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142 | 20.91% |
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30 | 4.42% |
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62 | 9.13% |
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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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Waffle Grid posted:Anyone have any idea what's going on with my yucca elephantipes? This is what it looked like a month ago: don't know if you already resolved but that sure looks like overwatering. They really do not need much, especially in winter, especially if you do not have good light sourcing. Get it near a window.
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THE MACHO MAN posted:don't know if you already resolved but that sure looks like overwatering. They really do not need much, especially in winter, especially if you do not have good light sourcing. Get it near a window. Agree this is overwatering. I give mine a moderate watering anytime by index finger comes out of the soil completely dry when buried 2 knuckles deep. Usually once a week in summer and once a fortnight in winter. Mine isn't in the best lit area either so I make sure it gets 1 day a week by a sunny window. And of course damp cloth the dust off the leaves weekly 
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Jan 6, 2020 15:23
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Platystemon posted:I should say that to keep the top half of the canes, what could be done is a technique called air layering. I'm going to try this thank you
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Jan 6, 2020 16:03
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there wolf posted:
Sigh. This is what I wanted. What I got after several years trying to grow local wildflower mixes was a tangled mat of low-growing native blackberries smothering everything. Time for the rototiller and mulch. Maybe this time a semi-wild camas field like the local indigenous groups used to cultivate.
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Jan 6, 2020 16:27
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THE MACHO MAN posted:don't know if you already resolved but that sure looks like overwatering. They really do not need much, especially in winter, especially if you do not have good light sourcing. Get it near a window. Beardcrumb posted:Agree this is overwatering. I give mine a moderate watering anytime by index finger comes out of the soil completely dry when buried 2 knuckles deep. Usually once a week in summer and once a fortnight in winter. Thanks! Yes, it definitely seems like the poor thing was extremely waterlogged and it caused some secondary fungus issues. We had moved it away from the window to prevent anything spreading to our other plants, but ended up moving it back a bit closer so it could get some much needed sun (Canadian winters, blech). A week or two after repotting - around when I made my initial post - I tried to give it a splash of water (because the soil was bone dry) and it immediately caused more withering because the the plant simply could not take in a drop more. After that I stopped watering it completely for ~1.5months and continued fungus treatments, and slowly the foliage stopped dying. The leaves look quite healthy now, though sparse. Just last week I finally noticed some subtle signs of underwatering (very tips of some leaves turning brown) and gave it a splash of water with no ill effects. I think now I can try to return it to a more normal watering schedule. I'll aim to start watering every ~2 weeks as long as the soil is bone dry... but given my lack of success in the past... do either of you have an estimate of how much water I should give it when I do water? The pot has 3 trunks of varying sizes and is ~9" in diametre x ~10" high. I seem to extremely chronically underwater or overwater everything with low water needs 
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Jan 6, 2020 18:09
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Hexigrammus posted:Sigh. This is what I wanted. What I got after several years trying to grow local wildflower mixes was a tangled mat of low-growing native blackberries smothering everything. So I pulled that picture from a book called Gardening in a Post-Wild World that's about creating low-maintenance, natural looking gardens by mimicking nature as much as possible. One of the things they pushed was using density and layering in your plantings for weed-control, filling a space so completely with desirable plants that the undesirables would be out-competed for space and sun and couldn't pop up. So for a meadow planting, you put in as much thought to grasses and groundcovers as you do the flowers. I'm aiming for sore of a forest edge/glade in my front yard, which is why I'm starting with moss, violets, and clover to push out the invasive grasses.
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Jan 6, 2020 19:35
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Hexigrammus posted:
Everytime you rototill you restart your weed cycle by bringing new weed seed to the surface. You want to kill whats on the top and then plant with as minimal a disturbance as possible. You can also solarize the area, sheet mulch with cardboard and top dress with a clean soil/compost product and plant in to that. If you have a lot of woody resprouting weeds like blackberry and mesquite you will need to be sure you really kill them well with a good systemic herbicide so they dont resprout. Annual weeds and grasses can be controlled with just the solarization if you leave it long enough. Atticus_1354 fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 19:49
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Or a weed torch. Best to use it when it's wet! You're not burning the weeds, you're just heating them up to the point that they die.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:31
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Atticus_1354 posted:Everytime you rototill you restart your weed cycle by bringing new weed seed to the surface. You want to kill whats on the top and then plant with as minimal a disturbance as possible. You can also solarize the area, sheet mulch with cardboard and top dress with a clean soil/compost product and plant in to that. If you have a lot of woody resprouting weeds like blackberry and mesquite you will need to be sure you really kill them well with a good systemic herbicide so they dont resprout. Annual weeds and grasses can be controlled with just the solarization if you leave it long enough. If we're talking blackberries, I spent 10 months with the Washington Conservation Crops getting rid of those fuckers as part of an effort to restore salmon streams. Hitting them with an herbicide is just the first step in the spring. You cut them down in the summer and hit them again in the fall when they come back. Make sure those cut canes aren't sitting on the ground, put them on a tarp or cement or something until they're actually dried out. Otherwise they're likely to sprout again. They have a ton of energy stored in their roots, and you're trying to deplete that. Digging up those fuckers also helps in you're able to get to them. Additional tip: If you're going the herbicide route (look, I use the dreaded ROUNDUP from time to time) add some food coloring to the bottle. That way you can clearly see where you are spraying and what you've already sprayed so that you can minimize use. Also if you're interrupted you can go back later and go back right where you left off. Solkanar512 fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 22:44
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Or you could do like me, and just submit to your new spiny overlords. At least blackberries give you something edible, and attract a huge amount of pollinators. I'll have to see if I can find the photos and video I took last year while they were in bloom. I remember seeing 3 different kinds of bees present in the frame at once.
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Jan 6, 2020 23:01
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I just wanted to pop in to provide a quick tutorial on sprouting ginger root. Apparently the key is to buy some from the supermarket and forget about it in an out of the way corner of your pantry. 
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Jan 7, 2020 01:49
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That method works for onions and garlic, too
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Jan 7, 2020 01:52
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taqueso posted:That method works for onions and garlic, too Also sweet potatoes.
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Jan 7, 2020 01:55
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And beets. Seriously, that is a gorgeous ginger sprout.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:02
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Solkanar512 posted:
That's good info. Blackberries aren't an issue around here. What herbicide mix did you use? If your going to use herbicide make sure to use the right mix of the correct chemicals or it's not worth doing. Around here for basal bark treatment and stump treatment of resprouters I use a mix of remedy and diesel along with marking dye. It's expensive for a bottle so see if you have a friend who will sell you a small amount out of their bottle.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:34
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there wolf posted:So I pulled that picture from a book called Gardening in a Post-Wild World that's about creating low-maintenance, natural looking gardens by mimicking nature as much as possible. One of the things they pushed was using density and layering in your plantings for weed-control, filling a space so completely with desirable plants that the undesirables would be out-competed for space and sun and couldn't pop up. So for a meadow planting, you put in as much thought to grasses and groundcovers as you do the flowers. I'm aiming for sore of a forest edge/glade in my front yard, which is why I'm starting with moss, violets, and clover to push out the invasive grasses. This looks like a fantastic book, thanks for the mention. Hopefully the techniques/detail isn’t too specific to where the author is based.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:52
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Atticus_1354 posted:That's good info. Blackberries aren't an issue around here. What herbicide mix did you use? We used a mix of glyphosate, dye and a surfactant mixed with water. You’re spot on about using the right stuff, glyphosate isn’t going to work on woody stuff. loving quaking aspen. 🤬
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Jan 7, 2020 06:13
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Red_Fred posted:This looks like a fantastic book, thanks for the mention. Hopefully the techniques/detail isn’t too specific to where the author is based. It's written with professional landscape designers in mind, so it's very broad in it's outlook and examples. You wont get a recipe for a perfect mountain meadow, but a lot of instruction on how to go about inventing that.
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Jan 7, 2020 19:37
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https://i.imgur.com/IlxA9yR.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Mxdl34q.mp4
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Jan 7, 2020 23:45
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That's downright pornographic
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Jan 8, 2020 16:14
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Mods???
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Jan 8, 2020 16:30
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ban this sick filth
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Jan 9, 2020 18:58
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My wife got me a pitcher plant and venus fly trap after I mentioned I thought they were interesting but I realized I have no idea how to care for them. We have a south facing full sun window in our kitchen so I think we have a good spot I'm just curious if how she planted them is a good long term setup. We don't have any fruit flies to feed them, is there an alternate and more reliable food source like a liquid fertilizer or something? What's the life cycle of the pitchers? The photos are of the terrarium after about 3 weeks, not sure how long she had them planted in there and hidden as they were a Christmas gift. When I got them a pitcher looked kind of sickly and as of today has turned black, I assume I should cut it off, but is it indicative of an unhealthy plant in general or just a normal thing like a flower blooming and wilting? https://imgur.com/a/RA7AbdR
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Jan 11, 2020 05:13
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They need hardly any fertilizer since they typically live in low-nutrient bogs in the wild. https://carnivorousplantnursery.com/blogs/carnivorous-plant-information/carnivorous-plants-growing-care There are some specific fertilizers that people will use diluted down, one I know is MaxSea. But even that is to be used rarely.
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Jan 11, 2020 06:24
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I live in Central Texas, and this year I would like to plant an almond tree in my front yard. Knowing absolutely nothing about any of this stuff, where can I start?
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Jan 12, 2020 17:17
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enraged_camel posted:I live in Central Texas, and this year I would like to plant an almond tree in my front yard. I would start with contacting Womack nursery. Also contact your local extension office and ask about soil testing. Depending on where you are they may be very knowledgeable about trees or not have a clue. https://womacknursery.com/products/almonds
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Jan 12, 2020 17:37
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enraged_camel posted:I live in Central Texas, and this year I would like to plant an almond tree in my front yard. Your local land grant university’s web pages are a good start. Here’s one from A&M. They caution against almonds: quote:Almonds are eaten as a nut, but the required cultural practices and tree appearance are essentially the same as peaches. Almonds are generally poorly adapted to Texas because they bloom too early in the spring and encounter freeze problems. No varieties are highly recommended because of general failure to set crops. Two relatively late blooming varieties include Halls Hardy and Star. That doesn’t mean it can’t be grown, but temper your expectations. When trees are small, they can be protected from light frost by surrounding them in frost cloth. Wrapping incandescent Christmas lights around their branches is another trick. It doesn’t seem like much, but often, it doesn’t take much. Unless you get exceptionally bad frost, it probably won’t kill a mature tree, just knock all the blooms off of it and deny you a crop that year. The immediate problem you will encounter is that most local nurseries, aware of the difficulty frost poses, won’t carry almond trees. Using one particular wholesale nursery’s variety finder, three retailers in the state ordered almond trees from them for the 2020 season. Fanick’s Garden Center in San Antonio is the only one in Central Texas. They ordered the All-in-One Genetic Semi-Dwarf Almond. “All‐In‐One” means it doesn’t need an almond of a different cultivar to cross‐pollinate with—most almond trees do. Of course, you’re not limited to that one option Many nurseries will be happy to special‐order plants for you. Act quickly, while trees are dormant and can be shipped “bare root”. Compared to potted trees, bare root gives more options in type, for less money, with a better chance of the tree establishing and growing strong. If you are special ordering a tree, look for cultivars that bloom late, since that’s such an issue in Texas. Consider “Butte” and “Mission”. Remember, you need two for any cultivar that isn’t specifically marketed otherwise.  I got that chart from the website of Fowler Nurseries. It looks like they grow their own trees and do retail mail order. Once you have the tree(s), follow A&M’s planting and care directions. Note in particular the hydrating step for bare root trees.
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Jan 12, 2020 18:15
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 Haven't posted a pic of this in a while! It gets little green bugs on it when it starts to flower, so I attacked it with a steam gun. Doesn't seem to have done it any harm!
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Jan 12, 2020 18:27
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ok sorry I dont want to make the thread unreadable with big videos but I made a very cool one: https://i.imgur.com/hG8crGd.mp4
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Jan 13, 2020 01:03
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That's fuckin cool
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Jan 13, 2020 01:44
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time lapse with motion control?
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Jan 13, 2020 01:51
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Bi-la kaifa posted:That's fuckin cool Synthbuttrange posted:time lapse with motion control?
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Jan 13, 2020 02:07
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Nettle Soup posted:
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Jan 13, 2020 02:59
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Crimpanzee posted:My wife got me a pitcher plant and venus fly trap after I mentioned I thought they were interesting but I realized I have no idea how to care for them. We have a south facing full sun window in our kitchen so I think we have a good spot I'm just curious if how she planted them is a good long term setup. We don't have any fruit flies to feed them, is there an alternate and more reliable food source like a liquid fertilizer or something? What's the life cycle of the pitchers? The photos are of the terrarium after about 3 weeks, not sure how long she had them planted in there and hidden as they were a Christmas gift. When I got them a pitcher looked kind of sickly and as of today has turned black, I assume I should cut it off, but is it indicative of an unhealthy plant in general or just a normal thing like a flower blooming and wilting? I have a pitcher plant as well but this current summer (Southern Hemisphere) no new pitchers have come out. This is the third year I’ve had it and the first time I haven’t had pitchers. This time I did cut them all off when they went black last winter though. So what I’m saying is, help me as well. I need my pitchers back 
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Jan 13, 2020 04:01
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Crimpanzee posted:My wife got me a pitcher plant and venus fly trap after I mentioned I thought they were interesting but I realized I have no idea how to care for them. We have a south facing full sun window in our kitchen so I think we have a good spot I'm just curious if how she planted them is a good long term setup. We don't have any fruit flies to feed them, is there an alternate and more reliable food source like a liquid fertilizer or something? What's the life cycle of the pitchers? The photos are of the terrarium after about 3 weeks, not sure how long she had them planted in there and hidden as they were a Christmas gift. When I got them a pitcher looked kind of sickly and as of today has turned black, I assume I should cut it off, but is it indicative of an unhealthy plant in general or just a normal thing like a flower blooming and wilting? Not sure about pitchers but Venus fly traps require a period of winter dormancy, otherwise they will die, FYI
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Jan 13, 2020 11:38
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enraged_camel posted:I live in Central Texas, and this year I would like to plant an almond tree in my front yard. What characteristics do you like about the almond tree? If it’s not totally viable for your location, we could suggest other trees that might fulfill some of what you were looking for
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Jan 13, 2020 11:56
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Those are in the genus Nepenthes, found only in the tropics. They don’t do dormancy, but some species see cold nights at high elevation, so they may tolerate mild winter conditions. Some of the New World pitchers in Sarraceniaceae do go dormant.
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Jan 13, 2020 11:56
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Hirayuki posted:Very nice! I've decided to repot my old matriarch with all-new medium in hopes of getting that kind of show. What's your secret? I never water it. Easy as that. Eventually it starts to shrivel up, at which point I soak it through with like 4 jugs of water, and then I don't water it again and it flowers. Every now and again I put a couple of drops of baby bio orchid food in the water, because it's on the shelf nearby and my orchid died a horrible death. That's actually at the end of the flowering, it was much more impressive a month or so ago, there's another pic in my post history of it back in 2016, when it was tiny! It's in some generic instant just add water compost, might be miracle-grow, the dish is fairly shallow and doesn't have any holes in the bottom. It's from a segment off my grandmas, which she got for her 18th birthday, she's 83 now and it's still flowering!
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Jan 13, 2020 13:12
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So, two months in and my polyembryonic avocado looks like this: Still not very clear which one's the mutt and which one's the clone, what do you guys think? I'm still trying to decide if I should cut one off or keep it as a pair, would keeping both of them affect it in the long run? If it looked unhealthy I wouldn't hesitate, but I think it's nice as it is.
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I’m getting ready to do this... ... on one side of my house, using apple trees and a bunch of these. I have a few questions: 1. How far from the side of my house should the trellis be? About 4 to 6 inches? 2. What’s the best way to mount the trellises to the side of my house (which is brick, by the way)? 3. What thread should I post questions #1 and #2 in, since I’m assuming the General Plant thread isn’t the best place to ask them?
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