Oh my! Is this a problem at a nursery? People have a lot of nerve.
Butterfly-Mane on
Lil bit overzealous.
FleawithaPurpose on
They say you are stealing what they plan to sweep up and trash later.
Aromatic-Step-6616 on
I always ask first
kilofeet on
I look forward to reading about that court case in the *Journal of Plant Piracy Law*
Emrylou on
In my opinion: If it’s a big chain store like Walmart or Lowe’s take a piece off if you want who cares. If it’s a nursery I think taking what’s off the floor is okay but not to break any off the plants themselves.
I think saying taking something off the floor (that would be deemed trash) is stealing is stupid and absurd.
slatebluegrey on
The police and DA will be right on that. Do you know how hard it is to go after -actual- shoplifters, much less the theft of a cutting with negligible value?
SithLordDave on
Don’t fool yourself, stealing is stealing. I’ll just be sneakier.
lcrker on
It’s theft.
elivings1 on
I see this problem 2 fold kind of like copyright infringement. From one hand they still have the product and plants have been increasing in price so much the last few years. From the other side you are not buying the plant and making the plant less desirable kind of like how you pirate a game and not sell it while they did not lose the license they certainly lost a sale and since there is a way to pirate it the game will be less profitable. The reality is I see prosecution being hard to nail as plant scion are only worth a few dollars. You would need a lot of stealing before it is worth your time unless you want to prove a point.
SirMourningstar6six6 on
Someone took a good bit of my mums last night. Now there’s a large patch in my pot 🙁
flex194 on
Everyone is missing the point here. If you take part of a plant that was on the floor and then propagate it you then do not need to purchase that plant from the store. Has nothing to do with them putting it in the garbage later.
There is a Korean restaurant I go to that has the same sign. They also have a ton of awesome old succulents filling their windows so I get it and actually feel angry for them that it’s such an issue that they have to put up the sign.
SilentResident1037 on
This reminds me of the time I asked about moving daffodils because there’s one growing in the ditch on my street and I got downvoted to hell because I would be “stealing” from my neighbour who has been dead for 20 years
Kcthonian on
No prob. I’ll buy ONE plant.
Then I’ll make 20 more plants from the one I bought and give them away as gifts to my friends. Might even get seeds from that plant and grow even more! 😀
It’s my plant. So it isn’t theft.
spacepangolin on
when i worked in plant retail, i had a nice cebu blue with 2 6″ vines on the floor, then suddenly it was proplifted and was let with nubs, i took care of it and kept it to the side to regrow, it put out quite a few new leaves and was ready to sell again, THEN WAS PROLIFTED AGAIN, it’s just frustrating
outsidepointofvi3w on
Ya know. It seemed extreme. However I worked at place that was a remediated cotton field that made compost and grew and sold veggies we had a grape vine on a trellis arch along as being part of a fence. We never ever got grapes. Because middle eastern or Mediterranean women would visit with their family’s and while walking around would defoliate the vine. I’m surprised it even lived honestly. The owner would confront them sometimes if he saw it. They would always say “is just some leaves” then run off quick. I wanted to say “oh is just finger no big deal”
Rich1926 on
I honestly never thought of this both ways. Never thought to want to take cuttings off plants in a place that sells them nor would I have thought that even picking cut ones off the ground would be considered stealing.
I_have_many_Ideas on
Can one actually propagate a plant from a cutting? Doesn’t it depend on the plant?
PurchaseFree7037 on
I’ve been given many mostly dead plants just by asking. 🤷♀️
Temporary-Draft-3269 on
I walked out to an old lady randomly harvesting a 5 gallon buckets worth of my cherries from beside my driveway that I had netted up. I’m like what the hell are you doing?. Well you have so many I’m like then maybe knock on my damn door and ask!!!! I don’t care who you are. How long you’ve lived in somebody’s town doesn’t make you entitled people suck. I’ll press charges and shoot at them. I’ve actually invested in a ton of tangerine prickly pears that have the really nice 2-in long thorns on them and they’re going all the way around my property and if somebody wants to get to any of my other plants, they’re going to have to go through those puppies. And I’ll still prosecute the pecker woods
lcrker on
is it yours to guess whether it can or not? is it also yours to guess the root health of the plant these cuttings are taken from and whether that may actually be the last straw for the normally incredibly root bound plants these nurseries offer.
If you want to abuse the trust these nurseries give you to walk among their plant or feel its okay for others to do so it’s not fine, but arguing further is pointless.
Phelpso on
Major growers patent their cultivars. Serious business
I was at home depot today with my 6 year old. I broke a mint leaf off of one of the plants so he could smell it.
He asked me if it was stealing and I told him it wasn’t really cuz were just smelling them and it will grow back. We got home and I started to cook up dinner and he pulls about a dozen basil leaves out of his pocket and he’s like, “here dad I got you this to use for dinner”.
Critical-Test-4446 on
As a retired LEO, I can’t imagine being dispatched to a call for a theft of a plant cutting. My department was too busy to deal with nonsense like that, and I’m sure the states attorney isn’t gonna waste their time prosecuting. This sign is probably just meant to keep it from happening.
throwaway2032015 on
I walk in and go straight to closest employee and ask if they have any succulent pieces on the floor can I have them. 4/4 times they said yes and once walked with me to help hunt down good ones
beakrake on
Me at my local farm market on a “pick your own” zinnia patch for mothers day:
$7 a cup is kind of expensive, but it’s also mothers day…
Also me:
Buys two cups and fills the bottoms with nothing but seed heads to hold the flower stems.
To be fair, they did say “whatever you can fit in the cup.”
purusingwhatever on
If it’s on the floor it’s fair game
SurferGurl on
My grandma used to say that if you thanked someone for giving you a plant, it cursed the plant for certain death, and if you stole slips from plants, they’d thrive. She stole plant slips all the time. I have, too, on occasion – from restaurants and doctor’s offices…never from a store, though.
Every-Celery170 on
My Grammy and I will go to Walmart & look at the plants every now & again. She likes to get their big cardboard boxes, and I like the extra cuttings that hide at the bottom, all free. So we wander around, often on days where they’re unpacking boxes of plants. Yes, they come in boxes. The latest cuttings I found in a box were small teddy bear vines. I propagated them in water & bam, growing strong yet so soft. And my Grammy gets her boxes, we keep the Walmart folks from having to break down the boxes. Win, win, win. Don’t tell Walmart tho.
sillykittyball12 on
I help run a nursery, and so money people take cuttings while destroying the rest of the plant. bc obv none of them are going to whip out clippers. They just try to pinch plants, and when they realize the plant is healthy and isnt going to give in to just a casual pinch from human fingers, they freak out and either keep trying and ruin all the growth on sed plant, or just drop the plant acting like they never tried to pinch it. Which usually means it gets dropped on the ground, upside down, or in some way that it gets hurt and is sad and sickly before we find it. Or sometimes they do get a pinch, and it’s on a plant that a: can’t be propegated like that or b: will not recover from the bacteria from a nasty hand just grabbing and ripping at it.
It really is sad for the plant, and sad for our little grower owned nursery.
If you’re stealing from lowes go ahead, but you should know most of their plants have diseases and by bringing home an exposed cutting you are risking your whole collection.
End sad plant stealing rant.
Psychotic_EGG on
Garden center piracy.
RamblingRose63 on
A few frozen paintballs may deter irritants
hotelindia15182 on
Prosecute for $7, doubt it.
middayautumn on
It’s June. Be gay do crimes.
tremblingmeatman on
I will keep committing this crime in box stores, they lose very little money for it and I gain happiness.
Blueberry_Clouds on
I only take the leaves that have fallen off and are like on the ground and slightly wilted (in most cases for succulents) since those plants are built to withstand that kind of damage and regrow from the leaves.
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Oh my! Is this a problem at a nursery? People have a lot of nerve.
Lil bit overzealous.
They say you are stealing what they plan to sweep up and trash later.
I always ask first
I look forward to reading about that court case in the *Journal of Plant Piracy Law*
In my opinion: If it’s a big chain store like Walmart or Lowe’s take a piece off if you want who cares. If it’s a nursery I think taking what’s off the floor is okay but not to break any off the plants themselves.
I think saying taking something off the floor (that would be deemed trash) is stealing is stupid and absurd.
The police and DA will be right on that. Do you know how hard it is to go after -actual- shoplifters, much less the theft of a cutting with negligible value?
Don’t fool yourself, stealing is stealing. I’ll just be sneakier.
It’s theft.
I see this problem 2 fold kind of like copyright infringement. From one hand they still have the product and plants have been increasing in price so much the last few years. From the other side you are not buying the plant and making the plant less desirable kind of like how you pirate a game and not sell it while they did not lose the license they certainly lost a sale and since there is a way to pirate it the game will be less profitable. The reality is I see prosecution being hard to nail as plant scion are only worth a few dollars. You would need a lot of stealing before it is worth your time unless you want to prove a point.
Someone took a good bit of my mums last night. Now there’s a large patch in my pot 🙁
Everyone is missing the point here. If you take part of a plant that was on the floor and then propagate it you then do not need to purchase that plant from the store. Has nothing to do with them putting it in the garbage later.
Can I go after deer and groundhogs?
https://preview.redd.it/9t2q5w4n8u6d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbbb9e0866c7496077c7e602c357c4e3712ff030
There is a Korean restaurant I go to that has the same sign. They also have a ton of awesome old succulents filling their windows so I get it and actually feel angry for them that it’s such an issue that they have to put up the sign.
This reminds me of the time I asked about moving daffodils because there’s one growing in the ditch on my street and I got downvoted to hell because I would be “stealing” from my neighbour who has been dead for 20 years
No prob. I’ll buy ONE plant.
Then I’ll make 20 more plants from the one I bought and give them away as gifts to my friends. Might even get seeds from that plant and grow even more! 😀
It’s my plant. So it isn’t theft.
when i worked in plant retail, i had a nice cebu blue with 2 6″ vines on the floor, then suddenly it was proplifted and was let with nubs, i took care of it and kept it to the side to regrow, it put out quite a few new leaves and was ready to sell again, THEN WAS PROLIFTED AGAIN, it’s just frustrating
Ya know. It seemed extreme. However I worked at place that was a remediated cotton field that made compost and grew and sold veggies we had a grape vine on a trellis arch along as being part of a fence. We never ever got grapes. Because middle eastern or Mediterranean women would visit with their family’s and while walking around would defoliate the vine. I’m surprised it even lived honestly. The owner would confront them sometimes if he saw it. They would always say “is just some leaves” then run off quick. I wanted to say “oh is just finger no big deal”
I honestly never thought of this both ways. Never thought to want to take cuttings off plants in a place that sells them nor would I have thought that even picking cut ones off the ground would be considered stealing.
Can one actually propagate a plant from a cutting? Doesn’t it depend on the plant?
I’ve been given many mostly dead plants just by asking. 🤷♀️
I walked out to an old lady randomly harvesting a 5 gallon buckets worth of my cherries from beside my driveway that I had netted up. I’m like what the hell are you doing?. Well you have so many I’m like then maybe knock on my damn door and ask!!!! I don’t care who you are. How long you’ve lived in somebody’s town doesn’t make you entitled people suck. I’ll press charges and shoot at them. I’ve actually invested in a ton of tangerine prickly pears that have the really nice 2-in long thorns on them and they’re going all the way around my property and if somebody wants to get to any of my other plants, they’re going to have to go through those puppies. And I’ll still prosecute the pecker woods
is it yours to guess whether it can or not? is it also yours to guess the root health of the plant these cuttings are taken from and whether that may actually be the last straw for the normally incredibly root bound plants these nurseries offer.
If you want to abuse the trust these nurseries give you to walk among their plant or feel its okay for others to do so it’s not fine, but arguing further is pointless.
Major growers patent their cultivars. Serious business
https://i.redd.it/ecuhk7liou6d1.gif
I was at home depot today with my 6 year old. I broke a mint leaf off of one of the plants so he could smell it.
He asked me if it was stealing and I told him it wasn’t really cuz were just smelling them and it will grow back. We got home and I started to cook up dinner and he pulls about a dozen basil leaves out of his pocket and he’s like, “here dad I got you this to use for dinner”.
As a retired LEO, I can’t imagine being dispatched to a call for a theft of a plant cutting. My department was too busy to deal with nonsense like that, and I’m sure the states attorney isn’t gonna waste their time prosecuting. This sign is probably just meant to keep it from happening.
I walk in and go straight to closest employee and ask if they have any succulent pieces on the floor can I have them. 4/4 times they said yes and once walked with me to help hunt down good ones
Me at my local farm market on a “pick your own” zinnia patch for mothers day:
$7 a cup is kind of expensive, but it’s also mothers day…
Also me:
Buys two cups and fills the bottoms with nothing but seed heads to hold the flower stems.
To be fair, they did say “whatever you can fit in the cup.”
If it’s on the floor it’s fair game
My grandma used to say that if you thanked someone for giving you a plant, it cursed the plant for certain death, and if you stole slips from plants, they’d thrive. She stole plant slips all the time. I have, too, on occasion – from restaurants and doctor’s offices…never from a store, though.
My Grammy and I will go to Walmart & look at the plants every now & again. She likes to get their big cardboard boxes, and I like the extra cuttings that hide at the bottom, all free. So we wander around, often on days where they’re unpacking boxes of plants. Yes, they come in boxes. The latest cuttings I found in a box were small teddy bear vines. I propagated them in water & bam, growing strong yet so soft. And my Grammy gets her boxes, we keep the Walmart folks from having to break down the boxes. Win, win, win. Don’t tell Walmart tho.
I help run a nursery, and so money people take cuttings while destroying the rest of the plant. bc obv none of them are going to whip out clippers. They just try to pinch plants, and when they realize the plant is healthy and isnt going to give in to just a casual pinch from human fingers, they freak out and either keep trying and ruin all the growth on sed plant, or just drop the plant acting like they never tried to pinch it. Which usually means it gets dropped on the ground, upside down, or in some way that it gets hurt and is sad and sickly before we find it. Or sometimes they do get a pinch, and it’s on a plant that a: can’t be propegated like that or b: will not recover from the bacteria from a nasty hand just grabbing and ripping at it.
It really is sad for the plant, and sad for our little grower owned nursery.
If you’re stealing from lowes go ahead, but you should know most of their plants have diseases and by bringing home an exposed cutting you are risking your whole collection.
End sad plant stealing rant.
Garden center piracy.
A few frozen paintballs may deter irritants
Prosecute for $7, doubt it.
It’s June. Be gay do crimes.
I will keep committing this crime in box stores, they lose very little money for it and I gain happiness.
I only take the leaves that have fallen off and are like on the ground and slightly wilted (in most cases for succulents) since those plants are built to withstand that kind of damage and regrow from the leaves.
isn’t stealing from a farm a felony?
What are you in for?
Stealing a leaf from a $5 succulent.