每日吃瓜

The things you find when doing research.... I read this a few years ago. I encountered it again by coincidence.

"A few years back a cousin requested for my help because he was encountering some financial difficulty"

And the cause was:

"每日吃瓜 plants, while they’re really exquisite and pretty to look at, and can be considered to be quite an art, they’re actually not naturally small, they were stunted. Technically speaking, you have to ‘destroy’ their natural growth process for them to be small, you affect their Sheng Chi. Sheng Chi basically refers to growth, and in Feng Shui anything that is ‘stunted’ is essentially bad"

Source:

Well, looks like I'm screwed!

Buying lots of great bonsai could definitely limit one's finances... as to the karma 每日吃瓜 creates... that's an individual thing