let me see if I can do the Instagram thing
ooh i can see it, it's amazing
ready: one, two, three
this is probably a bad idea
I am gonna blow dry it
hi everyone its Marianne
welcome to my wastelesslife
today I'm going to do a
plant unboxing
so yeah I didn't expect to buy plants this early in the year I actually wasn't
planning it to buy any plants until April but I found a discount code for a
houseplantshop.com and I went to their website and see if there's any plants
that I would like to buy and I saw this plant for a very reasonable price
because I've been looking for this plant for quite a while and I can't find it in
any of the big box stores or nurseries in my area so I know the only way I'll be
able to get this is online but after even stalking Etsy and some of the
online plant websites the prices for this one can get a little bit ridiculous
so finally I found it on houseplantshop for a good price and with a
discount code I practically got this for basically free shipping and even though
I only chose standard shipping for this they sent it to me priority so which is
amazing so thank you houseplantshop.com for doing that and they don't offer heat
packs or anything but they do give you an option of buying insurance for your
purchase it was just like maybe 98 cents for this one and it would replace
your plant if it's lost damaged or broken when you receive it so I'm really
glad that they sent it to me priority and it came a lot earlier than expected so I
wasn't really prepared because I'm about to head to a town hall
so I want to open this up before I get there
okay so like I said this plan has been a wishlist
plant of mine and it's something that I really really want to add to my pothos
collection so I find it on houseplantshop for $19.99
and it's in a six inch pot
and the photo of course
I mean the photo shows to be really nice like
already trailing
I doubt it
you can see from the size of the box
from the camera it looks big but
it's actually not that big in person
it's actually a little bit smaller than I expected
but it probably is just
really really packed well
and I did an unboxing video from them last time - the
first time I ordered from them
I would link it up here
and to be honest this is
only a third time I ordered plants online I'm more of an in-person shopper
because I like to pick and choose the plants that I want to bring home
for the three out of two times that I bought plants online
i bought from houseplantshop.com
I'm not sponsored and nothing against other
online plant shops I just never really had a chance to buy something from them
that I really want in a good price
yeah so let's open this thing
like I said this has no heat pack
but they do at least for my past experience from
them they do pack their plants really really well so I think this would be
okay it's been in the 40s in Maryland
this came from California and so it
probably sat in a cold
oooh they kind of upgraded it
this wasn't part of the
package before
the last time I bought from them
but look at that they included
a brochure and pamphlet on how to care for your plant
oh this is - houseplantshop is stepping it up
well it got a bit wet though
so like the pages are sticking
let's see what's inside
okay so yeah
please read when you
receive your plants if your plants is damaged
so there's like instructions on how to do that
kind of suck they stuck together
but it look I mean I could see
from the pages it looks pretty
ok so there's like a table of contents of like the plants
and then you can look for a certain plant that you bought
and see you how to care for them
I hate extra packaging in when I order
stuff and sometimes like you know like user manuals some stuff that you
probably just like look up online but
this actually makes for like a good
coffee table book almost
and also a reference for your other plants if
you're not sure how to take care of them
so they have everything from air plants to zz
houseplantshop.com mostly sell common house plants
but I don't mind I
mean I love common house plants
this channel is all about that
so if you want
affordable common and popular houseplants
then you should go to houseplantshop.com
and find your new plant baby
but like I said so
here's like the
instructions on the plant care
and have like nice photos as well
oooh houseplantshop
okay houseplantshop
like if you are a plant beginner
this is a very good guide on how to take care of plants
or you could at least look at like
certain plans that you're interested in
and look at their plant care and see if is
something that fits right in your environment,
in your lifestyle so it's really a good guide
so good job houseplantshop.com
so okay
this is like my order form
so they used mostly carton which is
I love no plastic
actually last time
they did use a bit of plastic but it's
just like the part to cover the soil but
they used mostly carton
so here's the box that i probably will reuse
you know
let me see if i can do the instagram thing
coz you know how like in Instagram like they
like just pull out the carton, and
the plants just like -- shoosh
let me see if I can do that
I probably have to back up a little bit
okay okay
oooh i can see it, it looks amazing
so okay, let's do the swoosh thing
probably have to push it a little bit
push it from the pot a littlie bit
I like that it came in a white pot
so it's my aesthetic
so usually when nursery pots like look decent
or in the color that i like
like I keep it in that nursery pot
I don't really like change it out so if
you've watched my pothos care video like
if this one - and the soil - if this plant
is not root bound and I don't see any pest pressures
i am probably not gonna
repot this at all
so let's see if i can do the swoosh thing
ready - one...two..
ugh, i still can't i still cant
i probably have to tear it up a little bit, hold one
the packed it really tightly which is great
but I can't do the instagram thing very easily
alright ready ready ready
i am ready
okay I think this time it will work
Alright, ready
one
two
three
okay not yet OMG
for real for real for real this time
one
two
three
tada!
so i got this scindapsus pictus exotica
oh my God look how huge is that
oh we got like soil spilling over but
it is huge
they listed it as a silver splash philodendron on their website so I
wasn't sure if I was getting the exotica
or I'm just getting the silver satin
but I didn't think this is the exotica
oh my god
there's like some soil falling
but it's good it's good it's good
look at that beautiful plant
oh my god I'm so happy
that I finally have this
and you can see it's already trailing
oh my god look at
this huge leaves
and wait this is the exotica, right?
yeah this is exotica not the silver satin
oh my god look at that
it's so much prettier in person
I have railed against this plant not gonna lie
coz I thought I will not
like the variegation in person
but this looks amazing
like I'm still not sure if
this is an exotica or a silver satin
but I'm definitely leaning towards an exotica
you would think after my Pothos varieties guide video
I would have become more of
an expert on an identifying this pothos
but apparently not
but yeah I'm gonna go
with exotica of it let me know what you think
cause I do think this is an exotica
not a silver satin and
on their website they have it as silver splash
philodendron or silver splash pothos
so I wasn't really quite
sure which one is it but I think
this is the exotica but either way I'm happy
because I wanted this
i already have the scindapsus pictus argyreus
which has the smaller leaf so
I wanted to get the exotica
so I can get the one with a larger leaf
but this looks amazing
i am now an owner of the scindapsus pictus exotica
so I just brought this in this shower to
like wash off the leaves
because there has some like soil
that was like toss around I guess in shipping
I did notice that the pot is cracked so
I might do have to repot it
if I can't fix that
and as I look down a drainage hole
I could see a lot of roots already
so I think that's already root bound but
again we'll check later on
I'm gonna wait for the soil to completely dry out
because it's a bit moist
they probably watered this before sending this to me
so I'm gonna wait for this one to dry out and see what's
going on and maybe I will do a repotting video for this one
I forgot to mention
if it's like I know people are like saying
I thought you have a plant budget
that you are sticking to
i do and I'm still on budget with this one
i bought seeds for like $45, this one was this 23 so that is like $68
I did earn money from poshmark for about my $80 in January so I so
I'm still with budget and also
another loophole in that entire plant budget thing
is I paid for this plant using Sezzle
so it's kind of like AfterPay it divides
your payment up
so when I got this
I paid $5 something at first
it's gonna take another $5 something three more times
up until I believe last week of
March or first week of April
so I kind of like spread it out a bit and that's
how I bought this plant a lot earlier than planned
so that's kind of like my loop hole into it
which is I know but
I made it work
okay so this is probably a bad idea
so I'm not gonna recommend it to you but
because I'm in a hurry
and I want this plant to dry out
at least the leaves
so i am going to blow dry it
I'm gonna do it in a cool setting
this one has a permanent cool setting
so it is going to be in a cool setting
the entire time I'm using it
and it's going to be in the lowest setting
so I just kind of want to blow
all the moisture off and all the remaining soil on its leaves just to
give me a peace of mind while I'm gone
and I'm just gonna leave it hanging here
so that it could drain
and dry out okay
so let's do it
making sure it's on cool setting
okay so I'm finished blow drying it and
a lot of the moisture has been blown out for the most part
so that's it for my video
I hope you liked it
oh yeah before I forget
and I'm not sure if the discount code is still gonna work by the time you
watch this video but I did put it in my hoya kerri propagation blog post so
I hope you've seen that and it was able to catch the discount but if not and you
haven't the discount I believe is
50FF to get five dollars off your total
or 10OFF to get 10% discount off your total
so just see which one is gonna
give you a bigger discount
you can't use both at the same time
you can only use one
yeah so go check it out houseplantshop.com
the link will be down in description and
again not sponsored
but this is only my third time buying plants online
and my second time buying at houseplantshop.com
and like the first like my
first experience with them I am very happy with this one
like this is worth
the price that I paid for it
just even if I found this in a big box store
they're probably gonna sell it for 17 dollars the cheapest and 25 dollars at
most which is like so the price I got it for is in between including shipping
like the $23 is including the shipping
well minus the discount but including
the shipping cost
so yeah and they gave it a little thing so I could like
hang it if I have to
I'm not sure where to put this yet \
but it's probably gonna
go up my green wall
so happy that i already have this
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