House Plants: Advice, Pics, Sell and Trade

I'd think they did send you the wrong kind, all the purple ones I know / I've had had fully purple leaves right from the start and no matter whether they got a lot or hardly any sun etc.

good tip, thanks!

I have loads of spider plant babies, just need sitting in a jug of water until some roots get growing, then potting up. Free, collection Nunhead.

Ours did that the other day! Apparently it's the first time in the 6 years my girlfriend has had it.

I have a green one and a purple one. They are different varieties.

Bugger. Looks like I got sold a pup. I'd better order some purple ones pronto before it gets too late to plant replacements.

Purple one looks like this if you keep it somewhere too dim and let it get leggy

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can confirm this, mine looks exactly like that 😅

Cheers for this, got my order now, baby plants are so sweet! What's the usual plan with these - pot into 9cm pots using houseplant compost/potting mix and pot onto a bigger pot once they've grown?

We did exactly this - a lot of ours were already far from babies in the nursery pots they arrived in.

I got mine on Friday too, very happy with 5 out of the 6. 1 was way too small but it’s £2 and a bit each, so can’t complain.

I think I am going to repot the 5 bigger ones into the next size up pots and I’ll use a mix of houseplant repointing soil and perlite. Probably 70:30 ratio, depends on the types.

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Calathea and a rubber plant? Looks like bits of my house.

The green one, which will be supplemented with some purple variety rhizomes as and when they arrive from the Netherlands, is close to a south-facing window and while there's a Venetian blind the slats are open. Should be getting a decent amount of light, I would've thought. It was sufficiently bright to slightly scorch the leaves on a Maranta leuconeura, so I think it should be enough to keep an Oxalis happy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYdnnMBrxN/?igshid=1lahgg8k78uc8

Oh yes! Got 2 begonias and 3 Calathea and a wasabi plant coming tomorrow.

Current menagerie here is 3 Marantas, 2 Dracaenas (one big, one little), 2 Ficus robusta Abidjan (one not yet dead, one nearly dead), 1 Calathea, 1 jade plant, 1 Peperomia, 1 ZZ Raven, 1 Kentia palm and a pot full of depressingly-green-not-purple Oxalis triangularis.

6 months ago I didn't have any plants in the house. Bloody Covid.

My first ever plants arrived in June last year, then Nunhead Gardener opens pretty much by my door step in Oct... the rest is, as they say, history...

We had another Oxalis arrive today, one water too many put pay to the last, they do seem quite fragile to me.

We also bought a nice Wax Flower (Hoya Carnosa Tricolor).

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After my hall and stairway are redecorated, I'm thinking of getting a Hoya linearis for the stairwell. Dingly dangly planty goodness.

I know some of you might be better at watering than me, but thought I’d share my experience of the app Planta. It is basically a reminders app for plant watering. Can set up room with different plants and works really nicely in its free guise as well.

I've got mistletoe cactus and string of hearts cuttings if people want them. Collection from Downham, near Catford. Happy to take swaps but not needed. If you take an inch of either of these things they'll grow like weeds.

My date palm is not happy.

It flourished in that spot for many years. Then the cats attacked it a bit and it hasn't recovered. I've tried watering less, watering more, topped up the soil a bit, fed it a tiny bit. But it's looking worse, not better. It was glorious a couple of years ago. Not sure what to do and would really like to save it from terminal decline.

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Moving the disgusting AF Beck's away from it would be a start I reckon.

Try the app ‘planta’ to get correct watering reminders and other tips. I can share no more knowledge than that though.

Thanks. Seems I may have underestimated how seasonal they are, so maybe with a bit more attention it'll come to life this summer.

Could it be potbound? Repot into fresh compost, with a root haircut? No idea if this is good for date palms but it has worked wonders for other large houseplants.