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The mother-of-thousands (a Kalanchoe sp.) has a really nice bloom if it gets big enough. Most people don't let them get big enough. The one that's a weed in succulents (Kalanchoe tubiflora) has a 4' tall spike with hanging orange bells. It blooms in the winter. It won't bloom in a small pot.

Since I am a retired nurse, I tend to hover over my orchids making sure they are ok. I make "rounds" at least every hour. No orchid has died under my care and I have at least 70. I did let a lucky bamboo get sickly and I gladly threw that nasty thing out, does that make me unlucky?

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Originally Posted by estación seca (Post 774444)

I have a couple of different Kalanchoe species, and really do find them fascinating. All my succulents struggle through my care, though, because I have a hard time providing enough light, especially during the winter. Until I step up my game, I doubt I'll ever see any blooms.

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I did let a lucky bamboo get sickly and I gladly threw that nasty thing out, does that make me unlucky?

Not as unlucky as the bamboo!

What a track record, never losing a single orchid. Major kudos to you!

"Lucky" "Bamboo" is not an aquatic plant. Keeping it in water is a lot like keeping a blooming Phal in a plastic bag full of wet sphagnum. It is a Dracaena, relative of other common house plants. If you want it to live once it starts turning yellow, put it in some potting soil and give it good light plus fertilizer.

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Originally Posted by estación seca (Post 774457)

I did not want or like the lucky bamboo, it was given to me :( It was just one of those tiny 1 stalk ones. It did feel good to throw it out.

Here a lot of succulent enthusiasts sneak extra plants into public landscapes. It's known as guerrilla gardening. Wouldn't work so well for house plants in Indiana, though.

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Originally Posted by estación seca (Post 774500)

Here a lot of succulent enthusiasts sneak extra plants into public landscapes. It's known as guerrilla gardening. Wouldn't work so well for house plants in Indiana, though.

Lol I have 27 acres so I don't need to guerrilla garden :)

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Originally Posted by estación seca (Post 774500)

Here a lot of succulent enthusiasts sneak extra plants into public landscapes. It's known as guerrilla gardening. Wouldn't work so well for house plants in Indiana, though.

Don't they have to worry about introducing something invasive?

It sure tarts up boring street medians and shopping center planters!

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I worked my butt off, and most of my colleagues did too. There are always poor teachers...like there are poor almost everything else. I corrected every single paper that a student turned in, and then corrected the ones I made them do over to show me they finally understood. Paper grading went from 7-9 Monday through Thursday, and from about 10-9 one day of the weekend. But I expected to be paid for my 40 years of experience and two MAs. Sorry. That doesn't make me a bad teacher.
I think lots of folks seem to think we should all be school marms that lived in the school and got paid in chickens, apples, and firewood. Or be like the television teacher heroes who had heart attacks and/or divorces because of their total dedication to their students. If that is the criterion you use to judge "good", then I'm most certainly not! We have spouses and children and lives like everyone else. If I had wanted to be Mother Teresa, I'd have joined a convent.

Teaching is a vital and praiseworthy profession.. Teachers have a profound effect on children, sadly, not always a good one.
I had a lot of problems at school, - there were some inspirational teachers that I will always remember with great fondness, even now, 5 decades on. A lot of them were pretty indifferent, who blamed the students for everything, never realising that it was their job to light the flame. As for the really bad ones, and I have known way more of those than a child ever should, well.. you know that phrase "I'd like to meet him in a dark alley with a baseball bat?"
Nope. Reason being, I'd be having so much fun, I wouldn't stop till the only way they could identify them was from the fog of DNA settling out on the buildings.

School days the happiest of your life?

No. Were that the case I would have killed myself long ago.