oh yes!! good one! I love all epipremnums! the variegation is so beautiful on them!! I found mine a long time ago at a big box store and I see them pop from time to time so I agree!! 🥰
Yes, gorgeous plant! I bought my Manjula recently and am simply in love with her. Going to start training her on a moss pole and cant wait to see how big her leaves get
Two thumbs up!! At time of 14:30 I was going to type a comment that you didn't say, "Obsessed." on the marble queen. I did wait until watching until the end. At Surprize, surprize at 15:10 you not only said it once, but twice with a "Super" added in! Makes me smile when that happens. With the monstera, mine now is putting out big leaves with Terceira fenestrations. I am fighting myself because I really need to put it in a bigger pot. Now is not the best time to try that.
Thank you for reminding me that. It is absolutely OK to be in love with common plants. And that I don't have to be embarrassed. I am obsessed with sungoniums. I have several different varieties.
I have a Lemon Lime Maranta story! I was grocery shopping and saw two leaves with a partial stem in the plant section that had fallen off a huge Maranta someone had bought. (I remember the plant from the last time I had been there) I asked if I could have it and would pay for it. They said, no just take it. So I took it home and put it in water….. now I have a beautiful Maranta in pon with at least 8 leaves. I love it and love that I grew it myself. ❤
aww such a sweet story!! Thank you for sharing! I feel like those are the plants that are so special because you literally grew it and saved it from probably being tossed out. So happy for you!!
So with you on maranta! They have been surprisingly chill for me. I have terrible natural lighting in my house and lean towards overwatering, so we get along well.
My favorite plant is now common but I’ve had mine for 47 years. It is a ponytail palm and I have multiples. She is 6 ft.tall and has been mother to a few bulblets over the years. It not for everyone but I love her! Such a carefree plant and a statement plant when grown well and large.
Christmas cactus, golden pothos, philo brazil, zyl. snake plant, curly bonnie spider plant. All these ive had for years so easy just keep growing love them. Big and beautiful
Girl I absolutely think of you as the moss pole queen more than anything! Your videos always inspire me with my journey with my plants! I LOVE your style and the fact you have “Plant Goals” for your plants instead of just simply owning it to own it if that makes sense! Lol! I think I connect with you so much because of our similar plant tastes also! You just have that right “Vibe” yano! I’m definitely a big appreciator of all your content! And not in one of those weirdo way either! 😂🤣
Thank you so much!! That's so kind 🥹 I love having goals with them and seeing the potential they have ☺️ Sometimes I think it would be cool to own one because it's more rare or whatever it is but if I don't care for it then I don't want to own it for the sake of saying I have it exactly :)
Philodendron Brazil, micans and lemon lime. Just beautiful trailing plants. And my little Trader Joe’s spider plant is now 3 feet wide with lots of babies…it looks impressive. And my Hoya Krimson Princess bloomed for me this year so also one of my favorites.
I love all Pothos. They were my first love. I have a 20yr old marble queen that’s been with me before I knew how to care for plants. Idk how she didn’t die. Lol
Loved this video. Almost all of my favorite plants are common too. I truly love my philodendron Brazil and I have bought more than one. Same with philo micans. Just like your last pick, my Monstera Deliciosa is the one i look at many times a day. Keep up the wonderful videos. I look forward to them so much and they brightened my days.
I’m always stunned at the gigantic pothos you have! Unreal! One of my favorite common plants is the spider plant. I have two huge ones that have been with me for many years. Even when I had my plants at my old condo in the window behind heavy curtains, and forgot about them the whole winter, they still survived. 😂 beasts.
I agree with your top five--all good choices. But my collection would not be complete without some type of begonia. I adore them and the variety is massive.
Your plants are perfect and so beautiful! Marble Queen is like the Marylin Monroe of the plants. The one on the moss pole is the most beautiful on UA-cam. Love your Taste in plants… 💚💚🪴🍃
You are so welcome! Yes!! It's hard to not want to collect more! I really have to talk myself out of getting some but I would love to add more of them to my collection one day! 🥰
I think my favourites, today anyway are two classics. Maidenhair Fern and snake plants. Oh and Hoya Matilde and Obovata. I'll stop now are you will get a list. All in Leca or MAB Grow
Awesome video👏 I have a Calathea Makoyana and recently brought a Marble Queen. My Makoyana is a year old that has been popping out new leaves the last 2-weeks. Key, I studied my Makoyana to find what works. Keep up the great work!
My favorite common house plant is the Polynesian Ivy (pellionia pulchra). I bought a tiny one about a year ago and it’s in a 8 inch planter now and cascading over the sides! Beautiful plant and SO EASY!
I love the non-cool and hip syngoniums. I have a White Butterfly and a Golden Allusion. They are colorful and easy to grow. Not anything you can brag about, but who cares? Lots of bang for the buck as well.
Thank you! oh yes! So pretty! I used to have one but they didn't seem to do well. I might try one again if I ever come across it. It's been awhile and maybe I will do better at one haha ☺️
Your common plants are so beautiful and such an inspiration. I l couldn't do without my zz raven, dracena bantel sensatiion, bird of paradise, string of pearls and my Boston ferns. I think I have more common plant favorites than rare plant favorites.
Its got to be my Monstera Adensonii and my Manjula Pothos that I simply couldnt live without. Although I seem to have a weakness for all pothos varieties. But that manjula... 😍
@@plantsbymelissa I was looking at my plants a minute ago, and there's another that never fails to make me smile: Watermelon Peperomia. The first one I had, I unalived from watering it too much. But I've since grown a large one that now fills up a 10-inch pot, and it just makes me happy with its green-on-green stripes and burgundy stems.
I have collected African violets for a number of years and loved them, but I have gotten bored with having only violets. In May, I gave some away and decided to buy myself new plants for Mother's day. I chose the cheap plants at the grocery store! I now have over 30 plants, most of which had no labels. I have 3 faves, two because they have grown like crazy and one because it's cute. The cute plant is pepperomia happy beans, which I bought at a garden center. It has produced side stems and grown about an inch, which makes it cuter. I have an unnamed sangonium with green leaves with white veining and cream leaves with green edges. It has tripled in size and remains compact as no vining has begun. The leaves are beautiful. I also bought a small red maranta. It's scrawny on top, having only 4 stems. The stems are long. The plant has at least 4 new leaves unfurling at any given time. One opens, another begins. The internodal space has gotten shorter with each new leaf. The newer portion of stems are less leggy than the first. It's beginning it's second round of blooming so I think it's happy. You have given me the courage to start 2 new props to tuck back into the top to give it more fullness!! You have also given me the courage to purchase 2 calatheas from a real plant store, rattlesnake plant and calthea rosy. We will see how they do through a midwest winter with the furnace running a lot. Thanks for all the great info you provide and for encouraging a beginning love of prayer plants. I love your videos!! Suggestion for a new video. At Trader Joes, I recently bought a little yellowish unnamed baby plant for 3.99. It might be a neon pothos or a lemon lime philodendron. Maybe it's too early to know. I'd love a video on those dopplegangers!! Thanks for listening. :)
Thank you so much for sharing!! I used to have an African violet but I got rid of it before we moved last year. Some of them are SO pretty!! I'm glad you got more into houseplants! They bring so much joy! Congrats on your maranta doing well!! she sounds so happy and you got this!! Good luck with your new plant purchases!! 🥰
Great video! From the beginning I just knew you were going to mention the Marble Queen 😁 I have several as well and I agree that it's just so amazing to have a common/cheap plant with such BEAUTIFUL variegation. The first time I ever seen one I was thinking there's no way these plants are cheap and easy to find, but sure enough they are. I have one paired with a Jade Pothos plant in the same pot and I'm OBSESSED. I love collecting different pothos and combining them. I call it plant art 😅 I do the same with vining Philodendron, like my container of Lemon Lime, Heart Leaf and Brazil together. 😍 So any type of Pothos and Philodendron are definitely some of my favorite common houseplants.
Yes! I should have included my brasil Phil :) I love that one too! All pothos are amazing yes!! I love them all. I think I heard that is called a Frankenstein pot when you combine a bunch of different varieties together! I'm sure they look so beautiful!! 😍
oh wow! 40 is amazing!! I think I have 3 varieties haha 🫶 They are such a great plants though!! My favorite is my Sayuri I have or siam silver is another name for it. Such a beautiful tone!!
My daughter gave me some precut sections of her snake plant that she didn't think would propogate. One has been going for maybe 3 months and I have been resisting the urge to pull it up and see if there are roots. There are no new sprouts yet. Do you know how long this might take? It hasn't withered.
Thank you so much for the video. I am also a huge prayer plant lover. Too many Calathea, Maranta,, and a Stromanthe - actually no such thing as too many. Anyways I love my lemon lime, and Maranta Red. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. They grow like weeds, and propogate like troopers. I'm constantly chopping and propping beause I want mine to look like yours some day. Hope you have an awesome weekend! 🙂
Seeing this video now is so funny to me haha I just got home from running errands after work and stopped off at my fav nursery and caught myself debating between the black velvet alocasia and the marble queen. Thought of you when I was looking at the marble queen haha went with the black velvet though. Im obsessed with Alocasia and already have a silver dragon so I opted for adding to the alocasia collection! Will eventually be getting a marble queen though!!
I also love my pothos! I’m on the hunt for a lemon meringue. My poly and silver dragon alocasia, my Bonnie curly spider plant, and my tornado draceana are my common favorites
Lemon-lime maranta just came into my collection. Humidity is a bit of an issue during the winter for me so will have to figure something out to keep it from crisping. My favorite common plant is my neon pothos. It is amazing!
Congrats on your new lemon lime!! humidity does help but they do just fine in 50%. I find the type of water plays a role and they love warmth! The neon is SO pretty!!
I have 5 pepperomias! I bought them all at grocery stores or places that don't name them. All were bought since May. I will see how they overwinter in the Midwest.
I was just looking thru your vid lists and it would be great if you could give more info on flat mites? How did you figure out they were flat mites vs. other types?
@@plantsbymelissa Yes, adding to your playlist would be great - I've seen you mention them quite a few times, but you are the only one I've ever heard say that name. Some of my plants have these random areas that are spread out & sometimes on separate leaves. They look like what could be described as 'enlarged pores' grouped together, for lack of a better description. So, is that the tell-tale sign of flat mites??
One of my first plants after many years of none was the red maranta. She grew very large and this spring I cut her back. I finally found a lemon lime and I agree I like her more than the red. I also found a rabbit tracks and another marble queen
I like Your plant displays very much, Plantmore Estate at its finest, but then with you as the Chief Curator what else could it be. Lol. I recently repotted my marble queen and it is doing very well, actually quite similar to yours which gave me a pulse of braggadocio. Thanks for the video.
Yass we are lemon lime obsessed twins! Though I only have two, once another one speaks to me I already have a spot for it! 😂 All these plants you mentioned are 🔥
I have had one for 14 months that came out of a funeral arrangement for my mother-in-law. Brown tips were horrible but I have improved the situation slightly by using filtered water. It has grown many new leaves but has not boomed again. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I love my Maranta's. They had gotten so big and beautiful, always flowering. All of a sudden they started taking a dive one by one. I propped my variegated Maranta and my silver Maranta but the props kept dying. I finally got out my microscope and saw that they all had flat mites. What I have left is coating in sulfur right now and I'm hoping I'll be able to save them. I recently purchased the Maranta black and so far no mites but I've got my eye on it.
I very much agree on the 4: Alocasia Black Velvet, Lemon-lime Maranta-also Red stripe, Pothos marble, and Monstera Deliciosa. However… I seem to have a love-hate with Calathea, as in I love them and I’m not so sure they love me. even my Rattlesnake, which should be less drama, has been crisping and losing leaves. Instead, I would put Syngonium of any type for my 5th choice. I have 3 types!❤🌞🌿
Marble queen is also my OG favorite girl 💗 I have many much fancier plants but shes the one i always pet and fluff . Maybe thats it? I never touch my Anthuriums, love them but i let them be
It's taken just about 2 years! I started it the size of the trailing basket and she's been chopped twice to let her continue to grow. I have her moss pole chops saved under my "moss pole playlist" It's crazy looking back at how the growth has changed!
I have a few common ones I love! I also have a marble queen but she’s not as variegated as I would like (due to placement initially) but I got a Snow Queen at a flea market for $12 last year and I LOVE her. Her leaves are almost all white or a nice mix of greens with white. My second favorite is my heart leaf philo. I got her at a farmers market and it was a small cutting. I had to restart my entire plant collection cuz I moved and couldn’t bring them all with me, and she’s climbed and taken off so it makes me feel accomplished. I also have 3 big monsteras and 2 propagations. My initial one didn’t grow very big but I rehabbed and office monstera and she has made 4 new plants I’ve propagated in total! One plant I do not like that is common is the fiddle leaf fig. I cannot for the life of me keep them happy. I love the look but they’re too finicky for me!
Marble queen and snow queen are the same plant.If you put the snow queen in lower light than what it was in before you purchased it you will have a new marble queen.
Everyone is stunning!💯 I had looking for your calathea rosy for a while now. Is she still there? Uhm after a look of makoyana, I end up looking for the rosy one. Huhu
Thank you for sharing this amazing video, wish you good luck with your plants.❤ Kindly, I want to ask you about the type of soil you used for Marble Queen Potas and for the Monstera Delesiosa plant. Thank you so much.,,🥰🌹 ❤❤
Hii I love your vlogss, can you make a video of the marantas that you dont have yet that you want to have? I think it will be very interesting and informative to us. Thankkk youu
I have a makoyana but it never gets bigger. Probably needs a repot because I’ve never but it’s dormant at the moment also just has 3 leaves. No idea what kind of mix to pot it in.
aw, I'm sure it will grow more for you! Giving nutrients and more light can make a big improvement! I used my normal DIY mix for it. It was about 50% soil and the rest I used some perlite, bark and charcoal. You don't have to make it that aerated because they do love water :)
You’ve convinced me to buy a marble queen! I’m really on the fence about a maranta, I’ve wanted one for so long but my humidity is pretty low even with a humidifier 😅
I kept a red maranta through the winter in the Midwest. It did fine, although I burned a leaf a little by putting a plant light to close. I have a humidifier on my furnace but I'm lucky if the humidity stays at slightly under 45%. In the summer, the AC doesn't take out all the humidity all that well in the 90 plus days. My red maranta constantly produced new leaves all spring and summer. The plant has doubled in size. We will see what this winter brings. Don't know where you live but hope this helps. Every night, I enjoy watching the leaves turn up.
@@debbiefrick4380 this makes me want to give it a try then! I live in Alaska so we also have really long, dry winters from our furnaces like you guys. My other humidity loving tropicals seem to do okay, but I know maranta and calathea are a little more picky so I’ve been hesitant about them.
You can try adding a small grow light in a lamp to your bathroom and it will love the extra humidity from the shower ☺️ plants can be acclimated to lower levels and they adjust to your environment. They appreciate humidity and warmth but if your other tropicals do well they should be okay!
Hi Melissa, the lemon lime plants are beautiful and the Marble Queen is also. I want a plant full and beautiful in my house and maybe both theses will be the ones. Thank you you were reading my mind about plants. I feel bad asking flosstube people such beginner questions. I just don't ask. Thanks for help I feel good now
Don't feel bad about asking questions! I am alway happy to try and help. I love taking the time to actually comment and get back to people because I appreciate that you take the time to watch and be here. I can't get back to everyone but I really do my best to get through what I can!! 🥰
omg melissa!!! I had to cut back my Orbifolia and Makoyana last summer and now they're doing so good and I'm terrified to repot 🤣 they're in clear fast food cups so I think they should be ok for a while thank goodness I just get anxious thinking about repotting them whenever the time comes
It’s soooo very hard to pick a favorite, however, I gotta say that it’s prob also a monstera! They are large, in charge, and so beautiful and structural! ❤
Wow the giant Marble queen is unreal! I would love to try that but Im just bad at keeping moss poles, I use wooden planks/stakes…would this be possible with wood?
I keep getting brown tips on my lemon lime. I'm using distilled water but I think I'm watering a tad bit late. How can you tell when it's time to water?
I adore them so much! I am currently back using tap water and filtering it yes! I just recently added the API stress coat and I adjust PH as well. Sometimes I will occasionally flush through with distilled water :)
How good is the alocasia black velvet :) I enjoy touching the velvety leaf.. it’s so beautiful, sadly all of my Marathas are struggling at the moment :( any tips would be incredibly appreciated.
Isn't it?! The dark texture is so unique!! Sorry about your marantas 🥺 I find them pretty easy going but they do love a warm, humid environment. If they aren't growing it's usually because of flat mites in my experience. They'll want some light but not direct and make sure you're fertilizing them so they have those nutrients. I find tap water they can be sensitive to as well. I'll link a recent video I did on my collection I go into my care bit more! 🫶 ua-cam.com/video/K7Ht4uwRPGI/v-deo.htmlsi=5MG91qobNR---otb
@@plantsbymelissa I’m thinking of moving all of my plants to rainwater from my rainwater tank… my maranta just doesn’t seem to grow much, but my musaica seems to grow prolifically lol… they get a decent amount of light, when I put it in my greenhouse, it hated me so much. Was too much light.
I got the basket in 2020 but it was smaller back then and I added props to it and repotted it :) The pole started in Nov 2021 so almost 2 years now!! So crazy to look back at the growth ☺️
I bought what I thought was a Monstera deliciosa, and it found out it was 4 in one pot, so I separated them because it was a rescue from the clearance section of the big box store. I've had all four of them growing up moss poles, and I've gotten many new leaves, but they're staying small. I'm now wondering if maybe it was labeled wrong and was actually a mini Monstera... I dunno really how to tell though.
What do I give my plants 🌿🌵💚 for more vitamins or what ever it's called to keep them healthy with the right amount of phosphorus and the two other things they require. What are they called and what should I give them. Please let me know if you can. Thanks Melissa
Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium! (NPK) those are essential nutrients but there's lot of other micronutrients your plants need to so looking into a complete fertilizer will benefit them so much! There's lots of options out there and not sure where you are but a lot of people love foliage pro, I just got GT foliage focus and I've been using slow release osmocote :)
I am moving most of them over to lechuza brand pon :) It's a soilless substrate and they love being in semi hydro. I grew mostly in soil but I had issues with a fungal spread so I had to restart a lot of them 😩 They really love that consistency if growing in soil with water and the environment so they can be finicky sometimes!
ooh, I need to look that one up then! I love that velvety texture so much! I usually give 3 chances on a plant lol. Sometimes they are just unhealthy from the beginning and not necessarily something you did too so it can be worth trying again!
I would have to say that my favorite is the aglaonema. I have the silver bay, the diamond bay, and the golden bay. They sit at the foot of my bed and I just love waking up and seeing them there. I also have some other aglaonemas but I guess those 3 are the ones I just don't want to do without.
I never got into aglaonemas! I think they are beautiful though!! Every time I pass by one at the store I have to look at it. I've been tempted before so maybe one day I will get one! 🤗
@@plantsbymelissa they are so easy to take care of. But I do have a lemon lime maranta and it has started growing! I'm so happy about that I ordered a red one. I had tried more than one before and I thought well I'm gonna try one more time to have this beautiful plant and it's happy! 😁
I have an obsession with big bushy plants but knowing my environment wouldn't be able to maintain a healthy tropical plant I don't them. I want a big and beautiful Monstera, Alocasia and Fiddle-Leaf Fig but they're not very hardy in poor environments. On my way to work this house has these 3 large monsteras or alocasias in their front yard, every time we drive by I think "you lucky son of a bitch got 3 tropical plants to thrive outside in New England summers." Our weather can go from hot to cold with not enough humidity to maintain a plant like those.
I am not going to give a thumbs down but I feel like your favorite “common” houseplants are ones that a lot of people struggle with. It would be Great to know how you take care of them. Maybe include that in your next video. Or not 🤷🏼♀️ still love watching your videos will keep watching. But just saying
Not sure if it’s super common, but I love manjula pothos. I love her variegation more than some of my rare varigated plants!
oh yes!! good one! I love all epipremnums! the variegation is so beautiful on them!! I found mine a long time ago at a big box store and I see them pop from time to time so I agree!! 🥰
Yes, gorgeous plant!
I bought my Manjula recently and am simply in love with her.
Going to start training her on a moss pole and cant wait to see how big her leaves get
It’s my favorite. Such a genuinely beautiful plant in every way.
I recently bought a manjula at a Home Depot. I absolutely love that plant. I agree, the variegation rivals some very expensive plants.
Common house 🏘️ plants 🌱🌿🍃 love em
Two thumbs up!! At time of 14:30 I was going to type a comment that you didn't say, "Obsessed." on the marble queen. I did wait until watching until the end. At Surprize, surprize at 15:10 you not only said it once, but twice with a "Super" added in! Makes me smile when that happens. With the monstera, mine now is putting out big leaves with Terceira fenestrations. I am fighting myself because I really need to put it in a bigger pot. Now is not the best time to try that.
I never hear people talk much about these plants but I just love the peace lilly they are beautiful ♥️
Thank you for reminding me that. It is absolutely OK to be in love with common plants. And that I don't have to be embarrassed. I am obsessed with sungoniums. I have several different varieties.
I also love a sangonium. What varieties do you recommend for someone new to the plant world?
syngonium albo is my favorite!!
Absolutely!!
I have a Lemon Lime Maranta story! I was grocery shopping and saw two leaves with a partial stem in the plant section that had fallen off a huge Maranta someone had bought. (I remember the plant from the last time I had been there) I asked if I could have it and would pay for it. They said, no just take it. So I took it home and put it in water….. now I have a beautiful Maranta in pon with at least 8 leaves. I love it and love that I grew it myself. ❤
aww such a sweet story!! Thank you for sharing! I feel like those are the plants that are so special because you literally grew it and saved it from probably being tossed out. So happy for you!!
Beautiful lemon Lime ❤
I totally agree about the marble queen ; I could’nt live without hier ❤😂
So with you on maranta! They have been surprisingly chill for me. I have terrible natural lighting in my house and lean towards overwatering, so we get along well.
My favorite plant is now common but I’ve had mine for 47 years. It is a ponytail palm and I have multiples. She is 6 ft.tall and has been mother to a few bulblets over the years. It not for everyone but I love her! Such a carefree plant and a statement plant when grown well and large.
My next must have plant, although I killed one. I've been a fan of overwatering in the past. 47 years. Amazing!!
I've had one for about 5 years and totally adore it!
I totally agree,it’s beautiful as it ages! My cat loves to eat it,even though she has pet grass and catmint growing for her,weirdo😅😂
47 years and 6 feet tall?!?! 😱 That's incredible!! I do want to get another one some day. We love palms ☺️
I enjoy your videos Melissa 😁💓😁
Christmas cactus, golden pothos, philo brazil, zyl. snake plant, curly bonnie spider plant. All these ive had for years so easy just keep growing love them. Big and beautiful
My favorite is my white bird of paradise. It’s MASSIVE and so healthy. Grows nonstop
Girl I absolutely think of you as the moss pole queen more than anything! Your videos always inspire me with my journey with my plants! I LOVE your style and the fact you have “Plant Goals” for your plants instead of just simply owning it to own it if that makes sense! Lol! I think I connect with you so much because of our similar plant tastes also! You just have that right “Vibe” yano! I’m definitely a big appreciator of all your content! And not in one of those weirdo way either! 😂🤣
Thank you so much!! That's so kind 🥹 I love having goals with them and seeing the potential they have ☺️ Sometimes I think it would be cool to own one because it's more rare or whatever it is but if I don't care for it then I don't want to own it for the sake of saying I have it exactly :)
Philodendron Brazil, micans and lemon lime. Just beautiful trailing plants. And my little Trader Joe’s spider plant is now 3 feet wide with lots of babies…it looks impressive. And my Hoya Krimson Princess bloomed for me this year so also one of my favorites.
They are all amazing!! Now I wished I did top 10 lol
I love all Pothos. They were my first love. I have a 20yr old marble queen that’s been with me before I knew how to care for plants. Idk how she didn’t die. Lol
That is amazing!! I hope mine will grow to be that old too! 🥰
Pothos are great... really all plants 🌿💕🌵🌱 are amazing. If it's a plant I want it and love it.😊
Loved this video. Almost all of my favorite plants are common too. I truly love my philodendron Brazil and I have bought more than one. Same with philo micans. Just like your last pick, my Monstera Deliciosa is the one i look at many times a day. Keep up the wonderful videos. I look forward to them so much and they brightened my days.
Thank you!! I should have done top 10! haha I love the brasil and micans too! Such great ones!
Love the OG classics! Alll beautiful 🌱 I love alll of my Marantas ❤️💚
Love the marble queen! Thanks for sharing Melissa.
Thanks for watching! 🥰
I’m always stunned at the gigantic pothos you have! Unreal! One of my favorite common plants is the spider plant. I have two huge ones that have been with me for many years. Even when I had my plants at my old condo in the window behind heavy curtains, and forgot about them the whole winter, they still survived. 😂 beasts.
She is such an incredible plant now ☺️ That's amazing the spider plants survived!! What troopers! 🥰
I agree with your top five--all good choices. But my collection would not be complete without some type of begonia. I adore them and the variety is massive.
They are beautiful!! I am falling more in love with my maculata!
Your plants are perfect and so beautiful! Marble Queen is like the Marylin Monroe of the plants. The one on the moss pole is the most beautiful on UA-cam. Love your Taste in plants… 💚💚🪴🍃
Thank you so much! She is an incredible plant and I can't wait to see more growth on her 🥹
Omg Melissa, I absolutely love Calatheas , Maranta, stromanthe.. I try to find every variety I can. ThankYou for sharing this video.❤
You are so welcome! Yes!! It's hard to not want to collect more! I really have to talk myself out of getting some but I would love to add more of them to my collection one day! 🥰
Lemon Lime Maranta is my favorite too! As well as lemon lime Heartleaf philodendron, and Cebu Blue!!
YES!! They are all so good!!
Omg your Makoyana is stun-ing!! Wowzers! 💚💚
I think my favourites, today anyway are two classics. Maidenhair Fern and snake plants. Oh and Hoya Matilde and Obovata. I'll stop now are you will get a list. All in Leca or MAB Grow
I always wanted a hoya Mathilde! I might look into getting one next year!
Another one everybody NEEDS si m.Adansonii ans all thé variants 😎
Such an amazingly helpful, different video. Thank you so much
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching! 🤗
Awesome video👏 I have a Calathea Makoyana and recently brought a Marble Queen. My Makoyana is a year old that has been popping out new leaves the last 2-weeks. Key, I studied my Makoyana to find what works. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you love the makoyana and it's doing well! Marble queen is such a good one!! I hope it will grow on you 🥰
My favorite common house plant is the Polynesian Ivy (pellionia pulchra). I bought a tiny one about a year ago and it’s in a 8 inch planter now and cascading over the sides! Beautiful plant and SO EASY!
Ooo yay, I love common houseplant videos 💗
Yay!! As much as I love the rare and expensive ones the OG classics are just some of my absolute favorites!
I love the non-cool and hip syngoniums. I have a White Butterfly and a Golden Allusion. They are colorful and easy to grow. Not anything you can brag about, but who cares? Lots of bang for the buck as well.
In my country we call that Calathea Lemon Lime as Calathea Cat Whiskers 😊 because it looks like it
Nice video , the plant that started my obsession is the tradescantia nanouk I love purple and when I saw the plant she spoke to me 😅
Thank you! oh yes! So pretty! I used to have one but they didn't seem to do well. I might try one again if I ever come across it. It's been awhile and maybe I will do better at one haha ☺️
Your common plants are so beautiful and such an inspiration. I l couldn't do without my zz raven, dracena bantel sensatiion, bird of paradise, string of pearls and my Boston ferns. I think I have more common plant favorites than rare plant favorites.
Thank you!! I should have done top 10 haha It was hard to pick just 5 but there are so many good ones!!
Its got to be my Monstera Adensonii and my Manjula Pothos that I simply couldnt live without.
Although I seem to have a weakness for all pothos varieties. But that manjula... 😍
Yes!! Manjula is amazing!!
My favorite common plants, ATM, are Scindapsus pictus Exotica, Hoya carnosa Tricolor (Krimson Queen), Philodendron Micans, and Calathea (Goeppertia) lancifolia "Rattlesnake".
all SO good!!
@@plantsbymelissa I was looking at my plants a minute ago, and there's another that never fails to make me smile: Watermelon Peperomia. The first one I had, I unalived from watering it too much. But I've since grown a large one that now fills up a 10-inch pot, and it just makes me happy with its green-on-green stripes and burgundy stems.
I adore all of your plants, but if I have to pick one, it would be your marvelous Marble Queen pothos .
You are such a terrific plant mom 👍👏😍
Thanks so much! It's hard not to love this big plant lol. It's crazy to think it started so little and what an amazing specimen it grew into!
My lemon lime maranta is one of my favorite plants as well! 💛🌱
I love all these plants!! PS: your maranta is the reason I got one! Haha.
hehe thank you Amy!!
Your Monstera is beautiful ❤️
I have collected African violets for a number of years and loved them, but I have gotten bored with having only violets. In May, I gave some away and decided to buy myself new plants for Mother's day. I chose the cheap plants at the grocery store! I now have over 30 plants, most of which had no labels. I have 3 faves, two because they have grown like crazy and one because it's cute. The cute plant is pepperomia happy beans, which I bought at a garden center. It has produced side stems and grown about an inch, which makes it cuter.
I have an unnamed sangonium with green leaves with white veining and cream leaves with green edges. It has tripled in size and remains compact as no vining has begun. The leaves are beautiful.
I also bought a small red maranta. It's scrawny on top, having only 4 stems. The stems are long. The plant has at least 4 new leaves unfurling at any given time. One opens, another begins. The internodal space has gotten shorter with each new leaf. The newer portion of stems are less leggy than the first. It's beginning it's second round of blooming so I think it's happy. You have given me the courage to start 2 new props to tuck back into the top to give it more fullness!!
You have also given me the courage to purchase 2 calatheas from a real plant store, rattlesnake plant and calthea rosy. We will see how they do through a midwest winter with the furnace running a lot. Thanks for all the great info you provide and for encouraging a beginning love of prayer plants. I love your videos!!
Suggestion for a new video. At Trader Joes, I recently bought a little yellowish unnamed baby plant for 3.99. It might be a neon pothos or a lemon lime philodendron. Maybe it's too early to know. I'd love a video on those dopplegangers!! Thanks for listening. :)
Thank you so much for sharing!! I used to have an African violet but I got rid of it before we moved last year. Some of them are SO pretty!! I'm glad you got more into houseplants! They bring so much joy! Congrats on your maranta doing well!! she sounds so happy and you got this!! Good luck with your new plant purchases!! 🥰
Great video! From the beginning I just knew you were going to mention the Marble Queen 😁 I have several as well and I agree that it's just so amazing to have a common/cheap plant with such BEAUTIFUL variegation. The first time I ever seen one I was thinking there's no way these plants are cheap and easy to find, but sure enough they are. I have one paired with a Jade Pothos plant in the same pot and I'm OBSESSED. I love collecting different pothos and combining them. I call it plant art 😅 I do the same with vining Philodendron, like my container of Lemon Lime, Heart Leaf and Brazil together. 😍 So any type of Pothos and Philodendron are definitely some of my favorite common houseplants.
Yes! I should have included my brasil Phil :) I love that one too! All pothos are amazing yes!! I love them all. I think I heard that is called a Frankenstein pot when you combine a bunch of different varieties together! I'm sure they look so beautiful!! 😍
@@plantsbymelissa I've never heard of a Frankenstein pot. So cool!! Yes I'm obsessed with my combos. 😊
I like this video 📷 thanks for sharing 😁
My favorite is the snake plant. There are so many different varieties. I have about 40 and can't wait to add more
oh wow! 40 is amazing!! I think I have 3 varieties haha 🫶 They are such a great plants though!! My favorite is my Sayuri I have or siam silver is another name for it. Such a beautiful tone!!
@@plantsbymelissa yes, I love those!
My daughter gave me some precut sections of her snake plant that she didn't think would propogate. One has been going for maybe 3 months and I have been resisting the urge to pull it up and see if there are roots. There are no new sprouts yet. Do you know how long this might take? It hasn't withered.
Thank you so much for the video. I am also a huge prayer plant lover. Too many Calathea, Maranta,, and a Stromanthe - actually no such thing as too many. Anyways I love my lemon lime, and Maranta Red. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. They grow like weeds, and propogate like troopers. I'm constantly chopping and propping beause I want mine to look like yours some day.
Hope you have an awesome weekend! 🙂
Thanks for watching!! I'm sure they will!! Have a great weekend as well
Seeing this video now is so funny to me haha I just got home from running errands after work and stopped off at my fav nursery and caught myself debating between the black velvet alocasia and the marble queen. Thought of you when I was looking at the marble queen haha went with the black velvet though. Im obsessed with Alocasia and already have a silver dragon so I opted for adding to the alocasia collection! Will eventually be getting a marble queen though!!
Yes!! Good choice either way! You'll definitely want a marble queen down the road lol I am trying to get everyone to get one 🤗
I also love my pothos! I’m on the hunt for a lemon meringue. My poly and silver dragon alocasia, my Bonnie curly spider plant, and my tornado draceana are my common favorites
The marble queen on the pole stole the show. I didn’t know they could produce leaves that large 😍
It's incredible!! It's crazy to compare them honestly lol. It seems like it should be a whole different plant!
@@plantsbymelissa I totally agree. Makes me wonder what could any typical indoor plants might look like if given the exact environment they need.
Lemon-lime maranta just came into my collection. Humidity is a bit of an issue during the winter for me so will have to figure something out to keep it from crisping. My favorite common plant is my neon pothos. It is amazing!
Congrats on your new lemon lime!! humidity does help but they do just fine in 50%. I find the type of water plays a role and they love warmth! The neon is SO pretty!!
Love your choices! My favorite common plant has to either be the monstera deliciosa or any Hoya!
Manjula Pothos and Staghorn Ferns mounted on walls ♥️
Well my favorite genus is Peperomia, I have almost 30 varieties. They’re so easy to care for and such a varied species.
That's incredible! I had no idea there are so many different ones. I don't do well with them so I stopped collecting them haha 🙈
I have 5 pepperomias! I bought them all at grocery stores or places that don't name them. All were bought since May. I will see how they overwinter in the Midwest.
@@debbiefrick4380Hi, I hope your do well I keep all my Peperomia under grow lights. I just got 4 more today in the mail. Have a great weekend.
I was just looking thru your vid lists and it would be great if you could give more info on flat mites? How did you figure out they were flat mites vs. other types?
I made a couple flat mite videos! I should have a playlist called flat mites 🥰
@@plantsbymelissa Yes, adding to your playlist would be great - I've seen you mention them quite a few times, but you are the only one I've ever heard say that name. Some of my plants have these random areas that are spread out & sometimes on separate leaves. They look like what could be described as 'enlarged pores' grouped together, for lack of a better description. So, is that the tell-tale sign of flat mites??
One of my first plants after many years of none was the red maranta. She grew very large and this spring I cut her back. I finally found a lemon lime and I agree I like her more than the red. I also found a rabbit tracks and another marble queen
Are there any special reasons you like the lemon lime better than the red maranta?
@@debbiefrick4380 the color is fresher and brighter right now
I love my red maranta too but I agree with the other commenter the green color is so vibrant and pretty!!
Good morning and happy friday Melissa! I hope my baby red maranta will get as big as yours!
Good morning and happy Friday to you as well 🫶 Thank you 🥺 I hope it will grow well for you!
I like Your plant displays very much, Plantmore Estate at its finest, but then with you as the Chief Curator what else could it be. Lol. I recently repotted my marble queen and it is doing very well, actually quite similar to yours which gave me a pulse of braggadocio. Thanks for the video.
haha Thank you!! ☺️
Yass we are lemon lime obsessed twins! Though I only have two, once another one speaks to me I already have a spot for it! 😂 All these plants you mentioned are 🔥
I have had one for 14 months that came out of a funeral arrangement for my mother-in-law. Brown tips were horrible but I have improved the situation slightly by using filtered water. It has grown many new leaves but has not boomed again. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
aww are you giving any type of nutrients and how much light does it get?!
I love my Maranta's. They had gotten so big and beautiful, always flowering. All of a sudden they started taking a dive one by one. I propped my variegated Maranta and my silver Maranta but the props kept dying. I finally got out my microscope and saw that they all had flat mites. What I have left is coating in sulfur right now and I'm hoping I'll be able to save them. I recently purchased the Maranta black and so far no mites but I've got my eye on it.
I very much agree on the 4: Alocasia Black Velvet, Lemon-lime Maranta-also Red stripe, Pothos marble, and Monstera Deliciosa. However… I seem to have a love-hate with Calathea, as in I love them and I’m not so sure they love me. even my Rattlesnake, which should be less drama, has been crisping and losing leaves. Instead, I would put Syngonium of any type for my 5th choice. I have 3 types!❤🌞🌿
Marble queen is also my OG favorite girl 💗 I have many much fancier plants but shes the one i always pet and fluff . Maybe thats it? I never touch my Anthuriums, love them but i let them be
haha I love that! I pet and fluff too all the time 🥰
Marble Queen, Tradescantia, Philodendron Brasil...and the slower Manjula .
I love your plants!! How did you get that marble queen to grow to that size??
It's taken just about 2 years! I started it the size of the trailing basket and she's been chopped twice to let her continue to grow. I have her moss pole chops saved under my "moss pole playlist" It's crazy looking back at how the growth has changed!
Golden and marble queen pothos, monstera adansonii and from the philodendrons the micans and the lemon lime 😀😊 also the brasil 😇
YES!! So many good ones!!
@@plantsbymelissa I forgot about the scindapsus pictus exotica. There are so many 🪴🌱🍀
I have a few common ones I love! I also have a marble queen but she’s not as variegated as I would like (due to placement initially) but I got a Snow Queen at a flea market for $12 last year and I LOVE her. Her leaves are almost all white or a nice mix of greens with white. My second favorite is my heart leaf philo. I got her at a farmers market and it was a small cutting. I had to restart my entire plant collection cuz I moved and couldn’t bring them all with me, and she’s climbed and taken off so it makes me feel accomplished. I also have 3 big monsteras and 2 propagations. My initial one didn’t grow very big but I rehabbed and office monstera and she has made 4 new plants I’ve propagated in total! One plant I do not like that is common is the fiddle leaf fig. I cannot for the life of me keep them happy. I love the look but they’re too finicky for me!
Marble queen and snow queen are the same plant.If you put the snow queen in lower light than what it was in before you purchased it you will have a new marble queen.
Everyone is stunning!💯 I had looking for your calathea rosy for a while now. Is she still there? Uhm after a look of makoyana, I end up looking for the rosy one. Huhu
Thank you so much!! My rosy is in my bathroom with the several in there. She's doing well!
The lemon lime maranta is so beautiful its not here in new zealand been waiting for years for it to arrive
Thank you for sharing this amazing video, wish you good luck with your plants.❤
Kindly, I want to ask you about the type of soil you used for Marble Queen Potas and for the Monstera Delesiosa plant.
Thank you so much.,,🥰🌹
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Hii I love your vlogss, can you make a video of the marantas that you dont have yet that you want to have? I think it will be very interesting and informative to us. Thankkk youu
I would love to film when I do get them! I am trying to be on a no buy until January! Maybe I will buy them for by birthday that month!!
I have a makoyana but it never gets bigger. Probably needs a repot because I’ve never but it’s dormant at the moment also just has 3 leaves. No idea what kind of mix to pot it in.
aw, I'm sure it will grow more for you! Giving nutrients and more light can make a big improvement! I used my normal DIY mix for it. It was about 50% soil and the rest I used some perlite, bark and charcoal. You don't have to make it that aerated because they do love water :)
@@plantsbymelissa thank you 🙏
You’ve convinced me to buy a marble queen! I’m really on the fence about a maranta, I’ve wanted one for so long but my humidity is pretty low even with a humidifier 😅
I kept a red maranta through the winter in the Midwest. It did fine, although I burned a leaf a little by putting a plant light to close. I have a humidifier on my furnace but I'm lucky if the humidity stays at slightly under 45%. In the summer, the AC doesn't take out all the humidity all that well in the 90 plus days. My red maranta constantly produced new leaves all spring and summer. The plant has doubled in size. We will see what this winter brings. Don't know where you live but hope this helps. Every night, I enjoy watching the leaves turn up.
@@debbiefrick4380 this makes me want to give it a try then! I live in Alaska so we also have really long, dry winters from our furnaces like you guys. My other humidity loving tropicals seem to do okay, but I know maranta and calathea are a little more picky so I’ve been hesitant about them.
You can try adding a small grow light in a lamp to your bathroom and it will love the extra humidity from the shower ☺️ plants can be acclimated to lower levels and they adjust to your environment. They appreciate humidity and warmth but if your other tropicals do well they should be okay!
and yay!! You'll LOVE having a marble queen!! I want everyone to have one lol
Hi Melissa, the lemon lime plants are beautiful and the Marble Queen is also. I want a plant full and beautiful in my house and maybe both theses will be the ones. Thank you you were reading my mind about plants. I feel bad asking flosstube people such beginner questions. I just don't ask. Thanks for help I feel good now
Don't feel bad about asking questions! I am alway happy to try and help. I love taking the time to actually comment and get back to people because I appreciate that you take the time to watch and be here. I can't get back to everyone but I really do my best to get through what I can!! 🥰
@@plantsbymelissa 🙂
omg melissa!!! I had to cut back my Orbifolia and Makoyana last summer and now they're doing so good and I'm terrified to repot 🤣 they're in clear fast food cups so I think they should be ok for a while thank goodness I just get anxious thinking about repotting them whenever the time comes
aww you got this!! I need to repot a couple of my calathea too and my marantas so I know I will be a little anxious lol but we can do it!!
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It’s soooo very hard to pick a favorite, however, I gotta say that it’s prob also a monstera! They are large, in charge, and so beautiful and structural! ❤
Yes!! I look forward to the day that one of them takes over an entire space haha
Wow the giant Marble queen is unreal! I would love to try that but Im just bad at keeping moss poles, I use wooden planks/stakes…would this be possible with wood?
Hi I love your channel
I'm from the UK.
I want to collect all the marantas as well!
QQ: do you use a reservoir with the pon?
Could you do this with a philodendron Brazil? Like grow huge leaves?
I keep getting brown tips on my lemon lime. I'm using distilled water but I think I'm watering a tad bit late. How can you tell when it's time to water?
I try not to let them go too dry. They love water so even halfway is good! Browning still happens though!
Calatheas are so beautiful. Do you filter their water?
I adore them so much! I am currently back using tap water and filtering it yes! I just recently added the API stress coat and I adjust PH as well. Sometimes I will occasionally flush through with distilled water :)
Ah flush through with distilled water!! Thanks for that tip. @@plantsbymelissa
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How good is the alocasia black velvet :) I enjoy touching the velvety leaf.. it’s so beautiful, sadly all of my Marathas are struggling at the moment :( any tips would be incredibly appreciated.
Isn't it?! The dark texture is so unique!! Sorry about your marantas 🥺 I find them pretty easy going but they do love a warm, humid environment. If they aren't growing it's usually because of flat mites in my experience. They'll want some light but not direct and make sure you're fertilizing them so they have those nutrients. I find tap water they can be sensitive to as well. I'll link a recent video I did on my collection I go into my care bit more! 🫶 ua-cam.com/video/K7Ht4uwRPGI/v-deo.htmlsi=5MG91qobNR---otb
@@plantsbymelissa I’m thinking of moving all of my plants to rainwater from my rainwater tank… my maranta just doesn’t seem to grow much, but my musaica seems to grow prolifically lol… they get a decent amount of light, when I put it in my greenhouse, it hated me so much. Was too much light.
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How old is your Marble Queen that is in the basket/ on a pole?
I got the basket in 2020 but it was smaller back then and I added props to it and repotted it :) The pole started in Nov 2021 so almost 2 years now!! So crazy to look back at the growth ☺️
BRB going out for a marble queen 😍
YES do it!! 🫶
I bought what I thought was a Monstera deliciosa, and it found out it was 4 in one pot, so I separated them because it was a rescue from the clearance section of the big box store. I've had all four of them growing up moss poles, and I've gotten many new leaves, but they're staying small. I'm now wondering if maybe it was labeled wrong and was actually a mini Monstera... I dunno really how to tell though.
What do I give my plants 🌿🌵💚 for more vitamins or what ever it's called to keep them healthy with the right amount of phosphorus and the two other things they require. What are they called and what should I give them. Please let me know if you can. Thanks Melissa
Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium! (NPK) those are essential nutrients but there's lot of other micronutrients your plants need to so looking into a complete fertilizer will benefit them so much! There's lots of options out there and not sure where you are but a lot of people love foliage pro, I just got GT foliage focus and I've been using slow release osmocote :)
@@plantsbymelissa thanks
you so much. I appreciate you always answering my questions 😁
What are your favorite UA-camr plant channels?
My lemon lime has been beautiful for more than a year, growing fast, but this summer the new growth has been fast but leaves are small and pale. Help!
do you give any nutrients like a fertilizer and what about the light?
Hello, I am brand new to house plants, and I am wondering about the way you're growing the Alocasia. Any help is appreciated.
I am moving most of them over to lechuza brand pon :) It's a soilless substrate and they love being in semi hydro. I grew mostly in soil but I had issues with a fungal spread so I had to restart a lot of them 😩 They really love that consistency if growing in soil with water and the environment so they can be finicky sometimes!
Thank you kindly for this information!@@plantsbymelissa
The black ninja alocasia is more velvety than the velvet. I had both before. I think I could do better with them now
ooh, I need to look that one up then! I love that velvety texture so much! I usually give 3 chances on a plant lol. Sometimes they are just unhealthy from the beginning and not necessarily something you did too so it can be worth trying again!
I tell ‘Brazil’ how pretty she is all the time. It’s a firm favorite.
I would have to say that my favorite is the aglaonema. I have the silver bay, the diamond bay, and the golden bay. They sit at the foot of my bed and I just love waking up and seeing them there. I also have some other aglaonemas but I guess those 3 are the ones I just don't want to do without.
I never got into aglaonemas! I think they are beautiful though!! Every time I pass by one at the store I have to look at it. I've been tempted before so maybe one day I will get one! 🤗
@@plantsbymelissa they are so easy to take care of. But I do have a lemon lime maranta and it has started growing! I'm so happy about that I ordered a red one. I had tried more than one before and I thought well I'm gonna try one more time to have this beautiful plant and it's happy! 😁
Love me a marble queen. 🎉
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I have an obsession with big bushy plants but knowing my environment wouldn't be able to maintain a healthy tropical plant I don't them. I want a big and beautiful Monstera, Alocasia and Fiddle-Leaf Fig but they're not very hardy in poor environments. On my way to work this house has these 3 large monsteras or alocasias in their front yard, every time we drive by I think "you lucky son of a bitch got 3 tropical plants to thrive outside in New England summers." Our weather can go from hot to cold with not enough humidity to maintain a plant like those.
So speaking of lechuza pon, has anyone else had a hard time finding it?
Yes! It’s sold out everywhere. Waiting for it to come back in stock!
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I am not going to give a thumbs down but I feel like your favorite “common” houseplants are ones that a lot of people struggle with. It would be Great to know how you take care of them. Maybe include that in your next video. Or not 🤷🏼♀️ still love watching your videos will keep watching. But just saying
I don't find anything about Calathea appealing, they look like landscape plants.
aww, that's okay! I sorta feel that way with crotons haha 😆🫶