“Jack,” said he, walking into the cabin, “what are you at?” “I am trying to get this God-damned plant to stand upright. Do what I may, they keep wilting. I water them before breakfast and again in the last dog-watch, and still they wilt. Upon my word, it is too bad.”

So this post is going to be a bit weird, but, bear with me.

I have these four plants. Seriously, bear with me. And for whatever reason, I decided to give them names: two are Good Omens characters, and two are from Discworld. Three of the plants are doing wonderfully-they're happy, healthy, growing like crazy.

Then, there's Windle Poons.

Windle Poons appears to be dying. At the same time, Windle Poons is not entirely ready to give up the ghost, as he recently made a new leaf.

If you've read Reaper Man, you'll know that there are some striking similarities between Windle Poons the plant and Windle Poons the wizard (mostly the dying part). So now, I can't help but wonder if I unknowingly cursed my plant by naming it.

Anyway, moral of the story is, be careful if you name your plants.

Also, does anyone know how to save Windle Poons? I've been trying a variety of things I've seen online to no avail.

me when my plants dont immediately perk up after i water them for the first time in a month:

I’m pretty sure my alocasia black velvet will be the pachyphytum oviferum of tropical plants for me. Basically the one I struggle with.

I think I may need to get a humidity meter along with a humidifier. I think the room it’s in is pretty humid as it is so for now I’ll just get the meter to be sure.

But if it ends up not being a humidity problem then it might be the fact that it came in a starter plug which the seller said not to remove. Being new to tropical plants I just went with what the seller suggested but I may repot this tomorrow and carefully remove the plug. I just have to wait for my orchid bark to be delivered.

It’s so weird because my alocasia silver dragon is in the same growing conditions and it’s doing perfectly fine. It even has a starter plug as well. But I don’t think it needs as much humidity as the black velvet.

I don’t know, we’ll see what happens once I make these changes.

yesterday I had to water the airplants at work for the first time

me yesterday:

my windowsill today:

no idea what to put them in/on long-term, I've never had airplants before, so for now they're just adorning my to read pile

I wish there were plant doctors in the same way there are vets

I just want to shove my yellow-leafed plant against the chest of a specialist and be like “cure him”

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Scutellaria parvula, aka small skullcap, aka dwarf skullcap looks so much like the Japanese Mazus that it's disappointing. Like, I was so excited at first when I noticed the Mazus, until I looked closer and discovered the leaves were wrong and it had yellow dots on the flowers. My hunt for native and local skullcaps continues...

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

My Peperomia obtusifolia is slowly dying & I have no idea why

I hope plants talk to each other and make fun of animals

Sometimes, you just have to sit down and make yourself write!

But not yet, though.

Another update on the drama queen! It seems to be perking up a bit after I moved it near my grow light for my Thai Constellation Monstera. Seems a lot happier in this spot so far and hopefully it stays that way.

I’m not sure if it’s just finally starting to acclimate or if it was just too close to my other grow lights which can’t be moved.

We’ll see if my Frydek struggles because it’s actually closer to the light but currently doing fine.

i love how sometimes, despite all the medical advancements of the 21st century, the only thing that relieves pain is sitting/laying/standing in a weird position because it places/doesn't place pressure on certain spots

together let's go to the mountain ⛰️

Overwhelmed

What do you guys think sans feeling in this pic? Just curious 🐦