🇦🇺It's 40c here and my shadehouse plants have their own air con & a misting system. The indoor ones have evaporative air con that raises the humidity by 30%. The plants are doing well but the owner is knackered keeping up with them all. 😂
40°C?! That’s a whole other level of plant care! 🥵 Your setup sounds incredible-shadehouse, misting system, AND indoor humidity boosts? Your plants are living in luxury! 🌿✨ Hopefully, you can find some time to rest-sounds like you deserve it! 😂
Hi Memo, I just got into houseplants a few weeks ago with some kind of a Thai constellation I got from a local store in November. Since it is absolutely thriving I started to follow some UA-camrs like you and even dared to purchase an Alocasia Frydek in Winter! I repotted it quite quickly into the Green Jungle Mix which I ordered on Amazon - and it is thriving! The plant absolutely loves it, no dropping leaves and I even get two to three new ones right now. All my other plants are also thriving - I give them light and warmth and feed them at least once a week with a Hesi fertilizer, which is a real gamechanger for me. I have to admit though that most of my plants are not real special or rare specimens but rather some normal house plants that one can get at better hardware store. Like Philodendron Birkin, P. campii, something that looks like a P. Tigertooth, a Prince of orange, some Syngoniums a Calathea orbifolia and presumably some kind of a marble Epipremnum, an Anthurium clarinervium and a P. adansonii and a Alocasia Tiny Dancer... Nothing too fancy, but they apparently seem to like my care and grow very nicely. If this stays this way I will try to get my hands on some rarer plants. Thank you for all the information I got from your channel! You are a huge inspiration for me!
I was never into plants before. I appreciated them but ya know.. I have 9 plants right now (got almost all of them as a gift). Since they have been heavily neglected and I've been feeling sorry for them for a long time I decided to give them proper care. After couple of days of researching I realized I'm in an emergency since all of them are struggling like the ones you showed. Surprisingly, I got very hooked and now I'm looking for next plant to get. I also love your channel, it's super relatable! I'll probably end up binge watching 😂 Thanks for all the great info! Much love to you and your plants ❤🌱
I’m in Texas and we are expecting snow on Tuesday. That is a very rare occasion for us and so yes my plants aren’t thrilled. You can’t walk in my house without running into plants! Even plants that hate inside (banana and cannas) are inside. Ready for early spring.
Snow in Texas? That’s wild! ❄️ Your plants must be in shock-but it sounds like your house is the ultimate plant sanctuary! 🏡🌿 Fingers crossed for an early spring to rescue those bananas and cannas! 🌱✨
This Calathea 🤣🤣🤣 the leaves are perfect color match with the pot, it’s a vibe 😂 Everything is great here, the only thing is Hoya Publicalyx Hawaiian purple really need a treillis, it growth verticaly 😅 I need to manage this because it’s look very sketchy. Very funny video Memo ! 💛
🤣 I’m glad the crispy Calathea could bring some laughs-it’s definitely leaning into that color-matching vibe! 🌿😂 And I agree, Hoyas love to do their own thing-good luck wrangling that Hawaiian Purple onto a trellis! 🌱💛
My house is lit up like I baseball field. I know my power company is loving me. 🤑 Power went out for 18 hours in below freezing temperatures, that really hit my collection hard. Come on spring!! ✌️🫶🌞
😂 “Baseball field” vibes are SO relatable-grow lights really do take over our homes in winter! 🌿💡 So sorry to hear about the power outage; freezing temps can be so rough on plants. Here’s hoping spring shows up early this year! ✌️🌞
I've been using the indoor time to repot plants that have been needing it. I repotted a peace lily that my work sent to me when my Gran passed away in 2006. The mother plants took it well, but all the pups are struggling. The last time it got a refresh was >5 years ago.
Wow, that peace lily sounds like such a special plant! 🌿💚 It's incredible that it’s been with you since 2006-that’s real dedication! The pups might just need a little extra time to settle in after the refresh. Fingers crossed they bounce back soon! 🪴✨
through november I thought I was doing great, december I noticed things slowing slightly, and now I'm just hoping they'll make it! thank you for brightening another sunday my friend! hopefully spring will soon make my plants feel brighter aswell...
You’ve got this! 🌱 The winter slowdown is so real, but your care is keeping them alive for that spring revival! 🌿✨ Thank YOU for tuning in and sharing your journey. We’ll get through this winter together, my friend! 🪴❄️
Even here in Florida, we have short days and it has been going into the 40s F at night, and now it is going to be in the upper 30s F at night. I cannot stand it! We all have struggling plants, but for the most part, most of mine are doing well in the house. I'm so disgusted with outdoor gardening, between the storms, the cold weather, wildlife, and pests. Little by little, I'm bringing lots of things inside and putting them into semi-hydro. They all are responding well to a mixture of perlite, small lava rock, a little leca, and some sphagnum. A friend just asked me if any of my plants were doing poorly and getting yellow leaves becasue of the winter, becasue that is what she is experiencing. I'm getting lots of growth, blooms, and transplants doing nicely. I attribute my current success to two major things, and a few minor things. One major is that I have most plants in one room and some aquariums. My humidity, without a humidifier, is between 50 F and 70 F, usually averaging between the high 50s and low 60s. The second major thing is that I have LEDs everywhere. The light is key during these short days. I also keep a fan on most of the time. I guess important, but not as much as the first two, is that I use nutrients with every watering, including silica, mycorrhizae, and a de-chlorinator. I also learned about making a homemade spray from Pretty in Green. I use 1 gal of water, 1 oz canola oil, Neem Azadirachtin 9 ml per quart, 1 ml Leaf Lux liquid, dash of dish soap, and a dash of Lemon Myrtle Essential Oil - which I learned from you I spray this often, on no particular schedule.
Florida winters don’t sound fun either-40s and 30s at night? Yikes! 🥶 Your setup with semi-hydro, LEDs, and humidity from aquariums is so impressive-no wonder your plants are thriving! 🌿✨ And that homemade spray recipe sounds fantastic; I’m glad the lemon myrtle oil tip has been helpful! Keep up the amazing care, and here’s to more blooms and growth this winter! 💡💚
I wish I had more natural lights for my plants but of the handful that do rely on the sun, are growing well despite it being as cold as 7 Celsius at night here where I live in SoCal. My windows are not well insulated but the plants are close to them. They are inside glass containers (usually vases with clear disks covering the top). I think the enclosures help to keep them warm and the humidity seems to be helpful. That’s the space where cuttings from plants with pests go. I have limited space for large plants so pesty ones are often started over to free up space and lighten the maintenance load. Often the new plants that come from the restarts, seem stronger. Acclimating them to lower humidity takes some patience but I need to learn how to be more patient so it’s fine. One of my favorite plants in a cabinet had spider mites, my Syngonium chiapense. I think I let the LECA dry out too much and that signaled to the spider mites that its defenses were down. Now I have what looks like bouquets of them so I’m appreciating them in a different setup for now. They were only on stakes but the roots growing out of the stem were pretty long and are showing signs they’re going to take off soon so I’ll have plenty to pot up and/or gift once I’m certain they’re pest-free. If the leaf remaining on each cutting continues to show signs of pests, I’ll take them back to nodes only. Restarting plants frees up much needed space and keeps maintenance manageable for me. Because the rest of my plants are reliant on grow lights, winter doesn’t matter a ton but many do seem to grow faster in the Spring (sometimes they grow faster than I can easily stay on top so I don’t mind the winter seasons here).
Wow, I loved reading this! 🤩 Your system with glass containers and enclosures is so clever-it’s like your plants have their own little greenhouses! 🌱💡 Restarting plants really does give them a second chance to thrive, and I agree, the new growth is often stronger. 💚 Your Syngonium chiapense sounds like it’s on the rebound-I hope it keeps bouncing back! Spider mites can be such a nightmare, but it sounds like you’ve got a solid plan in place. Keep up the amazing care, and thank you for sharing your process-it’s so inspiring! 🌿✨
My first winter with struggles, first bout of pests outside of quarantine times (mealie bugs on my strong of turtles and pearls to the point of having to restart the plants), and now my mini monstera is looking yellowing, thin leaved. Snow higher than me and I'm ready for spring lol😅
Snow higher than YOU?! 😅 That’s next-level winter! Sounds like you’ve been through it with those mealies and restarts, but spring is on its way! 🌿💪 As for the mini monstera, the yellowing could be from overwatering or lack of light-winter loves to mess with us. Hang in there! 🌱❄️
The struggle is definitely real this winter! 🥶 My plants are hanging in there (barely 😅). How are yours doing? Let’s all cross our fingers for spring! 🌱✨
Great question! 🌱 Those long-leaf beauties are a mix-some are the same, but others are totally different species just vibing in the same area. Let me know if you’d like me to point out specific ones, I can do that in one of my future Videos! 🌿✨
In January in Canada, we start getting a bit more sun even though it’s bitter cold 🥶 November and December is the hardest months on my plants. So far so good 😀🇨🇦
Happy Sunday. I moved house in the autumn, which was a shock already and with this cold winter my plants are looking so so sad 😞 . Thank you for sharing all sides of this plant journey
Happy Sunday or now Monday! 🪴✨ Moving house is already tough, and winter makes it even harder on plants! 😞 But they’re resilient-hopefully they’ll bounce back soon. Thank YOU for watching and being part of this plant journey with me! 🌿💚
Theres one plant that always goes yellowish in winter… I then propagate it in spring (the leaves don’t die off they just go yellowish-green) and then it resprouts from the bottom in late spring/summer Its the Piper Argyrites, such a pretty plant, when spritzed the pink glitters I also know why, it always needs warmth and it gets just slightly too cold in its spot at night when the lights are off, but it survives and regrows every year so it no longer gives me stress Some go dormant in winter, thats fine.. 😐 Some go vigorous in winter, thats great 😍 The very few plants that don’t want to live here after several tries will go to the bin.. So will cuttings.. I ain’t propagating unless its for friends who want something specific or for myself to make plants fuller… but no more propagating just because plants get too big or something broke off One of my goals for this year is to use the bin 😂 Wishing you and your plants well
I haven’t had that many problems until I purchased a Thaumatophyllum about 6 months ago after a few weeks the leaves started turning pale and curling into tubes. No signs of rot but did change the soil to something free draining in the process I broke off a stem with a small root repotted and hoped for the best months later it started to produce a new leaf whilst emerging it broke its own stem and half of the leaf is stuck in the cataophyll whilst all this was happening every thrip in a 30 mile radius decided to use the original Thaumato as a all you can eat buffet. Sorry i needed to get that off my chest. Love your videos.
I've got a 5 foot tall Monstera albo, a 2.5 foot Amedrium medium silver, and a medium raphidophora tetrasperma that are all crisping at the end of their leaves. All my plants get the same fertilizer and no one else is crispy. My problem plants are all in self-watering with Pon. I've flushed them, made sure they've got at least 60% humidity, and I haven't stopped the browning. The Monstera & Amedrium are rooted in their moss poles and the Raphidophora has support sticks. It's starting at the tips and moving up the leaf and on the albo, doesn't care about variegation. So weird. Help! 💚
Wow, your collection sounds amazing! 🤩 Leaf crisping can be so frustrating, especially with self-watering setups. It sounds like you’ve tried so many smart fixes-humidity, flushing, moss poles-but sometimes plants just don’t behave how we expect! 🙃 The browning could be a nutrient buildup in the Pon or even underwatering if the wicks aren’t working as efficiently in winter. Keep tweaking-your care is incredible, and they’ll bounce back soon! 💚🌿
🥶 Feeling like -42 today. Keep asking myself why I stay in Saskatchewan. Hot chocolate with Bailey's is helps 😅. My Calathea White Fusion looks like your Aurea fewer leaves. It will be replaced, just not another fusion, the other 8 maranta, ctenanthe and calathea varieties love me and are thriving.
-42?! I can’t even imagine! 🥶 Hot chocolate with Bailey’s sounds like the only way to survive that cold! 😅 The White Fusion is such a diva-sounds like it’s time to let it go and keep enjoying the rest of your thriving prayer plant fam! 🌿✨
anthurium arisaemoides is one of my favourite looking Anthurium. Mines currently doing exactly the same as yours. Weirdly, it's started to collapse on itself despite being attached to a moss pole. Gutted. Can pick up cheapish white fusions from Morrisons, been seeing them everytime I've nipped in recently.
Anthurium arisaemoides is such a beauty-sorry to hear yours is struggling too! 😞 They’re so tricky to keep happy sometimes. I hope it perks up soon! 🌱 As for the White Fusions, I agree-they’re everywhere lately, but they’re still such divas! 😅
As this my first winter with my plants, there are 2 that I am concerned about. a parlor palm was full in may, but now down to 4 or 5 leaves, and my first plant I ever got the tristar stromanthe. a couple leaves are drooping and a couple growing in are almost like jaundice. They are both under grow lights, so what the heck?
Winter can be tough, especially for a first plant winter! 🌱 Your parlor palm and tristar stromanthe might need a little less water and maybe some humidity if they’re under grow lights. That "jaundice" look might be stress or overwatering-try letting the soil dry out a little more than usual. Don’t give up-they’ll bounce back! 💚✨
I always thought my tropical plants were struggling in winter, but I never knew what "struggling" meant until I brought my tomato plants inside. Currently I'm testing whether potassium bicarbonate really kills powdery mildew because there aren't many leaves left to cut off >.< No huge pest infestastion yet though. Last winter I lost a third of my collection to scale. I hope that won't happen again.
Oh wow, bringing tomato plants indoors really does redefine “struggling”! 😅 Potassium bicarbonate can definitely help with powdery mildew-fingers crossed it works for you! 🤞 And scale is just the worst-I hope your collection stays pest-free this winter! You’re doing a great job staying proactive. 🌿✨
I’m at the point with my plants only the strong will survive in my house. I’m trying my best to give them what they need to keep growing it if one dies it dies. That’s less stress for me and it could be that my space wasn’t for that plant even though some I would be sad about. I’m ok with no leaf growth. That means I have to do less.
I feel this so much! 🙌 Sometimes it really is survival of the fittest, and you’re right-if one dies, it’s less stress for you. 💆♀️ Winter is all about accepting slower growth and working with what we can manage. Spring will bring fresh energy, for you and your plants! 🌿✨
A pest party is the WORST kind of party! 😢 Mealies, thrips, AND spider mites on the same plant?! Your poor Hoya! 🪴 Sending you all the good vibes to kick those pests out for good! 💪✨
I mean they did slow down significantly, some of my duplicates died from cold damage (experimenting with tolerance) and note to self: M. obliqua peru and Euphorbia tirucalli do NOT like temperatures below 10°C. Some would appreciate higher humidity, but I don't mind the curly and/or cracked winter leaf or two as long as the plant is fine in spring. TBH, I think I mind the cold and dark more than my plants do? 😅
Sounds like you’ve been running a science experiment! 😅 Sorry to hear about your duplicates, but now you know M. obliqua peru and Euphorbia tirucalli are NOT cold lovers! 🥶 The curly/cracked leaves are definitely worth tolerating if spring brings back healthy growth. 🌿 And yes, the cold and dark are the real enemies! 😩
@@Houseplantygoodness eh it's allright, they were left in the cold knowing what would likely happen 😅 on the bright side, Ph. rugosum and a Rh. decursiva bottom cut seems to be doing just fine there! So far, I hope spring doesn't show hidden damages.
Hi! You mentioned ‘Patriciae’ in one of your videos. Mine made 2 baby plantlets from two different nodes on one leaf stalky thing. Sorry, words have gone! The leaf is yellowing, browning, I assume dying. Babies look great. I am not sure what to do with them, and I can’t find any info on this. Can you help? Do I pinch off the plantlets off or cut the stem on either side like when one takes a normal cutting? Any help will be greatly appreciated! BTW, luv your channel!
Thanks so much for watching-so glad you’re enjoying the channel! 💚 As for the Patriciae, it sounds like the mother leaf is fading naturally while it focuses energy on those baby plantlets (which is a good sign!). ✨ I’d wait until the babies are a bit bigger before separating them. When you’re ready, I’d cut the stem just below each node and pot them up individually. Let me know how it goes! 🌱🌿
I have a sad ring of fire that I received for free due to the store not having the plant I wanted. It wasn’t growing and lo and behold it was silently rotting away. I have it in water now to see if that will get it growing. I usually do well with philodendrons but I left it in the soil it came in so I think that was my bad 😞
Oh no, I feel your pain! 😞 Those silent rots can be so sneaky. Moving it to water is a great call-ring of fires are resilient, so fingers crossed for new growth soon! 🌱💚 It’s all part of the plant parent learning curve.
On the whole, everything is doing OK. There have been just a few dry air issues, so the humidifier is running more than usual, and that's having an effect on some plants that prefer the drier air. Trying to find a balance is a bit of a nightmare, but nothing is dying, so it is what it is. The philodendrons and hoyas are still growing nonstop and seem to be in denial of winter 😅 I'm always prepared to lose plants throughout the darker, colder months as everything is replaceable, so to just have issues and not deaths is a bonus. Good luck with the rest of winter, Memo 🫶🏻
Thanks so much, Carey! 🫶🏻 Sounds like you’ve got a great system going despite the dry air-humidifiers can be such lifesavers! And I love your mindset-sometimes just having issues without any deaths feels like a win in winter! 🌿✨ Wishing you and your plants the best for the rest of the season! 🌱❄️
Ugh, winter pests are the WORST! 😩 Thrips and spider mites just seem to love a stressed plant. Hang in there! 🌱💪 I’m with you on hating winter-it’s brutal for plant parents and plants alike! 🥶
Most of my plants were doing ok, not a lot of growth but not struggling either😅 But at the moment I'm really worried cause our heating broke 5 days ago and it's still not fixed. So it's about 12° inside the house, I hope they will survive😐 I wonder if anyone can grow the Yellow Fusion succesfully😂Mine always got huge spider-mites infestations and died🤫I cut the last one down and put the stumps in a closed glass jar, until now it seems to work 😊🌿
Oh no, broken heating in winter is a nightmare! 🥶 Hopefully your plants (and you!) make it through this cold spell. 🤞 And Yellow Fusions are SUCH divas-I swear they come with a spider-mite magnet built-in! 😂 It sounds like your glass jar trick is working though-fingers crossed for new growth! 🌿✨
Oh Memo I feel your pain during this time of year, even more so as I live in the north east of England where sub zero temperatures are the norm 🙄 However, I’m a little bit amazed not 1 alocasia made it onto your imminent death list, as mine are ( in typical alocasia fashion ) either thriving and on a non stop growth spurt or literally offing themselves at an alarming rate 🙄 literally nothing inbetween 🤦🏼♀️😂 However, in better news, after a major spider mite outbreak your miracle Castile soap remedy worked an absolute dream! At the risk of sounding utterly dramatic and overboard ( I’m an alocasia girl remember, hysteria is what we do well 💁🏼♀️) I can’t tell you how ridiculously grateful I am to you and this magic spray, especially as I’ve never had spider mites on any of the 97 green divas that live with me. Im sure for other people they just deal with it and don’t have a meltdown, I however was on the cusp of sectioning myself due to my OTT drama fuelled hysterics 🤦🏼♀️😂 So thank you for the advice and for saving me a trip to the comfy room with the snuggle jacket 😂🤪
My Gloriosum is struggling to unfurl without damage. But I don't care. 😅 Got spider mites on my Tiny Dancers, I wasn't loving it anyway, so it's binned. The rest is doing pretty fine considering it's January.
The crispyness on the Calathea makes it a perfect colormatch with it's pot 😂
😂 It’s all about the aesthetic, right? Crispy Calathea vibes! Sometimes you’ve just gotta embrace the imperfections. 🪴✨
I have both the Lupinum and the Sabhastatum. And yes, they are both very slow and I did lose the red leaves when I put it on a mosspole. 😊
My plants are doing OK, but I can't say the same about myself. I hate winter. 🥶
Winter really does take a toll, doesn’t it? 🥶 Hang in there-you and your plants will both thrive again soon! 🌿✨
🔥 there ya go!
🇦🇺It's 40c here and my shadehouse plants have their own air con & a misting system. The indoor ones have evaporative air con that raises the humidity by 30%. The plants are doing well but the owner is knackered keeping up with them all. 😂
I feel that, it’s so much more work over summer. Also in 🇦🇺 and I’m watering daily it’s crazy!
40°C?! That’s a whole other level of plant care! 🥵 Your setup sounds incredible-shadehouse, misting system, AND indoor humidity boosts? Your plants are living in luxury! 🌿✨ Hopefully, you can find some time to rest-sounds like you deserve it! 😂
South Australia here and can confirm the growing season is in full swing. Happy growing everyone 🪴
South Australia sounds like paradise for plants right now! 🌱✨ Enjoy the growing season and happy growing to you too! 🪴
Enjoying your video..❤happy gardening
The Lupinum! I agree so much 😂…I adore your channel! Thank you 💚
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Hi Memo, I just got into houseplants a few weeks ago with some kind of a Thai constellation I got from a local store in November. Since it is absolutely thriving I started to follow some UA-camrs like you and even dared to purchase an Alocasia Frydek in Winter! I repotted it quite quickly into the Green Jungle Mix which I ordered on Amazon - and it is thriving! The plant absolutely loves it, no dropping leaves and I even get two to three new ones right now. All my other plants are also thriving - I give them light and warmth and feed them at least once a week with a Hesi fertilizer, which is a real gamechanger for me. I have to admit though that most of my plants are not real special or rare specimens but rather some normal house plants that one can get at better hardware store. Like Philodendron Birkin, P. campii, something that looks like a P. Tigertooth, a Prince of orange, some Syngoniums a Calathea orbifolia and presumably some kind of a marble Epipremnum, an Anthurium clarinervium and a P. adansonii and a Alocasia Tiny Dancer... Nothing too fancy, but they apparently seem to like my care and grow very nicely. If this stays this way I will try to get my hands on some rarer plants. Thank you for all the information I got from your channel! You are a huge inspiration for me!
I was never into plants before. I appreciated them but ya know.. I have 9 plants right now (got almost all of them as a gift). Since they have been heavily neglected and I've been feeling sorry for them for a long time I decided to give them proper care. After couple of days of researching I realized I'm in an emergency since all of them are struggling like the ones you showed. Surprisingly, I got very hooked and now I'm looking for next plant to get. I also love your channel, it's super relatable! I'll probably end up binge watching 😂 Thanks for all the great info! Much love to you and your plants ❤🌱
I’m in Texas and we are expecting snow on Tuesday. That is a very rare occasion for us and so yes my plants aren’t thrilled. You can’t walk in my house without running into plants! Even plants that hate inside (banana and cannas) are inside. Ready for early spring.
Snow in Texas? That’s wild! ❄️ Your plants must be in shock-but it sounds like your house is the ultimate plant sanctuary! 🏡🌿 Fingers crossed for an early spring to rescue those bananas and cannas! 🌱✨
This Calathea 🤣🤣🤣 the leaves are perfect color match with the pot, it’s a vibe 😂 Everything is great here, the only thing is Hoya Publicalyx Hawaiian purple really need a treillis, it growth verticaly 😅 I need to manage this because it’s look very sketchy. Very funny video Memo ! 💛
🤣 I’m glad the crispy Calathea could bring some laughs-it’s definitely leaning into that color-matching vibe! 🌿😂 And I agree, Hoyas love to do their own thing-good luck wrangling that Hawaiian Purple onto a trellis! 🌱💛
My house is lit up like I baseball field. I know my power company is loving me. 🤑
Power went out for 18 hours in below freezing temperatures, that really hit my collection hard.
Come on spring!!
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😂 “Baseball field” vibes are SO relatable-grow lights really do take over our homes in winter! 🌿💡 So sorry to hear about the power outage; freezing temps can be so rough on plants. Here’s hoping spring shows up early this year! ✌️🌞
If you light it. They will come. 😂
I've been using the indoor time to repot plants that have been needing it. I repotted a peace lily that my work sent to me when my Gran passed away in 2006. The mother plants took it well, but all the pups are struggling. The last time it got a refresh was >5 years ago.
Wow, that peace lily sounds like such a special plant! 🌿💚 It's incredible that it’s been with you since 2006-that’s real dedication! The pups might just need a little extra time to settle in after the refresh. Fingers crossed they bounce back soon! 🪴✨
through november I thought I was doing great, december I noticed things slowing slightly, and now I'm just hoping they'll make it! thank you for brightening another sunday my friend! hopefully spring will soon make my plants feel brighter aswell...
You’ve got this! 🌱 The winter slowdown is so real, but your care is keeping them alive for that spring revival! 🌿✨ Thank YOU for tuning in and sharing your journey. We’ll get through this winter together, my friend! 🪴❄️
Even here in Florida, we have short days and it has been going into the 40s F at night, and now it is going to be in the upper 30s F at night. I cannot stand it!
We all have struggling plants, but for the most part, most of mine are doing well in the house. I'm so disgusted with outdoor gardening, between the storms, the cold weather, wildlife, and pests.
Little by little, I'm bringing lots of things inside and putting them into semi-hydro. They all are responding well to a mixture of perlite, small lava rock, a little leca, and some sphagnum.
A friend just asked me if any of my plants were doing poorly and getting yellow leaves becasue of the winter, becasue that is what she is experiencing. I'm getting lots of growth, blooms, and transplants doing nicely. I attribute my current success to two major things, and a few minor things.
One major is that I have most plants in one room and some aquariums. My humidity, without a humidifier, is between 50 F and 70 F, usually averaging between the high 50s and low 60s. The second major thing is that I have LEDs everywhere. The light is key during these short days.
I also keep a fan on most of the time.
I guess important, but not as much as the first two, is that I use nutrients with every watering, including silica, mycorrhizae, and a de-chlorinator.
I also learned about making a homemade spray from Pretty in Green. I use 1 gal of water, 1 oz canola oil, Neem Azadirachtin 9 ml per quart, 1 ml Leaf Lux liquid, dash of dish soap, and a dash of Lemon Myrtle Essential Oil - which I learned from you I spray this often, on no particular schedule.
Florida winters don’t sound fun either-40s and 30s at night? Yikes! 🥶 Your setup with semi-hydro, LEDs, and humidity from aquariums is so impressive-no wonder your plants are thriving! 🌿✨ And that homemade spray recipe sounds fantastic; I’m glad the lemon myrtle oil tip has been helpful! Keep up the amazing care, and here’s to more blooms and growth this winter! 💡💚
Welllll. That was a mouthful and quite appreciated! You’re a delight
I wish I had more natural lights for my plants but of the handful that do rely on the sun, are growing well despite it being as cold as 7 Celsius at night here where I live in SoCal. My windows are not well insulated but the plants are close to them. They are inside glass containers (usually vases with clear disks covering the top). I think the enclosures help to keep them warm and the humidity seems to be helpful. That’s the space where cuttings from plants with pests go.
I have limited space for large plants so pesty ones are often started over to free up space and lighten the maintenance load. Often the new plants that come from the restarts, seem stronger.
Acclimating them to lower humidity takes some patience but I need to learn how to be more patient so it’s fine.
One of my favorite plants in a cabinet had spider mites, my Syngonium chiapense. I think I let the LECA dry out too much and that signaled to the spider mites that its defenses were down. Now I have what looks like bouquets of them so I’m appreciating them in a different setup for now. They were only on stakes but the roots growing out of the stem were pretty long and are showing signs they’re going to take off soon so I’ll have plenty to pot up and/or gift once I’m certain they’re pest-free. If the leaf remaining on each cutting continues to show signs of pests, I’ll take them back to nodes only.
Restarting plants frees up much needed space and keeps maintenance manageable for me.
Because the rest of my plants are reliant on grow lights, winter doesn’t matter a ton but many do seem to grow faster in the Spring (sometimes they grow faster than I can easily stay on top so I don’t mind the winter seasons here).
Wow, I loved reading this! 🤩 Your system with glass containers and enclosures is so clever-it’s like your plants have their own little greenhouses! 🌱💡 Restarting plants really does give them a second chance to thrive, and I agree, the new growth is often stronger. 💚 Your Syngonium chiapense sounds like it’s on the rebound-I hope it keeps bouncing back! Spider mites can be such a nightmare, but it sounds like you’ve got a solid plan in place. Keep up the amazing care, and thank you for sharing your process-it’s so inspiring! 🌿✨
My first winter with struggles, first bout of pests outside of quarantine times (mealie bugs on my strong of turtles and pearls to the point of having to restart the plants), and now my mini monstera is looking yellowing, thin leaved. Snow higher than me and I'm ready for spring lol😅
Snow higher than YOU?! 😅 That’s next-level winter! Sounds like you’ve been through it with those mealies and restarts, but spring is on its way! 🌿💪 As for the mini monstera, the yellowing could be from overwatering or lack of light-winter loves to mess with us. Hang in there! 🌱❄️
Good to see everyone's struggling in winter! How about your plants in the house, are they doing well?
The struggle is definitely real this winter! 🥶 My plants are hanging in there (barely 😅). How are yours doing? Let’s all cross our fingers for spring! 🌱✨
What are all the long leaf plants behind you? Are they the same plants
Great question! 🌱 Those long-leaf beauties are a mix-some are the same, but others are totally different species just vibing in the same area. Let me know if you’d like me to point out specific ones, I can do that in one of my future Videos! 🌿✨
@Houseplantygoodness yes, plz do. You talked about your not so pretty ones and now it's time to show the ones that shine in your collection!!
In January in Canada, we start getting a bit more sun even though it’s bitter cold 🥶 November and December is the hardest months on my plants. So far so good 😀🇨🇦
Happy Sunday. I moved house in the autumn, which was a shock already and with this cold winter my plants are looking so so sad 😞 . Thank you for sharing all sides of this plant journey
Happy Sunday or now Monday! 🪴✨ Moving house is already tough, and winter makes it even harder on plants! 😞 But they’re resilient-hopefully they’ll bounce back soon. Thank YOU for watching and being part of this plant journey with me! 🌿💚
Theres one plant that always goes yellowish in winter… I then propagate it in spring (the leaves don’t die off they just go yellowish-green) and then it resprouts from the bottom in late spring/summer
Its the Piper Argyrites, such a pretty plant, when spritzed the pink glitters
I also know why, it always needs warmth and it gets just slightly too cold in its spot at night when the lights are off, but it survives and regrows every year so it no longer gives me stress
Some go dormant in winter, thats fine.. 😐
Some go vigorous in winter, thats great 😍
The very few plants that don’t want to live here after several tries will go to the bin..
So will cuttings.. I ain’t propagating unless its for friends who want something specific or for myself to make plants fuller… but no more propagating just because plants get too big or something broke off
One of my goals for this year is to use the bin 😂
Wishing you and your plants well
I haven’t had that many problems until I purchased a Thaumatophyllum about 6 months ago after a few weeks the leaves started turning pale and curling into tubes. No signs of rot but did change the soil to something free draining in the process I broke off a stem with a small root repotted and hoped for the best months later it started to produce a new leaf whilst emerging it broke its own stem and half of the leaf is stuck in the cataophyll whilst all this was happening every thrip in a 30 mile radius decided to use the original Thaumato as a all you can eat buffet. Sorry i needed to get that off my chest. Love your videos.
I've got a 5 foot tall Monstera albo, a 2.5 foot Amedrium medium silver, and a medium raphidophora tetrasperma that are all crisping at the end of their leaves. All my plants get the same fertilizer and no one else is crispy. My problem plants are all in self-watering with Pon. I've flushed them, made sure they've got at least 60% humidity, and I haven't stopped the browning. The Monstera & Amedrium are rooted in their moss poles and the Raphidophora has support sticks. It's starting at the tips and moving up the leaf and on the albo, doesn't care about variegation. So weird. Help! 💚
Wow, your collection sounds amazing! 🤩 Leaf crisping can be so frustrating, especially with self-watering setups. It sounds like you’ve tried so many smart fixes-humidity, flushing, moss poles-but sometimes plants just don’t behave how we expect! 🙃 The browning could be a nutrient buildup in the Pon or even underwatering if the wicks aren’t working as efficiently in winter. Keep tweaking-your care is incredible, and they’ll bounce back soon! 💚🌿
🥶 Feeling like -42 today. Keep asking myself why I stay in Saskatchewan.
Hot chocolate with Bailey's is helps 😅. My Calathea White Fusion looks like your Aurea fewer leaves. It will be replaced, just not another fusion, the other 8 maranta, ctenanthe and calathea varieties love me and are thriving.
-42?! I can’t even imagine! 🥶 Hot chocolate with Bailey’s sounds like the only way to survive that cold! 😅 The White Fusion is such a diva-sounds like it’s time to let it go and keep enjoying the rest of your thriving prayer plant fam! 🌿✨
The annual Maranta/Calathea purge is well underway… there is one survivor. 😂 Love ya Memo!!!
anthurium arisaemoides is one of my favourite looking Anthurium. Mines currently doing exactly the same as yours. Weirdly, it's started to collapse on itself despite being attached to a moss pole. Gutted.
Can pick up cheapish white fusions from Morrisons, been seeing them everytime I've nipped in recently.
Anthurium arisaemoides is such a beauty-sorry to hear yours is struggling too! 😞 They’re so tricky to keep happy sometimes. I hope it perks up soon! 🌱 As for the White Fusions, I agree-they’re everywhere lately, but they’re still such divas! 😅
As this my first winter with my plants, there are 2 that I am concerned about. a parlor palm was full in may, but now down to 4 or 5 leaves, and my first plant I ever got the tristar stromanthe. a couple leaves are drooping and a couple growing in are almost like jaundice. They are both under grow lights, so what the heck?
Winter can be tough, especially for a first plant winter! 🌱 Your parlor palm and tristar stromanthe might need a little less water and maybe some humidity if they’re under grow lights. That "jaundice" look might be stress or overwatering-try letting the soil dry out a little more than usual. Don’t give up-they’ll bounce back! 💚✨
Happy Sunday ❤
Happy Sunday to you too! ❤ Hope your plants are having a cozy winter! 🪴❄️
I always thought my tropical plants were struggling in winter, but I never knew what "struggling" meant until I brought my tomato plants inside. Currently I'm testing whether potassium bicarbonate really kills powdery mildew because there aren't many leaves left to cut off >.< No huge pest infestastion yet though. Last winter I lost a third of my collection to scale. I hope that won't happen again.
Oh wow, bringing tomato plants indoors really does redefine “struggling”! 😅 Potassium bicarbonate can definitely help with powdery mildew-fingers crossed it works for you! 🤞 And scale is just the worst-I hope your collection stays pest-free this winter! You’re doing a great job staying proactive. 🌿✨
I’m at the point with my plants only the strong will survive in my house. I’m trying my best to give them what they need to keep growing it if one dies it dies. That’s less stress for me and it could be that my space wasn’t for that plant even though some I would be sad about. I’m ok with no leaf growth. That means I have to do less.
I feel this so much! 🙌 Sometimes it really is survival of the fittest, and you’re right-if one dies, it’s less stress for you. 💆♀️ Winter is all about accepting slower growth and working with what we can manage. Spring will bring fresh energy, for you and your plants! 🌿✨
It's a pest party over here! I have them all, some of my plants like my hoya linerais has mealies, thrips and spider mites at the same time 😢
A pest party is the WORST kind of party! 😢 Mealies, thrips, AND spider mites on the same plant?! Your poor Hoya! 🪴 Sending you all the good vibes to kick those pests out for good! 💪✨
@Houseplantygoodness thank you so much! I would just throw it if it wasn't one of my oldest and largest hoyas. So I'm fighting them all 💪
I mean they did slow down significantly, some of my duplicates died from cold damage (experimenting with tolerance) and note to self: M. obliqua peru and Euphorbia tirucalli do NOT like temperatures below 10°C. Some would appreciate higher humidity, but I don't mind the curly and/or cracked winter leaf or two as long as the plant is fine in spring. TBH, I think I mind the cold and dark more than my plants do? 😅
Have you tried sansevieria in below 10 celsius? I'd be very interested in the result, to know how early I can bring mine outside for spring
Sounds like you’ve been running a science experiment! 😅 Sorry to hear about your duplicates, but now you know M. obliqua peru and Euphorbia tirucalli are NOT cold lovers! 🥶 The curly/cracked leaves are definitely worth tolerating if spring brings back healthy growth. 🌿 And yes, the cold and dark are the real enemies! 😩
@agneslazarenko2653 no, as I'm not a fan and don't own any 😅 what other plants are you interested in moving?
@@snt9518 i move all my plants outside for the summer, but it's only the sansevierias that I would dare to put in less than 10°C
@@Houseplantygoodness eh it's allright, they were left in the cold knowing what would likely happen 😅 on the bright side, Ph. rugosum and a Rh. decursiva bottom cut seems to be doing just fine there! So far, I hope spring doesn't show hidden damages.
Hi! You mentioned ‘Patriciae’ in one of your videos. Mine made 2 baby plantlets from two different nodes on one leaf stalky thing. Sorry, words have gone! The leaf is yellowing, browning, I assume dying. Babies look great. I am not sure what to do with them, and I can’t find any info on this. Can you help? Do I pinch off the plantlets off or cut the stem on either side like when one takes a normal cutting? Any help will be greatly appreciated! BTW, luv your channel!
Thanks so much for watching-so glad you’re enjoying the channel! 💚 As for the Patriciae, it sounds like the mother leaf is fading naturally while it focuses energy on those baby plantlets (which is a good sign!). ✨ I’d wait until the babies are a bit bigger before separating them. When you’re ready, I’d cut the stem just below each node and pot them up individually. Let me know how it goes! 🌱🌿
Thanks! Will do!
I have a sad ring of fire that I received for free due to the store not having the plant I wanted. It wasn’t growing and lo and behold it was silently rotting away. I have it in water now to see if that will get it growing. I usually do well with philodendrons but I left it in the soil it came in so I think that was my bad 😞
Oh no, I feel your pain! 😞 Those silent rots can be so sneaky. Moving it to water is a great call-ring of fires are resilient, so fingers crossed for new growth soon! 🌱💚 It’s all part of the plant parent learning curve.
On the whole, everything is doing OK. There have been just a few dry air issues, so the humidifier is running more than usual, and that's having an effect on some plants that prefer the drier air. Trying to find a balance is a bit of a nightmare, but nothing is dying, so it is what it is. The philodendrons and hoyas are still growing nonstop and seem to be in denial of winter 😅 I'm always prepared to lose plants throughout the darker, colder months as everything is replaceable, so to just have issues and not deaths is a bonus. Good luck with the rest of winter, Memo 🫶🏻
Thanks so much, Carey! 🫶🏻 Sounds like you’ve got a great system going despite the dry air-humidifiers can be such lifesavers! And I love your mindset-sometimes just having issues without any deaths feels like a win in winter! 🌿✨ Wishing you and your plants the best for the rest of the season! 🌱❄️
I'm looking for ANY kind of growth almost desperate to see something! 😅 😖😩
Just give up…. That is when it’ll happen!!! 😂 love to you. Plants are the best
I lost a few I didn’t care about over new year when I was very poorly and could only manage the bare minimum and I am ok with it 🤣
Sometimes you just gotta let go and do the bare minimum! 😂 Glad you’re okay with the losses-spring will bring plenty of new growth to love! 🌱✨
I found a few thrips on my sharoniae and spidermites on my mamei. And I personally hate winter with a passion
Ugh, winter pests are the WORST! 😩 Thrips and spider mites just seem to love a stressed plant. Hang in there! 🌱💪 I’m with you on hating winter-it’s brutal for plant parents and plants alike! 🥶
Most of my plants were doing ok, not a lot of growth but not struggling either😅
But at the moment I'm really worried cause our heating broke 5 days ago and it's still not fixed. So it's about 12° inside the house, I hope they will survive😐
I wonder if anyone can grow the Yellow Fusion succesfully😂Mine always got huge spider-mites infestations and died🤫I cut the last one down and put the stumps in a closed glass jar, until now it seems to work 😊🌿
Oh no, broken heating in winter is a nightmare! 🥶 Hopefully your plants (and you!) make it through this cold spell. 🤞 And Yellow Fusions are SUCH divas-I swear they come with a spider-mite magnet built-in! 😂 It sounds like your glass jar trick is working though-fingers crossed for new growth! 🌿✨
Oh Memo I feel your pain during this time of year, even more so as I live in the north east of England where sub zero temperatures are the norm 🙄
However, I’m a little bit amazed not 1 alocasia made it onto your imminent death list, as mine are ( in typical alocasia fashion ) either thriving and on a non stop growth spurt or literally offing themselves at an alarming rate 🙄 literally nothing inbetween 🤦🏼♀️😂
However, in better news, after a major spider mite outbreak your miracle Castile soap remedy worked an absolute dream!
At the risk of sounding utterly dramatic and overboard ( I’m an alocasia girl remember, hysteria is what we do well 💁🏼♀️) I can’t tell you how ridiculously grateful I am to you and this magic spray, especially as I’ve never had spider mites on any of the 97 green divas that live with me.
Im sure for other people they just deal with it and don’t have a meltdown, I however was on the cusp of sectioning myself due to my OTT drama fuelled hysterics 🤦🏼♀️😂
So thank you for the advice and for saving me a trip to the comfy room with the snuggle jacket 😂🤪
My Alocasia Tiny dancer sure is tiny right now.
Tiny Dancer is really living up to its name! 😂 Hopefully, it grows out of its winter funk soon and starts dancing again in spring! 🌱✨
I binned mine after she got spider mites. Just can't be bothered.
@ I m considering replacing it, my last remaining alocasia, with a nice and easy philodendron 🙂
My Gloriosum is struggling to unfurl without damage. But I don't care. 😅 Got spider mites on my Tiny Dancers, I wasn't loving it anyway, so it's binned. The rest is doing pretty fine considering it's January.