Name: Testing Plants In ZERO LIGHT - Which Will Survive?
Uploaded: 2021-02-25T20:30:19.000Z
Duration: 11 min 43 s
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So since being in quarantine and locked down again, I've become a lot more obsessed with plants.

Maybe it's the fact that I haven't seen a single soul in months.

Or maybe it's the fact that I'm over 30 and suddenly somehow enjoy doing chores.

This is literally what I do in my spare time.

I am incredibly bad at taking care of plants.

Surely every plant you've ever seen in one of our videos is taken care of by Greg, because I'm just scared of putting in the wrong spot.

Overwatering, neglecting it, completely, forgetting about it, can you tell?

I have anxiety, So I wanted to create an experiment where I would test which plants last the longest in zero light because I need something low maintenance.

But first, let's talk about the plants that we're actually gonna be testing.

I reached out to one of my favorite plant, YouTubers, Nick Pileggi, who has almost 500 house plants in his home.

The which plants are facing off in our challenge is easy.

Name is are probably the best foliage houseplants for lower light corners.

Josina pathos is a great option for a hanging basket.

The phylum is another great option for a four plant that's large, the satin pathos of the synapses.

Snake plant burns are a great option for low light prayer plants, or Maranto are a much more showy house plant.

However, I think in my experience, they're much easier to care for.

Is this sack religious that I'm intentionally taking light away from the plants?

I'm actually very curious to see how this would go.

Maybe on my end, people might look at me and think That's not okay, but for science, I think it's fantastic.

Dear plants, this is your last few moments of light.

Anything to say Good luck and don't fuck it up.

This is Beyonce, Beyonce, this'd Shakira, Lady Gaga.

This is gonna be Viola Davis Charlie Xcx because she's like alternative hallelu.

This is schedule A, I said that's so bad.

They're just going to stay down here by sweeties.

If any advice ahead of time for this experiment Stuff I should be aware of or look out for.

Honestly, it just to be mindful with watering.

I think a heavy hand is really going to be the death sentence of this experiment.

So when in doubt, just do not water your plants until you think they absolutely need it.

Of course, not much happened in the first week, but around the 10 day mark, the first signs of trouble showed up.

I have been coming in here every few days checking the moisture levels, watering as needed, Zelda.

So I feel like this one is may be suffering the most.

Oh, so most of the tips are starting to kind of go.

I'll keep an eye on this every day and see if they're still a solid.

Another 10 days and the first casualties started falling Day 20.

Well, we're gonna take a look at how the plants for 20 days.

They're mostly looking pretty good, don't you think?

She, Angela is not looking bad, but you can start to see some of them are yellowing and I've noticed.

There's still lots of greenery on this thes two.

We should say I think we should literally It's all the always has to be saved.

Do you think that's okay to take it out way?

It's all the time to go to our little plant sanctuary over by the window.

you don't really wanna plant so look like this.

And this is one of the ones that I think it's really pretty you wanna keep.

So she Angela, I'm going to save you now.

Okay, girl, you can come over here with these ones now that we're slowly collecting these injured plants.

I thought it would be prudent to have a segment I like to call.

How do we have your dying plants after you completely neglected them for days or weeks or months?

What is the best way to rehab a plant that's dying or has parts of it that are dying first and foremost, I would say, to increase the lighting, of course, I wouldn't necessarily just throw it in a bright south facing window in the Northern Hemisphere because that's gonna have a lot of direct sunlight that's just gonna burn your plant.

But if you have, like, say, north or east facing window, that's gonna be much more dappled.

Remove any brown edges or yellowing or browning leaves.

You could actually just kind of like lightly pulled off with your fingers.