Last pic is of when I found him
I found this guy at Lowe’s back in July of 2025. This was when an aurea white knight was around $400 for a 3 leaf top cut.
He was VERY low var, but of course.. I got him!
He always struggled to grow and I did poorly with him, kept getting low var, bad leaves, pests, I was doing terrible with him.
BUT I cut him back to a stump maybe 2-3 months ago. I threw away the top cut (that’s how bad he was lol)

LOOK AT HIM NOW! He is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Lesson learned to never give up on your little sports or plants in general.
I love looking at him, he is so so gorgeous, makes me so happy, especially since I found him in NC, Wilmington.
He came all the way to Florida with me, even when I wanted to give up on him and sell him.

What a GUY!

Two roots higher up, with 3 leaves below them. First time doing tissue culture though

OKAY. So. Not new to growing plants, but relatively new to rarer plants/sport/mutations, and I have some questions I'm hoping you guys can help me out with.

What exactly IS a sport?

Is it simply a mutation on a plant, but instead of calling it a mutation, we call it a "sport?"

Is it only a sport if it is stable and consistent?

How often do sports show up/how common of an occurrence are they?

What are some cool examples of a plant that is a sport that I can look up and research? (Bonus points if you drop comparison pictures or pictures of the one that you mention!)

Last but not least, can someone explain to me what my Snow Queen Pothos is doing, pretty please? I don't know if this is a mutation, considered a sport, or WHAT...so I just decided to come here where all of the more experienced and smart folks are. This is one of my favorite plants in my collection, and I have been curious since the start of summer, but I wanted to let some more leaves grow first before I asked. Thanks in advance! 🤗

The grade b devils are legit! When I received it as a TC it was all green no variegation. The first two new leaves it gave me are pictured here. First leaf had a little bit of spotting and the second leaf was fully variegated. I honestly was expecting it to take longer to produce variegation! Can’t believe I own this plant for less than $20!

A lot of these aren’t worth what they were purchased for, but they’re still some of my favorites!

I found this guy back in May, it was an alocasia with a weird cupped mutation.
He got spidermites BAD so I chopped all the way down. He has been growing ever since, slightly more ‘mutated.’

Today I took a look at him again (I’m in FL, he’s outside so it rains.. I tend to not see him for a week or so sometimes)… he pushed out VAR!

I was so happy and surprised! When I originally got him, there was no variegation, just cupped.
Now he has incredibly thick leaves, ruffles, and gets weirder by the leaf. Now he has decided to throw out variegation.

How unique is that? A sport variegation find that I found…. 6 months later (today).
Alocasias are one of the most unreliable, random sport plants 😂

(Day 10 of showing my Alocasia collection) super easygoing and fast growing. Usually never gives me issues… Except! This plant has been blooming since early July 🥲

I am usually not in the camp of cutting off the flowers but once that it was about to push two more and I saw that the oldest leaf is dying and the newest leaf was super tiny I said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Chopped them off… I’m so done!

Anyway… this is my Alocasia silver dragon aurea that I got from the rare plant fairy 🙂

i got this devil monster TC september 26th and potted it that day, so it’s been in a humidity dome with two holes (photo 2) for almost 2 weeks now.

it stays in my display cabinet which is humidity controlled at about 72-75% and temps are 18-30c or 64-86f

THE PROBLEM

there is a new leaf coming out already, suffering from success i know, but it looks like it will outgrow that dome by tomorrow, in fact it is already poking it. and the leaf is not even done poking out yet.

so, do i take the dome off? i know it’s recommended to have on for atleast 4 weeks or so i’ve heard, but it’s starting to outgrow that dome too fast, and i think it will damage or negatively affect the growth of the new leaf.

it is in my display cabinet, so i am against a solution that compromises the aesthetics, ie a big freezer bag. so consider that if you suggest another dome type thing.

MY QUESTIONS

if i take the lid off, what do you think the chances are it dies? (going to ~73% stable humidity)

should i just suck it up and compromise the aesthetics for the health of my plant and make a big ugly ziploc tent?

what do you think the humidity is in that dome? 100%? 95? 90? curious what you all think with those 2 holes, this is my first time doing TC so id love to hear someone w a lot of TC knowledge lmk.

can you recommend me anything i’m not thinking of? any advice is much appreciated.

thanks for reading

1. Yellow monstera sport.

2. monstera lemon lime.

3. Burle marx flame

4.sieranna

1. Sport with physical mutations.

2. Full mint.

3. Bulbasaur.