Finally, a channel that understands plant physiology. You have a new fan.

Everyone is so quick to say they like natural better, but how many of them have a Pearls and Jade or an N’Joy in their collection and had no idea? I say as long as a plant is pretty and it was created ethically, I don’t care. Same with TC. Just because something is “created” in a lab doesn’t make it a bad thing.

natural or induced.. no matter what .. both are plants! and i love them!

I'm actually not into a lot of variegation that much for most plants. The defense ones are cool. And it's interesting - with plants, we love the odd, weird, mutants. With people, we can't seem to see the same beauty in the "defects" or variations.

Natural variegation is my preference. Another great video! cheers

Very interesting, you're quickly becoming my favourite plant KZfaqr with these mini-documentaries! I've become a sports hunter a few years ago and always take an in-depth look at Monsteras in every garden center I go to. So far I've only found one deliciosa sport but I have very high hopes for it since it had both yellowish green on green variegation and leaf deformations early on. Sadly, it has reverted after a couple of leaves, so I've propagated it and I'm praying to the variegated God that some interesting specimens come out of it!

I loved the sport hunter section! I’ve been hoping against statistics to find a green-on-green for years lol. I love the look, even if it’s not as vibrant and showy as albo and aurea

Found 2 naturally variegated Mini Monstera at the big box store a couple of days ago! Interested to see if I can have them develop more variegated leaves in the future❤

I don’t have many plants with variegation, but if I like one I’d get it …man-made or natural! Thanks for sharing Chris!

That pink birds nest anthurium or banana looking plant whatever it is that the Asian girl is holding is AMAZING

Amazing videos. I just binged a few. I definitely gonna go back and make sure I liked all of them. I love the style/format of videos. Keep up the amazing work. It gives off plants meet true-crime

Couple weeks into using mineral oil/water for pest management on one of my calatheas, so far so good. Will be testing on more plants in the future.

I prefer natural variegation.I recently propagated my TC.Mother plant had medium splash of variegation.But now the new leaf from the new growth point is like crème brûlée.So awesome to see how it evolves.

This is so cool, I knew about the Pink Congo stuff but had no idea about irradiation

i prefer a natural mutation! unless the pink princess might be altered ..because i love that plant too

I found two sports at different nurseries. One is an albo variegated silver dragon, and the other was a green congo. They’re very pretty, but completely unstable. I might get one variegated leaf for every 3 or 4 regular leaves. The congo puts out gorgeous marbled albo leaves, but only on its own schedule. The silver dragon has white and pale green variegation, but it's the same story with leaf production. They're my beautiful unicorns, but I prefer the more stable variegation my tc plants have. My variegated homalomena is tc and consistently puts out spectacular leaves covered in variegation. I think after having both I'm leaning towards tc 😊💚

I love the natural variegation. Great video!!

I have a GoG large form that fades to lime, almost yellow and a mint that gives crazy variegation depending on the uniqueness of the node 🤭

Natural is my 1st choice. Have a great weekend!!! 1st to like and 1st to comment!!❤❤

I actually love manmade variegated plants. They are both unusually beautiful and scientifically fascinating, and i have no issue with them being created. For one it means that what enters the trade is not poached from the nature, but intentionally cultivated. This means less damage to ecosystems and more available plants which then influences the price. Not too long ago exotic plants even in their natural forms were EXTREMELY expensive to the point of people owning multiple pieces being a whole social status marker. And while winning a genetic lotery with a random seed or an unexpectedly mutated branch that holds on to its new form has to be exciting, unless someone is willing to germinate millions of seeds only to find one different speciment, repeatedly over and over, it's just not the best option there is. New technologies mean new possibilities and i'm fine with that.

Another great educational video w/high production values. I always forward these to my science nerd husband and he loves them too. Thanks for all the work, Chris.

One of your best vids, fantastic information! Great stuff!

Although technology made a lot of changes some prefer natural but for me both can help improve the existence of plants from Monstera variegata into pink variegated monstera.

This is incredible 👏 ❤😮.

I will always prefer natural over induction but honestly having little experience and knowledge, I don’t know if I can really tell the difference between the two. I have been learning about this technique through Roos and katey Ellen recently and I think I would know if I tell the difference idk 🤷‍♀️ can’t wait to dive deeper into this technique and learn more, as always thanks 😊, Ginger

The radiation reminded me of a story I read about Mussaenda. All garden varieties descended from a murant M. philippica (white), crossed with M. lutifolia (yellow) and M. erythrophylla (red). Wild form of these species tend to have only one bract unfurled. They took seeds of M. philippica and exposed it to radiation. The resulting plants have fully unfurled bracts like the original mutant.

2:23 this was truly amazing!

I would have thought that the galaxy type variegation comes from special TC techniques, maybe from inducing calluses on specific tissue samples but it's not like I have any experience with this.

I love the informative content that you put out. Personally, I like natural variegation best. It reminds me of shiny hunting Pokémon. I don’t mind unnatural variegation, though. If it’s ethically collected or created, I just like the plants that I feel a connection with.🙂

so excited to find a variegated BOP last year! it reverted 🙃

Amazing video!!!!

Thank you for these videos!!!! Absolutely love getting to know 'behind the science'

Sick video. Kinda makes you question whether a natural variegation would have any importance over an induced one, like with radiation. Also I was digging online and regarding Pearls and Jade it seem like it was Cesium 137 not Cobalt 60. Published in the American Society for Horticultural Science, June 2009. "6.5 gray of gamma rays from a Cesium 137 source that emitted 9.18 gray/minute"

Im rewatching lost and Ive noticed some varigated plants just hanging around in the jungle

Excellent video. Crazy what man will do to attempt to create beauty. Obviously, I “think” I prefer natural variegation. Just like life, I guess we can’t be sure what’s natural and what’s enhanced anymore. 😂

Variegation can happen due to certain mutation in leaf cells's mitochondrial plastids

Plants are wildly resilient! Exposure to radiation would make our hands fall off, but for them it just changes their leaf color a little

How interesting ❤

I prefer my Sport Variegated plants! My Instagram shows them all.

Pretty in green

i never knew radiation caused varigation! Thats kinda awful for the plant. I feel bad for them now. Makes me think of all the videos on monstera albino and how the white takes over the plant and arent able to photosynthise anymore then turn brown and die. Or How some Albos seem to revert (or as im going to call it "recovering") from varigation and being able to be all green again. I kinda dont wanna buy any more varigated plants anymore :( TYVM for telling me the truth about varigation in general.

Good job! This was entertaining , and I actually did take some things away from this video. W for the algorithm.

I would like plants whose lineage was irradiated to be identified as so on the label. Informed consumption.

Such a coincidence talking about the Anubias. Yesterday I just saw what seems to be a variegated Anubia, it's produced as Anubia nana 'pinto' or Anubia barteri var nana 'pinto'. Do you think it's the same?

I much prefer the variegation that the plant has produced naturally. Every plant is a living organism and exposing it to radiation in order to "force" it to mutate is just wrong to me. I agree that some varieties are beautiful, but I feel bad about the idea that in order to produce such a species, the plant was subjected to strange experiments.

Could these variegated varieties be bad for your health long-term?

I think I got a variegated nepenthes it has a weird green splotches on some of the leaves

Natural……😊

I haven’t seen any variegated Mint fruits. I have seen albo, I understand mint is came from seed but haven’t seen proper fruits on mint monstera. Do you have any idea or video related to this ? thanks

… so my favorite N’Joy pothos is a mutant…. And it’s mother plant suffered radiation to create this beauty for me to gaze at… this needs to sink in, as the question of its origin was keeping interest alive and now when I know how it was produced… I was aiming to buy bright salad-green pothos… and it must be also a product of radiation 😳 At least my monstera has just a bit of variegation, I hope it’s natural. How can I stop feeling sorry for the variegated plants?

😵‍💫😵‍💫 I got a Marble Queen with a gamma-ray radiation from cobalt 60 and I didn't know from a sustainable plant shop, this is gonna hurt their feelings if I tell this to them, LMAO.

I have an odd opinion about creating new species. There was a case, where a man-made aquarium plant was introduced and is now enveloping the Mediterranian sea since the 1960s. These ways of variegating plants are at least a good way to ensure the new species will not become invasive. We have a bad habit of introducing invasive species through our own behavior, so at the very least, artificially created variegation should be supported as a more environmentally conscious manner of collection and propagation.

Thaumatophyllum Thalidomidensis ... petioles not included.

Speckled variegation is definitely from radiation

Love this topic. Although I wonder how many "scientific experiments" you just unleashed on our green friends ;) Completely different topic....best named play my youngest daughter was in, in the 90's...."The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds"

anyone selling cobalt-60, i need to make variegated plant 😅

I have a shoet video of a Mexican clover (common weed in south) and it’s showing variegated leaves and I just thought maybe an expert could tell me what they tjought

too many varigated plants on market makes buyer boring

I prefer the natural ones. The man made ones look sick to me?

Man made variegations, ai content...i would never pay full price for something that is not natural and hand made with care, time and selection. Many of these induced variegations revert back to green when propagates or not enough light is available or they are just not as healthy and strong as the orginal.

I can´t help it but I really find exposing plants to radiation to create variegation unethical. Regardless of what comes out of it. I very much prefer natural variegation - not only for ethical reasons, but I also find it more beautiful. The radiation creations have similar look of the variegation and now there is so much of it on the market that I find it simply boring.