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How To! with Mike Pesca

Quick Fix: Pick the Perfect Plant

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Quick Fix is How To!'s new monthly exclusive for Slate Plus members where we dive deeper into our latest episode. (Not a member? Here's how to join!) Today: Carvell Wallace continues his conversation with Growing Joy author and podcaster Maria Failla. They do a not-so-rapid-fire round of "plant superlatives" to help you select the plant that's right for you.

Take the plant personality quiz that Maria mentioned in the show.

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How To's executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. This episode was produced by Sara McCrea and Rosemary Belson.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius.

0:22.6

Talk about generational talent.

0:23.7

Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures.

0:21.8

Talk about genius.

0:22.6

Talk about generational talent.

0:23.7

Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss.

0:27.8

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.1

Hey, Slate Plus listeners, Carvel here with another quick fix.

0:37.5

This is our new bonus segment that we put out every few weeks.

0:40.9

Sometimes we're going to be solving smaller, more practical problems.

0:44.1

Sometimes we'll highlight your advice.

0:46.1

And sometimes we're going to feature special content from the episode that we've recorded especially for you, like today.

0:51.8

On this week's main show, we had on Maria Fyella, who shared her expertise about taking

0:56.8

care of plants and troubleshooting some common plant dilemmas.

1:00.1

Her guidance and enthusiasm were so energizing, and learning about all these new plant care

1:04.8

tips made me want to grow my indoor jungle.

1:08.2

So, as a bonus, we wanted to share a part of our conversation that we're calling

1:12.5

Rapid Fire Plant superlatives, where Maria acts as a personal shopper and tells us the best plants

1:19.1

for your needs and desires. Let's start at the beginning. The best house plant for a dark

1:26.7

corner without sunlight.

1:29.9

I'm going to give you a bad answer here. If there's no sunlight, the plant is going to die.

1:34.5

You can put a snake plant in that corner with no sunlight and it will die the slowest, right? Because a snake

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