make your house plants thrive 🌿indoor plants care tips & hacks

Hello, if you're not new to my channel then by now you're probably aware of my

plant problem. It's taking over the house. It all started when I really got into

minimalism and I got rid of heaps of stuff but then my place felt so empty

and I found that plants started to bring that life and that relaxation back into

the space. I feel like a room with greenery in it makes me feel calm and

the act of taking care of the plants itself is brilliant for your mindfulness.

I'd also like to thank Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. I will tell you

guys more about them at the end of the video but for now let's talk some more

about plants. So I did a plant video a little while ago which I'll link up here

and probably in the description box, which was more like you know how to pick

the right plans for your space and some suggestions, some of my favorite ones,

um, but today I wanted to talk through some tips to help you make them thrive

in your home. The first thing that I wanted to talk about is forcing growth

with a plant, and to do that we're going to trim and we're going to propagate. So

propagation is where you create new little baby plants out of the plants that

you already have and trust me it becomes a problem. If you find that you look at

your plants and they're looking a little bit leggy (which is where the stems are

growing but they're bare for leaves), it might be a look that you want to go for -

I feel like in some cases it can look cool but other times you might want to

have your plant looking more full because it can just look a little bit

more healthy and less untidy. But when it comes to plants there's really

no rules - if you want them to grow long and thin,

and like strands and like wrap them around a window, go nuts.. if you want them to be

like thicker and well put together do it that way. You can style them

different ways and I'll show you some examples as well. I have some monstera's

that look like this and some monstera's that look like this so you can set them

up however you like. Now, when you trim your plant or when you

take off cuttings for propagation your plant is going to sprout out a new shoot

or a new stem at the site that you've made that cut. It's not going to come up

in the exact same way, it's more likely to come out from the side but it can

help encourage new growth particularly if you have plants in a lower light area.

So when you're pruning you always want to prune just above a node of a plant.

This is the area where a leaf or a branch meets a stem. These are really

really obvious in plants like Pothos - you can see them sticking off so

I'll show you an example of one of those. These nodes have buds which can sprout

again once the plant has been cut. Obviously if you are trimming a plant

try not to cut everything off but, you know, sometimes depending on the kind of

plant you can get pretty aggressive with it and you can take a lot of the leaves

off - you've just got to make sure that you leave some there so they can still