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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Get Free Houseplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Houseplants are all the rage right now...but they're also starting to cost a pretty penny! Learn how to propagate them and you'll slowly start to develop a houseplant jungle that costs you nothing...and builds your green thumb! Learn More: Houseplant Guides on Epic Gardening Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is popping in the garden everyone? So today we're keeping it indoors and we're actually talking about house plants.

0:08.0

So I've gotten really into house plants in the last I would say four to six months or so not that I hadn't been before but I've taken a bit more focus on them because I'm trying to generate spaces and develop things in my own home that make me feel good.

0:23.4

Like if I'm in my office, if I'm in my bedroom,

0:26.2

then I'd really love to be surrounded by nature

0:28.6

as much as possible, just like I am

0:30.8

when I go outdoors in my raised beds and my hydroponic systems.

0:34.4

But here's the catch.

0:36.4

Houseplants are undergoing a bit of a renaissance right now and everyone is just buying the heck out of them.

0:43.6

They love them, especially, I think in my generation,

0:46.9

it's been said, and I will not confirm or deny,

0:50.5

that we are so bad at committing to things that even pets are too much for us and we need

0:56.4

plants.

0:57.4

Well you know that might be true, that might not be true, but here's the truth.

1:00.9

House plants are getting somewhat expensive. They can be kind of cheap if you buy them really small, but you know if you want a nice looking fiddly fig or if you want a nice monastera delisiosa,

1:11.0

some of these more trendy plants can be quite expensive.

1:15.0

So let's talk about ways that you may generate them yourself.

1:18.6

You can start a little bit of a mini house plant nursery if you wish. So let's go ahead and talk about the basics of

1:25.9

propagating house plants. So here are some basic rules before we get into methods.

1:30.4

First of all, cuttings and new plants are going to need more attention than fully grown ones, and that's because they just aren't established.

1:39.0

You're cutting them off of a mother plant and they don't have a root system. They need a lot of care

1:45.8

to make sure that they're going to survive. They're going to make it, they're going to set

1:49.6

route and they're going to get established themselves.

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