My indoor fern collection was dying until I saw a humidity chart for Seattle

I kept my Boston ferns in a dry room for two years, thinking they just needed more water. A chart at the UW Botanic Gardens showed they need 60% humidity, which my house never hits. Now I run a humidifier and they're finally thriving. Do you guys adjust for your local climate or just follow general plant care rules?

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jordan6532d ago

My first fiddle leaf fig looked like a sad umbrella skeleton before I realized my Arizona apartment has the same humidity as a saltine cracker. I bought a cheap hygrometer and it read 18%. Now I mist that diva like it's my second job and it's finally putting out new leaves.

the_rowan2d ago

Honestly, I'm still learning this the hard way. I killed a perfectly good maidenhair fern by treating it like my pothos, which is basically a plastic plant at this point. My local climate is a dry joke, so following generic "water weekly" advice was a death sentence. Now I obsessively check humidity for my fussy plants and ignore it for the tough ones. It turns out my green thumb only works when I stop assuming all plants want to live in my personal desert.