u/MissMagus

Two day bender to help my family get some stuff done. They needed to build a deck for this retreat they're doing, I didn't build the deck but I tried to take care of the small things that needed done while they worked on that.

BUT just to make it less annoying my brother and I drank pretty copiously. Next day I was shaking and I didn't sleep for SHIT that night. So I cracked one for breakfast and steadied myself. Proceeded to choke down like a 6 pack just so I could finish the tasks. Got my ass home. Collapsed in my bed.

Slept like ass last night too. So today I'm binge watching the new Lizzie Borden show (fuck Ryan Murphy, interested to see if this is decent or garbage like the previous two). I have a 6 pack of high life beside the bed if I start feeling too anxious or shakey again!

Anyone else not leaving their bed today? 🤣

I took in a few super neglected monstera earlier this year - I put the biggest on a trellis and chopped and propped the others.

One of the plants I chopped now has 3 new shoots growing from it. Will they all continue to grow?? I thought one would take over as dominant but they all just keep goin'.

Also the giant 6 foot leggy gal I have is ALSO producing a new shoot at the base, and a new aerial root at the top. Will she keep growing from the primary plant? She hasn't grown or really done anything at all for 3 months - till now. I wasn't sure if she'd just be growing from the base from here on out...?

I'm confused lol.

These plants went like almost a whole year without much water or sunlight AT ALL (abandoned in an apartment) - so, it's interesting to see how they're rebounding. I'm very new to monstera and plants in general.

(Pics 2,3, and 4 are all the same 6ft plant, the first pic is the smaller one with 3 stems trying to go at once)

I wanna hear what everyone's listening to today.

I woke up feeling shitty but I had plans to see a corpse flower bloom. So I went. That was a terrible idea and I'm so surprised I didn't chuck everywhere.

It was pretty cool though.

Send songs. Plz.

Hungover today. And still drinking. Drank hard on Sunday and it carried over till Monday. Then I got invited out to drink last night and I gotta push through today cause I have physical therapy tomorrow.

I'm in a decent mood now at least. Today started off very rough 😅

I'm supposed to be sobering up but goddamn I was not about to deal with the fear, shakes, pukes, and shits today. (Let's be real, I'll still have the shits)

I hope everyone else gets through today and tomorrow as well. I've not been trying to be distant, I've actually been drinking a lot lately - just trying to avoid my phone more for mental health reasons!!

Prefacing this with I am a VERY new plant mom. I just got into this hobby in early March after my cat passed away.

So I rescued a monstera (4) in pretty rough shape last month (they were left alone in an apartment for an entire year with hardly any light, hence the legginess). I separated them and repotted each - and due to one of the supports being too wobbly, I had to re-pot the smallest one the other day. I noticed it's stem was yellowing, and after some research I learned it's not wise to bury the stems 🙃

Well I did that for all 4 - including the big 6 foot tall one.

Do I have to dig them all out and do it correctly? I think I know my answer. I'm just asking in case there's conflicting views or something. I feel like an idiot, but at the same time I am only 2.5 months into learning everything. It took forever getting that 6 ft tall one situated - I have pictures of what they looked like when I brought them home in my post history.

Pictures 1, 2, and 3 are the ones I'm worried about. Picture 4 is the recent re-pot with the stem above the soil. The last 2 pictures are of the whole busted ass crew.

I have plans to prop them eventually, but I can't bring myself to cut them yet. There's new leaves coming in on plant #2 and #3 so I can't be screwing up THAT bad.

Any advice would be amazing 🥲

((Also I water when the soil is dry, they've only been watered once since I got them. I feel like the big one is in too big of a pot but that's the only pot I had to support the trellis, and it's the same pot they were in before I separated them))

Prefacing this with I am a VERY new plant mom. I just got into this hobby in early March after my cat passed away.

So I rescued a monstera (4) in pretty rough shape last month (they were left alone in an apartment for an entire year with hardly any light, hence the legginess). I separated them and repotted each - and due to one of the supports being too wobbly, I had to re-pot the smallest one the other day. I noticed it's stem was yellowing, and after some research I learned it's not wise to bury the stems 🙃

Well I did that for all 4 - including the big 6 foot tall one.

Do I have to dig them all out and do it correctly? I think I know my answer. I'm just asking in case there's conflicting views or something. I feel like an idiot, but at the same time I am only 2.5 months into learning everything. It took forever getting that 6 ft tall one situated - I have pictures of what they looked like when I brought them home in my post history.

Pictures 1, 2, and 3 are the ones I'm worried about. Picture 4 is the recent re-pot with the stem above the soil. The last 2 pictures are of the whole busted ass crew.

I have plans to prop them eventually, but I can't bring myself to cut them yet. There's new leaves coming in on plant #2 and #3 so I can't be screwing up THAT bad.

Any advice would be amazing 🥲