Indoor plants are almost all tropical and adapted to grow under 3 canopies of treetops. They work in our house because the tiny bit of sun coming in the window is good enough.
Being tropical, they need a fair bit of water and the chemicals in tap water are often too much. I use rainwater, but you can set your pitcher out for 24-hours and get good results.
The stuff you see growing in cracks outdoors is almost certainly local and adapted.
I live in a city that has one of the cleanest water in the world. And I remember people leaving water out for a while before watering plants. I also remember ppl just watering immediately, and the plants seemed fine.
Didn’t find anything conclusive as to why it matters in the 5 min of googling, other then clorine that seems to not be used much anymore. Hmm, a mistery.
I wish I could collect rain water here but we get acid rain from living near a city and next to the Mississippi
Choose plants that are native to your region. You will be surprised how well they do.
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I thought it was just survivorship bias.
You mostly see the strongest outdoor plants thriving in their optimal conditions. Indoor plants are whatever rainforest wonder you tried to grow indoors, under watered and next to your AC.
The post is about them being in suboptimal locations outdoors though.
Not to take the post too seriously… but the idea of survivorship bias still applies. We don’t see how many plants died, or simply never started to grow because of that sidewalk. We only see hulk-doge.
Not really. Of course there is always little ones that won’t make it, but why does a plant neglected outside become a chad while a plant babied and nourished inside won’t.
Every plant outside isn’t a Chad. It’s just the chads that you get to see because those are they only ones that survive. If you were intentionally trying to grow that Chad inside, it would be a Chad inside as well.
And the wind or lack thereof.
People certainly are polishing this meme to a high sheen. Anyway, tell it to the pothos ivy.
Tbf, there’s also philodendrons. That’s basically potted kudzu. I think if you took a potted one and threw it out during the winter, it’d just grow right back in. Probably need goats or sheep or napalm to actually kill one. Or maybe be colorblind so you don’t see it turning yellow when it needs water.
This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!
(Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)
The tap water killing plants is more commonly the chemicals put in it intentionally to keep it clean/stop us from getting sick and fluoride to keep our mouths cleaner
Only if you like more mundane (yet accurate) explanations:-P.
Outdoor plants are all burly and manly and hefty, hefty, hefty. Inside plants are weak and wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.
I don’t understand why my tomato plant doesn’t do well indoors with a grow light.
Because it’s indoors. With a grow light.
“I don’t understand why I’m not feeling well by never leaving my apartment and only talking to people via text and ordering delivery for food.”
A plant is a living organism, and giving it just the bare minimum doesn’t ensure it’ll do well at all.
I just left dirt in a pot after planting cherry tomatoes and parsley on my balcony, it magically grew flat parsley like crazy. I didn’t even tend to it for a long time, still grows like a madman.
well the chlorine in tap water is pretty bad for plants…
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@The_Picard_Maneuver joke’s on you (or them). I always water them with tap water.
Much like humans
seems like yall have some horrible tap water
No, dracaena species in particular are sensitive to minerals and fluoride in tap water. I water my dracaena with bleach sterilized rainwater (after a livingroom-wide leaf spot outbreak a couple years ago). They’re just fussy.
Plants outdoors don’t get water with nearly the amount of shit in it that tap water has.
Yes, even in Scotland.
