hi everyone it's marianne
welcome to my wasteless life
in this video i'll be sharing with you some of my plants that are currently struggling
and trying to un-alive themselves
thank you so much for joining me today
and if you're new this is my wasteless life
where i take you along my plant and sustainable lifestyle journey
and share with you some of my tips and tricks along the way
so today i'm sharing with you my plants that are currently struggling and
trying to unalive themselves lately
and in the past i used to stress out a lot when a plant is struggling
and even though when i get requests for it i don't really share my Ls when it comes to my houseplants
because i thought that for people to take
me seriously or believe what i have to say about house plants
i need to have a perfect record when it comes to taking care of my house plants
when you think about it it's not very honest and it's not very realistic
because it is a plant journey there's going to be ups and downs
nowadays i'm a little bit more chill about it
i mean it still affects me i still stress out a little bit
but i'll process it quickly and let it go because as i always say or
well i don't always say it but i do say
it's about seeking growth and not perfection
when it comes to our houseplants and something that we could also follow in life
so today i am having a dedicated video on my plants that are currently struggling
and trying to unalive themselves
and the very first one is my rhaphidophra tetraspherma
and if you've seen my video my best trailing and climbing house plants
this was one of them because it has a really nice growth
but what happened was the other day
it fell off its plant stand and i was able to capture it on film
but my camera was on the wrong setting
so hopefully editing marianne has figured a way to
salvage that footage because it's hilarious in hindsight
because while i was trying to take care of this one my
syngonium albo and my string of turtles fell off
the same plant stand and luckily for my syngonium albo
and for my string of turtles nothing bad happened to them
they just needed to be repotted so they are not in this video
but at that moment i was really upset but i got over it in 30 seconds
and realized that it's actually a blessing in disguise
because i was having a hard time trying to find a
place for this because it's already been growing too long
but now that it's smaller again i could shove it into any plant shelf,
on any surface and it would do fine
and for the cuttings of this one i currently have it propagating in water
in the past i don't have a lot of luck with propagating rhaphidophra tetraspherma
so we'll see what happens with this one but i could already see a couple of them
forming roots so that's great news
so even if just half of this survives propagation i'm happy with that
because i don't really need a lot of rhaphidophra tetraspherma
and i'm actually don't know what i'm going to do with this if it does successfully propagate
but we'll find out and i'll keep you updated in a future video
update i posted about it in a local facebook plant group that i'm
in and someone came to pick them up from me
also update on the mother plant as you can see it has
three new growth points which i'm really excited about
not sure though if all three will survive we will see and i'll definitely keep you posted
for the next plant it does kind of suck because it is one of my favorite houseplants
and i kind of suspected that it was struggling for a while but i hope it would bounce back on its own
but it didn't and it's my scindapsus pictus exotica
and if you've been watching me for a while you
know i do have a couple of scindpasus pictus exotica
but since i was trying to minimize my plant collection
but at the same time i was hesitant to give up either one
i decided to combine them in one pot together
and they didn't like that so it started experiencing root rot
so i had to take it out of the pot and you know remove all the roots that were rotting
and i also decided to cut off the long vines that it already had
because i didn't want the mother plant
which is this one to overwork itself by trying to support all the vines and also try to regrow roots
and at the same time if i do make propagations of
this so just in case this one doesn't make it i have cuttings
and i wouldn't lose the entire plant all together
but if you want to see this plant in its former glory go watch my
video on scindapsus plant varieties and how to tell them apart
but i think this video comes out first before that one
but if you're watching in the future go check down the description the link should be there
but like the tetrasperma it did turn out to be a blessing in disguise in the end
because now it does actually take up a lot less space so
right now the cuttings are propagating in water
but recently Hohbee Store sent me their PAFCAL which is an eco-friendly soilless medium
and i have used it before when they sent me their midorie grow frame earlier this year
it has the same growing material and my pothos cuttings that i place in there really loved it
so i'm excited to use it for this one and i'm going to demonstrate to you right now
how i'm going to propagate this and grow this in pafcal
here's what the pafcal looks like and it's already
divided into three parts for you so you don't have to break it apart yourself
it looks like a bit of a nesting doll and what you do with it is
you soak it in water so that it would fully expand
i soak mine with the root and grow solution that's why the water looks a little bit murky
but you can just soak yours in regular water
it does take a few minutes for it to be fully soaked and expand
but after it does just take it off the water and into a container of your choice
i'm placing mine in a glass container with LECAat the bottom to act as drianage
and after that you could just stick in the cuttings
into the divided parts like i said you don't have to break it apart
or anything just stick the cuttings in between the divided parts and you're good to go
and i'm going to show you the top view of it so you can see how it looks like from the top
and here's the top view as you can see
what i'm doing is i'm just opening up the gaps in between the divided parts of the pafcal
and sticking in the cuttings in there
what i like about the pafcal compared to other soil free
mediums that i've tried in the past is with pafcal
it's virtually impossible to make any mess with it because of how it's constructed
second i don't really need to maintain a water reservoir for it even though
i put LECA at the bottom it's just for drainage
and i also don't have to second guess if it's
watering or not the pafcal would of course shrink and also lighten in color
if it's dry and all i have to do is pour some water on top for it to be remoist
and at the end of the video i'll show you an update on how it is doing a week or two later
but if you're interested in purchasing pafcal from the hohbee store
the link is down in the description go check it out
meanwhile let's return to my other struggling
plants and by time this video is up either this plant has made it
or it's already dead
and this is also kind of embarrassing because i did a care video for this plant earlier this year
and now it is dying under my care and that plant is the tradescantia nanouk
so this is basically what i have left of it i
used to have a very full four inch pot and a propagation in this pot
what i did was i combined the two together when the propagation was already growing too large
for the small terracotta pot but after i did that the plant just started
dying it didn't recover from the repotting
and i think i might have overwatered it too at one point and the stems just started getting mushy
and the leaves were just starting to fall off when i remove it from the pot there was root rot
and after i repotted it again and salvaged what i could
a lot of the stems and leaves still started falling off
and this is what i am left with so i'm back with this one
so i'm not sure if this will survive i hope it does
i do love the plant tradescantia nanouk it's what got me into tradescantia
but if this one doesn't survive i don't know if i'm going to repurchase this
it's just that i think the plant that i bought initially was expensive for the size that i got
and if i can find one that's under five dollars then i would repurchase it
but right now i'm not in a hurry to do so
and my next struggling plant is my monstera siltepecana
this one i am not surprised because we've always had this problem from day one
i always struggled with this plant with yellowing
and root rot but right now i'm only down to this one
if you watch my pothos care video in my background i
have a full eight inch pot of monstera siltepecana
that i found at lowe's for under twenty dollars and it's still very expensive in many places
even though it can be occasionally found at lowe's but for me though i only found it one time
at Lowe's for under twenty dollars but i never really wanted a huge monstera siltepecana plant
so i started selling off parts of it and i've sold so many propagations of that plant
that i can't really be mad that it keeps struggling it has paid for itself
and paid for my other plants as well
so when this plant was yellowing like crazy i told myself that when it bounced back
which is on its way
and i knew it will because you know it's not our first rodeo we've been through this before
i said that once it bounced back i will sell this
but i am now i'm not too sure if i would because i might regret selling it
because like i said it's still hard to find the monstera siltepecana again at lowe's
it's still very expensive in many other places and i doubt that i'll find this
close again for under 20 dollars
but as mentioned i have a very toxic relationship with my monstera siltepecana
it's currently patient zero for my fungus gnat infestation
as you can see how much fungus gnat
this one captured i had to take it out of my ikea cabinet because it has
infected pretty much every single plant
that i have in there including the next one that i'm going to talk about which is
my anthurium clarinervium and this one was infected with the fungus gnats as well
because it was in the ikea cabinet with my monstera siltepecana
and i think it also had soil mites because the plant wasn't pushing out any new growth
all of these leaves are new growth i did cut off all the original leaves it came with
but it hasn't pushed a fort leaf
since and i think the sole mites were competing for nutrients in the soil so i had to repot it
and i also think the pot that it was in which was this one was too big for it
so when i repotted this there was a tiny bit of root rot but mostly there were
holes in the roots of the anthurium
and if you've seen the roots of an anthurium they have very thick roots like of an orchid
and there were holes in it like insect bites so i think that was the doing of the soil mites
and now i have repotted it and my sphagnum moss coco coir vermiculite mix
and i put in a clear container so i could monitor the root growth and so far it's looking good
and it's in a much smaller container now so hopefully it's going to start
to push out a new growth
and i think i do see a point of new growth on it but i'm not sure if it's
a new root or a new leaf so we will see in time
and i'll share with you updates on this one too in a future video
and the last two that i'm gonna mention in this video is probably the most painful
because i just recently got them and one of them is already dead
and one of them might be unaliving itself too
and both of them are hoyas and the first one is the hoya kentiana variegata
that one is gone that one is dead
so when i brought it back from chicago to maryland i took it off the soil
thinking that would be the best way to travel with it
but i forgot that hoyas are very sensitive to repotting
so when i brought it back it just started falling off leaves until it has none
and now what's left of it is just the roots and a little bit of stem
i have it propagating in my prop station over there
but i'm not really sure what's going to come of it i highly doubt
it would produce new leaves it might eventually rot
but so far it's hanging in there so i'm still keeping it in there
but the hoya kentiana variegata is my biggest L
as far as how fast a plant died in my care after i just got it
that plant didn't even last me a week and now it's dead
and the next one is the hoya compacta variegata
again at first glance it seems like there's nothing wrong with it
but if you compare it to a footage or picture of it just two weeks ago this was a much bigger plant
it had a vine here that i had to cut off because the leaves
were continuously getting mushy and dropping
so i just decided to cut off the vine altogether and the yellowing has stopped
so i thought it has recovered from the shock transplant
because i also repotted this without letting it acclimate first
again that was rookie mistake but i thought it has started to recover
but now i can see wrinkling leaves on this vine and usually like for my regular hoya compacta
when the leaves are wrinkly that means it needs watering
so i watered it but the leaves are still wrinkly
and i don't want to water it again because i've been watering this
so often more often than i would a regular hoya
and i just don't want to do it anymore because i'm scared of over watering it
i don't really know what's going on i don't know why that one is still trying to dry out
i think the other vine is doing okay i do see a new growth
but the thing with the hoya compacta variegata like most hoyas it is a very slow grower
so if this survives it will take a long time for the vines to regrow
so i don't really know what to do with it
if you have a hoya compacta variegata or if you're an expert on hoya
let me know down in the comments how to best take care of this one because right now i'm at a loss
and this was my most expensive plant purchase this year aside for my anthurium clarinervium
i paid 35 for this one so at this point even though it's going to be a while
before it regrows all the leaves and vines that it lost
i'm just hoping it survives at this point that's all i'm asking for
and i think this one is pushing out new growth
so i hope at least one of the vines survives but i'm really hoping for this one to survive as well
so if you have any tips and tricks for me
of taking care of a hoya compacta variegata especially for the hoya heads
and hoya experts out there please let me know down in the comments
because i could really use your help in trying to keep this one alive
hi everyone it's wednesday august 11th
and i'm gonna share with you the update to the scindapsus pictus
that i put in pafcal and so far they've been doing well i think they've been here
for almost two weeks now if not longer
i did lose one cutting it rotted out but so far everything else is looking good
i've seen a couple of root growth
up here already so that is a good sign that this one is successfully propagating
and because i placed it in my ikea greenhouse cabinet i haven't really been watering this
i just been moistening up a little bit every now and then when i think it's about to go dry
but it hasn't really gone that dry and as you can see like down
in the LECA there's a little bit of water in there
so it's doing pretty good and i'm really excited for this to grow fully because like i said
i missed this plant trailing really really long so that's the update on my scindapsus exotica
and again if you're interested in purchasing the pafcal from hohbee store
the link is down in the description
those are my plants that are currently struggling in my care
let me know down in the comments which of your plants are struggling as well
and if you have any tips and tricks for me for my plants that are currently struggling
especially for my hoya compacted variegata
let me know down in the comments as well i could really use your help
but thank you so much for watching
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but until then i see you i appreciate you
take care of yourself and each other
and have a plantiful day bye