Pots, Soil, & Watering for Houseplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When it comes to basic houseplant care, Jan suggests you skip the store bought potting mixes, and develop your own. Water your moss poles frequently, and provide containers that are not too big or too small. You’ll have lots of success with a good basis and the willingness to adjust.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/43jjgO6Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Vk8YLIBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49dDpH3EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49TaHfG Learn More:A Comprehensive Guide to Lighting For HouseplantsConnect With Jan Gettmann:Jan Gettmann, aka the SydneyPlantGuy likes to grow aroids indoors. He set himself the challenge to grow them as large as possible using moss poles. These allow Monsteras, Pothos, Philodendrons, and more to mature much like they would in their natural habitat. By creating content about moss poles and houseplants that is informative and fun, Jan inspires others to grow giant statement piece plants at home as well. YouTube Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are stuck on this idea of growing these massive house plants like I now am, well, there's more coming today.
0:19.0	We have Yawn, aka Sydney Plant Guy back on the show.
0:22.0	We've been talking about all of your techniques
0:25.0	for growing these massive, massive house plants
0:27.9	and specifically on these moss poles.
0:30.6	And you mentioned that you water the pole,
0:32.1	you don't really water the pot.
0:33.0	And we know from house plant care just generally
0:36.0	some of the folks we've had on the show and some of the stuff
0:38.0	I've also talked about that you tend to overlove a house plant.
0:41.0	And that's usually how it tends to die.
0:44.3	In the vegetable garden sometimes it's the opposite.
0:46.6	Sometimes you forget about it and that's how it dies.
0:49.1	So I'm curious for you, would you agree with that and then how would you mitigate some of these overcare issues like
0:56.2	overwatering?
0:57.2	Yeah, I agree definitely.
1:02.0	Helicopter parenting is probably the number one killer of plants.
1:05.2	People just trying to do too much good.
1:08.2	But I also disagree when people say they thrive on neglect. I think some plants might be able to survive on neglect,
1:17.0	but if you really want to get the best out of your plants, I think there's just a certain amount of effort that you need to put in.
1:23.2	And yeah, keeping the moss poise moist is probably the most time-consuming part of my whole plant hobby.
1:31.1	So the border upside down technique helps me do that efficiently but I think
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