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[@madisongrace15]

Fern 💚whenever I am having a bad day or a hard time, you help me through. Your videos take me outside of my own head for a little while and I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend. Just wanted to let you know that you are such a light in your subscribers lives, thanks for being you Fern! Lots of love.

[@wildfern]

🥺🖤🖤🖤

[@cheyennegilles2377]

Here I am, once again, asking for your lip combo 😂

[@9191Mel]

I love the sass on Olive getting up and walking out 'cause you have the audacity to film in her resting space 🤣💕

[@wildfern]

Hahahaha seriously 🤣

[@karenb136]

Possible remedy for leaf opening issue. Try holding a lukewarm cloth around the leaf for a few seconds, a few times if necessary. It helps soften the sheath it is trying to emerge from and you can very gently ease it out if it is at the stage where it seems to be stuck near the tip. This was a tip Jeff of “Everything Plants “ gave. I tried it on my Silver Sword and it worked. Good luck.

[@mirandalouise2]

I’m sorry but the “leaf junction node situation” comment at 37:55 made me die laughing 😂 Thanks for the long vid, Fern! It’s always so fun to see updates of your stunning collection! ☺️

[@wildfern]

Hahah!! Thank you!

[@cannuck3577]

Fungus gnats are the reason I've switched 95% to lechuza PON. I tried everything from Mosquito dunks to systemic... PON is the only thing that's worked so far for us. We still have the mealy bugs on the new shoots of our sunshine Hoya but dealing with a q tip and some peroxide is nothing compared to those annoying fungus gnats. Fished one too many outta my drinks....and yes I still drank them afterwards🤣 They loved my coffee ☕️

[@urbanmtljungle]

Love all your videos Fern, you’re by far my favorite planty KZbinr! 🌿 Recently got a philodendron painted lady, splendid & verrucosum because I fell in love with yours, they’re so goals!! 🥰

[@leximay7059]

My gigas is doing that too! one of them had turned into a full offshoot with nodes and a leaf!

[@wildfern]

No way lol!! It’s so crazy hahah!

[@leximay7059]

​@@wildfern I'm in Australia and about to go into growing season, I'm so excited to get chopping and prop it!

[@plantingwithasher7929]

Love the new video, all the plants are looking amazing, keep up the great work fern🎉🪴👸🏼✨

[@donnaerickson613]

Everything looks so healthy and beautiful!

[@robinhavens695]

Sooo excited for the new growth on your variegated Thanksgiving Cactus!!!🎉🎊🎉 Can't wait to see the progress on your journey together 💚🥰💚

[@katiebrose8783]

I love the video! I especially love long planty videos, and plant growth update videos are extra fun

[@reedebrown6006]

Wow! An amazing collection of plants! Always enjoy your updates.

[@chloekrause5984]

This video is incredible! Absolutely love your planty videos-your planty setups! Thank you for always sharing. Cheers my dear!

[@kimberlyvillalobos8873]

Ahhh I love your collection. I NEED to know more about that begonia thurstonii!!! Im literally obsessed🔥😍

[@karlamaxine6968]

Fern! Your collection is unreal! Love!

[@sweetescape_jungle7472]

Yay! 49mins of self care time watching Fern ❤

[@alleysaysyolo]

my absolute fav plant channel! you inspired me to finally start my own prop box and ive never been more excited, thank you for all the amazing plant tips! also would love to see an alocasia collection video! Ive been on a huge alocasia kick after watching your corms videos

[@emptynestgardens9057]

Ugh last winter was my first ever season growing indoor plants and overwintering outdoor plants in a grow tent. Enter fungus gnats explosion 💥 The larvae actually do feed on your root systems if they get out of control. Watering with those crushed up dunks saved my sanity. Also as they emerge from the soil they are met with a nice layer of Diatomaceous Earth on the surface 💀 which means I have to bottom water for a month. Fingers crossed this bad of an infestation doesn't happen again this year. Now back to the video 😁...

[@wildfern]

Ugh what a pain in the butt 😩 hope I’m able to get them under control asap

[@emptynestgardens9057]

@@wildfern my other tool was giant a$$ yellow sticky paper 😝😂 MTFBWY 🖖🏻

[@Grow_WithJoe]

So glad I can watch your video on this rainy day here. Just what I needed. Thanks Fern!

[@wildfern]

Hope you enjoyed 🤗

[@shiskajones6677]

Fern! For so reason I just love to watch your videos. I have learned so much with you and I have definetely enlarged my plant wishlist with so many beauties! 😂 thank you so much; keep posting :)

[@malika6218]

I think the P. Florida Beauty is getting to much light in the greenhouse cabinet so it gets really highly variegated leaves, you said previously that you took it out and then it gave you a nicely variegated leave. Try taking it out and move it to a darker spot I’m sure it’ll do the trick 💕😊

[@ninapit]

Your Philodendron gigas description turned out really haunty/spooky, you gave me a fright! 😄

[@ritz5864]

Adding a handful of mosquito bits directly into your soil mixture when repotting really helps get rid of fungus gnats! I’ve been doing this for a few years now and it works like a charm 😊

[@aubreehaislip7218]

Hi Fern! Lovely to see all these new leaves 😍 I have my calathea warscewiczii and rattlesnake calathea (my only in this family) in self watering pots with soil and they seem to love it. Pretty much constantly growing even in moderate lighting and minimal crisping of leaves. Just thought I’d share!

[@storyofmygreens9015]

I noticed M. Dubia reached top of the plank 💫❤️. So excited to watch what you're going to do

[@vicky3792]

I love, love your silver sword. She’s so beautiful but someone will be thrilled to take her home.

[@sherrykumar2883]

I love these planty updates! I’ve found that my Dean McDowell is very thirsty. I finally moved her into a self watering pot and she is HAPPY! Just growing like crazy. I had a lot of leaf deformity and small leaves until I gave her the water she really wanted. Edit: My jade scindapsus also has some silver on a couple of leaves.

[@wildfern]

Oh really interesting - maybe I will up my watering! Thanks for sharing 🤗

[@georgieleaman5577]

My syngonium wendlandii is doing what your philodendron gigas is starting to do! Every single one is coming in beautifully too, the top growth is super mature and trifoliate, it decided to put out some baby leaves right at the bottom too, now it’s working on all the rest in between. I think it loves me!!!

[@alboplants]

50 min long video and it flew so fast for me! 😅 Only after I finished watching it, I noticed the length. Loved all the updates! 💚Thank you for sharing with us!

[@trevorg1558]

Hi Fern! Just wanted to say how much I love your videos and appreciate all the effort you put into them! They help me so much when I'm anxious and just want to chill and watch some plants

[@wildfern]

Oh this makes me so happy. Thank you for your kind words 🤗

[@lukari8942]

Same ❤

[@williamjohnson3938]

Absolutely LOVE these vids! When my fave plant KZbinr posts u know it's a good day especially when ya REALLY need one

[@wildfern]

awe 🥺 thank you so much for watching!

[@williamjohnson3938]

@@wildfern anytime, also if u don't already have a name for us subs...wut about ur spores?....get it....cause ferns grow from spores...😁😀

[@misslissa783]

Underwatering… my life lately. Thank goodness the plants are so resilient! ❤

[@natashaoreilly7072]

Omg!! Your Serpens looks amazing Fern 😻 I’m so happy it’s growing nicely for you out of your cabinet 🤍 I think you should make some myco tea and inoculate your McDowell, maybe it will help with the unfurling of the leaves? So many new and beautiful leaves girl ❤

[@wildfern]

Good idea, I will try that! I really want to get it sorted because I’ve grown fond of it 😫 and right omg I can’t believe the Serpens is living her best life lol!

[@authenticplantress470]

Happy to see your tortum again 😍🌻Hope you find the perfect home for your Silver Sword where she can thrive and live a good long life because she is Beautiful 💛💫❤️😍

[@itsaxZOMBIE]

Your honesty is almost as admirable as your plants! 😊🏅🥊

[@jaquelinflores]

Lol “plants that are on my last nerve” mooood 😅😂❤

[@wildfern]

😬😬

[@karenjenkins277]

Love that you have little skeletons hanging out in your cabinet!

[@rhondafisher72]

Your collection is getting huge and beautiful.

[@wildfern]

They sure are getting big 😅

[@lynec8317]

I'll get myself a tea to watch this one! 🥰

[@wildfern]

🤗🤗🤗

[@lindasimmons2197]

I saw the video when you found the Silver Sword. I too live in a small (total 800sqft) house, open floor concept, and thinking Fern!! What are you doing?!!?? Do you know how big it is and will get?? And I would have brought it home also...😉 My philodendron Split Leaf is so large (3ftx3.5ft) and sits on my dinning table under a skylight. It sure is a statement piece when you come in! 😊🥰🕷️🕸️👻🪴🌿

[@a.2461]

omg the plant shirt in american classic tattoo style 😭😭😍

[@ShakiBee541]

Searching for something to watch before bed, and up pop's Fern! Yayyy! I just ordered a baby Begonia Amphioxus after falling in love with yours on your spooky repot video... can't wait for it to arrive! 😊

[@wildfern]

Ahh that’s so exciting! They’re so easy and so gorgeous 💚

[@ShakiBee541]

@@wildfern Awww that's good to hear Fern, I was bit worried it might be a bit finicky 🌿😊🍃😘

[@babayaga3098]

Soooo jealous of your variegated thanksgiving cactus it’s like my dream plant

[@Vihu01]

i’ve struggled to keep up with watering too. i stopped using terracotta pots almost entirely except for my cacti. it helped a lot !

[@jennycrown1742]

I also just got my first beautiful leaf on my Forgetii ❤️ yours looks amazing!

[@kayplants__]

For your Dean McDowell, what I’ve done with some of my plants is help it unfurl manually when one side is already semi unfurled. Ik it’s not recommended to help them but usually a spritz and unfurling the fully furled side as carefully as I can has helped me💓

[@mirandasmith9763]

Great video! I enjoyed it 🥰

[@kalaxy3029]

I would love a cutting from your huge silver sword it’s so huge. I love your update videos. You’re doing such a great job with all your plants 🪴 😊

[@vlong7112]

Yay! Another planty video ❤️🥰❤️

[@wildfern]

yayyyyy 😍😍

[@christinecovey8146]

My forgetii finally giving me undamaged leaves. Soooo satisfying ❤

[@tropicsnarcotics]

YALL THRIVING!! 🌞♥♥

[@Ivy-zf8to]

Hi Fern! Thank you for making this nice chill video (again!). Just a remark: fungus gnats for me usually mean... well... fungus :') sometimes bits of soil or leca will have fungus and I won't notice it for weeks untill, like yesterday, I find my peperomia I've been blocking from my vision rotted out at the root, soil covered in fungus. I have no idea if that's the case for you but maybe check your 'forgotten' plants for dead leaves or white streaks on the soil. Plant burnout is real.

[@maditux8826]

My Manjula is my favorite pothos. She started off slow growing but is sprinting now 💚

[@guywithaplant]

Your Silver Sword is stunning! 😍

[@kathrynrosemua]

My gigas has done the same. So crazy! Especially since it started it at the end of our winter (Australia) and it’s just in room conditions. Hopefully they continue to grow ❤️ Thank you for another fab video.

[@wildfern]

Omg it’s sooo wild hahah!! It’s actually starting to push out leaves from the growth points and I’m like 👀

[@kathrynrosemua]

@@wildfern yayyyy! Keep growing gigas! Such a tough and awesome plant. My syngoniums do the same but they grow like weeds here (the plain ones are actually classified as weeds in my area lol)

[@stefpix]

Philodendron serpens is surprisingly doing well in my bedroom as well. Keeps growing at a steady pace. I thought it might be iffy like P. verrucosum, but it looks more adaptable. Or maybe I got a more established starter plant. Great setup. Your silver Philodendron hastatum would look great in a botanic garden conservatory. Maybe you can give it away, but keep a top cutting, with larger leaves by air layering it? Philodendron rubrijuvenile is slow growing for me as well.

[@perfecthouseplants]

Sorry to hear about fungus gnats! They are usually just annoying, but you'll also want to make sure no larvae are doing damage eating up plant roots (if they're allowed to develop to that point). Bottom watering + regular use of diatomaceous earth is how I deal with them, but bottom watering obviously takes longer. First time interacting but love your videos and positivity

[@lisaanglim9588]

I’ve been under watering lately too. I had over fifty plants that needed watering with 10 progress reports. I got most of them water with 6 left to water tomorrow.

[@katiewilliams9273]

I understand with the silver sword, mine is not as big as your yet but it does take up so much room. Love your videos thank you for sharing

[@Dude_its_Lyz]

Where I am, the weather is starting to get cold and I am waking up to temps in the 30s. My plants are still putting out new growth like crazy and I haven't even chopped any. They don't know they are supposed to be slowing down I guess.

[@ashe7578]

My plants actually shoot off this time of year! I believe it’s because the south facing windows are allowing more sunlight into the room this time of year (the sun’s lower in the skin during winter for me). Either way, I can’t complain!

[@Illuminaturee]

I have a caladium that hasn't gone dormant for well over a year! It's even had an on and off thrip attack and?? it's still shooting like crazy??

[@botanicassie]

Sounds like michigan! Same going on here. ❤

[@sarahhh_laws]

I found that rather than spraying leaves when they’re stuck, I have been able to get them “unstuck” by taking a damp and slightly warm paper towel and wrapping it around the leaf for a couple minutes. Or even gently running warm water over the leaf. I’m not sure if it will help with your McDowell but it’s an easy way to loosen the leaf up while it’s unfurling without the risk of breaking it

[@stephenw.6588]

Great video, Fern. So many precious babies in cabinets and outside! We spoke about our Silver swords earlier / now that we can all see the beastly size of yours (relative to all her neighbours) I say, “Yep, take a few top cuttings and send her off with best wishes to a new home. She doesn’t fit!”

[@wildfern]

Right haha! She’s massive 😵‍💫

[@kfitch52687]

So excited to snuggle up in bed after a long day of work with a cup of coffee (I know.. coffee at night - but it doesn't keep me up for some reason LOL) I'm just at the very beginning and heard you say you're waiting on the Mosquito dunks and just wanted to share a tip for you or anyone else - I just always keep a half of one in my watering can and never go without one and I've been completely gnat free for over a year since doing this! Since it mainly stays whole and slowly dissolves (versus the mosquito bits which get soggy and look bad/mold), there's no issue using it 24/7! Just a thought ;)

[@lisaanglim9588]

I’ve got two tiny two inch pots of vsoh. One is bushy and full. Growing like a weed. The other is one strand but is putting out new leaves. I’m going to combine them into one pot and move to my living room, as soon as I get a 4 inch saucer.

[@HerPlantPalette]

Gurrl I had the same problem with my exotica.. then I put it on a moss pole under my soltech light and water more frequently than I was and it's been taking off with short internode space and the new leaves are coming in the size of my hand. I dont keep the mosspole wet either it's just meant to help the plant shingle. The plan is to chop and prop this one on the pole untill I get a full pot then let it down to trail off my bookshelf later on. 🤞😁🍀

[@gotta_grow_with_the_flow]

Woah that Gigas is popping off!

[@lindaholder2222]

well good morning Fern looking good👍 as always

[@wildfern]

Good morning & thank you 🥰

[@bethanynapier9407]

I would be sad to see your silver sword go, but I totally get it. I got this massive monstera on an amazing deal.... but she can't live outside anymore, and there just isn't room in my apt 🥲 I remind myself it's not a unicorn, I can recreate this vibe someday down the road. When I have more room lol

[@elihibdon5548]

Put a bunch of yellow sticky traps out for the gnats! They work so well!

[@gypsyfaerie3564]

I would definitely buy the Verrucosum!!❤

[@Ksnamaste]

Don’t give away your silver sword. Chop some of it back and let it grow up. Sell the cuttings. It’s so beautiful.

[@pinkyysk]

When I had pet millepedes which I loved i had so so many fungus gnats. They were a pain. Now with plants the odd one but I do welcome spiders to my home as long as they stay above cat height. As they do help some. But I dont have loads at the moe. Great vid

[@Dieppaloveplants]

For the fungus knat and larvar the best is gnatrol they sell it in amazon this product is the best of the best

[@Abd80087]

Really like this

[@dannettesavas3269]

Thanks!

[@etownem9]

I have also struggled with scindapsus but I have an exotica that has been grow huge dense leaves in my milsbo cabinet! (also somehow lost a silver splash...)

[@thispixielife5234]

Love your vids 😊. If you chop your maranta, can you show us please? I prop a lot but haven’t with a maranta and I’m struggling to know where the nose is and where to cut. My maranta is getting a heavy ish vibe so I need to chop it a bit. Thank you

[@lisaanglim9588]

My Hoya bella did the same thing, dropping leaves. Like a lot of leaves. Until I put it in a west facing window. And it took off like a space rocket.

[@lisatroemner5765]

Loved your new videos for October ❤ what is the brand and color of that green nail polish? Do you do your own nails? 😊

[@brooklin_bernek]

No lie , I’m laying on my sofa feeling super defeated. Between my dads 5 month death anniversary tomorrow and my husband coming home super late from work and I have a bad feeling about it, I need this for a major distraction. 😞🥺❤️❤️❤️

[@Candykisses0022]

Nooo don't get rid of her! Love your Philodendron silver sword!

[@samanthajay4981]

When you said "some of my begonias are lookin sketch" I literally LOL'd 🤣

[@allisonmcfarland1291]

The way I bought that T-shirt so fast…Apple Pay is too easy it happened so quick I blinked and I was clicking submit order like ok

[@Amy-ft2wt]

Hi Fern. Thank you for your video. Wish I was close by for the Silver Sword but down in Florida. Also, curious what the bluish I believe Alocasia on the coffee table is? A Dragon scale?

[@HelloItsTori]

My jade satin has silver on it. I also don’t love it only because I wanted the plant for the dark foliage

[@lillykixup5974]

for the monstera sub.. you could just add a bamboo stick to it :)

[@StormNothing]

Every time my gloriosum reaches the end of its pot I cut the back two or three leaves into single nodes and chop the leaves off lol and then I leave them there til they start growing and then I pot them individually and just move the front of the bigger plant backwards in the pot lol

[@jerronwilliams9398]

Any tips for my monstera it has not put out a leaf in months. And also any tips to destroy mealy bugs I’m sick of em.😮❤

[@Amandasplants]

God i wish i was local 😪 thanks for the video love ya queen

[@alveensLV]

Beautifuul! 😍

[@fallenbarbieee]

I feel like I haven’t seen the Hoya Kerrii since you moved, did you recently bring it home or has it been there this entire time?😅 how crazy am I, knowing almost every plant in your collection😂 loved the video, love these updates❤️

[@letslearnplants]

are you willing to ship cutting of the silver sword!?!! id love a larger cutting!!!

[@slimjimjaricesarault2103]

COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC BUT GIIIIRL THAT NAIL POLISH IS EVERYTHING

[@wildfern]

thank you :)

[@DimaculanganPunch]

just watched the whole thing in regular speed while making lunch for work. wish i was local for that sword. seattle a bit far. haha.

[@__Annie]

Hi Fern! I haven’t seen you use the microscope. I have had one of those from Amazon and I have found pests, just the larvae. Could the unfurling problem on your philodendron be from a pest? Probably not.

[@micamicamicachoo]

My hoya bella outer and inner variegated also thrive outside my greenhouse, weird right! I’ve even noticed cuttings of them rooting better in lower humidity then the usual 90 percent humidity i root Hoya cuttings in!

[@gregmckinnon4583]

Hey Fern! I’m curious to know how your ph. Gigas is doing with all the new growth. Will you do an update video on the gigas? 😍😍😍

[@wildfern]

It's doing fantastic, you can see it in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJnPmYaGg5KbbpI at the 18:11 mark :)

[@zandrawostel3765]

Love your green nail polish. What brand is it?

[@joelvynermusic]

the one on the plank is doing really well