Plants I've Given Up With + Wouldn't Buy Again ❌ Struggle Plants I'm FED UP With

And this is a very sad looking one, in fact I would say it's maybe one of the worst looking plants in my whole collection at the moment. It's been an ongoing pain in the arse for a while now so I'm not sure how much longer it's worth it for me or the plants but I am just at my wits end with this plant at the moment. Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi my name's Claire and this is Yoli. I make videos all about houseplant care, sharing tips and tricks I've learned over the years to help keep your plants happy and healthy and today I thought I would take you through some plants that I've either completely given up with or ones that I'm just at my wits end with and therefore probably would not buy again and tell you why. But yes I hope you enjoy it, let's get into it. So the first one is one that I have spoken about quite a lot recently and I am just so confused and I don't understand this plant and I just don't get it. It is the Hoya carticei and I am usually on the whole touch wood fairly good with Hoyas. I've got lots of Hoyas in my collection, I feel like we just kind of get each other, I get beautiful growth out of them and things on the whole are good. Enter the Hoya carticei and everything that I thought I knew about Hoyas just goes straight out the window. Honestly I just do not understand this Hoya and I have tried time after time after time. I think my first encounter with the Hoya carticei was I think potentially back at the first plant swap. I got a few cuttings of it and I tried cropping some in moss and I tried cropping some in water and neither seemed to root and I was a little bit confused because that at the time was my kind of just go-to for Hoya and neither seemed to work and then I got myself a beautiful full plant from House of Kojo about a year ago. It arrived looking a little bit, I mean it didn't look great when I got it to be honest and I was refunded the money for that and I think to my knowledge most people that received Hoya carticeis from them also received them in similar states. I know my friend Emma's looked the same and so I decided to chop the whole thing up and start again and yeah like I just I don't know like this is this is the best I feel like I've got it looking to in a while and if you look at the bottom section there it's so curly it's so dry it feels like it's just gonna yellow and and die off and the leaves are so thin as well. I've got a couple of strands here that look fairly healthy and if I could just get them all looking like that then my god I would be so happy because it's such a beautiful Hoya. I genuinely love it so much and I would love to have this plant looking healthy in my collection but I'm just very confused about what the best way to grow it is and I've had very mixed opinions from different people that I've spoken to about it as well so so yeah I think I think what I'm probably gonna do is I'm probably gonna try it as a terrarium plant for a little while just because I know Hoyas do enjoy high levels of humidity and I'm kind of thinking that if anything's gonna work then that's gonna maybe work for it but if this plant was to suddenly die a death and I wasn't able to save it I would not be rushing out to buy it again just because it has been for me personally more drama than it's worth. I know everybody will experience a different plant differently but this for me has just been a little bit of a headache plant as much as I love the potential of it uh but yes so that's plant number one I'm gonna take you around some others and we can talk through them together and this next one it kind of makes me sad that this plant has ended up on this list because it is one that I absolutely adore it's one of my oldest plants in my collection but I am just at my wits end with this plant at the moment it is my big Alocasia portadora and again if you watch my channel for a while then you'll kind of know the full story with this plant I've had it for years and years and years it used to be way bigger than me like from as a floor plant its leaves were like half the size of me and I struggled with pests so much with this plant and honestly I know some people say that certain plants are a magnet for pests I have never known a plant like this one it led to the point that I ended up completely hacking it back so it was just essentially bulbs in a pot and I overwintered them and grew them back and she is now growing again for me but even this time around I have been so vigilant with my pest checking I've been so vigilant with my pest treating and she has had spider bites thrips mealybugs literally everything in such a short space of time and I don't know what to do about it and it's just oh my goodness it's just making life a little bit frustrating because I am literally pest treating this plant sometimes multiple times a week and it's I mean I'm obviously I try to isolate plants that have got pests as much as possible but she's a very big plant she does need quite a lot of natural light so she's kind of going from being on the balcony to my bathroom for pest treatment and just kind of vice versa at the moment and none of the other plants in in that area that she was in have got pests at all like spider mites usually spread like wildfire so I've been so vigilant with my pest checking and just nothing it's literally just this plant and if anybody has any tips at all please do let me know I'm using predatory mites I'm I'm at the point now where I'm tempted to go back to chemicals for this plant just because I don't know how else I'm going to be able to stop the problem from happening and she is just the most beautiful alacasia in the world I love her but at this point now and I'm not considering getting rid of her but at this point now if if she didn't make it and I had the option to buy another one I think I might look at alternative plants I don't think I would go back and buy another one despite how beautiful she is just because she's been such a nightmare and I know alacasia in general can be a little bit more prone to things like thrips and spider mites and I have noticed it with a lot of others in fact I've got another alacasia here that I'll speak about later in this video but I have noticed it with others but with others at least I feel like I don't know I feel like I can kind of catch it quite soon and get it under control and perhaps it's just because this one has got such vast leaves with so many kind of nooks and crannies in there that it's so difficult to get rid of them um but yeah oh in fact I can see a thrip yeah just killed a thrip so currently I just feel like this plant is a little bit of a liability and although I've got a very big emotional attachment to it and I do love it it just is frustrating me that I can't get the pests under control so yeah that's why I'm out with that one and then coming over to my cabinet which I have just reorganized by the way I'm not going to do a full cabinet update now but I've just given it a very lovely reorganize and I think it's looking very nice but at the back of my cabinet tucked in the corner it's a plant that I'm thinking of giving up on if I just clear some room so that I can get in there I've spoken about this one before but this is my philodendron sodaroi aff and this was at one point a really beautiful big plant it completely filled the trough plant that I had it in and it was bringing me a lot of joy but it just it is another one that is just so incredibly susceptible to pests to the point that I don't think there's ever been a time in my care where it hasn't had anything um I don't know if you saw just at the back that I've got spider mite and thrip sashes just tucked in the back surrounding this plant just in the event that something does strike again because I would not be surprised but I did make the decision to completely chop it up and I've given a couple of sections of it away to different people that want to try growing this plant because I'm a little bit baffled but I just wanted to stick with one of the sections and see if I could get it to grow for me I'm just actually having a look at that leaf oh yeah it's actually got thrips in there at the moment oh my goodness look at them this is its first leaf and I did give everything in my cabinet a really good check over the other day when I did the rearrange but I'll have to get back in there now and have another look so yeah this is one it's never looked particularly healthy for me it's just got continuous pests it doesn't seem happy in my care and therefore I just think to myself is it the plant for me there are just some plants that don't work in certain environments and I'm not sure that this is one that is going to be that is going to be my plant I'm also not a massive crawling plant person they take up so much space and I don't have that much space so maybe I'll give it one more go but if this is a plant that I do pass along it's not one that I'm going to be in a hurry to replace I'm sad to say and this is a very sad looking one in fact I would say it's maybe one of the worst looking plants in my whole collection at the moment I'm pretty sure this is a prickly pear cactus that's what I have always thought that it was but actually when Emma came over recently she said that she thought it was something else so I will put what she said on the screen and if you know for sure please do let me know in the comments down below but this is one that I picked up at I was gonna say TK Maxx I think I picked it up at Wilko's that's very different to TK Maxx I picked it up at Wilko's about four five years ago again it was a very little thing and it was just on a rescue shelf and for a while it did really well and I don't know there's just something about it I'm obviously showing you it in a really really bad state at the moment but there's just been something about it that I don't know it just hasn't really interested me that much and so therefore it's really fallen off fallen off my radar a little bit and I haven't watered it in quite a long time and I will go and water after this video because I do feel bad but it has just become quite neglected it's been tucked in the corner of a window down at the bottom by my big snake plant I haven't really seen it that much I haven't paid that much attention to it and it's looking properly properly neglected so I think my plan for this one because I don't I mean I don't think there's any point in me keeping it just because I'm clearly not loving it I think what I'll probably do is I will try and rehab it a little bit and get it looking a little bit healthier also I'm aware that I'm falling down I'm on my bed and I keep slipping but I think I will try and rehab it I think I'll try and get it looking a little bit happier a little bit healthier and then I will see if anybody would like to re-home this plant I've luckily got some very nice neighbours that are also quite into plants so I'll ask them I'll ask some friends if not I'll probably put a thing my Instagram story and see if any of you guys would like it as well but it deserves a loving home and I think the only reason I've hung on to it this long is just because I've had it for a long time and that is not a good reason to keep a plant it doesn't it doesn't mean that you should keep a plant just because you've had it for a long time it's similar to what I was saying about my Alocasia portadora there's just something about I don't know you've kind of got more of a relationship with the plant if you've had it for a while but yeah this one deserves much better than what I'm currently giving it and this next one I might need to put some clips in off because I've got it in one of my prop boxes and I'm not sure how well you're going to be able to see it on camera but it is this little one just at the back here it is the philodendron marmaid and it's a plant don't get me wrong I really like the plant I think I feel fairly similar about the philodendron marmaid to how I did about the philodendron sodoroi f the one that is just going very wrong in my cabinet this one is doing brilliantly in the prop box and I think it would probably continue to grow fairly well in the prop box but as soon as I take this plant out of the propagation box everything seems to go very wrong and again pests have been drawn to this plant and I know I'm talking a lot about pests in this video I do always like I will always have probably a plant with pests in my home but on the whole I am pretty on top of my pest checking it's just that some plants are just I don't know they just seem to attract them more and this is one that every single time I've had it I've had to chop it back put it in my prop box and start again because spider mites have been the worst one for this for me and although I do think it's beautiful I think the the the markings on its leaves are absolutely stunning and oh my goodness one of you over on my patreon the other day was showing me your philodendron mame and it just blew my mind it was one of the most beautiful ones I've ever seen and that is what is making me want to stick with this plant but again currently at the moment I think I will give it another go I will try and kind of acclimate it very slowly to this room to kind of normal room humidity I'll leave it next to a humidifier and I'll see how I get on but if it doesn't work this time it's going to a new home and I probably won't be getting it again just because I did this struggle for me hasn't been worth it and like I say I know it is different for different people there's some plants that I find really easy that some of you guys will struggle with and there's some that I will struggle with that you guys will probably find really easy as well so yep that's just a struggle one for me and one that I don't think it's worth the fight much longer and this next one doesn't look like much at the moment because it is just a stump in a pot but it's my alacasia purple sword and I got this one probably about maybe five or six months ago now when I went to visit gab and green and it's an alacasia that I've never owned before I've seen it one of my friends Lottie has the most beautiful purple sword and I saw hers and I was like oh my goodness I would love that plant and since I've had it it's just given me nothing but issues I've had the constant kind of alacasia cycling thing I've had it giving me a leaf and then dropping a leaf and I feel like I've kind of kept it in all of the right conditions it's had very good light it's had fantastic humidity I really have tried this plant and it has also had pests very badly it's had mealy bugs quite badly and for an alacasia like I find that quite surprising um so I did actually make the decision to take it out of the soil that it came in it was the recycled kind of more sustainable houseplant soil that gab and green use but I have just put it into the soil that I feel more comfortable with just in case there were eggs or anything nasty lurking in there and I can see it's kind of trying to do something for me again so I think I'm gonna I'm gonna give it another go I'm not gonna pass the plants along to someone else just yet but I don't know I just don't know I know how much I love my friend's plant I don't know how much I don't know how much I'm gonna love it and I think I might have just potentially fallen in love with the idea of the plant and because it's just been one thing after another in the time that I've had it I'm not I'm a little unsure but I'm gonna give it another go but currently it's one that if it was to die I'm not gonna let it die but if it was to die I probably wouldn't replace I've got some in my collection that oh my goodness if I was to lose them like for example my philodendron splendid if that was to die I would be heartbroken and I would rush out and I'd buy another one whereas with some like this I don't really know how much I'd notice it so yeah that is where I'm up to with it I'll keep you updated with it I do hope that I can get it back I do hope that I can get the pest issues under control and I hope that I can form a relationship with it because I really love to fall in love with this plant but currently there's not much to fall in love with and above my bed I've got my anthurium magnificum and this is a plant again this isn't one that I'm completely giving up with I'm not getting rid of it but I do just feel a little bit at my wit's end with because I have tried this plant in so many different areas of my home I've tried it in so many different conditions I've tried it in so many different substrates and it just seems to be going downhill and when I say going downhill I don't mean damage on the leaves like this because a lot of this was here when I already got it but it's got this weird damage up here that almost looks pest related but I have given it such a good check over so many times and I cannot see anything I have treated it I've had sachets around it of predatory mites and it's not giving me any new growth at all it hasn't done for probably eight months now it's just looking progressively worse and worse and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong um and although I will absolutely stick with it with this plant and I will do everything I possibly can to get it back to health it's just getting to the point now where I'm like oh should I should I pass it on to somebody else to have a go with because I'm sure lots of people want this plant and is it making me happy do I feel like I'm getting anywhere uh so yeah that's the the brutally honest opinion with that plant at the moment I love it when it's when it's healthy it's beautiful I'm just a little bit baffled and when plants start doing things and you can't work them out it could just be a little bit frustrating sometimes I'm usually quite good at trying different things and getting to the bottom of things and I just don't know what it is of this plant so if you've got any tips or advice or anything like that please do let me know down in the comments below I'd be super grateful but in the meantime that's why it's on the list and this one my pink princess philodendron I'm not saying that I'm getting rid of this plant although I am 100% thinking about it I know I've been thinking about it for a little while it's just one that has just not brought me joy in a while and I feel there's a part of me that feels guilty saying that because I know she is such a beautiful gloriously big plant like she's bigger than me now on the whole she's she's doing okay she's got a little bit of growth that's doing funky things down the bottom but on the whole she's doing okay and I really want to love her but for some reason I have just fallen out of love with her I think when I first got the pink princess to be totally honest when I first got the pink princess I got it because everyone was raving about it I was seeing it all over social and I was like cool I'll get a cutting and I'll grow it myself and I was really proud then of how well the cutting grew and how she developed because she was tiny when I first got her this was only I think maybe two years ago a year and a half ago um and then I was just I was just kind of very proud of my achievement of being able to grow her to the size that she is today and that is the the thing I think that has stopped me from parting with this plant sooner um so yeah I'm really really back and forth on this one I think she would bring somebody else much more joy than she's bringing me I look at her and I think oh well maybe if I could get her climbing all up the wall then maybe I would love her more and maybe I would but is that a reason to keep her I don't know so yeah I just know that if this was a plant that was to go downhill or I don't know if I just was to not own this plant anymore it isn't a cutting that I would go in search of to try and grow again because because I'm just not that fussed about the pink princess on the whole um and I feel bad saying that but yeah this is one that I'm still figuring out what to do with but who knows maybe I'll fall in love with her again maybe I will but at the moment I just don't see that happening and this is a genus of plants that I have officially given up with I'm not saying I will never ever ever try again but for the time being I have no desire to add any more to my collection and it is caladiums I spoke about this a little while ago when I made a video of plants that I was getting rid of and I said that I wasn't wanting to bring any more caladiums into my collection and then I did a rescue box a grow tropicals rescue box and I was sent the most beautiful caladium it was absolutely stunning and I just thought to myself okay maybe maybe it's a sign I will try again and it didn't do badly it did okay but it just I can't explain it just wasn't giving me joy to grow so I've ended up literally in the last few days I've chopped it back and I've given the bulbs to one of my friends so I'm sure it's going to bring her a lot more joy than it's been bringing me but I don't know what it is about them I used to be caladium crazy and I used to absolutely love them but nowadays they're just a plant that doesn't excite me and I know everybody's got their own personal preferences but I kind of want to fall in love with caladiums again but I feel like because I've just tried another one they're really beautiful one again and it hasn't ticked boxes for me then it's just probably not the right time for caladiums for the time being does anybody else have that with plants I don't know I don't know if it's because they're annuals like I know they do die back at certain times of year you can keep them going we'll be around you create the right conditions but I don't know if that's the reason I just can't put my finger on it I'm just not loving them and yeah will not be intentionally bringing any into my collection for the foreseeable future uh but yeah and finally this is a plant that I feel about ready to give up on and I've spoken about this one before and I've been on a journey with this plant it is my paterus alba lineata fern and when I first got this one I won't go into all the details I know I've spoken about this a lot on my channel but when I first got this plant it was looking beautiful it was looking elegant it was looking healthy and gorgeous for about a week and then almost overnight it just died it just turned crispy and horrible it completely dried up I had to chop the entire plant back it looked just like an empty an empty pot of nothingness for a really long time and I've just put a little hummus tub over it I've kept the soil fairly damp and it has grown back and this is probably I think about five or six months worth so it obviously hasn't grown back amazingly in that time it's given me some but not a lot and I've just recently started trying to transition it out of being in its little hummus tub all the time to normal room humidity and I've taken the acclimation really really slowly and I have had it right next to my humidifier as well so it's still been getting very good humidity but already it's starting to go all transparent and brown and it's just starting to look awful again and I can just I don't want to be a negative Nancy but I can just see the cycle kind of continuing and me chopping it back again and then having to do the same thing again and I think if that does happen it's probably just the case of it's a plant that's not quite right for my home environment or maybe it's just a plant that I'm not very good with and I will probably again find another home for it because it's so beautiful when it does well and it's one that I was genuinely really really excited to have in my collection but it's just it's been an ongoing it's been an ongoing pain in the arse for a while now so I'm not sure how much longer it's worth it for me or the plant because this can't be fun for the plant it does seem quite stressful but yeah this is where I'm currently at with it I'm doing kind of three hours a day in here and then I'm taking it off and running my humidifier for the rest of the day so it's still it's still getting high humidity I'm gonna continue to do things that way and I'm gonna hope that it turns a corner and things are good but I'll keep you updated I'll keep you updated with all of these plants and do let me know in the comments any plants that you're struggling with at the moment any that just have stopped bringing you joy plants that are just getting on your nerves a bit comment them down below we can have a vent because I think it's good to talk about this stuff sometimes I spend so much of the time talking about plants that I love and my top favorite plants of the month and I have often got plants as well that are just not sitting not sitting quite right with me so it feels good to talk about it but yes I really hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel have a lovely day and I will see you in the next video hey sexy pot lovers