Houseplant Conditions vs. Care

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

According to Jan Gettmann, the Sydney Plant Guy, houseplants have certain conditions they need to thrive, and proper care aligns with those conditions. Incorporating proper lighting, humidity, and watering ensures all houseplants are happy and healthyEpic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3VkKH8zBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/49WApQeBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4afHqvnEGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4ahH2MKLearn 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:18.3	If you want to grow monster houseplants, this is the week of episodes for you, my friends. We have Yawn, aka Sydney Plant Guy on the podcast, I think for just the massive
0:26.0	aeroids that you grow. I actually think my girlfriend follows you yon and
0:29.7	she's brought up your moss poles before she's brought up some of the large plants that you have and we've even talked about getting back into some of these larger specimen house plants in my house now my house is tiny so I have space for like one maybe but I'm excited to have you on the show.
0:45.7	Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Yeah so well before we start we're going to go through a lot of
0:52.1	cool stuff with house once this week guys, but perhaps just a quick background on how you got into this game.
0:58.8	Yeah, I think I started the hobby about five years ago and I'm a renter so I'm very limited with how I can decorate my apartment
1:08.0	but I really wanted to get some greenery into the apartment.
1:16.5	So yeah I kind of try to optimize the vertical space, as you said, space is precious, especially as a renter in the city. So I really wanted to utilize the vertical ball space.
1:25.0	Yeah, so I kind of stumbled upon growing moss poles and I'm a very ambitious person.
1:31.0	I like to kind of challenge myself. I kind of challenge myself to grow these
1:35.8	plants as large as possible well kind of cheating nature right indoors and it
1:41.5	kind of escalated from there.
1:43.0	Yeah, so if you're not watching the podcast, which by the way you can do on Spotify or on
1:48.6	our the Beat YouTube channel, you would you're just missing out on an epic background on your on screen right now.
1:56.0	I don't know every species you have there, but the screen is just littered with these massive leaves,
2:01.0	maybe eight feet tall or so.
2:03.4	So we're going to talk about how you kind of got there.
2:04.9	But today's topic is conditions versus care.
2:09.2	And I thought maybe you could explain those two terms, because it seems like you've got a pretty clear distinction
2:14.9	on those.
2:15.9	Yeah for sure.
2:16.9	I mean my end goal is to really make my plants thrive, right?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.