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Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
AbhorrentArbor-ent thief.This comment is an aberration.
abberrationarbor-ationI suspect you called me out to do this by your choice of words. I appreciate it.
You are correct, friend, and you are welcome.
Don’t think mulch about it
I’m not the most familiar with entkind, but are there non arbor ent? Are the entwives something else? Cacti?
I usually take the floor leaves and tuck them into a plant or two I actually buy. That way I’m still paying for something and I might get some freebies if I can get the extra leaves to grow but it’s not guaranteed. I probably wouldn’t do this at a local store tho, just the big box stores.
I’m pinching off a leaf right now.
fallen leaves are fair game
I don’t think it works like that. It’s like taking something that’s dropped but usable from the shop floor. They might just sweep it to garbage but they probably aren’t allowing you to take it anyway.
Depending on the shop, they might also be picking up and propagating fallen leaves as well.
That’s true
I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.
Already done it.
Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent leaf?
This is democracy manifest.
This gentleman touched my fruits!
I see you know your topiary well.
Are you waiting to receive my wilted branch?
Without a subscription? Yes.
It’s not theft, it’s basically dumpster diving for living things. Living things that can grow in dirt with some water. They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.
Pretty sure some people believe that dumpster diving is theft too
They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.
so it’s just like pirating movies
Not really. When you pirate a movie you get the whole thing. Just as if you paid for it.
A succulent leaf, however, needs years to become the size of an actual plant they would sell.
It’s even less damaging than pirating.
need years
so it’s the same torrenting a movie in 4K that has only a single seeder and their connection is really poor
Damn, you have reminded me that Project 4k80 is finally done, but I have yet to acquire it…
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It’s not theft, it’s basically dumpster diving for living things.
That’s often not allowed either
Yes it is. We’re encouraged to find any puppies, kittens, or babies in the trash.
Kind of reads like an instruction, not a discouragement.
Like the person who was ordered to make the sign is not the one who wanted it.
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
Read with a strong new jersey accent. 10/10
This is likely to prevent people from cutting the plants and later saying they picked up a fallen bit.
Yup, I doubt they actually care about people picking stuff off the floor.
The boots-on-the-ground staff absolutely does not give af. It’s definitely middle management that’s being bitched at by higher-ups that are scared of losing a fraction of a penny.
Source: middle management that gets bitched at by higher-ups that never set foot on the property.
I don’t even think management cares about actually picking up stuff from the floor, they want to stop people cutting off parts of plants and claiming they’re taken from the floor.
Ex-retail worker here that spent a lot of time in aisles, counting inventory, etc.
Steal whatever you want; I don’t care. Not my job to look after that shit and I wasn’t paid enough for it anyway.
Download in progress
I’ve reported you to the FBI
I know you did
My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he’s been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot…
I honestly wonder if I went to an orchard if they would be able to give me a price to let me just graft their different trees. I don’t want to wait 7+ years for many fruit trees. Grafted trees from what I’ve seen can often produce fruit in 2-3 years
I recently moved and plan to buy a bunch of cheap apple plants from a big store and get them rooted this year. Then next spring take all the choice varieties from my father/childhood and graft them into the plants for my kids :)
That’s dope, and great parenting. I’ve always been enamored with apple trees and plants in general. But I love apples. Those newish cosmic crisp apples? I’ll eat those until I get sick 🤣
If anybody wants a good cosmic horror book about apples trees and their strange fruits I can wholly recommend Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. It was a strange, interesting ride.
They might sell you something, but those branches took a lot of time and care to grow and mean profit for the farmer. You may be able to find an abandoned farm or a group of people who are preserving apple varieties to go branches from.
I like that. Good for him.
This sign is giving me ideas
If you’re already buying a plant, add the leaf / trimming into the soil of the plant you’re buying. It helps obfuscate it from staff.
So I have been told…
Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?
Executive boardroom
“How can we barcode each individual leaf? Surely this is an untapped market?” -some MBA
I love how their primary focus here is teaching you the term and only secondary concern is anti-theft.
I love how it reminds people that it’s possible.
If I want to steal from you I will. You can try guilting me all you want but I just don’t care.
Shouldn’t have given it a fun portmanteau name, then.
