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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Why You Keep Killing Houseplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes conditions in your home are ideal and your care regimen causes problems. Sometimes you should adjust your care to create better conditions. If a houseplant dies in your care, try to learn from it! That’s what Jan has done in the past. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PqJEzXBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TiRfllBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3TF7PxlEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3VmaflMLearn 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,  Epic Homesteading and... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you have tried houseplants, you've gotten obsessed with houseplants and then perhaps you've had a couple fails and maybe it was on a plant that might have been a little pricey, maybe you got caught up in the hype and you accidentally killed one.

0:24.4

We've all been there, but we have someone on the show that is going to help out quite a bit. We have Yawn,

0:28.8

aka Sydney Plant Guy on the show, known for your massive and healthy houseplants. I thought we could talk about, I guess some of the like hardest things for houseplank caregivers to kind of remember when it comes to house House plants. We kind of tease this with light, right?

0:44.7

We're historically very bad at understanding how much light plants need, but what else comes to mind for you?

0:50.0

Yeah, I mean, first things first, I want to acknowledge that I have also killed a whole lot of plants.

0:55.0

That is part of the game.

0:57.0

You know, but with every time a plant dies in my care, I try and learn something from it.

1:02.8

So at the end of the day, all of,

1:04.7

healing all of these plants actually taught me quite a lot.

1:08.2

I think in light is definitely the one thing

1:11.9

that won't enable your plants to thrive if you don't provide sufficient of it, but it plays into so much more.

1:18.5

If your plant doesn't get sufficient light, then it's not growing much, it's not using much water, which then leads to potentially

1:25.4

you overordering your plant as well.

1:27.5

So at the end of the day, it's all connected and it's sometimes really hard to pinpoint that one thing that you've done wrong that might

1:35.7

have led to the plant's demise.

1:38.1

At the end of the day it's most likely a combination of things and that's why I like to come back to the conditions versus care topic.

1:46.0

You need to really understand your conditions first and then adjust your care approach accordingly.

1:51.0

If you grow in a really hot, dry environment with a lot of light, you might have to water every day or every two days.

1:58.0

If you live in a climate that is cooler, humid, you don't have a whole lot of lights so your plant isn't growing a lot.

2:06.4

Your plant is not going to use that much water, so you need to dial down your watering as well.

2:10.8

So at the end of the day nothing will ever be to you understanding

2:15.5

your conditions and understanding what that does to your plants and

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