Oh boy….

I bought the mimosa pudica plant back in June of 2021 in a spur of the moment of wanting to spend money and have a new plant and it suffered because of that decision.

It did pretty well in the terrarium but since it was paired with a rattlesnake calathea it wasn’t in direct sun a lot and became leggy. I repotted it into its own pot and it just seemed okay, but definitely not living its best life which made me sad.

It’s one of the few plants I wanted to die which sounds awful and make me feel bad but it’s true! I had hoped when family stayed in town that I would suddenly forget about it and miss a watering that it would keel over.

It didn’t.

Since November I have gone back and forth on propping the leggy guy but chickened out. What if the props don’t take? Scared me into leaving it alone for the next couple of months. I grabbed a pair of scissors and cleaned them right before I chopped at the few nodes on the stalk and threw them into the terrarium. It took me three minutes to prop the mimosa podia and afterwards I felt so good. I didn’t feel bad at all and it was kind of exciting to see if they would take. If they didn’t take it was okay, part of life, and I could move on to anything but another mimosa pudica, ahaha. I didn’t take any photos of it at its worst but it doesn’t deserved to be remembered that way, ahaha  

I checked the nodes today because I knew I would be posting about the sad plant later in the evening but nothing popping out yet. It’s been maybe a week since I cut up the nodes so it’s pretty earlier to see any new growth. Not going to stress about it if nothing happens – live and learn, ahaha. Not going to stress about it at all…..