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now? Hello everyone I'm Corbin Rhodes and this is Plant Basics in this video I'll
be doing an Anthurium Clarinervium two-year update to see what my plant has
done in the past two years
and this is actually the first plant that was in my first ever
youtube video and if you've been following the channel from the
start you'll know that this plant was actually quite small but now its
become quite big one of the tricks for how I
got this plant to grow this big was that I've just been keeping it in
the same spot mostly for the entire two years
that I've had it. I did for a small period place it on a shelf upstairs in my
office slash the grow room but it didn't
seem to grow as well up there so I moved it down to this
small table close to the window and there it has actually just been thriving
and putting out leaf after new leaf and this is
the newest leaf and yeah I'm quite excited I've been waiting a long time
for this plant to start really getting big. This plant has grown quite a
bit since then and it's absolutely beautiful and it's
put out these gorgeous leaves and yeah it actually what's the funny
about it is that it stayed small for quite a long time
and then all of a sudden when i repotted it, it just started sending a
new leaf after new leaf and I think that this was the first leaf it actually
put out that was of a reasonable size and now this leaf seems to be the newest one
and you can also see that its going to become quite big
um yeah I'm super happy with this plant it is my absolute favourite
Anthurium and it has actually been quite easy to care for as well because it
grows in my upstairs study or in my grow room as I
affectionately call it.
In summer, it gets bright light but no direct sun but now in
autumn and carrying into winter it is gets some
of the soft afternoon rays.
Its not fussy at all I've never noticed any pests
on this plant It seems to be quite resistant
to any
pest pressures which is like amazing because
if you have so many other plants like Calatheas and Alocasias which are just
magnets for pests but I think that Anthuriums
across the board generally are not as affected by pests but one thing I will
say is just watch out for scale because I have a
feeling that scale could possibly sit on especially the back
of the leaves. Well one of the great things for me about this plant
is that because the leaves are rather big and easy to
handle if you see any pests or anything it's quite easy just to wipe them off
with a cloth and here you go
well I did keep this plant for a short while
up on a shelf um in my study but it didn't seem to grow as well because I
think that it wasn't getting enough light and that is a very important thing
with your plants is of course to experiment and to put them in different
spaces and just see how they react so I now know that his plant likes to be
on the small little table in front of the window and that's where it's been
pretty much permanently uh for the last I almost two and a half years
and because I put it on the shelf at the back I mean you
could have seen it in some of my previous videos and I shot up there. I
planted this plant in a very well draining
potting mix and it's not in a need for a report yet because I don't see any
roots coming through the bottom I will put a link up to my
previous care video for this plant and I will also be
doing a full comprehensive Anthurium Clarinerviumcarew video in the near future as
an update and continuation of the first video. I keep my plant nice and
moist this is not a plant I've found that responds well to drying out
completely like Anthurium Andraeanum which is the common flowering Anthurium
that doesn't have to be all in here but I try to keep this plant moist but not
wet and what's important because you know you never want your plants
to be standing in any water yeah what else can I tell you about my
plant. It's just for me such a low maintenance plant
and I also figured out why it does this with its leaves and if you can see
the leaves are kind of pointed towards the floor and I think that has something
to do with light that reflects up from the floor I said the plant
automatically turns its leaves and down to the bottom because
Anthuriums and Monsteras have this thing at the back (Geniculum)
and now I'm trying to remember what this
is called a gericulum? no
I know I'll put i'll put the name up on the video and this allows your plant
to turn
more easily towards the light. You'll also see this on your Monstera
and Anthuriums and it's also one of the ways how you can distinguish an Anthurium
from a Philodendron because the
Philodendrons don't have this little thing at the back of their leaves so I
can definitely say if you are someone who likes velvet Anthuriums
you can definitely add one of these to your collection and the great thing
about this plant is that I know that in certain areas it is expensive even here
in South Africa it is quite expensive but
it's kind of like for me I think worth the price in a way because it's such
an easy to care for plant it's not really a plant that I'm kind of thinking oh my
gosh you know it's going to die you know as soon as I do this or that or
whatever it's also quite tolerant of a lower
humidity even though I try to keep the humidity high but it is tolerant of
lower humidity even though I try
to keep the humidity
at around 50% um sorry guys my African Grey is just absolutely going
like crazy with like playtime over there
Alex
um yeah so
if you've always wanted Anthurium Clarinervium or you're thinking of
getting one I can definitely recommend this plant because here you can see
this has been my first plant and two years later
so I hope that you guys have enjoyed this video and that you found my tips
useful now I hope that you guys have enjoyed
this video my little two-year update on Anthurium Clarinervium it's actually
so funny that for me this vlog represents
the growth of my youtube channel because it's the plan it was in my first ever
video um if you have any if you have any questions about Anthurium
Clarinervium or any questions in in general please leave them in the comment
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