Big Indoor Trees | 15 Low Light Tolerant Species Revealed!

welcome back everybody my name is amanda from plant arena and you know i just want to thank you guys so much for watching these videos continuing to watch the videos and just being so super supportive and just lovely thank you so much for that and thanks for everything this is thanks for everything you guys are just incredible people thank you okay enough of that so i'm gonna just do a video today on a question i get a lot i get this question from people that i used to work for i get this question from friends and the question is what kind of tall tree type plants can i have in my house and i don't have a lot of light so they're really looking for trees like trees like ficus and beautiful trees to have in their house but unfortunately they can't because if they don't have the light trees like fiddly figs ficus moclaim uh padocarpus one of my favorite that i can't have in the house they can't have it in the house citrus trees you can't but there are some solutions there are some trees and tree like plants and plants that you can make look like trees that will like fit the space it'll fulfill that purpose does that make any sense okay you know what i mean it'll work it'll work in those spaces the first one i want to talk about i'm gonna i'm looking at it it is called it's called a different bakia here it is here here it is this is a different baking i'll definitely do some b-roll on in this video this is a different bakia and this is kind of big one it's a big one it's a big one and they get big you know you might buy them and they're small do i have a small different baking here side do hold on a second i should be more prepared but i'm not you know when people do ask me those questions i'm like why are you asking me am i you think i'm a plant expert wait i'm supposed to be that's right this is a small this is a small one this is a tropic marian it's really really pretty and you it might be deceiving but they do they just get big they get big i'm going to zoom out maybe so you can see how big they get i wish i had a cameraman you hear my stomach i'm hungry i've been eating so much since i've been back home it's like putting on weight for the winter yeah i gotta stop night eating it's happening every night anyway these guys get big i'm not gonna zoom i'm just gonna put some beer all over they get big they get kind of woody too there's no wood there's no wood here but uh oh can you see my drink you're not supposed to be seeing that it's not an actual alcoholic drink it's just a soda i'm not supposed to be drinking soda and i sneak it i come into the garage and i sneak drinking sodas i'm bad i'm bad but it's really unhealthy for you look at this see this is like a cane it's like a cane it gets woody it's like bamboo kind of cool right and they do they have this hard cellular structure that enables them to become trees tree like oh look there's a brand new leaf in there this is a little beaten up a little bit i'm gonna fix it i'm gonna fix you i'm gonna just let your new growth come out i'm gonna re-pot you i'm talking to my plants again i talk to myself a lot in the plants so different baking and i think this is i'm not really sure what this one is it might be my stomach tropic snow kind of bad i am super forgetful these days and i'm sorry it's just i can't i just can't remember anything anymore so and they come in many many different colors and they're so pretty like like tiki is so pretty and camouflaged so pretty i like pretty plants and you know and they're you can get them anywhere it doesn't really matter we sell a bunch of them on our website plantarum.com but you find them everywhere you look they're there and they're i'm like all over the place i'm so sorry they're good in low light and they become trees okay they become tree like that's number one number two are some types of dracaena okay definitely you're pushing the limits you have to go away now because i'm done talking about you you're pushing the limits when you are using a marginata margin is the like more sun i gotta find a marginata do i have one in here why am i not prepared for this video but i do have one inside here's a picture of a marginata they like more sun i find when i pull them further away from the window they stop they start dropping leaves like the lower leaves and sometimes all the leaves fall off so and especially if you're watering it too much and it's not getting the light they're not good candidates for a low light areas in your house and they don't become trees they will die before they become a tree but the fragrance fragrance am i saying it right fragrance fragrance can you even believe me am i a believable plant expert i don't think so i don't know what is going on but i try i really do like plants i'm going to show you this okay remember that show zoom you guys are way too young i'm taking a sip of my soda and sneaking it in the background you guys can't see it but i did it oh boy okay so this i have to pot this up this is the lime something or other lime light i think it's called limelight i don't remember but tall tall and this kind this type of dracina does better in lower light it just has i think that you're seeing that that have kind of this is not that dark the foliage but the darker foliage can do better in low light and that doesn't and once i don't have a lot of variegation this is going to fall over if i let it go so i'm so i'm hugging my tree i'm hugging you so yes this this is a perfect example of something that you should be looking for if you have like a tall ceilings and that you have a weird coin not a weird corner but a corner that needs something in it and you don't want to spend like 30 000 on a sculpture this is kind of a good replacement and it's a living sculpture so i'm just saying these types of drastinas do well but not the marginatus not so much and lisa cane dracaenas do well so you can just this is another great example of something you can put in that corner i'll be back come on you let's go i have to pot you up after this because i don't want you flopping around like a fish on the floor i feel so bad because when i keep coming back to this chair i keep stepping i keep stepping on this poor silver satin potatoes and it's not gonna make it i gotta cut you back so okay so let's speaking of silver satin pothos you can kind of trick people's eye trick your own eye into thinking that something looks like a tree so when you have a a vining plant that is getting out of control like this silver satin pothos here you can stake it up and i have an example there that i'll show you over whatever maybe on this side i'll show you because it's it it brings your eye up like the idea of a tree is so you can fill up a volume a space and you can do that with with pulled plants with state plants like i have upstairs i have this it needs work believe me i know it needs help it is trying to crawl out of the pot and whatever i haven't been around so i'm working on the stuff slowly getting my plants back into shape but because it's on a pole it just fills up this big beautiful corner and it's i forgot to say it but it's a golden pothos it's a golden pothos and you know how fast they grow and if you don't know they do they grow super fast i have them taking over this garage which is i love that's why i love them you know like i said i'm pulling back a little bit from rare plants because i find they make me anxious and i'm going really towards plants that have been working for me like consistently and i'm just i'm done i'm done okay i'm not done i'm still experimenting like pretty much this place is a plant lab that's what i realized i was talking to myself this morning says you know this is a plant lab this is like where experiments happen and that's kind of cool so i will experiment with more rare plants but i'm just not going to be anxious about it okay so anyway back to the poles so putting your plants your vining plants on a pole you can even attach it to the ceiling and it becomes like a tree this is a super great trick and it you know skin daps is pothos epipremnans things that bind you can even get maybe a hoya to do it but since we're talking about low light forget about that because they don't really like low light at all at all so that's that i have notes because you know i don't remember anything anymore uh okay philodendron philodendrons all types of philodendrons can actually do pretty well in low light let me go back and just i should have said this in the beginning low light doesn't mean no light you know what i'm talking about they need light they need some sort of sunlight and i've experimented with no light and that means no plants there were no living plants there's a couple that will hang in there and that's okay you can replace them if you want to do that that's totally fine or you need to supplement the light with artificial light okay so what was i saying oh i was talking about philip engines sorry guys i'm so sorry that's why i always thank you for sticking with me okay it means a lot to me most people would have left the room by now like my husband literally just came in and left he's like oh she's doing it again he's talking to the camera okay so yeah philodendrons like okay like the congo series the uh i have a red emerald doesn't get a lot of light in that room it really doesn't and it's still doing pretty well but philadelphians like i have the big gigantium one this big doing great so my point is if you can control them so they don't start growing out like that you can kind of stake them in so they grow up a little bit taller that's better it looks a little bit more like a tree that way or if you have the volume if you have a big room or a big section of the room make next to your grand piano i love one but i don't even play anyway you could put it there it'll just kind of give that visual that feel of a tree and you can train it to be like a tree too that leads me to monstera de listiosa it's a vine let's just face the facts it's a vine it wants to grow the way it wants to grow you can help it you can prune it you can encourage it to grow up a pole i mean when you stake it stake it tight and get it to grow along like a big cedar stake or something like that or whatever else you can create but you can train it so it grows up and they do well in such a wide range of light so that's another trick these are kind of tricks i guess but they're just plants that can actually live in low light believe me i have tried i've tried fiddly fig that's in the hallway it was outside doing great i cut it back for the last video to propagate and now is this is looking worse and i know it's not going to last there i just unfortunately don't have a ton of light in the house but i like the way it looks so i'll pick one up occasionally and put it out there and see what happens that's the the lab goes into the house now so yes so philodendrons monstera and even monstera at insomnia the the ad and sonyi the vining types of philodendron make them look like a tree by letting them grow up a stake uh some sort of kind of lattice system you can build too on the wall that's another thing you can do i haven't done that yet i use ladders for that effect it brings your eye up that's the point okay so that's that let me look at my list i think oh and then the other one that i've node i'd keep looking at the ring light over there but you're going over here the other one i noticed is like in the chef lara family i continually try with chef lara elegantissima i bring it in and it just starts dropping leaves it does not like low light even medium light it likes bright light in my experience but the amate the the pretty pretty ones with the leaves that look like fingers i'll show you here does it it works it's a chef lara that can actually like actually live in lower light areas in your home so that's the good news there really aren't that many more i mean i hate to tell you the truth i don't hate to tell you the truth i mean i hate to tell you that's the truth that's what i meant to say you can say and i've read things online saying oh rubber trees do well in the low light no they don't ficus elastica just look like garbage in low light and they die very very quickly again in my experience so you can experiment i mean this is life's a lab that's the new that's the new thing life plant life is a lab try everything you can possibly try knowing that there's care guides and you know there's lots of information but you can just you're gonna have to experiment on your own because everybody's light is different right we're all we're all blessed with different types of light that's a good thing i think anyway so i think that's it am i missing anything else no probably because that always happens there's a lot of plants that can like floor plants that can live in low light like spathophylum and things like that but i'm talking about trees today or tree-like structures that is it it's a tuesday it is tuesday have a fabulous week i hope you guys are doing okay i know it's so crazy out there and you know we're just keeping tight we're still trying to keep tight here and do the right thing that's what we're doing and i hope your you guys are well more importantly i hope you're well okay bye i know i forgot something

Channel: PLANTERINA

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Length: 14min 36sec (876 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2020