... would YOU download a plant?
... would YOU download a plant?
... would YOU download a plant?
I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.
Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent leaf?
This is democracy manifest.
Without a subscription? Yes.
It's not theft, it's basically dumpster diving for living things. Living things that can grow in dirt with some water. They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.
I'll say if this is a family run place - it's still a dick move. If it's Lowes, Home Depot, or Menards, eh who cares.
Depends. If you weren't going to buy it anyway, it doesn't cost them anything. And if you're grabbing a fallen leaf hoping for something, it seems like you aren't all that interested anyway.
I only know about Menards because of random factoids, references, and memes. Frankly speaking I have just found out they have plants and are maybe a hardware store.
If it's a family run place, just ask the owners tbh. My partner and I once asked about a fallen tradescantia piece and she actually cut us off a bigger piece and wrapped it up for us. Only thing she asked in return was for us to tell her how well it does.
It's a big plant now :)
Nah, you're getting a leaf, not a full plant. A leaf is fucking worthless. If the leaves had value, they would sell them.
YOU'RE STEALING OUR TRASH! REEEEEEEEE!
If you clip a healthy plant without asking the owner first, you're a dick. But if I see you do it at a store, no I didn't. Cause the store made $2,550,000 while I was typing this.
Are we talking about the 450 square meter store that looks like an industrial warehouse, or the 12 square meter handcrafted-everything boutique?
Cause if it's the former, I didn't see you shoplift a whole ass plant and if it's the latter and I see you clip the tiniest part of a plant, I'm calling you out loudly.
It's a dick move to pinch leaves if for no other reason that someone else may want to buy that plant, and you're damaging it. Enough people do it, it's a dead plant.
Leaves fallen to the floor? Boutique or not, fair game. If you're willing to propagate from a leaf, you're probably not going to be buying whole plants anyway, and it doesn't hurt the store.
Imagine going to the hardware store and someone calls it a fucking "boutique". It's just Ace Hardware, calm down. Robert, the guy with the nose ring over there, didn't really craft that screwdriver by hand, either. Fuckin' liar. Yeah I'm talking about you, the fuck you gonna do about it? Next time I see you explaining how you 'create lightbulbs with love', I'm lighting your car on fire. Don't think I won't!
Anyway, what were we - oh yeah. Ace Hardware. Now impeccably posh, I guess.
Kind of reads like an instruction, not a discouragement.
Like the person who was ordered to make the sign is not the one who wanted it.
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
Read with a strong new jersey accent. 10/10
This is likely to prevent people from cutting the plants and later saying they picked up a fallen bit.
Yup, I doubt they actually care about people picking stuff off the floor.
Ex-retail worker here that spent a lot of time in aisles, counting inventory, etc.
Steal whatever you want; I don't care. Not my job to look after that shit and I wasn't paid enough for it anyway.
My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he's been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot....
That's awesome.
Honestly, grafting plants is like fucking alchemy in my mind. That shit is crazy.
Tissue culture protocols are basically modern druidic alchemy.
I honestly wonder if I went to an orchard if they would be able to give me a price to let me just graft their different trees. I don't want to wait 7+ years for many fruit trees. Grafted trees from what I've seen can often produce fruit in 2-3 years
I recently moved and plan to buy a bunch of cheap apple plants from a big store and get them rooted this year. Then next spring take all the choice varieties from my father/childhood and graft them into the plants for my kids :)
They might sell you something, but those branches took a lot of time and care to grow and mean profit for the farmer. You may be able to find an abandoned farm or a group of people who are preserving apple varieties to go branches from.
I like that. Good for him.
Download in progress
I've reported you to the FBI
I know you did
Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?
This sign is giving me ideas
If you're already buying a plant, add the leaf / trimming into the soil of the plant you're buying. It helps obfuscate it from staff.
So I have been told....
I'd never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!
Shouldn't have given it a fun portmanteau name, then.
Truly it should be potlifting though.
I don't approve of shoplifting, but their cute new word makes me want to try it.
Oh yeah? Well now I'm just going to proplift even harder!
"Proplift" sounds like it should be a name for a weird helicopter.
Or working out with a poet, political activist, husband, father, academic & emcee who is best known by me as a prolific podcast guest
Maybe it is illegal in the sense that some succulents ARE invasive species
I do know that people go to garden shops looking for free material for growth lying on the ground, which id argue is unnecessary. Most people who own plants or a garden will happily share with you the fact if you show the ittyest bittiest piece of interest in them, and also share plants as well.
Hell I regularly give out succulent saplings for free or as a gift to friends and people I meet.
So yeah, you can just ask man, it's no biggie
Someone in my town has a big clump of some kind of tall ruffly flower that stands on a stalk amidst tall upwards-sticking blade leaves. Very neat and it seems to grow quickly to fill the area every spring. I've been too nervous to ask for a bit of it, but maybe I can buck up some courage and ask.
and people I meet
I imagine you giving out small flowerpots with tiny succulents in them to surprised random people on the street and it made me chuckle.
Yeah, this is 100% plant people, my wife is a regular dispenser of spider plants, there are upwards of 10 jade plants in the house, snake plant and money plant are mid propagation and I strongly suspect we'll have multiple pink princesses by the end of next year and maybe a few new Swiss cheese plants - given the room we have remaining these will largely be distributed.
In the corpora-fascist future, all plants are copyrighted variants and you merely purchase a license to possess one plant.
This is already happening. There's a company who copyrighted a breed of pineapple. They charge $400 for said pineapple and the company intentionally chops the top completely off, so that it cannot be propagated. Normally, you can take the green part of a pineapple, put it in the ground, and a few years later you'll have a new pineapple. It's ridiculous.
You joke, but this is very much a real thing. Even if you buy certain hybrids, it can be technically illegal to propagate from them. The plant will have a little note attached to it saying so.
half of my succulents at home are from leaves that have fallen off in stores. sue me.
"no PLEASE don't spend half your paycheck here then get something for free :((( Pay me more money? I report u!!!!!"
Anyone know what store this is?
Plant props aren't a basic necessity. The plant shop doesn't decide your paycheck.
If you want to steal food from Walmart, go head, but don't feel entitled to whatever you want.
the home despot or blowes probably.
On today's episode of "I wasn't going to, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!"
Theft of garbage. Sure, store owner, whatever.
Things should not be alive if humans can't confine or use them for our capitalist purposes!
Funny, I'm actually more inclined to do it now.
We really do live in a dystopia.
So many examples every day.
Dystopia is when small sign.
I personally like nurseries to be able to stay in business. Most of them are just small local businesses.
Anarchy, because apparently words don't have meaning anymore
Heck yeah I would! Oh look, here's a nice one. I think I'll put it next to the car I downloaded
So you're saying I should just take the whole plant.
Buy plant, propagate, return plant, profit. They didn't say you cant do it at home, just not at the store...
Be kind, rewind, though.
… picking up…
No, Carl. I clearly up loaded that shit into my biodiversity.
You can't, like, OWN Mother Nature man....
Captain planet would disagree
He didn't just own her, but fucked her as well
Yes I would! A weed plant!
I grew professionally for many years. That's exactly how it works lol. Consistency is key and cloning is the way. I've sold single clones for thousands of dollars but the 2nd one was always for maybe a hundred bucks.
"Ворованное лучше растёт."
Great… the pirates now have a new argument to beat everyone to death with.
Yes
Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
AbhorrentArbor-ent thief.I usually take the floor leaves and tuck them into a plant or two I actually buy. That way I'm still paying for something and I might get some freebies if I can get the extra leaves to grow but it's not guaranteed. I probably wouldn't do this at a local store tho, just the big box stores.
I’m pinching off a leaf right now.
bUt tHE MuLCh
(this is a non-argument unless people are taking literally every other leaf)