The Houseplant Thread

[lilmillefleur]

Hi, it’s me, Anna. You may also know me from the Artists thread. Well, it turns out I’m also a beginner gardener and plant keeper!
Feel free to post pics of your plants and any advice you can share with me, a newbie
I’ll begin!
I first started keeping cacti/succulents a few years back, but it never became a real hobby until this year. Because of that, my old plants are dying. Maybe I’ll be able to revive them with your help.
Here’s some pictures of my old plants.
Some beheaded and repotted jade (in old soil.) they are pretty dehydrated.

floppy cacti.

some more repotted succulents. The aloes are withering and The little echieveria was dying of mold. I had to pull off some leaves, but I can’t do anything to help it now. I don’t care if the aloes die since I have a healthier one anyway.

the rotted leaves. Yuck!

I promise I take better care of my newer plants!!

 

[Chookwagn]

Can anyone help me? Should I cut something? And how can I keep it from flopping? I've literally killed every aloe I've ever ownedView attachment 3112607

Over watering kills more plants than under watering . Fact

 

[Dr Evy]

Finally got around to taking pictures!

The ones in the box above ^ are baby bonsai trees!

And this one above is my favorite succulent. It gets flowers all the time! They’re so cute. The white things on the top of it are some flowers that are growing now!

Okay and now a story about how I got so much golden pothos.

Last fall, we were driving down the road and we saw this huge golden pothos on the side of the road for free. And since I love golden pothos I had to get it! Here’s what it looked like when I got it:

But after I got it I accidentally underwatered it and it started dying.. a bunch of the vines fell off and died. So I decided that I needed to give it a trim. So I gave it a trim and most of the vines were too far gone, but there were like three or four that were healthy enough to propagate. So if you can’t tell from the picture I probably got like 50 singular plants to propagate from just the 3-4 vines. So anyway, they all started growing and I planted them. That’s why I have so many golden pothos. I even gave some away and I still have a ton. But here’s what the mother golden pothos looks like now:

 

[lilmillefleur]

Here’s some of my other plants. They are newe

 

[Chookwagn]

My calathea collection so far

 

[Chookwagn]

Just got this chain of hearts
Longest chains are about 3'

 

[lilmillefleur]

I am also trying to propagate some leaves and cuttings!
here’s my progress so far.

 

[orloffer]

Fun! I have some orchids and succulent plants as well, along with several avocado seedlings I sprouted in water. I'll get some pictures later today.

I finally got some pictures! This will be a fairly long post.
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First of all, this is a young saguaro cactus we purchased in Arizona back in 2016. I am not sure how old it is but they take a very long time to grow. The portion that has no black spines is the part that has grown since we got it.

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This is a lithops plant (?) that I have had for about as long as the saguaro. It has grown quite tall! I used to have several more but unfortunately they didn't last.

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I have no clue what type of cactus this is. It is fluffy and is growing in an unexpected direction!

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This is a panda plant that had fallen off my original plant and grown tiny roots. I apologize for the blurry picture (it was dark).

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Here is the original panda plant. As you can see it was not doing exceptionally well, but it seems to be making a comeback. Would you like to know what I named this plant?

Spoiler: Name

I decided to choose a silly and very random name for this funny, fluffy plant when I acquired it last year. Feeling inspired by my chickens, I named it Spleckles, Fluffiest Chicken. The cutting I propagated from it is named Waffles, Fluffiest Puppy.

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We have a few orchid plants that are flowering beautifully at the moment.

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These are avocado pits I sprouted in water. This first one took a very long time to sprout, and for a while I thought it was going to fail. It is now doing well. I have not been keeping track, but I feel I must have had the pit in water for around 2 years now. (?)

This second avocado plant is newer than the first. It is already quite tall but has not sprouted leaves yet. I changed the water in both jars yesterday.

This one was put in water at the same time as the first one, but it sprouted and grew more rapidly so I was able to transfer it outside about half a year ago. It was slowly declining so a few weeks ago I cut off all the rotting leaves in hopes that it would allow the plant to put more energy into growing its new ones. It seems to be working!

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And finally, here are a couple of non-houseplants.

 

[AusHen]

I have really upped my houseplant game since October.
These are a small amount of my Alocasia.


These are a random selection of some of my other plants

 

[NC_Quail]

This evening I started a pothos "tree" - a few pothos plants planted around and tied to a moss (coconut coir) pole. Has anybody here tried this?

Interesting! I have never tried this, I’ve trained my pothos up the windowsill