Polkira

u/Polkira@piefed.ca
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That's a sinningia muscicola, its pretty compact, super cute, and is basically always in bloom

I have an older post of it in my post history that shows more of it.

In water on a window-sill has worked in the past for me with that one. I make sure to cut close to the node, nor more than 1 cm under the node and I like to have at least 2 leaves on the stem. I leave the bottom node leafless. The window I put them on is south-east facing.

I found it to be pretty similar to other props, not too difficult to root. Mind you I usually prop in the spring time

When I started out I looked up plants on The Spruce and got tips from there. My first battle was moldy soil, but adding in some things to make it more airy eliminated that problem (I use 1:1:1 soil, pumice, and orchid bark these days).

I got a lot of tips from Reddit before I left with the whole API debacle. Honestly these days I just use Planta (phone app) and water/fertilize every week or two (or 3 or 4 if I'm feeling really lazy) depending on if the soil feels dry and Planta says it's time.

I watched a lot growing up, probably my first one ever was Sailor Moon or My Neighbour Totoro when I was around 5, then as I aged my anime choices slowly evolved (and I was also limited to what was on the TV until around 2003/2004 and started watching streams on whatever site I could find. My first ones that I guess I thought of differently than as an after school cartoon would've been Escaflowne in 2002 and Inuyasha in 2003.

I've actually had people be less pushy about it once I hit my 30's. Though I still get the occasional "why not?" and "what if your husband changes his mind?" when they ask if I have children. Which is honeslty pretty crazy to me, what if it wasn't by choice (it is) and now you're asking "why not?" to someone who wants them but for whatever reason can't have them.

I'm fortunate enough that my parents and in-laws both don't bother us about it. They'd love grandkids but know we won't be having any. The pressure mostly came from coworkers in my 20's where they'd say "You'll change your mind" and dismiss my opinions.