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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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Thanks for all the replies! I'm sure I'm making a lot of you cringe, but I do appreciate the help. I fully admit I have no experience with succulents. And you're right, it's definitely a Corpuscularia lehmannii! Goddamn, thank you. I settled on twice a week after some trial and error. I started with once a week and I noticed the leaves began wrinkling. They bounced right back after watering and I did a little research to make sure the wrinkling wasn't due to over-watering, but the consensus seemed to be that they do that when they're thirsty. It felt like too often to me too, but it seems to have been pretty happy with the routine for 7 months or so. I moved it from a 2 1/2 inch pot in May to a 3 inch. I realized that wasn't enough pretty quick and repotted once more in June to a 5 1/2 inch. I also have it in what is unfortunately the sunniest window in the house; I moved to southern California about two years ago from Portland and made up my mind real quick to get a low light place to beat the heat. I'd be happy to buy if a sun lamp if that would help? As for the roots:  I tried that thing where you use a chopstick to break up the roots a bit when transferring it the first time, but I was worried about breaking them and probably did a poo poo job. And you can see those two leaves are done now, but the ones below it seem perfectly healthy? Should I leave them or clip them? And again, thanks so much. I somehow do great with zone 4 plants, but I'm poo poo with what are supposed to be the easiest plants to raise.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:33
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Eeyo posted:My moonflower has been blooming about every other day, it's great! It's not really fragrant, but it at least looks nice. I think since it only gets morning to afternoon sun and full shade in the late afternoon/evening it's started flowering earlier than it otherwise would have. You lucky motherfucker. I've had such bad luck with mine - the last time I tried growing some on a nice, big trellis I got nothing but leaves and a grand total of three flowers. This year I've tried a small trellis and have been trimming the plant constantly to keep it in check and have been feeding it with PK-fertilizer for a month or so. Still no buds. E: I. purpurea in this case. Catpain Slack fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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Aug 3, 2019 23:19
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Das Boo posted:I moved it from a 2 1/2 inch pot in May to a 3 inch. I realized that wasn't enough pretty quick and repotted once more in June to a 5 1/2 inch. I also have it in what is unfortunately the sunniest window in the house; I moved to southern California about two years ago from Portland and made up my mind real quick to get a low light place to beat the heat. I'd be happy to buy if a sun lamp if that would help? It's probably not necessary. It's not going to ever have the tightly stacked leaves you'd get with full sun, but they'll live and be happy with less light anyway. The lack of light is just going to affect the aesthetics of the plant. Das Boo posted:As for the roots: Their roots are going to be able to withstand a surprising amount of brutality. If you're up-potting, tease those bigger roots out. It won't matter if the smaller roots break (or the big ones for that matter) they'll heal easily. Just don't water for a week after re-potting so they can callous over. And as for those leaves, I'd probably just leave them, they'll dry up in time to a papery sheath and then come off real easily.
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Aug 3, 2019 23:28
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Alright, I went back to the two small local nurseries, and both only had the non-native asclepias curassavica but labeled it as native.  The large home improvement center also only had the same one.I couldn't find them in the other large home improvement center, so I asked one of the associates and they told me that they were out of stock, but that I should try [store I had never heard of]. That store had some in stock that were labeled "ASFA", which I guess meant asclepias fascicularis, one of the four native milkweeds I was looking for. I bought seven of them and I'll try to go back next weekend to pick up more.
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Aug 4, 2019 00:41
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Oil of Paris posted:What do you have them planted in? Can you post pics? Terracotta pots. I want to find something nicer when I have money to spend on that sort of thing. Here is the Bodhi tree:  It's bouncing back amazingly well. As you can see a bunch of the leaves had fallen off and become damaged, and the ones that were left were very limp. But now it seems pretty happy and is growing new ones. Here is the lime:  Despite being native to Indonesia and me being in Northern Europe it seems happy so far. Very brightly green and perky. I thought I damaged the roots as I was planting it because the ball of earth at the roots fell apart and took some roots with it, I thought, but it didn't seem to notice it looks like it's growing new branches or shoots or something too. There is a dahlia tuber that I just planted in the background, let's see how that goes. Thanks for the link!
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Aug 4, 2019 15:12
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drat I'm envious of that happy little lime!
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Aug 4, 2019 15:32
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theHUNGERian posted:Alright, I went back to the two small local nurseries, and both only had the non-native asclepias curassavica but labeled it as native. Finding native milkweeds is a struggle for some reason. I've been able to find seeds for butterfly weed (A. tuberosa) at the local Home Depot but nothing in the garden center. The local hippie grocery was selling milkweed starts in 4" pots for a whopping $15 each, which is totally unfeasible for my meadow garden dreams. I've been starting seed myself, and understand why they're expensive: it took almost two months for my seedlings to get two inches tall, and that's after cold stratifying them for a couple months in the fridge. This year my strategy will be gathering seed from some local roadsides. I've found swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) and regular (A. syriaca), both in drainage ditches. I figure one pod of each will give me enough seeds to cold stratify and start for next year. This way I've guaranteed a gene pool that is well suited to the local climate.
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Aug 4, 2019 21:39
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cereus flower from last night, framing was a little high and i missed some of the lower edge messing with offset difference layers in after effects 
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Aug 5, 2019 20:05
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:cereus flower from last night, framing was a little high and i missed some of the lower edge That's really cool! What's your time lapse camera setup?
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Aug 5, 2019 21:10
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It's a canon powershot with CHDK firmware to take a picture every five minutes and an ikea led light over to the left bouncing off a reflector. There wasn't much wind so it came out pretty smooth but knowing where the flower will move over time can be hard, I miss a lot. Also got a quick video with my phone of some type of big cool bee (ID?) hanging out near another flower this morning. I think the intended pollinators for night blooming cactuses are moths and bats but this kind stays open until about 10 or 11 am so it gets some morning bees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5wGRasVoo
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Aug 5, 2019 22:20
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That's a carpenter bee, I believe
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Aug 5, 2019 22:28
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CheddarGoblin posted:That's a carpenter bee, I believe I think he's a plumber personally
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Aug 6, 2019 04:31
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Apologies once again for bringing up my lawn, but I had a general query about it's health again. Here is a gallery of images taken about 10 minutes ago just after I cut it. http://imgur.com/gallery/pde8O7R This is turf that was put in last October and has pretty much consistently looked like this whenever it's cut. Every time I cut it I see daddy long legs which are the adult version of leatherjackets I think. I've also tried a few different patch repair or seeding products like miracle gro or whatever without much success. Incidentally, the photo that includes the closeup of the fence was also fully turfed in October, but 90% of that entire section died by January. It has some grass now due to putting seed down in March. But it's still quite thin. I was told the grass died there because it was on the shade. Watering isn't an issue with how often it's raining here. Anyway, the tldr, does that lawn look about the right health for one that's about 11 months old? If not, are the bugs I'm spotting a big sign as to why? Edit: the dead patch right next to the path in one of the photos is down to a weed killer spill.
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Aug 17, 2019 12:11
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Rats burrowed into my raised beds and ate my damned carrots. 
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Aug 18, 2019 16:53
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:It's a canon powershot with CHDK firmware to take a picture every five minutes and an ikea led light over to the left bouncing off a reflector. There wasn't much wind so it came out pretty smooth but knowing where the flower will move over time can be hard, I miss a lot. Ban this sick filth
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Aug 19, 2019 01:11
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Kin posted:Apologies once again for bringing up my lawn, but I had a general query about it's health again. In the thin areas, do you have yellowed/yellowing blades? Do they look spotted? Might be fungus if so. In general though this is the end of the "long summer of discontent" for cool season lawns and the time for it to really recover, start looking healthy, and prepare for a winter nap and to burst out in spring ready to bolster it's defenses against next summer.
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Aug 19, 2019 01:18
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Hi thread. I’ve got this plant that I planted several years ago and I love it but I have no ideas what it is.  Bees also love it. Anyone know what it is?
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Aug 19, 2019 16:15
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It looks like purple angelica, which seems like an interesting plant!
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Aug 19, 2019 18:15
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Hirayuki posted:It looks like purple angelica, which seems like an interesting plant! That looks right, thanks! Yeah, it's a neat plant - I love how it looks and also how many bees are always on it.
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Aug 19, 2019 21:49
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Beginning of the summer I replanted all of my 2" succulents that overgrew into a large pot I placed outside. Few months later, all 6-7 things that had plenty of room to start are completely overgrown and entagled with eachother. Do I just snip the stem on these back down to about the surface level and repot them individually?
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Aug 19, 2019 22:02
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I wouldn't even cut them. I'd just carefully untangle them from each other.
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Aug 23, 2019 01:08
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Anyone comment on using pellet/grain fertilizer for houseplants in pots? I've got some on hand I want to use, but dosages are hard. I'm hoping I can just throw some amount on top of the soil and water it in over a few months The box recommends ~100g per meter squared for garden leafy plants. I could also make a drench? Same questions there about how much and how long to dissolve it in water, though.
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Aug 23, 2019 16:14
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Same here; I picked up some basic Osmocote and wonder about scaling those amounts down to the potted-plant level.
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Aug 23, 2019 19:11
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Hirayuki posted:Same here; I picked up some basic Osmocote and wonder about scaling those amounts down to the potted-plant level. Doesn't osmocote have potted plant instructions on it?
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Aug 24, 2019 14:38
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Hubis posted:Doesn't osmocote have potted plant instructions on it?
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Aug 24, 2019 14:49
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Hirayuki posted:I mean, one capful per 4 square feet? I have 4-16" pots. Unless I use the bedding transplant instructions (1 tsp. per 4-in. plant)... Ahh yeah, that's what I did. I'd handwave a 16" pot as 1.5 sqft (16" diameter is 8" radius or 2/3', Pi*r^2 = ~1.396sqft). Pots aren't the same as soil, but osmocote is slow release so there's not really any danger of hurting your potted plants so long as you keep them sufficiently watered.
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Aug 24, 2019 19:19
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Well, my long term goal of leafy self sufficiency is at its next step I have planted my perennial spinach cuttings in my little garden and here's hoping I am over grown in no time 
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Aug 27, 2019 23:58
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Cross-post from the mushroom thread. I just ran into this little dude in an area of my woods that I've been clearing and trying to convert over to a sort of shady "meadow" of groundcover. This is monotropa uniflora - "ghost pipe". I have never seen one in person, before. It's a mycoheterotrophic perennial - a parasitic plant that uses a fungi host to essentially steal energy from trees.
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Aug 28, 2019 23:14
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Anyone have any experience with those tiny ceramic bulbasaur planters you can find online? I'm new to growing succulents, and I love the idea of growing an Echeveria out of a bulbasaur pot, but I am concerned that the unusual shape and size might cause some issues with long term care. I don't want to risk killing a plant just for some nerdy novelty 
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Aug 30, 2019 04:59
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It would be fine itll just stay small, eventually you'll get an ivysaur planter etc. Groundcovers would do great in those and also occasionally flower when stressed from said small pot
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Aug 30, 2019 15:50
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Mock strawberry would probably do great in there
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Aug 30, 2019 23:46
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Found this cool mushroom in our yard, about 5" tall. It's been a very wet year, so lots of mushrooms around the neighborhood. This is the first time I've seen this particular variety though. Poking around mushroom ID sites didn't lead my anywhere. Neat! (Click for big.)
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Sep 1, 2019 16:35
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Looks like a stinkhorn.
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Sep 1, 2019 16:47
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Sure does, and now my phone's "recently viewed websites" looks like a bunch of cocks in various stages of excitement.
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Sep 1, 2019 21:53
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Is it safe to apply neem oil directly to soil? It doesn't harm plant roots? I still have to dilute it a bit right?
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Sep 1, 2019 23:20
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BrianWilly posted:Is it safe to apply neem oil directly to soil? It doesn't harm plant roots? I still have to dilute it a bit right? The missus uses it on the reg for her plants Watered down, but the plants seem pretty happy
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Sep 2, 2019 00:00
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Are houseplants you'd get at a national hardware store meant to be re-potted after purchase? I wanted to get a fiddle-leaf fig for my apartment.
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Sep 2, 2019 02:45
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Eeyo posted:Are houseplants you'd get at a national hardware store meant to be re-potted after purchase? I wanted to get a fiddle-leaf fig for my apartment.
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Sep 2, 2019 02:48
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The ones I have bought at Home Depot have been ready to replant, both in the US and Canada
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Sep 2, 2019 04:54
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Anyone ID what deficiency this is? On lemons in pots  
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Sep 2, 2019 10:38
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