honestly until recently my houseplant care regimen was "pot them carefully, then forget they exist and water them maybe once a month" which was fine for the peperomias and succulents, but then she sent me a spiderplant and it was Not Happy
I recently housesat for about 100 houseplants owned by someone who puts a lot of thought into their care, and one of them is a variety that I have but have been mostly forgetting about. and it looked completely different from mine! I was like, ohhh no my plant is not thriving
just today I gave up on the string of pearls plant that was all wilted and sad. I tried resuscitating it, but it wasn't coming back. I felt like I deserved an F grade in plant-herding as I released it into the wild (dropped its poor shriveled corpse into the ground cover outside my house while mentally saying "thank you, I'm sorry")
and then, same day, more plant babies! I'm not getting out of this one am I 🥀
houseplant saga update, family mention, awkward
@twistylittlepassages whoops! i’d have done the same thing, six cuttings is a lot of baby plants to handle all at once!
houseplant saga update, family mention, awkward
@twistylittlepassages @ljwrites six kittens is *definitely* too many (once they’re old enough to be separated of course)
houseplant saga update, family mention, awkward
@Satsuma @twistylittlepassages my brain kept replacing "cuttings" with "kittens" and honestly similar principle?