Ranking My 25(!!) Anthuriums 🌿 Secret Anthurium Collection TOUR

Hello everyone, I hope you're doing well today. I have been wanting to make this video for such a long time but I've also been a little bit reluctant to make this video just purely for the fact that Anthurium for me has been probably out of every single genus of plants in my collection over the years has probably been the most difficult for me and there are some, don't get me wrong, there are some that I feel really confident with and some that I'm like yep I have got that one down and then there's others that I just don't seem to be able to figure out the balance with and I am constantly struggling with and I guess what I was kind of hoping and the reason I was a little bit reluctant to make this video is that I was hoping I might be able to, I don't know, come back to you in a few months time and be like haha there we go guys I've sussed them all I'm really really great with Anthuriums now and I just don't think that that is going to be the case so I've currently got 23 species of Anthurium in my collection. I'm going to take you through all of them today and I'm just going to chat to you a little bit about my growing experience with them but first 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 yeah as I say I've got 23 species I want to take you through today so this is probably going to be quite a long video so by all means make a cup of tea, cup of coffee, grab some plants to repot and yes I hope you enjoy it let's get into it so I know I often say with these kind of videos that I haven't put these plants in any particular order and it's all just random, today I thought I would rank these plants purely because there is a correlation between the ones that are doing very badly and the ones that are doing very well so we're going to start with the ones that have been the most difficult for me and the ones that I'm just really struggling with and we're going to work up to the ones that are really beautiful and have just been easy and are just wonderful so hopefully this video will get better and better a few of the ones that I'm going to show you to start with actually don't have any leaves on them currently because I'm just kind of rehabbing them so I will put some pictures on the screen so you can see what they look like but the first one is this one here and this is an anthurium metallicum and the first time I saw this anthurium I'm pretty sure it was a social media thing I saw it pop up and I was just blown away I was like oh my goodness it's gorgeous I would just love to add this type of anthurium to my collection and it's just been one thing after another and it has just not gone well for me and as you can see it is starting to give me a new leaf here and although that is quite promising and quite exciting based on my experience with the plant over the last kind of I think eight months that I've owned it I know that the cycle that it seems to go through is giving me a new leaf that leaf looking lovely for I don't know a week or two and then it just really going downhill and that leaf yellowing and dying off and I know it might sound like this is potentially flat mite related or pest related in some way I have checked this plant countless times I've had it under the microscope I feel like I've done everything right and I just can't figure it out so yeah I'm also currently growing it in a very pearly sphagnum moss mix and this has done really well for other kinds of anthuriums this is kind of my go-to for a lot of anthuriums when things aren't going that well and yeah just nothing I have done so far has seemed to keep this plant happy so I'm persevering and I'm hoping that at some point I can get my head around it because the potential of this plant as I say is just insane but it's been a little while now and I just have not quite be able to figure it out so with any of these ones if any of you have some tips please comment them down below I'd be so insanely grateful if any of you are successfully growing this plant let me know what you're doing right but then the next one is one that some of you may roll your eyes at and go oh god claire why are you why are you doing this to yourself again because I have lost a few of these plants now but this is the anthurium warrock quianum and I um yeah I did kind of say probably about five months ago I was like you know what I'm not going to try again with this plant for the foreseeable future I'm going to wait until maybe I move and have a new environment and then I'll try again and then I came across this one on ebay and it was very I think it was god I think it was under 20 quid it was a very good price on the plant and I was like you know what I'm not documenting this on youtube maybe just for myself I will just have a play about off camera and that's exactly what I've been doing and although it's not going as badly as it has done in the past I've obviously still got some leaves here it's most beautiful big leaf just there I did actually lose I think about three weeks ago and I took a picture I'll put it on the screen um but I came home after a few days away and I don't know if I just hadn't spotted it before I went away or maybe it was an infestation that just kind of struck up very quickly but its main big leaf was covered in thrips absolutely covered I washed it down with some horticultural soap and I gave it a very light spray with isopropyl alcohol and I think just probably because the thrips had really got into like the flesh of the plant the isopropyl alcohol or I assume that's what it was just caused the leaf to become very mottled and almost burned so I had instant regret with that I saw the leaf starting to kind of go a little bit it looked a bit waterlogged immediately and then I looked back the next day and I was like oh it looks horrible so although I could have kept the leaf I was like at this stage it has been a pretty thrip ridden is there any benefit in doing that so I chopped it back and as you can see it is currently getting ready to give me a new a new leaf there which is very encouraging and it's also so as you can see I'm growing it in no drainage this is a system that has worked so well for so many of my anthuriums as we move up the list and see some more success stories you'll see but I've just got a little semi-hydro reservoir on the bottom then I've got a chunky chunky mix then I've got some sphagnum moss up the top here which as you can see is doing great things for the aerial roots around the top of the plant so in theory I think I feel like this should be a good way of growing this plant but yeah I am still encountering issues and again like as I say any advice would be appreciated but I'm feeling hopeful I'm monitoring this one so carefully despite what I said about the thrips I am now monitoring this plant so carefully and I do hope that I can get my head around this one because it's got to be one of the most beautiful anthuriums and one that I just adore and I would love to be able to grow well I've never been able to grow this plant well and it's frustrating because I'm like I shouldn't be able to do it but yeah also I was going to say majority of my anthuriums are either under my grow lights here in my cabinet or over by that window in fact I don't think I don't think I have any of my anthuriums through in the bedroom in fact I'm sure I don't so yeah all of them are receiving kind of bright indirect light decent levels of humidity always above 50% and not too hot because I know a lot of anthuriums don't like excessive heat but I do try to keep the stable kind of room temperature between 20 and 25 degrees in this room if I possibly can so yeah that's where we're at at the moment and I've got a couple of very a couple more very sad ones that I'll show you I'll whiz through these quite quickly and then we can get on to the more interesting ones but this one is the anthurium bulletus and again you can't see much at the moment but there are if you look very very closely a couple of little oh there we go a couple of little growth points that are coming back up this is a really gorgeous gorgeous lobe-y anthurium that I got oh probably about a year ago now and there has been points in which I've grown this plant where it has been looking quite good and quite healthy I've never managed to get it past the two leaf club it's always just stuck with two leaves and something will always go a little bit wrong whether it's fungal this is such a susceptible one to fungal issues and I believe pesty as well although I think the last time it was just stuck in the one leaf club for about four months and I was just like oh so I again lopped it back and put it into a prop box and it's such a lovely one and again it's just one that like I feel like I've got ones with a very similar and you'll see when we get to them but like a very similar structure in my collection but I just so far haven't been able to master this one or feel like I really know it that well and yeah this is one I've had for quite a while and I just have not been able to get my head around so we will see stay tuned again and then this one here this is a pallidiflorum cross I'm not exactly sure what the ID of it is again it's currently not looking like much at all and in fact some of these plants I do have clips of when they were looking healthy in my collection so I can put some clips in but this one again I have just found is so susceptible to pests and I'm making it out like I've got a really really pesty collection on the whole I feel like I'm quite good at managing pests but there's certain types of plant that I do find are just kind of like a magnet for them like everything else in an area will be absolutely fine and then there will be one plant or two plants that just seem to attract everything and this has been one of those plants for me so again it's in the prop box I think maybe I might actually transfer this one to sphagnum moss in the same way that I did with the metallicum like this but yeah currently there's not a lot to show and then we're moving on to these slightly more we're definitely more aesthetically pleasing anthuriums but ones that are still at the edge of struggleville as opposed to me feeling confident with them and this is the anthurium regal magnificum hybrid and it's got to be one of my most beautiful beautiful anthuriums and I got this one as an import plant probably about five months ago now ish if I'm estimating and it's done okay for me but I feel like I've gone into this one a little bit nervous because the pure regal is a type of anthurium very similarly actually to the warrock quianum that I have just found to be so difficult to grow and I did have in fact I've had several chunks from my big regal in my collection and in fact one of them I do still own but it is not in this video it's in a prop box somewhere but it's currently giving me absolutely no growth and I have just found to be very very difficult so when I saw that this was a regal hybrid I was quite excited because typically not always but typically hybrid plants of any sort do tend to be a little bit more resilient I think just because they've got two different gene pools from different parent plants a lot of the time they're less susceptible to disease pests fungal issues you name it and so far so far I want to say this one has been easy I mean so much easier than the regal but I want to say it has been okay to grow it's very much kept me on my toes and in fact it is currently starting to give me a new leaf there which is so exciting but it took a while to get going the first few months of me owning it I didn't have any growth on it at all then it gave me this leaf and again this looks again I thought it was fungal and then I thought it was pesty because you can kind of see like up there those tracks on it but again I haven't been able to see anything that's signaled that this plant is either suffering from a fungal disease or is infested with pests again I've had it under the microscope and actually now that this leaf's hardened off that seems to have just stabilized it's been left with quite a lot of damage so I'm guessing that perhaps there might have been a little something that went on when the leaf was very young and was still hardening off that maybe I didn't spot and as the leaf has grown it's just kind of displayed that more prominently because obviously as you can see do come in really quite in fact this one's coming in quite big already um but do come in really quite small and they get bigger and bigger and bigger and that is one thing that I love about the genus so much I love when I've got a new leaf coming and I love trying to predict how big it's going to get there's a few of those to show you in this video as well but yeah this is actually probably despite the fact that it's quite low on this list I would say it's probably one of my favorite anthuriums it's just one that I don't feel that confident with yet and as you can see I am just growing this one in pure sphagnum moss just because I feel like it's a really good way to be able to monitor the roots as you can see I kind of see all through there what's going on and it seems happy like that and you can absolutely grow anthuriums long term in sphagnum moss it does very much replicate their natural habitats and I have had success doing it with lots of anthuriums in my collection long term so currently I have no plans to change this up just because the plant is now growing well for me um but yeah I feel like I still feel like it's very early days with this one I feel like I don't know it as well as some of the others hence why it is a little bit lower down and the same goes for this next one and this is such a special one it is my anthurium delta force and the last time I showed you this one this leaf here I was a little bit worried about because again it looks like the tip might be affected by something fungal I did do a baking soda fungicide treatment on this one and I did chop the tip of the leaf off and that was oh at least a month ago now so I want to say that's kind of contained any issues and it has been fine since then it has also just given me this leaf here which is absolutely perfect so it's a very young plant and until it does kind of get into giving me a little bit more mature growth they are very very vulnerable hence why as you can see I'm just growing this one under a cup for humidity and just kind of environmental protection again it lives over by the window and yeah again in sphagnum moss as well and that seems fine for the time being but it's just one that oh my goodness oh it's getting ready to give me a new leaf as well oh look at that it's so ditty and small but it's right there in the middle how exciting um but yeah this is just a plant that at the beginning of the year I would have thought if you'd said to me you'll have this plant I would have thought oh my god that's so unattainable because this plant until it went into tissue culture and even now it's in tissue culture it is still very expensive to buy um but yeah you see this plant going for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pounds at the beginning of the year it was thousands hence why I never thought I would be able to acquire this plant um but I actually found this one for 75 pounds on etsy which is so amazing I was absolutely over the moon I got it from the Eden lab which a lovely guy called Mark runs and oh my god yeah I was so happy when I found it um but yeah that's the only reason as I say it's still a very vulnerable seedling and one that I feel I don't know very well yet that's why it is so far down this list but it's one that I think so far so good I feel like I've been able to kind of get issues under control with it so far so I hope we keep just going upwards and hopefully this plant will grow big and beautiful and then this next little one this is one that I have really again over the years struggled with and again it looks like not a lot at the moment because it is very small but this is the anthurium veitchii and this is one of the first more unusual anthuriums that I added to my collection probably oh god getting on for maybe three or four years ago now and I got it as a little plant that I found on ebay not this exact plant um but I got it as a little plant that I found on ebay and I found it really easy to grow and maybe I just I don't know maybe it was beginner's luck um I grew it really happily for I think probably about six months maybe even a little bit longer it gave me beautiful growth it was sizing up really well and then all of a sudden one day I suddenly noticed there was something going wrong with the plant I can't remember exactly what the symptoms were but there was something going on with the foliage I checked the roots and the roots were just rotten so I'd obviously accidentally over watered it at some point and then if you watched my import video from earlier earlier this year I was sent the most beautiful anthurium veitchii with leaves like that it was absolutely insane and I couldn't believe it and again that one rotted and I was just like oh my god I feel like I have no luck with this plant and then I got this one which again did have bigger leaves at one point and it started to rot again and I was like oh my god what is it with me and this plant typically I'm not an over waterer like with the rest of my collection I always say I teeter on the edge of under watering as opposed to over watering but yeah I essentially decided to when I started seeing issues with this one I was like I'm going to chop it back and I'm going to restart the plant and try again and that is what I have done and for the last three or four months I would say it has been stable again very similarly to how I've grown some of the others I've got a layer of I think this is liquor at the bottom with then a chunky mix on top no drainage again and it's doing okay it's doing okay it's obviously alive and it is just very I mean you might not even be able to see this on camera but it has got the start of a very little new leaf just there um but it's just one that I feel very again a little bit nervous around and I want to do well but um but yeah I just don't feel like I know it properly yet and I at one stage felt like I did so so yeah that's why it's here but I do have faith that things have been going well and have been stable for a little while now so I would hope it's on the road to recovery um but again as I say I'll keep you updated I'll keep you updated with all of these but yeah now we're moving into ones that are slightly I would I would say those are the like real struggle ones this next bunch I would say are the ones that are pretty stable I feel pretty confident with uh and the first one oh my goodness almost knocked another one off um but the first one is one that I really haven't had for that long hence why it is quite low down in this section but it's the Antherium Draconopterum and this was such a wishlist Antherium for me for such a long time and I am so so so happy that I finally acquired it I got this one along with actually quite a few of my Antheriums from Eastern Tropicals which I've banged on about before they are amazing but in my short time of owning it I've only owned it a couple of months it is already giving me a new leaf which is so exciting because I my fear with this plant was kind of like this one was going to be like the Anthurium Bulletus the one that was very low down this list right at the bottom because they've got quite a similar structure and actually texturally I know it's probably not super obvious on camera but they feel quite similar like they're thinner than you think and I don't know there's so many similarities between the two that I was like I hope I don't really struggle with this one as well and this one so far as I say I know it is early days but so far has been a doddle for me I found it so easy to care for no acclimation grief whatsoever and the fact that it's giving me a new leaf this early on just makes me feel like I'm doing something right so yes it's very strange when I put this against other types of Antherium that in fact even have like very similar like originate from similar places and seemingly have very similar environmental needs I'm like they've been next to each other why is one fine and one's not? I don't know the answer to that currently but this one I'm actually growing as I say I've done a lot of experimentation with Anthuriums but this one I have got in drainage this is in a can't get it out but a pot that drains all the way through and this is just a soil ninja base mix with lots of bark in there so maybe actually I should try the same mix for ones like the Bulletus and the Metallicum and see how I get on and I've also remembered another struggle Anthurium that I haven't enclosed on this list and that is the Anthurium Angomar Carnum which again I have in a prop box somewhere and that's a I believe a vining Anthurium and I chopped that up into wet sticks and I put it in a prop box because I just couldn't do it anymore but no this one is gorgeous and I'm so excited again for the potential of this plant this one has the potential to get absolutely huge and I don't know where I will put it when it gets absolutely huge but I'm just really excited to hopefully continue to bring out the best in this one and yeah it's just such an unusual really really cool one and although this next one is or has been should I say quite easy the only reason that I've put it not right near the top is because in the last I want to say the last like eight months it's become a little bit of a struggle for me and it's the Anthurium Magnificum and I got this one when I was living back at my mum's house for my friend Emma growing and I had so much luck with this plant this plant I just found so easy to grow it was sizing up so quickly like if you've watched my videos for a while you might remember one of the leaves it gave me at one point was literally like that big it was huge and it was so beautiful and then I can't actually remember where the drama started but I have a feeling it's when I ran out of space and had to move it further back from the window and I in fact had it up on top of the fridge for a while which is a low light spot that's probably where the drama started um but yeah it gave me this leaf which as you can see is it's okay it's just looking a little bit battered and crispy here or there it hasn't had pests or anything like that but it just looks a little bit unhappy I always find as well especially when I'm using my light box things tend to look a little bit better on camera than they do in real life um it looks yeah it looks a bit more kind of glossy and glamorous on camera as do I but the good thing is with this one it has got a new growth point just there and that is the first new growth point in a really long time so I feel like I'm kind of making leeway with this plant maybe this is the start of it kind of I don't know bouncing back to where it was before because I have moved it back over by the window obviously if it gives me another ginormous leaf I'm gonna have to think about repositioning again but yeah that feels like the place where it was happy before and therefore will be happy again so I feel like I can figure it out with this plant this is why it's not right at the bottom and also I'm growing this one again a little bit differently I've got a layer of sphagnum moss on the top but underneath it is just a kind of like a barky soily mix again you can kind of see through there and again this is just because I wanted to kind of air layer some of the aerial roots at the top of the plant and actually they haven't really kicked into action yet they're not doing a huge amount but this can also just be quite a good way to monitor some of your plants that enjoy larger amounts of water because when this starts to dry out then typically you'll know it's time to check the soil further down and this is an anthurium that I mean one of my thirstier anthuriums I was going to say as well and this might be obvious to a lot of you but just because these plants are in the same genus different species within the plants have very different care needs I feel like that's probably quite obvious from my experience with them but I just wanted to point that out just in case you didn't know and yeah this is one that I do find to be a little bit more of a guzzler when it comes to water than some of my others but yeah I'm confident that it will bounce back but for the time being it's just looking a little bit unhappy and then I've got this little mystery anthurium and I keep meaning to message my friend that I got it off I'm pretty sure it's a king of spades cross red crystallinum I think I think but I'm not entirely sure about that and again this one has been it's been easy-ish to grow but it has been one that's been quite susceptible to pests the last leaf I chopped back because it did have thrips again juvenile thrips that just get right into the cells of your plant and often I do find especially if a off reset the plant starts again and that is exactly what I did and it's given me this beautiful new little leaf and it really is stunning uh so yeah the only thing I would say so far is that this one does seem quite slow to grow I've had it probably getting on for a year now and in fact I got it from my friend for Christmas last year so yeah it was about a year ago and yeah this is what it's looking like so I feel like it could be further along maybe had I put more measures in place to keep it pest free I do just think in general at this time of year it is very pesty and especially if you've got lots of plants that have to be touching if one gets something then if you don't notice it immediately then chances are all of them in that area are going to get it and that has been the case for a lot of my particularly velvet leaf anthuriums because they're obviously very very delicious to pests but no it's a really gorgeous one and I will get an absolute accurate ID on it and I will keep you updated with it and show you how it sizes up because it's one that I am really really excited about oh and this next one as well I'm so excited about and I got this lovely one from the last London plant shop I went to and it is another regal hybrid this is an anthurium regal cross blue bessier aff I believe and this one has been really easy so far for me however there's been just a few little things that have made me put it a little bit further down this list such as the fact that and this is actually my own fault so I don't really know why I'm saying this but such as the when I went to repot it recently it had got a little bit of root rot but I do know for a fact that that is the way that I was growing the plant like if I'd put best measures in place like better drainage then that wouldn't have happened again just for the time being while its roots are rehabbing I have just put it into a cup with sphagnum moss just so that it can grow more healthy roots and continue hopefully to size up because this is the only leaf it's given me since there's a little bit of damage at the bottom but again I do think that might have happened in transit because this leaf was kind of starting to appear as I was bringing the plant home so yeah it's just a really really gorgeous one I'm so excited to grow it because as I say the regal is just one that I have struggled with and the hybrids seem to be easier and I just love them regal makes such beautiful hybrids so yeah very excited but it is very very early days I've only had this one for a couple of months so again stay tuned and then this quite exciting and I've actually got multiples of this plant in my collection currently and in fact maybe I'll grab another one to show you because it's growing in fact one sec yeah so it's growing in very different ways despite the fact that I am growing them in very similar conditions so you wouldn't currently although it's very juvenile believe that perhaps it's the same type of plant this is supposedly a pure papi a pure papililaminum that is such a tongue twister um but yeah and I can see obviously I think it's 100% got papi in it um I'm like and as I say it's such early days for this plant but I'm not convinced it's pure and if anything it looks more similar currently um to the king of spades crystallinum so yeah I'm intrigued but as I say I've got several seedlings that all do seem to be developing slightly differently uh so I'm gonna say it's a pure papililaminum but I don't know I hope it is I really hope it is just because as I've said before I'm so interested and excited by anthurium hybridization I know the papi again makes beautiful beautiful hybrids and I would love to be able to play about with pollination with this plant at some point not that I couldn't do that if it wasn't a pure papi because I absolutely can but yeah I am I'm just intrigued to see how it sizes up and in fact at the bottom there those are some other little babies from the same batch of seeds because I got these as uh seeds sorry I didn't grow these from seed I got these as very small tissue culture babies in the same import as the magnificum regal that I showed you uh so yeah they're all developing at very different rates and I'm just excited to see what they do next because whatever it is it looks like it's going to be very very beautiful and just looking at the plants I'm pretty sure we're either halfway or just over halfway I'm just going to change my camera battery very quickly and then we will continue fabulous uh and then this next one I actually brought over the little baby plant to show you of this one even though I do have a big full mother plant firstly because I ran out of space to bring anthuriums over and secondly because this one is very special to me because not only did I grow it from seed I actually pollinated the mother plant and I got the seeds myself and it was such an amazing process and something that as I say has sparked a passion for wanting to do it much more um but this is an anthurium clarinervium baby and I love the anthurium clarinervium so much it is one of the like staple anthuriums in my collection I find it very easy on the whole to grow again I would say the only downside with this plant and again it's potentially because it's another very velvety one but it is quite susceptible to pests I have had pests on my clarinervium on and off over the years but this also is giving me a little leaf there which is very exciting because it's really really really starting to size up now um but I started pollinating this one oh my goodness or the mother plant of this should I say probably about two and a half years ago now because it was when I moved in here which was two years ago now over two years ago now that's when I first harvested the berries and this was obviously one of the berries one of the seeds and it's grown this beautiful little plant and I just feel a real attachment to this one in a way that not that I don't with my other plants but I feel like this one's extra special because I look at it and I just go if I didn't do that this plant wouldn't exist and it just makes me feel very proud so so yeah I um I haven't actually since then had the chance to I had the chance to haven't had any successful pollination with my anthuriums because I've tried very much to hybridize and it's something that I know very little about and I'm just kind of dipping a toe in the water with and experimenting with but I did find the anthurium pollination a fairly simple process maybe I was just lucky I don't know but I found a fairly simple process but a very long process I think the seeds were not from pollination to harvest I think it took over a year I have made specific videos on this and kind of taking you through the step by step of how to do it I'll link them down below in fact so if you want to go and watch them you can but yeah it's just a beautiful beautiful anthurium I feel like this one would be in fact probably from here on out all of the ones I'm going to talk about but very much this one would be a fantastic beginner anthurium like if you're not that familiar with anthurium so you just want to like figure things out for the first time this was one of my first ones if not my first one this species of anthurium um so yeah I'm currently growing it again with sphagnum moss on top and then underneath it's got a chunky soil mix and I'm growing this one in terracotta just to kind of regulate watering a little bit just because it has got a very small root system currently and although it's in a very chunky mix I want to be able to make sure I don't accidentally overwater it while it is still very young and juvenile so yeah I'll probably move it to plastic at some point but for the time being that is how it's growing and it's doing really really well and this is another one that is still very juvenile at the moment but I'm very very excited about and this is the anthurium spl condor and oh my goodness again I will have to put some pictures on the screen so that I can show you what this plant looks like when it's big and mature but it is just gorgeous and I know I've spoken so much about my love for like lobey plants in this video you will see very much why I love it when it's big and mature because it's so pretty and I've had this one for maybe five or six months now and although it is still a baby and it is one that I keep a very close eye on it has been next to plants that have had so many issues and it has just given me no grief at all hence why it is further up the list and it is also currently giving me a new leaf which is so exciting because obviously as the plant sizes up and matures that's when it starts to develop the lovely lobeness and although it hasn't started happening yet you can actually see by looking at that leaf compared to for example one of the more juvenile leaves you can see it's starting to develop a little bit more of that shape so I would have thought that with every new leaf now it will just continue to get a little bit more and a little bit more and again it's another one that I'm growing in a very similar no drainage system I've got semi-hydro on the bottom chunky mix on top and then sphagnum moss on top of that for the aerial roots and it seems to just be keeping this plant so happy as I say this is one that I constantly check on because I feel I don't know I feel like it should be more vulnerable than it is but it very rarely in fact I say very rarely gives me grief it has never given me grief so yeah although it's very young it is one that I would probably recommend for beginners it is one as well that I predict will probably drop in price quite a bit it's um at the beginning of this year again it's one nowhere near as much as like the delta force or anything like that but it is one that was not particularly accessible I've had this one on my wish list for ages and I only came by it fairly recently so yeah I have noticed that the price significantly dropped as the plant has become more and more available um so yes I think I'm right in saying that I paid maybe £30 for this or something which for a young plant of this species I think it probably is quite a good price that I paid again I believe I got this from Eastern Tropicals which is just such a great place for anthuriums um but yeah I'm so excited to see what it does for me as it continues to size up and I can't wait to see what that leaf looks like and then I've put this one quite high up the list and I'm I'm second guessing myself now because actually this is a plant I only got literally a couple of weeks ago I got this sent to me by Grow Tropicals I did a collaboration video with them where they very kindly sent me some plants that they thought were going to be like the next it plants of 2025 and this is an anthurium crystal hope and I don't know why I put it this high up the list because obviously I haven't grown it for that long I've literally been I've had this plant for yeah a couple of weeks if that um I can say that in my time of it's got two new leaves if you look down there look at that two new leaves already getting ready to unfurl and I don't remember seeing them when I first got the plant so I do think it's going to be quite a fast one to grow and the other reason that I think it's probably going to be quite an easy plant to grow is purely for the fact that I know when I first got this one I was like I'm not sure what kind of hybrid it is and actually it's not or it is a hybrid but it's a specific hybrid that was put into tissue culture I believe of the anthurium crystallinum and I'm just about to show you a crystallinum so I'll put them next to each other you can see there's a lot of similarities but this one when I first looked at I almost thought maybe had some like dorayaki or something like that in it because it's got such wide silver venation um and yeah I think that's probably why I've grouped it with my crystallinums and crystallinum hybrids for this section of the video because obviously they have been very very easy for me but assuming it continues to grow in that same way I think it will be touch wood a walk in the park because those ones have been so yeah it's early days but it's one again I'm so excited to grow similar way of growing as well no drainage semi-hydro chunky mix lots of bark and as I say so far it seems fine I won't say too much about that one because obviously it's not an accurate representation of growing over time um but moving on to as I say my crystallinum is the one I just showed you this is a very very young crystallinum I got this one I believe I actually got this one at Mulvernon they weren't quite sure what it was and I'm pretty sure it is a crystallinum just a pure crystallinum but it's been so easy for me so so easy it's grown in high light low light it's currently growing over by my tv which as you can see has got a grow bar underneath it but previously I didn't have anything there and the plant still put out growth there again I have struggled a little bit with pests with it you can see there is some pest damage on this leaf but it does appear now to be pest free and the plant is just growing beautifully for me look at those roots aren't they crazy um so yeah then moving on to a beautiful crystallinum hybrid and this one is sizing up so quickly this is the crystallinum magnificum hybrid and I just hold that next to my face just look at the size of that leaf it's absolutely gorgeous and this is like what I was saying earlier in the video about the magnificum having the potential to like ridiculously size up I don't know considering the crystallinum doesn't typically get much past this from what I've seen like in a home environment I'm wondering just how much this one's going to continue to size up because that is a pretty significant jump even from this leaf here and I've been thinking over the last few days and in fact you can tell on camera I have a feeling this leaf might be getting ready to die off just because it's looking a little bit more yellow and I don't know why that is I can only assume that maybe it is just environmental change at this time of year because I haven't got any specific like special conditions in place for this plant currently it's over by my window I don't really know why it would be doing this and maybe it's not getting ready to die off it just is indicating that it might not be totally happy but yeah apart from that on the whole I have found this one just very very straightforward to grow as I say it grows quickly sizes up quickly I have lopped back various leaves that it's had in the past it hasn't just been these two leaves and sometimes I find that when I mean any genus of plant but specifically anthuriums start to really really size up they often let go of some of their older smaller leaves to kind of conserve their energy and so I typically just when they start yellowing chop them back so I'm not sure if I should do that with this yet I think I will give it some time and see what's going on but this one here I keep meaning to layer some sphagnum moss around the top because as you can see it's got loads of aerial roots that if I was to air layer with some moss would really really kind of start putting out going down into the I was going to say soil but actually this is not soil this is pretty much exclusively tree fern fiber which looks like that I don't know why my camera's not focusing very well today yeah looks like that there's a little bit of perlite in there but it's pretty much completely tree fern fiber and does seem to be keeping this one really really happy from here on out as well I ran out of space in the kitchen so I'm gonna have to go and get the plants as I'm talking about them but this one is the anthurium marona and I got this one I think at about the beginning of the year so about a year ago now when I was first getting into kind of strappy anthuriums and I have said it before but I'm just so obsessed with texture in plants and I think when you've got lots and lots lots of plants something like this with just kind of long pendent leaves just really stands out and just looks so gorgeous and I've got several and again I will show you them in a moment but I've got several other velvety strappy plants and this one is much waxier and much shinier and again I just like looking at this one amongst my other ones and I have found it so easy to grow as well it hasn't been the fastest to grow it if I remember correctly it had two leaves when I first got it so I think it's given me one leaf in my time of owning it and it is also getting ready to give me another one but obviously that is almost a year's worth of growth so it does take a little while I don't know maybe it should have been having higher light conditions but when I first got it I was growing it through in the bedroom which doesn't have quite as good light as this room and I don't think it was under grow lights and then I moved it through here and it went into my window and that's when it's kind of started doing a little bit more for me so yeah it's just a really robust really hardy antherium and one that I just adore I'm so excited about this one and I also just really love that the main vein is white like I know that's such a weird thing to say but like there's another one for example that I'll show you in a moment that has more of a green vein and I just love that strip of white coming down the middle I think it looks so elegant and so lovely so yeah this is one that I would highly highly highly recommend and another strappy antherium that I am absolutely loving is the antherium vitarifolium and this one as I was just saying with the last one having the white venation this one doesn't have any white on the venation it's very very green but again I do just like how that contrasts with ones that then do have the white venation it just makes them all feel very I mean they are very individual unique plants but you know what I mean I just like having variety but this one again was actually very kindly sent to me by one of you guys at the beginning of the year and it has sized up so much like its biggest leaf is now below my waist it is getting so so so big and it has given me very little grief at all I think I did have some juvenile thrips on one of the leaves at one point but it did respond very well to a pest treatment and I haven't had to pest treat it again I'm just growing this one you can kind of see I've got it in a towel pot but I'm growing it in a chunky soil mix and I've made it a little sphagnum moss collar which again I typically just monitor and when that dries out I check the soil it is in fact very dry now so I should probably give this one a water through assuming it's ready but yeah it's been very fast to grow it's given me several inflorescences in the time of owning it as well I haven't tried playing about with pollination with this one yet just because I haven't really known much about the types of antherium that I might be able to hybridize this one with so if any of you know I'd be really interested to know but yeah it's given me a few inflows in the last year and in fact I was going to say it's getting ready to give me a new leaf but there's signs of an inflorescence just behind that leaf there as well so yeah maybe in the new year I can have a play about with that but no I just think it's gorgeous it's such a lovely one and one that I just don't have to worry about which is so nice and then this one I have said it so many times before firstly it's very difficult to hold up and actually show you in shots because it is so big now but it is one of my if not my favourite plants and it is the antherium pallidiflorum and this one ticks all the boxes for me it's got the lovely velvety leaves it's got the white veination it's just so gorgeous and the last leaf it gave me that has hardened off I think is I think I measured it and it was about 110 centimetres which is obviously well over a metre and it's just giving me this one at the moment which is very much still sizing up and hardening off and I feel like it's probably going to be even bigger so again I'm not quite sure where I will fit this plant eventually but this one has sized up so much for me in such a short amount of time because I bought this plant for myself at the beginning of this year and it it wasn't teeny tiny but it was quite small in fact I've got the antherium pallidiflorum narrow form to show you here as well which is basically exactly like this plant but it is a narrow version its leaves are much thinner and I reckon my antherium pallidiflorum here the big one was around about that size when I first got it at the beginning of the year and obviously it has come a huge way in such a short amount of time and yeah as I say it's just one that I really haven't had to worry about despite the fact that it's been a velvet leaf antherium I haven't like again I do not want to jinx this but I haven't even once had to deal with pests on this plant I've kept it in my windows over there and as you can see at the moment like I'm filming this in the middle of the day and it's not the brightest out there it's been getting like decent light but nothing excessive nothing insane I haven't used any grow lights and it's just been the most phenomenal grower like I absolutely adore it and currently again I've just made it a little sphagnum moss collar with the top of a milkshake cup and that seems to be working quite well but honestly this plant is just the apple of my eye I'm like I'm so grateful for having it now but it's one that I'm like oh I wish I got it sooner because it's brought me so much joy in my time of owning it and growing it and yeah I just want to continue to bring out the best in it I need to think about how I can I don't know adapt things a little bit so that I'm able to still continue to get it to size up because it's going to be at the floor before I know it also I was going to say it has got an inflorescence just there as well and oh in fact this is the first day where it's actually open a little bit starting to open should I say you look very the camera will focus very very very closely uh so yeah if anybody knows what kind of pollen I could give this plant to hybridize it let me know um I've got some clarinervium pollen I highly doubt that would work god that would make a beautiful hybrid but I don't think that would work um but yeah I just I could show you this plant all day I feel so immensely proud of this one and I love it so much so yes right on to the next and yeah as I say the narrow form pallidiflorum that I just showed you although I haven't had this plant that long I've only had it for a few months I predict that it's going to be pretty much exactly the same to grow as the big pallidiflorum so that's why it is that far up this list but then the next one I I don't know why I thought before I had this plant I would have thought this one would have been way more difficult than it actually has been for me and this is the anthurium luxurians this is a luxurians platinum and if you see it in the light it's kind of got like a bluey tinge to its leaves more so than the typical luxurians often has but it's such a beautiful beautiful plant again like texture for me I love this I know for example if you've got like trypophobia or like something like that you might hate this texture of leaf but I just think it is beautiful and I think as well just that and the like the shape of the leaves they're so beautifully love heart shaped and then they've got these gorgeous red stems as well it's just such a lovely one and this one again is growing down in front of my tv which as I said earlier in this video I know has a grow bar there at the moment it didn't always have a grow bar there and this one literally was giving me the most beautiful growth when it was getting probably like low to medium light which is not what's recommended for this plant but the fact that it didn't give me any grief is just like I think that's just amazing because I don't know why it's one that I would thought maybe was capable of that but now I would 100% say from my like obviously all of this is just based on my own experience but from my experience with this plant I would say that this is a great one for beginners if you are just wanting to get started with anthuriums and it's also one that just looks a little bit like I don't know I know I always say about the word rare and like means different things for different people this just looks very rare doesn't it it looks very glossy and very shiny and it's not the sort of thing you see every day and yeah I just find it so rewarding to grow very similarly to a lot of others this is how I'm growing it lacquer at the bottom chunky mix on top I just find that works really really well I know I've had questions from you guys saying why don't I do all semi-hydro all soil and I just personally firstly I just like growing this way like it feels right in my gut but also I just feel like having the semi-hydro at the bottom and having a reservoir where the soil can kind of like drain off what it doesn't need and not have the roots be so susceptible in the semi-hydro to root rot it just feels like a good way of doing things and it has worked really really well for me and also because obviously I have got some soil in there which I typically mix things like worm castings and lava rock into I don't need to worry quite so much about fertilization as I do with my semi-hydro that I don't have added fertilizer with not that this is added fertilizer but you know what I mean natural fertilizer but no it's just a wonderful plant wonderful plant I love it so much and then finally one of my biggest anthuriums is the anthurium big bill and I'm sure this one has a better latin name than I know so I will put it on the screen but this is what it looks like and although I've only had this one a few months I've got it at the top of this list because this sounds like a weird thing to say but I feel like I already know it very well because I've had the jungle bush in my collection for many many years which actually now lives at my mum's house it got so big so quickly that I needed to leave it with my mums when I moved here because I ran out of space but it's literally looking at the structure of the plant and looking at its leaves it is pretty much exactly the same apart from the fact that this one isn't as upright and as I say for that reason I do feel like I know the plant very well this new leaf is a fairly new one it gave me this one I think it started putting up this leaf about maybe three four weeks ago and it's just kind of hardened off and it is ginormous this one again if I can find some pictures I'll put them on the screen but this one is capable of getting absolutely insanely huge so I didn't really think that through before getting the plant I just was keen to get it and thought it was a really beautiful one so uh we will figure that out as we go but yeah it's been so resilient so easy again it does kind of trail down and I love the treely hanging anthuriums so I hope that at some point when I'm able to do like a big big like back wall shelving setup I'll be able to have it just kind of hanging down and looking all ruffly and gorgeous and I'll be able to appreciate it in that way because at the moment I've got it in the window and it's lovely and it's growing well in the window it is just blocking out quite a lot of light for other plants so unless I have accidentally missed any which I don't think I have those are currently all of the anthuriums bar a couple in prop boxes those are currently all of the anthuriums in my anthurium collection my secret anthurium collection as I say there are some that I still have got a lot to learn with and a lot to get my head around so any any light that any of you can shed on them I would be so so so grateful um but yeah I've been wanting to chat through them with you for such a long time I know there's a few in here that I haven't shown you before and I've been keeping things a little bit quiet for a reason but but yes it's so fun talking them through with you I always feel like I don't know I feel like you guys are just like my planty friends and every time I talk about stuff I get to share it and it's just I don't know it makes me realize things about the plants a lot of the time that maybe I didn't realize before or see things in different lights so yeah thank you for that and I really hope you enjoyed this video as well 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 stay sexy plant lovers