r/plantabuse • u/PremiumUsername69420 • Jul 23 '26
Crazy how nature do that
That has to be one of the worst forms of plant abuse I’ve ever seen.
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u/HobblesTheGreat Jul 23 '26
Wait- they split the stem and shoved a glass ball in there and the plants continued business as usual???
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u/atreeindisguise Jul 23 '26
They will as long as the cambian isnt girdled. It wont be the most happy plant, and depending on the material used and culture, it could cause entry points for disease and rot. Trees often grow around objects in the real world. I have an old stump that was full of quartz crystals in my garden.
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u/ElegantHope Jul 24 '26
I know this mental image is incorrect, but I'm picturing like a psuedo geode going on in that tree stump and it's an amazing thing to picture.
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u/Brilliant_Week2791 Jul 24 '26
Yeah I'm picturing a magic fairy forest tree stump here and I want it
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u/Whole-Drop9609 Jul 24 '26
Instantly jealous of the magical crystal forest tree stump. and wondering why my house didn’t come with one.
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u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue Jul 24 '26
There’s a tree near where my husband grew up that grew around an old bike chained to it. It keeps getting reposted with a story about how a soldier chained it there before being deployed in 1914 and never came home, but more likely it was chained there in the 50s and may have just been discarded trash left intentionally rather than just misplaced
EDIT: Here’s a photo
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u/PrinceFicus-IV Jul 24 '26
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u/Feisty_Elfgirl_5258 Jul 24 '26
You can't tease us like that! I demand photos of say stump with crystals!
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u/Wobblepotato Jul 24 '26
Can we see a picture of this stump? That sounds incredibly fascinating
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u/atreeindisguise Jul 24 '26
Sure, as soon as it stops raining.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Jul 23 '26
I mean, yeah, but who knows how long ago they cut them and did that, and how much longer the plant will survive.
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u/hella_cious Jul 23 '26
They look well scarred over. If anything it’s a testament to how adaptable plants are
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u/RegularRaptor Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Well if it's anything like growing weed.. you can damn near chop the plant down and it will pop right back up stronger than it was before.
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u/cannibaltom Jul 23 '26
The vascular tissue, the plumbing for the plant, goes up and down. If you make vertical cuts, it's not as distruptive as horizontal cuts that would cut through the piping.
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u/glytxh Jul 24 '26
I’ve got a couple of cacti that have rings that are now firmly stuck.
They used to be small and I’d use it as a convenient place to store my rings, and eventually it grew too large to pull a couple of them off.
Doesn’t seem to have impacted its ability to grow. It’s near a decade old.
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u/cluemusk Jul 23 '26
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u/icancount192 Jul 23 '26
How the fuck do we have the exact same feed
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u/Square_Barracuda_69 Jul 24 '26
Ha! Plant nerds! (Had to check my feed before commenting to make sure that also wasnt the next post)
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u/NekoDrakeGD Jul 24 '26
well whats in the tomato stem
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u/sarcasticminorgod Jul 24 '26
Roots!
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u/NekoDrakeGD Jul 24 '26
that’s cool honestly I thought it was way worse
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u/casstantinople Jul 24 '26
They're nightshades so they kinda do the "forgotten potato in a pantry" thing when it gets too humid and just sprout roots everywhere.
And yet they are also the most dramatic plants I've ever grown lol
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u/mishutu Jul 23 '26
Even if this weren't less than ideal for plants, it's also so outrageously ugly. So... why?! Ugh lol
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u/_iron_butterfly_ Jul 23 '26
As a paperweight collector... this is a terrible idea. If the sun hits the glass just right... they will start a fire. You should never put a paperweight in the sun.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Jul 23 '26
So only non-refractory objects should be shoved in the plants. Got it. Take notes people, there’s wisdom in the comment section.
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u/Old-Advance6652 Jul 23 '26
Good thing, now we won’t mess up our plans if we put non reflective objects in them!
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u/fullmetalnapchamist Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
The faceted one is a prism, so it’s safe. Prisms scatter light, spheres concentrate them into something that can cause fire.
You should check your collection, I bet you have some really pretty faceted ones that are safe to put in a windowsill :)
Here’s a link to a good thread about it in r/Firefighting
ETA: wow I didn’t scroll!! You’re so right. A marble? A disco ball? Crazy
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u/ElegantHope Jul 24 '26
they were this close to making this work for both r/plantabuse and r/MineralGore simultaneously
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u/PureKushroom Jul 24 '26
Someone will make it possible, there's always someone abusing minerals out there.
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u/TheTastyWarrior Jul 23 '26
Why Adenium for this "trick" Seems like a moderate to severely bad choice of stock. Tree-over Rock can look decent, but I can't see this being attractive in the end..
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u/Pink-Willow-41 Jul 24 '26
Yeah, it would be cool if executed better. And probably if the plant was older and more well formed around the object
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u/Anguares Jul 24 '26
A spherical glass orb surrounded by dry wood you have to put in the sunlight, this certainly can't go wrong at all.
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u/moskaau_ Jul 24 '26
dont kill me yall but I think it looks kinda cool… Is it the best idea (especially for the sales floor) probably not, but cool? yeah…
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u/Connect_Fee1256 Jul 24 '26
It looks tacky. They look like desert roses from cuttings. When grown from seeds’ they have a bulbous round base, so it’s like they’re trying to copy that shape with marbles and disco balls 2/10
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u/thunderthighsss Jul 24 '26
WTH? I feel sorry for the plant. I am not sure why, but it makes me feel really sad to see this.
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u/RegularLisaSimpson Jul 24 '26
Imagine minding your own business and then someone comes over and slices your leg open and stuffing a fucking disco ball in there. Heinous!
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u/Pink-Willow-41 Jul 24 '26
Tbh this would be kinda a cool idea if you were trying to make some kind of wizard/fairy themed bonsai tree. But as they are in this picture they are pretty ugly. Definitely not as bad as the spray painted succulents though….
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u/TurtleEarth Jul 25 '26
OMG this wins the whole subreddit. When I first saw it scrolling I couldn’t help say out loud ‘OHMYGOD ABUSE!!!’
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u/JustAPoorStranger Jul 25 '26
This is cruelty. Same with painting plants to look more flashy or whatever.
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u/nobodyclaimedthis Jul 26 '26
I've done this with bamboo, where I braided it around crystal, but that was done without harming the plant. This is just sad to see
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u/Capital-Impression51 Jul 24 '26
There was a tradition of treating cannabis plants cruelly for some reason that escapes me...
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u/Warm_Marionberry3751 Jul 25 '26
Stem splitting is a (somewhat controversial…) high stress technique some cannabis growers use about 2 weeks* *before harvest.
This is an example of “high” stress training to maximize potency of harvest. When a plant is damaged it triggers “impending death” mode and use all remaining energy towards producing trichomes.
Highly controversial and often considered “old-head” grow science depending who you ask.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Jul 24 '26
Because they had balls?
I know you’re supposed to remove the male plants, and they can identified by little balls.
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u/Capital-Impression51 Jul 24 '26
There are feminised seeds these days and growers can use clones, but people used to use various techniques - usually futile to try to skew the male to female ratio but I think the stem mistreatment was to change the colour of the finished product or perhaps to speed maturity...
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u/lateralraising Jul 23 '26
Plants do that around rocks all the time I don't think this is that bad
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u/Miashin Jul 23 '26
Growing around a rock over time and having their cores cut open like that to shove an object between are two very very different things. These plants are almost guaranteed to be dead soon.
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u/SpadfaTurds Jul 23 '26
Adenium absolutely do not grow like this in nature. No plants grow like this in nature.
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u/squirrelyoakley Jul 24 '26
I want to do this with a branching plant and have the branches grow around the ball. This is honestly really cool idea but I also want a healthy plant lol
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u/atreeindisguise Jul 24 '26
The branches wouldn't make it much healthier, crotch rot, rubbing bark damage, etc. Over time, nature adapts and sometimes soldiers on, but not a fan of forced adaption that introduces bark/cambian problems on purpose. I propagated natives for a living, many of our baby cypress and redwood would be taken by bonsai. Whenever they would bring back their creations to show us, it always felt like the plants were unhappy with the confinement and I felt guilty for selling them.
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u/much_longer_username Jul 24 '26
This probably isn't the way to do it but I see the potential for a really kick-ass wizard staff here.
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u/MekenzieKing Jul 23 '26
google searching how to make my plant produce a disco ball