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Tanner Mitchell

Houseplant expert, author of "For the Love of Houseplants," and co-founder of the Famous In Oregon plant shop in Texas, known on social media as "Tanner the Planter."

May 7, 2026

27:01
So is that the reason for the closing of the Prosper store? Y'all just kind of more focusing online now?
27:07
No.
27:09
Well, yes and no.
27:09
Let me explain.
27:10
So we had a separate shipping facility that we would ship out.
27:16
We ship out about 1,200 plants a week, give or take.
27:19
And that shipping facility got rezoned.
30:46
There you go.
4:54
But there is also a DIY way to do it.
4:57
Because not everybody wants to use tech, you know.
4:59
And so what is actually making it brighter light? And what I realized was when I would point the sensor of my light meter towards the open blue sky, that's what got it to jump up very, very quickly.
5:10
And so bright light needy plants need a wide view of the sky.
5:14
If it's a bright light plant, you need to be able to get down to your plant's perspective right where the leaves are.
5:19
Because your leaves are what need to absorb the light.
5:22
And bright light is when you can turn your head from the left, the center and the right and see unobstructed.
6:06
Are there any plants that you should stay away from if you have pets?
4:23
Like, did you grow anything? Like, what, what really, like, pulled you into this whole world?
4:28
I'll tell you what.
4:29
They kind of- both these stories kind of go hand-in-hand really because when I moved to Texas from Oregon, the part of Texas that I live in right now is just north of Dallas, and it's very flat and comparatively, you know, pretty dry and not so green.
4:48
And I didn't realize how much that was affecting me.
4:51
I was finding myself going to the mountains all the time, like every weekend, trying to go somewhere that had greenery around me, you know? So we were going to, my wife and I, we were going to Arkansas, about a five-hour drive, you know, a couple times a month trying to get a fix.
5:06
I would go rock climbing up in Arkansas and kind of stay in the mountains as much as I could.
5:11
And when I realized how much I missed having the greenery around me is when I started to bring in some houseplants, trying to get that, you know, sort of recreate that feeling.

46 MINS LATER

51:35
[laughs]

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