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Just realized my neighbor's 3-year-old lemon tree is thriving while mine is struggling...
I watched her water it maybe once a week from my window for two months before I asked what her secret was, and she said she took off every single fruit that grew for the first year to let the roots get strong, which I never did with mine.
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finley_price2424d ago
That's wild, I had the exact opposite experience with my old neighbor and her rose bushes lmao. She was out there every single day fussing over them and they all looked half dead. Meanwhile my friend's grandma has a rose bush she literally ignores, just lets it do its thing in the corner of her yard, and it's this massive explosion of flowers every spring. The whole time she's just chilling on her porch reading books and drinking iced tea. I think some plants just prefer to be left alone a bit. It's like they get stressed out when you're always hovering over them and they refuse to perform.
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bennett.mason23d ago
Wait, isn't it usually overwatering that kills roses more than hovering? Thats what I heard at least, you think she was drowning them?
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the_brian23d ago
Spent two years trying to get my hydrangeas to turn blue with all those special soil treatments and whatnot, and they barely even bloomed. Then last spring I just forgot about them for three months because life got crazy, and they came back this huge deep purple color without me doing a thing. @bennett.mason your neighbor's grandma sounds like she knows something most of us don't about just letting plants figure it out on their own.
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