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Last Tuesday, I decided to embark on a new morning routine that revolved around caffeine. I brewed a giant pot of coffee, filled my favorite oversized mug, and took a sip so divine that I promptly forgot I was holding it. In my caffeine-fueled euphoria, I grabbed my phone to take a selfie, accidentally launched a workout app, and ended up in a virtual yoga class. Picture me there, balancing on one foot while trying to sip my coffee. Spoiler: It ended with me in a downward dog position—with coffee all over my yoga mat.
The sheer absurdity of attempting to be the zen embodiment of yoga while still picturing myself in a coffee commercial was hilarious. Not only did I not achieve inner peace, I also discovered that, sadly, my yoga instructor doesn’t accept “over-caffeinated” as a legitimate excuse for falling flat on my face. So, if caffeine is good, I’d like to argue that maybe coffee should come with a safety warning for the overly ambitious yogis among us!
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The real miracle is the plant survived what I do to my body daily..
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ten minutes later that plant is going to reorganize the entire garden and file your taxes. productivity is about to peak
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and popeye wasted all that time with dumb ass spinach
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That was for strength!
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And have a full bowel movement.
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Imagine with a coffee and spinach. Bluto about to discover a new kink
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Add in some metamucle.
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The plant already updated its linkedin headline.
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Caffeine is toxic to plants
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We used to have this spider plant at work. It was probably the only one that survived everyone throwing away their coffee in the plants. Is seemed to thrive on neglect and coffee at some point. The company later decided to ban potted plants in the office because of all the plants that kept on dieing.
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Spider plants thrive on neglect just like succulents lol
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Wait, people would actually dump coffee on plants? That level of either botanical ignorance and/or general inconsideration boggles my mind.
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This was at the time people still smoked inside the office. It’s crazy to think how that was normal 30 years ago. I myself love plants, my house is full of them. The spider plant got me into gardening because I took one of its babies home and grew more of them ever since.
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Actually a moderate amount of caffeine will cause plants to grow faster (and potentially weaker). Only in large doses is it toxic for them. Coffee grounds and tea leaves are popular compost choices for a reason
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The grounds are used for the nitrogen and the caffeine will be almost completely gone after a year in the compost heap. Source: I save all our coffee grounds for the compost pile and have for years now.
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All my coffee grounds are frozen into a solid lump in my composter right now. How long before it goes from herbicide to soil?
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3-4 months to be safe
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Oh wow I didn’t know you could.tell the caffeine content of coffee grounds just by putting them in the compost. Ps: ‘source’ is usually where you got the info from, not just an additional anecdote
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50-70% of caffeine content is removed from the grounds during brewing. The remaining caffeine in spent coffee grounds degrades significantly during composting due to microbial activity, with studies showing substantial breakdown (around 80% or more) within 1-2 months under typical aerobic composting conditions.
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Yeah no that’s fair, we dont actually use them for caffeine normally at all
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Caffeine is also made by plants to deter bugs.
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I did a science fair experiment in the 2nd grade where I fed one plant water, one plant coffee, and one plant Capri Sun. The coffee plant did best, just saying
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Maybe but plants *love* coffee. If you water a plant with coffee it fucking takes off
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Don’t understand why so many people are arguing coffee is bad… If it’s hot obviously, but my hoya plant is addicted to coffee, flowers fairly often & grows like mad. I give all of my plants “coffee water” from the French press, a few succulents & an aloe plant too (we don’t use it topically) these plants are all doing well, thanks to coffee.
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It’s toxic to humans also… But mainly bugs
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Humans eat alot of things that don’t want us to Pineapple is a great example, it wants to dissolve us from the inside lol
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Peppers evolved to be hot so we wouldn’t eat them as well
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Sure did and they are delicious. Some animals use the capsaicin oil as a defense mechanism against predators.
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Plants also can’t talk. I’m beginning to think this comic isn’t very accurate.
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People with an IQ below 80 are going to see this and think it’s ok to do and kill someone else’s plants.
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Fun fact, caffeine is a poison that plants evolved to kill insects. It kills by overstimulating the nervous system and causing the heart to stop. Humans are too big for the normal dose to be lethal, so it’s just a stimulant.
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*Diluted* coffee apparently actually would have positive effects on plants Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11991515/
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plants got the espresso depresso treatment dead
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Without the “fucking” I would have shown this to my kids. Pretty good though
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[https://imgur.com/a/yDV0RYo](https://imgur.com/a/yDV0RYo)
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Ty you are the best!!!! Got some new fans!
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My pleasure!! Curse my cursey nature!
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I swear a flippin lot too! And Lavar Burton says it’s okay. It’s just my kids need to keep practicing how to express themselves without them for a couple more years. Ty!!
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You can use viagra to perk up flowers.
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Plants create caffeine to poison insects
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Its not starbucks, then
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