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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Understanding Light Indoors 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week we've got Maria from Bloom and Grow radio on, for a fun and light week on light, houseplants, and indoor gardening! Hope you enjoy. Today we're talking about how to make sense of "bright, indirect light" and the other common indoor light terminology you'll hear. Learn More:  https://www.bloomandgrowradio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bloomandgrowradio/  Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here and we're back with another guest this is Maria from

0:08.9

Loom and Grow radio the best rhyming podcast name out there.

0:14.0

So today we're going to be talking about light and specifically light as it relates to growing indoors

0:20.8

because you know that's a major constraint if you have a roof over your head. indoors because

0:23.0

you have a roof over your head the sun's not hitting your head and you have to adapt to that and so I brought Marie in because she's just a house plan expert and I think in this wintery time it's a really good

0:34.0

time to experiment with some of that indoor gardening. I know I've been doing a lot of it lately, so let's

0:39.2

go ahead and bring on Maria. How's it going?

0:42.3

Hi Kevin, thanks for having me.

0:44.0

You are most welcome.

0:46.0

I love, I was almost going to sing the intro,

0:49.0

but then I said, I don't know if I really trust my singing chops.

0:52.0

Oh my God, you have such a rich baritone. know if I really trust my singing chops.

0:53.0

Oh my God, you have such a rich baritone voice.

0:55.0

I bet you would sing it so well.

0:57.0

You know what?

0:58.0

Maybe if I come on yours, we could do a little a cappella action.

1:02.0

An updated version of it. Game on.

1:05.0

Awesome. Okay, so we're talking light today.

1:10.0

Yeah, indoors I feel like light can sometimes be very misunderstood because it's kind of broken down into these little categories that don't really translate too well to outdoors.

1:20.0

So can you kind of give us the low down on on at least those categories and what they mean?

1:25.2

Absolutely. So the thing that you just hit on that I think is really important for everyone to

1:29.9

understand is number one, no matter how big and beautiful your windows are and no

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