Houseplants That Are Impossible To Kill
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Can a plant truly be impossible to kill? Well, no, but these are pretty damn close. As long as you don’t water these every couple of days... you should be set!
Thanks for watching my plant rambles!
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Epiphyllum sp
Rhipsalis sp
Kalanchoe sp
Sansevieria cylindrica
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
Aglaonema “Spring Snow”
Dracaena “Janet Craig”
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The title sounds like a challenge to me.. 🤔
😂😂😂
I thought it was just me! X
I think I drown mine!
In the movie Venom, Eddie is shown watering a dead ZZ Plant so I was sitting at the movies and almost yelled at him "HOW DO YOU KILL A ZZ!?"
My first houseplant ever is a monstera deliciosa I got last year. It's put up with underwatering, low light, too much light, cold drafts and neglect and somehow it's still going strong and putting out new growth. I consider it my best plant for hanging in there while I struggled to get my act together lol.
Pothos are the best! Love them for sure. And despite them being "common" they are definitely beautiful and also have so many varieties.
I love pothos. I took mine outside for a summer vacation and recently brought them back inside. They got so lush and long and full and beautiful! People come over and assume I have a super green thumb but really I just ignored my plants outside for almost 6 months 😂
i tell people if you kill a pothos you're not human. I once found a really dusty one planted in an old shopping mall and allowed to just keep going in a planter for years and years. It grew like ten feet long and had layer after layer of dead foliage underneath it. No lie.
i just love looking at the baby leaves trying to come out from the stems so cute
@@AnimeShinigami13 I somehow killed a pothos but kept a lemon tree alive.....
@@joshstainton8207 lol that's not human that's ornery!
Thank you for the overwatering disclaimer!! It can be so disheartening for people when they overwater a plant and then feel like they killed something that should have been “unkillable”
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally attacked by a Nick Pileggi video.” Me, an avid over waterer: 🙋🏻♀️
not me haha i always killed mine under watering haha
I have to slap my own hand..."don't water!"
Can relate :(
Serial overwaterers unite!
I'm a serial overwaterer as well. It's a learning process for sure. My plan is to buy so many plants that I kill my need to water my plants as much as I do.
Saaaameeeeeeew
My Siam aglaonema drops bottom leaves like crazy.
when I tell her “I’m done “ with her, she bribes me with two new leaves 🤷🏽♀️ lol
I just got one and I'm enjoying the early days of the plant looking perfect.
I lose a couple lower leaves on all of my ags every time I water, but they put out enough new growth to keep up, so I guess I can't complain. They're so pretty and sooooo easy.
Katoria H yes. My ag wishes is the same!
my siam is growing in water, has been about 2 years, they did drop leaves in soil, so i yanked them out and gave them a lovely glass container, they doubled in size in no time, but if you do that, ya must remove ALL the soil,
The spots on the similar type AGs I see here in Lagis Nigeria, are All pure white. Must be the bright light they’re under. Lol
I love pothos, the fact that I usually don’t kill them is what got me into plants in the first place! Also, my ponytail palms were in the “plants of steel” section at Home Depot and have lived forever. 😆
I have 2 that are over 4 decades old and have been thru many moves and conditions that would have killed all other plants but they have survived.
Your plant knowledge and passion for plants is just so amazing. And you are adorable.
There's a donut shop nearby that has the biggest ZZ plant I've ever seen. It completely fills its 24" pot, is at least 4' tall, and I've seen it in bloom(!). There's a small rope around it to keep it from taking over the shop.
Amazingly, I haven't killed any of the plants you mentioned...yet. LOL
Lol 😂 yet is the key word here for me too😂
I LOVE my ZZ plant. It somehow lives in next to no light (a small bedside lamp that I occasionally remember to turn on) and it is doing so well.
i dont grow mine in shade or no sun, i keep mine under light all the time and the reason i do is because they grow twice as fast the more light they get, no hot sun but they do love light to really grow well, i have many and they all get light,
I got a sanseveria that developed the spotting on it. Tried every antifungal treatment I knew. Didn't work. Out of sheer desperation I applied cinnamon. Stopped it in it's tracks and the new growth is thriving. The damage is still visible, of course, but no more spread and the areas it happened in have dried up. Ags are awesome too! Thanks for the informative video!
😲 I wish I thought of that trick, with the cinnamon. RIP my first Sansevieria
What kind of cinnamon did you use?
Just regular cinnamon from the store. I use it to prevent any disease from forming from my cuttings. I place it on the open wound.
@@robinbuice2111 Thank you
@@dianaduncan8877 your more than welcome
Spider plant, pothos, monstera deliciosa (I guess all philodendrons) and ficus elastica. These are the plants I always recommend to newbies =)
I killed my spider plant.
My pothos is dieing
Ive killed a spider plant. And somehow a neon pothos cutting!?
Snake plant is my absolute fave. Then jade plants.
"Today we're gonna talk about plants that are impossible to kill. Disclaimer these plants are 100% possible to kill."
I've been fooled.
I left my ZZ plant in my office after the lockdown and I did not come back for 6 months. When I went to the office for the first time in months, it was still alive with only a few stalks dried up. I was AMAZED....
So happy to see you uploaded a new plant video. I'm currently 39 weeks pregnant & I'm making my last greenhouse trip for the season on Friday & I'm traveling to a highly rated one about two hours away that I've never been to so I'm very excited & this gave me some inspiration. 💚 hoping I don't go to to crazy because I have over 100 at this point & I've completely ran out of room. 😬😅🌿 psh, plant people always MAKE room though right?
Oh & I also have a wishlist plant on the way, Alocasia black velvet. 😊💕
You should do one for people that tend to overwater - peace lily, spider plant, colocasia...?
peace Lillies like to be moist!
You can kill a spider plant? I've tried to sneakily kill a couple of them at my place of work (it's generally my job to water plants bc I'm the only one that knows [or admits to knowing] things about plants) and nothing has worked, neither overwatering nor underwatering. Note, I don't hate spider plants but when your boss' boss is of the opinion that you have to root and plant ALL plantlets they produce it's just too much, way. too. much... (T_T)
@@Rarualeine hmm good question, i had one outside that died because it was under a layer of snow for 5 days, but that's not an option in an office. Maybe you could just cut off the stems before they produce any babies so your boss won't see. They could also probably burn if you put them in direct sunlight hahaha. Good luck 😂
Fun fact, kalachoe tomentosa is a winter grower! So it gives you something to watch when everything else is asleep X] If you put it outside or in a lot of direct light you'll get a 3-4ft flower spike that flowers all summer
Chinesenevergreen, I left one in my classroom for more than a month (quarentine) when I return for my stuff she was alive. I was so happy and now she looks gourgeus.
I recently found this channel and I’m so hooked on to it , I wish some day I can be surrounded by so many plants but for now this video is soothing 🤩
Can you do another video on windowless bathroom plants? I want something small and green in there, but I’m afraid
Can I just say that whenever I’m feeling like I have no friends, lol, and my life is in the shitter, Nick, just watching your videos brings a smile to my face….. like I’m just sitting here smiling away…. Lol. Thank you for the great house plant information AND THANK YOU FOR POSTING VIDEOS THAT MAKE ME SMILE !!
I've got a shefflera arboricola that I've had for years that has never given me a molecule of trouble- I've given it a lot of water, not enough water, lots of light, not enough light, it just keeps on going. It has a weird bendy growth habit from the different light conditions over the years, but I just re-uprighted it the last time I repotted and now it looks like it was grown that way artfully on purpose. MVP of my plant collection for sure.
omg I wanna see this plant
Totally agree about rhipsalis, they are scrappy little plants! Also, my cast iron plant is in the interior of my house (about 8 feet from a NORTH-facing window), and still pushes out new growth. 😂
It's definitely not impossible to kill but thrives under neglectful conditions. I have a couple neon pothos and a couple golden pothos. I absolutely love them. I have had them for about 3 years now and just recently i did a huge trim job and then took the trimmings to make more plants. They have grown quite a bit in this last grow season and seem to be very happy next to my turtle and her aquarium. They are a few feet from a shaded window and do awesome. Oh and i water them about once every 10 days.
I’m a Dracaena Janet Craig fan too! I decided 2 of them from a big box store ($1 EACH) 3 years ago. Both are thriving. A nice little plant for anyone.
Nick, you are hilarious to me. I enjoy you talking about your plants. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Your mustache/beard look so good in the thumbnail! And thanks for the plant ideas
Love that Zig Zag Cactus - it looks a really cool plant.
YEEEEEESSS!!!! The ONLY bright light in my house is the kitchen. Every where else is shady shady shady! And I NEED a ZZ plant because well.....Zeeeeeeeeeeee! hahaha! Than you!
I love your videos so much!! I can’t recommend them enough to my plant parent friends! 🖤🌱
I love your videos, your enthusiasm is great too. Thanks you for sharing you knowledge.
Had a Dracaena houseplant that didn't do well. Planted it on the north side of the house and forgot it. It thrived, grew quite tall, 12 ft.+ and now has yearly purplish flowers.
the dracena flowers smells soooo good, its exactly like night jasmine they rarely bloom up north and require actual planting in the ground for blooming.
Wow! That would be amazing.
Cast Iron plant belongs in this list too....and they are beautiful.
Thank you, thank you thank you I have been trying to figure this out for weeks. You have made so easy to change what I was doing to ur way yayyyy. Can’t wait to see what else u make.
I’m subscribed and hav alerts on and I didn’t get this video notification! But I’m happy I was watching other videos and saw this pop up as a recommendation.
So good to see and hear you today. I am always interested in your plant videos. I am not good with indoor plants; however, I do have an extensive outdoor "garden" which is, as usual, getting out of control. I think one of the positives to indoor planting is that indoor plants are more manageable.
You're just the damn cutest and so so so informative!
LOVED This Showcasing Of The Epiphylliums , Sansevierias And Of Course The ZZs!!! I LOVE The Form On Your Young Epi...Your Older Bigger One Looks Like Mine...Like ITS Been Through A War Or Two!!! Your Ric Rac Has A Very Interesting Form Too...Different From The Way Mine Is Growing...AND I Like IT!!!
You second epiphyllum is 100% mislabeled. Epiphyllum anguliger has rounded lobes. You have "Fishbone" aka Selenicereus anthonyanus. They look similar and are often confused.
I second this
I knew ZZ was going to be on this list. I killed my first one. Second one is doing good now but I killed the first one. I have killed several succulents as well. I currently have 5 plants in ICU: jade (burnt in AZ sun I guess), donkeys tail (they hate me), peperomia ruby cascade (no idea), string of pearls (dropped it and now it just hates me) and a pothos (wtf). You’d think since I live in AZ I would be able to take care of these plants, but nope. If its an easy care/ impossible to kill plant, I guarantee I can love it to death in no time. At least the prayer plant, monstera d, and fiddle leaf fig are doing good. But only I can murder zz and pothos plants.
i live in az too and one of my succulent arrangements got left in the sun and its BURNT burnt
dude you're my favourite. I click like before i even hear your voice! anyways thanks for another awesome video!
The timing of this video couldn’t be better! I just moved house and now my bedroom window faces north. Now that all my plants live in the south-facing living room, I’ve been looking for low light plants for my bedroom. ••• Btw, your videos are always incredibly helpful and entertaining. You make plant care feel possible, even for beginners!☺️🌱💕
You cant go wrong with the z z xxx
I have so many plants in my north facing window light...Zz, Pothos (multi varieties), Chinese Evergreen, Philodendron Brazil, Monstera adansonii, & Arrowhead Berry Allusion.
So exciting! Wish you the best in your new place and with your new plant babies!
All my plants are in a north facing window. You might be surprised by how many you can keep there!
@@nataliebutler That's good to hear! Now I'm encouraged to put plants in ALL my north-facing windows. No window will be spared!
I’m so glad that you said what you said about the Aglaonema haha. Everyone says they’re so easy to care for and every one I see that are owned by others are so full and leafy. I’ve had a red aglaonema for a little over a year now and while it’s still alive it’s been over nine months that I’ve only had 5 leaves and one new leaf that had refused to unfold haha it’s not dead , but it’s not growing either. So frustrating
Damn Nick your eyebrows are looking so perfect!!!
Watched your video last night about Chinese money plant and you suggested Hirts. Great prices and options. A lot of places are so pricey. Thank you so much. New to this houseplant community. 🤗🤗🤗
I don't have any of these! Time to head to the plant store!!
Your collection is amazing! It would be very nice to follow you on your plant care routine. I can't imagine watering all those hanging bois
4:41-4:54 I have absolutely no clue what you just said, but it is the true energy of the last year 🤣
I have a hawortia universe that’s impossible to kill. Literally when I went through a heavy episode of depression I didn’t water it for 3 months. You know what it did? Produced 4 pups. It was in the same pot for three years so I decided to bump it up a pot size. Within a month there were 11 pups. So about a month ago I decided to separate the pups from the mom, but some of them were already as big as when I first got the plant so the root systems were pretty tangled. I messed with the roots for a good 45 minutes in the hot sun outside and guess what, it’s still thriving and so are all the pups. One of the pups didn’t have any roots yet so I’m currently water propagating it and it started shooting out like crazy a couple days ago 😂😂😂😂 I’ve had it in low light, in very bright light. Just whatever really.
I love that you show the plant AND the name as you begin talking about it!
I totally agree with you about the other draceana being not so easily taken care of! I have a fragrans and a marginata, my marginata has yellowing leaves every single day, yet is pest free, only watered with purified water and only when the moisture meter actually reads dry. Same with the fragrans. I'll have to try the Janet Craig variety, thanks for the awesome video 😊
My Aglaonema has 4 leaves that are yellow and dying and you made me feel so much better about it
I have a little baby Janet Craig and I had no idea they grow so large! I’m excited now!
Euphorbia tithymaloides seems pretty impossible to kill as well. In our country, we use it to decorate traffic islands.
I LOVE that rhipsalis! I don’t have any in my collection YET but definitely one I’m going to be searching for!
Rhipsalis are one of my favorite plants. There are many varieties and they are easy plants. They look great in head planters ..like hair. Those and hoyas are what I have most of and love.
Omg your ric rac looks amazing!!
Rick rack cactus! Beautiful! Love my starfish and fernwood sansevieria!
Interesting video... I have owned and killed a few of these. But I have a lot of Alocasia and Calathea and I can keep those alive. In other words: I’m watering all the time. I tend to overwater these 🙈
I bought a few kalanchoe and put them in an often forgotten part of my patio, I think they survived years without me watering them. Yesterday I finally repotted them
Great info! Thank you so much! 🌹
It would be awesome if you talked about which plants from certain genuses fare better than others! I know you raved about the Dracaena Janet Craig and cylindrical sanseverias in this, so it would be awesome to see you rank aglaeonemas, sanseverias, etc based on ease.
LOLLLLL @ that disclaimer. I almost spit out my coffee.
If you get a ZZ from Home Depot, repot immediately, they are drowning in a personal swamp while at the store
FINALLY someone agrees with me that kalanchoe are weeds!
I have one and it s so small, just a baby and i think it s really beautiful but when it grows, like the one he showed, it does look like a weed 😅
I have to hold myself back with watering. I now try to water every other week with certain groupings of plants. My kitchen plants..one week, then my sunroom plants the next week. I agree with rhipsalis (sp)..I have 4 different types, and so far..so good. The chinese evergreens get yellow bottom leaves, but they're holding up ok..though a couple are very slow growers. The starfish sanseverias (sp) I have also, but doesn't get enough bright light..the leaves are on the thin side...that's about once a month or a little longer with water. Good video..thanks Nick!
I love your channel it gives me hope ❤️
Great video Nick! I’m going to buy a few of these.
So glad your videos came in my feed I never buy plants because they die so to see this video it gives me hope 😊
You’re awesome and one of my favorite plant CZcamsr!
RedStarryNight me too. I love Nick
Yeah..me too! I over watered my collections .. thanks to Nick i learned a lot...
I think you sprinkle plant magic in your sleep and that’s why your plants are so healthy😊😄😁. I make a point to check in on your site weekly.
Him: you can’t kill one
Me: but I did
Him: until you over water it
Me: oh
Sansevieria are hard to kill . I’ve got one that’s older i am . Mom got it as a wedding present in 1953 !
I’ve got the trifasciata.
yes nick i also bought an aglaonema "stripe", which has lost some bottom leaves but nevertheless is a very strong growing plant and is rather larger than i thought at four feet high which was quite a size i thought. so everyone do consider some of these hybrids need more room than you think even though they look great and not too big when originally buying them..in the shop. great videos nick, thank you.
😂🤣😂Thank goodness for the disclaimer Nick! Janet Craig (my 1st plant to die) ,all Agleonemas (except Maria 1yr strong), many Sansevierias, 1 Zz plant (killed them all). apparently the green Agleonemas need less light and last longer. I am in the process of rehabbing my giant Zz and Raven both had root rot when purchased😫. Callousing the big guy and going to pot him back up. Water propagating Zz's doesn't work for me. My plants of steel Tradescantia, pothos, philodendrons, satin pothos and my pellionia repens all rock stars. Love my sansevierias and my Zz's, but they are hard to read and by the time they show signs it's really bad! 😭My sansevieria are always shriveling at the base!
Goodness Nick even my Peruvian Apple Cactus gets watered 2-3 times during winter...I guess I need to stop hovering...lol. Seriously I always tell beginners to start with a Snake Plant and a Pothos. Pothos can go a long time without a watering too...tho probably not 7 months like your forgiving Dracena. I have only seen Janet Craig in baby plants. It was interesting to know it grows tall as well. It was nice to see Epiphyllium get some attention. I have 2 and love them. My Oxypetulum has actually flowered for me. Even without flowers I love their jungle vibe. By the way I think your Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma need water too...they are yellowing. Thanks for this content and happy growing!
Yayyyy so excited when I got the notification !!
I love epiphyllum so much. Beautiful flowers, low maintenance.
The A U D A C I T Y of that aglaonema 😍🌱
Snake plant, spider plant and devils ivy are the plants that I find to be the easiest!
Hi Nick! Another great video! I have four of the plants you showed: Sansevieria cylindrica (several varieties), ZZ (5) and ZZ Raven (2), a Chinese Evergreen (not sure the name) and a Dracaena “Janet Craig”. I love them all! My Dracaena “Janet Craig” is very small and I'm hoping it gets the long trunks like yours. I didn't know that Lucky Bamboo is a Dracaena, but I can see the likeness. I have a small one that grows in water. I'd like to try the Epiphyllum and Rhipsalis. I see the Kalanchoe quite often and may give it a go, too, but I don't do well with succulents. I always enjoy your personality and info on plants. Thank you for sharing!
I need a zig zag cactus. Janet needs some love. ❣️
I have that same aglaonema and I periodically feel the need to check to make sure it’s real. I keep thinking I’m going to be that lady who waters and tends to a fake plant for years! It is so easy to care for and it looks so great 😀 The nursery I bought it from called the cultivar ‘First Diamond’.
As a novice collector of houseplants --- former landscaper, so my interest was mainly outdoors --- I have enjoyed your videos, and appreciate you 'helpful hints'.
However I hold you responsible for my budding peperomia addiction. (Pardon the pun.)
Rhipsalis is amazing!!! I have mine above my kettle and its growing like crazy 😜
LOVE THIS! I'm currently making a similar series about beginner plants in three parts, thanks for the tips! Love your channel.
You might want to double check the info before you put it down as fact
@@BeccaBadgett is this comment directed to me?
My water propagated pothos when I planted them in soil were SOOOO unhappy but they pulled through. Definitely hard to kill. I’ve recently turned my black thumb green. It’s amazing what having time to pay attention does.
Add a tiny pinch of dirt to the water , then add a teaspoon of dirt 3 days later , add a tablespoon of dirt every 3 days for the next week then add enough dirt to make mud. . Let the plant dry out from that point . You don’t get stress !
Thank you Nick... I am in Philly too😊
The way he just naturally drop these 18 syllable plant names is truly a flex!
Here’s the rhipsaalis baccifera…I really wanted to pull down my €£^%{#
Fav plant dad 🌱🌿🌵
I got given a snake plant for my birthday. They're really not my thing so i put it in a darkish corner. I've had it a year and watered it twice. I'm not sure it's possible to under water them.
Snake plants seem to believe so differently in Lagos Nigeria. 1. They need watering once a week at the minimum and 2. they need bright light. Perhaps they behave differently in different regions
I have a few snakes and if they are in the sun, they need frequent watering. In a dark corner they live forever with watering monthly and even less. They won't grow much without sun and water though.
Dracena Jenny Craig! 🤣. Great video!!!
This video helped identify a succulent we got that looked like an aloe. It was the sansieveria cylindrica. And many of our plants died, yet that sansieveria has held on well
Great choices for tolerant plants. I'm collecting Rhipsalis which seems to be the hardest to find group in Canada. None of the growers here have the Paradoxa which I really really want.
Eyebrows looking sharp 💅🏼
Thank you so much! Now I've added more to my list to buy. xD
Hi Nick , it’s winter here in Oz and my Rhipsalis is in full flower 🌸 just stunning 😍 just wished to share thank you for the video 🧤👒🦘🇦🇺🌱oh mother of Thousands here is a banned noxious weed 🤨