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I have a mint plant in my house, in a pot, that I simply cannot seem keep alive. It has a single stem left that’s trying its hardest to die every moment. I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to nurse it back to health (I need an easy win these days)

Last time I mowed, I noticed a new weed in the yard, popping up all over; this one smelled different, pleasant even. Fuck me, I’ve got a yard full of mint that showed up on its own, I’m guessing to mock my black thumb.

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RamenDame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If you bought a supermarket pot you need to separate it and put it into a bigger pot. Otherwise it will cannibalise itself.

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- namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In fairness, if I were made of mint, I would also cannibalise myself.
  
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- 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Already done. It was actually a freebie supermarket plant my son picked up. The local store has a section where the ugly and dying plants are free. So we picked up a chocolate mint, and are trying to bring it back to life.
  
  I had it nearly there, so I gently moved it to a bigger pot, with fresh new soil, and it promptly died. There was one single stem that was left that had gotten buried when I replanted it. Everything behind it died, but it must be trying to put some roots down at a buried node or something. It was floppy and I thought dead, but then decided to come back to life and is growing new leaves. Fingers crossed, I’m too afraid to touch them t right now, so I’m just keeping it watered and sunny and hoping it comes back.
  
  I can always go get some from the yard :).
  
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  - SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I have chocolate mint and I find its not as hardy as other varieties.
    
    It does really well with fairly wet and shady conditions (I had it under my elevated rain barrels and it did great, but didn’t spread beyond that) and poorly otherwise (since moving the rain barrels and exposing it to constant sun, it doesn’t want to grow much at all, much less spread).
    
    Idk how much that’ll help your quest, but perhaps it will :)
    
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