My Pink Dragon has gotten so big!

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Polkira@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨houseplants@mander.xyz⁩

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She started as such a little pup and now her leaves are bigger than my hand

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I got her about 2 years ago.

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Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
She’s absolutely stunning

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cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Nice. What’s your care regimen like? Colors look great, especially against that tomato-colored wall.

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- Polkira@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Lol the wall is actually more dusky in person (like a muddy rust), my camera makes it look bright orange so I look like a crazy person.
  
  Care regime lately has just been to water when dry (so like every 7-14 days) and fertilize rarely (mostly because I forget). It actually doesn't live where it is in the picture but hangs out right in my east facing sliding door so it gets lots of morning light. I keep it and most of my plants in a chunky mix (1 part orchid bark, 1 part perlite, 1 part potting soil), otherwise they take forever to dry out with the humidity here.
  
  It probably would be a lot bigger if I hadn't swapped everything to semi hydro last year to try and be rid of fungus gnats (a strategy which actually did work, but I'm a laxy plant parent so they didn't really thrive in that). It lived in water for quite a while re-rooting so it was just a sad and dying leaf a couple months ago. It's made a huge comeback this summer, with another leaf on the way.
  
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My cat would love to nom on that.

I wish I could have plants and a cat.

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- Polkira@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You could try a cat friendly plant and hang it out of reach? Not sure how acrobatic your cat is though, I'm lucky mine leaves the plants alone. Though I think I've overwhelmed her with the quantity and so she's not very interested lol
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, I’m fearful of hearing a noise in the other room and finding a smashed plant and a cat running away.
    
    I should investigate tho. I’m sure there are plants he wouldn’t bother.
    
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Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Beautiful!

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Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So nice! Really want one of these now.

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