Taken in by the potted plant scam!

[GP44]

It seemed like her old Christmas cactus keeps taking up more space on the corner of the counter next to the fridge.
You know that precious space where you can prepare things from the fridge to eat.
So I said I think your plant is getting bigger and taking up more space.
She said that’s impossible because it’s a potted plant.
I asked “what does that mean after all it hangs out of the top of the pot in all directions?”
She said “well it got bigger so I had to give it a bigger pot but it’s not my fault because you and Brian gave it to me.”
Brian is our oldest son and that plant has been there for years.
I said “ well it just seems to be getting bigger and taking up more counter space and I’m going to have nightmares about a potted plant that creeps up on me while I’m sleeping.”
Just a warning to you guys who are thinking about giving your wife a potted plant remember that a plant has rights that last a lifetime.

 

[hollydolly]

It seemed like her old Christmas cactus keeps taking up more space on the corner of the counter next to the fridge.
You know that precious space where you can prepare things from the fridge to eat.
So I said I think your plant is getting bigger and taking up more space.
She said that’s impossible because it’s a potted plant.
I asked “what does that mean after all it hangs out of the top of the pot in all directions?”
She said “well it got bigger so I had to give it a bigger pot but it’s not my fault because you and Brian gave it to me.”
Brian is our oldest son and that plant has been there for years.
I said “ well it just seems to be getting bigger and taking up more counter space and I’m going to have nightmares about a potted plant that creeps up on me while I’m sleeping.”
Just a warning to you guys who are thinking about giving your wife a potted plant remember that a plant has rights that last a lifetime.

in 2021 just after my husband left... I took a cutting from a money plant that I had to make another plant... the mother plant died.. but the baby has grown now to be 3 feet tall, I've had to repot it twice in 4 years....... and that lives in the kitchen as well

 

[katlupe]

It seemed like her old Christmas cactus keeps taking up more space on the corner of the counter next to the fridge.
You know that precious space where you can prepare things from the fridge to eat.
So I said I think your plant is getting bigger and taking up more space.
She said that’s impossible because it’s a potted plant.
I asked “what does that mean after all it hangs out of the top of the pot in all directions?”
She said “well it got bigger so I had to give it a bigger pot but it’s not my fault because you and Brian gave it to me.”
Brian is our oldest son and that plant has been there for years.
I said “ well it just seems to be getting bigger and taking up more counter space and I’m going to have nightmares about a potted plant that creeps up on me while I’m sleeping.”
Just a warning to you guys who are thinking about giving your wife a potted plant remember that a plant has rights that last a lifetime.

I have a plant that belonged to my father. He grew it for my mother and kept it after she died in 2000. I took it from his house when he died in 2012. I started another plant from a leaf on it and they are both doing well right next to my computer. I don't have the heart to get rid of them.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

When my wife was in the last stages of her final illness some years ago, a friend of hers gave her a Christmas cactus. It bloomed that year. I still have it, and it's a beautiful plant that has tripled in size, but it has never bloomed again.

 

[Lilac]

I have a Thanksgiving cactus a friend gave me & a Christmas cactus that had been my MILs, both for around for about 5 years. I sit them outside on my front porch in the summer & they start to grow like wildfire. Last year was the first time I repotted them in an 8" pot. Before I bring them in, I snap off the excess growth so they are able to fit back on their winter shelf. The Thanksgiving cactus started to bloom in mid-November & I'm starting to see blooms on the other one.

Like you @katlupe, I don't have the heart to get rid of two pink geraniums (husband calls them weeds) to winter over for a second time in the same room that bloom for me.

 

[IrishEyes]

I can kill a house plant, even a cactus in a pretty short time.
Family knows it's best not to go that route.

 

[Lilac]

@MACKTEXAS , I keep mine when I bring them back inside to a window that gets bright indirect light. For me it's on the east side of the house where the little magnolia tree when it looses it leaves lets the light in. I also give them some Miracle-grow succulent liquid food. Last year I replanted them with a cactus soil mix & they bloomed better for me. The soil doesn't have to be an expensive one.

 

[Pinky]

I can kill a house plant, even a cactus in a pretty short time.
Family knows it's best not to go that route.

I knew I had a twin out there, somewhere.

 

[Repondering]

I've been keeping a Pepperomia species going through successive cuttings ever since March of 2019.
I got the original cutting then at a houseplant workshop during Master Gardener spring training.
My mother had only recently died and I was a bit unsettled as I was anticipating the estate settlement.
All went well but I'm very sentimentally attached to the plant and committed to keeping it thriving.....
There are now four of them......genetically identical and propogated by cuttings.
This March the MG spring training has another houseplant workshop and we're encouraged to bring one of our own.
So of course I'll bring one of my Pepperomias........seven years after acquiring the first one.