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title: "Question for all planty people! 💚☘️Let’s share our success and…"
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# Question for all planty people! 💚☘️Let’s share our success and…

_Pubblicato da Alyssa il 2024-05-16_

Question for all planty people! 💚☘️Let’s share our success and failures. How many plants have you all killed, saved, and kept thriving at this point of your plant career? I’ll go first. I’ve killed 5 plants, I’m attempting to save 2 plants, and so far 7 plants are thriving for me!

## 23 commenti

### Krista ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I’ve only been seriously into houseplants a couple of months. I haven’t tried to save any from the store yet. I have full out killed 2. One was a string of pearls, the other was a fishbone prayer plant my son got me over a year ago in water and I transitioned it to soil two months ago and now I am finally ready to move it to the graveyard in Planta :(. I have a flying squid I am desperately trying to save. It is down to like a 1cm brown green nub poking out of the soil. Oh, I also killed off most of a butterwort, but it seems like it is putting out new growth points 🤞.

My peacock plant has been a big struggle, but I think I finally have it figured out, and I almost lost my polka dot begonia, but it put out two good leaves and now has like 4 or 5 other shoots so I am super happy about that one :)

#### Krista ha risposto il 2024-05-16

My begonia. Super proud of this baby that I saved it. Oh yeah, I have some unknown plant in the lower left corner of that pic that I haven’t put in Planta so I keep forgetting it. It’s still alive though 😉

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#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Oh pretty! She looks happy for sure, yeah I’ve full out killed two aloe plants, one I had for three years but it got a fungal infection and the other only a few months but it got root rot. Also killed a string of pearls and a burro tail plant lol, both from overwatering and bad soil/pots. I’m saving a small string of pearls I almost killed and a pothos plant that I had in one of those attached drain tray planters (never buying those again). Just hoping that those put out new shoots soon lol

### ReeRee ha commentato il 2024-05-16

Killed 2, saved 1(kinda), and over 36.

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

36! Wow, goals for sure lol

#### ReeRee ha risposto il 2024-05-17

lol I forgot about the other 4 I killed. lol just remembered

#### ReeRee ha risposto il 2024-05-17

And most of the 36 are pepper plants and citrus seedlings

### MikeNeedsMorePlants ha commentato il 2024-05-16

Killed 3, saved 2, own 6! I recently repurchased one of the plants I killed, and with all the new knowledge I've gained he's doing pretty well!

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Yes! That’s me too, repurchased a string of pearls, I hope it does better with my new knowledge about it

#### Krista ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Same. I actually spent WAY too much on a new variegated SOP because it came from an Instagram influencer’s first live auction, and for that much, I better keep this one alive 😬

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Haha well that’s good motivation, make the money worth it, I’m dying to get this rare Hoya compacta carnosa albovarigata lol, butttt I think I should stick to keeping my pothos alive first before taking the plunge into the rarities

### Josie ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I’ve killed 2 saved 5 and have 28 thriving plants and 10+ propagations! I’ve also killed about 6 aloe plants but then weren’t house plants so do they really count? 😂

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Props to you on your propagations! Hahaha awesome, now that’s the way to think of that 😂 I thought I was ambitious trying aloe for a second time, idk what it is about those suckers lol

#### Josie ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Aloe for some reason are so hard, I can’t keep them alive. 😂 I gave up on them

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Yeah lol, I try neglect and I somehow still kill it by “overwatering” 😂

#### Josie ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Same 😂 also they apparently get sunburned easily so I think that’s where about half of mine went wrong because I only learned this recently

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Really? I’ve never thought they could since they’re out in the desert normally, definitely a good tip if I give it another go lol

### Oatishkay ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I killed two (an elephant bush prop and snake prop) and nearly two aloes, somewhat saved a golden pothos from root rot (the gnats are still around), and have 40 plants! I think I’m maxed out on plants for now 😅 Quite a few are thriving!

#### Alyssa ha risposto il 2024-05-16

Aw I hope your pothos pulls through too, it’s a sad one to see struggle since they’re supposedly easy and hard to kill lol, wow 40! That’s awesome too

### stay\_pruned ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I’ve only killed two so far - a croton and a pothos prop that failed. I’ve got a few other props that are doing well (monstera and jade plant) and a fiddle leaf prop that seems to be dying.

I managed to save a Guiana chestnut money tree and the aforementioned jade plants though!

I’ve been in the hobby about 6 months now and have nearly thirty healthy, thriving plants so far.

### FiddlerOnTheRoof ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I’ve killed one, a ZZ plant. I’ve saved three, a FLF from root rot and two chamomiles. I own nine but are getting more soon!!

### Membro Planta ha commentato il 2024-05-16

Oh my Alyssa funny you should ask. I’m was born into a family of planet growers and I admired and frankly I was a bit jealous because I couldn’t grow plants like the rest of my family members. I was traumatized when my first plants died, i had 3 of them a couple of years ago and they all broke my heart. I just recently have drummed up enough nerve to be a Plant Mom again. This time I studied about what plants I wanted to grow taking into consideration what they need I.e lighting, fertilizer, potting type and other things I would need to keep me and my plants happy. I’m finding joy in planting this time around and I truly believe my plants enjoy the way I fuss over their care and it makes them happy too. This year in July will make our 2nd year anniversary of thriving together. At present moment I have only 3 plants , 1 I brought back from a horrible time, it had lost all but 1 leave and now it’s full and beautiful. I’m looking forward to Mothering many more.

### Stormy ha commentato il 2024-05-16

I have been plant keeping for 4 years and I have only killed 29 idk if that’s good 🤷‍♀️

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