what an ingenius way to make sure people propagate more plants
There used to be a really cool project called Free seed ring earth, that distributed seeds for the cost of shipping, with seeds aquired through donations. Not sure if it’s still active, but I loved participating some 15-20 years ago.
I am a serial prop lifter and I will never stop.
My friends wife is into plants. I gave her some cut ZZ Raven leaves to grow because the tag said not to do propagate. They haven’t grow much but are still alive months later. Fuck your intangible ownership over life.
Never would’ve quite considered that the software open source movement, and gardener groups, would have such a fight in common.
A tier title OP
I saw a plant with a label on it saying not to propagate. Now I have about 10 of them.
Don’t tell anyone but I once took a seed of a palm tree off the ground in public park and planted it. It’s been growing in a pot for a couple of years now.
You THIEF
I told everyone and they did the same. I think you just sparked a revolution.
It feels like magic yet it is entirely natural
Another idea is to build communities to propagate plants (regardless how they were acquired) and share them (nearly) free of charge.
We call those allotments in the UK.
If you didn’t want me to do it you shouldn’t have given it such a cool name.
Stripping them off plants, yeah thats just damaging the plant itself and is shitty behaviour.
Off the ground? Now its crossing from damage into being pedantic about stuff that would go into a mulcher.
And I highly doubt that those with the patience and skill to propogate make up any significant margin whatsoever.
The skill involved for many plants is sticking it in the ground and leaving it to do its thing.
Ask the 5 kale plants on my bathroom window. Got to transfer them to individual pots at some point. Then see if I can get a few more cuttings to make some more. Not sure how many to grow, 10-20 probably but I still need to put up bird netting in the area I plan to put them.
That’s the same sort of business owners who would throw away uneaten food in restaurants and not allow employees to take it home.
so major ones
That’s different because it’s a liability thing. Some asshole would sue over bad food which means nobody gets the food.
They could donate the food to a food bank and be completely shielded from liability by Good Samaritan Act
They don’t want to because it means that poor people can eat for free (gasp) which might slightly impact the restaurant industry and indirectly reduce their profit margin by 0.1%
You are disregarding the storage and transportation of food that has a very limited shelf life along with requiring strict temperature control. It’s not as simple as tossing it all into a bag at the end of the night. It’s a significant logistical overhead.
That’s the excuse, yes
the alternative is the trash that will never sue you ever.
Americans would rather chuck perfectly good food into a dumpster than entertain the possibility of summoning the collective fucking will to fix a VERY straightforward problem. The idea that they could just legislate some reasonable liability protections and make sure edible food gets to hungry people apparently requires a level of imagination and civic competence beyond anyone’s wildest dream. So much easier to blame “some asshole” for creating what is surely an insurmountable legal paradox. The food rots, needy people go hungry, and the US gets to pretend the problem is some unavoidable fact of life rather than admit they just couldn’t be arsed to try.
Most stabilized countries have laws in place for food and protections for donations.
I’m guessing there’s rules behind this one but in the US:
The Food Donation Improvement Act: This act expands those protections. It allows qualified businesses (like restaurants, supermarkets, and schools) to donate food directly to individuals in need rather than having to route it through a registered 501©(3) nonprofit intermediary. It also allows nonprofits to charge a nominal “Good Samaritan” fee just to cover the logistics and handling costs of distributing the food.
I don’t know the specifics of that one though.
Easier & cheaper to just throw it away, so most businesses probably don’t bother. We would need to mandate and/or subsidize this behavior if we wanted people to actually do it.
Don’t you have to pay for waste disposal?
Sure, but they have stuff to throw away other than food, too, so they’re paying for it regardless. Some places in the US make property owners pay for waste disposal separately, but even then it could be a flat fee so the business wouldn’t gain anything by throwing less stuff away. Some places just include it in property taxes, in which case, again, the business wouldn’t gain anything.
Because the US is only a small handful of people with the same worldview…
You sure do always seem to post the same responses
? I don’t think that is the case. My fault for posting. Bye
Maybe only one of you has internet access and is frantically posting across media platforms.
Couldn’t you just sign a waiver to say you accept the risks?
unfortunately not really, there is a limit to how much liability you can waive and it’s not knowable before it’s tried in court.
In my limited experience (I found a succulent leaf on the street) the only skill one would need is to remind themselves to water it, like once a week maybe. All you have to do is drop it into a pot with some soil and water it every now and then. Maybe some succulents are more finicky though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*Also, it’s pretty cool to watch. Like the original leaf slowly shrinks and dries out as the new leaves are formed.
Yeah, I’ve got a couple succulents, and leaves will fall off and propagate on their own in the pot pretty often. All they really have to do is fall stem-side down into the dirt and it’ll grow roots and form a new plant. I just gave my buddy a small jade plant that grew from my larger plant that was originally itself a small auto-propagation from my dad’s plant.
I have succulents on my balcony that outgrow their pots. I break off chunks long enough to have a few root-hairs attached and drop them into the scruffy area at the side of the building. They can’t really root themselves there unless we get a bunch of rain, but I’ve seen a few people take one and it always makes me happy.
Funny enough though if they’re snipping a cutting off of the plant to propagate, the plant must be healthy enough to purchase…
I’m pretty sure the store the original post was from put that up to get people to propagate iirc
starts fucking in the garden center
gives birth in the garden center
takes birth in the garden center
This is gardening manifest!
