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Jul 30, 2023 1:27 PM CST
Name: Kevin Langley
London UK (Zone 6b)
purpleinopp said: I garden in the kitchen too! And when it's cold out, in every other room also.

The vine and ZZ plants look good! It's fun to do various things with the vines. They will make roots that attach to walls, furniture. If that's not OK, keeping them on the chain would be good.

The rubber plant looks like it's not doing as well in the low light.


The rubber plant has been suffering quite a bit because it was grown under a strong grow light and as the plant grew taller I had to keep moving the light higher then the bottom growth declined the light was also eating a lot of electricity so I packed it away. Since then some of the leaves curled and its not been happy since but it is very slowly improving.

I'll be adding a 6500k LED strip light above the philodendron for winter to keep it happy and the good thing is philodendrons only need 5 to 6 hours of bright light a day to stay happy plus it will also have the natural light from the windows, the added bright light should speed up its growth. I've never had issues with the Philodendron or Pothos sticking to the walls I have even tried to make it stick to the walls.

The Pothos at the back of the kitchen took a hit, it was once a lot more lush and bushy than what it is now because I originally had the Pothos hanging down and I was struggling to water it without the water pouring off the surface of the plant rather than the soil absorbing the water, it used to get dry up there so I switched it around and re-potted the pothos into a floor pot and trailed the vines upwards instead and the plant hasn't quite recovered a lot of the vines broke as well but I put those in water.

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