hi there my name is memo this is my channel house planty goodness and essentially it's a
place where i like to geek out about my big passion you might be able to see it taking
over my space behind me it's tropical plants so today i want to do more of my traditional
videos where we look at a specific plant and i talk to you about my experiences
what i do in terms of growth and things that i've learned along the way so let me pick up
the plant it's a very cool aetherium this time around so the antherium i want to talk about
which is coming at you at the screen and let me bring it in a bit closer so you might be able to
see and if i pan the leaf up and down and i will also do a traditional kaylie ellen head test it is
relatively large as a leaf it's not huge these do get quite large this is the aetherium
regal now you might be able to see how i'm growing this already i've got it in a net pot
and i have also got it in my usual light airy aeroid soil mix and you might be able
to see if i bring it in a bit closer you can then see that all the roots are growing quite
happily and they're growing at the bottom of this pot they are also bending slightly so i
think i'm probably going to lose some of those roots if not all of them which is a shame but
i do need to repot this quite soon and basically waiting for a new delivery of
pond so i will be moving this into la choose upon and this is a request i have for my followers
especially ones that do have the regal in their care and they've potentially moved it over
to pond from soil so this is the important thing i know a lot of people they might be getting these
plants from international suppliers or growers like ecuador and some of those might be coming in
bare root and then you putting it straight into pond i'd love to hear your experiences as well
but i'm more curious if anybody has gone from soil on this specific aetherium to pond purely because
i know and again this is something that kayla has mentioned on her channel a couple of times
that this plant can almost be as fussy as the queen antherium or the antherium waraquino
in my experience so far and i'm not gonna lie it's not been a particularly difficult plant
yes there are there is some crisping on the leaves but i don't know i think i've done a
previous video on this when i first got it and it just had these first two leaves they were already
quite crispy it is quite a thick and leathery leaf so not quite as thick as the clarineurium
but it's still a relatively kind of stiff leaf i'm thinking of and i'm looking at my metallicum
that i've got at the top and i might actually grab that really quickly so you can see
the size difference so this bear in mind that is the size of this leaf let me show
you the metallicum really quickly to see the difference and this is the metallicum and you
might be able to see one of the leaves is slowly dying off i'll see if i can do a proper head test
so that gives you an idea of quite how large that newest leaf is but even though this plant
has got massive leaves and i've always been quite fortunate that i've got a relatively
um thick stem and a thick kind of more mature plant to begin with this has always grown
leaves yes there has been some debate on my instagram and there's a random inflorescence
buzzing around my face there's been some debate and i'm up for that debate as well on whether or
not this is a true metallica because some people decide it's not narrow enough it doesn't form
the features in quite the way now i've got the inflorescence for the first time ever
so i'm waiting for it to become receptive and then i will try to pollinate it unfortunately i
don't have any male pollen from the same plant so it will probably be a hybrid
i've got my i'm looking on the side i've got my vitaharifolium that might be coming
into bloom soon so i might do a hybrid between this and the vitera photo depending on whether
or not it will take so keep you posted on that one but yes sorry big tangent let me put this
back and let me grab the regal again back to the regal sorry about that
but with this plant i have found that it was specifically quite slow and growing now unlike
a lot of my other antheriums that slightly get a bit more brighter light i've decided to go
for a slightly more medium light for this plant because i wanted those darker more anxious leaves
and i did get it with this new leaf and it's considerably larger than the two previous ones
i do the usual thing where i will color the stem essentially i'll give it a bit of a scarf
of sphagnum moss because i find that you tend to get larger leaves faster and you can see by this
the size of that petiole and kind of how much it's stretching it was going towards the light so again
i implore anybody who has got the regal out there who's had some experience and they've grown it for
a while what conditions are you growing it in am i doing something differently to you
maybe i should try your way but so far i won't say it's been particularly difficult i have
always been staunchly against getting aware of any so queen antherium that might change this was my
my gateway essentially because i know that this one might be as almost as difficult as the cranium
so i wanted to see if i could keep this one happy before i got something like a queen antherium
and so far so good with this the one thing i will say out of all of my aetherium
very very very slow growing so it might be the growing conditions it might be the soil it might
be how i'm growing it in my environment it's getting decent humidity in here it's getting
watered before the soil goes dry so staying evenly moist it is very light and airy in terms of the
soil mix and i always want to do that with an antherium this one did have a significant chunk
that it was growing from so that's why i knew that there was a potential to get a big big leaf
and i'm pretty sure that the leaves could be even bigger than this so potentially the next one i am
trying to see if i've got anything coming up not anytime soon to be honest but again we are in the
winter autumn time so it could take a while but yeah so at the moment that's where i stand with
this i'm thinking about moving this into pond i'm fertilizing this still even in the winter
just a lot more weekly because it doesn't have a lot of active growth happening at the moment
but in the summer time and in the growing season i'll water this every second watering as i will
fertilize it every second watering like i do with most of my plants but yeah so far so
good with this one it's just as i said in my experience very slow growing so it took a while
to bring out that new leaf it took a very long while for it to unfold don't get me wrong it's
beautiful shades of like the red and peach and brownie colors before it goes into the full green
and it fully hardens off it took a while to harden off but a really cool and theorem nonetheless
i would agree with what kelly ellen says maybe not for the true true beginner maybe if you've grown
a few antheriums and you've got that under your belt and you've grown ones that are slightly fussy
then maybe move on to something like this but don't go into something like this straight away
without knowing necessarily what you're doing because a lot of things i would imagine could
go wrong with this plant quite quickly so yeah i think that's everything i wanted to say about
this is obviously in my conservatory so it's getting a decent level of humidity
no pest issues so far touch wood um but yeah i think that's it for now short video even though
not an easy plant but a relatively straightforward plant in terms of care so light airy soil mix
a collar or a scarf of sphagnum moss around the base which i do with most of my aetheriums
and obviously keeping it very airy but keeping it evenly moist if at all possible don't ever let it
dry fully out because as i said if it's a bit more like the ethereum waraquino or the queen antherium
again i don't have that so i can't compare it but this is based on what i've seen from other people
this is not a plant that you want to go dry and stay dry for a very long
period of time although interestingly i will say this it does have relatively chunky roots
so not quite as chunky like something like the clarineurium
or even i'm looking at the vitarafolium who's got kind of worm-like roots very very thick but
yeah so far so good i still love it i still think it's probably one of my
most stunning leaves in terms of aetheriums um yeah i mean even comparing it to my crystalline
yeah yeah i still think this one might just win in that situation for me but yeah i think that's
everything i wanted to say for today if you've got any questions comments do let me know i'll try
my best and said i've not been growing this i've probably been growing this about half a year now
but do please share any of your own experiences if you've had growing the regal and let me know
maybe what you're doing differently to me um and definitely definitely definitely if you've
transitioned this plant specifically from a soil mix into the choose a pond let me know how that
went for you because this is one that i worry a bit by moving it into the choose upon straight
away but yeah i think that's everything i wanted to say so 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 bye