--- title: "I hesitate to ask this here (please don’t kick me out!), but have you…" description: "I hesitate to ask this here (please don’t kick me out!), but have you ever regretted buying/acquiring a plant? And if so, what do you do? Grudgingly care for…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/64a6ad9f10d41b89d25c0be0" community: "Anything about plants" author: "Kirsty" published: "2023-07-06T12:03:43.375Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v2/cloudinary/global_data/communities/everythingHousePlants.jpg" --- [Community](https://getplanta.com/community.md) / [Anything about plants](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md) # I hesitate to ask this here (please don’t kick me out!), but have you… _Posted by Kirsty on 2023-07-06_ I hesitate to ask this here (please don’t kick me out!), but have you ever regretted buying/acquiring a plant? And if so, what do you do? Grudgingly care for it? Gift it? ## 13 comments ### Avery commented on 2023-07-06 Yes! I always love them when I first get them but as I get new ones and my collection grows some of them do feel like a burden and they don’t bring me joy anymore! ### Addi commented on 2023-07-06 Oh don’t get me started. My friend asked me to save an aloe plant for her, and I’ve had a lot of luck with aloe so I accepted. It was already long gone, but I thought I’d still give it a try. After quarantining it for a little bit, I put it beside my enormous marble queen pothos. Well, of course there had to be mealybugs hidden in the aloe leaves and soil, and ONE of my marble queen’s leaves was touching the aloe. It’s been months since my friend tasked me with saving her aloe, and now my marble queen is infested, my Jade pothos is infested, and the aloe is completely dead. I will regret the adoption of that plant until the day I die… the marble queen is my baby😢 #### Kirsty replied on 2023-07-06 Oh no! That’s so sad 😞 Much worse than my petty dislike of a fern (which I have just moved to a different spot where it looks much better and I’m pleased with it again). #### Rainy replied on 2023-07-06 😢 #### Fern \<3 replied on 2023-07-06 Aww I am so sorry. But it’s not your friends fault, so don’t be sad! It happens sometimes. ### Russty commented on 2023-07-06 Unfortunately yes. I bought a Rex begonia, and it’s a lot more bratty than it should be. It’s growing just fine happy enough but because of its personality, I think it’s less pretty ![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/iHZ1Ur-XukoXzyqepgelVnyrhg0eW-Rq8hsoksSE7HU/20af0c17ce094defb8cb418072186dce.webp?size=large) #### ThePlantChronicles replied on 2023-07-07 Oh its so beautiful! #### Roundshouse Plants replied on 2023-07-07 Haha. Begonia's can be straight hags. 🤣 #### Plant 🌱 Babe replied on 2023-07-07 OMG!! It’s as if you read my mind I feel the same about this brat. I regret buying this plant! Such a moody little so and so ! I’m thinking of my next steps!! She’s crispy one minute , upright and the next minute she droops. I’ve moved her to every facing corner of the house and I’m tired of her attitude 🙄. ![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/Rso6xoPkeLuJElPM0-dbCA1-NFU5Pxi0UsfAQZ56J8M/24514129a8cf4358a8182334f32da3b1.webp?size=large) #### Russty replied on 2023-07-07 Best thing I can recommend is putting her in a bigger pot (because they droop and die hours after they get thirsty) and putting her in a humid place. They don’t like light in the same way flowering begonias do, and with the way she’s behaving she doesn’t get prime real estate anyway. But also, because begonias are annuals-ish, they die back when it cools off, so try to keep her in a warm place (like uncomfortable for inside but nice outside) ![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/iHZ1Ur-XukoXzyqepgelVnyrhg0eW-Rq8hsoksSE7HU/103d8f72cf78428bb9523171bb6116e6.webp?size=large) ### Ana commented on 2023-07-07 Try to gift it, sell it, or even trade it for another plant 😊 ### Roundshouse Plants commented on 2023-07-07 So. Many. Times. I'll find a cool plant, check it out in Planta and online, think about where I will put it, make sure the care is easy enough to add to my collection--and then BAM! All my preparing is useless because I apparently have a knack for buying "easy" plants who decide to walk a fine line between life and death. I'm cursing and grumping at the drama queen and then she'll pop out one little leaf, like she knew I had my thumb hovering over the graveyard button. 🙄 And even though we don't get along, I feel like I can't let her win by allowing her to die. 🤣 So I continue this toxic relationship out of sheer spite. 🤣 The regret is real. #### Kirsty replied on 2023-07-07 😂 --- _Source: the Planta community (https://getplanta.com). Reading is open to everyone. To post, comment and like, get the Planta app: https://getplanta.com/download_