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CommonShore posted:Is snow melting fastee in a circle around the base of a sapling a sign of life? I've been worried about my fall plantings all winter. Maybe? Trees do retain heat that helps melt snow but I'm not sure if they have to be alive to do it.
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Hi thread, it's been a while. I'm just dropping by because moments ago I was reminded of the time I decided to argue for multiple actual real-time minutes with a doctor of plant physiology over whether Poaceae were C3 or C4 during a loving thesis presentation, and I want to die with just as much burning desire right now as I did then. Thank you for your time and thanks for choosing to visit hell, i'll be here all week and also probably forever. Wallet posted:Also found this gnarly, hairy little thorn covered weed. Anyone recognize it? I haven't seen it around here before but it might have been a hitchhiker with something else I planted. Looks kind of like some kind of thistle. drat man, that looks like just the dirt nastiest little thistle. If it's just popping up in your yard chances are good it's invasive but if you want to let that bad boy fester for a couple years just to see how filthy it can get (you could maybe get a positive ID too idk), I wouldn't blame you.
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Mar 15, 2021 05:54
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Ragtime All The Time posted:Not sure of the species but am assuming it is a common juniper which I think is indigenous to the area but has been in decline over the past few hundred years. The world’s most widespread woody plant is never a bad guess.
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Mar 15, 2021 08:42
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Ragtime All The Time posted:Here it is: My first general thougts with more later when I read up a little bit on the subject. Your Juniper looks in pretty bad shape and has a very limited space for the roots to spread out. I would be careful what you do with the soil around the roots in case by trying to relieve one problem you damage the roots and make the Juniper even more unhappy. Mulching with park/chippings can cause problems with uptake of nutrients and exacerbate the problem. Tea fertilizer is perhaps the key here to getting nutrients directly to the roots without disturbing them I use one from Orus, or Wuxal that are very good for evergreens.
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Mar 15, 2021 09:22
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treat posted:drat man, that looks like just the dirt nastiest little thistle. If it's just popping up in your yard chances are good it's invasive but if you want to let that bad boy fester for a couple years just to see how filthy it can get (you could maybe get a positive ID too idk), I wouldn't blame you. I'm idly curious about what the gently caress it is because even for a thistle it's loving out there, but I suppose I should just yank the hell thistle out before it opens a portal to an alternate dimension where the landscape is a sea of thorns and pubic trichomes in the middle of my garden.
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Mar 15, 2021 13:47
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Watch this space I'm Gunna grow wine caps
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Mar 15, 2021 13:58
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Wallet posted:I'm idly curious about what the gently caress it is because even for a thistle it's loving out there, but I suppose I should just yank the hell thistle out before it opens a portal to an alternate dimension where the landscape is a sea of thorns and pubic trichomes in the middle of my garden. I have a thistle that’s only slightly less eldritch and it’s still there because I can’t be bothered to put on the glove and yank it out. I’ll get around to it before it sets seed. 
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Mar 15, 2021 14:03
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When I did a community garden 2 years ago the thistles didn't bother me too much, they were relatively easy to pull with leather gloves when young. I did have to deal with some kind of spiny solanum which was worse because it had fewer spines, but they were longer and much stiffer so they'd easily penetrate my gloves if I wasn't careful.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:15
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Jestery posted:Watch this space I'm Gunna grow wine caps I'm doing that too, plus some shiitake in logs hopefully. Got oak branches and oak chips in abundance around here after a nasty ice storm. Good luck!
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Mar 15, 2021 17:27
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Wallet posted:I'm idly curious about what the gently caress it is because even for a thistle it's loving out there, but I suppose I should just yank the hell thistle out before it opens a portal to an alternate dimension where the landscape is a sea of thorns and pubic trichomes in the middle of my garden. Yeah, no matter how impressively gnarly it is, it's most likely Canada thistle so that'd be a good idea. Water it up real good before you pull it to help you get as much root as possible
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Mar 15, 2021 20:29
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Ragtime All The Time posted:Here it is: Looks like something is eating it unless that white is from something being sprayed on the foliage. Conifers get pale like that when aphids and other sucking insects suck the chlorophyll out. ed: I should clarify, chewing insects aren't usually an issue unless the juniper is already weakened, so this is more of a symptom than a cause, but it'd probably still be a good idea to give the tree a hand in fighting off pests until it regains some strength fuzzy_logic fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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Mar 15, 2021 23:55
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Just had to drag everything back inside for this last freeze, hope all the buds on everything outside keep it locked down!! Looking forward to posting a big rear end spring update soon, we’ve got a bunch of poo poo that’s putting out blooms in the garden and I just scored 15 MYSTERY PLANTS for dirt cheap at the NCSU horticulture frat fundraiser, pickup in a couple weeks This winter has been some endless bullshit, it’s so nice to see everything start to pop back to life, especially some plants that I thought had bit the dust (looking at you, trillium) Edit: was inspired by wallets spreadsheet ans started cataloging all of the plants we’ve put in the ground. Lmao, not ready to come to terms with how many that actually turned out to be Oil of Paris fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 04:02
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Inoculated 5 jars of popcorn and set up a mushroom bed , I wanna get it to be more "vertical" but I figure a bed is enough for now Bed  Innoculation 
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Mar 20, 2021 05:58
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Jestery posted:Inoculated 5 jars of popcorn and set up a mushroom bed , I wanna get it to be more "vertical" but I figure a bed is enough for now I’ve never heard of popcorn for inoculation before. That’s really cool. Wine caps are yummy and that looks like it’ll be a good spot for them if they get enough water under there.
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Mar 20, 2021 06:22
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Jhet posted:I’ve never heard of popcorn for inoculation before. That’s really cool. Wine caps are yummy and that looks like it’ll be a good spot for them if they get enough water under there. Just working with what I know from other , COMPLETELY LEGAL, Mushroom grows I have read about The bed is at the bottom of the garden so any ground water naturally flows in that direction , we are entering the we season here and it's covered by the stairs so it shouldn't get too soaked I hope Those stakes on the right have beans planted near them and there is a rogue choko engulfing the area in shade so I think it's a good choice
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Mar 20, 2021 06:35
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Oil of Paris posted:Just had to drag everything back inside for this last freeze, hope all the buds on everything outside keep it locked down!! Last year I cut in some new beds by going at the grass with a shovel but I've got a really long one I want to put in this year so I think I'm going to try the mulch on top of cardboard thing and see if that can save me a ton of manual labor. Anyone actually done this? I'm still waiting to see if my crepe myrtles made it or if they're dead back to the roots but I think everything else handled winter fine. I did lose the sweet Sempervivum 'El Toro' I got from Plant Delights last year but that's because they only sent me one head and it flowered before it offset  . I want to get one of those new Gold Nugget ones that are crazy yellow/orange but I also don't want to get a single head that will fail to offset and make me sad so I may have to hunt for it locally. Oil of Paris posted:Edit: was inspired by wallets spreadsheet ans started cataloging all of the plants we’ve put in the ground. Lmao, not ready to come to terms with how many that actually turned out to be  No one local is really stocking any plants yet around here but I think my first order of the season (from these guys who have a bunch of cold hearty succulents I haven't seen available elsewhere) is supposed to show up today. Wallet fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 13:32
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Remember when I started up a humidity dome experiment? Here's some photos and a little vid from yesterday to show some progress  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOPLA1FyqYAnd here's some extremely high humidity plants I've got started   
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Mar 20, 2021 17:02
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B33rChiller posted:Remember when I started up a humidity dome experiment? Here's some photos and a little vid from yesterday to show some progress love the power strip clamped vertical pincer-style directly over the aquarium, that’s a real pro-tier aquarist move if ever I’ve seen one
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Mar 20, 2021 17:12
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Ok Comboomer posted:love the power strip clamped vertical pincer-style directly over the aquarium, that’s a real pro-tier aquarist move if ever I’ve seen one Get fewer drips in it and subsequent gfci trips this way.
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Mar 20, 2021 18:08
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B33rChiller posted:Get fewer drips in it and subsequent gfci trips this way. hope you don’t accidentally pull it down while doing a water change!
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Mar 20, 2021 21:15
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Houston, we have mycelium Edit: additionally I'm growing some oyster mushrooms and oh boy are they aggressive This is 3 days after spawn and 8 hours apart 
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Mar 21, 2021 22:06
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I've got my first crocus opening up so I think it's officially spring now  
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Mar 22, 2021 18:35
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Jestery posted:Houston, we have mycelium That's really wild how fast they grow! How long until they fruit?
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Mar 22, 2021 18:43
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Get hyphed for content, a lone Fritillaria pudica in a field of herbicided poo poo.  
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Mar 22, 2021 21:44
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I'm in the home stretch of my first batch of Manitoba maples syrup. I harvested 14 L of sap and I'm doing the final reduction into about 300 ml of syrup
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Mar 23, 2021 03:28
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I think one of my barrel cacti has a really bad rust fungus outbreak. I’ve separated it from the rest of my plants, but now I’m scared that my haworthias and dwarf portulacarias are infected I’ve gotta toss this little guy right? 
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Mar 23, 2021 13:45
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Ok Comboomer posted:I think one of my barrel cacti has a really bad rust fungus outbreak. I’ve separated it from the rest of my plants, but now I’m scared that my haworthias and dwarf portulacarias are infected I have never dealt with it on cacti—neem oil should work on it (though there are a lot of different kinds of rust fungi apparently and for all I know it doesn't work on some of them). It's obviously going to be a bit tougher on a cacti since it isn't like you can remove the impacted leaves, but as long as it's separated it seems worth giving a shot. Edit:  Bonus Gymnocalycium stenopleurum that decided to open up today. Wallet fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 19:49
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poo poo, anyone ID this? Looks some like fungus or disease on one of my lemons 
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Mar 24, 2021 20:54
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Looks like I’m around 190 unique taxa planted, many in multiples and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few lol
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Mar 26, 2021 01:00
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treat posted:Get hyphed My brother saw all of our nodding fritillarias blooming a couple years back and said “why the gently caress you have all these emo flowers?” and I’ve never been able to think of them by another name since
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Mar 26, 2021 01:10
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Nosre posted:poo poo, anyone ID this? Looks some like fungus or disease on one of my lemons It’s possible it’s something like Botryosphaeria infection, but I think it’s just sunburn.
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Mar 26, 2021 01:27
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I have birthed my 9L oyster mushroom cake There is some contamination, which is unsurprising. But it's looking well and I'm confident it will work out
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Mar 26, 2021 02:12
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ramps guy didn't ship this year since shipping times have been unpredictable, so I bought some bulbs and planted them. we'll see how they do.
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So my place (bay area, california) has an ancient wisteria vine in the front that I'm cool with. I've gone ahead and murdered the other 4 that were growing around the house but I'm considering letting a little new shoot that I found in the back grow up and around my fence. Is this a terrible/horrible/no-good idea? I have v mixed feelings (and plenty of fears) about wisteria
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Mar 26, 2021 02:29
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El Mero Mero posted:So my place (bay area, california) has an ancient wisteria vine in the front that I'm cool with. I'll hate it in 2 weeks. Honestly it's not that hard to kill if you cut the vines and paint with undiluted roundup, especially if it's a youngish plant.
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Mar 26, 2021 02:41
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There’s some nice native wisteria, especially the cultivar amethyst falls, much less vigorous and easy to control
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Mar 26, 2021 02:59
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Oil of Paris posted:There’s some nice native wisteria, especially the cultivar amethyst falls, much less vigorous and easy to control I think they might play well together on the same trellis. The native one is really pretty and blooms later in summer and not mid-spring like the exotic wisteria. Some friends have the native one and I can’t remember if it is fragrant or not but it does have really pretty flowers.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I think they might play well together on the same trellis. The native one is really pretty and blooms later in summer and not mid-spring like the exotic wisteria. Some friends have the native one and I can’t remember if it is fragrant or not but it does have really pretty flowers. yeah I spotted the new shoot in my yard because it was blooming up in one of my trees and I was like "what is that enchanting flower?!" It's really lovely.
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Mar 26, 2021 04:22
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I don’t hate wisteria (yet), but if I had a healthy mature vine, I would get rid of the younger shoot because there are several vines I would rather have.
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Tulip shoots are up, crocus blooms are out, and the bunnies haven't touched a single one! Makeshift chicken wire fence ftw!
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