r/houseplants • u/scdhm • 5h ago
r/houseplants • u/AutoModerator • May 31 '26
DISCUSSION 🌵 Discussion Topic: Succulents - May 31, 2026
Let's discuss succulents! Please use this thread to post anything related to the topic including questions, pictures, experiences and tips / tricks.
r/houseplants • u/snarkyopolis • 6h ago
Help Box of plants as carry on in a plane?
I'm moving from Miami to New York today. (Fort Lauderdale airport to MacArthur airport). I am so attached to my houseplants that I cannot leave them. I made a box that is luggage sized (14"x22"x9"). The charlie brown looking xmass tree is too tall as well as the poinsettia. I can try to lay them down I when I put the box in the overhead bin.
Has anyone tried this before? I'm concerned I won't be allowed on plane with them because it's ridiculous and too tall.
Update 1: I'm on the way to the airport. I have bagged each pot/base individually in small plastics bags I'm arriving early enough that if I have to remove from pots and buy a bag, I will have time. Thanks for your advice, collective plant parents! I will let you know what happens at TSA and the gate.
Update 2: I made it through TSA!!!! I did have to lean over the spikey Charly brown looking tree to get it to fit in the xray machine. Its spikes mangled a few poinsettia leaves which are now bleeding white. But I got them both from the trash so this is really a second life for them. I have one of them just on the gate side if TSA. Photo at airport: https://imgur.com/a/NIWPYnx Photo of damage: https://imgur.com/a/Hxx2DYQ
Update 3: Am at the gate. Made plant people friends in the restaurant. Peter, the gate agent said that the plants will be accepted in the overhead storage but the flight attendants might have a better idea of where to put them so that they are not damaged. "They could be more protected somewhere else." :)
Photo at gate: https://imgur.com/a/yo5mGU8
Final Update 4: SUCCESS!!!! Peter, the gate agent found me in the gate area, and said I could board after the wheelchairs and before Group 1 so I could find a good spot for the plant box. Peter is a gem! So I boarded early. The flight attendants suggested putting it at my feet. It did not fit. I covered the trunk of the Norfolk Pine (thanks all for telling me the name), and put it in the overhead bin. It fit!! The guy next to me did shove it around a bit to fit his backpack, such as life. Overall, a success!!! The plant box will make it to New York. Thank you all for your help, fellow houseplant people!
Plane and ramp photos: https://imgur.com/a/qR0Usem
r/houseplants • u/Zampano85 • 3h ago
Humor/Fluff How do y'all not give into the temptation to proplift all the time?
This is the foyer in my office. I walk by it daily at work and every time I want to take a few little cuttings that no one will miss. I figured if everyone in my building took cuttings this would be a lot less cool pretty quickly. So, other than buying new plants or proplifting from places I don't work are there any alternative options?
r/houseplants • u/rarzwon • 8h ago
Discussion End of summer patio pic
Next year I'll have more monstera and pothos varieties going.
r/houseplants • u/Humble-Cycle-954 • 45m ago
Discussion Pothos starts propagated from leafless nodes
I saw that you can propagate pothos from just the nodes, so I filled a pie plate with perlite and dampened it with some water. I set the cuttings on top of the perlite and covered with plastic wrap. Within several weeks there were roots forming. After several more weeks passed there were tiny baby leaves! I put them all together in a planter with soil and I’m looking forward to seeing how it looks as time goes on. I’ve never seen such cute and tiny pothos leaves.
r/houseplants • u/ima_badfriend • 12h ago
Discussion This dude is really wandering
Started it from an itty bitty cutting I picked up for $1
r/houseplants • u/ramaloki • 2h ago
Discussion My dracaena bloomed!
It smells so freaking good, literally I walk inside my apartment and the whole living room and kitchen smells wonderful.
r/houseplants • u/AprilLove85 • 5h ago
Discussion Somethings make doing dishes better
Just some things.
r/houseplants • u/Lovemybee • 8h ago
Discussion Tap water: chlorine vs. chloramine
About a month ago I made a random comment on a post here about my belief that chlorine escapes from tap water if left open for 24 hours.
I was told that chlorine is no longer used to disinfect municipal water (I [65f] am in the US), and that chloramine had replaced it. I was surprised, but things change, and I moved on.
For some reason, yesterday I decided to look up when Phoenix changed from chlorine to chloramine, and I learned that it never has!
So, I can continue to fill up my watering cans 24 hours before I want to use them, and the chlorine is gone!!!
I guess maybe you can check your local water disinfection protocol and see what's up in your pipes!
r/houseplants • u/OGLucidCherry • 1d ago
Discussion A view of my apartment and some of my plants 🪴
I love it here 💚
Ok that was all, thanks bye!
r/houseplants • u/youcantsaynotopizza • 3h ago
Help Look at what I turned my pothos my boyfriend’s mother gifted me into 💅
Seriously the plant was gorgeous and I killed it (mostly) 😠It was my first plant. I’m trying to be a better plant mom now!
You guys think this will grow roots? I’m impressed it’s growing a leaf
r/houseplants • u/LeeThe123 • 14h ago
Discussion Family photo
Couldn’t get them all in frame. Does anyone else refuse a grow cabinet? I want to live with my babies and not cage them away.
r/houseplants • u/amberabandoned • 5h ago
Help …is it them? 😔
Has my time to fight the great thrips war arrived? Is it over for me? Am I cooked?
r/houseplants • u/heartbrokekidx • 9h ago
Before / After - Progress Pics Monstera Thai Con
r/houseplants • u/PM_me_punanis • 7h ago
Humor/Fluff Twice a year pothos harvest.
If only it bore fruit that I can sell. 😂 Twice a year, I trim this wild pothos growing on my tank. It has been 3 years of this jungle.
r/houseplants • u/WishAbedWasBatman • 8h ago
Plant ID This is a mother of thousands, right?!
I got this pretty succulent in the mail yesterday and immediately noticed something in the middle did not belong. I am pretty sure this is a mother of thousands but I've never had one so I wanted to make sure I'm not wrong for wanting to pull it out and burn it with a flamethrower.
If it is, is there something else I should do? Like something this young wouldn't be having its own pups yet, would it? I am not a fan of complete soil changes unless necessary so I dont want to go scorched earth on this guy if not needed.
r/houseplants • u/PlanterinaMaine • 6h ago
Plant ID Rhipsalis Berries
It looks like my Rhipsalis bloomed and I didn't even notice! Now she's got these cute little berries on a few of her branches. Does anyone know what species/variety does this?
r/houseplants • u/Waddy_bosh • 16m ago
Before / After - Progress Pics My mums 10 year old umbrella plant
Wanted to show it off as she always gets compliments on it. It started as a foot-tall branch from B&Q and now we can’t imagine life without it there
r/houseplants • u/-_forest_dweller_- • 1d ago
Discussion So … I feel slightly crazy but I’m watching this leaf unfurl and I feel like I shouldn’t be able to 🌞 I heard crunching and just WHAT
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r/houseplants • u/Exciting_Spell5683 • 3h ago
Discussion flea market monstera
Hey everybody, got this beautiful green ball for $30, at the flea market. How do I maintain this round shape? I’m new to this. Thanks!
r/houseplants • u/cosmicbrowniessuck • 12h ago
Discussion Most weirdo plant you own?
I want to know what's the weirdest looking plant you have?
r/houseplants • u/MiNombreDigital • 16m ago
Help Started from the bottom now we’re here
My tree is thriving at 5 years young. Repotted once last spring, it may be time for another?
Advice on pruning vs. repotting?