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Drowning houseplant - Thank you!
"Helene" wrote in message om... Hello everyone! Thanks for you answers, I will repot my plant today. As for The One Formally Know As the Asshole, I blocked him, and cannot see any of his posts anymore. As per my search on Google, all he does is insult everyone. Obviously, his perceptions as pretty askew as I actually gratuated from law school cum laude (with honors), while he thinks I'm as dumb as a rock. Oh well. If he judges me solely by my gardening habilities and English grammar, then he's a selfish bigot as I am only a begginner in gardening, and English is not my first language. Besides, I don't spend all my free time stroking my plants with one hand while stroking myself with the other like he does. Have a great weekend everybody! Alright, first thing here........Helene, I took your post of drowning houseplant as a valid and real question. There are some situations regarding plants that, until we get some experience under our belts, we don't know. That is what this newsgroup is for. To ask questions. Granted, I am soooo weary of the cat shit and dog shit and absolute obvious answers to some of the questions that are posted here, but then again, that's what this newsgroup is for. Because not everyone knows how to do a Google search to check for answers to their repeated questions. When I first came to this newsgroup, I was more computer illiterate, didn't know the computer "netiquette" and most everyone was kind enough to walk me thru. But after a few years, unless it was something that I hadn't done or asked yet, I was thrown into the pool feet first to swim and figure things out. Sometimes when I asked obvious questions, or was about to post something, I'd cover my butt and just tell those more experienced that I really didn't know the "obvious" answer to what I was about to ask, and to bear with me. Most times it would work. Sometimes I'd get flamed. Which means I'd be made fun of or insulted. I don't have a thin skin (or quick to get hurt by words), but there was one poster who turned out to be a troll that was TRYING to get me to respond about things I was posting about, and I lit in to "her" and then it was pointed out to me that this person was a known troll, or someone who deliberately starts crap between other posters. I learned. Now saying all that, Cereus-Validus can be harsh sometimes. He is also one of our more knowledgable people here for really good plant identification if given all the clues and what not. He does get testy if given vague questions, but he also recognizes trolls and people who are posting just to start trouble. By responding like you did to his barbs (he does have a dry wit, by the way, and yes, he can be a shit, but you have to overlook those traits and cut thru to the actual good responses regarding plant questions and problems) you played right into his hands. Now never knowing this, first one was a given. But by tell him **** you, calling him asshole, and continuing to respond like you were standing there getting his cuts, you pushed his button and got more barbs and insults from him. Yes, this is an unmonitored newsgroup. You'd not gotten as far as **** you on GardenWeb with Spike. He'd have banned you to the Disney website forever and that would have been that. I visit there to chat with other Tennessee gardeners and to check out select forums that are about all the many things I'm interested in, but I am careful how I post, so I can continue to visit there. Because there are really neat people over there too that don't visit here. I am not offended by words. They're words. Even with ill intent, they're still just words. We're still sitting safely at our computers, no one has threated our children, poisoned our pets or ****ed on our plants or administered RoundUp in the dark hours of the night. We have a few regular posters here who are free with their language,(me being one sometimes) and those that are offended by such display respond like I expect them to. They are "outraged" and cover their eyes and tell you to kill file someone. And I mean no disrespect in that response, either. The person who told you to do that was well founded to tell you how to deal with it with finality. Well it's a free country, and you can -not- listen to anyone you choose. (or read, which is my point). If Cereus' posts are offensive, just don't read them. You might actually miss a good response or piece of advice by killfiling him. You can always tell when he's flaming someone, there are alternate posts of his and other people's. And unless you want to see the dry humor in his retorts, you can choose not to read them and move on. Now I've jumped into this little shit slinging, and I hope I've not offended you myself. And just so you'll know, Cereus did recognize a couple of trolls there in the responses. Bob caught it. As did I. Thru the years you will gain more experiences with your plants. Might I suggest a really excellent book on houseplants that you can find at a bookstore or possibly at a Lowes on their bookstand by the service desk. It's called House Plant expert by Dr. D. G. Hessayon and has quite a few houseplants listed, how to care for them, good watercolor drawings with great drawings of diseases and such under the problems section of most of the plants and how to deal with them. It's about $20 but worthy of purchase. And it's paperback. I have two of them. One for the house and one for me to drag around at Lowes at work in the greenhouse and outside lawn and garden department where I work, because despite everything I know, I still get questions I can't answer yet and this book is a gem. By the way, having a law degree does mean you are smart, but my genius best friend whose IQ is out of the ballpark has no common sense. She has discovered this, and we laugh about it sometimes when we talk to each other. I help her with what to me is simple things, and she helps me with things that are beyond my comprehension. And I don't resent it. I am smart enough, and what I lack there are books, t.v. programs and other people to educate me thru my walk in life. I don't nearly know everything I want to about horticulture yet. And probably won't by the time my stay here is over. What are some of the other plants you are growing and nurturing? I myself have not only perennials, some reseeding annuals, but in houseplants, I have tropicals like schefflera (the tall, umbrella plant, not the bush variety) and the Houseplant expert says to repot every two years, mist the leaves frequently, water liberally, and bright light away from direct sunlight. I have the giant leaf spathphillum, Sanseveria's of several varieties (mother in law tongue or snake plant), quite a few tender bulbs that thrive in the heat of my summers from Africa that wow me with their exotic blossoms at all times of the winter and sometimes summer if they're really happy. I also have lots of cacti and succulents because I adore them. I bring them inside every year as the maturity of these plants and bulbs and rhizomes and such bless me with more flowers. Zhanataya sent me the most awesome Korean Crinum a few years ago that, so far is the neatest flowering exotic plant I have. My Clivia's haven't bloomed for me. But I have a second bloom from my Eucharis, or Amazon lily that usually blooms for me on Thanksgiving. This year she's blooming a second time right now and it's awesome. (pictures on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens) I don't try to do ferns inside anymore as they're difficult in my dry house in the winter, instead I've transferred my love for the textures to the hardy perennial ferns. And since my windows aren't all excellent in winter for some things, I've resigned myself to plants that don't mind my house environment when I drag them all inside for winter. No sunroom yet. And I suppliment with fluorescent lights. I look forward to chatting with you up the road about plants. Have a good weekend. Enjoy summer. Buy a hawortia and learn to grow those, they're cool. madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler where there are waaaaay too many plants, and that's alright, where it overlooks English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee zone 7, Sunset zone 36 |
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