Lack of adequate window space / light is the primary issue.

If you need fertilizer, you can go to the same graveyard and dig up the bones of someone's grandma. They have plenty anyway.

I'm not much of a gardener but I do have a frugal girlfriend who loves gardening.

What I can say is that sansevieria make decent gifts for people who are bad at plants; they don't really care much about getting too much or too little water or light. So they're great for people who forget to water their plants three weeks in a row and then water daily for a week because they keep forgetting they just watered the day before. (I'm speaking from first-hand experience here...)

Thanks for explaining. I still see newspaper in the supermarket.

Sadly, that reminds me that the bi-weekly, independent 'current happenings'-type paper disappeared around 10yrs ago. And this is a major Midwestern city, where it used to be quite popular.

The eagles don’t meddle in the trivial doings of mortals.

They did when Gandalf asked them to. All we're talking about is a different flight plan.

Yeah, because they're free, and I do a lot of propagating. Why wouldn't I use them?

The only ones I don’t hoard are the ones that are basically clear plastic cups, everything else goes on a shelf in my garage to use for seedlings until they start falling apart. Needless to say, I have a lot of pots 😬

Okay, I see.

terrecotta pot

Yeah, I probably need to do that with a couple Jade cuttings I just bought, as I understand that residual moisture in the root area is bad news for them. Also, I evidently need to swap out the soil with a courser mix, possibly even just small pebbles.

They'll certainly shed microplastics, but it's not really a household environmental source concern. The main pathway is through eating or drinking, so if you had edible plants in plastic pots then maybe. But it's still not nearly as much as plastic food containers, especially if you're using them for prep, or the worst, reheating food in the microwave in plastic.