People Can’t Stop Buying House Plants
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The house plant market is booming. The pandemic has driven more people to fill shelves, tables, and windowsills with monsteras, pothos, and succulents. VICE News takes a look at the house plant craze and what it tells us about ourselves.
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I was one of those people. I have about 15 plants and I’m now mixing my own soil. This has become a great hobby for me.
And if you grow a lot of them you can take starters and sell them on Craigslist. Make pretty good money too
Same here.
Same!
Same ✌🏽
Only 15 lol Try having 60, its great fun.
I was a plant mom long before the pandemic hit and it makes me so happy people got on board with gardening and house plants.
The channel *Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't* was what got me into plants, this pandemic.
Best channel on UA-cam!
ME TOo
This is me, I have gotten so many plants since the start of quarantine and it's really helped me stay clean.
Clean from drugs or a clean house?
@@carpo719 from drugs :) it was really good for me to have a hobby and something to care for that I could do easily at home, and is pretty cheap on the maintenance front.
That is awesome!
Aww congrats
Glad to hear that☺️
Everyone should grow plants and veggies and anything they can. If everyone did the world would breath better. Just saying.
Yea, and it doesn't take as much space or effort as many people think it does. You just have to suit what you grow to whatever environment you have. I live in an apartment but I still manage to grow things like starwberries and kale on my fire escape.
Vegetarians are destroying the earth
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@@kickballfever I have greens like swiss chard and bok choy growing on my windowsill as houseplants. :)
@@theuglykwan Right on! :)
This houseplant boom was already in full swing before the pandemic hit. Most people just suddenly had more time on their hands, so they could invest more time in their hobby. More time to care for plants means you can handle more plants. 🤷🌿
I was coming to say this. I work in the plant industry and the indoor plant boom was taking off long before the pandemic, I would say a good year before at least.
I've had a Desert Rose plant for my entire time in college, nearly four years now, and his name is Kanan. Love the guy, he's such a steady grower and seeing him slowly grow inch after inch in my year is so rewarding. I completely understand how people can pass down bonsai from generation to generation, the Desert Rose is a similar long growing "tree-esq" plant and even though my plant is small, at the speed he's growing, he'll be in a twelve inch pot by the end of the month.
I had a very similar bond with my Rosie.
May you continue to live in harmony!
I have a Desert rose as well, she came in around 4 inches and 6 months later she’s around 13 inches today and growing everyday.
My mother has houseplants older than me. I'm 42.
Wow.she is good.
@@evieee50 Thank you! She is indeed!
Why didn’t you not cover both the pros and cons of this trend? This explosion must have some negative aspects. Environmental? Labor exploitations? Price gouging, etc.?
The harvest of peat moss and perlite has some pretty negative effects on the environment. If you go to a big box store or grocery store check the soil of the plants. Some companies have started to substitute perlite for styrofoam.
YES to the price gouging :( a few years ago you could get all the plants we see now at half the price they are today.
As well as the introduction on invasive plant species which can detrimentally impact a ecosystem (for example, pothos, people will plant them outside not realizing how invasive they are and it can really wreak havoc.
Over the last year 1½ i have bought 18 plants and made cuttings for 6 more. I was never one who could keep plants alive, but all are thriving. It really gives life to my once pretty empty home home
Good for you!
From "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl:
“The story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem. This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously." Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, "This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. "Yes." What did it say to her? She answered, "It said to me, 'I am here-I am here-I am life, eternal life.”
That's what plants are for.
I have an entire room dedicated to nothing but plants. I've always been into house plants but I've really went overboard this past year.
as a person who has worked at plant store prior and during the pandemic.. this is so fucking true yall were crazy about plants and gardening, i need a damn raise yall
Plant people: please research native plants in your area. House plants are often non-native invasive species which can cause habitat destruction. I did invasive removal in a nature park and we removed tons of ornamental houseplants. They can spread off your porch or lawn by birds or other animals. You can easily look up the plant type and see if it is invasive in your state or country. Then you can choose to only grow native plants! This simple choice can prevent habitat destruction! 😊🌱
Yall must live in Florida
Most plants in my area if outside are native because many which aren’t native will die from the cold in winter while the native plants survive.
Non native ≠ invasive
But yes, doing research is good. However, house plants are inside because they can't stand the cold in many cases, so houseplants can't even spread in temperate climates.
Been growing psychedelic cacti for the last few years, and my collection has grown quite a bit. It’s a p chill hobby.
But goddamn if early Vice News comment sections aren’t always an absolute fuckin’ dumpster fire. 🤦🏻
I'm so glad I'm not alone in this hahaha. My plants are like my therapy when I feel stressed out now 😅
I bought exotic plants and endangered plants so I can flex on my zoom.
Buying endangers plants is kinda trash cuz they most likely aren't ethically sourced
@@nikolaybondarev7407 well.... I ate the last 2 dodos in the entire world because I was out of quail meat.
The entire home decor industry has seen a boom imo.
Agreed,
Yeah. It was already a thing, but then most people suddenly had extra time on their hands. It's only natural to engage in nesting habits when you're home more.
I went to prison for the first time back in March of this year. As soon as I got out I started buying plants. Now I can't stop. Lmao
For the first time? You plan on going back?
@@StinkyDustyBird I was thinking the same thing. Lol
*Recidivism is real*
Houseplants are wonderful! They make me happy.
For someone who always had a crap ton of plants, this brings me joy.
“It’s not about having the most exotic looking plant...” “my first plant was $100”
How casual to drop in irrelevant information.
That’s a real commitment. My first plant was probably $1.99
herb plants cost under $10,lol
Can't find plant for 3 dollars anymore price more then double its very sad
I'm on quite a few plant boards and I've seen $2000+ go for a single node cutting! The hard core plat people be in it, yo!
Yeah my first was like 3.99
I'm working on my clean air collection. So far 6 or 7 plants. I'd like to get more until Im surrounded
Ok. Full disclosure. I have house plants in every room, but it didn’t start with the shutdowns! I have a five foot tall Parlor Fern, and a Spiderplant taking over a table and lamp. Both have spawned ‘babies’ or seeds in which I merely replanted and created new. My only new purchase was veggies seeds and grew an indoor garden in my kitchen in a bay window. A crop of greenbeans. And strawberry seeds to start in a large planter to get year round fruit. Plants are fun, and yes clean the air. But please research plants before buying, there are many types...
Bird of Paradise, I commend thee! Lol. They are lovely.
I started a COVID garden, spent way more money on plants that I don’t eat then I ever thought I would, but damn do they look fabulous
I buy LEGO Botanical collection sets. Save money on water and fertilizer, and don’t have to worry about it dying 👌
Weak
You only gotta worry about more trash in the landfill! Plastic plants for the win.
I had some easy to care for houseplants before the pandemic, but now I have like a mini jungle in my flat.
I enjoy caring for them and seeing the progress and they really make the space more comfortable.
Wow! Some I'm not the only one!!! Pre-Covid 3 plants. Post-Covid 24 plants!!!
Absolutely true…I literally went to the garden center and purchased about 7 house plants 🪴
Knowing damn well, they were going to die 🤦🏽♀️
I thought I was the only one
#whoknew🤷🏽♀️
It's survival of the fittest, any that survive are keepers. You can always fall back on airplants.
Remember people, some houseplants like ficus need 6+ hours of super bright light. Don't get plants if you don't have the lighting.
Hi WRO, what would be a good plant that can grow kinda big and not so much maintenance?
@@vinnyv5802 Dracaena limelight, dracaena fragans, aglaonema bj, Monstera deliciosa, whale fin snake plant ....can all tolerate low light but do better with few hours of sunlight. They can take 10 years to get big in poor lighting, or buy them big already.
@@weareorigin ok thanks so much. I'm doing some plant shopping this weekend.
Or get plants that dont need much light
Although I scoffed derisively at the concept of this video, I'm glad I watched it as it was informative and weirdly relevant to our times.
I have the four left that refuse to die. A bird of paradise, the "poison bulb" A. Albafolia, "queen of the night" ceres and datura metel.
Same thing happened here in Indonesia. People suddenly take up on gardening as a hobby, big social media influencers are flexing their super expensive exotic plant to their audience.
It's been interesting 😂
So this is why I'm spending $98 on 4 house plants in Seattle right now. Lol
I had several houseplants and started growing edible plants from seed one at a time during the pandemic. It’s really cool getting several benefits from each plant and after all that I can eat them too. Basil is so easy to grow, smells great, thrives easily, and it repels flies and mosquitoes. Maybe I’ll get an avocado from my plant one day, but if not it at least it looks pretty cool. A
In my experience, I like buying plants to avoid buying man-made stuff that will later just break, lose interest and end up in a landfill. Plants are a great way to feed the need to collect something. Eventually you can compost it to bring new life.
My wife resembles this statement. She started bringing home free plants next thing I know the whole living room is packed.
Food prices would collapse if everybody grew food instead of these useless plants.
There not use less
I started growing plants earlier this year, 3rd Jan I think, I bought a bunch of indoor plants for my newly moved apartment, to just give it a bit of 'life', now I have approximately 25-26 plants, right now I am so grateful to have such habit, as it really de-stresses me and gives me company, I am living in Cambodia, the situation here has gotten worse and worse since April (the latest lockdown just ended today, yah), plants play an important part to help me maintain my sanity.
I have about 35 plants now, I bought my first one at the very beginning of the pandemic. I love my plants! 🪴
My mom became interested to plants during this pandemic. Yeah that's all I gotta say
i been hoarding house plants like an addict wayyyyy before the pandemic. on a side note, i guess there is no actual news in the world today. awesome work, vice........people buy plants. people propagate plants from cuttings. you broke the story first.
hater bruv
Oh good, now I know why I started to take interest in plants like never before within the last year.
One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates.🎈
When I was a kid in the late 70’s would have a mini green house in a box of super sugar crisp cereal. Lol. No sugar on label today. Sad so many childhood things gone by the wayside. Grew up without internet and video games for most part. Grandparents and family had a garden to grow and eat food. Was given a responsibility of chores and value. Don’t hear too much of public schools growing or being taught how to garden and prepare foods. Hats off to the 4H clubs.
I've acquired 15 new plant friends since the pandemic :))
I have always had house plants...I grew up with my mom having gobs of plants. I now have over 60 in my own house. I don't know what I'd do without them.
I’ve started a garden that unintentionally feeds the squirrels
Philippines had its House Plants Craze during this pandemic. My mom was like addicted. I can see her willing to sell me for her plants
I got plants when the pandemic hit. I started to grow interest ever since I got a native plants and my first indoor plant (that's alive) which is a monstera
As an employee of the biggest ornamental plant nursery in America... I approve. Buy more plants. 😂
Costa?
@@mwoods4608 maybe :D
Who tf watching vice news owns a home? lol this should be apartment plants.
Sorry but social media did not make me do it. I started cooking more during the pandemic. I figured, why not grow my own herbs since I keep buying fresh ones. It were gateway plants really. Now I am growing who knows what is next. But cooking made me do it. And yes it is calming and very relaxing.
I started the pandemic with one dying dracaena. I had no idea what it was or how to take care of it. Doing research into it led me into a magical plant world that I could not imagine life without! Love taking care of these beautiful creatures!
I too was one of those people. Went from 1 plant to over 12 in the past year
As a content creator focused on houseplants/cacti/succulents... during the lockdown and even present day... plant prices are crazy high compared to a couple years ago. As a collector of over 600+ houseplants (2 collections in different states) it's sad to see the prices on such small cuttings or certain plants with a high ticket price. On the flip side I got new people watching the channel with a new interest for plants. Since the lockdown I taught myself how to dry my blooms that pop up in my collection and create art with it and it's been my small business for 1 year now all thanks to the lockdown/pandemic. Plants is a gift that keeps on giving! Happy Planting!
Collected over 40 indoor plants ontop of what I already had. I had to modify my whole South facing wall windows to make more storage room for my plants. My boyfriend has dust allergies and with all the plants and the humidity his allergies have subsided greatly. No regrets.
Also share/swap cuttings for free 🌱
Plants and cats are my therapy. Nature is amazing at healing the soul 🐱💚🌱 This was a pleasant insight to our plant world~
This is totally my wife. We had so many plants in Germany but we had to PCS to Virginia and we couldn’t take our plants with 😞😥😢
USAG Schweinfurt 12-14
A beautiful time!
@@dt3947 Grafenwoehr, Ramstein, & Kaisserslautern 2017-2020!
All these casuals hiking up the prices…
Pre Covid: 0 indoor plants
9/2021: 40+ indoor plants 😂🤭
I'm a plant collector from more then 15 year experience but I noticed that the price boom more then double ...from new demand causing higher price very sad...
Love this! I've 12 plus plants in my front room alone lol
We were given a plant by a neighbor who moved away and even though I'm a notorious killer of plants, I have been taking care of it and it went from a scraggly thing with only a few stems of leaves to a flower blooming beauty. It turned out to be a fuchsia (I hadn't known what it was) and I named it Boz Scaggs. My friends think it's a goofy name but when you just know....It's been a hell of a year and half and trying to learn to take care of myself again as well as I take care of Boz.
More hard hitting news from the news organization that brought you Proud Boys.
Is that your real face?
Don't be ugly. The world already has plenty of ugly out there, we don't need more.
@Bunting Cloverleaf thank god
Wait what???
now i want house plants, thanks vice
I admit without guilt that I am one of these person's! Before April I had zero plant's. Then I started propagating starts from my dad's mother plant's and now I'm at around 20. I had 30 but have since been giving some away
.... To make more room for the ones I care for the most like the ones I Inherited from my grandmother who has passed last week.
This was a fascinating and insightful discussion. I love to grow/keep plants and I study horticulture at MTSU. The houseplant boom was already underway before the pandemic and the pandemic accelerated that processed. I hope it continues!
$100 on his first plant - now that is too much money.
Depending on the plant it could live for decades
@@everythinghaschanged42 most perennial plants live for decades, you are thinking of flowers.
@@ephre ok.. also 100 being a lot is subjective. It’s a lot for you it’s not a lot for me or other people and that’s fine
@@everythinghaschanged42 I'm sure most of us who buy plants a lot realise that $100 is an expensive first plant. HENCE THE COMMENT.
@@ephre doesn’t matter if it’s his first plant or his 50th… it’s their money not yours. Don’t dictate what is too much to someone else
A plastic Christmas tree is the best!!!! U never have to water it and doesn't mind living in the back of the dark broom cupboard for most of the year:)
Is Vice saying the ECOsystem of our houses is being invaded?
Okay so more people own plants, and not just one, they have many. If it takes around 8 pounds of green foliage to create enough oxygen for one person for one day, add the fact that almost everyone is a plant hobbyist then we should see a improvement in oxygen levels??
I went out and bought plants and even got trays for vegetable/herb growing. Unfortunately, I discovered I have the opposite of a green thumb and they all pretty much died.
Hard hitting journalism
Ahhh shut up
I started growing avocados during lockdown, basically because the pits were free. I've got 8 of those and more recently I've started growing green onions, just had my first harvest (it was yummy)
This is so true! I have 45 in my bedroom alone..I gotta problem lol
It sounds great, be well.
Yeah, because theyre more affordable and easier to take care of than some annoying ass kids. 🤣😭
I can't do house plants they require too much attention. I prefer having a huge garden cause the sky will take care of them.
If I where to have indoor plants it would have to have a watering set up.
I got like six plants in the last year. They are still alive 🙌🙌
House plants be keepin it fifty feeeeeefth st!
I could stop, but I won't stop.
That's some hard hitting journalism right there. 😂
Liberal vice has no soul anymore just leftist delusions
You do know journalism doesn't always mean serious news all the time right? It's literally in the name.
@@skeetrix5577 Of course you wouldn't realize that they often just make interesting documentaries. Let me know when the right isn't pretending the election was rigged, and drinking herbicide, then maybe you can comment on delusion.
@@kys4s4c It's in the name? What part of journalism means not serious? I don't expect it to be serious all the time but I do expect some more merit to the stories they chose to cover.
@@iloveyouamberappel Journalism literally means the production and distribution of reports on current events based on facts and supported with proof or evidence. What you consider meaningful or not is subjective. It doesn't mean it's not journalism.
Landlord won't let me hang pictures or repaint my flat, so...plants it is.
Was it social mobility or the lack of it?
Yeah we felt natural instinct to go to plants over a government tht has covered up everything natural about humans
I started with a single plant and long story short, I'm sitting with 35+ now.. not counting the various propagation and seedlings! LoL
None of these hipsters can keep the plants alive.
Since the pandemic I've become a plant collector lol
I had no plants at the beginning now I have 20!!! I also became a minimalist.
Don’t forget to water your plants ♥️ 🪴🚿
The mid century modern furniture had a boom too
I started with 5 plants 2 years later I have 60 now
I live in a cave so I don’t have a bunch of plants but I love watching plantfluencers
No Hilton, that’s not why.
Why did you sneak that in
screw house plants, we need to bring back real gardening in peoples yards so we can become more self sufficient, healthier and regenerate and improve the soil of suburban lawns. many HOA's dont even allow gardening and they demand that you waste water IN THE DESERT watering your worthless grass. society is so stupid.
you can plant some fruit trees for free and have hundreds of dollars worth of fruit every year for decades once it starts producing.
i just dont get it... i see people planting worthless non edible trees and shrubs at their homes and i cant seem to figure out why. fruit trees and bushes are absolutely beautiful when in bloom and obviously they provide healthy food.
Influencer: "Caring for a plant and not wanting it to die."
Farmers: "First time?"
I can think one particular kind of plant people have been buying a lot of
Loved this💚