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Beginner's Guide On How To Take Care Of House Plants
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Jun 13, 2025
Ready to bring some greenery into your home but not sure how to care for houseplants? This beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to keep your indoor plants happy and healthy. From selecting the right plants and understanding their light needs to proper watering techniques and pest control, we've got you covered. Follow these simple tips and watch your houseplants thrive!
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today I want to cover a topic that a lot
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of you have asked about and it happens
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to be a topic I'm incredibly passionate
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about there's something about plants
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that make me so happy I feel like it's
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like you brought a little piece of
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nature outside into your house or into
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your Works Space it just livens the
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space up gives it some more color and
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when you see a plant Thrive that you've
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given tender love and care it's just
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such a rewarding feeling I remember when
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we first got the studio space the first
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thing I told Robin was that I wanted to
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turn it into a bit of a jungle so we
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went to the nursery and we loaded up on
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lots and lots and lots of
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plants so today's video is kind of like
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a beginner's guide on how to take care
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of host plants for anybody who feels
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like you just keep killing them and you
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don't know why or maybe just looking for
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some new pointers a lot of what I'm
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actually sharing today are things that
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my mom shared with me as I was growing
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up but everyone has a different way of
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doing things so if you have any
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recommendations of your own I welcome
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you to share that in the comments below
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and I also want to take a brief moment
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to thank Wix for partnering with us on
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today's video Wix is the amazing
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platform that we use to create and host
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the vup blims website I'll speak more
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about them at the end but for now let's
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dive
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in before you go to the plan store it's
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important to know exactly where in your
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house or in your Works Space space you
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want that plant to go is there a lot of
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sun is there shade what is the
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temperature situation like that way when
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you're at the plant store you can check
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the tag to see if it's going to be an
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appropriate match and while you're at
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the plant store anyway there's also
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another couple things you might want to
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consider so when you found a really
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beautiful healthy plant that you know is
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the one that you want to take home one
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of the things I recommend doing is very
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gently take the plant out of the pot
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just to see what the root situation is
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like here you can see that there's a
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whole bunch of roots along the outside
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and on the bottom so it might be a good
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idea to just buy a larger inner pot that
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you can then transfer it to you can also
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look for a nice outer pot that will fit
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the repotted plant while you're still at
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the
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nursery it's incredibly important that
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the pot that your plant is in has holes
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because we need the water to be able to
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drain but not all pots of holes are
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created equal like this one for example
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also has holes but there's a valley
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beneath the holes and this is a place
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where water can collect and the problem
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with water collecting is it can cause
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the roots to rot which might mean the
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plant could eventually die so the point
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here we want to make sure we get a pot
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with holes at the bottommost point of
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the
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container so when we were at the nursery
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we talked about the importance of
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repotting plants that have outgrown
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their current home but a lot of plants
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don't take well to a change in their
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environment I'm going to share with you
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a technique that my mom taught me and it
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works really really well essentially all
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you do is first wet the soil before
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adding it to the new pot so you want it
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to be moist enough that it sticks
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together but you don't want it to be
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dripping wet either and the reason that
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this works is it encourages the roots to
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go out and explore this new wet
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territory and it helps it to settle into
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its new environment a little bit better
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then we'll transfer the soil along the
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bottom and the sides of the new pot will
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gently remove the plant from its Nursery
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container and transfer it to its new
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home and add some extra soil around the
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sides and along the top you can gently
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press down on it as well but not too
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much cuz we want to give the roots some
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room to Branch out and then at the very
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end we're going to water it just a
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little bit so that the old soil gets a
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bit of moisture as
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well overwatering and underwatering
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plants is probably the single most
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common reason why a lot of house plants
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die but every plant is very specific
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when it comes to its watering
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requirements but there are a few
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important rules of thumb that might help
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for one you want the soil to get pretty
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dry between waterings so just use your
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finger to see what the soil situation is
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like a couple centimet into its depth if
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it's still moist you can skip watering
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but if it's dry I like to water it until
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I see just a bit of water coming out
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onto the base plate if a pool collects I
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just drain it off because a lot of
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plants don't like to have wet feet and
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now a lot of people know that plants
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need more frequent watering in the
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spring and summer months and less
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frequent watering in the winter months
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but one thing a lot of people Miss is
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they also have a preference when it
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comes to water temperature in the summer
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they like it when the water is a cooler
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temperature and in the winter they like
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it when the water is at room
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temperature so we all know that house
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plants need soil and good light and some
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water in order to thrive but one thing
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that can commonly be missed is the
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fertilizer which is the plant's food now
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every plant is different but in the
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spring and summer usually they need to
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be fed every 2 to 4 weeks I usually do
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it every two weeks but in the winter
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it's in its rest period so usually they
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don't need any feeding at all during
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that time I just use this Universal
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liquid variety that works on all of our
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house plants
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some plants work well in the sun some
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work well in the shade but regardless
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all of them need some source of natural
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light now in the darker winter months
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you might need to move your plants
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towards a light source but generally
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speaking plants don't like to be moved
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they get accustomed to the environment
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that they're in so move your plants if
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you have to but otherwise just let them
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be the other consideration with plants
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is the temperature you want to make sure
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you keep it within a range that it's
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comfortable at keep in mind that plants
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in front of Windows see pretty varying
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temperatures depending on the weather
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outside as well as plants that are by
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air conditioning units or radiators now
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if you find this all really overwhelming
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to keep track of we actually created a
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free PDF for you that might help out a
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little bit in addition to some tips
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there's a page that you can use to
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document the needs of each of your
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plants that you can then later refer to
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in case you've forgotten and there's
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also a plant watering tracker so to get
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your PDF check out the link in the
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description box
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below insects and bugs Love dead in
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decaying foliage so be sure sure to
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remove any rotting or dying leaves that
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are just sitting on top of the soil and
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whenever I see leaves that are visibly
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about to die I just prune the plant by
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cutting these off so they don't steal
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essential nutrients from the leaves that
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are continuing to
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thrive while you're Watering your plants
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just take a quick second to inspect the
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leaves to see if there's any signs of
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any insects or bugs and if there are you
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want to deal with these right away you
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might notice little webs or insects that
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look like fruit flies or these bugs that
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look like they're covered in cotton and
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if you don't know what it is you can
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take a picture into your local nursery
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for some help or search it up online for
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a lot of the different kinds of pests I
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usually just spray the leaves with a bit
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of soap and water solution and then wipe
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it clean using a damp cloth you might
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need to repeat this a couple of times
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but it usually does the trick whenever
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you're dealing with plants don't be
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discouraged if you try something new and
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it doesn't work some plants just die
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it's the circle of life but you're going
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to get better at it each time and
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remember you can always also match your
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comfort and skill set level to the kind
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of plant that you're going for for
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example something like succulents and
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pathos those are a lot easier to take
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care of they're less fussy than some of
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the other plants now if you learned
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something new in today's video If you
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enjoyed it I welcome you to give it a
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thumbs up it always means a lot when you
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do and remember to also get your free
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plant care guide PDF the link is in the
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description box below and I also again
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want to thank Wix for partnering with us
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on today's video I've been getting lots
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of emails from you guys lately saying
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really happy to hear cuz I remember
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those early stages feeling really
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awesome to see I'll see you guys
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otherwise in the comments thanks a lot
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for watching pickup limes signing off
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we'll see you in the next video
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