go on, grow your own food, they can't stop you

Story time: it’s an old wives tale amongst my people that plants grow splendidly when they’re stolen. My mom told her neighbor, who was having trouble growing flowers, that she should try it and cheekily motioned toward some shears sitting nearby before heading to bed.
She woke up the next morning to her 30 fucking year old dogwood tree lying on its side, partially uprooted, mutilated from the middle down with a saw, and dragged across the lawn to the beginning of the neighbor’s gravel driveway where it had been abandoned. Somehow, her neighbor had understood her to mean “just take any plant you like, however you like.” So, beware of seeding your torrents irl.

If something is truly succculent it needs to be shared!

I have a friend who wanders around gardening centers and will take little clippings with his fingers and bring them home in his pocket then grow them at home.
- Thats called proplifiting!
  I think its more acceptable to pick off the small bits that already fell, since snapping a bit off a plant could harm it.
  edit: fell, not feel.
  
  well good to know the name of the thing I do quite often (with fallen bits only though)
- I've got 6 or 8 plants I picked off the floor at Lowe's. One flew off the forklift and hit me in the face. Stuffed it in a water bottle and took it home. Rooting nicely!

You wouldn’t download a succulent Chinese meal

I love succulents and by god I would download them all.
- My succulents keep making babies and I have run out of people to give them to xD
  I need to find a cutting/ fallen leaf/seed swap meet or something
  
  My local library has a small "free plant" shelf and I've just realized why.
  
  Make a post: !plantswap@mander.xyz

Make sure you get open-pollinated varieties, so that you can save your own seed. I have vegetables growing in my garden that are now 7/8 generations away from the original seed I bought. Saving your own seed means that the plants can adapt to your local conditions too and because you let them flower they also benefit other creatures in your garden.
Seed-saving is massively Solarpunk.

I managed to kill 3 succulents.
I should not be permitted near plants.

Alternate title: How to end up on a Monstanto hit list
- Real alternate title: Proplifting

Proplifters will be propecuted.

Piracy, eh? I wonder where that typewriter font came from.

I don't have to buy potatoes anymore. One fell off the shelf and got forgotten about like 3 years ago and now new ones just keep appearing.

I've been interested in the process of propagation/recultuvating for a while now and I would like to learn more about it. Can someone with point me to some good resources to accomplish this? Or maybe someone has a copy of this book they could share trough DM?
- You will probably be able to find it in the internet archives text database if you search for it by ISDN or even title, I know I did.
- I happen to have a reasonable amount of professional experience in plant propagation.
  Here’s the thing, there are many general principles that work, but every plant is different in ways that make it confusing for a beginner.
  So if you want to start out gently pick a specific plant that you want to propagate. Learn how to divide it and make that particular species grow. There are general principles you can learn that will allow you to expand to other types of plants.
  The field of plant tissue culture is accessible to a dedicated home hobbyist as well. There is a learning curve and you need to be comfortable with laboratory type work.
  Or you can break off a bit and stick it in moist dirt. Plant propagation runs the gamut from dead simple to difficult. So begin by focusing on one single kind of plant that you want more of.
  My two cents.
  if the lab side of it interests you, these folks have good videos
  
  Thank you so much for your reply! The "lab" side defiantly interests me, as i'm working in a lab every day ;)
  I'll be sure to check the link! Have a great day!
- Meotch is right. I'd add that after growing plants for 30+ years, I've just discovered how easily most things root in a glass of water. My secret sauce is rainwater.

Shady pico de gallo seeds are currently 2 tomato, and a jalapeño plant. I had one sweet onion decided to grow past the point of use, and I didn't have the heart to kill its dreams. I have never actually seen what one looks like when growing or how they seed or propagate. So I guess I'll learn this year. I haven't pirated anything quite yet, but only just getting my head around how early seeds actually need to be planted for the growing season.
- Let the onion flower! The flowers are delicious before they go to seed.