The dreaded day has come. Our landlord ended the contract of everyone in the building a few months ago due to a large renovation and I definitely wasn’t happy about it, because we only got to live here for a few years and moved in on the premise that we can live here a long long time. So I got all these houseplants with the idea that I can just live life with them here, but no.

So today I am moving them. It’s winter, but thankfully such a shitty one that the temp isn’t below freezing. It is about +2C though and very windy.

So I am posting a few highlights of them to this post, in case some of them die.

Started by untangling the pothos from the plant shelf:

Packed it in a box and it fills half of it. In the same box are some of the most sensitive guys like two hibiscus and a rare and very sensitive begonia variety from the beginning of the last century.

This is the begonia in its normal state, it might not survive the move:

Then I took Bob, my fern out from the corner it’s been living and my god, this boy has become HUGE again!

The shelf is the larger Ikea Ivar and this boy fills almost the entire shelf.

In the corned under Bob was also one of my variagated monsteras. It’s a shadier spot so its leaves are smaller, but it has grown into a beautiful plant next to a moss pole. I never really saw it well as Bob was shading it quite a bit.

To be continued as the packing proceeds.

  • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    07 Good luck comrade. I have minor panic attacks thinking about trying to move our ridiculous pothos.

    also I love Bob 😍 something about the ancientness of ferns is so cool to me but I’ve never had success keeping one alive long enough.

    • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      My ferngame took a big turn after I started putting them in underwatering pots. I tried to grow them when I was younger and gave up for a long time, because they always died. But now this guy in an underwatering pot is going on three years and it’s as happy as it can be. I’ve split it to four more ferns the last time it got this big, all the baby Bobs are also doing well.

      Also acidic soil is key and not messing with it much, not much fertilizing either. It’s very self-sustaining when it gets going, makes a lot of aerial roots and babies too. The winter air here is dry, but it doesn’t get crisp as long as it has water in the pot, no crispy ends.

  • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    Spider plant. I’ve let this guy make babies in two tiers now. The plan is to place this on a high bar stool or a stand and let it cascade down from it. They can look very cool with the babies left in.

    A peace lily I got as a tiny baby plant. It’s looking pretty lush and afaik pretty sensitive to the cold. Threw my other bigger peace lily away as it was looking pretty rough and no longer growing well.

    Another shady spot variegated monstera, definitely needs more light, but it’s alive.

    One of Bobs children. It’s so much smaller than OG Bod, but it’s growing. Has a less good plant light so it’s slower going. Behind it a monstera dubia, a very cool climbing monstera.

    The main worry. The huge monstera I got from my dad as a wee one leaf cutting. This is going to have to wait for the moving truck, because it doesn’t fit in our car.

    Thai constellation that had gotten a bit too dry. Watered it cautiosly, but won’t move it today. Needs to look perkier first.