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A YouTuber has gone viral after revealing she helped crash the rare plant collectors market by cloning them

"I think that the era of gatekeeping rare plants is over" pic.twitter.com/6bFbqcRl4c

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) December 3, 2025

 This X post from Dexerto (

@Dexerto

), published on December 3, 2025, has exploded in popularity with over 95K likes, 3.3K reposts, 464 replies, and 2.1M views. It spotlights YouTuber Laur from the channel "Plants in Jars" (139K subscribers), who specializes in tissue culture—a simple, at-home method to clone rare plants from tiny tissue samples in nutrient gel. Her tutorials and starter kits (sold at plantsinjars.shop) have gone viral, letting hobbyists mass-produce "rare" variegated plants like pink philodendrons or anthuriums that once sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Key quote from her viral video "I accidentally crashed the rare plant market" (357K views): "I think that the era of gatekeeping rare plants is over." Visuals in the Post:

• Image 1: A selfie of Laur (brunette with green eyes, smiling confidently) in front of shelves of jars and plants in her tissue culture lab.
• Image 2: A close-up of a stunning rare plant—pink-and-green variegated leaves with delicate roots, likely a high-value clone like a Philodendron Pink Princess or similar, propped on a reflective metal tray under grow lights.

Dexerto followed up in the thread: She runs a 6K-member Discord teaching the technique, accelerating the market crash. Market Impact:

• Rare plants' prices have plummeted due to easy cloning, ending "artificial scarcity."
• Reduces poaching/smuggling (some species were driven near-extinction).
• Analogous to lab-grown diamonds tanking mined ones.

Top Reactions (Positive Vibes Dominate):

Reply	Author	Likes	Key Quote
Compares her to Poison Ivy	@Mawuko	8K	"This is some shit that Poison Ivy would pull off"
Calls her a hero	@Imposter_Edits	5.5K	"Why is there a rare plants market when they can be cloned? ... She sounds like a hero, not a villain"
Anti-scarcity	@Yeah_I_Asked	3K	"If ur goods are expensive just because they artificially rare, then 0 sympathy."
Crashing rich hoarding	@BasedRedhead	1.3K	"I am all for crashing every manipulated market rich people use..."
Gatekeeping shock	@insandyeggo	940	"I didn’t even know people were gatekeeping plants."

Watch her video: I accidentally crashed the rare plant market Full Dexerto article: Here Channel: Plants in Jars on YouTube This story's a win for plant lovers—democratizing rarities and sticking it to gatekeepers!