|
MasterBuilder posted: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.
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2023 15:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 20:12 |
|
|
Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Some plants don't like soil that is constantly moist and it can cause root rot or other problems, so it can be good to let the soil dry out a bit between waterings, but I imagine the soil in those planters dries out a bit in that 24-36 hours, and/or whatever is planted in them doesn't mind wet feet. Okay. I was going to suggest to them to maybe water more frequently but I didn't want to talk out my rear end and googling "over watering coconut fiber" gave responses about using it as a growing medium.
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2023 15:53
|
|
|
My succulent got very tall very fast. I set it against a wall today so it didn’t tip over. How can I pot it up with minimal damage? Will it grow more succulents if it falls over on top of soil/gritty mix?  That’s a 6” pot, I think. It was about two inches tall when I potted it in December.
|
|
#
?
Jul 15, 2023 04:58
|
|
|
My guava, lemon, kumquat, and mango are all fruiting here in their second year in zone 6b, a solid year ahead of schedule; hoping they keep the fruit on.
|
|
#
?
Jul 17, 2023 05:27
|
|
|
MasterBuilder posted: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. You can "overwater" plants in virtually any medium or container. The problem isn't the amount of water per se, it's that soil that remains saturated for too long A) starves the roots of oxygen and B) encourages the growth of pathogens. You're right that you'd have to make an effort to overwater plants in a coconut fiber planter, but it could happen. If you planted a small plant in a big planter, for example, you could have issues with the roots not being able to reach and suck up the water at the lowest, wettest part of the planter. Having a big wet rootless zone at the bottom of a container, especially if the soil is dense, creates favorable conditions for root rot. Ghost Cactus posted:My succulent got very tall very fast. I set it against a wall today so it didn’t tip over. Your plant has grown tall because it's stretching out to get more light. If you move it just a few inches from that corner so it's directly in front of that sunny window, the new growth at the top will start coming in more compact. You can pot it up if you want, but I'd be worried about it falling over eventually. Thankfully, you can do pretty much whatever you want to it. If you chop it at any point along the stem, new roots will grow from the base of the top cutting and new leaves will grow from the top of the bottom cutting. You could take the top cutting and plant it, or throw it away. You can also (probably) propagate this plant from leaves. If you remove a leaf and stick it on top of the soil, it will eventually grow roots and become a whole new plant. If you do this, try to pull the leaf out as close to the stem as possible so you remove the entire leaf, not just a chunk of it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 17, 2023 16:40
|
|
|
Troutful posted:Your plant has grown tall because it's stretching out to get more light. If you move it just a few inches from that corner so it's directly in front of that sunny window, the new growth at the top will start coming in more compact. You can pot it up if you want, but I'd be worried about it falling over eventually. Thankfully, you can do pretty much whatever you want to it. If you chop it at any point along the stem, new roots will grow from the base of the top cutting and new leaves will grow from the top of the bottom cutting. You could take the top cutting and plant it, or throw it away. What he said. I blew up a couple plants I had and have been propagating for a couple months. Pretty neat to see it in action.   Picking up dropped leaves from plants at big box stores is also an easy way to acquire/propagate succulents if you're particularly frugal/unscrupulous.
|
|
#
?
Jul 17, 2023 21:30
|
|
|
Y'all my stapelia is gonna bloom soon!
|
|
#
?
Jul 21, 2023 18:12
|
|
|
Sooooo many of my houseplants are blooming right now, it freaking rules. And we've had a rather wet summer so far in MI so the gardens look amazing. Hoping to get a lot more work done this weekend, then pics!!
|
|
#
?
Jul 21, 2023 19:58
|
|
|
Mother nature checked my house plant hubris and sent a wind shear to my front porch. Luckily the dracaena didn't get damaged at all... but the jade on the other hand... Looks like I've got three pots with jade now  I cleaned her up last night and washed off the broken branches, gonna let the ends heal a bit then repot them. The one branch that still has smaller branches on it needs to be trimmed because it's extremely unbalanced now 
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2023 17:26
|
|
|
What would spent coffee grounds do to a plant, if sprinkled pretty irregularly? Thinking a light dusting on a monthly watering for a small jade...
|
|
#
?
Jul 26, 2023 19:44
|
|
|
Get moldy, probably
|
|
#
?
Jul 26, 2023 20:30
|
|
|
Cannon_Fodder posted:What would spent coffee grounds do to a plant, if sprinkled pretty irregularly? Thinking a light dusting on a monthly watering for a small jade... Leaves would perk up pretty quickly but would droop about an hour later. After repeated treatments the plant would become physically dependent and wouldn't be able to handle a sunny day until after a strong cuppa joe. Serious answer: Apparently coffee grounds don't lower the pH of soil and they don't necessarily provide enough macro or micro nutrients to be beneficial. Unless you want to kill slugs which apparently coffee grounds is great at. What are you attempting to accomplish by putting coffee grounds
|
|
#
?
Jul 26, 2023 20:32
|
|
|
MasterBuilder posted:Apparently coffee grounds don't lower the pH of soil If you just want to save your coffee grinds from the landfill, they certainly compost well.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 00:04
|
|
|
The coffee grounds are more for the worms than anything else. They go into your compost quite nicely as pointed out above.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 01:08
|
|
|
MasterBuilder posted:Leaves would perk up pretty quickly but would droop about an hour later. After repeated treatments the plant would become physically dependent and wouldn't be able to handle a sunny day until after a strong cuppa joe. I have coffee and a couple plants.  figured I'd ask before I do something. Maybe it would help the little fellas. I just inherited these jades and I'm pretty clueless.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 04:43
|
|
|
Troutful posted:Your plant has grown tall because it's stretching out to get more light. If you move it just a few inches from that corner so it's directly in front of that sunny window, the new growth at the top will start coming in more compact. You can pot it up if you want, but I'd be worried about it falling over eventually. Thankfully, you can do pretty much whatever you want to it. If you chop it at any point along the stem, new roots will grow from the base of the top cutting and new leaves will grow from the top of the bottom cutting. You could take the top cutting and plant it, or throw it away. Cheers, I’ll do that. Good to know it won’t mind if I lop off the top. All the plants in that pot (and six others) are propagated from one plant. The windows get cold in the winter so I moved these a few feet away and made tall plants by accident.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 05:10
|
|
|
Cannon_Fodder posted:I have coffee and a couple plants. You can put them outside in the garden and they’ll disappear quickly, but don’t put them in indoor plants. They won’t compost and will just smell bad for ages. You can bury them into garden beds if you want too and rodents/pests will ignore them if you put them in an outdoor heap.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 15:09
|
|
|
Jhet posted:You can put them outside in the garden and they’ll disappear quickly, but don’t put them in indoor plants. They won’t compost and will just smell bad for ages. You can bury them into garden beds if you want too and rodents/pests will ignore them if you put them in an outdoor heap. Dope, thanks. I knew they'd be a use for coffee grounds.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2023 21:40
|
|
|
What have y'all had success with for spider mites? I've somehow avoided them for years, but a philodendron I got recently came with some. I tried diatomaceous earth because I already had some on hand, but they keep coming back. I have some neem oil too, but I've never had good luck with it. Miticide is expensive. Predatory mites seem overly complicated.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2023 23:57
|
|
|
Fitzy Fitz posted:What have y'all had success with for spider mites? I've somehow avoided them for years, but a philodendron I got recently came with some. I tried diatomaceous earth because I already had some on hand, but they keep coming back. I have some neem oil too, but I've never had good luck with it. Miticide is expensive. Predatory mites seem overly complicated. I had good luck with spinosad the one time I got some on my tomatoes.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 00:30
|
|
|
Oh, seriously? Spinosad is usually my go-to, but for some reason I thought it didn't work on mites. Everyone on youtube and reddit suggests the most complicated solutions.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 01:28
|
|
|
spinosad is what I've used for mites vs neem. neem is way better as a fungicide
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 01:31
|
|
|
Fitzy Fitz posted:Oh, seriously? Spinosad is usually my go-to, but for some reason I thought it didn't work on mites. Everyone on youtube and reddit suggests the most complicated solutions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17899400/ https://www.missouribotanicalgarden...icides/spinosad Apparently it can even be used systemically? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16180075/
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 01:36
|
|
|
I have some, so I'll try it tomorrow (and continue applying every few days for a week or so). And I'll try to remember to share the results. The DE was working fine, but it's a pain in the rear end to dust the thing and then clean it off. Not the kind of thing you want to do repeatedly to a houseplant.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 01:43
|
|
|
spidermites also don't like moisture so sometimes spraying with water regularly can help as well
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 02:03
|
|
|
You can also use the force of the water itself, beyond just the moisture. I like a good blast with the hose, followed then by spinosad or pyrethrin after it dries. Usually there's another outbreak after a few months though. I don't think I've ever quite achieved full eradication. Usually I go pyrethrin over spinosad because of those same studies. I swear by spinosad for thrips though.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2023 04:16
|
|
|
I got my first plant, a money tree, from Ikea on April 2, so it's been 4 months:  Ikea said I didn't need to repot for a year but this is looking kinda sus:  Also it's at an angle:  The current planter is 9.5". Should I get a 12" or something bigger? Do I need a liner like the plastic one my money tree came in or can I just buy some potting soil and throw it in something with a drainage hole and tray and call it a day? A couple months ago, I tried looking for a larger planter that fit my decor and wasn't a million dollars and this 16" for $40 from Home Depot seemed to fit the bill:  But it's plastic (maybe not a problem?) and in reality the wood was unfinished and dirty looking. Plus I can't fit a tray for the drainage hole but maybe at that size I don't need one, especially since I only water my plant with 1L of water once a week? Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 31, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 16:55
|
|
|
Whys it on a chair? Teabagging a less fortunate trees corpse
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 16:59
|
|
|
Real hurthling! posted:Whys it on a chair? Teabagging a less fortunate trees corpse 
Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 31, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 17:16
|
|
|
Rotate that boy to straighten him out.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 17:22
|
|
|
Josh Lyman posted:I got my first plant, a money tree, from Ikea on April 2, so it's been 4 months: Drainage is not just about letting the water drip out, it's also allowing for airflow so the water doesn't just pool at the bottom and become fetid. As long as you make sure to take it out of the planter when you water, let it finish dripping and then put it back in, you will be fine, but don't plant it in a non-draining pot or regularly water it in said pot.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 17:27
|
|
|
Tremors posted:Y'all my stapelia is gonna bloom soon! It finally happened!   Dunno what happened to the colors but here's my poor attempt at a timelapse. https://i.imgur.com/vDcEvoJ.mp4
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 17:54
|
|
|
MasterBuilder posted:Rotate that boy to straighten him out.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 17:59
|
|
|
Plastic planters are fine as long as you use them as an outer pot and keep the actual soil in a smaller inner pot with drainage holes. A pro-tip from my mom is to use 2x3 thick Lego blocks to raise the inner pot up off the bottom of your pretty pot. It lets air circulate and any excess water drip out and evaporate. You can buy purpose made feet for the same thing, but why do that when you can steal your children's toys?
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 18:10
|
|
|
Also going from 9.5" to 12" is pretty much the usual step, provided you want him to keep growing. You could always just saw off the bottom couple inches of roots if it's particularly rootbound and repot to keep it more or less the same size. This basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bTXd5QOF0
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2023 18:23
|
|
|
my bamboo palm has this yellow-green caky stuff in the soil. Does this mean I should change the soil?
|
|
#
?
Aug 1, 2023 22:49
|
|
|
Looks like mold to me. The soil is probably fine, put a handful of mulch on top and try to keep it less moist.
|
|
#
?
Aug 2, 2023 07:22
|
|
|
just a lil’ fungus, totally normal and harmless
|
|
#
?
Aug 2, 2023 13:31
|
|
|
 Very floral around here
|
|
#
?
Aug 2, 2023 13:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 20:12 |
|
|
PokeJoe posted:Looks like mold to me. The soil is probably fine, put a handful of mulch on top and try to keep it less moist. thanks, maybe i overwatered a bit. i haven't replaced the soil in a long time and I have some extra, so that's why i asked.
|
|
#
?
Aug 2, 2023 21:23
|
|