Have you ever been scrolling Instagram before and see a picture where it looks like plants are planted in cocoa puffs, like little brown balls or like gravel?

Maybe as you've been scrolling, you've seen the words semi-hydro or passive hydroponics.

Well, today's episode is a deep dive in the art of growing plants hydroponically, but specifically semi-hydroponically.

We'll dive into what that means in the episode. This is a way back one episode with Kay from

Inruded Love as part of the Best of Growing Joy series because more and more people are moving to

soil-free growing methods.

And I thought this would be a really interesting conversation to revisit for anyone who might

be interested in taking their own soil-free semi-hydroponic journey themselves.

I'll share a little bit about my experience growing in Leka at the end of this episode,

because it's been several years since I did this interview. I've had a long Leca journey and I'll give you an update at the end.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,

but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.

I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness,

speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new

best plant friend. On growing joy with plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care,

gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.

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Hey, thank you for coming to the podcast and demystifying what the heck semi-hydro is for us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to share our experience

with semi-hydro. Oh man, I've been so confused by the whole thing and I'm so curious about your journey. So to start off,

how did you become the plant lady you are and what made you decide to transition to an entire

semi-hydro plant fam? So my oldest son actually re-sparked my interest in plants. I'm in college. I was a serial orchid killer.

Like each orchid met its demise from my ice cube watering. I just like it was so bad, I know.

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