Etsy Plant Unboxing || Insane Houseplant Foliage!

I'm already disappointed none of these plants are secured in here so all those small plants have cold damage obviously but they're also just smashed doing this 2 weeks in a row they bad plant unboxing they look so bad here I was really excited to unbox these beautiful plants and instead just have a table full of mushion crunch I needed a pellet cleanser I don't know about y'all but those last couple plant huls that just wasn't it got a box here from the green Escape much more reliable seller have ordered from them multiple times on Etsy a few twists in here things that I haven't experienced with ordering from them before there are some plants in here that said they're potted I don't know if they potted but they're potted and not just plugs and orders I've placed in the past up until recently most of what this seller on Etsy sold were just plugs starter plants teeny tiny little bitty plants and now it looks like they're starting to offer some things in 2in and in 4in containers have a smothering of starters and what they listed as potted plants in here I am excited to get this popped open that's the name the green Escape if you don't know what I'm talking about right there you can see the package itself doesn't look that hot that's not their fault this is that's USPS so there's a smattering of different sizes in here decent house plants and some plants that I would not consider to be good house plants but are still pretty neat maybe better for terrariums we'll talk about that as I get into it let just cut it open and have a look at some plants I'm not anticipating any type of cold damage even though it is February and February is typically pretty cold here but it's so far this year it's been quite nice so that's already a oneup that they have on the other Growers like Herz who for some reason shipped out a package when it was like negative 8° Outdoors green Escape has something the other places I ordered from didn't offer already off to a great great start look at that even though the temperature outside pretty safe for shipping still have things wrapped up nicely in a foil package it's not just a heat pack from inside of the Box in probably both of those other videos I talked about how a heat pack is nice it helps but if it's just in a cardboard box taped to the side it's not really going to do much of anything there needs to be something surrounding everything is that it there's a heat pack but uh it's not very warm wasn't really expecting it to be it didn't need to be because it's not really cold outside okay now for the fun part feels like there's different size plants in here a couple larger ones in there it does feel like they're in a pot and then in here these are the little ones I think it be more fun to start off with the little plants and see what's going on in here looks good how you protect plants from cold is to actually wrap them up in something makes a huge difference lots of good stuff here I'm thinking that the plants okay I was about to say they might be a little bit too moist but I think this is probably perfect they're protected from the elements I don't think some moisture being in there is should be in issue and this looks like it's just fine look at that foliage should probably finish opening before I start going on about what the plant looks like there we go it's taped into the paper probably don't like having their Roots pulled on like that isn't that beautiful beautiful emerald green on top with white variation that Fizzles out from the veins has a really nice airbrushed appeal to it the undersides that lovely purplish tone to it this is an aphelandra it has a beautiful red flower Spike on it doesn't have to get too terribly large to start flowering I would expect to probably have some spikes off of this come summertime very interesting flower Spike that hummingbirds and pollinators will probably appreciate this is one that I got much more for the foliage yeah two tones on top and that beautiful reddish maroon color on the bottom that's a nice looking Leaf okay next up oh it's tiny but it looks good I expect these to be small by the way it's labeled as a starter plant then obviously don't expect them to be very big these are just little plugs rooted cuting and oh that's beautiful isn't that just beautiful look at that leaf there is so much going on there this probably looks familiar this is a Bonia it's a Bonia macula it's a very common Bonia what's special about this macula is that it is extra speckly that's it it's called double dot double dot macula so it's going to be the same thing as your regular Bonia macula has that fun somewhat upright vase shaped growth to it it's been improved upon by getting way more intensity in there look at how many dots there are that beautiful silver iridescence with them too there's just a lot more going on in here with the dots double dots beautiful silver sheen it's like someone took a metallic paint pen and went to town this is much much much prettier in person than it was in the pictures I was on offense about ordering this one just because I was like well it's just a macada but one of my favorite things and most people's favorite things about the macula Bonas is how heavily speckled they are in the Silvery Sheen you get with those polka dots this is really serving up that looks great just imagine that when these leaves are great big you know 4 to 6 in giant leaves covered with all those silvery splotches glittery and shiny you can't go wrong with glittery and shiny okay this next one is going to be something that's going to tr that's freaking huge I was not expecting that is not what I was expecting from a starter plant so this is called a red sword sometimes called a purple sword aalis Acumen well Acumen I believe is the actual name on this one just like with the alander this one all about the foliage look at those leaves aren't those beautiful looks like a painting soft grayish blue tones splotched in with some darker and lighter greens various Shades in there and the undersides of the foliage absolutely beautiful not one that gets particularly large these are a humidity lovers more so than just the humidity I found when growing I've had this like once before a long time ago was stability it wasn't a plant that liked to be moved around very often so it's going to go into a terrarium or something with a Clos over the top where it can just hang out sit still get some bright indirect light Never full sun and just keep looking beautiful great option for terrariums look at that flage oh in my hands the desk had dirt on it before I started filming and instead of grabbing my little broom thing I just took my hand and wiped it all off and now it's just all caked in there occupational hazard you don't like dirt probably shouldn't be watching plant videos isn't that beautiful the new foliage you can see comes out a lighter color and then it darkens as it ages this just a nice refreshing leaf on it I don't know is that the right word do you all know what I mean when I say that the foliage looks refreshing hopefully you do nice to go through the plugs first and then can move on to to the potted plants oh it's with the stickers so many sticky things on here you got to keep it shut somehow okay this one this is a cool plant it came with a note hi there thank you for ordering from our shop these plants may not have variegation due to growing and L like conditions with plenty of bright indirect light the plants will produce more variegation the listing States the variegation is light right now as it is winter when the sun intensifies during summer the variation will become more vibrant I like how they had to put that in caps and in quotations and prefaces with the listing says as in don't forget that this is this is what you should have read before ordering the plant and that's what it said when you ordered it I'm fine with that these are plants that have great variegation but good to know I'm not going to get mad if there's not much variegation in there that's easy to fix this though it doesn't look like it this is an alocasia New Guinea gold doesn't have any variegation I'm glad they included that note I'm confused by this cuz it's not just that it doesn't have variegation the stems on this are not what I'm familiar with with a New Guinea gold so the aloc Casia New Guinea gold let me back up first aloc Casia ludia that's one of my favorites has a chartreuse green upright leaf on it with nice yellow vinage sometimes that veining can be more orange depending on the amount of Lights they're getting but it's one of my favorite alocasias I haven't seen them for sale in quite a long time but when I have they've just been overpriced that's kind of I guess just the trend since 2020 with plants but I used to be able to get them in a 3 gallon pot in a 10-in container from the local nurseries for like 12 bucks Every Spring they just put them out there with their summer annuals throw it in the ground and a couple months later you have a 4ft tall gorgeous plant those haven't been an option for the last few years at least not up here not where I live in St Louis I was looking to order some Ludas and wasn't fing for a price that I like but they had the New Guinea gold which is kind of the same thing going to put pictures up so you can see what it will in theory look like when it gets bigger cuz to me this doesn't look anything like any New Guinea Golds I've ever seen not because of the the lack of variegation in the foliage but because of the speckling and purple that's down there in the stems but I've only seen a couple of New Guinea Golds and they were much larger and when they're that large you tend to focus mostly on the foliage so maybe they always have this speckling along the stems I'm not really sure oh that's little that's a tiny little baby I love that variation still got some fuzzies in there some floof left over from the packaging it's a variegated Fred deck a pretty common plant at this point if you watched the video where I was unboxing plants from Sunshine greens I talked about how I had really placed that order because I needed or I shouldn't say needed but I had wanted a couple of variegated fried decks for some planters outside and I needed two of them because they flank a pathway the Planters on each side I ordered three maybe four I can't remember but they only sent one and they're back ordered until March and yet they're still not fulfilling orders and it's it's a whole mess I'm not going to go all that you can watch that video if you want to know more about that the green Escape they have them too A lot of people have them difference is that the green Escape actually has them so if you want them I would recommend ordering it from them the variegated Fred deck Fred deck alone is a beautiful alocasia has a velvety green leaf on it that has nice white vinage on the inside vinage don't know if that's a word going to run with it though the variegated one is just that but with a lot of variegation on it the leaves on them are very very pretty the ated fried you get it now I have two I needed another one that was actually what made me place this order was that I needed two and they had screwed me over at the other cell only sending me one and I knew green Escape they'd be good for it and they'd send it so here we are now there's another one and lots of other fun plants lots of fun variated aloc Casas here this one's taped up much more heavily which makes sense it's a potted plant this will be the first time I've ever opened a potted plant from the green Escape I anticipate it's probably going to be just just as good as anything else I've ever gotten from them nice getting plant mail when the plants are already potted up and you don't have to rush to get them into a container that's one of the things about the plugs that I'm not crazy about but it's just sort of the trade-off to being able to get certain plants at certain prices we got plenty of floof in here lots of floof this one's very well protected and very very pretty look at that leaf that's beautiful I have a lot to say about this one this is a really cool plant is it does it look better sitting upright or should I lay it down I can't tell the plant itself would probably prefer to be upright so can just let it do its dangly thing right here for the time being this is a critos Sperma uh John stoni crosera crosera it doesn't really matter how you say it this is a plant that I have wanted for a long time I've had them before had one before many years ago it was a challenge to grow I would not consider this a house plant just because it has certain needs that are harder to replicate Indo doors but there are ways to do it it probably deserves its own dedicated video but I'll just go ahead and spit it out there really fast and maybe someday talk about it more in depth the kryos Spas like things warm and humid and moist Roots at all times these are a great plant to grow immersed if you have a pond that'd be a great place to put them the only caveat there is that they like their root Zone specifically to stay nice and warm so the water needs to be warm the Kos Sperma that I grew many many many years ago did great for me during the summertime I Had It Outdoors I think it was in my pond Pond like an above ground Pond thingy out there and then when I moved it inside was when things struggled and things have changed a lot since then but my setup used to be just just a big feeding Troth full of water out here it's like maybe two 300 gallons of water and lots of little space heaters placed around this garage to keep things warm wasn't even all that warm so the issue I had was that couldn't keep the air warm enough to keep the water warm enough and there wasn't enough ampage in my Breakers to add heating to the pond while also heating the air it takes a lot of electricity to heat well air and water period but with a pond of 300 gallons in a space where it's like 65 70° you need a pretty strong heater and it just wasn't working out so what ended up happening was it died that's what happened with it because I couldn't keep the water warm enough there are plenty of reports from people saying that these grow just fine if you have warm water but the air is still cool above freezing obviously but you know 60s and up with warm water warm water usually meaning when we're talking about hydroponic or merch growing probably 77° fhe and up let me talk more about why this plant is cool now that we've talked about why it sucks as a house plant did I cover enough of why it sucks as a house plant you could give it a try by putting it in a container and you could wrap a kombucha heater around it or set it on a heating pad just be careful that you're not overdoing it and it needs to be in either a self-watering container grown semih Hydro or Hydro they shouldn't be allowed to dry out in fact I need to water this one much sooner than later when this plants get plants when this plant gets larger these leaves change fairly dramatically when they get larger you keep the overall appearance but this roundedness on the sinus and the depth changes a lot foliage I'll put them up here on the screen the foliage on these plants is wicked when they are larger they have a heavy deep sinness a deeper green color even the stems have multiple tones in there and they're spiky but it's more of a soft Spike if that makes it any better you don't really need to be playing with the stems anyways in my opinion these are one of the coolest aroids as far as just overall appearance goes they're one of my favorite so I am really happy and excited to be able to have gotten this one I try and get up closer here onto the stems so you can see that spikiness that's on there I don't know how well it's going to show because it's very small and very subtle it's hard to see you just have to trust you if they have spiky stems I mean that's not part of the appeal it's all about the foliage really intense cool foliage on this one one of those plants that can pull your eye so if this is in your periphery they have the shape and the color to them a deeper green usually depending on the light that you're going them in that just sucks your face over that sounded weird grabs your attention it's something that stands out they're a standout plant yeah they do need some help when it comes to their care if you cannot grow them Outdoors but i' say it's worth it in the long run I'm ready to move on to the larger of the plants again I've never gotten big plants from Green Escape before I can feel inside there I think there are two decently sized yep there's two of of them in there decently sized plants never finish that sentence so nice I'm so happy things that I don't have to pot up potting things up this time of year can be such a pain and so messy and I just cleaned up oh that's beautiful looking great this is a plant that I think we will all be seeing a lot more of over the next few years at the nurseries really even this year I would imagine come late spring into summer a lot of the nurseries are going to be selling these at least up here as house plants are concerned look at that full Fage that's stunning what a great healthy looking plant it look familiar does it bear any resemblance to anything else you may have grown looks kind of like a white Fusion colia but it is not this is Cia Stella the Stella colia is said to basically be a white Fusion that is more sturdy for indoor growing I don't know if that's true and what does sturdy mean when we're talking about a colia if you try to grow the white fusions they look an awful lot like this one but they are very temperamental they like things nice and warm which I would imagine this would too this pretty much going to be the case with all colas so a warmer room with bright indirect light consistently moist soil decent humidity air circulation these are plants that can have some issues with their tips if you have too much chlorine and metals in your water imagine those are all going to be issues with this plant because it's a CIA but I am curious because those claims of it being a more sturdy option for indoor growing I want to know if that's true to an extent I'm not going to put this in my house this is stand out here in the grow space it will do better out here in the grow space not going to try and take this indoors my humidity is not great in the house this time of year it's probably 50 60% inside but it's more that my house stays pretty cool and these like it nice and warm it's nice and warm out here so I think that this would be the best place to keep it this is just a time will tell grow it out and appreciate watching that foliage CH that is so pretty that is some nice variegation you're getting a little bit of everything in there you've got some leaves that just are a darker green with some white you have some that are almost tricolored the nice chunky variegation I like that it's a splattered speckly spotted variegation I'm not always crazy about but with this it looks like someone took a paint brush and just put some Strokes of various tones of white on there and the underside does have a slightly bronish Hue to it I'm not going to be seeing the undersides all that often so I don't really care about that but you can kind of see it as the foliage merges you can see it coming out from in there so it adds some extra color always nice to have some extra color moving on this is the last one and I am very curious to see this one in person I've seen pictures of it before but I've never had the pleasure of getting to see what the leaves look like I thought there'd be a big reveal it's still packed down in there oh I don't really know what happened with this one I'm just going to focus on how pretty the foliage is first this I don't how is there so much extra soil in here I expect some soil spillage when a plant sh chips that's no big deal but this is kind of insane look how much extra there is packed up in there maybe they added some soil before they shipped it or it just came up I can lightly pack it down but that's okay I don't want we don't need to focus on that look at the leaves isn't that beautiful this is a dragon skin pepper romia similar to the argiles I think is what they're called maybe watermelon peperomia might be the one I'm thinking of but the large leaved pepper roas that have stripes in them the dragon skin is more textured that is a very good name for this because that does look like reptile skin I am really impressed with how this looks in person I've only seen pictures and in pictures I was always just like oh that's cool this is looks so much better in person than in any of the pictures that I have seen the growth on here is multiple Shades different tones of greens have different colored foliage as you turn the plant you get a different look to it there's a lot of change in color shift and Sheen and shine and that's with dirt on the foliage right there's potting SW over this thing and it's still looking beautiful just imagine when this is filled out this entire container and it's just a nice big full bushy plant I can say just from looking at it as long as the care is going to be the same as most other of the common household pepperoni which it should be I have a new favorite this is beautiful the variation is a silvery blue that has a swirl and a spin that goes around the darker green and even there's more variegation too when you get into the veins it's a lighter green that's in there I don't even know if I would call this green that's almost a brownish black color in there and it has the sparkle that's difficult to pick up on camera in person this is sparkling and Shining looks like it's been painted with some type of metallic paint infused with glitter I can't I don't even know how to describe how happy I am with this one that is an absolutely beautiful plant I am so happy with this and cannot wait to watch that one grow out of everything I got here I have to say if you can get your hands on one of these dragon skin peperomias get it because that foliage is stunning they're versatile too so I could put this under a clo if I wanted to and it would probably just Thrive or I could keep it out on a desk somewhere and it would probably also just Thrive they're great plants really sturdy plants with a lot of aroids like antheriums right the antheriums that have that bumpy Dragon skin-like texture to them those can be more picky and more difficult to grow some times that effect right here with this pepper roia and I hope that the camera is doing this Justice I really hope it's coming across how absolutely beautiful this plant is just for the foliage alone that is some of the best looking foliage I've seen on a house plant in a long time at least on a house plant that you know wasn't something ridiculous like a warum something of the sorts this is just it's just a peperomia and I would imagine probably going to be a pretty common one sooner than later if it is already you might be able to find these at your local nurseries I don't know most local nurseries here aren't open this time of year at least not the ones that are close enough but I feel like driving to them there's so much going on in here so much to look at I've seen enough of it though right I probably went on way too long with that plant that's everything overall I'm very happy green Escape always comes through with nice plant orders I need to get these little guys potted up get everything else situated make sure that the credos Sperma gets some water it's just a little on the dry side need to make sure that gets put into I'll probably just move into a self-watering container and get everything moved out of the blast though this is where my heater comes down right in the front of the water that was nice your pallet cleansed drastic improvement over the last couple of plant unboxings that's for sure comment down below say hi I love talking to everybody you're growing the dragon skin experiences with the Stella I have to give that time to see if those claims would being more sturdy or true everything else just stick around and all watch it grow together all right as always and most importantly everybody keep keep on growing byebye