Plant Care Basics
It always starts out the same way. Those big, beautiful, exotic leaves where irresitable. So you purchased the plant, brought it home, followed the instructions, gave it tender loving care . . . .
and it died anyway.
Hi, I'm Jeree Harms - The Hydroponics Guy - and I've been growing and caring for tropical plants in our Hydroponic System for over 20 years. I'm convinced that our system is the biggest advance in growing indoor plants in many years.
I've had hundreds of conversations with enthusiastic growers who have had a great deal of success growing indoor plants with our hydroponic system. From those conversations, I learned a lot about what it takes to grow big, beautiful, indoor plants.
It always comes back to the same basic principle that successful growers follow. It's not difficult - but often overlooked. Combine this with our Hydroponic System and you'll be amazed at what you can do!
The Key to Successfully Growing Indoor Plants
The key to growing indoor plants is understnading your growing conditions and choosing plants that will thrive in those conditions.
1. Understand your growing conditions
Where are your plants growing? Evaluate the environment where your plants live. These areas are called micro-climates. Micro-climates are probably hotter or colder and sunnier or darker than the rest of the room. Take a minute to observe the micro-climates where your plants are living. You might be surprised(!).
2. Choose plants that match your growing conditions
After evaluating the micro-climate where your plants live, choose plants that will adapt to those conditions. If the plant you select can't adapt to it's new environmment you'll never be successful.
. . . . one more thing
Sooner or later you're going to have to learn those tongue twisting plant names. How can we talk about these amazing plants if we don't know their names?
And why are those names so complicated?
Nature has blessed us with thousands of plants! Organizing all these plants requires a complex naming structure. To make things even more interesting, plant names are in Latin, the international langauge of identification.
Don't worry - you won't have to learn them all! There are only 7-8 families of plants that are suitable for indoor growing.
Wherever possible I include both the common name and botanical name throughout this website. Some plants have several common names so they might not be entirely accurate.
The Basics of Indoor Plant Care
Indoor plants depend on you to give them what they need to live and grow. You don't have to be Mother Nature - just understand the basics of Light, Water, and Temperature/Humidity.
Even with the advanced growing techniques of our hydroponic system, you still need to understand the basics of how nature works.