Two weeks after buying these Lucky Bamboo stems: your gut reaction is “what’s wrong?!”
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Let me give you an alternative to traditional perfection-based plant health assessment – The HPJ Philosophy of Houseplant Care
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▪️Understand your environmental conditions.
▪️Try your best with care.
▪️Let Nature take its course.
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Environmental conditions: I’ve measured the light in this room to be adequate for this plant.
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Try your best: I put the recommended amount of fertilizer into the water.
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Let Nature take its course: I never expect leaves to stay green forever – they will stay as long as Nature allows. I can only try my best. 2️⃣ As I look closer, most of the “offensive” yellowing is coming from this one stem – maybe this one was on the brink of a Nitrogen depletion meltdown. 3️⃣ The growing tips are all doing fine so I’m not too concerned. Once the lower leaves are fully yellowed, I will cut them off. Plants grow and change to suit their living conditions whether you like the look or not. Accept this and you will find plant care more rewarding.
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By contrast, traditional plant care makes you think that perfection is the goal and any deviation is correctable or preventable. But when it inevitably happens, you blame yourself (“I’m a plant killer”) and, with cumulative disappointments, you’ll eventually lose interest in plants altogether…just like they did in the 90s.
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