Ciara1d ago

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.

#Bloomscrolling

Show threadragazza senza grazie1d ago
@CiaraNi omg me too, I love plants but I'm a plant killer! did you water it one or two times or no water at all for one year?
Show threadCiara1d ago

@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.

Show threadragazza senza grazie1d ago
@CiaraNi one of my dearest friends is in charge to send me a message every mmm 10 days maybe? to remind me to water plants, otherwise they'll all die. my other problem, apart from being a plant killer - even if I'd love the idea of my house full of plants, is that if I don’t have something right in front of me, I completely forget it exists until I see it again. a deadly combo for those poor plants!
Show threadCiara1d ago
@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.
Show threadragazza senza grazie
@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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Show threadCiara1d ago
@sans_serif_girl Perhaps! Though now I am paying so much attention to this one that it is probably going to die in revenge.
Show threadragazza senza grazie1d ago
@CiaraNi nooooo! go do something else straight away!
Show threadCiara1d ago
@sans_serif_girl Yes, I think I should!