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Is this plant dead?
Back from three weeks away, or an inherited plant that looks beyond help.
Tell me whether this plant is dead, salvageable, or simply ugly. Give me the test that settles it: scratch the stem for green, check whether the roots are white and firm or brown and soft. If it is salvageable, the first three things to do, in order. If it is dead, say so in your first line and tell me what can be propagated from what is left. The plant and what happened to it:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
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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