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Houseplants need our help. They are in need of emotional support people and you should adopt one today and just love it, try not to judge it. Potted plants go
by HocusLocus 1y ago
Houseplants need our help. They are in need of emotional support people and you should adopt one today and just love it, try not to judge it.
Potted plants got a big rush from movies like Silent Running, that a tightly woven biosphere could engage in complete symbiosis with people, bunnies and Joan Baez.
Then as NASA gave plants the cold shoulder, the idea that plants were collectively 'the lungs of the world' took hold completely and gave them solace. House plants stood a little taller and dreamed themselves into a crucial role in keeping their critter-buddies alive, with help from their distant friends in the Amazon through open doors and windows.
Then cruel scientists popped that dream bubble, and awarded the 'lungs of the world' role to bluegreen algae in the oceans. The plants who must struggle to put out every leaf were eclipsed by little things that multiplied all day long.
So houseplants have become neurotic and anxious.
- tcoupler 1y agoThe only thing my plants are anxious about is that I forget to water them. Overwatering makes them much more anxious, though. I think my snake plant is just stoned. I can leave it in the dark for months and come back and it looks exactly the same.
- jijijijij 1y agoYour snake plant has a special way of doing photosynthesis, which involves splitting it two-ways, in a day and a night cycle. This might have something to do with its ability to tolerate the long nights of tcoupler‘s terror reign. It’s not high at all… 'coma' is probably the word you are looking for.