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▲ 55 r/Aroids

Ooooh I think I’m starting to like alocasias 😍

(Yes I realize the last one is an anthurium lol)

I took a huge liking to house plants last November and have over 30 plants now which actually isn’t too bad considering I’ve tried to hold back when seeing cool plants at any given store….! I also live in a 550 sq ft studio so I really dont need more plants lol…

The majority of my collection so far are tradescantia, pothos, monstera, calathea… with a few philodendron, peperomia, a snake plant, ficus tineke and a white bird of paradise…

Didn’t love the look of alocasias initially, and still don’t love begonias (I’ve seen a sub called goth plants and I feel like that’s very fitting that these plants are included there lol) - but now I think I’m finally seeing the beauty in them!

I’m starting the huge project of transitioning my plants to semi hydro, and if I can get the hang of it, I kinda want to add some of these beauties into the mix…..

Talk me out of it, I do not have room!!! 😂🫣 Or the plant-care time LOL

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 6 days ago
▲ 43 r/IndoorPlants

Oooooh I think I’m starting to like alocasias😍

(Yes I realize the last one is an anthurium lol)

I took a huge liking to house plants last November and have over 30 plants now which actually isn’t too bad considering I’ve tried to hold back when seeing cool plants at any given store….! I also live in a 550 sq ft studio so I really dont need more plants lol…

The majority of my collection so far are tradescantia, pothos, monstera, calathea… with a few philodendron, peperomia, a snake plant, ficus tineke and a white bird of paradise…

Didn’t love the look of alocasias initially, and still don’t love begonias (I’ve seen a sub called goth plants and I feel like that’s very fitting that these plants are included there lol) - but now I think I’m finally seeing the beauty in them!

I’m starting the huge project of transitioning my plants to semi hydro, and if I can get the hang of it, I kinda want to add some of these beauties into the mix…..

Talk me out of it, I do not have room!!! 😂🫣 Or the plant-care time LOL

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 6 days ago
▲ 65 r/Tradescantia

A little Lowe’s pink panther proplift!

Employee was stocking plants and saw a huge handful of pink panther tradescantia pieces on the cart. Decided to just ask for them and he was nice and had no problem with it ☺️ Was out shopping for a few more hours so I didn’t get them in water right away but hopefully these root a little so I can plop em in soil with less worry! Will probably put a little ziplock bag over for humidity for more of a prop box environment

Took a “tradescantia family photo” recently (majority grown from just cuttings!) and this was one that was suggested as my next addition - today was the day apparently!

Snagged a rescue/discount $5 Moses in the cradle as well! ☺️🙃🤓

Edit: any by Lowe’s, I meant Green Acres! Whoops too many stores today lol

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 6 days ago
▲ 81 r/proplifting

A little Lowe’s proplift!

Employee was stocking plants and saw a huge handful of pink panther tradescantia pieces on the cart. Decided to just ask for them and he was nice and had no problem with it ☺️ Was out shopping for a few more hours so I didn’t get them in water right away but hopefully these root a little so I can plop em in soil with less worry! Will probably put a little ziplock bag over for humidity for more of a prop box environment

Took a “tradescantia family photo” recently (majority grown from just cuttings!) and this was one that was suggested as my next addition - today was the day apparently!

Snagged a rescue/discount $5 Moses in the cradle as well! ☺️🙃🤓

Edit: and by Lowe’s, I meant Green Acres! Whoops! Too many stores today lol

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 6 days ago
▲ 195 r/Tradescantia

First family photo!

My growing tradescantia family! All except the first zebrina in the top left I started from a few cuttings. They are the easiest and most fun to propogate and watch grow and I just love them! 😍 Can’t wait to look back on this when they’re even fuller. Any other type of tradescantia you think I should add to my collection? Which is your favorite variety? The Purple Heart cuttings are my newest!

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 12 days ago
▲ 30 r/propagation

First tradescantia family photo!

My growing tradescantia family! All except the first zebrina in the top left I started from a few cuttings. They are the easiest and most fun to propogate and watch grow and I just love them! 😍 Can’t wait to look back on this when they’re even fuller. Any other type of tradescantia you think I should add to my collection? Which is your favorite variety? The Purple Heart cuttings are my newest!

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 12 days ago
▲ 46 r/houseplants

First tradescantia family photo!

My growing tradescantia family! All except the first zebrina in the top left I started from a few cuttings. They are the easiest and most fun to propogate and watch grow and I just love them! 😍 Can’t wait to look back on this when they’re even fuller. Any other type of tradescantia you think I should add to my collection? Which is your favorite variety? The Purple Heart cuttings are my newest!

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 12 days ago
▲ 1 r/ouraring

Restorative time DURING activities?

I noticed Oura ring doesn’t capture stress levels during activities. Which I don’t understand why since I am starting the activity on my Apple Watch then letting the data flow to Oura. So my ring is not in an activity mode…

I do many activities in hopes of restoring my nervous system. 2 of them being walking outside and yin yoga. I log on my watch as outdoor walk and mind & body respectively.

I’m just curious as to whether or not Oura would otherwise capture moments of restoration during those activities if I weren’t recording the live activity itself.

But I’m crazy about logging my activities and don’t want to not record my walking 😂🤓

Would I have to abstain from recording these two activities in order to see restorative / stress data at these times? Or does Oura simply not take that measurement during any movement?

I hope that made sense 😅

Edit: is there a way to force Oura to take a stress level measurement manually?

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u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 1 month ago
▲ 7 r/planthelp+2 crossposts

Tineke rubber tree leaf dying oh so slowly…?

So I got this tineke rubber tree in Jan of this year. Overall, it seems to be happy and growing well - it gives me about 1 new leaf per month! But one leaf has slowly been drying from the base of the leaf, not even the tip. At first I just broke the part off that was dried up and hoped for the best but since it’s continued to spread over the last half year it makes me wonder if there is something going on at the root level? Why is it only happening to this one leaf though…?

I live in a studio with only a balcony sliding door / window that is NW facing. So it’s been under this grow light. Yes I do plan to extend the lamp to make it taller soon lol. I water about once every 2 weeks with filtered water, with water conditioning drops, fungus gnat drops, and diluted fertilizer (weakly weekly method). I don’t see any signs of pests.

Full plant pic, current leaf damage pic and pic from March when it was less severe.

I don’t want to completely uproot and mess with it when it seems happy other than this spot. But should I? Sometimes I’m tempted to just cut this leaf or just continue trimming the dried part as it spreads up the leaf 🤷🏽‍♀️

Any suggestions / info?

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 1 month ago
▲ 9 r/AlAnon

Half a year since I left my Q but it still hurts

I know I did the right thing but I still think about him every day, as soon as I open my eyes.

We (39F/32M) had been together not even 2 years but I really wanted him to be the one. We loved each other so much, in so many ways he felt like who I was looking for. (Before him, I had been in a healthy loving relationship for 13 years and was engaged for 5 of them, but I called it off bc I felt like we wanted different things in life.) With my Q, I felt like we had the same energy, were on the same vibration. We saw and understood each other deeply. - Until the cyclical binge drinking that forced me to walk away.

I went almost an entire two months NC, but I reached out a couple days ago bc I was going to be passing through his town and wanted to finally get my things back or at least my house key.

He called me a few hours after my text and proceeded to quickly update me on his current status with things, which wasn’t good. He said he was finally “waking up” bc his health is so bad, but I knew not to celebrate those words bc he’s said it all before. It’s still hard not to hope that he really means it this time.

He said my key was at his place which he wasn’t staying at currently and that I was welcome to go there and get it. I didn’t end up going by though bc I realized I was going to have to go through his stuff to find it. I didn’t need my spare key badly enough to have to do that.

My heart has been heavy for days since I heard from him and learned how his life has been panning out. He’s not living at home. He can’t drive bc of a recent DUI and has to Lyft to work. He was recently in the ICU on life support bc he drank and then bled profusely bc his stomach lining is so thin. He called the ambulance himself. I don’t know how he’s even kept his job. Or if any of this is even true. Or if other bad things have happened too.

I feel validated that I made the right decision to leave but it doesn’t make me any less heartbroken for him.

The old urges to help him came back, but much less strong. And I held back. There’s nothing I can do now that I haven’t done before, and those efforts were always to no avail. I know that he has to learn and do this for himself.

Part of me fears that will be the last time I ever talk to him. That someday in the future I will get a call with bad news or hear about it somehow.

I know it sounds so naive of me but I just know he is such a sweet and good person deep down. It kills me that he is suffering. And yes, in large part bc of his own decisions, but in other ways I know he’s fighting an uphill battle alone.

I know I tried repeatedly to help, in so many different ways. And I just can’t continue doing that only to get tangled in all of it again. My nervous system has been shot and I feel like I’ve been recovering from trauma myself.

I know our relationship was a trauma bond. But I also know it was not one created with malicious intent. That’s what makes it so hard for me to let go, to stop caring.

There’s not really a point to this post other than to just express how I feel.

It’s so hard not remember and romanticize all of our good moments together. It’s so hard to stand by and do nothing while someone you love so much self destructs. 😔

TLDR; it fucking sucks detaching with love. I still love and miss him every day. I’m proud of myself for leaving, putting myself first and ending the self abandonment, but my heart still hurts and I fear the day that I get a call that he’s dead.

If you got this far, thank you for reading. Even just saying it here lifts a little bit of the weight of it all.

And thank you to those who post and comment in this sub. I read your words and it strengthens me.

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u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 1 month ago
▲ 14 r/Maranta

Prop that I’m most proud of so far! Started plant parenting in Nov and got these 3 free maranta cuttings in early Dec! Proud of its success growing into a whole baby plant!! ☺️

u/Suitable_Tonight3033 — 4 months ago