here's my obligatory "i swear i'm not dead yet!!!" post for 2024! i'll finally be DONE FOREVER with college this june, which means i can go back to my hobbies again (sims included).
last time i made something was last september (yikes). i'm probably very rusty but i've also learned a lot of cool stuff in blender these past few months which i hope i can use in my future creations :-)
as for my plants........ well lol. all i have left are:
Aloe Vera
Maranta Leuconeura
Philodendron Pink Princess (the only one from my first batch of plants that survived lol)
Philodendron Pink Princess Marble (lots of pink! i like it better than the regular ppp since the variegation is very stable and all leaves got pink in them)
Pothos Marble Queen (this one got huge!)
Pothos N'joy
on the bright side they are all doing great since i've finally found the secret to keeping plants alive: ignoring them as much as possible lol. now i see i killed most of my plats by overwatering and over fertilizing. and as much as i love them i'm also staying away from delicate plants like calatheas bc my city's weather is just not good for them.
here's a list of all the plants i killed in 2022-2023:
Stromanthe Sanguinea Triostar (this one HURT SO MUCH omg)
Stromanthe Sanguinea
Philodendron Pink Princess 2.0
Calathea White Fusion
Tradescantia Fluminensis Tricolor
Aglaonema China Red
Calathea Ornata
that's all lol... see u soon! <3
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lets gooooo, plant count 2023 - these are all the plants i currently have alive, propogating, or dead/dying. plant care isnt always easy and there sometimes are casualties but you bounce back! sometimes that plant just isnt meant for your home/lifestyle and that is okay! find another one! they can die and the sun still will rise and you'll try again.
Alive:
string of bananas
string of hearts x2
string of heart variegated
string of pearls
string of arrows
string of watermelons x2
string of turtles
burros tail
Callisia repens Gold (Turtle Vine)
Tradescantia mundula ‘Tricolor’? (it was a cutting and it looks a lot more pink than most tricolors i see sooo ??? maybe another variant)
neon pothos x3 (one on moss pole)
zz plant x2
small snake plant variety?
Tradescantia zebrina
random cutting from floor of home depot ?? that i potted up
Red Prayer Plant
pink princess philodendron
white wizard philodendron
schflerra varigated x2
Aglaonema siam x2
Aglaonema ‘Lady Valentine’
monstera adasonaii (on a moss pole)
plain green pothos x2 (one on a moss pole)
polka dot plant 3 color varieties (pink,red,white)
philodendron brazil
Propagating:
Tradescantia 'Callisia repens'
Callisia repens Gold (Turtle Vine)
Tradescantia albiflora-
Tradescantia zebrina
burros tail
string of pearls variegated
red polka dot
white polka dot
monstera adasonaii
philodendron brazil
silver stripe philodendron
cream splash philodendron
monstera siltepecana
mystery node~
Dead/dying: :(
ficus tineke - dying, forgot about it lmao and its thirsty
monstera adasonaii - dying, repotted too close to winter lmao
fittonia pink angel - casualty of ransomware week
fittonia pink anne - died of ?? bad seller tbh
basil - casualty of ransomware week
tradescantia abiflora - casualty of bad soil
tradescantia zebrina - casualty of bad soil
philodendron brazil - casualty of bad soil
peppermint - casualty of thirst
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Tell us about the florist!
Oh right the racist florist.
I had to go to the DMV recently to get new ID to prove I'm a Real Human Person so I would be allowed to vote in elections in a place I've lived OVER A YEAR NOW.
So I'm stuck there with me and the GF (who has to accompany me for medical reasons) wearing our respirators and no other masks in the building, settling in for 3 hours of bureaucracy that has no right to exist.
And the woman two rows behind us is a florist.
We know this because she is at this point only speaking loudly enough to dominate the entire wait area (approximately 50 seats, half full). She has not, as of this moment in our tale begun screaming.
She will, but not yet.
She is complaining loudly about her least favourite ever customer, who appeared in her shop once an indeterminate number of weeks or months ago.
So, I'm already mostly panicking because I'm an immune compromised POC wearing a mask in a building with 30 open faced mayo sandwiches.
And I start processing the story I'm hearing.
"Yeah, I work at a garden center and some of these customers!!"
And I'm internally SO relieved because the screaming white woman (which is of course the equivalent to kill bill sirens after decades of living as their punching bag) is not a threat!!
She's just a tired, angry retail worker frustrated with her customers!! What a huge weight off my shoulders!!
"She saw one of my plants and just started screaming at me!"
At this point I'm openly sympathetic, sharing commisserating glances with the GF, nodding along about the mistreatment of retail workers.
"It's called the wandering Jew, I didn't name it."
And this is the moment my heart stopped, and I realized I needed to be VERY quiet and VERY small.
So while you're envisioning me slouching deeper into my folding chair, a pair of panicked eyes the only thing left above my coat collar, let's detour.
The genus Tradescantia, much like myself, is from rural appalachia. (Actually, it's a pan american genus, with species native from Canada to Argentina and everywhere between).
It contains a number of popular houseplants, broadly known as creeping inch or spiderwort. Some varieties with especially showy flowers are called "dayflowers" since blooms only last one sunrise to one sunset.
They're astonishingly fast growing, with a popular myth that they grow "an inch a day," though the name "creeping inch" actually refers to the leaves being about an inch apart.
The leaves are the real showstopper, though.
Check out this "Purple Heart" species, Pallida:
Image from University of Wisconsin Madison. A dark purple mound of foliage spills out of a 10 gallon planter.
Or the truly stunning, variegated Zebrina species:
Image by David J. Stang, CC4 BY-SA. As always because tumblr suppresses links, the CC license will be linked in the replies. A several meter wide patch of striped silver and green leaves.
There's a "tricolore" variant of the main Fluminis (no that's a FFXIV dungeon that's not right) species, where the leaves are bright green, pale almost white green, and PASTEL PINK okay. These are GORGEOUS plants that were a prominent part of my childhood.
The term "wandering Jew plant" had already been mostly retired in English by the time I started elementary school, as evidenced by the fact that we GREW THESE IN CLASS EVERY YEAR TO SELL AT THE GREENHOUSE FUNDRAISER. Occasionally a grandparent might ask to buy them at the fundraiser by the Forbidden Name, but teachers just told us they were saying "jute" and not to repeat it.
These are REALLY cool plants. I need you all to understand that.
Because I was too busy hyperventilating to actually say any of this at the time.
The breathing is about to get worse, because this is the point at which several other (white) people started chiming in to agree about how disgusting Woke Culture is.
And the the florist scared the piss out of me, as if I had any piss left.
"Yeah! It's not like she'd ever even seen a Jew! There aren't any in Maine, hahaha!!"
The folks closest to her laughed along. These were not kind laughs. This was not a joke, it was a promise delivered in laughter.
I thought I might have a heart attack. I was actively gauging whether my crippled ass could get past the crowd and to the exit.
One (1) person with a mask had arrived to the DMV at this point and clearly clocked me sitting in the corner trying not to die.
If you're the ambiguously gendered blond with the blue mask at the DMV on October 3, please understand that you prevented a major incident just by standing near the exit, making eye contact, and nodding when you realized what was standing between me and safely leaving.
You're a good fucking ally.
Thank you.
Anyway, in case you forgot, this was at the DMV so I could get ID to vote, so I needed to try and stay if I could. It's an hour trip each way to the DMV, after all.
Fortunately, a few minutes more of this monstrosity, and the racist harpy was called to the counter. She paid her outstanding taxes, and left. Because to racist freaks, that kind of behaviour is acceptable and normal in public spaces.
Eventually, the rest of her coterie were also called, and then me, and then we left and I had a sobbing meltdown in the car.
Also this was the day of the 50 page Dracula email, so I had a LOT happening there.
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anyway in non-yudkowsky bdsm forum rp news i'm still going through and collecting stuff for repotting my plants. kind of late in the season to do it now but w/e that's how it is sometimes. i've been mostly trying to avoid getting new plants but i think overall i've still gotten like. five. mostly the classic houseplant ones, like, i got a calathea and a differently-patterned maranta, another pothos (cebu blue) and some tricolor plants (uh tradescantias, i think? i now have three different 'sizes' and i don't actually know if they're particularly related)
i kinda want to get some of my planters looking properly lush, b/c i usually go with oversized planters for my plants so their roots aren't quite so squashed, but uh, basically any houseplant is gonna have root issues regardless b/c "a small pot all on its own" is not a great situation for a plant to live in. anyway part of that is b/c i would like to have one of those fancy-looking plant setups that's all cascading leaves of a bunch of different sizes and shapes. you know the instagram millenial houseplant look. partially inspired by that but also regrettably partially inspired by tama's dumb dressup/therapy room from AI2. monstera deliciosas are still overrated tho.
anyway i have some mixed planters with peace lily/spider plant/monstera adonsonii/golden pothos and i finally have all the materials necessary to make climbing poles for all the vining plants i have so, you know, hopefully i get some nice decorative mixed planters out of all of that
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Cây thài lài hồng: Màu đáng yêu, bừng sáng không gian ban công
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Cây thài lài hồng là một trong những giống cây cảnh rất thích hợp để trồng giỏ treo. Điểm đặc biệt nhất của giống cây này đó là có lá màu hồng pha lẫn những sọc màu trắng, cực kỳ đặc biệt. Cây có thể trồng trong chậu chưng ban công, sân vườn hoặc đặt trên bàn làm việc. Hình dạng bên ngoài của cây cực kỳ ngọt ngào, thích hợp làm đẹp cho mọi không gian từ nhà ở cho đến nơi làm việc.
Giống cây này có tên khoa học là Tradescantia Fluminensis tricolor. Dạng cây thân thảo, sống lâu ở vùng Trung Mỹ, Nam Mỹ và Mexico. Thài lài hồng có thể trồng được trong giỏ treo, trong chậu, cực kỳ dễ sống.
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Reohio Tradescantia | Green Ozean
Synonyms: Ephemerum bicolor, Tradescantia discolor, Tradescantia versicolor, Rhoeo spathacea, Rhoeo discolor, Spiderwort, Boat Lily. Rhoeo is a common border or edging plant in tropical or subtropical gardens. It's tough and adaptable, suitable for full sun or part shade, across a range of soil types.Rhoeo 'Tricolor' prefers full or partial sun in a moist, well-drained location. Provide afternoon shade or dappled shade in very hot climates. If the soil is sandy or a heavy clay, dig in 3 to 4 inches of compost and well-decomposed manure to a depth of 8 to 12 inches.Once a Moses in the Cradle reaches its maximum size, it'll simply continue replacing its leaves and start making new shoots. This can make the plant leggy, so many people choose to take cuttings and start new plants at that point.
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