beginner

your plants aren't ugly, you just never learned the ways to look aesthetic, and that's okay. Welcome to Plant Parent 101, where I share tips and tricks on how to keep your plants not only happy, but thriving. So if you have plants that spread out their leaves in every direction, but want them to look like this, and this, plants like monteras follow the direction to put it simply, think of the leaves like built-in solar panels. By rotating and leaning towards the sun, light absorption for photosynthesis, which allows it to grow and expand the leaves. That's why in the wild, they start at the bottom of the dark rainforest floor, and spend the rest of their lives climbing directly up to make the plant leaves face uniformly in one direction, first identify the you're going to have the aerial roots the light source. If you have enough bright natural light, you're going to have the plant facing that direction. And over the next couple of weeks, your plant should slowly start shifting the direction. You're like, Junie, I don't have natural light in my house. Aha! That's where grow lights come in. Grow lights imitate natural sunlight with light spectrum needed for photosynthesis. There's so many different types of hanging, standing, light bulbs, light strips. To make things look aesthetic, I use grow lights around 3,000 kelvin color temperature to make my space feel more warm and inviting like this and this. I use them spotlights on hidden lights strips to elegantly make sure you only leave them on for 14 to 16 hours max since your plants also need darkness and recharge. If you use smart plug timers like me, you will never have to worry about that. Or any trailing bare and linky vines. What I do to fix that is using I just bend it so it can hook and then I wrap it on top of the soil, with the pins. After a while, the vine will root and latch onto the soil and you'll have more points of growth. Isn't this so much better? So I'll make part two.