Not sure if your houseplants are overwatered? Root-bound?
This young botanist with autism is TikTok's latest houseplant expert. Meet the plant prodigy.
This young botanist with autism is TikTok's latest houseplant expert. Meet the plant prodigy.
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00:00i'm just wondering if you can assist me and look a little root bound but not all that root bound
00:05i was still repotted if i were you chef before it gets too bad and fyi that is a really cool cactus
00:10you have what's wrong with my mother of thousands i think those leaves are just old it is perfectly
00:21normal for older leaves to die back i've been interested in plants for as long as i can
00:25remember to be honest group your plants together not only does it make plants look more aesthetic
00:30but also raises the humidity around the plants because plants respirate water part of it might
00:34be my autism which probably got me made me hyper fixate on plants i was diagnosed when i was three
00:39years old from second to grade all the way up until seventh grade i was not the best kid i got
00:46about 10 referrals during that time since i was a really young age i remember like drawing like
00:50flowers and stuff for example i would draw drawings like this in kindergarten and preschool i would
00:55also go on bike rides with my grandma to collect oxide daisies which i called white daisies at the
00:59time and that just slowly evolved into carnivorous plants and like i was getting bored with just
01:03carnivorous plants so i decided to move on the house plants as well i read a lot and that kind
01:08of gave me a lot of information for those books this book is the bible for all plant parents
01:12because it contains care and instructions for almost every plant you can imagine i think a
01:16little over a year ago my brother said that he was in a viral tiktok and i like said i could be a
01:21tiktok star this plant is a plant in the southeast asia that's best known for its ability to dance
01:40top three benefits of having house plants one plants can increase memory and attention span
01:48by 20 plus increasing productivity by 20 top three facts about the history of house plants
01:54one in ancient china house plants have been cultivated since 1000 bc i have well over
02:00100 plants my favorite plant are probably nepenthes pitcher plants nepenthes are carnivorous
02:05plants that capture and eat insects and other small animals plus they are beautiful i like
02:10this plant because it's my biggest pitcher plant i have even though the pictures here are pretty
02:15small these pictures have the potential to get up to a foot long common problems over watering is
02:20definitely up there like people often won't think their plants need more water than they actually
02:24need should you constantly water a plant no in fact it's actually better to underwater a plant
02:32than over water should i repot it because i'm scared that it's root bound the roots really
02:38don't look that crowded in fact i think the issue why your plants leaves are curling is because you
02:42might have over watered it
02:54my autism is what makes me really special and if it weren't for my autism
02:59i wouldn't have all of this to share with you guys sometimes i can mess up and i want to know
03:05that i actually can react to things differently than other people because i'm neurodivergent
03:09you know what one of the perks of being a plant influencer are free plants