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   The Bodhi tree is not happy about being outside, I should move it back in. And buy a bigger pot for this tomato.
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May 24, 2020 17:59
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vines across america tendrils across the land I love
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May 24, 2020 20:56
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We've had a week of heavy rain and winds so I think it's safe to say my tomatoes are done for. My raised bed is not too hot either. The Surinam spinach I have got blown over somehow and it's all bent over and my pigeon pea is all bent as well. Whenever the rain lets up I'm going to try and break off a branch of the spinach to try and transplant what I can from it. Rough times!
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May 26, 2020 16:35
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The Voice of Labor posted:any recommendations for books? Very often the printed materials from a local university extension, if you have one near or can find their website, are far more to the point and useful. They know what works in your area, it's their job.
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May 26, 2020 17:28
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Sneaky snake keeping the pests out Thanks to the rain I need to weed more now, but looking much greener in the rain, and got all the cabbages in 
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May 28, 2020 17:20
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i've got cantaloupe vines climbing up my soccer net style trellis. it'd be nice if i could grow them vertically so i don't have to worry about bugs, but i'm not sure the trellis can handle the weight. any tips or ideas?
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May 28, 2020 17:30
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i say swears online posted:i've got cantaloupe vines climbing up my soccer net style trellis. it'd be nice if i could grow them vertically so i don't have to worry about bugs, but i'm not sure the trellis can handle the weight. any tips or ideas? I've not done it but you can apparently, you have to add little hammocks to hold the melons - https://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-cantaloupes-vertically-24427.html
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May 28, 2020 18:01
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May 28, 2020 18:05
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i've never had success with melons, mostly squash grows fine for me and lower maintenance. we did grow watermelon once but it got picked too early lmao
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May 28, 2020 18:07
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the last time I grew watermelons the drat rabbits would run up and nibble on the fruit right as it was coming due, ruining them
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May 28, 2020 21:16
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also I haven't posted my garden in a while but its doing good. mom wanted me to plant stuff for her so I've got 6 (!) tomatoes, 7 pepper plants (some jalapenos, some habaneros, one hungarian), some cucumbers, and a few egglpants all along with my original planting of potatoes who did indeed come back from the late frost
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May 28, 2020 21:17
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The Voice of Labor posted:hey internet. what kinda tree this is? Looks like a golden elm? Ulmus glabra lutescens. They grow like weeds from propogation if you get decent ones e: there were more posts but I will never refresh the thread before I post
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May 28, 2020 21:47
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Crane Fist posted:Looks like a golden elm? Ulmus glabra lutescens. They grow like weeds from propogation if you get decent ones yeah. I thinned the fuckers, we had a few days of hot weather and they took off. like, there were a few astonishingly vigorous early bloomers and one survivor from last year, but now they're all looking good. gonna continue to cull the heard, dig 'em up and pot 'em when I chop the summer veggies down. if anyone in southern oregon wants a bunch of small elm trees around october/november, hit me up.
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May 29, 2020 07:53
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The Voice of Labor posted:yeah. I thinned the fuckers, we had a few days of hot weather and they took off. like, there were a few astonishingly vigorous early bloomers and one survivor from last year, but now they're all looking good. gonna continue to cull the heard, dig 'em up and pot 'em when I chop the summer veggies down. if anyone in southern oregon wants a bunch of small elm trees around october/november, hit me up. They're really nice trees if you look after em, just be careful if you put them in the ground because the roots spread wherever they feel like and are invasive as hell. Also I have no idea what the distribution of Dutch Elm is like in the US but if it's anywhere near where you are then uuuh don't get attached to them
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May 31, 2020 00:27
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Crane Fist posted:They're really nice trees if you look after em, just be careful if you put them in the ground because the roots spread wherever they feel like and are invasive as hell. Also I have no idea what the distribution of Dutch Elm is like in the US but if it's anywhere near where you are then uuuh don't get attached to them millions, millions of the fuckers. there are the numbers to statically produce a mutation for disease resistance or immunity.
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May 31, 2020 01:34
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The Voice of Labor posted:millions, millions of the fuckers. there are the numbers to statically produce a mutation for disease resistance or immunity. God that must be nice. It was so weird coming to NZ from the UK and being like oh poo poo, elm trees. I've heard of those in the tales of the elders
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May 31, 2020 01:50
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net work error posted:Give it like a month and I'll show you some loving peppers! Guess it was a faster grower than I thought. Mad Hatter pepper 
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nice truck nuts. i dont have a pic but the bok choy i tossed in a thing of water a couple weeks back has actually started blooming flowers. i didnt even know you could just put bok choy stems in water and get new leaves and now i got flowers. nature is wild 
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May 31, 2020 18:09
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I added some dried grass clippings to my compost and now after a year of trying it's finally at the right ratio to cook and I've never been more excited about literal garbage
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Jun 3, 2020 01:25
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Marzzle posted:I added some dried grass clippings to my compost and now after a year of trying it's finally at the right ratio to cook and I've never been more excited about literal garbage hoping to get a big compost pile going here sometime... my house burned down and they had to scrape 18" of soil from the lot so all the topsoil is gone, still a couple years away from moving back but when i do i want to set up a bunch of raised beds but will need lots of soil to fill them... my current spot provides access to unlimited amounts of oak leaves and horse poo poo
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Does anyone know how plants work? This bodhi tree cannot survive temperatures below 10 degrees celcius, otherwise the roots rot, so I kept in inside most of the year and recently took it out to the balcony. Almost immediately several of the leaves bleached themselves. I think maybe it wasn't used to the brightness and temperature changes of being outside and became unhappy. I put it under a little table and that seemed to help, though maybe it's just gotten used to being outside? It seems to have stopped, at least, but it still seems pretty unhappy, should I move it back inside?
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Jun 4, 2020 17:07
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the top leaves look really good though and new growth. maybe the plant's directing all it's energies towards growing upwards? (like, in response to a new, brighter light source). is it like an avocado tree or a palm where only the top few leaves are active? pretty sure it needs a bigger pot
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Jun 4, 2020 19:13
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I wanted to make a bonsai, so the small pot is intentional but this thing keeps growing taller. I also have an acacia in a giant pot that I planted as a seed last year and it's already up to my sternum in height, but the trunk is so tall and skinny that it can't support the weight of the leaves and also sort of of fell over. It's very cloudy here most of the time so I think all the trees try to grow taller to reach the sun, not realizing that this is as good as it gets
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Jun 4, 2020 20:07
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With everything I have grown so far, if the new growth is healthy it's fine for now Crossposting from my thread- the tomatoes looked like this  And even after some work they don't look all that much neater but it will do the trick. Tied them to the frames too. All 20 still alive, and in one patch there are a few strays coming through from last year's crop   Beans and peas doing great  As are both trays of the chilli peppers and peppers  The lavender seeds got forgotten about and ran very dry but most recovered well
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it's tomato season here! i've got seven tomato plants giving me three or four fruit a day now so they're piling up. even the potted peas on the left finally started making a few pods  cukes are a mess. i had to put netting around them to keep the dog from digging around them for compost, and now they're trying to collapse it under their weight. if they ever start producing instead of thinking about it, i'm gonna have like a hundred cukes  the volunteer acorn squash seems about done but managed to make one fruit that's still growing, we'll see if it makes it to maturity  my wife's kales were horribly caterpillar infested and nearly died, but after she covered them with netting to keep the butterflies away, they're recovering  indoors i started branching out into herbs and consequently ran out of lettuce. i got some jericho lettuce seeds to see if they can handle the texas heat so i can have more space under my grow lights  i also planted some licorice on a whim, and curiously, instead of the promised 21-60 days, it germinated in three days  on the deck, i got rid of the bolting dill and put in scallions. also, a catnip for the kitties when they're older! 
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Spoondick posted:hoping to get a big compost pile going here sometime... my house burned down and they had to scrape 18" of soil from the lot so all the topsoil is gone, still a couple years away from moving back but when i do i want to set up a bunch of raised beds but will need lots of soil to fill them... my current spot provides access to unlimited amounts of oak leaves and horse poo poo I left my bin uncovered during a rain and now it's too wet to cook again  . Also some raccoons opened my clippings bin and it got wet as well so I'm trying to redry the clippings and hopefully add them to the compost and get it going once more. I also humanely trapped and deported the raccoon family of 3 and I'm hope no more rise up to take their place
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twoday posted:I wanted to make a bonsai, so the small pot is intentional but this thing keeps growing taller. I also have an acacia in a giant pot that I planted as a seed last year and it's already up to my sternum in height, but the trunk is so tall and skinny that it can't support the weight of the leaves and also sort of of fell over. It's very cloudy here most of the time so I think all the trees try to grow taller to reach the sun, not realizing that this is as good as it gets bigger pots and they'll spend more time developing roots. while there's nothing you can do for the amount of light, is there anywhere you could move your trees so they get a longer average exposure time?
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Jun 5, 2020 01:59
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Dustcat posted:tons of cucumber flowers i had this with my cantaloupe a few weeks ago and just stuck my pinky in and around a few dozen flowers. now i'm swimming in fruit. i did a sex
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Jun 5, 2020 07:02
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I'm getting some manure to sub into this gardening soil recipe I've been doing. Mix is: 33% coco coir 33% coarse perlite 20% manure 13% worm castings plz r8 my soil cspam
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Jun 5, 2020 17:40
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also the mix is for container gardening in 5 gal fabric pots and I'm growing tomatos
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i say swears online posted:i had this with my cantaloupe a few weeks ago and just stuck my pinky in and around a few dozen flowers. now i'm swimming in fruit. i did a sex thanks, i tried that! hoping no unholy goon-cucumber hybrids arise
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Jun 5, 2020 23:14
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The Voice of Labor posted:bigger pots and they'll spend more time developing roots. while there's nothing you can do for the amount of light, is there anywhere you could move your trees so they get a longer average exposure time? I already did by moving it outside I was worried the light is what's harming it though
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Jun 6, 2020 00:17
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Marzzle posted:I'm getting some manure to sub into this gardening soil recipe I've been doing. ive used a similar mix but with no manure and about 50% coir, and mixed in nutrients in the form of kelp meal, bone meal, blood meal and dolomite and it worked good for peppers and tomatoes
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Jun 6, 2020 00:28
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twoday posted:I already did by moving it outside when was the last time you fertilized it?
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plants can get sunburned, so if it got bleached on the first day under direct sunlight, that could be what's going on or it could just be stress from the changing conditions
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Jun 6, 2020 00:33
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Big Dick Cheney posted:when was the last time you fertilized it? a few months ago Dustcat posted:plants can get sunburned, so if it got bleached on the first day under direct sunlight, that could be what's going on this makes sense
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Jun 6, 2020 00:42
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yeah if it was that long ago it could be cannibalizing the nitrogen in its lower leaves to put out new green ones. throw a dead fish in the pot or get some miracle gro or w/e
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I’ll do that anyway, but the Tree is growing a bit sideways and the pale leaves are all on one side, which was exposed to the sun, and all the leaves on the other side which weren’t in the sun are still green so I don’t think it’s “bottom leaves” which are affected
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finally found time to get my garden in this weekend. Here's the ~12x12 plot with tomatoes, lots of squashes, carrots, spinach, and I think my wife planted a watermelon in there? This is at the edge of woods/big prairie so I honestly expect to lose a decent amount to rear end in a top hat animals. Built some railing planters for the herbs though!  
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