# My Green-Less Thumb!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-green-less-thumb/12588>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 7, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-green-less-thumb/12588 "2000-01-07T06:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-green-less-thumb/12588/21 "2000-01-08T14:49:00Z")

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gumby, i don’t know that it’s possible to kill pothos. it’s a viney thing with maybe 4" long leaves, bigger than ivy. comes all green, green & white, green & yellow.

you can start it up a peat moss post or put it in a hanging basket. i’ve had several going for years. when older leaves do die off, i rebury that part of the stem & new sections sprout.

asparagus fern & spider plant are very nice indoors, full & airy. they do especially well when they become rootbound (the stuff in the pot is more root than soil).

one thing any of you w/ plant problems might try is starting w/ a larger plant. if it’s old enough to have gotten big, it’s a hardier specimen. i like the challenge of little plants, but i killed off a lot of them over time, mostly learning to not water them. once you overcome the urge to baby them, you can go on to touchier beauties.

& do invest in an indoor plant book. there will be suggestions like watering schedules & easy-care plants, discussions of the pros & cons of different kinds of planters (ones w/ no drainage holes are the most challenging).

&, vince, get w/ the zen-gardening-physics thing, hon. commune w/ them. let them just live instead of working so hard at trying to keep them alive.

& stop watering.

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-green-less-thumb/12588/22 "2000-01-08T16:42:00Z")

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Gumby, I feel your pain, brother! Sometimes I feel like maybe I have this negative-plant aura or something 😉

Special, tonight, I meditate on the oneness of my plants and I. \<sits in Lotus position, breathes in through nose…out through mouth, centering on the universal life force and spreading love to my plants\>

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“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”  
-Tao Te Ching

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**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-green-less-thumb/12588/23 "2000-01-08T19:03:00Z")

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you go, guy!

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The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make a difference you lived at all.

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