popular plant care tips - agree or agree to disagree? PART 3

straight up-- i forgot to film part 3 😂 anyway, if you were here last year you know i filmed 2 videos where i talk about popular plant care advice floating around the community and let you know whether i agree or agree to disagree with them and why. here they are if you haven't seen them yet:

part 1:    • common plant care tips -- agree or ag...  
part 2:    • plant care tips in the community - ag...  

also in this video i do some repots that i've been highly anxious about so please send all the good juju through the universe because we need it over here 🥲

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→ lauren: ‪@northshoretropicals‬

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Music courtesy of ‪@epidemicsound‬

0:00 intro / plant roster
17:58 let your hoyas dry out to bloom
20:15 taco test for watering hoyas
23:01 bright light to encourage hoya splash
30:41 variegation in non-chimeric plants
32:23 variegation in stem
38:10 more light = more variegation
44:58 dry out plants to rid of fungus gnats
47:53 diatomaceous earth for fungus gnats
49:27 boiling water for root mealies
54:40 tobacco water / neem oil for pests
1:01:27 cinnamon for fungus gnats
1:03:51 “growing season”
1:18:54 tissue culture vs non-tissue culture
1:25:09 touching new leaves will k*ll them
1:26:53 cosmetic issues and humidity
1:32:05 don’t cut off yellowing leaves
1:40:24 cinnamon for root rot
1:44:02 don’t propagate in winter
1:45:43 plants grow better outside in summer
1:49:08 monstera burle marx’s flame repot
1:54:17 philodendron micans repot
1:59:49 outro