<p alt=“three bins of plants for sale. Plants you’ll kill in; one week $8, 3 weeks $15, two months $25”></p>

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    1 year ago

    I feel like the prices should be inverted. The more expensive ones tend to line up with the drama queen plants

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      1 year ago

      Yeah they’re more expensive because the sellers had just as hard a time getting them to live as you are lol. The cheap ones are cheap because they’re effortless to maintain

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My wife bought fresh basil from Instacart and they delivered live basil instead. It’s essentially a tiny basil plant equivalent to a pack of fresh basil. Well, she refused to eat this $4 herb and instead decided to let it live. It is now about to get repotted for a third time. This thing is massive with pretty little white flowers and thick branches. If you touch it, it releases a wonderful smell that fills the room. She named it Basil (bah-zill) the basil

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      1 year ago

      That is very wholesome. Are you using some of its leaves for cooking, or are you just keeping it be and letting it grow like a regular houseplant?

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    1 year ago

    Wow maybe I’m just in a mood, but I read “plants that will kill you in _ weeks” and thought this was really dark shit

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    1 year ago

    Heh, I tend to buy the plants on the discount rack that look half dead, and then make them look happy again. This hydrangea was all dead and brown when I bought it for $10 last summer. Now it has more flowers than leaves…

    https://imgur.com/a/udeAzh2

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      1 year ago

      Aw thats cool as hell! You’re the plant doctor who picks them up and takes them to the plant nursing home ☺️

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    1 year ago

    My greatest success has been with small cacti. It feels impossible to kill them and I’ve even had them flower!

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    1 year ago

    We went into a plant shop. We bought two plants, one for $15, and one for $65. Guess which one is still alive🤣