Houseplant Watering and Humidity Tips
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
There are a ton of different methods to watering and increasing humidity, and some work better than others. Lisa shares her tips as someone who owns over 300 houseplants.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast everyone. Today we are joined again by |
| 0:17.4 | Lisa Steinkov of the House Plant Guru. Her new book is called House Plant |
| 0:21.4 | Party, fun projects and Growing Tips for Epic |
| 0:24.0 | Indoor Plants. You know I'm a fan if the subtitle has the word Epic in at |
| 0:27.8 | Lisa and yes. We are going to have some epic tips today on House Plant |
| 0:32.3 | Watering and humidity. I think probably the category |
| 0:37.0 | that I would imagine you get the most questions about certainly the one that I get the most |
| 0:42.1 | messages about as well. |
| 0:44.0 | As the houseline guru, you know, with 300, 400 plus plants, |
| 0:50.0 | you've probably run into just about every either myth or misconception or technique out there |
| 0:54.4 | so I'm curious what are some of your best tips here? Okay watering. I tell everyone |
| 1:00.7 | every plant whether it be a cactus or a succulent, or let's say a high moisture |
| 1:08.2 | fern, I water them the same. And that means, number one, there's a drainage hole in the bottom of my pot. |
| 1:17.0 | If there isn't, then I either use it as a cashpo, and you know where I just hide the utilitarian grower's pot take it out water it put it back in or I |
| 1:27.0 | get my diamond tip drill bed out and I drill a hole in it. So I want a drainage hole in every pot or some way to see what's going on in the bottom of that pot. |
| 1:37.0 | I feel like if you plant a pot without a drainage hole, you know, plant it right into the pot. |
| 1:42.0 | It's hard to know what's going on down there. drainage hole, plant it right into the pot. |
| 1:43.0 | It's hard to know what's going on down there. |
| 1:44.7 | Did I get water all the way to the bottom, |
| 1:47.1 | or is there an inch of water sitting down there |
| 1:49.0 | with soggy soil and my roots are rotting? |
| 1:51.4 | So I make sure there's a drainage hole. I can't stress that |
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