5 Houseplants I’m Feeling Right Now Favorite Indoor Plants Spring 2021

Hey guys what's going on welcome back to my channel. So it's been a while since I've done a favorite houseplant video. I think the last one we did was back in December of 2020 when we did the plant chiller and chose our top 10 favorite houseplants of the year. I figured we definitely need some footage or behind the scene looks for this year so that way when we do plant chiller season 2 we got something to look back at. And these five plants I'm going to share with you guys are plants I'm really feeling or vibing with right now partly because they're either teaching me something new about plant care or they're reminding me why I enjoy being a plant dad and why I love having these plants around. And for those of you guys who's been following me for a while some of these plants you'll recognize so it's also a good way for you guys to get an update on how they're doing while others are still fairly new to me and if this is the first time we're meeting and you're new to my channel my name is Christian I'm crazy about plants and if you are crazy about plants then be sure to hit that subscribe button and if you like these types of content definitely give it a thumbs up or comment below and let me know what you think. So without further ado we'll get started with our first plant it is the tada the Manjula Pothos. So there's a few things I want to share with you guys about this particular variety one is how to tell it apart from the rest of your variegated pothos like a marble queen or a pearling jade but first I want to share with you guys how I got this to regrow roots because I did get this from one of my suppliers overseas and when they arrived the roots did not look good. Now historically when it comes to pothos they are one of the easiest houseplants you can cut propagate and grow roots in water so that's pretty much what I did with this I put it in water put it in an area that gets a lot of bright indirect light warm temperatures and I expected the roots to start growing within the same week but unfortunately I wasn't seeing it at all so I gave it about another week and again it wasn't showing any signs of roots but the plant was still healthy and it was alive so I then moved it to sphagnum moss because I was comfortable with sphagnum moss as a growing medium to help grow roots or develop new roots but that also wasn't working and then finally one of you guys suggested to use perlite as a propagation medium or as a medium to help develop the roots and I did that. I've never used 100% perlite as a propagation medium so I was a little bit hesitant about it but at the same time it reminded me that I was also the same way when it came to sphagnum moss I've never really used it and once I got used to it I became really comfortable and it is pretty much kind of my preferred method now when it comes to growing and propagating plants so I figured you know what let's experiment with perlite so I threw a prop box together put a layer of perlite on there watered it and then I threw the mandula cuttings in there closed the lid put in an area that gets a lot of bright indirect light and within the same week I started to see the roots and then the following week they just took off like crazy so now I have a few of them potted in 100% perlite and they're loving it again I was quite surprised at how well they took to perlite but it was also good for me to experiment because now I feel more comfortable experimenting with other plants to try and grow roots in perlite and use it as a propagation medium so that was pretty cool experience for me and another reminder to not be afraid to try new things now this next thing I want to share with you guys about this variety is how do you tell it apart from the rest of your variegated pothos so I got a few pothos here that I want to share with you guys I have my marble queen that you guys see right here the variegation on the marble queen is a little bit more evenly distributed throughout the leaves and you guys can see it's a bit more of that green on green type of variegation while the mandula pothos variegation that you guys can see here is a bit more swirled like with the green the yellow the creamy white almost has that pastel like colors to it so you guys can see a difference when it comes to the variegation but in addition it's also on the leaf that you guys can tell the difference here the marble queen pothos has more of a narrow flat leaf similar to the rest of like your other pothos like a golden pothos or even a pearling jade the leaves are a little bit more flat while the mandula the way to also tell the difference is the leaves are wider and also a little bit more wavier that you guys see right here at first I couldn't really tell the difference but until you have a mandula in person and you're looking at it and you're comparing it to your marble queen you can definitely see the difference now when you compare the mandula to the pearls and jade that you guys see right here it may have a similar variegation style of that swirl of you know the green and the creamy color with a bit of that speckle but you guys can see the difference in the variegation as well where the pearls and jade has a bit more hard edges of where the green and cream break and then on the lighter colors of the pearling jade you guys can see that splattered green variegation on it in addition the leaves on the pearls and jade are a lot smaller than even the marble queen or the mandula so that's how you can kind of tell the mandula apart from the rest of your variegated pothos is really the way the leaves are a little bit more wavier they're a bit more wider and rounder and the variegation is a little bit more swirl and more pastel like but it is a beautiful pothos and if you guys ever come across one I encourage you to definitely grab one I do also find they are slightly a bit of a slower grower than a marble queen or even the pearls and jade but nonetheless beautiful. So the next plant I want to share with you guys I've had for a while it is the my Thai Constellation Monstera and now for those of you guys who's followed me for a while if you remember I got two baby Thai Constellation Monstera around the summer of 2018 for like 40 dollars each and I took care of them they grew nicely unfortunately they got attacked by thrips the following year so I tried to treat it with like neem oil and insecticide soap but I went overboard with neem oil where it burnt the top leaves off because those were really variegated and if you go overboard with neem oil especially if you don't dilute them they will burn your leaves especially variegated ones I damaged the top part of it it did not grow the rest of the year and finally last spring it started to show some new signs of growth it took off over summer but then it got attacked by thrips again I was so frustrated to a point where I just had to remove all the leaves as much as possible and kept only the top two leaves because thrips lay their eggs in the leaves right so at that point I was like you know let me just remove as much of the older leaves as possible and only keep the top cuttings I then chopped this off to then propagate those top cuttings in water and then eventually I potted them into moss and then soil but I was taking a risk with this plant and I knew when you cut a Monstera eventually they're going to show new growth and they're going to take off I've been so impressed with the way this is taking off because now we have so much growth happening one of the vines has two growth points that you guys can see here the one that's a little bit more variegated we got one closer to the base there and then the other one a little bit more top and that's how usually you know when you cut a Monstera is they'll just shoot out the new growth off to the side of that vine and then on this other main vine we got this huge growth that's taking place right now and this is a new beautiful leaf that's taking off I'm so loving this look right now yes we don't have a split leaf yet but I know this summer it's going to give us one and I love the layered look the two tiers and two levels and I was so happy so you know for me it reminded me that sometimes you kind of need to like go drastic cut to start over again and it'll surprise you and you know as long as you have a good root system a healthy root system your plants will take off and they'll look pretty cool again and I was just really impressed with how fast this grew not only do we have this mother plant now that's really taking off but now we also have these top cuttings that we propagated and they're looking really good as well we got a new leaf showing on one of them and the other one just recently unfurled so we got more tide concentration monstera so again it was another reminder that don't be afraid to cut your plants if you have to to kind of take a step back and start over again because as long as you have a healthy root system they will thrive and they will flourish and they will continue to grow all right so the next plant I want to share with you guys is the tada this is blue blue pothos so one thing I want to share with you guys what this pothos is if you guys remember I only got this last summer I think around like mid-summer or late summer and I only got a single vine and you guys can see right here maybe there's about like four or five leaves or maybe even three leaves but look how much it's grown now the way to do this is obviously I cut propagate plant it back to the top I cut propagate plant it back on top and if you guys are struggling with planting cuttings back to the mother plant to kind of create this full look I did a video on how to do that properly so be sure to check it out but that's pretty much what I was doing since I got this as soon as it grew a bit long I cut it I put it in water and then I planted it back on the top and look how full it is now I think we got about nine or ten vines in here and we got a few more that's propagating in my prop box so really really cool I mean first things first is this plant is such a prolific grower so you can't go wrong by cutting it because it'll just continue to grow and I also did get this as a trade from Natasha so for me it reminded me that you can get beautiful or uncommon plants like a Cebu Blue off a trade even a single vine and turn it into a full potted plant like this and like I said this is less than a year and look how beautiful those leaves in the hues of blues and green and silver it is it is definitely a beauty so really really happy at how well this has taken off like I said if you can trade plants go for it it beats buying and spending money now obviously some plants will not grow as fast as a Cebu Blue but nonetheless it's a great way to really grow your collection it's just off trading and just having the patience to obviously you know cut propagate and then plant back at the top but uh yeah really really happy about this one next one I want to share with you guys something new for me but it's so cool it is the tada a Syngonium Mojito so this is probably my third or fourth Syngonium variety in my collection I have the Pink Splash, the Wendlandii and the Albo and I love Syngoniums because a I think they're easy to care for and I love the shape of the leaf and this particular Syngonium is reminding me that beautiful variegated plants doesn't have to be white and green it can be this green on green look and I actually do prefer it over the Syngonium Albo to be quite honest I just love that like Mojito molted kind of look to it so really really cool and uh yeah definitely one of my favorite uh Syngoniums right now I think it is my favorite Syngonium over definitely over the Albo and the Pink Splash I like the Wendlandii but I really do like this uh Mojito and I've been wanting one for a while so really cool to finally have one in my collection and uh yeah so if you do come across one of these I'd definitely add it to your collection because I think variegated plants doesn't have to be white and green green on green is equally as beautiful. Now the last plant I want to share with you guys is an Aetherium and you guys know I love Aetheriums it is the ta-da the Aetherium Vitorifolium so first of all I love how uniquely different this is from the rest of the heart-shaped leaf Aetheriums that you typically would come across these nice elongated thick leaves this one's a new leaf and you guys can see it's still quite soft it hasn't hardened yet but it has that nice shine on it and the reason why I'm really feeling this particular Aetherium it's because it's reminding me that not every single uncommon or rarish plant out there is going to be difficult to care for and this is honestly one of the easiest Aetheriums you can ever care for. I have this just outside my greenhouse so it's not even getting high humidity my relative humidity in my bedroom is about like 20 to 30 percent and I do have it potted in sphagnum moss so I do often gotta water it but I am planning to move it in a much more chunky aeroid mix where it's going to retain a bit more of the moisture so that way I'm not often watering this but really really easy to care for and it looks so cool hanging on a bookshelf or even hanging off the ceiling and yeah definitely one of my favorite Aetheriums partly because it's just so different and like I said really easy to care for but yeah so those are the five plants that I'm really feeling and vibing with right now like I said some of them are teaching me something new like the Manjula with the perlite or they're reminding me why I really enjoy caring for plants and going through the experience like that Sububu Pothos getting that off a trade starting off as a single vine with a few leaves and now seeing how full and lush it is or my Thai Constellation Monstera I was so afraid to cut that thing back but knowing that I had a healthy root system and the foliage just needed to go and it would start over I was glad I ended up cutting it because now we got a beautiful mother plant that's thriving and growing really healthy plus we got two top cuttings that's growing nicely as well but yeah so these are my five favorite plants that I'm feeling right now comment below and let me know if you like any of them or if any of your plants are teaching you something new or maybe they're reminding you why you enjoy being a plant parent other than that hopefully you guys enjoy this video enjoy the rest of your weekend and we'll see you guys soon peace