Zebra Plant Propagation Update (Aphelandra Squarrosa)

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Watch the original propagation video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJzXkIlmbNp1eNE

[@queentosheable]

How do you “shower” a plant???

[@ThatFoliageLife]

@@queentosheable pop it in the shower, and let the water run over the leaves from the top. 😊

[@peterdecicco9673]

WOW Isn't it amazing I feel the joy in ur voice for a house PLANT. I am like that to even at my age. Tells me alot of ur personality. U are a joy to be around. People today just can't be happy. It's the small things that make people truly happy. This disabled man learned lots from u. Thank You.

[@PhyllisDeJaynes]

Super excited and now more confident to do this with my spindly zebra. So glad I found you!!

[@AlexeHumbert]

I found you with your first zebra plant video, I was looking up videos to try to make mine happy! I love your energy! Keep up the good work! And don't put pressure on yourself for not posting!

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you!! 😊

[@jemmakara]

You just gave me the confidence to propagate mine. I’ll wait a week after me trying to get rid of the scale pest.

[@ThatFoliageLife]

How is your plant going?

[@jemmakara]

@@ThatFoliageLife I decided to not propagate. And it’s looking so much healthier, leaves perking up and scale is definitely retreating. Just needed a little TLC. ❤️

[@Cyrilmc222004]

Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you show us all your Zebra plant and how beautiful it looks now. And the cuttings look great too. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤

[@lisechoukroun7761]

YAY! I just cut mine after watching these two videos! I basically have been giving this plant the OPPOSITE of what it needed so I kept losing bottom leaves. They 3 stems are now decapitated 😂 with the tops hanging in a water cup... fingers crossed!

[@travelnomad2128]

After watching you cut the zebra, I did the same to my plant today. I was so frustrated with it, no matter what I do the leaves kept turning brown, crispy & falling off. Short of throwing it away, I cut it just like you did and put the top part in water. I'll see if it develops roots 🤞and the bottom part left in the soil if it sprout new growths 🤞

[@sallyshuttleworth9222]

Glad to see u back again 😁 wow, ur zebra plant looks so happy and healthy now. We all totally understand that u are extremely busy, and despite being so busy, u still look happy and i really do hope u feel that way. Please dont get caught up in the fact that it takes a while to get footage out, just glad to watch whenever the opportunity comes 😎 hope u have a wonderful week ahead 🌺

[@sharonbrowne2311]

I just love your channel! Greetings from Canada. 💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thanks so much Sharon! 💚💚

[@cherylnj4298]

Thank you for the update. Glad I found your channel !

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you for watching!

[@davidhatch7603]

Looks amazing. I'm just trying to keep mine alive for now.

[@lindadoucette498]

Thanks for the update!

[@epiwhittaker5617]

Hi Judy!! The results is awesome with the propagation of your plant.

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Hi Epi! Thank you! Hope you've been well 😘

[@Ryncho_QQ]

Thank you for this idea to make plants lush

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Plant more than one plant in the pot. ;)

[@Ch33Ch22]

Quite the transformation. Bravo! The plant looks great 👍

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you for watching!

[@Dreamsicle0506]

Very much enjoy your informative videos! I just got my zebra plant today. As far as showering goes, that seams like a lot of work. Couldn’t you just spray the plants with water in addition to the pest control sprays with neem etc?

[@lindajackson3356]

Your verrrrry well missed I'm looking forward to more of your energy and to learn more from you 😉 So I'll be looking for another plant video from you 😉

[@kona702]

Thats amazing. I never had luck propagating anything. They just always wilt, die, and turn to mush lol. I've only ever been able to propagate a pineapple top, qnd a kalanchoe... Which is just basically a little stalk with leaves atm lol

[@deyanideydreaming]

Found it!!!! Yay. Looks Amazing!

[@deyanideydreaming]

Wow. I’m like 🤯 can’t believe the sticks of the stems you cut actually grew!!

[@rahnumayameen5112]

I wish you can make the videos again for how to propagate the zebra plants. I am new zebra plant owner, the leaves all went brown and fell, most likely for the low humidity. What should i do? Would you be able to advice? Will it revive in spring? What can i do to save it? 😓

[@ororomonroe8022]

Can we get a third update?

[@TarikVann]

Hahahaha you cruel person lol

[@ThatFoliageLife]

hahaha Sure, I will try and film one one of these days....! :D

[@MaryHernandez-5909]

Have you ever gotten the pretty yellow bloom?? That's the best part of this plant besides the pretty leaves..🪴

[@maebarr1955]

What is the plant that sets right behind that plant, that has stripes? That’s what I have, I thought that was also a zebra.

[@mayceyowens1519]

I love this video! Thank you so much for the update!!💜💜

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you for watching!

[@AriesQUISINE]

Thank you… this plant has been giving me the blues! 🪴

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Ooooffff, I feel you. How is yours going?

[@ellewright6991]

I have just propogated my poppas one. He's not in the best health now and I had to realise that I was going to loose him one day soon 🥺💔 I only took one stem, will she grow more stems? I removed about 5 leaves so hopefully that's enough to grow some roots. I can't wait to plant her! She's now very special to me as the mother plant was one that poppa chose to have in his house ❤️❤️❤️

[@melissacookbbleu]

Did you mention how the stem cuttings you placed right back in the pot did?

[@nadinemoonihoawa2879]

After watching this, I chopped mine. Same problem. Drooping leaves and leggy. Hope mine turns out just as buetiful 🫡

[@sharonstokes5214]

Do you think this would do well in a self watering pot? I struggle keeping this plant watered

[@anah9288]

That seems really extreme for thrips! I’ve had them on my calathea as well, but I just sprayed it with Safer insect plant spray and make sure I wash it more often now. I don’t think I could bring myself to cut the whole plant down. They haven’t come back either tho.

[@fortlauderdalegirl]

I just purchased two aphelandra plants. Thank you for your videos on this particular one! I live in zone 10/11 in south Florida, and I think I will plant one in the yard with bright indirect light. I’ll keep one indoors or on my lanai. I look forward to see what happens.

[@nowyouknowrealestate5703]

I live in zone 10 also in south Florida. I bought a zebra plant in December. It loves my western facing window and has doubled in size since I put it there. I transplanted it two weeks ago and it is growing gang busters. I think I’ll try propitiating it and put one or two outside under another taller plant. How did yours do outside?

[@jya811]

Great video! Does your zebra plant flower at all?

[@banozaki5777]

Hi, nice video has lots of info. I’ve this plant at home unfortunately the edges of the leaves getting brown and easily to break ☹️ Do you know what cause this problem? My plant sit away from a window to prevent a direct sunlight!

[@mikemorodi1789]

Thank you so much for information regarding zebra plant, how do you feed them

[@debbiewhitfield9807]

what kind of plant food to use a d pot soil to use

[@izonkathleen]

Can you plz help me with my plant ? It is sick and I really want to help it.

[@mariabatista2253]

Beautiful

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you!

[@kihmjones6782]

Great job! Looks lovely!

[@tamaramuro8674]

Can the plant stay in water?? What type of soil does the plant need??

[@mimosveta]

mine had aphids too, but small. they were impossible to get rid off, cause I couldn't really get between newer smaller leaves. it also had springtails, as they like most soil, and you can't treat them with anything as they simply jump out of the way. at some point, one spider moved in, and made a net covering entire pot, like a blanket, and he brought the springtail population down, they looked like starry night, net was riddled with them. I don't know what then happened to that spider, but he was gone, and they started to rise in numbers again, and the plant started to lose leaves like there's no tomorrow. so I cut her into small bits, each having a node, and cleared all the soil from the roots, and left her sit in soapy water for day or two, which would hopefully kill all the eggs of anything and then planted it back into the fresh soil, and stuck the bits with nodes in there too. it's been like two months at least since then. the rooted stems have grown some leaves, not as much as yours but bits with nodes are showing no life. I might pull them out soon, if they were going to live, they would show it by now it was in such a bad shape that cutting it into small bits was sensible as it had barely two, three leaves on the very top of it. I tried putting those into water, but leaves just dropped off by the time I pulled the roots out of the soapy water, so all that had remained, were bares stems, so i cut them up, it was like "well, at this point it is either dead, or I will have tons of small plants" none of the bits made any growth above the soil so far none of this happened as fast as you're saying, it was at least two months, probably more, and I'm still nowhere near you number of leaves, I have 5 leaves on two stems

[@TarikVann]

Ecooil spray helps get into all the cracks and then you can spray it onto a sponge and squish it into the cracks and hopefully then wipe away the carcasses.

[@mollyrosenau6818]

I love the update..Can we keep the plant in water:?☘️

[@ThatFoliageLife]

I have seen them kept in hydro before! I would imagine it would do well with that because they love water..! :)

[@TarikVann]

You should look into getting a basic NAS like a synology 2 drive system. That will mean you alwasy have a backup if you set it up in a RAID configuration. As for not uploading for a month, ofcourse it can make you a little disillusioned to do all the hard work adn then lose it. That puts anyone off investing time into a video if they think it corrupting is a possibility. Take time to feel that emotion, accept its happened and then make a plan to mitigate it like having two files until you upload to youtube. Love your work, great editing and very professional. Audio sounds alot better. I have been scared to cut my one as it was my second ever plant and i've seen it through multiple aphid investations, lacking of sunlight, too much watering etc. So it's survived alot but because of those mistakes it has been getting leggy (same as your story) and so it needs to be cut and the soil replaced with new soil (it has been about 7 years in the same soil). So thank you for taking the dive and giving me the confidence to do the same.

[@ThatFoliageLife]

How's your zebra plant going? And thanks for the tips. :)

[@TarikVann]

@@ThatFoliageLife I cut it and did exactly as you did but then went away for a month and the person I had looking after it didn't really do what was required and the water got mucky. As for the stems in the soil they haven't grown back yet, but I think I need to have it in the sun more, it has been kept moist, but it's winter here in Australia and I was away, so no doubt it was sub 10°c alot. Hopefully I can save it and have a much more luscious plant.

[@julietbeepat5622]

Thank you for the beautifully video i now have a źebra źebra plant źź

[@cynthiamacapas2279]

Is that a francisco plant

[@saidayoutubification]

Great video! I was also tired of the long stamps without leafs. I have done exactly the same thing you did, and the stamps with leafs in the vase are "sad" after 1 day already. The stamps are already thin so not sure if cutting them shorter will help (like it helped your stamps). What exactly do you mean with showering? Is it spraying + giving normal water?

[@aishaalkhaldi1474]

i dont know where to cut to propaget the zepra plant that i have

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Cut between the nodes/growth points.

[@nataliadiaz8275]

Can I put together so many zebra plants? Mine is also empty from the bottom so I'm thinking I'm gonna prune it like you. Now the question is whether I put them all together

[@ThatFoliageLife]

You can definitely plant more than one plant in the pot, that's the best and quickest way to get your plant all bushy and lush. :)

[@stephaniehanauer9001]

Thank you! I am killing mine😢

[@VibrantJunglist]

OK so I tried the water prop and it KILLED MY ZEBRA PLANT CLIPPING. the entire stalk got extremely mushy and rotted. The part I left in the dirt is fine so water prop is not the way to go.

[@estelledixon5382]

Awesome Video. Watched the before and after because mine has just started dropping leaves and it was the perfect thing to pick up my spirits. I am going to try propagate as well and see how I go. One thing: when you talk about "regularly" showering to keep bugs at bay, how often would you do that?

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you for watching! I shower my plant whenever it needs watering. :)

[@sielovebug]

Can you show how to propagate a China doll plant please?

[@ThatFoliageLife]

I don't really know how to propagate a china doll, I'm sorry! I have put cuttings in water before, but didn't have any success with it. I didn't try again.

[@sherimagdaleno884]

You mentioned feeding in your first video…. What do you recommend?

[@nataliesnotables6196]

Thank you!!!! SO helpful!

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad it was helpful. :)

[@DebzZi]

Are you still fertilizing like you did before you propogated it? I have read too much fertilizer is what can cause leaf drop and curling leaf...your thoughts on that?

[@ThatFoliageLife]

You're not wrong! too much fertiliser for sure can cause leaf drop, such as when the fertiliser isn't diluted down enough, which means it burns the roots. I don't think that was my problem in this particular instance though.

[@ellietobe]

I have had one of these “Zebra” plants for about a year now. It gives me fits. Some of it’s leaves develop brown places usually on the tip of the leaf. It drops leaves randomly. I cannot tell if I am watering too much or too little. When I first purchased this plant it did really well. It developed many “flowers” and stayed full and beautiful. I purchased this plant in July and it was beautiful but during the winter months it began to act weird. Developing brown crispy places on the leaves and dropping leaves. No bugs. What does this plant want??

[@rosepetal9748]

What type of soil? Great results!!

[@ThatFoliageLife]

I use a chunky, loose, well draining soil. Thanks for watching!

[@providencesg]

So glad to have found you! Wow, love your experiment! My zebra plant is getting spindly and has lovely yellow “flowers” at the top of the stems. Question 1) Is it “safe” to cut off the tops (that have flowers/bracts) to propagate the cuttings in water? Question 2) I read that the flowers/bracts should be cut off after they wilt as otherwise the lower leaves would droop and drop off but my bracts still look lovely! So what do you advise? Technically, for the mother plant, new stems should sprout like yours! Thank you!

[@kona702]

I know it's been awhile but I have four or five pretty flowers shooting off of the main stem with their own little stems. I'm wondering if I could cut some of those off shoots off and propagate them.

[@renecardona5488]

Your a badass on zebras

[@BellaDonna49]

The plants in your white vase couldn't get enough light to root them.

[@floridamagill5184]

Hi I do love plants 🪴 in my garden lots of roses 🌹 and all kinds of plants 🪴 anyway you look like me.

[@ThatFoliageLife]

Haha, you must be beautiful then! 😂😊

[@floridamagill5184]

@@ThatFoliageLife thank you 😊 I thank you for sharing ❤️ you are more beautiful.

[@Amandasplants]

I lost mine them suckers

[@ThatFoliageLife]

awww no, they can be so fussy! :(

[@luhmm]

Brazilian 🪴💙

[@flowergurl0575]

How often do you suggest to neem oil this plant? I just got my 1st one and would like to learn more about this 🪴

[@nondumisomthembu1444]

Beautiful