I know myself and I know that this was a hyper fixation and I'm sad because it's not hitting now that my brain feels like it's complete.
by AwayTask1301
I know myself and I know that this was a hyper fixation and I'm sad because it's not hitting now that my brain feels like it's complete.
by AwayTask1301
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Your lighting situation is fire!!!!! I hope it doesn’t start a fire!
Yup! That how my adhd works
I bet you learned a lot and got a lot of enjoyment from the hobby. Now your sponge of a brain is ready for a new challenge. They are plants not children. You are free to make someone’s day by giving them away. If any still give you joy keep them. Endings are bittersweet – there is something new coming.
I’ve found that collecting entire groups of plants has helped keep my fire doing. Like collecting Dyckia, Tillandsia, collecting plants that aren’t green, and collecting variegated plants, etc. I have well over 100 plants in my living room on growing shelves.
Uh huh! I was staying with family for about two weeks in the summer and came back to half my plants crispy and the other half barely hanging on. That was last summer and it broke my hyperfixation, and it was just a few weeks ago that I cleared out the dead plants and got back on my watering and fertilizing schedule.
it’s so sad to see that it’s hitting someone else too. i’m so sorry OP, because i am kinda starting to feel exactly the same way. i am holding onto the shreds of excitement from watching growth on the new plants but i am getting so overwhelmed by the amount of work i should do/need to do. the fact that now i don’t feel like doing most of the plant work is making me realize that it likely was a hyperfixation :< i wish you all the best and i hope we’ll both try to figure it out
What are [these](https://imgur.com/a/KrjJmYx) two lights OP??
I do this too and I truly hate it.
I feel this, I’ve been really enjoying bringing home new plants and unfortunately one that I brought home has come with bad fungus gnats and it’s killed my joy 😔
Just size down your collection and keep the more ‘low maintenance’ plant that you still love.
If you start giving them away now, you won’t have to feel bad for any of them dying
If the passion comes back, it comes back. If not, you’ll just more low key enjoy the ones that are easy for you.
I absolutely love the way you decorated everything!
still a beautiful space
Find someone else who is in the acquisition phase and make their day! Generous hyperfixy people on the downturn have produced the foundation of my collection. When my time comes, and my fixation folds, I plan to pay it all forward
Explored herbalism yet?
I am going through this too. It’s a chore now to water/repot any of my plants.
I started feeling this way last year when I was having medical issues and getting very depressed. I gave away my least favorites. And started experiments of a couple duplicates. And just let some die accidentally.
I had a bunch of props in water indefinitely and was interested in aquariums. So I went forward with that and now have two healthy tanks with lots of houseplant cuttings in the top, that allowed me to get rid of the “parent plants”. My aquariums are both heavily planted with low bioload and maintenance. I am still downsizing plants and its feeling right for me.
I had about 150 plants indoors, with more on the porches and my rose garden. I now have about 25 in the house, a couple cold hardy on the porch and a neglected rose garden where I have lost a couple.
I am keeping the easy ones and the sentimental family ones but the rest are slowly being downsized.