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Just realized my grandma's old coffee can terrarium from 1998 is still going and my fancy glass one died in 4 months
My grandma stuck a pothos cutting in a Folgers can with some dirt and a plastic lid back in 1998 and that thing has been sitting on her windowsill in Cleveland ever since. I got into terrariums a while back and dropped like $70 on a glass jar kit with charcoal layers and fancy drainage rocks, and the whole thing got moldy and rotted out in 4 months. Her setup is just dirt and a lid, but she opens it once a month to let it breathe and that seems to be the whole trick. I'm starting to think half the stuff I bought was just marketing and the plants were fine without it. Anyone else got an old school container garden that outlived the trendy bought stuff?
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jade_lane3d ago
That breathing thing is real. I've killed a bunch of sealed setups by never opening them. Now I just leave the lid cracked a little or pop it open every couple weeks for a few minutes and that fixed most of my rot problems. The charcoal and drainage rock layers are mostly upsell, a normal potting mix with some perlite mixed in does the same job. Pothos is also just hard to kill, it'll grow in a coffee can or a ditch.
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