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I use a paint brush tyvm 
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I use an electric toothbrush. The vibration adds an extra level of spice.
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bergeoisie posted:I use an electric toothbrush. The vibration adds an extra level of spice. the buzzing drives me deeper into a bee mindset
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Jun 1, 2023 20:33
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I did that for a couple years when we were in a condo. My wife made a face when I said I was jerking off the pepper plant.
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Jun 1, 2023 20:38
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It's nice to know I'm not the only plant sex criminal.
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I made my icon a little bee for a while on slack because I mentioned hand pollinating some poblano peppers and someone was like "you have become the bee"
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Can you put up a picture of a plant, then a closeup of the underside of a leaf? (to The Old Ganon).   Aside, what are these stringy things called? This is my Pinot Noir grape vine. 
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Jun 1, 2023 20:57
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Tendrils, at least on peas that's what they're called
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Jun 1, 2023 21:07
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stamens, tendrils and pistils are all i need
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Jun 1, 2023 21:09
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mischief posted:It's nice to know I'm not the only plant sex criminal. It's how I get those clean seeds. Only 5 dollars for a pack a 10.
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That Old Ganon posted:Of the five plants out there, only one has leaves and it's the Silver Dollar blueberry bush. Are you sure these aren't dead? Anything that looked like that where I live in June would be dead, but climates vary a lot
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Jun 2, 2023 00:58
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 "HAVE A HUGE GARDEN" they said. "IT'LL BE FUN."
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Spending a bunch of time in the garden only to lose an entire planting to one of our many arthropod friends is character building
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drk posted:Are you sure these aren't dead? Anything that looked like that where I live in June would be dead, but climates vary a lot  I also know that the mulberry is still alive because my roommate snapped off a piece of it. <  >Edit: forgot to add I'm in Denver (ish), Colorado.
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Yeah, that blueberry is absolutely dead; if you want, you can scrape a sharp knife up one side of the stem starting at the root and see if there's any green, but I doubt it. The thinner one looks absolutely dead to me. When I have a plant that looks like that, it is generally because I failed to water it for too long. The other probability is that it got killed by frost.
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Chad Sexington posted:I did that for a couple years when we were in a condo. My wife made a face when I said I was jerking off the pepper plant. I tell my wife I'm diddling the plants. She didn't think it was very funny either. Content, I was loving around with 100lb goodyear made hose. Don't get me wrong it's a good hose especially for just leaving it in the sun for 2 years. While whipping it for slack I smashed a roselle sapling, snapping a small branch. Said gently caress it and had a nibble and it's the weirdest lemon with a back end of pepper. Probably not going to add to any meal prep salads. sterster fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Jun 2, 2023 07:40
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Help! There's a piece of poo poo squirrel coming onto my apartment balcony and digging up my peppers! I have no idea what to do  
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Jun 2, 2023 14:15
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In my experience, exposed soil triggers their digging instincts more than mulched soil. You could spread a thin layer of something like straw or wood mulch over the soil. It'll also help to regulate the soil moisture and heat, if you have problems with those.
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Jun 2, 2023 14:28
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I'll try that. I wish I could let this big guy take care of it, but knowing him, he'd jump off the balcony :P 
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Jun 2, 2023 14:32
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A large rat trap will work but it won't be pretty. The squirrels on our land usually catch a heavy subsonic .22 but disconnecting the head is the goal.
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mischief posted:A large rat trap will work but it won't be pretty. The squirrels on our land usually catch a heavy subsonic .22 but disconnecting the head is the goal. I can't get away with shooting a gun off in a city apartment, but I may try the trap. It's weird though - I used to live in a house out in the country, and I grew multiple batches of peppers, and never had an issue with squirrels. Maybe the abundance of other resources meant they didn't need to come near the house?
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I think it's the pots more than the peppers. Fuckers just like digging in pots. Meanwhile a mouse scurried out of my built-in grill the other day when I turned it on which has me concerned the squirrels and chipmunks here have some new friends. I'm guessing it's partially because my neighbor's stupid mulberry tree has dropped a metric ton of fruit onto my back porch, but worrying nonetheless. Nobody better loving eat my strawberries!
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Jun 2, 2023 16:46
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A Conibear or tube squirrel trap will work better than the rat trap in every way
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Annath posted:I can't get away with shooting a gun off in a city apartment, but I may try the trap. The opposite -- cities can support higher populations of squirrels because people create a lot of resources like food. City squirrels are used to rummaging around homes for food. Rural squirrels aren't.
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Perhaps a stick of dynamite dressed up as a sexy lady squirrel
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Also natural selection rapidly wipes out any "brave" rural squirrels, but in urban areas those squirrels get more food and reproduce more. The chipmunk traps have been disturbingly effective, they really are dumb as poo poo and launch themselves right into the bucket even though the seeds are clearly wet and floating on water.
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Annath posted:Help! Dunno how well it works with l'il pots, but it's great for keeping squirrels out of vertical garden troughs, grow bags, and planters.
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Just realized that the bastard squirrel chewed off my only Shishito pepper so far, and then didn't even have the decency to eat it! (you can see it on the bottom of the railing right behind the chewed stem) 
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^^ Maybe it's not a squirrel? Afaik, they tend not to like the actual peppers. We have tons of squirrels that I blamed for eating up my garden, but it turns out it was rats. Once I used traps to take them out, everything was fine. Is there a way to tell if my tomatoes are wilting from lack of water, fungal infection or something else? All of my Brandywine's seem to have started wilting very quickly, it was a few lower branches at first but seems to be speeding up. After a few days the leaves on the affected branches look completely desiccated. Each plant is in a 10g grow bag getting 3 minutes twice a day of water from individual sprayer heads. It was once a day, went to twice a day and the wilting has only gotten worse. Feels like it has to be something other than a lack of water. Honestly feels like I need to ditch these heritage cultivars and use modern science plants. I've got a couple modern determinate species and they're doing fine. Nukelear v.2 fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Jun 2, 2023 21:51
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Scat mats? I've only used it to keep cats off the windowsills above the kitchen counter. It works well for that, at least. Aluminum foil as a stop-gap maybe? Fine meshed poultry wire would be less of a pain to water through. I'm kind of impressed with the invasive black squirrels that moved in a few years ago. One of them stripped a seedling apple we don't particularly care about, making endless trips from the tree to a rock knoll in the woods. It probably stashed at least a laundry basket (bushel?) worth of apples by the time it was done and try as I might I can't find its cache. Good job little dude. If any start going after the Bramley's Seedling or Gravenstein though I'm going to go all YouTube on their arses.
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Could you build a mesh squirrel proof box to put over them?
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Scat mats are actually a really good idea. They work great for my cats. I bet they’d work for squirrels.
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Is that what they're called? Yeah, that's what I was talking about above. They work great to prevent squirrels from digging poo poo up.
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Annath posted:Just realized that the bastard squirrel chewed off my only Shishito pepper so far, and then didn't even have the decency to eat it! (you can see it on the bottom of the railing right behind the chewed stem) Those motherfuckers never eat what they steal. They pick my tomatoes which they know they don't like, take one bite and leave them where I can see the devastation. They are furry jerks!! I think the mesh cover thing is a good idea - I have related ones to this on my 2x4 raised beds and they work OK https://www.gardeners.com/buy/chicken-wire-flat-back-crop-coop/8611701.html
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yeah, that blueberry is absolutely dead; if you want, you can scrape a sharp knife up one side of the stem starting at the root and see if there's any green, but I doubt it. The thinner one looks absolutely dead to me. This sucks so much, I was really looking forward to making jam with them this summer.
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Containers mean your plants are getting colder/hotter than if they were in the soil. If the pots weren't protected in 5a, they could definitely die from cold
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Nukelear v.2 posted:
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after some failures in the past, got some nasturtiums growing this year and the first flower came out very pretty
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Chicken wire is pretty squirrel proof. I put it over some of my pots.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Can you give us photos of the entire plant, and then of both the top side and the underside of some leaves? Of course, thank you!     
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