I BOUGHT THE SMALLEST PLANTS I COULD FIND (includes 6 months of updates)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Videos that span weeks or months with updates are always going to be my favorite!
Thanks :)
Thank you! I just received plants the size of the one that is restarting for you. I do not have an Ikea cabinet, so I really appreciated your suggestion on creating my own. I am moving all my existing plants to moss poles. Some love it, and others are slower at adjusting . The plant soil you use saved some of my Philodendron by providing a breathable soil. Philodendron and Monstera are my favorites. Thank you so much, and Happy Growing.
I agree! These are the best!!
Hi Jan, it's easy to become disheartened when things don't grow as hoped, so I really appreciate your attitude and your advice. You continue to inspire us. Thank you. Love to Brad. ❤
Agree! Things going wrong is inevitable :) part of the hobby :) thank you so much :)
Loving Brad's tail weaving around you ❤
I am a person who is attached to things. This can be furniture, favorite sweaters, or even plants. So it's much nicer to grow a tiny offshoot than to buy an adult plant! We grow older together almost like buddies.
Yes... and of course it's cheaper, and not so space-consuming in the beginning. Great video again, Jan! 🥳
Thank you:)
All four Frydek corms coming out variegated is so nice to see!
Got lucky :)
We in India recognise the word batik easily as it is a form of printing on clothes using empty spaces and wax. May be plant community has taken the word batik from batik printing. Recently I bought a syngonium from local nursery with name tag batik. It has a beautiful pattern of light and dark green and some white.
That could easily be :) thanks for the background info :)
Yup, that is where batik was borrowed from.
The mother plant gave all her energy to her four little children, let's deem them to be nature's choice.😊
These check-in type videos are so awesome!! Such a treat to watch months of progress in a neat little video :) really appreciate all the work you put in here!
Thank you so much :)
You look so happy in your element
Thanks so much for taken the time to show us the progress of plant growth, very informative
Thank you :)
Eeeek! Squeal! So excited to see this progress video. I think most of us buy the smallest of our wish list plant as that is the only way to afford our dream plants. Humidity cabinet is the way to go in the beginning. It's basically a plant nursery. Just like you wouldn't send a 7 year old off to college. Thanks so very much for all the work and time you graciously put into these progress videos. Hit that like button, people!!!
Love update videos like this! I always get excited when I see the roots! I will live my Alocasia journey through you because I don’t have the best of luck, but I enjoy the process!
Thanks :)
I really appreciate this type of video! I typically buy bigger plants verse smaller ones. Mainly b/c I'm impatient & I love a large plant. I'm in the US so spring is just starting here & now you've motivated me to start small so I can appreciate the journey
And not everything needs such a high humidity.
I got my frydek as a single tiny leaflet, no bigger than the top of my thumb, it's been a bit more than a year, and it's doing great. It has 6 leaves as of now. I started in soil, and after a while I got it in PON. It grew a lot of roots directly in the water reserve. Now it's in a bigger pot, and although I lost a lot of roots during the repot (not all who were in the reservoir managed to go through the holes.)
I don't have a cabinet, nor a greenhouse, all my plants are in my living room, where I try not to go under 40% humidity (I often have to run a humidifier because the flat is pretty dry.) I only have grow lights.
So humidity wise, my frydek always was in normal household humidity and it's doing great. It's the only alocasia I have that didn't have any set back over so much time.
Awesome! All corms are growing happily with perfect variegation!!!!!
I always start growing my plants from the size of starter plant, that means they were super tiny when they first came home.
Extra care is needed but the sense of achievement is CRAZY.
Thank you, Jan! I'm going to go right out and buy some small plants!
Happy growing :)
Love this type of video, well worth all of the effort. I got a teeny tiny baby anthurium and watching the leaves size up is the best part.
Thank you:)
You don’t need to apologize for spending money on plants! You work hard and deserve to treat yourself with something you love.
I love videos like this one! Very cool to see the entire process.
Same thing happened with my frydek. Ordered a really big one cause I was like "well, it's my dream plant, might as well" and it lost all of its leaves within a week! I was absolutely heartbroken and angry with myself as I'm always buying baby plants and with this one I kinda broke my rule 😂 she lost her entire root system as it turned out (root rot). She's recovering now and gave me already 3 new baby frydeks so maybe as you've said it's just a blessing in disguise.
Thanks for this video. Really love to see you're exploring more alocasias as they're probably my fav plant genius at the moment. Happy growing!
Hope all works out with your plant :) thank you!!
I got a great take away from this video - I have a few monstera mints, a frydek like yours, and a billy that I am growing from tissue culture. I just introduced them to my living environment (usually about 60% humidity)over time. They’re alive but really slow growing. I’m going to pop them in a clear box for a while since I don’t have a cabinet. Help them get a better start on life. If only love were enough- because I LOVE them!
Happy growing:)
Thanks so much for your hard work posting videos that include updates! It’s always nice to know that the information in the video has been successful or unsuccessful- I learn from both outcomes! Sometimes it gets difficult as a viewer to scroll back through previous videos and find the references to certain plants or techniques that have been mentioned over several months time and figure out what the story is- I love that yours are mostly contained in easy to reference videos! Your hard work is really appreciated!
Love the time span vids Jan! They were all successful, although the frydek decided to revert to growing from corms; you’ll now have multiple frydek plants. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Carol :)
Hello from the Northeast 🇺🇸, new subscriber. I like you. I very much enjoy your frankness and the quality of your video/information 🙂
Thank you:)
I love watching all your videos love your plant collection say hello to Brad ❤❤.
Thank you :) 😻
I love the way how you show the progression of your plants: starting from the day you received them to the periodic growth updates. I need to show your video to my slow growing plants lol
Love how you keep it all in one video. shows the effort you put in every single video.
Thank you :)
Got me rolling with "meer" (mirror) and "squirrrrl" (squirrel) ... that is pretty much how we say those words in the southern US. 😂
😅😅
I love your videos that follow the progress of your individual plants. It's amazing how some grow so big so quickly! Thanks for making your videos.
Thanks :)
Thanks Jan. I have been thing about purchasing a tc plant from Flora Magnifica. Now I am more confident I’ll be able to care for it. Good also to see packaging so I can be confident it will survive a summer trip to Melbourne.
Happy growing :)
In my experience, and based on what I’ve seen a lot of people say online, Frydeks don’t really like being in cabinets. I have mine in ambient humidity (50% average) and water when it’s almost dry. Seems to like it!
Sounds like that might do the trick i’ll give it a try :) thanks !
@@sydneyplantguy Best of luck! They’re stunning plants 😍
Yeah, seems like there is difference between the alocasia types. I let all of mine dry out as much as possible with a moderately chunky mix and 60% humidity otherwise they start drooping instantly. Never had the droop of a humidity change before so don't know if that is a common problem 🤔
I find that Frydeks are a little bit strange like many Alocasias, but my guess would be that they don't like that much humidity as the mold would indicate, so maybe something like 80% would be better.
I can also confirm your findings that potentially larger growing alocasias are more hardy, because I have a Macrorrhiza that's growing like crazy. It's still an Alocasia so it drops the oldest leaf every now and then if I don't feed it a lot, but it's so much easier to please than the smaller Alocasias.
So first of all every time you say Frydek I head "Fried egg" so I'm glad you put thr names on screen. Second, something I've seen from other plant channels and especially planted aquarium or terrarium channels is that while a species might be tolerant to certain conditions, the individual might not be so when you put thr Frydek in an environment it wasn't used to it melted. Planted aquarium people basically expect this out of new plants because water plants are typically grown emersed (roots under water and leaves above) but then get displayed and used submersed (whole plant under water) and the leaves arent used to that new environment and all die off. Then the plant puts out new leaves that are used to the new growth and it's all fine.
The random periodic 🐈 cat's tail is exactly what this video needed!😂❤
Haha special effects 😅
I LOVE it when people show the progress and updates in their videos! And it was sweet of you to give the bigger one to your friend, I would have been tempted to give them the smaller one lol 😅
Hehe it was a birthday present so I gotta deliver :) thank you!!
I appreciate your time to come up great videos. Learn so much watching from you. I have monstera and alocasia. Can you link next time your Ikea cabinet please? I would love to learn and have one. Winter here in Wisconsin can be brutal for my plants. Thank you so much! Btw, love your guy B💕i have Wallace and Tavi💖
Love seeing the outcomes for your plants after a few months - please keep doing these!
Thanks:)
I only had more common alocasias like a green portodora, macroriza and amazonica, but from my experience, they are the fussiest tropical plants about being overwatered. Do it once and you'll see the oldest leaf get yellow or soft immediately, before even observing any root damage. The good thing is that even if there's nothing left, they almost always resprout.
Edit: Just saw that this happened indeed.
Loved this type of content! I've killed 3 frydeks myself and am on the 4th (hopefully the last) one that I grow from a baby plant, I think I know now what my mistakes were but I think alocasias in general are so fussy and I just don't have a perfect ambiance for then quite yet. Cheers on the great content
Thank you:)
The plants are gorgeous! I often go small - to experiment and also that way I can afford more. :) Your comments on pronunciation are priceless. Reminds me of French lessons I had in Germany. 'Wie schreibt man das? - Wie man's spricht!' 🤣
Have you ever tried using coconut husk chunks? I find my Aroids thrive in a mix of CHC, perlite and charcoal. CHC are a bit of a pain to prepare for use (to remove salts and tannins) but they are so economical (at least here in the US) and the root growth is just outstanding, I think it is worth it. (I also add some mycorrhizal fungi when I am potting them up and add it to the nutrient solution once a month)
Yes I use then in my aroid mix :)
Ive been looking at Flora Magnifica for a while now for the Burle Marx Flame (still too expensive for the tiny plantlet so will wait) but will def look into the Alocasia Odora Batik....STUNNING plant. Thanks for sharing Jan 👌🏼
That reminds me - my frydek needs a repot. I think this one needs a smaller pot, mine is growing in small 9cm (7cm tall) pot and it has some nice leaves. It’s been growing all winter here in Poland and the light conditions are really poor and humidity with ac on - you can guess😂 I water when the leaves start getting droopy (sorry) but it seems to like me, and the leaves… a lot of white what a beauty. You should try separating the babies and put them in different conditions to figure out what they like. Sometimes we give too much care 😊
I’ll try them in dofferent conditions :) maybe with better success!! Thanks for sharing !
wow.. I hope my Anthuriums can grow at the speed as yours.. I got a few variagated seedlings and they hardly grow. By the way I can get luxurians with about 20cm long leaves for 10 to 15 USD in China, Okinawa silver alocasia is dirt cheap too.. the one year old size you showed would be about 5 USD. Most plants sold here comes from extreme mass tissue culture productions 😅. I am waiting for variagated red congo philodendron price to go down.. it's very expensive at the moment.
I personally find that frydeks prefer lower humidity, like ambient house conditions
I love Flora!!! I’ve purchased two Alocasia green velvet a few months ago and one of them is variegated!!! I have a half moon leaf
Another great video, Jan. No mater how many videos of your I watch, I still learn something new.
That’s great to hear :) thanks !
Your videos are like a holy grail for plant wisdom 🌿 tysm for inspiring me each day to care even better for my plants, they are thriving currently !
Thank you so much 🥰🥰
I love that you did this! Thank you! I would really love it if you could let me know when exactly we should put our climbers on poles. I have a p. splendid and p. Glorious that were both small like the ones in this video. They have certainly grown quite a bit and they want to climb. However, the root systems don’t appear to be very robust yet. When should I put them on poles? And would you suggest putting them on the full size pole despite them being so small?
Hey :) there is more in-depth guidance in my moss pole playlist but jn a nutshel: put it on a pole as soon as possible but stick to the regular principles: repot it once the root system is ready for it/has outgrown the current pot & with that repot just add a pole into the pot :)
Size of the pole dependsnon how fast the plant woll climb, i usually go full sozed pole straight away:)
Hi Jan, in my experience frydek looks so sad when putting leaves in changed conditions. Perhaps at move for some hours there was very low humidity and/or temperature drop. E.g. when I move my alos out of higher humidity I use the shelving over grow light as heatmat to increase humidity. Helped me a lot. The good thing is they usually come back anyways (you proved it :))
That could be !! Well always smarter in hindsight :)
Love this anthurium, gota try to find one
Sadly some creatures are just born weaker. Plants included. There will always be a runt of the litter so to speak. A failure to thrive for seemingly no reason. It's sad, but it happens. You can do everything possible and still lose some in conditions others thrive in. And unfortunately most of the time we don't really have a medication you can give to fix plants.
“Batik” is a Malay/Indonesian word and you have pronounced it perfectly fine because with Malay language, you pronounce it as you read/spell it :)
Thanks:)
Thanks a lot, that was so inspiring :)) Frydek are so difficult to care for.
Thanks :) they really are !!
Love the multipart progress videos 😍
Thank you :)
I love these too! It's so nice to see the progress right away. I don't know any other channel that puts in so much longterm effort for a video.
Love this video and appreciate the format of seeing a plant’s growth overtime. These are my favorite types of videos but I like all that you offer.
That video ticks all the boxes for me ! Worth every minute you put into it !
your cabinets humidity is to high is my guess. you mentioned a very hogh humidity level and yes, these tropical plants appreciate elevated conditions. there is still a limit.
Good on you finding a Luxurians! They are still crazy expensive here in New Zealand. I love your content ❤❤
Thank you so much :)
I'm not done with watching your last video yet but here I am 😂
Haha yeah the last one was lengthy :D
@@sydneyplantguy much appreciated boss 🤝
Totally recommend Flora Magnifica for those extra special plants! :)
Think it’s time to treat myself again soon :)
Oh no the fried egg😢 20:44
Haha welcome to the world of the frydek. They drive me nuts. They can seem to do well and then suddenly they decide they want to die and that’s it. Bye! I still can’t figure them out. Drives me nuts. The only one of mine that is doing well is actually the one fully grown in water (with foliage focus). I grew it from corm and transitioned it to full hydroponics when it had about three leaves. It’s now quite big. Go figure. Haha
I love seeing the plants over time as they grow and size up 👍 Also realize it must be a pain having to store all the clips over time 😀🇨🇦
Has anyone ever told you that you have a chad, to-die-for jawline? :O
I don't know why I just noticed it. 😂
Hehe oh well thank you :)
I have heard a lot of people had issues growing Alocasia frydek in soil. When I got mine (probably around the same time as you) I put mine in pon immediately. And it’s been loving life in pon.
I also love getting very small plants. They are so cute how small they are and the reward for growing them big feels so good
Yesh heard Alocasias specifically like pon or frugal!! Will try it out :)
This was sooooo amazing!! Probably your third video I watched today while working! Seeing the Timelapse and how much they grew but also knowing everything isn’t always perfect was just so nice! You really give me ideas for my own plants and I was buying GT foliage focus at an anthurium store and the worker referenced your videos, asked if I followed you and said you use it!
I love seeing videos with growth progress being shown!!
Thanks :)
Put the frydek in leca they love it
Danke!
Vielen Dank :)
I just got my first variegated frydek and you're the second plant-fluencer that's had trouble with them this week! I'm so nervous!!!! 😂🤞🤞🤞🤞
Great video, Brad's very distracting tail is such a beautiful pattern! Anyway, nit sure its relevant, but my Alocasia's ( I have strong central queensland sunlight) duck their heads like your frydeck when its too bright for them, 😎or sometimes on a hot day(high 30s° in summer). Can't see how it could be either in your cabinet? 🤔 Thanks for all your hard work for us!
Hallo Jan. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland. Habe letztens ein Video mit einer anderen Alocasia gesehen. Hier hingen auch die Blätter ohne dass ein Problem erkennbar war. Es stellte sich heraus, dass die Nährstoffkonzentration viel zu hoch war. Zu viel gedüngt. Wäre noch eine Überlegung wert.
Deine Pflanzen sind der Wahnsinn. Ich warte immer auf neue Videos von Dir. Liebe Grüße
Danke :)!
Hi Jan! I'm a big fan. You have helped me out so much in my plant parenting. Thank you! Question: you probably already covered this in another video, but how did/do you get Brad not to eat your plants? Thanks my friend.
I bought some baby plants, quite a challenge but I like taking care of them! Hopefully they wil grow big!! Thank you for the video, like your energy! And the cat 😄
I adore this style of video and appreciate all the effort that goes into making them. Thank you for your time, positive attitude, and advice! I've been trying tiny plants in a humidity box and I just up-potted some anthurium hybrids! They had three months in the box and are now in an open shelf with 70 - 80% humidity. 🤞
Ohh you got an Odora as well!^^ I love this plant and I love the hype it's starting to get. Although I'm having some trouble with this one. Harvested corms from my plant which is hardly even variegated... And all her plantlets seem to be completely white xD I'll never get nice variegation.
Thank you so much for another amazing video!! My experience with A. Frydek is that they stress very easily, more easily than any other alocasia I’ve kept but. With one I had, even just bringing him home from the nursery was enough of a change to stress him and he wilted and dropped all of his leaves. But they always grow back with the new growth acclimatised to their new home.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm from Perth, WA so I'll check out the plant suppliers website and see what rare plants are available. I'm also keen to see how you set up your Ikea cabinet so hopefully you'll have a video on that.
Flora Magnifica are my favourite plant shop, Dexter is always super helpful. I have lots of big plants that started out as TC plantlets from Flora Magnifica.
I have a regular non-variegated frydek / green velvet / michblahblablah. It’s a smaller one and it has been a diva as well. It has dropped all but two of its leaves…
However there was one corm with roots already growing that I potted separately, and it is growing a shoot. Hopefully this plant isn’t too much trouble lol
Another awesome video! Absolutely love the format and watching the growth process. Looking fwd to similar ones. What’s also great is that in this vid the plants of choice don’t need a moss pole! Very refreshing.
Me too!!! I love to buy tiny tc plugs and grow them up. I’ve always felt like i was cheating when i bought a plant in anything larger than a 6” (15 cm) pot anyway. That is the fun for me.
Michele's frydek, from oh the places you'll grow, just killed over the same way
When I find a good deal Hoya I buy 2 of the same. Watching them grow you can usually see that one of them grows so much better than the other. They all are the same size, same medium, same lighting and watered and fertilized the same but growth can really vary and it’s the plant itself. Try it. It’s not you. Tfs
Love seeing a time lapse of baby plant to well established (fat roots) plant. And having one of the four fail was proof that even though it was given the same, primo conditions, happy, healthy growth is never guaranteed. TY
Your pronunciation is quite good. Anyway, most plant names have Latin roots, so they should almost always be pronounced as spelled.
Yes, I enjoy your planty updates, then vs now
Thanks:)
Now I'm considering the logistics of a greenhouse cabinet in my dorm...
4:23 yeah but batik isn’t an English word, it’s an Indian textile dying technique. So in that case we should pay a little attention to pronunciation. It’s bah-teek btw :)
Love these videos and your sense of humour. I so want to get into these kind of plants but I believe they are poisonous to dogs in particular and since I have a puppy that likes to chew on plants I may need to wait a while. I already garden but need to up my indoor plant game. I know if I start then there will be no end to it.😂 Hi to Brad, loved seeing his tail popping up in the video today.
I got a sancti and I put mine in a clear cup with perlite with a another clear cup taped on top it’s been like two months and I’m starting to see roots. It grows slowly but it’s so healthy I only open in a few times a week so it’s not too exposed 😊 I love the journey! Congrats Jan!
I think I saw someone had to move their fydek out of the ikea and it did really well that way...but she was struggling otherwise
frydek TC is pain in the A$$, mine also died :( I think starting from corm is better
“the green one is just Alocasia Micorichavavava” 😂😂😂😂 me
This is just friedek being friedek the definition of drama that plant!
Hi Jan, I've been contemplating putting my Frydek in pon, but I'm a little scared. 🙂
I heard good things!!!
A very interesting video! Loved all the information and progress shown. Thanks a lot!!
Thank you:)
Such a satisfying video to watch! Love seeing the progress over time 👍🏻
Thank you:)
I've learned so much from watching your videos, I mostly like how you do the before and after plant videos. Because I'm on a budget I only by baby plants that cost $10.00 or less. I've never had one to come with pest so far and I don't grow them in a special cabinet, they seem to get use to my environment and grow. What I'm working on is growing my plants on moss poles so they can be big and beautiful like yours. Thank you for showing us the do's and don't's in plant growth!
Thank you :)
I think the Fri may have got too much light
Frydeks always have issues, i don't want them