I got a spider plant at a school fundraiser when I was in first grade. It lived until I moved out of my parents’ house at 18. My mom said she’d take care of it. She threw it out one day. I was sad.
But isn't it dead too?
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Who throws out a plant
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Especially one their kid took care of for that long, that’s just fucked up.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not dead. You can crawl around on a single live wire as much as you want with proper grounding when getting to it.
Slip, and your foot touches the other wire though? Yeah, you cooked or in for a drop.
Skalbagge@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You absolutely can not touch a live wire if you’re grounded. Birds (and this plant somehow) do it by landing on the live wire without being in contact with ground.
rainerloeten@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think it must be a trabslatranslation error or so, because yeah you should NEVER touch live if you’re grounded haha 😅
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve had plenty of houseplants that are basically immortal.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The trick is to have a living soil. Without bacteria, mycelium, wild yeasts, and other microbes, you may as well be planting plants in moon dust.
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I have well over 100 plants all planted in lechuza pon and they are thriving! It’s an absolute game changer for aroids. No soil in this household.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Jokes on you, I keep dandelions as houseplants
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
How?
lili_thana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It appears to be some sort of bromeliad. Many bromeliad species don’t really have roots, but instead grow on top of rocks or other plants like trees. They get their water and nutrients from the atmosphere directly rather than from their roots. Some species even have leaf shapes that make like a bucket in the center to capture water to use. Anyways, they’re cool plants. And some have absolutely beautiful flowers.
xpinchx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was 1000% expecting to get rick rolled or helled in a cell, thanks for the interesting facts!
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 10 months ago
Possibly a seed that survived a bird's digestive tract and had enough shit and nutrients to get that far. Not long for the world, though.
Bonus: fish populating an isolated pond can be caused by a birds as well
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Life uh…finds a way
funkajunk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
While aeroponics are cool and interesting as hell, I’m pretty sure this is a bromeliad which are adapted to living on tree branches. They collect and hold water using funnel style leaves, not through aeroponics style root mist.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bromeliads are awesome. The whole concept of epiphytes (which many bromeliads are) is cool. They require other plants to survive, but they generally aren’t parasitic.
funkajunk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Neat! I just knew that it was possible for plants to grow pretty much anywhere, but now I know about bromeliads.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wtf?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck i need to water my snake plant
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Rainwater typically had less chlorine and fluoride
franklin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If this is a legitimate concern, my grandmother used to tell me to boil the water and then let it cool down, this will remove the chlorine.
I’m always done it I’m not sure if it actually helps plants much. She also said to always use room temp water
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I… Is that true? Can someone with more chemistry knowledge than me confirm?
Boiling removes oxygen, I know that…
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It doesn’t matter to us but it’s harder on plants
Having said that I’m sure (from experience) you can keep plants alive just using the tap
profdc9@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is survivor bias in action.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Some textbook: Marijuana is a hearty plant that will grow anywhere and spread profusely, from where it gets the name “weed”
14yo me failing to grow pot in a clearing in the woods: fuckin liars
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Houseplants: “man I really don’t vibe with this dirt”
*dies*
Wildplants: “what dirt?”
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
We kidnapped these plants from their homes and keep them prisoner inside some weird unmoist place where the sun is missing. Wat u expect
Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Speak for yourself
flicker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Seriously. I wish.