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Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips? DONT BUY THEM FROM IKEA AND DONT OVERWATER THEM i bought a straight cylindrical one from ikea and it had grubs and it fuckin died in 3 months after i did all i could. rip guadalupe if you keep cacti outside in the sun and there;s a heat wave and they're over a metre high you can water them every three days. if you keep em inside and they're little baby cacti water them like once a month and plant a succulent with the cactus so you can feel how limp the succulent is to tell you if you should water the thing inside you probably shouldnt get cacti that grow tall and own drunk people. there are a bunch of cacti that grow in cute little thorny bulbs that only really own people if they try to get owned or are really clumsy succulents are fucken easy as poo poo and there are so many of them. i fuckin love echevaria because they look like roses but you don't have to do poo poo for them. succulents basically grow everywhere and the beauty of them is that you can buy one and then wait until it's cool with your house then chop off a bit, let it callous over, then plant it in another pot and HOLY poo poo YOU GO A NEW PLANT
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Fruity Gordo posted:im fuckin dying. someone left the cake out in the rain is quite possibly the queerest sentence ever. we'll never have that sentence again ooohhhhh noooooooooooo Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips? when i was a child me and my sister had a cactus each, i managed to somehow not water mine enough (it's a fuckin cactus how can you not water it enough), while my sister watered hers too much and it kind of exploded, except nobody noticed until the cactus goo on the wall behind it started to smell funny plants are harder to keep alive than children or animals because they won't tell you when they're hungry, you have to be proactive about it, and cacti are even harder (for me) because they need looking after so rarely that you can't even build it into your daily routine
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Jan 19, 2014 16:08
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oh also in america inside in the wintertime i'm betting that the watering rules for cacti and succulents is NOOO/DONT BUY
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Jan 19, 2014 16:08
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i bought a cactus from ikea a few months ago and was really excited and posted about my new cactus lupe in auspol and now she's dead.  she was dying and i watered and fertilised her bc i thought that was why she was dying but NO. IKEA GAVE HER GRUBS WHO ATE HER FROM THE INSIDE OUT RIP LUPE. i blame ikea bc the other cacti who lived in pots next to her are still fine gently caress you ikea
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Jan 19, 2014 16:12
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DONT WORRY VAGUEZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHS8hj4TdT8 
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Jan 19, 2014 16:13
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I was gonna grab some from the hardware/garden store, they sent me a giftcard for my birthday that I haven't used yet. They'll be indoor for now, though if they survive I might take them out on the balcony come springtime. I hate being a plant murderer . I had a Wandering Jew at one apartment (his name was Schlomo) that got huge. Then I moved and he didn't like the light at my new place and died within a month, I felt awful. Ivy, ferns and spider plants have all died under my care. It's odd, because I grow my own herbs, tomatoes and hot peppers on the balcony in the summer, and they all do great. Right now I have a couple of amaryllis going, and though I should probably stake them, they seem to be doing okay.
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Jan 19, 2014 16:16
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When I was a kid my mom kept cacti including these jerks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalocereus_senilis. One night one of them fell over onto the floor and it was dark and I saw this lightish area on the carpet, thought it was a misplaced Barbie dress, picked it up and got a handful of spines. TLDR: My tip is don't pick up the body of a cactus with your bare hands.
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Jan 19, 2014 16:17
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Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips? If you're forgetful you can buy one of those water feeder bubble things, though IMO they look kind of garish. Still, a cactus would only need a really small one and you wouldn't need to keep it filled all the time either so it may be worth it to you. Maybe you could learn to take care of your plants better if you grew something that was more functional than decorative like a spice tray on a windowsill or something like that? Do you cook at all? Maybe getting some fresh produce or herbs out of the deal would help you to be more mindful and then you could develop the habits to take care of decorative ferns cacti .etc E: Also there is some type of cactus that can get you crazy high but I think it takes years to cultivate enough to have a psychoactive experience. idk ymmv
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Jan 19, 2014 16:18
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if you get a cactus you can pretty much leave it out on a porch or whatever and ignore it and before long it will be a gigantic ball of death that you'll probably run into/trip over constantly
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Jan 19, 2014 16:18
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yeah one of my pals from nuevo-lf tried to grow a mescaline cactus back in the day but failed terribly i would have tried but you can't get that poo poo here. rude
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Jan 19, 2014 16:27
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If you've got a sunny window you could try an orchid. They don't need much care, just some water once a month. They drop all their flowers off every couple of months and people think they've died and throw them away. Just keep them in the window and water them occasionally and they'll grow a new stem.
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Jan 19, 2014 16:33
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orchids are great. there's an orchid show near me every year and it's like skipping through a field of vulva it fuckin rules
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Jan 19, 2014 16:40
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Fruity Gordo posted:orchids are great. there's an orchid show near me every year and it's like skipping through a field of vulva it fuckin rules Someone please change the thread title to Lady Chat: Skipping through a vulva field
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Jan 19, 2014 16:55
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I had an orchid once but my cat kept eating it. Orchids are my favourite flower.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:07
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I had an orchid a few years back that actually did okay until my cat knocked it over. I think cats and plants are natural enemies.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:12
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Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips? If you get some cacti, they'll do much better from neglect than lots of care. More likely to kill them by over-watering. They do prefer a sandy soil mix instead of the rich compost type that a lot of plants like. Otherwise, sun + mostly neglect = happy cacti.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:13
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My house faces north/south, so I don't get a ton of direct sunlight indoors except at certain times of the day. Should I just accept fate and buy fake plants instead?
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Jan 19, 2014 17:16
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I'm not on campus right now but tomorrow I think I will take him to one world or tambers
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Jan 19, 2014 17:19
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Both good, Tamber's isn't exactly romantic though, and I think they only do weekend brunch? Golden West does a good breakfast if Hampden isn't too far, and Donna's has awesome Bloody Marys
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Jan 19, 2014 17:20
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Nah, just be extra careful you don't over-water in that case. They might not grow very quickly, but I have a north-south house in a place with little sun and have a bunch of cacti and succulents.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:24
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I bought the cat some cat grass. Did they eat it? No but they graze my roomies plants instead.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:24
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if you have a south-facing house in the northern hemisphere you get best plant light! stick you light-needy plants right next to the windows and your sissy plants near the walls. you can put cacti anywhere unless ikea fills them up with worms. i have a bunch of cacti chilling in my room with a tiny bit of east-rising sunlight and some water when i think they need it and one of them flowered last year. i have some on the balcony thrusting up into the sky in the full north sun who i need to water every 5 days in summer to stop them wimping, and i have some succulents i don't touch and some i water evener other day. my fuckin herbs and chillies and jacaranda and poo poo get watered every day in this weather bc they are fuckin wimps
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Jan 19, 2014 17:26
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Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips?
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Jan 19, 2014 17:40
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Crow Jane posted:I think I might buy some cacti or succulents today. Any tips? Get aloe vera. Basically impossible to kill, just stick it somewhere sunny and water when you remember. It'll start spawning little aloe veras really quickly and you can throw those away or have more aloe vera or give them as gifts to burn-prone friends
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Jan 19, 2014 17:42
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You should get some Lithops, or living stones. They are awesome succulents and some of them look like rock brains and some look like weird rock testicles and some look like rock butts which are extra funny when they flower.   
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Jan 19, 2014 17:49
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Jetsetlemming posted:Succulents >>> Cacti. gently caress needles. Plus iirc you can tell when to water them by just looking at them and seeing if they're not plump, rather than having to do it on a schedule. Cacti are harder to eyeball (two words I hate putting in the same sentence) on account of the loving needles true as gently caress. succulents look sad when they needs water, and f you cant tell theyre sad you can just play with a leaf. a firm leaf means happy slaggy  , a flabby floppy leaf means sad, water me don't buy the ones who die when you touch them bc they are loser bitchy ones who make no friends
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Jan 19, 2014 17:50
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boom boom boom posted:Get aloe vera. Basically impossible to kill, just stick it somewhere sunny and water when you remember. It'll start spawning little aloe veras really quickly and you can throw those away or have more aloe vera or give them as gifts to burn-prone friends argh this also aloe vera rules if you sunbathe bc you dont need to buy that lovely gel otherwise, you just get someone to behead your [plant and rub plant jelly on you. and you can make tea out of it and syrup and if you make syrup you can miX it with water from the soda stream and poo poo BITCH YOU HAVE FIZZY ALOE poo poo
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Crow Jane posted:I was gonna grab some from the hardware/garden store, they sent me a giftcard for my birthday that I haven't used yet. They'll be indoor for now, though if they survive I might take them out on the balcony come springtime. ok i just reread this post and drat. you killed some wandering jew. that makes me feel AWESOME. i loving HATE wandering jew, it is evil as poo poo. it is fuckin hilarious to me that you tried to grow it though bc wandering jew is a loving horrible weed that destroys gardens all those things you say you killed are weeds which feed on other plants, so that's why they died. they don't eat fertiliser and dirt, they eat other plants and suck minerals from rocks, that's where they get their nutrition. so you can't really grow a weed in a pot if it doesn't have another plant or some sandstone to chew on so, basically, you didn't kill that poo poo, that poo poo deserved to die
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I've been looking into getting a little potted clementine tree to keep in my home in spite of the fact that I know nothing about plant care. (And have not much interest in caring for plants unless they give me something in return.) The internet says they're hard to kill, so I guess I'll test that claim!
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Jan 19, 2014 18:07
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for a moment i was very confused "wtf what's with the jew hate" then i realized you were talking about a plant wow, awkward name for a pest plant
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Fruity Gordo posted:ok i just reread this post and drat. you killed some wandering jew. that makes me feel AWESOME. i loving HATE wandering jew, it is evil as poo poo. it is fuckin hilarious to me that you tried to grow it though bc wandering jew is a loving horrible weed that destroys gardens Wha? Spider plants aren't parasitic plants, they're just regular plants that reproduce in a really cool way. And "ivy" can mean several different things in the houseplant world (for instance if she managed to kill a Devil's Ivy, then WOW). Weeds in general don't "eat" other plants or rocks necessarily, that's just the term for whatever plant you don't want growing in your garden/yard because it isn't the one you prefer. Some are a genuine pain in the rear end, some are cool but just growing in the wrong place.
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Jan 19, 2014 18:13
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Not all weeds are parasitic
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Kudzu can die though.
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Jan 19, 2014 18:16
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I got a jade plant, two little succulents and an African violet. Might go back for some aloe, the only one they had wasn't looking so great. And those lithops are awesome, I have to find a place that sells them. Also moved my Provence lavender in from outside, as it's still somehow alive despite months of cold. Figured it deserved a reward. The hardware store I went to has a cooler full of old-fashioned soda, they had Faygo in glass bottles.
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Jan 19, 2014 18:23
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oooh i didn't know any of that stuff. to me anything except mint (loving MINT GET OUTTA MY PARSLEY) but even mint sometimes was a weed to be murdered with extreme cutting and ripping prejudice, esp ivy and wandering jew and that stupid climbing plant with the heart-shaped leaves. to me they are dickheads rivalling my old dog bc they would ruin our veggie garden more often than she would dig our poo poo up it legit boggles my mind that they can grow without ruining things. now i wanna grow them to TAME THE gently caress OUT OF NATURE
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Jan 19, 2014 18:26
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Fruity Gordo posted:ok i just reread this post and drat. you killed some wandering jew. that makes me feel AWESOME. i loving HATE wandering jew, it is evil as poo poo. it is fuckin hilarious to me that you tried to grow it though bc wandering jew is a loving horrible weed that destroys gardens I hate the wandering jew. It is a parasite that feeds off others and destroys their homelands. The wandering jew is evil, literally a parasite on the productive species. You tell me it is a crime to kill the wandering jew, I tell you it is a crime to allow even one to live.
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Jan 19, 2014 18:27
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AFRICAN VIOLETS loving RULE. YOU SIT THEM ON A WINDOWSILL AND THEY LOOK CHEERILY AT YOU AND THEN WHEN THY LOOK SLIGHTLY LESS CHEERY YOU GIVE THEM LIKE A TBS OF WATER AND THEYRE LIKE HELLLOOOOOOOOOOO
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Jan 19, 2014 18:28
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boom boom boom posted:I hate the wandering jew. It is a parasite that feeds off others and destroys their homelands. The wandering jew is evil, literally a parasite on the productive species. legit i still havent come up with a solution
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Jan 19, 2014 18:29
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Crow Jane posted:I got a jade plant, two little succulents and an African violet. Might go back for some aloe, the only one they had wasn't looking so great. And those lithops are awesome, I have to find a place that sells them. I haven't dug up my vegetable garden because  , but my kale is still there (I'm leaving it because the way I harvested the kale made adorable poof balls on the top of the stalk. There's also one basil still out there just holding the gently caress on. I'm not even moving it inside because I would have to dig it up and put it in a pot and also it is a miracle of nature and I'm not loving with that. It's like having frozen basil, except I don't have to take up freezer space!
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Kale likes the cold
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