I checked off one of my "unobtainable" wishlist plants 😯 US plant haul!

This is without a doubt the largest plant haul I've done on KZbin 🫢
I had been coordinating a few trades, purchases, and other shipments for a few months and I feel like a part of my brain never really considered it to be real until they all showed up within the same week and now I have a bin of amazing plants I don't have space for 🤠 some of these have been on my wishlist for my whole entire life (this is an exaggeration), so needless to say I'll do whatever it takes to find them a cozy home even if it means purging or chopping other plants down!
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[@nancyrock477]

I learn so much from your chatty videos! Thank you and all your anthrium friends!

[@Growtogetherproject]

“Huge by my standards … That’s what she said” .. “🌱” Why did I say that at the same time as you watching this 😂

[@youdontevengrowhere]

This makes me so very happy

[@Growtogetherproject]

@@youdontevengrowhere The fact your video drops are always on point with my plant chore days makes ME so very happy 😊.. keep inspiring 🙏🏾

[@clarejewell1370]

So glad to see your Australian plants 😍 midnight velvet is a bench hybrid of Wynne @ foliage freak plants, an aroid collector in far north queensland for the last 20+ years. Midnight velvet is one of my faves, Wynne called it that because it is so dark. She also crossed it with "garden velvet" which she grows outised and her blue velvet which are stunning mixes, same with the mv x sanguinem which i have and love!!! Sang and Guatemalan or reophyte hybrids are so pretty and very popular here atm. I think the most beautiful Aus one is the bloodmoon red sinus hoffmanniii which is still out of my price range! Plant collector melbourne recently did a shadehouse tour of wynnes plants and its so luscious. Unfortunately in melbourne and it gets too cold a for velvet anthuriums outdoors but i can dream!

[@kathrynrosemua]

Yes! It was such a great and informative video. I have quite a few plants from Wynne. One of my MVxRC lives out in room conditions in Brisbane in pon (MAB grow) with sphagnum moss on the top. after a bit of an adjustment period it’s been growing amazingly for years.

[@angelosuliguin6953]

Hi, I used to intern at a pesticide company and let me tell you how spider mites are the bane of their existence haha. I think the problem with spider mite pesticide is once they dry out they lose efficacy. Personally misting with water everyday works, or using neem/horticultural oil which doesn’t dry out like other pesticides.

[@horace6851]

I think the soap mixture Charmaine uses works well even when dry. I don't wipe it or wash just leave it on and spider mites tend to stay away from those leaves, at least for a while. Alcohol is gone within seconds though, so that part only works on contact.

[@kathrynrosemua]

Yay congrats on your first Aussie Anthurium! I have MV crossed with Garden Velvet and two MV crossed with Wynnes Round Crystal. Mine aren’t finicky. My two MVxRC are pretty hardy. One is in pon and it tolerates a dry period but it could be all hybrid vigour. I’m also in a subtropical climate and it lives in room conditions. Went through an initial adjustment when it first came from the tropics but that was years ago.

[@lindaedwards4632]

Alice I’m so happy for you 😀 It’s great you got your Australian wish list plants 🎉🎉😀🇨🇦

[@ssssundae]

i'm actually local to buz plants and i picked up some seeds from him once, he gave me a chance to look at his tent and oh my god i've never seen plants like em before 😭

[@octaviana_elena]

I know this is unsolicited advice and possibly a bit late, but mixing some fluval stratum with the perlite might really help. I've been adding stratum to everything that's struggling, adding it to water when water rooting cuttings, mixing with perlite for rooting chunks, etc. It really stops the rot from spreading. I also crush it and use that powder on cuttings, instead of rooting powder. This was an incredible haul. 💚

[@youdontevengrowhere]

This is definitely welcome advice!!! I have almost zero experience with stratum but at this point I’m desperate 🥲 So interesting that adding it to water rooting vessels helps?!

[@octaviana_elena]

@@youdontevengrowhere it works wonders! I used to get some rot here and there when rooting cuttings in water, now I just add a few pieces of stratum to the water and forget about them. They also root so much faster. I call it "stratum soup". As someone mentioned earlier, stratum also works amazing for alocasia corms. Just dome them, because stratum tends to dry pretty fast.

[@leena3630]

So excited to see how your Rousseau AOP x Pap will grow out! I have one as well and it’s beautiful but would like to know what traits others show~~

[@lisaanglim9588]

You certainly got a great haul of beautiful plants. I can’t wait for an update on these plants. Crossing my fingers that your plants with root Rot survives.

[@katgarcia53]

These plants are all amazing! I am pretty new to anthurium, but I just received a couple new ones: crystalline dark x papi and an undo hoffmanii x sp. nov Darian (besseae aff.) I hope they do well in my care 💚 off topic but I am a coffee lover would you ever show us how to make some coffee your way? ☕️

[@m3msilva]

Can I ask a question? I have 3 A. Pallidiflorum from Ecuagenera but they all 3 look different. One is more flat matte and the other is darker velvety green and is so pretty. The third is kinda a mix of the two. I have pics and a video of the three if you wanna see. It's just driving me crazy cuz I don't know if they are another form of a strappy anthurium or just different forms of pallidiflorum and hoping to get another set of eyes and opinion. Thank you.

[@carolstuff]

Great anthurium haul! Thanks for sharing & looking fwd to updates!

[@thegeneroca]

Expecting a bunch of besseae aff hybrids from ecuagenera this may. Kinda nervous. Last time I tried importing from them was 2020. Those were mostly philodendronds and I was a noob.

[@vibe3339]

Love to see your new babies. 😊If you have a high humidity terrarium, you can try to reroot the lil Carla x (Bl. Widow x Michelle) in Stratum there. That saved babies which have just a tiny lil piece of stem with a single leaf for me. ❤

[@matthiaslow8533]

❤❤❤

[@coffee2962]

Congratulations on getting your wishlist plants That strap leaf could seriously cut someone ❤ Spring time does seem to be the time to get wishlist plants I recently got a couple ticked off and the joy and excitement It’s low key creepy the way I just spend time staring at them 🫣👀

[@PlantedinPlatinum]

Omg! You got a Carla x Lux 🥹🖤

[@lisaanglim9588]

The black widow is stunning

[@allyjayemorgan]

Girrrrl you’ve GOTTA do stratum for miss Jacklyn. My mother plant died (transitioned her from soil to pon too abruptly) and her children are freaking obsessed with stratum. I have not tried pon with orchiata/perlite for the corms yet, so keep us updated if you do try that!!

[@youdontevengrowhere]

I’ll definitely do an update (fingers crossed they don’t die 🤞🏻🤞🏻)!!

[@allyjayemorgan]

No death!!! 🙅🏼‍♀️🤍

[@TayaMcGee]

You and Charmaine kill me with the "thats what she said" 😂💀 😅❤❤

[@sunnyorsi]

I love how excited you get about your plants💞 I feel the same way - I don't think my friends quite get it, haha. Could you please clarify for me when you talk about moving your plants to tree fern soil, is this the same as tree fern fiber or is it different in some way?

[@karenmyers9146]

I’ve been getting some anthuriums. I picked up a Queen of hearts and a pap hulk x pap Naomi among others. Hopefully your plants all survive.

[@KayBX]

Not me screenshotting all the names to slowly add to my collection… 😅😅 I’m going to have a look, but do you have any videos about the Anthurium Lux? I’m getting a pure one on Thursday 😊😊. I’m so excited

[@KayBX]

And that’s me as well, I had the A, Jack and it died because I put it into water so I can put it in semi hydro so I’m going to just get a corm and go from there (I use Leca and pon)

[@lisaanglim9588]

Those are huge anthurium leaves in the pictures. The aos and the red crystallinum.

[@michelleyu]

huge by my standards LOL

[@PetraEmmy]

I did just get a blue fern from lauren and a cissus from Charmaine.. so far 👍still alive..

[@fosterfoster9913]

I recently purchased a KOS x red crystal X KOS red crystal

[@caitlinwatch6597]

ugh i want a king of spades x red crystal SO SO BAD

[@bhagavatid.d.7619]

🫶

[@victoriadavis6986]

Can someone please remind the proper way to say crosses? Like do you say the seed parent and then the pollen parent or the opposite?

[@octaviana_elena]

Seed parent first, pollen donor second.