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🌲 vegeta

Pinus · rocky mountain pine

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Light Full sun · Water when topsoil dries · Lives OUTSIDE (needs winter cold) · Pets ✅ non-toxic

💭 my notes Last true Saiyan prince and warrior of the Florida arena. He came as a bonsai seed kit from a Christmas white-elephant game. I planted the whole kit, everything else died off, and Vegeta is the one champion still standing.
🧬 genusPinus💧 waterLet topsoil dry, never soggy🪨 soilGritty, free-draining conifer mix🐾 pets✅ Pet-safe, needles mildly prickly🌱 feed~every 45 days in season📍 originChristmas white-elephant bonsai seed kit, sole survivor 🌲

⚔️ arena card

🌲 vegetaSaiyan Prince · Super Saiyan
lv 88
HP7
MP6
ATK9
DEF7
SPD5
🏟️ Florida -1 (a mountain pine exiled to the Gulf)
✦ Final Flash the sole survivor of the kit; unloads everything in one blast.

"The rest of the kit is in the ground. I am the prince, and I do not fall."

⏳ then → now

vegeta then
then · 2025-03-15
→
vegeta now
now · 2026-06-10

15 months surviving the Florida arena

📸 babies → now 4

vegeta 1
2025-03-15 · first sprout, the one that became the sole survivor
vegeta 2
2025-03-19
vegeta 3
2025-04-28 · potted up, a faint green tuft holding on
vegeta 4
2026-06-10 · sole survivor of the kit, still going

🪴 care

📝 log

🌿 identification

Genus Pinus. A true pine seedling (bundled needles, woody seedling stem) with a wooden tag reading "…mountain Pi…". The exact Rocky Mountain species isn't certain. Candidates include bristlecone (P. aristata), limber (P. flexilis), or piñon (P. edulis). The species sets the precise hardiness and growth habit.