#the only exception at this point is my peperomias which I have in a super chunky mix that I water once a week

[ghostlyfoliage]

I overwater tropical plants and underwater succulents. Yet I water my succulents more often than most of my moisture-loving plants. 🤷‍♂️

#it's about how I made their soil and that I keep them in terracotta #the exception at this point is my snake plant(s) which I have on an every 2 months schedule which is also the schedule my ficus is on #but I water my succulents in 4 pots every two weeks... but yet water my pilodendron in the same size pot every three #the only exception at this point is my peperomias which I have in a super chunky mix that I water once a week #they're litterally the only moisture loving plant that I water that often 🤣 #I have considered that next time I make soil I might add bark for drainage #cus that seems like a solid idea #but then my soil is gonna be pretty complicated #cus it's coco coir. compost. perlite. little added fertilizer. a little bit of sand (to help draw up the moisture and add minerals) #kinda feel like the soil could use to be more well draining 🤷‍♂️ #but I generally like the mixture I'm growing in #it's about 30% drainage and that works pretty well #my succulent mix is basically the same soil cut half with sand so it's like 80% drainage if you count sand as drainage #and it does work that way it just also holds moisture #my epiphyte mix is probably up there as well which is like 60% bark 20% perlite 20% sphagnum #I need to figure out how to amend it for plants that love nutrients though #but peperomias could basically live off air so there isn't actually any nutrients in there #through I do think I'll give them some liquid fertilizer eventually #but I think replacing some of the coir with bark in my regular potting mix will probably make some happy plants #cus everything likes a well draining soil #like even the carnivores like some chunk to their soil... they just also want to be wet 24/7 #their soil is 1:1:1 coco coir. perlite. vermiculite #some of them I got in dense peat soil and frankly... once they spread to the mix I made they seem to just go nuts #but I'm also growing bladderworts

[houseplant-obsession]

Easy indoor plants

So yeah, I’m a confessed plant hoarder. Almost every other day I come home with a new plant. Some do really well in my condo (I live on the 16th floor, west facing so I get all the afternoon sun and it’s very dry in the summer), others not so much. Here’s a little list of indoor plants that thrive with little care: 

Bird’s nest ferns are super cute! they are easy to take care of and they grow very fast! I’ve had mine for about 6 months and it has grown so much, plus it has never gotten any pests. Being a fern, I thought it would need high humidity it’s not fuzzy about it. It likes filtered light and will even take some direct sun. Highly recommend it!

Haworthias are another easy plant. All the succulents I got last year got either sick or I threw them out because they were dying, except for this guy, which is one of the most common, the zebra haworthia. The only thing I don’t like is that it grows very slowly, it will stay at 5″ tall, other than that I love it!

This beauty here is called Peperomia glabella. I got it 6 months ago in a 2″ pot, and it was literally 3 leggy stems, but I liked the leaves so i brought it home. I didn’t even know what it was called then, but I experimented with cutting the longest stems and putting them in water. To my surprise they rooted easily and they are now part of the full plant. It is a semi succulent so allow the soil to dry before watering or you will get root rot. It has never gotten any pests or diseases.

This guy is a Sprengeri or Asparagus fern and it grows with a passion! Asides from being so adorable (it reminds me of Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons) it’s super easy to care for! It has had one aphid infestation but they all died easily after I sprayed the plant with an alcohol/soap/water solution and the plant didn’t seem to suffer much from this. The only thing you have to be careful of is watering. If you let the soil dry out too much between waterings the little  leaflets will turn yellow and fall off. 

Another easy one is the Boston fern. I’ve had it for about a month and it’s growing very fast and looking super cute all green like that! I mist it once in a while and it doesn’t seem to mind some filtered sun - I got home late one day and the blinds were up, so it got a whole afternoon of sun, but it didn’t burn luckily! Broad leafed ferns seem to be much less fuzzy about light/humidity than the fine leafed ones. 

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