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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:This isn't really quite true. Growing opium poppies for ornamental or culinary purposes is fine, but harvesting narcotic raw materials from them is not. It's a pretty murky legal thing which as I understand it hinges alot on intent, but the basic takeaway is that no, it's not illegal for you to grow P. somniferum in your yard if you want to look at them or harvest seeds, just don't go slicing the pods and collecting latex or whatever. e: Checked a government site and found this weird bit of folk medicine. 
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That all makes a lot of sense -- opoids are used to treat coughs (codeine) and diarrhea. The active ingredient in Imodium is an opoid that can't cross the blood brain barrier.
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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 ( Albuca spiralis is the scientific name, "frizzle sizzle" is a cultivar that's often sold in stores. The flowers have a spicy fragrance, akin to a carnation. Let me add my lupin to the mix. Lupinus polyphyllus hybrid I grew from seed.  
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), but this one seems happy so far, anyway.
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I've got a pyrethrin bug bomb to try and deal with my spider mite problem. Plan is to put all my plants on a table in my driveway, tent then with some plastic and then set the bomb off when I go to sleep. Is there an issue with leaving the plants tented like that all night or will they not be affected by such a long exposure?
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I’m going to be out of town for 2 weeks, but I have some orchids that need moist medium (Catasetums, etc). Any thoughts on how to make sure they don’t dry out too much? I don’t trust my pet sitter to water them properly.
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Ok Comboomer posted:one of them sucks poo poo and the other sucks poo poo somewhat less They did plant two of them close to the house and one very close to the garage. The home inspector recommended cutting down the two by the house as he had concerns about the root system of those trees being that close to the foundation.   
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Really wish people would stop limbing up conifers. It looks so stupid.
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Bobfromsales posted:Really wish people would stop limbing up conifers. It looks so stupid. Sometimes the trees force it on you. I have to cut the next round of branches off my fir before they fall off themselves and put a hole in my garage. Spruce and pine trees will often just have lower sets of branches die back as well. Maybe if you have one tree in an empty field it'll keep all it's branches for a long time, but if they're in a copse you'll be in after 5-7 years cutting out dead lower branches. I'd rather people have trees and cut off the lower branches than not have trees in any case.
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my parents have an atlas blue cedar that the previous owner of their home planted maybe 15 feet from the front of their house, probably four or even five decades ago. I grew up with this tree and my earliest memories are of it maybe 20-25 feet tall roughly 30 years ago. The tree is now like maybe 40 or even 50 feet tall, well taller than the house it’s next to, and I’m wondering if it should be removed at some point. That said they’ve had plenty of inspectors and engineers come by, most recently last year when they installed a heat pump HVAC, and nobody’s ever said poo poo about the giant cedar right by the front door. And this is in “if you so much as think about putting up a shed we’ll send a guy from the city with a clipboard to your house” Connecticut. The most they’ve ever heard about it was before an oil tank removal under its roots 20 years ago, which ended up being an apparent non-issue. FWIW the tree seems to be in excellent health, and appears to have topped out at its final adult height and greatly slowed down its growth a couple of years ago. I would really hate to lose it—it’s an absolute stunner of a tree, but I understand that it can arguably pose a hazard both to the home’s foundation or in a fall. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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If it's a tall healthy tree, don't worry about it. Cedars aren't shallow-rooted trees, like eucalytuses or scrub pines, that want to fall over at a moment's notice. If it's healthy and beautiful and not making the house gloomy, rejoice in it in these global-warming times. If you're worried, you can pay an arborist to come have a look at it. Any tree can fall over given the right storm, but that's not a good reason to keep all trees one tree-height away from the house.
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Atlas Cedars do have a very unfortunate habit of losing limbs in storms, specifically at points where they have previously been topped/had work done. They never really heal from having limbs removed, but then continue growing up and around at these points which can then trap rain water and develop a long horizontal fault, which at some point just shears off. In other words, like mentioned, the roots (if undisturbed) are usually very stable, but an inspection in the crown of older trees every few years is recommended
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Anyone know how to plant stuff on top of bulb plants, specifically Iris', so it'll bloom after they do their thing? If that's even possible. Previous owners of our house loving loved them; we're gonna have around 200 square feet of dead space in the front unless I figure something out. Bonus tree question: best way to winterize young trees in a 7b climate that will get 1-2 foot winter storms. I bought a couple olive trees and planted them outside (gently caress you I can throw away my money how I want) and they can supposedly survive in zone 7 once established. Just gotta keep them alive for a few winters.
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Managed to find an Empress Wu hosta at the Home Depot. Aw yeah. Also got a coreopsis, another bleeding heart, and a red variety of black-eyed susan.
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I made bog pots for some of my carnivores this year. The red sphagnum moss is my favorite part; I could have pots full of only this. Most of these have a focal Sarracenia and some Venus fly traps. The companion plants are Phemeranthus, Rhexia (hasn't come up yet but they make beautiful "jugs" after they flower), and a volunteer sundew.     All the Sarracenia fell down though lol (this one is an endangered S. oreophila) 
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I'm real jealous of those flytraps. I've had awful luck with them. Carnivore posting: I've had mine at my apartment for a couple years under grow lights, but I moved to a new place without a good spot for them. Moved them all to my parents hoop house, but I'm only there to visit on weekends so I wanted some semi-automatic watering. Designed these auto-watering bottle attachments years ago that I 3d print, and they worked great but out in the heat the water was evaporating quicker than a week.   So I built a quick table that fits an under-bed storage sterilite and set up a float valve with my RO water system. Automatic watering! Now I have a lot more room for more plants too...  Still have my sundews and butterworts at home though 
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That is a really cool water setup. I actually made these big pots for the same reason. All my smaller pots dry out quickly. These don't drain, so they hold a lot more water. It's great for the moss too.
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The past couple of seasons I've been trying to resurrect this old rose bush that was choked out by grapevines along my back fence. It's looking a lot happier now! Does anyone have a guess as to the cultivar? It has a bit of white on the interior petal whorl. 
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Newbie DIY irrigation question: I have a vegetable garden that starts about 150ft from my house. The space in-between is lawn that covers a septic tank leach field, so I can't really dig much or bury anything in that zone, or plant much in it besides grass and other low-lying plants with shallow herbaceous roots. Someday I want to make some of it flowers, but that's a big project and for now it's just 150ft of useless, non-irrigated suburban lawn between my garden and the hose bib, which I have to mow (riding mower) every 2 weeks-ish. I currently have 200ft of garden hose that I run out to the garden and attach to a sprinkler or a hand-sprayer. I think I'd like to upgrade to a drip system to be much water water efficient. Good idea, right? The question is: How would I cover that 150ft distance? From basic initial reading it seems like a normal drip setup would have a filter, a pressure-reducer, a backflow-preventer, and an adapter/coupler that runs to a 1/2 inch main line, then 1/4 inch lines with drippers run off of that. For this setup 150ft away, would I want to put that whole connector assembly up at the hose bib, then run 1/2 inch main line 150ft out to the garden, or would I use the existing garden hose to get out toward the garden and put that whole assembly on the far end of it? Am I going to be in trouble with pressure to cover that much distance (e.g. after a pressure reducer), and that makes one option better than the other? It seems like either way, there's not much choice but to run the setup above-ground and either live with looking at a hose on a semi-permanent basis, or deal with connecting/disconnecting when it's not in use. People talk about mulching over these hoses, but it's the middle of uninterrupted lawn, so a line of mulch in the middle would probably look worse than the hose. Thoughts or advice?
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My understanding is that you can't put raised beds on a septic leach field either, because it weighs too much (crushes the stuff shallowly buried underneath) and blocks evaporation (which is the point of the leach field).
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Brawnfire posted:The past couple of seasons I've been trying to resurrect this old rose bush that was choked out by grapevines along my back fence. However. Dr. Huey is a deep red, and your rose is pink, so that rules it out. Can you put in a picture of the top side of a leaf? I want to see the arrangement of the leaves on the stem, not a single leaf. Furthermore, does your rose bloom all year, or just once in the spring? e: Oh, I'd also like a picture of a bud, and of the flower when it's just opening, if you can. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Brawnfire posted:The past couple of seasons I've been trying to resurrect this old rose bush that was choked out by grapevines along my back fence. These two look like possibilities-pink, double blooms in clusters: https://antiqueroseemporium.com/products/excellenz-von-schubert?_pos=10&_sid=8e7614ea2&_ss=r https://antiqueroseemporium.com/products/gabrielle-privat?_pos=1&_sid=40db99ac2&_ss=r E: repeat bloomer vs. only blooms once is a very helpful identifier with roses so pay attention to that.
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I'll try to get some of those shots! Thanks for the info so far. This is my first foray [or should I say flores] into roses., so I don't know poo poo from shinola.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Poke around the Antique Rose Emporium's website and see if you see anything that looks like a match. They don't always have great pictures so google once you find something promising. Looks like a polyantha or floribunda type to me from the clusters of smaller flowers. Great call.
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I ended up letting the dr. huey develop on my sugar moon rose bush because they seem to be growing in opposite directions from each other, and honestly the red roses are genuinely pretty. I tend to be more laissez-faire with my outside plants and since they're in containers, I don't have to worry about spread.
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Got a new desk lamp because my mothers of thousands were turning into leggy bitches on the window sill. Bonus view of flowering haworthia in the back.
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My hostas are starting to bloom!    Poor thing got beat up this year by an early hailstorm we had, but it's come back quite nicely.  Some of the other hostas. Not quite flowering but I'm sure they won't be far behind. I'm hoping to split the two bigger clumps next year and replant some of them to make a hosta and fern garden along the really shady side of our deck.  And my pond iris, I think it's an Emperor Iris, is doing well. Looks like we might get two blossoms off it this year. Canadian Bakin fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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To maybe help others, I found this article on combining garden hose with drip main lines, which at least gives a recommended order of how to put the components together: https://help.dripdepot.com/support/solutions/articles/11000081042-garden-hose-or-poly-tubing-what-should-i-use- They recommend 1" or 3/4" tube for the distance rather than garden hose, but garden hose is using what I already have, so at least for now I think I'll keep that and save money. Later on I can replace with poly tubing that'll probably last longer and come in a less conspicuous color than my neon yellow flexzilla hoses.
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Lakitu7 posted:To maybe help others, I found this article on combining garden hose with drip main lines, which at least gives a recommended order of how to put the components together: I do timer > backflow > garden hose > pressure regulator > hose thread adapter > 1/2" tubing > 1/4" drip and emitters. Mine runs up a hill in my backyard and while I haven't measured the PSI, it's not optimal for all my emitters, but it gets the job done. A lot of hoses you get commercially are sneakily 1/2" interior diameter anyway. Poly tubing is kind of annoying to handle, I wouldn't be running like 20-30 feet of it in lieu of a hose.
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Chad Sexington posted:A lot of hoses you get commercially are sneakily 1/2" interior diameter anyway. Poly tubing is kind of annoying to handle, I wouldn't be running like 20-30 feet of it in lieu of a hose. I haven't really found it annoying to handle at all unless you're burying it, which is obviously a bit more work.
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My hostas are starting to bloom too!!! I'm gonna be spending a lot of time this weekend focusing on finishing a couple of garden projects, as well as getting the last of the plants in the ground. I plan on taking pictures once done, I'll share those here and you guys can judge me for my decisions!
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Soul Dentist posted:Another ID question! Turns out I've got some really nice daylilies in the back yard already that could use some splitting. They are on the shady side of a fence so they popped up really late: 
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Soul Dentist posted:Turns out I've got some really nice daylilies in the back yard already that could use some splitting. They are on the shady side of a fence so they popped up really late:
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 Chinese ivy is pretty cool how it adores being in the dark directly in front of the a/c for the 6 years ive had it Outlived like 4 other ivies it was planted with in that gross temporary basket/plastic bag combo thing its in. Badass.
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Got a blumat gravity loop to play with Heres the tank and looped feeder line with a purge valve. The loop puts a lot more pressure on the water than a single line it seems like. Barely need any elevation and its shooting out of the purge when open  Heres the drip heads. I might buy a few more for better coverage and add them along the return line.  Its not too ugly from the window! Hope it works. Fun project!
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Sold my fiddle leaf on FB marketplace and I feel freeeeeee
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I was asked to water my neighbours plants that are in coconut fiber planters while they were gone. I just did my normal thing sticking a finger in and watered about every 24-36 hours. They came back and said their plants look better than ever so no issue on that end. But it got me thinking, is it even possible to over water plants in fiber planters? If you add more water than the soil can hold it just runs out the bottom. Like you would really have to try and constantly saturated the soil to over water. Am I thinking about this wrong?
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