Top Ten Secrets - #7 Growing Beautiful House Plants

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At our house it seems our favorite house plants suffer the most from a lack of water, nutrition and sun. As a result, they start to look just awful in a matter of just a few short weeks. In this installment of GardenRx: Top Ten Garden solutions, host Loren Nancarrow shows you how to feed, care and fertilize your indoor house plants so they stay looking good all season long.

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thank you for this video I have learnt so much!!

Thanks for the tips I don't have green thumb. I'm not giving up

This guy's cool. :)

I like the look of your house at the back.

Fungus gnats! Who knew? I was given a beautiful house plant as a house warming gift and within a few weeks it was swarming with them! Fortunately the plant lived and the gnats eventually died... I won't tell you all the measures I went through to achieve this goal tho!

great tips!

ha! you're funny. i will try the mouthwash. those fungus gnats have destroyed quite a few of my precious houseplants. they came to me in a plant i bought from my local greenhouse!

Nice video. Just want to ask what was your ingredients for the super bloom?

This video was worth watching..thankyou so much.

That was nice but I don't think I know where to find all this. If I ever do and can afford it I will surely try it. Thank you.

what is fishmotion and where we can buy it.

sO GREAT TO KNOW THESE TIPS.

This was excellent! Thank you!

Your fertilizer recipe sounds very good, but some measurement/amounts would be helpful.

I have a house plant that I bought in a grocery store last fall but lost the tag and so I don't know what it is. It kind of resembles Dracaena but much smaller and narrower leaves. It is two stems with 2 leaves growing at about 1 inch intervals and clearly has apical dominance happening at the top of it now. It's healthy and growing strong but is now at about 3 ft tall. It's not very bushy though and very narrow. I need to know what it is so I can find out how to deal with the apical dominance.

You can catch more flies with vinegar and alcohol than honey, actually. Drosophila eat yeast so the smell of alcohol (which is made by yeast) or vinegar (which is made from "spoiled" alcohol - alcohol broken down by bacteria) attracts these flies naturally. A little trick in fly-genetics labs is to take a bottle, add a small amount of ethanol (purified drinking alcohol) then place a funnel on top that intrudes well beyond the opening. The flies go in but have a hard time going out. Cheers!

Thank u, may try out Kelp meal, if it is available, here , in Hyderabad, A.P. , India, Asia. It is high summer here, and terribly, terribly hot, nothing can grow now, have to wait for the rains

He said Kelp meal.

I missed that word ,it sounded like "Kelp meal ?" Please understand, that all viewers cannot understand, European, or American accents. I wish u would repeat some important words.