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Came back from a 6 week trip to this…


Wat. Does anyone know why my plumosa fern grew this nearly 3 meter (9ft) long… thing? Please give me permission to prune this weirdo off!

My only guess is that I took her out of her normal NE facing window and put it on the dining table with the rest of my plants for the housesitter to water them more easily. Did it send out a scouting vine to look for more light or something?



by LibraryObjective2328

40 Comments

  1. CrazyCatLushie

    I don’t have a proper answer to your question but in a home that beautiful, I’d want to explore too!

  3. kosodka2

    Definitely scouting vine for more light. Could you move it to the window it “found”? And I would think you can prune it but I’m not sure. The alternative would be wrapping it around the base plant I guess 🤷🏼
    Pretty cool that it went look for a window though 🌱

  4. Individual_Fuel_3008

    Storing waffles in a bread box is something I didn’t know I needed in my life.

  5. Imaginary-Test3946

    Don’t mind me… I’m just admiring your entire kitchen

  6. dancon_studio

    Your Asparagus setaceus (technically not a fern) is a climber by nature. Once established, they can grow pretty quickly.

  8. misofaves

    Please don’t prune! (Breaks my heart), if you’d like, let it climb somewhere and very soon it will fill out with beautiful leaves.

  9. Miyu_Sei

    All I know is that would never happen to me because I’d never leave for 6 weeks if I had such a such a beautiful house

  10. _allycat

    I had no idea asparagus fern could even do that! Vines are truly weird though. I have a jasmine and it’s a slow grower for me except sometimes it will, seemingly overnight, grow a 5ft vine and wrap around everything in it’s vicinity.

  11. Hungrysaurus_vexed

    Every spring/summer mine also does this. She puts out one looooooooong tendril out of the blue. One day she’s normal, the next day I suddenly notice this. I just prune the skinny tendril to where the rest of the branches are. I left it alone one year, without pruning, and it didn’t make any difference. So if you want to keep it that way, sure. But I prefer to prune it down because it has thorns.

    Edit: it has nothing to do with light. Mine does this every year even though she gets full morning sun. It’s just the way they grow!

  12. evicci

    I HATE THIS PLANT SO MUCH. SOMEONE PLANTED IT OUTSIDE IN OUR TROPICAL CLIMATE, AND ITS THORNS SNAG AND GRAB AND TEAR. ITS ROOTS ARE TOO STUBBORN. I WISH TO RAZE IT FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH. DEATH TO HOOKED THORN PLANTS.

  14. Neat-Beautiful-5505

    It was trying to hug you…for 6 weeks…and you left it alone. sad panda

  16. VloggingVoyager

    So… what do you do for work? Because I need my home to look like yours. Lol 😂

  17. sundownsydrome

    Omg pls give us a house tour I adore your house

  19. MykeHock69

    “Mother please… where have you gone?”

  20. EclecticEvergreen

    Plant like:

    “Ayo wtf where the light go? 🤨”

    ….

    “Fuck guess I’ll send someone to scout”

  22. GuidanceOne8776

    “GIVE ME MORE LIIIIIGHT! Heck, I just find it myself.”

  23. Fractal_self

    God forbid a plant has a look around 😂

  24. EvlMidgt

    😂😂😂 this is so funny to me. It’s sooooo loooooong

  25. Itchynipspickletits

    Trying to find the snack drawer

  26. sewedherfingeragain

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    Plants are so weird. My hoyas both grow out their little vine (I’m pretty sure that’s how all hoyas do it) all brown and sad, trying to grab at stuff and then, months later they finally get leaves.

  27. Mysterious_Insect

    You were gone too long. It missed you and was reaching out to find you! (Or, it was thristy, looking for water.)

  28. tempano_on_ice

    It’s been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.

  32. aymiah

    You could say that someone… trip-wired your kitchen

  34. Consistent_Wave_2869

    is it a straw trying to reach the sink for a drink?

  35. beeerite

    Was it trying to visit another plant friend in the kitchen?

  36. LucidComfusion

    I would’ve loved to see a time lapse of that growing! So cool.

  39. kiki-to-my-jiji

    We’ve got a runner!!! 🏃🏻‍♀️

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