Variegated Monstera you didn't know Existed

[@prettyingreen]

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[@kimberlyskinner8177]

Yep, should be called a Tri Con🥰.

[@prettyingreen]

😊

[@ElsieJay]

I thought you mashed the names by accident at first, but instantly went "yes, TriCon is such a good name"

[@LindaIngle]

Not a plant I am interested in, but I appreciate knowing what’s going on in the plant world

[@ariesgirlkara2603]

I collect succulents mainly cactus and mesembs. I don’t own any “true” house plants, but I do love to see what’s out there and what others are collecting.

[@Black_Jack_AOS]

You can basically be a plant collector, have tons of color variation in the collection but only collect Monstera Deliciosa 😂😂😂 As long as you're a millionaire lmao

[@prettyingreen]

I think that’s what I would spend my money on if I had it 😂

[@ohrats731]

“I’ve checked these out, these are not fake” Those guys selling black monstera albo on Etsy: “yeah, mine aren’t fake either!” 😜 I love these. I wanna see more sports that have that blue-ish silver green that happens when the white variegation overlaps green. I love when my plants get a stripe of that!

[@prettyingreen]

That is BY FAR my fave color combo when the layers line up right 😍

[@scotthudson1000]

The Monstera at 7:01 does look sickly. Fully agree . I think the term "mint" is beginning to be over used by those plant folk. The Polar Bear is awesome looking. I really like your format. You keep them to point and don't go on for hours.

[@prettyingreen]

Agreed “mint” is being heavily overused! Thanks for the kind words, Scott!! I appreciate you watching 🙌

[@xZEPPLINxMANx]

Wow white lava looks like they somehow made a manjula deliciosa 😂

[@prettyingreen]

Totally 😅

[@CarbonKevin]

Thor said it best: "All words are made up" 😉

[@djkickflip_amsterdam]

In the netherlands we have a lot of sports bc a lot of monsteras are produced/grown here - I have bought and found them (white, mint, aurea and green on green) in large store batches :) Currently growing and propagating in my house as a hobby

[@reyhosein2533]

All beautiful in their own way and many i believe will eventually end up like the spiritus sancti, obliqua etc.....thats when I'll look to buy 😂😂, or maybe its not that simple to mass produce because of the specific type of variegation, but anyway, great video Chris. ❤

[@ohemmygee216]

Can’t wait to see all the classic albos being sold as tri-cons and snowdrift in the plant groups this week 🙄😂🥳 But seriously every time I think I’m finally bored with Monstera’s there’s a new variegation to discover! I wonder if any of these variegations exist in the wild or if this is purely just a result of human interaction over the decades?

[@jackiewhitney5031]

Ha, I feel the same way about all the different pothos out there......crazy!

[@richardr5878]

I love that tri color as well! You may have considered this, but wanted to throw this at you. I’m in real estate and I think you could take this practice. Do a plant syndication. I’d throw $1000 to be a percentage owner of a tri color (or insert other rare plant) and its lineage. Some day get a prop for my own collection You hold the plant, propagate and sell it etc. Win for everyone. You would have to figure the appropriate “ownership” percentages to have it make economic sense, but I think it could be a great way for you to acquire and sell these rarities, gain some silent partners, and allow those with interest and risk tolerance to become plant investors.

[@ohemmygee216]

I would 100% buy a few shares of silent partner stock if that were ever a thing 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@nackedgrils9302]

I'd also be up for this. I've found a plant collector in my area who kind of does this, he'll pay the upfront price, acclimatize it, propagate and then sell the cuttings for a fraction of the initial price. The guy's deep in it, he's had a Spiritus Sancti since before it went into TC, paid $10K for it but will sell a cutting for $2K for example. I'm actually tempted because his Spiritus is different from the TC ones. The thing is, he chooses which plants he imports and ''TC Tricolour'' and ''Electro Light'' do not seem to be up on his radar...

[@prettyingreen]

This is genius. Wanna email me, Richard? Anyone else let’s talk about it! [e-mail]

[@sondrahutchison902]

Im a newbie with house plants so far i havent killed my Christmas catus i pefer succulants because i tend to forget to water plants on a regular basis🙄 outside plants i have do great inside plants i have had not so much.

[@plantypittsburgh]

I'm a sucker for the lime green on dark green too! I've been drooling over my hoya australis Lisa and even my global green pothos. If I could have one of the truly rare monstera, that would be it! I also love mint on my chiapense, and my florida goat is a top 5 plant, but I don't really care about mint monstera. 🤷‍♀️

[@randallbatson611]

Mike making names for every plant he gets diminishes the ones that really are unique that he has named

[@wanderotter4667]

I love monstera so much, I used to collect all kinds of plants, but now only collect monstera to keep my collection small.

[@emofems]

I'm amazed how much different varieties there are, some with very forced names even they're just highly variegated Thais. That polar bear looks beautiful as a picture, but I fail to see how it differs from every Albo with sectoral variegation? When someone starts to get sports from Sierrana, I'll be interested. Odd how it hasn't gotten any hype even when everyone wanted M. Burle Marx Flames.

[@PatchesO16]

I have a small sport monstera that still has the seed attached, they definitely come from seed 😂

[@smajliiicka]

Love the 'monstera' focused videos. Absolutely stunned by the starlight and one of the last ones that almost seems blueish at one part of the leaf. White lava... Yeah nah... Like, I do like the splotch like brazil philo but the contortion of leaves is not for my. Thank you for great video ❤

[@Christian.Laurent]

Anyone who has reached high school in the US, should very well know how evolution works. All living things mutate and all living things carry mutations. Sexual reproduction has a wider diveristy than asexual reproduction.

[@jhndr0nia]

I have to disagree. Since all shown plants are Monstera deliciosa, so no crossing occurred. Mutation arise usually during DNA replication or repair after exposure to damaging chemicals or radiation. I think most people simply think because it‘s not given that for example Monstera deliciosa (var. borsigiana) Variegata seeds will grow into variegated plants. However, for every plant there is a certain change that seed grow into variegated plants or green plants develop variegated shoots

[@jhndr0nia]

The plant you showed for the Monstera deliciosa Brazilian Mint is not the plant that people usually refer to as NoID Mint, it is a large form Mint sport

[@jhndr0nia]

What do you mean, it will have a hard time surviving regarding the White Lava, yes the leaves are deformed but as long as it is not infected by a virus it should do just fine

[@Daethaqt3000]

4:02 lol you just cant help it

[@Duke_Scanlan]

I love the electrolyte.

[@annissa485]

So many beautiful plants

[@Duke_Scanlan]

Great video

[@syzygyxv3359]

i dont have a monstera yet but god arent those sooooo beautiful.

[@syzygyxv3359]

im also new to leave splitting. i got a philodendron white ghost which ill learn how the splitting goes throughout its life. super excited

[@LarryHatch]

Enjoy the videos and recommend them often. However there is no such thing as 'Aurea'. They were always for decades and still now 'Marmorata', no borsigiana either. There is no albo and no aurea. Those are social media inventions and have no bearing on established horticultural literature for 'Variegata', 'Albovariegata', and 'Marmorata', their real names.

[@prettyingreen]

From a botanical naming standpoint, you are 100% correct! From a colloquial/social media standpoint, people clearly call the different specimens that show small genetic variation completely made up names, like Crème Brûlée. In the video Borsigiana Drama, I go through the scientifically accepted name for various derivatives of what’s accepted as deliciosa. I maintain both to be true, it just depends on the audience.

[@petermurdoch7540]

No one regulates cultivar names. Botanically, aurea is how yellow variegation is named at Kew.

[@lindaedwards4632]

The polar bear is gorgeous 💕😀🇨🇦

[@prettyingreen]

Agreed!!

[@doggy556]

I love yama

[@prettyingreen]

Yamayama?

[@carolstuff]

Great vid as always; thanks for sharing those beautiful & sometimes controversial plants!

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you Carol 😄

[@wandashaw3551]

I think they are beautiful and real😊.

[@geminezmarie]

I want to understand more about Mike. This dude has all the clout in the world of monstera. Whats his story?!

[@prettyingreen]

I’m trying to get his whole story! Wanna interview him

[@valerieclark5695]

So interesting, thanks.

[@GreenWitch1]

It’s gorgeous!

[@monas.6839]

Trai Con!🪴

[@anneplemons]

The starlight and tricolor 😍😍 I sell monsteras and I am amazed at how Thai cons mutate, I have quite a few right now and they are all so special! I want a tricolor sooooo bad 😩 I feel like Thai cons will have a resurgence in popularity over the albo because you can get amazing variegation with larger leaves.

[@ericaeschenbacher4921]

I'm curious, do TC plants flower and get seeds? Or does the process sterilize them?

[@nackedgrils9302]

They obviously flower and produce seeds, the cannabis industry dipped its toes into TC at some point. But your hypothesis isn't silly, it could be the reason why Epipremnum aka Pothos has ''forgotten'' how to flower; too much asexual reproduction... Idk!

[@prettyingreen]

Yup they act as normal plants!

[@Daethaqt3000]

8:48 😂😂😂😁😁

[@alienperfection973]

Cette madame qui pense qu'il est impossible d'avoir une mutation venant d'une graine... demandez la comment un foetus se développe 🤨 Non mais plus sérieusement, ce sont vraiment les aléas de la génétique. La plupart des mutations se produisent lors de la transcription et/ou de la traduction du matériel génétique 😊 J'essaye de rester simple 😅 Tout ça se produit lors de la multiplication cellulaire. Si c'est une information qui intéresse quelqu'un chercher sur internet "mitose cellulaire" et aussi "la méiose" 😄 Ça peut aider à comprendre pourquoi et comment les mutions peuvent arriver. Aussi, tout dépends du niveau de mutation et l'impacte que cela va avoir sur l'organisme, car ça va modofier un ou des gênes. Ces gênes seront ensuite exprimés de différentes façons. Les variegata sont des mutations benins, où l'expression du gêne sera au niveau du phénotype de la plante (mutation visible) ici les couleurs ^^ Parfois les mutations font que l'organisme n'est pas viable ! Puis il y a différenciation cellulaire.. un monde bien vaste 🙈 Bref tout ça pour dire que cette M'dame a bien tord !!! 😆

[@nackedgrils9302]

Salut, je suis probablement la seule personne qui peut comprendre ton commentaire, j'espère que tu te sens moins seule dans tes déblatérations francophones.

[@ElsieJay]

Exactly; like, do they figure that only IVF babies are born with vitiligo? I get they're probably looking out for people in their misguided way but still...

[@prettyingreen]

lol

[@elizabethlacey7708]

❤❤❤❤❤ Have a great day too!!

[@prettyingreen]

🤗🤗🤗

[@variegated_stingray]

Polar Bear? What an absolutely ridiculous name. Thats literally an albo variegated Monstera in large form. I've got one too. They're just more rare than the small form (borsiginana), but it's nothing else than an albo.

[@CarbonKevin]

There's definitely different variegation types out there, and may at one point have all been called albo, but I think you should be able to agree that this large, sectoral variegation with very crisp changes between white and green is not the same variegation as the random, very messy variegation of many other albos.

[@nackedgrils9302]

Good for you if you do not see the difference. You'll be less poor! But this ''Polar Bear/Glacier'' variant is just sectoral variegation with no marble-type variegation which makes it a lot prettier imo. But seriously? Large-form albo is quite rare, I've only seen it once two years ago on Etsy, couldn't afford it back then and haven't seen it again ever since. You wouldn't happen to have cuttings for sale, would you? The market here is saturated with borsigiana albos and aureas sold by people who can't tell the difference between deliciosa and borsigiana.

[@StasiaPenguin]

@@CarbonKevinI just wonder how consistent those sectoral patches will continue to be in order to really consider it a unique plant. I have a green-in-green deliciosa sport I found and cultivated, and it has some leaves like the polar bear (just with lime green variegation instead of white) that are variegated with crisp, clean, sectoral patches and no marbling, but it has also produced leaves with marbling just like the normal albo. Each leaf on a variegated plant has the potential to look really different like an entirely new sport, but the consistency of that different variegation has to continue with every new leaf and in every propagation for it to be considered stable enough to become a new sport cultivar.

[@you_gullible_fucc]

If you're accepting requests, can you make one for "non variegated monstera species you didn't know exist"? I'm sick of the variegated monsteras and aroids (not a critique against this video but for the market), especially when there are lots of beautiful monstera species with unique fenestrations that are so overlooked.

[@prettyingreen]

I love this idea!

[@nackedgrils9302]

Yes! These are not getting enough love and that makes them hard to find because almost nobody collects them. I think I'm only missing 'Monstera deliciosa 'Brazillian Form'' and ''Compacta'' but that's only because most of these phenos don't even have names.