sorry to be off topic but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly lost my login password. I would love any tips you can offer me
My first impression was unsure about the approach, but I kept watching it and I love it! This is honestly perfect 😁😁 (first time watcher) I think another reason companies would say "thrives in low indirect sunlight" is because people CANNOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS... Oh my gosh lol. I have worked for 5 years as a cashier in a local plant shop that gives great consultation on how to take care of plants in our zone and SOO many people do not listen and many who come in for advice like to tell you that you are wrong lmao... It is easier to kindly treat the general public like they are... Ignorant... just the truth. Anyone who has worked in retail know what I mean lol. This is great and detailed advice ❤❤
@@stevennguyen4993 ZZ plants are native to the rocky and arid terrain of Eastern Africa. They can be kept in changing conditions but are mostly a dry plant, that can handle some humidity. Def. Not a rainforest plant! 🤓👍🙈
@steven nguyen so.many. assumptions... 😂🙈 And what low key, yet obvious hatred and dismissive talk towards women, (even those blasted soccer moms with their damned mini vans!) you ought to check yerself on that🤔 Arid and at best sub-tropical climates in which the ZZ grows, are NOT rainforests, no matter how many pleonasms or wrongly implemented academic references you would like to use. Arid-does not mean desert. It often refers to savannahs in the plant world, and they often experience both a dryer, more desert-like state, as well as a rainperiod, in which it transforms into an almost subtropical climate for a short period of time. The ZZ can adapt to it all, with its rhizomes, as already was stated plainly above. Go plant yerself somewhere, you seem in need of grounding!
This is the kind of content I want from plant UA-cam influencers. I’m tired of the plant unboxings and fake excitement about a plant that they can’t name but swear it’s on their wishlist, then they kill it a few months later, then they write a book about caring for indoor houseplants - I just can’t stand that. Keep the good job Nick. You’re going places!!
I'm going to write a memoir on the struggle of giving my plants bright indirect sunlight. Yeah overly exited unboxings get me. It's like 'WOW SO AMAZING" to try and project that excitement on the the viewer when its like oh ok, wasn't that exiting. Used to do unboxings and stopped because what's the point?
While over excitement does come off a bit fake and I don't personally enjoy unboxing vids too much, sometimes it's beneficial to see what to do when plants arrive in not so good conditions. Cuz most of the time, not always, plants arrive in somewhat poor conditions or disappoint us in other areas, so it's good to know how to deal, what is saveable what is lost. And Nick's sarcasm helps😄
I'm with you, you don't know the name, nor much about the plant for me that is just you showing me the plant you are going to kill. However, I will take an unboxing and plant haul from Nick any day of the week. Never a dull moment.
@@phytosexual lol. And just to clarify, your unboxing videos are not boring. Your reaction to a new plant is similar to mine when I get a new plant. Plus, you know the name of the plant.
Honestly, I don't feel like I want huge plants, that were not grown under my care. I prefer them to larger plants, and I'm not just saying that because I too cannot afford huge expensive plants. Enjoy the experience others are missing out!
When you buy the small ones you get a chance to really learn about the plant, figure out if you really like them & feel so accomplished when they get big!! That’s how I started collecting too!! Plus, unless you live in a green house, you can have a variety of plants in limited space. Then you can save up & buy the large size of your favorite one!! I have small ones of philodendron Brazil & neon pothos & propagated them & now I have a big one of both that I made myself. Also, the cute little plants usually come with cute cover pots. 😃 🌱
Nothing is better than buying tiny little rubber trees for two bucks and have them only a few years later be taller than you. 🥰 They're my children. My beloveds.
Honestly this is my attitude about a lot of things. I don’t like when people tell me factual things when I want the contrary to be true. 😅 I want to keep super lush plants in my windowless shower so I dislike this information.
At my old my apartment, prior to me convincing them that my outdoor garden *would* in fact *look pretty* and *not* die, the manager said I could 'take my plants out once every couple weeks to get some sun.' As if access to sun is recreational for plants.
Lol, I know how it sounds. But I live on a close to Ecuador country, but a house with useless window's 😒. So I actually do that and it works. I also have grow lights but they are only to keep them alive without leaving me on the street with the electricity bill 🤭😅. I actually say I take my plants on vacation, or sun camp😜.
thank you for confirming to me that "bright indirect light" means absolutely nothing of value. I tried for so long to keep the direct rays of sun off my plants, until i finally realized that most of them do quite well in those rays. At this point, i basically just assume any new plant I get will do best near the window, and gradually move them away as i see how well they tolerate lower light.
I live in the Caribbean, Saint Lucia to be exact... It always struck me as weird that all the plants I grew up with which thrive in outdoor gardens and in FULL tropical sun, that I come to plant IG/UA-cam and these “experts” say low light or indirect.
What's your humidity in Caribbean? 70-80%? I live in Eastern EU and right now it's 37%. See the difference? There are many things that affect how much direct sunlight a plant can be exposed to before it's leaves get scorched. Don't point fingers at the so called "experts" unless you take into account all the variables. I could never grow a Philodendron in direct sunlight over here and i have a half-cooked Pothos if you want proof 🤣
All of them grow in the wild, most under the Canopy. I have all my plants outside, Alocasias zebrina, amazonica, all kinds of calatheas, colocasias, Alocasias etc. Grant it I live in a humid tropical rainforest in Panama, it rains every other day, perfect humidity for all those "house" plants
@@terransage8857 yes, there certainly is. I've got a bit over 200 plants, and a fuckton of growlights. Just waiting for the police to pay me a visit because from the outside it looks like I'm growing something... funky in here ✌😉
I have a bay window in my room that faces south and gets intense heat even in winter months. All my plants shoot out so much growth and my boyfriend is constantly asking “why are you plants so big and mine don’t even grow?” YOU NEED SOME SUN IN THAT DARK ROOM!
I have an old man cactus, but I don’t need to burn its hair because it’s outside in the south Texas sun. It was recently mauled by a dry tree branch that attempted to kill the old man tho. Thank goodness I intervened before it was too late.
Finally someone talks about this! Some of the care tags on plants are full bullshit and I've always thought that they did it purposefully so that the plant would die and the customer would have incentive to buy them again.
I’m so impressed by your lack of embarrassment or hesitation when pronouncing “Hoya Pubicalyx”. Every other plant person on YT refuses to say PUBIC clearly and confidently. Subscribed AND I hit that BELL. Can’t wait to see more content...
4 minutes in and I'm sending this to all my home girls; who don't like to open their curtains but want a forest in their room and don't want a grow light because A E S T H E T I C
I never close the curtain on my South facing window unless I'm taking an exam or about to get changed and there's someone in the yard. My East facing window tends to have the curtains drawn, but I don't really have any plants around it. My Ferb does get a little extra light if I open it, but I don't always remember lol
@@erinb4237 my room is behind a dorm, (don't ask😐) I don't want anyone seeing my personal stuff lying anywhere. I only get to open the windows in the summer when they gone
a year after I got my zz plant (which literally didnt grow) I decided to get it acclimated to the outside. So the last few summers it's basically been getting full sun in the morning and afternoon and SO MUCH GROWTH omg. and this year one of my divisions decided to flower! people say zzs are low light plants but SIS ITS A PLANT IT NEEDS THE SUN TO MAKE FOOD
I have a hoya it is honestly a beast of a plant. A friend shipped me a cutting during Christmas from Estonia to Ireland the package took approx 5 weeks to arrive and I'm pretty sure it nearly froze multiple times and was left on my porch but that cutting survived and is growing strong despite my cat tipping the pot over more then once.
Ugh you're so therapeutic. I just had the worst day from work--only to come home to a new video from you and dude you seriously make my day, thank you!
@@phytosexual lol me too! But keep doing what you're doing, you seem to really enjoy it and that's what makes a great video! Your personality is bar-none the best on YT
Truth is a lot of these companies/big box stores are hoping you kill your plant... Why? To keep you spending money. This is why it's super important to support local nurseries who will want your plant to thrive, and will always help you do so. Also the genetics of plants will typically be of higher quality... It's all about those genetics peoples.
I'd argue "burned lobster" or "no sunscreen" should count as a colour, as it's very distinctive group of people, with their own culture (or lackthereof), traditions and behaviour.
Ok, I'm subbing. I do not know where you came from, do not know where you have been. This showed up in my recommend, I'm thrilled that I found you. I've never experienced someone actually throw shade and direct sunlight at the same time eloquently. Thank you.
Honestly I've learned more watching this video than I have in the four/five months I've started collecting house plants. I live in a really similar climate and I've had a hard time finding growing advice that applies to the conditions I can offer.
I need more windows. I keep as many plants in my south facing window as I possibly can and they are all doing incredible. I feel bad for the ones that aren’t getting direct sunlight.
Girl I feel this. So deep. My living room gets all the good light. I bought a 3 tier window shelf off Etsy for my south facing window and have 6 plants hanging from my west facing curtain rod on the other side of my living room. Then the other half are spread out to the best of my abilities. When we have a particular sunny day, I get 2 stands, set them up in my living room and stick all my plants on them, to soak up some of that south west sun! My 6 year old calls it plant party time lol!
My yucca is etiolated into weird bends like a Dr Seuss tree because one of the previous growers thought it was low light. I've seen soooo many similar and even bendier. Love the character it gives him, but have to think he's happier now with the grow light lol.
When talking about "bright indirect light" I have two guides I use. The first comes from Berenice Brilmayer's All About Begonias, written about 1950. She said, "If you can read a phone book there, you can grow begonias there." Since Phone books are a thing of the past, now I would say, "If you can read the fine print on a Pringles can." The other came from a book on African Violets. He said to hold your hand about a foot above your plants. If you could see the moving shadow of your hand on the leaves of the plant, that is enough light. Remember that these refer to plants that like fairly low light. I find the shadow test most helpful. If there is not enough light to cast a shadow, don't put your plant there.
I found your channel after I got shamefully hooked into the "aesthetic uwu tiktok instagram" trend (after downloading tiktok for .5 seconds). I want to say that your editing is super quality and hilarious. I know how long small detailed edits can take, especially for long videos, so it's all appreciated and loved. Thanks for being EPIC.
I live in Brisbane Australia and I’m currently growing some cute little herbs like thyme, rosemary ect. Every single thing I read about them on the tag or on websites all say that they need to be out in full direct sun BUT I did that and they burnt! I was so mad. They never really specify different climates or anything so I don’t trust what they say anymore
The most informative 29 minutes of my life as far as plant care. DEFINITELY subscribing. This explains so much about what I'm doing wrong with my plants. Thank you 🙏🏼😊
Thank you for being honest about this. People in plant groups get so mad when you tell them their plants will only survive, not thrive and grow in low light. They don’t like when you tell them their plants will eventually die in a bathroom with no windows. They are shocked when they see a picture if my 5 ft tall ZZ plant that lives in a sunny window
its useful to know which plants will manage under artificial lighting (maybe not THRIVE, but manage which ones will go perfectly well in an apartment with bad windows. and which ones can tolerate the window that COOKS all your plants. by the by, the best test is the hand shadow test. hold your hand about where the top or side of the plant would be, and look at the shadow it casts on a white paper. crisp clear edges? clear hand shape? thats HIGH light soft edges but clear hand shape, just... blurred? MEDIUM light sort of a hand shadow i guess maybe? LOW light
This is why people on Reddit keep posting “huge”/“mature” plants that look super straggly and sad in comparison to the same trees growing happily outside
My ZZ Raven has doubled in size over the winter. It’s reasonably close to a west facing window, but it’s grown up inside the lamp it’s near to get to regular ass light bulb in it. It’s a weird thing, but it’s easily my favorite plant.
I live in South Florida where UV levels and heat are extremely high and where most "house plants'' are winter hardy outdoors here. I laugh out loud when I read low light/no direct sun for many of the plants that thrive in the most brutal full sun even here. And yet some of the plants that say full sun absolutely need shade here to survive long term.
I've just been fortunate enough to become aware of your existence. Watching an entire plant video is suddenly possible, whereas previous to awarenessofyou, I could only listen to the information I was searching for, whilst experiencing frustration at the deliverery of said information. Your videos provide frustration free information, for which, I am grateful
Omg preach! Subscribed! I've gardened for years and found indoor plants way intimidating. I broke down circa March 2020 and got a fiddle leaf, a mini snake plant, and zz plant ($15 per plant at TARGET 😱). I was soooo protective of the fiddle leaf for 6 months and it did nothing. I moved it to a south-facing window and it is popping paired leaves every like 14 days!
Dude, I love watching your content. I've been growing cannabis for years and fruit and veg for a couple now and am getting into houseplants to feed my need for plant therapy year round. Just so nice watching your vids, nicely delivered, knowledgeable info and all around nice to watch...keep up the good work!
I've spent years working in horticulture and you're absolutely right. When I was in sales I would always encourage my clients to learn about their plants (where it came from and how it grew naturally) and try to give light, water, and heat that was commensurate. That not only gave them the chance to get the best from their plant if they tried to replicate it's natural habitat but also meant they grew to appreciate the incredible variety and diversity the plant world has.
I love this haha! I remember looking up conditions for some of my houseplants to flower and they both will flower if they're in full sun. These plants are way more adaptable than people give them credit for. You just have to know how to take careeeeeeee of themmmmmmm
This is everything. I kept leaving my rubber plants in "bright indirect light" and then wondering why they were a) not growing and b) turning pale green. Moved them into a south-facing window sill and what do you know...growth. Also lolol to hoyas being indestructible. Thanks for the trick about drying out overwatered soil! I found two large hindu rope plants that were sopping wet and had some yellowing foliage. I think I managed to save them in time. 🤞🏽
My understanding is the most indoors can be is bright indirect. Given windows and ceilings it's never direct light. (Though some plants may still need to build up to bright indirect.)
Nice explanations. Hearing the evolutionary reasons behind things makes it make a lot more sense than looking up “how to take care of x plant” and finding a bunch of articles saying conflicting things and not really clarifying anything about what that means from a practical standpoint.
I love how different your vibes are from the rest of the other plant youtube channels I watch lol also hi from the lone kpop pfp on this vid at the moment
Love how entertaining and thoroughly educational your videos are! I'm new to owning houseplants and started trying to amass as much knowledge as I could regarding the plants I could adequately care for in my space. After my primary round of research i bought a few plants to go in my south facing window and a couple to go on shelves a bit further away in lower light. Being a first time plant carer I wanted to learn even more to make sure I don't mess up but the stuff I was reading and watching wasn't going into enough scientific details and focusing on what you should do but not why. (And also as it turns out having plant selling businesses that profit from trying to tell you that your plants will thrive anywhere) I ended up here after looking up the details of misting after not understanding how it would help and not just dissipate (lol) and found your video about plant misting. I'm feeling pretty conned right now for my poor ZZ plant and the pothos I thought I would be able to grow in my lower light spaces and now i'm scrambling to find a way I can put them closer to the window.
I live in NJ & the area of my house that gets MOST sun all year is the back of the house. My problem is I cannot fit all of my plants in the back of the house. Am I correct that the rear of my house is South facing. It gets All afternoon & evening sun. Even in winter the sun heats up my back porch. So, is the back of the house South Facing?
THANK YOU!!! I recently moved to a flat where I have south facing windows on the top floor, so I get all the light here (or as much as there is in northern Germany). Yesterday I wanted to buy a plant for a spot right next to the window. The "expert" at the shop basically told me that I shouldn't put ANY plants in direct light and instead rearrange my room in order to give every plant the shade it needs. Needless to say I didn't buy anything in that shop. Your rant was just what I needed to get over my confusion/rage!
So good to get some external confirmation. After acclimatization, even plants which are usually recommended to hide from any direct light at all times can do well directly on a southern window.
That's true because sellers often lie about light needs to make people believe that Hoyas and what have you can be kept in dark spots and are actually high light plants, but some like agalonemas really don't do well in direct sun.
@@phytosexual I use a light meter app to measure light, because I was one of the victims of "thrives in low light." Now I give them at least 200+ foot-candles from my growlights. Sounded complicated for me at first but it's really simple! I get info from houseplantjournal website on how much light specific plants need.
Thank you! This was very helpful. I like very much that what you are telling is coming from experience. There are so many youtubers out there who just repeat what they have read somewhere. Most of the time they do not even follow it themselves, because they have no clue or are actually not even interested. They just want to create content, not caring if it is helpful or not. For someone who is looking for guidance on a certain matter, that can really drive you crazy. Therefore, thank you very much. One of the very few videos that are different.
I think that people get into plants and want to make plant care channels having no experience growing plants. I see a lot of care videos with plants people have owned for like a week. You can't know how to take care of a plant if you have not owned it for any length of time... not trying to be mean but that's just the reality.
Fiddle figs do better with 4+ hours of direct sunlight, than "Place your fiddle figs indirect light". The issue is that 5 hours of direct sunlight will burn the cells/leaves when the humidity in the home is low. -Second, if your indoor plant is getting low-light...the lower leaves are getting NO LIGHT. -Outdoor full shade is 17,000 LUX of light. Low light indoors is like 50 to 500 LUX of light...I hope everyone sees the issue.
@@phytosexual I have found that I can keep the foliage and growth of ficus benjamina, lyrata, alii, altísima and elastica with only 5000 lux with no issues.
Nick, I have a theory! Lowe’s, Home Depot and similar stores COUNT on people killing the plants they buy from them! They’re grown in greenhouses, yet displayed inside the store with zero direct light. People take them home, either starve them of light, or fry them (as they don’t understand the concept of acclimation), the plants ultimately decline and they blame themselves! They’re set up for failure. So they buy new ones. What a profitable business model... Uhg (BTW: ❤️ the into! Great video!)
It is obviousyou genuinely love plants, and your mixture of humor (so funny!) and science is just fabulous. I fell for the hype that ZZ plants don't need much light, and just thought them struggling along was just their normal journey. Thank you❤
I watched at least 30 videos because I wanted one to tell me what I felt, that plants need sun! I have most of mine in front of a humongous S facing window and they do great, I’m in Seattle, at sea level. I have lights on most of them (especially my Hoyas) because of cloudy days, but I’ve not had a single leaf burn yet. Thank you!
I did one plant tour, and a few unboxings, buts I'm probably not going to be doing unboxings anymore. I will do plant tours like twice a year since people seem to like them.
I know this is a joke, but: most of the time when plants die from "overwatering" they don't actually literally die from too much water, they die from rot which is caused by too much water. The microbes that cause rot like to live in soggy soil, but they can't live in plain water, which is why plants in hydroculture don't rot to death!
This! Very helpful! So many times I've heard to give your plants "bright, indirect light"...wtf is that? I get it now. My plants usually do well but some inexplicably don't. After watching your video I have a better idea on what to do for them. Thanks for this!
My two eastern windows are covered by a porch, my two southern windows are blocked by another house, and my ONE western window has my bed in front of it. My poor planty babies. Thank God for grow lights
Your plants look great!! When I bought my first hoya, the guy at the nursery told me "no direct sun", hung it in my south window anyway 3 years ago and it is loving life. You seriously are my favorite
Please pleaaaase make more videos like this! I'm new to being an indoor plant parent (I used to work my Grandmas veg patch but now live in a city in an apartment) and can't understand why the instructions for indoor plants aren't actually accurate!!
My roommate bought a string of bananas thinking it was low light. She couldn’t be bothered to listen to me and move it out of a window facing a courtyard and to somewhere with actual light. So after the top half had shriveled and died I convinced her to let me prop the rest. Boom free string of bananas. 🤦♀️
A Dutch firm is already making coffins out of fungus. The idea is to lessen the contamination of the soil and use them (with a body in it) as fertilizer. ua-cam.com/video/9hT09E-4M0s/v-deo.html
Ask a Mortician ( ua-cam.com/users/OrderoftheGoodDeath ) has talked about natural burials, which can basically put your ashes into a potting mix and grow a tree out of it.
I got an hoya from my grandma, almost a year ago. Never new what kinda of plant it was, but for my luck i've put it in direct sunlight ( against my grannys advice ) and its thriving. I'm still growing it in water tho, after this vid i'll definitely repot it soon. Great vid btw, just subscribed.
I use "thriving" to describe my life the same way plant companies use the word, i.e. "not technically dying"
😂 I think we are all in that boat right now, hang in there!
I wanna thrive, not survive.
Felt 😅
Lol this should be my answer at work. How are you feeling today? 'thriving' in customer service.
sorry to be off topic but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account??
I stupidly lost my login password. I would love any tips you can offer me
Throwing shade while talking about light requirements. Iconic.
Ironic
@@phytosexual haha that too. I’m sure all the plants would “thrive” under all that shade.
That is pretty good!
A fucking Icon lol 😂
My first impression was unsure about the approach, but I kept watching it and I love it! This is honestly perfect 😁😁 (first time watcher)
I think another reason companies would say "thrives in low indirect sunlight" is because people CANNOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS... Oh my gosh lol. I have worked for 5 years as a cashier in a local plant shop that gives great consultation on how to take care of plants in our zone and SOO many people do not listen and many who come in for advice like to tell you that you are wrong lmao... It is easier to kindly treat the general public like they are... Ignorant... just the truth. Anyone who has worked in retail know what I mean lol.
This is great and detailed advice ❤❤
them: You can grow ZZ in the DARK!
also them: ZZ grow *so* slowly.
my sun-loving, fast-growing ZZ about to burst out of its pot: 👁 👄 👁
Its just sleeping, cause ya know, it's in the dark.
I have a Raven ZZ growing under a full spectrum strip light and it's growing like kudzu. I love it.
@@stevennguyen4993 ZZ plants are native to the rocky and arid terrain of Eastern Africa. They can be kept in changing conditions but are mostly a dry plant, that can handle some humidity. Def. Not a rainforest plant! 🤓👍🙈
@steven nguyen so.many. assumptions... 😂🙈
And what low key, yet obvious hatred and dismissive talk towards women, (even those blasted soccer moms with their damned mini vans!) you ought to check yerself on that🤔
Arid and at best sub-tropical climates in which the ZZ grows, are NOT rainforests, no matter how many pleonasms or wrongly implemented academic references you would like to use.
Arid-does not mean desert. It often refers to savannahs in the plant world, and they often experience both a dryer, more desert-like state, as well as a rainperiod, in which it transforms into an almost subtropical climate for a short period of time. The ZZ can adapt to it all, with its rhizomes, as already was stated plainly above.
Go plant yerself somewhere, you seem in need of grounding!
@@stevennguyen4993 ZZ is not a rainforest plant. it can tolerate extremes. that's why it can last so long with neglect indoors.
This is the kind of content I want from plant UA-cam influencers. I’m tired of the plant unboxings and fake excitement about a plant that they can’t name but swear it’s on their wishlist, then they kill it a few months later, then they write a book about caring for indoor houseplants - I just can’t stand that. Keep the good job Nick. You’re going places!!
I'm going to write a memoir on the struggle of giving my plants bright indirect sunlight. Yeah overly exited unboxings get me. It's like 'WOW SO AMAZING" to try and project that excitement on the the viewer when its like oh ok, wasn't that exiting. Used to do unboxings and stopped because what's the point?
While over excitement does come off a bit fake and I don't personally enjoy unboxing vids too much, sometimes it's beneficial to see what to do when plants arrive in not so good conditions. Cuz most of the time, not always, plants arrive in somewhat poor conditions or disappoint us in other areas, so it's good to know how to deal, what is saveable what is lost. And Nick's sarcasm helps😄
I'm with you, you don't know the name, nor much about the plant for me that is just you showing me the plant you are going to kill. However, I will take an unboxing and plant haul from Nick any day of the week. Never a dull moment.
@@haticebegum4683 true, but the majority of unboxing videos do not show or explain what to do in those cases. I’ve only seen a few that do.
@@phytosexual lol. And just to clarify, your unboxing videos are not boring. Your reaction to a new plant is similar to mine when I get a new plant. Plus, you know the name of the plant.
All my plants are babies because I can't afford the fully grown ones. Seeing you started with babies and now have full lush plants gives me hope!
Honestly, I don't feel like I want huge plants, that were not grown under my care. I prefer them to larger plants, and I'm not just saying that because I too cannot afford huge expensive plants. Enjoy the experience others are missing out!
When you buy the small ones you get a chance to really learn about the plant, figure out if you really like them & feel so accomplished when they get big!! That’s how I started collecting too!! Plus, unless you live in a green house, you can have a variety of plants in limited space. Then you can save up & buy the large size of your favorite one!! I have small ones of philodendron Brazil & neon pothos & propagated them & now I have a big one of both that I made myself. Also, the cute little plants usually come with cute cover pots. 😃 🌱
Nothing is better than buying tiny little rubber trees for two bucks and have them only a few years later be taller than you. 🥰 They're my children. My beloveds.
the two dislikes are people with plants in their closet as we speak
True
My plants are as closeted as i am😩
Oke sorry that was stupid
Honestly this is my attitude about a lot of things. I don’t like when people tell me factual things when I want the contrary to be true. 😅 I want to keep super lush plants in my windowless shower so I dislike this information.
Exactly! The closest too small and it's to dark to decorate! 💕
Hahahaha
You always give us "drama kid and make it plantier" and it's therapeutically adding eons to my life.
Glad I could add some rings to your tree.
Excellent comment👀
At my old my apartment, prior to me convincing them that my outdoor garden *would* in fact *look pretty* and *not* die, the manager said I could 'take my plants out once every couple weeks to get some sun.' As if access to sun is recreational for plants.
Take your plant on a walk while you're at it.
@@phytosexual a bright indirect walk
Lol, I know how it sounds. But I live on a close to Ecuador country, but a house with useless window's 😒. So I actually do that and it works. I also have grow lights but they are only to keep them alive without leaving me on the street with the electricity bill 🤭😅.
I actually say I take my plants on vacation, or sun camp😜.
thank you for confirming to me that "bright indirect light" means absolutely nothing of value. I tried for so long to keep the direct rays of sun off my plants, until i finally realized that most of them do quite well in those rays. At this point, i basically just assume any new plant I get will do best near the window, and gradually move them away as i see how well they tolerate lower light.
DEATH BEAMS haha. People are so misinformed...
I live in the Caribbean, Saint Lucia to be exact... It always struck me as weird that all the plants I grew up with which thrive in outdoor gardens and in FULL tropical sun, that I come to plant IG/UA-cam and these “experts” say low light or indirect.
Can you please name some ...
What's your humidity in Caribbean? 70-80%? I live in Eastern EU and right now it's 37%. See the difference? There are many things that affect how much direct sunlight a plant can be exposed to before it's leaves get scorched. Don't point fingers at the so called "experts" unless you take into account all the variables. I could never grow a Philodendron in direct sunlight over here and i have a half-cooked Pothos if you want proof 🤣
@@anakhan7911 pothos be wildin out in peoples backyards in soflo.
All of them grow in the wild, most under the Canopy. I have all my plants outside, Alocasias zebrina, amazonica, all kinds of calatheas, colocasias, Alocasias etc. Grant it I live in a humid tropical rainforest in Panama, it rains every other day, perfect humidity for all those "house" plants
Something tells me this video is going to make me cry.
*cries in north facing windows*
The harsh bright indirect light of the truth.
@@phytosexual this is the funniest thing I have ever read
*cries in townhouse*
I have a rabbit’s foot fern in a shaded north-facing window in Michigan that is actually thriving. There is hope!
@@terransage8857 yes, there certainly is. I've got a bit over 200 plants, and a fuckton of growlights. Just waiting for the police to pay me a visit because from the outside it looks like I'm growing something... funky in here ✌😉
I have a bay window in my room that faces south and gets intense heat even in winter months. All my plants shoot out so much growth and my boyfriend is constantly asking “why are you plants so big and mine don’t even grow?” YOU NEED SOME SUN IN THAT DARK ROOM!
Get that bright indirect light.
Photosynthesis man, photosynthesis.
So glad I finally found a channel that talks about the science behind our favorite houseplants!! We love to see it 👏👏
Glad you enjoy it!
I love your sense of humor your content genuinely gives a fresh new breath to the plant community 😌🌱
Thank you so much!
I have an old man cactus, but I don’t need to burn its hair because it’s outside in the south Texas sun. It was recently mauled by a dry tree branch that attempted to kill the old man tho. Thank goodness I intervened before it was too late.
God your plants or homicidal.
Finally someone talks about this! Some of the care tags on plants are full bullshit and I've always thought that they did it purposefully so that the plant would die and the customer would have incentive to buy them again.
Theoretically, if everyone knew how to take care of their plants to the fullest capacity, and propagate, no one would need to sell plants.
The mix of comedy with really helpful plant information is what I need for my intention span 😅
An ode to my mom's hoya that's lived on a dark bookcase for 5 years that's put out 3 leaves in it's life
HAHAHAHA thriving.
I’m so impressed by your lack of embarrassment or hesitation when pronouncing “Hoya Pubicalyx”. Every other plant person on YT refuses to say PUBIC clearly and confidently. Subscribed AND I hit that BELL. Can’t wait to see more content...
What? 😂
4 minutes in and I'm sending this to all my home girls;
who don't like to open their curtains but want a forest in their room and don't want a grow light because
A E S T H E T I C
I never close the curtain on my South facing window unless I'm taking an exam or about to get changed and there's someone in the yard. My East facing window tends to have the curtains drawn, but I don't really have any plants around it. My Ferb does get a little extra light if I open it, but I don't always remember lol
@@erinb4237 my room is behind a dorm, (don't ask😐) I don't want anyone seeing my personal stuff lying anywhere. I only get to open the windows in the summer when they gone
a year after I got my zz plant (which literally didnt grow) I decided to get it acclimated to the outside. So the last few summers it's basically been getting full sun in the morning and afternoon and SO MUCH GROWTH omg. and this year one of my divisions decided to flower! people say zzs are low light plants but SIS ITS A PLANT IT NEEDS THE SUN TO MAKE FOOD
I have a hoya it is honestly a beast of a plant. A friend shipped me a cutting during Christmas from Estonia to Ireland the package took approx 5 weeks to arrive and I'm pretty sure it nearly froze multiple times and was left on my porch but that cutting survived and is growing strong despite my cat tipping the pot over more then once.
Ugh you're so therapeutic. I just had the worst day from work--only to come home to a new video from you and dude you seriously make my day, thank you!
Thank you, I wish I had the superhuman abilities to make these everyday.
@@phytosexual lol me too! But keep doing what you're doing, you seem to really enjoy it and that's what makes a great video! Your personality is bar-none the best on YT
🌸💕🌷 DEFINITELY 🌷💕🌸
Truth is a lot of these companies/big box stores are hoping you kill your plant... Why? To keep you spending money. This is why it's super important to support local nurseries who will want your plant to thrive, and will always help you do so. Also the genetics of plants will typically be of higher quality... It's all about those genetics peoples.
a picture of the plant in it's natural environment is the best care instruction you can give me
I did learn something 🥰💚65 years old and have been into plants for over 50 years. You are adorable 😍💕
Thank you :)
It drives me crazy when certain plant channels always repeat that bright indirect light like a mantra 😂
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@@phytosexual use a SHEER CURTAIN to make direct light B R i G H T IN d IrE C t L I G H T
this is the shadiest plant video about sunlight i've ever seen in my life.
First of all, “not one person of color” 😂😂😂 you are so damn funny I just cannot with you. If I wasn’t already a fan that woulda been it for me ❤️
I'd argue "burned lobster" or "no sunscreen" should count as a colour, as it's very distinctive group of people, with their own culture (or lackthereof), traditions and behaviour.
I was rolling when he said that.😂😂😂.
@@vilieto It’s very like “pasty white people who go to Cancun and get cornrows and box braids and say gracias when they leave”
Ok, I'm subbing. I do not know where you came from, do not know where you have been. This showed up in my recommend, I'm thrilled that I found you. I've never experienced someone actually throw shade and direct sunlight at the same time eloquently. Thank you.
Honestly I've learned more watching this video than I have in the four/five months I've started collecting house plants. I live in a really similar climate and I've had a hard time finding growing advice that applies to the conditions I can offer.
Awesome job editing in this video and not even just the intro, but the whole thing! I can tell you had fun adding all the funny effects 😂
I constantly laugh when editing. They take FOREVER tho. Still it breaks up the monotony of longer videos.
The "oof" sound when you "hit" the plants gets me everytime
I need more windows. I keep as many plants in my south facing window as I possibly can and they are all doing incredible. I feel bad for the ones that aren’t getting direct sunlight.
I'll pray :(
Girl I feel this. So deep. My living room gets all the good light. I bought a 3 tier window shelf off Etsy for my south facing window and have 6 plants hanging from my west facing curtain rod on the other side of my living room. Then the other half are spread out to the best of my abilities. When we have a particular sunny day, I get 2 stands, set them up in my living room and stick all my plants on them, to soak up some of that south west sun! My 6 year old calls it plant party time lol!
Just found this on accident but I adore your sense of humor and teaching style. This really nails it on the head!
Thank you!
I'm not surprised at all to learn that Michigan has the same amount of sun as the Pacific Northwest. My winter mood is proof of that.
Mine to :(
My yucca is etiolated into weird bends like a Dr Seuss tree because one of the previous growers thought it was low light. I've seen soooo many similar and even bendier. Love the character it gives him, but have to think he's happier now with the grow light lol.
So interesting, I've never heard of these desert plants liking sun.
One of my succulents, labeled succulent, also did this 😂 it looks very ugly but I only have the north east window.
When talking about "bright indirect light" I have two guides I use. The first comes from Berenice Brilmayer's All About Begonias, written about 1950. She said, "If you can read a phone book there, you can grow begonias there." Since Phone books are a thing of the past, now I would say, "If you can read the fine print on a Pringles can." The other came from a book on African Violets. He said to hold your hand about a foot above your plants. If you could see the moving shadow of your hand on the leaves of the plant, that is enough light. Remember that these refer to plants that like fairly low light. I find the shadow test most helpful. If there is not enough light to cast a shadow, don't put your plant there.
I mean the reading depends on your eyesight, the other seems helpful!
I found your channel after I got shamefully hooked into the "aesthetic uwu tiktok instagram" trend (after downloading tiktok for .5 seconds). I want to say that your editing is super quality and hilarious. I know how long small detailed edits can take, especially for long videos, so it's all appreciated and loved. Thanks for being EPIC.
Thank you! Sometimes I spend like an hour on 30 seconds worth of video! Have a wonderful day.
I live in Brisbane Australia and I’m currently growing some cute little herbs like thyme, rosemary ect. Every single thing I read about them on the tag or on websites all say that they need to be out in full direct sun BUT I did that and they burnt! I was so mad. They never really specify different climates or anything so I don’t trust what they say anymore
9:26 ah yes the fiddle leaf fig. Or as I like to call it, lettuce on a stick.
mmmmmm yum
Hah! I call it stretched cabbage.
The sass and the editing.... Thank the algorithm gods I have found the perfect plant channel.
The most informative 29 minutes of my life as far as plant care. DEFINITELY subscribing. This explains so much about what I'm doing wrong with my plants. Thank you 🙏🏼😊
no problem thanks!
BRB, moving my ZZ Raven to a southern window
Edit: southern-facing window, my window is not from the Deep South
Could have fooled me. Make sure you transition it, if it has no received any direct light.
Omg my Home Depot calls it “green foliage” HAHAH shits funny asf but sad. I had to figure out what plant it was on my own.
I really appreciate how you just take your time with these long, informative, fun videos with all different kinds of info.
Glad you like them!
Thank you for being honest about this. People in plant groups get so mad when you tell them their plants will only survive, not thrive and grow in low light. They don’t like when you tell them their plants will eventually die in a bathroom with no windows. They are shocked when they see a picture if my 5 ft tall ZZ plant that lives in a sunny window
its useful to know which plants will manage under artificial lighting (maybe not THRIVE, but manage
which ones will go perfectly well in an apartment with bad windows.
and which ones can tolerate the window that COOKS all your plants.
by the by, the best test is the hand shadow test. hold your hand about where the top or side of the plant would be, and look at the shadow it casts on a white paper.
crisp clear edges? clear hand shape? thats HIGH light
soft edges but clear hand shape, just... blurred? MEDIUM light
sort of a hand shadow i guess maybe? LOW light
Laughing and learning while crying in really small obstructed south-facing window. Your content is the kind of plant content I NEED!
Thank yoooooo
This is why people on Reddit keep posting “huge”/“mature” plants that look super straggly and sad in comparison to the same trees growing happily outside
:(
My ZZ Raven has doubled in size over the winter. It’s reasonably close to a west facing window, but it’s grown up inside the lamp it’s near to get to regular ass light bulb in it. It’s a weird thing, but it’s easily my favorite plant.
Plants will reach for whatever light is most available!
I live in South Florida where UV levels and heat are extremely high and where most "house plants'' are winter hardy outdoors here. I laugh out loud when I read low light/no direct sun for many of the plants that thrive in the most brutal full sun even here. And yet some of the plants that say full sun absolutely need shade here to survive long term.
I've just been fortunate enough to become aware of your existence. Watching an entire plant video is suddenly possible, whereas previous to awarenessofyou, I could only listen to the information I was searching for, whilst experiencing frustration at the deliverery of said information. Your videos provide frustration free information, for which, I am grateful
"If you like winter, please don't talk to me about it." I felt that👏🏾
I just got a cebu blue yesterday and I thought that keeping it in lower light would maintain the blue color, I’m super glad I watched this🥰
You’re literally the only plant youtuber I’ve found so far out there telling the truth. 👏👏👏
Omg preach! Subscribed! I've gardened for years and found indoor plants way intimidating. I broke down circa March 2020 and got a fiddle leaf, a mini snake plant, and zz plant ($15 per plant at TARGET 😱). I was soooo protective of the fiddle leaf for 6 months and it did nothing. I moved it to a south-facing window and it is popping paired leaves every like 14 days!
Dude, I love watching your content. I've been growing cannabis for years and fruit and veg for a couple now and am getting into houseplants to feed my need for plant therapy year round.
Just so nice watching your vids, nicely delivered, knowledgeable info and all around nice to watch...keep up the good work!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
As someone who wants to be a plant parent(and constantly fails), it’s blowing my mind how much websites and plant guys didn’t tell me
My rabbit's foot fern would've fared better in my dishwasher.
Well why didn't you tho?
I've spent years working in horticulture and you're absolutely right. When I was in sales I would always encourage my clients to learn about their plants (where it came from and how it grew naturally) and try to give light, water, and heat that was commensurate. That not only gave them the chance to get the best from their plant if they tried to replicate it's natural habitat but also meant they grew to appreciate the incredible variety and diversity the plant world has.
They thrive on neglect, but also mist. No sun required.
I love this haha! I remember looking up conditions for some of my houseplants to flower and they both will flower if they're in full sun. These plants are way more adaptable than people give them credit for. You just have to know how to take careeeeeeee of themmmmmmm
It’s good to hear someone tell the truth about plants needing light and most plants like it directly on them.
It the safe advice. I'm driving nascar not a Honda Civic.
I love how much effort, research, and creativity goes into these videos! Probably my favorite plant content ngl
Glad you enjoy it!
I did not expect to snicker and laugh at a plant video but thank you UA-cam for this suggestion. Love your personality and your snarky comments.
This is everything. I kept leaving my rubber plants in "bright indirect light" and then wondering why they were a) not growing and b) turning pale green. Moved them into a south-facing window sill and what do you know...growth. Also lolol to hoyas being indestructible. Thanks for the trick about drying out overwatered soil! I found two large hindu rope plants that were sopping wet and had some yellowing foliage. I think I managed to save them in time. 🤞🏽
My understanding is the most indoors can be is bright indirect. Given windows and ceilings it's never direct light. (Though some plants may still need to build up to bright indirect.)
Nice explanations. Hearing the evolutionary reasons behind things makes it make a lot more sense than looking up “how to take care of x plant” and finding a bunch of articles saying conflicting things and not really clarifying anything about what that means from a practical standpoint.
I love how different your vibes are from the rest of the other plant youtube channels I watch lol also hi from the lone kpop pfp on this vid at the moment
Thank you!
Love how entertaining and thoroughly educational your videos are!
I'm new to owning houseplants and started trying to amass as much knowledge as I could regarding the plants I could adequately care for in my space. After my primary round of research i bought a few plants to go in my south facing window and a couple to go on shelves a bit further away in lower light. Being a first time plant carer I wanted to learn even more to make sure I don't mess up but the stuff I was reading and watching wasn't going into enough scientific details and focusing on what you should do but not why. (And also as it turns out having plant selling businesses that profit from trying to tell you that your plants will thrive anywhere)
I ended up here after looking up the details of misting after not understanding how it would help and not just dissipate (lol) and found your video about plant misting.
I'm feeling pretty conned right now for my poor ZZ plant and the pothos I thought I would be able to grow in my lower light spaces and now i'm scrambling to find a way I can put them closer to the window.
you are INCREDIBLE!!!! this video is so informational while still being funny and i would listen to you explain pretty much anything???
How about grasshopper s*x because I did that.
@@phytosexual 10000%, i even enjoyed fetus u explaining orchids and i don't know anything about orchids
Oh boy! My favorite video of yours, Nick. Thanks!
Thank you! A lot of people love it.
I love your videos. I always learn something and your dry humor cracks me up.
Glad you like them!
ME TOO....
Hooo man that scene with the wind in the house and the plants flying everywhere really got me. Cracking up over here!
poor carrie
@@phytosexualNow I want to renovate an old dishwasher as a plant shelf. Can’t be dumber than most videos on Tik Tok.
This perfectly explained why everything burns in my south facing window. I live in Colorado
That thin atmosphere. A curtain in front of the window could help!
I live in NJ & the area of my house that gets MOST sun all year is the back of the house. My problem is I cannot fit all of my plants in the back of the house. Am I correct that the rear of my house is South facing. It gets All afternoon & evening sun. Even in winter the sun heats up my back porch. So, is the back of the house South Facing?
Same! My hoya Kerii got sunburned burned in the middle of GD January. How is that even possible?
@@wandahill8396 whichever way south is, is the south side of your house. Use a compass or your phones map app, itll show which way is south.
THANK YOU!!!
I recently moved to a flat where I have south facing windows on the top floor, so I get all the light here (or as much as there is in northern Germany).
Yesterday I wanted to buy a plant for a spot right next to the window. The "expert" at the shop basically told me that I shouldn't put ANY plants in direct light and instead rearrange my room in order to give every plant the shade it needs.
Needless to say I didn't buy anything in that shop.
Your rant was just what I needed to get over my confusion/rage!
Lmao, make sure you adjust them though.
This is the kind of video i will trully enjoy. The throwing of shade is fun and entertaining. 😂
It is thooooo
So good to get some external confirmation. After acclimatization, even plants which are usually recommended to hide from any direct light at all times can do well directly on a southern window.
That's true because sellers often lie about light needs to make people believe that Hoyas and what have you can be kept in dark spots and are actually high light plants, but some like agalonemas really don't do well in direct sun.
I wish my friends referred to me as, "beautiful home decor"!! Lol! Sadly, I'm just a mediocre-looking wallflower!! 💀🖤😜
:(
This is why I measure light now. A lot of people online tend to forget the importance of light to plants. Love your content!
What is this photosynthesis you speak of?
@@phytosexual I use a light meter app to measure light, because I was one of the victims of "thrives in low light." Now I give them at least 200+ foot-candles from my growlights. Sounded complicated for me at first but it's really simple! I get info from houseplantjournal website on how much light specific plants need.
@@theregularfish4478 his table with light requirements is spot on.
Also, burning a few leaves just means cut those leaves off and move it, while too much water and not enough light can mean unrecoverable damage.
Thank you! This was very helpful. I like very much that what you are telling is coming from experience. There are so many youtubers out there who just repeat what they have read somewhere. Most of the time they do not even follow it themselves, because they have no clue or are actually not even interested. They just want to create content, not caring if it is helpful or not.
For someone who is looking for guidance on a certain matter, that can really drive you crazy. Therefore, thank you very much. One of the very few videos that are different.
I think that people get into plants and want to make plant care channels having no experience growing plants. I see a lot of care videos with plants people have owned for like a week. You can't know how to take care of a plant if you have not owned it for any length of time... not trying to be mean but that's just the reality.
Fiddle figs do better with 4+ hours of direct sunlight, than "Place your fiddle figs indirect light". The issue is that 5 hours of direct sunlight will burn the cells/leaves when the humidity in the home is low.
-Second, if your indoor plant is getting low-light...the lower leaves are getting NO LIGHT.
-Outdoor full shade is 17,000 LUX of light. Low light indoors is like 50 to 500 LUX of light...I hope everyone sees the issue.
THEY ARE TREES. What do you think they're doing outside, growing in caves?!?!?!
@@phytosexual I have found that I can keep the foliage and growth of ficus benjamina, lyrata, alii, altísima and elastica with only 5000 lux with no issues.
Nick, I have a theory! Lowe’s, Home Depot and similar stores COUNT on people killing the plants they buy from them! They’re grown in greenhouses, yet displayed inside the store with zero direct light. People take them home, either starve them of light, or fry them (as they don’t understand the concept of acclimation), the plants ultimately decline and they blame themselves! They’re set up for failure. So they buy new ones. What a profitable business model... Uhg
(BTW: ❤️ the into! Great video!)
I sooooo appreciate the intro! Yesss for editing and acting!
Glad you liked it!!
It is obviousyou genuinely love plants, and your mixture of humor (so funny!) and science is just fabulous. I fell for the hype that ZZ plants don't need much light, and just thought them struggling along was just their normal journey. Thank you❤
I watched at least 30 videos because I wanted one to tell me what I felt, that plants need sun! I have most of mine in front of a humongous S facing window and they do great, I’m in Seattle, at sea level. I have lights on most of them (especially my Hoyas) because of cloudy days, but I’ve not had a single leaf burn yet. Thank you!
Sunless in Seattle
Best plant youtuber. The most unique content by far, and not just unboxings and plant tours (which I still love... but still...)
I did one plant tour, and a few unboxings, buts I'm probably not going to be doing unboxings anymore. I will do plant tours like twice a year since people seem to like them.
“It’s easy to destroy a Hoya, just over water them.”
Me: *side eyeing my Hoya that’s growing in just water* “How do you exist?”
I know this is a joke, but: most of the time when plants die from "overwatering" they don't actually literally die from too much water, they die from rot which is caused by too much water. The microbes that cause rot like to live in soggy soil, but they can't live in plain water, which is why plants in hydroculture don't rot to death!
@@Cammibird1 Good to know! I have always genuinely wondered how that Hoya survives, thanks for explaining it! The more you know!
This! Very helpful! So many times I've heard to give your plants "bright, indirect light"...wtf is that? I get it now. My plants usually do well but some inexplicably don't. After watching your video I have a better idea on what to do for them. Thanks for this!
Glad it was helpful!
My two eastern windows are covered by a porch, my two southern windows are blocked by another house, and my ONE western window has my bed in front of it. My poor planty babies. Thank God for grow lights
Grow lights are the best!
I love your humor in this. It’s a nice refreshing change in tone to other plant videos
I've just binged your whole channel - this is the plant content I've been craving!
Glad I could be your metaphorical chocolate.
Your plants look great!! When I bought my first hoya, the guy at the nursery told me "no direct sun", hung it in my south window anyway 3 years ago and it is loving life. You seriously are my favorite
Thank you, and please stop frying your Hoya. BIS only
next up--lighting my cactus on fire
Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! You are back with the Windows sound, I JUST CAN'T.
I think I used it in my last video hahaha
Omg this is the first time I hear anyone talk about location when discussing house plants. I live in the Sonoran desert 🌵 aka AZ
I literally crowded a bunch of plants around my window * like a 50 of them *😂😂😂
Please pleaaaase make more videos like this! I'm new to being an indoor plant parent (I used to work my Grandmas veg patch but now live in a city in an apartment) and can't understand why the instructions for indoor plants aren't actually accurate!!
My local garden centre described string of pearls as “low light” plants and I was thinking oh boy this is the inevitable demise of these
EVERYTHING IS LOW LIGHT
My roommate bought a string of bananas thinking it was low light. She couldn’t be bothered to listen to me and move it out of a window facing a courtyard and to somewhere with actual light. So after the top half had shriveled and died I convinced her to let me prop the rest. Boom free string of bananas. 🤦♀️
I almost killed mine in low light... now they’re on the south window sill and very happy
UA-cam answered my subconscious prayers and sent me this video in suggestions. Thoroughly entertaining and educational. Thanks.
No problem, thank you for watching.
i wonder if there’s a service where they’d turn my dead body into fertilizer for my plants. it’s organic!
GREAT BUSINESS IDEA
A Dutch firm is already making coffins out of fungus. The idea is to lessen the contamination of the soil and use them (with a body in it) as fertilizer. ua-cam.com/video/9hT09E-4M0s/v-deo.html
Ask a Mortician ( ua-cam.com/users/OrderoftheGoodDeath ) has talked about natural burials, which can basically put your ashes into a potting mix and grow a tree out of it.
I have to reply to this one. My daughters ashes are around my hydrangea bush. It is doing beautifully.
@@beckymayabb8021 what a beautiful tribute to your daughter! 💕
I got an hoya from my grandma, almost a year ago. Never new what kinda of plant it was, but for my luck i've put it in direct sunlight ( against my grannys advice ) and its thriving. I'm still growing it in water tho, after this vid i'll definitely repot it soon.
Great vid btw, just subscribed.