Hello my friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening we are recuperating resting and

planning for 2024 so today's episode is a rerun of some of our favorites from years past.

Hope you enjoy.

Today we are going to be talking about some house plant

misconceptions, if you will.

I wouldn't call them outright myth, just misunderstandings or

simplifications that aren't quite helpful for your indoor house plant garden.

Now here would be one to start it off. We'll do three or four of these in today's

show. The first would be that the bigger the pot the bigger the plant and to some degree this is true because if you put a plant in a tiny pot it can only go so far as far as its roots are concerned, the level of moisture, the

level of nutrition in the soil, but just because a plant's in a bigger pot does not mean

it's going to grow to some insane degree like it's becoming supercharged.

Remember, these plants would natively be in the ground or if they're epiphytic, sort of

nestled in between the cracks of trees and such, maybe between some rocks. They're not growing to some

massive level simply because they're in the ground and there's ample space.

They're going to grow as fast as the environment and their conditions as well as their plant genetics allow them to grow.

And so, well, I will say a lot of people under pot their plants is too small and

it causes it to be root-bound and that will eventually cause slow growth, it's not necessarily the case that just

putting it in a bigger pot will make it grow faster.

Okay, the next one is that if you water out of the tap you're going to kill your plant.

Again, this really isn't true. A lot of people will throw their water through a filter,

like a Brita filter, or they'll go to the extreme and use

R.O. Water, which means reverse osmosis. reverse osmosis water is pure water.

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