Popular Plants That I Just Don’t Like

hi everyone my name is Nick and today we're gonna talk about popular plants that I personally don't really care for I was a little apprehensive to make this video because it could be seen as a little negative or a tad hateful but the deciding factor was not only was this a video that was requested by many but we're throwing shade towards plants and not people so all in good fun and try to be as light-hearted as possible I'm so positive I feel like on YouTube I think would be kind of fun to go in the opposite direction for a video and it's kind of difficult to do this video because I don't have any of these plants because I don't like them and I would normally reach out to my peers on Instagram and say like hey can I borrow this photo for a video I'm doing but I don't want to reach out to anybody and be like hey I'm making a video about plants I don't like can I use your photo because that's just rude this video in general is already rude enough so I'm yeah bear with me I'm gonna have to use some Google stock images I'm so sorry anybody gets offended or if I break any heart start this video I'm sure it's inevitable but like I said all in good fun so let's just go ahead and get started so the first plant we're going to talk about today that is a popular plant that I personally just don't give a rat's ass about is calathea or nada and this is probably the only one on this list that I actually genuinely like the way it looks but I hate everything else about it I hate its attitude its o has such a piss-poor attitude I can't stand it calathea is in general or prayer plants are not easy ones to grow they do require a little bit more maintenance and just like hair overall but calathea or nada is a very unforgiving prayer plant and unfortunately it seems to be one that many people won and nothing that's unfortunate it's a beautiful plant and it's one that I will personally still sell in the store even though I hate everything about it other than the way it looks because of the way it looks people are head over heels for it and they always sell I'll get a case and it'll be gone by the end of the weekend or I'll just have a few left it's pretty rare that it's not the first plant to sell out and it's just like I wish something a little bit more Hardy was a little bit more popular in that sense so I always keep them right at the front of the store on the first shelf because they just catch buddies I and they just fly off the shelf it's crazy but it's a really beautiful plant don't get me wrong it's just they deteriorate so quickly and so not gracefully that it's just like a basically like you're buying future garbage so I don't feel confident about calathea or not any sense except for the way it looks because it's absolutely beautiful and I just think it's one that many beginner gardeners probably walk into a plant shop and see and they really want to try it and it's just like so heartbreaking when they just die very quickly so yeah I'm not really a big fan of that one I like a bunch of other kallithea as I have a really nice kallithea or before Lia behind me I just put off a giant new leaf and I'm obsessed with it that's much more Hardy kallithea although with kallithea is in general you're always going to have a little bit of browning I'm not sure if you guys can see that form in the frame but there's always gonna be a little bit of browning here or there here and there but the Caliphate or now that there's just always excessive browning and I just can't handle it myself so moving on the second one I actually have this one this is the only one on this list that I actually have in my possession and this is the ficus sly Radha or the fiddly fig I hate this plan it's just so overrated this is a plant that was very popular a couple of years ago and I feel like it's still holds that popular into a sense it's actually funny though I'm saying that because I don't even sell this plant at the store where I work because it doesn't sell like honestly it does not sell I'll buy it 4 inch 6 inch it will not sell only people come in every now and again and they're looking for a large tree and will order it in for them but unless I get them by mistake which happens a lot for some reason I do not work ficus Loretto it's just so temperamental this thing is a creature of habit and out of all the ficus I've grown in my home this is the one that just seems to be the least forgiving I mean there's more ficus out there that are even more unforgiving like the ficus benjamina which is a very fine lead ficus and you can just look at that thing and it'll drop leaves but this one is nope said cake either I've had this one for a couple of years and I've just recently like let it go I'll be honest but besides that in the store when I'm caring for them they just drop leaves like like nothing they just love to drop leaves and it's so unfortunate because unlike the ficus benjamina if you lose a couple of those tiny leaves it's okay but with this ficus I rata once you start to lose a couple of these gigantic leaves you're really gonna have a pretty bare and ugly looking plant so honestly this is probably gonna go in the trash after I'm done filming this it's only got these two leaves left that don't even look that good but it's just it's just very temperamental it's a plant once again similar to the kallithea or now but I'm kind of rambling at this point but it's a plant that some of the calcio renata is very popular and I feel like people want it when they are just first starting out their plant journey and it's one that can really break some hearts because it's very easy to kill if you don't know what you're doing and just a little bit of neglect or a little too much love can really send this plant in a downward spiral speaking of ficus I rounded there's enough another popular plant I don't know if it's really that popular but I keep seeing on Instagram and it just like I don't understand it it's the variegated ficus Nerada and that thing is a pretty penny let me tell you I've never seen it for less than a couple hundred dollars and it always looks bad like it always is Brown like I feel like if I Kasai Radha enough gets like brown markings on it just from like sun damage and that but the variegated version just never looks good and I'm a little biased I'm not a lover of variegated plants I'm really into like that kind of like very I don't know how to word it like brushstroke II variegation like on the Singhania Alba Vera Gotham or like the monstera deliciosa Alba Vera Gotham they have some really nice variegation but that kind of irrigation isn't really necessarily my cup of tea and would that kind of price tag I'd like its look a little bit better myself the next one's kind of very similar in that aspect of like an overrated overpriced plant it's the monster oblique WA and all I have to say really about that is be happy with your monster ad in Sony eyes I i I'm so mind blown why people are so like crazy about the monster oblique well I guess it's because it's like rare I feel like that's the only reason like it's literally a monster Adam Sonia I just would like different features so it just mind boggles me that people are willing to spend so much money on a plant that's first of all meant to be in like a greenhouse setting or like a botanical garden setting so it's like not something I would personally want to grow in my home because I would kill it it's just I I don't understand to each their own if people want to spend mass amounts of money and on their plans that's fine but I'm sure people from the outside might view me as that way because I do have a large collection but I've never spent more than $100 on the plant before I'm actually very picky and any of my more rare plants I've actually traded for so it's kind of like you start out with something and then you trade for something else and you trade for something else or you grow them out and you cut them and you trade them so you can grow your collections by that and that's a really good tip for you if you're looking to collect some rare plants maybe start with one that you get a hold up and then maybe grow that one out and take some cuttings and start to use that one to start to trade for other plants I think that's a really good tip but yeah I just don't understand the hype aside monster oblique well I almost think it's like because people confused the name oblique whoa and add in Stony Island like for so long that people may be one the actual oblique well I don't really get it but it's just mind-boggling to me the next one boggles my mind even more it is I got a tone it down because I don't want to sound rude this plant though I do not understand why this plant is so popular fortunately the price has plummeted over the last couple of months but when this plant first dropped it was like well over a hundred dollars and I just don't get it I am influencer I'm a buyer and this is one plant that I just do not see the appeal and it's the philodendron Birkin it is a candle it looks just like a candle Lillie I'll put a picture on screen if you're unfamiliar but this plant is literally a cannelloni like I cannot tell the difference okay it looks like a can Lillie combined with a philodendron Congo and that's all I see and canna lilies are not exciting to me and philodendron congos are not to me so philodendron Birkins not exciting for me and a candlelit li you can purchase that it like for like five dollars or less at your local Home Depot or even the plant shop where I work which is you know a small business so it's not necessarily an expensive canna lilies are not pricey plans yet the philodendron Birkin was I was gonna say is but I think it was at this point I think it's been at this point offered for typically $25 or less for a four inch pot but six months ago that thing was like $100 plus and still to this day I will not be spending $25 on this time I will not be spending $4 on this plant because I don't really want I can't a lily in my home so let's just let's just stop there before I get my ass handed to me okay so the next one is it's kind of a bit more broad its Alocasia anything I don't like allocations I've never been a fan of allocations I've well I was a fan of allocations and I was a fan of Alocasia until I tried growing them in my home I've really only tried growing allocation of poly in my home but I've thrown out a bunch of them in the store let's put it that way so although I grow specific plants in my home I also care for plants in the store where I work and depending on how well they sell or how well they don't sell I get more experience growing them and allocations don't necessarily sell that well which is kind of funny because I feel like they are popular plants but similar to the fiddly fig just does not seem to really sell for me so I've cared for a bunch of allocations there are finicky creatures they love to yellow their lower leaves and fall off and then you're left with less than what you purchased and they just don't seem to chug out believes quick enough to hold up to it and remind you the conditions that I have at the at the shop where I work are better than the conditions I have in my home sorry I should be having better luck growing the allocation there but even in the store they are tough cookies so I'm really not a fan but like I said I've only tried the poly in my home but that aside they are pest magnets spider mites thrips white flies we've had it all at the plant shop I'm a little apprehensive to even purchase them this upcoming summer because of that reason I will have to though because I think it's something I have to order but oh it drives me crazy in the home I've always had spider mites like I can't get rid of them and it's crazy because they very thick leathery leaves at least Alocasia pop Alocasia Poly's which is the one that I was growing in my home and usually my thick leather leaves are okay the spider mites don't want them but for some reason they just love the allocation of poly but there are so many other popular varieties of Alocasia I see out there that I really just couldn't give a hoot about like the allocation Cooper you or the allocation of silver dragon or anything like that the only one that really looks good to me is the Alocasia free decor fry deck I don't know how perhaps it but it's a really beautiful velvety Alocasia with kind of like a white Center it's like the philodendron glory of some of the Alocasia world so I will ride that bandwagon but every other Alocasia not so much but still I will probably never grow an Alocasia fry deck in my home because of the fact that I just can't deal with the excessive amount of pests that come with them so skipping allocations probably for the rest of my plant career unless I was growing them outside if I was working with an outdoor space maybe if I had more space in the summer time or if I ever moved to a more tropical climate I would love to grow some allocations outside because they would do so well but all the factors growing them inside I just I just can't deal with them and the last one I want to talk about today is also kind of a group of plants it's a pun tias which are prickly pear cactus or bunny ear character there are so many different names for them but they're the character that how kind of like the paddle shape to them and they are the worst did they they just have these little tiny spines they're called glochids that is different from like a serious cactus that you can just kind of like run your finger along the spines and it kind of kind of feels kind of nice if you do it carefully you can't do that within the putea because they're all gonna get stuck in your finger and it's just the worst and I'm probably a little biased because I work around plants and I am NOT a cacti lover at all but when I get the cacti in I am so careful to not go anywhere near the appointees with my fingers as I'm moving the crates around because I just do not I just do not want that and sometimes you have to like reach your hand inside you can't see because we get like multiple crates it's kind of hard to explain but oh I've stuck my fingers in there before and gone right into it upon to you and it's just the worst there's this one variety I can't even remember the name of it I'll include a picture on screen I'm pretty sure it's the same species as like the standard bunny ear cactus they call it but it's got red glow kids instead of white and that what is the bane of my existence I cannot stand it if I had to pick one of the upon Gia's that is like my least favorite that is the one in fact I always think about this time at work where a girl came up to the counter with a little one and she didn't want a bag and I was just like be a little careful because they're little mean and she goes why it's so sweet and rubbed her whole finger across it and I was like it was like nails on the chalkboard even though there was no sound going on it was just the worst and she didn't say anything but I could see her finger I used duct tape to get the spines out at work I've read online that you shouldn't do that but it works really well for me so maybe you don't take my word for it but it does work really well for me well yeah that's about it I think we should cut it out with the negativity for today and yeah I hope you guys aren't too heartbroken about my opinions but I thought this was just kind of a fun little video to make a little different than the normal videos that I make I'd actually really like to hear what kind of plants that are more on the popular overrated end of the spectrum that you guys might not necessarily care for I think it's a really fun topic keep it light it's not spreading hate it's just sharing opinions but I think it's kind of fun to talk about this because we always talk about the plants we love but we don't we talk about the plants that we hate so anyway thank you guys so much for joining sorry again if I broke any hearts if you don't already follow me on Instagram at Philly foliage subscribe to my channel and I will see you guys in my next video have a great time

Channel: Nick Pileggi

Views: 368,273

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Length: 14min 58sec (898 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020