10 thriving plants ✨🪴 my January Favourites

[@lindaedwards4632]

Your Stingray is doing amazing things, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one look so good 😀🇨🇦

[@thelourensfamily8048]

I had two sinbad begonia cuttings. When I transferred them to pon, one rotted and one survived (the mama plant) and now it has two vines that it's growing. Very happy with my pon mix. I think sometimes transferring begonia to pon can be tricky with their very fine roots.

[@DavidMoralesPlants]

That begonia sinbad! 😫🪴✨ I need 😍

[@iona5125]

u should do a thing that claire does for ur dubia moss pole ! she puts like sheets of acetate around the back then has wire on the front so u can attatch it and like transition it to front opening ?! 💕💕💕

[@hannahthorpe2952]

So, if you look back at previous videos, you will see that Emma actually showed Claire how to make the moss poles you refer to. Emma has been sharing with us and caring for plants for years. 💚🌵🪴🌿

[@DaphneTriesPlants]

I think it was The LECA Queen who had one Hoya on a moss pole and she said that it’s just acting as a trellis and there’s no added benefit to it, leaf size doesn’t change, so she doesn’t keep it moist anymore

[@GoodGrowing]

ooh thanks for that!

[@MeTimePlants]

If you use a little silica, if might help you keep that beautiful variegated leaf on the plowmanii. It’s so lovely.

[@annylindsay5358]

Hey Emma, those two tiny black lines on your stingray, check very gently with a fingernail if they are slightly raised and will scratch off without leaving a mark on your plant. I am in Queensland, Australia, and in one of only a few areas that have a present from America... Florida black thread scale. Starts super small, but grows in thin lines. Very easy to treat if you remove early and treat with something systemic or wipe leaves with neem. I usually clean off and keep checking and as long as no ants invade and bring more they stay gone. They should come off and leave a tiny white backing underneath which comes away easily too, with very very light fingernail scratch, not enough pressure to leave a mark on the leaf itself. Hope its not, but I thougt mine were just a weird line at first till it spread...

[@GoodGrowing]

ooh that sounds awful!! I've checked thanks and it is just markings on the plant. Thanks for the concern and advice though!! 🥰

[@nicoleoffenheiser2758]

Thanks Emma for showing some of your favorites! Your plants look gorgeous and happy!

[@clairepook2703]

Ooo love that long leaf on the shepherdi my Hoya Retusa which you gave me in flowering so excited it’s grown so well

[@GoodGrowing]

omg that makes me so glad to hear!! Mine is also blooming like crazy at the moment! They love the winter

[@natjoy22]

Ok. I do not recall the alocasia bisma AT ALL. Now I need it.

[@GoodGrowing]

As someone who knows my collection better than I do sometimes 😂 I’ve had it for an ages but it died back to nothing and was just a stump in a pot for AAAAGES!

[@victoriabrii]

The regular plowmanii that I have is a crawler! But you may be able to train it to climb! That would be super interesting to see. 💚

[@GoodGrowing]

yeah I feel like that's where it'll likely go but I'd much rather it growing up... maybe I'll give it a go!

[@LauraAdkins-g3t]

I am fascinated stingray I did not know it existed until this point and thank you you have just given me a wish list plant it is amazing I love it so much and I cannot wait to see what those corms do

[@GoodGrowing]

right! They're sooo freaking cool! Hopefully you can get one soon! If I ever harvest corms (and you're UK based) I'll send you some if you've not gotten it yet!

[@Conus426]

Your plants are incredible, especially the alocasia stingray, i've seen it a long time ago on some other youtube channel, almost forgot how stunning it is.

[@GoodGrowing]

aww thank you!! and yeah the stingray is constantly on my mind at the moment because it's so gorgeous!

[@Kristearchive]

I had the same experience with my hoya shepherdii. When I got it at the end of summer last year, it had like six leaves and now it has 20+ leaves 🥰 I really hope I’ll get it to bloom this year 🤞🏼 hope for yours to thrive in 2025! 💚

[@GoodGrowing]

oh wow! that's some amazing growth! 🤞 yours blooms this year!

[@sirenawitter]

Hi Emma! Loved the video! I saw this beautiful necklace of yours in multiple videos, can I ask please where did you get it from? Chain with crystal pendant. Thank you in advance! 💖

[@GoodGrowing]

hey! yes I got it from a brand called dreadful pigeon! It's one of my absolute favourites! Theres also someone named Luna Amatores that makes similar ones 😉

[@gingermunchkin6177]

You got a Begonia Sinbad!

[@GoodGrowing]

YESS!!!

[@cynd-al]

i keep my hoya fungii on technically a moss pole but not a standard one it’s one of the cheap ones made of like styrofoam or something w moss glued to it and i don’t moisten it or anything just wind the hoya around it loves it tho and gets a really nice cascading effect w the way the leaves lay

[@GoodGrowing]

oooh interesting! yeah I guess it doesn't need to be hydrated in the same way a philodendron would.. 🤔

[@demidron.]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="742">12:22</a> "Also, this one has four bedonkles on it!" Me: [looks up from the moss pole I'm making] Bedonkles! "... but I think this summer, those peduncles are really going to ..." Me: Oh!

[@beeng77]

Hoya welsh mountain zoo is a cooler grower so it might do well being outside of cabinet and not too close to the light. Would benefit with trellis too. Most hoya don’t really need moss pole since they don’t SIZE UP because of more roots in the moss pole. Most only go for trellis is because hoya benefit from climbing upwards whilst twining anti-clockwise like in nature. Whereas most aroids in nature just climb straight up a tree but a hoya goes around the trunk as it grows. Since, this can be achieved with just a trellis, hoya collectors don’t go for moss pole. There is a shingling type hoya which is an imbricata that could do well with a moss pole

[@GoodGrowing]

omg thank you for all that info!!

[@Tamolwv]

When you were showing the stingray, did you just put a water gauge in its pot? And can one hust use those and make any container self watering? I love when the stems of the stingray get the black streaks, too.

[@GoodGrowing]

yes! so I got these gauges with some other self watering pots that I didn't end up liking but I'm pretty sure you can just buy them separate too. And then pop it into any no-drainage vessel so you can better see the water level! I've found it very helpful!

[@Tamolwv]

Thank you! :) ​@@GoodGrowing

[@AngelleZeringue]

Very interesting plants. I actually haven't seen those before. Nice video. I hope you got the tip $ I sent you.

[@GoodGrowing]

Thank you very much 🥰

[@jessemejones9648]

So jealous of your stingray 😭 I can grow all other alocasia just fine. Stingray? Killed two 😢

[@GoodGrowing]

I've defo killed a couple of stingrays before too. This is honestly the first one that's even thought about living well... still not 100% sure why though 🤷‍♀️ so maybe just try again?

[@maryannelkins9307]

How did you make your mouth Pole

[@GoodGrowing]

the front opening ones I got from Plant Scraper (an EU shop) and the normal D-shaped ones I made following this kzbin.info/www/bejne/sICTZmuMoNhkY7Msi=j10FcKHTl2RBW2S5

[@ceeceejacinto7244]

I’m very curious as well to know if anyone has grown a Hoya on a moss pole. From what I’ve heard, most Hoyas don’t necessarily downsize if they don’t have something to climb, hence why some people place theirs on wire trellises if anything. But I always wondered if the size of the foliage will increase with a moss pole.

[@sudonim.]

Hoya are climbers but not in the same way that say a philodendron or monstera is. They dont root into a pole because they cant root along the vine. They have little grippers they use to attach to a surface but they still get all the nutrients from the roots in the pot.

[@beeng77]

They don’t need a moss pole to size up like aroids. Hoya who like to climb will always want to wrap around not necessarily climb straight up the moss since in nature they always circle the tree trunk whilst climbing up unlike most aroid who climb straight upwards.

[@hellandbackbaby3442]

My plowmanii wants to climb and i hate poles😢

[@GoodGrowing]

what a conundrum!!

[@thesootaysfriend-iseeflipf8603]

Omg, I haven’t seen your channel probably since your wedding, I had to tell you look incredible, you’ve lost so much weight. Lovely

[@GoodGrowing]

Thank you 🥰

[@jrosnov]

Hi Emma,did you get married as it looks like you’re wearing a wedding band along with your engagement ring,if so ,congratulations 😊

[@GoodGrowing]

YES! we got married in September! (wedding video is over on my vlog channel if you fancy seeing our day) Thank you!! 🥰