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Dead Nerve posted:YOU TOO CHIPMUNKS! My wife has clear double-standards as it concerns chipmunks. They act and smell like rodents, but she considers them cute and welcome inhabitants of the backyard, where I think of them more like rat/squirrel hybrids. Brazen as gently caress too ever since we screened in our back porch. They have lost whatever fear they had of us. And our cat is an impotent non-threat.
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The figs on my tree have started to ripen, but 80% of them have been pecked at by birds. It's like they're loving with me; they just take a couple of pecks at each fig, rendering them useless. I love birds; I feed them and they nest in the palm trees next door but I want my figs this year. The tree is too big to make a net effective, so I guess I'm stuck using things that may scare them off. Anyone have advice on using things other than a fake owl?
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Jun 29, 2022 17:35
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We always had pretty good luck with the old pie plate on fishing line solution at my mother in laws, she's got a bunch of pear trees that were getting just savaged every year. If you sling a few fishing weights in there the rattling will keep deer out pretty well too.
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Tremors posted:Peppers are finally planted! Pepper update: 
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mischief posted:We always had pretty good luck with the old pie plate on fishing line solution at my mother in laws, she's got a bunch of pear trees that were getting just savaged every year. If you sling a few fishing weights in there the rattling will keep deer out pretty well too. Oh man, I have some foil half sheet pans that I bought when I was doing food relief during the early days of the pandemic. They're too big to use for my family, so I've just got them sitting around. I bet I could cut some up into weird shapes that would blow around in the wind. With my luck, though, that would just attract some of the hundreds of crows in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about deer in my home garden. We do have some property an hour away that gets deer, and someday I hope to revive the garden my grandparents had there, but that's a ways off and by the time it's feasible I'll be getting pretty long in the tooth. Having said that, and assuming it doesn't bother the neighbors, some sort of audible aspect sounds like a good idea. Thanks!
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Yoruichi posted:I'm sure this question has been asked before but I'd love some advice on starting vege seeds indoors. Is a florescent bulb sufficient or is it better to buy proper grow lights? You've reminded me that I looted some grow lights and I should figure out how to use them for my own veg seeds.
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I've got three braided hibiscus in my garden in terracotta pots, and ants are doing something weird with the blossoms of the red one:  What's going on here, and how do I put a stop to it? also, tomato hornworms are jerks
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Jun 29, 2022 20:50
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My first thread title  It turns out that my black hollyhocks weren't the culprits!  It was the peach hollyhocks i planted that came up red! Either way, my Peaches N' Scream long game for Halloween is dashed. fake edit: look at how Black those petals are!!
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Jun 29, 2022 22:00
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Peaches N Scream is the besssst idea.
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I've got a bunch of cucumber vines that are already blossoming (like 3-5 blossoms per vine) BUT the vines are like 6-8" tall...just want to confirm what I read that I should pinch these off to encourage it to grow longer and up the trellis , so that if can have more blossoms later and be big enough to support the eventual fruits they'll grow into?
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I grow them to can pickles every year, and thats what i would do. Pretty confident you won’t kill that weed by picking its flower.
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Tremors posted:Pepper update: Look how pretty!
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DrBouvenstein posted:I've got a bunch of cucumber vines that are already blossoming (like 3-5 blossoms per vine) BUT the vines are like 6-8" tall...just want to confirm what I read that I should pinch these off to encourage it to grow longer and up the trellis , so that if can have more blossoms later and be big enough to support the eventual fruits they'll grow into? It won't grow more because you pick the flower, it'll just grow more with time and good weather. I had a cooler June and my cucumber have 3-4 fruit on each at less than a foot tall. They just grew 6" in the last couple days because it was warm enough.
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My big take away this year is that I was way too cautious getting stuff started and in the ground. I have squash seedlings developing on the back porch while some folks in the community garden have plants that cover 2 square feet. My cucumbers are just getting to the heights where I can ziptie them to their trellises while other people have like plants that are climbing 1-2' already. My neighbors have 3-4' corn stalks and mine are at the stage where you're not 100% it's corn or another grass. Basically the only thing I'm not getting plant envy about are my soy beans, my rice (I'm just growing a small amount in a kiddy pool because I want to see if I can grow a single bowl of rice), and sweet potatoes and mostly that's because none of my neighbors are growing those.
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Rice is cool, and I love the idea of doing aquaculture with the rice. So you get most of a meal out of the pool. The other thing that made my garden ready was getting a cover for when it’s too cold. We were having late weeks of 40-50 overnight temps and while the greens don’t care, the peppers and warm weather starts did appreciate the blanket. I’ve seen a few people around me even putting a translucent wrap on a tomato cage for a single pot. But those days where it does get warm they have a chance to grow healthy root systems and don’t have to play catch-up. The thing that seems to require just waiting for the weather is beans though, so very temperamental.
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My tomatoes, particularly the sungolds, have me overrun. But I think keeping it to four plants this year instead of six should insulate me from the pest problems I developed late last year. And we're fruiting! Three sisters bed is going pretty well. The birds have massacred my sunflowers, but they're still holding out pretty strong and my pole beans are using all 10+ feet of the mammoths. Dean's purple pole beans are really beautiful as hell. Goes with my purple asparagus too. Seminole pumpkins, not pictured, are trying to climb out of the bed now as is their way.   Hot peppers are getting a little crowded, so I may yank the marigolds at some point. A couple are just starting to flower, but if it's anything like last year, I will soon have more peppers than I can handle.  Potato buckets were a bit of a bust. The ratio of potato in to potato out isn't really there. Still got one more going strong though. 
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Whoa that's cool looking. I wonder if they are mallows, they look like a hibiscusey kind of flower and leaves. e: yes they are I feel smart now.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:DEATH TO GOPHERS dealin with a groundhog sitch at the moment I really don't want to kill it but
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Careful with them hollyhocks, I've got the same black ones and they readily self sow. Like growing in cracks on my porch and poo poo.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Whoa that's cool looking. I wonder if they are mallows, they look like a hibiscusey kind of flower and leaves. I applaud your smug.
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Been sawing through a bunch of fig limbs, tips for cleaning the blades? I've tried soap, isopropyl alcohol, elbow grease, but getting the sap off is a huge pain every time
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Buck Turgidson posted:Been sawing through a bunch of fig limbs, tips for cleaning the blades? I've tried soap, isopropyl alcohol, elbow grease, but getting the sap off is a huge pain every time is your blade oiled?
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Buck Turgidson posted:Been sawing through a bunch of fig limbs, tips for cleaning the blades? I've tried soap, isopropyl alcohol, elbow grease, but getting the sap off is a huge pain every time Be careful with fig sap. Fig sap and sunlight can give you a nasty burn. Have you tried WD-40 or kerosene or something?
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I'm looking to rehabilitate two of my plants and am looking for some advice! The first is Orpheus, my towering but a bit leggy rubber plant:  I had him in a semi-sunny corner for too long, and he started dropping leaves and getting leggy, until my partner finally realized he needs wayyyyy more light. So we plunked him here and he's been thriving, but.. still leggy. Can I like, prune one of these taller stalks so he gets a bit bushier? I know I need to clear out the two dead pieces of there in the pot, as well, but that's easy peasy. Second question, and similar to the first, regards my struggling nerve plant Oligo:  He's been attacked by cats and deprived of a bit of light for awhile, so I'm hoping I can get him back to his full leafy self. Should I just like, rebury some of those longer stalks?
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Ok Comboomer posted:is your blade oiled? I usually only oil them for storage. Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Be careful with fig sap. Fig sap and sunlight can give you a nasty burn. I know about the sap, it is pretty nasty if you get it on you. Main issue is it clogging up on my saw though! It's very sticky. I'll try the kerosene.
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Buck Turgidson posted:I know about the sap, it is pretty nasty if you get it on you. Main issue is it clogging up on my saw though! It's very sticky. I'll try the kerosene. Other good solvents for sticky/pitchy stuff are paint thinner, naptha, and acetone (nail polish remover) if you have any of them on hand. Gasoline is a decent solvent too.
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If gasoline or acetone won't get it off I would be very surprised, just be careful. Gasoline can be extra spicy.
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mischief posted:If gasoline or acetone won't get it off I would be very surprised, just be careful. Gasoline can be extra spicy. There always seemed to be turpentine around to take care of pine and spruce sap, but if fig sap is stickier than that I’d hate to have one to deal with.
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I'm interested in trying foliar feeding. I already have a pressure sprayer for neem oil, and I was wondering if I could combine the two and add both the oil/soap and the fertilizer to the sprayer at once. What do you guys think?
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showbiz_liz posted:I'm interested in trying foliar feeding. I already have a pressure sprayer for neem oil, and I was wondering if I could combine the two and add both the oil/soap and the fertilizer to the sprayer at once. What do you guys think? The fertilizer can cause your mixture to go bad, so if you don’t use it all it will start to grow. I use a separate spray bottle so I can use what I make and leave it empty between uses. I’m not sure I’ve really noticed a difference on outside plants, but it at least helps my indoor plants stay cleaner and not collect dust on their leaves.
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showbiz_liz posted:I'm interested in trying foliar feeding. I already have a pressure sprayer for neem oil, and I was wondering if I could combine the two and add both the oil/soap and the fertilizer to the sprayer at once. What do you guys think? I do a lot of spinosad/BT/fish or squid fertilizer from the same sprayers. I haven't used neem in a long time so not sure if the oil/surfactant part would make it chunk up but either way, Jhet is correct that you'll need to clean everything out each time. Just make sure you're treating early enough that everything dries by night or you can end up fixing a few problems and make more in the process. Jhet posted:There always seemed to be turpentine around to take care of pine and spruce sap, but if fig sap is stickier than that I’d hate to have one to deal with. I don't think I've seen turpentine since my Papa's farm, I didn't even think that direction. Definitely safer than gas and should clean it up with maybe some fine steel wool.
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Mineral spirits/paint thinner/naphtha are all basically synthetic/petroleum-derived turpentine and usually cheaper, so try them first if you already have some laying around. Turps smells better tho. Naphtha is the hottest of the four and is great for cleaning stuff. A strong cleaner/degreaser like Simple Green should work as well, and isn't so stinky.
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mischief posted:I don't think I've seen turpentine since my Papa's farm, I didn't even think that direction. Definitely safer than gas and should clean it up with maybe some fine steel wool. Yep, it's just what my grandfather had on the farm to clean stuff. I honestly keep it around as a cleaner for nostalgic reasons, but it does a good job too. Still smells a lot and you should use PPE in an enclosed space, but who cleans a sticky sawblade in an enclosed space. Just whip it out and do it before you cut down the next one, right?
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I've managed to germinate some seeds! My question is, since I put two seeds per pot and both germinated, do I just pull one out? Or will one overtake and kill the other eventually?
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Jhet posted:I’m not sure I’ve really noticed a difference on outside plants, but it at least helps my indoor plants stay cleaner and not collect dust on their leaves. There's a lot of hype and some research supporting silica, especialla monosilicic acid in a foliar to ward off powdery mildew and yield stronger plants etc. With weed it supposedly increases yields as well. study product quote:Foliar sprays with silicates are effective as pesticides. There is no systemic effect on plant growth, development and yield. The other foliar people get excited about is kelp, for the micronutrients and biostimulants or something 
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That Old Ganon posted:I've managed to germinate some seeds! My question is, since I put two seeds per pot and both germinated, do I just pull one out? Or will one overtake and kill the other eventually? Plant them all, Fight Club style. I don't think I've ever culled a start.
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That’s cool, I’m not against doing it, just never noticed it when I was trying it on my peppers. Then again I also never have mildew issues on peppers or most things outdoors. My shrubs get mildew, but they also get a copper treatment for it which you couldn’t use with cannabis. Seaweed is all the rage here, and fish anything. We have a lot of both available. Fish manure or fertilizer does make my garden quite happy and is a good use for a byproduct of the fishing industry.
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When you are culling, dont pull, just snip so that you dont disturb the roots of the one you wanna keep
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mischief posted:Plant them all, Fight Club style. I don't think I've ever culled a start.  Dragon's Egg cucumber is back, this time I won't let it get crispy in our bullshit mega UV rays weather.  The Supersweet 100s F1 cherry tomatoes are silly, still wearing their seed cases.  I would be more confident in splitting the cherry tomatoes, not so much the tomatillos. ^^^Actually, that's great to know, I hadn't thought of snipping, just ripping That Old Ganon fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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