New Mini-Series: Knowledge Nuggets! What is a Peperomia Inflorescence? Ep 1
Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care
Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a new mini-series for Bloom & Grow Radio: Knowledge Nuggets. They will be 5-10 minute episodes that show up once a month, in addition to our regular episodes, and will highlight one "nugget" of plant nerd education taken from the Node of Knowledge Plant Science lectures Leslie Halleck gives in the Garden Society. These lectures are so good, I couldn't help sharing a teeny bit with you!
Episode one is a snippet from our AHAs (Ask Our Horticulturist Anything) where members can hop on a zoom call with Leslie and troubleshoot their plant collections with her.
Do you remember the first time one of your peperomia grew an inflorescence or flower? Have you ever seen one before? I remember the first time when my watermelon peperomia threw off a ton of inflorescence, these weird spikey things popped out of the plant and I had no idea what they were. In the first episode of Knowledge Nuggets, Leslie Halleck is giving you insight into what these spikey things are and more importantly, what we need to know about them when they show up in our collections. Let's get learnin'!
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In this episode we learn:
- [00:40] What to expect from this episode
- [03:54] Troubleshooting your plant problems
- [04:57] What is an inflorescence and why do peperomias have them?
- [05:27] How to prune peperomia inflorescence
- [06:06] How to keep variegation in plants / how to grow a fuller, bushier plant
- [08:05] Where to get personalized plant coaching from a horticulturist
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you remember the first time you figured out what a pepperomia inflorescence was? |
| 0:05.3 | Have you ever seen one before? Do you know what a pepperomia inflorescence is? |
| 0:10.0 | It's the flowering body of the pepperomia plant, but plant friend, it does not look like what one would think a tropical flower looks like. |
| 0:17.5 | It's not an African violet flower or a Hoyer bloom. |
| 0:21.0 | It's this spike that shoots out of your plant and the first time you see it you really |
| 0:26.2 | have no idea what it looks like. I remember the first time I treasured watermelon |
| 0:30.2 | pepperomia threw off an inflorescence. I looked at these weird spiky things and |
| 0:34.6 | had no idea what they were and had a moment of panic thinking I did something wrong. |
| 0:40.9 | Today Leslie Halleck is going to give you a very quick breakdown of what these |
| 0:45.6 | spiky welcome additions to our plant collection are and more importantly what we need |
| 0:50.3 | to know about them when they show up. |
| 0:52.5 | So welcome Plant Friends to our first nugget of knowledge. |
| 0:59.9 | Hey Plant Friends, I'm so excited to announce a new mini series that is coming to |
| 1:04.9 | Blum and Gra Radio. It's going to be extra content for you in addition to the |
| 1:09.4 | normal bi-weekly episodes that I bring you every month in the normal hour structure. |
| 1:14.5 | But this series, which will be a third episode a month, is going to be called Knowledge Nuggets |
| 1:18.8 | or Nuggets of Knowledge. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm still playing with what the title is going to be. |
| 1:22.2 | But each of these episodes will be a behind the scenes |
| 1:24.6 | look at the unbelievable university level education |
| 1:28.4 | that we're getting on a monthly basis |
| 1:30.4 | from Leslie Halleck, our horticultur and Residence in the Bloom and Grow Garden Society. |
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