Hey, what's up Garden and Friends? If you're a Trump-a-plant party, how's everybody doing? I hope you're good. I am great. Out of focus, what's that all about? Time for another Friday and another plan that doesn't like to focus. Fine. This fern is new to me, so this will be more of a brief video because I'd like for this to be like a plant chat, a discussion, not to subcone on the comments. What we have here, what I'm working with, is the Nephrolepis Exaltata, the varieties called Cotton Candy. Another moisture loving, very fun, frilly looking fern. The Cotton Candy fern's supposed to get, I believe, around two feet by two feet, a little bit shorter than two feet. They sort of, what I've seen in pictures, have a spreading habit and look really fluffy, like something kind of like Cotton Candy. When I first saw this as like, hey, this reminds me of Spike Moss, but more unruly. I was thinking since it's a Nephrolepis Exaltata, that name might sound familiar because the Boston fern is Nephrolepis Exaltata Bostoniancis, which is a super easy fern, but that doesn't mean anything. Because this one, I'm noticing, it's not so easy. It's not the hardest for an either, but this fern spent one day with part of it leaning up against the pot. Look what happened. That's from one day of it being pressed up against the side of another plant. With the texture like this, I was thinking this would look great in a terrarium, but if it needs more airflow, apparently this is a plant that likes airflow. So a terrarium maybe wouldn't be the way to go. I'm not really sure. I do have everything that would look really neat in a hanging basket since it does look like it kind of falls over a little bit. That would look neat hanging off the side of the basket. Maybe that's what I'll end up doing with it. There'll be plenty of air circulation in a basket. It does just like the other ferns, like a nice organically rich well-draining soil, something that will hold onto some moisture, but not say stopping wet. The things with the fern Fridays, things are gonna get a little bit redundant if the ferns are like crazy different from each other. And there's a lot of common things between them, like meetings of good drainage and higher humidity and whatnot. I will say though, I haven't been missing this one, and it's not drying out. I've only had to water it one time. I've had it for about a week and a half. So the soil that it's in is good at holding onto moisture. And it didn't show me any signs that it needed to be watered. So it got a little bit too dry. But it didn't skip a beat from that. It wasn't like with the maiden hair fern where when you let that dry out for too long, it gets really willty, really sad looking. And then you give it a drink and hopefully it'll perk right back up for you. And even really knows that this would need to be watered. I went ahead just kind of put my finger in there and it's like, oh, you're bone dry. Then I lifted it up and I'm like, hey, this doesn't weigh anything at all. And that happened after this. This happens the first day I had the fern. I brought it home and I set it on one of my plant stands on my tables and it was just a little bit too close to something that was taller. And then, yeah, that happened. That's all right though. Lesson learned. Make more sense to stick this tag back here since that side of the pot's already kind of unattractive. Another option since it does seem to have that swoopy drooping habit to it in the pictures I've seen anyways. It'd be to put this in just a tall, kind of slender planter or one of those ones that's on the little wooden stands that are very trendy right now. That'll give it the height that it needs to droop down and kind of swoop, I think that'll look cool. It doesn't seem to be too particular about humidity considering I haven't really had to mist it. It's like I do typically with my other ferns. Not so much in here in my gross space however. Humidity has been a little bit lower than normal because I have some repairs I need to make to the plastics that's surrounding everything in here. So some of the moist air has been getting out. This is actually higher. It was like 33% earlier today. So still not too terribly picky. I think as long as the soil is moist, like consistently moist all the way through that maybe humidity isn't going to be as much of an issue for this. 33% is still plenty hires and like really erred environments of fuel of like Arizona, Wyoming. Some place where the air is really really dry. Then yeah, it might need to be misted. I think this would look really pretty companion planted. What I mean by that, what I mean by companion planted is that having something growing above this and having this growing below it might look really awesome since it does have a texture similar to a spike moss. And I don't know if you guys know about spike moss but personally I always struggle with that one. It does find for me outdoors but when I bring it inside even into this gross space, I have more issues with it partially because if it is rubbing up against anything, you lose that foliage. And it's just kind of finicky, you know? It has been for me. The temperatures I keep in this gross space are very toasty. Like generally 75 to 88 somewhere in there and the spike moss, it just doesn't seem to appreciate that. Not from my experience anyways, not in here. Back to my point. I think that this would look really nice planted up with something that's taller and above it that can cast some shade onto it. And then this can fill out around that pot and drape down the sides. That would look really, really nice. I haven't really been able to find anything about the toxicity with this one. Since it is the nephorellepise exaltata, just kind of like with a bossan firm, I would, did I say firm, firm? I would assume that it's non-toxic should also be a clean air plant but I don't know for sure. And I do always say if you're not certain just to be safe, if you're plants, where your pets and people can't get to them. If you're gonna say pets and children and then I stumbled because I really, it's like, you know, there are plenty of adults that you have to keep an eye on as well. Overall, I really do like this firm. I'm a little bit bummed out that that foliage got messed up right there. I'm wondering if this is a firm that's going to be more sensitive to touch, kind of like with a maiden hair firm where you want to avoid your oils getting onto it. I guess we'll find out if this dies out on us, won't we? I'll be sure to do an update in the vlog. You can see if that fron goes bad for me rubbing my fingers on it. Anybody have anything fun to add? I hope so, because this is a new one for me. Comment down below. It's a plant chat, it's Fern Friday. I'm loving Fern Friday. A short, quick one. I still, I think that's fun. Nothing wrong with that. Open up some communication a little bit. We can all learn from each other. That is really pretty. There's something about it that the lushness, it just, it makes me happy. And the texture, it has a really cool texture to it. Like it's ruffled and fluffy at the same time, which is why it doesn't want to focus. There's all types of different angles reflecting white back at the camera. That's okay. It's pretty. I think you can tell, right? Not only in the vlog, but I will be sure to keep things updated in my social media. So, follow me on Instagram or any of the others that I posted down below in the description of the video. Follow me on out, follow you back. I've seen everybody's plant pictures and nerdnouts everybody. And don't forget to leave the video a thumbs up. Makes a difference for the videos and for the channel I do appreciate it. So, thank you. And upload multiple times a week. So, subscribe and hit that notification bell. That way you know new videos come out. What do you guys think of the Cotton Candy Fern? Have you grown it? You just seen it around? Let me know. I do know that there are some variances and variables with the naming of the plant. I didn't want to dig into all that because it just honestly got really complicated. And I was like, I feel like I'm just going to mess it up. So, with the taxes Cotton Candy, that's what we're going with. There's so many different types of ferns. I can't even begin to try and figure out what it is if it doesn't have a label. I mean, we'll see it like, they're common things, right? Boston Ferns, Kimberly Queen Ferns, but this, that, not so much. This one's not normal. She's kind of weird. As always, hope everybody's doing well, having a fantastic life and everything's just going beautifully for you. And as always, most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye, bye. Bye.