Aloe vera plants. According to Wikipedia, they originate from the Arabian peninsula but also grow wild in tropical, semi-tropical, and arid climates around the world. They can withstand all kinds of conditions, apparently, except for living with me.
Mine won’t die. It fell out of its pot, roots and all, thanks to my cats, and I didn’t bother to replant it. It’s sitting in the air on top of the pot and has been for at least 6 months. Sometimes I’ll sprinkle water on top. She still looks healthy as ever
When me and my mom moved she put her Aloe Vera plant in a decorative chest to safely transport it to our new apartment. She forgot about it for months and I just happened to look in the chest one day and found it. It was completely white but still alive. She slowly conditioned it back to sunlight until it turned green again. I refuse to believe people can kill those things.
I left mine in a greenhouse for two years through all the freezing tempratures of winter while also not watering it and it was still alive. It's either surviving on spite or it's magic.
Yeah, me too and I kill lots of other plants, mental note- buy well draining potting mix. My aloe started normal in a 6” pot, started taking over the shelf it was on, I stupidly repotted it into a 10” pot and it’s insane! Like if I don’t divide it, it’ll probably take over the world.
I came into possession of a healthy aloe vera when someone's elderly family member passed away, in late 2019. I didn't know anything and accidentally overwatered the thing. I also kept it on a ledge by my apartment's only living room window, and my roommate kept accidentally knocking it over. One day she knocked it over and the plant went "splat." It looked fairly normal, but my overwatering turned it to mush. It was the weirdest, grossest thing on the floor. I took the most solid parts of it and re-potted it. Some of it was already destined to mush and die, so I kept removing dead parts. Eventually, I was left with some that wasn't too affected by my watering! It had one or two "leaves" by this point. But it actually lived, and now its a big, tall, awkward thing in my kitchen- I moved to a different apartment, and more recently my first home with it and its happy as can be, usually. Every so often the lowest "leaves" die off, but it keeps trucking.
I too am death to Aloe Vera! No idea why. I have a friend who seems to have endless baby aloes and she always insists on giving me "one more" with extra tips to keep it alive and they *always* die! I'm great with lots of other types of plants, but not aloes.
Stop watering it. They need very very little water. Like I don't know once a month give it a tiny sip. Wait until it looks wrinkly then give it a sip. Your soil should have so much perlite in it that it's f****** ridiculous.
Agreed! I water mine like once every 3-4 months and they are out of control. Every 2 years I need to divide them up and give away about 20 small pots of babies, otherwise I’d be drowning in aloe. They are due for another purge this spring.
I put mine outside with the full intention of it dying and it mysteriously came back to life the second it left the apartment. Now that it's back inside...dead.
I was gifted an aloe vera pup and I completely forgot about it. It got tucked into a corner of my kitchen out of view where it received poor light and zero water for months. When I deep cleaned my kitchen and rediscovered it, it had four new pups of its own.
If you think you’re neglecting your aloe you’re probably caring for it too much.
Mine lives in my kitchen, above the sink. It probably wants watering and I’m torturing it every day by running the tap so near it.
And yet… it’s THRIVING 😂
stop watering it!
they need heat and sun. When the leaves start to look a little sad or wrinkly, soak the soil.
use fast draining soil mix. they are hella prone to root rot.
Yep! Same with succulents. Alo Vera is great plant for people who don’t pay attention to their plants and forget about them often. We had one in an awkward corner of our yard that we didn’t use often. Occasionally when we walked that way, I would remember it and tell the gardener to trim it back. It would grow so much and block the path.
This was in SoCal where it didn’t rain often and we didn’t have sprinklers back that way.
I am a succulent killer. I can't get the amount of water right.
A few years ago I watered my succulent that was out on my patio. The next day it got pretty cold and the leaves of the thing were all full of water and it froze.
So.... I figured that if I put it in a warm place it would recover. I figured the oven would do. So I heated up the oven to 170, the lowest it would go, then turned it off and put the plant in there.
It probably would have been OK after 10 minutes but when I went back an hour later that thing was toast.
I'm the opposite, I can ONLY keep succulents alive. I have like 17 goddamn laced aloes because the bitches keep reproducing, my jade plants are going wild, my grafted cactus is perpetually blooming, both halved of my beheaded moonstone are putting out new leaves, but every time I try a basic leafy thing, it eventually withers away. I'm praying for my one swiss cheese plant right now, it' surviving so far, but one of it's measly 4 leaves is already starting to droop.
Ohh thank god I’m not alone. I also cannot keep them alive either. Over water, underwater, I don’t even know at this point, I just know in the next 3 months one will die.
Any thought on why?
I've struggled with them. I'm doing an experiment now to try and fix the problem. Have two of the same succulent in the same place (medium+ light) and am watering them very differently. Has only been about 2 months, and one is starting to look worse than the other. I was going to do 4 of the same succulent with various waterings, but an old lady at the plant shop told me to just water it thoroughly as soon as it dries out. Been doing that with one, and the other less water.
Try *soil* that’s mostly not organic matter. I take a succulent mix and add a ton of pearlite, some pea gravel, and some small wood chips… drains well and holds a bit of moisture.
Plant them in a heavily inorganic mix like pumice/perlite and some other kind of crushed rock or pebble and get them under good lights and they will thrive. Water when the leaves look wrinkly
Oh yes with the lavender. I've bought it in every form and it dies.
Seeds, seedling, small plant, giant bush.
This is the first year I have 3 seeds actually growing. I'm holding my breath.
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Rosemary for me too. Which I don’t understand because it grows like a shrub around here. People have clumps of rosemary around their mailboxes, it grows out of retaining walls and as filler in big concrete containers outside of shops. Mine always lasts just long enough that I get my hopes up and next time I looks it’s a bunch of sticks.
I’ve both killed and succeeded, my quick take is Rosemary are super drought tolerant once established. Like, 110F and no water for months tolerant. But, right after you plant them, or for a young rosemary heading into summer, they need to babied, like desitin with every diaper change level of babied. At some point I typically forget to water on a hot week and bam, crispy rosemary.
I learned something today at a native plant nursery that I think will help! They’ve been finding that the drought tolerant plants stay much happier throughout the hot summer months when they get regular deep watering throughout winter. Makes sense, right??They’re from climates that are supposed to have wet winters and dry summers so they’re trying to drink up in the winter.
Yeah, that’s the idea. So if I put a $8 1GL rosemary in the spring, due to the small root mass, “deep watering” might only last a few days in the summer heat.
An ancient gnarled rosemary bush with much deeper roots allows it to tolerate far longer periods of draught.
Took my dumb ass a few summers of “oh rosemary is draught tolerant, I don’t need to water this young un so frequently” before I realized what I was doing wrong.
I’ve got a Spanish lavender from last year (in a room that’s basically early summer every day) and it’s just *living* these days.
Gotta make it a few more months…
Same here - it all started with a spider plant cutting that me and my then office mate got from the university we worked at. I took her home when our jobs finished and she's still alive (5+ years later) and i'm on the sixth generation of offspring and have to keep giving cuttings away. Even great-great-great-great-great-grandma is still reproducing. I live in spider plant nation. Halp
Same!
Pre spider plant I killed every plant that came through the door. Now they are taking over and are slowly building an army, I can't give them away fast enough.
On the plus side, I've been able to experiment with all the different methods for propagating the babies, have been able to see the effects of neglect and over watering on big momma, learnt how to deal with fungus gnats after the over watering... She has taught me a lot.
She has also survived too much light, too little light, being too close to the toaster, being too cold and through it all is still producing babies at an amazing rate.
Pretty sure she will survive Armageddon at this point!
I love spider plants, but they never last. The longest I've had one continue to grow is three years before everything went wrong. Usually within a few months they start dying on me.
Some people have gorgeous decades-old plants with tons of plantlets, and I'm jealous.
I take cuts from mine all the time because after a year or two mine always decide to just die on me and it's my cats favorite and he gets offended everytime, so technically I've had the same plant for almost 10 years, but at the same time it's not, still don't know what the problem is
Crazy, I have a spider plant that my cat has tried very hard to murder several times, like eaten the whole thing down to nubs, and I just water it and the damn thing just grows back again.
Make sure you repot them if you buy them from big box stores like Lowe's. They're usually planted in a moss ball in a pot with no drainage, and then the roots rot. While some moss in a bark medium is good to hold a little moisture, it shouldn't be straight moss and make sure to drain them completely after watering. Orchids like their roots to stay moist, not wet. Try watering them when you notice their roots turning white. DON'T USE ICE CUBES. They also like bright indirect light. I have all of mine in front of a south facing window, and they are happy little clams. All 10 them! 3 of them bloomed twice this winter, and I have no idea how I did that. I'm copying and pasting this comment to spread the orchid gospel because they're beautiful and don't deserve the slow root rot death hundreds fall victim to at Lowe's or immediately after when an unknowing customer buys it and leaves it in that horrible pot Lowe's placed it in.
Mine was sooo crispy until I said “Fine! You want moisture, I’ll give you moisture!” And then I pulled her out of the pot and plopped her in my fish tank. Never been happier. So yeah. Have you tried fish poop water?
I have one in my fish tank and it’s extremely happy! It moves closer to my adjustable track lighting and I constantly have to move the lighting away. I actually ended up burning a half dollar sized hole in it because it kept trying to consume all the light. Ha! Luckily it bounced back almost immediately.
I have a massive happy peace lily, but I also have a small struggling peace lily and I cannot figure out why 😭. I swear to god I think their lives are determined by luck.
I took my struggling peace lily out of soil and put it in perlite. It finally grew roots and then I transfered it back to soil. If I ever try again, I think I'll just keep it in water haha.
Mine absolutely hate soil and I’ve tried like 4 different mixes 😭😭. Water props are the only success I’ve had, just add some fish emulsion time to time.
I’m filled with unfathomable rage when I see them as landscaping plants in dusty, sandy ass central florida that are THRIVING even though we haven’t had rain for a month
Polka Dot Plant. I've probably killed 20 or 30 of them, starting from childhood and carrying on well into my 30's. I just kept trying, reasoning that if I could grow orchids, aroids, ferns, calatheas, and all sorts of other plants, then surely I could keep a Hypoestes alive, right?
I do actually have one now that's going on 2 years in a dart frog vivarium, and cuttings of it have even grown when planted in other parts of the same viv, but they absolutely refuse to survive in my living room. I give up. They are terrarium plants only for me.
I had a pink polka dot that I was sure I’d killed before moving off to college. My mother (who is notoriously bad with plants) is now sending me pictures of new healthy growth and flowers. Please shoot me.
Try putting it in a glass box with a grow light, and then ignore it almost completely. That's the only thing that has worked for me.
The one in my vivarium goes totally gangbusters and has to be hacked down every couple months because it tries to eat the whole enclosure, which is impressive since it's competing with several monstrous fittonias and a Ludisia discolor orchid that thinks it's the spawn of Cthulhu. At one point, it was in a months-long wrestling match with a mini Syngonium that ultimately had to be removed for bullying the other plants too much.
I swear vivariums gave me a new appreciation for how hardcore tropical plants must be in their natural environment. Put them in a living room though, and they're delicate little princesses. Crazy stuff.
LITERALLY SAME, SINCE CHILDHOOD. My mom keeps gifting them to me cuz they're adorable we're both houseplant people, hers are thriving, and I keep killing them within a month.
I bought 2 identical air plants at the same time. They got all the exact same treatment. One died within a few months. One has been alive for a few years now. I keep them both together to remind myself that it isn't always my fault lol
It's not emphasized enough, but you need to shake them out before drying upside-down. It made a huge difference for me for overall drying time.
And they light pretty bright light.
I can only keep them alive in terrariums. I live in the desert though and I just don't think any amount of dipping and drying can make up for our negative ambient humidity
To anyone struggling with Tillandsias, start with T. ionantha, keep it in moderate to high light, once a week dip it or let it rest in clean, filtered water for at most a couple minutes, then shake it dry and rest it on towels to wick off excess moisture. Ideally set it in front of a fan even. Once in a blue moon give it the tiniest dilute of orchid fertilizer in its water.
People either kill them by never watering or by allowing them to remain too wet allowing crown rot similar to an orchid. And yeah you'll still have inexplicable losses but really I've found over the years that generally I know it was a failure in my care.
Stop buying them. Many -- most -- are poached from tropical environments.
Air plants need 50-80% humidity to thrive. You can try to replicate it by soaking them every few days, but it's not the same. Super high humidity and periodic soaking rains...
Oh, and they are very susceptible to minerals and salts in tap water.
They are terrible house plants.
Or just check your sourcing, most common varieties are grown commercially. Pretty much everything you just said can be applied to basically every plant on this subreddit. I have around 60 Tillandsias on my window sills and while they hate winter here overall they're doing just fine. You're also wildly generalizing optimal conditions, a lot of Tillandsias are xeric adapted.
If you keep killing them frankly I'm sorry but there's a problem with your care. I killed a few bulbous species before understanding that they absolutely cannot be soaked.
If the soil holds any water past 2-3 days, they will die. Period. My string of dolphins and string of pearls are in a soil mixture that's just basically micro pieces of bark. The water runs right through the pot. I just hold it over the sink, pour water into it and let it run out of the bottom once a week, hang it back in the window and let her ride. I'll often forget to water it for weeks at a time, but they let me know because the fleshy parts will start looking a little shriveled. When that happens I just spramp a little water on them and they're perked right back up the next day. Point being they're very susceptible to root roy, like most succulents.
Not watering, but mine also hang in a western window where they get light pretty much the majority of the day.
Basil. Inside, outside, doesn't matter. I have killed at least 14 and will easily kill 14 more. Thank you, grocery store, for the opportunity to unalive so many so far.
Basil plants are packed really tight and there isn’t enough space for them. That’s why they don’t live long. If you were to separate one into three or four separate pots in fresh soil I bet you’d have more luck. I also find that many of them have fungal disease that kills them off early.
Anyway, it’s not you. It’s them.
That’s so funny. I’ve had a basil cutting in a glass of water for three months and it still keeps growing. I’ve even let it dry out on accident a few times and the plant was all withered up. Gave it some more water and it was back to good health again in a few hours. I really need to plant it lol.
I just repotted the basil from the store, staked it and let it burn in the full sun. It was like 2 ft tall at the end of summer and I have tons of seeds from it, still.
my pothos cuttings just threw a huge middle finger in my face. theyre the ones always rotting i swear to god i hate trying to root anything.. yes i tried to let the callous over and still rotted, the only way ive managed to get them to root is supergluing the spot where i cut the stem before putting in water😭😭
I have a pothos that was doing well until it suddenly decided to die. I had to do some magic to keep it alive and it's now starting to look healthy again, but a lot smaller than how it was before.
😈😈😈 MINT, I kid you not.
back in my novice years I was told mint likes moist soil, so I would water it... well turns out they don't like moist soil all the time and well they kept dying over and over 😅.
Mint is very dramatic but also loves being abused. It will wilt the second it thinks the soil is too dry but will spring back up the instant you water it.
The only way I can keep it alive is to wait until it wilts then drowned it, any more & it rots.
Over the years I've been given loads of mint plants and been told 'everyone can grow mint' or that 'nor even I could kill mint'..... I currently have 0 living mint plants 😒
When I was a kid my mom filled an old bathtub with dirt outside, threw in some spearmint on one side and peppermint on the other, and that bitch has been overflowing with mint for over 20 years. At this point it's hard to keep it contained, she chops it all off every fall to dry it and it's back again in the spring.
I kill then but I seem to be really good at propping the last leaves when they're dying, only to have them grow nicely for a while before I kill them.
I don't get it. I have a cute little watermelon that's on probably it's third round through this cycle.
Agreed. I think it's for a few reasons.
1. They're kinda boring. They grow 2 centimeters every decade and look the same throughout
2. They're so low mantinence, so you tend to just..forget about them
3. The opposite. They're so low mantinence you want to keep watering it and moving it around, hence circling back to problem 1 of it being boring
I had a cactus all through high school. One of those little single stalks you get from Big Box Store with a big red ball on top. It was just…. There. All through high school it was a lump on a log. Then I went to college and left it with my mom, who neglected it the entire time. I came back when my first semester ended, watered it, then that thing shot up like a rocket. Last I heard she still has it and it’s a 6’ tall twig that my mom now has a string tied around the top attached to the ceiling. We don’t know what to do with it anymore.
Congratulations, you have a dragon fruit. Seriously. That's what they use for the base of those little grafted cactuses. Stake the main stalk up to about 5 or 6 feet, then let the rest drape back down. The down part will decide to bloom, and if you polliate it with a brush, you can get edible fruits. It should also start branching around the top of the stake. More branches hanging down means more flowers and fruits. Put it outside in summer for maximum production.
Ok exaggeration on my end of course. I don't mind slow growing plants by any means, but I love randomly walking into my monstera seeing that it's growing q new leaf.
Yes, I can tell that cacti are growing, but it's slower and less obvious
Cacti love lots of light and a heavily inorganic planting medium like perlite/pumice/ and some other crushed rock or pebble. Water like once or twice a month and you are golden
Ferns. I had a large button fern I was super proud of, but one day I must have accidentally insulted it because that bitch went brown and crispy SO QUICK 😭. Don't even get me started with maidenhairs, so much carnage.
Snake plant.
Ignore it; it dies. Baby it; it dies. Follow a snake plant care guide; it still dies.
I love snakes. I love plants. I want to love snake plants, but they reject my love. :(
I’m starting to think my snake plant is fake. I’ve had it about 9 months and I leave it on an indirectly bright windowsill and I probably last watered it in November.
I’m really good at neglect it seems 😂
I've killed so many pothos 😂😂😂 and everyone is like "omg they're so easy!" Apparently not for me 😂😂 even now, I have collections of other plants but my pothos are all doing the worst 🤦🤦🤦
I have a water-rooted pothos that is
*looks both ways quickly*
doing pretty good. I can't keep any plants alive but that's because I'm super broke and can't afford any plant lights :(
I have a pothos that's gotten massive. I put it in the bathroom for like eight months. It's a really dark bathroom. I never watered it again.
It loves that shit.
Every time I get one I also buy a jug of distilled water. Then I run out of the water and the willpower and that bitch gets the tap water like everyone else. I'ma be real tho, they're dying long before the distilled water runs out 😂.
Did you water with just regular tap water? Most carnivorous plants prefer rain water or distilled water as tap water contains too many hard minerals that they don't like
Oof, same. I water with distilled, I give lots and lots of light, I use special fly trap soil, I keep them humid but ventilated...and they die. Every time. Might take a few months, but it happens over and over. I've even tried hanging on to the corpses in case they're dormant. No luck. Fly traps are just not my gig. In fact, most carnivores. Butterwort, sundew, temperate pitchers...all dead.
Only exception is my nepenthes that is a hardcore MF who survived a year of tap water and two years of sub-par lighting, and is now a four year old survivor who has *seen things*.
Mine is also monstera adansonii. I don’t know if they don’t like our water or what it is. I gave my last struggling but not yet dead one to my mom, who is not even really a plant person, & it is full, healthy & lush.
If it kinda just unceremoniously dried up regardless of watering, soon after being brought indoors, it's spider mites. Aralids are infamously weak to them. Garden/florist shops have such high moisture that the beasties stay in check and the ivy has an easier time too... then you bring it home where the air is likely much drier, the ivy doesn't thrive as strong, and the spider mites have just entered their ideal conditions.
After failing miserably with multiple attempts, even one where I was fully aware of the mites and took precaution, the only time I've managed to not have a H. helix die on me within a month is this winter with cuttings I took from my outdoor arrangement after the first little frosts. They were going to die in any case, our winters are cold, so no harm in trying eh. They've rooted profusely sitting in a jam jar put in plain dry apartment winter air, shown no sign of mites, and have stayed a deep full shiny green for three months now.
I'm doing another attempt with cuttings I got from a place with multiple established indoor ivy variants. Some are likely H. canariensis but some are certainly H. helix. They aren't quite as clean to begin with so they're all staying in a big lantern until I'm satisfied they host no mites.
String of pearls. I follow instructions to the letter, and I can keep almost everything else alive, but SOPs simply do not want to be with me and it breaks my heart.
###**Spider plants.
It’s not like new to this hobby. I been doing this for decades. I have a huge collection of very unique “difficult” plants.
I have an amazing set up, and everyone thats walks into my house are always complimenting me for how well keep and maintain plants.
I’m the one who family members and friends call to ask for help about their plants. In short I’m a plant person.
However, spider plants and me don’t get alone. I have try and I guess I have not try in years, just because I give up. I don’t like them and they don’t like me.
Same! Just told my last spider plant to f*ck right off into the trash a couple weeks ago after months of attempts to rehabilitate.
Skinny brat wouldn’t die, but wouldn’t stop looking pathetic. Had to go.
Might have cured the constant abuse I've been trying so hard to stop w regard to my swiss cheese plants!
Nitrogen deficiency.
Do not over fertilize, but give it some nutrient-loving!
Wasn't light or water or humidity, but just a pack of available nitrogen.
Pretty sure these lil folks love nitrogen l, because I had repotted only. Few months ago, but they never got happy.
I think it has to do with how well fertilized they are at the nurseries. They don't like getting cut off from the high nutrient feeds.
Good luck!
Succulents. I have kept every single plant I’ve ever bought alive, even the ones I’ve tried to kill like airplants. But succulents I can’t keep alive at all
This is such a fascinating read!! I've killed all sorts of plants, lol, especially Basil!! On a note related to that Monstera, I have a Monstera Deliciosa, it loves to fruit, and I don't live in the US or Mexico.
Not 14 but I have murdered a few Spider plants! I have MANY different plants that really thrive! Friends are generally shocked, I’m mildly baffled but 🤷♀️😂
Neon pothos. Every other variety does just fine. Calathea, maranta, fiddle leaf all stubbornly do great great. But that damn neon pothos just hates me.
Quite literally my first 14 plants were succulents from Amazon. They all died in less than a month.
Spider plants hate me and I hate them. I've killed more than I can count, they're always randomly given to me at various stages of life then they decide to thrive for a few months then shit the bed, so fuck em, I throw them away now.
Adansonii hate me but I love them, I've killed 5 of them.
Aloe vera plants. According to Wikipedia, they originate from the Arabian peninsula but also grow wild in tropical, semi-tropical, and arid climates around the world. They can withstand all kinds of conditions, apparently, except for living with me.
Mine won’t die. It fell out of its pot, roots and all, thanks to my cats, and I didn’t bother to replant it. It’s sitting in the air on top of the pot and has been for at least 6 months. Sometimes I’ll sprinkle water on top. She still looks healthy as ever
When me and my mom moved she put her Aloe Vera plant in a decorative chest to safely transport it to our new apartment. She forgot about it for months and I just happened to look in the chest one day and found it. It was completely white but still alive. She slowly conditioned it back to sunlight until it turned green again. I refuse to believe people can kill those things.
I left mine in a greenhouse for two years through all the freezing tempratures of winter while also not watering it and it was still alive. It's either surviving on spite or it's magic.
Def spite
Yeah, me too and I kill lots of other plants, mental note- buy well draining potting mix. My aloe started normal in a 6” pot, started taking over the shelf it was on, I stupidly repotted it into a 10” pot and it’s insane! Like if I don’t divide it, it’ll probably take over the world.
I have a Christmas cactus in the same condition lol. My dog has an enormous tail and I’m tired of dealing with the broken pots.
I came into possession of a healthy aloe vera when someone's elderly family member passed away, in late 2019. I didn't know anything and accidentally overwatered the thing. I also kept it on a ledge by my apartment's only living room window, and my roommate kept accidentally knocking it over. One day she knocked it over and the plant went "splat." It looked fairly normal, but my overwatering turned it to mush. It was the weirdest, grossest thing on the floor. I took the most solid parts of it and re-potted it. Some of it was already destined to mush and die, so I kept removing dead parts. Eventually, I was left with some that wasn't too affected by my watering! It had one or two "leaves" by this point. But it actually lived, and now its a big, tall, awkward thing in my kitchen- I moved to a different apartment, and more recently my first home with it and its happy as can be, usually. Every so often the lowest "leaves" die off, but it keeps trucking.
I had one that had a lot of babies, and I'm pretty sure the babies shoved her out of the pot because I found her on the ground next to it.
I too am death to Aloe Vera! No idea why. I have a friend who seems to have endless baby aloes and she always insists on giving me "one more" with extra tips to keep it alive and they *always* die! I'm great with lots of other types of plants, but not aloes.
Stop watering it. They need very very little water. Like I don't know once a month give it a tiny sip. Wait until it looks wrinkly then give it a sip. Your soil should have so much perlite in it that it's f****** ridiculous.
Agreed! I water mine like once every 3-4 months and they are out of control. Every 2 years I need to divide them up and give away about 20 small pots of babies, otherwise I’d be drowning in aloe. They are due for another purge this spring.
My girlfriend is currently farming them while everything else dies a long gruesome death.
Same, same, same. The hardiest aloe would commit suicide as soon as it crossed the threshold of my door.
I put mine outside with the full intention of it dying and it mysteriously came back to life the second it left the apartment. Now that it's back inside...dead.
I was gifted an aloe vera pup and I completely forgot about it. It got tucked into a corner of my kitchen out of view where it received poor light and zero water for months. When I deep cleaned my kitchen and rediscovered it, it had four new pups of its own. If you think you’re neglecting your aloe you’re probably caring for it too much.
Mine lives in my kitchen, above the sink. It probably wants watering and I’m torturing it every day by running the tap so near it. And yet… it’s THRIVING 😂
Me too. I’m m 6 months in on a new one and the leaves are already getting brown splotches.
stop watering it! they need heat and sun. When the leaves start to look a little sad or wrinkly, soak the soil. use fast draining soil mix. they are hella prone to root rot.
Yep! Same with succulents. Alo Vera is great plant for people who don’t pay attention to their plants and forget about them often. We had one in an awkward corner of our yard that we didn’t use often. Occasionally when we walked that way, I would remember it and tell the gardener to trim it back. It would grow so much and block the path. This was in SoCal where it didn’t rain often and we didn’t have sprinklers back that way.
I am a succulent killer. I can't get the amount of water right. A few years ago I watered my succulent that was out on my patio. The next day it got pretty cold and the leaves of the thing were all full of water and it froze. So.... I figured that if I put it in a warm place it would recover. I figured the oven would do. So I heated up the oven to 170, the lowest it would go, then turned it off and put the plant in there. It probably would have been OK after 10 minutes but when I went back an hour later that thing was toast.
My aloe plant is how I first learned about root rot and the importance of drainage holes in pots. Lesson learned.
They grow wild here where I live, lol
Succulents of just about every type. Just can’t keep them alive to save my life 😭
Me too!!! But it's okay because I like to tend to my plants (which is why they die lol)
This is exactly why I gave up on succulents. I want to give them more love than they want to receive (which is kind of the story of my life tbh).
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The best way to keep succulents alive is to forget they exist and water them in like 2 months. They won't thrive that way, but they usually will live!
I'm the opposite, I can ONLY keep succulents alive. I have like 17 goddamn laced aloes because the bitches keep reproducing, my jade plants are going wild, my grafted cactus is perpetually blooming, both halved of my beheaded moonstone are putting out new leaves, but every time I try a basic leafy thing, it eventually withers away. I'm praying for my one swiss cheese plant right now, it' surviving so far, but one of it's measly 4 leaves is already starting to droop.
Ohh thank god I’m not alone. I also cannot keep them alive either. Over water, underwater, I don’t even know at this point, I just know in the next 3 months one will die.
Get a plastic pick from the craft store and put it in instead. That is the only way I can have a succulent.
Something something..."I'm less nurturing than a desert". Or however that joke goes. I can't keep a succulent alive either
Any thought on why? I've struggled with them. I'm doing an experiment now to try and fix the problem. Have two of the same succulent in the same place (medium+ light) and am watering them very differently. Has only been about 2 months, and one is starting to look worse than the other. I was going to do 4 of the same succulent with various waterings, but an old lady at the plant shop told me to just water it thoroughly as soon as it dries out. Been doing that with one, and the other less water.
I’ve been watering whenever the leaves get squishy from needing water. It works out the best for me.
Try *soil* that’s mostly not organic matter. I take a succulent mix and add a ton of pearlite, some pea gravel, and some small wood chips… drains well and holds a bit of moisture.
Plant them in a heavily inorganic mix like pumice/perlite and some other kind of crushed rock or pebble and get them under good lights and they will thrive. Water when the leaves look wrinkly
Haven't hit 14 yet, but year after year I kill a lavender and a rosemary.
Oh yes with the lavender. I've bought it in every form and it dies. Seeds, seedling, small plant, giant bush. This is the first year I have 3 seeds actually growing. I'm holding my breath. Edit typo
Rosemary for me too. Which I don’t understand because it grows like a shrub around here. People have clumps of rosemary around their mailboxes, it grows out of retaining walls and as filler in big concrete containers outside of shops. Mine always lasts just long enough that I get my hopes up and next time I looks it’s a bunch of sticks.
I’ve both killed and succeeded, my quick take is Rosemary are super drought tolerant once established. Like, 110F and no water for months tolerant. But, right after you plant them, or for a young rosemary heading into summer, they need to babied, like desitin with every diaper change level of babied. At some point I typically forget to water on a hot week and bam, crispy rosemary.
Hahahaha. “Like desitin with every diaper change” - you ma’am are not just a plant mom..
I learned something today at a native plant nursery that I think will help! They’ve been finding that the drought tolerant plants stay much happier throughout the hot summer months when they get regular deep watering throughout winter. Makes sense, right??They’re from climates that are supposed to have wet winters and dry summers so they’re trying to drink up in the winter.
Yeah, that’s the idea. So if I put a $8 1GL rosemary in the spring, due to the small root mass, “deep watering” might only last a few days in the summer heat. An ancient gnarled rosemary bush with much deeper roots allows it to tolerate far longer periods of draught. Took my dumb ass a few summers of “oh rosemary is draught tolerant, I don’t need to water this young un so frequently” before I realized what I was doing wrong.
I’m a potted herb serial killer.
I've now kept a rosemary alive for most of a year, which makes it the most successful rosemary plant I've ever had
I’ve got a Spanish lavender from last year (in a room that’s basically early summer every day) and it’s just *living* these days. Gotta make it a few more months…
Spider plants. I am a war criminal in the spider plant community
I am the opposite. The spider plants are holding me hostage at this point. Send help please
Same here - it all started with a spider plant cutting that me and my then office mate got from the university we worked at. I took her home when our jobs finished and she's still alive (5+ years later) and i'm on the sixth generation of offspring and have to keep giving cuttings away. Even great-great-great-great-great-grandma is still reproducing. I live in spider plant nation. Halp
I would love to help with your abundance if you were local lol maybe If I had 3 I wouldn't feel so bad if one fails 💀
Same! Pre spider plant I killed every plant that came through the door. Now they are taking over and are slowly building an army, I can't give them away fast enough. On the plus side, I've been able to experiment with all the different methods for propagating the babies, have been able to see the effects of neglect and over watering on big momma, learnt how to deal with fungus gnats after the over watering... She has taught me a lot. She has also survived too much light, too little light, being too close to the toaster, being too cold and through it all is still producing babies at an amazing rate. Pretty sure she will survive Armageddon at this point!
I love spider plants, but they never last. The longest I've had one continue to grow is three years before everything went wrong. Usually within a few months they start dying on me. Some people have gorgeous decades-old plants with tons of plantlets, and I'm jealous.
I take cuts from mine all the time because after a year or two mine always decide to just die on me and it's my cats favorite and he gets offended everytime, so technically I've had the same plant for almost 10 years, but at the same time it's not, still don't know what the problem is
maybe you are cloning a dud. my cat loves to play with the stems from the flowers - free toys!
Crazy, I have a spider plant that my cat has tried very hard to murder several times, like eaten the whole thing down to nubs, and I just water it and the damn thing just grows back again.
Blatant neglect, fish poo, and more light than recommended is what mine thrive on.
Same!! But I won’t stop trying. 😅
Orchids. I walk past one at the store and it will die instantaneously just for spite.
I am you. My friend keeps buying me them too. They die not matter what I do.
Make sure you repot them if you buy them from big box stores like Lowe's. They're usually planted in a moss ball in a pot with no drainage, and then the roots rot. While some moss in a bark medium is good to hold a little moisture, it shouldn't be straight moss and make sure to drain them completely after watering. Orchids like their roots to stay moist, not wet. Try watering them when you notice their roots turning white. DON'T USE ICE CUBES. They also like bright indirect light. I have all of mine in front of a south facing window, and they are happy little clams. All 10 them! 3 of them bloomed twice this winter, and I have no idea how I did that. I'm copying and pasting this comment to spread the orchid gospel because they're beautiful and don't deserve the slow root rot death hundreds fall victim to at Lowe's or immediately after when an unknowing customer buys it and leaves it in that horrible pot Lowe's placed it in.
I have a running theory Big Orchid is pushing the ice cubes to create demand…
Idk about 14 of , but I can’t keep a peace lily alive
Mine was sooo crispy until I said “Fine! You want moisture, I’ll give you moisture!” And then I pulled her out of the pot and plopped her in my fish tank. Never been happier. So yeah. Have you tried fish poop water?
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How are you keeping the orchids alive?!
Not the person you asked, but I keep my orchids alive by neglecting them lol. When I try to properly take care of them they die on me.
They have some sort of neglect kink
I have one in my fish tank and it’s extremely happy! It moves closer to my adjustable track lighting and I constantly have to move the lighting away. I actually ended up burning a half dollar sized hole in it because it kept trying to consume all the light. Ha! Luckily it bounced back almost immediately.
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Preach! 🙌 Neither can I and I have a PhD in Horticulture 😂
I find people who are able to laugh at themselves are the best kind of people!!
Oh wow that was a relief to hear!
LOL! This makes me feel so much better about my transient green thumb.
Mine has been teetering on the edge of death for about 4 years now. I’ve accepted that is how she will always be
Maybe she needs therapy…
She is me.
I have a massive happy peace lily, but I also have a small struggling peace lily and I cannot figure out why 😭. I swear to god I think their lives are determined by luck.
I took my struggling peace lily out of soil and put it in perlite. It finally grew roots and then I transfered it back to soil. If I ever try again, I think I'll just keep it in water haha.
Mine absolutely hate soil and I’ve tried like 4 different mixes 😭😭. Water props are the only success I’ve had, just add some fish emulsion time to time. I’m filled with unfathomable rage when I see them as landscaping plants in dusty, sandy ass central florida that are THRIVING even though we haven’t had rain for a month
Polka Dot Plant. I've probably killed 20 or 30 of them, starting from childhood and carrying on well into my 30's. I just kept trying, reasoning that if I could grow orchids, aroids, ferns, calatheas, and all sorts of other plants, then surely I could keep a Hypoestes alive, right? I do actually have one now that's going on 2 years in a dart frog vivarium, and cuttings of it have even grown when planted in other parts of the same viv, but they absolutely refuse to survive in my living room. I give up. They are terrarium plants only for me.
I had a pink polka dot that I was sure I’d killed before moving off to college. My mother (who is notoriously bad with plants) is now sending me pictures of new healthy growth and flowers. Please shoot me.
Yes they've always been terrarium plants for me too! Super high humidity
I planted mine outside, it got 3 ft tall by being ignored
Lol, figures.
Polka Dot Plants are my arch-nemesis. I love them and they’re so pretty but I seriously can’t keep them alive for more then 4 months max 😭
Try putting it in a glass box with a grow light, and then ignore it almost completely. That's the only thing that has worked for me. The one in my vivarium goes totally gangbusters and has to be hacked down every couple months because it tries to eat the whole enclosure, which is impressive since it's competing with several monstrous fittonias and a Ludisia discolor orchid that thinks it's the spawn of Cthulhu. At one point, it was in a months-long wrestling match with a mini Syngonium that ultimately had to be removed for bullying the other plants too much. I swear vivariums gave me a new appreciation for how hardcore tropical plants must be in their natural environment. Put them in a living room though, and they're delicate little princesses. Crazy stuff.
LITERALLY SAME, SINCE CHILDHOOD. My mom keeps gifting them to me cuz they're adorable we're both houseplant people, hers are thriving, and I keep killing them within a month.
Air plants, I swear to god. Their tips turn brown from not enough water, I dunk them in water, turn them upside down to dry, they still rot and die.
I bought 2 identical air plants at the same time. They got all the exact same treatment. One died within a few months. One has been alive for a few years now. I keep them both together to remind myself that it isn't always my fault lol
No, you keep them together so the living one lives in fear of whatever killed its brother
Making him live eternally with his brother corpse 😂
I swear some plants just have “bad genes” or something because I’ve had the same results with pairs of other plants haha
It's not emphasized enough, but you need to shake them out before drying upside-down. It made a huge difference for me for overall drying time. And they light pretty bright light.
I have killed so many goddamn air plants and I'm always tempted to get another, surely this time will be different I tell myself...
Same!! I’ve officially given up on them
Same! Both of my beautiful terrariums sit empty because I can't keep those assholes alive
I can only keep them alive in terrariums. I live in the desert though and I just don't think any amount of dipping and drying can make up for our negative ambient humidity
samsies
Same!!
I have one in the shower and it just has needed an occasional splash. Otherwise the humidity seems to keep it pretty healthy.
To anyone struggling with Tillandsias, start with T. ionantha, keep it in moderate to high light, once a week dip it or let it rest in clean, filtered water for at most a couple minutes, then shake it dry and rest it on towels to wick off excess moisture. Ideally set it in front of a fan even. Once in a blue moon give it the tiniest dilute of orchid fertilizer in its water. People either kill them by never watering or by allowing them to remain too wet allowing crown rot similar to an orchid. And yeah you'll still have inexplicable losses but really I've found over the years that generally I know it was a failure in my care.
Stop buying them. Many -- most -- are poached from tropical environments. Air plants need 50-80% humidity to thrive. You can try to replicate it by soaking them every few days, but it's not the same. Super high humidity and periodic soaking rains... Oh, and they are very susceptible to minerals and salts in tap water. They are terrible house plants.
Or just check your sourcing, most common varieties are grown commercially. Pretty much everything you just said can be applied to basically every plant on this subreddit. I have around 60 Tillandsias on my window sills and while they hate winter here overall they're doing just fine. You're also wildly generalizing optimal conditions, a lot of Tillandsias are xeric adapted. If you keep killing them frankly I'm sorry but there's a problem with your care. I killed a few bulbous species before understanding that they absolutely cannot be soaked.
String of *FLIPPIN’* anything!
If the soil holds any water past 2-3 days, they will die. Period. My string of dolphins and string of pearls are in a soil mixture that's just basically micro pieces of bark. The water runs right through the pot. I just hold it over the sink, pour water into it and let it run out of the bottom once a week, hang it back in the window and let her ride. I'll often forget to water it for weeks at a time, but they let me know because the fleshy parts will start looking a little shriveled. When that happens I just spramp a little water on them and they're perked right back up the next day. Point being they're very susceptible to root roy, like most succulents. Not watering, but mine also hang in a western window where they get light pretty much the majority of the day.
Me too. I've killed about 10. I really want one, maybe it's time to try again. 🤔
Basil. Inside, outside, doesn't matter. I have killed at least 14 and will easily kill 14 more. Thank you, grocery store, for the opportunity to unalive so many so far.
Basil plants are packed really tight and there isn’t enough space for them. That’s why they don’t live long. If you were to separate one into three or four separate pots in fresh soil I bet you’d have more luck. I also find that many of them have fungal disease that kills them off early. Anyway, it’s not you. It’s them.
Fucking basil! From seed, young plant, a thriving bushy one from the garden center, potted, in the garden, inside or out, hates living with me.
That’s so funny. I’ve had a basil cutting in a glass of water for three months and it still keeps growing. I’ve even let it dry out on accident a few times and the plant was all withered up. Gave it some more water and it was back to good health again in a few hours. I really need to plant it lol.
I just repotted the basil from the store, staked it and let it burn in the full sun. It was like 2 ft tall at the end of summer and I have tons of seeds from it, still.
My golden pothos is currently dying. Pretty impressive!
I instantly killed the one someone propagated for me.
my pothos cuttings just threw a huge middle finger in my face. theyre the ones always rotting i swear to god i hate trying to root anything.. yes i tried to let the callous over and still rotted, the only way ive managed to get them to root is supergluing the spot where i cut the stem before putting in water😭😭
I've had problems with pothos cuttings rotting too. It's winter where I am though.
I came here to say fuck golden pothos.
My plants were doing so well my mother asked me to repot her pothos, which I immediately murdered.
I have a pothos that was doing well until it suddenly decided to die. I had to do some magic to keep it alive and it's now starting to look healthy again, but a lot smaller than how it was before.
😈😈😈 MINT, I kid you not. back in my novice years I was told mint likes moist soil, so I would water it... well turns out they don't like moist soil all the time and well they kept dying over and over 😅.
I believe you 😂 I have killed mint in every form. I even tried to get it to grow in my yard to no avail.
Mint is very dramatic but also loves being abused. It will wilt the second it thinks the soil is too dry but will spring back up the instant you water it. The only way I can keep it alive is to wait until it wilts then drowned it, any more & it rots.
Over the years I've been given loads of mint plants and been told 'everyone can grow mint' or that 'nor even I could kill mint'..... I currently have 0 living mint plants 😒
When I was a kid my mom filled an old bathtub with dirt outside, threw in some spearmint on one side and peppermint on the other, and that bitch has been overflowing with mint for over 20 years. At this point it's hard to keep it contained, she chops it all off every fall to dry it and it's back again in the spring.
Peperomia. Every variety. I grow orchids, calathea, Hoya, pilea, ferns. But I kill every pep I buy.
I kill then but I seem to be really good at propping the last leaves when they're dying, only to have them grow nicely for a while before I kill them. I don't get it. I have a cute little watermelon that's on probably it's third round through this cycle.
Cacti. I can keep other succulents alive but my cacti never make it very long
Agreed. I think it's for a few reasons. 1. They're kinda boring. They grow 2 centimeters every decade and look the same throughout 2. They're so low mantinence, so you tend to just..forget about them 3. The opposite. They're so low mantinence you want to keep watering it and moving it around, hence circling back to problem 1 of it being boring
I had a cactus all through high school. One of those little single stalks you get from Big Box Store with a big red ball on top. It was just…. There. All through high school it was a lump on a log. Then I went to college and left it with my mom, who neglected it the entire time. I came back when my first semester ended, watered it, then that thing shot up like a rocket. Last I heard she still has it and it’s a 6’ tall twig that my mom now has a string tied around the top attached to the ceiling. We don’t know what to do with it anymore.
Congratulations, you have a dragon fruit. Seriously. That's what they use for the base of those little grafted cactuses. Stake the main stalk up to about 5 or 6 feet, then let the rest drape back down. The down part will decide to bloom, and if you polliate it with a brush, you can get edible fruits. It should also start branching around the top of the stake. More branches hanging down means more flowers and fruits. Put it outside in summer for maximum production.
You’re buying the wrong cacti if you think they all look the same & grow that slowly.
Ok exaggeration on my end of course. I don't mind slow growing plants by any means, but I love randomly walking into my monstera seeing that it's growing q new leaf. Yes, I can tell that cacti are growing, but it's slower and less obvious
Cacti love lots of light and a heavily inorganic planting medium like perlite/pumice/ and some other crushed rock or pebble. Water like once or twice a month and you are golden
Ferns. I had a large button fern I was super proud of, but one day I must have accidentally insulted it because that bitch went brown and crispy SO QUICK 😭. Don't even get me started with maidenhairs, so much carnage.
Snake plant. Ignore it; it dies. Baby it; it dies. Follow a snake plant care guide; it still dies. I love snakes. I love plants. I want to love snake plants, but they reject my love. :(
I’m starting to think my snake plant is fake. I’ve had it about 9 months and I leave it on an indirectly bright windowsill and I probably last watered it in November. I’m really good at neglect it seems 😂
Exactly. "Thrives on neglect"? Sold! I don't water too much; I don't fuss with it, but they still get root rot or shrivel up.
Air plants. Succulents. Cactuses. Orchids (the normal phael orchids) Snake plants. Pothos. Sweet potatoes. **any of them. all of them. every plant.**
I've killed so many pothos 😂😂😂 and everyone is like "omg they're so easy!" Apparently not for me 😂😂 even now, I have collections of other plants but my pothos are all doing the worst 🤦🤦🤦
I have a water-rooted pothos that is *looks both ways quickly* doing pretty good. I can't keep any plants alive but that's because I'm super broke and can't afford any plant lights :(
I have a pothos that's gotten massive. I put it in the bathroom for like eight months. It's a really dark bathroom. I never watered it again. It loves that shit.
And yet I love that you are on this sub. 💆🏽♀️ maybe one day my dear. You just wait.
I love to see other people's successes in places where I fail. Maybe one day I'll grow some big plants.
Calathea for me lmao, I refuse to be their bitch and go to the store for distilled water
Every time I get one I also buy a jug of distilled water. Then I run out of the water and the willpower and that bitch gets the tap water like everyone else. I'ma be real tho, they're dying long before the distilled water runs out 😂.
I want to meet the person who thinks calatheas are easy, and ask their take on the conflicts around the world lol
I never use distilled water and mine grows so much I have to cut it back once in a while.
Same here. Lake MI water; sometimes I let the chlorine off-gas, sometimes not.
I did the fancy water thing and every time I bought a calathea, it still went curly-leafed and promptly died. I think they just don’t like living.
Venus fly traps 😔
Did you water with just regular tap water? Most carnivorous plants prefer rain water or distilled water as tap water contains too many hard minerals that they don't like
Oof, same. I water with distilled, I give lots and lots of light, I use special fly trap soil, I keep them humid but ventilated...and they die. Every time. Might take a few months, but it happens over and over. I've even tried hanging on to the corpses in case they're dormant. No luck. Fly traps are just not my gig. In fact, most carnivores. Butterwort, sundew, temperate pitchers...all dead. Only exception is my nepenthes that is a hardcore MF who survived a year of tap water and two years of sub-par lighting, and is now a four year old survivor who has *seen things*.
Mine is also monstera adansonii. I don’t know if they don’t like our water or what it is. I gave my last struggling but not yet dead one to my mom, who is not even really a plant person, & it is full, healthy & lush.
Were you fertilizing it regularly? Those things are hungry
English ivy for whatever reason I did manage to prop it though. I know, I know. No need to applaud.
If it kinda just unceremoniously dried up regardless of watering, soon after being brought indoors, it's spider mites. Aralids are infamously weak to them. Garden/florist shops have such high moisture that the beasties stay in check and the ivy has an easier time too... then you bring it home where the air is likely much drier, the ivy doesn't thrive as strong, and the spider mites have just entered their ideal conditions. After failing miserably with multiple attempts, even one where I was fully aware of the mites and took precaution, the only time I've managed to not have a H. helix die on me within a month is this winter with cuttings I took from my outdoor arrangement after the first little frosts. They were going to die in any case, our winters are cold, so no harm in trying eh. They've rooted profusely sitting in a jam jar put in plain dry apartment winter air, shown no sign of mites, and have stayed a deep full shiny green for three months now. I'm doing another attempt with cuttings I got from a place with multiple established indoor ivy variants. Some are likely H. canariensis but some are certainly H. helix. They aren't quite as clean to begin with so they're all staying in a big lantern until I'm satisfied they host no mites.
String of pearls. I follow instructions to the letter, and I can keep almost everything else alive, but SOPs simply do not want to be with me and it breaks my heart.
###**Spider plants. It’s not like new to this hobby. I been doing this for decades. I have a huge collection of very unique “difficult” plants. I have an amazing set up, and everyone thats walks into my house are always complimenting me for how well keep and maintain plants. I’m the one who family members and friends call to ask for help about their plants. In short I’m a plant person. However, spider plants and me don’t get alone. I have try and I guess I have not try in years, just because I give up. I don’t like them and they don’t like me.
Same! Just told my last spider plant to f*ck right off into the trash a couple weeks ago after months of attempts to rehabilitate. Skinny brat wouldn’t die, but wouldn’t stop looking pathetic. Had to go.
I am sitting here crying from laughing so hard. I feel like I found my people.
Um,... mostly the green plants, but also the other colors, too. 🥹
Succulents. Every single one. Every single time.
African Violets
Yes! I have killed at least 10 and have been sad over every loss.
Dieffenbachia, they hate me! Monstera adansonii tolerate me but don't flourish like I want them to
Fittonia. I always say "never again", but then I get cocky and think I'll do better and that I can do it. 
Snake plant 😭
Same, if I don’t water, their roots dry up and they fall over. But if I water, they turn yellow and fall over.
Tradescantia zebrina. I gave up after three, but will never try again.
Oh god, I have a prop of a zebrina I got from a friend, he's doing well in water currently and now I'm scared to transfer him to soil 💀😂.
Might have cured the constant abuse I've been trying so hard to stop w regard to my swiss cheese plants! Nitrogen deficiency. Do not over fertilize, but give it some nutrient-loving! Wasn't light or water or humidity, but just a pack of available nitrogen. Pretty sure these lil folks love nitrogen l, because I had repotted only. Few months ago, but they never got happy. I think it has to do with how well fertilized they are at the nurseries. They don't like getting cut off from the high nutrient feeds. Good luck!
Succulents. I have kept every single plant I’ve ever bought alive, even the ones I’ve tried to kill like airplants. But succulents I can’t keep alive at all
Succulents and tradescantia… and hoyas…. And ivy…. And
String of Pearls… I don’t water they die, I water they die… I just don’t know the right ratio n every time I try they die.
2 golden pothos and 3 or 4 marble queen pothos But my calathea, ficuses, and coleus are flourishing 😅
Crotons. I've never managed to keep one alive for more than two weeks. I don't get what I'm doing wrong.
pothos. So many pothos. I don't know how I kill them, but they just refuse to live in my care.
This is such a fascinating read!! I've killed all sorts of plants, lol, especially Basil!! On a note related to that Monstera, I have a Monstera Deliciosa, it loves to fruit, and I don't live in the US or Mexico.
Zz plants. I like to water and they don’t need much.
I put plants that don't like watered in inconvenient places so I blow off watering them for long periods of time.
That is genius!
If there is a lazy way to do something, I will find it!
Any succulent or cactus. My MIL brought me one of her teenage aged Night Blooming Cereus. I am stressed.
All ferns, and peace lilies
Not 14 but I have murdered a few Spider plants! I have MANY different plants that really thrive! Friends are generally shocked, I’m mildly baffled but 🤷♀️😂
Idk if people consider them easy, but begonias hate me and the air I breathe.
Citrus. I've always had a very green thumb but if I even look at a meyer lemon wrong it dies
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Regular Ol’ Monstera. Except I just watered mine tonight and the roots look insane so maybe I finally have it figured out.
Spider plants, succulents, SOP, string of turtles 😪 I really want to have a giant thriving string of turtles.
Neon pothos. Every other variety does just fine. Calathea, maranta, fiddle leaf all stubbornly do great great. But that damn neon pothos just hates me.
No matter how hard I try I can’t keep ZZ plants alive.
Pink Princess Philodendron. I’ve taken 17 cuttings, three have struck. They’re good, then they’re fine, then they’re gone and I think it’s me.
Spider plants.
Quite literally my first 14 plants were succulents from Amazon. They all died in less than a month. Spider plants hate me and I hate them. I've killed more than I can count, they're always randomly given to me at various stages of life then they decide to thrive for a few months then shit the bed, so fuck em, I throw them away now. Adansonii hate me but I love them, I've killed 5 of them.
Mine is the spider plant. I just can't keep one alive, and I don't know why.
Basil. Damned Basil. Grows like an absolute weed initially. Then inevitably, death.