I Tested Plants In ZERO Light...And THIS Happened

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I am now imagining you decorating your house for halloween with dead plants from the torture chamber

This was very educational. I've never seen such an experiment done like this before and I thank you for sacrificing your plants to get a better understanding of their natural abilities. Well done.

Absolutely seething that your calathea survived longer in complete darkness than mine did in my room. Great video!

I believe the results show these plants were quite happy before they went down - due to care bestowed by their human - these guys were robust and prepared for harsh times

Love these experiment videos! I don't want to sacrifice my plants so thank you for sacrificing yours for the sake of science.

I was sitting at the edge of my seat for this one. Truly interesting and funny as always. Such dedication as well. King of plant YouTube!

I've finally figured out why your channel is, at least in my opinion, constantly worth coming back to. I've been looking for new info and stuff, but every damn channel has the whole welcome welcome intro. When I open one of your videos, immediate action. Get the formalities out the window, we both know why I'm here, and it's not for a 457th good afternoon and welcome back to. This guys a real plant parent. Don't got time to spare.

The "flower spike" is actually an inflorescence or spadix used in the context for aroids The devil's ivy is called that cause it stays green even under no light. It would be interesting to know the temperature in your basement since that definitely could have an influence

I have an older home, so some rooms are very low light. So thank you for your experiment. It's good to know, because I needed desperately to figure out which plants to put where. So kind of you to sacrifice your plants for the good of all . 😢

The peace lily surprised me for a bit until I started thinking. Almost every one I've seen personally was in an office building and mostly in rooms with no windows. And they were always very healthy and happy looking. It was a good experiment (rip haworthia) and nice to see that a healthy plant can go a little while without proper care before heading downhill.

Plants are very forgiving, as you say ‘they always grow back’! To get some plants bloom (like snakes and Hoyas) you need to treat them with some serious calculated neglect eg water deprivation. It is extremely exciting to see that your ZZ is bringing flowers, I’ve never seen that before. It makes me want to place my ZZ raven somewhere dark.. 🦇 Thank you for documenting this experiment 💚🐍

This is madness..  😆 total madness, Richard! Hats off to the brave plants who signed up.. er.. were forced into participating.. 🤣 All in the name of plant science! ✊ Loved it!! Your hard work and editing is much appreciated! 💚🌱👏

One of your best experiments yet Richard! I was surprised at how long the monstera held out, and didn’t even know a ZZ could flower 😲. I really thought the fern would last longer though. Thanks for more great content 👌and I’ll now be shopping for a snake plant or two!

I love your experiments! Very educational. I suspect the big chunky roots of the monstera, or the rhizomes of the snake and Zz hold more than just water for the well being of the plant during sparse times.

Ohh love this vid, how interesting! Would you also consider a video of the same experiment but with artificial light only? (So just like house lights). I always notice plants in shopping centers that would only have artificial lights and they often seem fine, and I always wondered if they are actually okay or they are just getting regularly replaced 😅

A long time ago my grandmother passed away and the one thing I wanted was a mother hen she always had on the front porch in a pot. I bagged it up in a large garbage bag to protect the vehicle and fur to circumstances it stayed in that trunk sealed in the bag for 8 months part of that through a Utah winter. When I finally pulled it out the darn thing had tripped in size and it was a ghostly white color. I still have that mama. This same plant has been in the family for close to 60 years now.

Cool Experiment, I think the flowering of the zee zee plant is happening as per you assumption exactly- in order to produce offspring because it ‘thinks’ it is dying. Some hoyas are flowering only when you don’t water them for a while for the same reason. Interesting video 👍🏻

Thanks for this video, from now on i wont worry too much about my plants not getting enough sun light during winter in Rhode Island USA,

Cool experiment! The peace lily was very suprising. A channel called the Swedish Plantguys did a video on the zz plant and said that when it first hit the market it was said you could leave it in a closet so they tried it and left it for 6 months. It didn't die but all the new growth was without chlorophyll and a lot of the older leaves had died. I don't think that new growth on your zz is a flower because it looks like the new growth on my zz raven but paler. Before I got really into plants I thought I was really smart when I bought a peace lily and used the drooping leaves to indicate when it was time to water... all my plants. It did not go well, apparently overwatering is almost the only way to kill a zz plant 😳