Usually means: Inept at gardening or horticulture.
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  1. black thumb: Merriam-Webster
  2. black thumb: Wiktionary

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  1. black thumb: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (black thumb)

noun:  A lack of skill in gardening; brown thumb.
noun:  (more generally) An inability to make animals or plants in one's care thrive.
noun:  A person with a black thumb.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, thumb.

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