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How to Reuse Old Soil For New Houseplants
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Bowl • Sieve • Water • Fertilizer Instructions: • Remove old roots, leaves and stems from existing soil. • Grab a sieve. • Flush out salts under running water and allow soil to dry. • For a boost, add a capful of slow release fertilizer to the soil. • Pot new plant in your refurbished soil!
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How to Properly Propagate a Pothos Plant
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Scissors • Rubberbands • Clear glass • Water • Soil • Pot Instructions: • Snip pothos vines at the nodes. • Wrap rubberbands in a grid formation around a glass. • Place pothos cuttings inside and set glass in a sunny spot. • Change water weekly for 4-6 weeks. • Once roots are 3-4 inches long, plant directly into soil.
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Orchid Care 101
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Scissors • Well-draining soil • Orchid bark • Perlite • Water Instructions: • Repot your orchid by removing the moss and examining the roots. • Green roots are healthy – snip off any grey, shriveled roots. • Mix up a well-draining soil with orchid bark and perlite. • Pot your orchid like any other plant. • Water thoroughly about once a week and toss any excess water. • Place in bright, indirect light.
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How to Use a Bobby Pin to Fill Out a Vining Plant
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Bobby pins Instructions: • Pin down vines with bobby pins directly into the soil. • Coil around balding vines and repeat as needed. • Water regularly for several weeks to allow the nodes to root.
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Fiddle Leaf Fig Growth Tips
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Clippers Instructions: • Grab a pair of clippers. • Cut back balding or leggy plant branches. • Prune rogue offshoots to give the tree shape. • Wait three weeks and you'll see new growth!
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How to Get Free Plants
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How to Make Your Plant Leaves Unfurl
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Warm water • Soft towel or washcloth Instructions: • Wet the towel and squeeze out the excess water. • Gently wrap the curled up leaf in the towel for 30 seconds. • Let it go and watch it unfurl!
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How to Shower Your Plants
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Shower • Water Instructions: • Bring plants into shower • Use lukewarm water • Rinse leaves until water runs clean • Let plant drain in the tub
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3 Ways to Fix Compacted Soil
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Chopstick • Bowl • Soil Instructions: • Aerate soil with a chopstick by moving the chopstick around in the soil to loosen it up. • Let a plant sit in a bowl of water for a few hours to bottom water. • Repot with fresh, fluffy soil.
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How to Make a Propagation Box With a Food Container
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Scissors • Spray bottle • Sphagnum moss • Plant • Clear container Instructions: • Fill a clean food container with sphagnum moss soaked in water. • Cut a few leaves off of your chosen plant to propagate. • Stick leaves into the wet moss, stem side down. • Close box and place in bright sunlight for about 6-8 weeks. • Spray the moss weekly to keep it damp. • 8 weeks later, your leaves will have new roots that are ready to plant in soil.
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"Splitting" Propagation
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Small pots • Fresh soil Instructions: • Start with a healthy plant that's grown a lot and is ready for a new pot. • Gently pull the plant out of its pot and remove the soil with your fingers. • Pull apart stalks, being careful with the roots. • Repeat until the plant is separated into lots of smaller stalks. • Group the separated plant into a few smaller pots. • Plant in fresh soil!
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3 Steps to Take After Buying a New Plant
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Soft cloth • Dr. Bronner's soap • Neem oil • Spray bottle Instructions: • Quarantine your new plant from other plants for up to a week to avoid introducing pests. • Make a homemade insecticide by mixing 10-12 oz of water, 1 tsp Dr. Bronner's soap, 1 tsp neem oil, then shake well. • Spritz and wipe leaves with a soft cloth. • Repot with fresh soil.
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How to Find the Node On 3 Types of Plants
Difficulty: Easy Supplies: • Scissors • Vining plant • Tree plant • Peperomia plant Instructions: • On a vining plant, the node will be a small bump below each leaf on the vine. Cut there. • On a tree, the node will be above each leaf on the branch. • On peperomias, you can cut anywhere to propagate.
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Houseplant Hacks: Repotting 101
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