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Originally Posted by estación seca
I'm curious... he bought a dying fern, or he bought a healthy fern that later died? I ask because I know people who have bought dead plants because they couldn't tell live from dead. I have also known people who continue caring for dead, brown plants because they thought they were alive. Plant blindness is common among humans.
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I can't tell for sure, but I believe that I saw that fern slowly fall into decay in a windowless bathroom for over a year.
It's kind of a funny story, we have game night maybe once a month or every two months depending on how busy we are. At some point, I asked about the fern. My first question was what plant it was, to which my friend replied, "a plant," my suspicion is that it was a bird nest fern. I begged him to put it somewhere near a window and asked if I could fiddle with it in Spring. So I eventually repotted it in a mix of 3 parts coco coir, 2 parts orchiata precision, and 1 part perlite. The original soil smelled so pugnant and rotted and I spotted our little friends doing their job. Placed a healthy sample in a ziplock bag that I took home and threw away the rest. Those springtails eventually colonized my Oncidium.
I believe the fern is still alive and has grown some new leaves after losing almost all of them. I do think my friend tends to kill his plants so it was likely ok at the shop, I generally see good selections and seemingly healthy plants at Trader Joe's.
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