How Not to Kill a Store-Bought Houseplant : Light, water, pots, and a keep-or-move plan for the plants you already brought home
Overview
Light, water, pots, and a keep-or-move plan for the plants you already brought home.
You already bought it. The job is not a greenhouse. The job is the pothos, snake plant, zz, succulent, peace lily, or pothos-lookalike sitting on the counter in a grocery sleeve. This is not a species encyclopedia, not a 30-day apartment move-in, and not a weekday watering calendar. It is one light-window / finger-water / stay-in-nursery-pot runbook for the six plants people actually bring home from a grocery, Home Depot, or Trader Joe's.
Short paragraphs. Cards you can keep under the saucer. Composite US rooms, not portraits. The plant in front of you wins.
What you actually get:
* Six-plant roster: light window, water test, leave-in-nursery-pot yes or no
* Finger-knuckle watering card (not a weekday calendar)
* Yellow-leaf fork: water, light, transplant shock, or just a new leaf
* Nursery-pot vs cachepot card. Dump the pretty cup.
* 4-week keep / move-to-other-window / give-away filter
* What not to buy next (the plant that needs a cabinet you do not own)
* First 48 hours: sleeve off, no same-day repot, no fertilizer
* Heat, AC, weekends, pets, dust, and fungus gnats as a watering report
This book is not botanical diagnosis, pest-clinic advice, or veterinary advice. It will not turn a north studio into a conservatory. It will not tell you to mist a succulent or water a snake plant every Wednesday. If a page conflicts with the plant you can see, the plant wins.
Take the sleeve off. Empty the saucer. Do not start with a new pot.
Forthcoming tools from THE DRAIN SAUCER PRESS: a pocket knuckle card, and a fridge-door six-plant roster.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798171333140
- ISBN-10: 9798171333140
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: September 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 82
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