Innocence in this world often surprises me. Consider the sort of person who would post that sign and how they think the world works.
“I bet if people knew this was theft they wouldn’t do it. I shall rush to inform them! I’ll even make it nice by saying ‘please’!”
Don’t feed starving kids for free! A business somewhere might profit from their hunger and you are depriving them that opportunity!
It’s called “ProfLifting” because you are STEALING the businesses opportunity to potentially profit.
so buy one, propagate the hell out of it, and give it all away. make the stores seek greed satisfaction elsewhere
what an ingenius way to make sure people propagate more plants
Never would’ve quite considered that the software open source movement, and gardener groups, would have such a fight in common.
FREE OPEN SOURCE PLANTS!!! (FOSP)
There used to be a really cool project called Free seed ring earth, that distributed seeds for the cost of shipping, with seeds aquired through donations. Not sure if it’s still active, but I loved participating some 15-20 years ago.
my city has a native plant association that will ship you seeds for free, and has multiple free plant giveaways each year
it’s a wonderful thing. I’ve bought from them for the past few years
Stripping them off plants, yeah thats just damaging the plant itself and is shitty behaviour.
Off the ground? Now its crossing from damage into being pedantic about stuff that would go into a mulcher.
And I highly doubt that those with the patience and skill to propogate make up any significant margin whatsoever.
We got free water at Lowe’s outdoor lawn and garden so I’d stuff plants I found throughout my shit in one.
In my limited experience (I found a succulent leaf on the street) the only skill one would need is to remind themselves to water it, like once a week maybe. All you have to do is drop it into a pot with some soil and water it every now and then. Maybe some succulents are more finicky though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*Also, it’s pretty cool to watch. Like the original leaf slowly shrinks and dries out as the new leaves are formed.
I have succulents on my balcony that outgrow their pots. I break off chunks long enough to have a few root-hairs attached and drop them into the scruffy area at the side of the building. They can’t really root themselves there unless we get a bunch of rain, but I’ve seen a few people take one and it always makes me happy.
Funny enough though if they’re snipping a cutting off of the plant to propagate, the plant must be healthy enough to purchase…
If you didn’t want me to do it you shouldn’t have given it such a cool name.
Plucking is wrong anywhere. Taking fallen off props at an independent nursery? Only of theyre cool with it. Big box store? Have at it
What is this about now?
This was a communication teacher who demonstrated to her students how you can get a bunch of people to start thinking about anything by having enough crashouts over it
No one was thinking about pomegranates until she screamed NO POMEGRANATES and now everyone’s gonna want to bring them to school because of that
I’ll bet my next paycheck that this store also sells “root starter”.
Someone
probablydefinitely put this up as reverse psychology.And you potted plant? Are you waiting to receive my succulent leaf?
