I know nothing about plants, other than that I’ve learnt that they die if I try to take care of them.
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@sans_serif_girl That's great, that you have a system of reminders. I noticed once that my plants suddenly seemed to be thriving and growing. I wondered why, then realised that I'd been away a fair bit and had a lot going on and had forgotten to pay any attention to them whatsoever for ages. So I decided to start ignoring them most of the time. Now I water them once at Easter and twice at Christmas and that seems to help.
@CiaraNi it might be a sort of payback from the plants: you ignore them, and they show you just how well they can thrive even without your attention! the psychology of plants is a mystery (if it exists)
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@CiaraNi it might be a sort of payback from the plants: you ignore them, and they show you just how well they can thrive even without your attention! the psychology of plants is a mystery (if it exists)
@sans_serif_girl Perhaps! Though now I am paying so much attention to this one that it is probably going to die in revenge.
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I know nothing about plants, other than that I’ve learnt that they die if I try to take care of them. So I leave them alone and they look after themselves. I’ve been ignoring this plant for a year. I don’t know what it is or what it does. The other day, I noticed a weird little mismatched shoot. It keeps growing, more and more overnight, like Jack’s Beanstalk, up and up and up. I think unfurling may happen. I am not even embarrassed about how exciting I find this.
@CiaraNi (casts anxious glance at my daughter's plant, which I am trying to remember to water periodically, but not too often. The leaves are green and the plant is not obviously drooping.)
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@sdarlington Good to know. I wonder if you can grow rhubarb in a pot. After years of killing everything, I've been trying out the same strategy of 'just ignore them' for the outdoor plants on my balcony as well and it's showing promise there too. Great that your rhubarb keeps coming back. Delicious in tarts.
@CiaraNi I don't see why it wouldn't grow in a pot. But then I don't see why my other plants die. I may not be the most reliable information source.
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@sdarlington Good to know. I wonder if you can grow rhubarb in a pot. After years of killing everything, I've been trying out the same strategy of 'just ignore them' for the outdoor plants on my balcony as well and it's showing promise there too. Great that your rhubarb keeps coming back. Delicious in tarts.
@CiaraNi @sdarlington I once lived in a house with a yard and every year, the rhubarb just grew without any effort on my part.
(I should find out whether you can grow it in a pot. Maybe I could grow(*) it on my balcony.)
(*) meaning "allow it to grow".
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@sans_serif_girl Perhaps! Though now I am paying so much attention to this one that it is probably going to die in revenge.
@CiaraNi nooooo! go do something else straight away!
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This is my hobby now. Staring at this, waiting for something to emerge. It should be a sport. Furling. The Furling Championships. The Olympic Medal In Watching Things Unfurl. Better than worrying about politics, I tell you.
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I know nothing about plants, other than that I’ve learnt that they die if I try to take care of them. So I leave them alone and they look after themselves. I’ve been ignoring this plant for a year. I don’t know what it is or what it does. The other day, I noticed a weird little mismatched shoot. It keeps growing, more and more overnight, like Jack’s Beanstalk, up and up and up. I think unfurling may happen. I am not even embarrassed about how exciting I find this.
@CiaraNi "Plants are the new grandkids"
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This is my hobby now. Staring at this, waiting for something to emerge. It should be a sport. Furling. The Furling Championships. The Olympic Medal In Watching Things Unfurl. Better than worrying about politics, I tell you.
@CiaraNi the dopamine of anticipation is So Good! 🪴
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@CiaraNi (casts anxious glance at my daughter's plant, which I am trying to remember to water periodically, but not too often. The leaves are green and the plant is not obviously drooping.)
@nxskok That sounds like it's going fine, nice work!
"trying to remember to water periodically, but not too often' - it was this balance that drove me bananas when I first got plants. Everyone who has thriving plants told me 'oh, just don't give them too little water, or too much water' as if that helped.
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@CiaraNi I don't see why it wouldn't grow in a pot. But then I don't see why my other plants die. I may not be the most reliable information source.
@sdarlington This is sound advice, I think. I've stopped trying to work out what'll work because it's all a mystery to me. So I can just try it, because who knows, maybe it will grow in a pot. And like yourself, I can't see the pattern to why some of my plants die and others thrive. Every day a little surprise.
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@CiaraNi "Plants are the new grandkids"
@glassdelusion I can see the sense of that
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@CiaraNi the dopamine of anticipation is So Good! 🪴
@mycrowgirl That's it! It's the anticipation. Accelerated by the fact that I know nothing about the plant so I don't know what may or may not emerge - I am observing it like an excited child.
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@mycrowgirl That's it! It's the anticipation. Accelerated by the fact that I know nothing about the plant so I don't know what may or may not emerge - I am observing it like an excited child.
@CiaraNi the best way to observe, honestly!
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@CiaraNi the best way to observe, honestly!
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I know nothing about plants, other than that I’ve learnt that they die if I try to take care of them. So I leave them alone and they look after themselves. I’ve been ignoring this plant for a year. I don’t know what it is or what it does. The other day, I noticed a weird little mismatched shoot. It keeps growing, more and more overnight, like Jack’s Beanstalk, up and up and up. I think unfurling may happen. I am not even embarrassed about how exciting I find this.
@CiaraNi You're sharing your home with a ZZ plant, the only plant thus far I've been able to kill.
I salute your dedication to the laissez faire of plant management. -
@CiaraNi @sdarlington I once lived in a house with a yard and every year, the rhubarb just grew without any effort on my part.
(I should find out whether you can grow it in a pot. Maybe I could grow(*) it on my balcony.)
(*) meaning "allow it to grow".
@nxskok @sdarlington This all sounds very promising, rhubarb just wantonly growing. Has to be worth a shot in a pot. I find that not finding out in advance works for me now. I and the rhubarb may just take our chances.
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@CiaraNi nooooo! go do something else straight away!
@sans_serif_girl Yes, I think I should!
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@nxskok That sounds like it's going fine, nice work!
"trying to remember to water periodically, but not too often' - it was this balance that drove me bananas when I first got plants. Everyone who has thriving plants told me 'oh, just don't give them too little water, or too much water' as if that helped.
@CiaraNi my daughter (who is much better with plants) tells me that for this particular one, if the soil is actually dry, it needs watering, but if there is any moisture in the soil, not yet. That much, I can remember.
I also have a snake plant, which seems to thrive on benign neglect.
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@CiaraNi my daughter (who is much better with plants) tells me that for this particular one, if the soil is actually dry, it needs watering, but if there is any moisture in the soil, not yet. That much, I can remember.
I also have a snake plant, which seems to thrive on benign neglect.
@nxskok 'Benign neglect' - that's the right phrase for it. I will borrow that.
