Yes, but not at a office but in my front yard, someone took a stem off my wandering Jew in a hanging basket, I caught him and he ran. Had he asked, he would have gotten handfuls if cuttings, its a big healthy plant, and what he took did no harm. I'm just mad he didn't ask!!

Put a note of warning on it. That will let the thief know you're on to them!!!

I have sedum burrito in an empty office (to take advantage of all the sunlight it gets there) ... one day about a year ago, I went in to water it and saw that someone had cut off a 9" long piece of it! So rude. What's funny is that I would have gladly given cuttings, but ... to see my plant hacked like that, it really got me mad.

Brilliant idea for an office plant!!! I should try that for my plants at school....

9" is not anything to sneeze at when it comes to succulents!!!

I put up a note at my cubicle entrance that said not to take cuttings, basically code for "I noticed, a******." Took the string of pearls home too. Its tendrils are barely over the pot edge. So pissed someone took some of them. Left a nice bald spot in my pot.

:-(

Really sorry that happened. I have had whole plants stolen from me, the worst example being my gorgeous pothos,(excuse my language as I am a teen) But that made me **** red in the face mad!!!!Have never had a pothos since :(

I had Sedum morganianum before but got tired of its brittleness :(

That sedum is impressive! Well, definitely an unfortunate event that put a damper on my Friday, but glad it wasn't the entire plant. Sorry many of yours have been taken, Rhamel.

In a way, I will have to go to college soon, what happens to my plants?

Do you have any hortifriends?

Rhamel- if you go to NYU or to Binghampton you could be home at least every other weekend for watering.

Jamila- Someone stuck that same sign on my back once!

You can go two weeks between watering your plants?!

Some plants that i have go a while between waterings. 2 weeks to a month.. These plants include my ZZ plants, Ficus benjamina, agloanema, christmas/thanksgiing cactus, sanseveiria,

and maybe some others. I also let my lipstick plant and hoyas dry out. English ivy can go a while without too.

Plants that need water a couple times a week include my purple waffle.

African Violet not stolen but drowned! I had a big, beautiful AV on windowsill by my desk, When I took a week of vacation to fly to Boston to see new granddaughter, the office "God's gift to women" decided to impress me and take care of my plant. When I returned, my AV was past dead. The disgusting jerk watered it every day and left it sitting in the saucer full of water. I was totally PO'ed and spewed a few vulgarities at him. "God's gift to women? I never knew God was into gag gifts.

i water some of my plants 4 or 5 times yearly. so, i know what you mean. My aglo is a trooper too. never realized how drought tolerant it was. my Zz plants went to sleep so i don't water them at all anymore.

We used to drive to Boston all the time. only 4 hours on I-95 N loved it most in the summer when we would stop at mystic. Kids loved that place! I guess it depends on where upstate you are for the length of the drive.

I don't trust people with plantsitting my plants. When I go to college I will give most to a local friend of mines, been very good to me and shows interest in many of my plants

I'm planning to go to Cornell in Ithaca,NY for college, quite a distance from Albany☺☺☺☺

Yuck i can't stand Ithaca. ick! I much prefer Syracuse.

I brought some succulents with me even when i was on campus. Although rooms were more spacious then.

Its all the same, lake enhanced snow :p

Once someone walked off with a huge croton that my dad had given me and I nursed back from bare stems. It was in a 12" pot that also had a small 4" pot of string of pearls that were finally growing from rooted cuttings from a friend It broke my heart! I felt so mad and creeped out.

That really sucks! Weird how someone would just do that.....

I've never had anything stolen or clipped. But I don't give anyone any opportunity to do it. All my plants are kept inside except for my schefflera and ensete which go out in the summer. Yet they're both in my backyard surrounded by multiple fences and houses and a gate. Also the Ensete weighs 50 pounds. So they'd have to be pretty determined.

If someone took cuttings from anyone of my plant I'd be pretty ticked off. I'm not one for change and it takes a lot out of me to actually cut back my philo and others.

I like to think my room as a museum as everything is where I like it and nothing should be touched. I honestly don't know why but if someone (other than me) So much as rotates anything it drives me insane. Then I'll spend a long time trying to put it back exactly as it was, but it's never good enough because deep down I know it wasn't like that before. It's a problem really...

MrBlubs- I'm sure your idiosyncrasy is shared by many on here, including me. I feel this way: If it wasn't given to you, if you didn't buy it, then its not for you to touch.

I'm happy to see this discussion. There have been so many instances of people within several of these forums who brag about taking seeds, cuttings, flowers, seedlings, and more from private or public property.

I've scolded my fair share of these plant thieves, most of whom are offended at the thought that the vast majority of people consider their actions slimy, if not criminal.

Rhamel, I wanted to say that you'll love Ithaca! I grew up just a few miles from there and it was a favorite place to hang out, shop, and eat. Cornell is a dream school; be sure to visit the greenhouses and research gardens. Simply spectacular.

Its stealing, and therefore breaking the law, and prosecutable as a result. I have head of a many plants ruined by someone randomly snagging a stem with the intent of rooting!!!

Rhamel what are you going to college for? I must say congrats!!! Education is very important and college is sooo much better than high school!!!