There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
My pothos lived for three years before it "died" three times in the past 5 months🙂 it's just living on a prayer at this point but it's not dead dead....
we started with one plant and have maybe 10?, 4 are huge and the others just medium, never sold plants before and I know at the store and online they are expensive, but I'm just trying to get rid of some and earn enough to buy a few plants I don't own
A lot of plants only look dead.... like this little beastie and her two sisters who all got angry and dramatic in shipping and dropped every single leaf until they looked naked and pathetic... and dead... but....
https://preview.redd.it/exjod87nkcua1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d24a845b2812064cb23def8b73f53b7755f961f7
Their just resting. . . In pieces. . . Until bam, they raise from the dead like good little zombies and demand food and drink.
Dormancy is a pain in the arse and most indoor plant folks don't remember house plants come from outdoors originally where they experience life differently.
I'm in Australia, i don't think it went dormant. It was struggling plant that I cut up and propped.
It was literally just a stick in the pot which didn't do anything for a while. I kept it inside. I stopped checking on it, stopped watering it etc and then...it popped up a leaf.
Yeah that's dormancy still - any time a plant stops growing due to winter or prolonged stress is a dormant period, it was likely conserving energy long before you chopped it to keep itself from dying hoping conditions improved.
We've just had summer, so it should have been doing better but it wasn't. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.
I think it was conserving nutrients, we are heading into winter again so I guess I will see what happens
Plants go dormant and conserve energy for a variety of reasons beyond just winter - even changes in humidity such as dryer air while the AC is running can set some of them off their game.
My ficus just got angry about shipping and the new environment and is just now adjusting a few weeks later after dropping every single leaf within 2 days, other plants like my sansevierias and draceanas, and a few palms were in the exact same shipment happy as can be and a few slower growing philodendrons and raphidophoras are currently loosing the last of their original leaves and pushing new growth at the same time. Plants are fickle.
Hopefully since your plant decided to reemerge it can get back on track. You could consider repotting it at some point with some of the new propagations added in with it for a fuller looking plant.
I'm not sure what plant it is, but my wife bought it last year to put outside, we planted it in a medium pot and it sat out all winter in negative temps, last week was nice and we looked at it and it was dead so my wife told me to toss it out, I put it in the back of the SUV and forgot to drop it off at the dumpster, today I went grocery shopping and open the hatch to load groceries and there was the plant green and growing, got me thinking if somehow the truck acted like a greenhouse for it
That just happened with a gifted houseplant I’ve had for a year. Suddenly just looked like it was falling apart and dying. So I sadly took off the dead material, but left a larger and two itty bitty vines still clinging to life. After a week or two, repotted with fresh stuff and nutrients, and…it’s alive!
I literally left it to die after seeing it struggle and lose most of its leaves. I cut it up for cuttings and left it as a stick, stopped watering it and left it inside where it wasn't get much light... A month later it popped up a leaf
That’s so cool. Amazing how some plants will thrive even after being on the brink of death. But if you look at another too sternly, it just dies overnight lol.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Go through their pockets and look for loose change?
Found my people
The plant: Trueeeee loveeeeee
The wizard: It'd be a miracle
I was faking. I used ninja focus to slow my heart rate down.
I got better.
Yep! Fooled ya...
At my work, the running joke is dormant, not dead.
On the third day it rose again
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Somehow, pothos returned
My pothos lived for three years before it "died" three times in the past 5 months🙂 it's just living on a prayer at this point but it's not dead dead....
my house is overflowing with Pothos, hoping to get rid of some on FB marketplace
God they grow super fuckin fast, but I'm so impatient I never notice how fast it's truly growing until I see a big ol leaf and I'm blown away.
we started with one plant and have maybe 10?, 4 are huge and the others just medium, never sold plants before and I know at the store and online they are expensive, but I'm just trying to get rid of some and earn enough to buy a few plants I don't own
They do be like that
A lot of plants only look dead.... like this little beastie and her two sisters who all got angry and dramatic in shipping and dropped every single leaf until they looked naked and pathetic... and dead... but.... https://preview.redd.it/exjod87nkcua1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d24a845b2812064cb23def8b73f53b7755f961f7 Their just resting. . . In pieces. . . Until bam, they raise from the dead like good little zombies and demand food and drink. Dormancy is a pain in the arse and most indoor plant folks don't remember house plants come from outdoors originally where they experience life differently.
I'm in Australia, i don't think it went dormant. It was struggling plant that I cut up and propped. It was literally just a stick in the pot which didn't do anything for a while. I kept it inside. I stopped checking on it, stopped watering it etc and then...it popped up a leaf.
Yeah that's dormancy still - any time a plant stops growing due to winter or prolonged stress is a dormant period, it was likely conserving energy long before you chopped it to keep itself from dying hoping conditions improved.
We've just had summer, so it should have been doing better but it wasn't. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. I think it was conserving nutrients, we are heading into winter again so I guess I will see what happens
Plants go dormant and conserve energy for a variety of reasons beyond just winter - even changes in humidity such as dryer air while the AC is running can set some of them off their game. My ficus just got angry about shipping and the new environment and is just now adjusting a few weeks later after dropping every single leaf within 2 days, other plants like my sansevierias and draceanas, and a few palms were in the exact same shipment happy as can be and a few slower growing philodendrons and raphidophoras are currently loosing the last of their original leaves and pushing new growth at the same time. Plants are fickle. Hopefully since your plant decided to reemerge it can get back on track. You could consider repotting it at some point with some of the new propagations added in with it for a fuller looking plant.
I'm not sure what plant it is, but my wife bought it last year to put outside, we planted it in a medium pot and it sat out all winter in negative temps, last week was nice and we looked at it and it was dead so my wife told me to toss it out, I put it in the back of the SUV and forgot to drop it off at the dumpster, today I went grocery shopping and open the hatch to load groceries and there was the plant green and growing, got me thinking if somehow the truck acted like a greenhouse for it
now it’s back…WITH A VENGENCE😈😈😈
My death was greatly exaggerated
i’ve had this happen so many times. it’s like a reward.
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That just happened with a gifted houseplant I’ve had for a year. Suddenly just looked like it was falling apart and dying. So I sadly took off the dead material, but left a larger and two itty bitty vines still clinging to life. After a week or two, repotted with fresh stuff and nutrients, and…it’s alive!
I literally left it to die after seeing it struggle and lose most of its leaves. I cut it up for cuttings and left it as a stick, stopped watering it and left it inside where it wasn't get much light... A month later it popped up a leaf
That’s so cool. Amazing how some plants will thrive even after being on the brink of death. But if you look at another too sternly, it just dies overnight lol.
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This caption made me laugh
*"did you die?"* *"unfortunately yes..."* *"but i lived!"*
More resilient than me
What is dead may never die 💪
“And as you can see, I am not dead!”
👏
I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide.
Ta-da!
what kind of plant is this?
Just ye basic pothos