I know nothing about plants, other than that I’ve learnt that they die if I try to take care of them.
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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.
@CiaraNi I have a couple of these in my office. Precisely because they’re impossible to kill!
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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.
@CiaraNi it must have got some water, right?
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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.
@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?
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Impressive! I know the weird aspect of this. When moving an office, we had these huge pots full of soil and Semiramis stuff. Like, too heavy for one person to carry. Devoid of plants. We thought, put those into the dark storage room downstairs and out of the way, once we unpacked the boxes take them out and re-use the soil.
Weeks later when we got to it, we entered the storage room, turned on the light and saw frigging chest-height plants had grown from nowhere and were blooming. Fascinating. -
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.
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.
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Impressive! I know the weird aspect of this. When moving an office, we had these huge pots full of soil and Semiramis stuff. Like, too heavy for one person to carry. Devoid of plants. We thought, put those into the dark storage room downstairs and out of the way, once we unpacked the boxes take them out and re-use the soil.
Weeks later when we got to it, we entered the storage room, turned on the light and saw frigging chest-height plants had grown from nowhere and were blooming. Fascinating.@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.
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@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?
"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.
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@CiaraNi it must have got some water, right?
@arildsen Apparently!
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@arildsen Apparently!
@CiaraNi but not by you?
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@CiaraNi I have a couple of these in my office. Precisely because they’re impossible to kill!
@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.
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@CiaraNi That's a ZZ plant aka Zanzibar Gem. It's really hard to kill & a good choice for beginners
@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.
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