“Rat Attack” and a new plant member

I want to give up><

For over a month, I've been patiently taking care of my plants, researching information online, and reading some insights from others. In my previous blog post in this community, I wrote that I'd planted cucumbers, bok choy, tomatoes, cayenne peppers, eggplant, and basil. To be honest, all of them were growing very slowly except for the cucumbers. That confuses me, because I thought bok choy is one of the easiest seeds to plant and grow. So I started think that probably the cheap seeds I’d bought were the problem.

However, as I said, I still patiently watered my plants every morning and moved them to the other side to get better sunlight. I also replanted the tomatoes because I thought they might need a bigger space. At the back of my house, there's something made of cement shaped like a large pot. So I bought more soil to fill it and replanted some of the plants. Although, I later realized my plants weren’t actually big enough to replant.

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And then something I didn't anticipate happened, it rained really hard one day. That was when I just realized the cement pot didn't have roofs>< almost everything was destroyed, except for my mom’s lime leaves, which she had bought from a plant shop a while ago. It wasn’t the end though, as I still had a few plants in smaller pots.

Until one fine morning, when I was about to water my plants, I found some of them dying>< the leaves had fallen off, and almost all of the stems were broken. It was my cucumber and water spinach, which grow quite faster than other plants at times. I mean, why didn't he attack the slow-growing plants?

By “he”, it actually referred to a rat (but I don’t know if there was more than one). Why? because there was mouse poop inside my cucumber and water spinach pots. Crazy to think, because the trays I put the pots on weren't very low, so the “rat attack” scenario never crossed my mind, LOL I’m overreacting at this point.

But I was so upset, not gonna lie. I would be more okay if my plants had died because of my own faults, because that way I could have learned more about how to care for them better. But my plants were destroyed by a rat>< even writing about this still feels annoying because the cucumbers were almost flowering.

Honestly, after that, I rarely took care of the remaining plants I have or even tried to plant them again. But my father bought a new plant member; it's a longan tree. It’s already quite tall, and flowering too (at the beginning😂 because another heavy rain fell again and it seemed to make the flowers fall off).

Now, I don’t know if I still have the positive mindset to continue this planting journey haha but we still have some plants to take care of, so maybe I’ll gather my energy and positive attitude to start over and learn my lesson to be more aware of anything.

Sorry if this blog sounds so boring or probably even stupid :”D but I have a question, for those types of seeds I’ve planted so far like bok choy, basil and water spinach, how many weeks is the ideal time to replant them? I want to know other’s real experience rather instead of just browsing it on Google hehe

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Thanks for reading as always, have a nice day :)