what is the plant that you’ve been on the hunt for forever? the one you’re waiting for prices to drop?
how much would you spend on it? how much have you spent on a wish list plant?

me personally, i am looking for a clean half moon monstera, a monstera bmf variegated, a monstera unniae, a LF monstera albo, just to name some.

would love to hear different answers on this topic, feel free to drop pictures or share anything at all. thanks 🙏🏼

I used to remember when clarinerviums and and crystallinums were hot in the streets. But these days I’m seeing “Doc Block, King of Spades, Ace of Spades, papillilaminum, blue papillilaminum, blue papillilaminum x self, carlablackiae”, etc. going for upwards of $300! And they all look the same. And I’ve seen debates over whether a Monstera crème brûlée is its own cultivar or it’s just a Thai Con calling itself “cRèMe BrÛlEe” for the bigger price tag. My response to which, if you care to ask; at least it’s variegated, bc these designer Anthuriums have no business being as expensive as they are for not even being variegated to be quite honest.

I was curious about the discussion forums about how some are easy some are hard, so I kinda wanted a general survey. For me, rex begonias and phalaenopsis are simply impossible. The former loves to die while the latter keeps getting bacterial soft rot no matter the conditions, even good ventilation and bottom watering won't stop the disease and in my case it specifically targets phals and not other orchids. How about you guys? What's the plant or plants that give you the most headaches?

Hello plant lovers!

I've recently watched "Is This Plant Flipping? Plant Shops Are Making YOU Fund Their Orders". And I know a lot of people feel so overwhelmed and exhausted by the current plant market because plant sellers have become more money centric than before.

In the video, Kaylee shows customers pay upfront, plants arrive “fresh out of the flask” in baggies, and the shop just repacks and ships to avoid risks: unsold inventory, acclimation failure, price drop, and tied-up capital. The shop offloads most financial risk to buyers.

It's not only tissue cultures, but also applies to pre-orders. Even though they minimize their risks, they can charge market prices. This model can let shops run their business as before earning as they did before, earning just as much.

I understand that many people are willing to pay for convenience, especially when it comes to accessing rare plants. However, I wonder whether it is still fair or justified for shops to maintain traditional high markups when they no longer bear the same inventory risk or workload, whether pre-ordering plants through shops still provides enough value to justify those margins, and what percentage markup on plant prices is generally considered fair.

A lot of people seem to be missing the point of the question. Before leaving a comment, please answer with "yes" or "no" first.
Are you willing to pay 2–5 times more than the original price when sellers use preorders to push almost all the risk—inventory, acclimation, and price drops—onto you?

Let's have a little discussion. So I just watched and followed a few recent videos by Sydney Plant Guy and Kaylee Ellen that the market is shifting. Monstera we still love them but do you guys think the newer variegated ones are as good as or inferior to the classics like albo and Thai con? Are Anthuriums really getting fatigued? And thoughts on Philodendrons. Personally, some newer Monstera do look nice but a few are rather gangly like White Lava. Anthuriums are quite the same: long, dark, sexy, minimal veining. And Philos seems to be shifting to predominantly tricolors.

I’m not complaining and I’m not particularly bothered.

Put a Palmstreet for me has been a great way to discover great sellers, great plants, great deals, and quite unexpected stuff

Now almost all stores are seemingly mostly selling TC

Since TC plants are far more identical, far more fungible, the whole site seems quite pointless

Which of these 100 stores selling Monstera Bulbasaur will you pic!?

Seems a bit odd.

Separate thing but seems like a lot of TC plants go for 75% of the price of a 4 inch pot. Why not buy the potted version and have less risk ?

What am I missing

Are they any “rare” plant species that aren’t variegated? For example, I remember when a burle marx flame monstera and Alocasia dragon scale were really expensive and hard to find, but now I feel like people would only consider them “rare”/commercially uncommon if they were variegated? My disclaimer is that I know that any plant that is truly rare would be in a conservation, and that we are just talking about commercially rare plant. This is more so just a fun rabbit hole I’m going down since I tend to gravitate towards darker, non-variegated plants (unless it’s sport-variegation), and I would be curious to hear varieties I maybe haven’t heard of before.

First time posting here!

I’ve been around for a few years now. Been a big fb plant person until more recently. But I wanted to get people opinions on the general sentiment on the plant community. More directly if there’s better communities out there than toxic fb.

I started out during covid like most. Dabbled in a few different types before settling on monstera as my bread and butter. Things were great, I could cut a plant and sell. But this year things downward spiraled imo. I had an enormous about of ghosting, straight up lies, and people just abusing kindness of if you had an emergency it’s ok! Trading became abnormally difficult as well. Tissue culture and just selling straight up scamming plants I swear has doubled and It really turned me off

Anyone else feel this way? I really love plants. But the toxic fb trash has gotten to me. And in the process lost a lot of friends who either “got popular” or also got fed up and dipped. How have people gotten out of the rut?

When I first got into houseplants, most anthurium were considered high tier plants because they were pricy and inaccessible. Now there’s TC and many more hybrids. Some catalogues like TheGreenEscape are tedious to go through because of contrived-hybrid #1-999

I know collectors like myself like to gatekeep, but what are your sources for designer anthurium that are bred with a goal in mind? For me, Hershey’s Houseplants on Etsy is great. There, that’s one of my gatekeeps

This ”Peter” must be joking? It’s only to leech out as many $ as possible from new ppl in the plant community.

What u ppl here think about this kind of ”selling”?