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"How To Kill Your Houseplants"
Follow Up Series
Three Weeks After the Course
Tips for Use:
In this message, you could reinforce tips from the previous messages, or present the next in a series of steps related to the course. If participants received a training manual or other reference material with the course, you might point out the pages on which this technique was covered.
In our example, we give them another technique they can apply if the previous methods haven't been successful.
Message #3
Have you ever seen lush, damp moss growing in a scorching desert? How about a tall cactus sticking out of a deep snow drift?
A little manipulation of temperatures can give your hated houseplant that sickly appearance you're after. Remember, you don't necessarily have to kill the plant yourself. If you can make it look unappealing enough, someone else will decide that it's time to get rid of it.
This technique can sometimes be combined with the "simple neglect" technique I mentioned in our last message, but this one usually requires a bit of stealth. It's an approach that is easy to apply in winter. Put the plant on the radiator or the heat vent for a while, when nobody else is around. Another day, crack a window open just a little bit, and leave the plant in a cold draft for an hour or so.
Alternate between the tropics and the Arctic each day, and it won't be long before you hear that endearing phrase, "This plant isn't looking so good."
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