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Tell me which plants to give up on

Too many struggling plants and not enough attention to go round.

I have more plants than attention. Help me decide what to stop trying to grow.

Sort my list into four:
1. **Keep.** Thriving or nearly so, low effort for what it gives.
2. **Fix.** One specific change would sort it. Name the change and the deadline by which I should see improvement.
3. **Rehome.** Would be fine somewhere else, in my garden or someone else's. Say where.
4. **Give up.** Fundamentally wrong for my conditions, or costing more attention than it returns.

For everything in the last group, say exactly why: wrong light, wrong climate, needs humidity I cannot provide, or simply that I do not like it enough to do the work. That last reason is legitimate and you should name it if it applies.

Be decisive. Do not put everything in "fix" to be kind. The purpose of this is to free up attention for the plants that will reward it, so I would rather cut too much than too little.

My plants and how each is doing:
My conditions:
How much time I have per week:

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Diagnosis and rescue. Working out what is wrong with a plant, what is eating it, and whether it is worth saving at all.

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