Vendor was lowkey shit, plant arrived damage. But she is starting to perk up a bit after getting some soil and water. Her bottom leaves were sitting in the soil and so I decided to add a baby moss pole to help support it and prevent the bottom from rotting.
Nonetheless she is my most beautiful plant and I’m hoping and praying I can keep her alive!
I am on 7.5mg Mirtazapine of a night time and 150mg of venlafaxine in the morning.
At an appointment today the doctor identified high blood pressure and tachycardia. He asked me to hold my hands out and identified tremors and shaking, asked me to lay flat on the bed and checked my reflexes where he says I have hyperreflexia. He looked at my pupils and said they were flicking left and right rapidly. I have felt a bit funny, spaced out but otherwise cognitively well. I wouldn’t have identified these symptoms had he not pointed them out. He had wrote a note for me saying simply “seratonergic syndrome” and suggested I have mild serotonin toxicity.
He didn’t reduce my medication, didn’t tell me to look for anything, just told me to go home and research it.
I feel confused. What does this mean for me?
Hoping for the best, she’s so pretty and I’ve been on the fence about whether to repot or not but I think I made the right choice! Her roots were definitely outgrowing the nursery pot. Hoping she survives the transition because I manage to kill everything I look at. I gave her a baby moss pole because she was a bit wonky from being wrapped up for delivery, and she’s sitting a bit prettier now with support. These leaves usually face the window but just wanted to share a pic. She’s my prized possession. Alongside my pink princess which I got today (also a bit wonky from delivery lol) anyways enjoyyyy 😋
I understand her boyfriend died but it doesn’t mean she should accept hugs off MY boyfriend. Feels sneaky. Did she kill him at an attempt to get to my man? I’m writhing right now. I’ve called his mum and told her to collect his shit from my place by morning.
Sometimes it is overwhelming learning about new plants. I’ve done so much research but want to ask the real experts (reddit strangers). Whats ONE piece of advice you would give to a first time monstera owner? It can be as silly or as detailed as you like.
I’m stubborn, my partner insists I should just stick to the plastic plants. But I’ve been watering them for years and they haven’t grown one bit :( please help a gal out before I get my plant purchasing privileges revoked
My plants felt like a never ending battle, they kept rotting and I was seeing a lot of failure with seedlings, cuttings and even established plants. Everyone told me to neglect them so I did. Only a few days of neglect and everything seems to be much better. I have a collection of Australian natives, succulents and some other bits and bobs.
My tradescantia cuttings have actually taken root. My rose cutting is pushing new growth and I’m hopeful it will root. My succulents (which all got eaten by my sheep) have been moved inside and in the heat lamp to stop them freezing this winter and to recover from being eaten, and they are showing some really great new growth. And my jade plant which froze and tasted death is giving me tiny new baby leaves! I have been feeling far more hopeful and just wanted to say thank you to this group for telling me to stop over loving my plants and obsessing over them. I love my little mini nursery. I can’t wait to learn more from this group and add to my collection.
I actually can’t believe it. I accidentally froze her. All her leaves fell off. I warmed her up in my seedling tent, re cut her base and calloused it, and put her back in the soil about 5 days ago. SO MANY BABY LEAVES COMING IN
omg I can’t believe it
I had her crawling on the floor with his dog for months. He never said a word. Then all of a sudden his dog bit my sister in law and in the same attack, ripped her dogs ear off. Because there was a bin in the same room as them. My sister in law then told me that the dog has previously attacked her partners family members, and at the last place he lived he wasn’t allowed near the kids because he would try to bite them. I was sick to my stomach. I had a conversation with her and asked that if ever I have my baby over, they put the dog away. She said it was no problem. Me and my partner were going to go cut firewood, I thought it’d be nice if my daughter had a play date with her auntie so I called and asked if she’d like to have her, she said yes so my partner reminded her to put the dog away. Her partner got on the phone and made a sarcastic comment “ohhh yeah [dogs name] the baby killer!!”
We ended the phone call and me and my partner both agreed we wouldn’t send her over there, so we messaged and said it was all good and she was going to come with us. When we got back from getting firewood, we decided to drop them off a load. When we got to their house, we dropped off the firewood and said goodbye. Her partner took my daughter off my partner and said he wanted to say goodbye, and then walked her over and held her in the face of his dog. We didn’t say anything in the moment, but as soon as we left I said to my partner “that was actually fucked, is that some kind of sick power play?” He agreed.
We went home, we were meant to have dinner with them that night but they never showed. Days go by and my sister in law didn’t send a single message, then all of a sudden messages me asking if she could borrow our trailer. I told her she needed to ask my partner but it should be fine, and she got confrontational and said “oh so now you guys don’t want to talk to me I have to ask permission?” I replied “you never showed up to dinner and I haven’t heard from you since, I don’t know where you got the impression we don’t want to talk to you” and then just blocked her. I wasn’t having it. She then called my partner asking why he was being so weird with her, he reiterated the same thing, she didn’t show up to dinner and didn’t call or message. She said she didn’t show up to dinner because she was hurt we didn’t let her have our baby. My partner then said we were more than happy to until her partner made sarcastic comments about his dog. Then boom, she starts going offffffffff.
I ended up snatching the phone from my partner and said “look, you’ve got a child, if you ever told me that you didn’t want my dog around him, I’d have respected that, no questions asked, and my dog DOESNT have a bite history”.
She then randomly goes “oh okay, okay, I’ll bring this up in front of [my partners name] then!!!”
I’m thinking wtf is this bitch about to say????
Then they BOTH scream down the phone “WHERE IS THE TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS YOU STOLE FROM THE WALLET?????????”
(What is the wallet? Where does this have relevance? All your questions answered here: her partner came to my partners birthday in JANUARY. When we were down at the local pub, he lost his wallet. Apparently this was talked about at the birthday party but NOT TO ME?? Anyways, we come home from the pub, we’re at my house for the rest of the party. The day after the party, there was a wallet IDENTICAL to my partners sitting on the bench. I clean around it for a WEEK thinking it’s my partners. He takes it to work one day and calls me and said “you’ll never guess what I’ve got. [SILs partners name]’s WALLET!!” We immediately give it back to him and think nothing of it. He NEVER mentioned ANY money in the wallet, not even after we returned it]
So now, in FUCKING JUNE they tell me I stole the money from the wallet 😭😭😭😭😭 WHAT MONEY BRO????????????????? YOU NEVER SAID THERE WAS MONEY IN THE WALLET AT ANY POINT 😭😭😭😭😭
At this point I am seeing RED. they are just talking over me no matter what I say saying “thief, you’re a thief” no I’m fucking not ???? What the fuck bro
I said “are you seriously going to make a totally empty accusation instead of just taking accountability for the dog?? Please!! Listen to yourselves!”
They wouldn’t stop. So I told my sister in law, you’re not my daughter’s auntie anymore. All of those special bonding moments? Your beautiful close relationship? It’s a figment of your imagination now babe.
She hung up. I haven’t spoken to her since. She is telling the whole town I smoke heaps of weed and abuse my baby. I don’t smoke weed. I also don’t abuse my baby. She does smoke weed though and verbally abuses her autistic son on a daily basis xxxxxxxxx
Anyways. Hot chips for dinner 💅🏼😌
I love plants. I love gardening. But lately I can’t help but just feel angry and confused about what is wrong with me. Everything I have dies. I see people suggest plants that are “unkillable” that will “grow like a weed”, “just buy a cutting and stick it in some soil”.
I’ve tried all methods of gardening. Buying plants from nurseries, growing from seed, propagating, planting cuttings. Nothing has ever once worked out for me. Never.
My seeds will sit in the soil and just rot. My cuttings will live for a few weeks and then rot. My plants I buy from a nursery will just die. Cacti, succulents, indoor, outdoor, everything, you name it.
I love plants though. I walk around and see people’s gardens and I love them. I love watching flowers bloom. I love plants indoors. But I can’t have any of that, no matter how hard I try.
I had a friend who got the same plants as me at the same time. Within weeks mine were dead, hers are probably still alive to this day, years later.
It’s genuinely making me sad, angry, confused. I just want to be able to garden and enjoy it. I get to enjoy it for a few weeks, and all of a sudden it’s gone.
I don’t overwater, I don’t under water, I follow sun instructions, I do so much research, I buy high quality rooting hormones, nutrients, and everything you could imagine just to try to help me and nothing works. I want to shrivel into a ball and cry. I want to have plants of my own. I really want it so bad. I sound pathetic but this is just something I’ve always wanted and something no matter how hard I try I just can’t.
Please help me
*perfectly healthy mycelium*
“IS THIS CONTAMINATION??? LOOK CLOSELY! FIRST TIME GROWER!”
and
*a blob of straight up MOLD*
“cannot wait for these babies to pop up! What interesting mycelium formation! 😍”
Was given this cutting of a jade plant, instructed to just stick it in soil and it’ll grow.
Unfortunately I live in the coldest climate in Australia and that hasn’t quite worked out.
Initially, all seemed well and it stayed healthy for a while, but I had a funny feeling it wasn’t rooting when I noticed little dots or dimples of rot on the leaves. When I pulled it from the soil it was in fact rotting.
I re cut, re dried and re potted. Only I was unaware how my harsh winters would affect this plant.
I saw a post saying they can’t be in the cold and I went outside to find my jade plant frozen solid.
I chucked it in my seedling tent to try to save it, but it was too far gone. All leaves fell off at a touch.
I have cut it right back, and now have it sitting on top of my seedling greenhouse in the tent to dry out. Is there any hope she will come back? Any advice, please?
The plant has two options:
- In the tent with the seedlings until winter ends
- my bathroom window with a shelf that gets 2-3 hours of full sun in the afternoon and a few hours of indirect light the remainder of the day. The bathroom has a heat light to keep it semi warm.
How often should I water it? I’ve been watering when the soil goes dry and giving it a big soak.
It sold on night 1 of the exhibition and it was my first time drawing with colour!
Love my old home, but desperately needs a refresh. It just looks sooo washed out at the moment and every time I think of painting it a light colour I just can’t bring myself to like it. Would the green look good or am I genuinely crazy. Be mean. I’d rather you guys make me sad now then to regret it once the paint goes on 😭🤣 image three looks very grass green so ignore that but it’s to show you how id have the gardens done eventually.
Could have kept going, but knew I had to leave some for the wallabies and wombats. My god. My new secret spot unlocked ✅
Genuinely feel like Im going mad having to sit under a dribble trying to shower in the coldest climate in all of Australia. Showering is becoming beyond miserable, having to fill up the bath is taking forever for my young daughter, how on earth can I fix this?? There are NO obvious leaks anywhere, I cannot fathom why on earth we just suddenly lost our water pressure. Would having a plumber completely re do the plumbing to our bathroom help or is there any way it’s a different problem?? I just feel crazy. I’ve replaced the shower head to minimally improve my experience but the water pressure does not change, it’s simply made the dribble wider with less pressure and cover more of my body. Everyone’s showers are better than mine, my MILs shower who I used to HATE is like heaven to me now. I just need to fix this. Is it even possible? Oh my god guys I think I’m losing my mind
The town only had potable water since August last year, is there potentially a build up of something somewhere in the pipes? Can I resolve that? How can I best diagnose what is going on so I can get the ideal person out here?? I live rurally and do not have the money to fuck ass around having 3 or more different people come out to tell me they can’t help. Please help. I’m desperate.
Haven’t had sex since October last year. It was not a big deal, my medication had made me lose my drive a lot and we were dealing with a bit of incompatibility in the times we wanted sex, me in the evenings, him in the morning.
It wasn’t an issue and not something we talked about or argued about. I assumed he was probably getting himself off to porn but honestly just didn’t care I did not want it at all and tbh it didn’t seem like he did either. Whatever kept him happy kept me happy. I started a new medication a month ago which has really helped my drive and it’s come back intensely. Like our honeymoon phase, just obsessed with him and constantly wanting it.
We had been away to his parents and we have a young daughter so it was hard to get a chance to, but we got back home tonight and the whole drive home I just kept telling him how I was excited to get home and have the chance to. So we get home and he comes onto me which is very excitably reciprocated. We start having sex and initially I was noticing it was difficult to get things aligned down there which has never really been an issue for us in the past but I brushed it off to the fact we hadn’t had sex in a long time. But any change in position which required me to actually touch him/manoeuvre things down there I felt that he was barely erect. Like trying to shove a piece of floppy silicon in my vagina 😀
I just feel crushed. You’d think after a long time without he would have been rock hard but obviously something wasn’t doing it for him. I feel so fucked. I don’t ever want to have sex again. I don’t want to make a deal out of it, I’d love to say it’s performance anxiety but this man has a longggg history before me and I know he has no issues getting it up for girls. But anyways.
4 full sized Summer Rolls and a glass of milk 🌸✨💋💅🏼 (ate three before I took the pic soz) xxx
Just wanted to share my syringes because I’m waiting on the grain bags still and don’t know how to contain my excitement!!
I mean… can’t wait to put these under the microscope….. 🫣🫡
Found in NSW/Victoria Australia in a pine forest.
First photos when I first found them and the others on the wood block are when I got them home around 45mins later!
Sooo stoked to have (maybe) found some for the very first time. My fingers and toes are crossed 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽