r/houseplants

This dream has been a year in the making. Just dropped my Phil. Burle Marx at the fair ground. Judging is Wednesday - wish us luck!

More details for nerdy plant parents:
- She’s 4 yr old, grown from cutting
- On a moss pole in inorganic substrate
- Semi hydro (I think the judges will be tickled she’s in a punch bowl)

Yes - Rented a u-haul to get her there 💀 I’ve gone full pageant mom.

The guy at check in said if I’m a minute late to pick her up next Monday he’s taking her 😍.

He also said I should be prepared for people to make offers to buy her!!!

How much would the offer have to be for you to part with her?

the form is intentional. i don't really want more branching, & i definitely don't want to propagate it. it's tied to the wall. that's a 16.5 inch pot. the soil is mostly organic, very chunky. nice window situation, nice humidity. it grew upwards & hit the ceiling long ago. before long, it may traverse the room. i counted roughly 142 leaves. had for 5 years. started small, 1 gal pot.

I was repotting a store bought plant out of the stores soil, and this worm looking little one was in the soil? But it jumps, and there was a bunch of baby ones in the soil too. I just did a regular repot on the plants, but have no idea what this could be.
Plant bought in Utah.

saw this on pinterest. had to share this one because it's pretty relatable

I still can’t believe I just got this for free. It didn’t come with a pot so I had to buy the pot but oh my gosh, it’s 7 feet tall!

You guys🥹 I just can’t get over how much I love plants and all my plant babies. I am sitting here with butterflies in my stomach just thinking about all the new leaves growing on my plants. Ugh is this obsession healthy?🤣 thank god I have a full-time job or I’d be staring at these babies 24/7 watching them grow. I’m just a proud plant parent🥲🫶🏻

Hi, I am fairly new to having plants but ever since my friend gifted me a ficus elastica ruby (and it's been thriving!) I was encouraged that maybe I don't have a black thumb after all! That is until I got this beautiful coleus who absolutely hates me. When I first got her, she was lush and very leafy! She was outdoors and shaded in Texas sun. I don't have any shaded areas on my patio so I decided she was going to be an indoor plant. (I also liked the look of her inside) Brought her in, changed her very root bound soil, sprayed her with insecticide and neem oil mixture and got her a grow light so she was happy. She started losing leaves very quickly, most of which were shriveled up, and became very leggy. My goal with her is to get her back to her very leafy state. Should I prune her to the base and cut all of the leggy parts off to "start over"? Please help. I already pruned some and propagated those cuttings which are thriving in soil right now. I scratched a little of her brown stem and it is green underneath meaning it is still alive, right? This plant is causing me stress when I look at her and just want to see her leafy, red, and thriving again.

Everyone say hello and goodbye to my first full moon leaf. We all know it won't be around for long. 🥲

I noticed it was having a hard time unfurling yesterday so I gave it a good spritz with some humidity, and today I came out and found this full moon leaf. 🥰 If you look extremely close, you will see the tiniest sliver of green near the sinus.. about the size of a pinhead. It's already pushing out it's next leaf, so I know this one isn't long for this world. I wish there were a way to preserve it.

I just bought this Musa ‘Nono’ Pink Variegated Banana plant from Lowe’s a couple of weeks ago. What are the chances of it actually producing bananas? Has anyone had any luck with that? I obviously love the plant the way it is, and won’t care if it produces or not, just curious on other people’s experiences!

So i have 2 red banana leaf plants. I was pruning some leaves off of them today bc they were looking a little rough and I am looking more for height than width so im trying to promote that, been pruning a couple leaves every like week and a half. We'll i had a big fungus gnat problem after having them out during the super rainy season, so when I took them inside it was ridiculous, especially bc the first couple leaves I pruned I pruned incorrectly and they rotted :/. Well I let them dry out a lot and then used neem oil when I watered them and wiped the leaves, its been about a week and a half-two weeks since I watered them and the fungus gnat problem is essentially solved, I have only seen a couple. The plants are still okay and the soul is somewhat moist a couple inches down so im leaving it until its drier and then going to use the neem oil again.

Anyways when I went to check them out I noticed so many dead gnats in the inside of the leaves by the stems so I kinda freaked and wiped them down with a wet paper towel with rubbing alcohol and try to get as many out as I can. I really dont want more rotting stuff attracting gnats 😭 so I decided to pruned another leaf that was browinging a bit bv it has so many in it, I was going to leave it until next week so I wouldn't stress my olant out. And i royally fucked up the cut so now im having anxiety about it. But now Im wondering if I should water it so that it doesnt freak out from over pruning and the fucked up cut. I am still very new and very not great with plants but I love these plants and I want them to thrive. Any advice is totally welcome!!!

This guy is quite happy! And so much fun to photograph. I accidentally left out in 90+ degree direct sun for half the day, and with the exception of a few brown spots he bounced right back. I live in dry SoCal and it's adapted fine to low humidity but I always use purified water.

My 5-year-old Monstera is 3.5 meters tall and takes up a quarter of my living room. I had to kick it out after the 6th thrips infestation. I spent a fortune on predatory mites.

I really didn't like doing this. But keeping it indoors was a big mental drain, a lot of work, and it overshadowed everything else. I immediately enjoyed my other plants much more.

This is in the Netherlands, it won't survive the winter here, but at least the world can enjoy it for a few more weeks.

My 5-year-old queen of the night (epiphyllum oxypetalum) bloomed for the 4th time in two summers last night.

I’ve raised her from a rooted cutting I received from a neighbor (after watching theirs bloom one night!). Both years the blooms surprised me when I thought we would truly be joining the compost instead of coming inside for the winter.

that flower was a faux one
anyway the lower leaves have brown spots on em it has 2-3 healthy leaves an the on in the middle
is kinda brown
is there any hope to save it if so what do i do ?

My one year old spider plant, before and after. I still have the calathea but RIP to the little one

Hello everyone,

I bought this plant advertised as a Scindapsus (with a nickname "Drakenklimop" in Dutch) a few weeks ago and I would like to try to make it climb my wall, however during research I found that scindapsus seem to climb a lot slower than pothos do, so I was thinking about buying one.

Howeverr, as I'm trying to identify what kind of Scindapsus this might be I find it looks more and more like a pothos than a scindapsus to me. The leaves seem a lot thinner than most scindapsus do and the texture and looks seem a lot more simulair to a pothos to me as well.

I am however very new to houseplants, so I didn't want to draw that conclusion myself without asking for some guidance from more experienced plant enjoyers. So here I am :)

Also, any advice for letting it climb up my wall? Is it better to let it climb up a pole a bit first or can I pinch the branches on the wall straight from the pot? I've also ehard that the roots could damage a wall and remove paint, is this an issue that could be a problem?

Thanks in advance for you guidance and advice! :)

I saw the white princess post on Facebook just now and KNEW that I had seen that originally posted to Reddit previously. I checked to see if maybe the Facebook page was the same user as OP on Reddit - and then discovered they are doing this to other Reddit users as well!!

I’m going to report the Facebook account, but just a heads up to everyone that this is happening. Not sure if anyone really cares about their plant pictures being falsely uploaded as someone else’s ownership, but I would if it was me.