Top 10 Trailing Houseplants

hello everyone my name is Nick and welcome if you're new in this video I'm gonna discuss my personal picks for top ten trailing or binding houseplants next to having large statement plants in your home I think having binding or trailing plants are the best way to achieve that jungle vibe that we're all looking to feel so I'm gonna share with you guys the ones that I think are not only gonna help you achieve that status ASAP but are quite easy and rewarding to grow while this is a top 10 video none of these plants are ranked in any particular order I think all of them are wonderful plants to grow in your home if you are looking for some trailing or vining houseplants and speaking of ten I'm gonna be sharing with you guys some variants and cultivars of these plants so it's more like a top 20 video I have many more to share with you guys than just ten so I'll be sharing with you guys not only the names of these plants but how I generally care for them as well my first entry for my top ten trailing or vining houseplants list has to be this lovely Hoya right here so Hoyas or more commonly known as wax plants and they've been really gaining popularity in the house plant community they've been really gaining attention in the past year or so now this one right here is called Hoya Cardosa rubra I normally see it but I also sometimes see it as crimson princess now Hoya cornices can be considered kind of boring to some people who you know are more collectors however I will say there is a reason that Hoya Cardosa is the most widely available Hoya and that's because it really is the easiest one to grow it just grows like a weed if you get it in the right conditions and the longer you have it the quicker it grows wholeheartedly and truly if you buy them small and they're just like inside the pot like this they're gonna take a long time to really get some vines but once they get growing they do not stop as you can see right here as I've only had this one for probably about a year and a half at this point and it's just been growing incredibly well you can see it growing all over the place you can notice that some of the vines have kind of reverted back to some plain green while they do carry some variation while these other vines have really taken to their variegation and are just looking absolutely incredible Hoyas do like light but they don't need to be in any like succulent or cactus sort of light so I kind of have many of my Hoyas pulled back roughly like two to six feet in my home keeping in mind I have bright south-facing windows in my home so they are getting some bright light if you are working with like a north facing window I probably would recommend growing your Hoyas in or near the window and if you're working with east or west facing windows you probably could do around the scene that I'm doing for myself facing window they really aren't that picky but you also have to keep in mind if the plant has more white and its leaves then green you are probably going to need to give it a little bit more light there are so many Hoyas out there I highly recommend giving one a go and they're really low maintenance when it comes to watering I tend to only water my Hoyas about every like ten to fourteen days probably around every two weeks and you would definitely know very quickly if you are over watering your hose because you would get a lot of yellow leaves just like an alarming and AAB yellow leaves this time would be very quick to tell you if you are over watering it my second entry is not only easy to grow but easy to find it is philodendron Cordier tom which they commonly refer to as hartley philodendron or you might also see it by its synonym philodendron scandens so a very fast growing plant you can see how long these vines are starting to get and I really haven't had this plant that long I definitely haven't had this plant for a full year probably only about eight months or so with this particular one now this plant has some really good language in the sense that it will tell you if you're over under watering it if you're over watering this plant you're going to get some yellowing leaves from inside the pot like where the stems meet the soil and if you're under watering this plant you're gonna get some leaves that kind of curl in or out they just look kind of shriveled and they look dried out and they will recover completely once they get watered so I'd say I'm probably watering this plant roughly every 10 days or so I'd say once a week in the conditions that I have it would probably be a little bit too much but if I was watering it every two weeks it would definitely get shriveled up and be telling me it needs water by that second week as far as light goes this plant really isn't that picky which is probably why it's so readily available so I personally have this one pulled back roughly like six or seven feet from a south-facing window so if you had a north facing window you'd probably need to have it a little bit closer to the window but if you're working with an east west or south you could probably have this as far as eight feet back from a window and it would probably go find keeping in mind the further you have it away from window the less off and you'll be watering it because it won't be using up that water as quickly now there are a few varieties of philodendron core datum that you'll see one of the most common ones that I find on the market is philodendron Brazil which is this one right here that has these lovely yellow stripes down the center and speaking of this yellow stripe there is another cultivar called Foldit and cordon lemon/lime that is all lemon leaves so these ones the lemon lime and the philodendron Brazil since they do have this variation to the leaves they do prefer a little bit higher light than the philodendron core datum so I'd say I probably grow this one within six feet of myself facing window and I would definitely have it closer up to window if I was working with a north or east facing window for both of those varieties the leaves on this Brazil I've noticed tend to grow a little bit smaller than my core datum I think it's because they you know have a lot more energy to use with these colors that they have going on but I don't have that issue with my philodendron lemon limes so not really an important fact but it's just something I've kind of observed over the years of caring for these plants so really really easy plants to grow highly recommend them if you're looking for something to trail down and there is also another variety or a similar species of plant that is very closely related to the philodendron core datum or looks at least very similar it's philodendron header a cm which they commonly referred to as its synonym philodendron mic ins or you'll also hear it as velvetleaf philodendron grows in the same exact manner as fellow did recorded them really the same exact care so I just wanted to share it with you guys because this is definitely a common plant there are a few plants that go by the name velvetleaf philodendron but this is the one that if you were to walk into a nursery or a common plant store this is the one you would find and I highly recommend growing it I really love the red hue that the back of the leaves has it's just a really beautiful plant all of these are and they grow extremely fast my third pick for top-10 trailing or vining plants is going to be this wonderful peperomia Hope now this one is growing all over the place as you can see and this one I've had for a little over two years at this point and I purchased this plant just as many of the peperomia hopes as you see in a little two inch pot with just like one little wine coming out of the plant and that's what it looked like two years ago and now it is this sprawling plant right here so I don't really know what happened and what kicked it into gear but this thing has grown exponentially since I brought it home two years ago now this is a plant that is extremely drought tolerant and you can kind of see in some of these leaves how puckered it is so this plant is telling me I need water so I just watered it before I sat down to film this segment this plant I'm probably giving it a little bit too much like I'm growing it in the south-facing window and while we could all agree that it is very happy you can kind of see on some of this newer growth the Reds on the back of the leaves so it's kind of like the sunburn if you will this is a very succulent plant so it's probably more accustomed to getting Brier light in its natural habitat but from this red on the back of the leaves I know I'm giving this plant a lot of light so I could probably kind of lessen up on this plant in fact I have a similar peperomia called peperomia boy beanie I that I have growing in a west-facing window and I think that one might be a little bit happier with a little bit less light than this one as I said you can't argue with me that this type is not happy because it is growing like a freaking weed so as I mentioned I have this one in very very bright light I'd say peperomia hope is one of the peperomia that would prefer much more light than some of the others from how succulent and large these leaves are as far as watering goes I probably wanted this plan every I mean keeping it mine it's in a really bright window I probably water it like every like eight to ten days but if it wasn't a bit of a darker space I'd probably be pushing this on like every two weeks because this plant would definitely rot if it was sitting in too much water from how thick these stems are so if you're looking for a fun kind of more out there plant to grow as a trailing house plant a little bit more slow growing but peperomia hope is definitely a great option if you are looking for one to kind of just have that succulent jade plant appearance it's just such a wonderful plant to grow I know you guys all probably know about my fourth pick but I have to talk about it so it is pathos or a Pippin um this one right here is golden pothos and this is probably the most common one you would see if you were to walk into a plant shop this one is so common for a reason it just grows so incredibly fast it is so easy to grow it really just grows like a weed I think we have had this pathos in our home for probably about a year in six months like a year and a half so you can see how much they grow in a year and a half they grow so incredibly well and this plant is not in the most ideal of spaces it's really kind of pulled back quite a few feet from a window so it's really getting some ambient light pathos I watered them roughly every I'd say ten to fourteen days it depends what kind of pot they're in what they're medium the soil medium is like like how well it drains but these plants are not shy to tell you if you're not water they will wilt very readily if they're under watered and they will pop up very quickly within like a day or so once you give them a good watering so I tend to just let my pathos to get to that point because I find if I one of them more often than they want to be watered they will get some yellowing leaves from the top somewhere to the philodendron core datum and then that will cause you to get a bald plant on top and then you'll just have some vines that are you know bare and then the leaves will all be down here so to avoid that from happening I tend to just kind of lay low with my pathos and stay on the under watering side probably the most readily available new cultivar of pathos would be this man hoola or Manjula pothos I really don't know what the right way to pronounce it is but it has this lovely cream variegation it looks very similar to a marble Queen but it's got some other telltale signs where it's got some really blocky green unlike the outside of the leaves as you can see and some really funky like looks they got this like you can see like the cream with the green splashes it's it looks very similar to marble Queen but it is a new cultivar apparently but it kind of goes to show how similar many of these plants are my personal favorite new cultivar would have to be the epiphan of mine Adam sebou blue which is this one right here so this one is a little bit more far off from the epiphan emporiums which is all of the golden pothos the marbled queen the neons the man who led that I just showed you so this one is technically a different species but of course it grows very similarly and looks very similar they just look a little bit different with their blue leaves and their elongated lancelet shape to the leaves but they grow very very similarly same exact behavior same exact care so I drove these ones just right alongside my other pothos and they all look so good next to each other with all the different colors absolutely love them and it's just such a fast growing plant and such an excellent way to achieve that jungle vibe this is one of my OC plants and I feel like I haven't talked about in a long time so I'm going to talk about it today this is my Sarah Peggy oh bloody eye or my string of hearts and you can see why this is my fifth choice for a top ten on trailing houseplants this plant is an absolute beast when it comes to trailing plants it grows so fast and you have it in the optimal conditions which is definitely a bright window so like a south or west facing window it grows so fast I'd say it can even grow up to about one foot a month when you do have it in the right and it's very low-maintenance when it comes to water keeping in mind that this plant is in a plastic nursery pot and still with the same soil when I purchased this plant I water this plant roughly every four to six weeks so it's holding on to more moisture inside of this plastic pot than it would if it was in terracotta so if yours isn't terracotta you'd probably be watering it a little bit more often than that but this plant has a telltale sign to tell you when it needs water if you squeeze some of these leaves I like to feel some of the more developed leaves but I squeeze them from the outside and and these aren't budging at all so I know that it's full of water because it's super succulent meaning the plant does not need any water so if these leaves were super flimsy and they were folding all over the place because they were lacking water I know it's time to water this plant in fact if I was to water this plant right now since these leaves are not budging I would probably get some yellowing leaves going on I would probably lose quite a bit so I'm very lackadaisical when it comes to watering this plant because I know the less I water it the more likely I am to keep all of these wonderful leaves so if you have this plant at home and you're finding that you are losing some leaves from the top or at an alarming rate you're probably watering a little too often there's another cultivar of this plant that's probably a little bit more popular than the standard variety although this is definitely the easiest one to find but this one right here is the variegated version of the string of Hearts so it's this lovely one right here obviously a lot smaller you don't usually find them in big hanging baskets although it's very much possible you're normally gonna find the variegated one in much smaller pot so you can see this one has some really nice of white colored leaves as well as some lovely pink on the back you'll notice that this one is in a terra cotta pot so contrary to my regular one that's in a plastic pot I do find that I water this particular string of Hearts once a week or so maybe like every ten days so I'm much more on top of watering this one because it dries out much quicker I actually have this one growing at a much brighter window I have this particular one in the south-facing window because I know this plant needs a lot of light to sustain that variegation I have had this plant revert back to green even in the conditions that it's in so really does prefer a lot of light string of Hearts definitely a wonderful trailing house plant definitely one of the ones I would recommend growing most I think it's definitely got like the most bohemian vibe out of all of the plants on my top-10 list today you might remember this plant if you wash my top five favorite house plants video this is michio macro glosses variegated switch they commonly referred to as wax IV and what I love most about this plant is how much it resembles ivy but how much it does not have the same behavior as ivy so while ivy is sold in many plant shops and they will probably tell you it is an easy house plant I totally disagree Ivy needs a tremendous amount of light and it is an absolute pasta magnet specifically for spider mites so I do not grow any types of Hadera which is the Latin for ivy in my home instead I grow cenisio macro glasses which grows all over the place as you can see it's literally an absolute weed and the way that it grows in my home and it does need a lot of light so it is in a sense comparable to ivy in that nature because it is a succulent it's it's a neat Co so it's really a bit like string of pearls and string of bananas and all those but this plant is really low maintenance in every other aspect what I love most about this plant is it doesn't need water that often keeping in mind I'm growing this in a bright south-facing window I'm watering this plant probably once a week and it tells me when it needs water so these leaves are normally really succulent as they call it wax ivy but these leaves as you can see today are super flimsy so I actually just gave this plant a watering before I sat down to film so really really incredible plant as long as you have enough light I highly recommend setting skew macro glasses it's a little hard to get your hands on it's probably one of the only difficult to find plants that I'm including in this video today but I loved it so much I had to include it so if you can get your hands on it I highly recommend growing it if you've been watching my channel for a while then you're probably expecting me to talk about this next plant so this is skin DOCSIS pictus this particular variety of skin Dobbs's pictus argyria s-- and this is probably the fastest growing foliage plant that i have in my home this one grows if i have it in the right conditions probably about 10 to 12 feet a year and it just is an absolute reward to grow because of that it has such a good language where it tells you when it needs water by curling its leaves backwards like this so just yesterday i watered this plant because it was curled like that and as you can see today it looks totally normal so it recovers incredibly quickly and it's really just very quick to tell you when it does need water so as soon as you see those leaves curling you give it a good drink and it'll be fine if you water this plant a little too much you'll probably get as I said but these other plants in this video and this is kind of a theme for binding plants to be part of them too much that you will lose some of these leaves inside the pot they'll turn yellow and fall off and then you'll get a bear pot on the inside and then all your vines or your leaves will be down here on the vines so in order to avoid getting a bald plant on top you should just water a little bit less under watering is definitely best for many of these plants but really one of the best plants to grow if if this list was in any particular order this plant would definitely be closer to the end of the list because it is such a wonderful plant to grow in fact I'd say if you had to only pick one plant on this list to grow this would be the one that you want there are a few other varieties of skin daxus that you will see so one of the most common that I see besides the Argyris is the skin daps aspectus exotica right here well this one does vine and it does totally give you that jungle vibe it grows so much slower so if you're wanting a plant to kind of grow all over the place very quickly you're definitely gonna want to go for the urge erious over the exotica but this plant is just so beautiful I obviously have to share with you guys while I'm talking about skinned APS's today so I give skin tops this a good amount of light I usually keep them within like 6 to 8 feet of a south-facing window but if you were working with like a west or east or north facing window you'd probably want to be a little bit closer and always look out for the leaf curl before you go ahead and water you definitely don't want to over water this plant though you'll definitely get some yellowing leaves my eighth pick is a little bit more of like a fairy garden style plant so this is a Khaleesi AREP ends and what I just love about this plant is just how literally like I said it looks like it belongs in the fairy garden it's just so dreamy and just so lush and it almost kind of looks like I just yanked it out of the ground when I purchased this version it was very gated but it's kind of dulled back to mostly green there is some white variegation if you look deeply into the plant but I really just adore the way this looks you can barely even see the pot anymore obviously you can see it on the back but the way I have this on the shelf that kind of just like trails and like hides everything and I just absolutely love the way that this plant grows it's a little bit more finicky as you can see I've been talking about like plants being bald on top and this one clearly is a little bit more finicky and I've noticed that Khaleesi --is and trade Ascan tias which are commonly referred as wandering Jew's or inch plants they are not shy to lose their top leaves no matter how I care for them they are always losing something so not the most ideal plant but I have to share them with you guys on today's list because they just grow so wonderfully and they grow so lush and they grow so fast I give my Khaleesi as M I try to scan T as some really bright light they each really like bright light you don't want to overwater them but you also don't want to under water them and they don't really have a good telltale sign like many of these other plants on the list do so that's why I'm kind of like not the easiest plant but I you can see why I have to share them with you guys today I'm definitely a great pic if you're looking for something a little bit more woodsy a little bit more like northeastern to add into your plant collection to kind of differ from all the tropicals that we have in our collections number nine is another peperomia so this is peperomia scandens and this particular one is the variegated variety as you can see with the abundance of white on the leaves but this peperomia compared to the last one I showed you can take a little bit less light I probably grow this particular peperomia about 6 maybe 4 to 6 feet pulled back from my south-facing windows so it probably went a little bit closer there's some darker windows but this plant has been really really low maintenance you just don't want to overwater it as with most pepper Romeo's I'd say once a week would definitely be too much but once every two weeks might not be enough for this particular variety this is a new one that I've just personally got I have another one in my bedroom that's a little bit more sparse and all over the place so this is clearly one I just purchased but are really really awesome peperomia if you're looking for a nice trailing plant this is definitely one of the peperomia is that you're gonna get that's gonna be a little bit more robust and have a little bit more to it typically pepper Romeo's are very small and compact but this is one that you can definitely find in larger hanging baskets surprisingly not the easiest peperomia to get your hands on but if you can find it I highly recommend giving it a go because just as it looks it grows and looks just like a philodendron core datum but has a little bit more oomph to it so I really love this plan last but not least I wanted to talk about rhipsalis for my 10th entry so I believe this one is a rhipsalis by Sephora but I'm not positive I honestly just refer to it as my spaghetti rhipsalis because it looks green spaghetti but I've had this one for a few months and it's already like exploding all of this new growth and I just absolutely love it and rhipsalis are very very low maintenance I've only been experimenting with them over the past like eight months so I'm still learning all of the care aspects to them but they really don't mind low humidity in fact I actually have this one sitting directly in a draft for my air conditioning and it's been growing really really well since I've purchased it many months ago well they are cacti they're epiphytic cacti they don't require nearly as much light as true cacti prefer so this one I probably have pulled back a few feet from a south-facing window but I actually have this one right here which is a rhipsalis pilo carpa probably one of the most common varieties of rhipsalis you can see I didn't they also call it like mistletoe cactus I think there's a lot of plants they call mistletoe cactus but I think this is one of them so this one I have pulled back even more from that south-facing window and it's been doing really really well so rhipsalis I let them dry out a hundred percent and I give them a good watering at that point so I'm probably watering them about every two weeks maybe even pushing that a little bit but I'd say it's probably every two weeks so middle of the spectrum light definitely low maintenance when it comes to watering definitely you want to air on under watering and they really really don't care about humidity and as I said they don't seem to care about my cold drafts I don't know about heat drafts come wintertime but they don't seem to care about the cold drafts right now new plant to me but I have to share them with you guys because as you see they are definitely a very viable option if you're looking for a trailing house plant thank you all so much for watching my video today about my personal picks for my top 10 trailing houseplants I'll be sure to leave a list in my description about all the plants I share with you guys today and be sure to let me know your favorite one in the comments if you don't already follow me on Instagram at Philly foliage and I will catch you guys in my next video have a great time

Channel: Nick Pileggi

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Length: 21min 38sec (1298 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 05 2019