Some time ago circa Summer 2023 my wife and I bought a very small monstera plant during a trip to the city. We kept it in the bedroom lounge area since the lighting was great there and we figured we could use some greenery upstairs for a change. It flourished for a while but started to hit some road bumps. I tried to course correct without knowing what I was doing and while it didn’t get worse it certainly didn’t get better.

I do what, apparently, a lot of other people do when I have zero clue where to start: I consult reddit. Not because I trust it as the end all be all resource, but because I know someone else has either made the same ill informed decisions I have, or at least knows how to fix them.

While this generally gets me pointed in the right direction it does have some drawbacks. Namely the part where I share my bad decisions and get dunked on for it…

Okay, maybe it’s not that bad, but one individual did point out that not doing my own research landed me there. I could argue that reaching out to a community of people familiar with my problems was research, but I was really taking a shortcut by crowdsourcing my question.

I don’t necessarily think it was the wrong way to handle it. I know that my plant needs a smaller pot, more water, easy draining soil, and maybe a moss pole. I do think there’s something to be said of learning proper care on my own through books or other resources. I also think there were better ways to share that opinion with me instead of clowning on me.

But you ask stupid questions you get stupid answers, I guess.

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