 Warning, this video is only for 32 year old ladies and men and non-binary friends that like boring domestic things. Sometimes it's not for me to understand why you guys wanna see something. It's just my job to do it, I guess. It has been highly requested for me to do a plant tour because I don't know what happened. A switch went off in my brain and all of a sudden I just got really obsessed with plants, I love them. Disclaimer, this isn't gonna be a very entertaining video. I don't know why you guys have requested to see my plants. I like watching these videos on YouTube but it's not something I thought my audience would enjoy but it seems like you're interested. Also because I got accused of running a rainforest cafe at my house. Can a lady just not have some plants? I'm a complete beginner. I don't have a ton of knowledge but I will tell you what I know or what I've been doing and everything is a process. There's different light during different times of the year. If you have like a north or south facing window which most of our windows are, you sort of have to play around and move them if they need more light. So everything is a work in progress. Some plants are just like in places so I can see how they're gonna do or if they could live there and I might move them. I'm just gonna show you. So here we go. We'll start in here. So most of the plants I got from local nurseries, some from like Home Depot and or Lowe's, that kind of thing and then some I ordered online which is where the real problem comes in because you can have plants delivered to you and that's the problem because you can get whatever you want. Let's start with this little guy. This is a Hoya compacta variegata. He's variegated. He's got these white little lines on him. He's absolutely stunning. I bought him as this little plug. So you know, in about 30 years, he'll be a full plant. So this I got at World Market. It's a little propagation station. Little cuttings of one of a couple of my plants in here and they're growing roots. So this is a problem for people like me because now you can turn one of your plants into like five of your plants. Wait, that's what that's doing? Julian, are you multiplying? More plants. Are you multiplying plants? In a couple of my videos, when you see a bunch of plants right here, this has sort of been a little bit of a nursery, if you will. So I keep putting plants here and then moving them out because when I get a plant, I wanna make sure they get enough light, you know, right away to adjust. So not all these plants are gonna stay here but I like the light that they get here. So that's why you've seen a lot of different plants here and it seems really overwhelming but I promise to you it's not. This plant I got not too long ago but that's why he's still here because I still want him to adjust and I also potted him in a beautiful ceramic pot and I'll show you a couple of the Hoyas that I potted before in terracotta pots. I guess there's a big thing whether or not you should plant Hoya plants in terracotta pots because their roots might grab onto the poorest clay and then you could rip them off by accident when you go to repot them. I don't know. So I planted this one in a ceramic one but some of them are planted in terracotta pots but don't come from me, okay? I'm learning. Hoyas are like one of my favorite plants as you'll see as we move into the other room because they have these thick, waxy leaves. They're just cool. They flower sometimes if you give them the right conditions and their blooms are like spectacular. None of mine are in bloom. In case you wanted to see one you're just gonna have to Google it and they're really tolerant of dry air which is what we have here in Southern California. So they're a good plant although some of them need more humidity. It's a different situation upstairs. This plant I got on Etsy which is also unfortunately another dangerous place to find plants that you like. He is a whale-thin sensivaria but he's basically just this one big leaf. He's amazing, look at him. His name is whale and when I ordered him on Etsy they shipped him to me bare roots which means his roots are just wrapped in like plastic so I had to pot him immediately as soon as I got him. He's doing okay. But that's why he's here in my little nursery area. We have a nice sheer curtain. This is a south-facing window so he gets lots of good light while he adjusts and I find a good spot for him. This is a beautiful Chinese perfume plant that I got from Loji's which is the most dangerous website for me. It's a very existed. I don't know if you live in other countries maybe. There's other places you can buy plants but here in the US, Loji's is the very dangerous website for me because they have things I had never heard of. This plant however is very easy to take care of. He needs almost nothing and he actually flowers these beautiful little yellow buds and they smell amazing. They smell like perfume and some of them are dying off here but he's got some new ones. He's growing, he's great. This is his nursery pot and typically I won't pot a plant unless it absolutely needs to. They don't need this but I like doing this an awful lot. Let's move over here to this beautiful Ruby rubber plants. I think that rubber plants are one of the most underrated house plants that there are. They are so lovely and amazing. So there's several different varieties of rubber plants. I have this one and then a different one upstairs but in their natural environment they can grow very, very tall because they're a tree and it's actually where rubber comes from but in a house, you can pinch off their top leaves when they get pretty tall and then they'll stop growing upwards and you can have them just be this amazing tree in your house. Like who doesn't want a tree in their house? I want a tree in my house. He has this amazing variegation and pink and red. They're chill and I feel like people don't rave about their rubber plants enough. What an amazing plant. Some of my plants have names, others of them don't. Extreme name some of my plants and I named some of them, Julian named some. This one is named Ninky Minjaj. She's named after a vine. This is Miss Keisha. Miss Keisha is a beautiful bird of paradise which can live in Southern California. So my plan B is in many, many years but this gets far too large. We can always put her in a pot and she can live outside but I'm hoping she gets big and beautiful. I got the white version because the leaves actually grow bigger and flatter and more open which is why I bought it and buy it because I particularly thought it was gonna flower inside. Needs a lot more sun I think but I bought it because the leaves are so thick and beautiful and I want it to be this big Miss Keisha in the corner. You know what I'm saying? So she's actually three plants. She's doing very well. They like to be root bound in there and I'm not going to try and repot her until she's busting out of this one and I really don't want her to be fucking dead. Oh my fucking god she's fucking dead. This is Gilly. Gilly is a monstera deliciosa and when I got this plant, I got this at Lowe's and somebody had done did this plant so fucking dirty. So it was potted in a ceramic glazed pot and the drainage hole was like teeny tiny, really bad and so I brought it home and I was like trying to let it dry out for like two weeks and it was wet which means it's gonna drown, it's gonna get root rot so we had to do a little rescue mission and get him out of there. So that's why some of his leaves aren't doing so well but since we repotted him in here, he's doing much better. I love this plant and he put up with the abuse that someone had put him through so you know, he really here to stay. This is Bjork, one of the most amazing artists of our generation but Bjork has some, I think this is called edema which means the roots are taking in too much water then the leaves can handle and then some of the cells in the leaf like sort of explode a little. In my experience with these other leaves, this has gone away but it has to do with like incongruent watering and the first time that I read that I was like I'm a Virgo and if you fucking think I'm incongruent then I don't know who you think you're talking to. So I think that this is temporary at least this has happened on some of the other leaves before but this is Bjork, she's a fiddly fig. She is just so incredible. The advice that I read online was that these can sometimes be really tricky plants to deal with with light and water and they're really just kind of diva-y. This is some diva behavior right here. Oh my God, you fed me too fast. This is too much water, too fast. Oh, I don't like it. And if you buy them when they're pretty big, obviously they can be very expensive. So a lot of people online have said try spending a lot less money. Like I think I paid $19 for her at this size and if you're doing okay then you'll have a tree someday but don't go out and spend a ton of money on a big tree because they're kind of fickle but she's doing really well and she's literally putting out three new leaves all at once. So maybe it's a you problem and not a me because I don't know why you're doing all this red spots on your leaves but maybe chill out with making leaves. Maybe make one at a time. Welcome to the Hoyas section. I'd say they're probably my favorite house plant. So I of course need one of as many as I can find. There's hundreds and hundreds of varieties of Hoyas. They all could in theory bloom. I imagine with my luck none of them ever will but I love them for their foliage. I think that they just are so beautiful and different. I love how thick they're almost succulent like leaves are. They're just amazing. So here's an example of one that I potted in a terracotta pot so please don't come for me. I'm aware. I'm still considering whether or not I'd like to plant them in ceramic pots. This is a Hoya Carnosa Crimson Princess. So that means the variegation comes from the inside whereas opposed to this one which is a Hoya Carnosa Queen. The variegation starts like this like these white leaves. Look at how amazing. And then they slowly goes to the outside. You're just so beautiful and these like long sticks at the end here. That's where the flowers will come from. So you never want to cut those off which this one I'll show you. When I got this plant, first of all it was mislabeled as a Hoya Karii which is a plant that grows in the shape of a heart. And I don't know if you have eyes or anything but like this is not a Hoya Karii. I went on Instagram and I figured out that this is called a Hoya Crinkle 8 because it has these little eight crinkles on the inside. And somebody did this plant hella dirty because all of these spots right here is where probably the long woody stick parts where the flowers would come from have all been cut off. Like someone just went in here and cut them all off. Somebody castrated you. I'm so sorry. And so since then he's started repairing himself here with some new growth, a beautiful plant. I hope you're happy here. We interrupt this plant tour for a dog fight. This is a Hoya Obovada. He's beautiful. He just put out this little tiny leaf. He's amazing. I love him. Speaking of circle leaves, this is a Hoya Matilda. Matilda? Matilda? Mathide? Matilda, I think. Also got this from Loji's. Just the cutest little guy. You're so cute. How can you be that cute? This is a Hoya curtsy eye. Just teeny tiny little leaves. He's so cute and droopy. He's still in his nursery pot. And then this is a Hoya Vichy eye. The stream named one of these plants Vine 2. But I don't remember which one, whatever. One of these plants' name is Vine 2. Thank you, Stream. This one has like a little thinner of leaves. And he's just so, I love you. You're so beautiful. I can see your veins. You're amazing. The stream named this, I think this is a Hoya Bilobada, but I'm not sure. That's what it was labeled as. It could just be a Hoya Carnosa. Stream named her La Hoya Jackson. Thank you for that. They get good light, but I'm always sort of moving them around depending if they need more or less light or whatever. So let's move over here, shall we? So I have three Pothos on here. I have a Neon Pothos, a Skindapsus or a Satin Pothos, and a Pothos in Joy, I think it's called. I got these at different places. I repotted them, so some of them didn't really enjoy it, so they had some brown that I had to snip off. But they're all doing very well now. They're pretty chill, pretty easy. This is a Philodendron Micons, which is what I have propagating on the kitchen table. He is just like velvety and green and amazing. And I love him, hoping to maybe plant some of those back in here so I can have a fuller Micons, but he was a very, very tiny guy when I got him and he's doing so well, and I just think he's so beautiful and velvety. Oh my God. This right here is an Alakacia Frydeck, which absolutely took my breath away the first time that I saw it. This plant has no business being in my home. Do you know what I'm saying? Look at him. He is the only Alakacia that I have. I know typically they like higher humidity, but he's okay without it, I guess, so I've read. But he's not doing particularly well, I would say. I think this is normal. This is a dead leaf. I know they can go into their tubers or sort of go dormant, so he hasn't gone dormant, but he's also not putting out a leaf right now, but I think he's okay. I think he's chilling. He was upstairs for a little bit in the higher humidity, and I think he was getting too much sun up there, so I moved him down here. But every day I wake up and I just talk Julian's ear off about what plants I'm moving and wearing. Well, I'm concerned for this one and he gets really fucking annoyed with me, so I love you Julian. These are some varying succulents that I just got at the grocery store, except that one, that was a gift from some students to Julian. I don't know why any of these succulents are alive. I don't water them, I don't touch them. They don't really get a ton of sun up there, I don't think. Over here, we have my little buddy Rex. He's a snake plant. He's one of many snake plants that live here because they are so chill and need nothing. He's still in his nursery pot, his name is Rex. This is Vin Diesel. He is a ZZ plant. He is also in his nursery pot. This I would say if you are like brand new like I was and you don't know what to get or what would be happy in your house, get a ZZ plant. They just, they need nothing from you and they just give you so much love. Like he's just sitting on this random table pretty far away from the sunlight and just having a great time. Took me a minute to appreciate just what a special, lovely, wonderful plant he is because it's sort of like a common low-light house plant but like he shows you so much love. I don't know what I did to deserve all of this growth and love from him but he's just like shiny and glossy and lovely. You come over this way, you'll see all the dishes I haven't done. This is a, he's a coral cactus but this is like the one thing that saved my life. Every morning I wake up, have my coffee and I walk around. It's like a nice little meditative experience. I just go around and I check all their soil. Get down to where their roots are. I mean he's a cactus so he's chill but for all the plants when it says dry basically like real dry, then I give him a drink. But other than that I just leave him alone unless it's like a piece lily or something that likes to be moist but let's go outside. Stream named this one Coachella. This is Coachella. Coachella is a ponytail palm. He likes full sun. He needs to get watered almost never because he stores all his water in that big tree trunk of his. He's also known as like an elephant's foot. This is an apuntia or a prickly pear. Amazing, can't even believe it. What are you? You're the best plant ever. He's just spectacular, I love him. Don't touch him though or else he'll prick you. He pricked me earlier. This right here is a string of pearls. I originally tried to keep this plant indoors but then I found out that he liked it outside better and he's just been putting out these little flowers and just like having a great time. So I left him out here because he's just happier and I want you to be happy. This is Julian's only plant. Julian saw this and loved this. This is a burrow's tail or a donkey tail succulent. What did you name this one? Burrow. You named it burrow. You named it burrow. But yeah, these plants live out here. They're both in their nursery pots and I think they look nice and I have no intention of repotting them until they needed it. So like in terms of outdoor plants, I don't have a ton of like flowers or that kind of thing because I don't know a ton yet but I'm excited for the spring to start learning about that kind of thing because it's something I used to do when I was little with my mom. I just don't know anything yet. I've only learned about indoor plants as you can see. But I'm looking forward to that. Aren't you Julian? Yeah. Outside plants. Let's move into the dining room which is where my too much gene is really showing off, right? This is a north facing window and there's like a porch over it. So it's really dark in here and before we put all this stuff in here it just felt like really sterile and we don't do a lot of formal dining. I don't know about you but I wanted to make this room like something a little more fun and like nice and chill like a place where you'd want to be. I thought what better way to do that than with a bunch of plants? If it feels like a jungle then you probably want to hang out in it or is that just me? We're Julian standing right now. I have tried many plants. There is no light that can reach here. Nothing, nothing. This is the location of the only plant that I have ever killed. It was a golden pothos. It just withered away and died. So what we did in this corner is I threw a chair in the corner and then you have the plants around it so they can get just enough light to survive but the corner is filled with something it doesn't feel so sterile and cold in here. So we got another chair to sit in that corner as well. But I have made many adjustments and many oopsies in this room. The first of which was those big planters. There's a couple of them. They're actually outdoor planters. I had put all of these snake plants in because I was like, they'll be fine. They're snake plants. They are indestructible. You can do anything. They can live in the light. They can just be wherever. The only thing they can't have is a lot of water at their roots and they'll get root rot. So they started to just be a little too moist. So I rescue missioned all of these snake plants out of them and they're doing so much better now. And they're in terracotta pots so it will wick the moisture away from their roots and they won't sit in those. But that's also why I was like, what's the plant that just likes to be wet as hell? A peace lily bitch. A lot of these plants, if they're not doing well in a certain situation, we can move them in other places. So the peace lilies might not stay there. Anything might not stay anywhere. We'll just see how they do. But all of these plants have been here for a while now and they're all doing really well, which is surprising because it's fucking dark as hell in here. So we have a couple of different varieties. A snake plant. This one's a moonshine. He is so cool. Here's another ZZ plant because I just couldn't believe the love the first one gave me. So I got a second one. This one, this one and this one are all variations of a Chinese evergreen. This is a marble queen Pothos. This is a, I think he's just a Sansevieria cylindrica, but they call this certain variety a Mohawk. Don't tell anyone, but I think someone mispriced him at the store. So I actually got him for so like dirt cheap. This is a small Sansevieria cylindrica. This is a small golden Pothos. I also left him in his hanging container because I wasn't quite sure if I wanted him to be here or if I wanted to hang him somewhere in the future. This is like the low light special room. All these plants are like, I'm cool with low light. Snake plant, snake plant. This is a variegated snake plant. This is a Philodendron Brazil. They have this like really pretty lemon lime color going. This is a Sansevieria like honey. Amazing, he's green. I have a bunch of other ones upstairs of different kinds. This is a pepperomia ginni, which I wasn't too keen on. Like I know there are people that love certain types of house plants. Like I love Hoyas as you can tell. There are people that are obsessed with pepperomias and I'm just not super obsessed with them, but I saw that this was labeled as a super low light plant and I was like, no way, that's not right. He's been pushing out so much new growth. He's been sitting right here, only getting like a little sunlight and just chilling. So the outsides of his pink leaves are just so beautiful and I can't believe that he's doing so well there. He's like a variegated piece, Lily. There's another one outside that's a different type, but he is also doing okay in a self-watering planter because he just likes to be wet and moist and he's just chilling. And this is a pathos on like a trellis. We are moving to my pride and joy. My favorite, most amazing, beautiful love of my life. He doesn't have a name. We should really give him a name because he is just the best thing in the world. He's a kentia palm and usually they're okay in medium to low light. So this is a really big experiment. I got him from a nursery because he was a special order for someone else and then they just canceled their order and I was like, give me that palm beach. I struggle a little bit with understanding when he's dry because he's potted in like lava rock. He has some fronds back here that are browning but they're old fronds. So I'm hoping it's just part of his natural process. But this is the plant that I freak out about constantly because I love him. But I know that a lot of people struggle with palms because they're very tropical. They like humidity. It's dry here, you know. So I'm just like hoping and praying that I can keep this plant alive because he is just so spectacular. They're only grown from seed. You can't propagate them. They only put out about like one frond a year. So I certainly cannot do this plant into service by mistreating him. I worry about him constantly, constantly. Over here, put three piece lollies in here and they do get some east light. I don't know if this is gonna work. This is kind of a project and experiment but I can always sort of move them around to somewhere else. So over here is the piece lily that was in that corner. This is a red riding hood aloe I think is what it's called. He got scorched because we had him somewhere with too much sun but I think he's on the road to recovery but he's very cool. I like him. And then I have another larger aloe plant which also we had somewhere else and he just got a little too much sun. But look at that. He's recovered his ends so nicely. So you wanna move upstairs? Welcome to our bedroom. Julian has been very patient with me because I decided and asked very nicely we could make this a room for some of my plants that need high humidity. Thank you. We did get some humidifiers in here and I framed that to Julian. Was like, yeah but it's gonna help us sleep better because it's so dry here. And then if you get better humidity when you sleep, you'll sleep better. Please. So I keep this room with the door shut. If you guys aren't scratching at it trying to come in and out at about 50% humidity which isn't even super high or anything. I know people blast their humidity but that's like the bare minimum for a lot of the plants that like it. And there's only like really a couple in here that actually need it. Some of the Hoyas if I wanted them to grow more you could bring them up here and they'll do better in the humidity. Like all plants tend to do a little better with more humidity. First of which is this amazing begonia maculata whitey eye. When I saw this plant, this is one of those plants I was like, I will do anything you want. What do you want? I will do anything for you. Look at the backs of your leaves are red and the fronts of your leaves are green and you just come out with these spots like oh my God and then to top it all off. In the spring and summer this plant puts out flowers. Are you funky? Kidding me. I have to have it. Oh my God. This plant needs at least 50% humidity. So that's why he's in here and just been growing like crazy. It's just been doing so well. I thought this was gonna be a little trickier of a plant. Sometimes I get intimidated by plants that look really exciting. So I'm like, I can't have that. It's gonna die. You know, I'm gonna fuck it up somehow. But I haven't. I'm just astonished. I've had really great luck with this plant and there are a little bit of the crispy ends of the leaves from when the door gets left open on occasion but for the most part just like really spectacular. This is my only other pepperomia. Pilea peperomwides I think is what it's called. They weren't like common household pests like scale or mealybugs or anything. It was like a little couple of caterpillars living on this soil. So a couple of these leaves got munched but I have since removed the caterpillars but it was really funny. I was like, what is eating you? What is eating you? I don't see anything. He's so cool. Like he's just so super cute. His name is Pod. I have a couple of these throughout the house just to know like what the humidity is. Like if there's a plant downstairs and it gets really dry and might bring them up here. This is a monstera adensonia. He's the same type of plant as the monstera downstairs but he grows in this beautiful vine with these leaves also known as like a Swiss cheese vine. This is one of the other plants that enjoys a little bit of humidity. Very tropical plant but just like beautiful, amazing. I love him. This is a Poco Roberto. That is Roberto. So Roberto is a rubber tree just like the one downstairs that he is a, forget what you call this, burgundy. He just has these like really very dark green leaves that sometimes look black. Honestly, what the hell is going on Kermit? He's grown so much and I just can't get enough of him. He is so stunning and beautiful and just the coolest. And I also sometimes like to take him into the shower with me so we can shower together. The fuck dog? Poco Roberto is just a smaller version of Roberto because I love the rubber trees so much. I have three of them at this point. We've got another couple of Hoyas up here. This is a Hoya Lacunosa or a cinnamon scented Hoya. So someday if this plant ever bloomed or flowered those blooms tend to smell like cinnamon. Although I've heard lots of Hoyas they all have different colored blooms and some of them smell like ramen noodles or chocolate or anything in between. This is the unvariegated version of the Hoya compacta. It's just a regular one, just green. But as you can see he grows pretty slow so it would take many, many, many years for me to get one of those plants that have the big long like octopus tendrils which I think are so cool. This right here is my one and only oxalis. Oxalis are like a false shamrock plant. They're super cool. This kind grows like a fucking tiny little tree. Like, are you kidding me? Is that insane? He also had one little yellow flower which has now since gone. This is the oxalis rubra which is, I guess, one of the harder oxalases to care for because they need a lot of sun. Right here he tends to get a lot of sun. Julian actually took a time lapse of him because they like open their little leaves with the sun. They're so cool. Over here I have varying types of snake plants because if there's a spot that I haven't had good luck with plants in the past, like I've tried to have some pothos up here and I don't think they get enough light. I'm like, all right, let's put a snake plant there because the snake plant will appreciate it. This is a starfish, another couple of honey, Sainsburyia, Japanese sixth grade. Let's go to the bathroom. So this over here, this is my only Dracina. He is a Dracina warneckei and he's just really cute. He needs almost nothing from me. This is a curly spider plant, which I didn't know existed. I've only ever seen the straight variety. They're very straight. He's already putting out a little baby right there. He's got these curly little leaves. Ah, what the hell? This is our actual bathroom, which one time when Julian was out of town, I just started doing things like this to it. Thank you for letting me do it, Julian. This is another marble pothos and just the regular green pothos. This one's name is Rallyweed. Thank you, Strayon, for naming Rallyweed Rallyweed. And this is another satin pothos up here. And this is a lipstick plant, my only lipstick plant. As you can see, I have smashed his plastic hanger in here because I wanted to see how he's gonna do it a little bit so far, pretty amazing because right now, this might not seem like a lot of light, but in the morning, beautiful, amazing, lovely light. That must be enough for all of them to continue being happy because we just keep getting more and more growth out of them. I like peeing and pooping in here. Was it really that unbearable that I wasn't paying attention to you for as long as that was? So those were my plants. I hope that you found this interesting. I know there's a lot of plant lovers out there. I know it's always cool to see other people's plants and what they enjoy having. If you want some good plant advice, there's tons of channels on YouTube, like most of what I've learned from YouTube, like Plant Arena, Kayleigh Ellen I love, Hilton Carter from Apartment Therapy, I love watching. Betsy Begonia is really fun. It's just like such a fun, rewarding thing. This will obviously always continue to change as the seasons change, as the light changes, and as I learn more about outdoor plants. Right, Julian? Maybe someday in the future if things get even more out of hands, which I anticipate they will, I'll do an update. I hope that you like this. I know this is not a type of video that I'd usually make, but I know so many of you asked for it and requested it, and I know that some of you guys are just genuinely curious about my life or my hobbies, which is plants. They're my friends. Make sure you subscribe to my channel. Make new videos every Wednesday slash Thursday. I have to go water my Sarmath now because Sarmath needs much water multiple times per day. All right, let me check you. Can I check you? Oh, he's dry. He's very dry. He's very dry. You need to water. Okay, we're gonna play a game called the quiet game. You're losing. How about we do a high five? Good boy. All right, I will see you guys next week. Goodbye.