5 Types of Plant People I’m Secretly Jealous Of 😅 (I Hate Admitting This)

I may act like a confident know-it-all plant icon from time to time, which by the way does not take away from the fact that I am iconic. Let's not get it twisted. But there are times where I question, I do question my plant icon status. And there are times where I do get jealous and envious. Oh yes, oh yes. I look at some of the There's certain things about your collection, about your plants that make me jealous and make me wish I were you. And as usual in my green book of exposés, I'm going to be exposing myself. That didn't come out right. I'm going to be revealing what these things are that make me and envious of some of you. Without much ado, I want you to grab a cup of coffee, grab something, grab someone, get ready to clutch your pills. You are definitely going to be gasping at this rare moment of weakness in the life of a plant icon. Let's proceed. The first group of people that make me absolutely jealous, I have tried to fight it. I have tried to fight it. But each time I see you guys, I just realized that you guys are God's favorite. You guys are the cool kids of the plant society. And some of us can never be like you. I'm talking about those that can grow lush and thriving begonias. Oh my goodness, you guys are truly, truly blessed because begonias are absolutely beautiful. There is no one that even the most basic and the most common and doesn't say or think this is a beautiful plant. There's no denying they are beautiful. They're impressive. However, for the vast majority of us, we just can't grow these thriving begonia specimens. But some of these girlies, I do not know how they do it. I do not know what they do, but they are truly gifted in growing these beautiful begonia specimens. The other day, I was just scrolling on Instagram and I saw a beautiful begonia being showcased by a young lady. And I told myself that's enough internet for today. I'm going to bed. I don't need to be reminded of my flaws and my limitations in life because I have a begonia. In fact, according to a lot of people, the easiest begonia that there is. Yet, mine looks like a dejected sacrifice. Terrible. A hot mess. You know what I find very intriguing about the begonia girlies is that I'm beginning to think, I'm beginning to think that there's a secret society that they belong in. There's a secret code that um there's a secret oath they have all sworn to not really reveal how to grow amazing begonias to us. Masses. Because they found that when they go about telling you how to grow these begonias, they are not exactly giving you any groundbreaking unique information. They are not. They're not exactly doing anything different that you and I have been doing. They are not. The other day, there's a lady that broke the internet to a certain extent with her to check how I grew it. I best believe I went there with my notepad. My notepad ready to write down and this young lady was not given any any helpful or substantial information. That is because they have all sworn an oath. They have all sworn an oath of secrecy to keep the begonia secrets to themselves and to their little covenants. Honestly speaking. So begonia girlies, you all that are honestly blessed with the gift, with the ability you know to grow these begonia specimens. Have you seen a beautifully grown cane begonia? Oh Jesus. Oh the majority of the stem of cane begonia. It's just a beautiful sight to behold and those of you that are capable of pulling that off, I'm jealous. I'm jealous of you but it's okay. It's okay. It's important to know your limitations in life and you know give up which I have when it comes to begonias. I've just given up. If you are part of the begonia gifted girlies and you want to reveal your secrets to us please have mercy and do so in the comment section. Please let us learn and be part of the you know your secret society. Please. Thank you very much. That is not all my loves. This one I just had to come to the realization that I couldn't pull this off. I looked around my collection and I told myself, Ebuka you need to face the truth. You need to stop lying to yourself. You can't pull this off. You're not the girl that you think you are. I'm talking about the girlies that can grow lush trailing plants. Oh yes. Oh yes. Do you think it is actually easy to consistently grow a lush bushy trailing plant? A lot of us think it is. I mean the theory of it is actually very easy. Take a couple of cuttings chop chop chop. Put it in a pot and then allow each cutting vine making it bushy right. The theory is simple but what they don't tell you is that the results vary. Yeah well quite a number of us unfortunate ones. We love the lush trailing look but at the end of the day what we get is patchiness. Inconsistent growth. The top part is yellowing and empty and I had to wake up and smell the coffee and realize that I am not I'm not a trailing plant girly. Sorry this is emotional for me. This is a hard pill to swallow. I really want to be trailing plant girly so bad. I love the aesthetic but I'm really not. I was going through my trailing plants and realized that oh my goodness gracious they all look like hot frigging messes. They all look terrible. I can actually grow a lush climbing pothos as you can see here but when it comes to growing a lush trailing pothos or trailing plant of any kind and I think that is honestly because of the type of person that I am. When it comes to watering hanging plants I can be very inconsistent. The higher the plant is elevated above me the more inconsistent I am when it comes to watering these plants. You know in this plant hobby you need to know who you are and know your limitations and stop trying to be somebody else. So your hope that can grow beautiful lush trailing plants. I envy you guys and I think you honestly deserve your coins. You are often underrated and overlooked but I envy you guys. Give yourself a round of applause. By the way if you're enjoying this content and you haven't subscribed why haven't you click on that subscribe button. It is free to do so and if you want to support your boy you can do so by donating to my buy me a coffee or joining my youtube membership. The last topic was quite scandalous you don't want to miss it. Join the youtube membership for more of my shenanigans, vlogs, my hot takes, you know all that good stuff. Let's proceed. Let's proceed. Oh no this one oh the jealousy is real and the jealousy runs deep and I'm sure a lot of us are going to relate to this. I'm sure I can be the only one who is constantly jealous of people that can pull this off. I am talking of people that have a lot of bright ambient light indoors. I don't mean people that have bright windows. No no no you're not that girl if you think I'm talking about you. I mean people that have bright rooms and they can get away with placing their plants anywhere in that room and in that home of theirs. If they want to place that plant on a bookshelf heck they can place the plant on a bookshelf. If they want to place that plant on a coffee table heck they can place that plant on a coffee table and the plant will do so well and grow. They don't have to constantly depend on grow lights like the rest of us. They are not faced with the atrocious back view of most poles like the rest of us that have our plants squeezed to the window. They are not constantly worried about how to hide these atrocious grow light wires like the rest of us. They can place their plants anywhere. I truly envy the girlies. There are not many of them. Some of you know shade but some of you think you're an ambient light girly. You're really not because that plant you placed on your coffee table is stretching for light and looking like a hot mess in the process. Let's remember to know our limitations in life and accept them. We can be envious of people and jealous of them but while accepting our realities and moving on okay. I am talking about the real ambient light girlies. That plant they placed on the coffee table is driving a loss. That plant they placed up on their bookshelf is driving a loss. They have maybe just one grow light, two grow lights in the corner but they are blessed with very bright ambient light and don't have to depend on growing their plants next to the window hold. Oh my god. I'm jealous of you all. We are all jealous of you all. You are truly God's favorite. How does it feel to be God's favorite? Let me know in the comment section. Let us know in the comment section. Oh, I told you guys you are gonna need to clutch your pills for this one. I told you guys. Oh, oh, oh. I had to write this down. I had to write this down. I am jealous of people that live in tropical countries where the climate and heat and sun is not trying to kill them and their plants. Yes, I live in a tropical country and you're the battle to grow and keep this plant alive is real because my country is an oven. Okay, there are tropical countries where it rains mostly. They have a lengthy rainy season. It is mostly gloomy and overcast and cool and moist and humid, right? Indonesia comes to mind. Malaysia comes to mind for me. Borneo comes to mind for me. Borneo comes to mind for me. Okay, these are tropical countries and you find that a lot of tropical plants that we grew indoors are needed to do some part of the It's overcast, it's gloomy, the sun is not trying to kill you, okay? And there are tropical countries where it's literally hellfire. Where you think you live in a tropical country and you can grow your plants outside all year long, not knowing that half of the time, literally half of the year, the sun in that country is trying to kill you and the tropical plants that Which is why the plants that are native to my part of the world are native to Nigeria, a tropical country. The common ones here are like your snake plants, geodra canas, the rugged tough plants, not the amperiums, not the allocations, not the begonias. So, you all that live in these tropical countries, please, if you are watching this, drop your country's flag, drop your country's flag. You all that live in these tropical countries that are overcast and shaded, oh Jesus, and you can grow these plants and it can just be so lush all year round. You guys don't know how lucky you are. It is dry season and my plants look like a hot mess. I wanted to give you guys a realistic plant tour but I can't reveal the hot mess of my garden to the public. No, no, no. It's a site I'm only going to reserve for my membership girlies. So, join if you want to see what the Nigerian sun has truly done to the plants I'm growing outdoors. The rainy season starts but you all that grow your plants, I'm not talking about the Canada girlies, sorry, not you. I'm talking about the tropical girlies that live in tropical parts of the world that are moist and shaded and overcast. You're really lucky. You're really lucky and I'm low-key jealous of you all. High-key, not low-key, high-key. Oh Jesus. Oh my God, the next point is traumatic. Memories of it are honestly traumatizing me and it is something I have contended with for a very long time. I have just given up. I've accepted my fate but I do not wish this infestation on anyone and I strongly believe it is the worst pest infestation that there is. I'm talking about scales. Oh my goodness, scales. I truly envy the girlies that do not have a scale infestation and have never had a scale infestation. I truly envy you all. Treeps are easy. Mini bugs to me are easy. Spider mites, easy. But you see scales. One thing you need to know about scales is that they have an armored shell. That's one. So your conventional neem oil ain't gonna do anything. Secondly, even when you have exterminated these scales, their carcasses will still remain attached to the plant. You literally have to peel it off. At least with that mini bug, you can just get a cutting swab and just, you know, shoot it away. But with these scales, even after you've managed to eradicate them, you literally have to peel it off. And so my plants have battle scars of scales, dead scales that are permanently attached to them except I peel it off. In the process of peeling off these scales from these plants, sometimes you Oh my goodness gracious. Oh my goodness gracious. I do not wish this on my enemy. I do not wish this on my enemy. I dare say I will take Treeps over scales. By the way, I've made a rather very straightforward video on how to get rid of Treeps. Treeps are a walk in the park for me. They're not difficult to get rid of. If you want to know how to do so, I'm going to link it in the description. And over here, I'm going to see if I can put it over there. Like some of these cool YouTubers or whatever, and then go and watch that video. But I will gladly take Treeps over scales. Scales are absolutely the worst. And I also have an ongoing ant infestation. In fact, I think the real culprits are the ants. So if you've never also had to deal with an ant nest, an infestation in your garden, I'm also jealous of you. The real culprits are the ants because ants have a symbiotic relationship with scales and they help to spread the scales. And if there's one thing my house and my garden has, it's ants. A lot of them. Which is why I'm dealing with scales. I even just spotted some scales here. I'm going to look. They're everywhere in my garden. And I don't wish them for anyone, even my greatest enemy. But yeah, scales, I envy the girlies that never have to face or deal with it. I do envy them. I do envy them. Oh, okay. This one is, this one is, this one is deep. And we're going to have a bit of an Oprah moment here because I think a lot of us need this. We need this, especially in this hobby. I'm talking about the girlies that have contentment in this hobby. Oh, you guys are, you guys, you guys are responsible and mature adults. You guys really are. Honestly, I honestly admire people that can go months. Heck, I've even heard of people going a year without buying any single plant. I'm like, how do you do it? How? How? It will definitely be helpful for my finances for sure. How do you do it? There are people that honestly just have five plants, 10 plants, and they're fine with it. They're fine. They're still very much obsessed with plants like we are. Fine with it. They're content with their collection and don't want to expand more. People that don't feel the need to collect every plant. They love the plant from afar and they just say, Oh, wow. Nice. And they move on with their life. I don't know. You guys are so lucky. For some of us, the struggle is real. You know, I feel like for some of us, in fact, I feel for most of us, we experience waves of contentment and waves where we just binge and become extremely financially irresponsible when it comes to these plants. Yeah. Spring is coming. I know my American and North American girlies, my Northern Hemisphere girlies. When spring comes, you throw all caution to the wind and you go on a plant shopping spree and you spend, you know, that mortgage on plants. Yeah. For me, it is when the rainy season starts. Right now, during the dry season, the whole place is hellfire. I'm not exactly feeling like buying plants right now. I'm trying to keep these plants I have alive. But during the rainy season, the plants just look beautiful. I go crazy. I start buying 10 allocations, 50 calatheas. So people that have that contentment, regardless of the time of the year, regardless of the season, I envy you all so much. And I wish I were responsible adults like you. If you're one of them, say hello in the comment section so we can, um, you can learn a thing or two from you. Oh, my darlings, we've come to the end of this video. Honestly, I was really, really enjoying it and could ramble on and on, but I was only able to think of or rather reveal six of these jealousies and weaknesses. I don't want you guys to know all my flaws and my jealousies. No! An icon needs to keep certain things to themselves. But if you've really, really enjoyed it, I may do a part two. I may reveal more of my envies and flaws to you all for your entertainment, of course. Thank you so much for watching to the very end of this video. If you did, you are an absolute sweetheart. I am curious to know your thoughts. Drop them in the comment section. I try to reply to as many people as I can. Don't forget to check out my YouTube membership as well, and see you in the next video, my loves. Bye!