For Valentines my local garden center handed out baby pink princesses as a gift to everyone who bought something there. Tbf they were tiiiiny, like they had two leafs with a third one barely coming out, but they where free and the variegation looked quite nice on most of them. Stark contrast to the prices during covid!
a good way to have a nice bushy alocasia is to have multiple plants in a pot. my black velvet alocasia i bought dying from root rot and it had a BUNCH of corms in the soil. i grew all of them out in sphagnum boxes and now all of them except one are in a single pot and it looks insanely beautiful. ALSO, rotate them!
I am in Germany and have picked up so many former pricey plants here at garden centres. P. Melano was 30 euros, gloriosum from 20 euros for a smaller plant. PPP was 8 euros with a nice amount of pink and yesterday I found monstera albo variegata for 15 euros in my local hardware store. 2-3 very nice variegated leaves. I picked up 3 of them.
For the Florida ghost, I think this is offered seasonal because they can get really dramatic. When it gets cooler around 40°F, the leaves gets cold damaged quickly especially when you don't have a controlled environment like me.
In the northeast USA, Alocasia Black Velvet and P. Pink Princess are now available not only at plant shops but also at hardware stores (Home Depot, Lowes) and many high-volume retailers (Walmart). They go for $12 to 18 USD for a 5-inch pot.
The pink philodendron in Kansas for like a 6in pot is close to 200$ at my local nursery, which a new plant. (Last year they didn't have them.) I got mine in a 4in pot for 130$ off etsy still a expensive plant. It blows my mind you can get it for 12$ in UK and you have found them cheaper. I might go try to find a cheaper one now. Deff the Alocasia black. I have a sliver and dragon scale and they are my fav plants.
This week for mother's day Home Depot got a ton of decent sized PPP in, however they were extremely low in color and the 60 dollar price tag was not worth it. I was sad not to find something pretty.
In Poland Monstera Obliqua just landed in garden center Obi. The real Obliqua Peru, no idea how it survives in store, but it's in 12 cm pot and it costs 259PLN, which is ~60 $.
About the pink princess: We have them here in Germany in some Garden Centers for abaout 5 Euros (Baby plants). I got one of these and it has a nice amount of variegation But it really depends on every plant. The florida ghosts are around 20 Euros for these little TC babys 😊
honestly i'm so out of touch with the whole philodendron craze, but last fall i got a philodendron white knight for super cheap and i literally almost screamed because i didn't realize that they would ever actually come down in price, my dream plant imo, it's just so pretty to me
I just bought one yesterday for a maybe double the price of a more common philodendron, it was $35 where a similar sized common philo would be $15 ish. But it hasn't even been sold locally until recently. So happy to have found one without dealing with shipping and high prices.
I find it so funny. I've been looking for a Florida Ghost the whole last year. Never saw one, ever. Now Kaylee Ellen makes a video, saying it's in garden centers now. So I went to my garden center and *instantly found one* lmao 😂 Kaylee is amazing 😅 And it was only 30€ for a fairly big plant!
A 4-5 leaf Thai Constellation is 40-50€ at Stekjesbrief and they grow like crazy. Mine got huge so huge so quickly and they just grow so perfect that I feel like it has been genmanipulated.
they literally have monstera obliqua perus in garden centers over here now for 150€. imagine time travelling back to 2020 and telling someone that, they would lose their mind. im so glad so many plants are getting more accessible now. a ppp has always been my dream plant and now i can surround myself with them without breaking the bank. its nice
I live in thailand and the florida ghost here all turns green no one talks about them anymore, I find its not actually about light but heat, the heat makes them go green. So i think where you are they would have been growing white leaves in the winter and then comes spring they do that less and less so thats why you see them being released then? unrelated but interestingly its the complete opposite for the paraiso verde where the leaves come out green in colder temps, you can never never find a green one here in thailand. Temps is a real factor i believe more well known with anthurium bracts (mod leaves), where the colours are much nicer in colder temps. Just to make a point.
Thai's online here at the moment (Canada) hitting some smaller plant shops and online are down to about 80-90 cdn, its gone down at least 150 to 200 cdn in the last year im so happy they are becoming a little more obtainable ^^
I live in Singapore so I understand the market is different here. Burle Marx variegated has become desperately cheap here. I bought a 30cm tall bush for like SGD25 9 months back. Even burle Marx mint cuttings are getting to upper two digits in SGD
Great video. Just stumbled upon your channel and you are by far the best on UA-cam. Clear and straight to the point. No cats walking into filming. Or telling the camera you're tired and flusted or fumbling over names or technical terms. Or random clips from pop culture crudely thrown in. Personal but with a science-based approach makes you perfect for someone who's been growing for a long time, which is why I have become an instant fan.
It's honestly been really fun to watch the covid rare plant craze from the outside. I already had a lot of plants when it happened but I'd never cared about rarity, I only ever cared whether or not I liked the look of it and it would be able to grow in my home. At some point our garden centres in the NL started having "rare plant" tables with a few specimens of some very expensive plants, and now the same ones are in TC and are just mixed in with everything else. Personally I like this development because it means there's more cool plants for me to choose from! Just the other day I spotted an Alocasia jacklyn in a garden centre for 25€ (which is still quite a lot for a garden centre plant, but not exorbitant) and I think I need to go and get it :)
I'm also from the Netherlands! Can you recommend garden centres or plant shops? I live in the east and I would love to visit the west and go on a plant shop/garden centre spree there. Here in the east we only have a Intratuin :)
@@lukahakstege1645 My 2 go-to are the Intratuin near Amsterdam Amstel (not sure if different locations have different plants, but they had a great selection as of last week) and Tuincentrum Osdorp (and both have soe more special plants that the other doesn't have) :) Het Oosten can also be nice but I haven't been in a while so I don't know their current situation. Veel shopplezier ;)
I feel the same way too. I started this hobby in 2018 and had accumulated a few plants before covid. The rare plant craze felt silly then, and now in retrospective , it was borderline insanity. I was visiting the Netherlands last summer. You guys have some excellent plant shops with fantastic collections there. Lucky you.
It's funny to see plants that used to be so hard to find in garden centers and think back on it. I'm from the Netherlands, and the garden center I normally visit, I saw the Anthurium Queremalense, Monstera Esqueleto, Philodendron Patriciae, Maranta NOID & Silver band etc. Pretty spectacular! But also that I saw Spiritus Sancti's sold for a 10th of the prices I used to see them for
When I was young a regular monstera of a decent size would be hundreds, I picked one up last year for £20 🤣 (and it had about five plants in a single pot I might add!)
I have two PPP from my local grocery store. Both were ~$25. The first had the most variegation there, but that still wasn't much. I didn't know anything about checking for stability with variegation through the stem and bought it. There's maybe a speck of pink per leaf. The second one I just bought a month ago. The stem is candy-cane striped in pink, all the leaves look like they've had pink paint spattered on them. The newest leaf is nearly half pink one one side with the other half having spattered pink spots. It's gorgeous!! The first one I probably won't be keeping much longer.
It’s weird you say that about the flordia ghost, mines grows like a damn weed! Haha it’s pushing out a new leaf before the other is hardened. They’re HEAVY FEEDERS tho.
I've grown out 8 TC Thais from gel. I have another 4 coming along with an Aurea and Mint. I genuinely enjoy growing out TC stuff. 100% success rate from Thais.
It's fantastic! I got a nice HUGE ppp for 15CAD, it was a 12in pot and around 50cm tall on sale! I also got a Florida ghost with around 10 leaves for 30CAD.
I have a garden center in my area that has blown my mind. I got a billietiae for 3.99$ ..I got my Florida ghost for 30.00$ , it I'd very large . I got my ring of fire varagated for 3.99$ . From that garden center I got my Thai constitution ,a large plant for 250.00 , it has fenstration on some leaf already. I live in Canada 🇨🇦.
Grow a Pink Princess in bright light, slowly acclimated to get 2 - 3 hours of direct sunlight...the stems grow dense, & the plants starts putting out big leaves pretty quick.
I haven’t noticed seasonal Florida ghost in the US. But for the UK I would guess it has to do with light. Since Florida ghost has a brighter white variegation when there’s more light they wait to sell until there’s more sun (Spring).
Briliiant video! I just picked up a very large 6 leaf Thai for £120 in my local Blue Diamond garden centre. She's about 4ft tall and her newest leaf is 74x50cm. Was too good to pass up.
Would love to see chocco reds here. We have affordable gloriosum, silver clouds, sodoroi, brandtianum and clarinervium in Australia. The prices I paid before they came out make me almost cry
I picked up a few PPP from Home Depot (US-Forida). You are correct about the variegation. All from TC, most have very few flecks of pink, 2 in a pot $20, 6" pot, 5-8 leaves. I look all over, very rarely do I find one with truly stunning variegation. I got one last with Great marbled variagation, but that was 1 in probably 300 I've seen.
I'm not into chasing expensive trendy plants. I'm 52. So I've seen the trends come and go. So, I collect what works for the idiosyncratic light of my 5 bedroom house, which has all sorts of lightscapes and management issues. I mostly collect plants that can give me their best green, as I want emotional well-being first and foremost. My latest acquisition is a cheap Boston Fern from Costco. It was 12 bucks. But in the 70's of my childhood, it was an expensive plant that was the equivalent of 100 dollars.
Oh i hear ya chicky i would love a Florida ghost room too and yes I notice in spring usually is when they come out for the year , I had a sweet young one I grew from a cutting and someone stole it & my Hoya compacta right off my private deck while I had them out enjoying the sunshine 🌞 I was devastated 😢but fingers crossed I find one in 🇨🇦🪴👍this growing season cause I truly love it I got my compacta replaced long ago tho . Cheers have a great weekend 💚🌱🌿
My daughter and I found a highly variegated pink princess at Walmart for 25 dollars. Some of them were hardly variegated, we were lucky to find a good one. Funny enough we haven't seen them anywhere not even at our plant nurseries but yep...Walmart had one
I have 2 PPPs from my local grocery store. Both had several pups, but only 1 has really good variegation. I love them both but 1 more than the other. 🤫
The Thai, the size you mentioned, here in the northwest US will still cost you $200 in specialty plant shops and I have yet to see a El Choco Red even in specialty shops. Except for the pink Princess Maranta, and the Alocasia, none of the plants you listed are available in garden centers or regular plant shops. This is why I generally have to order online.
That is, for the most part, true in the Midwest too. I paid $80 for a teeny, weeny Thai that froze in transit, right before Christmas. I got a refund, but I am not surprised it didn't make it; it was even smaller than I thought (I paid for a heat pack, btw). I have two garden centers near my home that have specialty plant shops inside the stores, and they often surprise me with their inventory. I found most of my uncommon Alocasia and my verrucosum at them, but never have I seen a Thai at either store; I would be all over that if they did.
Yes!!! I just got a smaller sized one from ecuagenera for $130 and I thought that was a great price. I freaked out for a second when she said that it should be $25 😂
I didn’t see the thrill of the PP until I saw it in person, and was priced at $30😂 it’s not my favourite but does have some nice colour. I’m in Australia so plant prices here have dropped considerably
Fuzzy petiole, wanted one for a while. Saw one at Lowe's (like a home depot) for less than $8 US. 4.5" pot but needed supported to 6". Beautiful!! Patience is a virtue I've heard ;) Yes do more, please
$500 for a 2 leaf cutting of silver band is INSANE! I just got a MASSIVE FULL hanging basket for $20 at Lowe's lol. Literally it's insane how full and huge it is! Crazy
I had wanted a pink princess for years, bought a cutting in 2020 about £60 and killed it. But about a year ago bought 5 tissue cultured pink princess from a plant shop here in Sheffield for about £5 each, all of them are going strong but the variegation isn’t great on most of them. I personally don’t mind too much as I love the dark leaves and growth pattern on pink princess so I don’t mind but I think they will improve, they are still small. I must say the ones I gave at home I water with fish tank water are looking nicer then the one I keep at work with food and water.
Some price drops I've seen (I live in Miami): - Alocasia Azlanii $25 from Costa Farms. - Philodendron Polypodioides $200 down from about $650 this time last year. - Philo Luxurians under $100 - Ficus Shivereana $25. If I recall correctly these were going for $300-500 a year or two ago And Florida mint/ghost is available here year round. Going for about $100 at our more pricey nurseries.
The PPP that are out right now at my local to me shop in the midwest USA are an interesting mix of variegation. One plant will have half moons and the other (they have 2 per 6 inch pot) will only have speckling.
I got my Pink Princess for £11.50, it was pretty small plant, I think 4 or 5 smallish leaves, variegation not too bad, even some small chunks of full pink.
Hi kaylee, I got a pink princess she was in a 4inch pot with 2 all pink Leaves too green with pink and a little bit of white. They were unusual those !! beautiful love that plant started getting brown spots on the pink leaf and I end up killing her by mistake. I kept her in the dome too long but I paid $100 for all three plants Back in the 2021 Burke Marx, and Aliocasia Silver still have BM, AS 👏🏼👏🏼 I got a PP month ago for $20 looks nothing like the one I got in 2021 more on the maroon side more green with little white and pink 🥹will keep a 👁️ in her. Thank U for this VD it was very helpful to me 💚nyc🧤👒🇹🇹
Sry to say but in Austria some plants were only available at the "hype", verucosum small for 85 €... Years later, this year I bought my gloriosum for 9.90 (medium)... Fun fact one box box shop did have a horrible mealy infestation, plowmani full of them still 139€,my ghost, free of pests on clearance for 17,50 (large), just needed a pole... 🍀
I don't have a Florida Ghost yet, but I do have an Oak Leaf Pedatum. Which is basically the non-variegated version of the Ghost and Beauty. It started growing new leaves around December 2022, and since then (now March 2023) it's been growing new leaves like crazy. I love how it looks like a cocoon, it's cool to watch.
Defs do another one of these please!! I have most of those plants you talked about I'm in Australia so it's alot more pricey 😬 but I got em and I'm happy 🥰🥰
I live in Texas and I haven’t seen any Florida ghosts. I have seen Florida green. I bought a beautifully variegated pink princess for $20 at my local H‑E‑B (grocery store) in a 5 in or so pot. Also I’m a huge maranta fan so I was STOKED to find a SILVER BAND and a variegated maranta at my Lowe’s (home improvement store) for $15 or $16 for a FULL 8 inch hanging basket!! I’m still on the hunt for another silver band tho since mine is more like a 6 in now. Love your videos Kaylee! Been a fan since your first vid!
I recently bought a Florida Ghost in a 6 inch pot with large mature leaves for $40 USD at a local plant shop. They're usually much more than that if you can find one at all, glad I could get my hands on it.
I'm so happy got the joepii, and a variegated jewel orchid. The two jewel orchids are macodes petola, and one is variegated. I'm super happy to have found one by accident
Here in the midwest of the United States I've seen Pink Princess from Wild Interiors at big box stores like Walmart. The variegation on them has looked pretty bad as well as their general condition. Many seem to be reverting and I don't even feel justified paying $25 USD for them. I recently saw a Jungle Boogie at Home Depot mislabeled as a Ring of Fire at the Home Improvement store Home Depot here in the midwest.
I second this, am also in the Midwest and unless I find a two foot tall mature plant with continuous pink variegation, I probably won't buy one. The variegation is too random and they revert so easily
Thank you for tell about all the beautiful plant I put up a pink princess two week ago I was shocked I pay 20 for it I wi Ll look for some of the beautiful plant s you show here my pink princess
Maybe the Florida Ghost is seasonal because of the high demand for light to keep the new leaves coming in white? Maybe they don't sell as well when people have to consider plant lights in the winter, but in the spring they'll go "aawh whatever, i'll worry about that when it gets darker again" - my only guess :D i recently got a baby one (in the middle of winter though) and it's producing one white leaf after the other and i love it, now starting to change leaf shape! but it's directly under a plant light :D
my Pink princess from garden center had very little veriegation for the first 6 months or so, but after a year the leaves are more pink than green. This is in Leca and under a grow light, so say what you will about low veriegated tissue cultured plants, given the right conditions veriegation seems to get stronger.
PPP is like €7.5 for a mini one with pink on. Larger ones anything between €7-20 maybe more if really big. My MIL bought a decent sized solid "black" PPP for maybe €11 during the autumn (there were pinker ones in the store). Seasonal TC probably has something to do with being finicky other times of the year, when being transferred out of TC, if it works better in spring vs other tiems of the year. Unless they all are TC:ed by the same company and it's based on their schedule.
I have 2 PPP, one I bought very small from a nursery for $80 last year. I bought my second at Walmart which has 3 half-moon leaves, it's quite large for a PPP, and only paid $15 for it. The variegation on the Walmart plant is much better than the nursery plant.
I live in eastern Washington, U.S. and all of the aroids mentioned in this video are still going for "rare" prices here. I baby PPP (2-3" pot) in my garden center was $40 or $50 last I saw, and I recently saw a small, 3-4 leaf baby Thai (12-14" tall) for about $215. The LL Maranta is pretty common, those go for about $20 for a full pot, and the alocasias are also common and go for $15-20. The other plants would only be found in our local plant shop maybe, and they're clinging to covid prices as hard as they can. They had Monstera Albos within the past year or so priced at around $550 for a single vine plant at about the average maturity you'd find a regular Monstera for in garden centers.
When I started my plant journey, I picked up a PPP for $25 - 4" pot, ish? Two years later, in covid, I put a single leaf node on a local plant auction site and sold it for $125. It was nutters.
On Black Friday I got a really nice Pink Princess from my local nursery for $20. Smallish, but a solid medium variegation. I was at that same nursery the other day and they had albo syngonium for really cheap. Like $15. Those were the super popular plant when I started collecting. (I'm in the Pacfic Northwest in the US)
I love Thai cons, but they're just expensive even here in Manila (15-20USD for about 12 inch plants). The rest of the Philo and Alocasia can be had for about 3USD PPP, Alocasia B Velvet 1USD, B Marx 1-2USD. I guess it's really tough to propagte these TCs
I got a 4 inch pot with two pink princess and a ceramic cover pot for 13 CAD a few weeks ago. I figured for that price, if the plant is 💩 I only spent 13 on a fairly nice pot 🤣
I think the E. Pinnatum Marble had a even bigger price decline than the albo. Went to a plant market last spring, and small ones were like 200€-ish there, and even more expensive online. And not even a year later you can find them for 30€.
pink princess are on supermarkets here in usa and most of them have minimal pink color, i did found one with great color but it was the only one on the rack with that variegation
Same, here in Washington state. You can find them at Walmart (for $20-30) and such, but the amount of variegation is pathetic, so I have not purchased one.
I live in thee south of england and here we have had Philodendron Gloriosum, melanocysum, branditianums and mameis in plant shops go for around £20 (decent sizes) since the beginning of the year. quiet a few syngoniums and alocasias too.
I have a white wizard philidendron in my fish tank plant. It is super happy also have some velvet philodendron as a rescue plant in my high light tanks. If someone is weary of philidendron do it hydroponic take the guessing game out.
For Valentines my local garden center handed out baby pink princesses as a gift to everyone who bought something there. Tbf they were tiiiiny, like they had two leafs with a third one barely coming out, but they where free and the variegation looked quite nice on most of them. Stark contrast to the prices during covid!
Please do another one like this. Absolutely loved it. Thank you
a good way to have a nice bushy alocasia is to have multiple plants in a pot. my black velvet alocasia i bought dying from root rot and it had a BUNCH of corms in the soil. i grew all of them out in sphagnum boxes and now all of them except one are in a single pot and it looks insanely beautiful.
ALSO, rotate them!
Rare plants that are affordable, Hallelujah!
I am in Germany and have picked up so many former pricey plants here at garden centres. P. Melano was 30 euros, gloriosum from 20 euros for a smaller plant. PPP was 8 euros with a nice amount of pink and yesterday I found monstera albo variegata for 15 euros in my local hardware store. 2-3 very nice variegated leaves. I picked up 3 of them.
Hello! Where did you get the albo? Greetings from Berlin 🥰
Yes names please :)
The craziest thing about this video was seeing how cheap these plants are in the UK compared to what they are actually here in Florida, US.
Pink princess $7 at Houston home Depot
For the Florida ghost, I think this is offered seasonal because they can get really dramatic. When it gets cooler around 40°F, the leaves gets cold damaged quickly especially when you don't have a controlled environment like me.
In the northeast USA, Alocasia Black Velvet and P. Pink Princess are now available not only at plant shops but also at hardware stores (Home Depot, Lowes) and many high-volume retailers (Walmart). They go for $12 to 18 USD for a 5-inch pot.
The pink philodendron in Kansas for like a 6in pot is close to 200$ at my local nursery, which a new plant. (Last year they didn't have them.) I got mine in a 4in pot for 130$ off etsy still a expensive plant. It blows my mind you can get it for 12$ in UK and you have found them cheaper. I might go try to find a cheaper one now. Deff the Alocasia black. I have a sliver and dragon scale and they are my fav plants.
This week for mother's day Home Depot got a ton of decent sized PPP in, however they were extremely low in color and the 60 dollar price tag was not worth it. I was sad not to find something pretty.
I found a highly variegated PPP at my local Meijer's (grocery store chain). It had 5 plants, all had high variegation!
Cost me $30
In Poland Monstera Obliqua just landed in garden center Obi. The real Obliqua Peru, no idea how it survives in store, but it's in 12 cm pot and it costs 259PLN, which is ~60 $.
I saw them recently at my local Obi and they looked terrifying honestly. The plants had like 2 dry leaves...
About the pink princess: We have them here in Germany in some Garden Centers for abaout 5 Euros (Baby plants). I got one of these and it has a nice amount of variegation But it really depends on every plant. The florida ghosts are around 20 Euros for these little TC babys 😊
Nice, wo hast du deine her? 👀😅
Dehner? :D
Have you seen burle marx in shops yet? Still waiting urgently for one
@@miriates6065 Also die Pink Princess im Dehner. War heute erst wieder dort und die hatten einige da.
@@zye.... Not in Garden Centers but a lot in onlineshop 😊
honestly i'm so out of touch with the whole philodendron craze, but last fall i got a philodendron white knight for super cheap and i literally almost screamed because i didn't realize that they would ever actually come down in price, my dream plant imo, it's just so pretty to me
I just bought one yesterday for a maybe double the price of a more common philodendron, it was $35 where a similar sized common philo would be $15 ish. But it hasn't even been sold locally until recently. So happy to have found one without dealing with shipping and high prices.
I find it so funny. I've been looking for a Florida Ghost the whole last year. Never saw one, ever.
Now Kaylee Ellen makes a video, saying it's in garden centers now. So I went to my garden center and *instantly found one* lmao 😂 Kaylee is amazing 😅 And it was only 30€ for a fairly big plant!
A 4-5 leaf Thai Constellation is 40-50€ at Stekjesbrief and they grow like crazy. Mine got huge so huge so quickly and they just grow so perfect that I feel like it has been genmanipulated.
they literally have monstera obliqua perus in garden centers over here now for 150€. imagine time travelling back to 2020 and telling someone that, they would lose their mind. im so glad so many plants are getting more accessible now. a ppp has always been my dream plant and now i can surround myself with them without breaking the bank. its nice
Absolutly, I saw some baby obliqua for around 40 Euro in some onlineshops. Thats crazy how much they decrease in price since 2020.
I went to a plant market last october and got a free Obliqua peru node for buying a P. giganteum cutting.
@@Schumeyyy wow, thats awesome! 🤯
Got a baby-peru for 3 € (!!!). 😅
Maybe it was a scam, a mistake or a labeling error. When the plant gets mature, we will see, what it really is 😅
I live in thailand and the florida ghost here all turns green no one talks about them anymore, I find its not actually about light but heat, the heat makes them go green. So i think where you are they would have been growing white leaves in the winter and then comes spring they do that less and less so thats why you see them being released then?
unrelated but interestingly its the complete opposite for the paraiso verde where the leaves come out green in colder temps, you can never never find a green one here in thailand.
Temps is a real factor i believe more well known with anthurium bracts (mod leaves), where the colours are much nicer in colder temps. Just to make a point.
Thai's online here at the moment (Canada) hitting some smaller plant shops and online are down to about 80-90 cdn, its gone down at least 150 to 200 cdn in the last year im so happy they are becoming a little more obtainable ^^
I live in Singapore so I understand the market is different here. Burle Marx variegated has become desperately cheap here. I bought a 30cm tall bush for like SGD25 9 months back. Even burle Marx mint cuttings are getting to upper two digits in SGD
Great video. Just stumbled upon your channel and you are by far the best on UA-cam. Clear and straight to the point. No cats walking into filming. Or telling the camera you're tired and flusted or fumbling over names or technical terms. Or random clips from pop culture crudely thrown in. Personal but with a science-based approach makes you perfect for someone who's been growing for a long time, which is why I have become an instant fan.
It's honestly been really fun to watch the covid rare plant craze from the outside. I already had a lot of plants when it happened but I'd never cared about rarity, I only ever cared whether or not I liked the look of it and it would be able to grow in my home. At some point our garden centres in the NL started having "rare plant" tables with a few specimens of some very expensive plants, and now the same ones are in TC and are just mixed in with everything else. Personally I like this development because it means there's more cool plants for me to choose from! Just the other day I spotted an Alocasia jacklyn in a garden centre for 25€ (which is still quite a lot for a garden centre plant, but not exorbitant) and I think I need to go and get it :)
I'm also from the Netherlands! Can you recommend garden centres or plant shops? I live in the east and I would love to visit the west and go on a plant shop/garden centre spree there. Here in the east we only have a Intratuin :)
@@lukahakstege1645 My 2 go-to are the Intratuin near Amsterdam Amstel (not sure if different locations have different plants, but they had a great selection as of last week) and Tuincentrum Osdorp (and both have soe more special plants that the other doesn't have) :) Het Oosten can also be nice but I haven't been in a while so I don't know their current situation. Veel shopplezier ;)
I feel the same way too. I started this hobby in 2018 and had accumulated a few plants before covid. The rare plant craze felt silly then, and now in retrospective , it was borderline insanity.
I was visiting the Netherlands last summer. You guys have some excellent plant shops with fantastic collections there. Lucky you.
goo get that jacklyn , if your seeing it Nl , then hopefully they will make their way here soonish Dk and your absolutely right
It's funny to see plants that used to be so hard to find in garden centers and think back on it. I'm from the Netherlands, and the garden center I normally visit, I saw the Anthurium Queremalense, Monstera Esqueleto, Philodendron Patriciae, Maranta NOID & Silver band etc. Pretty spectacular! But also that I saw Spiritus Sancti's sold for a
10th of the prices I used to see them for
When I was young a regular monstera of a decent size would be hundreds, I picked one up last year for £20 🤣 (and it had about five plants in a single pot I might add!)
I have two PPP from my local grocery store. Both were ~$25. The first had the most variegation there, but that still wasn't much. I didn't know anything about checking for stability with variegation through the stem and bought it. There's maybe a speck of pink per leaf. The second one I just bought a month ago. The stem is candy-cane striped in pink, all the leaves look like they've had pink paint spattered on them. The newest leaf is nearly half pink one one side with the other half having spattered pink spots. It's gorgeous!! The first one I probably won't be keeping much longer.
It’s weird you say that about the flordia ghost, mines grows like a damn weed! Haha it’s pushing out a new leaf before the other is hardened. They’re HEAVY FEEDERS tho.
I've grown out 8 TC Thais from gel. I have another 4 coming along with an Aurea and Mint. I genuinely enjoy growing out TC stuff. 100% success rate from Thais.
Had a chance to buy Monstera Obliqa for like 30$. Didnt, because next year it'll be half of that :D
It's fantastic! I got a nice HUGE ppp for 15CAD, it was a 12in pot and around 50cm tall on sale!
I also got a Florida ghost with around 10 leaves for 30CAD.
I have a garden center in my area that has blown my mind. I got a billietiae for 3.99$ ..I got my Florida ghost for 30.00$ , it I'd very large . I got my ring of fire varagated for 3.99$ . From that garden center I got my Thai constitution ,a large plant for 250.00 , it has fenstration on some leaf already. I live in Canada 🇨🇦.
Grow a Pink Princess in bright light, slowly acclimated to get 2 - 3 hours of direct sunlight...the stems grow dense, & the plants starts putting out big leaves pretty quick.
I haven’t noticed seasonal Florida ghost in the US. But for the UK I would guess it has to do with light. Since Florida ghost has a brighter white variegation when there’s more light they wait to sell until there’s more sun (Spring).
Briliiant video! I just picked up a very large 6 leaf Thai for £120 in my local Blue Diamond garden centre. She's about 4ft tall and her newest leaf is 74x50cm. Was too good to pass up.
Would love to see chocco reds here. We have affordable gloriosum, silver clouds, sodoroi, brandtianum and clarinervium in Australia. The prices I paid before they came out make me almost cry
Having 2 big props from a baby Florida I bought 1,5 years ago. Lovely plants
I picked up a few PPP from Home Depot (US-Forida). You are correct about the variegation. All from TC, most have very few flecks of pink, 2 in a pot $20, 6" pot, 5-8 leaves. I look all over, very rarely do I find one with truly stunning variegation. I got one last with Great marbled variagation, but that was 1 in probably 300 I've seen.
I'm not into chasing expensive trendy plants. I'm 52. So I've seen the trends come and go. So, I collect what works for the idiosyncratic light of my 5 bedroom house, which has all sorts of lightscapes and management issues. I mostly collect plants that can give me their best green, as I want emotional well-being first and foremost. My latest acquisition is a cheap Boston Fern from Costco. It was 12 bucks. But in the 70's of my childhood, it was an expensive plant that was the equivalent of 100 dollars.
Oh i hear ya chicky i would love a Florida ghost room too and yes I notice in spring usually is when they come out for the year , I had a sweet young one I grew from a cutting and someone stole it & my Hoya compacta right off my private deck while I had them out enjoying the sunshine 🌞 I was devastated 😢but fingers crossed I find one in 🇨🇦🪴👍this growing season cause I truly love it I got my compacta replaced long ago tho . Cheers have a great weekend 💚🌱🌿
Oh that is just nasty! I really hope you find your babies (or their siblings) soon and get to enjoy them again ❤️
My daughter and I found a highly variegated pink princess at Walmart for 25 dollars. Some of them were hardly variegated, we were lucky to find a good one. Funny enough we haven't seen them anywhere not even at our plant nurseries but yep...Walmart had one
I LOVE these videos so much!!! Please please more of these❤️
I have 2 PPPs from my local grocery store. Both had several pups, but only 1 has really good variegation. I love them both but 1 more than the other. 🤫
Please do another videos like this! Love these!
The Thai, the size you mentioned, here in the northwest US will still cost you $200 in specialty plant shops and I have yet to see a El Choco Red even in specialty shops. Except for the pink Princess Maranta, and the Alocasia, none of the plants you listed are available in garden centers or regular plant shops. This is why I generally have to order online.
I feel like it’s the same here in the Northeast
That is, for the most part, true in the Midwest too. I paid $80 for a teeny, weeny Thai that froze in transit, right before Christmas. I got a refund, but I am not surprised it didn't make it; it was even smaller than I thought (I paid for a heat pack, btw). I have two garden centers near my home that have specialty plant shops inside the stores, and they often surprise me with their inventory. I found most of my uncommon Alocasia and my verrucosum at them, but never have I seen a Thai at either store; I would be all over that if they did.
Yes!!! I just got a smaller sized one from ecuagenera for $130 and I thought that was a great price. I freaked out for a second when she said that it should be $25 😂
I didn’t see the thrill of the PP until I saw it in person, and was priced at $30😂 it’s not my favourite but does have some nice colour. I’m in Australia so plant prices here have dropped considerably
Fuzzy petiole, wanted one for a while. Saw one at Lowe's (like a home depot) for less than $8 US. 4.5" pot but needed supported to 6". Beautiful!! Patience is a virtue I've heard ;)
Yes do more, please
I bought a real obliqua in a garden centre/home depot. They get them from Netherlands. 30 cm plant for less than 40 pounds. Crazy prices
So many plants have been added to my wish list thanks to your videos.
$500 for a 2 leaf cutting of silver band is INSANE! I just got a MASSIVE FULL hanging basket for $20 at Lowe's lol. Literally it's insane how full and huge it is! Crazy
I had wanted a pink princess for years, bought a cutting in 2020 about £60 and killed it. But about a year ago bought 5 tissue cultured pink princess from a plant shop here in Sheffield for about £5 each, all of them are going strong but the variegation isn’t great on most of them. I personally don’t mind too much as I love the dark leaves and growth pattern on pink princess so I don’t mind but I think they will improve, they are still small. I must say the ones I gave at home I water with fish tank water are looking nicer then the one I keep at work with food and water.
I got my pink princess 4” at a Walmart here in Colorado for $24.98. Very healthy and gorgeous variegation.
Some price drops I've seen (I live in Miami):
- Alocasia Azlanii $25 from Costa Farms.
- Philodendron Polypodioides $200 down from about $650 this time last year.
- Philo Luxurians under $100
- Ficus Shivereana $25. If I recall correctly these were going for $300-500 a year or two ago
And Florida mint/ghost is available here year round. Going for about $100 at our more pricey nurseries.
Thanks Kaylee 💖 please do another one soon!
The PPP that are out right now at my local to me shop in the midwest USA are an interesting mix of variegation. One plant will have half moons and the other (they have 2 per 6 inch pot) will only have speckling.
I found a Ring of Fire for $30, a philodendron atapoense for $30, a philodendron bronze for $25. All at Home Depot in Oregon, USA.
Love the lemon lime maranta. The leaves are beautiful and velvety.
I got my Pink Princess for £11.50, it was pretty small plant, I think 4 or 5 smallish leaves, variegation not too bad, even some small chunks of full pink.
Hi kaylee, I got a pink princess she was in a 4inch pot with 2 all pink Leaves too green with pink and a little bit of white. They were unusual those !! beautiful love that plant started getting brown spots on the pink leaf and I end up killing her by mistake. I kept her in the dome too long but I paid $100 for all three plants Back in the 2021 Burke Marx, and Aliocasia Silver still have BM, AS 👏🏼👏🏼 I got a PP month ago for $20 looks nothing like the one I got in 2021 more on the maroon side more green with little white and pink 🥹will keep a 👁️ in her. Thank U for this VD it was very helpful to me 💚nyc🧤👒🇹🇹
Sry to say but in Austria some plants were only available at the "hype", verucosum small for 85 €... Years later, this year I bought my gloriosum for 9.90 (medium)...
Fun fact one box box shop did have a horrible mealy infestation, plowmani full of them still 139€,my ghost, free of pests on clearance for 17,50 (large), just needed a pole... 🍀
Wow u look gorgeous hope your well and happy great video love it when plants come down in price😊
I don't have a Florida Ghost yet, but I do have an Oak Leaf Pedatum. Which is basically the non-variegated version of the Ghost and Beauty. It started growing new leaves around December 2022, and since then (now March 2023) it's been growing new leaves like crazy. I love how it looks like a cocoon, it's cool to watch.
Florida Ghost costs $7 in USA
Defs do another one of these please!! I have most of those plants you talked about I'm in Australia so it's alot more pricey 😬 but I got em and I'm happy 🥰🥰
Lol, I've propped choco red from ity bitty nodes with no roots 😅 have not failed.
I live in Texas and I haven’t seen any Florida ghosts. I have seen Florida green. I bought a beautifully variegated pink princess for $20 at my local H‑E‑B (grocery store) in a 5 in or so pot. Also I’m a huge maranta fan so I was STOKED to find a SILVER BAND and a variegated maranta at my Lowe’s (home improvement store) for $15 or $16 for a FULL 8 inch hanging basket!! I’m still on the hunt for another silver band tho since mine is more like a 6 in now. Love your videos Kaylee! Been a fan since your first vid!
I recently bought a Florida Ghost in a 6 inch pot with large mature leaves for $40 USD at a local plant shop. They're usually much more than that if you can find one at all, glad I could get my hands on it.
Anthuriums are awesome. Great video as always Kaylee
I bought a big cutting of florida and it's given me about a 1 leaf per month. Maybe faster. Now it's a big and beautiful plant.
I'm so happy got the joepii, and a variegated jewel orchid. The two jewel orchids are macodes petola, and one is variegated. I'm super happy to have found one by accident
Im soooo glad I didnt buy a PPP in 2020. I got a small one a while back for $20, and I regret it because I hate the plant so much hahaha
Here in the midwest of the United States I've seen Pink Princess from Wild Interiors at big box stores like Walmart. The variegation on them has looked pretty bad as well as their general condition. Many seem to be reverting and I don't even feel justified paying $25 USD for them.
I recently saw a Jungle Boogie at Home Depot mislabeled as a Ring of Fire at the Home Improvement store Home Depot here in the midwest.
I second this, am also in the Midwest and unless I find a two foot tall mature plant with continuous pink variegation, I probably won't buy one. The variegation is too random and they revert so easily
Here in S. Georgia, Lowes unboxed 20 PPP and most had reverted to a dull bronze color.
The ID tag only stated that they were Philodendron…$19.00.
My PP never had variegation. She's really pretty without. Only paid $20, so I'm not mad. The plant produces leaves.
Thank you for tell about all the beautiful plant I put up a pink princess two week ago I was shocked I pay 20 for it I wi
Ll look for some of the beautiful plant s you show here my pink princess
In Pacific northwest I bought a pink princess for $46, a big Florida green $45.
Maybe the Florida Ghost is seasonal because of the high demand for light to keep the new leaves coming in white? Maybe they don't sell as well when people have to consider plant lights in the winter, but in the spring they'll go "aawh whatever, i'll worry about that when it gets darker again" - my only guess :D i recently got a baby one (in the middle of winter though) and it's producing one white leaf after the other and i love it, now starting to change leaf shape! but it's directly under a plant light :D
my Pink princess from garden center had very little veriegation for the first 6 months or so, but after a year the leaves are more pink than green. This is in Leca and under a grow light, so say what you will about low veriegated tissue cultured plants, given the right conditions veriegation seems to get stronger.
I got a v large cutting of the epipremnon pinnatum varigata from overseas, v beautiful
OK my fave moment is 3:20. Thanks it made my day.
This was fun! More please 🙏🏻😁
I love Florida ghost!!! I won mine on instagram & it’s like a weed! Definitely propagating this spring.
PPP is like €7.5 for a mini one with pink on. Larger ones anything between €7-20 maybe more if really big. My MIL bought a decent sized solid "black" PPP for maybe €11 during the autumn (there were pinker ones in the store). Seasonal TC probably has something to do with being finicky other times of the year, when being transferred out of TC, if it works better in spring vs other tiems of the year. Unless they all are TC:ed by the same company and it's based on their schedule.
I agree the Alocasia black velvet grows better than the silver dragon. I have both and I love them!🩷
I got a joepii today. Yesterday I found a variegated jewel orchid and a maranta variegated. Two sweet little weird babies
I have 2 PPP, one I bought very small from a nursery for $80 last year. I bought my second at Walmart which has 3 half-moon leaves, it's quite large for a PPP, and only paid $15 for it. The variegation on the Walmart plant is much better than the nursery plant.
That el choco was too die for! 🤩
“Alocasia can get leggy and have petioles not talking to each other and argue all the time…” lmao😂😂💀 true statement
I've bought little 2 PPPs for £2.50 each recently 😭 I couldn't believe it. Waiting for the monsters albo now
At one point a local greenhouse had a mature PPP for something like $450, I say mature more based off size, it had a half dozen leaves tops.
Heyyyyy new video means it's Friday! Did Kaylee get a haircut? Looks really cool
I live in eastern Washington, U.S. and all of the aroids mentioned in this video are still going for "rare" prices here. I baby PPP (2-3" pot) in my garden center was $40 or $50 last I saw, and I recently saw a small, 3-4 leaf baby Thai (12-14" tall) for about $215. The LL Maranta is pretty common, those go for about $20 for a full pot, and the alocasias are also common and go for $15-20. The other plants would only be found in our local plant shop maybe, and they're clinging to covid prices as hard as they can. They had Monstera Albos within the past year or so priced at around $550 for a single vine plant at about the average maturity you'd find a regular Monstera for in garden centers.
Yikes. I'm in Western WA & prices are a bit lower over here, but saw a nice Thai con yesterday for 300 at a nursey and thought that was too much
In America, Burle Marx Var. is cheap now. Also, ZZ Chameleon went from very expensive to being sold for $20 in Walmart by Costa Farms.
When I started my plant journey, I picked up a PPP for $25 - 4" pot, ish? Two years later, in covid, I put a single leaf node on a local plant auction site and sold it for $125. It was nutters.
I'm surprised you didn't summon something at 3:14
Lovely video as always! Looking forward to seeing what's going to be stocked in Oregon this year 🥹
On Black Friday I got a really nice Pink Princess from my local nursery for $20. Smallish, but a solid medium variegation.
I was at that same nursery the other day and they had albo syngonium for really cheap. Like $15. Those were the super popular plant when I started collecting.
(I'm in the Pacfic Northwest in the US)
I love Thai cons, but they're just expensive even here in Manila (15-20USD for about 12 inch plants). The rest of the Philo and Alocasia can be had for about 3USD PPP, Alocasia B Velvet 1USD, B Marx 1-2USD. I guess it's really tough to propagte these TCs
My variegated Burle Marx started as a three leaf cutting. Two years later? It’s a giant four foot tall bush in a ten inch pot.
Bought a baby Pink Princess about a week ago at a garden center in Germany for 5€ and it actually has a lot of pink variegation
My first PPP 6 years ago was $25, my first albo years ago was $50 for 3 leaves and rooted. I'm in NW Washington.
I got a 4 inch pot with two pink princess and a ceramic cover pot for 13 CAD a few weeks ago. I figured for that price, if the plant is 💩 I only spent 13 on a fairly nice pot 🤣
I think the E. Pinnatum Marble had a even bigger price decline than the albo. Went to a plant market last spring, and small ones were like 200€-ish there, and even more expensive online. And not even a year later you can find them for 30€.
can confirm, i got mine 3 months ago (2 leaves 5 nodes cutting) for 16€
I got my pink princess from Walmart and the variegation is very nice every leaf has variegation on it 😊 it was 25.00
The Florida ghost is one of my favourite plants seeing your 2 years ago and I have around 200 plants 😂
I wish I knew it was stupid to buy a 300 ppp during Covid 😂 I spent 200 on an aurea Syngonium and can hardly sell them for $30 now
The Syngonium Aurea got me as well 😅 spent $250 on one a couple years ago.
Yesterday I saw a 0.5 m high Pink Princess for 8 dollars. Perfectly healthy, wonderful colour although I don't touch filodendrons (they don't like me)
pink princess are on supermarkets here in usa and most of them have minimal pink color, i did found one with great color but it was the only one on the rack with that variegation
Really? Are you located in Northern America 🇺🇸? Or out west.
Same, here in Washington state. You can find them at Walmart (for $20-30) and such, but the amount of variegation is pathetic, so I have not purchased one.
@@Megasaurusify Really, so I need to visit my Chicago or Cincinnati friends. In the south, it feels like we get everything last.
I live in thee south of england and here we have had Philodendron Gloriosum, melanocysum, branditianums and mameis in plant shops go for around £20 (decent sizes) since the beginning of the year. quiet a few syngoniums and alocasias too.
I have a white wizard philidendron in my fish tank plant. It is super happy also have some velvet philodendron as a rescue plant in my high light tanks. If someone is weary of philidendron do it hydroponic take the guessing game out.
I have 5 or 6 garden center (kroger and walmart!) ppp and with the right lighting and proper conditions they put out gorgeous dark pink varigration