I don't believe in a green thumb
People often told me I had a green thumb. I don't believe in that kind of thing, and probably rightly so, because despite it my monsteras kept rotting in their pots. Instead of accepting that they had bad energy, I did what I do every day as a software developer: I debugged. This blog is my notebook from that process: observations, hypotheses, measurements, and the failures I learned the most from.
Method
- Since
- 2023
- Plants
- about 40, mostly tropical climbers
- Setup
- office as a controlled station: humidifier, grow lights, sensors, nutrient tests
- Observation → hypothesis → measurement. A hypothesis stays a hypothesis until I've tested it.
- Compare with nature. I set home conditions against the natural habitat to find the variable that actually matters.
- There are no easy plants. Only plants that suit our conditions and the way we care for them.
Latest posts
All posts →- Acc. 0010
Monstera adansonii on a Moist Moss Pole: Shorter Internodes and Extending the Pole Without Tearing Roots Monstera adansonii · Araceae From a dry wooden plank to a moss pole, then a DIY + Sphagrow hybrid. What changed, and how to extend a pole without pulling roots out of the moss. - Acc. 0009
Spider Mites and Alocasias: A Sad End I thought spider mites were easy to control—until they found my alocasias. - Acc. 0008
Alocasia Wentii Alocasia wentii · Araceae This plant either grows big and fast or dies