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If a tomato vine grows higher than its support pole will it know to stop growing or do i need to do something before it doubles over like a dumb idiot?
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Jun 6, 2023 22:07
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Real hurthling! posted:If a tomato vine grows higher than its support pole will it know to stop growing or do i need to do something before it doubles over like a dumb idiot? You can clip it if you want. It won’t really care and it’s better now than when it’s full of fruit.
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Jun 6, 2023 22:22
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Tyvm! I asked the
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Jun 6, 2023 23:30
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Real hurthling! posted:Tyvm! I asked the I thought someone had answered it over there. Tomatoes will just keep vining away until they’re starting to set fruit. Then the determinate varieties will get it done and be done, the indeterminate will keep going and keep putting out more fruit. Either way it’s best to prune them so that the supports can hold them up properly. Chipmunks (and most other rodents) are a big pest though for veggie gardens though, and all the insecticides are legal and normally skew towards organic solutions anyway. That’s why it tends to come up in there every early summer. Everyone is trying to get something out of their hard work growing food. Just wait until the pictures of hornworms show up.
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Jun 7, 2023 00:01
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just snip the main stem off at a fork?
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Jun 7, 2023 00:09
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I managed to get a photo of my weird peony resin situation. Some of the flowers seem a bit misshapen as well. I've never seen this happen before, and tbh it's a little gross since it looks like dried snot and all. The plants themselves seem to be perfectly happy and are pumping out shitloads of flowers. I have no idea what kind of peony it is, but they came from my grandmother's house so they're fairly special to me. And they smell lovely.
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Jun 7, 2023 00:14
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Real hurthling! posted:Tyvm! I asked the 
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Jun 7, 2023 00:36
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Mad Hamish posted:I managed to get a photo of my weird peony resin situation. My guess is "guttation", when plants excrete stuff they don't need. At least one result suggests this is common from peony flowers. https://bayweekly.com/old-site/year08/issuexvi20/gardenerxvi20.html The other idea would be "honeydew" left from pests. Hopefully you have ruled that out.
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Jun 7, 2023 00:50
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Ok Comboomer posted:I mean, I’m arguably guessing from the background image. Hopefully I didn't come off as sarcastic or snarky, I meant that I recognized that sometimes local names for things are not correct. Although it turns out is more than a local thing: Here is a close up of the foliage:  As a separate ID request, any idea what this would be? It was a cool shrub that would have some of the leaves turn a nice pink in the fall (photo taken early November). Northern Minnesota, Zone 4b.  
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Jun 7, 2023 01:00
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My guess would be the first unless you can find aphids or scale on the flower anywhere. Honeydew tends to run and drip more consistently. My peonies are very large this year, last year they barely flowered from the cold in June. Much rather have crusty sap on them than have no flowers. You could probably gently wash it off of the flowers that haven’t opened yet. Edit: that looks like an arborvitae/thuja variety of some sort. They grow fast, but if you prune them back far they’ll leave a hole and not fill in. You can pinch off the ends of the area that’s crowding the porch, but they’ll just put out new foliage and you’ll need to keep pruning it a little at a time every year. Root system shouldn’t bother anything and it’s common to plant next to houses. That second plant is very common to my eyes, but I can’t place the name of it. You may want to download an app called Seek as it’ll use your phone camera to help with better IDs on a lot of things taking your geography into account too. Jhet fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Jun 7, 2023 01:01
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Is there any way to sort of encourage plants to start budding? All the flowers on my grapevine and white currant bush wilted off and I'd at least like fruit on them this year. 
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Jun 7, 2023 01:12
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jjack229 posted:Hopefully I didn't come off as sarcastic or snarky, I meant that I recognized that sometimes local names for things are not correct. Although it turns out is more than a local thing:
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Jun 7, 2023 01:59
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Telling a Leyland cypress apart from an arborvitae is not something I could do offhand-i imagine it involves a little botanizing and counting needles or scales or branchlets or cones or something. one of them sucks poo poo and the other sucks poo poo somewhat less Edit: sorry, I don’t mean to diss a tree that you might have in your yard. Leylands are just infamous as “landlord special” trees that are dirt cheap to propagate and grow up and therefore dirt cheap to sell. They grow quickly and are relatively hardy (assuming that like deer don’t shred them or you don’t roast them during a drought) when young, which means that they’re great at getting really big really fast—which makes them a popular choice for quick, cheap landscape plants with fast curb appeal (this makes them extra popular on house flips and “starter” homes) and as hedges/privacy trees/green walls/etc. The problem comes when the tree hits its twenties or even late teens, gets sick, and/or begins to die of old age. At that point it’s basically impossible to save and it becomes the (usually the next) owner’s big problem, especially if it’s close to the house. Their “live fast, die young” strategy also applies to their reproduction, and they can become an awful invasive tree in North America and Europe. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Jun 7, 2023 02:17
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Lakitu7 posted:My guess is "guttation", when plants excrete stuff they don't need. At least one result suggests this is common from peony flowers. Since it's only on the buds I do have a sneaky feeling that the water/nectar/whatever that attracts ants has probably just dried up - it hasn't rained here for four weeks. The only bugs I've seen on them is the regular ants, no aphids or anything. The crusty bits don't seem to be interfering with the buds actually opening and since there's been very little water I can see how that would mess with bud formation. I had no idea guttation could happen on something that's not houseplant leaves - I've only ever seen it on my monstera and sometimes my pothos.
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Jun 7, 2023 02:45
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jjack229 posted:As a separate ID request, any idea what this would be? It was a cool shrub that would have some of the leaves turn a nice pink in the fall (photo taken early November). Northern Minnesota, Zone 4b. This one’s easy. It’s burning bush, euonymus alatus. It’s a common landscaping / office park plant but it’s considered invasive on the east coast.
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Jun 7, 2023 02:57
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No shade tho
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Jun 7, 2023 02:59
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Posting my Turkish poppies, that refused to die despite the house owner excavating out this bed by about 2 feet. 
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Jun 7, 2023 06:22
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Those are very awesome poppies
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Jun 7, 2023 14:12
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That color, my my my
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Jun 7, 2023 16:16
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RickRogers posted:Posting my Turkish poppies, that refused to die despite the house owner excavating out this bed by about 2 feet. Good stuff. My glads starting blooming today. One is almost 6 feet tall.
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Jun 7, 2023 23:17
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Scientific/botanical names are so important for proper advice, but I love the cultural aspect of common names. Nigella damascena , Persicaria orientalis formerly Polygonum orientale, and Amaranthus caudatus, if you're nasty. Also, those poppies are glorious. The reason that poppies usually hate transplanting is that they have tap roots: the root is a cone going straight down, with not much in the way of side branches. Tap-rooted plants hate it when you damage the tip of the root.
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Jun 8, 2023 02:41
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I have some poppy seeds that look like they're just sprouting. We'll see what they do, I suppose. Right now I'm looking at photos of some very nice yellow peonies and thinking of where I could put some in my front yard. I worry that tree peonies will be a little too delicate for the conditions I operate in but it looks like herbaceous varieties exist now?
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Jun 8, 2023 22:16
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I need some help. I grow succulents and sedums, but something is hurting my succulents and killing my sedums from the center of the pots outward. Can anyone tell me what is doing this? (The white fuzz in the first and second pic is just remnants of packing material). I know I have mealy bugs and spider mites which I'm already fighting, but the killing center outwards seems like it's something else.    
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Jun 9, 2023 15:10
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-Zydeco- posted:I need some help. It could be the plants succumbing to the mealybug. Once they hit a tipping point, they just tend to go even if the infestation/damage doesn’t seem that bad or out of control
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Jun 9, 2023 17:07
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Ok Comboomer posted:It could be the plants succumbing to the mealybug. Once they hit a tipping point, they just tend to go even if the infestation/damage doesn’t seem that bad or out of control I've been successfully fighting the mealy bugs for a while. Never able to get rid of them, but have been keeping them under control. I think I probably just have spider mites at this point or I got some root rot started and its just rotting outwards. I just took trimmings from everything and pitched the rest.
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Jun 10, 2023 22:51
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I've had really good success vs. mealybugs with q-tips and isopropyl. Sometimes they come back in a couple months and sometimes they're eradicated, but it always knocks them back extremely well. In each case the damage to the plants have been minimal even with large infestations. They're a lot less harmful than thrips or spider mites.
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Jun 11, 2023 05:01
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Woodpile posted:Good stuff. My glads starting blooming today. One is almost 6 feet tall.  post glads plzBack to poppies, yeah they are pretty fabulous pink poppies. I also have these P. rhoeas (sorry, I only know the German common names for a lot of plants) from a wild flower mix, as a "gently caress you" to the neat and tidy neighbors who used to mow this strip of no man's land between our house and the street.  And these here are my special new poppies, of which I have yet to research the legalities in my resident country. Nice soft colors though. 
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Jun 11, 2023 13:12
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Lakitu7 posted:I've had really good success vs. mealybugs with q-tips and isopropyl. Sometimes they come back in a couple months and sometimes they're eradicated, but it always knocks them back extremely well. In each case the damage to the plants have been minimal even with large infestations. They're a lot less harmful than thrips or spider mites. I've been dealing with them with a spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol, dish soap, and water and long with tweezers. I tweeze out any bugs and silk I can find and then spray down with the bottle. Works great, but the spray dowsnt seem to have as much affect on spider mites. That or I'm bad enough at spotting them that they keep getting a good population going before I realize something is wrong.
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Jun 11, 2023 13:58
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RickRogers posted:Back to poppies, yeah they are pretty fabulous pink poppies. quote:And these here are my special new poppies, of which I have yet to research the legalities in my resident country. Nice soft colors though.
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Jun 11, 2023 18:23
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Arsenic Lupin posted:In the US, growing Papaver somniferum, or selling the seeds of same, is illegal. No worries! The seed packets are labeled "breadseed poppies". I am not making this up.
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Jun 11, 2023 20:04
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I had no idea that opium wasn't somehow derived from poppy seeds. Thankfully none other than the DEA web site explained the process to me 
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Jun 11, 2023 21:23
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This weird little thing I picked up on a whim is happy enough to be putting out some blooms:
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Jun 12, 2023 13:31
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Hirayuki posted:This weird little thing I picked up on a whim is happy enough to be putting out some blooms: Looks like Albuca spiralis.
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Jun 12, 2023 13:40
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Wallet posted:Looks like Albuca spiralis.  ), but this one seems happy so far, anyway.
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Jun 12, 2023 13:43
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Hirayuki posted:Yeah, I think I only know it by the ridiculous name it was sold under, "frizzle sizzle" or some such nonsense. I suck at succulents ( Looks like it's doing well to me. In my experience they're quite sensitive to getting too much light, but they're pretty easy to grow otherwise.
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Jun 12, 2023 13:48
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 This hosta is struggling, needs to be somewhere better, but I really like the white stripe down the middle.
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Jun 12, 2023 13:52
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The previous owners of my house were incredibly bad at keeping up landscaping, so I am always a little surprised when something like daylilies just pop up amid our nested warren of hostas and native weeds. Meanwhile I think my poppies have reached the end of their yearly run. I think these are just bog standard blackfly, but they've absolutely covered my lower leaves so I think they'll be done soon.  And then we put up a bee hotel in the garden which has largely gone unused... although this morning I am seeing a ton of eggs for... I have no idea what. They're not the wasps I was hoping for I know that... 
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Jun 12, 2023 13:53
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Brawnfire posted:
Hostas are insanely hardy and you can transplant them any time of the year, provided you're able to water it regularly until it's re-established. Two of the ones I moved earlier this year are even flowering! But yeah, don't be afraid to move it or clean out the area around it and re-plant it! Hostas only look better when they are given proper care edit - also that's a real nice hosta. I think there's a similar type available at NH Hostas but it's not the same, so yours might be one of those weird ones that was sold for a few years then disappeared
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Jun 12, 2023 14:52
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I have a ~17”x7” planter, would a basil plant be able to share it with say some kind of pepper?
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dew worm posted:I have a ~17”x7” planter, would a basil plant be able to share it with say some kind of pepper? They prefer to stay in three dimensions usually. Also, yes. Put them on opposite sides of the 17 about 3" from the edge.
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