Exposing the worst plant advice on reddit

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[darlenehall]

Tinkering with our plants, figuring out how to make them happy, and watching them grow and thrive is a major part of the fun of having plants. Focusing on them for awhile also helps forget about stressful stuff for a time. I'm not an expert, but I have some houseplants that belonged to my grandfather, and I've had others for as long as 40 years. I repot when they need it in the appropriate mix, water when they need it, make sure they have enough light to suit them, fertilize when it's time, and otherwise keep an eye out for pests. But sometimes, the old saying, 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke, ' is the best advice.

[avalnz]

Spot on. I think my tipping point was seeing a multi-threaded Reddit post insisting that monstera could under no circumstances grow well outside, after I’d come back from a nearby park where council workers had been hacking back forearm-thick monstera stems from intruding onto the footpath, in winter 😂
So I stopped taking most online advice fairly early on to getting into gardening, once I realised that the majority of it, tailored to average North American conditions, was at best unhelpful for my humid, temperate to sub-tropical (and increasingly the latter) city.
I appreciate that you’re informed, specific, and don’t take yourself too seriously 😁

[PhrancLeeSpoken]

I appreciate that you give advice and support, and don't constantly plug some new plant gadgets. I ❤ seeing your videos, and rewatch often. Thank you Lee, and tell Dad and Caroline hello.

[shortari]

Agree on the soil types. Lesson learned years ago when I lost a huge monstera by ripping apart all the roots thinking it would grow better. It didn’t and was completely unnecessary. Since then I will never disturb any plants roots when repotting and have much better success rates.

[tim_meister]

I generally completely switch out the soil whenever I get a new plant. I know my mixes the best so I know how to water etc with them. I always expect some shock but aroids usually recover well. If its not, then I will put them into a big clear storage box for humidity until it recovers.

[independantegirl]

Saved an African violet that was gifted to my partner. It was in a black plastic pot with no drainage holes, and was in waterlogged regular potting soil. Trimmed it back and changed all the soil to a lighter mix with mote perlite and now it's so happy!! I've even started a few propogations that are also quite happy now!

[shell]

That's great advice to change the soil type gradually. I made the mistake of repotting my lipstick plant in too much aroid soil in a terra cotta pot. Then a few months later, I had to disturb it again to add more peat mix back in. I trimmed the longest vines for propagations last week (rooting in plastic cups with 1/2" pumice in the bottom and the rest perlite. I'm considering chopping up the rest in a month or two and starting over.

[hedgewitch]

YAY! Thank god someone is saying "Don't strip soil from your roots". I've been telling these online plant "influencers" for years not to tell people to do this but no one listens. I always find your advice spot on. 👍

[LillyLotusMonstera]

Wow! So I am guilty… I recently switched my philodendron moonlight from soil to Leca and it did not like it one bit. All the leaves turn yellow but there are three new growth points so I’m hopeful 😅 Thank you for sharing the gradual process!

[AlphaHenriksen]

It is completely unbelievable how mean and off-base most people on plantly subreddits are. You can't use their "advice" unless you already know enough about plants to sort between the good and bad advice, just like on Facebook.

I am very lucky to have found your channel as my first source of information when I got my first plant half a year ago. My monsteras and recently other plants have thanked me, and therefore, I will thank you.

[therandomman]

6:58 that's what I've been saying! If you give your plants the necessities, nutrients, extra light, and correct watering, they just grow like weeds. Every plant grows like a weed somewhere

[BergerVongSchlauigkeitHer]

This one's interesting cause all my plants are tropicals or succulents and I've switched out all of their soils from organic to clay granulate in one fell swoop with barely any side effects. The only one that complained by dropping leaves for a couple of weeks was a big Dracaena but that was probably cause getting the soil out of that mess of a root ball was a pretty brutal operation.

[TexasHildis]

I had always heard wonders of fluval stratum. I put a bunch of cuttings in it and a couple of them rotted. I just took them all out and put them in soil since some had rooted. I’ve tried lecca too with no luck 😢

[CGarcia-ts]

One thing I no longer do is repot the moment a plant arrives at my house and I also see people on Reddit misting and repotting immediately. I like moisture meters and many people in Reddit say it doesn’t work. Luckily I haven’t killed anymore plants 😂

[wootlesswocks]

I learned the hard way it’s easier to start a cutting in the medium you want 😂

[sanjuktabhattacharya]

But the people who make bioactive setups for animals they usually suggest to remove all the old soil of the plants as they might contain bugs and other stuff and replace the soil with the new and fresh bioactive substrate

[keithroragen]

I recently did a full soil exchange on a couple of cane yuccas that I was separating into individual pots. The roots were ridiculous, and I ended up cutting out about 2/3 of them. Will have to see how it goes.

[Sad_Bumper_Sticker]

Thank you, I’m a beginner so I’d trust such advice on forums

[urielveil]

I do full soil changes within a week of purchase. The peat moss in the pots kills them at my house... I do a soil, bark, and perilite home mix... so far i havent had any go into shock on me. I think its mostly luck though xD

[Alex]

Would love to see a full soil guide. Have seen a lot of great info peppered about the whole channel