Today we are going to be talking about some house plant misconceptions if you will I wouldn't call them outright myths just misunderstandings or simplifications that

aren't quite helpful for your indoor house plant garden.

Now here would be one to start it off.

We'll do three or four of these in today's show.

The first would be that the bigger the pot, the bigger the plant,

and to some degree this is true because if you put a

plant in a tiny pot it can only go so far as its roots are concerned the level of moisture the

level of nutrition in the soil, but just because of plants in a bigger pot does not mean it's going to grow to some insane degree like it's becoming supercharged.

Remember, these plants would natively be in the ground or if they're

epiphytic sort of nestled in between the cracks of trees and such, maybe between

some rocks. They're not growing to some massive level simply because they're in the ground and there's

ample space.

They're going to grow as fast as the environment and their conditions as well as their

plant genetics allow them to grow.

And so, well, I will say a lot of people underpot their plants

is too small and it causes it to be root bound.

And that will eventually cause slow growth.

It's not necessarily the case that just putting it in a

bigger pot will make it grow faster. Okay, the next one is that if you water out of

the tap you're going to kill your plant. Again this really isn't true. A lot of people will

throw their water through a filter like a Brita filter or they'll go to the extreme and use

R.O. Water which means reverse osmosis.

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