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hopefully this might be a bit of a shorter video today i want to talk about the fact that a lot
of the house plants that we have in our care specifically some of the common house plants
and the fast-growing houseplants in their natural habitats would be considered almost weeds and it
kind of makes sense if you consider how fast they are growing and how good they are growing
against some adverse conditions as well probably the biggest example that i can show you of this is
the humble pop-ups or the epipremnum oreo so this is the premium the golden pothos
and obviously that hasn't got yellow variegation anything that you see that's colorful
or variegated that i'm going to talk about here consider it that in nature it will probably be the
greener version because a lot of things that have got more color and less green or more variegation
less green generally wouldn't do as well out and about in nature we prize them because they
look beautiful and they look different but in nature very rarely do variegated plants
that happen um that doesn't happen naturally to the plant itself will survive so things like the
jade potholes which is the green parthos consider that and i think i found this on
youtube i do encourage you to go and find a look at looking at huge pothos or pothos uh
rips building or something along those lines i can't know exactly what the video was called
but these are kind of plants that if you put them in locations probably not in the uk but
things like for example that a lot of people use as places like florida in the states which have
got similar kind of environments to where they might originally come from these can also become
invasive species because essentially they will grow like wildfire they don't have any natural
predators in that environment because it's not their natural habitat and essentially there's no
way of controlling them and they will start taking over certain habitats and possibly pushing out
some of the more endemic species to that region so bear that in mind you generally don't want to
be putting this outside in the slightly warmer more tropical climates this individual that i'm
talking about in this youtube video hopefully you'll find it it's quite entertaining to watch
they put a premium oreo with golden potholes specifically outside of their building it was
like a five-floor building it grew up the side of the building the leads became massive about
two or three meters long i would imagine they've got fenestration so they've got splits and then
absolutely huge grew up to the size of the tree essentially up the side of the building
and at some point they had to bring it down when they brought it down it brought down
part of the exterior wall so with that in mind these plants want to survive
and they are fighters and that's generally what wheats are they will survive in these
they're advantageous uh plants that will grow in all these different conditions
because they'll be able to kind of either see themselves or root themselves quite easily
another one that we do have in the uk which a lot of people from the uk will look at people across
different parts of the world and go why would you want that in your house is english i mean
borrowing the fact that it's a pest magnet alone i've also been dealing with it
in the garden of the property that i've just bought and moved into
it's a weed in the uk so it will cause damage to buildings we've had to replace a whole
fence on one side of the property which cost an awful lot of money because the ivy essentially
kind of like ripped it out of its foundations so this is how aggressive some of these plants can be
in their natural habitats another one that you might be able to see in front of me and obviously
this is the various forms of this the elbow syngonium but the syngoniums are another one that
you can imagine like if you imagine this one has got a trailing so obviously we try to grow these
up but these can also be trailing but they've got very succulent aerial roots that could easily
attach to the soil that they're growing along and then new plants plantlets will pop out from each
one of those nodes potentially so they are very very aggressive growers again there's a reason why
these are such easy plants to take care of because they want to survive they are almost like weeds
the other one and this might come to some surprise to some people if things like canadians not the
hugely ornate ones like this one but the more green variety i think i saw this from some people
in the philippines in the philippines these are considered likely because they grow along or close
to rivers essentially but because they are bulbs and they can kind of keep growing in that format
they can become quite large clumps of these quite quite easily so people in the philippines are
just like why would people want these as a house plant we can't get rid of them here essentially
but again you need to probably remember in the philippines they probably don't have a
very extreme winter which in the northern hemisphere a lot of the times what will
happen with canadians when it gets cooler they will kind of tie back down to a tuber
and then you would replant them and regrow them the next growing season if you'd imagine plants
like this not having that dormancy period and being able to kind of grow and keep growing
they can kind of take over quite quickly the other one as well which i'll kind of pick up at
the moment i've got cutting off rather than the full plot but it'll display what i want to show
is the humble monstera deliciosa and a lot of the monsteras the thunzios because because of
its chunky aerial roots it can attach again very similar to the top horse and kind of force damage
to buildings i had a funny story that i heard funny now more than funny for the person that i'm
talking about when they were dealing with it but i had a friend who grew up in south africa and uh i
think it was interesting because i think he called it the delicious monster so maybe that's a common
name there which is really cool when you find out some of these names that people have for it um
so with the monster deliciosa it was outside his grandmother's house i think his grandmother just
passed away and his grandfather had said look can you help me kind of chop that back down and it was
growing out in front of their house essentially so they chopped it all the way back down and a
few months later they had to go back in and really try to remove all the roots because it was lifting
the decking on the outside of the building vigorous growers in the right conditions um so
bear that in mind a bit more of an educational one this one um there's not much that you can
do to change this but there's very little risk that these things will turn into weeds
in your own home one exception to that and it's a plant that i don't have it's a
calan curry mother of hundreds and there's also a thing of calum curry mother of thousands and
mother of millions potentially i might be wrong with this one but when you get little
plants with little roots growing on the edges of the leaf of those plants have a look you've
probably seen it but you don't remember it it was very popular in the 80s showing my age um
but those ones will drop off the leaves and they will pretty much take root in all the pots
around them so those ones can be a bit more like a traditional weed even in a household environment
depending on what's near it and how much those little plants are dropping in but yeah i think
that's everything i wanted to say today about this topic if you've got any questions any comments
some of your own experiences if you're from some of these areas and you want to share some of your
experiences i would love that and i'm pretty sure other people would like to hear it as well
so yeah do drop it in the comments down below let's have a conversation hopefully you've enjoyed
hopefully i shall see you here soon and i hope you have a great rest of your day thanks bye