Why You Should NEVER Buy BIG Plants
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I buy them small because they are less expensive, it’s fun to watch them grow, and I have space constraints. What you’re saying about them being less fussy if they mature in our care makes perfect sense.
Absolutely. Thanks for watching 😁
I LOVE admiring my large plants and remembering when I first got them as a single leaf or a tiny plant. It’s so rewarding. Remember to take pictures of your baby plant so that you can enjoy comparing the growth later!
When I look at photos of where my plants have come from - and gone to - it is illuminating, provides a real sense of accomplishment - and is sometimes heartbreaking. Great tip!
Absolutely!!
I got many plants at home and I only bought two of them. The rest are cuttings from friends. It's so much fun to see them grow!
One thing I would like to add to the video: it's better for the environment to buy small plants, because they did spend less time at the nursery, which has to be heated sometimes. So you are lucky if your friends also like plants and you can get cuttings and small plants from them :)
Great point! Thank you and keep on cutting on! 🤭
Great point!
I can agree with most of what you’re saying. Yes, propagations seem to grow out much prettier than the mother plant. And also yes to the joy of watching a small plant grow large. However, if you’ve failed many a time on a small plant but love it and want to keep trying, I suggest a larger plant due to the fact it has a more robust root system. This has worked for me on many a plant like the makoyana!!! So weird we had completely different outcomes on the same plant. Lol
I agree with this one. Mature plants are actually more resistant than small versions due to mature root system. The only reason plants die in our care is because of the soil. Nursery soil is great for greenhouses but is terrible for home environment. People repot baby plants sooner than mature ones and this is the most common reason mature ones die, because the environment and watering changed and was not suitable for the type of soil.
Fair comment I can see that 👍
Absolutely right. I often order cuttings from eBay. They are very very inexpensive, so if they fail I'm not out much money. But most of the time they do 'take,' and then grow really well. It's a good way to try out a plant you're not sure about. I'm lucky in that I don't have a lot of space for plants, so the smaller ones aren't a problem.
So true!
Great video. 1000% agree and would recommend this to everyone: not only the baby plants look very cute and are much cheaper, but they adapt very well to their new home and are very determined to grow, adapt and survive.
My example: as a beginner I bought several calatheas (with a suprise bonus: spidermites and thrips) - the oldest/biggest died fastest. But every baby calathea fought the pests with me, kept growing no matter what, adapted and eventually grew into big fuss-free beauties.
Since this experience I buy only cuttings and plantlets - they are much more resilient, easy care and very cheap.
Also I simply don´t want to miss the joy of growing them - seeing a little plant growing into a large beautiful beast is wonderful :-)
Bonus of it: I can easily manipulate their shape of growth (good light, enough space, nice growing media etc.).
Absolutely spot on 👍
completely agree! I find it so rewarding to see my plants grow into a big beautiful houseplant from such a small one 😁
Absolutely!!
Oh THATS WHYYY! Thank you🤓🤓👏🏼 now I know why they grumpy😂
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I love to buy small plants, it's truly rewarding to see them get big and healthy over years
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I wish I had watched this video BEFORE I bought my second $100 cat palm. Thank you for posting. Makes so much sense.
Thanks for watching 😁
You make good points here. I'd never thought of the adaptability of younger plants to new environments, as opposed to older and bigger plants that have more stems and leaves that might go into shock and die when being put into a new environment. You've saved us viewers a fortune here.
I see plants as living growing things too. They just don't move around like other life forms.
Cool glad you liked it 👍
I haaate change. Im with the plants here. 😁
When I first started to buy plants, I was actually disappointed that the plants were so small and that the mature plants were sooo expensive. So basically, I was stuck with the small ones. I had no idea how much I would love watching them grow over the years. They really do become family haha. I would not change a thing! ❤ Happy Saturday!!
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We also made the same mistakes of buying string of pearls, they survived 3-6 months, never again. However our string of spades have survived very well. We have one in our upstairs and one in our bathroom.
I started my "houseplant journey" about 6 months ago when one of my friends was awesome enough to give me some pothos cuttings from their plant. Since then I've absolutely loved every second of the journey of propogating cuttings, planting them and growning leaves, chopping up and propogating again😊😊. It's truly fulfilling and so fun to see a plant you raised thrive (and yes I did deal with fungus gnats at the start before I worked out how to water properly😂).
About a month ago I got myself a smallish monstera from B&Q (about £10 I think)---- which I immediately brutally chopped up to cuttings and I am now propogating 😅. Being a "plant parent" might seem silly to outside onlookers, but is really a fun journey!!
I am definitely glad I started small, and plan to continue with buying smaller plants as I expand my collection
Absolutely I do like a propagation!
Lately my favorite plant has been the baby mango tree i've grown from a seed. I only bought a delicious snack, and i get to watch a new life grow from the beginning! I'm not sure how long i'll be able to keep it alive in an indoor setting though, but atm it's doing well and growing fast
Nice little project 👍
With dying plants is crazy how useful drastically reducing the foliage is.
I also love pruning the roots and foliage when repotting. The plant usually takes a short break to understand what just happened and then usually starts growing a lot.
It does seem to kick them on
I found your channel after my daughter bought me a small peace lily and I wanted to know how to care for it, as I’m usually quite good a killing plants. It’s still thriving after 6 months. I’m now addicted to buying plants but can only afford small young ones. Now I know I’m doing the right thing 👍 Thanks
Here you go
Do THIS to Get Your Peace Lily to Flower Again
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That's also the reason why plants that you (had to) cut back often bounce back especially beautiful and become resilient. It's a restart and the plant can her used to the environment.
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Totally agree. My mother taught me this years ago. The only big plants I buy are the ones that are about to die and need saved
Great stuff 👍
I couldn't agree more with this video! I've always stuck with small plants to add to my collection. It's been very rewarding to see them grow so much and know that I did that! It's a good way to see which plants do well in my apartment, too, and I've learned a lot from that. I also 100% agree with the propagation thing. I've had fussy mother plants that don't like the low humidity of my apartment, but when their babies grow, there's no issues at all 😊
Great stuff 👍
Another excellent video Sheffield Made Plants. The first ever REAL plant I bought was my young Monstera in April 2023, I’ve really liked seeing all the new growth, new Ariel roots and new leafs unfurling and his first fenestrated leaf. And how he’s turned to face the sun. I named my Monstera Deliciosa Dave lol. And since then as I mentioned on your other video yesterday I bought a Pothos Marble Queen a few weeks ago and I’ve noticed new growth on her as well longer stems. 😊 I don’t mind being referred to as a (Plant Parent ) because yes plants are living things and they need our help to grow bigger and mature 🪴🍃 😃
Dave! 😂 like it!
Totally AGREE, smaller is cheaper and only needs digging a smaller hole in the garden and it's more satisfyingly seeing them develop.
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Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful you are so so right I did bought two large plant a month ago and then in two weeks time only started to lose three to four leaves everyday you are so right I am experiencing it now thank you so much for sharing have a blessed day
Cool thank you 👍
All of the small ones I've bought died quickly but my big buys, that are already established in their pots, only lost a few bottom leaves.
100% agree on this. I bought one Calathea more mature and the first months had been a real battle. The baby Calatheas I got a year ago are so hardy, they get bright afternoon sun and sit in normal room humidity and they are thriving. The mature one tends to curl its leaves as soon as there is a slight fluctuation in temperature or humidity and don't even think about introducing sun rays.
Always the calathea 😬
I bought a Fiddle Leaf Fig. The leaves slowly started falling off until one leaf was left! I chopped off the top with its one leaf, rooted it in water. After repotting it, it’s growing beautifully plus I bottom water with water from my fish tank.
Great save!
Buying a smaller plant will be challenging. Hence giving you something to learn. Thank you!
You bet!
I’ve had the same bad luck with the Calathea, several times. (And I kept scratching my head as to what had happened). Thank you for the input. / The segment is also a good incentive for enjoying plant growth. Well done.
Glad it helped! Thanks
Very good points, I noticed the same thing about buying small plant. They tend to be more robust adapting to the home environment.
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100% agree! And I'd add that the winter season is for rest. Buy small in spring, grow outdoors and bring them in while you can still have windows open for fresh air. Then slow down for winter lower light & rest till its time to go outside again in spring.
Great stuff 👍
You are so right about grumpy plants lol. I've nicknamed my Croton Mr. Grumps. I swear if I move it just a couple feet, from the left side of it's window to the right side, it drops half it's leaves. And I've had it for 7 years, so it's not an acclimation problem, it's just a big grumpy baby lol
Crotons are weird like that
Totally agree with you about plant parenthood...it's all about nurturing a baby into a lush full grown adult and knowing that you successfully did it without fancy shmancy setups. My propagations are so much healthier and happier than their parent plant. You are right in saying that this is because they have grown completely in our home's conditions. An added bonus of buying smaller plants is that you can fit so many more plants in one space which gives you more opportunity to 'test' them out and learn their needs, and which plants work best in your space.
Definately 😁
Agreed about this. There's a specific space for every plants, but not all spaces suitable for every plants. Once they grow up bigger, the space getting smaller. Unless you have a lot of spaces inside or outside. Great video SMP! 👍
Thank you 😊
For me, all cosmetic problems with older growth on my plants ended, when I started using a hydroponics fertiliser low on ammonium nitrate and carbamide nitrogen but high on nitrate nitrogen plus RO water.
This changes everything. If you like to know more, I can direct you go the channel where I learned everything about the 'science in hydroponics' and how plants eat. 😉
Loving todays content. This really is densely packed info.
Thanks for the tip 👍
The only big plant I've ever purchased was a Kentia Palm for a flat I bought a few years ago. It did very well and was a great choice. It looked great and was easy to maintain - I had zero problems with it. I rehomed it when I moved abroad but will definitely get another big one when I move into my new place next month.
They grow very slowly and you need a large Kentia to provide some impact. I had mine on a stand and it looked awesome.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm too cheap to buy large plants. I buy small ones and grow them myself. Perhaps that's why I never had a new plant die on me. But I must say i used to grow really common and basic house plants. It's only recently I'm game to buy more rare or fineky plants. (thanks to your channel 🙂)
I LOVE cuttings and watching stuff grow! I'm sad that it's almost too cold here in Canada to order online much more, I'm almost out of my growing season 😔🌸🌹🌿🌵 I only buy full 6 inch calatheas so they don't stress once home and they've all come out of it in 8 days max. Everything else I like baby size 😍i also buy full pothos and come home and chop it up to make smaller plants to give away
Is it already getting cold there?
I have always loved to buy small young plants cos enjoy watching them grow. It’s like an accomplishment.
It really is!
Totally agree. I’m so glad to hear it’s not me. 😁 I purchased a large money tree and it is struggling. Two stems have died. And I’m trying really hard to save the last one. 🤷🏻♀️
Oh no! What happens to the stems?
Not sure, maybe root rot. They got mushy and dried out. When I repotted it, I lost the second one. I only water throughly when dry.
An Absolutely Brilliant video, I love growing baby plants, and you gave me validation for it! I shared it on a FB post...
Thank you 😊
Yes true
I found out this with my peace lily plants once.
Got very nice huge flowering plants from my open air local nursery and even though I kept them in my open balcony they didn't see the next season
They wilted and somehow I tried to salvage some by changing into smaller pots.
Anyway it is a disaster.
Everytime I think I learned something yet I go and make a another different mistake altogether 😢😂😅😢
Probably too much light for them out on a balcony 😲
I generally agree with you - my propagated plants generally do very well. My Makayonas, however, never had any issues. BUT I did buy mine at a big box store, so they weren’t really in a vastly different environment to my home. I do have one exception. I have a larger Focus Altissima which I bought from a nursery, and all the new leaves grew in wrinkly and weird after I took it home. I chopped the top off, and the propagated baby still has weird and wrinkly leaves, but the mother plant has branched and is now growing normal, smooth and healthy leaves from the point of the cut. It’s honestly bizarre and I’ve never seen anything like it, but I’m glad I fixed one of them at least 😂
I wonder what the problem is. I was gonna get an altissima too
@@SheffieldMadePlants no idea! It’s healthy, there are no pests, and they both get the same watering and light - very odd.
Watching this right after being greedy and buying the biggest Bird of Paradise I could find....I'm way too impatient for my own good. 😅 I rescued I from a Tesco, maybe it'll be grateful? Guess I'll find out lmao
Fingers crossed 🤞
Thank you for another fantastic plant video! This makes perfect sense. The string of hearts is the only 'string of' that has ever worked for me. I have tried every type of 'strings' and they have all died.
"String of heartbreak" Yes! So accurate! 😂
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Same for me ! I tried Strings of Everything and none lived long enough despite all my efforts 😪. I've just propagated a string of heart from the remains of a very depressed mama plant and I'm playing this video over and over very loud so that they listen and understand what they are supposed to do ha ha ha
I love this tip. My favorite plants are the ones that take some work. I LOVE taking small fittings and going from there.
Love that!
Love this, confirming yet again that plants are closer to humans than most think. - Looking at one of my cacti, I can exactly tell, from its thinner circumference i.e. when it went through a crisis / had a hissy fit, that that was when I got it. Thankfully, its circumference got larger again and it is double the size now. Looks like the little dear has settled now happily on my bedroom window sill.
Awesome! Thanks 👍
I mostly pick babies because of my very small appartment, I know by the time they take up too much space I will likely have the budget to move out into a bigger one. I didn't know it was also good to get healthier plants!
Thanks for sharing!!
Makes sense. You're not "tight", you're smart!
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I am agree, i got child of calethea from my cousin where she got no clue, how to maintain. She kept it in sunlight (not sure how parent plant survive) and this is the strongest calethea I ever had / have. This plant is thriving in just garden soil in my corridor in stone hard soil for days (without water) .
Wow sounds great 😁
I bought a big white bird of paradise for around 7£ and that was too cheap not to buy 😳😍 fortunately, it loves to be here and is growing and making new leaves like it got paid to do it 🎉
Amazing!
My only catastrophic collapse was a very large pothos - notoriously hardy!
They are!
My peppermonia raindrop that was so unhappy I water propagated it and the offspring is happy! Same lighting and soil as the mother plant.
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Hi Rich, I have learned from you to buy baby plants.. All my prop plants are growing well. Thanks to you my plants grew better than my human kids. Thanks again for such continuing advise. 🤗😙
My pleasure 😊
I have bought 0 plants, most my plants were gifted or from cuttings from friends and family. I love growing them myself ❤
Also cheaper 😂 😂 😅
Sure is 😁
Love to see them grow so I see this as a win!
I love buying younger plants. They’re cheaper and I have more satisfaction growing them out myself. Progress photos are so fun.
Didn’t think of that aspect 👍
You’re right! Wish I’d watched this before I bought my Monstera that’s growing in every which a way.
Thanks!
I agree I've lost a lot of plants that I have bought, but the proportions from these plants are doing great.
Great stuff 👍
Even though we all like big plants the issues mentioned here a very much up to the point. Good job with this one.
Glad you enjoyed it
All plant stores in my area sell Monstera's but none sell 1 with mature leaves that look nice and properly developed. That was reason enough to buy a small one and correct it growing in all directions (3 plants in 1 pot, all facing away from each other). In 5 months the plant completely transformed, it's now much bigger and every leaf faces the sun :) Not having had direct sun directly by the window until I bought it probably contributed to that
Sounds cracking!
I like the satisfaction of seeing a plant grow. My advice to people taking plants home is have patience and don't do too much watering when they get home. Ficus Benjaminus--good grief, it will drop leaves just moving from one place to another in the same room. If you have patience and don't mind looking at a pathetic plant, it starts growing back in six months. I once had a spider plant that I brought home and it fell back to four leaves. I finally repotted it in a smaller glazed pot with no drain hole at the at bottom, moved it to a different place in the living room and it is doing fine. I do have a large palm that declined shortly after I bought it and only three years later is starting to revive. Patience is a virtue. And if anyone knows how to revive a scraggly string-of-pearls, I would love to know it.
Very true. I've struggled with my Ben but seems happy now I've left it alone 👍
I love your channel! You mentioned that you have avocados growing from store bought avocados. I would love to see a video about you explaining how to keep them alive. I have killed so many so far... :D
I did have but I got bored of it and got rid of it 😬
I never thought about why propagated plants do better than the mother plant, wow! Awesome video! I bought a large-ish pothos from a store and it grew very quickly over months, but eventually it started to fade and I'm not really sure why. Although she is gone now, the plant grown from her cuttings doesn't grow as fast but is much happier in my home. I also bought a super small 2-inch fluffy ruffles fern not knowing if it would live, but it is thriving even in Arizona humidity; if it was larger, it probably would have been much more unhappy with the dryness! Super cool!
Great stuff 👍
Hmmm, I have never tried growing any of those string plants, but I would like to have a go once. String of hearts, maybe; String of pearls, NO. It is good to know what plants you can't cooperate with. For me it is ferns. And tropical heavy drinkers. I'm happy with plants that grow a trunk or a woody vine. Even succulents that get woody when older. Hanging plants are a territory yet unexplored. One thing I know is that they would have to be small. It helps to know where to start if you ever step to a new type of plants.
They need tons of good light on top to thrive. I learned that the hard way
@@SheffieldMadePlants My place doesn't quite have that, so I won't rush to strings then. Thanks for bringing this point up.
I moved some house plants out to the porch for just a day while I took care of some stuff in the house, and my jade plant threw a fit and shed a bunch of leaves. I was shocked just a day out on a shady porch would be too much for it.
Normally going outside is a good thing 🤷🏻♂️
@@SheffieldMadePlants I think my jade plant is just a diva. 😅
I completely agree with you! I keep buying many small plants for the sake of budget. Until one day, I had pest infestation! Luckily, I could handle it since most plans are small and medium. I can't imagine having pests in a big plant.
Great point
I only got into plants at 54. I'm home all the time so can look after them myself, just need help with moving stuff. If someone told me to get a small or smaller plants, it would have been a firm no! Lol
I wanted these BIG Calathea £60 each! .....that died in days .
BUT I have had babies grow from the 2 Calathea of the 3 I have. And it's fab watching them grow ! I'd also buy a smaller one now too.
Great stuff 👍
Great advice. Love the "string of heartbreak ". I take cuttings of outdoor plants, and spider plants are easy, but even though ive seen a few for larger plants, im too afraid to start hacking at them! ( ive got a 3rd generation pelargonium in the garden).
Hacking is always fine 😁
@@SheffieldMadePlants 😮
Yepppppp. Bought a huge ficus tree and its lost.... probably 30 or more leaves. Its absolutely miserable 😓 meanwhile the ones I've grown myself are huge bushy happy babies after 5 years.
So weird isn't it 😂
In general I agree with you about buying small plants so they adapt to your environment. However, I have placed small Calathea in terrariums because they had brown edges, etc. After living in the terrarium for approx 6 months, some times longer I was able to take the plant out and have it thrive in my home environment. All I can believe is that the trip from nursery to store was so traumatic that the terrarium served as a hospital for it to recover. My home environment is nothing compared to the harshness of a grocery or big box store.
Interesting way to bring a plant back to life
This also works eith hight light succulents. If you prop them they’ll be happier in less light than the mother plant would like
Sure 👍
Yes, it's happened to me a couple of times. However, I've had it happen to me with small, young plants too (maybe it's me?).
However, I have to say that I got a huge dracaena with a philodendron growing around it for my bday last year, and it has only gotten better! Specially the philodendron! It has now outgrown the dracaena!!!! I had to cut the top and propagate it.
Same thing with my Red Congo that I got around the same time. I got it fully grown and already huge (two plants in one big pot)....and now it's gigantic. I have to repot it and I don't even know how I'm going to do it! 😅
That mix sounds cracking!
Years ago I bought this little greenhouse with plants for "fairies" i.e. little people with wings not the behemoths with facial hair. Anyway, they kept growing. One's a palm 🌴. They're not huge, but I thought they'd stay miniscule. ☹️
Yes, big beautiful plants rebels when I bring them home and are sometimes extremely stubborn and will not cooperate with me.
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String of's do best if they get light from atop.
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Great video and great advice. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
Same for me... Strings of anything will die in my house 😢
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I never thought plants have different characters, even sisters from the same stems 😆 but you only really get to know them if you raise them yourself, know their adventures, ups and downs! getting old plants is literally adopting an adult ;)
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I buy some small, some medium and some large. It depends on the plant. Monstera deliciosa just isn't as fun for me until it has fenestrations, BUT I do love making baby Monsteras from cuttings. Most of my plants are small to medium-sized anyway, and I don't want them to be big because I like how they look as they are, and it lets me fit more plants in my space, lol .
The more the merrier 😁
Yes!!! When I buy larger plants I will propagate immediately to make smaller plants and gift some to others
Great stuff 👍
Thanks to your tips on Sansi LED grow lights and filtered water/water conditioner, I’ve finally managed to successfully grow my Stromanthe Triostar! Absolutely no browning of the leaves and four new leaves in the past two weeks! And I’ve never seen my plants so happy! I’m so glad that I found your UA-cam channel. 🌱🍀🍃🪴
That is awesome!
I know this is an older vid but I thought id let you know that there is a misunderstanding of how the dish soap method works. It's not about the ingredients. So water normally has a degree of surface tension. Think of dust or insects landing on the surface that don't get wet. Insects in particular usually have a structure that prevents them breaking the surface tension of the water so they can survive rain and falling into bodies of water. Soap reduces the surface tension greatly meaning water can seep into much smaller spaces. A cruel example may be seeing a spider run on the surface of some water. Add a tiny tiny drop of soap and the spider will instantly sink, drowning it. So if you use dish soap to spray down leaves on a plant you only need a drop or two of dish soap on the water. This will not harm the plant but will drown the mealy bugs or spider mites (scale I have never dealt with and may be a trickier case as the bugs have a shell they clamp down).
When I have to debug a plant I will either wrap soil in clingfilm (or discard the soil entirely depending on the situation) and hold the plant with the foliage pointing down and douse the thing in the water with a few drops of soap, rinse (usually with high pressure shower setting) and repeat until I'm satisfied. At no point do the roots get soap and water on them and in the end it gets thoroughly rinsed anyway. I usually repeat this treatment in a week or so and then just closely monitor for reoccurance. The whole soil and pot portion can be bagged or cling filmed to cause minimal disruption to the already traumatised plant. I've found this method to be highly effective and got rid of spider mites easily. It's pet safe and doesn't cost any money really and ensures that all living pests are dealt with immediately.
Hydrogen peroxide 3% diluted 50/50 in water I feel is one of the best treatments for roots. Kills fungus and larvae/eggs and the plant is unaffected.
I once had mealy bugs on a jade and I just sprayed the whole plant (protecting soil and roots) with isopropyl alcohol 70% then gave it a rinse and never had an issue again. The jade's stems browned (and became woody) a little bit it will do that over time anyway.
Of course this is only my experience and everyone's mileage will vary!
We typically buy small to medium sized plants, the healthier the better, new growth and pest free.
Bringing any plant home from a nursery or big box store, the plant still goes through a period of shock. Ours thankfully have done very well, mind you patience is key, knowing how to care for it properly as well.
We also do propagations often and sell several. I will admit and agree buying smaller baby plants and watching them grow into mature plants is more rewarding than buying an adult fully grown plant.
Nice one thanks
A video idea for you could be: Testing the idea that talking to plants helps them grow . And the sequel ‘does music help plants grow’?
I’ve thought about that actually
Thank you for this video.
Give string of heartbreak another chance. Do repot them as they are usually still in the seedling plug (holds on to lots of water) and the pot is usually 20x larger than the root ball causing you to overwater and experience heartbreak.
Hmm maybe I should...
As always, very insightful.
I appreciate that
I love buying Baby plants 🌱 and watching them grow😻
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Thank you 😊 i learned something new… didn’t not know
I'm so glad!
Ironically, I was scared of calathea because of the videos but I had accidentally bought one without knowing how difficult they are. It's a baby plant and is doing pretty well... so I had the courage to buy a dottie, which is already flowering 2 weeks in. Then, I also got a golden mosaic from a similar family and it's making new leaves already. Knowing what I know from the videos has certainly assisted me here, remains to be seen how they do in the coming months.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Thank you for your explanation. Makes sense.
You bet!
I have a calethea and in the beginning it was like huggy itself and alot of leaves turn brown and died, i water and gave sun light still kept getting brown leaves. But then I sprayed it with water and it like "woke " up .. I spray it every other day misting it and it has grown more leaves now and it doesn't do that anymore with browning leaves. So now I know how to take care of it
Sounds good 👍
Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud.
I had tried to grow a red maranta several times. I loved the calatheas textured red and green leaves.
The first two experiments died horrible deaths as the leaves dying one at a time. My third attempt was down to three leaves as I tried to accept I would lose another.
I did what every frustrated plant parent would. I evaluated its environment and made every correction I could. I tried not to be too excited when it started throwing new leaves. Just a few months later, I am trying to get the courage to cut off its huge growth and propagate the monster before it takes over my kitchen.
In contrast, I have tried to grow aglaonemas. My third attempt is starting to die. A reputably easy plant, I am still looking for answers What you have detailed here is the only success I have had. Buy a small plant.
I have not given up. Yet.
The “secret” still eludes me but I am not giving up. Yet.
Should be no harm cutting it back to prop it 👍
I have 6 feet tall dracaena.
I got 2 years ago.
Still thriving and looks perfect.
Am i lucky? No. The plant acclimatised.
I understood what it needed. Light /water/soil /fertiliser
One of my happiest plant. Overgrowing? I can repot and prune it. I have friends who maybe needs and i don't worry about 'big plants Gonna die' etc... 😀
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😊 great information
Glad it was helpful!
I was stung twice with large golden pothos from b&q they both had root rot. I didn't realise with the first but with the 2nd I knew what to look for and took it back. I would buy a large plant from a seller but not a store.
That’s shocking isn’t it
@SheffieldMadePlants everytime a buy a plant now I take it out of the pot and look at the roots, we live and learn, eh.
@SheffieldMadePlants I had an email from House of Kojo to-day for baby plants! A sign or are you getting free plants from them lol
I feel like it just depends on your environment/climate. my house doesnt have central heating or AC and i live in a very humid environment so when im not home all the cooling is off and it gets very hot and humid in the house and the plants are thriving. havent had any issues so far buying big plants but can definitely see how it can be an issue depending on what your situation is
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I 100% agree on seeing them grow and change and morph into something different and beautiful! To me it's also what houseplants are all about. I find myself fussing about and watching my babies and saplings excitedly whereas my big strelitzia has become part of the furnishings 😂
The only plant I had the adaption issue with is aglaonema Siam. When I bought it it had 3 stalks of newly developing plants that shortly shriveled up upon being brought home. I wonder what specifically makes it more fussy compared to say, pothos or the monkey mask
Could be something you've not spotted. My Ag went downhill and I pulled it out of the soil and found there were hardly any roots. Something had eaten them!
The only problem is…running out of sunny prop spots 😂
Agreed!
My propagations are so much healthier than the mother plants!!! Excellent theory on this! Thank you
Great stuff 👍