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Blumat classic, but not the knockoff products, actually work. Set them up a week before you go so you can monitor and see if they need to be adjusted.
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Nosre posted:my friends, do these types of things actually work? I need to get some pots through a 3-week vacation. All the Amazon results look cheap as hell, but maybe there's some brand or style that's decent? I've heard people have success with wick watering for vacations.  https://scissorsandsage.com/2015/04/20/diy-self-watering-system-for-houseplants/
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Aug 5, 2022 14:15
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Thanks both. I'll see if I can find blumats in time, and have that as a backup option. As you get more interesting things, this situation becomes harder... most of my stuff would be fine, but I'm worried about the Jewel Orchid and some other particularly thirsty boys
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Aug 5, 2022 15:02
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So I've got these two Kentucky coffee tree seedlings that are experiencing rapid wilting in some branches but still growing new shoots. What's the chance that it's verticillium wilt and I should cut my losses. The older one has its first two branches bare from leaf die off, 2 more that show either wilt or heat damage and a third that looks fine but there is some slight yellowing on a leaf.   The younger one just had it's leaves fall off but had new branches grow and start wilting in a week or two.  I know to truly confirm you need to cut branches to verify but with the size of these guys I would need to cut the trunk.
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Aug 5, 2022 15:22
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Blumat is basically fancy reusable wick watering that you can use more longterm if you want to. I use most of mine permanently because I travel so much. For smaller plants like orchids you're more likely to over than under water with them. Pots with drainage are a good idea, as always, and keeping your reservoir below and not above the plants. This is why setting it all up ahead of time is safest if you can do it.
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I just ordered a 1:16 brass siphon mixer for my hose. If I use 1/2 tsp fert for 1gal water normally, I'd mix up a batch of 8tsp fert/1gal water solution and then water until that runs dry, right?
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Aug 6, 2022 01:13
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Hello biscuses!  Pupkin 
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Aug 6, 2022 21:18
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Pruned the fruit trees. the plum tree in particular had so many low lying branches it was looking like a bush instead of a tree  Cherry tree   Pear tree   I don't really know what I am doing, I read some guides online and tried to be conservative. On the pear tree there was a lot buds with leaves on the bigger trunks that I just wiped of, to clear out the branches a little. Didn't touch the apple tree any. I'm gonna buy a book on the subject for next year. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Aug 8, 2022 07:36
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm gonna buy a book on the subject for next year. Did you read this one from purdue?. It's like a very small book but it covers the high points.
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Aug 8, 2022 13:09
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No I was gonna buy a swedish book by some guy called Klaus Vollbrecht, an actual physical book is what I prefer, the other stuff I read was gardening articles and stuff and got the general idea. I don't really want to prune too hard, I want the trees to grow sort of naturally, just get rid of the worst stuff.
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Aug 8, 2022 13:22
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Oh and grapes, growing outside, in Finland. This plant is one year old. 
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Aug 8, 2022 19:45
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I am having a lot of problems with my favorite cactus, M. geomtrizans. It had a limb rot last month. I cut it off at the base. Album: https://imgur.com/a/qCvLw6g But now another part at the top is turning brown and squishy. I don't know what to do to stop this.
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Aug 9, 2022 20:39
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pokie posted:I am having a lot of problems with my favorite cactus, M. geomtrizans. It had a limb rot last month. I cut it off at the base. Album: https://imgur.com/a/qCvLw6g Big bummer  Could be a lot of things, unfortunately. I'd bring it inside if you can, where you can control what's going on. If it's anywhere as humid there as it is here I doubt that's helping.
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Aug 9, 2022 23:56
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everything roasted at least a little bit, some things roasted more than others, some fatally, some disfiguringly, most will be ok in the end thank gently caress it finally breaks tomorrow
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Aug 10, 2022 00:05
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Wallet posted:Big bummer It's been inside for the last year like the vast majority of my plants. Prior to that it was an outdoor plant for 4 years. The sun room has indoor windows so it may look like it's outside. Some folks elsewhere suggested that my last cut may not be healthy, but I don't buy it... Gonna repot it to look for root rot.
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His Divine Shadow, there's one more thing you should do. One of the things you're trying to achieve when pruning a fruit tree is air circulation and the penetration of sunlight. Part of this pruning is called "opening up the tree". You prune branches that are pointing toward the center of the tree, except the central leader. For instance, the two branches I circled in red should go. In general, you should prune fruit trees when it's cold and the tree is dormant. If you're in a really cold area and have hard freezes, some people wait until early spring, so that they can keep the limbs that have survived and remove the others.
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I've been getting conflicting info on that, some sources have said that but most of the local sources has been telling me that July-Sept is when you should prune fruit trees.
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Fair enough. Trust local advice.
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Aug 10, 2022 05:24
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pokie posted:Some folks elsewhere suggested that my last cut may not be healthy, but I don't buy it... Gonna repot it to look for root rot. That would be my next step. His Divine Shadow posted:I've been getting conflicting info on that, some sources have said that but most of the local sources has been telling me that July-Sept is when you should prune fruit trees. That's a weird time to prune fruit trees, but when it's two little branches like that rather than a major pruning you can just do it whenever, really.
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Aug 10, 2022 12:13
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Well the local texts say stuff like thisquote:You should prune apple trees (and fruit trees in general) during the JAS months. That is, during July, August and September. By cutting apple trees in late summer, the growth of fruit is promoted. The trees heal the fastest during the warm months. If you also choose a sunny day when you are going to prune, the cuts will dry up faster. Some other sources did say young pear trees are best pruned late winter or early spring (march-april here) and older ones dyuring the "JAS months".
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here's some old neglected jade plants. can these be saved? are they worth saving, or should we just get new plants?
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DELETE CASCADE posted:here's some old neglected jade plants. can these be saved? are they worth saving, or should we just get new plants? I've had success simply cutting them way back (by half on the plants you've got there) when there's a bit of dry weather, and they'll eventually sprout leaflets from around the dried cuts. I'd also use all the cut off leaves and branches to propagate new plants. Ymmv, but jade really is one of those plants you can be quite brutal with and it will eventually come back as long as it wasn't totally dead to begin with.
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Aug 10, 2022 19:01
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DELETE CASCADE posted:here's some old neglected jade plants. can these be saved? are they worth saving, or should we just get new plants? They look a little sad and probably under potted but perfectly savable. Don't even really have to be pruned unless you want to.
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Aug 10, 2022 22:11
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DELETE CASCADE posted:here's some old neglected jade plants. can these be saved? are they worth saving, or should we just get new plants? You haven't even started killing those Jades.
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Aug 10, 2022 22:51
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My jade tree was routinely pushed off a six-foot height by my cats and lost half its leaves each time yet somehow never died
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sweet ok i will replant in larger pots with better soil and see if they become happy again, if not i will try pruning them back too
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I over watered a jade and didn't realize for awhile and was only able to salvage a single leaf and that poo poo is still managing to come back.
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Aug 11, 2022 02:45
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DELETE CASCADE posted:sweet ok i will replant in larger pots with better soil and see if they become happy again, if not i will try pruning them back too They seem pretty happy to me, looks like they just dropped a bunch of foliage in the heat/dryness and they’ve got some sun stress on their remaining leaves, but otherwise they look really big and really happy. Also if you prune them any cuttings should be propagated
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^^^ RE: Jade plant I wouldn't say those look great. I kept mine outdoors in central CA heat in almost full sun, and it's never lost a notable % of its leaves. You can see it below the aloe tree in the pic below. I agree that it should survive if treated better though. I am still upset about my cactus, but life goes on. I'm shopping for some weed lights for the sun room before winter hits. It's gonna be glorious. 
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I've got a couple pothos, a Neon and an Njoy. Recently the leaves on the neon got extremely droopy and pale, assuming they had been overwatered (i probably over compensated due to heatwaves in the uk), i went to repot it and found that literally all the roots had rotted away. I've now noticed that one stem of the njoy has done the same. Is this just gonna be overwatering or am i missing something like humidity/etc? I don't water them unless the top soil is dry but maybe i need to be waiting longer so the deeper soil is also drier?
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Mr_Chicken posted:I've got a couple pothos, a Neon and an Njoy. Recently the leaves on the neon got extremely droopy and pale, assuming they had been overwatered (i probably over compensated due to heatwaves in the uk), i went to repot it and found that literally all the roots had rotted away. What soil are they in? some variagates are also just much more finicky and fragile than others. Manjula and njoy seem particularly prone to dying and failing to thrive, while other strains like marble queen, etc seem much more vigorous and bulletproof by comparison
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Hm, the njoy i repotted a month or so ago into a peat free Houseplant mix - its possible that the one stem just didn't like the move? The neon had yet to be repotted so was in whatever mix the garden centre used - i. E probably one that was eventually going to kill it.
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Mr_Chicken posted:I've got a couple pothos, a Neon and an Njoy. Recently the leaves on the neon got extremely droopy and pale, assuming they had been overwatered (i probably over compensated due to heatwaves in the uk), i went to repot it and found that literally all the roots had rotted away. When you say top soil do you literally mean the top of the soil? Because all of the advice I've read is to wait until the top inch or two of the soil is dry before watering.
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Yes, which is probably my mistake. I've got plenty of other plants that i do fine with but with the pothos the pot is so shallow that it feels hard to gauge the moisture level... Totally open to "yes you are being an idiot and killing your plants" but what's the fix if something is definitely gone? For the neon pothos I'm just trying to propagate the healthy remains in some water.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYdLfkJcfok
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couldcareless posted:I over watered a jade and didn't realize for awhile and was only able to salvage a single leaf and that poo poo is still managing to come back. I knocked a leaf off my echeveria like two months ago and left it sitting on top of the soil, it still looks exactly the same as it did then except now there's 3 tiny plants growing out of the open end.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:sweet ok i will replant in larger pots with better soil and see if they become happy again, if not i will try pruning them back too Put them all in one pot, IMO! Jades have a small root ball and they look like they’d compliment each other size-wise
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 Pumpdate! Still the only pumpkin from numerous vines but it's doing pretty well!
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This is the year we realized our neighbor's dumb, randomly planted tree has officially rendered our veggie garden a shade garden. I think we have one tomato on six plants, and nothing on the watermelons at all--hell, they've barely even grown. Maybe we should tear it all out and lean into the shade aspect. I wish I liked hostas more.
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Cactus with rot in the trunk update. I dug up and repotted the cactus in fresh soil (equal parts granite, pumice and fir bark with a dash of compost). It was mostly dry with some mild dampness deeper in. I should probably water less often. I took some photos of the roots. Album: https://imgur.com/a/Xbu6PGa
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