keep a plant alive

I have got a plant!
He’s a Cactus!
His name’s Fredrico Sanchez (I’ve probably spelt that wrong), Or Fred for short.
He’s from Mexico :3

I’m not sure what type of cactus he is (I got him from B&Q in a box saying assorted cactus. So I guess they didn’t know either.)
But he grows quite slowly (I assume so anyway, on the box it said repot him every 3 years. I have no idea if that’s slow or fast in cactus terms, but I think that’s pretty slow for plants in general).
And he’s fluffy. Yes, Fluffy. He has loads of white Fluff around him. (and he also has spikes. But if your careful you can pat him on the head)
And He’s about 7cm at the moment. He’s incredibly adorable. (I know. It’s weird to think of plants as adaorable and give them names and shit, isn’t is? I don’t usually, but I dunno, cactuses are different. They’re just too cute.)

I bought him about a week or two ago and I think I’m doing well. Because you’re only supposed to keep the soil damp (in summer) and almost dry (in winter) so he doesn’t require much watering.
(I’m actually scared I might kill him by over-watering in winter ><)

and your supposed to give him special cactus food every so often (I’ve only given him some once, but that’s because I’m paranoid to touch it ever since my mum told me about how poisonus it is (too humans.) and I don’t want permenant heart and liver damage! ( XD in other words…. I’m too lazy too feed him.))

^ and wow that’s a lot of brackets.
(sorry, I guess that was kinda of topic.)

So yeah….

Bye!

- Alina

P.S: Fred looks nothing like the cactus in the photo. I’ll take a photo of him and put it up sometime, but until then I just got a random cactus…

I suck at keeping plants alive.
I’ve killed, like… 20 plants probably.

At the moment there’s a pot of soil on my widow sill reminding me about my last plant.
I don’t really remember what it was called (something fancy and italian-sounding) but it was very small and sort of… bushy. It was like a big green sprwl with about 10 little purple flowers.

I did okay at first, especially since it didn’t seem to need much water (I watered it like… once every 3 days, and ocassionally forgot to water it for a week or two. But it still lived.)
But I slowly began to forget about it… and the leaves started to go brown.
I did try to save it. I started giving it plant food. (which I later found out probably made it worse because it wasn’t actually plant food, but special preserving liquid for but flowers XD)
Until eventually it just turned into a brown scribble. (at least, it looked like one. Like a 3D scribble ><)
But I had pretty much forgotten about it so I kept forgetting to take it out my room and now it has actually decomposed. XD

At least the soil will probably be good for another plant.
....hold on, doesn’t that mean plants are carnivores?
XD Seriously though, they use other dead plants for food and nutrients and whatever.

Anyway, the longest I’ve ever kept a plant alive for is 3 months. It was a little fern (I <3 ferns ^^) and it was supposed to go pink in the summer (not that I ever got to see it go fully pink because it died before summer. The tips of the leaves went pink in spring though.)
I was Actually doing pretty well with it, but then it started to getting too big for it’s pot, and because my mum was repotting our aloe vera (my mum has tons of plants)So I decided to try and repot the fern. Only I did it by myself. And apparently ferns are sensitive to repotting. Especially at that time of year (or something like that.)
So, even though I kept watering it and everything, it slowly died. XD

I shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near plants.

XD

I need to get a plant first. Once I have one I’ll write another entry…

- Alina