This is some poor bull shit... when did growing anything make anyone fragile?... get outta here with your bs. Do you just go around trying to start shit?
Why would you make up something like that? Maybe its your own masculinity that is fragile?
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When I was young, I got made fun of for wanting to help my mom plant and tend to a garden with basil and tomatoes. It didn't kill my love for plants but childhood cruelty sticks with you.
I had 2 older brothers and 1 younger while growing up, we lived rurally and we would have a huge garden and we were all expected to work in it. Personally, i liked it, but I didn't always like it cuz I was a kid I guess, but I liked it enough I have my own garden now and nobody forced me.
I was also homeschooled, so I didn't know a lot people, but I never got made fun of for gardener.
I don't even understand this. I haven't heard anyone even in the alt-right say growing plants was gay
Well now fosssilesque had said it
This bait is objectively hilarious in how BS it is.
jokes on you, my manliness is not in jeopardy if I just let all my plants dry out
It's this Chinese anti-West propaganda? I wonder if it works on Chinese people since it clearly doesn't work here
Very interesting and astute observation. But yeah, the attitude and tone is opaque here
I feel like weed does not really belong in either. You don't grow it to be masculine and you don't really grow it because you like to see it. A niche plant that everyone knows exactly why you're growing it.
I grow whichever plants I want, which includes hot peppers, yes.
But also zucchini and rhubarb and strawberries and cherry tomatoes and...
tell me about rhubarb. I don't have any experience with it, eating or growing.
It has a large inedible leaf. The stalk is what you are after. The stalks can get sizable, and grow in a patch. I transplanted a root ball in smaller clumps and got more rhubarb. Easy to grow in good soil and not to much shade. Doesn't need a huge amount of water, but dry growing conditions will create smaller more bitter stalks.
Most times I see rhubarb in food it has been cooked to a mash consistency and sweetened. For things like pies, jams, sweet sauces for Ice cream and the like in my experience. I'm sure there are other uses. It's pretty sour raw IME.
Easy to store long term in the freezer as well. Cut and remove leaf, wash, either dice or leave whole, package then freeze.
so...dessert celery?
Haha, what a great description
Kinda...
What's the flavor like? I've seen recipes that pair it with strawberry?
I'm generally terrible at describing how things taste. But it pairs well with strawberry. It is generally tart but not overpowering if prepared well, sorta sitting between sweet and sour with more fruity leaning.
Doesn’t work well with savoury IMO.
I got a plant from my father that he found years ago when we moved to a flat. It was in the corner of the bathroom on top of a shelf. It wash shriveled up and completely brown. That kind of fall leaf brown. Mind you, this plant was discovered easily 4 years after we moved in, so it had not gotten water for at least 4 years.
Crazy thing is, that plant was apparently still alive. We do not know how, but it did not die. Maybe it was feeding of the steam from the shower.
It is now part of our family and has had many cuttings made from it.
It's a crazy plant, it just does not die. I once overwatered it to the point that it's 15 liter pot was filled to the top of the dirt with water and only when I noticed a "puddle" did I act on it. We have one that is literally just in a jug with water. We also had one where the dirt was full of mold, but that plant was just fine.
I researched that little guy and apparently it's some kind of Syngonium.
If growing only cool plants is insecure then I want to be the most insecure man on earth. Except for weed, that's just ugly looking grass.
Y'all are growing venus flytraps? Ngl, sounds pretty cool...
IDGI.
Most of the people (men) I know who like to grow fruit and vegetables start with apples and cherry tomatoes.
Apples because you can grow varieties you can't easily buy; cherry tomatoes because they are expensive to buy and easy to grow
That's just straight rational
I have a spekboom and an impala lily.
I don't get to choose what to grow. All my plants usually die after a couple of years at most, so whatever happens not to die that's what I grow.
I can't even grow plants on purpose, I managed to kill one of those mini cactuses that you're not supposed to water very often. I literally forgot about it and it dried out entirely into a husk. But the plants outside that I don't even care about? Those things are all growing like weeds and they're annoying
You need 3 things: Light, water, nutrients.
Light and nutrients are easier, since they don't require consistency, but it's the watering that's a little tricky.
You should have the right soil and pot for that plant and for you I would recommend an automatic watering system. Then just look at it for the first few weeks and dial it in. Succulents also need dry periods, but you can look that stuff up on the web.
Then just check on it every few months/years and you're good.
Hope this helps.
Plant growing is gendered now?
All the cishet men I’ve known who have had gardens grew all kinds of stuff, from fruits and vegetables to culinary herbs and flowers.
Maybe I’m in a bubble but damn I feel sorry for the dudes in the OP.
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
Yeah this is weirdly sexist. I only know one person this describes because he's growing weed (legally) in an apartment so he can't have a outdoor garden
Hell, I know over a dozen men with gardens and only two even grow peppers. Everyone grows tomatoes, though..
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Cacti and carnivorous plants are super cool tho??? Especially that you get cacti cuz of how resilient they are, a great first plant, can recommend. And growing your own food/spices as well? Also Ive never seen that stereotype lmao
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Wtf lol? This is completely made up
I'll be honest, I've never come across this.
I've known people who aren't too keen on growing flowers, if only because it takes up space where they could be growing something more productive.
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Eh funny but untrue. The dudes I know who are plant people grow anything cool. Ive got a lot of weird and cool plants.
I do grow the super hot peppers, and i like feeding ticks to my carnivorous plants tho. So its not far off.
I also grow tomatoes, eggplants, garlic, cuces, squash, etc.
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