Are you a plant person?

I am not a plant person. I've had horrible luck with house plants. Once I was given a cactus, because "you can't kill a cactus". Yeah, right. 😡 Last year I got a plant, but it turned out it was filled with gnats- I had to toss it out. I now actually have a plant that didn't die on me.:D maybe the plant curse is broken.:unsure:
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outlander said:
You guys can laugh at me, but I believe plants have some kind of consciousness. No, you can't have a conversation with them, but they are alive and I can feel it emotionally and mentally:)
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I believe plants have some type of consciousness. In a university study done on plant sensitivity they divided a bunch of plants into 2 separate rooms with 2 different types of music. In one room they had loud heavy mental music playing. In this room the plants grew away from the speakers and did not thrive. In the other room they had classical music played at a moderate level and the plants grew towards the speakers and thrived.
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
I believe plants have some type of consciousness. In a university study done on plant sensitivity they divided a bunch of plants into 2 separate rooms with 2 different types of music. In one room they had loud heavy mental music p playing. In this room the plants grew away from the speakers and did not thrive. In the other room they had classical music played at a moderate level and the plants grew towards the speakers and thrived.
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I listen to classic rock music and I guess some plants get exposed to it. But it isn't "mental" so no harm done :ROFLMAO:
 

At my old place we had a lovely back garden and grew many Inpatients of every colour. One morning I came outside and was shocked to see most of them had collapsed on to the ground. On further inspection I found the biggest and fattest caterpillars
under the leaves gorging themselves. Had to pull them all out.
Another time I had an old fish tank and decided to plant African Violets in it with a grow light. They thrived for many months until I noticed white mealy bugs had sucked the sap out of them and eventually, they died.
 
bowmore said:
We live in an apartment with a balcony. We have 3 succulents- 2 fire pencils and an aloe. We have a plumeria and a dahlia I transplanted into a pot from our old home.
I am trying to get a gardenia to grow, but I found out I had it in the wrong place in the sun.
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I am thinking of getting a gardenia, but I'm afraid it might not thrive. I read somewhere that it requires acidic soil.
 
Yea, keen gardener here too, plus houseplant's keeper - always had lots inside and I remember yonks ago when we went away for a 10-14days, I used to ask dad to call round to water my 43 plants. Every plant had how much or how little that water was to be.

Years roll on and here being just a 2bed bungalow, not a lot of room. My sum total now is 5! 2 easy peasy splider plants, maidenhair fern, Xmas cactus and basil.
One spider plant ('her ladyship') is so full of long plantlets, a couple of years ago I got out an old room uplighter floor lamp which I was thinking about chucking out, and now use it to house 'her ladyship' :cool:
 
I grew my first garden, as an experiment & adjunct to household food, in 1971. I live rurally, and that pursuit has expanded since then as a basic part of my lifestyle. I do nurture the occasional houseplant.

And DW cultivates the flowers & perennial foliar decoratives. She also grows the tomatoes & cucumbers in our small greenhouse. We trade food surpluses with friends who live similarly, as everyone around here is independent-mindedly raising food with their chosen emphases, in their own micro-climate.
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
I believe plants have some type of consciousness. In a university study done on plant sensitivity they divided a bunch of plants into 2 separate rooms with 2 different types of music. In one room they had loud heavy mental music playing. In this room the plants grew away from the speakers and did not thrive. In the other room they had classical music played at a moderate level and the plants grew towards the speakers and thrived.
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I have this image of my plant with earphones on and smoking a '"dooby", and grooving to Beethoven.
 
For decades have had only one plant in my residence, moss growing on a limestone rock. The only one that might survive frequent long absences with little watering while am on the road.

Otherwise, as several decades outdoor landscape and nature photography enthusiast, am a modest student of botany plant science that even uses scientific names of native plants. And that includes the fascinating world of plant cellular science. Both wildflowers and trees are favorite subjects.

Sony a6700 30mm lens focus stack 22 shot blend image of 6150 by 4100 pixels, below downsized for web, from last week's 6-day backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada, a seep stream jungle of towering larkspur, delphinium glaucum, Sierra tiger lily, lilium parvum, Lewis's monkeyflower, mimulus lewisii, swamp onion, alium validum, and arrowhead senecio, senico triangularis, with lodgepole pine, pinus contorta, in the background.

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I use to toss poinsettia plants after the holidays. But one year I just kept one growing in the house. It makes the nicest house plant, shaped well, with green leaves growing on red stems. I don’t make any effort to get it to bloom again. Happy to have it as an indoor foliage plant.

With amaryllis bulbs I plant them outside when the bloom fades and it can take its chances. Or not.
 

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