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.

Now for fun.

Here's the thing.

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.

Plant.

Chinese evergreens are ugly.

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

Josina pathos is a great option for a hanging basket.

Spider plants peacefully or spot.

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

It's just a wonderful houseplants.

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

The fish bone prayer plant is a tenancy.

It's very closely related to Maranto.

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

Nick, be honest.

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.

Do you have anything to say?

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

We thought we funded.

Name them.

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.

Like hallelu into the dungeon story.

All right, This room has zero windows.

Look around.

We're in the basement.

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.

Okay, plants stay 10.

Time to see where we're at.

Hey, what kind of the same?

Which is a good thing.

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.

Yeah, No, we won't let her get to sick.

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?

I'm really impressed.

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

Looks pretty bad, Do you think?

I mean, but I feel like it's still okay.

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

I haven't watered a single time.

Look fully wet.

It's all those are really suffering.

All the leaves are like crusty.

I could wait.

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

Don't know.

Day 20 Bad Bunny.

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

Have to save bad bunny, Zelda.

Bad bunny.

You're out of the competition, okay?

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

Hope you'll do better.

You too.

Bad bunny.

Come on, let's go by the window.

You go around 30 days in and a few more.

We're ready to come back to the light.

Keith.

Oh, no.

You did good.

San Djula.

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?

Even.

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.

Light, of course.

Trim up your plant.

Remove any brown edges or yellowing or browning leaves.

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

But if you want to be more careful.

You could just use some shears and make sure that you're being the best plant parent you probably could after taking care of my wounded little angels.

Something happened, or rather, something didn't happen.

Okay, you're not gonna believe it, but it is Day 63 I have not taken any plants out since the last time I went in, which was around day 30.

To be honest, I kind of forgot that this challenge was going on because a lot of the plants that are in there right now don't require a lot of watering.

So I just left them, and then I just kind of went on with my life, forgot that this was happening.

A lot of the plants that are left also haven't really required a lot of water.

So that's why I was able to sort of leave them.

But there are maybe one or two that I could have taken out a few days before this, so hopefully I'll be able to recover them.

But let's go take a look.

Okay.

There they are.

The remaining plants.

You could lipstick and stuff.

One, probably from the crowd.

Suitor.

Honestly shocked?

How do you look literally the same, ZZ Or what are we calling you?

Viola Davis.

Is Helling it?

Obviously.

Snake plant literally feels justice firmas ever also literally in 63 days have not watered these ones.

Beyonce really has her hair down.

This looks worse than it is because it just hasn't been water.

Normally, once I water it after a day or so it pops back up, but definitely lots of dying leaves.

I need to say, Beyonce, I'm sorry, babe.

We'll take you out.

So I'm not gonna take out Lady Gaga yet because even though she's losing leaves, she still looks starting at the top.

But you can see a ton of growth trying to find light all popping up all around, So I'm gonna bring her out as well.

They'll looks literally the same.

So I'm taking Beyonce and we're taking out Charlie Xcx.

Let's go home, girls.

63 days.

Still pretty reasonable choices if you're looking for a plant that can survive, let alone zero light.

So I think I might have loved this one little too long, so I'm taking it out now.

It is the satin pathos otherwise known as Shakira.

Not looking so good, But I'm hoping I can rehabilitate her and she'll come back.

I hope this one doesn't die.

All right, Day 82 I think we've got Lady Gaga or the Chinese evergreen.

They're gonna take out because there's a ton of leaves that air turning yellow falling off.

A lot of these top ones are still green.

I technically could have kept it in a little longer, I think.

But I didn't really want a plant that was just like a straight up tree.

So unfortunately, I'd love to have not any more of it die so I can rehabilitate it.

But I will say the parts that are green are very flourishing.

And you could really see this new growth coming out presumably in the same way some of the other plants tryingto find light on, which obviously was never going.

Thio, did you think Lady Gaga should have one?

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Now back to our final three plants.

Alright, it's Day 89 my favorite plant is suffering.

Almost made it 100 days, but in the last little bit, it just totally fell over started completely curling on so many of the leaves.

It was doing that throughout, like sometimes at night or for a few days it would curl, but then they would open back up.

But that seems to not be happening now and so I'm just a little worried that it's gone through too much shock.

I need to bring it out.

I want to bring it back into the light and hopefully rehabilitated because this is my favorite one.

I want this one to survive.

So it's still amazing that it made it 89 days without light.

I think maybe I Onley water.

This one's definitely happy with that and hope I can bring it back to life.

It's Day 100 I'm honestly so shocked.

I did not see any plant making it this far.

I didn't even think they'd make it to like Day 30 I thought By day 30 we have a clear winner or two, but we have to plants that have not only made it 100 days with zero light.

They've also made it 100 days with zero water.

So let's go take a look at them and see where they're at today.

Come on.

Oh, would you believe that this has not seen like for 100 days has not touched water from 100 days watered it.

Not a single drop of water in these two.

Probably they need water now because they re drive.

This one does have some tiny yellow leaves.

But that's now been there for probably over a month.

These like dying ones.

But these sprouts in this last month have really shot up.

So my assumption is that it's starting to be like Okay, this location is not working timeto find something taller, some light.

Viola Davis will probably be happy to find some light in the snake.

Man feels Justus Robustas, It was with the day I put in here.

We've got Severus And why all the day?

Wow, They killed it.

What an odd pair.

Let's get them out of here.

Let's get some light through.

These are the clear two winners, even though we're a couple others that made it toe 80 90 day point.

I had a really fun time doing this experiment.

I now know these air my first two little babies that I'm going to take care of.

Greg can take care of the rest.

Now.

I'll practice on these because I could just leave them in a corner and not worry about them.

I hope for any other beginners out there, this might inspire you to think that you can do it.

You can in neglect a plant and keep it alive.

Just don't over water it.

As Nick let us know.

Sometimes over watering can actually be the problem.

I'm amazed also because, like I said, this is something I've never done.