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r/houseplants

Updated Aug 25

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

Members

3,012,989

3M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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Promo tolerance

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Last post

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Distinct posters

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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

Tracking since Aug 25 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/houseplants — frequently asked

How many members does r/houseplants have?

r/houseplants has 3,012,989 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 25. 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?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/houseplants yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 25; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/houseplants?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/houseplants yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

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: 3.01M members — stats & growth (Aug 2026)