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I have got some stumps from recently live fir trees 8” in diameter. Storm took out a big maple which then took out the fir trees. I would like to put some arborvitae in there place. Do I need dig and cut these stumps out before picking up some 3” arborvitae?
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Sep 15, 2022 22:08
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Do you want stumps in the middle of your generic suburban arborvitae?
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Sep 16, 2022 11:23
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Calidus posted:I have got some stumps from recently live fir trees 8” in diameter. Storm took out a big maple which then took out the fir trees. I would like to put some arborvitae in there place. Do I need dig and cut these stumps out before picking up some 3” arborvitae? if you can plant the arborvitae, they should be fine. Their roots will grow around the existing stumps no problem. Do consider that you'll likely be unable to grind or dig out the stumps once the new trees are planted, so it's now or never.
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Sep 16, 2022 11:41
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I am being ignorant expecting the arborvitae to hide the stumps in a couple years. It’s in the back corner of my lot and I am really just trying to put something in to block the 35 mph road. Arborvitae seems like a cost effective choice($32 each at Costco) with the added benefit that they are easy to keep away from power lines.
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Sep 16, 2022 12:08
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Calidus posted:I am being ignorant expecting the arborvitae to hide the stumps in a couple years. Will they be in front of the stumps? Eventually they fill in and make a good screen if you space them apart right.
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Sep 16, 2022 12:27
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BigFactory posted:Will they be in front of the stumps? Eventually they fill in and make a good screen if you space them apart right. To this point, you could also put some bushy perennials at the base of the arborvitae to help cover up the stumps if that works
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Sep 16, 2022 14:07
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Calidus posted:I am being ignorant expecting the arborvitae to hide the stumps in a couple years. sure, sounds like just the ticket. If you want, some hostas or other shade loving plant can help cover them up a bit more.
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Sep 17, 2022 10:41
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Hostas ftw here's my Empress Wu, they are a little more expensive than normal hostas but they take up SPACE 
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Sep 17, 2022 15:07
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Hostas rule until the whitetails make chop salad out of them
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Sep 17, 2022 16:22
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Wow love the texture on the leaves ! 
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Sep 17, 2022 17:09
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Wow love the texture on the leaves ! I had just watered her, but this year she looks absolutely phenomenal. Empress Wu, I think we're on year 3 now!
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Sep 17, 2022 17:16
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my asparagus fern, which flourished for 3 years, is now turning brown and shedding little needles like crazy. Its conditions haven't changed. what the poo poo, is my question.
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Sep 19, 2022 01:36
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for anyone who doesnt shop there, Aldi has consistently had cool houseplants for a couple months now. i resisted the urge until today when i picked up a coffea arabica lol. just an fyi, not affiliated w the brand 
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Sep 21, 2022 17:08
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Also, Costco is a surprisingly good resource for finding some rare variants of house plants. I got a chameleon and raven ZZ there over the summer, so fuckin happy to add them to my plant fam. Also got some sweet snake plants w/ a bunch of white variegation through them, they own bones
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Sep 21, 2022 18:56
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bagmonkey posted:Also, Costco is a surprisingly good resource for finding some rare variants of house plants. I got a chameleon and raven ZZ there over the summer, so fuckin happy to add them to my plant fam. Also got some sweet snake plants w/ a bunch of white variegation through them, they own bones Also a halfway decent source of single and multi-species fruit trees and nice sized coral bark maples.
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Sep 21, 2022 21:58
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Solkanar512 posted:Also a halfway decent source of single and multi-species fruit trees and nice sized coral bark maples. Usually not better than Home Depot/Lowes in my experience, especially if you’re talking about end of season sales and liquidations. I’ve seen/claimed some outrageously underpriced trees that way.
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Sep 21, 2022 22:30
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Ok Comboomer posted:Usually not better than Home Depot/Lowes in my experience, especially if you’re talking about end of season sales and liquidations. I’ve seen/claimed some outrageously underpriced trees that way. Costco return policy tho! 1 year no questions asked, including houseplants edit - I say this because last time I returned a lilac to Home Depot, they insisted it was my fault and wasn't covered by the return policy
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Sep 22, 2022 15:43
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https://www.bananatreesforsale.com/ having a sale rn btw
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Sep 22, 2022 16:40
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bagmonkey posted:Costco return policy tho! 1 year no questions asked, including houseplants Home Depot and Lowes have a 1 year policy for outdoor plants if you have the receipt
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Sep 22, 2022 16:42
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Ok Comboomer posted:Home Depot and Lowes have a 1 year policy for outdoor plants if you have the receipt Do they give you a new plant or give you your money back? This seems like 'free annuals for life' if you wanted to go to the effort to dig all your annuals after they finished and return them.
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Sep 22, 2022 17:52
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Do they give you a new plant or give you your money back? This seems like 'free annuals for life' if you wanted to go to the effort to dig all your annuals after they finished and return them. Money/store credit back I’m p sure
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Sep 22, 2022 17:59
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Do they give you a new plant or give you your money back? This seems like 'free annuals for life' if you wanted to go to the effort to dig all your annuals after they finished and return them. Their return policy for plants is at least partially on their website, but their one year guarantee only applies to perennials, trees, and shrubs. I think houseplants are 90 days? As far as I know Home Depot doesn't give a gently caress if you return plants because most or all of their plants are sold on consignment so it only fucks over the nursery. That's also why they don't give a gently caress about drowning hundreds of plants to death, letting hundreds of plants cook in their parking lot, etc.
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Sep 23, 2022 00:14
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Alas
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Sep 23, 2022 02:03
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Wherever you live, it’s probably going to be a great weekend to plant some plants! https://www.plantmaps.com/ Anybody have any big plans? All I’ve got so far is putting some potted roses into the ground and moving some echinacea.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:10
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I have just found out that a major septic rework may be in my future and I am not going to be able to either commence a major relandscaping or plant anything long-term, like a tree. The garden has already been scraped down to the soil; step two was going to be installing terracing and planting. Pity me. I sure am.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:39
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I have just found out that a major septic rework may be in my future and I am not going to be able to either commence a major relandscaping or plant anything long-term, like a tree. The garden has already been scraped down to the soil; step two was going to be installing terracing and planting. I will only pity you for a short time. It is much better to find out you need septic work done before planting a super awesome garden than after. It really sounds like much sadness was averted in exchange for needing to delay planting for a while. My parents had to dig up half of their front garden that they'd worked on for a decade for doing some well drilling work, and it's not quite back to the same place yet a few years later because shrubs and trees don't grow very fast. It's a little crappy now, but I'm really happy you don't have to dig out your established garden, because that's heartbreaking.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:46
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You are completely right, and I will accept your short-term pity gratefully.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:56
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I'm another person who can't do anything with their yard/garden. I hired a landscaper to reshape and regrade my lot and put in a retaining wall so that I had access to the whole thing and can keep the wild parsnip and other weeds down. An excavator brought in the fill and did the rough shaping back in June. It's the end of September and my yard is still torn to poo poo. The landscaper hasn't done a thing yet except collect a deposit and introduce us to the excavator. I had hoped to get some trees planted and my raised beds set up before frost and snow set in but that's starting to look questionable.
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Sep 23, 2022 20:27
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I got covid so I can't do anything this weekend  I have a baldhip rose in a container that I've been wanting to take to my garden and I was going to work on killing the diseased monster grapevine that's trying to take over my plot and work on cutting back my native annuals but...alas..
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Sep 23, 2022 20:48
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Do y'all have any tree care resources or Youtube channels you like? Particularly wrt trees in east and central Texas? I just took a job selling tree care services and they really want me to study up on trees and tree-related things before I start training in a couple of weeks.
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Sep 23, 2022 22:47
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I. M. Gei posted:Do y'all have any tree care resources or Youtube channels you like? Particularly wrt trees in east and central Texas? https://www.amazon.com/Pirones-Tree-Maintenance-John-Hartman/dp/0195119916 is the standard afaik. Your local library probably has it.
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Sep 24, 2022 20:17
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:https://www.amazon.com/Pirones-Tree-Maintenance-John-Hartman/dp/0195119916 is the standard afaik. Your local library probably has it. I'll check my library for it. Kinda wish it was on Kindle so I could word-search it though.
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Sep 24, 2022 22:55
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I spontaneously got an Alocasia Amazonica, any tips on soil mix? That's usually what I overthink and/or mess up. Looking at this, based on some googling: An example of an easy mix could be potting soil, bark, perlite, and sphagnum moss in equal quantities. 
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Sep 25, 2022 11:23
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Nosre posted:I spontaneously got an Alocasia Amazonica, any tips on soil mix? That's usually what I overthink and/or mess up. Looking at this, based on some googling: that sounds good, although the potting soil and sphagnum moss are redundant imo you want the following components in a potting soil: -inorganic structural element: usually perlite, sometimes sand, baked clay, expanded shale, lava rock, etc -organic structural element: bark or wood chip, coarse to fine -water retaining element: sphagnum, compost, coco coir the organic structural element retains nutrients and moisture and ideally decomposes at the rate at which the roots grow and colonize the pot. The inorganic component holds its space within the soil and provides aeration, keeping it from turning into mud. the water retaining element isnt strictly necessary but is recommended unless you wanna water your plant every day or so. the smaller these components are, the more water they will retain, ie: you have to water less. The larger they are, the less water they'll hold and you'll have to water more frequently. Unless you wanna get into the weeds with it, amending a pre-made mix is the easiest way to do it .. potting soil is usually too thick & water retentive, so i get orchid soil (which is mostly bark chips) and mix them together until i'm satisified
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Sep 25, 2022 15:07
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Unless you wanna get into the weeds with it, amending a pre-made mix is the easiest way to do it .. potting soil is usually too thick & water retentive, so i get orchid soil (which is mostly bark chips) and mix them together until i'm satisified Yeah, I have an Alocasia ×amazonica and it's been doing very nicely for a year or so in whatever poo poo miracle grow puts in their indoor mix cut a bit with their orchid mix which is almost entirely bark. I'll add that ×amazonica seems particularly prone to spider mites so I'd keep an eye out for that. Also that pot seems kind of small long term.
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Thanks both, and well noted about the mites. I'm in the EU so the pre-made mixes you usually see recommended n blogs and youtube are harder to find and/or really expensive, which is why I typically default to having to construct my own. Apparently Amazonica likes it really airy, maybe that's why the recommendation doubles down on structural elements
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Sep 25, 2022 16:45
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I tend to have a bag of perlite and a bag of vermiculite for whenever I want to change how well it drains. A bag of orchid bark is also nice to have for that purpose.
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Sep 25, 2022 21:42
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:https://www.amazon.com/Pirones-Tree-Maintenance-John-Hartman/dp/0195119916 is the standard afaik. Your local library probably has it. So before I order this on Amazon (because my library did not have it) I have a question. How good are the diagrams in this book? I've read a lot of write-ups about pruning on the internet, and one thing almost all of them have in common is that the pictures are poo poo and it's not often clear what they're trying to convey. Like in this image:  ... where the middle and right figures are supposed to show a branch that's too thin for pruning and one that's the right thickness, respectively, but they both look pretty much exactly the same size. Or this image:  ... that's supposed to show a before and after of a properly-pruned shrub but they both look almost the same. Like yeah I guess the bottom bush is kinda thinned out if you squint, but you really couldn't have drawn it a little more different than that? Does the Pirones book have a lot of this kind of poo poo going on, or are the diagrams easier to understand? Or are lovely diagrams just something I have to live with everywhere? I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sep 27, 2022 03:29
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Join your local arboretum
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I. M. Gei posted:So before I order this on Amazon (because my library did not have it) I have a question.
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