r/houseplants

Founded June 2011 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 12

A community focused on the discussion, care, and well-being of houseplants!

Members

3,033,329

3M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

140

from the last 100 posts, spanning 17.0h

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.4%

+13K members · ≈33d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 12

sampled Oct 12

Distinct posters

97%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 25 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

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r/houseplants — frequently asked

How many members does r/houseplants have?

r/houseplants has 3,033,329 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 12. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/houseplants growing?

Over the last ≈33 days r/houseplants changed by +0.4% — a gain of 13K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/houseplants?

Around 140 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 17.0h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/houseplants created?

r/houseplants was founded in June 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/houseplants?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 97% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 12. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/houseplants?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/houseplants yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/houseplants for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/houseplants into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/houseplants's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/houseplants's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/houseplants Subreddit Stats — 3.03M members, 140 posts/day