I bought a rooted raven zz cutting and it took 18 months to start showing growth but I'm so excited to see it finally show a lime green stem. The colors are awesome. Was worth the wait.

I left my plant outside during the summer in a shady spot and that plant went bonkers! The bright green leaves with the black is so stunning.

Thank you Jeff. I recently gifted a ZZ Zenzi to my daughter, I shard your video with her so she could learn how to take care of her plant. I find that you give very through information on the plants you feature and I greatly appreciate that ! Thanks again! ❄️💚🙃

When I was little my grandma had just come out of running her own greenhouse. The way she dealt with pests of any type was to put the plants in trash bags and spray inside with raid and leave it over night. Outside of my using hydrogen peroxide, this is basically what I do, except since I've got big plants I put them all in the center of the room (away from pets!) spray the top of the soil and then kinda fog around them and cover with an old sheet for the night. Surprisingly, I haven't even made the fiddles mad doing this yet, so for me this is the most effective way and seems to work fairly long term between treatments! I use the house and garden raid. I wish I had done it sooner when I was being tortured by thousands of fungus gnats last spring. She also would reuse soil and would put it in the oven on baking sheets to help kill off any yuckies, then add nutrients back with fertilizer. With the number of pants she had that made sense. I haven't done it but I don't have rooms of seedlings 🩷

I moved my ravens easy about four months ago to a better light location. It’s growing nicely now. Great video as always Jeff!

Thank you for this! I recently purchased a Raven ZZ and have been curious when to tell its time to water. Always so thorough and full of useful information! Keep up the amazing work!!

My ZZ is the same, full of new growth now, as we are getting a foot of snow. It's never given me new growth in Spring/Summer. Great video🤩😍

Ravens can definitely test your patience! I've had mine for 4 years now; it had 6 stalks when I bought it, lost 3 over the first year, did nothing over year 2 and grew one new stalk year 3.... Now, spring of year 4, it has 2 new stalks growing! I was thrilled at that until I realised that I probably would have to repot it this summer... Ravens really don't like to be disturbed. 😮 Now I'm thinking that maybe I'll wait a year, or two, before I repot it. 😂

Put your cuttings in moist potting soil. Covering them will give them humidity. Give them warmth from the bottom and a grow light. Feed them nutrients after they develop roots or a rhizome. Your cuttings will thrive under those conditions.

Always so thorough. Thank you! ZZ props ARE so slow! Can't wait to get a Chameleon ZZ.

was looking for advice about my sad, dying zz raven and 6 min in you solved my problem!! My plant has been sitting in direct sunlight for the past week or so because i’m in the process of moving out & forgot about it. It rapidly declined in health this month because of that, and i never made the connection about over-saturating it with sunlight until this video. I’m glad i found this video, thank you!!!! 💚💚🌿🌿

Kudos! I look forward to viewing your informative, planty videos!

I planted some epi pinnatum with my Raven zz so I can tell when the soil is dry easily (and to hasten the drying process as well. When the pinnatum leaves in the pot start drooping, I wait 1 more week then I fully bottom water the pot. It shot out 5 new stems this month after pruning 2 stems. It got some root rot/dessication last January and the stems became super wrinkled and indented, that's when I planted the pinnatum in the pot, and started bottom watering to also prevent root dessication/uneven watering. No issues since then and stems are plump and firm again. :)

If you have a fish tank I recommend putting ZZ cuttings in there, I did that and they rooted pretty fast for a ZZ plant

Great video! I love my zz plants!

Thanks Jeff for the info! I've watched a few of your VLOGs , finally subscribed. (Just paused and checked the stems like you described. With PON I can't tell if it's moist, so I've been watering once every 25-30 days with a post-it note reminding me, stems are not showing dry) I really enjoy my Raven, Chameleon, and a Variegated leaf props (that finally started popping up) (All in PON). I started my Chameleon and Raven leaf props MONTHS ago in moss. Seeing the small rhyzomes but afraid of taking the next step.

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful

Hi Jeff. I want to get a Raven ZZ. I have a regular one and love it. Thanks for the tips. 💚🌱💚

Hi Jeff, I love raven ZZ plants. Great video . I did have 2 but somehow I didn't take care of them . Thinking of buying another plant. Yours look great. Have a nice day.😊

I have a Raven ZZ which, for over two years, had just been sitting there, no signs of growth. About two months ago she finally has four new shoots! They’re quite lovely. I have a “regular” ZZ which I’ve been struggling to get to thrive; I think I’ve been underwatering her for of overwatering. I’ll have to pay more attention. As always, you presentation is thorough and clear. Thank you!

I love the raven zz. I finally finally got new growth from mine. I had no idea what I was doing wrong, but at least it is finally showing some life. Lol. I recently snipped longer stems and put them back in the soil to make it bushier. I won't bother propagation in water. Great video as usual, Jeff. 👌🏽

Winter growth for ZZ has always been my experience too. I think it's in their DNA that they are living on the other side of the world! I love ZZs and have quite a few. I have tried propagating and agree with you. Too long, lost interest! If you really want to see some growth, put it outside in the summer in a semi-shaded or filtered sun location. They love the heat of summer. Just be prepared they will turn into monsters! Unlike indoors, I water them ever singly day when they are outside. Indoors I do the same as you, water thoroughly then no water for about a month.

Be happy with smaller size ZZ plants when they get bigger they tend to get heavy stems often tipping to the sides of the pot. I have purchased retaining circular stakes that works well.

Love your videos!!! Thank you for this one. Do ZZs go dormant? My ZZ hasn't grown or died, it's just been the same for several months now. Even the new growth just stayed bright green instead of getting darker. Looks healthy but just no growth. I do have it under a grow light.

I have both of my zz's in PON and they are loving life with tons of new growth in the past month. The PON is continuously moist and the zz's love it ❤️

OH MY GOODNESS lol! All my ZZ's shoot out all kinds of new stems in Jan/Feb as well. I thought that to be the strangest thing. Clearly, a good Canadian winter plant hahaha Thanks Jeff for always posting great informative videos 😊! BTW- Are you still using any LECA?

I did some props on my raven a few days ago. I'm in for a long wait. 😆

My zz pushed out new shoots late January after the days began to lengthen. I really enjoy your videos.

All my plants arbthriving except my ZZ Raven. It got too dry and got dry rot and lost a few stems. So this summer I water it weekly and it’s finally growing. I keep it in my sunroom 6 feet away from a south facing window and it’s in a very well draining cacti soil mix amended with extra perlite

Mine is giant and healthy and I kind of ignore it 😅😂. I mixed it with a regular ZZ so it looks like it’s always got something looking like new growth 😝

Thanks,, I learned new stuff...

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I’m so jealous. My Raven ZZ has done NOTHING. I’ve had it over a year now, and I don’t think it’s grown a leaf! On the flip side, it hasn’t lost a leaf either… just sat there. I’ve increased light, decreased watering, I guess my only other attempt is to repot it and see if that’ll spur some growth.

I am still waiting for my perfectly healthy ZZ to produce new growth. I know they are slow growing but two years is a long time to wait! It gets indirect light from a west facing window.

It took over 2 years for me to get first stem growing from leaves propagation. It's extremely long time 😅

Hi thank you for sharing video I bought one from Walmart $25

ZZ plants don't like to be rootbound and whenever I purchase them they're rootbound, potted in 100% cocoa coir, and need repotted. When I repot them, should I remove as much cocoa coir as I can, or place it all in the larger pot with newer, better soil around it? I've heard it's not good to grow them in 100% cocoa coir, is this true? My many other ZZ plants are potted in a mixture of potting soil, bark, and perlite and do great.

I have a Zenzi plant. It will only grow in the fall and winter months. New shoots come every year at that time only. I have had this plant for 3 years . Spring comes around and it will slow down and sleep. I guess summer isn't particularly thrilling to it.😞

Thanks for the helpful info Jeff!

Found the new ZZ video. I hate myself haha. I saw some raven ZZ's at Walmart and i never got it and now I regret it 😅😂

I've had one ZZ plant for years. I thought that it was dying. I re-potted in a terra cotta pot and it seems to be doing better. I bought another one and it's still in the original pot. I don't water them. I neglect them! I have heard that the ZZ plant is a plant of "steel". The watering I received with my first ZZ plant said to water it with a cup of water every two weeks.

wish you showed your ZZ propagation updated

hay bud i us pro mix potting soil and i mix it with perlite and a little bit of worm casting to is that ok

I killed a raven zz plant from costa farms just a couple months ago. I think my biggest problem was leaving it in the original soil. It just retained too much water.

Could they be soil mites at 10:52? I had tried to kill them but found out soil mites are pretty much unkillable. It is harder to treat than thrip which I had success with neem oil and the products you have shown here. But soil mites are not pests technically and they are so ugly!! I dont want to use hardcore pesticides though,

Great video! I'm actually having a lot of trouble with mine and couldn't figure out why. I'm pretty good with detecting and fixing things but this one is driving me crazy lol. I love it's leaves so much, but it is not happy with its growing conditions right now. This one is a tough one out of my 300+ plants 🪴 grr. Thanks for sharing an updated video on this. Hopefully I get some luck soon

Sir, where should place this plant ?my plant has no new growth,its been 3 months when i purchase it online.

Mine stopped growing. I think my pot is too big. Should I repot into a smaller one?

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Will Neem oil work just as well as those insecticides?

I will never propagate these again either. Way too slow for me!

What!! no terracotta?

I hope you do automatic translation of the video in Arabic

Am I the only person on Earth who ISN'T a zz fan? Just don't do it for me 🤔

You seem to talk too fast. Think of your audience.