Fake Spring and Anxiety

[JohnAndSancho]

This kinda crosses every subthread on here so I'm gonna put it here. 

It's fake spring. Yeah it was 83 degrees today but, at least here in the South, there's always that one last cold front in late March or early April and I just don't have the energy to drag everything out and back in, totes or not. 

If you've paid any attention to my thread or my socials, I've gotten more into tropicals - bananas, colocasia, alocasia - I've got so much stuff to split up and pot up but I have just about filled this room. 

These aren't going into solo cups or liners, I can chop some into multiple 1g bags for farmers market sales or whatever, but I've got lots of 5g to fill and I don't know where the hell to put them for the next few weeks. I really wanna have everything ready when Real Spring gets here, or as ready as possible. 

 

I think I'm in over my head and I need someone to talk me off the ledge. Even the shelving wouldn't help me much, I have multiples with pups and I can leave them as is and sell them for more or I can cut them up. And there's another deal that's just too good to pass up. I've got room in the bedroom for small stuff but I don't want to risk bringing the spider mites in here. And I've still got philodendrons to prop. 

Whoever said that if you love what you're doing, you'll never work a day in your life was full of.... Well this is a family site so I'll say feces. I'll be fine in a few weeks but right now, yikes. 

 

We're gonna add this to the long list of rookie mistakes John has made. 

[happypalms]

Time to move to the tropics and forget about the darn cold weather holding you back, I could lease you a greenhouse, but then I will be in the same boat as you! 

[Harry’s Palms]

John , you’re gonna be fine once it catches on and you’re selling more. Spring is right around the corner and folks will want to buy plants , reducing your inventory problem . Hopefully a balance will occur. 🙂 Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

John , you’re gonna be fine once it catches on and you’re selling more. Spring is right around the corner and folks will want to buy plants , reducing your inventory problem . Hopefully a balance will occur. 🙂 Harry

I hope so. Because I just came across a deal I can't say no to. Once things can go outside and stay outside I'm fine, and if I was physically ok enough to drag everything out and back in I'd be fine - but if I was that physically ok I'd be working and would definitely not be this involved anyway 

[JohnAndSancho]

I guess my greatest strength is freaking the hell out about a problem and then figuring it all out. Unfortunately, my dumb ass just ordered 20 more colocasia bulbs so if Palmtalk has an Amazon Wishlist or Throne equivalent we can add 5 gallon pots and coir to it. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Well, I apparently decided I needed 6 alocasia, 2 philodendrons, a Ficus Elastica to replace my mom's that the cats killed, and another 2 dozen colocasia bulbs after some trades and eBay flips. So I went from having everything under control to oh boy I can put stuff outside now, so there's that. It's crazy, I'm acting like I'm trying to actually set up a business.