Rules and Stuff
1) It's probably possible to vote more than once per poll, but please don't. If I believe that someone is voting repeatedly, I will throw out those results, repost the poll, and seriously question that person's priorities.
2) If you want to link to a poll on Twitter / Facebook / your blog / whatever and encourage your friends to come and pump up the support for your favorite plants, you are encouraged to do so.
3) You are also encouraged to leave comments on Rumble posts, if so moved.
4) All photos will enlarge if opened in a separate window/tab.
5) You can choose which plant is "best" according to whatever criteria you decide for yourself. My personal process is a bit convoluted.1
6) All polls will be open for three days.
Results for matches 1.49-1.52:
In match 1.49, you bastards chose Adenium obesum over Episcia cvv., by a margin of 73 to 44, in what I am forced to conclude was a horribly misguided attempt to upset me. WELL IT DIDN'T WORK! I'M FINE! NOT UPSET AT ALL!2
Match 1.50 was quite close, a lot closer than I expected it would be, but in the end, Zamioculcas zamiifolia scraped together a victory over Alocasia amazonica 'Polly.' The score was 63 to 49.
Adenium and Zamioculcas will throw down in match 2.25, on 13 October.
Ficus benjamina cvv. defeated Begonia rex-cultorum in match 1.51, by a score of 70 to 44.
Finally, match 1.52 looked for a while like it was going to be a blowout -- Haworthia cvv. was at one point getting nearly 81% of the vote against Asplenium nidus / A. antiquum -- but some Asplenium supporters showed up at the last minute and reduced Haworthia's lead. Haworthia still wins, though, 80 to 39.
Ficus benjamina cvv. and Haworthia cvv. go up against one another on 13 October as well, in match 2.26.
And now, we begin round two.
Match 2.1
Clivia miniata cvv. vs. small hybrid Vriesea cvv.
Match 2.2
Cryptanthus cvv. (earth star) vs. Tradescantia pallida (purple heart)
Match 2.3
Saintpaulia cvv. (African violet) vs. Echinopsis spp.
Top row, L-R: NOID, assorted NOIDs, NOID.
Middle row, L-R: NOID, NOID, NOID.
Bottom row, L-R: 'Harmony's Red Star,' 'Mellow Magic' close-up, NOID.
Match 2.4
Epipremnum aureum cvv. (pothos) vs. Crassula ovata/argentea/arborescens (jade plants)
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1 I'm deciding according to a hypothetical situation in which all of my houseplants are gone, as are all the other houseplants of the world, except for one producer/supplier/retailer. Said person is offering to restock me with one or the other of the plants in question but refuses to give me both. Which one would I choose?
2 (*sob*)
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3 comments:
It's probably wrong to covet a cryptanthus. That won't stop me.
This batch of voting is going to be tricky. So many of the crappy plants have been weeded out (har har har...) so now it's mostly good plants and I JUST CAN'T DECIDE. Is it bad that I almost considered flipping a coin until I realized that would defeat the purpose of this?
Tom:
The only one from this set that I had to think about was 2.2 (Cryptanthus / Tradescantia), but I know what you mean. Some of the matches coming up (especially 2.7 and 2.8, for me) are going to take some hard, focused thinking. And it's probably only going to get worse with each new round, at least for a while. (I expect it will get better for a lot of people once we're into round 4, just because a lot of the stuff one really likes and have trouble choosing among will have been eliminated by that point.)
I'm also going to be reducing the number of votes as we get closer to the end: four matches per post through the end of round 2, then two matches per post for round 3, and then one match per post thereafter. So if they do keep taking more and more thought, you'll at least not lose more and more time on them.
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