The truth is that no plants thrive in low light.

You know how like a human body, like they say we need like 2,000 calories a day to stay alive and to be like healthy?

Well, a human can live on 500 calories a day.

They're not very happy about it, but they can live.

That's what low light is to a plant. It's 500 calories a day.

They're sustained, but they're not thriving.

They're not going to be putting on a whole lot of mass.

You know what I mean?

They're going to be more stringy.

They're going to be ediolated.

They're going to be an overall just weaker plant.

Welcome back to the Beat Podcast.

Today we are talking about house plants, something that I think everyone has some experience with. We all have some level of house plant experience or have tried to, at least in our homes. And today we have Tanner, Tanner Mitchell, actually, from Tanner the Planner. I've actually been following you for a few years on your house plant growing journey and your whole story,

now ending up with a boutique house plant store.

So it's been really cool to see you kind of grow through these years.

And I think in some ways similar to me, both of us did not come into this world of growing plants with any sort of horticultural background, experience, or even social media in the first place.

So I thought that was kind of interesting. As I was reading your story, I was like, oh, I get this.

I like the way that you think about things, and we're going to talk about it in the book, but thank you for coming on.

I want you to let people know where you are and also like just how you got into this world of growing plants.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

So we're on all the social media platforms under Tanner the Planter,

and then that brick and mortar store that you had mentioned is called

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