@forestfern Good plan

@hemlockcookie A pity yours didn't make it. I am pleasantly surpried that mine seems to be both alive and thriving. 'Laissez faire plant management' - that's it!

@nxskok 'Benign neglect' - that's the right phrase for it. I will borrow that.

@sans_serif_girl Yes, I think I should!

@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.

@mycrowgirl

@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.

@glassdelusion I can see the sense of that

@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.

@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.

@sans_serif_girl Perhaps! Though now I am paying so much attention to this one that it is probably going to die in revenge.

@forestfern It should, seriously. Now I think that Hurling and Curling are just spelling mistakes. The sport they are meant to be playing is Furling.

@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.

@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.

@PhoenixSerenity Thank you! That's a lovely name. I shall be acquiring more Zanibar Gems I think, judging by the success of this one. I won't look it up in detail yet because I am enjoying the suspense of whatever is happening, waiting to see what may or may not emerge. Thanks for its name - I don't even remember where I got this one, so now I know what plant name to seek out.

@macpsych I am learning this! This may be the world's most perfect plant. I was thrilled enough that I hadn't actually killed it, and now it's producing new bits. Amazing.

@arildsen Apparently!

@sans_serif_girl

"did you water it one or two times or no water at all for one year?"

Haha - I see we have the exact same style of plant management. I've been doing the no-watering thing, I think.

@carstenraddatz That's amazing. That must have been quite a surprise! I am genuinely fascinated by the way this plant has just suddenly produced an unexpected bit that just keeps growing and growing and growing. So fast that I'm surprised I haven't caught it in the act.

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.