What's going on everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. We're back again with

Darrell Chang, the founder of House Plant Journal, and the author of The New Plant

Parent, which is out. It's fantastic and I highly recommend it. So yesterday we talked

about the philosophy of house plant care that Darrell espouses and I certainly would echo

just a little bit more of that deeper level of thinking about the plant

as an organism rather than as an aesthetic piece or almost like a piece of equipment in your

home that you have to maintain but not really care for I guess you could say.

So today what we're talking about are some really common misconceptions about light and it's really interesting because the way that we talk about light indoors versus

outdoors from an ornamental and edible perspective is quite different

Darrell and you have much more experience with the indoor world than I do so I'm really

curious what your most popular misconceptions I guess about light

would be. So I think we can start with that when we when we use the word

light people automatically think of just the sun.

Now yes, all natural light originates from the sun, but the way that the sun's light is distributed and changed and reflected like all matter a lot and

when we talk about outdoor gardening the major assumption is that there are not three other walls and a ceiling blocking out the rest of the sky, right?

But when we're coming indoors, that is completely the case.

And so that's where we have to really begin.

And so we're going to start with like the physical differences of indoor light versus outdoor.

So you know if someone says to you full sun when you're talking about outdoors, it's assumed that

it means that the sky is completely open to you, right?

For like six to eight hours or whatever.

Yeah, that much, yeah.

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