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This bait is objectively hilarious in how BS it is.
I got a plant from my father that he found years ago when we moved to a flat. It was in the corner of the bathroom on top of a shelf. It wash shriveled up and completely brown. That kind of fall leaf brown. Mind you, this plant was discovered easily 4 years after we moved in, so it had not gotten water for at least 4 years.
Crazy thing is, that plant was apparently still alive. We do not know how, but it did not die. Maybe it was feeding of the steam from the shower.
It is now part of our family and has had many cuttings made from it.
It’s a crazy plant, it just does not die. I once overwatered it to the point that it’s 15 liter pot was filled to the top of the dirt with water and only when I noticed a “puddle” did I act on it. We have one that is literally just in a jug with water. We also had one where the dirt was full of mold, but that plant was just fine.
I researched that little guy and apparently it’s some kind of Syngonium.
I can’t even grow plants on purpose, I managed to kill one of those mini cactuses that you’re not supposed to water very often. I literally forgot about it and it dried out entirely into a husk. But the plants outside that I don’t even care about? Those things are all growing like weeds and they’re annoying
You need 3 things: Light, water, nutrients.
Light and nutrients are easier, since they don’t require consistency, but it’s the watering that’s a little tricky.
You should have the right soil and pot for that plant and for you I would recommend an automatic watering system. Then just look at it for the first few weeks and dial it in. Succulents also need dry periods, but you can look that stuff up on the web.
Then just check on it every few months/years and you’re good.
Hope this helps.
I feel like weed does not really belong in either. You don’t grow it to be masculine and you don’t really grow it because you like to see it. A niche plant that everyone knows exactly why you’re growing it.
This is some poor bull shit… when did growing anything make anyone fragile?.. get outta here with your bs. Do you just go around trying to start shit?
Why would you make up something like that? Maybe its your own masculinity that is fragile?
When I was young, I got made fun of for wanting to help my mom plant and tend to a garden with basil and tomatoes. It didn’t kill my love for plants but childhood cruelty sticks with you.
I don’t even understand this. I haven’t heard anyone even in the alt-right say growing plants was gay
Well now fosssilesque had said it
It’s this Chinese anti-West propaganda? I wonder if it works on Chinese people since it clearly doesn’t work here
Very interesting and astute observation. But yeah, the attitude and tone is opaque here
If growing only cool plants is insecure then I want to be the most insecure man on earth. Except for weed, that’s just ugly looking grass.
I grow whichever plants I want, which includes hot peppers, yes.
But also zucchini and rhubarb and strawberries and cherry tomatoes and…
tell me about rhubarb. I don’t have any experience with it, eating or growing.
It has a large inedible leaf. The stalk is what you are after. The stalks can get sizable, and grow in a patch. I transplanted a root ball in smaller clumps and got more rhubarb. Easy to grow in good soil and not to much shade. Doesn’t need a huge amount of water, but dry growing conditions will create smaller more bitter stalks.
Most times I see rhubarb in food it has been cooked to a mash consistency and sweetened. For things like pies, jams, sweet sauces for Ice cream and the like in my experience. I’m sure there are other uses. It’s pretty sour raw IME.
Easy to store long term in the freezer as well. Cut and remove leaf, wash, either dice or leave whole, package then freeze.
so…dessert celery?
Wtf lol? This is completely made up
Who does this ? This looks like ragebait
Maybe it’s the same men that don’t wash their ass cuz that’s gay.
/s maybe
/s maybe
Well done; that gave me a chuckle…
Its not gay if it your own soapy fingers right…right guys…oh fuck maybe I’m gay. No I can’t be, I hate the gays!!!
- some closeted jock probably.
I literally know someone like this…
You avoid growing plants because it’s emasculating.
I avoid growing plants because I’m awful at it and it’s cruel.
We are not the same
Plant growing is gendered now?
All the cishet men I’ve known who have had gardens grew all kinds of stuff, from fruits and vegetables to culinary herbs and flowers.
Maybe I’m in a bubble but damn I feel sorry for the dudes in the OP.
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
Yeah this is weirdly sexist. I only know one person this describes because he’s growing weed (legally) in an apartment so he can’t have a outdoor garden
Hell, I know over a dozen men with gardens and only two even grow peppers. Everyone grows tomatoes, though…
Fresh tomatoes out of your own greenhouse are amazing, that’s why
My old coworker told me he had only ever eaten the transparent slices of flavorlessness fast food restaurants call tomatoes until he moved from the slums to a rural town and had a fresh one. It blew his mind so much he went on to spend 15 years as a chef.
My dad’s been growing tomatoes my whole life so I’ve been spoiled
I grew up somewhat poor, small town with no fast food, post-soviet nation. We had a garden and a greenhouse. I was a teen when I found out how flavourless tomatoes can be. Because we’d always grown our own and didn’t use them as much in the winter when they needed to be bought from the store lol
It’s crazy how different they can be. I have no idea why they even include shitty tomatoes at those places. Awful texture and no taste, what’s the appeal?
Colour and shininess
Psychology
Hornworms and squirrells always wreck my tomatoes:(
I have a raised bed and just hang a loose net around the whole thing so the squirrels can’t get in. Otherwise those little buggers will take one bite out of each tomato and leave the rest for me to clean up.
It’s not immediately clear to me how this deters such pests.
The netting isn’t big enough for squirrels to get through. It’s draped down from the trellising, and pinned down to the ground. There’s no way for the squirrels to get in unless they climb up and over, and they don’t seem to be able to figure that out.
Not sure what to do about the horn worms though.
hornworms are susceptile to parasitoids that target only them, but i dont know if you can even commerically purchase them.
Oh, so there are also trellises of some sort. What else is there? It’s also still it quite clear how this is configured - are these frustra surrounding each plant? Because that sounds like a lot of work for each tomato.
As for hornworms, best we’ve found is a daily sweep with a jar of soapy water for ritual executions.
I’ll just send a picture:
This was before I added the netting. I use tomato clips to hold up the plants:
Then the netting just goes all the way around the outside hanging down from the top, and secured at the bottom with ground clips.
Fucking stink bugs! My plants got a little out of hand this year and I had to pluck stink bugs off them every day. Still 60+ lbs of tomatoes tho
Bro how big is your fuckin’ garden
Also may I have some tomat plz
Too big lol, the rest of my crop is frozen waiting to turn into sauce which is good because we’re out of last years sauce
I get it. I’ll help use up those extra tomatoes for you
Do what my dad does and plant like 40 of em, they can’t eat them all!
Yes, they can.
Well, shit. Greenhouse it is?
I’m debating replacing my ugly old shed with one
Sounds like a plan. Until those fuckers learn how to open doors, I guess.
yes. everything is gendered for gender warriors.
i’m cishet and i have a garden and most women i date think it means I’m secretly gay. the cat doesn’t help.
gardening is considered feminine, or for old people. not for younger men who are supposed to be virile and dominant. they should be hunting.
Well it looks like your garden has at least a double function - it filters out women with weird ideas about gender and sexuality 😁
Just grow an unkempt beard and wear overalls.
Sure, but the OP doesn’t say “gender warriors”, it says “Western man”, which includes a whole lot more people than the tiny minority of those bigots.
Sorry that you live in a bubble of bigots, but it is not a general or universal experience.
Weird. Have they seen how much you can provide from a garden?
Also, having a garden doesn’t preclude one from hunting… whatever that means in the modern era. You can only eat so much meat.
That’s wild, I’m sorry you gotta deal with that.
Survival skills + demonstrated empathy/care with other living beings are positives for any person. Hopefully you find someone who appreciates that. /gen
Seriously. Who could talk shit on local wildflowers? I’m feeding bees up in this B.
I’m encouraging wild flowers to grow in between my berry bushes.
Nice. I just threw down some plugs and watched em go
Your method is probably easier than stealing berry bushes from the woods and hoping they bring flowers due to birds.
Easier sure, but better? Doubtful
berry bushes
I grow several varieties of peppers from sweet bells to habaneros, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, and mint, plus a few odds and ends that look cool at the garden center. I tend to grow plants that either produce more per dollar to grow than I can get at the store, or in the case of tomatoes, of better quality. And mint is eternal.
I also harvest beautyberries that have sprung up wild on my property, and have recently learned that the big weird thing looming over my wood shop is a black walnut tree, so I think I’m gonna go nuts next summer.
Same, I don’t know any dudes into gardening that care about that shit. One of them does grow peppers, but it’s because he likes peppers, not because he’s worried growing other stuff (which he also does) will make him look like a pussy.
theres whole subs for growing succulents, carnivorous plants, but usually its mostly women in those subs.
I don’t get to choose what to grow. All my plants usually die after a couple of years at most, so whatever happens not to die that’s what I grow.
If you have weed, hot peppers, and carnivorous plants, can I come over?
Normal plants are great too, but clearly you are a person of taste.
Idk after enough very hot peppers their taste buds are probably pretty fried
carnivirous and succulents are pretty finicky in thier care too. depending on the species. echeveria and outside ornamentals are easy, but if your looking at something lithops or a different succulent it might harder.
How to keep a lot of plants at home alive: only buy the Aloe™ plants. I don’t know if it’s even possible to kill the ones I have without straight out drowning them. Forgot to water one of them for half a year and it started blooming instead of dying out. Now it gets watered only when I remember to water it.
