A little something interesting I would love to see in your videos…! A little pop-up at the beginning across the bottom that says something like “11:30am - 24° - 67% Humidity - Sunny - Sydney, Australia” or something like that. I always wonder what it’s like in your beautiful garden and in Sydney in your videos!
Maiden hair ferns are so misunderstood. They do perfectly fine indoors with normal humidity. The problem is that people water them like normal plants, where is what you need to do is to keep their pot in a tray with water, grow them in self watering pots or in semi hydro set up because they are very thirsty. Second thing people get wrong is, when people buy them and bring them home for the first time, these ferns usually kill off all of their leaves and people think that they are dead. In reality the roots of ferns are extremely resilient, so what these plants do is kill the leaves that are used to one type of environment and grow new ones that are used to new environment. All you need to do is cut off dead stems, keep in watered at all times and it will grow back. Ive grown these ferns in 35% humidity and they did fine.
Spot on. They definitely do prefer the high humidity, but they're a lot more resilient than people realize. I've never once seen a maidenhair fall to root rot.
I’m from Malaysia where Nepenthes can often be found growing alongside highways… which should offer a clue on why Nepenthes are not really suitable as houseplants. They are not jungle plants are prefer to grow in exposed areas with plenty of sunlight. That said I dont have a garden so I do have a shelf full of them growing under powerful grow lights.
I have colocasia regal shield that has been growing in my living room for almost a decade! She is huge, blooms every year, and has never gotten bugs. She is stunning and loves the direct California afternoon sun
Marantas: I 2 have 3,5 years old marantas grown from a cutting. I use beneficial mites several times a year, Lechuza pon, self-watering pots, 60 % humidity, filtered water. They are gianormous - about 3 m2 and bloom from March till November, most blooms are in spring and summer. They are great indoor plants if one gives them what they want 🙂 Here (Czech Republic, EU) they would freeze outside in winter.
Experienced houseplant collector here. Often, your content provides me with helpful reminders, and always with enjoyable content. Today though, you got me! I didn’t know that yellow and white BOP have different growth habits/potentials. I have both varieties at home, and my white BOP is certainly reaching levels that are not long term feasible. I’m so sad that I’ll have to let it go. But! On the bright side, from the sound of it, maybe my yellow ones can stay forever? Fingers crossed! Anyhow, thanks for teaching even this seasoned enthusiast something new! Until the next one!
I think a lot of those you mentioned not only need good light, but actually thrive on a bit of sunshine, being planted in ground, and extra air movement.💚🌝💛🌞
I commented a few months ago looking for advice to help my coffee tree thrive. I wanted to let you know that I used your substrate recipe and just added a lot of extra tree fern fibre and now it’s shooting the lights out! It’s so much fuller and nearly touching our ceiling. It’s in a very large north facing window and we have very long daylight hours over summer which it is loving. Some trees don’t mind being inside 😂
I think that for those of us who live in areas that are too cold for most tropical plants that there is wisdom in taking them outside for the summer. I always take my coffee plant, several different philodendrons, Hoyas, calathea/stromanthe, and cacti/succulents outside. I find that they grow better, and have prettier leaves when I bring the back inside. This year, I ended up leaving some of them out until the temperatures started dropping into the low 40s F, though most were back inside by the low 50s F. I think there is a lot to be said about natural air flow. Thank you for sharing your insights regarding this subject.
I LOVE cacti, but also most of my windows are in the roof, so the prime real estate on my only two windowsills belongs to the cacti. As a result, all my foliage plants must be okay with not having bright light, and that's how I chose them. My zz plant is a giant octopus-like monster, my monstera and aglaonemas are lush and beautiful, and my ficus and dracaena are growing fine. In the end, it's as you said: selecting the right plants for your conditions.
Hey Jan lustigerweise sind Kakteen für mich perfekte draußen Pflanze ich habe einen Süd Seiten Balkon in Köln, der im Sommer brutal heiß wird, da die Wärme an der Blech Hauswand/Konstruktion so stark reflektiert. Es gibt wenige Blattpflanzen die der Sommerhitze Wiederstehen können und daher bin ich auf Kakteen gekommen. Ich mochte deinen Rat total gerne sich die Pflanze nach der Umgebung auszusuchen :)
In my experience, as long as you're giving a maidenhair fern enough light, you can't really overwater it. People tend to think "a fern, great, let me stick it in my darkest corner and drown it," and then it doesn't have enough light/energy to actually use that water, or have enough energy to outpace the turnover of the dying fronds. I had a massive maidenhair fern growing in 40% humidity, with bright indirect from a Southern window (Northern hemisphere) and treated it as the excess water dump for all my other plants. Anything left in a tray after watering got put on that maidenhair, and it loved it.
I was wondering earlier today, if I should water my fern again, but didn't because the soil still seemed quite moist. Maybe I'll put some water in the saucer anyways.
I grow a few cacti rather well (some bloom in spring) at 59 lat N in Norway. Caveats - the large plants are on a SE (equivalent to NE for Australia) windowsill and get put into dry hibernation in winter because otherwise they'd etiolate and be sad. They go outdoors for the light in the summer. Also, the small ones I have recently bought a 1000 fc grow light and they seem to be incredibly happy. I suppose in a way, this proves your point - they either get their summer sun outside, or a pro light indoors. They'd be rather sad and suffering without.
Maidenhair fern is one of my favorite plants. Growing up in San Diego, CA USA, it grew like a weed outside in my late father's shade house. I have tried so many times over the decades to grow it indoors. I have never been successful for more than a few months. Hoya are one of my fav indoor plants, along with snake plants in medium light, not low light. And I love cast iron plants.
I live in Canada and I agree with your list. I have had luck with bird of paradise by letting it live outdoors for 6 months then it comes in for fall and winter, they just don’t get that large here in our climate but appear healthy nonetheless. Also I seem to be the succulent whisperer. They live outside in the shade until it gets cold and then they live in a windowsill or under a grow light and they are absolutely thriving, I propagate and gift them like crazy, all varieties. They seem to like whatever is happening around here 😊
I completely get it when you say to give the plants the best conditions! I live in Houston, and keep all my plants outside. They get massive and display worthy within a year. Once in a blue moon we'll get a freeze in the winter forcing me to bring them inside.
Orchids. I so wanted to grow an orchid indoors, but the moment i bring them in they're miserable. I just moved from south coast nsw to NE vic and so many of my plants have gone to the compost bin as they just do not like the cold. 😥 I'm working on re establishing what plants work for me in my new climate. Thanks for the tips as always! 🍃
Agree with you on a lot of these. I only have one of your 10 in my house, the Thaumatophyllum. It’s a baby right now and I adore it. I’ll decide later what to do with it when it gets wide! lol! I would love to hear more about what plants you think don’t and do thrive well inside! This was fascinating!!!
Tradescantia. It hated it in my house. She loves the Louisiana weather. lol she’s my small greenhouse on my patio for the winter (such that it is since we’ve still got a daily swing from 45-77 degrees).
You struggling with that plant outside is hilarious, because it *perfectly* illustrates your entire point. No plant should have us bent over, heaving for breath, and we wrestle it out of a pot. I love your videos - thank you for all you do!
Okay if you want a beast of an alocasia yes in size but in growing, the Regal Shield is the one.. it’s winter here and it’s throwing out new leaves before the leaves that just came out are hardening off. I do have it in a southern window (I live in US, state of TN) and I did have it under one of those ring grow lights that you just stake into the pots soil just to extend daylight hrs but to slow it down took it out but it didn’t work as it’s growing like crazy
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your video's. You are also one of the few youtubers that always responds to comments. Ps: Give Brad some nice petsies from me. 😊
Thank you for the video, Jan. I probably wouldn't get any plant that needs steep drop in temperature at night, like a highland nepenthes or dracula orchids,, for example. You absolutely need a dedicated room, a good size terrarium or a grow tent for it. Which I don't and don't want to have, because of the running cost and the fact that in such a case I can't admire my plants from my comfy sofa. As for Strelitzias, at a plant fair in Ulm, Germany, I saw some dwarf forms, perfectly suitable for indoor growing. Means they get to be only around 150 cm/5 feet tall when fully grown up. Not exactly small but certainly smaller than a Nikolai.
The problem I have growing bird of paradise outdoors is the wind rips the leaves apart and it looks terrible. Do you not get a lot of very windy storms? I’m assuming you don’t get hurricanes in Sydney. Also B.O.P. grow a lot of roots really quickly outside. Every year I used to pull them out of their pots, saw off half of the roots, and then repot them…. anyway, the Alocasia I totally agree, except for the A. ‘Regal Shields’. that one grows great for me indoors. (although bringing it outdoors during the summer months, really helps it to grow huge leaves.) The only thing I found that helps with Alocasia a bit is providing heat, humidity and supplemental light by growing them in black plastic pots, which helps keep the soil warmer and more moist. Also they’ve grown well for me in giant empty fish tank terrariums with a heat stone. Also, my olive tree. I love it however, I do have to bring outdoors during the summer. this past year, I didn’t, and it literally didn’t grow the entire year inside. I look at it and I wonder is it still alive and just mummified or self preserved lol … definitely need to put it in a lighter pot and bring it outdoors every summer. Oh and maiden hair ferns will literally be the death of me… They’re just SOOO pretty! “they’re just dying really slowly” 😬😬😬😂😂😂
I have an Xanadu and I put it outside for summer and growth increases. I notice it had scale but it still is growing. I have one bird of paradise and it’s no where near your height, I wish. My winter is short so I think that’s how it has survived during the winter season but you are right, it won’t reach full potential indoors.
A couple of years ago I got an Euphorbia as a present from a friend. It was already pretty large - about 80cm tall. Back then I was living in The Netherlands in an apartment on the top floor with a southwest facing windows with almost nothing shading the space. The room had loads of light and sun. It was growing like crazy. Then I moved to an apartment on first floor in a dense neighborhood and the plant didn’t do anything but didn’t die either. Now I have southeast facing windows with nothing shading the room and it’s growing again! Even in a cold December weather in Slivakia. I struggle with calatheas and ficus elastica though.
Superbbbb videos. I have been binging on them for a while now. Can you please make a video on your green house, all of it. Like the technical aspects, hardware , set up and the plants plz 😅😅
I appreciate your tips and trick 😊 and I love your perspective when it comes to growing plants. It'sike having pets, you know?? If you're not gonna provided it with the best conditions available to you, why get it just to say you have it 🤷🏻♀️ if most plant enthusiast though that way, maybe the poaching and endangering of some specimens would not happen. Thank you so much! I love your videos, your beautiful garden and of course your car 😊😺 greetings from Texas!!!
I feel a lot of plants would thrive outdoors versus indoors. In Missouri the winters prevent me from growing plants outdoors year round so I have to be mindful of the plants I care for. I do wish I could grow most of them outside but I’m sure the survival rate would be lower. I have succulents and cacti but some are in a south facing window and the others are under grow lights.i grew a fiddle indoors and it outgrew my space. I do notice a difference when growing my ficus burgundy outdoors in the summer the grow is crazy and receives full sun during that time.
I do say i actually 100% agree with you on all of these. I do have ficus and Jade Indoors, and i couldn't part with either atm as I've grown both pretty large. However, they don't look as nice as the outdoor grown versions.
For me the worst plant to keep inside is Tradescantia zebrina that's the Ultimate-Weed for me! I absolutely hate it, once I threw on pot from the window in the winter time because the plant was absolutely awful and I was over it's leggy look, and in the spring time that pest had covered my garden... so it refuses to leave in ambient conditions but it thrives after 3 months with negative temperatures outside... Logic- non.
I kind of disagree. I've had them indoors and outdoors in a variety of light conditions. If you like them to be deep purple, then outdoors is better, but I've found the ones right at the back of my balcony or indoors, hiding from the grow lights under other leaves, are the most beautiful, sparkly green and silver with bits of purple that literally look like they were painted on with rough brush strokes. The ones at the back of my balcony in very low light are constantly flowering and are the most beautiful. When they get leggy, you just cut them. They grow so fast.
Crotons don’t like to be inside, in my opinion, but can’t survive our Canadian winter outdoors, also flowering plants that need direct sun, like cannas, I cut mine down and pulled the bulbs for next year, (Edit: typed before you mentioned these lol soo… agreed!!) my cordyline ti red hated being indoors too, I love you’ve started hopping on your heals like Gordon Ramsey when you’re accentuating a point 😂❤ don’t stop! I don’t have any prayer plants… at all, not for me inside, nor out lol My limited succulents def go outside in the summer
Another Canadian here…I have a Croton that has only been indoors in a south facing window. It has been the easiest plant in my collection. Guess that proves that what works for one, doesn’t necessarily work for others 😉
@ no way! I had mine under a really good grow lamp, it did ok for a while… but dropped leaves like crazy till it went out for the summer, probably just my care then!
Marantha/Calethea: add a sachet of beneficial/predatory mites every month or so and the problem is also effortlessly solved 😊 I cant grow cacti and succulents (not enough light) Im growing Plumeria from seed… (but they are getting huge so Ill have to rehome them) I gave my Alocasias away, most of them anyway, after rehabbing them in a growtent (they love growtents, grow large so fast… but take up too much real estate in there)
Any advice if I need to repot a peperomia pilea can I plant it in succulent mix? I’ve run out of potting mix and don’t want to buy a whole new bag. What brand of potting mix do you recommend? Also in Sydney ☀️🪴🎄🎉💚
Your reasoning makes good sense. I avoid plants that are prone to pests. Too lazy to do battle. I have never thought of growing Cannas inside. I actually quit outside also. The Japanese Beetles have devoured their leaves the last couple of years (Iowa, US). Plus their rhizomes just multiply, so I don’t know what to do with them in the fall. Great video. Thank you.
I think some of the smaller, shade-loving heliconias like 'Red Christmas' would probably be fantastic indoors, - not sure if they would flower, but they're winter-flowering, so maybe - but they might have the same spider mite issue as your cannas. Spider mites went absolutely crazy on my Heliconia rostrata and ignored my velvety aroids and marantas and the only other affected plant was Goeppertia warszewiczii, but it was pretty much restricted to three or four leaves. They left the G. makoyana alone too.
yeeeeyyy. I finaly heard you say something in german, I was wondering how you would sound when you do it. P.S. cactus is the only plant that constantly dies on me, no matter how much I neglect it 🤷♀
Oh nice Mr.Tims garden looks really really nice...wonder where he found he's landscape design specialist? 😅..love the staghorn ferns on his fence..surprise you don't have any...
Thanks :) I never really gotten into them ... but maybe one day !! Tims garden is growing like crazy every day !!1 It's going to be so beautiful by the end of the season :)
My melanochrysum got thrown outside to die or thrive after much frustration. It has taken a turn for the better. It is under hard cover but definitely prefers me not looking at it and fussing over it...go figure!!
What's your climate? I'm in Brisbane and I'm wondering if mine can stay on my balcony all winter or will need to come in during the middle of the year. That's the problem with having plants that were rare until recently ... I can't look around and see them in gardens and parks to be sure of what they can handle. I've heard they're pretty tough and the main issue is just the sizing-up and mine is absolutely racing up the pole - basically completely covered a 90cm pole (minus pot depth) in six weeks, which is insane.
@demidron. I live in Northam WA so hot dry summer 42C tomorrow and most the rest of the week, We have a mostly mild winter but we do get a few weeks over winter where it will drop to minus 5 overnight and very frosty. I put it outside over winter but it is under hard cover so didn't get direct frost on it, since spring hit it has started to grow better than it ever has. It's on a plastic backed grow vertical moss pole!! Seems to enjoy frequent hose drenchings which it never got inside. I liquid fertiliser after I have drenched it now!!
@@moiraslater8526 Thanks! A lot more extremes than we get in Brisbane, so I feel pretty confident that it'll be fine on my balcony which is pretty sheltered. I'll just have to make sure it doesn't scorch when the sun gets deeper in in winter, but a bit more light will probably do it good. Thanks!
Has been a wishlist plant for me, went for the smaller Thaumatophyllum Bipinnatifidum 'Little Hope' myself in the hopes that it will not block me out of my room one day 😆
If you grow them next to a tree, they use it as support ... they don't climb with their stem against a tree, but they shoot roots at a tree nearby and hold on and they can get really tall.
Merci 😊 ! Oui pour tous vos commentaires, en particulier pour les succulentes, trop souvent "souffre-fouleur" de personnes qui les traitent comme des bibelots de décoration 😏. Encore merci pour chacune de vos vidéos instructives, ludiques... et caresses à Brad ! 💚🍀
Im growing 2 Nepenthes in Arizona in my house and they are pitchering like crazy. But I was careful to pick an upland species that was a bit less picky on humidity My average daily humidity is 19%
Literally had my sister and her MiL nag me about not keeping my plants inside. I was told they were “indoor plants” i was like these are tropical plants and I live in Florida! They’re outdoor plants! All plants are!
Why im hear is about succulents and cacti. Yeah, most of them aren't good indoor plants. But Seprivivums and sedums usually grow anywere as long as there is light and something to root into i saw someone growing them in carpet on his shed roof to make a cheap improvised green roof in a rainy area they were growing next to moss he also seeded the carpet with. I can grow them outside where i live so usually do but someone in a colder area then me with a sunny window could easily grow those and aloes in it. Also holiday cacti are kinda idiot proof ive had a few die on me but thats always been because something decides they look tasty. Im having to rebuild my plant collection do to an unfortunate series of events typing, this made me wanna grab some new plants. Ill probably just go find another pothos veriaty i dont have till i have room for another tc order in my conversion tank i currently have 30ish plants in it and pothos can hold me back from stupid impulse orders till i have ether the room free or the money for a big order. Maybe i should try maidens hair ferns again though. I've gotten some good tips for them in the comments, so that was cool.
I agree with no more cactus indoor, although I do enjoy my ric rac ( jungle) cactus that seams to do well hanging in the window. As for outdoor plants, ive taken my potted colocasia out for summer but now watch as they suffer indoors. Alive but not thriving large and beautiful, despite taking up huge real estate 😹
I will say that grow lights are so cheap now, which makes succulents super easy to grow. I have some beautiful succulents that are thriving. I would share a few photos but you can't on UA-cam, but led light panels are so cheap now. They introduce other issues, but they make succulents easy to grow indoors.
Im still so curious what that dark red looking plant at the top left corner at the end of the video is. I dont think you said anything about it in the plant tour :c
Once when I was walking around in the glasshouses in the Berlin botanical garden, there was a couple walking around who I kept crossing paths with - a woman who was one of us, super excited to see everything and knowledgeable about the plants -and a guy who just really didn't care. At one point, he just said "Die sehen doch alle aus wie Zimmerpflanzen! 🙄" (tHeY aLL jUsT LoOk LiKe hOuSepLaNtS 🤡) and I was so close to interrupting. 🤣 Boy, you live somewhere cold!? I can imagine him on safari in Kenya: "They just look like zoo animals to me!?"
Your nepenthes is so huge! I have 7 growing inside and they pitcher for me just fine… but I blast them a veritable butt ton of grow lights. My Lady Luck has dark red leaves from sun stress, but the pitchers are huge and so healthy. They also eat a lot of dried blood worms and osmocote pellets 😂
@ I actually tend not to! I plant mine in long fiber sphagnum and I water them on Mondays and Fridays until it starts to drain into the tray. I worry a little about crown rot - my bigger ones I am okay misting occasionally but I avoid the crown! I do have two humidifiers going in my apartment and keep it relatively high! Always 60+ but often 70-75.
I’m not a botanist but I noticed that plants are like highways, with light, water, air as the main factors to keep the highway flow smoothly. Any time any of these elements are lacking, it’s like having a traffic jam. Once that happens a the plants get all wonky and start developing strange maladies. Like when I tried growing bird of paradise indoors. There just wasn’t enough light in my space even though it occupies the brightest spot, and as such their leaves just droop and finally it succumbs to pest. Also, colocasias just hate my space and I can never get them to take off.
Many people grow succulents successfully inside because they have bright windows or grow lights. You use grow lights for your aroids. How many of those would you grow inside without good light or grow lights>
Aroids require less lights than succulents & are more impactful indoors. With just 5-6 philos I can create a full greenwall .... 5-6 succulents would hardly make an impact but require more supplemental light.... so I stand by my choice haha :D
I brought my colocasias indoors (been out all summer) because it was starting to get cold. Noticed they had spider mites. Panicked and put them right back outside! I figured “well I’ll let the cold kill the plants off maybe they’ll come back next spring”. I’ve never had spider mites so I had no idea what to do. I’m mad that I may have just killed all my colocasia 😂
I sprayed my succulents with metho - denatured alcohol in 🇺🇸 I don’t like oil treatments for succulents. If your plant has no flowers or will be indoors where there are no bees you could use chemical pesticides 🪴
@ you are lucky with that!! It’s not /that/ cold where I live but can get down to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit on worst days. But I wanted to make sure the spider mites died LOL
I call myself denial by keeping my majesty palm indoor. She is gorgeous, I keep her by the window, she doesn't have new growth, and she is struggling with scale bug, I treat the scale like every week, and they keep coming back, and.... I still can't let my palm go outdoor 😭
I have a giant majesty palm with a couple of feet of trunk that I move outside in the shade about May and back inside in October. I have done this for 7 years and it looks great. Of course, I do not let it get frost exposure, but here in my area (Seattle), it can be quite cool even in the warm months and at night. They are water lovers and indoors I water it twice a week
One of my first houseplants was a ficus elastica, it was growing until it all stopped. My mother's neighbor have one under full sun, it is massive, even survives winter with minimal damage. Definitely not meant to be a houseplant.
3:25 I would not grow that species anywhere in a small urban garden, let alone indoors. Yes it looks lush and gorgeous now but in a few short years that will become an absolute beast and you will regret it.
Your nepenthes is so huge! I have 7 growing inside and they pitcher for me just fine… but I blast them a veritable fuck ton of grow lights. My Lady Luck has dark red leaves from sun stress, but the pitchers are huge and so healthy. They also eat a lot of dried blood worms and osmocote pellets 😂
Haha I've got 2 Strelitzia Nicolai in my living room, bought them last year. Probably can keep them going for one more season before I need to chop them back. Until then, great house plant 😂😂 edit: ceiling is 240cm high
Yes, but some are easier to trim while still getting the best out of them (e.g chop & extend with my moss pole plants) which isn’t really an option with the plants mentioned :)
You got two female nepenthes I believe. They don't need much humidity like people think, simply not enough light. Normal growlight is too weak for N.Rokko. You can try some "low light nepenthes" like n.Truncata.
A little something interesting I would love to see in your videos…! A little pop-up at the beginning across the bottom that says something like “11:30am - 24° - 67% Humidity - Sunny - Sydney, Australia” or something like that. I always wonder what it’s like in your beautiful garden and in Sydney in your videos!
Those numbers are probably spot on haha
That’s a great idea 😊
@@sydneyplantguyseriously this would be a great addition!
I agree! @@parkerdiaz6213
Maiden hair ferns are so misunderstood. They do perfectly fine indoors with normal humidity. The problem is that people water them like normal plants, where is what you need to do is to keep their pot in a tray with water, grow them in self watering pots or in semi hydro set up because they are very thirsty. Second thing people get wrong is, when people buy them and bring them home for the first time, these ferns usually kill off all of their leaves and people think that they are dead. In reality the roots of ferns are extremely resilient, so what these plants do is kill the leaves that are used to one type of environment and grow new ones that are used to new environment. All you need to do is cut off dead stems, keep in watered at all times and it will grow back. Ive grown these ferns in 35% humidity and they did fine.
Spot on. They definitely do prefer the high humidity, but they're a lot more resilient than people realize. I've never once seen a maidenhair fall to root rot.
I’m from Malaysia where Nepenthes can often be found growing alongside highways… which should offer a clue on why Nepenthes are not really suitable as houseplants. They are not jungle plants are prefer to grow in exposed areas with plenty of sunlight.
That said I dont have a garden so I do have a shelf full of them growing under powerful grow lights.
I have colocasia regal shield that has been growing in my living room for almost a decade! She is huge, blooms every year, and has never gotten bugs. She is stunning and loves the direct California afternoon sun
Marantas: I 2 have 3,5 years old marantas grown from a cutting. I use beneficial mites several times a year, Lechuza pon, self-watering pots, 60 % humidity, filtered water. They are gianormous - about 3 m2 and bloom from March till November, most blooms are in spring and summer. They are great indoor plants if one gives them what they want 🙂 Here (Czech Republic, EU) they would freeze outside in winter.
Experienced houseplant collector here. Often, your content provides me with helpful reminders, and always with enjoyable content. Today though, you got me! I didn’t know that yellow and white BOP have different growth habits/potentials. I have both varieties at home, and my white BOP is certainly reaching levels that are not long term feasible. I’m so sad that I’ll have to let it go. But! On the bright side, from the sound of it, maybe my yellow ones can stay forever? Fingers crossed! Anyhow, thanks for teaching even this seasoned enthusiast something new! Until the next one!
Glad it was helpful :) happy growing !
I think a lot of those you mentioned not only need good light, but actually thrive on a bit of sunshine, being planted in ground, and extra air movement.💚🌝💛🌞
For sure !!
I commented a few months ago looking for advice to help my coffee tree thrive. I wanted to let you know that I used your substrate recipe and just added a lot of extra tree fern fibre and now it’s shooting the lights out! It’s so much fuller and nearly touching our ceiling.
It’s in a very large north facing window and we have very long daylight hours over summer which it is loving. Some trees don’t mind being inside 😂
I think that for those of us who live in areas that are too cold for most tropical plants that there is wisdom in taking them outside for the summer. I always take my coffee plant, several different philodendrons, Hoyas, calathea/stromanthe, and cacti/succulents outside. I find that they grow better, and have prettier leaves when I bring the back inside. This year, I ended up leaving some of them out until the temperatures started dropping into the low 40s F, though most were back inside by the low 50s F. I think there is a lot to be said about natural air flow. Thank you for sharing your insights regarding this subject.
I do the same. I couldn’t have the big collection I have if I didn’t put most of them outside for the summer.
I LOVE cacti, but also most of my windows are in the roof, so the prime real estate on my only two windowsills belongs to the cacti. As a result, all my foliage plants must be okay with not having bright light, and that's how I chose them. My zz plant is a giant octopus-like monster, my monstera and aglaonemas are lush and beautiful, and my ficus and dracaena are growing fine. In the end, it's as you said: selecting the right plants for your conditions.
Hey Jan lustigerweise sind Kakteen für mich perfekte draußen Pflanze ich habe einen Süd Seiten Balkon in Köln, der im Sommer brutal heiß wird, da die Wärme an der Blech Hauswand/Konstruktion so stark reflektiert. Es gibt wenige Blattpflanzen die der Sommerhitze Wiederstehen können und daher bin ich auf Kakteen gekommen. Ich mochte deinen Rat total gerne sich die Pflanze nach der Umgebung auszusuchen :)
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In my experience, as long as you're giving a maidenhair fern enough light, you can't really overwater it. People tend to think "a fern, great, let me stick it in my darkest corner and drown it," and then it doesn't have enough light/energy to actually use that water, or have enough energy to outpace the turnover of the dying fronds. I had a massive maidenhair fern growing in 40% humidity, with bright indirect from a Southern window (Northern hemisphere) and treated it as the excess water dump for all my other plants. Anything left in a tray after watering got put on that maidenhair, and it loved it.
Great tips :)
I was wondering earlier today, if I should water my fern again, but didn't because the soil still seemed quite moist. Maybe I'll put some water in the saucer anyways.
I grow a few cacti rather well (some bloom in spring) at 59 lat N in Norway. Caveats - the large plants are on a SE (equivalent to NE for Australia) windowsill and get put into dry hibernation in winter because otherwise they'd etiolate and be sad. They go outdoors for the light in the summer. Also, the small ones I have recently bought a 1000 fc grow light and they seem to be incredibly happy.
I suppose in a way, this proves your point - they either get their summer sun outside, or a pro light indoors. They'd be rather sad and suffering without.
Maidenhair fern is one of my favorite plants. Growing up in San Diego, CA USA, it grew like a weed outside in my late father's shade house. I have tried so many times over the decades to grow it indoors. I have never been successful for more than a few months. Hoya are one of my fav indoor plants, along with snake plants in medium light, not low light. And I love cast iron plants.
I'm with you with Maidenhair fern - I love the look, but I've killed so many, trying to grow them indoors. I too love Hoyas!
You have such a nice personality
Totally agree. I often watch his videos when I'm low energy (easy to follow, interesting topic, nice guy) and he always cheers me up.
I live in Canada and I agree with your list. I have had luck with bird of paradise by letting it live outdoors for 6 months then it comes in for fall and winter, they just don’t get that large here in our climate but appear healthy nonetheless. Also I seem to be the succulent whisperer. They live outside in the shade until it gets cold and then they live in a windowsill or under a grow light and they are absolutely thriving, I propagate and gift them like crazy, all varieties. They seem to like whatever is happening around here 😊
I completely get it when you say to give the plants the best conditions! I live in Houston, and keep all my plants outside. They get massive and display worthy within a year. Once in a blue moon we'll get a freeze in the winter forcing me to bring them inside.
Orchids. I so wanted to grow an orchid indoors, but the moment i bring them in they're miserable.
I just moved from south coast nsw to NE vic and so many of my plants have gone to the compost bin as they just do not like the cold. 😥 I'm working on re establishing what plants work for me in my new climate.
Thanks for the tips as always! 🍃
Agree with you on a lot of these. I only have one of your 10 in my house, the Thaumatophyllum. It’s a baby right now and I adore it. I’ll decide later what to do with it when it gets wide! lol! I would love to hear more about what plants you think don’t and do thrive well inside! This was fascinating!!!
Thank you:)
Tradescantia. It hated it in my house. She loves the Louisiana weather. lol she’s my small greenhouse on my patio for the winter (such that it is since we’ve still got a daily swing from 45-77 degrees).
You struggling with that plant outside is hilarious, because it *perfectly* illustrates your entire point. No plant should have us bent over, heaving for breath, and we wrestle it out of a pot. I love your videos - thank you for all you do!
Your plants look so happy. I have plants I keep outdoors but then i have to find somewhere to store them indoors over the winter. Not ideal. 😅
Your videos are always so helpful and informative ❤
Totally agree!! So many plants prefer being outdoors. I am lucky to have good shady outdoor areas.
I agree with your choices. Great informative video! Plus, both babies! Hello, Bradders and Not Jessica! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks :)
Okay if you want a beast of an alocasia yes in size but in growing, the Regal Shield is the one.. it’s winter here and it’s throwing out new leaves before the leaves that just came out are hardening off. I do have it in a southern window (I live in US, state of TN) and I did have it under one of those ring grow lights that you just stake into the pots soil just to extend daylight hrs but to slow it down took it out but it didn’t work as it’s growing like crazy
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your video's. You are also one of the few youtubers that always responds to comments.
Ps: Give Brad some nice petsies from me. 😊
Thank you !!! :)
You have such a fun accent
Yeah he had a lot of variation in "plaaahnt" vs. "plänt" in this video 😅
Yeah he had a lot of variation in "plaaahnt" vs. "plänt" in this video 😅
Haha I pick and choose which one I use all the time 😂😂
Thanks for clarity of your thoughts and point wise explanation. I very much appreciate your work.
Thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful :)
Thank you for the video, Jan. I probably wouldn't get any plant that needs steep drop in temperature at night, like a highland nepenthes or dracula orchids,, for example. You absolutely need a dedicated room, a good size terrarium or a grow tent for it. Which I don't and don't want to have, because of the running cost and the fact that in such a case I can't admire my plants from my comfy sofa. As for Strelitzias, at a plant fair in Ulm, Germany, I saw some dwarf forms, perfectly suitable for indoor growing. Means they get to be only around 150 cm/5 feet tall when fully grown up. Not exactly small but certainly smaller than a Nikolai.
The problem I have growing bird of paradise outdoors is the wind rips the leaves apart and it looks terrible.
Do you not get a lot of very windy storms? I’m assuming you don’t get hurricanes in Sydney. Also B.O.P. grow a lot of roots really quickly outside. Every year I used to pull them out of their pots, saw off half of the roots, and then repot them…. anyway, the Alocasia I totally agree, except for the A. ‘Regal Shields’. that one grows great for me indoors. (although bringing it outdoors during the summer months, really helps it to grow huge leaves.)
The only thing I found that helps with Alocasia a bit is providing heat, humidity and supplemental light by growing them in black plastic pots, which helps keep the soil warmer and more moist. Also they’ve grown well for me in giant empty fish tank terrariums with a heat stone. Also, my olive tree. I love it however, I do have to bring outdoors during the summer. this past year, I didn’t, and it literally didn’t grow the entire year inside. I look at it and I wonder is it still alive and just mummified or self preserved lol … definitely need to put it in a lighter pot and bring it outdoors every summer. Oh and maiden hair ferns will literally be the death of me… They’re just SOOO pretty! “they’re just dying really slowly” 😬😬😬😂😂😂
Sydney can be veeeery windy but my garden is pretty sheltered :)
That transition is now in my top 5 on UA-cam!
Thanks :)
I have an Xanadu and I put it outside for summer and growth increases. I notice it had scale but it still is growing. I have one bird of paradise and it’s no where near your height, I wish. My winter is short so I think that’s how it has survived during the winter season but you are right, it won’t reach full potential indoors.
A couple of years ago I got an Euphorbia as a present from a friend. It was already pretty large - about 80cm tall. Back then I was living in The Netherlands in an apartment on the top floor with a southwest facing windows with almost nothing shading the space. The room had loads of light and sun. It was growing like crazy. Then I moved to an apartment on first floor in a dense neighborhood and the plant didn’t do anything but didn’t die either. Now I have southeast facing windows with nothing shading the room and it’s growing again! Even in a cold December weather in Slivakia. I struggle with calatheas and ficus elastica though.
Superbbbb videos. I have been binging on them for a while now. Can you please make a video on your green house, all of it. Like the technical aspects, hardware , set up and the plants plz 😅😅
Thanks :) have a full playlist on my greenhouse :)
I appreciate your tips and trick 😊 and I love your perspective when it comes to growing plants. It'sike having pets, you know?? If you're not gonna provided it with the best conditions available to you, why get it just to say you have it 🤷🏻♀️ if most plant enthusiast though that way, maybe the poaching and endangering of some specimens would not happen. Thank you so much! I love your videos, your beautiful garden and of course your car 😊😺 greetings from Texas!!!
Thank you :)
I feel a lot of plants would thrive outdoors versus indoors. In Missouri the winters prevent me from growing plants outdoors year round so I have to be mindful of the plants I care for. I do wish I could grow most of them outside but I’m sure the survival rate would be lower. I have succulents and cacti but some are in a south facing window and the others are under grow lights.i grew a fiddle indoors and it outgrew my space. I do notice a difference when growing my ficus burgundy outdoors in the summer the grow is crazy and receives full sun during that time.
I just bought a Ficus ruby 😍 I am also renting so might grow it in a big pot 🪴
Spot on. Thank you!
You're a much more considered and caring plant parent than many people are to their children...!!!
:D unfortunately that's probably true :/
Fun fact: Marantas are closely related to Heliconias. They are in the order Zingiberales.
I had no idea!! Cheers:)
I do say i actually 100% agree with you on all of these. I do have ficus and Jade Indoors, and i couldn't part with either atm as I've grown both pretty large. However, they don't look as nice as the outdoor grown versions.
For me the worst plant to keep inside is Tradescantia zebrina that's the Ultimate-Weed for me! I absolutely hate it, once I threw on pot from the window in the winter time because the plant was absolutely awful and I was over it's leggy look, and in the spring time that pest had covered my garden... so it refuses to leave in ambient conditions but it thrives after 3 months with negative temperatures outside... Logic- non.
Agree, defs best to grow that one outdoors :)
I kind of disagree. I've had them indoors and outdoors in a variety of light conditions. If you like them to be deep purple, then outdoors is better, but I've found the ones right at the back of my balcony or indoors, hiding from the grow lights under other leaves, are the most beautiful, sparkly green and silver with bits of purple that literally look like they were painted on with rough brush strokes. The ones at the back of my balcony in very low light are constantly flowering and are the most beautiful. When they get leggy, you just cut them. They grow so fast.
How cold was it? Where in the world do you live?
Crotons don’t like to be inside, in my opinion, but can’t survive our Canadian winter outdoors, also flowering plants that need direct sun, like cannas, I cut mine down and pulled the bulbs for next year, (Edit: typed before you mentioned these lol soo… agreed!!) my cordyline ti red hated being indoors too,
I love you’ve started hopping on your heals like Gordon Ramsey when you’re accentuating a point 😂❤ don’t stop!
I don’t have any prayer plants… at all, not for me inside, nor out lol
My limited succulents def go outside in the summer
Crotons is a good one ! They also just don't look nice outside of a full display :D
Another Canadian here…I have a Croton that has only been indoors in a south facing window. It has been the easiest plant in my collection. Guess that proves that what works for one, doesn’t necessarily work for others 😉
@ no way! I had mine under a really good grow lamp, it did ok for a while… but dropped leaves like crazy till it went out for the summer, probably just my care then!
Marantha/Calethea: add a sachet of beneficial/predatory mites every month or so and the problem is also effortlessly solved 😊
I cant grow cacti and succulents (not enough light)
Im growing Plumeria from seed… (but they are getting huge so Ill have to rehome them)
I gave my Alocasias away, most of them anyway, after rehabbing them in a growtent (they love growtents, grow large so fast… but take up too much real estate in there)
Great video 💕 thank you
Thanks for watching!
Haha, I have a bird of paradise with orange flower growing outside my window. I live in So. California so I guess the weather suits.
Loved to watch it.
Any advice if I need to repot a peperomia pilea can I plant it in succulent mix? I’ve run out of potting mix and don’t want to buy a whole new bag. What brand of potting mix do you recommend? Also in Sydney ☀️🪴🎄🎉💚
I have never grown peperomias so not sure tbh but I think my aroid mix would be too chunky for them. Maybe just try some coco peat & perlite ?
@ Thanks for your reply.
I bought Osmocote premium at Bunnings today and will mix it with perlite. Fingers crossed 😀🪴💚
26:24 I’m in bathurst. So Central tablelands. Two alocasia outside. Plus maybe 22 something inside. Plus a Marantas inside. Don’t ask me how 😂😂
Useful experience bro👍🙏
Cheers! Glad it was helpful
Your reasoning makes good sense. I avoid plants that are prone to pests. Too lazy to do battle. I have never thought of growing Cannas inside. I actually quit outside also. The Japanese Beetles have devoured their leaves the last couple of years (Iowa, US). Plus their rhizomes just multiply, so I don’t know what to do with them in the fall. Great video. Thank you.
Thanks :)
I think some of the smaller, shade-loving heliconias like 'Red Christmas' would probably be fantastic indoors, - not sure if they would flower, but they're winter-flowering, so maybe - but they might have the same spider mite issue as your cannas. Spider mites went absolutely crazy on my Heliconia rostrata and ignored my velvety aroids and marantas and the only other affected plant was Goeppertia warszewiczii, but it was pretty much restricted to three or four leaves. They left the G. makoyana alone too.
Yes, the red christmas could be nice !! & somebody else left a comment that they have had heliconias flower indoors :O
yeeeeyyy. I finaly heard you say something in german, I was wondering how you would sound when you do it.
P.S. cactus is the only plant that constantly dies on me, no matter how much I neglect it 🤷♀
Oh nice Mr.Tims garden looks really really nice...wonder where he found he's landscape design specialist? 😅..love the staghorn ferns on his fence..surprise you don't have any...
Thanks :) I never really gotten into them ... but maybe one day !! Tims garden is growing like crazy every day !!1 It's going to be so beautiful by the end of the season :)
Hey.....Mr superstar...life saver. ❤🎉
Thanks :)
My melanochrysum got thrown outside to die or thrive after much frustration. It has taken a turn for the better. It is under hard cover but definitely prefers me not looking at it and fussing over it...go figure!!
Hehe that’s so cool!!:)
What's your climate? I'm in Brisbane and I'm wondering if mine can stay on my balcony all winter or will need to come in during the middle of the year. That's the problem with having plants that were rare until recently ... I can't look around and see them in gardens and parks to be sure of what they can handle. I've heard they're pretty tough and the main issue is just the sizing-up and mine is absolutely racing up the pole - basically completely covered a 90cm pole (minus pot depth) in six weeks, which is insane.
@demidron. I live in Northam WA so hot dry summer 42C tomorrow and most the rest of the week, We have a mostly mild winter but we do get a few weeks over winter where it will drop to minus 5 overnight and very frosty. I put it outside over winter but it is under hard cover so didn't get direct frost on it, since spring hit it has started to grow better than it ever has. It's on a plastic backed grow vertical moss pole!! Seems to enjoy frequent hose drenchings which it never got inside. I liquid fertiliser after I have drenched it now!!
Mine struggled inside and died when put outside in Adelaide. Happy to say a final goodbye to it and just enjoy seeing Jan’s success
@@moiraslater8526 Thanks! A lot more extremes than we get in Brisbane, so I feel pretty confident that it'll be fine on my balcony which is pretty sheltered. I'll just have to make sure it doesn't scorch when the sun gets deeper in in winter, but a bit more light will probably do it good. Thanks!
Philodendron selloum. That one you are standing near is small compared to a friend's one in his garden
Haha yes if it wasn’t held back by the pot it would grow even bigger !!!
Has been a wishlist plant for me, went for the smaller Thaumatophyllum Bipinnatifidum 'Little Hope' myself in the hopes that it will not block me out of my room one day 😆
If you grow them next to a tree, they use it as support ... they don't climb with their stem against a tree, but they shoot roots at a tree nearby and hold on and they can get really tall.
Merci 😊 ! Oui pour tous vos commentaires, en particulier pour les succulentes, trop souvent "souffre-fouleur" de personnes qui les traitent comme des bibelots de décoration 😏. Encore merci pour chacune de vos vidéos instructives, ludiques... et caresses à Brad ! 💚🍀
Stromanthe triostar is a plant that i wanted to grow indoors but failed miserably. It loves it outside under a large potted tree. Central Florida
Yes same with mine !!! :)
Im growing 2 Nepenthes in Arizona in my house and they are pitchering like crazy.
But I was careful to pick an upland species that was a bit less picky on humidity
My average daily humidity is 19%
That’s great to know :)
But I probably just jinxed myself 😂@@sydneyplantguy
Literally had my sister and her MiL nag me about not keeping my plants inside. I was told they were “indoor plants” i was like these are tropical plants and I live in Florida! They’re outdoor plants! All plants are!
haha oh no !!!
well i have fruit trees indoors near sunny windowsills i have grow lights over them forget about the height of ceiling i can prune em back
I grew the hope philodendron (second one) indoors for ten years, it did great, occasionally I pruned it back to sort of dwarf it,
I had to giggle a little when I spotted the palm "stick" in Tims yard...still not happening eh? lol
it's a slow process okay ?:D hahaha
@@sydneyplantguy lol
Why im hear is about succulents and cacti. Yeah, most of them aren't good indoor plants. But Seprivivums and sedums usually grow anywere as long as there is light and something to root into i saw someone growing them in carpet on his shed roof to make a cheap improvised green roof in a rainy area they were growing next to moss he also seeded the carpet with. I can grow them outside where i live so usually do but someone in a colder area then me with a sunny window could easily grow those and aloes in it. Also holiday cacti are kinda idiot proof ive had a few die on me but thats always been because something decides they look tasty.
Im having to rebuild my plant collection do to an unfortunate series of events typing, this made me wanna grab some new plants. Ill probably just go find another pothos veriaty i dont have till i have room for another tc order in my conversion tank i currently have 30ish plants in it and pothos can hold me back from stupid impulse orders till i have ether the room free or the money for a big order. Maybe i should try maidens hair ferns again though. I've gotten some good tips for them in the comments, so that was cool.
Everybody remember to like and comment so Jan can keep on doing videos full time! ❤
Hehe thank you!! Appreciate it :)
I agree with no more cactus indoor, although I do enjoy my ric rac ( jungle) cactus that seams to do well hanging in the window. As for outdoor plants, ive taken my potted colocasia out for summer but now watch as they suffer indoors. Alive but not thriving large and beautiful, despite taking up huge real estate 😹
I will say that grow lights are so cheap now, which makes succulents super easy to grow. I have some beautiful succulents that are thriving. I would share a few photos but you can't on UA-cam, but led light panels are so cheap now. They introduce other issues, but they make succulents easy to grow indoors.
TIM IS THE ALOCASIA KING!!! 👑👑👑 I’m here for it.
He really is !!
Im still so curious what that dark red looking plant at the top left corner at the end of the video is. I dont think you said anything about it in the plant tour :c
It's a cordyline :)
@sydneyplantguy thank you! I thought about it every video i saw it in 😆
Yes the rigth conditions must be given when possible!
For the better of🌿 ....
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Once when I was walking around in the glasshouses in the Berlin botanical garden, there was a couple walking around who I kept crossing paths with - a woman who was one of us, super excited to see everything and knowledgeable about the plants -and a guy who just really didn't care. At one point, he just said "Die sehen doch alle aus wie Zimmerpflanzen! 🙄" (tHeY aLL jUsT LoOk LiKe hOuSepLaNtS 🤡) and I was so close to interrupting. 🤣 Boy, you live somewhere cold!? I can imagine him on safari in Kenya: "They just look like zoo animals to me!?"
:D haha !!
Your nepenthes is so huge! I have 7 growing inside and they pitcher for me just fine… but I blast them a veritable butt ton of grow lights. My Lady Luck has dark red leaves from sun stress, but the pitchers are huge and so healthy. They also eat a lot of dried blood worms and osmocote pellets 😂
Good to know !! Do you mist them?:)
@ I actually tend not to! I plant mine in long fiber sphagnum and I water them on Mondays and Fridays until it starts to drain into the tray. I worry a little about crown rot - my bigger ones I am okay misting occasionally but I avoid the crown!
I do have two humidifiers going in my apartment and keep it relatively high! Always 60+ but often 70-75.
I’m not a botanist but I noticed that plants are like highways, with light, water, air as the main factors to keep the highway flow smoothly. Any time any of these elements are lacking, it’s like having a traffic jam. Once that happens a the plants get all wonky and start developing strange maladies. Like when I tried growing bird of paradise indoors. There just wasn’t enough light in my space even though it occupies the brightest spot, and as such their leaves just droop and finally it succumbs to pest. Also, colocasias just hate my space and I can never get them to take off.
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Many people grow succulents successfully inside because they have bright windows or grow lights. You use grow lights for your aroids. How many of those would you grow inside without good light or grow lights>
Aroids require less lights than succulents & are more impactful indoors. With just 5-6 philos I can create a full greenwall .... 5-6 succulents would hardly make an impact but require more supplemental light.... so I stand by my choice haha :D
In my backyard, there's much a Giant (big and tall) banaba tree..10meter and more..
are a german and australian? your accent is so refreshing
Yes :)
@@sydneyplantguy ooh thanks for the reply :) are you*
What you say is 100%!
I had NO idea a Birds of Paradise could grow so large!!
there's different species :)
S. nicolai grow into massive, several metres tall plants in habitat. Even reginae gets large for an indoor space with the proper care.
I have a smaller heliconia indoors and have had flowers last year ( Netherlands )
Oh nice !! Do u know which type ?:)
@@sydneyplantguyi think it is a Heliconia psittacorum ( Parrot Heliconia ) , approx 40-50cm hight indoors for me
very nice
Thanks! :)
You are great
I brought my colocasias indoors (been out all summer) because it was starting to get cold. Noticed they had spider mites. Panicked and put them right back outside! I figured “well I’ll let the cold kill the plants off maybe they’ll come back next spring”. I’ve never had spider mites so I had no idea what to do. I’m mad that I may have just killed all my colocasia 😂
I sprayed my succulents with metho - denatured alcohol in 🇺🇸
I don’t like oil treatments for succulents. If your plant has no flowers or will be indoors where there are no bees you could use chemical pesticides 🪴
I have mine outdoors year around but it's not that cold in Sydney
@ you are lucky with that!! It’s not /that/ cold where I live but can get down to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit on worst days. But I wanted to make sure the spider mites died LOL
I don’t grow any plants indoor. Too many different variants for growing them indoors. I do all my plants and gardening outdoors.
Really any healthy Philodendron will outgrow our spaces inside...
Any plant could :) but with my chop & extend method & the right plant growing up a pole it’s not an issue :)
@@sydneyplantguyexactly :) Almost any plant can 😊
@@sydneyplantguy If your gigas gets to full maturity, it's basically going to be an Alocasia-level space hog!
I call myself denial by keeping my majesty palm indoor. She is gorgeous, I keep her by the window, she doesn't have new growth, and she is struggling with scale bug, I treat the scale like every week, and they keep coming back, and.... I still can't let my palm go outdoor 😭
Palms are definitely an outdoor plant in my books hehe :P
I have a giant majesty palm with a couple of feet of trunk that I move outside in the shade about May and back inside in October. I have done this for 7 years and it looks great. Of course, I do not let it get frost exposure, but here in my area (Seattle), it can be quite cool even in the warm months and at night. They are water lovers and indoors I water it twice a week
One of my first houseplants was a ficus elastica, it was growing until it all stopped. My mother's neighbor have one under full sun, it is massive, even survives winter with minimal damage. Definitely not meant to be a houseplant.
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I would not grow that species anywhere in a small urban garden, let alone indoors.
Yes it looks lush and gorgeous now but in a few short years that will become an absolute beast and you will regret it.
Defs keeping it in a pot to stunt it a bit :)
"It feels weird to grow a tree indoors"
Bonsai people in shambles
I'd like to add Pineapple to the list. Unless you've got a big ole grow light and a bunch of time, it's not worth it.
So true !!!
Your nepenthes is so huge! I have 7 growing inside and they pitcher for me just fine… but I blast them a veritable fuck ton of grow lights. My Lady Luck has dark red leaves from sun stress, but the pitchers are huge and so healthy. They also eat a lot of dried blood worms and osmocote pellets 😂
Haha I've got 2 Strelitzia Nicolai in my living room, bought them last year. Probably can keep them going for one more season before I need to chop them back. Until then, great house plant 😂😂 edit: ceiling is 240cm high
Lucky you!! My ceiling is so low :(
My heliconia bloomed in my Apartment in Germany after 3 years of cultivating it 😇
Great to know!! Do you get a lot of sun?:)
Most plants will outgrow our homes if they weren’t in pots, trimmed etc
Yes, but some are easier to trim while still getting the best out of them (e.g chop & extend with my moss pole plants) which isn’t really an option with the plants mentioned :)
@@sydneyplantguyyes, I just started using plastic backed moss poles! You’ve inspired me! 😊
Plants from the mint family like coleus are also better grown outside!
My conditions rn are 59° 80rh..... The mold is KILLING ME
Ficus triangularus is giving me grey hair! 😂😂
You got two female nepenthes I believe.
They don't need much humidity like people think, simply not enough light. Normal growlight is too weak for N.Rokko.
You can try some "low light nepenthes" like n.Truncata.
Some plants adapt better indoors if you buy them as tiny baby plants , but ofcourse,most won't reach their full potential
Very true!