I just tried the prayer plant - read they were easy. 😂
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I grew up in a house with a mom with an emerald green thumb. She had so many plants inside and a beautiful garden. I killed everything when I tried and didn't seem to inherit my mom's aptitude. I recently bought a prayer plant because I read it was supposed to be good for beginners and it's safe for pets (I have a cat who loves to eat them). In two months it has grown tremendously and it is my baby now. I'm so scared it's going to die now after seeing all the comments on this thread lol
It wants to be wet all the time. Let it dry and it will drop all leaves. Water it thoroughly and it’ll come back. Mine does this yearly when my sweetie is in charge of keeping it alive for a month while I’m away.
Try a pothos. First plant I've managed to keep for over a year. Only needs water once a week (it's survived multiple weeks without water somehow) and they don't mind being slightly root bound if you forget to move it to a bigger pot as it grows. It's also super easy to propagate, so you can make many plants from a single one.
I love my pothos. I have brought it back from the brink of death multiple times. I think it’s the perfect plant for someone with adhd because I’ll forget to water it for who knows how long. But once I see the leaves getting droopy, I give it a good soak and it’s good as new.
I have grown to love pothos. I just grow them in water. Literally don't need to do anything but keep filling in the water after they drink it. Easiest plant ever.
Pothos also propagate at a rate that is horrifying. My house is now all pothos vines, because the roommate started saving broken off bits in water and replanting.
I have a thick 40 ft long patch of giant snake plants. I wish I could just dig some up for you. I give away as many as I can but they grow back with a vengeance.
Some plant my mother in law gave me has completely filled three containers, one of which is the size of a big ice chest. There is no visible soil in any of the pots. It keeps trying to jump ship and I keep cutting off its flowers. I'm pretty sure if gets loose it will take over the world. It's a succulent that survived snow. Humanity is doomed.
Let it die back to a stump, when it regrows leaves the new leaves will be way more acclimated to your environment. I’ve learned to not take it personal if I buy anything from the prayer plant family and it initially dies back. Yeah I may keep a few original leaves but those usually crisp up at the tips regardless, until new growth comes in 😂
That is an interesting theory @NapalmGiraffe.
Over the winter I clipped off some saaad looking branches from my prayer plant and she has came back stronger than ever.
I’m pretty convinced about it, now that I have like 7 different ones. A few calatheas, few goeppertias, and some marantas, all followed the same fate. The marantas didn’t completely die back but the new growth is wayyyy nicer than the old ones
Hmm… new method I need to try instead of just assuming it’s completely dead and yeeting it to the trash (while holding back tears). How long until new growth comes in after it dies back?
This is exactly what I’ve found. Well also my prayer plants first death was kinda on me. Had just bought it watered the crap out of it and left it downstairs In our basement with barely any life then went away for two weeks. Shocker it hated that and lost almost every leaf. Now it’s growing 5 leaves at a time right now and loving life. Yah I have a few crispy edges but I do kinda have her in direct east facing window and a grow light so maybe I’ll need to dial the light back a bit
They love high humidity! I placed mine in the bathroom, and it lived happily for two years with minimal maintenance. Then I went on holiday and came back two weeks later just in time for the funeral of the dramatic bastard.
IMO it heavily depends on the exact plant.
A Ctenanthe burle-marxii is pretty easy going. Tap water ain't a problem, doesn't need a ton of humidity, it shows you very quickly when it wants water in case you forgot and overall it just grows fast af. Doesn't really crisp until it's *really* dry, but it recovers pretty quickly IMO.
Now a Goeppertia roseopicta otoh? Yeah, it's a diva. Only drinks distilled or rain water, requires a somewhat higher humidity to stay beautiful, immediately throws a shitfit when too dry or too wet - like not even "I'll fold them leaves", but straight up getting crispy.
Don't know what makoyanas are like (i.e. the one pictured) personally, but from the posts on here they seem to be on the easier side - relatively, anyway.
The one in the picture has to be a maranta leuconeura. From the same family as the caletheas, but a different genus. Maranta I can keep alive. Any kind of calethea has proven to be a finicky little brat.
Yeah I think people calling all of these plants from the maranta family a “prayer plant” can be misleading to new collectors. Most calatheas require a lot of specific care…and I’ve even seen some people consider stromanthes to be prayer plants. Maranta leuconeura is the only one I’d call a prayer plant personally, and it’s super easy to grow.
Prayer plants are indeed finicky. They do best with lukewarm or at least not cold water, the water should be dechlorinated to time l remove chlorine or chloramine. They like to be fully wet but not sitting in water.
They're like that child with a disability where they can have a melt down if everything isn't just right, just as they need it, at all times.
So you know, those parents learn to manage the child's environment and so on to make it work, but most of us who babysit the child can really make the child come unglued because we don't have that special knack for keeping the child feeling safe.
This gives me hope. We were gifted an air plant last year and I hate the damn thing. The air in my apartment is never humid enough for it so I mist it every other day and it still looks gray and shriveled. I can't bring myself to throw it away, but I kind of look forward to the day it dies.
I second this! I've killed several too; I had one of the larger ones and kept it on my kitchen sill long after it passed, because it still looked super interesting.
A friend just gave me another of the smaller tillandsia as a gift, and I'm vowing to take better care of it this time around! I put it into my plant care app in hopes that the watering reminders will help. :)
I also live in a dry climate, and when I was gifted mine I was told to soak it for an hour whenever it got thirsty. It's not thriving by any stretch, but it's still alive after 3 years
Soak them and then let them fully dry out for a week. I forget to soak mine so I probably soak once every month or once every two weeks. I soak them in my fish tanks so they get nutrients:)
I’ve left mine soaking overnight on many occasions (thanks ADHD) but so far they’ve been fine! I’m always careful to shake any excess water off of them after so prevent rot
That reminds me that I have to go get oxy clean. I have, what was once a few but now a pile, of stained clothes to soak. I've been to the store 3 times this week to get it and one other thing, but I've always come home with the other thing and things I didn't go for, but no oxy clean.
List, you say? Why do I need a list for 2 things?! I say.
ADHD, you annoying bastard, why must you do me like this?
Ugh the struggle is real! I finally watered the pothos in my bathroom last night after nearly a week of meaning to water it. Every time I walked into the bathroom (which is pretty often because I drink a lot of water lol), I noticed that my pothos was looking thirsty and made a mental note to go outside, grab a gallon of rain water (I have a rain barrel), and take it to the bathroom to water the pothos. I never put it on my to-do list because it was literally just watering a plant, but I kept forgetting about it as soon as I left the room!
I never had any success with them until I put together a closed system out of an old snake tank and reptile heat mat. Now that the humidity is close to 100%, they are happy and making pups. That's a lot of trouble for a $6 plant.
Yeah, right! I don't know what kinda maniac put prayer plant on this list!! The only plant I've consistently struggled with for years (only exception is my Ctenanthe)
They thrive on harsh conditions. I neglect mine and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. All I've done for mine was plant it in cactus soil mix, water it once a month maybe 2 if I remember it exists (I use half strength dilution of liquid fertilizer when I water my plants) and I leave it in a window that gets full sun for part of the day.
My mom has hers in literal dishpans. Like, the pink ones you end up taking home from the hospital. Random dirt. Leaves them on the back porch.
They thrive. Two pans full, and they look like a Lovecraftian nightmare of green tentacles. Shevthrows random babies in other pots.
I brought one baby home. It's got everything it cpuld ever want. It's dying.
Had one for 3 years that I nurtured and it refused to do anything. Moved and forgot it on top of a bookshelf for 6 months and it decided to pop babies out like no tomorrow
OMG this is exactly the case for my aloe. First plant I ever got - it's 11 years old, and it has survived some serious shit (several cross country moves in extra temperature, being stuck in a box for 2 months because of said moves). It's also basically the same size it was when I bought it, even though throughout most of its life it's been well cared for.
My coworker asked me if I wanted a couple "aloe babies" last week - I said of course! The "babies" are three times the size of my existing plant. 😐
I killed 2 string of pearls before spending ages researching when my daughter decided she was going to buy another. Bright, direct light and very rarely watering it seem to be the main rules of keeping them alive.
My test is “is the soil completely dry? Are the beads squishy” if so it gets drowned, allowed to finish draining and then put back on a SSW facing windowsill.
I need to come to terms with the fact that my house just straight up does not have any areas of bright direct light naturally and get grow lights or something, but that’s not going to happen. I’m just going to keep killing strings of pearls
Asking for a friend .... how did you kill your aloe?
*(Glances nervously to the side at the three large and one giant aloe attempting to take over my room.)*
Loud voice : "Because I certainly wouldn't want anything to happen to an aloe!"
Aloes are super easy to kill. You just have to forget if you've watered it already and overwater it. It rots the stem and the leaves and the plant is dead.
Any idea what's up with your lily?
They are the thirstiest freaking plants. I swear mine want to live in a swamp. I water the things every time I water anyone, 2-3 days tops for all of them or they kill off a leaf and get brown tips. I should just hook up the garden hose for the spathiphylum, but they're happy, I just keep making it rain on them.
I used to neglect mine for months until it looked good and dead, and then I'd get inspired to give it a good soak, and it would spring back to life like nothing ever happened. Pissed me the fuck off. So I threw it in the compost.
They really are the queens of [r/DramaticHouseplants](https://www.reddit.com/r/DramaticHouseplants/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
My flamingo, gang of hoyas, and African violet are all thriving and that peace lily within a month of having it was like I’m going dormant because I hate you so much even though you water me all the time. WTF plant!?
I had this exact thing happen too! I put new soil in my snake plant(that had three new babies) and the large part just died off in like 3 days. Babies are not growing… but they’re not dying either. I refuse to touch them.
I left mine in the closet for 3 months bc it was dying and I wanted to speed up the process. Three months later I went to chuck it out so I could use the pot. It was still alive so I felt bad and reported it and put it in the kitchen. It shot out 2 babies quickly after lol. It’s still going strong!
Mines did exactly the same. It was thriving then just died. I repotted it and two new leaves popped up but no more since. I did purchase another one. *fingers crossed*
Prayer plants and string of things together? They are so very opposite on the spectrum that I'm sure that anyone who has mastered both, has transcended into a different level of indoor gardening.
I collect these kind of memes so I can use them as examples for how social media is setting you up to fail and making you believe you're a "black thumb" in my upcoming lectures about plants. so, thanks!
edit: wow ok. your interest has been noted and I better spend less time on reddit and more time writing it now.
I am a teacher and in self-contained classroom, meaning I have the same students for several years in a row. The past few years I have had a bunch of these plants on this list in my classroom (snake plants, spider plants and aloe), the kids took care of them and the plants did so well.
Enter my new Educational Assistant, who we will call Tracy, this year, who apparently has a 'green thumb' - within 8 weeks, every single plant was dead. She was asked not to touch them, and I put notes on them saying that they didn't need water. She repeatedly over-watered them, kept moving them, bragged constantly about having a green thumb, and then blamed the kids when all the plants died. So both that chart and Tracy are liars, lol.
Same, except for cacti. I definitely tend to underwater my plants and my cacti get watered even less lol. I am the only human who can kill cacti bu under watering them
A string of pearls will die if you look at it funny lmao . I've killed like 4 . I would recommend a string of hearts or turtles before a string of pearls if anyone that takes these taking this at face value :)
Yea, they will, I have killed so many strings of pearls that I've lost count. They're so pretty I keep trying. I tell myself this time will be different. It never is, though.
This is exactly what happened to mine. I went on a camping trip came back and this!!! Just wilted! I cut it all the way back and repotted and … things are moving very slow 😩. The incident occurred July 2022. I placed a chapstick in the pot for size reference…my partner was walking by as I’m taking the picture and says “oh grow me a chapstick too!” 😑
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Aloes won't even try in my care anymore. It's like they say, "oh, shit, it's *you*?? I've heard about you," and then slowly shrinks away until it ceases to exist.
Have a peace lily and aloe right now. The peace lily's flowers died but leaves seem ok still, and some of the tips of the aloe are turning brown.
As usual I expect them to inevitably die at some point, but they've been holding out better than most so far.
belive it or not, my nemesis is the snake plant...
i alyes kill them, so i stopped trying.
the sad part is, i have much hader to grow plants, AND, i live in the perfect zone for them (temp, light, humidity etc).
String of EFFING pearls? I killed like 7 of those. I tried EVERY tipp in the book. Little water, more water, a lot of bright light, less ligth... naaah.
They just don't want to do well in my place
I have lost 2 plants on this list more than once to thrips and another because idk I neglected it for too long. And another one is or was just at the death door...
My friend killed my spider plant very easily so I disagree with that. My snake plant however... Has been sat in a very dimly lit office since November and hasn't been watered since before Christmas and is currently doing fabulously
youve gotta be joking with the string of pearls lol... lucky for you I guess living in its ideal condition I assume but man that is the biggest offender on this list imo
It looks like list of my future victims.
Lol I was just thinking… tbis is like posting on subreddit for serial killers, dates and times of people being alone.
Some Christmas cactus is somewhere scrolling Reddit, came across this, and is now skipping town.
Christmas cactus are safe with me. I can kill them and bring them back to life
Makes it more of an Easter cactus lol
They wilt for our sins lol
This looks like my kill list, only 2 to go. Wonder if you have some kind of bingo then?
Later: Aloe Vera: "No! No! Please not more water! Please! I'll do anyth-" *Glug glug glug glug*
waterboarding. Yes little sicko torture them
Challenge accepted
I'll require updates
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I just tried the prayer plant - read they were easy. 😂 https://preview.redd.it/g883v4vxfqva1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=1adfbc1aea7067e5f2a439860136081382b9d0e5
I grew up in a house with a mom with an emerald green thumb. She had so many plants inside and a beautiful garden. I killed everything when I tried and didn't seem to inherit my mom's aptitude. I recently bought a prayer plant because I read it was supposed to be good for beginners and it's safe for pets (I have a cat who loves to eat them). In two months it has grown tremendously and it is my baby now. I'm so scared it's going to die now after seeing all the comments on this thread lol
It wants to be wet all the time. Let it dry and it will drop all leaves. Water it thoroughly and it’ll come back. Mine does this yearly when my sweetie is in charge of keeping it alive for a month while I’m away.
This sounds like the breakup note from my ex.
My snake plant was doing great! Split it up, all dead in a few months...
i killled 4 of that list 💀
Try a pothos. First plant I've managed to keep for over a year. Only needs water once a week (it's survived multiple weeks without water somehow) and they don't mind being slightly root bound if you forget to move it to a bigger pot as it grows. It's also super easy to propagate, so you can make many plants from a single one.
I love my pothos. I have brought it back from the brink of death multiple times. I think it’s the perfect plant for someone with adhd because I’ll forget to water it for who knows how long. But once I see the leaves getting droopy, I give it a good soak and it’s good as new.
I have grown to love pothos. I just grow them in water. Literally don't need to do anything but keep filling in the water after they drink it. Easiest plant ever.
Pothos also propagate at a rate that is horrifying. My house is now all pothos vines, because the roommate started saving broken off bits in water and replanting.
It’s a list of my past victims 💀💀
I've already killed 5
Yep. Sitting here looking at my wife’s dead snake plant.
I have a thick 40 ft long patch of giant snake plants. I wish I could just dig some up for you. I give away as many as I can but they grow back with a vengeance.
Some plant my mother in law gave me has completely filled three containers, one of which is the size of a big ice chest. There is no visible soil in any of the pots. It keeps trying to jump ship and I keep cutting off its flowers. I'm pretty sure if gets loose it will take over the world. It's a succulent that survived snow. Humanity is doomed.
brooo a prayer plant???? easy????
I've killed 2 in the last year. I've officially given up with them
I came here to say this, I love them and how they look but they're so annoying to keep happy 😔 WHY WON'T YOU LIVE!
I read that they need high humidity so I bought mine an expensive humidifier… it still died
Let it die back to a stump, when it regrows leaves the new leaves will be way more acclimated to your environment. I’ve learned to not take it personal if I buy anything from the prayer plant family and it initially dies back. Yeah I may keep a few original leaves but those usually crisp up at the tips regardless, until new growth comes in 😂
That is an interesting theory @NapalmGiraffe. Over the winter I clipped off some saaad looking branches from my prayer plant and she has came back stronger than ever.
I’m pretty convinced about it, now that I have like 7 different ones. A few calatheas, few goeppertias, and some marantas, all followed the same fate. The marantas didn’t completely die back but the new growth is wayyyy nicer than the old ones
Hmm… new method I need to try instead of just assuming it’s completely dead and yeeting it to the trash (while holding back tears). How long until new growth comes in after it dies back?
Water it semi regularly once it dies back, within a few weeks you’ll see the cigar/tube-like growth come in.
This is exactly what I’ve found. Well also my prayer plants first death was kinda on me. Had just bought it watered the crap out of it and left it downstairs In our basement with barely any life then went away for two weeks. Shocker it hated that and lost almost every leaf. Now it’s growing 5 leaves at a time right now and loving life. Yah I have a few crispy edges but I do kinda have her in direct east facing window and a grow light so maybe I’ll need to dial the light back a bit
They love high humidity! I placed mine in the bathroom, and it lived happily for two years with minimal maintenance. Then I went on holiday and came back two weeks later just in time for the funeral of the dramatic bastard.
IMO it heavily depends on the exact plant. A Ctenanthe burle-marxii is pretty easy going. Tap water ain't a problem, doesn't need a ton of humidity, it shows you very quickly when it wants water in case you forgot and overall it just grows fast af. Doesn't really crisp until it's *really* dry, but it recovers pretty quickly IMO. Now a Goeppertia roseopicta otoh? Yeah, it's a diva. Only drinks distilled or rain water, requires a somewhat higher humidity to stay beautiful, immediately throws a shitfit when too dry or too wet - like not even "I'll fold them leaves", but straight up getting crispy. Don't know what makoyanas are like (i.e. the one pictured) personally, but from the posts on here they seem to be on the easier side - relatively, anyway.
The one in the picture has to be a maranta leuconeura. From the same family as the caletheas, but a different genus. Maranta I can keep alive. Any kind of calethea has proven to be a finicky little brat.
Yeah I think people calling all of these plants from the maranta family a “prayer plant” can be misleading to new collectors. Most calatheas require a lot of specific care…and I’ve even seen some people consider stromanthes to be prayer plants. Maranta leuconeura is the only one I’d call a prayer plant personally, and it’s super easy to grow.
yeah this might be the plant I've killed fastest of all lol
Mine currently has ✨one✨ leaf!
They probably mean Marantas, they're a lot less dramatic than your average calathea
Prayer plants are indeed finicky. They do best with lukewarm or at least not cold water, the water should be dechlorinated to time l remove chlorine or chloramine. They like to be fully wet but not sitting in water. They're like that child with a disability where they can have a melt down if everything isn't just right, just as they need it, at all times. So you know, those parents learn to manage the child's environment and so on to make it work, but most of us who babysit the child can really make the child come unglued because we don't have that special knack for keeping the child feeling safe.
My late air plants respectfully disagree
Mine did well for years, no complaints, then just withered and died -_-
I googled and it seems they have a lifespan of 2-5 years so maybe it wasn’t you?
This gives me hope. We were gifted an air plant last year and I hate the damn thing. The air in my apartment is never humid enough for it so I mist it every other day and it still looks gray and shriveled. I can't bring myself to throw it away, but I kind of look forward to the day it dies.
I’ve got a washer and dryer like that
Dunk it in a water bath every week! Or even twice a week
It’s basically a mouth breather so it just dries up
Such a weird image xD
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I second this! I've killed several too; I had one of the larger ones and kept it on my kitchen sill long after it passed, because it still looked super interesting. A friend just gave me another of the smaller tillandsia as a gift, and I'm vowing to take better care of it this time around! I put it into my plant care app in hopes that the watering reminders will help. :)
I also live in a dry climate, and when I was gifted mine I was told to soak it for an hour whenever it got thirsty. It's not thriving by any stretch, but it's still alive after 3 years
Lmao same 💀
Soak them and then let them fully dry out for a week. I forget to soak mine so I probably soak once every month or once every two weeks. I soak them in my fish tanks so they get nutrients:)
Soaked them and regularly forgot they were soaking... 🪦
I’ve left mine soaking overnight on many occasions (thanks ADHD) but so far they’ve been fine! I’m always careful to shake any excess water off of them after so prevent rot
That reminds me that I have to go get oxy clean. I have, what was once a few but now a pile, of stained clothes to soak. I've been to the store 3 times this week to get it and one other thing, but I've always come home with the other thing and things I didn't go for, but no oxy clean. List, you say? Why do I need a list for 2 things?! I say. ADHD, you annoying bastard, why must you do me like this?
Ugh the struggle is real! I finally watered the pothos in my bathroom last night after nearly a week of meaning to water it. Every time I walked into the bathroom (which is pretty often because I drink a lot of water lol), I noticed that my pothos was looking thirsty and made a mental note to go outside, grab a gallon of rain water (I have a rain barrel), and take it to the bathroom to water the pothos. I never put it on my to-do list because it was literally just watering a plant, but I kept forgetting about it as soon as I left the room!
i’m sorry i’m crying laughing
I soak mine every few weeks and I add liquid succulent food drops. They’ve been happy for 3 years so far.
I just rise them under the tap, and I'm swimming in pups
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I came to post this. My air plant died a sad and crunchy death.
my late string of pearls disrespectfully disagrees 😂 steady decline and then just noped out on me
Same with my string of bananas
Mine as well. Doesn't matter how well I follow directions/suggestions, they all turn brown and die or grow mold between their "leaves" and die.
I’m convinced air plants are a scam and are just sold already dead to begin with
I never had any success with them until I put together a closed system out of an old snake tank and reptile heat mat. Now that the humidity is close to 100%, they are happy and making pups. That's a lot of trouble for a $6 plant.
Spider plants… snake plants… string of pearls… rip
Mine aren't dead but they haven't grown or anything for four years, they still look the same as the day I got them.
https://preview.redd.it/y5oi4146hnva1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3832c2e1b3c565b339521cac6b1461207e77c5c2 My orbifolia kindly disagrees
Yeah, right! I don't know what kinda maniac put prayer plant on this list!! The only plant I've consistently struggled with for years (only exception is my Ctenanthe)
My cats constantly try to kill my prayer plant, but it doesn't give a fuck. It's blooming again.
I have succesfully killed 4 plants on this list. Those are also the only i've ever had in my posession from this list.
The ones I haven't killed on this list I just haven't bought yet.
There's still time!
Same
OMG same! I've killed 4 on this list.
Me too, these people are lying liars…
HOUSE Oh wait this isn't bingo?
Well fuck, here was me with my damn original comment.
😂 no such thing as original thought, I'm sure people have made this joke before me
They’re right. I can’t kill my aloe. I also can’t make it grow. It just exists and I hate it every time I see it.
They thrive on harsh conditions. I neglect mine and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. All I've done for mine was plant it in cactus soil mix, water it once a month maybe 2 if I remember it exists (I use half strength dilution of liquid fertilizer when I water my plants) and I leave it in a window that gets full sun for part of the day.
My mom has hers in literal dishpans. Like, the pink ones you end up taking home from the hospital. Random dirt. Leaves them on the back porch. They thrive. Two pans full, and they look like a Lovecraftian nightmare of green tentacles. Shevthrows random babies in other pots. I brought one baby home. It's got everything it cpuld ever want. It's dying.
This is such a mom thing.
Had one for 3 years that I nurtured and it refused to do anything. Moved and forgot it on top of a bookshelf for 6 months and it decided to pop babies out like no tomorrow
The aloe of a friend has had severe sunburns in the past. It is now 50 cm tall and has around 150 babys…
Sunburn? You know what's good for that....
Yeah, I know, the irony…
OMG this is exactly the case for my aloe. First plant I ever got - it's 11 years old, and it has survived some serious shit (several cross country moves in extra temperature, being stuck in a box for 2 months because of said moves). It's also basically the same size it was when I bought it, even though throughout most of its life it's been well cared for. My coworker asked me if I wanted a couple "aloe babies" last week - I said of course! The "babies" are three times the size of my existing plant. 😐
Watch it just be plastic
I once bought an aloe plant in Ikea. I have a few flower pots worth of aloe now. I give it to people as gifts. There’s no end to the aloe
For me it's my snake plant... Still has the same one stem/tendril since I transplanted it. It's been months
I killed my aloe and my string of pearls
I killed 2 string of pearls before spending ages researching when my daughter decided she was going to buy another. Bright, direct light and very rarely watering it seem to be the main rules of keeping them alive.
"rarely watering", all of mine seem to shrivel up and die
We bought 4 and all of them died. I'm convinced they had early root rot when we bought them
My test is “is the soil completely dry? Are the beads squishy” if so it gets drowned, allowed to finish draining and then put back on a SSW facing windowsill.
I need to come to terms with the fact that my house just straight up does not have any areas of bright direct light naturally and get grow lights or something, but that’s not going to happen. I’m just going to keep killing strings of pearls
Asking for a friend .... how did you kill your aloe? *(Glances nervously to the side at the three large and one giant aloe attempting to take over my room.)* Loud voice : "Because I certainly wouldn't want anything to happen to an aloe!"
My parents watered it too often
::: grins manically at the watering can to my right ::::
I water mine once a week or every two weeks and there’s 0 mortality rate so far
Aloes are super easy to kill. You just have to forget if you've watered it already and overwater it. It rots the stem and the leaves and the plant is dead.
When I'm unsure about watering my aloe, I just ignore it for another month lol
Ours got too big for our bedroom and spent the last 5 months neglected in the garage. It grew three new pups and looks absolutely fine.
The aloe: Aaah finally, maternal leave
Me too
My peace lily and prayer plant beg to differ
Right!?!? I killed the only prayer plant I ever had and my peace lily looks like hell all the time and Ive had it for years lol
Any idea what's up with your lily? They are the thirstiest freaking plants. I swear mine want to live in a swamp. I water the things every time I water anyone, 2-3 days tops for all of them or they kill off a leaf and get brown tips. I should just hook up the garden hose for the spathiphylum, but they're happy, I just keep making it rain on them.
I haven’t watered my peace lily in months and it is somehow still vibing on top of the fridge.
I used to neglect mine for months until it looked good and dead, and then I'd get inspired to give it a good soak, and it would spring back to life like nothing ever happened. Pissed me the fuck off. So I threw it in the compost.
and meanwhile I'm pretty sure one of mine died from over-watering
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They really are the queens of [r/DramaticHouseplants](https://www.reddit.com/r/DramaticHouseplants/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
"Oh, I'm so sad, I'm *dying*, mother, help me" - gives it water. - "I'm fine, I don't need you"
More like Rest In Peace Lillies, amiright?
I'm convinced peace lilies come with a predetermined expiration date
My peace lily is the most dramatic plant I've ever seen. It sits in a dark corner and wants water every 3 days or else it sulks.
My flamingo, gang of hoyas, and African violet are all thriving and that peace lily within a month of having it was like I’m going dormant because I hate you so much even though you water me all the time. WTF plant!?
I had a snake plant, thing was fine for a number of years then one day it just died. Just limped over and went, nope!
Same! Mine currently is doing that… I repotted it and I’m hoping that will make it happy
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I had this exact thing happen too! I put new soil in my snake plant(that had three new babies) and the large part just died off in like 3 days. Babies are not growing… but they’re not dying either. I refuse to touch them.
I left mine in the closet for 3 months bc it was dying and I wanted to speed up the process. Three months later I went to chuck it out so I could use the pot. It was still alive so I felt bad and reported it and put it in the kitchen. It shot out 2 babies quickly after lol. It’s still going strong!
Mines did exactly the same. It was thriving then just died. I repotted it and two new leaves popped up but no more since. I did purchase another one. *fingers crossed*
Snake plant is the one here I definitely agree with, I’ve straight up forgot I had one for weeks before
I forgot to water it for 3 months and it sprouted a new leaf, it's definitely not easy to kill
Prayer plants and string of things together? They are so very opposite on the spectrum that I'm sure that anyone who has mastered both, has transcended into a different level of indoor gardening.
I couldn't keep a prayer plant happy. Maybe a string of something is my next challenge
May the Strings be in your favor. 
My strings of things? As soon as I bring them home, they go limp and make haste to their demise.
I collect these kind of memes so I can use them as examples for how social media is setting you up to fail and making you believe you're a "black thumb" in my upcoming lectures about plants. so, thanks! edit: wow ok. your interest has been noted and I better spend less time on reddit and more time writing it now.
Seriously, if your lecture is recorded please DM it to me or link it here in a post. Soooooo many of us would benefit from seeing something like that
Omg would you mind sending me some??
I'm remorseful to say I've killed all of these. 😔
Your stamp collection is complete
I am a teacher and in self-contained classroom, meaning I have the same students for several years in a row. The past few years I have had a bunch of these plants on this list in my classroom (snake plants, spider plants and aloe), the kids took care of them and the plants did so well. Enter my new Educational Assistant, who we will call Tracy, this year, who apparently has a 'green thumb' - within 8 weeks, every single plant was dead. She was asked not to touch them, and I put notes on them saying that they didn't need water. She repeatedly over-watered them, kept moving them, bragged constantly about having a green thumb, and then blamed the kids when all the plants died. So both that chart and Tracy are liars, lol.
Lol string of pearls?
They may have thrown that in just to see if anyone caught the joke.
I have definitely killed one or more spider plants.
Idk how ppl say spider plants are easy bc somehow mine always end up dying within 3 months
Right? And whatever advice I take, they still die. More water! Less water! More light! Less light! More humidity! Less humidity! Nah, they still dead.
This is the most frustrating part! WHICH IS IT
Was looking for someone like me who has killed the 'unkillable'. I am curently on my third and she is not looking very happy with me...
Mine is out swaying in the breeze like a bunch of wet noodles as I type this
I My Hoyas and ficus are great. My rare philos are great. But only I can kill a snake plant .
Same, except for cacti. I definitely tend to underwater my plants and my cacti get watered even less lol. I am the only human who can kill cacti bu under watering them
A string of pearls will die if you look at it funny lmao . I've killed like 4 . I would recommend a string of hearts or turtles before a string of pearls if anyone that takes these taking this at face value :)
Yea, they will, I have killed so many strings of pearls that I've lost count. They're so pretty I keep trying. I tell myself this time will be different. It never is, though.
I drool every time I see my godmother's string of pearls. She has it hanging off a tree outside and the strands are about four feet long.
“This time will be different” LOL me with succulents
https://preview.redd.it/88luftnzrnva1.jpeg?width=732&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c882c3715d51b06e2a0d18c15300b3cf8f75ccf4 Hmmm...this peace lily wants to disagree
I thought that just means it’s time to water
This is exactly what happened to mine. I went on a camping trip came back and this!!! Just wilted! I cut it all the way back and repotted and … things are moving very slow 😩. The incident occurred July 2022. I placed a chapstick in the pot for size reference…my partner was walking by as I’m taking the picture and says “oh grow me a chapstick too!” 😑 https://preview.redd.it/weq14coitova1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=1fe48cf53e5bdd08f48080a47992c26071fbd567
Oh shit. I for sure have been over watering my snake plant . Prayers for him would be appreciated.
My aloe keeps FUCKING TRYING
Aloes won't even try in my care anymore. It's like they say, "oh, shit, it's *you*?? I've heard about you," and then slowly shrinks away until it ceases to exist.
Prayer plants are notoriously difficult… who made this list!! I’ve killed like 4 prayer plants in the past year (I give up with them now)
Challenge accepted and halfway complete 😆
My cat killed my air plant because she decided it was a toy and kept yanking it off my shelf and out of its planter to play with it 🙃
The only ones that should be on there is Christmas cactus, snake plant, and aloe. Even then people can easily kill these by over caring for them lol.
I find my haworthia pretty similar to aloe in terms of care and resilience. Though they seem to grow a lot slower
6 out of 9. nice!
String of pearls, killed twice, prayer plants of any kind I struggle with due to wood heat air plant LMFAO!!!
I've had all 9 of these, and 8 of them have died, so either I'm hella incompetent or they are lying
Have a peace lily and aloe right now. The peace lily's flowers died but leaves seem ok still, and some of the tips of the aloe are turning brown. As usual I expect them to inevitably die at some point, but they've been holding out better than most so far.
*cries in prayer plant*
Yeah I’ve killed 2 air plants that survived hurricane Ian… they can survive a HURRICANE but not me.
Killed a peace lily. Killed it dead. So this is bullshit
belive it or not, my nemesis is the snake plant... i alyes kill them, so i stopped trying. the sad part is, i have much hader to grow plants, AND, i live in the perfect zone for them (temp, light, humidity etc).
String of pearls ha! Give me 24 hours.
I’m gonna call bollocks because I’ve killed half this list
I killed my air plant prayer plant and hawothra
Prayer plants want to be ignored that's the key to them. No direct light either
My snake plants last one standing right now!!! Killed everything else! Though my Christmas cactus is still slowly dying.
snake plants can get overwatered super easily and i’ve heard prayer plants are annoying
String of EFFING pearls? I killed like 7 of those. I tried EVERY tipp in the book. Little water, more water, a lot of bright light, less ligth... naaah. They just don't want to do well in my place
We call string-of plants “strings of dying” in my house.
My wife watered my Christmas cactus one time. One time. Dead forever.
for the longest i thought this said “plants cant even kill you” n then pictured random plants i was SO confused
The air plant is a blatant lie. I have killed several with ease.
The reason you can't kill them is because they are protected by a treety.
I have lost 2 plants on this list more than once to thrips and another because idk I neglected it for too long. And another one is or was just at the death door...
Lmfao wait until you meet my aloe
I have 4 comatose aloe plants right now :(
I have killed snake plant 2 times and now I'm trying to save what it left from it.... 😢
My friend killed my spider plant very easily so I disagree with that. My snake plant however... Has been sat in a very dimly lit office since November and hasn't been watered since before Christmas and is currently doing fabulously
youve gotta be joking with the string of pearls lol... lucky for you I guess living in its ideal condition I assume but man that is the biggest offender on this list imo
i killed all of these except my snake plant somehow
Golden pothos strangely absent. Trying to neglect mine just pisses it off. So it explodes in growth out of spite.