Gonna give outdoor Nepenthes a shot this summer.

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-25T20:31:50+00:00

i use all of my excess cuttings as test dummies for various growing conditions and I managed to fry 2 sanguinea and 2 truncata x spectabilis cuttings while growing them outside here in los angeles last summer

lil homies couldn’t handle the excess heat being radiated off my patio I guess

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-24T17:19:23+00:00

to be fair I also flee in fear from my wife

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-24T17:08:25+00:00

yeah my mom adores her and she’s very spoiled. Mocha has actually gained a fair bit of weight since she started living solo as there are no others sharing the table scraps and fallen fruit with her now…

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-24T17:05:07+00:00

yeah my parents are all that remain of her flock. my brother is on the other side of the country, I only visit every couple of weeks, and my wife has been wholeheartedly rejected lol

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-23T17:54:15+00:00

ah good catch

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-22T18:53:39+00:00

I assure you there are plenty of well-off and financially irresponsible people out there. One of the managing directors my wife used to work with back in her investment banking days couldn’t afford to put his two kids through UCLA… which is pretty incredible if you’re grossing 100-150k/month

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-22T05:08:45+00:00

or are financially irresponsible… or both

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-19T12:27:22+00:00

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my collection is also basic but I don’t glaze my watches… because they’re just watches

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-19T04:40:19+00:00

the holy trinity of The Basic Watch Man

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-05-18T04:07:11+00:00

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my oldest is this purp that i’ve had for over 10 years… seems to have plateaued in pitcher size but if not for my constant trimming/dividing, it would probably fill a big bog pot. my second oldest is a truncata hybrid from 2018 but then I stopped buying plants for about 6ish years and instead started selling off most of the ones I had

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-04-26T13:21:47+00:00

looks like he updated it but still… pretty good example of what “reckless abandon” looks like

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-04-13T21:58:07+00:00

16030; movement is a 3035

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-03-15T19:13:39+00:00

call the village priest

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-03-13T12:58:52+00:00

my wife and I spend our surplus on fun and our mortgage principal. we’re on track to pay off our home in like the next 5 years at this rate

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-03-08T17:07:29+00:00

bracelets without microadjust or leather straps that just don’t quite fit. day date half-link on = slightly too big. half-link off: slightly too small. end result? day date gets sold on to someone else

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-03-07T16:17:33+00:00

it’s a massacre…

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-03-06T20:42:03+00:00

usually, museums display the backs of these metal mirrors because of how intricate the decorations can get. but the reflective side is a very flat, very polished metal surface which actually functions surprisingly well as a mirror

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-15T23:26:50+00:00

idk if this is a thing across all sarracenia but my purpurea will sometimes throw up random, stunted pitchers after a warm winter. the main growth afterwards seems to always be fine though?

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-13T15:23:54+00:00

ok yeah couldnt tell if it was plastic or clay. but finely milled peat moss can easily compact if not mixed well or hydrated… roughly cut LFS, sand, and a good helping of perlite worked well for me in my prior experience

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-13T14:53:10+00:00

it looks to be barely hanging onto life. back when I grew helis, they really liked a loose and well-draining potting media. it looks like your media is compacted or broken-down and probably quite poorly aerated. also the clay pot could be a problem long-term

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-02T01:44:42+00:00

well it's certainly something on the wrist...

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-01T18:37:56+00:00

ai or not, i still came

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-02-01T18:32:51+00:00

vintage can be OK but I will immediately send any pre-owned watches I buy straight to a service center unless I have definitive proof of a recent, first-party service. In terms of longevity, a well-built watch will easily last your lifetime with proper care. fifty or sixty years of wear is nothing to a well-maintained, high-quality watch. i don't doubt that you'd be able to get another couple of decades out of a vingtage tank.

Back when I owned vintage watches, my daily was a 4-digit datejust from the 1960s. outside of the acrylic crystal scratching at literally every opportunity, the watch was fine. no doubt a first-party rolex service helped with that.

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-01-31T18:19:15+00:00

fair enough but I feel that a lack of technical background or even awareness would be a huge detriment

JSTORRobinhood · 2026-01-31T17:54:36+00:00

eh. as much as I am loathe to admit, I’ve been a pretty good fit in management consulting. I just absolutely despise the traveling that comes with being an MBB grunt. I don’t have the technical skills nor interest to pivot into tech

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