Caring for Air Plants (Tillandsia)
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome back. |
| 0:02.0 | Epic gardening podcast everyone. My name is Kevin. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm the founder of Epic Gardening.com. |
| 0:07.0 | Go check it out if you want to see some of the best gardening stuff on the internet. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's question is about airplants. |
| 0:16.0 | One of the most misleading names for a plant out there |
| 0:20.2 | have caused a lot of confusion |
| 0:22.0 | and a lot of people seem to not understand how to care for these. |
| 0:25.9 | So today we're going to talk about it. How do you care for air plants? |
| 0:32.0 | Air plants are also known as Telansia, |
| 0:35.0 | and they're one of the most unique indoor slash outdoor plants that you can grow. |
| 0:41.0 | They just have a really cool look and most of this coolness is due to the fact that they don't use soil. |
| 0:48.0 | They don't grow in soil. So they just sort of look like they're floating around around just living life outside of the confines of what |
| 0:56.2 | most plants grow in, which is soil. So let's talk about what people do wrong when |
| 1:02.2 | they're trying to care for their air plants. |
| 1:04.0 | First of all, they think that air plants live on air. |
| 1:09.0 | They think that everything that the air plant needs comes from the air. |
| 1:12.0 | This is not true. Air plants don't grow in |
| 1:14.4 | soil. We already talked about that, but they have to be watered. The plants can actually |
| 1:18.6 | survive for a while in drought conditions, but they won't grow and they won't thrive and then eventually they will die. |
| 1:27.0 | So most people think that when you need to water your air plants, you should just give them like a mist. You just spray them with a little bit of |
| 1:35.2 | mist. Not really a good idea. The best thing that you should do is take all of your |
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