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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How Often Should You REALLY Water Your Houseplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Krystal has managed to get all her houseplants on a similar schedule, making their life and hers much easier. How often you should water your houseplants depends on the plant, the soil, and the conditions your plant lives in. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3MuAQYt Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/40nHjdv Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/462YIsY EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46RwCCl Learn More: 31 Flowering Houseplants For Your Indoor Garden Connect With Krystal Duran:  Krystal Duran, a plant care educator who enthusiastically shares her houseplant experiences, houseplant tips for beginners, while encouraging others to take on the world of indoor house plants. Instagram TikTok YouTube Pinterest Facebook Website 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 Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Probably the thing that most house plant growers mess up the most, especially when you are beginning and you really don't have a good sense for how much water plants need of course is watering your house plants. We have Crystal Durand back on the show

0:25.5

plants with Crystal all over the internet. You've done a lot of guides and I've found myself kind of

0:30.4

finding you and my feed a little bit more often these days.

0:34.0

Talking about all sorts of different types of house plant stuff, but specifically some of this

0:38.2

care and it seems like where everyone messes up the most besides maybe where they put the plant in the first

0:44.4

place is the watering. Right. Yeah I think that watering can feel scary too many and they assume that if I give too much water

0:56.0

that I'm going to kill my plant and so what that means is you're watering too frequently versus the amount of water that you're actually

1:06.0

providing to the plant. Also deciding the environment that it's in so if you have it in what is considered a low light

1:14.6

setting your soil medium is going to dry out not very quickly so if you've

1:21.4

completely saturated your plant, then your chances of rotting your plant is going to increase as well.

1:28.0

So you have to really see where, what kind of lighting are you providing it and then you can determine how much

1:36.4

water to provide.

1:37.8

Yeah, yeah, what would you say, let's say the same plants in a highlight versus low light situation,

1:44.3

everything else is the exact same, soil, medium, amount, plant pot type, all that kind of stuff.

1:50.6

How much more often do you think you'd have to water the highlight one versus the low?

1:56.0

Oh, I would say at least one time a week to every other week depending on the size of it.

2:02.0

What will you say it's the same? So I would say maybe one. to every other week depending on the size of it.

2:02.6

And what you said it's the same.

2:03.9

So I would say maybe one time a week compared to once every other week.

2:08.7

So basically twice as much.

2:10.4

Exactly.

2:11.4

Yeah.

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