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how do you throw away a plant. i dont believe there is such a thing. i think you and i watch in despaired silence as one leaf withers after another, the brown rot swallowing from the bottom up. whom do i blame for its slow death, me? the cattleya? no but what wrong have you done by trying to live.
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If you want to practice patience and the horror of letting go, cacti are there for you.
You'll soon learn that sometimes what the subject of your care needs the most out of you is nothing.
Overdoing is a death sentence; overwatering, over sunning, over shadowing. The damned green nub might even seem to mock your ministrations when you're not looking.
Let it be, please. Remember the name Münchhausen.
The desire to act is the most insidious poison for a cactus; it will get you high off the delusion of the importance of your actions as it drowns your plant, which will fuel further your thirst for action and the inevitable death-spiral of rot and fungi.
It doesn't need salvation. It certainly doesn't care for it.
All it asks for is a little water, enough sun, some repotting and, of course, love. Always love; just not enough of the stuff for it to kill the cactus.
Apr 23, 2024
"How am I ever supposed to take care of myself," I cried to my mom, "when I can't even take care of a plant?!"
I was 15 and my cactus had just died from overwatering. I avoided house plants for years, until I came across a pothos while my mental health was in the gutter. The little thing became everything to me. I propagated it, bought more plants. Whenever dark clouds come rolling into my mind, I lay my plants extra attention. "I take good care of myself, little one," I tell them while watering them, "so I can take better care of you."
Sep 2, 2024
Sorry I’d put this as an ask but that doesn’t let me add a photo.
I’m not a plant person someone pls give me steps of how to take care of this thing now that it’s clearly gigantic. I just feel like it’s unhappy
Mar 20, 2024
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the thing about this website is that i absolutely know no one and its like we are in kindergarten can we share this box of crayons and also divulge all our (and our family's) secrets and keep them close to our hearts
Feb 17, 2024
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i love my grandma <3 we would sneak out to get ice-cream and drink cola when we weren't 'supposed' to. i long to see her again soon <3
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