These are beautiful plants. When you water them, how much water comes out from the bottom and how fast does it happen? Ensuring you have good drainage is key for all plants. This one is probably just in need of brighter light to keep its pretty colors. It may start to look kind of weird until next warm season. I had one and it didn't make it through the winter inside. Maybe a light will help.
I'm interested to see if there are any good FOSS options! I've used planta a bit but it has limited features on the free version and I do not need yet another paid subscription.
UPDATE: 24 hours after my last email to the landlord, and still no response. Not as satisfying as an acknowledgement that they were wrong (or maybe even... an apology?) but I'm pretty sure that means I'm in the clear, and the plant is safe.
You handled it great. I think you have a good chance of winning this one! Looking forward to your update in which you tell us that your landlord backed off :D
Your landlord is a piece of work! You handled it brilliantly, though. Anytime there is a building-wide notice with anything legal cited, I look it up; every damn time they are twisting some existing bylaw to try to control tenants.
Long live your plant! They look very happy and healthy :)
I think I already know the answer to this, but wtf is it about landlords never wanting to discuss things through email? Or text?
After my landlord continued to say "let's discuss this in person" I finally just said "no, I would like a record of the conversation, thanks." The noise complaint I initially contacted them about has never been solved a year later and I still live with the neighbors stomping day in and out. They wanted "proof," I sent them multiple videos with audio. They wanted me to call maintenance, I called maintenance - because the landlord insisted it was something in the pipes (?) When I discussed it with maintenance, they said they knew it wasn't. Nothing changed after they came, (they just looked at some kind of vent on the roof) but the landlord seemed satisfied that they'd tried, even though it did nothing. The landlord had been trying to go around the maintenance work order form online and have them call me instead. I filled out a form anyway.
I didn't mean to go on a rant, it's just so frustrating when you know that they know that they're in the wrong, but there's nothing you can do except take as many notes as possible in case it gets bad later on.
Landlord is wrong and clearly doesn't have a leg to stand on, which is why they are so pathetically resorting to calling your plant "seasonal or holiday decoration". They are also a joyless knuckle-dragging shithead.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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