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r/plants

A place to share pictures and discuss growing, maintaining, and propagating houseplants and outdoor decorative plants. Founded 2010 · 556.1K members

557.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31.9K upvotes, which works out to 57 per 1,000 members.

57peak upvotes per 1,000 members
557.1Kmembers
31.9Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
102posts 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.

51% 40% 8%
Image 51% Gallery 40% Video 8% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Success 19 Discussion 12 Help 8 Plant ID 5

What the ceiling looks like

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

Absolutely Stunning On My walk in Point Loma San Diego.. I’m planting this as soon as I can:)Does anyone know how fast this grows?

↑ 31.9K 💬 491 gallery 2026

I keep finding this toad burying himself in my potted plumeria, any harm in letting him stay?

↑ 17.4K 💬 579 image 2026

Partner called my plants garbage

↑ 17.1K 💬 2.1K image 2024

My parents got this night blooming cereus over 10 years ago. Tonight it finally bloomed

↑ 16.6K 💬 128 gallery 2024

I tend to over-water, so I got into aquatic plants

↑ 13.1K 💬 241 gallery 2025

I present to you : The Subway maidenhair fern. Never seen sunlight, watered with running wastewater and exposed to subfreezing temperatures.

↑ 13K 💬 145 video 2026

They told me to never let lettuce bloom. I broke that rule.

↑ 12.9K 💬 256 gallery 2025

Neighbors 50+ year old Euphorbia didn’t make it through the Santa Ana winds here in LA.

↑ 12.6K 💬 155 image 2025

Okay guys. Here’s the finished String of Pearls Halloween costume!

↑ 12.6K 💬 139 image 2024

Is this the end of my 33 year old agave? This 6ft bloom appeared within a month. Does anyone know what happens next?

↑ 12.2K 💬 480 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/plants, in numbers

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

What is r/plants?
r/plants describes itself this way: A place to share pictures and discuss growing, maintaining, and propagating houseplants and outdoor decorative plants. It was founded in 2010 and has 556.1K members.
How many members does r/plants have?
r/plants has about 557.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 31.9K upvotes, which is 57 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/plants?
"Absolutely Stunning On My walk in Point Loma San Diego.. I’m planting this as soon as I can:)Does anyone know how fast this grows?" reached 31.9K upvotes and 491 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/plants.
What subreddits are similar to r/plants?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/plants?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are image posts and 40% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/plants?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 17:00 UTC (9.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (7.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (7.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/plants?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/plants has 8.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/plants, 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.