The habits that apply to almost every pot
Watering by season instead of by calendar, reading indoor light honestly, feeding without burning roots, and knowing when a plant has outgrown its pot.
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The most common question is 'how often should I water this?' — and the honest answer is that the interval changes by a factor of three between July and January. Here is how to read it instead of counting days.
Every care label says 'bright indirect light' and almost nobody knows what that means in an actual room. Here are three ways to measure it without buying anything.
Fertiliser is not plant food and it does not fix an unhappy plant. It replaces the nutrients a pot runs out of — and giving more than that does measurable harm.
Most people repot too early, too often, and into pots that are far too big. Each of those makes root rot more likely, not less.