#plant stuff

Basically for my birthday last year, my friend gave me a 'grow your own plant' kit from Tiger. I am well known for accidentally murdering my plants and I was sure it wouldn't grow but I planted it anyway. Much to my surprise, almost every seed that I planted grew, creating this lovely twisted plant.

I was like, wow I bet this will die within days but I did my best to water it when the soil dried up. Much to my surprise, it grew a flower (I think I cried)

I was very proud of myself and my plant. Since then though, although it has flowered almost every day, lots of the leaves have yellowed and some of the flowers gave way to little bulbs that I realised were seed pods. So I've been collecting the seeds and I planted them today in little pots. Some of the parent plants died when they had their babies and I couldn't save them but a few have survived and I'm doing my best to keep them going as well as planting the seeds in the hopes that they can help my plants to grow.

DISCLAIMER i dont THINK there are any dangerous lookalikes to honeysuckle.. but i encourage people to double triple check any plants before putting them in your mouth. im not a plant expert and most of you guys arent either.

this is a lot harder to do if you have very short nails btw. specifically the green part is harder to rip off.

ive only ever done this with japanese honeysuckle. they look like this ⬇️⬇️

they are invasive pretty much everywhere in the eastern and central united states. (not great but also yaay sugar)

photo is from this wikipedia page if anyone wants the source btw