How Plants Grow And Lose Leaves
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Are you the type of plant parent that freaks out when you see even the slightest imperfection in your plants? This episode is for you...Darryl of Houseplant Journal and I discuss the misconceptions new gardeners have about the life cycle of plants.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:04.8 | podcast. We're back with Darrell Chang, founder of House Plant Journal, and |
| 0:08.4 | author of the newly released book called The New Plant Parent. |
| 0:13.2 | It is a fantastic guide. |
| 0:14.6 | I've been thumbing through it and I've been reading chapters here and there and it's just |
| 0:18.2 | such a in-depth and informative guide and a new way to think, the title suggests about plant care indoors so |
| 0:24.6 | highly recommend you check it out link will be in the podcast description now |
| 0:28.1 | today we're talking about how plants grow and lose their leaves and why you should not stress as much as you might |
| 0:38.0 | about that fact. I know we all love and care for our house plants and sometimes they're sort of like surrogate children for us but you know |
| 0:45.9 | They are living entities and they do have a life cycle right? |
| 0:49.4 | Darrell and I think that's sort of what we're getting at in this show today. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, yeah. I think the first thing we should talk about is like when we consider somebody |
| 1:01.1 | who is experienced with gardening or |
| 1:02.8 | experience with house plants. |
| 1:04.4 | You know, I want to point out that, you know, these people aren't |
| 1:07.8 | experienced because none of their leaves fall off. |
| 1:10.4 | I think they're experienced because they know how much leaf loss is normal right and they know when not to panic they know when to panic they know when to panic but you know the point is that |
| 1:22.0 | You know their their garbage pales and compost are filled with as many yellow leaves as as yours |
| 1:26.9 | and mine right? Oh totally yeah yeah and so anyway if we go back to the the house plant journal philosophy I'm saying that if you understand your conditions and you're doing your best |
| 1:38.0 | Then you can let nature take its course which means that you know you if you put the plant by the window and you're watering it according to the correct |
| 1:47.3 | strategy, then for me personally, I don't even care if leaves fall off. I expect a certain number of leaves to fall off. |
| 1:58.2 | And I think the thing is when we see like any sign of decay we're if we take the approach that this is a piece of |
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