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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Understanding Natural Light Indoors

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What exactly is ‘natural light’ indoors? Is there such a thing? Plants did not evolve to grow in our boxed off, enclosed environments, so how can we think about natural light in this

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0:00.0

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

0:06.5

Darrell Chang of House Plant Journal. He is also the author of The New Plant Parent, which is going to be linked in the podcast

0:13.8

description.

0:14.8

Fantastic primer on house plant care.

0:17.8

And if you've been listening to the last couple of episodes,

0:19.6

you'll know why.

0:20.5

It's because Darrell goes extremely deep and specific about why you care for a

0:27.5

plant a certain way or even how to think about care itself going into those

0:31.6

root causes that we like to talk about here on Epic

0:34.2

Gardening to help you learn the fundamental principles so you can actually answer

0:39.0

most of your own questions in the garden because that's where we're all trying to get to.

0:41.9

Self-Sufficiency in our knowledge, right?

0:44.2

So today, Darryl, we are following on.

0:46.1

We're talking a little bit about how to understand natural light indoors.

0:50.0

And so based on what we talked about in yesterday's show, how do we then think about it from an indoor gardener perspective?

0:57.0

Mm-hmm.

0:59.0

So yeah, like basically yesterday's episode we're just, I was essentially like tearing down all the, all the, or traditional ways of understanding light.

1:10.0

So then you're going to say, well then, so how do we do it, right?

1:13.4

So what I actually ended up doing was I got myself a good light meter

1:19.2

and I was just walking around everywhere and measuring light.

1:23.2

Like if you want to talk about nerding out, like this is the part of the

1:26.3

epitome. I had a light meter walking around the street, walking around my house,

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