my sister sent me yet another batch of plant cuttings and it's tipped me over the brink into the houseplant research help

I had absolutely no interest in being responsible for plant lifeforms and then I opened a care package from her a couple years ago and was like "babies! must save the babies"

I certainly do not have the windowsill space for six Tradescantia "Nanouk" cuttings though, omg

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 🥀

anyway now I'm creating a page in my (offline) wiki with info about the plants I've got and how they want to be taken care of.

there's just. so much to know

me: hey sis! I found takers for 3 of the 6 cuttings you sent, thanks for sending them!

my sister: oh did you not want them?

me: oops uh, I thought you sent me a bunch so I could share?

sister: I would plant them all together! but hey, sharing is fun too!

me: well uh... my friends are really excited to get them?

@twistylittlepassages whoops! i’d have done the same thing, six cuttings is a lot of baby plants to handle all at once!