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Hirayuki posted:A frosting of mold on my pothos soil, ugggh just scoop it out, it’s fine
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Aug 27, 2021 03:00
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question for this thread...I've got a small backyard with a ton of 80+ year old camelias, roses, maytens, and plum/apple trees. Normally we don't do any watering or care whatsoever for any of these since they're so established. But with the California drought being so severe this year I'm wondering if there's anything I'll end up needing to do. What should I watch for and what should I do if I see those signs?
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Aug 29, 2021 18:20
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Also, I'm pretty sure I've completely murdered this bush I tried planting in our front yard by over-fertilizing it 6 months ago. I thought I was able to save it back in May by cutting it back, flushing it out with a ton of water, and packing worm castings from my vermiculture bin around it. It sprang back and looked great for two months and then suddenly collapsed again this month.
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Aug 29, 2021 18:28
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I have tree questions! Up first: We lost a 60 year old oak to an ice storm last fall, and now have this oak...bush... growing from its stump. Can we trim back all but the strongest stems and let it grow?  Second: My neighbor cut down his mimosa tree last fall due to ice damage as well. My horribly neglected front garden now has a seedling!!!  Can I transplant it? If so, how far from the house should it be? Maybe smack in the middle of the far end of the rectangle? 
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Aug 29, 2021 23:09
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effika posted:We lost a 60 year old oak to an ice storm last fall, and now have this oak...bush... growing from its stump. Can we trim back all but the strongest stems and let it grow? Yes though you want to be careful about how you prune it to avoid getting a multitrunked tree that's structurally unsound and you may run into issues with (parts of) the stump decomposing. effika posted:Can I transplant it? If so, how far from the house should it be? Maybe smack in the middle of the far end of the rectangle? You can transplant basically anything. Summer isn't the best time to do so but you can usually get away with it if you can avoid loving up the roots too much (e.g. dig around it and pull out a bulb of soil around them instead of pulling the roots out of the ground). How big it might get (and where it is then reasonable to plant it) depends on the species. IIRC they're super invasive in a lot of the US, though. El Mero Mero posted:Also, I'm pretty sure I've completely murdered this bush I tried planting in our front yard by over-fertilizing it 6 months ago. I thought I was able to save it back in May by cutting it back, flushing it out with a ton of water, and packing worm castings from my vermiculture bin around it. It sprang back and looked great for two months and then suddenly collapsed again this month. Are the leaves dried out? It looks a lot like a rhododendron having an unhappy time in too much heat. Wallet fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Aug 30, 2021 00:46
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Wallet posted:Yes though you want to be careful about how you prune it to avoid getting a multitrunked tree that's structurally unsound and you may run into issues with (parts of) the stump decomposing. Thanks! I need some trees trimmed this fall so I may see if they'll help out with the oak bush too to help it out. I guess I better call my county extension about the mimosa! I know I see them not infrequently here, but they sure aren't native. They look and smell so nice, so much better than the awful Bradford pears around here. (We called them "jizz trees" in high school.) The city even does a campaign every ice storm about how if you lost a Bradford pear, just let it go, and get a prettier and better tree instead! Anyway. Fingers crossed on the mimosa! Thanks for the help, thread!
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Aug 30, 2021 01:59
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Wallet posted:Are the leaves dried out? It looks a lot like a rhododendron having an unhappy time in too much heat. that's what I thought, but the soil still feels a bit damp around it and I've done some deep 1-minute long drenches recently...
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Aug 30, 2021 04:18
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El Mero Mero posted:that's what I thought, but the soil still feels a bit damp around it and I've done some deep 1-minute long drenches recently... What zone are you in? Some varieties apparently don't handle heat well at all, even if they're being watered.
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Aug 30, 2021 19:16
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Once upon a time, a lovely goon in this very thread sent me two voodoo lily bulbs from their burgeoning collection. Three and a half years later, I see why they felt the need to thin the ranks. The two biggest ones are original. The other 17 came later. At the start of this season, I put the two biggest in their own pots, or so I thought; I planted one, two, or three bulbs in each of the other, smaller pots. I don't think there's a single pot that didn't wind up with at least one surprise bonus plant. One day I'll share the wealth and pay it forward and all that, but I'm not feeling overwhelmed just yet! I dig this little tropical-ish corner of my yard.
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Sep 1, 2021 17:57
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Holy poo poo my cactus started going crazy with the blooms last night, I never seen this many at one time! This was about 10pm last night:    They all closed back up by the morning. 
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Sep 5, 2021 22:33
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FCKGW posted:Holy poo poo my cactus started going crazy with the blooms last night, I never seen this many at one time! Wawawiwa Very Nice! A couple of my cacti flowered again over the last two weeks but I missed the blooms between travel, heavy rain in the NE, and them being outside and not wanting to go and creep out my downstairs neighbors.
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Sep 5, 2021 22:44
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Hi, so I have 3-4 cats depending on if I spot the fourth one in the next few days. Are there houseplants that cats won't touch? Won't chew on and puke eveywhere, or whatever? We used to have so many houseplants but one by one they shredded the leaves, knocked the pots off sills, pissed in the soil, etc. I'm tired of not having plants, though. So this time I wanna be more careful about which ones I choose, how I place them (more hanging planters I guess), and keep training my cats to stay the gently caress away from them. So are there any houseplants people might recommend that cats would find at least disinteresting, and any I should absolutely avoid if I don't want the cats to die vomiting?
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Sep 5, 2021 22:45
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Brawnfire posted:Hi, so I have 3-4 cats depending on if I spot the fourth one in the next few days. No lilies ever
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Sep 5, 2021 23:39
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Finding plants that both look good and won't murder the cat has been our primary problem. I've mostly placed my plants in places that I make inaccessible to cats, and my girlfriend has had good luck with succulents with pointy tips like haworthias. That said, our cat is 14 and most of his rear end in a top hat days are behind him. He still gets a good bite of spider plant every few months and then vomits all over the apartment, though.
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Sep 5, 2021 23:50
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As of present I'm learning how to get really good at macrame so I can have 70's-rear end hanging plants all over
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Sep 6, 2021 02:31
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Spiky, visually animal-deterrent plants are good. Cacti, esp with big spines (golden barrel cactus, etc) rather than small clingy or hairy spines that might not be initially noticed by an animal until it’s too late, or curiously nuzzled to unfortunate effect (I’d avoid mammillaria, etc) I’d avoid euphorbias. They’re not spiky enough to entirely avoid a curios bite in the wrong spot and their latex will severely irritate/injure/kill your cat if ingested/wiped in eyes, etc. This can include their relatives, the crotons and poinsettias and spurges
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Sep 6, 2021 04:02
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Is this the right thread to ask gardening questions? If not point me in the right direction and I'll move this. I've got a pepper plan that's got yellowing leaves and I can't figure out why. I put some fertilizer in it a bit ago so I don't THINK it's that, but maybe. I'm not seeing signs of any kind of infestation, and the plants next to it is fine. The soil is damp, so I don't think it's under-watering. I've read some things online saying it could be overwatering, but the plants next to it look just fine. It's sitting outside in full sunlight, temps are averaging in the 80s during the day, so it's not that. We've gotten a bunch of rain recently, but again the plants next to it are fine. I'll throw up a couple pics in a sec once I get them off my phone. Here it is:  Detail of the leaves:   Here's its neighbor.  The neighbor plant makes smaller, crappier peppers, while this guy makes some monsters. Frankly if the situation was reversed I'd probably just kill the other plant and start a new one, but I want to keep this guy going if I can. As it is I think I'm going to save some seeds off it and see if I can get some other plants producing like this. edit: Chile de Arbol, should have mentioned that.
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Sep 6, 2021 16:25
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Some new cactus friends: myrtillocactus geometrizans cv fukurokuryuzinboku aka the fun boobies cactus, opuntia and echinopsis subdenudata. I didn't follow directions and I just bought some miracle-grow cactus mix but the Gritty mix idea got me researching and now I'm just making my own cactus mix out of: coarse sand, perlite and sieved potting soil (50-25-25). I've started watering the cacti at night when the soil feels dry about an inch down. Thanks friends. 
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Sep 6, 2021 16:39
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Cyrano4747 posted:Is this the right thread to ask gardening questions? If not point me in the right direction and I'll move this. Eating plants are normally the other Gardening thread, but w/e. Yellowing leaves are normally because you're getting short on nutrients (or it's getting cold at night in the 50-60F range and they're starting to just die back). Add some fruiting balanced fertilizer with Calcium and Magnesium and it will be able to bounce back okay if it needs food, otherwise, you can cover them at night if it's the temp.
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Sep 6, 2021 17:25
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Jhet posted:Eating plants are normally the other Gardening thread, but w/e. Yellowing leaves are normally because you're getting short on nutrients (or it's getting cold at night in the 50-60F range and they're starting to just die back). Add some fruiting balanced fertilizer with Calcium and Magnesium and it will be able to bounce back okay if it needs food, otherwise, you can cover them at night if it's the temp. any particular suggestions on fruiting fertilizer? Googling it is showing me a bunch of stuff for fruit trees. Ideally something I could pick up at the local Home Depot / Lowes.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:02
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Cyrano4747 posted:any particular suggestions on fruiting fertilizer? Googling it is showing me a bunch of stuff for fruit trees. Ideally something I could pick up at the local Home Depot / Lowes. Are you sure it’s not sun scorch from midsummer? The one next to it looks like it gets some shade (I might be totally off base). With a bunch of my maples, azalea prebonsai, crotons, and even a few of my succulents and conifers, placement variation of a few feet or inches meant big differences in visible stress and injury from one plant to another this summer. Like one tree would be fine or have minimal scorching and the one right next to it on the patio would have a ton of scorch. The difference in environment can be very hard to notice, depending on the time of day. Even if it’s only 30 min of particularly strong light at noon or whatever and otherwise the two spots are identical.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:09
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Ok Comboomer posted:Are you sure it’s not sun scorch from midsummer? The one next to it looks like it gets some shade (I might be totally off base). They're right next to each other. I doubt it, but I"ll slide it over a few feet to see if that makes a difference.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:15
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Cyrano4747 posted:any particular suggestions on fruiting fertilizer? Googling it is showing me a bunch of stuff for fruit trees. Ideally something I could pick up at the local Home Depot / Lowes. I like the Fox Farm Tiger Bloom for spot fertilizing at the end of season. Really anything that’s higher in Phosphate (second number on label) than Nitrogen (first number) or even equal should be okay if it contains micro-nutrients. The powdered Organic Tomato fertilizer is also going to work okay, but I prefer to stop using it the beginning of August so the plants stop growing as much. It’ll still work in a pinch. You can get Cal-Mag by itself, but you won’t need much so ymmv. It is a nice large plant, so if you haven’t fertilized it’s not really a surprise that it might be starting to find deficiencies.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:44
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About to head back home after being away for nearly 2 weeks due to evacuating for Ida. House is fine, but hoping that all the plants I moved inside haven't dropped dead yet. Fingers crossed.
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Sep 7, 2021 14:49
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I didn't follow directions and I just bought some miracle-grow cactus mix but the Gritty mix idea got me researching and now I'm just making my own cactus mix out of: coarse sand, perlite and sieved potting soil (50-25-25). Nice friends! Be careful mixing sand and other types of soil as it can go very poorly particularly if there is a significant difference between the particle size of the sand and the particle size of the soil. 2 parts perlite (or 1 part perlite 1 part pumice or fine gravel) to 1 part potting soil will work just fine (just try to get soil that isn't peat based).
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Sep 7, 2021 18:48
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I live in Maryland and have a number of fig cuttings of various sizes. This post is relevant to the two oldest cuttings, which have been in pots for over a year and are starting to resemble trees. Their leaves are not looking so hot, with small brown spots that start on the leaves at the bottom and eventually work their way up the tree. I do not see any fuzzy spots or spores on the underside of the leaves. My understanding of plants is "check for something eating them, check for spores, but maybe they just need fertilizer" so I need someone to tell me what I should be doing for these trees. I have made a folder with leaf photos here and can take more. Please help, these trees have been my pandemic buddies and I want them to survive.
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Sep 8, 2021 18:34
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Maera Sior posted:I live in Maryland and have a number of fig cuttings of various sizes. This post is relevant to the two oldest cuttings, which have been in pots for over a year and are starting to resemble trees. Their leaves are not looking so hot, with small brown spots that start on the leaves at the bottom and eventually work their way up the tree. I do not see any fuzzy spots or spores on the underside of the leaves. My understanding of plants is "check for something eating them, check for spores, but maybe they just need fertilizer" so I need someone to tell me what I should be doing for these trees. Could be fig rust (a fungal disease) or phosphorus deficiency. Fig rust is a more common problem, but the progression makes sense for phosphorus deficiency. It’s a mobile nutrient, so the plant pull it out of the older and generally less efficient leaves to make use of it in new growth.
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Sep 8, 2021 18:47
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Platystemon posted:Could be fig rust (a fungal disease) or phosphorus deficiency. Thanks, I'll set a schedule for regular feeding then.
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Sep 8, 2021 21:52
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I've been gifted a phalaenopsis orchid. The instructions for it say to put it somewhere humid with direct sunlight. I can offer it filtered light + humidity or direct light + not much humidity. Which one will keep it happier? Light?
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Sep 9, 2021 02:49
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Organza Quiz posted:I've been gifted a phalaenopsis orchid. The instructions for it say to put it somewhere humid with direct sunlight. I can offer it filtered light + humidity or direct light + not much humidity. Which one will keep it happier? Light? I'd go with the latter first, then try the former. You can always add light/shade and humidity, or water/mist accordingly. But when in doubt, I'd rather avoid fungus. Phals are p much bulletproof if you give them a good growing medium. What's it currently potted in? How big is it? Is it in flower? Post pics and we'll give you better advice
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Sep 9, 2021 04:28
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Sep 9, 2021 12:24
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Actually, if I'm going to end up at Bunnings this weekend anyway buying plant stuff I should probably sort out this too: when I bought the medusa head plant I've posted about before I also on a whim bought a plant for my bathroom, which I assumed would eventually die due to me being bad at plants. It's actually been hanging on pretty well and growing and getting flowers, so I figure I actually should learn what it is and get it into proper potting mix and a better pot. So, what should I be buying for this guy: 
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Sep 9, 2021 12:31
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Organza Quiz posted:Actually, if I'm going to end up at Bunnings this weekend anyway buying plant stuff I should probably sort out this too: when I bought the medusa head plant I've posted about before I also on a whim bought a plant for my bathroom, which I assumed would eventually die due to me being bad at plants. It's actually been hanging on pretty well and growing and getting flowers, so I figure I actually should learn what it is and get it into proper potting mix and a better pot. Looks like a Begonia. It probably likes the humidity it's getting in your bathroom but they also want good drainage.
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Sep 9, 2021 13:52
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i have a begonia question too... i've had this rhizomous begonia for a long time and a year ago several of the "branches" started doing poorly so i clipped them off and now the pot is big for what's left. they're also getting leggy (while one of the rhizomes i cut and repotted grows TOO fast and dense). the branch on the right in the below pic is also a little severed from the main root system and is struggling more because of it. what's the best way to trim off the bare rhizome and repot this? most of what i can find online is for propagating leaves/rhizomes but not about cutting it back. should i cut the living parts into segments and just repot that or what?  also for my second begonia that's trying to leap from its pot, any tips on taming it? should i be pinching the ends when i see new leaves forming?
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Sep 9, 2021 14:25
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I picked up a very sad String of Pearls from the farmer's market today (along with a rather more robust Pilea) and I'm wondering what I can do to encourage growth, or if I should leave it be for a while. I gather it doesn't love being watered too much and I should probably give it some dilute liquid fertilizer, but any insight? It's sparse and has lost some pearls from the main growth but seems to be otherwise reasonably healthy.
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Sep 9, 2021 23:56
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angerbeet posted:I picked up a very sad String of Pearls from the farmer's market today (along with a rather more robust Pilea) and I'm wondering what I can do to encourage growth, or if I should leave it be for a while. I gather it doesn't love being watered too much and I should probably give it some dilute liquid fertilizer, but any insight? It's sparse and has lost some pearls from the main growth but seems to be otherwise reasonably healthy. Put it in some gritty mix and don't water it very much; IIRC rowleyanus doesn't want super duper intense light. If it's got a bunch of bald spots they're pretty easy to propagate so you can always just cut past the bare spots and reroot. Once it's happy and well rooted it should grow without you having to do anything special. Squeezy Farm posted:what's the best way to trim off the bare rhizome and repot this? most of what i can find online is for propagating leaves/rhizomes but not about cutting it back. should i cut the living parts into segments and just repot that or what? I don't really grow begonias but if they're actually rhizomes you should be able to just bury them. If they aren't rhizomes then your options are basically to cut them and reroot or just live with it.
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Sep 10, 2021 00:42
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angerbeet posted:I picked up a very sad String of Pearls from the farmer's market today (along with a rather more robust Pilea) and I'm wondering what I can do to encourage growth, or if I should leave it be for a while. I gather it doesn't love being watered too much and I should probably give it some dilute liquid fertilizer, but any insight? It's sparse and has lost some pearls from the main growth but seems to be otherwise reasonably healthy. Give it lots of light. Strings of Pearls/Fishhooks/etc get etiolated v easily. Probably too late to bring it outside this season but putting it in a bright windowsill or under gro lights is what I’d do.
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Sep 10, 2021 00:47
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Thanks, very much appreciated to both of you!
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Wallet posted:Looks like a Begonia. It probably likes the humidity it's getting in your bathroom but they also want good drainage. Thanks, that's right I just keep remembering it as an old-lady-sounding-plant but can never remember which one. What does that translate to in a practical sense for a plant newbie? I have some succulent potting mix, should I put it in that or is that too much drainage? Is there a particular sort of pot I should put it in?
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