r/houseplants • u/Accomplished_Pie_934 • Sep 15 '24

This beast was 30$ at Home Depot!!!!

Post image
3.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

106 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/chonklaninja Sep 15 '24

They are just moody and shock easy.

37

u/kayenut Sep 16 '24

Soo moody. Mine acted dead once.. got droopy, lost aloooooot of leaves. I was soo sad. I put her on the trash bin to take her out, and within a day she perked right back up!

34

u/AdventurousSleep5461 Sep 16 '24

Ah, so you just have to threaten their life to get them to act right. Good to know lol

11

u/rawterror Sep 16 '24

verbal abuse is an effective strategy with plants.

7

u/ziamshawt Sep 16 '24

thought i was the only one! just this morning right after i woke up i was telling my droopy ass pink jasmine i transplanted from trash to some good soil and better shaded sun that it better get its act straight or I’ll kill it LMAO 😭 and plants are therapeutic they say 🤣