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A community focused on the discussion, care, and well-being of houseplants! Founded 2011 · 3M members

3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 83.1K upvotes, which works out to 27 per 1,000 members.

27peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3Mmembers
83.1Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
434posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

46% 44%
Gallery 46% Image 44% Video 4% Text 3% Question 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Help 180 Discussion 71 Humor/Fluff 43 Before / After - Progress Pics 27 Plant ID 23 Highlight 11 Haul 9 Stuff: SATURDAYS ONLY 5 watering 5 PETS AND PLANTS 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My sister sent me this to commemorate all the plants I’ve sent to the other side

↑ 83.1K 💬 499 image 2025

I’m looking after my SIL’s plants while she’s gone and texted her that they went bad while she was away.

↑ 76.8K 💬 550 gallery 2024

I feel attacked.

↑ 65K 💬 791 image 2022

The liberals are trying to make my plants gay!!

↑ 55.5K 💬 1.3K video 2022

My dumb narcistic neighbor called the cops on me for my fatsia

↑ 54.2K 💬 1.4K image 2025

I painted a mural behind my plant shelves!

↑ 53.9K 💬 644 image 2025

I made a skylight planter thing in my bathroom

↑ 50.9K 💬 1.1K gallery 2026

One year later

↑ 47.9K 💬 824 gallery 2025

This was supposed to be a plant progress post showing off my oxalis but Henk stole the show

↑ 47.6K 💬 614 image 2021

My burnt plants, 3 month update… they’re alive!

↑ 46.3K 💬 441 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/houseplants, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/houseplants?
r/houseplants describes itself this way: A community focused on the discussion, care, and well-being of houseplants. It was founded in 2011 and has 3M members.
How many members does r/houseplants have?
r/houseplants has about 3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 434 of its posts; the biggest reached 83.1K upvotes, which is 27 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/houseplants?
"My sister sent me this to commemorate all the plants I’ve sent to the other side" reached 83.1K upvotes and 499 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/houseplants.
What subreddits are similar to r/houseplants?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/houseplants?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are gallery posts and 44% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/houseplants?
Across 434 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (39.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (35.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (26.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/houseplants?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/houseplants has 36.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 233 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/houseplants, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.