wasnt saying clints comment was degrading, nowhere in there did i single out clint.
in general if someone calls you something for your experiance, be it in a negative manner, its pretty degrading imho.
I tend to disagree. It's not degrading or offensive in any sense of the word. It's just a comment, and if anyone takes offense at someone calling them inexperienced at
anything then that person just needs to get over it. Sure, I can understand why someone might get offended, but it is unfounded and unjustified.
For example, my car isn't working. I go poking around in the engine trying to fix it (with very little experience in cars) and my neighbor says, "Um... I wouldn't do that, you don't have enough experience working on cars." Well, he's right, I don't. I haven't been exposed to cars as long as he has and I'm new to the hobby, so he's right. Seriously, I've been working on cars for ten minutes and he's been rebuilding Lamborghini engines for twenty years. I shouldn't be offended. I should be honored!
So the point is that when someone suggests a certain plant, whatever it may be, to be for more advanced growers, it is in no way suggesting that that person is a total noobie that doesn't deserve to live. There are always exceptions to the rule... always. Just because, as is the case here, a
Cephalotus may be suggested to be outside someone's experience level does not mean that person shouldn't try it. One thing we do around here is support people and it would be negligent to educate them on what to expect, what certain outcomes may be, etc. A
Cephalotus is not a plant for someone who can't sit still and will be overly overly excited about it and keep messing around with it. It's a plant that should be left alone, and if a person keeps watering it because they like to care for it, it's going to die. Telling someone with less experience anything other than that would be deceptive of me.
So now I will stop the masses from making a mountain out of a molehill...
xvart.