Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

We're talking tiny plants this week with Leslie Hallock, a professional horticulturist

in the author of many books, the upcoming one of course, Tiny Plants.

Discover the joys of growing and collecting itty bitty houseplants.

Every episode, Leslie, I get more and more excited about doing this.

You mentioned yesterday, the gardeners bamboo, LED system, I have that, I have the three

tier ones, so it's a little bit larger.

Typically, I used it for starting seeds, but now that spring is here, I can start seeds

outdoors, no problem, and so I may have to convert that over to some tiny plants.

And I guess my question is, we did talk about watering and you were saying, use rainwater,

use RO, use distilled, you don't want a lot of salt build up, soluble salt build up on

those tiny little pots, I guess my question is, when it comes to feeding tiny plants, how

do we approach that if we aren't dealing with a lot of growing medium like you were saying

before?

Right.

Well, locally in general, most houseplants are fairly light eaters, low feeders if you

will.

So, you know, houseplants in general, you're not going to be having to do a lot of fertilization.

And I am a lazy fertilizer, that is the category I put myself into.

I'm very lazy and forgetful when it comes to fertilizing.

However, there are certain species, especially the bloomers, you know, if you're getting

into African violets or micro orchids or syningenia and begonias, to boost blooms, you know,

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