Growing MASSIVE Houseplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How do you get those really large leaves on your houseplants? Aside from the obvious foundation of proper conditions, you can water slightly more frequently, and provide a highly diluted liquid fertilizer. Add a moss pole, and you won’t struggle to build your own thriving indoor garden. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/493zsUVBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PpYZ3JBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3x1n4YAEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4ad6JOALearn More:A Comprehensive Guide to Lighting For HouseplantsConnect With Jan Gettmann:Jan Gettmann, aka the SydneyPlantGuy likes to grow aroids indoors. He set himself the challenge to grow them as large as possible using moss poles. These allow Monsteras, Pothos, Philodendrons, and more to mature much like they would in their natural habitat. By creating content about moss poles and houseplants that is informative and fun, Jan inspires others to grow giant statement piece plants at home as well. YouTube Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's grow massive houseplants. I will make a commitment on this
0:17.1	podcast on the beat right now that I will grow one massive houseplant this
0:20.6	year and I'm making it to you as well, Jan, Sydney Plant Guy, back on the show,
0:25.4	how do I begin? What would I grow as like an easy plant to grow massive?
0:31.0	Is there a particular species you think is like a good one for
0:33.3	beginners? Definitely Pothos. Start with a Pothos. I think most of us probably already
0:38.9	have a Pothos anyway. So I'd recommend just take a propagation exactly take a propagation of that and give it a fresh start on a moss pole
0:49.4	Monstera is like great as well. I really like Philidendron. I really like Velvet Philodendron
0:55.2	specifically, but they can be quite tricky. So coming back to the conditions versus care,
1:01.5	choose a plant that suits the conditions that you already have.
1:04.8	If you choose a plan that likes your conditions, you'll have better chances of the plant
1:09.6	thriving to its full potential.
1:12.2	So that is number one and I think apothos look stunning as well. I think they're really
1:18.3	really nice. When you grow them up moss poles they can actually grow really, really nice large leaves and even fenestrate like a monsterob.
1:26.0	So, Pothos is definitely the way to go.
1:30.0	And then yeah, to really grow them large, I think you obviously need a couple of things.
1:34.0	I mean, I think we talked about lights enough in conditions, so obviously that's a given.
1:39.2	We need good conditions for the plants to grow.
1:42.3	But then we also need to provide the plants with nutrients. The plant needs food, right?
1:46.0	So I provide a liquid nutrient and I provide that actually with every ordering. Now I mainly do that because I have too many plants to really keep on top of a fixed fertilizer schedule.
1:58.0	So I just kind of figured if I just water my plants with a liquid nutrient with every watering and I just use a very
2:06.2	small weak dilution to not burn anything but then over time the plant will
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