Find out everything you need to know to use Leca for your houseplants. What are the benefits? What are the challenges? Are there any gotchas you should know when using Leca for your houseplants? This ultimate guide will teach you everything you need to know.
To give you the best chance to take care of this plant, we've broken down the caring process into a few different steps. These steps are designed to provide you with the most in-depth information to teach you everything you need to know about caring for your plant.
In this ultimate guide to using Leca to grow your plants, we've split the entire process into smaller chunks, so you don't get overwhelmed with information.
Cleaning Leca before you're using it for the first time is very important to keep your plants healthy. In this short guide, we're going over how you can do this and make your Leca ready to be used with your plants
Read "How to prepare Leca for first use"
When you're planting your plants in Leca, you'll need to clean your pots thoroughly. Cleaning your pots help you to avoid problems down the line. In this short guide, we're going to look at how to best clean your pots for use with Leca.
Read "How to clean your pots for use with Leca"
Leca stands for Lightweight expanded clay aggregate. In this post, we'll go over why it is useful for growing your plants and what benefits it can offer you and your plants.
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Leca is an alternative way to grow your plants, not using any soil. It's a growing medium that's getting more attention recently and it this guide we go over the pros and cons of using Leca for your plants.
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Leca is a great way to properly water your plants, prevent pests, and fertilizing your plants consistently. In this guide, we go over the steps you have to take to properly take care of the Alocasia Zebrina when it's planted in Leca.
Read "How to grow an Alocasia Zebrina in Leca"
In this guide, we'll go over the process of converting a Monstera Deliciosa planted in soil to planting it in Leca. This process is very similar for any Monstera, so if you don't have a Monstera Deliciosa you can still follow along with the steps.
Read "How to grow a Monstera in Leca"
In this guide, we show you step by step how to prepare your pots, your plant, and your Leca. Then we'll show you how to plant it in Leca and how to water your plant from now on.
Read "How to grow Sansevierias in Leca"
Watering a plant in Leca is a little different than watering a plant in soil. In this short guide, we'll go over how you can properly water your plants in Leca and make sure they get the fertilizer and moisture they need to thrive.
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In this plant care guide, we're going to look at how you can propagate your Sansevieria (Snake plant) and give it the best chance to help it grow into an adult plant. We're going to look at different ways to propagate and different growing mediums to help you achieve success.
Read "How to propagate a Sansevieria (Snake plant)"
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We've written a lot of guides about all kinds of aspects of taking care of plants, but we could've missed that specific topic you were looking for. If that's the case, you can request a plant guide or donate a plant. This way we can provide you with the information you need quickly and you won't have to wonder if you're taking care of your plant properly anymore.
