You have a monkey tail cactus. For awhile they grow vertical and then once they reach a certain stage they droop down and grow downward. If you Google monkey tail cactus you can see a bunch of photos. They look very lovely in a hanging basket.
I am honestly no expert on plant IDs esp house plants with many different varieties but regardless this plant obviously is a horizontal grower. Hope it’s doing well!
Thanks for the information - I had no idea it was a feature rather than a bug.
Do you know if taking the stakes out and letting it droop as it will would be dangerous for it at all, after being allowed to grow so tall with stakes for about a year?
That is moronic. If they can ban all-year potted plants as 'seasonal decorations' then words have no meaning and they can literally call anything 'seasonal decorations'.
Stand your ground, or they might be back to tell you your TV, fridge and toilet are seasonal decorations too.
One time, the apartment complex I was living at said I was violating my lease for keeping a storage container on my balcony. It was a small, zip up greenhouse with plants in it, which they allowed. When I confronted them about it, they admitted that they only observed it from the ground (I was on the 3rd floor) and that it was fine after all. That “violation” still appears on my rental history today, as the next apartment I rented asked me to explain why there was a violation on my file. Fuck this system.
Here is a recent and ongoing example of how software services can be used (allegedly) by property management companies to avoid competition for the benefit of all (property management companies).
I’m landlord. I’m a single person who owns property. I directly own the properties. I do not use any software to track tenants across properties. I don’t need to. I know within 5 minutes of meeting them whether or not they will be a pain in my ass.
You’re right, not all landlords - you are not the problem, large corporate landlords are the problem. Don’t all landlords get gifted a corporation after their first 90 days or something?
A lot of properties are modernizing now and using software/systems that has history they can pass on to other complexes when they are called for references.
It's part of the reason I left my old job as a technician. They were wanting me to install an app on my personal cell phone that would gps track me when I was on a work order and when pictures were taken for work orders. Not to mention they were using paycor and required gps tracking on when using it to clock in/out. When I started there we had paper time cards and carbon copy work orders.
Soulless corporations they are. Nickel and dime you to death.
Which is the straw that broke the camel's back for me. They refused. Threatened me with discipline. I was already being paid shit for the work I was doing and was expected to do more. They even threatened my boss because I refused to install any apps. They were out to make an example of me because my position was a hold out from the "old ways".
They were doing something with glassdoor as well because I attempted to report how much I made on there and I'm guessing they didn't like the way it made them look so they had my review taken down. "Spam post as salary is not within market range for position." I was 100% honest in the pay I posted. (Plot twist: It was well below market range. Surprising, I know.)
I wonder if being fired because you wouldn't install work software on a personal phone, and they wouldn't provide a work phone, would count as a constructive dismissal
EDIT: To clarify. I was not the only one unhappy about all this. There was a group of the groundskeepers from other properties that were putting up a fight as well because none of their work required work orders, but were still required to install the software.
Apparently so. I was quite surprised by that as well. I imagine it’s a service or something that large property management companies use, which seems rather intrusive to me. My experience after renting 6 different apartments in the US across 3 different states is that there are too few protections and options for recourse for tenants. I am a good tenant, in my opinion. I pay my rent on time and do not draw any complaints from my neighbors.
I am currently living in an apartment in Indiana, where I was recently without working plumbing for 5 days. As far as I can tell, there is no way for me to recoup related costs or break the release without involving a lawyer. I reported the details to the city health department, which is as close as I can get to getting the incident on the “permanent record” of the property management company.
All big service companies are doing this, airlines, hotels, insurance, rental, car rental. They have a big database that they all input into.
I was (temp) barred from renting a car in 2005 because they said I stole a rental. I went back after them to prove it and they did a bit of digging. It was in Illinois, a state I have never been too… Oh and he was black and I’m glow in the dark Irish. If I hadn’t pressed it they were fine w/ denying me.
Also got grabbed by the Michigan Sate Police over the same matter, but they figured it out pretty quick compared to the rental car company. No cuffs or jail, just a 15 minute wait and the trooper apologizing and we had a laugh over it.
I think you handled it professionally. Good for you. Landlord seems to be way over reaching. I despise these sorts of situations. I hope they back down.
I’m planning on growing some normal petunias first. Then once the price has come down a bit (and I have some experience keeping petunias alive and overwintering them indoors) I’ll grab a Firefly plant.
I did however buy some of those new purple tomatoes. Hopefully they’ll do well enough I’ll be able to make some crosses I want to try (Early Girl and San Marzano).
The one I got my wife a month ago is doing great! It has like 6 flowers blooming right now and another handful about to. These things are so fucking cool!
I got my Venus flytrap as few years ago and it hasn’t disappointed me with catching flies. All flies that dared to enter my room would shortly(1-3 days) be caught by the flytrap.
Good plant. Very nice of it to get rid of the FUCKING FLY! I personally prefer my salt shotgun and the 30 spiders in my house because im clinically unable to not mess up plants, its either to much or not enough of something… Usually light or water, sometimes they hate the soil itself.
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