Wednesday, August 04, 2021

One step forward, two steps back?

 Divided and repotted my golden pothos- this may have been a mistake. You see, the plan was to use these cool new moss poles I got off of Amazon (degenerate spaceman store), but I may have fried the roots in the hot summer sun when I was laying them all out to repot. 

I used my cool new potting soil what has fish stuff in it, so here’s hoping that it will all settle down eventually. I just had to pull a dozen or so yellow leaves off this morning so that was depressing.

So I haven’t wound them up the moss pole yet because I’m sort of waiting so I don’t stress it out more. Bah. 

Anyway, having plants is like a dance, sometimes messing about with them makes them flourish, and other times you should have just sat on your hands. Sometimes I wonder if people who neglect their plants almost have better success than I do, but a) I usually focus on my failures (stupid brain) and b) I have decided that whether I am killing my plants with love or not, I truly enjoy pottering about with them so much that it’s worth it- the ones that can stand it will survive.

We’ll that’s about it, I keep stealing plants from work (shhhh, don’t tell) (just kidding, I ask) (mostly) and eagerly awaiting propagation results from that, and I keep dreaming of ordering $60 worth of plants off of Amazon (stupid immunosuppression keeping me from plant shopping irl!) but not doing it because I’m worried they will fry in transit in this exceptionally hot summer weather we’re having…

I was especially looking forward to the local plant sale but it got cancelled due to weather (which never transpired).


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