Rare Houseplants | 10 Hard-but-not-Impossible-to-Find Plants!

[Music] welcome back you guys how are you i hope you're doing okay uh you know it's just been kind of wacky these days but think fully we have plants that's all i have to say and i do want to talk about 10 or 11 plants that i have that i consider kind of rare that are generally hard to find now and that rare means sometimes that the plant takes a really long time to grow so there's not a lot of those plants out in the marketplace andrea also means that chubby come here you can't find them you just can't find them because everybody wants them it's you know how it goes supply demand the whole thing anyway i'm going to talk about 10 or 11 of them because we happen to have most of these on the site right now on plantarinder.com and some of them i think are sold out i don't know anymore i'm just going to show you the ones i'm kind of currently currently in love with let me just start with with this one this actually you know yeah i'm just going to start with this one this is a calathea warsku sci and the leaves are a little i'm not sure why the leaves are doing this right now a pro because i need to water it that's a very good indication that your plant is thirsty but the calathea warsku sci you can pronounce it however you want to pronounce it but it's once you learn how to say war skusi it's fun to say it such a pretty plant it has very beautiful under sides of their leaves like this purple it's like an iridescent purple and and it has a really interesting pattern on the front and it's very silky smoothie and even chubbs loves this plant right chubbs i think you love that plant and you know the thing with calatheas you're going to learn if you haven't had any yet is that they really really do better if you give them distilled water or rain water or filtered water because the salts do affect the edges of their leaves sometimes so i'm not sure like you have to find out what your water supply is if it's well water or city water and just keep an eye on your plant if you're doing all the right things to it like watering it when it gets partially dry keeping it out of cold drafts calliothes do not like to be in cold drafts and just keeping an eye on the uh whatever else just keep your eye on your plants once they start doing this this will tell you it's time to water it once they start having a little bit of a leaf edge problem like this one this this this is a sabrina this is my second one this is a claethia sabrina such a pretty plant in it these you know i have to tell you out of all of these most of them are easy care but the calatheas definitely demand a little bit more attention but once you get it it's easy does that make any sense so currently this one probably got a little bit too dry and but you're always going to have some sort of imperfections in your plants that's just the way it goes nature is not perfect we're not perfect thankfully we're not because it would be a really boring world if everything was like spot on right so and plants aren't and again then again like you're gonna lose like lower leaves sometimes but then you're gonna get this giant reward of this beautiful new growth and i'll probably pot this up pretty soon maybe in the spring and it'll it will really encourage it to grow a little bit faster especially during the growing season but this is a sabrina and it takes the same care as the warsaw sti and these are just a little bit more tender in the calathea family in the and they're they're in the prayer prayer plant family because their leaves move up and down in response to the light it's getting so they're beautiful plants again just very very soft and just gorgeous i think they're gorgeous and i do have another calathea here and this is this is the white star and the white star you couldn't find it about a year ago we started growing it and we're really really excited to have it and you can see hey no more squeakies no squeakies please just hold on a second come on you gotta stop the squeaky can i have that give me your squeaky toy you can have a non-squeaky toy okay leave it in the basket it leaves the squeaky toy in the basket so anyway i forgot what i was saying i was uh i was saying that the uh yeah they're they were hard to find but now they're you know i can i see them out there a little bit more but they're beautiful and they have this really really vibrant pink it looks a little bit like the calathea ornata and the beauty star but this just has this just this glow of rose right so it's acts absolutely quite beautiful and these are much easier to care for i find than then the warsaw sei and the zabrina uh but you have to watch out for spider mites on your claythis and these guys especially for out of nowhere they'll just show up so you have to wash them you can take tape and just get them off the bottom of the leaves or the top of the leaves can you sit down river sit down sit down sit sit my dogs don't listen to me sit just keep your eyes on little insect problems okay but if you wash your plants once a week put them under the sink or spray them you'll get rid of those pests those pesky pesky pesky spider mites so that is the calathea white star so pretty so pretty and i have one more calathea it's a calithia this is this is a a compact star it's pretty pretty plant it gets taller you see these stems just get a little bit taller and their leaves just kind of dangle down super pretty and it needs the same sort of care it likes to never really completely dry out it doesn't like to be in very direct light it likes bright indirect light and it is it is sensitive to the cold so if you have cold drafts in your home pull this back away from the doors and the windows and fertilize them in the growing season and you know just check for pests occasionally just look and destroy them if you see them so we've got this philodendron mcauley's phenol i think i'm saying it right it's not finale but it's phenol and it is it's a really easy care philodendron it grows very quick it doesn't vine it grows up it like mounds and it has this one is a little bit more brown but they get more of a vibrant like orange color as the new leaves come out and emerge and then over time the bottom leaves will turn more green like a dark green but super easy care plant i don't see them around a lot so i was very excited when when we have them when we have them and you know just wanted to show you the show you this beautiful plant and that brings me over to the birkin the burke and the birkin is similar in the way you take care of this macaulay's finale because they like to dry out between waterings like for me completely dry out they can live in lower light they do need light and the more light you give them the more vibrant your whites will be and the longer you will have variegation on the top because as time goes by the lower leaves start to lose the variegation and become green that is normal and this one this is a new leaf and i think it reverted it reverted to its former self in a past plant life so oh yeah thank you carson for reminding me but you can also completely completely propagate these plants the califor the calithias are a little more difficult to propagate but this i forgot where i cut this one off from but this is a birkin and i've propagated it and the little roots are growing and i'm going to put this in some soil and grow another one so i'm very excited the birkins are just absolutely gorgeous and i don't know i just it's one of my one of my all-time favorite philodendrons so pretty oh i do have another type of calathea here this one is called a magic star and i'm telling you i i could have sworn it was a stromanthy and it it is a stromant it's a the genus is dramatic but it's called a calathea magic star i just said confusing it doesn't matter it's so pretty i don't get like caught up by names anymore because it doesn't matter it's just like look at that look at that it's like a painting to me it's like a painting but it does need the same care as the other calatheas i find it very very easy to care for it does not get a lot of brown edges it can tolerate being dry and it doesn't really negatively react when you miss a watering so that's why i love this plant and also can do pretty well in lower light because it has a lot more green than it does white variegation and so that that tells me i can put it in a darker spot in my home which i have plenty of right chubs what do you think one of your faves i don't think he cares about plants i don't think so at all and then we have the iron therium's uh plowmani which i love this plant because it has very wavy edges of the leaves and it it's like a it's a bird's nest antherium and it grows and it goes out like a like a vase and it's just so easy to take care of and can definitely tolerate lower light the non-flowering antheriums do not need bright light like the flowering ones so if you have a place in your home that you're looking to kind of fill up a space on the floor with a lot of like lateral growth these are great plants because they get big they get big don't let these little plants fool you fool you they will get bigger okay and then i've got okay this is an alocasia black velvet and it has these dark dark green leaves that are a little a little velvety maybe feels a little bit more like sandpaper you don't want to squeeze too hard but just absolutely stunning plants that i find if you you know keep them in a medium to brightly lit spot and you water it once the soil is like partially dry i don't like to let these dry out too much because they definitely do react because they're pretty tender like the the stems are tender so they do react to being without water for too long but you don't want to over water them i've had that problem with the stingray alocasia that i could not figure out and i kept losing them but these are a little bit more easier to take care of and again you want to feed them fertilize them in the growing season too but super super pretty just look they're just so pretty i love you i love you and then i guess i'm going to do 10 i'm going to do 10 not 11. this is this is so cute right this is a snake plant this is a sansevieria samurai and this is a smaller version of i think we have a larger version on the site i'm not really sure at this point but just has this way of living its life doing what it wants to do and nobody telling it what to do you can't really predict where the new growth is going to come from it has these sharp edges of the leaves and all the new growth starts from the middle and sometimes it'll sucker so you just you don't know what you're going to get but over time when they start growing but just ultimately they're just very interesting unique looking plants as are many of the sansevieria out there now called dracena but i'm just sticking with sansevieria and i think i think i covered them all one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten rare-ish type plants that uh i think are pretty easy to take care of you know with the exception of two of these calathea the sabrina and the warsaw sei so but once you understand how to take care of calathea and they really do like high humidity i forgot to say that they really like high humidity so if you have those conditions or you can provide those conditions these plants will be really good for you just because they out look what they add i don't have to say anything just look look look what they do they just i think all plants make every space look better just maybe that's another video because i've been taking plants out of spaces and thinking why does this place look so empty and then i put a few plants in i'm like that's it that's all it needed i said i'm just gonna go and i don't know i'm gonna go to work and talk about plants more at work thank you guys thank you so much thank you for subscribing thanks for just really i i everything and and your kindness and your patience and everything that you provide and give to other people too and that's the most important thing extending your kindness to anybody and everybody around you that's that's all we can do at this point so let's continue to do that okay bye right chubby you're so kind you're the kindest ever come here i need to know about chub's love i need job love i need river love ah come here i need to oh oh the plants the tail oh no what are you doing up

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Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021