Outdoor plants are a different breed

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Indoor plants are almost all tropical and adapted to grow under 3 canopies of treetops. They work in our house because the tiny bit of sun coming in the window is good enough.

  Being tropical, they need a fair bit of water and the chemicals in tap water are often too much. I use rainwater, but you can set your pitcher out for 24-hours and get good results.

  The stuff you see growing in cracks outdoors is almost certainly local and adapted.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Choose plants that are native to your region. You will be surprised how well they do.

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• runswithjedi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And the wind or lack thereof.

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• staindundies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always find this to be crazy with grass. It is so damn difficult to grow a nice lawn but grass randomly grows out of rocks in the woods.

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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure you have just as much nice grass as that woods does. It’s just spread out (like in the woods) between the not so nice stuff because grass sucks and isn’t meant to exist, much less grow as a constantly-pruned monoculture, in most of the areas it’s used :)

    I try to keep my lawn on the brink of grass death because grass is a worthless spoiled brat, constantly demanding resources to look remotely ok (and so I don’t have to mow it). The clover and violet I planted in it makes it look green with zero effort, though, so the city doesn’t get on my ass about it.

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      if you don’t want to mow it get a robot

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  • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could try sowing grass native to your area. Or, better yet, kill your lawn: piped.video/watch?v=xYdLfkJcfok

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  • dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The same species of grass?

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lawn grass isn’t native, for one thing.

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• OpenStars@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!

  (Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t let me tell you how to live your life, but if my water turns orange I’m not drinking it.

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    • OpenStars@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, not directly no - we boiled it first - but you gotta drink something, sometime.

      What worried me more is not when the screw-up is so easily detectable, but when it goes unnoticed, like the permanent damage done to the residents of Flint, MI, or all those toxic chemicals caused by the multiple train derailments, where the company men tried to pay/threaten/whatever people to say that they were not sick.

      Company profits >>>> human health & safety.

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  • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I don’t trust the infrastructure around me very much. I get multiple boil notices a year, and the last water quality report said I had a “safe” level of uranium in my water. I just run all the water I drink and cook with through a Zero pitcher filter now. Not sure if it filters out uranium though, lol.

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• Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tbf, there’s also philodendrons. That’s basically potted kudzu. I think if you took a potted one and threw it out during the winter, it’d just grow right back in. Probably need goats or sheep or napalm to actually kill one. Or maybe be colorblind so you don’t see it turning yellow when it needs water.

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• jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People certainly are polishing this meme to a high sheen. Anyway, tell it to the pothos ivy.

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• tygerprints@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Outdoor plants are all burly and manly and hefty, hefty, hefty. Inside plants are weak and wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why my tomato plant doesn’t do well indoors with a grow light.

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because it’s indoors. With a grow light.

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  • Muscar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I don’t understand why I’m not feeling well by never leaving my apartment and only talking to people via text and ordering delivery for food.”

    A plant is a living organism, and giving it just the bare minimum doesn’t ensure it’ll do well at all.

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• cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Much like humans

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• petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @The_Picard_Maneuver joke's on you (or them). I always water them with tap water.

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just left dirt in a pot after planting cherry tomatoes and parsley on my balcony, it magically grew flat parsley like crazy. I didn’t even tend to it for a long time, still grows like a madman.

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• general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  seems like yall have some horrible tap water

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  • Chetzemoka@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, dracaena species in particular are sensitive to minerals and fluoride in tap water. I water my dracaena with bleach sterilized rainwater (after a livingroom-wide leaf spot outbreak a couple years ago). They’re just fussy.

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• xor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  well the chlorine in tap water is pretty bad for plants…

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• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Plants outdoors don’t get water with nearly the amount of shit in it that tap water has.

  Yes, even in Scotland.

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