What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back again with the

one and only Darryl Chang of House Plant Journal, the author of The New Plant Parent.

So we've talked a lot about kind of breaking down some of the commonly held knowledge or slang

terms or terminology or even just ways of thinking about house plant care and we've

gone a little bit deeper, a little bit behind the curtain, thinking about what's

actually happening at the soil surface underneath the soil as light streams in through your window where all your plants should be located.

And today, Darrell did touch a little bit on this in yesterday's episode, but we're going to be

talking about the best watering strategy for house plants, how to think about

it.

And I love what you said just as we closed yesterday's show, Darrell, and you said your watering

algorithm.

And so I would love if you could expand upon that and even perhaps

explain the concept of an algorithm if people aren't aware.

Okay sure so if we go back to the first episode about the traditional approach to house plant care and how it's very like human focus like it's focused on okay what what do I have to do what do I need to do here and that's why the question is often

asked how often do I have to water this plant and the problem with if I gave you an answer with this is that it reinforces the idea that

Oh, okay for this particular plant it has this watering schedule, right?

And I mean, it seems kind of harmless to say,

yeah, sure, once a week, right?

But if we don't think about where that answer came from,

then it's almost like somebody, you know, telling you, oh, like for a test or something,

they say, oh, the answer to number one is 25, answer number two is 36, but then if your questions are different, won't help you at all right exactly why don't you just

tell you how to the multiplication table instead right yeah yeah so then what we really

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