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I got a spider plant at a school fundraiser when I was in first grade. It lived until I moved out of my parents’ house at 18. My mom said she’d take care of it. She threw it out one day. I was sad.
It’s not dead. You can crawl around on a single live wire as much as you want with proper grounding when getting to it. As in, you don’t touch the live and ground wire at the same time.
Slip, and your foot touches the other wire though? Yeah, you cooked or in for a drop.
You absolutely can not touch a live wire if you’re grounded. Birds (and this plant somehow) do it by landing on the live wire without being in contact with ground.
I think it must be a trabslatranslation error or so, because yeah you should NEVER touch live if you’re grounded haha 😅
“As in you don’t touch the live and ground wire at the same time.”
Misunderstanding apparently but the original comment says the same thing you guys just said.
Jokes on you, I keep dandelions as houseplants
How?
Life uh…finds a way
While aeroponics are cool and interesting as hell, I’m pretty sure this is a bromeliad which are adapted to living on tree branches. They collect and hold water using funnel style leaves, not through aeroponics style root mist.
Bromeliads are awesome. The whole concept of epiphytes (which many bromeliads are) is cool. They require other plants to survive, but they generally aren’t parasitic.
Cool!! I didn’t know that word! Thank you, bud!
Biology is cool. I just wish I wasn’t too stupid to understand all the cellular-level stuff.
Neat! I just knew that it was possible for plants to grow pretty much anywhere, but now I know about bromeliads.
They can actually become a serious problem.
Now that’s a shitty job to clean up
I’ve had plenty of houseplants that are basically immortal.
The trick is to have a living soil. Without bacteria, mycelium, wild yeasts, and other microbes, you may as well be planting plants in moon dust.
Hydroponics what
I love Hydroponics specifically because it removes soil. And it turns out that a very large majority of pests basically need that soil to set up shop so when you get rid of soil you get rid of a lot of common pest problems.
Also be careful if you do it with tomatoes, turns out that being a plant made up 90% of water means that you absolutely love being in a giant bucket of water and grow fucking out of control
Fuck i need to water my snake plant
Wtf?
This is survivor bias in action.
Houseplants: “man I really don’t vibe with this dirt”
*dies*
Wildplants: “what dirt?”
