"The ethics of proplifting and plant theft". People like you are no better than common thieves. Many of my own plants are propagations but I only took what had fallen off. I managed a garden center for years and imagine how I felt when plants I'd grown and cared for became disfigured from people ripping off leaves. ^ "I managed a garden center for years.Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. "A growing concern: is it ever OK to steal plant cuttings?". ^ a b Chapman, Gray (15 January 2020).Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. "This Booming Digital Community Is Obsessed With Bringing Plant Bits Back to Life". ^ a b c d e f g h Brooke, Eliza (25 September 2019).
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" "Proplifters" Are Getting Plants for Free from Big Box Stores". "Experts warn of houseplant black market after thief targets botanic garden". In the United States, there is no common law expectation of privacy for discarded materials, making the collection of plant material from garbage legal. In the United States such actions may violate the Plant Patent Act of 1930 or the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970. Some plants cannot be propagated legally at all, even if purchased. Despite communities of proplifters encouraging asking permission and discouraging cutting and outright theft, others see it as a slippery slope from one to the other. Enthusiasts are strongly encouraged by the community not to clip live plants and to trade or buy rarer cuttings within the community instead. Smaller stores also have lost revenue when they cannot sell plants that have been damaged by cutting, and even the San Diego Botanic Garden was targeted by plant thieves cutting living plants. This practice is becoming more common, and not just at large corporate chains. Cutting from live plants Ĭlipping off pieces of living plants for sale is a discouraged practice even among proponents of proplifting. Proplifting from smaller stores is discouraged as often these stores will propagate the material themselves.
Some chains have even publicly approved of the practice. It is also touted as much more economical than purchasing full-grown plants. Proponents state the practice rescues something that would otherwise go to waste, and gives the plants a new chance at life. Practitioners often gather fallen leaves of succulents and other plants from the floors of big-box stores. Even so, proplifting practitioners have been accused of being common thieves by people who have misunderstood the practice. Though what started as a joke quickly became an on-line community of dedicated practitioners that has surprised its founder. The term was coined by Sarina Daniels, the founder of the r/proplifting subreddit, as a joke, while she was participating in r/Succulents in 2017. Also, ethical proplifting excludes the practice of removing leaves from living plants as such unauthorized removal is theft. Though much of the material would be thrown out, it is technically the property of the store or business where found. However, this derivation is misleading as ethical proplifters are advised to seek permission first to take such floor sweepings. The word is a portmanteau of 'propagate' and ' shoplifting'. Some proplifters engage with the hobby as a form of self-administered horticultural therapy. Proplifting (sometimes written prop-lifting ) is the practice of taking discarded plant material and propagating new plants from them.
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