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What type of plants are you interested in growing? This poll is closed. |
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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
| Annuals! |
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30 | 4.42% |
| Woody plants! |
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62 | 9.13% |
| Succulent plants! |
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171 | 25.18% |
| Tropical plants! |
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60 | 8.84% |
| Non-vascular plants are the best! |
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31 | 4.57% |
| Screw you, I'd rather eat them! |
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183 | 26.95% |
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restore all lawns to prairie status
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Jun 11, 2019 16:51
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Pham Nuwen posted:Mixing in clover is gonna help with #2 and #3. Totally down with mixing in clover. I have a bunch in the lawn next to my blueberries and it attracts a ton of bees.
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Jun 11, 2019 17:01
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Hubis posted:You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like: Scythe mowing your lawn is actually kind of fun. The clover seems to respond really well to it for some reason.
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Jun 11, 2019 20:59
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bring back old gbs posted:Hey maybe this is the place to ask, I got a succulent sorta thing from a corner store, planted it in a 3d printed bulbasaur, everything seemed to be going good, it sits in between two of the vine plants you can see in the background. But over the past week this thing's been growing out of it. What the hell?? is it from the vine plants? Yay! Mine's flowering too!
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Jun 11, 2019 21:46
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yay! Mine's flowering too! yeah! I didn't even know they did that, now I'm reading conflicting google results re: whether this means my plant is dying or not. Does this kind just flower one time?
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Jun 11, 2019 21:55
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Thanks for all the additional answers! I'm not really attempting to solve global warming myself in my backyard (though I'm probably already growing enough plants back there to offset at least a portion of my carbon emissions? I wonder how I could calculate that...), but instead was considering it from a theoretical perspective. If I were a botanist trying to genetically engineer a super-plant for carbon capture that could be grown easily lots of places, where would I start?Fitzy Fitz posted:restore all lawns to prairie status I just got done driving from Utah to the east coast, and let me tell you, if I had a couple billion dollars burning a hole in my pocket I'd buy up a few million acres in the midwest and just let it go back to its wild state. It's kind of sad what monoculture has done to that region. I tend to let my lawn just do what it wants, it's probably less than 40% turf grass. As long as it's green, it can grow. In other news, does anyone know what this plant is? We spread a bag of random "wildflower" seeds in a bed in our backyard last spring, and nothing much came up. However this year this monster is growing like gangbusters. I'm in VA, so it could theoretically be a volunteer, but I'm imagining it's something from the packet that needed to go through a winter.   e: Please ignore my unsightly unturned compost bin.
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Jun 11, 2019 22:02
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kedo posted:Thanks for all the additional answers! I'm not really attempting to solve global warming myself in my backyard (though I'm probably already growing enough plants back there to offset at least a portion of my carbon emissions? I wonder how I could calculate that...), but instead was considering it from a theoretical perspective. If I were a botanist trying to genetically engineer a super-plant for carbon capture that could be grown easily lots of places, where would I start? It's a hollyhock
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Jun 11, 2019 22:03
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FizFashizzle posted:Ive got a bunch of white spots on my cucumbers. a lot of the leaves are basically turning yellow, especially the ones that are inside the porch and not hanging off the balcony. Some of the flowers have kinda just rotted.  If you get a chance, read up on milk treatments. Some veggie gardeners swear by it for treating fungus on cucurbits. Supposedly it's not as harsh as baking soda? Your gourd is an excellent thread mascot. Hopefully it triumphs! 
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Jun 11, 2019 22:23
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I’m sending positive thoughts the gourd’s way.
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Jun 11, 2019 22:32
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Platystemon posted:I’m sending positive thoughts the gourd’s way. 
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Jun 11, 2019 22:37
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Yeah, i think the cucumber is sick. All the leaves that have escaped out through the bars are doing fine, but the ones inside are kinda rough. I went ahead and pruned the worst looking ones. The flowers that were blooming like mad have started to shrivel. I've only got like 4 good cukes from this guy, and the ones growing now look kinda lovely. You can see a lot of the white spots here behind the main leaf.  And here's a close up.  Here's the gourd. This is all only on the lower leaves. This almost looks like rot.  And here's some more white spots.  Overall the gourd is doing great though! Here is a female bloom on the top. she'll fruit and hang down once i germinate her. Female blooms come off the secondary vines, while males bloom on the primary.  Here's a male bloom right where bumblee was captured. I think the next time I try to grow one I'll try to get something weird attached early so it'll carry it up as it grows.  looking at about sixteen feet total of growth which is about the limit if you want good gourds, but I can't bring myself to trim it.  So yeah, kinda worried about the cucumbers 
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Jun 11, 2019 22:43
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Go you gourd thing! Edit: My radishes are coming up nicely 
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Jun 11, 2019 22:50
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bring back old gbs posted:yeah! I didn't even know they did that, now I'm reading conflicting google results re: whether this means my plant is dying or not. Does this kind just flower one time? Nope, it will keep on trucking. Also, generally, plants that only flower once and die (pineapple, etc) will produce many offsets at the bottom before they kick the bucket, which in turn will become new plants.
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Jun 12, 2019 00:16
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I've been growing heaps of cacti and succulents from seeds. They're tediously slow to grow, and most are still very small. These guys here are old enough to withstand close to full sun now - and when spring arrives they should start accelerating in their growth.
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Jun 12, 2019 08:18
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 I live in Seattle. What is this? It has such a wonderful scent~
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Jun 12, 2019 08:39
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Privet..? Did you pull it off a larger bush/tree?
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Jun 12, 2019 12:58
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Bina posted:
Flowers and smell make me think lilac, if it was off a bush
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Jun 12, 2019 14:11
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Bina posted:
E: just saw the little leaves up by the flower. Definitely not a hyacinth Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 15:14
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Schmeichy posted:Flowers and smell make me think lilac, if it was off a bush I'm going to second that, I'm in the PNW and lots of folks grow them.
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Jun 12, 2019 16:03
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Pham Nuwen posted:It's a hollyhock Thank you! 
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Jun 12, 2019 16:14
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What I can see of the leaves still reminds me more of privet than lilac (taper at the base, not much petiole), but they're very closely related. Which of the two is blooming in the PNW right now? e: in the SE, chinese privet bloomed a while ago, but japanese/silky privet is currently blooming Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 16:24
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Fitzy Fitz posted:What I can see of the leaves still reminds me more of privet than lilac (taper at the base, not much petiole), but they're very closely related. Which of the two is blooming in the PNW right now?
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Jun 13, 2019 21:56
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a very angry storm just blew threw and the rain and wind were so intense it separated a section of roof at my work. I'm so worried for my plants
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Jun 14, 2019 01:06
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indigi posted:a very angry storm just blew threw and the rain and wind were so intense it separated a section of roof at my work. I'm so worried for my plants Thinking positive vibes for your plants
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Jun 14, 2019 02:05
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same fam
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Jun 14, 2019 02:06
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This is more General Yardchat than Plantchat, but if anybody is looking for some goodass perfectly-tuned wind-chimes, I gotchu. https://www.musicofspheres.com/ This place makes awesome wind-chimes that sound totally amazing in at least 12 different chords and like 5 octaves. I got some for my musician dad as an early Father’s Day present and he loves them so much he’s already gotten two more. Best of all it’s a small local business based in Austin TX, which means any money you give them probably won’t end up going to Trump.
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Jun 14, 2019 03:06
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Tuberose only blooms at night but my god what a show. And the fragrance is amazing.
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Jun 14, 2019 03:21
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FizFashizzle posted:Tuberose only blooms at night but my god what a show. And the fragrance is amazing. So jealous right now. I've got a longflower tuberose that's never shown the slightest inclination towards flowering. Maybe this is the year
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Jun 14, 2019 05:28
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I. M. Gei posted:This is more General Yardchat than Plantchat, but if anybody is looking for some goodass perfectly-tuned wind-chimes, I gotchu. I’ll just wait for my neighbours to get some and enjoy them for free.
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Jun 14, 2019 08:18
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I just got back from a 2 months trip and many of my plants have had BIZARRE reactions. Echeveria stretching despite being outside on a south facing porch in LAS VEGAS. Sempervivum where the central plant died but the pups are fine. Aloes so skinny they look like sanseveria. Just weird what happens when someone who doesn’t give a poo poo takes care of your plants.
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Jun 14, 2019 08:43
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I uhh bought a tiny frangipani
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Jun 14, 2019 09:25
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:Sempervivum where the central plant died but the pups are fine. I was guessing that was normal eventually, particularly after they flower. This is what I've got going on right now:   
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Jun 14, 2019 10:27
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Winter Stormer posted:So jealous right now. I've got a longflower tuberose that's never shown the slightest inclination towards flowering. Maybe this is the year It was a bulb my mom gave me. I have no idea how old this thing is. But it came up VERY fast. There's another one who's not doing much of anything tho
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Jun 14, 2019 12:09
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Thanks again to Kaiser Schnitzel's rose recommendations. Our 'Graham Thomas' is now in the ground (next to a brick chimney so it can climb if it wants) and seems to be happy! And the voodoo lily bulbs listrada gifted me with a couple seasons ago are starting to leaf! Well, one is huge and tall and pretty much where it's going to be till fall. The other one is much slower going...probably because what I'd thought was a piece of root poking up through the soil was actually a second shoot.  I hope the rest of my plants do as well as these two.
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Jun 14, 2019 14:35
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Nosre posted:I was guessing that was normal eventually, particularly after they flower. This is what I've got going on right now:    this is the progress on my long boi
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Jun 14, 2019 17:48
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my cilantro isn't doin gwell at all. One of the sprouts looks dead. The radishes however are thriving. The green onions.....meh.  Basil is steady.  Sadly, I think it's time to 86 the cukes. Mold has overtaken it. All the flowers have withered. He's dead and just doesn't know it yet. Plus, he's taking up some primo real estate. I think what i'll do is get another one going from seed and try to direct his growth a little better. Plus, I got some plans for a morning glory on that corner.  Another of the tuberose. The scent is so strong it i can smell it just when i leave the door open.  And this, ladies and gents, is a baby gourd. I pollinated it by hand with a tooth brush from a male flower. So far that's the only female flower i've seen, but more look like they're ready to grow. 
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Jun 14, 2019 23:36
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Praise the Gᴏᴜʀᴅ! The Sᴏɴ of Gᴏᴜʀᴅ did not come to be served, but to serve.
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Jun 15, 2019 00:05
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The gourd is good the pistol is evil
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Jun 15, 2019 03:53
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https://youtu.be/Og_g3b5edRY Welcome to my life Edit: I have gotten confused between the GBS gardening thread and the diy gardening thread. I leave this here for posterity Jestery fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Jun 15, 2019 04:19
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bring back old gbs posted:whoa those look great, the middle pic looks like those leaf lizards Congrats! Two of my bulbies flowered last summer and I somehow never took pictures.  Best I got were these two shots, and they don't even show the flower stalk on the middle guy:  
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