thanks x
Yeah that's how they grow in nature right? Next to each other? I've put 3 of my cuttings together and now it's hard to tell which ones which
Honestly, if you know what you’re doing, you can actually force your plant to put out more variegated leaves as long as the stem has variegation just by knowing specifically where to cut you can actually put out half moon leaves even I’ve seen tons of people doing it
Solidified that I will not be spending any cash on this one. Thanks for all these great videos.
Awww glad they are useful 😊 💚🌿
I don't like how they grow. So I gave mine away and don't miss it.
I have waited for 2 years to get me PPP! I’ve finally got me not 1 but 2 pots. I got my first for $20 at Lowe’s. Then me and by bff went to another Lowes towe spotted another PPP to my surprise we got 50% off there is nothing wrong with the plant it’s in good shape no rot or anything.
Hey, I was never interested in the PPP, didn’t want one ever. Lol Now I’m obsessed, I don’t know what happened lol I wonder if yours had more variegation if you’d like it better? Just starting my journey with this one, but I think it looks like it’s been painted pink. 😀💚
Ohhhh that is really really good it seems you lucked out and as I mentioned on the video I know this one is definately one that some people will end up loving 💚🌿😊💗
I like the way you think 😂 Do what you wanna do, if you survive great, if not whatever
I just love your videos ❤
Awww thank you, glad you are enjoying 😊 🌿💚
I remember getting my first ppp from Planterina . It has amazing genetics. My second ppp was from Ecuagenera, great genetics as well. Got lucky 🍀
Ahhh see that is part of the battle I think, if you get great genetics, then it should be all good 💚🌿
Hello again! I love this series! Oh the ppp. I loved it on Instagram. In reality the growth pattern was scraggly. Then prices dropped and I got a good deal on a plantlet from a tray of tc probably. Good pink showing at first. It didn’t last! I kept getting sun damage spots and burn. If not sun spots, then reverted leaves. So frustrating. Very easy to prop in water but will rot if soil isn’t chunky enough in my care. No issues snapping leaves when unfurling but I grow on a patio in Florida humidity. Fast grower sizes up great even without a moss pole. Variegation seems to come and go at will. A plant shop in my town has a mature beauty on a moss pole under a sol tech bulb and it is to die for (but still kinda scraggly looking). No pest pressures in my care and spider mite/mealy adjacent. It does have really stunning dark leaves with the bright red petioles. Wish I could love it for that but it’s been a pretty disappointing plant. Glad I waited to try it!
Awwww thanks for sharing your story, glad I am not the only one that found it a bit disappointing. But as you and I mentioned you can get ones with great genetics that do great in terms of the pink. But yeah had I paid the ridiculous prices this was at some point I would not have been happy 🌿💚😅
I wanted one since I got into plants at the start of the pandemic but they were so expensive I held off. Now that the price went down I ordered one a couple months ago with good variegation and the new leaves since have been nice. I quite like her so far.
You would really like my five-piece princesses they all seem to not have much of any pink at all even less than the one you're showing much less but many many of the leaves come out half moon half burgundy half dark dark green not what I was looking for when I bought the plants originally all from the same mother but I must say I do enjoy it. Even with the problem of its leaves getting stuck poor little thing. I would like to have a lot more of these pink princesses with different genetics from multiple sellers all around the world just to see what I can get. It's not just about genetics from old species it's about genetics in general.
I Bought My Pink Princess As A Cutting. I DIDN'T Want To Pay The Much Higher Price For A Potted One. She Was A Good Size Coming From An Etsy Shop In Florida. In The Notation Section I Put That I Wanted My Cutting To Be Wearing Some PINK... And To Hold Off Sending One Until One Wearing Pink Was Available!!! SHE Arrived With A Large Half Moon Leaf That Had A Pretty Shade Of Pink. SHE Had Some Roots... SO I Planted Her In A Plastic Cup With A Soil/Perlite/Stratum??? Mixture. SHE Has Kept The Large Half Moon Leaf And One Leaf Has Unfurled From That Stem... NOT A Large Size And Another One Is Unfurling As Well. THEY Are Both A Burgundy Color. Mealy Monsters Had Shown-UP For Their Coming Out Party!!! I Cleaned Off The Little Monsters... And Gave HER A Dose Of Systemic!!! I ENJ💚YED Our Planty Playdate For The P. Pink Princess😂😂😂Keep Them C💚MING!!!
I bought one as a cheap baby plant but I got over it fairly quickly and gave it away.
I prefer pink syngoniums, they have a much nicer leaf shape and growth pattern. Another nice option are pink flowering orchids.
However, I might be interested in the philodendron red anderson once it comes down in price.
I think your plant is beautiful but I guess if you paid a high price for pink, you would be upset. I was able to find my PPs relatively cheaply ($30CAD and $2 CAD). I really like the dark leaves so I don't fuss about how much pink they have. I am frustrated with the leaves getting damage though but my house is dry so it's probably something I could change with more humidity.
I actually like the dark leaves better than the pink on mine. I have half moon leaves but the pink is turning brown on them
It's funny how low the prices have gotten nowadays. I got a small plant for €5 today lol. Seems like a lot of rare exotic plants come down in price tremendously after 2-3 years.
Thank you and you're gorgeous!
Thanks for the video it makes a nice respite from war, ecological and economic crisis! Ppp never appealed to me i have a basic red emerald which i like, it was a £5 one leaf cutting and is now 6ft, the moss pole has rotted away in the soil must deal with it soon or cut it up🤔
I never was a fan of variegation, but i do like the emerging burgundy and later dark mature leaves of the reverted form
to be honest if i ever get a plant like that it will probably be the similar hybrid Philodendron "Majesty" that way i get an even more striking leaf shape and none of the ugly pink
I was blown away by the market of the PPP. I remember being shocked to see people paying well over $150 for unrooted cuttings of a plant with such unstable variegation. and so many people struggled to grow it out at all, theirs either needed more humidity, a better pole/climbing situation, different lighting, or would succumb to pests. I knew the market would eventually drop once people realized how much of a gamble these finicky plants are. They do seem to do best in greenhouse settings, so propagating is probably a breeze for cultivators. Has always seemed overrated to me.
Claire's (Jungle Haven) ppp is beautiful. I held off buying one until I saw hers. I'm hoping to get mine looking like hers one day. It'll be a while since mine is so small. But that's kinda what I like about plants. I like the whole, let's see what happens. Will it won't it, and if it doesn't, I'll find someone to pass it on to.
I would love to have a PPP & a WPP like Claire's. The huge leaves are so cool. But, I really like my "normal" sized PPPs as well.
Yeah Claire's PPP is just stunning, she has some great genetics in hers 😊🌿💚
Hey fam what i can confirm right now is , that the PPP is growing fantasticly in Lecca with a bit of a water Reservoir that containts the appropriate amount of Hydroponic nutrients .
Also other fantastic Media are pure Coco Chips, pure Perlite with a bit of a water Reservoir plus the aforementioned Hydro Solution , all purpose Medium mixed with Perlite and Coco coir and Chips.
Also the more natural light or grow light you give them and Also ramp up the humidity the better the variegation gets and the easier it gets for them to unfurl their leaves .
I have mine in a super chunky perlite & stratum mix with a reservoir and they are growing like crazy!
@@darienmincey6364 yeah seems stones and pearls are what this Lady deserves 😆🤣.
Also organic Media of course .
But like many aroids , the chunkier the soil ,the chunkier the Lady.
Do we have any other options for dark leaves and pink variegation? 🤔 Maybe Syngonium strawberry ice
Yeah that's one of my favorites also Chinese evergreens
Here from Aloha Plant Life, I share the same view of the Pink Princess.
The very name 'princess' puts me off. Rather have very dark leaves or, if variegated, with white.
Definately agree with you on this one 🖤🤍💚
Hated mine, just thought it was ugly looking, the pink wasn't a nice pink and the green wasn't a nice green. Sold it soon as I could (for more than I paid for it, which was good!). Much prefer my other two pink plants, the syngonium pink splash and the ficus belize.
Ohhh good going for that one getting your money back and then some and yeah both of those plants with pink in them would be so much more satisfying 😊
My $235 pp is unhappy regardless what I do for it. Its limp, almost black leaves and every new leaf is either stuck, won’t unfurl or is extremely tiny. Im actually planting in a pot to put outside and it can live over the summer or not. I no longer give a damn.
Amazing 👌🍃🤍
🤣🤣🤣 ahy ahy con los princesas marrones ! ... Ah no perdón , que supuestamente eran princesas rosas ! 😂. 💌
I would think this is a freak of nature. If it was bred I would hope those marketing it would be responsible and guarantee a stable coloring. That being said I have people on the lookout for one here in town. I'm up for the challenge and willing to wait to see when it throws some pink. Gives me something to do while I try to stay out of trouble😏
What a fμcking ugly PPP 😂😂 I bought one for my gf for the last valentine day, they are pretty cheap now. It's not a lot better but really beautiful one are rare.
It has probably a lot of erubescens DNA but it's a hybrid. As far as I know it was developped by Robert McCauley, who is (directly or not) behind a lot of colorfull self-heading philodendrons. He crossed several existing similar cultivars and species together to get a certain color and then crossed it a last with a self-heading, rosette philo and patented it. PPP appeared during the hybridization process, and since variegation is usually lost in the seed, PPP didn't received the ultimate cross to make rosette like. It explain the leggy growing habbit.
The variegation is very interesting because it's not regular chimerism because fully reverted plants always come back. It seems to have a virus or a transposon that randomly kill the chloroplasts, but the plant is also able to suppress it when stressed.
And this is why the older and less propagated plants have more variegation. The pink part tend to be partially lost during propagation like with every variegation, and the "virus" is supposed, so you basically need to build up again the pink from new random spots.
Lol
Naber Cem Yilmaz. O küpe ne, ilahiii
It looks like most of people who got this plant didnt really enjoy it.
Yeah that is what I am getting from most of the people I talk to.
Lol 🤣 "You had one job!"
Agree with the comments. You have a rather bad looking (same as mine btw) pink princes. I didn't know they came 50% pink. Those are cool looking but mine has like 3 green leaves and then a 4 square centimeter blob of pink. Boring.
Hi Memo! I've had plants for years now but the PPP never really caught my eye. You can get small plants for single digits here in Germany now, but I still don't think I'll ever get one. It's as you said - it just isn't that exciting.
I actually have a question about something you said. When you were talking about variegation and genetics, you said it got "watered down" after propagation- but as propagates are genetically identical to the mother plant, how do you "lose" variegation by propagating? I had always assumed that people just propagated less-variegated plants and sold them so out of all the plants available for sale, only a small percentage came with genetically good variegation in the first place. It just seems strange to me as you should be getting "clones" by propagation.
Lack of sunlight...lots of indirect bright light will definitely make them push more pink
The pink bubble has burst! Still, I have two of them! 😂😂
Same same 😂😂😂😂💚🌿
Omg worst from all lot reckon even worst than birkin🤣🤣🤣 grow all wierd ,leafs gets stuck constantly, variegation meh too. When I got it I was so excited and now let's just say it sits nearly like yours 🤣 in far corner where I can't see it lol 😆
Yeahhh I am fully with you on this one, out of sight out of mind.
Gawd. Do you think you look handsome or cool?
I know that I will be hated by some but I'm going to just say it,.... I think it is ugly and it looks sick no matter how healthy they are or how much money they want for them.