hi there my name is memo this is my channel house-planted goodness and essentially
it's a place where i like to geek out about my big passion now for the people that have
been here before i'm in a slightly different angle essentially of the conservatory today
because i wanted to talk about a plant that is i think a firm favorite for most people
at this point and you might be able to see some of the how leaves behind me ignore these meryl dens
also very pretty pretty large leaves but today we're going to be talking about the philodendron
gloriosa now i think i've done a couple of videos on this plant but i wanted to touch base again
and give a bit of an update just to give you an indication of the size of the plant at the moment
let me just do a head test and hopefully that has given you an indication of quite
how large the leaves are now getting now let's talk morphology of this plant obviously
you can see it's a heart-shaped leaf most definitely a heart-shaped leaf it is got a bit
of a velvet structure to the actual leaf itself so it's quite soft to the touch and it has got
lighter venation that goes in the middle there are different forms i think of the glorious i'm
not entirely sure which one this one is but there's a dark form there's one with silvery
kind of white brighter stripes essentially i'm not entirely sure which one this is but i do love it
nonetheless now you might be able to see down here below i do have it growing in a terracotta
trough so instead of it being in a regular planter it's in a trough purely because the way that a
gloriosum will grow and again you can probably see a whole bunch of other videos to see the growing
kind of habit of this plant this is what's known as a creeper or a crawler so instead of it going
climbing up like you might see here with the esmeraldance this plant will actually grow along
the jungle floor as well so the good thing for those of you that don't have an awful lot of
head space and you don't have a lot of places for the plant to climb up this is a good one to grow
because it will only ever get so tall essentially and that is by the patios and hopefully that is
coming up i can't move this plant is way too heavy for me to bring it in for more of a
close-up basically but essentially it's the patio which is the structure that attaches the leaf
to the actual stem itself and the stem is right there at the bottom of the essentially on top of
the growing media and you can see that there's a new you might be able to see there maybe you
might not be able to see there but if not do take my word for it there is a new growing point there
and if i move these leaves out the way there is a brand spanking new leaf and you can see it's a
bit more of a neon green there in the background that is emerging now you might be able to see
the issue of light level for this plant because this is one that i was worried about because i
don't have anywhere else to put it it takes up so much space because even though it doesn't grow
up it can grow quite wide essentially or long along that growing line and i a few months ago
later this plant chopped it up gave it to a very very lovely planty friend that i have locally and
i think that one's doing quite well at the moment as well but it also then meant that i released the
apical dominance and as we've talked about several times on this channel when you grow when you
essentially cut the growing stem you release the apical dominance and what that does is it means
that the plant will actually branch out so for instance this one if it was growing along one stem
it has now branched out into two different growing points so at any given point now i've
got two leaves emerging rather than just the one when it was just on the one growing stem
now with this the thing to bear in mind in terms of lighting coming back to what i was originally
going to talk about is because i don't have an awful lot of space i've left it where it is
on the shelf it's probably getting medium to bright in direct light probably not even
true bright in direct light but it's doing all right the leaves are a bit darker the venation
isn't as stronger but if you can see the size of the leaves is absolutely huge
the other thing to remember about this plant is if you do get one and if you've already tried
propagating it as well this bounces back quite quickly from a propagation anyway some plants
when you propagate from them the first second or maybe even third leaf is a much more juvenile form
the propagated cut will revert back to um a lot of plants will revert back to more juvenile form
this may be the first leaf after you've cut it and on the new propagation will be slightly more
juvenile but it will bounce back really really quickly to the original size of the leaves
it is a strong grower i've had my own struggles with this plant i'm not gonna lie um i know for a
lot of people this has been exceptionally easy maybe i'm a bit of an over waterer basically
but it took me a while to get the water in just right for this plant i was getting edema
because maybe it was staying wet for a bit too long but then at the same time if i let it dry
out a bit too much then i'd start seeing other struggles but i finally got it there i think it
might just be me don't take just my experience from this have a look on online have a look on
youtube for a lot of other videos there's a lot of people talking about the gloriosum purely because
it is such a nice plant and easy plant to grow an easy philodendron to grow and it's quite giving
basically i've never propagated this in any other way than other than air layering because i've only
ever cut it once but it is getting quite long now it hasn't hit one of the growing points
it hasn't hit the side of the trough the other one has so that area might get chopped up just
hopefully so it starts all growing in the front direction again that would be nice um
but yeah other than that i think in terms of pests for this one the only real pest that i've
ever seen on it on a very very rare occasion tends to be spider mites but again if you've got a good
neem oil solution that you use for other things for spider mites that will do this one
really really nicely as well and i'm trying to think it's in my light airy aeroid soil
mix it's obviously in terracotta in terms of fertilizing with this i don't skip a bead even
in the winter so every second or third watering it will get fertilized and yeah it just keeps on
going i know from a lot of people that do grow this in regular household community obviously
i'm growing this in my conservatory so the humidity level is a bit higher but i know
this is not a plant that necessarily struggles in regular household humidity from what i've heard
i've not tried it myself if i'm wrong please do correct me but yeah i think that's everything i
wanted to say today about the gloriosum as always if you've got any questions comments do drop them
down below i'd love to have that conversation with you tell me some of your experiences about
growing your own glorious and if you've had any struggles along the way what they've been what
you've tried to do to solve it and let's kind of build that community up a bit more again in the
comments and just help each other out essentially but yeah hopefully you've enjoyed hopefully i
shall see you here soon and i truly truly hope that you have a great rest of your day thanks