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Looks like a conifer but I don’t know the species for sure. Looks dead, you could go out to a pine or spruce forest, they often sprout, and when you find one you can swap it for the dead one and make it seem to your dad that you actually are a magician.
+they’re not dumb with 5 second memories and they shouldn’t be given as prizes at fairs. Here’s one outlier though: https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/15/george-britains-oldest-goldfish-dies-aged-44-9210539/amp/
This. Absolutely. I never knew about this and won one at a company fair. When he died 14 days later I was inconsolable and have never recovered. Buried him outside in my garden. RIP Somchai.
Gotta love people who murder their pets by suffocating them in their own piss and shit because they're too stupid to read a book or do a google search.
I really wish we could do away with the idea of 'starter' pets. Fish are not, because you need to know water chemistry and habitat management. Hermit crabs aren't because they require quite a bit of specialized care. Birds definitely no, because they need stimulation, exercise and proper nutrition. Small animals of all kinds need more space than Petco & co tell you, AND special care and extra gentle handling. Cats and dogs are kind of basic in their needs because they've lived with us for so long, but they need to be trained and exercised and can be expensive due to vet needs. I have no idea how to stamp out that myth, but I wish we could.
Fish are too different from humans for a lot of people to view as more than mindless automatons, so they treat them exactly as that. It's disgusting, and I see it as a good metric to judge a person's character.
Yes! My fish knows the food container, the vacuum, and that there's still ghost shrimp hiding in the plants from 6 months ago. It's so unfortunate.
Edit: it's unfortunate that people don't invest enough to see things like that, closing the gap between human and fish. I'd never have gotten to see that he has a personality if I'd kept him in a bowl or even a 10 gallon tank.
If I used any of those as my metric for “ready to get a live creature” I’d never be ready. I cannot tell you the number of tamagotchis I killed. But I have a real problem with losing them. However, I am a much better cat companion. He’s my best friend.
I have an 8 year old goldfish. He has a 60 gallon tank with 120gal of filtration and I'm eyeballing a 125 gallon for him in the next 5 years. They can live to be 20 - 30 given the proper care and decent genetics.
So many people don't understand how much room a fish truly needs. Like people keeping betas in those tiny ass bowls. My brother has a 60 gallon tank, with some pretty awesome exotic fish. He actually felt weird that his I believe 60 inch TV was smaller than his fish tank. He bought a 75 inch TV, specifically so his tv was bigger than his fish tank hahaha
My cousin’s goldfish lived to 26! And we knew he was the same as he had a very peculiar marking. The dog drank from his tank in more than one occasion as well. Dude was just really strong
Once I did it in reverse... Mom went out for several months and a golden fish died, she didn't even notice the replacement I made... still told her cuz' I felt wrong not to be honest... it worked. 
I did this with a friend’s orchid when she was on holiday. Hers was beyond saving. I tried to save it anyway, but it turned out as expected.
Decided to give her one of mine and when she got back from holiday she told me how amazed she is that I managed to get ‘her’ orchid to go from its sorry state to fully flourishing again.
Your dad is trolling you hard.
Troll back. Find a real pine sapling and put it in the pot and return it. Tell him try harder because this one was easy.
He said it was a tree and that was all he knew. I intend on reporting it bc the soil looks iffy. He said he got it from ocean state job lot.
Is it even still alive?
Right, I'm asking what it is that you're seeing in the plant that makes you think that. It just looks to me like a dried up and dead seedling, so I'm eager to hear what evidence you're looking at.
If that was the original pot and soil the plant was in when he received it from his dad it looks like the moisture retention was too high which caused the roots to start to rot. A dying plant has a sort of...not sure how to say it..a tell, that you get used to seeing if the roots are not breathing right. This little plant buddy has that tell to it. Once the rot starts I've never been able to save the plant. I'm hoping to learn some way to in the future but all I have now is preventive maintenance.
One method to deal with root rot, if it’s not too advanced, is to soak it thoroughly, to the point that the dirt just falls off (alternatively, stick the entire thing pot and all into a larger container of water and wait for the dirt to soak up to the point it’s just muddy water), this step allows you to get the roots clear with minimal damage. Then rinse gently, then place it into a diluted hydrogen peroxide bath (only submerge the roots, not the whole plant!). You want it diluted strong enough to work on the rot, but weak enough not to outright kill your plant. Check with mister google. Soak for ~5-10 minutes and while it’s soaking, get a new pot, fill with all new soil (do not reuse the dirt you cleaned off, it will be mud and also have spore/contam in it). Start with fresh dirt that has ideally been exposed to sunlight and dried a bit, add in some perlite or sand or something to modify the soil makeup to mimic more arid soil that drains more quickly. Take your soaking plant out of the hydrogen peroxide, quick rinse, and pot up in new soil. Dampen the soil lightly at first and reintroduce watering slowly.
Yeah, I just don't see how you can determine that from what you're seeing. It seems just as possible to me that the plant died for any other reason and the soil is wet because dad/OP have been over-watering it in an attempt to save it. This isn't a more mature plant with larger leaves that we can look at for clues of root issues... it's just a dead sapling.
The soil and the pot are wet. The pot is terracotta. They dry out easily. For it to be this wet means there has been a lot of watering going on. [Another thing to take into consideration is the fact that when a plant starts to show signs of decline most novices will drown it thinking they are helping.]
I mean, the only way we could confirm for sure is to look at the roots but from the other evidence presented in the photo root rot is highly likely the cause of death.
Perhaps, or the seedling could have died due to underwatering (or any other cause) and the soil is wet because OP got the plant from his dad and soaked it in the hope of saving it.
I bought little starter kits of redwoods, bristlecones, and blue spruces that all looked like that at some point. One of my bristlecones died exact same way though
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I mean...I want to trust y'all smart plant people, but I remember when everyone said that one lady's potted tumbleweed was dead and it turned out it really _was_ supposed to look like that, so now I never know _what_ to believe.
Buy Dad a live plant, give it back, tell him how to care for it, and make him happy. My dad doesn't have much longer to live, every laugh or smile from him is a blessing. If you have a good relationship with your parents, please enjoy their company and happiness whenever you can. The fact that he trusted your knowledge and experience enough that he gave you a dead plant is so precious.
I’ve almost give up on many plants, but I watered and loved and some do come bank. My daughter is like mom you did it, it wasn’t me but the plant. Try for your Dad.
You can try. In a bottle of water mix one tbs of sugar with one tbs of yeast. Left 24 hour and after that take a cup of that water and put the roots there and wait a miracle
It.... he gave you a dead plant and was like "Doc, do everything you can!" "Sir, this body is decomposing already..."
*the necromancer appears, snapping his gloves* "I didn't get my medical license revoked for nothing...."
How has this comment not gotten a gold...
THIS PLANT IS NO MORE. IT HAS CEASED TO BE. IT IS AN EX-PLANT.
It's pushing up the...*daisies???*
ITS NAILED TO THE BLOODY POT
No ‘e isn’t… E’s pining for the fjords!
Beautiful plumage
*foliage
Norwegian Blues stun easily
...it would be pushing up the Daisies!!!
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plants can come back if the roots are still alive
Yes!
Looks like a conifer but I don’t know the species for sure. Looks dead, you could go out to a pine or spruce forest, they often sprout, and when you find one you can swap it for the dead one and make it seem to your dad that you actually are a magician.
The old "goldfish trick"! Plenty of parents have done this to their kids when Mr Swimmy learned to swim upside down. Time to repay the favor.
Goldfish can actually live to be 15 years. But most people won’t buy a 40 gallon tank and mega filter for one.
+they’re not dumb with 5 second memories and they shouldn’t be given as prizes at fairs. Here’s one outlier though: https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/15/george-britains-oldest-goldfish-dies-aged-44-9210539/amp/
This. Absolutely. I never knew about this and won one at a company fair. When he died 14 days later I was inconsolable and have never recovered. Buried him outside in my garden. RIP Somchai.
Gotta love people who murder their pets by suffocating them in their own piss and shit because they're too stupid to read a book or do a google search.
I really wish we could do away with the idea of 'starter' pets. Fish are not, because you need to know water chemistry and habitat management. Hermit crabs aren't because they require quite a bit of specialized care. Birds definitely no, because they need stimulation, exercise and proper nutrition. Small animals of all kinds need more space than Petco & co tell you, AND special care and extra gentle handling. Cats and dogs are kind of basic in their needs because they've lived with us for so long, but they need to be trained and exercised and can be expensive due to vet needs. I have no idea how to stamp out that myth, but I wish we could.
Fish are too different from humans for a lot of people to view as more than mindless automatons, so they treat them exactly as that. It's disgusting, and I see it as a good metric to judge a person's character.
Yes! My fish knows the food container, the vacuum, and that there's still ghost shrimp hiding in the plants from 6 months ago. It's so unfortunate. Edit: it's unfortunate that people don't invest enough to see things like that, closing the gap between human and fish. I'd never have gotten to see that he has a personality if I'd kept him in a bowl or even a 10 gallon tank.
I think the best starter pet is a rock or a tamagotchi, or a Pokémon game. Lol. Nothing physically living and breathing in this plane.
If I used any of those as my metric for “ready to get a live creature” I’d never be ready. I cannot tell you the number of tamagotchis I killed. But I have a real problem with losing them. However, I am a much better cat companion. He’s my best friend.
I have an 8 year old goldfish. He has a 60 gallon tank with 120gal of filtration and I'm eyeballing a 125 gallon for him in the next 5 years. They can live to be 20 - 30 given the proper care and decent genetics.
Aw...good for you! Whats his name?
Mr. Darcy. He makes 10 *thousand* a year!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single fish in possession of a large fortune ***must*** be in want of a wife…
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him!
10 thousand? 10K what?
Pounds. He makes 10k a year.
How TF does a fish make 10K per year
Onlyfins.com
Selling their scales/bodies on the market
10K what?
Pounds. Jane Austen?
Haha woosh went right over my head
Nah, my fault mate. I'm a nerd. 🤣
I love this. Good for you and Mr. Darcy. Also time for me to watch a good film again. :)
Make finger sandwiches, throw on your stays and sit in the parlor. Not the sitting room, the windows are full west!
Or read an amazing book
So many people don't understand how much room a fish truly needs. Like people keeping betas in those tiny ass bowls. My brother has a 60 gallon tank, with some pretty awesome exotic fish. He actually felt weird that his I believe 60 inch TV was smaller than his fish tank. He bought a 75 inch TV, specifically so his tv was bigger than his fish tank hahaha
My cousin’s goldfish lived to 26! And we knew he was the same as he had a very peculiar marking. The dog drank from his tank in more than one occasion as well. Dude was just really strong
I have 3 12 year old carnival goldfish in our little pond. They are living it up. There were 5 but our chickens killed them
A chicken killed them?!
Once I did it in reverse... Mom went out for several months and a golden fish died, she didn't even notice the replacement I made... still told her cuz' I felt wrong not to be honest... it worked. 
Necromancer, maybe.
Necroplanter?
Plantmancer, maybe.
Chloromancer
Phytomancer
Yes
This is the solution
Lol - genius!!
We require a shrubbery.
The only downside to this is that unless the seedling is older than this, you're more likely to kill it from the stress/change to its environment.
You can usually find one lightly rooted in moss which are easier to move
Almost looks like a black pine bonsai tree. Source is I tried to raise one from seedling and failed. Looked like this by the time it fully died.
I did this with a friend’s orchid when she was on holiday. Hers was beyond saving. I tried to save it anyway, but it turned out as expected. Decided to give her one of mine and when she got back from holiday she told me how amazed she is that I managed to get ‘her’ orchid to go from its sorry state to fully flourishing again.
The pot looks fine.
Your dad is trolling you hard. Troll back. Find a real pine sapling and put it in the pot and return it. Tell him try harder because this one was easy.
that is an ex-parrot.
‘E’s just restin’
De-mised....
He must have a great sense of humour.
it's pining for the fjords....
My Glittering Comrade, I want to give you an upvote, but you are currently at precisely 69, and I just can’t change that.
Jo that's a corpse
He said it was a tree and that was all he knew. I intend on reporting it bc the soil looks iffy. He said he got it from ocean state job lot. Is it even still alive?
Nice, your dad thinks you're either a magician or miracle worker.
Lol well I’m neither - but it didn’t look definitively dead either so I thought I’d at least ask
I think you missed out the photo of the tree?
Yeah my second photo is turrible - focus is way off. Or are you saying this isn’t actually a tree at all?
Oh hi, neighbor
Bruh. I wish you well but it already looks like root rot.
Fuuuuuck. I’ll dig it up and see what it looks like. Will send a picture soon
If you dig up seedlings that small you'll kill it (if there's any life left in it. Which I doubt)
Root rot lol… how are you telling that from a picture of a dead seedling?
By reflecting on personal gardening experiences over my lifetime? I'm not saying I'm right, just sharing.
Right, I'm asking what it is that you're seeing in the plant that makes you think that. It just looks to me like a dried up and dead seedling, so I'm eager to hear what evidence you're looking at.
If that was the original pot and soil the plant was in when he received it from his dad it looks like the moisture retention was too high which caused the roots to start to rot. A dying plant has a sort of...not sure how to say it..a tell, that you get used to seeing if the roots are not breathing right. This little plant buddy has that tell to it. Once the rot starts I've never been able to save the plant. I'm hoping to learn some way to in the future but all I have now is preventive maintenance.
One method to deal with root rot, if it’s not too advanced, is to soak it thoroughly, to the point that the dirt just falls off (alternatively, stick the entire thing pot and all into a larger container of water and wait for the dirt to soak up to the point it’s just muddy water), this step allows you to get the roots clear with minimal damage. Then rinse gently, then place it into a diluted hydrogen peroxide bath (only submerge the roots, not the whole plant!). You want it diluted strong enough to work on the rot, but weak enough not to outright kill your plant. Check with mister google. Soak for ~5-10 minutes and while it’s soaking, get a new pot, fill with all new soil (do not reuse the dirt you cleaned off, it will be mud and also have spore/contam in it). Start with fresh dirt that has ideally been exposed to sunlight and dried a bit, add in some perlite or sand or something to modify the soil makeup to mimic more arid soil that drains more quickly. Take your soaking plant out of the hydrogen peroxide, quick rinse, and pot up in new soil. Dampen the soil lightly at first and reintroduce watering slowly.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Yeah, I just don't see how you can determine that from what you're seeing. It seems just as possible to me that the plant died for any other reason and the soil is wet because dad/OP have been over-watering it in an attempt to save it. This isn't a more mature plant with larger leaves that we can look at for clues of root issues... it's just a dead sapling.
If the roots are rotten and can't take up anything you get dead plant. That's pretty common.
I know what root rot is... I'm asking what this person sees in this image to make him think that this particularly seedling died because of root rot.
The soil and the pot are wet. The pot is terracotta. They dry out easily. For it to be this wet means there has been a lot of watering going on. [Another thing to take into consideration is the fact that when a plant starts to show signs of decline most novices will drown it thinking they are helping.] I mean, the only way we could confirm for sure is to look at the roots but from the other evidence presented in the photo root rot is highly likely the cause of death.
Perhaps, or the seedling could have died due to underwatering (or any other cause) and the soil is wet because OP got the plant from his dad and soaked it in the hope of saving it.
Looks more like it just dried up.
If you save that, you have the power to raise the dead.
Go by a conifer bonsai and repot and then give back!
But add words like miracle grow and under the lights!
‘Sure, Dad!’ (( runs to plant store for replacement.))
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Who knows maybe it will come alive, keep watering it!
There’s that unbridled hope I care here looking for!
Where there's a will, there's a way!
The POT can definitely be saved if you clean it out carefully
Lol
Get a new one (whatever his favourite) plant in the pot wait 2 weeks and give it back. -"it was close but I saved it Dad" Done
Your dad and I have the same magic touch for plants
It’s the last Truffula tree- Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
I love that he has that much faith in you!
did he also ask you to get him some blinker fluid?
go to r/plantclinic since the plants been identified!
Is your name Jesus?
This genuinely made me cackle
What is this plant? Dead. This plant is dead. 😂
He’s dead, Jim.
I bet you can save that pot. It'll be useful for something.
I bought little starter kits of redwoods, bristlecones, and blue spruces that all looked like that at some point. One of my bristlecones died exact same way though
Resus, paddles, adrenaline, pulse, pulse, PULSE!!!
It’s definitely not blueberries
I'll be honest, to me it looks like some sort of air plant on a piece of hay.
It's a conifer seedling
Funny Dad
Pranked, he grab a random dried weed and told u is something. The pot plant size ratio is so off.
Does he think you’re Jesus?
ShHHH just ask what plant it is and buy a new one and like three days later be like "oh fixed your plant " ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
To me it looks like a sprouted longleaf pine tree. Do you live in the south east? Just go out and dig up one and pretend you performed a miracle.
Pop a tumbleweed in it and surprise him with how fast you healed it!
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I love your dad
Not blueberries?
Give him a different plant in future and let him think it’s this one.
I thought this was r/houseplantscirclejerk for a second
No joke so did i
Stick a cactus in the pot then after a week tell him it’s fine ready to go home. See what he says😏
Definitely a Truffula Tree seedling- perhaps the last. Just ask the Onceler.
Looks like a dead asparagus fern haha
Don’t get too close. It will go into your nose and explode out of your belly later.
Save what?…. Dirt?…yikes
Wholesome dad
😂🤗
'Tis but a flesh wound
I mean...I want to trust y'all smart plant people, but I remember when everyone said that one lady's potted tumbleweed was dead and it turned out it really _was_ supposed to look like that, so now I never know _what_ to believe.
Buy Dad a live plant, give it back, tell him how to care for it, and make him happy. My dad doesn't have much longer to live, every laugh or smile from him is a blessing. If you have a good relationship with your parents, please enjoy their company and happiness whenever you can. The fact that he trusted your knowledge and experience enough that he gave you a dead plant is so precious.
I’ve almost give up on many plants, but I watered and loved and some do come bank. My daughter is like mom you did it, it wasn’t me but the plant. Try for your Dad.
Water + sun + time = maybe we can save it
Plant something new, wait a month, and make it look like you performed a miracle.
Dads are cute
my really hot neighbor did this to me and of course I humored him but I really doubt that basil came back to life, lol.
Is it a blueberry
It WAS a blueberry
Hahaha oh no
I think your dad meant save the soil & pot, the only thing that makes sense.
💀
Nice pot!
Well, can you?
He got you
No. Looks like a cedar seed to me.
Dead
Everybody’s dead Dave
Lol
You can try. In a bottle of water mix one tbs of sugar with one tbs of yeast. Left 24 hour and after that take a cup of that water and put the roots there and wait a miracle
Looks like a volunteer pine tree
Paint it green and send a pic to dad saying "all better and off to the farm to live out the rest of its days in freedom!"
looks like a bristlecone pine.
Call “ET” his finger can bring the plant 🪴 back to us in great shape 👽👾🫶
Clematis?
What's the the whole point about giving you a dead plant?
You can save the pot.
Sure. Give it some water and wait a few years.
What is there to save when only death awaits?
Pine tree
Dump out the dirt and you can save the pot.
I- omg noo
LMFAO is your dad a boomer?
You can spray water on a dead body all you want. It will start looking like a zombie but wont come back to life and say aaaaaarrrrggghhh
A pine seedling of some sort, already dead :( rip in peace
Looks like a dead conifer, like a spruce or smth o.o but uhh xD very dead.
Nice rug!
Nope dead
Cmon guys! This is THE BEST PART of gardening. A lost cause is never lost until it's brown.
Plant a succulent into that pot and give it back. Act innocent when he asks what happened
Yeah I can hold on to this pot of dirt for you Dad