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i want to get a plant, or perhaps more, for my room. I need some life in it. does anyone know of a plant that doesnt need much light (i really get NONE in my room) and isnt difficult to take care of? any help would be greatly appriciated! |
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cactus |
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eucaliptus dont need much of anything |
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STOP WITH THE DRUG TOPICS YUO LOOSERS |
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dont they need sun |
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flesh eating plants |
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Some plants that are medium to low light would be a Boston fern, Philodendrons, etc |
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i had a bonsai tree for about 2 weeks in highschool... until I forgot to water it... it died :( too much care... i need something easy... bamboo maybe? or does that need sun? |
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jade plants & rubber plants |
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I've got lots of plants in my house, but not my ROOM... my room is sterile, lifeless, and 90% electronic. |
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this looks promising... doesnt need light, or soil! |
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Those are cool!! Keep them well watered though! |
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Bamboo is awesome, you'll feel like you're in Feudal Japan or something. Don't step on fallen stalks though, they'll go right through your foot if they're at the right angle and are sharp enough. Take heed. |
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Mate, if you're not much cop with plants forget bosai- they're absolute fuckers to keep alive! I'm on my fourth or fifth one now and It's the longest surviving one- close to a year since I bought it now. One of the advantages of older ones (and part of the reason they command such high prices) is that the leaves etc. have all "scaled down" a bit and as a result they're a lot more hardy. Cacti are quite tolerant to not being watered (2-3 year sin some cases), but if you want them to flower (especially some of the Mammillaria varieties that have nice lotus type blooms) the watering schedule is pretty complex (varies from species to specis, but typically starving it of water then giving it just enough at the right times). You also need to regularly check for disease- a lot of cacti die as people leave them for 6 months (common time between waterings) and don't check for disease in that time. When they come to wate rit, the plants are often beyond help. One sort of plant I would recommend is the "lucky charm plant" I can't remember the latin name for it, but a google on it should give you some pointers... they're basically incredibly easy to breed as they grow baby plants on their leaves, they don't need lots of light. They're very hardy- espcially tolerant of being over/under watered and I've never seen a diseased one. Very Cheap too. NB: If you're using it to oxygenate a room, you should take it out at night if you're sleeping there as they take in oxygen at night. |
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they don't use alot of oxygen, if you have a rainforest in your room maybe you will sufficate. but overall it's exaggerated that they'll use all your oxygen in your room, they only use a small amount of air. |
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thanks ceri! that was very helpful! ill look into the lucky charm plant! im not putting it in to oxtgenate... just to make it feel more alive... i wouldnt HAVE to take it out at night right? |
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True, true... big bushy ferns can use up lots though, especially if you have a couple in the room. I don't think there'd ever be a health risk from it- maybe just you'd not sleep as well as if they weren't there. |
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don't forget they also produce air over the daytime so you have a room full with fresh air....ahhhhhh, but not every plant is the same so it depends. zeus - i think you should check some flesh eating plants, they usually don't need much light and it keeps the flies away :) |
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venus fly traps? :) not many bugs make it in my room though... |
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hmmm google doesnt give any results for "lucky charm plant" |
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Lucky charm plants are quite small- I'd not bother moving them. I had several in my very small room in my old house for years and suffered no ill effects and I'm asthmatic. *digs out plant books* Found it! It's properly called "Bryophyllum Daigremontianum". Common name, "Good Luck Plant". Your local gardening centre should have it in the house plants section and will almost certainly be able to get hold of them for you if they've not got any ion stock. I realise that my former "nb:" looks like it was applying to lucky charm plants- I should have mentiond I meant larger plants... |
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The novelty soon wears off with them. Watch out you can kill them by "triggering" them (making them close their jaws) too often to demo them to mates... Still, I imagine they're fairly tolerant of the dark. |
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yeah, I dont think a venus fly trap is what im looking for... want something bigger... |
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I love those venus fly traps.. |
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maybe ill get the little shop of horrors plant FEED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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That's the one- don't worry it's not spiky at all, even though it looks it in that picture. They are loosely related to rubber plants/cacti, but have no spikes or barbs at all. |
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sweet, thanks for the help! ill look into it more... |
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a friend of mine has a flesh eating plant that can eat a little monkey when grown at full size. you can also buy a imitation plant. |
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nah, i want a real plant.... i need that feeling of life |
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i have many cacti. they arre the best. i love them. one of my big ones fell prray to some kind of terrmite. but the small ones arre generrally safe frrom things like that. |
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