Getting a decent grow light for your house plants is one of the easiest things you can do to improve the growth of your house plants. They grow faster and bigger and all you have to do is flick on a switch. I wish I’d gotten a ‘proper’ one ages ago. Oh well, I know …
Propagating in soil is, in my opinion, a bit riskier than propagating in water, BUT there are definite pros to doing it this way. To significantly increase your chances of success with propagating vining plants, I urge you to leave the cutting attached the plant before you cut it (if the shape of the plant …
When plant people refer to spent nodes, they’re talking about nodes that are no longer able to produce new growth. I’ve seen some people confuse spent nodes and zombie leaves, but they’re actually kind of opposites. A spent node is a node that won’t grow, a zombie leaf is a leaf that has rooted but …
Giving plants higher humidity makes a MASSIVE difference to the way they grow. I want to scream it from the rooftops, because it’s something that we talk about a lot, but it’s not something you can truly understand until you’ve, quite by accident, given your plant a shit tone of humidity. It’s like giving plants …
There are four key aspects to improve if you want to seriously speed up the time it takes for your house plant propagations to root. Different plants root at different speeds. Snake plants can take months; syngoniums may only take a few weeks. For those of us that live in cold, dark places, it can …