r/houseplants 3d ago

DISCUSSION šŸŒ±Weekly /r/houseplants Question Thread - September 09, 2024

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This thread is for asking questions. Not sure what you're doing or where to start? There are no dumb questions here! If you're new to the sub, say "Hi" and tell us what brought you here.


r/houseplants 15d ago

DISCUSSION Semi-annual /r/houseplants Discussion - August 28, 2024 - Changing Seasons

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As we head into Spring or Fall (depending on your latitude), this thread is for discussing the care of your plants as the seasons change. What do you normally do to prepare your houseplants as the seasons change?


r/houseplants 27m ago

Help Is this alright?

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Should I be staking up my Peperomia plant so it doesn't sag? Or can I leave it as is? I kind of like the way it looks.


r/houseplants 56m ago

My sansevieria has gotten out of control.

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I have had this guy for a couple of years I think. It came with 1 section and it was braided. i decided to untie it and just let it grow. Now I'm running into a big of a problem since some branches are a couple of feet long. I'm not sure I have the space for it anymore. Maybe I'll keep a baby and start over?


r/houseplants 58m ago

Steve had a baby!

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Should I transfer the little guy to his own pot or leave him with dad a while?

Also, while we're here. Is that too much root exposed? That's the original pot from last year, idk if that part under the stem should be in soil


r/houseplants 1h ago

My big Epiphyllum Anguliger

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r/houseplants 1h ago

My Anthurium

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r/houseplants 1h ago

Plant Homes My beauty (2yo)

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She lives in my very sunny bathroom, and loves it there !

Today, after 2 years of leaving her branches sadly hanging down to the ground, I put them up using little hooks, so she can continue to grow <3


r/houseplants 2h ago

Guilty! šŸ˜‚

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r/houseplants 2h ago

This looks so uncomfortable šŸ˜£

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Should I free her or wait?


r/houseplants 5h ago

New Leaf

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I love her


r/houseplants 7h ago

1 year difference!

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r/houseplants 8h ago

Highlight Just wanted to share my variegated zz plant. It went from having almost no more variation to growing this nice stem. That was months ago... GIVE ME ANOTHER STEM!!!

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34 Upvotes

r/houseplants 9h ago

Whale Tail Sansevieria Rhizome

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Has anyone else had a whale tail grow a rhizome this big and straight down? Seems abnormally large


r/houseplants 9h ago

My Indoor Trees

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My favorite big boys, doing their rubber tree thing! Love having nature indoors!


r/houseplants 10h ago

Didn't know a thing about plants 3 months ago till a coworker gifted me an arrowhead and this is my collection now

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44 Upvotes

r/houseplants 10h ago

One of the nicest leaf in my collection has fallen off the plant (hoya carnosa flamingo dream)

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r/houseplants 12h ago

Question: why is it that outside plants thrive when it rains every day for 2 weeks, but indoor plants would rot if they were watered anywhere near that much?

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r/houseplants 15h ago

I don't see Pilea Moon Valley here very often, so here's mine.

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My desk has the best window for plants so whatever I can't fit at home lives here :)


r/houseplants 16h ago

Progress of my alocasia after I had to chop when it started to die immediately after buying it šŸ„° Donā€™t give up on your half dead alocasias!

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This is your reminder to not throw away your alocasia that you think has died when it looses all its leaves immediately after buying it. Maybe it was just a me problem but this guy looked amazing for like a day and a half after bringing it home with about 4-5 leaves before it promptly withered like a sick Victorian child in the span of a single weekend and I was left with one leaf miserably hanging on for life. It was the most on deaths door looking plant Iā€™ve ever owned and Iā€™ve killed manyā€™s a plant. I knew alocasias were notoriously tricky (my black velvet is forever on and off life support) and was convinced that despite owning 50+ plants I maybe wasnā€™t as good of a plant person as I thought and wasnā€™t ready for alocasias. I could have tried to prop the corms but I havenā€™t mastered propping corms yet so i was about to just give up when I decided why not just chop it to the bones and see what happens šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø Safe to say it has made an amazing come back and is thriving. Do not give up on your two second from death alocasias! They can be revived!

I donā€™t have any before or immediately after cutting it pictures but I have to say it really looked dead dead. Even after the chop it was just a feeble looking stump that looked like a gust of wind would take it out. First photo is about a week after I repotted it into some chunky alocasia soil and chopped it (at the end of June/start of July) and i noticed ā€œhey something is happening!!ā€ I just watered when it dried out and fertilised when I remembered. First leaf started to appear mid-end of July, and after it had fully came out of the sheath it literally took over a month to unfurl. I was fully convinced this leaf would never unfurl in this lifetime. Last photo is today, two days fully unfurled. Truly one of the best revivals of any plant Iā€™ve ever owned. He got the name Bucky because he is well and truly a soldier šŸ«”


r/houseplants 18h ago

It never gets old!!

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r/houseplants 21h ago

Before / After - Progress Pics My FLF living its best life

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When I first got this as a baby, I was at the beginning of my indoor plant journey. I thought for sure I would kill her! 2021 to now ā¤ļø


r/houseplants 21h ago

Highlight After having my ZZ plant for ten years, she flowered!

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It may be time for a bigger pot šŸ„¹


r/houseplants 22h ago

Some just dropped plants off at my front door. They said they are ā€œdustyā€

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Iā€™m gonna take a wild guess and say this isnā€™t ā€œdustā€ like they claim?! I donā€™t even want to bring this into my house right now.


r/houseplants 23h ago

Humor/Fluff In an abusive relationship with my fiddle leaf fig

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So this is my last surviving fiddle leaf fig and sheā€™s a real survivor. I havenā€™t been taking very good care of her and for the past 2 years sheā€™s been pushing out a single leaf at the top only for me to forget to water her again and it dying off. Rinse and repeat about 20 times and now hereā€™s the result. I find her funny so I donā€™t wanna get rid of her but is there any way of fixing or preparing her so she can now grow a happy life? 2nd pic is her dreaming of a life outside my ā€œcareā€


r/houseplants 23h ago

My Rubber tree I planted in greenhouse 3yrs ago.

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r/houseplants 1d ago

Highlight Someone asked for an update on my Gloriosum

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