So you don't quarantine new plants huh? ... I, too, like to live dangerously. 😎

i like those people who post a plant problem on reddit and they obviously have thrips but then when you tell em, they get super defensive and deny it so hard lmao sometimes they even start the post with "i know it's not thrips, what is it" and it's fkin thrips every time

I know it's only a pothos, but I flinched a little when you ruthlessly chopped it.

Pricing patience is so so so important! Over the weekend I picked up a Pink Princess (2 growths with multiple leaves each) for $24.99. It was my first actual *holy fruck* moment.

to new plant people, my top recommendation is always practicing patience by taking time to really understand your recently purchased plants before buying any new ones. quarantining, preliminarily pest-treating, and getting a handle on watering needs to make sure your plant isn’t declining within the first couple weeks of bringing it home will save you _so much_ hassle and stress in the long run.

Instead of perspirate, the plant term is "evapotranspiration" so you can say transpirate instead.

I had a fungus gnat investation, I used Dunks Bits. I bought pantyhose tied the correct amount on the bag, tied off the leg I had cut off with the bits in it and soaked in the watering can for the prescribed time, then watered my plants. The ingredient kills the larvae in the soil and it cleared up quickly. A water meter also helped me greatly with watering.

I collect philodendrons and I really like them because I have good experience keeping them alive! Soil is dry? Water, bingo!

i flinched when you cut that pothos

Learning about systemics was a game changer. As long as your plant isn't outside, it shouldn't be a problem, and it takes care of most pest problems.

This video should absolutely be a FIRST WATCH for newbies!! I certainly do wish I’d seen all this exact info in 2020, so- 3 + years ago.

Great advice. I would add that it’s a good idea to stop buying or taking in plants before your space is overfilling because plants grow (or at least that’s the goal 😂).

Predatory bugs are great at dealing with pests. I used to be like “why would I add more bugs” but it’s such a good way to deal with them.

I live in a relatively warm Mediterranean climate (which is good for exotic plants and unfortunately their pests as well...). My plants grow outside year-round although I dedicate protected areas based on the plant's needs. The plants comprise fruit trees, tropicals (mostly aroids) under the trees to fill the gaps, Hoyas and succulents. Few years ago, my Haworthias fell victims to scales which have reduced my collection from more than 50 Haworthias to just four. They were immuned to pesticides and starting over from cleaned cuttings did not help at all. That is how I switched to the tropical plants. However, after much observation, I noticed that cuttings I planted in small pots with mineral-based medium (no peat if possible), exposed to some direct sunlight grew tougher and that even allowed me to expand my collection once again. My Haworthia collection is growing and only the weakest plants don't make it. Now my garden features the Haworthias in the best lit areas along with my tropicals, fruit trees and all others.

Thanks for all of the info. I’m still new to houseplants, and making my fair share of mistakes. It’s unfortunate that I live about 100 yards from a Home Depot, because it means I have to resist the urge to constantly buy new plants. However, I’ve been making lots of mistakes with pothos cuttings, though, and I have to say, if I’m going to mess up cuttings, that’s the one to learn from. It’s a beautiful plant, but low cost and still has enough vines growing for me to chop and make mistakes on. I’m planning to learn enough from my pothos that I can risk experiments on other plants. (I have multiple other plants growing, but I’m not cutting them until I have more experience.)

I've learned all this the hard way too 😅 Now everyone gets a 10 to 14 day quarantine, then an insectisidal soap bath and a new pot. Works well!

Fantastic video advice! My two cents for the suggestion pool is to keep a box of Nitrile gloves when you have toxic plants. In my "growing pains" haha I bought some Alocasia Borneo Giant trunk chunks and they later developed rot. In my panic and trying to clean the rot from one of the trunks, I started feeling sick. Thankfully it didn't get too bad but I definitely make sure to wear them now when handling stuff like that. When I have forgotten, it just takes the scent of an angry Alocasia to quickly remind me. 😂 Reassurance I have for someone just starting out is that it takes time to figure out what soil (or soilless) and amendments works for you and your environment. Give yourself grace and don't give up when the failures happen. The successes will come. The plant community is awesome and the people generally are more than willing to help.

7:40 🌱"Transpiration" the process by which water is absorbed by the roots of a plant, moves through the plant, and then evaporates from the leaves into the atmosphere. Thanks for the tips.

I found out 2 week quarantine is too short, most problems start between 1st and 2nd MONTH. Idk maybe it's just my climate but I found the same with aquarium fish.

Glad to report I knew/do the vast majority of these! Makes me feel better, I try so hard😭. My fussing has both saved and killed plants oops. I usually catch problems like pests very early and before they can get out of hand, but just the other week I noticed a small adansonii of mine wasn't doing well so I moved it around a bunch to find a better spot for it and repotted it, and it's sadly still deteriorating. Leaving it completely alone for now to see what happens! If worse comes to worst I'll chop and prop. The funny thing was that I remembered you saying something akin to this in other videos as it wasn't getting better and I had a moment of "Wait... I'm not helping, am I?" lol

Good advice! Thank you!

Great video and tips! Thanks M!

Lol... You totally are in the "houseplant late game". Your setup has gotten glorious.

dude, you're my new plant guru, thanks so much for making all these videos😊

Helpful info, as always. Thank you! 🌱💖🌱💖

Awesome video! Thanks!

I Love Your Videos!!! I need a basement so I can have a bigger collection. Thank You!!

Man !! You are amazing 🤩

So young and full of wisdom! 🥳🥳 Awesome beginners lessons. Yea, I bought a Frosted Heart Cheapence in 2019, 150 bucks now 25, or 30$ I did wait for the Oblique 25$ 😂💚

I've had scale on a lot of cacti. I think a lot of people wouldn't know until it's far too gone. That said, the same thing happened to me the first time I found thrips - I kept wondering what all those tiny bugs were until plants in different rooms started dying at the same time. Probably half of my plants died but it's just an opportunity to start again...

You are amazing my amigo 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Love your videos. Toward the end, when you drew a blank and inserted the AOL dial-up sound effect, I howled. Thought I was gonna wet my pants. Anyway, great video and really good advice.

New subscriber! Thanks algorithm!

You call it failure, I call it skill. Let a supreme court decide!

I didn’t use grow lights the first winter. Some suffered but the ones in the window fared better.

Ha!! I’m in Colorado Springs at about 6900’ altitude - when the sun dropped in the sky for winter all my plants got sunburned!! 😭😢😮 I’ve been trying to find a site that can show me the sun’s position over my little section of the planet for a bit now - or reliable info about using a film over the windows to make my southern facing windows less harsh - if you know of any resources I’d be incredibly grateful! Thanks for all the content! ❤

I hate trips since I have bunch of them! But omg, there are more different threaters 😢

if you have the time can you do a video on your pest experience? how to treat, how to identify, when theyre too far gone, etc etc 😁

LOL .. nice opening.

Oddly enough, the only pests Ive had issues with are spider mites, and even those are very rare for me, I quickly remove thrm by giving the plant a nice shower. Ive never had mealy bugs, scale, etc, nor do I ever quaranteen my plants. I dont really know why, especially given how long Ive been gardening, but Im guessing maybe a mix of giving them showers and having a copious amount of spiders around seems to keep any other pest at bay for me luckily.

I use the app “planta” which helps me remember to water things. I pause it if the soil is still damp.

Great advice! That screen shot of the posting, about trying to prevent prices from going lower is a perfect example of how social media can harm a hobby. People in it for greed, also for boasting and online status.

I had just turned on a random video from another channel before turning on your video and rolled my eyes when the author literally started panicking at the sight of a new alocasia and a price tag that "isn't that high" - the first thing that came to mind was exactly what you were talking about - in six months/year that plant will be available in any garden shop at a ridiculous price. The price of neither was low, and to my mind Etsy is one of the more expensive places when it comes to buying plants. And I thought to myself that sharing my hobby of growing ornamental plants is in some cases starting to resemble a 'who's first' race to have the new most expensive variety, with which you could buy, say, a new washing machine. And I'm a newbie in plants community and thank god I jumped off early enough from that hype train - thanks to massive escalation of thrips - they attacked all of my plants (I have quite a small department) and this summer I spend almost every evening cleaning every plant and throw a lot of them, because there was nothing to save. Growing plants is a time and attention consuming hobby that nobody shows on the internet and it's something every new person should know😉

Dial up flashback! Haha

I can totally relate to changing the mediums several times. I uprooted my gorgeous dragon🐲🐉 scale alocasia because 🌟PON🌟 is the latest fad. It did not take long for the plant to show its utter disdain with that decision. 😲 I then put it back in the soil 😮and then i changed that soil to a new chunkier soil 😖 I now have a one leafed Dragon Scale alocasia and that final leaf🍁 is on the way out.🍂🙄 Lesson Learned 😅

I saw you posted the graph for the Milwaukee sun, are you in the Milwaukee area? If so any good nursery recommendations? I’m not super new to plants but am new to the area so would love to hear any tips you have!

Hey great video my friend I watch all of your videos I have it set up to give me all notifications of when you upload a video. I have a question, I only have about fifty dollars to spend on a grow light do you have any suggestions for a full spectrum led light that's actually good? I appreciate all of your videos my friend 💚🌿💯

😂😂happy you're ok

You cracked me up at first 0.3 sec 😂😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️💀😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

I just found a plant infested with mealies. Leaves were white top and bottom I cleaned with alcohol and Castillo soap. It’s clear right now. I’ll treat again. It needed a repot so I checked for root Leslie’s. None, thank god. But it’s next to my compacts so that’s getting treated too. The soap in the alcohol is helps it stay on the leaves. We’ll see what it does. I got it from another KZfaqr.

Oh yes. I’ve done all that. 😅

Found spider mites hanging out on one of my plants last week, I have no idea where they came from since I haven't added anything new since September >:( Must have been hiding in the soil or something. Fortunately it's a palm so cutting off the affected fronds is pretty easy so far...

7:21 😳

instead of excitement towards pests you could try some new challenges, like sprouting ferns, cross breeding alocasias (anthurium are too easy), collecting and propagating some difficult orchids (some can't be grown from TC) etc. etc. :)

The word/s you are looking for is either transpiration or guttation.

3:22 what's the name of this plant that's right in the front please ? Is it a philodendron hybride ?

When you (anyone) reports anthurium to a new medium, so you tend to lose leaves? I'm losing leaves on 4 that I repotted, and that hasn't happened to me before. 3 age quite young. I haven't touched them since they came into my collection forever ago. I think that that they'll be fine, but it is making anxious with all of these dying leaves. 😂

Spider mites almost killed my starfruit tree. Eradicating them took months.

do you use a magnifier?

Hi friends any advice for tranplant shock... if transfers plants lost it leaves after re poting... what should i do...

I think most of the pests comes from eggs in the soil.

Another really annoying pasts are aphids.

I find that newly bought plnats have pests 9/10 its annoying

got some mycellium in the tubs bro?

OK but why are you so cute

lol @ aol dial up…. U don’t look old enough to have ventured that path……😁