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No, it was genuinely stressful! I forget the name of the plant now, but too much sun and it would die. Too little sun, same result. Move it the wrong way and
by bspn 9y ago
No, it was genuinely stressful! I forget the name of the plant now, but too much sun and it would die. Too little sun, same result. Move it the wrong way and, yep you guessed it, death. And that's before we even get to the watering requirements!
- flukus 9y agoYou sure your friends weren't joking? This sounds like a "ask for tartan paint" style joke that get's played on interns/apprentices.
- seszett 9y agoIt sounds like many plants that are not common house plants, actually. The first that comes to my mind is cacao, for example, or many orchids too.
- mehrdada 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
- Spare_account 9y agoWe have one plant in our household, no other plants have survived. It lives in my living room and I have no idea what kind of plant it is. It had long thin leaves, each one is about 10 to 15cm long and 1cm wide and long thin woody stems. We water it randomly, at one stage we estimate we forgot to water it for around 6 months. Other times due to a lack of communication we have both watered it multiple times in a week. It appears to be invulnerable to poor watering discipline. Currently it is living in direct sunlight but it has lived in permanent shade for a extended period as well. I don't know why I'm telling you this, it probably doesn't help knowing that your friends has high maintenance plants when there are invincible ones like ours in the world as well.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoAre you sure it's a real one and not plastic?
- felipemnoa 9y agoThis is an excellent observation/question and hilarious at the same time. It could be plastic. I've seen trees in malls with plastic leafs were I had to actually try to rip a leaf to make sure that it was real since they looked so real.
- Spare_account 9y agoIt's a fair question, but I can assure you all it is a real plant and alive. My wife removes old leaves from it 3 or 4 times a year and it grows (very slowly) towards the light if I rotate it.
- watwut 9y agoI want your plant. If you figure out how it is call, then I am buying only those in the future. At this point, I am mass plants killer since they all died eventually under my watch.
- Spare_account 9y agoA little research has revealed it is a Dragon Plant (Draceana marginata). Apparently all of the Draceana family are easy to look after.
- claudius 9y agoI have a rubber tree (ficus elastica) and it seems quite invincible. Got it from my grandmother about 15 years ago, it spent three years in my dad’s smoke-filled room and has moved three or four times. Right now there’s direct sunlight in spring and fall and a radiator right next to it in winter. Watering is so-and-so, easily lasts a week to a month without any water. If I forget to water, some leaves will turn yellow but quickly recover once water is available again. Oh, and it had half of it sawn off at one point because it grew too large, the other half is now also a very presentable little plant.
- oliv__ 9y agoWorse even, the manual was missing and the specs weren't clearly defined!