Hey guys, today I'm joined by my newest
plant and I named her Maronía. I'm
trying not to move her because it is a
fiddle leaf fig plant and they don't like to
be moved that much. Today we are going to do a tour of my plants and I have so
many and they range from newborns to 20
years old. I have a plant that is 20
years old. If you've seen my past videos,
I've mentioned my love for plants and I
know Jenna Marbles did a video like this
and it really did spark something in me.
I've always loved plants growing up but
I've never really paid attention to the
specific scientific names and the
different species of plants until I
watched Jenna Marbles' video and
it's Virgo season. So I like jenna
Marbles am a fellow Virgo. So if you're Virgo
welcome to our season. It's our time and
one of the characteristics of being a
Virgo is a love for plants. I love this
plant so much like this is probably my
favorite plant that I've ever seen and I
bought it at Whole Foods and I wasn't
expecting to see it at Whole Foods because that day I was planning to drive
separately just to get this plant. Fiddle leaf
figs like humidity and they also like
indirect sunlight which is kind of hard to
accomplish so I bought this moisture
meter mainly because I will do
everything in my power to keep this
plant alive. It tracks moisture light and
pH and I'm not that advanced yet I don't
know anything about the pH of the soil
but I do want to make sure that this
plant is getting enough light and enough
moisture to keep it alive and thriving.
So, I'm gonna put it back where I
normally keep it in my room and we will
track the light of it. Okay, so here is where I usually keep it
because it is near a south-facing window
I used my compass on my phone to track
that and I'm gonna put it in right now
so as you can see it is kind of dark
which is not what I was expecting
unfortunately. So I will have to come up
with a different spot for you
Maronía. I don't know why I named her
Maronía but here is another close-up of
her.
And then let's see if the moisture how
moist it is right now.
Yeah, it's dry. Okay so that is enough
about Maronía. So the next plant we have
is one of my oldest plants and I got it
when I was three years old my aunt
bought it for me and it was in a little
seedling box I think it's a Dracaena
Marginata and it grew so tall it not
only hit the ceiling but it started
climbing the ceiling sideways. So, we
ultimately had to cut it down but what I
did was I researched it and I cut into
the plant and inserted rooting hormone
and it worked. So it grew another plant
off of the side of its bark when we cut
the bark down. So this is a product of 20
years of growth so here it is the
Dracaena marginata that is 20 years old.
And the offshoot of it is probably
around 2 years old now but you can see
how substantial the bark is like the
bark is so substantial it is one of my
favorite plants like it's grown up with
me. You can't say that about a lot of
plants so when we cut it down
we saved the top of it and I took the
top of it with me to college so I will
show you the current status of its child
pretty much. This is the child of my
oldest plant as you can see the top has
a little sprout on the side of it and
that sprout is because it was on a
window and my dog knocked it over when
he heard someone was coming in the door
and the top split and when it split, I
guess it did the same thing as the
parent where it grew an up chute from
the trauma so now it has this kind of
cool hairstyle. [camera click sound effect]
And I love the planter. The planter, which I
mentioned in my college video, is a Henry
googly-eye planter from Urban Outfitters.
So, next up we have the snake plant. And
the snake plant is one of the easiest
plants to grow and it also is an air
purifying plant. So this plant I worked
on campus at a certain office that
sounds weird.
I had an on-campus job and it became my
home away from home especially when I
was starting out at college when I left
it when I graduated I wanted to take
something that reminded me of it so I
took a little sprout of the snake plant
in the office and it wouldn't stand up
on its own because it was growing on the
side so I put this bamboo stake in it
and tied it together with plant string. 
I've had it since May and as you can see
as you can see right there, it started to
grow. It took around four months for it
to start to grow and get kind of
acclimated into its new environment but
it did and it's growing pretty fast
which I'm excited about. This is the
bathroom tiki
And, for a succulent, it does pretty well
in the bathroom for some reason and it's
very old it's maybe seven years old the
reason I bought this was because it was
red when I first bought it but I didn't
know that it was painted so it was a
painted succulent it wasn't actually red
so when it started to grow it was
chipping off the paint and I felt so bad
that someone painted it in the first
place. Here's a aerial shot of it it's
doing really well the bathroom tiki. I was
about to show you the other bathroom
plant but here is a bathroom plant
himself say hi to the people say hi I
was in a green screen. I was in the green
screen. Okay, keep sleeping. So that brings
me to my next plant and this is a pothos
plant I put it in the bathroom because
it's an air purifying plant. I think this
is the one they call the bachelor plant
because it's so easy to keep alive. They
call me the bachelor plant living easy
is my middle name.
Welcome to this corner of my plant tour.
So on my left I have two plants one of
them is an aloe plant and the other one
is a pilea peperomioides. I don't
know if I'm saying that right. And the
aloe plant
I actually got when I was living in LA.
LA was the perfect climate for
succulents where they would grow outside.
So, I was walking and I saw someone that
lived near me had a Rubbermaid box
outside of their door with a little
sticker that said please take one and it
was all of these aloe plants that were
doing so well. And when I moved to LA I missed my
plants so when I saw that it really did
make my day so if you are the person
that did that, I mean in the slight chance,
thank you. And when I was done living in
LA I shipped the aloe plant back home
with me and it survived and it's doing
really well and then the pilea peperomioides
it's just a really cool plant. It's the
Chinese money plant and it's also known
as the friendship plant because it grows
very fast so if you cut one of the
branches or a couple of the branches off and give it to your friend
it will grow really quickly. So here is
the pilea and it's a really beautiful
plant. So this little offshoot is one
that I would pull off and give to one of
my friends and it would grow really
quickly and then here is the aloe it has
such good character and it's like almost
touching the pilea I can't tell if
they're friends or not but they seem to
be. It has a very mischievous face right
now. And these two don't require
that much care like all I do is water
them I don't use any fertilizer and they
still do pretty great. So this is a pilea
from my original pilea plant it was one
of those offshoots like you saw. This is
my sister's succulent. And then this this
is another plant that I shipped from LA
So my friend had a lemon tree and her
lemons were so good.
So I took the seeds and I propagated
them and I made these lemon trees or
lemon plants. They're a couple years
old now but they haven't really grown
that much. So I don't know. They're
yellowing a little bit so maybe I do
need to fertilize them. This is my
sister's calathea which is a prayer
plant. And it's called a prayer plant
because at night its leaves fold as if
it was praying. She says it doesn't
require that much care all she does is
spray it and it's a really cool plant
because it moves. The world's best dog.
Speaking of my dog this was my mom's
bonsai tree and it was beautiful until
one day my dog decided to eat it. And it
is growing back, we think. The bark is
growing but we don't know how much it'll
recover. This is a peace lily plant and
this plant does extremely well in
low-light situations and it's even an
air purifying plant. And my dad told me
this because I thought I killed it the
other day but you water it by its weight
so it requires more water than usual
plants and if it starts to droop it just
needs more water. So now what I'm about
to show you is every plant parent's
worst nightmare: the dead ones, or the
ones that die so I call it the plant
graveyard. And I keep them just with the
sliver of hope that they'll recover from
whatever trauma they experienced. So now
cut to that. Plant graveyard part one
this was a senecio angel wings plant and
they had high hopes for this it died
within a week of me buying it and I'm
keeping it because I can't tell if it's
alive or not it's drooping but it's got
white leaves so it's hard to tell. This
is a pineapple plant and I've had it for
maybe five or six years and what
happened was it grew enough to grow a
pineapple so this stalk right here was
where the pineapple was gonna grow and
then it just peaced out and gave up. I
don't know if it was because it couldn't
produce one. So it grew a baby pineapple
plant and that baby pineapple plant is
right here now. So I don't know what's
gonna happen with this plant but it is a
weird kind of deformed plant right
now. This one is a neanthe Bella palm
and it has very greyish green leaves but
not brown so I can't tell if it's alive
or not. But when I first bought it it was
thriving but then I left for spring
break for a week and it died or I don't
know if it died I just did this it
turned gray and it's been like that ever
since. So I think it's safe to say that
this one is dead but I've been holding
out on throwing it away. So this is a
sage and it comes equipped with a
headstone: here live sage. And I don't
know what it is about me and herbs but
we do not mix well. I give them a lot of
good care but everywhere I've lived I've
never been able to keep an herb alive.
The aerify crispy wave.
I had this plant for a year and it was
doing so well until all of a sudden I
don't know if the got rot from the
middle, but you can see the browning of
the leaves and then it just kind of
disintegrated into itself. Rest in peace
crispy wave. I'm gonna get another one of
you though so I will see you again
because the air is so purified when you
if you smell this plant not right now
but when it was alive you could smell
how clean the air was like it did such a
good job of cleaning the air and this is
the final plant in the plant graveyard
this was a Sun star plant that I bought
at Trader Joe's for 5.99 and it was
thriving it was doing so well until the
wind took it and knocked it off the
windowsill and it just peaced out and
then I cut it down to the bulb because I
read online that if you cut it down to
the bulb it could grow back but so far
it hasn't but you can see that there's
still a little bit of green there so I'm
not sure. So those were my plants but I
really was inspired by Jenna Marbles' video of a tour of her plants and
it really inspired me to elevate my
plant game. Hopefully you found this
interesting and found a plant that you
would like or a plant you think would
thrive in your living situation. Plants are our friends. They purify the air, they lower
VOCs volatile organic compounds. So yeah,
I mean, not every plant lives and it's
okay. I mean there was a meme me buying
plants knowing that if I take it home
it's gonna die and that's sad but it
sometimes is true like unfortunately
not every plant survives. But it's worth
the time, the effort and the money. So
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