Houseplant Revamps: My Plants Were DESPERATE For These Upgrades

[@kristimcswain4439]

Love “plant care” versus “plant chores”…

[@dora9368]

Great job Drea. Thanks for all your hard work 💟 and thank you for sharing 😊

[@DaphneTriesPlants]

I love how big your marantaceae are! I agree on calling it plantcare instead of plant chores 😊 It has never felt like a chore taking care of my plants.

[@hot1nk]

Love the anthurium! I love how you can up pot them 10 sizes and they'll just keep pushing larger foliage lol! My collection is quite huge

[@sonyad.5942]

I bought a Calathea White Fusion because of yours, despite my mixed track record with Calatheas and their reputation for being high maintenance. The grower had a few small ones for $5, so I figured it was worth the risk!

[@SPNsherry]

ooh, I loove love the Philodendron El Choco Red

[@Kelly_Silverman]

I think next spring; I'm going to transfer some things to pon. I'd like the experience of bigger leaves!

[@mwatson4970]

Your thamatophyllum (sp?) Is amazing! Visiting Columbia, that's the only other place I've seen them that big and theirs are just randomly outside offices, no special care required 😂.

[@irairod5160]

Col-o-mbia, please, Colombia!

[@KC-gj4bi]

Your Dark Crystal Mag x Carla is absolutely gorgeous 😍

[@lifepathjourney3638]

What beautiful Tall plant🌿 is that behind you in the kitchen?🤷

[@jessicabellone913]

I’m pretty sure that’s a Ficus Tineke 😊 I have one myself lol.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

It’s a ficus elastica tineke💚

[@lleo9703]

Loved your upsizing/revamp video! I’m eager to follow your journey with anthuriums in LECA. I’m going to give LECA a try the next time I buy one as tree fern soil/soil is NOT working for me. If LECA doesn’t work, then I’m done with anthuriums….

[@dkonga88]

Not sure what your experience with Anthuriums in LECA is, but I got my first Anthurium from the Ecuagenera pop-up at NHG back in June. After letting it acclimate for a month, I transitioned it from moss to LECA. Even though I was careful with root cleaning and nutrients, it started to decline with yellowing leaves. After a month of this, I switched it to a chunky pon mix - best decision ever! The roots are thriving, and I finally got my first new leaf (besides the one that was hardening when I bought it). I’ve since moved my two PlantCon Anthuriums to the same mix, and they’re doing great with no stress or root issues.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

My other anthurium in leca are doing fine but I had them in water before moving them to leca.

[@patriciajackson5414]

Love your beautiful collection.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you so much!💚

[@Dieppaloveplants]

Me too girl i just repot my albo and it was very terapeutic to a 12 inch pot i was dragging my self lol

[@wanderotter4667]

Autumn has fallen and I'm a bit tired of my plants. I have 10 albo's in leca... Yes it's alot. Also 5 thaicons in leca. I got the same poles, but don't put moss in them unless tyou want to water it every day :P

[@laurajackson8556]

Send me one? 😅

[@AlohaPlantLife]

😂

[@lynettestewart5118]

Goodness, I just can't seem to locate me an El Choco Red! It's on my wishlist, I won't have plant peace until I get one in my collection. ❤❤❤

[@laurajackson8556]

I LOVE all your Calathea! And, omg mine are going to get that big? 🤣😅

[@AlohaPlantLife]

If you take care of them right, they can get pretty massive. They are rhizome based plants after all so they like to spread.

[@AuntyBlabbyRules]

Just ordered some other babies from you! Yay🎉🪴

[@AlohaPlantLife]

@@AuntyBlabbyRules are you the person in Massachusetts? If so, I was just looking at the temperatures in your area and you might want to go purchase a heat pack for your order before I process it….

[@Robbie..Ha-Navi]

looking good Princess

[@edwardmangoma7673]

Watching 😊

[@cmv6029]

Hey! Just have a question: my rattlesnake plant after I repotted him hasn’t unfold his leaves during the day and would just stay upright the entire day. Not sure if it’s a problem? TIA

[@LindaAronowitz]

If I don't want to upsize a plant, is there a way of maintaining the plant at its current size?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

I did a video on that: HELP! My Houseplant Got Too Big! | What To Do When A Houseplant Outgrows Your Space kzbin.info/www/bejne/kILKimp9e5ahfpo

[@lgies66]

Where do you find the lg clear growers pots?

[@dora9368]

One of your ads was a whole movie long. 😮 Sorry I couldn't get you the credit for that ad I had to skip it 😢😊

[@AlohaPlantLife]

I would have skipped it too! I don’t know why they’re allowed to do that

[@jannamozdzer4100]

The problem with a pole that has nothing in it is you can’t do a chop and extend, with moss or some other medium there is an entire root structure inside the pole so when you chop the top pole it’s already fully rooted, technically you don’t need a pot. I know you dont like moss poles but you’ve never said why. There isn’t any other way to get a plant to full maturity without it, just a support won’t get it there. We disagree on poles but I love your content. ❤

[@AlohaPlantLife]

We don’t disagree. Everything you said is correct, but my goal isn’t to grow them to maturity as fast as possible so I’m fine with doing the longer process of air layering in order to chop in extend.💚

[@Kelly_Silverman]

Drea, remember my weird growing leggy black velvet Alocasia ? Maaaaaan its down to 3 leaves 😢 Do you sell black velvet? And don't Alocasias do bad in the winter months?🤔 (Or so I've heard)

[@aingealtara1479]

.. My Alocasia used to drop most every leaf down to only having two left.. Then two years ago I got so frustrated that I removed all the soil and gave him a pot with nothing but Leca, a bucket as a cover pot and a lot of water and then I left him alone.. After that, no more leaf dropping but growing like nothing else.. He was potted up last year, again, and still in the same bucket for cover.. I give him a lot of water (about 1 liter), keeping him moist and leave him alone.. I only keep the leaves clean from dust just about once a month.. He's happy and thrives, and I'm still wondering what it was all about..

[@Kelly_Silverman]

@@aingealtara1479 Thank you for your response! When you say a bucket as a cover pot, what exactly do you mean by that? Like covering the plant with the bucket to increase humidity? Or do you mean that you put lecca in a bucket and potted him that way?

[@aingealtara1479]

@@Kelly_Silverman.. I gave him a bigger pot, and since I don't have a cover pot I simply used an empty bucket that I had from worm casting.. The pot fitted perfectly in there.. The pot itself has drainage as other ordinary pots, otherwise I would have water all over the floor.. My Alocasia is living in my household with ordinary humility high, low or somewhere in between depending on the weather.. If summer is good and not storming, I leave him outside in the shade from my butterfly bush from May until last day in October.. Just before the first frost.. Only water he gets is the rain.. And he loves it..

[@Kelly_Silverman]

@@aingealtara1479 Thank you ❤️ If you don't mind sharing, where do you get your lecca?

[@ritadumas5755]

What's the light you're giving for the plants because mine are not growing.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Is there one of the plants in particular you wanna know about? Because they all live in different places in my house so most of them are getting different types of light.

[@ritadumas5755]

@@AlohaPlantLife the pink and white princesse you put in lace. Should I try it?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

@@ritadumas5755 go for it! That one’s living in a west facing window

[@loriwoods1393]

Do you use pine bark? I've heard people buy pine bark from pet stores because the price is so much better than orchard bark.