• Scrubbles
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    453 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 day ago

      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 :)

    • @[email protected]
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      233 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        313 days ago

        Just to add some context, succulents are ridiculously easy to propagate from a fallen leaf. You literally just put them somewhere until they sprout roots and stick that in a pot. Takes a week, two max. That said, succulents also take years to mature. Your little sprouted leaf is going to stay small for about 2 years and by 4 or 5 it’ll look decent. So it may be “theft”, but by the time you’ve gotten a plant that’s on par with the one you got a leaf from, years will have passed and you’ll have likely spent money on pots, soil, and fertilizer from the same store you “stole” from. It’s like pinching a small bottle of paint from a craft store then turning around and spending $100 on canvasses and brushes

        • Midnight Wolf
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          163 days ago

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          so what you’re saying is I need to steal leaves and also paint brushes and art supplies, got it

    • @[email protected]
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      73 days ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      Nah, you’re getting a leaf, not a full plant. A leaf is fucking worthless. If the leaves had value, they would sell them.