- DOI/PMID/ISBN: 10.1016/s0031-9422(00)90354-6
- [URL]( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7765689/ )
Thanks!
A timeline, for your pleasure:
2005: Purchased for Grandma from the indoor, tropical section of a local nursery in zone 4b/5a, NY state. Lots of thick wood and looked pretty old already. Pretty huge, too, although now I know new green vines can grow at a rapid rate. Grandma took good care of it, keeping it only in her heated porch. It flowered occasionally and she pruned it when I reminded her she could. It didn’t thrive, but it did as well as it could.
2015: Grandma got sick, became non-verbal, and the plant disappeared. I assumed it died. Months later, Grandma died and I found the plant upstairs (NO ONE goes upstairs), still alive. I brought it home, put it in our sunroom, and watered and pruned the crap out of it.
2015 – 2018: The plant thrived. I kept it in the sunroom. I watered it about every three weeks or when it looked crazy dry. It’s still in the original pot. I also fertilized with appropriate fertilizer (I’d done my homework).
Later 2018: I broke my hip. The sunroom was inaccessible to me. Husband took over all care of our 64 plants. He’s the most caring, giving, loving person in the entire world. So… When he sees dry dirt, he waters. Not sure what I said mattered because he has so much love to give.
Mid 2019: I see the damage and the watering stops. There was massive leaf drop. Nothing looked healthy. We pruned. Things looked like they were getting better. There was new growth just about everywhere. Then things went to poop. Leaves start turning almost black and crunchy. Whole stems start to droop. I pruned aggressively and was able to promote new growth, only to watch the exact same thing happen. Lather, rinse, repeat. The plant only gets smaller and smaller with each try.
Fast forward to 5 days ago where I finally decided to pull it out of the pot to check for signs of anything in the roots. It’s probably important that the whole thing came out as one giant, dry ball and I had to work to get some of the ancient, compacted dirt out so I could add some fresh dirt to the pot before putting the ball back in. I used MiracleGro Expand and Grow dirt that I had already expanded and let dry out. I watered it just a bit yesterday. This is all that’s left.
What should I do? I don’t want to just give up. TYIA for your time!
Edited to add this photo because the four photos I added didn't show up?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
They were cooked in Greece.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
When I got home, they were still there.
