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Brooklyn’s new tech trend is making Twitters for your house plants

And it's just what your feed needs.

Two avocados and a girl's arm. (Photo via Twitter user @avocamera)

There’s a fiddle-leaf fig plant in Brooklyn that probably has more Twitter followers than you.
Its name is a plant (@grow_slow) and it’s the work of Brooklyn tech weirdo and Technical.ly Brooklyn fave Nicole He. Each day at 10:17 a.m. a picture is taken of the plant and posted to Twitter. That’s it. You just watch a plant grow, slowly.
In a Twitter full of shootings, ISIS, Donald Trump, political bickering and the Jewish-identifying ((())) thing, sometimes you need to take a breath and just look at a slowly growing plant each day.


And now it’s catching on. The founder of Hype Machine, Anthony Volodkin, has added his own plant to the mix with Two Avocados (@avocamera).
This one isn’t as regimented as @grow_slow, the photos of the two avocados are taken by hand from different positions, at different times of day, and sometimes include glimpses of life around the avocados, a little girl’s arm, a white bicycle hanging from the wall.


If you know of any other plant-growth related Twitters let us know, we’re eager to continue coverage of this topic. Third Brooklyn plant Twitter gets an NYT trend piece (ON IT)!
In the meantime, take a break and enjoy the elemental growth of plants and remember that we’re cosmic dust privileged to have consciousness and feel love and pain and excitement and peace and help ourselves to endless water whenever we should feel so inclined.

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