I suppose you could...though I don't think it would be a good idea to crack a bottle of champagne over it. posted by handful of rain at 9:25 AM on December 16, 2004
That would be sort of embarassing. posted by xmutex at 9:31 AM on December 16, 2004
I have a plant named Bianca. I don't think it minds. posted by sciurus at 9:47 AM on December 16, 2004
If I named my plants I would be even sadder when they all die. Again. posted by Mean Mr. Bucket at 10:06 AM on December 16, 2004
We name all our tiny Christmas trees. We buy a tiny cypress which dies almost immediately upon getting home no matter what we do. It is named 'Steve'. They are all named Steve.
Hold on: are we talking about plants as in vegetable matter or plants as in industrial processing and manufacturing? The latter seem more similar to boats, I suppose. posted by mr_roboto at 11:46 AM on December 16, 2004
Maybe it's a typo - "plant" is really "plane" ? posted by rfs at 12:08 PM on December 16, 2004
My plant doesn't care what I call it so long as I call. posted by adampsyche at 12:18 PM on December 16, 2004
Maybe he means how do you go about naming a species (is that what you call it?) or a hybrid? Paging brent... posted by iconomy at 12:35 PM on December 16, 2004
Maybe it's a typo - "plant" is really "plane" ?
omg. that makes so much more sense. posted by mudpuppie at 12:39 PM on December 16, 2004
This is the most hilarious AskMe ever. I've read through it three times now, laughing out loud the whole time.
I don't name my plants. I'm pretty sure my wife doesn't name them, either. posted by Plutor at 1:14 PM on December 16, 2004
We bought a rubber plant many years ago, we had no other pets in our minuscule efficiency apartment so we named it Herman. He grew to be more like a small tree so he was known as Herman R. Tree. One year we moved in January and he did not survive the trip in the unheated moving van. Luckily I had cut off a sticking out branch (so it wouldn't just be ripped off by the movers), this I put in water and it rooted, so we now have Herman R. Tree Jr. living in the corner of our living room.
Once you've named one it's a temptation to name other plants, so we have a pincushion cactus called Bernie, a smaller catus called Bentley, and for a while we had a ponytail palm called Persephone. The joke sort of wore out after a while and we stopped naming new plants, so our three remaining named plants have all been with us for twenty years or so. posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 1:50 PM on December 16, 2004
Why name something you're just going to eventually smoke? posted by sixdifferentways at 2:09 PM on December 16, 2004
Closest I've ever come to naming a plant was when I was a kid, we had a huge benjamina ficus that I would refer to as the "benji" otherwise nope never named my plants. I talk to them but that is a whole other topic. posted by squeak at 2:10 PM on December 16, 2004
We have a couple of orchids, named Miss Otis and Rufus Wainwright. But that's only because orchids are a commitment. The only other plants that get names are those that seem to demand them: we once had a Chinese evergreen that insisted on being called Sideshow Bob, because of his silhouette. posted by stonerose at 2:54 PM on December 16, 2004
My plant is named Hopkin Green Plant. Have you seen my plant?
p.s. I will find my plant. posted by naomi at 3:30 PM on December 16, 2004
Why name something you're just going to eventually smoke?
same reason you name a cow you're eventually going to eat.
Why name something you're just going to eventually smoke?
Well I can imagine because that might aid you in keeping track of the particular varietal. Just speculation, of course. posted by norm at 4:06 PM on December 16, 2004
I named my plants Diana, Maria and Sophia. I think I will alternate between male and female names for each generation of cuttings. I like my plants, I think they deserve a name :) posted by Dillonlikescookies at 5:33 PM on December 16, 2004
Yeah, we name our plants. But we have maybe 30-something plants, so we forget their names a lot. The ivy plants all have "ivy" names, though: Ivan, Ivy, Ivanna, etc. And the orchids are names after their physical characteristics. We don't get out much. posted by kamikazegopher at 5:55 PM on December 16, 2004
I once had a plant named Robert. Get it? posted by euphorb at 6:25 PM on December 16, 2004
I once had a philodendron in my office called Phil -- creative, I know. I asked our sweet-but-dippy accountant to water him while I was on vacation, and she said, in all seriousness, "How do you know he's a boy?" I suppressed my mad giggles, as she cut my paycheck, but I imagined her lifting up the leaves and peering underneath once I'd left.
My coworker had a philodendron named Lazarus -- she'd forget to water it for weeks, it'd nearly die, and then a bit of water would spring it back to life.
I'm sure this thread was supposed to be about planes, but this is more fun. posted by lisa g at 6:44 PM on December 16, 2004
(If indeed the question was about planes, here's this -- from Salon, though it doesn't seem to require the day-pass thing.) posted by lisa g at 7:03 PM on December 16, 2004
My girlfriend has 3 bamboo thingys named Ling Ling, Ting Ting, and Kiki. posted by rustcellar at 7:45 PM on December 16, 2004
Oh, and yes on this being the most hilarious AskMe thread ever. I'm dying. posted by rustcellar at 7:48 PM on December 16, 2004
No I don't name my plants. That is to say, I didn't. I'm going to start on the nametags as soon as I finish this comment. posted by fvw at 8:02 PM on December 16, 2004
I once had a weeping fig that I named Syd (after Syd Barrett) and a yucca named Sid (after Sid Vicious). A few years after that I had a dragon-tree which I named Susan. More recently, my wife and I named one of our plants George, because it was a bit of a bush. posted by misteraitch at 4:05 AM on December 17, 2004
So, brent, what did you decide to name your plant? posted by iconomy at 4:21 AM on December 17, 2004
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