There is absolutely a difference between surviving in an environment versus thriving and healthy! Glad you pointed that out. Also, the Witchcraft orchids are amazing. One of my wishlist!
I was in walmart the other day and found a pineapple plant labeled as a pink princess philodendron. The mislabeling thing happens so often in big box stores!
Fern, I’m about half way through the “Good Housekeeping “ list…you are so right about everything. I get very annoyed when the incorrect photos are used for these articles. Thanks for sharing this video, interesting.
This was a fun video idea! I would love to see you reacting to some of those crazy ones with all the weird "hacks" like putting seeds into split-open bananas or watering with ice cubes and the like.
I have an Asparagus plumosus and I find it to be quite an easy going plant. I have mine in a self-watering pot, but I've found that it does tolerate drying out occasionally. They need a fair amount of light though. Every time I have a look at this kind of pages I always wonder who writes them and picks the photos.
The asperagus is amaxing it a terrarium. Put some rocks at the bottom, soil and then moss and left it alone since spring, had it in light and dark and it litteray just keeps perfect, the one my dad has in a pot looks like brown crisp haha
I have a white zebra plant! It’s not that bad and I keep mine in my bathroom. I went on vacation for a week, came home and it was completely wilted and flopped over. It had the whole fittonia flop kind of situation going on and I thought for sure that it was a goner. I put a trellis on it to hold the wilted stems up and watered it. IT MADE IT! My mind was blown. I got a bunch of leaf crisping and several of the bottom leaves died off and it looked kinda silly with bare sticks and a few rows of leaves at he top. So then I recently decided to chop it and just see what happens. I have the cuttings in water and kept the pot to see if it will also regrow from the stems. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
In my experience Asparagus ferns enjoy slightly moist soil. I've had it in an pretty airy soil mix and also in terracotta though. So maybe you could plant it in a plastic pot when you're more an under-waterer. They are so beautiful and the new growth is always a joy to watch. I would definitely recommend getting one, especially the Asparagus Plumosus/Setaceus.
In my humble opinion, there are so many determining factors in growing plants; ambient temperature, humidity, location, over-waterer/under-waterer, potting mixes etc. I think the best way to grow plants is by trial and error. Also, I prefer getting information from my favourite plant youtuber, uhum Fern!!! and plant friends. Another great video, sweet girl!
The fern substrate is what needs altering for people who are underwaterers. I have my ferns purely on coco coir and light perlite. The roots are fine so I think that's why they tend to dry out in chunky substrate. I also am a huge fan of "basic" and "common" plants even after 25 years of cultivating my little personal collection. They and tried and true and survivors perfect for all plant parents!
I had two zebra plants the original green one and the white one. Yes they are thirsty plants constantly needs watering otherwise the leaves just flops down. I eventually got rid of them kept giving me fungas gnats cause they need there soil moist.
Great video! Yes I was fooled by the marketing of the rubber tree as low light! But thankfully i figured out it needs high light. I still have it after 3 years- it just won’t grow in low light.
i had a zebra plant years ago, it produced the big yellow bract flowers which was the best because i wasn't even aware at the time that it flowered, lol. i didn't find it difficult tho.
Hey fern!! Idk if this would get amazing views but you be willing to do a video about some of your favourite plants that aren’t common here on the UA-cam space? Would love to see some new plant recommendations ❤️❤️
I enjoyed this video very much. I have been growing houseplants for over 30 years now and I still look at the "plants for beginners" lists, as I like a plant that's resilient. 😍😍In the last one you showed, the ones labelled "orchids" were phalaenopsis, which is one of the easiest flowering plants to grow you'll ever find.They're easier than African Violets and I think, nicer looking. I buy mine for very little at Trader Joes and grow them under grow lights as my apartment is very dark. Usually they bloom for a couple of months. They also rebloom without much difficulty, although you have to be patient. About 25 to 33 percent of them will die completely after flowering, sometimes while in bloom, but you could do worse for 6.99 US. If you paid more they might be more reliable.
The only reason I have a money tree, is because I saw that if you put them across a mirror, it's good luck. And I like the look of them, so why not. I love how their new leaves come in
Ferns are easy IF. If you use a wicking system or self watering pot. I have 4, including the 2 Divas, also known as Maidenhair ferns. One went crispy and into the death spiral. Being an African Violet aficionado, I immediately set up a wicking system. Then all 4 of my ferns on wicks. All of them lush and green, no brown tips. Go to any swamp in Florida, you will see Ferns galore.
That’s interesting that the orchid is considered hard! I do almost nothing for my phaelaenopsis orchid, I just thoroughly run water through the mix every 3-4 weeks, make sure all the roots are nice and wet, and it gives me new growth super consistently. I can neglect it too and it is living it’s best life. They do need light though, I have mine in bright indirect light.
My sister got a zebra plant, tiny, super cute. She missed one watering (she was traveling) and when I came to water her plants it looked absolutely dead. Fainted, bent over, limp… because I’ve had fottonias I said.. oh well maybe… so I repotted her (the soil was terrible and super compact), gave her a good drink and left it by the window. I didn’t think it would make it but it totally revived and is doing well now! Not a humid house also, so I’d say good light and not to let it dry completely and that seems to do the trick
I’m having trouble with my zebra plant. The leaves are curling under. It’s moist, near a grow light. Still putting out new leaves. I have a give inch stem with four damaged leaves at the top with two tiny leaves waving their arms. It’s starting to look silly. But you’ve restored my faith. It’s fairly newly pitted but the soil is not that chunky. (Gets better each time I make it.)
They love their water. If you’re late to water they will wilt. After a watering mine perks back up Mine sits right next to the humidifier. (Zebra Plant).
I adore my Peace Lily! She's a lifeguard for the others, and has been relatively easy to get her to truly flourish which has helped me to gain confidence. Big bushy girl makes me very happy, she lives in some nice indirect light though. I am currently trying to convince my mother in law (!) that the giant plant she calls a "Monsteria" in my front garden is actually a Split Leaf Philodendron but she refuses to believe me.
my asparagus fern doesn't complain about her water whatsoever. i kept her in her nursery pot for over a year and switched to a thrown terracotta last year which has given me a ton of happy, huge growth. i only water once a week. i guess if you want it extremely bushy and fluffy then you'd want to water more to encourage a bunch of growth? i prefer to trim mine like a bonsai. :-)
I adore mine. She is getting near 7 feet long. She has red berries in the winter. She rarely dries out and I don’t water her much. She has tubers like zz that hold water
spider plants are genuinely terrifying. I used to live down the street from this dilapidated house and the front garden was nothing but spider plants, like decades of them
I saw a commercial for a plant app that you look at the plant with the app and it tells you what is wrong with the plant lol. It looked at a fiddle leaf fig with big brown spots and said plant is sick give it coffee!!! Say what!?!
With the asparagus fern,I have to disagree,I’m in a very hot dry city in Australia and the grow on their own,every house used to grow them around the outdoors toilet to give more privacy,the have those long water holding rhizome things like a spider plant! We have one growing at the back of the shed right now,and it takes over if you don’t get rid of it! So I’m not sure about the water part???
Put this video on again in the background while doing stuff around the house.. and had a moment of "wow, pre-lockdown, I would have never been entertained by this" and now I'm like "pssh, that's obviously an Adansonii, not a Philodendron!!" 😂😂😂
I got a free small zebra plant with a $50 purchase at my local plant shop and it did not last 2 months. I swear I was one day behind on watering and an entire leaf crisped up and fell off.
With regards to "air purifying" - the air definitely smells more "fresh" in a house with a lot of plants, but I think it's from the extra moisture in the air.
Asparagus ferns definitely don’t need to be wet all the time I took that advice and lost half of mine. Now it’s grown back and I let it dry out half way with decent light
Hey Fern! Really enjoyed your vid. I’d love to hear your opinion of a current ‘Most Wanted Rare Houseplants’! I agree that a few on their list were a bit outdated. Maybe a future video idea? Just rare or harder to find plants that you personally love or that you think the plant community is really going after lately!!
I love my mini jade; ITS SO CUTE!!! You have to add props to make it full or it can look scraggly. But worth trying; they don't take up a lot of space! String of hearts loves humidity and needs water! 💦 . My heart hurts for Phil in a dark corner :(
Hi Fern, our big box stores don’t even label the plants, only putting something on the tag like succulent, or where the plant comes from and you have to get online and try to identify it from random pictures. I am not happy with that. My sister just received a gift plant and it was labeled Swiss cheese plant. I told her it was a Monstera.😢
The air purifying thing I think also has to do with it being in a small closed off space, like a space ship, plus a lot of plants. Kinda cool to think about plants in space haha😂
Please PLEASE don't let orchids intimidate you! The only reason people have trouble with orchids is that a big chunk of care instructions are very wrong (Ice on roots for example). I watched a few of miss orchid girl's videos on here when I discovered her a couple years back. She made the difference. I was against orchids because of their reputation for being killable, but now I've got close to 20.Ilove them and seeing them reblooming through winter has helped to tide me till spring when I can dig! I really think you'll fall head over heels for orchids once you get a little bit of experience and guidance.
a fern rec for fern: a rabbit’s foot fern is more tolerant of underwatering because it’s an epiphyte. plus it has paws, which is both creepy and adorable
all my tradescantia are the easiest plants for me, i am on the over water side of course, but even in my bad times when i kinda neglected them, they were super fine, didnt expected them in that list 😂
Nice change up on the video. ❤ I feel like a plant snob judging those odd picks, but I was agreeing with most all your critiques. Except I do think Monstera are not easy to grow. Ahhhh I said it! It’s so hard to top 10 or 20 anything with plants, because there are always way too many factors to consider. And soooooo many plants to choose from. 💚 🪴
you know what you said about the maranta and the edges crisping could possibly be bc of the water quality and i feel like i definitely agree. i freaking looove marantas and calatheas in general really. i think we all do but like sometimes the care can be a bit much on certain kinds BUT i felt like i was doing everything right to keep up with the last maranta i had and it just ended up crisping and dying off even tho it was getting bright light and pretty consistent waterings 🥲🥲🥲 maybe they are just a plant thats sensitive to those kind of things. sucks bc everytime i look at a lemon-lime maranta, i want it so bad but i know that it'll just do that bc i've tried twice 🥲🥲🥲
Third times the charm. I have killed many plants. Especially string of pearls. I killed two of them. Third one is growing, still. I put it in my west facing window sill. It thrived. Then I had to pull if from the window sill and forgot about light on the top. The strings were ok but the top was dying. I put it u see a grow light and I see new growth. It is possible to learn from past failures.
Hi it’s me again,after watching the whole video, lol. I think I will keep taking your advice Fern,and a few other planty UA-camrs!! 😅 Very interesting video! 💚🪴 Natalie
This is so funny to me because I am a blog and article writer, so I write stuff like this for work. Honestly, most of the time it's not about being correct. It's about writing content that will hit numbers and make money. Using certain keywords in a certain amount of word count, etc. etc. But, I try to only write stuff that I would personally agree on and advice people as a houseplant owner.
I feel like they definitely make a difference in the air in the home not sure of the purifying part but anytime anyone enters my jungle they say it feels and smells "fresh" lol 😂 whatever that means
Don´t worry about Asparagus, angel, once it´s rooted it doesn´t need much watering. Love your video! Much love to Olive! XX (P.S. Can´t wait for your Aurea!)
I just died over the adonsonii labeled as a philo!! AND low/light little water!!!! Nothing true about any of that! 😮 💀 I had to pause the video to write this comment! 😂 The pretty dainty ferns need a lot of humidity in my experience or else they get crispy....
I’ve grown huge asparagus plants outside on my front porch… in Arizona.. you probably can get away with not watering it as often as they say.. 🤷♀️lol. 😂😂
Orchids are SO easy! Don't be fooled. Zebra plants are EASY! I carried one through a move. It lived in storage, then on a truck, later in a bin, and was beautiful! Dolphin and goldfish plants are EZ. I have both and love them. ☆☆☆☆☆TIP: If you have crispy edges on your plants because you use tap its likelychlorine. I set the tap water under the sink in a container for a while, like 3 days or more, to let the chlorine dissipate before using it! Huge difference!
“Most types of Philodendron can tolerate dark corners and very little watering. "They like to be on the dry side," says Sharon Nejman, Senior Horticulturist at Chicago Botanic Garden, so don't fill the watering can more than once per week.”💀💀💀 literally dead. This whole thing kills me How can she say likes it dry and water once a week in the same sentence 🤦🏻♀️ people really be out here watering ever other day👀
The favourite "marketing" tip I've seen about plants is that they help to "remove dust". By that, they meant that the dust settles on the leaves instead of your furniture and it's easier to dust off.... 🙄
What a fun video! I’ve never been into monstera deliciosas until I went to Hawaii because they were absolutely massive and flowering, but I still don’t own one 😂❤️
No way. Asparagus fern ( that's not a fern) is quite dry tolerant and suffer from root rot. They wrote a whole site's page of BS. My A.setaceus like slightly moist soil and I look after that plant for a while and them use to push out new fronds when the soil is strarting to dry a bit
I just threw my ornada out. I watered it with distilled water. Never let it dry out. Great soil custom mix. Not too sunny, not too shady. Next to a humidifier running 24/7. No pests. Had a bunch of ugly yellow spots. Caletheas are divas. Never buying them again.
I know you say that columnea are easy but despite I having a lot of plants and a low causality rate, I have killed two columneas. Granted it was early in my houseplant journey and they were tiny plants, but I have never killed something so quickly with the exception of a piper parmatum. Can grow Hoya and aroids fine, but those goldfish plants just didn’t want to live. 😂 Also, if your struggling with a Venus fly trap and watering with tap water I’d guess that’s your problem. Carnivorous plants can’t tolerate minerals in water. It has nothing to do with water quality. You may already know this but you did say you water everything with tap and that’s generally an issue with carnivorous plants.
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"Ferns need a lot of water" _As Fern is holding a glass of water LOL_ 😂💜
I came here to comment the exact same thing😂 “classic” hahah
hahahah what can I say 😆
There is absolutely a difference between surviving in an environment versus thriving and healthy! Glad you pointed that out. Also, the Witchcraft orchids are amazing. One of my wishlist!
The picture they used for that orchid is actually Black Pearl, the Witchcraft has bigger and showier blooms. I own both because I’m an orchid nerd 😅
Omg good to know! 👀
I was in walmart the other day and found a pineapple plant labeled as a pink princess philodendron. The mislabeling thing happens so often in big box stores!
No way hahaha that's bad!
Fern, I’m about half way through the “Good Housekeeping “ list…you are so right about everything. I get very annoyed when the incorrect photos are used for these articles. Thanks for sharing this video, interesting.
This was a fun video idea! I would love to see you reacting to some of those crazy ones with all the weird "hacks" like putting seeds into split-open bananas or watering with ice cubes and the like.
All I can hear in my my head as Fern reads out the Good Housekeeping care tips is David from Schitts Creek going "That is not correct" 😂😂😂
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So glad you addressed the 'myth' of air purifying!
Yes!! So annoying lol they really be marketing that everywhere
You keep the cursor moving around the page and I think it’s a fungus gnat. Lol 😂
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wow! im impressed with the amount of effort your putting into your channel. a lot of good information
I picked up a spider after 40 years…..love it! So structural and easy!
I have an Asparagus plumosus and I find it to be quite an easy going plant. I have mine in a self-watering pot, but I've found that it does tolerate drying out occasionally. They need a fair amount of light though.
Every time I have a look at this kind of pages I always wonder who writes them and picks the photos.
Yeah me too, like they just assign some random person hahah. Thanks for watching :)
Mine is 3 feet to the side of a northwest-facing window in the winter and does fine. Summer she gets east facing indirect morning light.
The asperagus is amaxing it a terrarium. Put some rocks at the bottom, soil and then moss and left it alone since spring, had it in light and dark and it litteray just keeps perfect, the one my dad has in a pot looks like brown crisp haha
Oooo it would look so good in a terrarium! Love that.
I so agree about ficus - mine live in east/south balcony 4th floor and they get blasted buy the sun and they thrive.
Right!! They love it 🌞
I have a white zebra plant! It’s not that bad and I keep mine in my bathroom. I went on vacation for a week, came home and it was completely wilted and flopped over. It had the whole fittonia flop kind of situation going on and I thought for sure that it was a goner. I put a trellis on it to hold the wilted stems up and watered it. IT MADE IT! My mind was blown. I got a bunch of leaf crisping and several of the bottom leaves died off and it looked kinda silly with bare sticks and a few rows of leaves at he top. So then I recently decided to chop it and just see what happens. I have the cuttings in water and kept the pot to see if it will also regrow from the stems. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Omg! I love a comeback story. Hope you're able to make it full again :)
@@wildfern I just noticed new growth coming from the stems in the pot today! 😊
In my experience Asparagus ferns enjoy slightly moist soil. I've had it in an pretty airy soil mix and also in terracotta though. So maybe you could plant it in a plastic pot when you're more an under-waterer. They are so beautiful and the new growth is always a joy to watch. I would definitely recommend getting one, especially the Asparagus Plumosus/Setaceus.
In my humble opinion, there are so many determining factors in growing plants; ambient temperature, humidity, location, over-waterer/under-waterer, potting mixes etc. I think the best way to grow plants is by trial and error. Also, I prefer getting information from my favourite plant youtuber, uhum Fern!!! and plant friends. Another great video, sweet girl!
You're so sweet to me Lyne 🥰🥰
The fern substrate is what needs altering for people who are underwaterers. I have my ferns purely on coco coir and light perlite. The roots are fine so I think that's why they tend to dry out in chunky substrate. I also am a huge fan of "basic" and "common" plants even after 25 years of cultivating my little personal collection. They and tried and true and survivors perfect for all plant parents!
Great point! And me too, common plants are common for a reason (most of the time haha!)
I have a large asparagus fern and they take abuse well! They have fat tubers, related to edible asparagus. I water once every 2-3 weeks.
Amazing!!
I had two zebra plants the original green one and the white one. Yes they are thirsty plants constantly needs watering otherwise the leaves just flops down. I eventually got rid of them kept giving me fungas gnats cause they need there soil moist.
Oooof - doesn't sound very fun lol.
Great video! Yes I was fooled by the marketing of the rubber tree as low light! But thankfully i figured out it needs high light. I still have it after 3 years- it just won’t grow in low light.
I was fooled too! Learned that one the hard way haha.
Great video, loved the concept
i had a zebra plant years ago, it produced the big yellow bract flowers which was the best because i wasn't even aware at the time that it flowered, lol. i didn't find it difficult tho.
I am an underwaterer also, but asparagus ferns do indeed need to be moist constantly. Mine was doing better without drainage holes even
for real?? i am an underwaterer and I kill any kind of fern but since asparagus isnt an actual fern i got no issues with that one
@@hellandbackbaby3442 same. Mine does fine with inconsistent watering. Right, not actually a fern
Hey fern!! Idk if this would get amazing views but you be willing to do a video about some of your favourite plants that aren’t common here on the UA-cam space? Would love to see some new plant recommendations ❤️❤️
I’ve got a fuzzy plant that I think is a goldfish plant and it’s not doing well.
I enjoyed this video very much. I have been growing houseplants for over 30 years now and I still look at the "plants for beginners" lists, as I like a plant that's resilient.
😍😍In the last one you showed, the ones labelled "orchids" were phalaenopsis, which is one of the easiest flowering plants to grow you'll ever find.They're easier than African Violets and I think, nicer looking. I buy mine for very little at Trader Joes and grow them under grow lights as my apartment is very dark. Usually they bloom for a couple of months. They also rebloom without much difficulty, although you have to be patient. About 25 to 33 percent of them will die completely after flowering, sometimes while in bloom, but you could do worse for 6.99 US. If you paid more they might be more reliable.
Both orchids and violets always eventually die on me. I’m done.
@@ChessieChess There's always cacti, so,e even bloom.; )
The only reason I have a money tree, is because I saw that if you put them across a mirror, it's good luck.
And I like the look of them, so why not. I love how their new leaves come in
Omg Fern, what is the lip color?! Stunning 💕
Fr. She looks beautiful, suits her perfectly.
thank you so much 🥺 it's "warrior" by black moon cosmetics
Ferns are easy IF. If you use a wicking system or self watering pot. I have 4, including the 2 Divas, also known as Maidenhair ferns. One went crispy and into the death spiral. Being an African Violet aficionado, I immediately set up a wicking system. Then all 4 of my ferns on wicks. All of them lush and green, no brown tips. Go to any swamp in Florida, you will see Ferns galore.
I'm impressed at anyone who can keep a maidenhair happy! Self watering is the way to go.
That’s interesting that the orchid is considered hard! I do almost nothing for my phaelaenopsis orchid, I just thoroughly run water through the mix every 3-4 weeks, make sure all the roots are nice and wet, and it gives me new growth super consistently. I can neglect it too and it is living it’s best life. They do need light though, I have mine in bright indirect light.
My sister got a zebra plant, tiny, super cute. She missed one watering (she was traveling) and when I came to water her plants it looked absolutely dead. Fainted, bent over, limp… because I’ve had fottonias I said.. oh well maybe… so I repotted her (the soil was terrible and super compact), gave her a good drink and left it by the window. I didn’t think it would make it but it totally revived and is doing well now! Not a humid house also, so I’d say good light and not to let it dry completely and that seems to do the trick
Amazing that you were able to revive it! Thanks for sharing 🫶
I’m having trouble with my zebra plant. The leaves are curling under. It’s moist, near a grow light. Still putting out new leaves. I have a give inch stem with four damaged leaves at the top with two tiny leaves waving their arms. It’s starting to look silly. But you’ve restored my faith. It’s fairly newly pitted but the soil is not that chunky. (Gets better each time I make it.)
They love their water. If you’re late to water they will wilt. After a watering mine perks back up Mine sits right next to the humidifier. (Zebra Plant).
Hello! Fern tip: I put my asparagus fern in more compact soil and a glazed pot without a drainage, and it's thriving being watered once a week
Amazing, I feel I need one haha
I adore my Peace Lily! She's a lifeguard for the others, and has been relatively easy to get her to truly flourish which has helped me to gain confidence. Big bushy girl makes me very happy, she lives in some nice indirect light though.
I am currently trying to convince my mother in law (!) that the giant plant she calls a "Monsteria" in my front garden is actually a Split Leaf Philodendron but she refuses to believe me.
Haven’t heard of red spot. It’s quite lovely.
O I was also wondering if peace lilies would bloom in a low light situation, and I rather doubt it.
my asparagus fern doesn't complain about her water whatsoever. i kept her in her nursery pot for over a year and switched to a thrown terracotta last year which has given me a ton of happy, huge growth. i only water once a week. i guess if you want it extremely bushy and fluffy then you'd want to water more to encourage a bunch of growth? i prefer to trim mine like a bonsai. :-)
I adore mine. She is getting near 7 feet long. She has red berries in the winter. She rarely dries out and I don’t water her much. She has tubers like zz that hold water
spider plants are genuinely terrifying. I used to live down the street from this dilapidated house and the front garden was nothing but spider plants, like decades of them
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I saw a commercial for a plant app that you look at the plant with the app and it tells you what is wrong with the plant lol. It looked at a fiddle leaf fig with big brown spots and said plant is sick give it coffee!!! Say what!?!
Hahahah. Haven't heard that one before.
Love this video idea !! A series would be cool 💚
Such a nice, fun, chill video. Thanks!✨
With the asparagus fern,I have to disagree,I’m in a very hot dry city in Australia and the grow on their own,every house used to grow them around the outdoors toilet to give more privacy,the have those long water holding rhizome things like a spider plant! We have one growing at the back of the shed right now,and it takes over if you don’t get rid of it! So I’m not sure about the water part???
If you want to get a fern I feel like you would love a blue star Fern, they are hardy and have that blue hue you love!
They are so gorgeous!! I'm always eyeing them up at the store, but I've never had one before 👀
I loveee your makeup 😍 what’s the name of the lipstick you used if you don’t mind me asking ?
Thank you!! It's the shade "Warrior" by black moon cosmetics.
Put this video on again in the background while doing stuff around the house.. and had a moment of "wow, pre-lockdown, I would have never been entertained by this" and now I'm like "pssh, that's obviously an Adansonii, not a Philodendron!!" 😂😂😂
Hahahah exactlyyyy
I got a free small zebra plant with a $50 purchase at my local plant shop and it did not last 2 months. I swear I was one day behind on watering and an entire leaf crisped up and fell off.
Oh nooo hahah
I agree with tradescantia being difficult! I’ve killed a few of them now!
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With regards to "air purifying" - the air definitely smells more "fresh" in a house with a lot of plants, but I think it's from the extra moisture in the air.
This was great! That first list definitely forgot to add (any) pothos tho...
Asparagus ferns definitely don’t need to be wet all the time I took that advice and lost half of mine. Now it’s grown back and I let it dry out half way with decent light
Yeah asparagus ferns need to be kept moist. I’ve got mine on top of my humidifier.
Hey Fern! Really enjoyed your vid. I’d love to hear your opinion of a current ‘Most Wanted Rare Houseplants’! I agree that a few on their list were a bit outdated. Maybe a future video idea? Just rare or harder to find plants that you personally love or that you think the plant community is really going after lately!!
Great suggestion! Thank you for watching :)
The peace lily is a great plant. I’m wanting the domino. I’ve got it on my wish list.
They are great plants 🙌
What are we having for dinner? Loved this video. I’m happy that my ficus are happy
My zebra plant is very much like a prace lily and is DRAMATIC when she wants water. Other than that, she is easy. Slow grower but fun to have
Asparagus fern THRIVES on neglect. Highly recommend.
Omg 👀 amazing to hear
So true
Earliest I’ve been 💗 I love your content!!
Very interesting Fern!
Thanks for watching :)
I love my mini jade; ITS SO CUTE!!! You have to add props to make it full or it can look scraggly. But worth trying; they don't take up a lot of space!
String of hearts loves humidity and needs water! 💦 .
My heart hurts for Phil in a dark corner :(
Ohhh cute - I've never seen a mini jade before, I will have to keep my eye out. Thank you for watching :)
Hi Fern, our big box stores don’t even label the plants, only putting something on the tag like succulent, or where the plant comes from and you have to get online and try to identify it from random pictures. I am not happy with that. My sister just received a gift plant and it was labeled Swiss cheese plant. I told her it was a Monstera.😢
Ugh it' so annoying how they do that!
The air purifying thing I think also has to do with it being in a small closed off space, like a space ship, plus a lot of plants. Kinda cool to think about plants in space haha😂
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Please PLEASE don't let orchids intimidate you! The only reason people have trouble with orchids is that a big chunk of care instructions are very wrong (Ice on roots for example). I watched a few of miss orchid girl's videos on here when I discovered her a couple years back. She made the difference. I was against orchids because of their reputation for being killable, but now I've got close to 20.Ilove them and seeing them reblooming through winter has helped to tide me till spring when I can dig! I really think you'll fall head over heels for orchids once you get a little bit of experience and guidance.
Love Miss Orchid Girl. However orchids don’t love me.
a fern rec for fern: a rabbit’s foot fern is more tolerant of underwatering because it’s an epiphyte. plus it has paws, which is both creepy and adorable
I love mine and I think Fern would love one… the paws climbing over the edge are everything
all my tradescantia are the easiest plants for me, i am on the over water side of course, but even in my bad times when i kinda neglected them, they were super fine, didnt expected them in that list 😂
Right haha! I was so surprised to see it on there 👀they grow like weeds!
I loved mine and it died after six months.
My zebra plant is constantly losing leaves and now the leaves are curling even the new one.
Nice change up on the video. ❤ I feel like a plant snob judging those odd picks, but I was agreeing with most all your critiques. Except I do think Monstera are not easy to grow. Ahhhh I said it! It’s so hard to top 10 or 20 anything with plants, because there are always way too many factors to consider. And soooooo many plants to choose from. 💚 🪴
At 17 mins I don’t think that’s a gloriosum 😂 fun video hehehe
Nope it's a glorious hahah, I didn't even notice!
you know what you said about the maranta and the edges crisping could possibly be bc of the water quality and i feel like i definitely agree. i freaking looove marantas and calatheas in general really. i think we all do but like sometimes the care can be a bit much on certain kinds BUT i felt like i was doing everything right to keep up with the last maranta i had and it just ended up crisping and dying off even tho it was getting bright light and pretty consistent waterings 🥲🥲🥲 maybe they are just a plant thats sensitive to those kind of things. sucks bc everytime i look at a lemon-lime maranta, i want it so bad but i know that it'll just do that bc i've tried twice 🥲🥲🥲
Awwww yeah they seem to be really picky with water 😩
Third times the charm. I have killed many plants. Especially string of pearls. I killed two of them. Third one is growing, still. I put it in my west facing window sill. It thrived. Then I had to pull if from the window sill and forgot about light on the top. The strings were ok but the top was dying. I put it u see a grow light and I see new growth. It is possible to learn from past failures.
Hi it’s me again,after watching the whole video, lol.
I think I will keep taking your advice Fern,and a few other planty UA-camrs!! 😅
Very interesting video! 💚🪴 Natalie
I enjoyed this video. You can tell by the number of comments I make. Lol 😂
This is so funny to me because I am a blog and article writer, so I write stuff like this for work. Honestly, most of the time it's not about being correct. It's about writing content that will hit numbers and make money. Using certain keywords in a certain amount of word count, etc. etc.
But, I try to only write stuff that I would personally agree on and advice people as a houseplant owner.
I feel like they definitely make a difference in the air in the home not sure of the purifying part but anytime anyone enters my jungle they say it feels and smells "fresh" lol 😂 whatever that means
It's like landing in a tropical destination 🏝
A couple months ago I bought a pot full of rhaphidophora tetrasperma (like 5 or 6 well rooted stems) labelled as “philodendron adansonii” 🤡
Oh man hahah 🤦♀
Have a great weekend!!! See you in your next video!!
Thank you so much & you too!! 🥰
Lol I heard that snake plants were “the best air purifiers”!!😂
I've heard that too lol!!
Don´t worry about Asparagus, angel, once it´s rooted it doesn´t need much watering. Love your video! Much love to Olive! XX (P.S. Can´t wait for your Aurea!)
Thank you, that is great to know ☺️ and me too!! I keep checking it to see if the variegation has developed more.
I just died over the adonsonii labeled as a philo!! AND low/light little water!!!! Nothing true about any of that! 😮 💀 I had to pause the video to write this comment! 😂
The pretty dainty ferns need a lot of humidity in my experience or else they get crispy....
I’ve grown huge asparagus plants outside on my front porch… in Arizona.. you probably can get away with not watering it as often as they say.. 🤷♀️lol. 😂😂
Orchids are SO easy! Don't be fooled.
Zebra plants are EASY! I carried one through a move. It lived in storage, then on a truck, later in a bin, and was beautiful!
Dolphin and goldfish plants are EZ. I have both and love them.
☆☆☆☆☆TIP: If you have crispy edges on your plants because you use tap its likelychlorine. I set the tap water under the sink in a container for a while, like 3 days or more, to let the chlorine dissipate before using it! Huge difference!
What a fun idea!
Thank you ☺️ thought it would be fun to try something different!
“Most types of Philodendron can tolerate dark corners and very little watering. "They like to be on the dry side," says Sharon Nejman, Senior Horticulturist at Chicago Botanic Garden, so don't fill the watering can more than once per week.”💀💀💀 literally dead. This whole thing kills me
How can she say likes it dry and water once a week in the same sentence 🤦🏻♀️ people really be out here watering ever other day👀
My asparagus fern lives water! She’s a wonderful grower but I wouldn’t underwater her I would be so scared😅
The favourite "marketing" tip I've seen about plants is that they help to "remove dust". By that, they meant that the dust settles on the leaves instead of your furniture and it's easier to dust off.... 🙄
Omg hahaha yes that is ridiculous 😂
14:33 i got my fully rooted obliqua for 30$ at a swap
What a fun video! I’ve never been into monstera deliciosas until I went to Hawaii because they were absolutely massive and flowering, but I still don’t own one 😂❤️
omg I would loooove to see them in the wild - how fun! I've been to Hawaii but sadly wasn't into plants at the time ugh so sad lol
Ficus lyrata variegata is cool
They're sooo cool. I can't imagine how hard they are to care for though lol.
Happy weekend Fern 🌿💗 That was a fun video!!
Happy weekend Natasha 💚💖🌿
@@wildfern thank you 🥰🌿🦋
No way. Asparagus fern ( that's not a fern) is quite dry tolerant and suffer from root rot. They wrote a whole site's page of BS. My A.setaceus like slightly moist soil and I look after that plant for a while and them use to push out new fronds when the soil is strarting to dry a bit
That is not even a gloriosum. Its a glorious
You're right haha! I didn't even notice. I feel a glorious would have been more fitting for the list, they should have went with that 🤪
Yeah hahahah. Yo Fern i really idolize your el choco. Mine is not yet climbing
I just threw my ornada out. I watered it with distilled water. Never let it dry out. Great soil custom mix. Not too sunny, not too shady. Next to a humidifier running 24/7. No pests. Had a bunch of ugly yellow spots. Caletheas are divas. Never buying them again.
Asparagus ferns are not actual ferns, so good housekeeping had that right but they absolutely don’t need to have moist soil at all times.
There’s some true in this sites,but every one has a different outcome anyway,
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TDIL that I don't even have houseplants, because I don't have a monstera lol. I just don't have the space. One day though...
And someone a botanist put their name to this 😂😂😂
Asparagus ferns drop leaves constantly in hot rooms
I know you say that columnea are easy but despite I having a lot of plants and a low causality rate, I have killed two columneas. Granted it was early in my houseplant journey and they were tiny plants, but I have never killed something so quickly with the exception of a piper parmatum. Can grow Hoya and aroids fine, but those goldfish plants just didn’t want to live. 😂
Also, if your struggling with a Venus fly trap and watering with tap water I’d guess that’s your problem. Carnivorous plants can’t tolerate minerals in water. It has nothing to do with water quality. You may already know this but you did say you water everything with tap and that’s generally an issue with carnivorous plants.
Maybe I just got lucky with the columnea. And that could definitely have been the case with the Venus fly trap!
Monstera deliciosa was my first houseplant so yeah definitely a staple.
I would be very interested in your selections if you had made these lists!
Well it’s a top 20 rare plants.
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