Why You Keep Killing Houseplants
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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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