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Platystemon posted:If you need to be tidy, water the plants, then take away the saucer after the excess water has drained away.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I'm death to houseplants, but I think this corner could use a houseplant: big ol fern will do well in low light and humidity
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I'm death to houseplants, but I think this corner could use a houseplant: Do you have a monstera? If you don’t have a monstera yet, put a monstera there. They’re p bulletproof Also if you’re open to lighting that corner you could put a wide variety of stuff there.
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Platystemon posted:No, never. So I bought a cactus in a neat pot, with no holes,and I thought, huh, if people do this maybe it's ok?? But I will listen to you and repot it! Then see if I can drill a couple of holes without cracking it 
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Jun 27, 2021 22:13
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Anything y'all could recommend? There's a whole bunch of varieties of upright Dracaena that would probably be fine if you want something palmy. Some of them will go dormant or at least stop growing if you leave them in the 50s for a sustained period (so will monstera for that matter) but that probably doesn't matter. What does death to houseplants actually mean? Most houseplants are pretty easy to keep alive as long as you don't forget that they exist—if that's what's killing them you may want to pick something that can deal with being forgotten for a while.
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Jun 27, 2021 22:36
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Wallet posted:What does death to houseplants actually mean? Most houseplants are pretty easy to keep alive as long as you don't forget that they exist—if that's what's killing them you may want to pick something that can deal with being forgotten for a while.
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Yoruichi posted:But I will listen to you and repot it! Then see if I can drill a couple of holes without cracking it I've drilled plenty of terracotta and glazed pottery this way.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I just seem to get a few months out of them and then they start fading and I don't know how to intervene. I'm probably not super diligent about watering, but I've also thought they don't get enough light. I've killed some kind of bromeliad and a bigger ???? houseplant I can't remember. If you take a quick peek at your plants twice a week or whatever you'll usually notice any problems early enough that they are easy to correct (even if you don't know what's causing it, google or posting in a thread like this one can point you in the right direction). Once the problem is screaming at you from across the room things are a lot harder. Basically every plant I've had a bad time with has been because I wasn't paying attention or I decided to wait instead of addressing a problem as soon as I saw something going wrong. People obviously grow orchids and poo poo which can be substantially more complicated, but most houseplants are houseplants because they are pretty easy to keep alive and healthy in a house. If you just want something that looks decent and is difficult to kill you can probably find an upright Dracaena basically anywhere that sells houseplants (fragrans and marginata seem to be the most commonly sold). As long as you water it once a month or so it will be fine (the only easy way to kill them is to water them too often)—like most things they aren't going to grow a ton in low light. Beaucarnea recurvata (common name is usually Ponytail Palm) will similarly be fine in low light with the occasional watering.
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Jun 28, 2021 01:37
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This thing just keeps spitting out flowers. I woke up to all 8 buds in bloom this morning. Crazy.  
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Jun 28, 2021 12:56
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I'm death to houseplants, but I think this corner could use a houseplant: A big tall snake plant might be nice. VERY easy to care for.
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I need to trim one of my peach trees in the next few days, and I need to post some pics and get some advice from this thread on where to cut. I’ve read that peach trees are prone to putting out excess growth leading to a lot of weak branches and problems later on, and that some light pruning is necessary during the growing season to ensure that any new growth is strong and healthy. I’ve also read that the best time to do this is mid-to-late June, meaning my window of opportunity is closing fast.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:55
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So our one of our older houseplants, an oxalis, has some white spots on it. My wife is freaking out. Plant seems fine - I repotted it today (it had been in the same soil for the last 5 years). The rhizomes are all at least 3 inches long and not rotted, plant is still putting out new leaves; it's fine. But she wants me to ask. Does anyone know what these spots are? I am guessing some sort of mild fungal infection; we put it outside in the rain for water a few weeks ago and then they showed up. Could it also be some sort of nutrient deficiency, given the age of the soil? It's not scale, but not exactly sure what it is otherwise. Sorry for the not great pics, I tried to get as close as I could.     
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Jun 29, 2021 18:55
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Survived the PNW heat wave! One maple with moderate (but recoverable) leaf scorch, and two others with a few leaves here and there, hostas and raspberries aren't happy but a whole bunch of watermelon volunteers are.
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Jun 30, 2021 16:49
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I could use some advice about a tree wound on my PawPaw tree: I don’t know if it was a windstorm or stray neighborhood cat trying to parkour the tree to get over my privacy fence, but one of the top Y branch sections snapped while I was on vacation last week. The tree is about 9’ tall, and the branch was about 4’ long, right at the crook where the tree split into a vertical Y. I saw conflicting advice about what to do, but just decided to try and trim it as flush as I could, since the bark was the only thing leaving it attached and all the leaves were dying. Unfortunately this leaves a horizontal wound in the tree and I’m not sure if I should apply any salve or seal it in any way, or let nature heal itself. Thanks in advance!
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Jun 30, 2021 18:16
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Tree sealant is counterproductive 99% of the time. It just encourages moisture retention and fungal growth. Flat & flush pruning like you did is preferred because it helps the tree to heal best on its own.
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Jun 30, 2021 18:32
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It looks like it was a narrow/weak crotch with a lot of included bark that would have broken someday anyway. Better that it happened sooner rather than later.
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Thank you! That’s really good to know, and definitely helps me feel a lot better… hopefully the tree will heal itself up, I’m pretty emotionally invested in it 
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Jul 1, 2021 01:21
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Any of you folks have any good sources for Trillium bulbs that don't cost a fortune? I have a couple that I happened to find volunteering along the side of my driveway that I moved to the garden and I'd love to get some more but gently caress if they aren't expensive as poo poo.OSU_Matthew posted:Thank you! That’s really good to know, and definitely helps me feel a lot better… hopefully the tree will heal itself up, I’m pretty emotionally invested in it There's a really great guide for pruning trees in the third post in the thread right after the OP which is worth checking out for a good primer on how to safely prune things. Really narrow crotches like that are bad news and usually worth pruning early before the tree pumps a lot of effort into them, particularly if bark is included.
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Jul 1, 2021 14:05
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Well, after that insane heatwave we just had in Portland, my fuschia has dropped almost all its leaves and all my other plants are looking raggedy as poo poo  I mostly have shady perennials too, they seemed to take it way harder. This is my first year actually growing anything on my balcony and I'm so bummed this happened!!
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Also someone on Etsy had listed a couple of the speckled brown stinkflowers famous for gracing not one but two plant thread OPs (Edithcolea grandis) at a reasonable price so I picked one up and it came in today. Wonder how old they have to be before they stink up the place.
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All the new growth on my rhododendrons have gone brown and crispy from the heat. They were finally doing well after getting some irrigation set up and a good mulch. So frustrating to have it all taken back now. I feel like that horticulture in a nutshell though.
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Jul 1, 2021 19:27
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I got a new ant plant!
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Does anyone have any suggestions for a....decoy plant or.....something that I can put in my garden that will be more attractive to leaf-cutter bees than my rosebush? The one I had in this spot last year got badly defoliated by them and didn't survive the winter, so I replaced it and they're going after the new one. It's just the one rose, too, the other rose like two feet away is of no interest to them at all, apparently. I don't want to spray or anything because I don't want to hurt the bees, but I'd rather they go after a plant that's not my roses, you know? Any suggestions for something that might be more attractive to them? I'm in southern Ontario if that's of any importance.
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Jul 1, 2021 22:06
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 yesssss....this is why I spent $24.98 cant fuckin wait T. grandiflorus hybrid, looks like it’s gonna be a white flower, which is maybe a bit of a bummer for me as I was hoping for red or yellow since the grandiflorus next to it is a Sun Goddess, but also I have another smaller one that I think is orange. All will be forgiven, cactus, https://youtu.be/KlTFADCkNe8
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My two coreopsis have seems to develop some sort of rot and have died. We've been getting a decent amount of rain this past few days, so that's a bummer. However, I did buy an agapanthus and ruby slippers oakleaf hydrangea.
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Wallet posted:There's a really great guide for pruning trees in the third post in the thread right after the OP which is worth checking out for a good primer on how to safely prune things. Really narrow crotches like that are bad news and usually worth pruning early before the tree pumps a lot of effort into them, particularly if bark is included. I probably should’ve read this before I trimmed back my peach tree the other day. Although the shoots I cut off were adding more weight and wind resistance than the limbs were able to support, so under the circumstances I think I did what I had to. I just wish it didn’t look so fucky now. 
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 Hell kind of plant is this, and how do I take care of it? My dad got it for me at and didn't give me the first clue on what it is or what it wants.
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Jul 4, 2021 12:28
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Echeveria. It needs lots of light. It looks like it hasn’t been getting enough light.
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That may be a problem, considering that it lives in my front window which is the brightest place in the whole appt.
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StratGoatCom posted:That may be a problem, considering that it lives in my front window which is the brightest place in the whole appt. Eh, they aren't the best houseplants in general because they need intense light. It won't kill it or anything, it'll just get a bit leggy and poo poo. My bigger concern would be water retention. I don't know what it's planted in but I sure hope that little pot has a drainage hole, and the river rocks on top may look cute but they really aren't an appropriate top dressing as they're non porous.
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StratGoatCom posted:That may be a problem, considering that it lives in my front window which is the brightest place in the whole appt. Put it outside for the summer (until like October) and under an inexpensive light indoors. It’s all etiolated and long now, but you can chop the trunk right under the artichoke bit, stick it back in the soil (ideally put some rooting hormone compound on it, but you really don’t have to), and have a nice squat plant again. Don’t throw out the cut trunk- it’ll start to grow babies. Echeveria are crazy propagators- you’ll see it drop leaves at various points in the season and grow clones from them. If you really wanted to, you could chop that plant up and every leaf and cutting would eventually grow into some baby Echeveria
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Wallet posted:Tree Pruning Essentials - A decent primer from Purdue's extension on how and why to prune your trees. Thanks for these links. We've got a pruning project, and this quote sort of touches on the situation quote:Basal sprouts are shoots that may arise from roots or adventitious buds around the root collar and are not useful or helpful to the tree. On larger, mature trees, sprout-generated branches can grow from old, broken limbs and become an integral part of the canopy. Also, sprouting may be necessary on storm-damaged trees to replace lost limbs. Management strategies can be adapted to accommodate these normal characteristics of older or damaged trees. We've got this cool old willow. It was surrounded by may day trees, which we cut down (they're invasive and turned into a thicket which blocks the sledding hill (someone else cut down two big cottonwoods, maybe they were threatening the house? We would have liked them)). Now it's getting way more sun and is going bananas with sprouts.  Basically all the leaves you can see are on new shoots this year. This tree is so old and unstable it's probably going to topple before too too long. So, we're not trying to send all the energy up top. I suppose we'll pick a few of the sprouts to encourage for more growth, and prune others. Not sure how many to prune and when. Now? Late winter/early spring? I'm guessing we can cut lots, and the 10% rule of thumb is for actual branches. Maybe this situation is more like renewal pruning a shrub (in the second link), where you gradually take off the old big branches and prune the sprouts to form a new structure.
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Epitope posted:Basically all the leaves you can see are on new shoots this year. This tree is so old and unstable it's probably going to topple before too too long. So, we're not trying to send all the energy up top. I suppose we'll pick a few of the sprouts to encourage for more growth, and prune others. Not sure how many to prune and when. Now? Late winter/early spring? I'm guessing we can cut lots, and the 10% rule of thumb is for actual branches. Maybe this situation is more like renewal pruning a shrub (in the second link), where you gradually take off the old big branches and prune the sprouts to form a new structure. Yeah, I don't think the rule applies to sprouts like that. In general on a tree that wasn't in this particular circumstance you'd remove all of them. Willows are pretty shooty in general—I often see entire new trees sprouting out of the middle of older willows that have fallen over. It looks from the limited part of the tree visible that it's probably been reaching for a long time to get to the sun. If you want to keep it around you may be better off removing the limbs that seem unstable before they topple on their own because they could easily strip off significant portions of the rest of the tree when they go. Also just IMO you can mostly prune things whenever as long as you aren't doing anything too crazy, a lot like how you can transplant most things whenever as long as you aren't an animal about it. With unwanted shoots I'd usually remove them as soon as possible before the tree pumps more energy into poo poo I'm just going to cut off later.
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Epitope posted:Thanks for these links. We've got a pruning project, and this quote sort of touches on the situation You could also do both-plant a new one somewhere else and keep working on this one. The best time to prune is whenever you feel like it, but late winter/early spring before the tree breaks dormancy is 'best.' After the leaves drop in fall is fine too-maybe slightly more disease concern as the tree might not spend much energy healing the wound over winter. Early summer/late spring is the worst because the tree has just used a ton of energy growing new growth and doesn't get a chance to recoup that energy is you chop all that new growth off.
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Decided since my balcony gets like no direct sunlight I will be going all in on ferns and violets, so here's my newest from the farmer's market: Crested Hart's Tongue (that little fiddlehead's already unfurled, too!) vvv It is outside though big dyke energy fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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big dyke energy posted:Decided since my balcony gets like no direct sunlight I will be going all in on ferns and violets, so here's my newest from the farmer's market: It’ll be so much happier if you put it outside tho
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I got a Dioscorea elephantipes and a Pelargonium cotyledonis online earlier this year when it was still cold here and even with a heat pack they were both going into dormancy by the time they got here so I've had a potato and a slightly green stick in pots on my windowsill for about five months. I noticed the Pelargonium had started budding a few days ago and when I went to check on it earlier today the Dioscorea has pushed out a vine.  . 
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Can I get some rose advice? I planted a couple 3 years ago, and this one has been doing the best: Today I took a closer look and we have some problems, however:  That one small cane would be no problem to take off, but unfortunately there's a black spot quite far down on the main cane that's like 90% of the bush volume:  Zoomed out on the same angle, you can see there's a new cane coming up behind, but if I take out the big one, that new cane will be basically the only thing the bush has left.  Thoughts? Should I take the whole big one out?
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Nosre posted:Thoughts? Should I take the whole big one out? If that's actually black spot you probably need to get rid of it and start applying an anti-fungal cause that poo poo spreads, but I don't know roses well enough to be sure if it is or not.
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My understanding is black spot affects more younger canes and leaves, so maybe this is rose canker? Doesn't change anything though because the treatment for canker is taking out the stem too
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