Plants

Thanks for everyone’s optimism! I can report that 4 sadly perished 🪦 (dried out to the point of no return) but some like this monstera are now on life support and showing healthy signs of growth!

Seeking tips for keeping plants alive while you’re away 🙏 how does everyone do it?

Move plants away from direct sunlight and hot areas to reduce water loss. Group plants together to create a humid microclimate.

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Ooo great advice! Grouping together is especially good, I think my designated plant baby sitter ended up missing some that were dotted around the flat 😭

Move plants away from direct sunlight and hot areas to reduce water loss. Group plants together to create a humid microclimate.

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Definitely want to get some of these! (Also because even when I am around, I can sometimes forget to water hahah).

These waterbottle things that slowly release water. Can use jumbo water bottles and the water is slowly released as the plants need it.

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Hahah, I did have a flatmate who was supposed to take care of them, but she also had an overlapping holiday 🥶 

I'll have to figure out some sort of plan for the next one.

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Yeah! You'll come to learn what works best for your home, your plants/pots, and your setup. Obviously the smaller the pot, the higher the danger, so we tend to group all the smol guys into a deep tray and ask our frens who come feed Shadow, to top up the tray every few days as needed.

Drip systems work great but they're a faff to setup... look at ceramic bottle tips, you stick a bottle of water upside down into the soil with these tips and they'll very slowly release into the soil.

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Yeah, I've think I've learnt a good lesson out of this! Was scared that they wouldn't get enough sun, but the heat in Taipei during the summer is way too much haha. 

Great tip for fully saturating them though! And will definitely look into getting a tray (or tub) to soak them in too. I was thinking of setting up a water wick, but did seem like a lot of hassle hahah. I guess that's the price to pay if I want my plants to stay alive!

Noooooooooo!!!! Sorry to hear that Karmen, sheesh.

I think the Monstera will be fine.

Deffo keep them out of strong sun while you're away. Before we go on trips a week or more, we'll give them a sit bath in water to fully saturate the pots. 

You can also put them into a larger tray (like 10-20 smol plants in a big tray), and ask someone to water the entire tray every few days so there's a few cm of water at the bottom.

Drip bottles work well too, as does the "water wick" (google it--but more annoying to setup).

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Oo yikes, keeping a holiday to 1 week is gonna be a hard one for me haha!

Thanks for the note on the plant revival though! I'll try that out, although from the looks of it, I don't think it's had water for a couple of weeks already 😰 will report back if there's a miracle!

I usually don't leave my plans alone for longer than a week. Honestly drying out doesn't mean no return, cuz the roots might still be able to produce new shoots. Had that approved severl times. When I see a dried out plant i take it off of the soil and put into a jar/glass with a little bit of water so that only roots touch the water, then some of them revive and rise like a phoenix in couple weeks time.

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Oooh, succulents are great, and there are so many different varieties of them 🤩

Hahahah, I love that too!

Most of my house plants are very low maintenance. Probably a red flag that I had to put them into the care of a flatmate who didn't own any plants lol. 

Maybe I should replace the dead ones with succulents, I think they'll do great with the heat here and I'm also a bit bad with watering plants too LOL.

I've adopted a "survival of the fittest" mentality - if it dies, then it's not meant to be 😅 

I also like the idea that we all have a specific way we care for plants that kind of reflects our personality - some people like to water them constantly, others forget to do it for weeks. So the plants that also enjoy this behaviour will stay, and others will perish.

That's how I ended up with mostly succulents, because they like not being watered 😆

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