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Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

I thought my climbing plant had died over the last year, but there are new green leaves on it! Glad I didn't pull it out and kept watering even when I thought it was futile. I don't think it's ever had any blooms, though. I was hoping for fairytale vines with blossoms! But at least it's not dead.

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

Good luck to it! Hope it grows some buds!

And hah, watering plants. A real exchange from last year:

Me: why are my plants growing so poorly?
Friend, looking at crispy yellow sprouts: You have to water outdoor plants, you know... the rain isn't enough for them.
Me: you what

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

Hugs, nonny! Plants are fiendish! They turn yellow when they have too little water, but also when they have too much! This is why I always end up killing my succulents. :(

Thanks, anyway. The leaves have appeared over a short amount of time, and we haven't even had much sun, yet, so I'm hopeful. Plus if it's managed to survive this last year, I think it bodes well for the future. The pot doesn't have the best drainage and the weather varies a lot. So maybe it's just spent a year toughening up!

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

Succulents are so cute but I'm always afraid I'll kill them! I hear lots horror stories even though people say they're easy...

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I have killed every cactus I've ever owned. My non-cactus succulents do better, but they never look thrilled to be there.

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Aw, poor succulents. I suppose I'll continue leaving them to others. I'm sure the same would happen with me.

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Succs are incredibly easy while being finicky in their own way. Water? They don't want it until their soil is dry as a bone, and then they want it soaked like a desert rainstorm. Sun? A few can't handle direct midday sun, but in my experience they WANT IT ALL. You can't grow a succ indoors and have it truly thrive for years without a grow light set-up. Even the succs I've put in unshaded south windows eventually lost their pretty coloring and started stretching towards the sun. Then you have a sad spindly thing that breaks when you touch it.

Cacti are basically the same, only they want even more sun. Mine only do okay because I put them outside in full sun all summer long, and even then they're a bit oddly-shaped.

Re: Gardening/Houseplants

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, mine would die every time I soaked the soil, so I now just dribble tiny amounts of water on them frequently. Seems to be the only thing that works for me. I have an extremely leggy kalanchoe, though I kind of like the legginess because it makes it look like some kind of creepy alien science experiment. But it hasn't flowered in years. And last time it was very sunny, it got a bit burned. I worry about it a bit since the stems are at their thinnest near the soil, but I don't know how to fix that. If one does break, the tendril should be trivial to repot, at least; you can see extra auxiliary roots all along the stems. And then I have something that looks like an aloe vera, but isn't. Bits kept rotting off, so I drastically reduced water, and now it's a bit dried out/brown in places, but nothing is falling off any more. So... yay?