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You can replace it if you want but it doesn't really matter. Potted soil gets "depleted" but that mostly just means the plant ate all the nutrients inside. you can just put the stuff back to replenish it via compost or fertilizer or both without repotting. repotting is really only necessary to prevent the plant from getting rootbound imo
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PokeJoe posted:You can replace it if you want but it doesn't really matter. Potted soil gets "depleted" but that mostly just means the plant ate all the nutrients inside. you can just put the stuff back to replenish it via compost or fertilizer or both without repotting. repotting is really only necessary to prevent the plant from getting rootbound imo right, i didn't mean repotting i guess. just dumping out some of the soil and putting in new stuff. it's the black gold potting soil + fertilizer
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actionjackson posted:right, i didn't mean repotting i guess. just dumping out some of the soil and putting in new stuff. it's the black gold potting soil + fertilizer nah, honestly the fungus means it's nice and nutrient rich if it bugs you just scrape it off
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Ok Comboomer posted:nah, honestly the fungus means it's nice and nutrient rich ah ok. i thought the comment about mold and less moist meant i had overwatered and caused a problem i just started noticing the yellow stuff coming out of the bottom of the pot a few months ago. before when it was all black nothing came out the bottom
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If possible you could also put the plant outside in sunlight and fresh air, which helped a lot when I saw that happening with my monstera. A few days did the trick.
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Bottom watering also helps if that's an option.
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Mad Hamish posted:If possible you could also put the plant outside in sunlight and fresh air, which helped a lot when I saw that happening with my monstera. A few days did the trick. yep, I had been doing that previously but we had a bad heat wave. i'll get started again once it cools down a bit
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Sarracenia doing well outside This was it on the right a few months ago  And now after a steady diet of local wasps 
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Oh wow. Mine were doing much better outside....then we had the hailpocalypse a while back 
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Plants that eat wasps you say? I happen to know a place full of wasps called "my drat back yard"
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Discussion Quorum posted:Plants that eat wasps you say? Can really recommend sarracenia if you're looking for a low maintainence carniverous plant. They love sun and as long as they have a dish of rainwater to sit in they'll attract most flying insects. This was me repotting them from the godawful glass pots they came in. 
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Whimsicalfuckery posted:And now after a steady diet of local wasps
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Whimsicalfuckery posted:Can really recommend sarracenia if you're looking for a low maintainence carniverous plant. They love sun and as long as they have a dish of rainwater to sit in they'll attract most flying insects. huh, if I ever get grow lights set up in our main plant room, I might add one of these to the mix to get the latent gnats
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Do you have to use distilled water on them or are you using tap?
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bagmonkey posted:huh, if I ever get grow lights set up in our main plant room, I might add one of these to the mix to get the latent gnats If you keep them indoors year-round you'll want to go with a tropical species rather than a sarracenia. They're temperate plants and need a seasonal dormant cycle. Spikes32 posted:Do you have to use distilled water on them or are you using tap? Depends on your tap water. They need low ppm. My tap water is fine, but a lot of people have to use distilled or rain water.
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My sundew is an excellent gnat catcher
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Also don't discount cheapass yellow flypaper squares
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Fitzy Fitz posted:If you keep them indoors year-round you'll want to go with a tropical species rather than a sarracenia. They're temperate plants and need a seasonal dormant cycle. So would they work as a winter indoor/summer outdoor plant? Only problem is the front porch where I'd want to put it gets only part direct sun at best (old Craftsman porch)
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Yes. Yes they are.
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bagmonkey posted:So would they work as a winter indoor/summer outdoor plant? Only problem is the front porch where I'd want to put it gets only part direct sun at best (old Craftsman porch) People do that in places with extreme winters, yeah. They need full sun in the summer though.
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PokeJoe posted:My sundew is an excellent gnat catcher They are the best at this imo. I use them to catch fungus gnats.
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Agreed, im trying to root some cuttings to get an army of them. I've tried venus fly traps and the sundew really blows them out of the water. ive never tried pitcher plants because they always look kinda gross at the nursery
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PokeJoe posted:Also don't discount cheapass yellow flypaper squares
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my drosera has flowered a couple times, which is also pretty
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I have one Cape Sundew and one Pinguicula. I use rainwater for both and they've done very well. Sundew is sphagnum moss double-potted and kept near-floating in rainwater all the time. Ping is in chick grit (crushed granite), also kept in a second pot near-floating all the time. I thought carnivorous plants would be difficult, but really they haven't been at all. They're just different from other plants, but if you stick to rain water and the unusual mediums, they seem pretty easy. If you put a houseplant outside to help deal with mold on the soil, don't forget to prevent sunburn i.e. do NOT immediately put it in direct sun.
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Folks who put container plants on grass - what do you put under the pots to prevent plants from rooting through the drain hole while still allowing the pot to drain? My figs and rosemary are currently on my driveway/patio, but that gets stupidly hot, and they're kind of getting in the way as I up-pot them into bigger containers. Was thinking of putting a 12x12 paver down under each plant and then supporting the pot above that, but I worry a little about stability, and it doesn't really solve the drainage issue on its own. Whimsicalfuckery posted:Can really recommend sarracenia if you're looking for a low maintainence carniverous plant. They love sun and as long as they have a dish of rainwater to sit in they'll attract most flying insects. Real talk, I love pitcher plants and many of these were native in South Louisiana where I grew up. Also gently caress these wasps. But I'm trying to attract butterflies and bees, not lure them to their untimely demise in a real-life Sarlacc pit  drat wasps, though. Ask me again after one eventually stings my kid.
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Discussion Quorum posted:Folks who put container plants on grass - what do you put under the pots to prevent plants from rooting through the drain hole while still allowing the pot to drain? My figs and rosemary are currently on my driveway/patio, but that gets stupidly hot, and they're kind of getting in the way as I up-pot them into bigger containers.
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Discussion Quorum posted:Folks who put container plants on grass - what do you put under the pots to prevent plants from rooting through the drain hole while still allowing the pot to drain? My figs and rosemary are currently on my driveway/patio, but that gets stupidly hot, and they're kind of getting in the way as I up-pot them into bigger containers.
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I Am Not Spor posted: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. Spoke to the local garden center's plant guy. Wood frame and chicken wire; wrapped in plastic with holes cut on the east side to allow some oxygen transfer, then insulation, then leaves, then finally a burlap sack. Dude said ideally I should add a spout specifically to water it, which he does for his fig trees, but that adds a level of engineering I'm not willing to do. Will be back in 8 months with an update.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:They are the best at this imo. I use them to catch fungus gnats. That is a thing of beauty. The fungus knats have been terrible this year! I might have to try the window cling trick because I'm pretty sure they've sussed out the little yellow ones.
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Speaking of carnivores, this bad boy is 7" tall
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Idk if I ever finished my jade story but now I have THREE healthy pots of jade instead of one big rear end lopsided guy
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The hostas are great and have pretty flower stalks. They're on the north side of the building and unfortunately are getting sun scalded even worse now. The snow-on-the-mountain can go to hell, though. 
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That Old Ganon posted:The hostas are great and have pretty flower stalks. They're on the north side of the building and unfortunately are getting sun scalded even worse now. sometimes the flowers are fragrant, too! depends on the variety and if they have h. plantaginea dna in them.
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My guacamole hosta is flowering right now and the flowers actually smell pretty nice!
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Hi guys! I was wondering if you could help me identify a plant. It's a California native plant which we got at a giveaway. We know it's a big tree, but we just can't remember what it is. There are no stickers or identifying labels on the pot. I tried looking through the Tree Identification Guide at arborday.org but it asks for information we don't know (like if the leaves stay on all year) and doesn't give us intermediate results.   Hopefully one of you knows! Thank you!
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inaturalist is my favorite nature-identification overall, try that
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Yesterday the GF and I went to do some berry-picking and they also had a spectacular hosta garden. I didn't pick anything up because they were pretty pricey but I did try to take a picture of one of their planting areas. I really wanted to see if they had an Empress Wu in situ so I could see how mine will look in a few years, but the biggest one I saw with a tag was Sum and Substance which is also a pretty chomky boi.
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