Hi, sounds to me like your not using real indoor plants.
Real indoors plants can survive without alot of sunlight or certain amount of water, eventhough they still need to be watered just a small portion of water (a cup/ mug of water)
Indoor plants looks fake, like plastic/ artifical plants, but the fact is they are real.
Indoor plants need to be trim, after 2-3 days , you will see there is brown leafs(dead leafs) and there would be new leafs growing again...
I've worked by selling and experience with indoor plants.
Perhaps you can google it up. Hope this helps.
Cheers!
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