Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Tiny Plant Week Edition with Leslie Hallock here, again her book is called Tiny Plants.

Discover the joys of growing and collecting itty bitty houseplants.

We talked about watering and containers Leslie and you know we had you on for gardening

underlights your your book way back.

So how do you think about lighting when I'm growing these tiny guys?

Right so the great thing about teeny tiny plants as well, number one you can keep hundreds

of them in a few square feet, which I think is one of the main reasons I wrote tiny plants.

I wanted to expose people to a lot of different species they weren't familiar with, but I

also wanted to give folks that don't have a lot of space to garden and don't have a lot

of space to keep houseplants or have run out of space for with all those big aeroids

right that actually can require a lot more light than than people may have realized.

It's way easier to get a nice 20 30 watt LED bar that you can tuck into a bookshelf

and keep a whole collection of tiny plants under than it is to set up big grow lights for

bigger plants right.

So you know with tiny plants the good news is is that it's really easy to tuck some

of the lower wattage grow lamps into spaces you can't keep bigger plants and light them

artificially if you don't have enough natural light or you run out of windowsill space.

Is it my correct in assuming that they're just going to need less overall support from

an extra grow light or are there some tiny plants that still need a ton.

Yeah so there are some tiny plant species that will need highlight levels just like the

bigger just like the bigger plant so it's not necessarily a scale issue in terms of the

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