10 Easy Care Plants That Are Actually A Nightmare

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[@SheffieldMadePlants]

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[@Digitalhunny]

"Brown tips on the leaves" is caused by chlorinated water! Aka. common tap water, folks. You gotta use bottled water or distilled water & _everything_ will change, for the better. Actually, it's better for ALL of our plants. And, those aren't "faded leaves" your plant is variegated & VERY happy. You are a big ol' silly goose! Do not EVER change you happy crazy man. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You earned a sub cause I nearly cried laughing frfr. Hugs from Canada 💕💕 EDIT 1: Please, water that aloe vera a LOT more! You are waaaay under watering it. Leave her back in that sunny spot too. EDIT 2: You need more grow lights for those shelves in the back. Amazon has all kinds of small cheap lights & bulbs for plants. Buy yourself a few timmers too. Set em' & forget em'. Your plants _will_ be _so_ much happier. I know because I just caved myself last year. I bought a couple... than, I bought a couple more. They seriously DO make a great difference. Again, from Canada here. Lots of over cast & rain this year. Not such a great yield on my jalapeño peppers, 12 plants this year & 15 peppers?! Wtf? Think I needed lights outside! 🤗

[@cajanir]

The problem with calling a plant easy care is that it depends on your location/environment. Here in Jamaica I find Aloe extremely easy to grow. I find it likes water far more than you'd expect from looking at it.

[@sarahrosen4985]

All the crazy number of big aloes I inherited from the neighbours across the street I keep outside at the entrance to our building. They are in full sun from daybreak. They keep overcrowding the large pots they are in and I keep thinning them out and giving 20-30 cm tall pups away. The rest of the year I ignore them. Been working for 6 years so far...

[@gailtalley8037]

@@sarahrosen4985but do you live where you get snow?

[@sarahrosen4985]

Not typically. We're on the Mediterranean. With the crazy weather changes, though, there can be an hour with a few flakes and everyone either runs outside as if we're in the Alps and can start skiing or they lock themselves indoors as if the world is ending. :-)@@gailtalley8037

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You’re cheating with your climate 😂

[@kellyferren2705]

Rubber plants grow weird but my spider plants I can't kill them I totally ignore them and they grow like crazy they hardly any light and no watering for months

[@hknisley2000]

I never knew discussing houseplants could be so entertaining. I love your honesty and humor. Great show!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you so much!

[@WantedVisual]

My aloe kept acting out, so I put it outside. In Germany. In February. It survived two years of neglect there, growing lush and strong for reasons unknown to science, until a -18°C frost finally killed it off. Every time I go back to ikea, its brethren call out to me, promising to be better.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

😂😂😂

[@edi9892]

So, it can survive frost??? Apparently, most plants die at temperatures below 4°C and -20°C is the absolute death zone for most hardy plants.

[@rightangletriangle3188]

I cover mine with bubble wraps or green house plastic sheets in winter here in Northern California since they will get frost bites if not protected. They are kept outdoor in pots all year round. This is the fifth year I have them.

[@LL-oc1xw]

You know, the plants calling out to you at Ikea might not be as kindly as they seem. Could be a vindictive bunch. I wouldn't trust them! ;-)

[@vals_loeder]

I feel a lot better now about my easy plants utterly failing to behave. Thank you!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You bet!

[@carolinemarley8426]

This is one of your best videos EVER!!! I love your honesty and no sugar coating the problems!!! Cant believe you told your plants off..I hope they all get an apology ❤❤ Keep up the good work and thankyou xxx

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

They should be apologising to me 😂

[@alan_mythicalgnome]

Here in the UK, I was so proud to successfully grow a Syngonium until my friend's Aunt came to visit from Guyana. Upon seeing it she asked : " What are you growing that for? We can't get rid of them in our garden. They are weeds!" Talk about being deflated from my achievement!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Yeah lots of plants grow like weeds in the right places

[@jackrice2770]

Uh, yeah...in the tropics. My grandfather's plant nursery had live oak trees and those were covered with Monsteras twenty or thirty feet high. Tropical plants grow really well...in the tropics. Rather hard to turn your UK home into a tropical paradise...I live in Oregon, USA. similar climate. My flat is never going to be Guyana.

[@heart_beat_s354]

Syngonium is native to the Americas, mainly tropical areas. The right conditions, and they flourish. But, the U.K.? That's an awesome accomplishment to make them flourish there. Tell the Aunt that a bit of green indoors improves air quality and can also be the canary in a mine. A tropical plant indoors in the UK where its NOT tropical can help you determine your breathing space's air quality. 😅Something logical and scientific like that.

[@alan_mythicalgnome]

@@heart_beat_s354 Unfortunately the Aunt isn't with us anymore. She's probably critising the 'weeds' all over the Garden of Eden by now. I totally agree with the green space indoors as I am a plant-a-holic and love that jungly feel in the house.

[@bernadetten.8751]

I threw a spider plant into a garden compost pile because it looked horrible. I looked at it two months later and it looked great--better than when it was in the house! Never could keep an aloe plant happy either.

[@surgeinc1]

It’s ground cover here in S Georgia😆

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Must be all those nutrients 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@liznewns6494]

Love this episode, it's so good to hear you have plant issues & that not all is Rosie in Sheffield all the time 😂

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Definitely not 😂

[@felix_christopher]

My personal favorite for #1 fussy houseplant is actually the Banana Palm I got from Ikea. When I got it, it was really full and green with about 11 leaves. Now, a year later it keeps doing this trick of producing new leaves regularly (and it really seems to have ambition!), but whenever a new leave pops out, it abandons one or two leaves that were perfectly fine a week prior and suddenly turn brown and crumply until they just fall off. It's been stuck this way at seven leaves for half a year now and keeps repeating this trick over and over.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Similar to an alocasia then. I’ve not tried a palm and I don’t think I will now 😅

[@jaerojas]

​@@SheffieldMadePlantsThat's how my alocasia behaves! It keeps producing new leaves, but drops them just as quickly. No more than 4 or 5 leaves at any time. MAYBE 6 on a rare occasion.

[@surly_mel]

The only spider plant I've ever seen healthy was one my mom had when I was a child. She kept in on a north-facing porch in a moderate climate and never watered the plant, just let nature do its thing. It always had babies dangling down from the parent plant so beautiful and full. I tried one myself a few years ago, and killed the poor thing immediately. And poor dieffenbachia, I'm a bane to that plant as well! Yellow and deceased 100% of the time.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

I’m glad it’s not just me 😅

[@Gee-xb7rt]

I grew up in FL, they did really well on the north side carport covered by a tree. As it is I have a north side balcony and like to keep my plants out as much as possible, they just do so much better getting some fresh air.

[@mercedesmcvey1776]

They love fresh air. I moved from Chicago to Phoenix and mine now live outside, had the same plant I got someone saved from a gift sent at my mother in laws funeral. It's over twenty years and still have that plant and many baby plants. I can't believe they survived the heat of this Phoenix summer! I don't have them in direct light, but they are in the ground next to the house. The ones I have in pots, when they are pot bound, they begin to shoot out babies. They do get brown tips, like many plants here, due to low humidity, but I just cut off the dead stuff once in a while. Even humans need haircuts.

[@jackrice2770]

Dieffenbachias are weird. My father-in-law had one in his office for years, someone gave it to him when he moved into that office. He more or less ignored it, his secretary would water it occasionally. It got some light from a window and the fluorescent office lights. Over that time it grew twelve feet tall with a three-inch thick stem. It was, to be sure, quite naked 'below the waist' so to speak. but the top four feet had huge, colorful leaves. The trunk had coiled about as it searched for light, looking like a bright green boa snake. I've had them and killed a couple. The one I have now damn near died the first weeks at home, but I seem to have it stabilized now. Perhaps a bit of benign neglect is the key.

[@kalakala10011]

You are so realistic about your plants, I get frustrated when I see perfect plants in perfect homes tended by a perfect plant parent.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Of course 😁

[@jackrice2770]

Don't be frustrated...be suspicious. Just like when you see your neighbor driving an expensive car and blowing $$ like crazy, and you know their job isn't that great...the money's coming from somewhere. Same with show piece plants: they might be using a plant service that rotates them regularly from greenhouse to client's home; they might just go out and buy those expensive display plants and toss them when they do what plants do. Nature is perfect, in Her own way. Human perfection, however, is unattainable.

[@wyominghome4857]

I've been feeding and watering my spider plant with distilled water since getting it two months ago. I knew it wasn't dead, but after reading all the complaints here about spider plants I ran to the guest room to take a closer look. It's thriving and sending out little "spiders" and all of its plant tips that are intact (it was chewed twice by our cats, which is why it's in the guest room) are absolutely pristine. No brown tips! Maybe it just needed to feel threatened! :)

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Ah yes the distilled water must be helping 👍

[@lindaandrie99]

I put mine outside for the summer because it was dying and now it's thriving. I thought it was a shade loving plant , I was completely wrong. But now it's thriving.. Don't know what is going to happen to it when I bring it in for the winter. Wallah

[@wyominghome4857]

I have mine in a window where it gets a couple of hours of direct sun. Seems to do fine.

[@DanAndHoe]

I don’t know what I’m doing right with my spider, because it’s thriving. I have it a bit over a year now, I think. It has flowered and grown its own little spiderlings, It’s always been out of direct sunlight, so in some shade. I have forgotten to water it for a bit a few times, but it’s never gotten brown tips from overwatering nor underwatering. I just use tap water, but I’ve always heard our Dutch tap water is the best of the world so maybe that helps. Otherwise I guess my room just has the right conditions.

[@theresalambert3185]

Thank you for making my day! Your delightful humourous way of describing the reality of what actually happens with these plants made me laugh so hard I was crying.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

My pleasure 😊

[@jannetteberends8730]

The spider plant is an excellent cat grass plant. I saw them in an animal shelter. And you don’t have a problem with Brown tips. 😂

[@snjezanazagreb2384]

😂😂

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

😂😂

[@jessicalauren5243]

Your videos are my favourite. My husband always stares at my sideways when I laugh at my laptop watching plant videos.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

😂 thanks

[@rebecalizardo4511]

I loved this video and was literally laughing out loud throughout it. I have had nightmare experiences w/ so many of the "easy" plants you listed here. I am so happy to know I'm not alone in the world!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@halir4408]

Spot on description of how fussy the spider plant is! I don’t even like the look of them, but I was tasked with looking after one for a friend (for an extended period of time while she builds a house)… so I feel obligated to keep this ugly diva of a plant alive and well. It’s far more trouble than it’s worth in my opinion. 😒. Thanks for cheering me up about it though 😂

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@kucylja]

i suppose my 20+ spider plants (3 different varieties) are no divas. Bright light? shade? they take everything. Brown tips? - never had those. The plant shown in the video is seriously underwatered btw.

[@halir4408]

@@kucylja the one good thing I’ll say about spider plants is they always seem to bounce back really well. No matter how dry they get, you can prune & water and it will recover pretty quickly. But clearly they don’t like the lack of humidity in my home. And though almost all of my plants have adjusted to it, the spiders keep growing, but always have brown tips. Oh well.

[@marieo305]

Just killed my 2nd spiderplant. Will not buy another one. My Calathea's, Ferns and Peperomia's on the other hand are doing great😅

[@halir4408]

@@marieo305 haha meanwhile I killed two calatheas… well, they came with an underlying spider mite infestation, so that didn’t help. Peperomias are champs though 💪😊

[@StalkerNaturaliste]

Both spider plant and pickle plant are desert plants are desert plants from south africa. They need scarce yet abundant waterings, air circulation and a draining mineral soil. They are easy as long as you care for them as succulents.

[@surly_mel]

Thank you, I had no idea about the origin and care of the spider plant. I just assumed care was similar to common houseplants since my mom always had one. It always looked gorgeous and she never had to fuss over it.

[@marzipanmango]

Mine do super well in my tropical terrarium! No brown tips, tons of growth. They get a ton of water and the humidity is usually between 60 and 70%. But I do use a very well draining, chunky soil mix- maybe that's saved them 😅

[@sistermail999]

Add aloe to that list too.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the tip

[@kucylja]

i give my spider plants like a liter of water every two-three weeks (no drainage holes, so water stays inside) and they thrive.

[@653j521]

Peace lilies and aloe shrink back in fear when I walk through the nursery. I can't keep them alive, and word gets around.

[@omarjaved9748]

A lot of the problems with houseplants are caused simply by the chemicals in tap water. These are usually jungle plants that grow in acidic or neutral soils and are watered by rain. I use ro/di water for all my plants, adding feeds or liquid seaweed most waterings and flushing with plain water once a month. I have no leaf discolouration issues with any plants.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

I think you're spot on

[@jackrice2770]

Yes, my houseplants loved it when I was on well water. (Oh, the two story sunroom helped a bit.)

[@ghengis430]

As ever, great stuff. I've treated all my spider plants the same, and had completely different outcomes. Quite a few have just died. The " I even kill spider plants" thing is not so shameful now I've seen this. 😳

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You’ve got this ✊

[@amyesworldcatherinesminime7945]

Also, who *buys* spider plants? I'm always given them by well-meaning friends, feel extra obliged to do the right thing and then end up worrying more when I see pale/crispy leaves...

[@dawnt6791]

I've had the same experience, though I rarely have a spider die. They just do varying degrees of healthy from "are you going to live?" to "wow, you look great". What gets me is that I can have 2 right next to each other of the same variety in the same type of pot and give them exact same care and end up with 1 WAY healthier than the other. Make THAT make sense! LOL

[@jesmey4902]

​@@amyesworldcatherinesminime7945 I have 7 spider plants here with 1 being a really big mother plant and when I notice leafs getting pale I water them heavy and leave them alone until they get pale again. Mine are in complete different light sessions and all are thriving. Maybe you can try this trick and it helps.

[@Oliverisloved]

Love your humor and honesty. I've been binge watching your videos and learning a ton. Thank you!

[@DoraTheExplora50]

Me too... he's so full of plant 🌵 knowledge 🌱🍃🌿🌵

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@al200604]

Same!

[@sheilacasper2030]

I agree with you. However I usually repot the annoying plants in the trash…. And lots of the plants you named are on my do not buy list. My plants have one job: to look nice, healthy, and beautiful. If they dont then they are fired.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Makes perfect sense 😁

[@jessegee179]

🍂” You’re fired!” 😂😂😂

[@GeraldStiner]

I 1,000% agree with everything you preached about in this video. Amen Brother and praise the weed!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

God bless

[@His-Joule]

Jdl!!!!! I absolutely love your post ♥️💙😉😉

[@sarahrosen4985]

Had to pause the video to go out to check all my hanging planters of spider plants. First, they thank you very much. They were very dry but I hadn't been out to notice. Mine do, indeed, have lots of brown tips. The trick is to hang them a bit above eye level. Then you'll never notice the brown tips. 😆 Worked for me for years. Other than the tips, all of mine are quite happy with lots of babies.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Fab tip 😁

[@ioanacazacu1266]

I've just transferred into soil 3 syngonium and 3 hoya cuttings that I've rooted in water, so, please, wish my baby plants good luck! I'm such a rookie, that I'm too afraid to buy grown plants. I Thought it would be better to start by propagating my own, so that, at least the mother plant would be safe....I've wached a lot of your videos to learn...Thanks a lot, by the way!!!

[@alisonh2112]

As a newbie, I think propagation would be the harder route. Up until 2 years ago, I killed every plant I had. Now, my balcony is filled with plants that doubled and tripled their sizes over the summer. The easiest thing to do is to start with small, inexpensive, easy plants until you get the hang of it. Pothos is very easy and it grows fairly fast if given enough (but not too much) light and let it dry out between watering.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

A great way to do it 👍

[@rimacoates6532]

Love your videos! Not only are they informative but entertaining as well! Cheers from Canada

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Much appreciated!

[@CalamityCannon]

Root pruning spider plants has been crucial for me. Which I learned from this channel! They've even stopped complaining about being hung over air vents. Those being the only places in the house with proper light and places for hooks to keep them somewhat out of reach of my cat. Who will devour an entire plant. It's like catnip for her - she doesn't have any of the serious psychotropic reations some people report with their cats. Unless she's just really good at holding her... plant? 😹 A spider plant pup is literally her favorite toy, and snack. Anyway, thanks for the videos and for teaching me how to root prune!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You've got an unusual cat 😂

[@Darlkstalker]

Spider plant spiderlings get cats high

[@WS-by5cl]

My cat has a catnip problem, and also loves eating my spider plant (until I moved it up high). Makes sense 😂

[@laurachristianson1688]

I love my spidey….he’s like five or six years old, he actual thrives on being ignored. He stays in a partially shaded balcony over the summer months, and just inside in my bedroom in pretty low light. When he does get ragged every couple of years I just give him a hard cut…..same could be said of my tradescantia

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Ooo I’ve not tried hard pruning. Nice tip

[@jackrice2770]

Tradescantias are Edward Scissorhands favorite plants. If you like to cut things, it's your dream come true. Just cut. cut. cut...which is the punchline to a joke that can't be told here.

[@deltatango6793]

Aloe: I have south facing windows… if I keep it on the side of the window ledge where it gets mostly morning light, less later sun, and don’t move it… and don’t give it sink water (distilled is good), I have a very happy plant.. I switched to afternoon sun for a few days and it turned reddish from too much sun. So I put it back.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jackrice2770]

I'd say one does best with aloe if it's outside most of the time. A good half-day of morning sun. Bring it inside when freezing temps threaten. In a wet climate, make damned sure it's got perfect drainage! I've had them in the past and generally wound up supplying the neighborhood with aloes. Yes, the 'juice' does work well for mild skin irritations or the minor cooking burn. Indoors? Not sure it's going to work out for most folks.

[@danielleroseshaw]

My mum had a spider plant which got seriously neglected and was never repotted in the 15+ years it was in the house. Brought my own a few months ago and it's just the bane of my existence.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Time to nick your mum’s 😅

[@janehalper2388]

Your mum was doing the right thing. It needs the same kind of care as the snake plant, in other words, none! They store water in their roots, and seriously dislike being watered or fussed over. I water during our hot summers but otherwise ignore them. I have one trying to take over a corner of the garden under a tree

[@breezem77]

True!!! They hate having too MUCH water. It's tips will start blowing if u water it too much. I neglect mine and it's huge

[@TheShulg]

so the opposite of pease lilies. They always want water

[@solarwinds-]

I love your channel bc the information is given in a fun way. You have a very cute sense of humor. I love it that you share my frustration with some of these plants.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you so much!

[@jayandreas1131]

The spider plant is very easy. Mine is two meters away from a west facing window on a high cupboard/very near the ceiling. Always forget to water it because apparently I’m not looking up a lot. But it thrives under that low water regime.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

No brown tips?

[@jayandreas1131]

@@SheffieldMadePlants just a little. When I look at it, I don’t notice it, but when you focus on it you see them. About half a centimeter. Maybe it is the way I look at things: knowing nothing is perfect makes the almost perfect appear perfect 😁

[@griffinbastion]

my gf's spiderplant survived daily watering, the other one i found in a pot outside where it lived for at least 2 months, both are surviving even though i barely water them (though i did not make soil nearly draining enough and use rainwater now) they both stand healthy and don't seem to be bothered

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

I can see them enjoying life outside

[@delindagoldsberry9644]

@@SheffieldMadePlants OMG THEY DO so my mom use to buy spider plants and they would die over a short time but 1 year she had one it was on the brink of death and so she put it out back it got early morning sun and it loved it me and my sister have MANY babies off this plant which is now mine they are all hugh and grandbabies from the babies and greatgrand babies from them they are beautiful we cover for winter and they may get a few dead brown leaves clean them off in spring they flourish right back out so lush and big we have other types of spiderplants too everywhere we live in North Las Vegas temps this summer 110- 118 for weeks they are lush I water them everyday I love them you'll be surprised we were. Enjoyed the video and all your videos. 👍🙂

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

@@delindagoldsberry9644 like it 😁

[@onelastchance648]

I live in a much too big old farm house in Montana, winters are hard here and for the last you years I have been an able to heat the entire house. I have too many houseplants I was unable to keep three of my spider plants in my bedroom during this last freeze we just got through. It got -35 below Fahrenheit -50 with windchill factor, my cats water dish froze solid in the same room the spider plants were left in. Nine days of -10 below to -35 below and so far none of those spider plants are showing any signs of freezing. However I wrapped the planters with large bath towels and the plants were all up off the floor but I’m still amazed that they survived.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Can’t believe your house gets that cold and that you can keep yourself alive let alone plants

[@onelastchance648]

Unfortunately neither can I however it’s completely true. I either eat or am warm. Thank God it’s only horrible when it’s gets way below 0 normally I manage ok.

[@mostlymartha1395]

You nailed it! Thank you very much for letting me not feel like a total failure on each of these species anymore.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

My pleasure 😊

[@martinav4086]

Tradescantia I agree, my biggest nemesis. But I would add the peace lily. Whatever I do it just comes up with super dark green “flowers” and brown leaf tips. And I also recently rescued a parlour palm from irresponsible owner but that plant just deserves to die.

[@marzipanmango]

I find tradescantia very easy as long as it gets enough light. Mine seems to like very bright indirect light, and even a bit of direct morning or afternoon light if possible (but to be fair it's the 'Nanouk' cultivar so it needs more light than others). Also I found you have to be careful to not get water on the leaves- I killed a bunch of leaves a few years ago by misting daily with water :P If I accidently mist mine I put a fan on it to dry it up.

[@martinav4086]

@@marzipanmango I also have the Nanouk and I do try not getting any water on the leaves, but it still gets weirdly shaped leaves with tiny holes. So I sprayed it with a pesticide, which may have contributed to the browning on the leaves. It is a viscious 7th circle of hell...

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Parlour palm is alright for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@marzipanmango]

@@martinav4086 Oof sorry it's not working well for ya :(

[@jackrice2770]

The 'fancy' trads are a pain to keep looking nice. The plain green one isn't all that attention grabbing, but if you want that jungle feeling, just put it in a small pot and pinch it back all the time. I got a peace lily recently (it was on sale) and didn't have much expectation for it, but after about four months it popped a flower. They bloom irregularly, so you just can't expect a steady show of blooms. I think the key is light, have mine under a grow light. and using a 'blooming' plant fertilizer. Also, bottom watering. My parlor palm (Chamaedorea) has been sulking for six months now. I think it has scale...any suggestions on dealing with that?

[@Kirkachop]

I live in South Africa and I NEVER put spider plants (hen and chickens) in our house. They love being outside. Also your purple zebrina (Tradescantia) Also loves outside. Shade and wet and they grow like weeds :) Love your channel, this video made me lol l

[@gailtalley8037]

So are you saying I have to move to South Africa to appease my spider plant? 😅 Blessings 💜💚

[@sistermail999]

I am South African and thought the same thing. My spider plants are taking over my garden! BTW, the Aloe loves being outside in the sun without too much water.

[@gailtalley8037]

@@sistermail999 y’all making me jealous 😂😂

[@nikkireigns]

I put mine outside for the summer (Midwest USA) and they are thriving! I’ll have to bring them in soon for winter though 😕

[@chrislynch1011]

I know what you mean - I'm in Australia and my succulents, most of my spider plants and tradescantias all live outside, under the veranda.

[@toneecheah7546]

The way this video being shot and edited is so fun 🤣 this is definitely my favourite video from this channel by far 😆😆

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@mbaeza2626]

Oh I feel so validated about Spider plants😂 I’ve had three…none of them made it…they don’t like too much water but they don’t like soil that’s too dry…they don’t like tap water…they don’t like too much shade nor too much sun…I’m done with them!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

They don’t like anything 😂

[@user-de9jy2wo5t]

I've never had problems with most the plants you talked about. I agree about succulents but otherwise no problems and I live in a hard water town. Yes spider plants leaves do turn brown but filtered water not dechlorinated will reduce that and removing the dead leaves actually is effortless. Spider plants, if done correctly as with all plants, are beautiful and too much water?, the roots make a great aquarium filtration system, I keep some of my spider plants in just water and watch the roots grow, it's absolutely fascinating. My favorite plant is the spider plant and my mothers plants would have knocked your eyes out. I grew up with plant people and was transplanting at 5 years old.

[@jackrice2770]

Yeah, I think most people underwater their spiders. As long as the drainage is good, they seem to love watering. Mine gets watered every time I water any of the others and it just get bigger. Keep it rootbound if you want lots of babies.

[@carmenlane7681]

This video gave me a chuckle. Your personality is shining through. Love it! 😁

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Yay! Thank you!

[@rightangletriangle3188]

My spider plant is doing well outdoor and put them under cover during the wintertime here in Northern California. It gives out cluster of tiny white flowers and they are quite pretty.

[@giovannifina85]

As a owner who has or had all of this plants. Your basic problem is not the plant... is the light. Mainly the lack of light for the plant who etiolate and than to complete the figure you popped the tropical plant in full direct sun. The only thing that is inevitable is the alocasia cycle that will stop when the plants mature and the roots establish themselves in the new pot and the chlorophytum who always as brown tips. That plant has to be in partial shade in an humid enviroment.

[@neonux92]

Agree so much with spider plants... Also they grow so badly if they don't have light coming from all directions.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

So true!

[@YouCallThataKnife253]

In my experience, you should basically never water your Spider Plants and give them plenty of light. The ones I have that don't have any crunch also never get watered 🤷🏾‍♂ Also, with the Ficus Elastica, I've found that if you want them to branch aggressively, you have to cut them down really low. The first time I pruned my rubber tree, she did the same thing as in this video, and grew one lopsided branch. After that, I pruned her down to about a 4 inch trunk, and now she has five branches all around. I did the same thing with another rubber I was growing outside for the summer, and she put out 7-ish branches.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the tip 👍

[@librarymouse567]

😂 l loved the expression of you getting caught in bed with the rubber plant, too funny.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

😂😂

[@lindahazelmoon4034]

Love your videos, so helpful as I’m a houseplant newbie. Thank you🙏

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@chrislynch1011]

Loved this episode! It's like watching the best of British with dad humour...and a little of Benny Hill tonight LOL It's quite a foreign concepts for me to see succulents and aloes growing inside, but i do realise they wouldn't survive your winters, do you put them out during the warmer months at all? The good old spider plant! Mine thrives under my veranda, and I have 2 as kokadamas inside - they're a bit like 'strings of ...' set and forget. Love your work

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊. I’ve had a Jade out this summer and it’s loved it

[@painetdldy]

🎶ridin the storm out ... hope i'll still have electricity for this! hurricane idalia hasn't made landfall yet

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Fingers crossed you're not hit too hard. Where do you live?

[@painetdldy]

@@SheffieldMadePlants I am VERY lucky! Again! I'm in St Petersburg. Hurricane 'bands' still going past and tornado warnings

[@sujatashah1999]

So true … I struggled with all these exactly the same way

[@nekkojoy]

4:11 happened to my fiddle leaf ficus plant. I can't describe my disappointment after waiting so long for a new bud.

[@His-Joule]

Omg help me lololol….this is your best post yet Darlin’….thank you for a much needed laugh😂♥️♥️💜💜💙💙

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@agneslazarenko2653]

Last week I bought a calathea that had "easy care" on the plastic sleeve it was sold in. I laughed😂😂😂

[@melindastanners]

Calathea are on my hit list as well. 'Easy care' is the last thing I'd call them...

[@agneslazarenko2653]

@@melindastanners Yes, when they are cheap in my local supermarket, I buy them instead of cut flowers. And they last slightly longer than cut flowers would :)

[@melindastanners]

@@agneslazarenko2653 this is definitely a more realistic approach to enjoying them in your home! 🤣

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

That’s mad!

[@liltsummerlin423]

My Pilea Peperomioides gave me the most trouble... Every time I got it really full and pretty it was starting drooping and dying off and the leaves would start curling in 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@teresaoconnor1601]

I live in southern california where aloe and echevaria grow very well outdoors, hard to replicate that environment in your home :)

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

In think you’re right!

[@Tminus89]

Both my Dieffenbachia Mars and Camilla are still doing well after 2 years. The Mars was much bigger when I bought it, measured from the pot the first 13cm of the plant are just stem. It has been like this for a year, above it the plant is full and I actually like this look. After about a year of it being like that, 2 new leaves have just started coming out of one of those stems that has seen no action that low down for a long time if you catch my drift 😆 but I doubt it will become full lower down ever again, would need to start over. I've seen videos about propagating them and it's pretty wild how many new plants you can get out of 1, so you can at least get a lot of chances to try again without returning to the store

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

So true!

[@FennestrationNation]

Completely agree! Only luck I have had with Spider plants is growing them in water with Leca. They are very thirsty. I think you should also add the peace lily to the list. They can be a super drama filled “easy” care plant. I love the variegated forms though. Still best luck I have had is growing in water with Leca so far.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the tip

[@pudik2008]

Spider plant and peace lily are very thirsty plants I agree, but the recover quickly after a watering. 😊

[@megami4043]

Hi! First: I love your videos. I'm a loving plant amateur that tries to learn a lot about them to keep them healthy. I brought my aloe vera back from Spain, it was a little one growing in the wild. Since then, I reproduce its old living conditions as much as I can. I live in France so I keep it outside after the lasts frosts, full sun and no watering. And I keep it inside from the firsts frosts, full lights and minimal monthly watering. It's exhuberant and making lots of pretty and healthy babies I give to my friends.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Keeping it outside is the key then

[@silvannamk8339]

This was the funniest, most entertaining plant video I’ve ever seen. I’m definitely hooked. My aloe lives outside. I’ve killed it in the winter frosts and it always comes back. I barely ever water it (it’s in a HUGE POT) and water about 2-3 times a month. I live in Louisiana USA so it’s hot and humid here. Totally agree with spider plant. What does it want? I gave it to a coworker. She apparently just didn’t like me.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@yiramariani8236]

Very true. Can you do a video of hard to care plants that are actually easy? I’m doing much better with my begonias than my spider plant 😅

[@twinfin8571]

So have I. I had droopy begonia in soil so I put it in leca. The leaves are beautiful and it’s been 3 years but it no longer flowers.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@yiramariani8236]

@@twinfin8571 I don’t know much about leca but to flower it needs higher light(not direct) and fertilization. I use fish oil and the plants love it.

[@twinfin8571]

@@yiramariani8236 . Thanks. It gets light and the leaves are gorgeous and big. I feed it liquid fertilizer for hydro plants. I also use fish emulsion on my soil potted and outdoor plants. I just bought an organic liquid fertilizer for indoor plants. I may add a bit of that and see what happens.

[@user-ur6gy4gm4b]

2 years ago, I started growing avocados from seed. Every 3-5 months my mom would buy me an avocado. Over the first few months of growing avocado trees from seed, I'd never had any significant problems growing, because they were doing splendid, but But last winter, I'd started facing countless problems, mainly root rot. And so essentially, some of my trees started struggling, from the cold, on top of that I'd started overwaterng them. And my main and original avocado, well he was doing the best, it had dark green and even slightly blue foliage, but he was getting root bound, so I decided to repot him into a significantly larger pot. As a matter of fact, I bought one of the biggest pot in the city. After I did that it started dropping its oldest leaves rather rapidly and started drooping considerably. It'd hit rock bottom. I was very scared. On top of all that it was way below freezing outside with snowfall. I thought it was over, the root rot, the shock from reotting, the fungus gnat infestation, the cold shock, the yellowing leaves. But one day after I watered after the cold, it started bouncing back, it still had root rot and still has to this day, but it's much better! I also started growing a mango tree, but got severly infested with spider mites, so I'll work on that.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

I’ve done avo and mango. They eventually died though. Don’t think they like it inside much

[@user-ur6gy4gm4b]

​@@SheffieldMadePlants Did your oldest avocado leaves start yellowing, while brown bleeding from tips, to edges/sides, to the entire leaves, then they start falling of, the newer leaves start doing that, growth being much slower, or even stunted,the tree struggling to put out new leaves or they completely die (sometimes some of the leaves from the future set die from nutrition problem), then every leaf dies and falls of, then the avocado starts to diaback (from top to bottom), if it has well-established root system- trying to send out shoots, but fails, after that the stem dies completely and so do the roots, you may even experience unpleasant smell in the meantime? If that's so, then that's a telltale sign of *root rot*, obviously caused by *overwatering*, poor drainage, etc. Additionally, if you'd seen tiny flies, they are *fungus gnats*, and typically, your tree would show greatly similar symptoms. I've had 2-3, that died from root rot, fungus and fungus gnats. Essentially (if you ever decide to try growing avocados again), the very first sign of these diseases is browning tips after a heavy watering, if it happens rapidly, the fungus on the tips may be orange and then turn brown. Even though root rot is more prominent for avocados, that doesn't mean they can't easily be saved, if caught on time. But can't say much about mangoes, since I've only recently started a mango and I've never seen an overwater mango tree.

[@ceciliag4219]

@@SheffieldMadePlants Those trees need to be outside .

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

@@user-ur6gy4gm4b I think that’s what happened yes. One by one the leaves went downhill. Never mind it was a fun experiment

[@user-ur6gy4gm4b]

@@SheffieldMadePlants Well, it's never too late to try again! It's very fun to grow trees/any plant in general that you've never seen before in real life, or that doesn't thrive in your place. Especially tropical fruit trees!

[@lideabarker8161]

Just found your channel. I agree with most of what you say. Since I live in north Florida US, I tend to toss plants I get mad at outside to fend for themselves. I used to live in Vermont and had no trouble with keeping plants inside. here, however I seem to have lost my green thumb. Some plants I have kicked out of the house actually do well here. We do get frosts in January so I didn't expect some things to live. The spider plants I threw out (in their pots) are thriving and the baby spiders are rooting down and flowering, spreading all over my garden area. Plants that would normanlly trail and root on the ground seem to have a hard time in pots I have found. I put my diefenbachia in a combo of orchid soil and potting soil and it loves it as does my chinese evergreen. Go figure. Enjoyed your video.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks!

[@valeriea.larsson1687]

WHAT A JOY YOU ARE! i LAUGHED ALL THE WAY THROUGH YOUR PRESENTATION! A MUCH NEEDED COMIC RELIEF TO THE NEWS OF THE DAY . THANK YOU!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it!

[@eronhonez]

I agree with your opinion of dieffenbachias. I threw mine out after a year of fussing with it…THE END.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

It’s a shame cos they’re very nice!

[@heybagley]

This plant is not on this list, but the Monstera adansonii (Monkey leaf) is often considered a plant for beginners. Mine though has some crispy and/or rolled leaves, sunburn spots and loves her yoga workout (it does get daylight but isn't close to the window). At least my plant is a fast grower...

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

It’s definitely not! 😅

[@smievil]

my deliciosa seemed to live even with curtains closed and monthly watering for a few years, it grew a lot better when i watered it a bit more regularly but it seems really easy. dad also had one which i cut up a bit so i got 6 of them around now. but adansonii looks sad all the times with yellow leaves.

[@juliebiggerbear7300]

5:38 I have an avocado that I started growing two years ago. I was 100% certain that it would need to be watered all the time. And I was faithful to water it at the nearest hint of the dirt being dry. And then, my depression took a really dark turn, darker than normal. The watering routine went from every three days to when I remembered that there was a plant I needed to water that wasn’t in the kitchen. It gets watered about once a month. It’s never been happier. 😂

[@SlavicGuitar]

Completely agree about the spider plant. I could not keep it alive no matter what I did. I feel like some Calatheas would be easier to take care off than a spider plant 😄

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Both a bit of a nightmare 😅

[@agathadsouza9216]

This is the first video on plant care that I thoroughly enjoyed! Informative and entertaining.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sarahbell6039]

Another cracker of a video ! What a relief to see the spider plant on your nightmare list.Mine have just started to curl upand die after thriving all summer ,was begining to feel like the worst plant parent ever. So thanks for cheering me up.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

My pleasure 😊

[@kxc77]

My personal fav is how everybody raves about how easy going zz plants is. One too many times watering rotted them roots. Cut them clean off, started on a clean slate with water propagation and got roots and rhizome coming out eventually after months of waiting. I was so happy and moved it into soil with a more careful watering routine only to have it rotten AGAIN. Back we go into the water where it seemed the most happy.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Such a slow process too 😬

[@marzipanmango]

I have a few spider plants growing beautifully (no brown leaf tips, very fast growth) in my tropical terrarium- I think they like high humidity. Humidity in my terrarium is usually between 60-70% for reference. You could probably get the same effect with a humidifier, but at that point you might as well grow something stunning like a calathea or alocasia :P

[@RobynFrancisModel]

The humidity in your terrarium is lower than in my house! No wonder things are fine in here.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Does it outgrow the terrarium?

[@kucylja]

@@RobynFrancisModel was wondering the same. I mean healthy humidity at home is 60-70%

[@Goggans]

Love this channel…hope you enjoyed your coffee. You just saved my plant thanks

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@hydregyoutube7630]

Oh, I feel you with most of these. However the problem is just the climate. Those easy care plant lists are usually made by people living in California, not from Alaska, North EU or UK, where light is sparce and the air at home is very dry from all the heating for half of the year. Most of these plants really do thrive in sunny and mild climate. Most of your grievances come from lack of the mythical "bright, indirect light" every single plant advice column recommends. And some are just vines or creeping plants that we try to turn into bushy plants, like spiderwort or syngonium (most aracea species kept at home actually). These WILL try to crawl, lean and climb. They're really troublesome to keep as bushy plants, because it's a constant string of cutting and repotting, and soon you'll be finding yourself rehoming tons of cuttings you've created. For years I had plenty of plants, but grew so tired of maintenance some of them required to keep in a good shape, I rehomed a good chunk of them by now. Sometimes it's better to take the L and stick with sansevierias, epipremnums, viny philodendrons and pileas that thrive in your home than to struggle with sickly echeverias, lanky philodendrons, bare alocasias and pale dracenas.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the advice 👍

[@dietschegroosmame3596]

Easy care would be artificial plants 😀

[@shit_tiger]

Almost all of these have been easy breezy for me 🤷‍♀️ im shocked aloe made it on this list. I usually ignore mine for months and shes always doing great. Shes my oldest plant, had her for over 4 years now.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You’ve got the secret sauce 😁

[@judyrichardson5837]

Did you know diffenbachia is also called dumb plant for a reason. Best fun with plant is cut a couple of small bits off the leaf and slide it into an annoying know-it-all’s sandwich. They’ll soon go dumb and silent for a short while. We did it often as kids in Oz. Happy times, Sheffield.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

That’s a new one on me 😂

[@Tradewindsvintagehi]

I love listening to you speak. So British.❤️

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@Asfera1]

Hints for Perfect Spider Plants. 1 they love to be root bound.... 2 They love fresh water NO TAP use bottled water, Bottled water is a game changer, 3 Make sure you hang them up high and in the corner of a room with a window next to it. 4. As for watering. I drench mine every few days and they perked right up 5: I have mine hanging out on the porch for the summer and they all get 6 full direct hours of light per day no problems and the brown tips went away. Dont believe the low light myths online 6 give them Liquid plant food once per month, also i experimented with a cal/mag treatment on one of them and it went into full bloom a few days later and has been doing so will i treated the rest and they went full bloom as well and then started making a lot of seeds!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for the tips 👍👍

[@Morghena]

The only complaint I had about my old spider plant was that she was doing too good. She flowered and had more babies than I knew what to do with. Now I have a new, small one and only the tiniest bit of the tips of like 3 leaves are brown so far. Southern half of Germany seems to be going okay for them with my minimal care

[@char26104]

THANK U I struggle & struggle with Spider plants, and all I read says how easy they are, mine no, Happy to hear what you say, They are not easy plants for me either.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You’ve got this ✊

[@theunknown1637]

As I really like succulents, all of the plants that I care for are succulents, but last year, I was gifted a spider plant from my high school full orchestra director. Last winter, I had to expose my plants to -20°F(-29°C) windchills for roughly 30 seconds while moving back into my college dorm after winter break. I had the plants covered with a blanket, so almost all of them did just fine. All of my succulents survived the whole ordeal unaffected . . . I don't have the spider plant anymore. Before that, I always had to deal with the tips of leaves turning brown on the plant, but at least it had no problem producing dozens of baby spider plants before that arctic blast. But being exposed to that windchill for just 30 seconds, even with the protection of a blanket, was enough for the leaves to turn to mush to the point where the plant was unable to recover. It was definitely the most sensitive plant I've ever owned and I'm glad it's not just me who feels that way.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Gosh that’s cold

[@astridmeulendijk8694]

Perfect balans of information and humor, love this! ❤😂

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@kati-ana]

I can say of all these I have had experience with the aloe vera. In my home state I had a gorgeous huge, knee high aloe. Thick leaves. It was planted outside near my mailbox. I never messed with it, just allowed it to do its thing. Hubby watered it daily. So healthy and so large with flowers too! But we moved to the mainland and I've purchased three. ALL died within months. Never ever again will I bother with them until I return home where they grow wild and abundantly. Some you mentioned I have thought about purchasing, because I read those lists about the easiest plants to grow. Hogwash!!! So thank you for helping me not making that mistake and wasting money.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

You bet! Thanks for watching 😁

[@sallyedmondson9275]

Loved this video - so funny ! I was laughing out loud - so many home truths ?! 👍🏼🤣🌵🌿

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Awesome thanks!

[@IVDigitalMedia]

Thank God, someone talked about Spider Plant is fussy - I thought that for everybody its easy and something is wrong with me, that's why I am unable to grow it! Thanks a lot for your honest opinion.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@cherylanne6549]

I live where it's really hot most of the year. I put to fight this out on my front porch in the early spring where they're getting indirect light and lots and lots and lots of humidity. They were 4" pots in February, and now they about eight feet tall! And they lean over like crazy which annoys me. I didn't know I could just whack them like you did, but I'll be doing that this afternoon. I absolutely agree with you on dieffenbachia.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Wow they’re massive

[@lindahennah2903]

You do make my day thank you I learn a lot .❤

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

thanks!

[@jeannettelee2806]

Best video ever. Plant parents know about these naughty plants but we love them anyways ❤

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@wilhelminaulry4663]

Hi, me again, I love yours sense of humor. You make me chuckle. Love all your narrative. Keep on keeping on. From Billie in the US

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you so much!

[@caridumont2390]

My spider plants have invaded all of my other plants in nearby pots and has slowly killed those plants until only the spider plant remains and thrives.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Is this outside in a border?

[@hazelco8622]

I am in the tropics and that grassy looking plant with white line (the first plant shown) I have. It has to be in shade but outdoors. My little balcony has one. Yes occasionally there is one or two yellow, as all plants, I just remove. Aloe is easy here, and once it gets full and older, removing one root to propagate in other pot, works easily.

[@Manekiko]

I know a place where they grow spider plants WITHOUT any Sunlight. Just with average artificial lights. And just in water. They grow there like crazy. That room is now called the „flower room“.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Is this in your home?

[@Manekiko]

@@SheffieldMadePlants no🤣 I saw that room at work in a physics Office

[@everythingelse6316]

I loved this video! Actually, I love all your videos but this one hit a home run with the humour and the information. I have a ton of spider plants from all the offshoots but they are all different beasts. Some are thriving and some are pure divas. I've also killed off 2 aloe veras - they were not happy with me at all and that whole leggy situation?! Ugh..as a new plant parent, I think I just have to build that confidence to prune/chop and remember your mantra that they always grow back. Let's see if I can wait until Spring to get this done. If not, I might have to chop earlier! Thank you for the fantastic plant content. Love the humour!

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊. There's no harm chopping now

[@pimpozza]

Love the humour on this channel.. 😂 Thanks, Mr Sheffield! 👍🙋🏻‍♀️

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Thank you 😊

[@pimpozza]

@@SheffieldMadePlants I'll be forever grateful to you that my beautiful and temperamental weeping fig (aren't they all! 😆) now has not a single brown -tipped leaf. I give it only rainwater.. the tap water was definitely the cause, as you so rightly said! 👍

[@maya993]

I just found your channel. It always brings me great joy to see someone rip on Tradescantias. I've sworn them off at least 3 times.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Glad it’s not just me 😁

[@catfrog1975]

My spider plants have been very easy going! Except when I tried to put one in a terrarium.... Then it died. Looking at my old mother plant, there /is/ one brown tipped leaf, but I'm not fussed. She's happy in the window. :)

[@sabrinaft221]

My spider plant is the only loyal easy and fast growing plant I own. This summer I put her outside and she lost all her leaves in a storm but she’s growing back stronger than ever.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Nice!

[@nneichan9353]

I gave up with my spider plant and put it outside on a bare soil patch under the overhead deck. Well. it thrived outside, and now there is a large patch of it. In NorCal, so it freezes only a few days a year.

[@SheffieldMadePlants]

Like it!