More confirmation that I'm not meant to interact with living things...

[kohaku_wind]

...As if I needed more.

The aloe plant Rich gave me is either dead or dying thanks to general incompetency. I have it on life support (see: plant light) but given the state of the roots when I tried to re-pot it, it might be dead already. I wish I knew what else to do, but I've never been good with these things. Between that and the abysmal results of trying to keep an alstremeria graduation gift alive, I think the unusual success of my freshman plant is just a fluke. Or maybe my style of sporadic neglect/obsessive attention fits it better than normal plants.

Comments

[scibilia.livejournal.com]

I didn't even bother getting a plant freshman year. I knew I'd just kill it.

[sylvansafekeepe.livejournal.com]

The prayer plant I got as a freshman is still alive and well, but that's mainly due to my passing it off to my mom, who's actually good at gardening. I now have some sort of cactus-like plant that needs to get watered about twice a month, which works much better with my plant-rearing style.

[13th-einherjar.livejournal.com]

Google it. Aloe might be one of those plants where you can take a chunk, put it in water/soil, and have it grow into a full plant. So if most of the roots are dead, it's probably not a death warrant.

[gerbilicious85.livejournal.com]

Freshman plants are chosen for their hardiness...mine lasted through a whole Winter Break of no water. But then I took it home for the summer, forgot about it or was dissuaded from packing it every time I went back to Swat in a car, didn't want to bother taking it on an airplane and figuring out the regulations. So it is doing quite well, but I never see it. It awaits my graduation and moving out...

I don't think aloe is that hard to kill, being a succulent, but if it's been neglected enough, that's a possibility. I guess keep watering it, find nutrition sticks for it or something.