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...Mel was successful in polluting his room, though. "I used organic fertilizer," he says. His roommate puts it bluntly: "He made my room smell like shit," says Nigel Tufnel (not his real alias...
...current crop, Mel has rearranged the lights and tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...
While Tom named some of his plants after Twin Peaks characters (Catherine, Laura Palmer, Audrey) and Johnny often plays music to his "little ones," Mel decided that he didn't want to become too attached to his plants. "It's like in the olden days, when parents wouldn't name their kids until they were three or four years old because of the high death rate," he says...
Nigel also worries about Mel's plant(s). "It makes me nervous whenever some random person sticks his head in our room...
Note: Since this article was written, Mel's last plant has passed away. There will be a service in Memorial Church on Sunday...