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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% |
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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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What is this plant growing in a patch of wildflowers that looks like a dead tarantula? It was the only one in the entire area that I could see. What is it and why was there only one? E: I was too afraid to touch it so no idea what it felt like. It’s fuzzy and looks like pea pods.
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Jul 6, 2020 09:00
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Boris Galerkin posted:What is this plant growing in a patch of wildflowers that looks like a dead tarantula? Those are seed pods
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Jul 6, 2020 09:02
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Those are seed pods I figured as much. Any idea what plant it is and why I didn’t see any others? Location NL, found the other day. E: they were about the length of umm, maybe a bit smaller than my pinkie.
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Jul 6, 2020 09:05
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Boris Galerkin posted:I figured as much. Any idea what plant it is and why I didn’t see any others? Location NL, found the other day. I believe it’s lupine. I wasn’t positive at first, but those dead leaves on the plant look like lupine leaves.
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Jul 6, 2020 09:45
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Roundup is the nuclear option, not really ideal at all for clearing out little dinky weeds that are surrounded by grass that you want to live. It will kill whatever plant it touches indiscriminately There are some herbicides out there that target specific plants to the exclusion of others, will have to do a little research on what would be most appropriate for both that type of weed and that type of grass
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Jul 6, 2020 12:55
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Oil of Paris posted:Roundup is the nuclear option, not really ideal at all for clearing out little dinky weeds that are surrounded by grass that you want to live. It will kill whatever plant it touches indiscriminately Yeah. Generally you can tell what type of grass based on what grows where you live. As for weeds, post pics! If grass safe, 2,4D will most likely do the trick, Triclopyr will cover a lot of the others, but affected species will be listed for all the herbicides. You may have to do several applications, and you will want to do them when temperature is below 85'F (or ideally 80'F) to or the herbicides will start to volatilize and could harm surrounding plants even if not directly sprayed (eg your roses). Some (dandelions) you will need to use a weed tool/screwdriver and remove the whole taproot by hand (or hit it with some roundup). Mixing with a non-ionic surfactant will help stick to the leaves, and using some marking dye can help you with coverage. If you want to get more hands-on, Tenacity (aka mesotrione) is super cool and OMRI-listed, but it must be applied with a tank sprayer and you have to be somewhat practiced at getting even applications so as to get enough active ingredient to be effective everywhere without so much that it burns the grass as well as the weeds. We are talking teaspoons per gallon per 1k sqft.
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Jul 6, 2020 14:06
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Composting goons, I’m doing a bucket based setup but I’m worried I may have missed a step. I’m alternating wet and dry compost and doing daily mixes via rolling the bucket around, but I’m seeing sort of a mix of info around whether or not I should toss in some garden soil to help seed microbes and whatnot. Can someone comment on if this is needed and if so, how much?
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Jul 6, 2020 14:19
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I like alternating high carbon/high nitrogen, and sometimes that means throwing some soil in the mix. I wouldn't stress much about how stuff rots, as long as it's not going anaerobic it'll turn into a dirt like substance eventually. I think some people go all out and seed it with the same microbes that's in their no-dig permaculture garden but I'm of the opinion that if it's going in the garden anyways then it'll seed itself just fine.
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Jul 6, 2020 17:48
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Almost anything you are going to be composting should be covered to small degrees in something that can compost it. At most I'd consider seeding it with a small portion of a previous batch of compost, as you'll get microbes that also work well in your environment. I keep a bag of cheap shredded/fine pine mulch and just toss that in every so often as my "brown" source.
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Jul 6, 2020 19:00
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First batch, but I’ll keep that in mind for later. We get little mini newspapers that I use to light my grill so I’ve been shredding those by hand and tossing them in.
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Jul 6, 2020 19:06
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:I believe it’s lupine. I wasn’t positive at first, but those dead leaves on the plant look like lupine leaves. I can confirm this. All the flower stalks on mine turned into those fuzzy seed pods. When dry, the pods will spring open once cracked. Apparently if you cut them back before the whole thing goes to seed they will flower again.
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Jul 6, 2020 21:25
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Warbird posted:First batch, but I’ll keep that in mind for later. We get little mini newspapers that I use to light my grill so I’ve been shredding those by hand and tossing them in. Cardboard boxes will also work well (just don't use pieces with tape/labels on them). Also, I just toss used paper towels into my compost bin as long as they aren't soaked in animal products or cleaning agents of some sort (which ends up being quite a lot with a 2- and 4-year old around). Also a really great way to dispose of old potting soil (which is going to be high in composted peat, a really great "brown" additive).
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Jul 6, 2020 21:58
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Novo posted:I can confirm this. All the flower stalks on mine turned into those fuzzy seed pods. When dry, the pods will spring open once cracked. Apparently if you cut them back before the whole thing goes to seed they will flower again.  I have some drying in my kitchen 
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Jul 6, 2020 22:57
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:
Do you know if they will all produce the same color flowers as the parent? I have a huge pile of seed pods that all came off one plant and it would be awesome if that's the case.
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Jul 6, 2020 23:41
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Wallet posted:The tips being dried out like that is very common with newly purchased Haworthia fasciata. I think it's potentially from them getting sunburned at nurseries but I'm not entirely sure what causes it. Plant MONSTER. posted:I can confirm that growers definitely don't grow succulents in proper soil for the most part. Worse still are those little drat plugs they sometimes use. Oh wow, thanks for this. I'll do my best tracking down some succulent mix and transplanting them. I hope the aloe will be ok! Can I just leave it out of the pot and let the roots dry out??
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Jul 6, 2020 23:55
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Hubis posted:Cardboard boxes will also work well (just don't use pieces with tape/labels on them). Also, I just toss used paper towels into my compost bin as long as they aren't soaked in animal products or cleaning agents of some sort (which ends up being quite a lot with a 2- and 4-year old around). Oh that’s a great idea! We have a ton of boxes from amazon that I can break down without filling up the recycling bin.
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Jul 6, 2020 23:58
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Novo posted:Do you know if they will all produce the same color flowers as the parent? I have a huge pile of seed pods that all came off one plant and it would be awesome if that's the case. From my understanding, they hybridize easily. You may get a different color.
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Jul 7, 2020 00:08
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tuyop posted:Oh wow, thanks for this. I'll do my best tracking down some succulent mix and transplanting them. I hope the aloe will be ok! Can I just leave it out of the pot and let the roots dry out?? I would pull it out of the soil it's in and check if its roots are doing okay. Rotten roots are mushy/soft and dark brown generally, while healthy roots should be firm and light colored. If it has root rot you'll want to wash as much of the soil off of them as you can and then remove any rotten roots (with scissors, preferably); replant it in something well draining and don't water it for a while. Novo posted:I can confirm this. All the flower stalks on mine turned into those fuzzy seed pods. When dry, the pods will spring open once cracked. Apparently if you cut them back before the whole thing goes to seed they will flower again. Can confirm that they can/will flower multiple times if you cut them back after the petals start falling off the first time around. Wallet fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Jul 7, 2020 00:15
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What can I do to encourage my lavender to bloom? Is it just too late for it to happen this year? Details: 3 plants of some sort of stocky, shrubby lavender that I can't find seed info on in my emails, went about 180 days in my aerogarden, transferred very successfully to a container on my west-facing balcony where it can get more sun about a month ago. The leaves smell great but I want flowers, dangit.
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Jul 7, 2020 19:03
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 Something super cool happened! Last year, my wife grew some hollyhocks from seed. The plants did very well, and the colors that happened to come up were red and white. They came up again this year, alongside a bunch of new plants from the seeds dropped by last year's flowers. I was going to go weed them out of the garden bed, but my wife stopped me with an idea. What if the new plants were a hybrid? What color would their flowers be? Red? White? Some of both? Striped? Pink? So we decided to let them grow. This past weekend one of the offspring finally blossomed!  It's pink! loving wild, man! Genetics in action.
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Jul 7, 2020 20:41
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Warbird posted:Oh that’s a great idea! We have a ton of boxes from amazon that I can break down without filling up the recycling bin. The boxes also work great as a biodegradable weed barrier under mulch. I threw down a ton of our accumulated boxes along the paths of our vegetable garden and covered them with some cedar mulch.
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Jul 8, 2020 00:35
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ColdPie posted:It's pink! loving wild, man! Genetics in action. That's awesome.
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Jul 8, 2020 03:04
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We dug up some old timey roses bushes that were growing wild all over an abandonded rural property next to my parents place. Man it was overgrown as heck had to use a scythe to get in there. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s it was sorta semi kept in in trim despite the owner dying in the 1960s. The old guy who lived there was a weird one they said, moonshiner and smuggler, several times in and out of prison, then became a lawyer in prison. Oh well some digging later we got 4 plants  Put them in a row here next to a modern breed of rose. They've already flowered for this year but they should be white or pinkish in color and have a strong scent.  They ought to look something like this when in bloom 
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Jul 12, 2020 08:34
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Looks like a 'Blanc de Coubert' Rosa rugosa. We think of roses as dainty flowers that need extra care and attention but then there's the rugose roses which can somehow survive an assault against a backhoe and regrow like a hydra.
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Jul 12, 2020 14:24
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I can only guess but I think it's latin name might be rosa pimpinellifolia plena or rosa spinosissima Plena, or some variant of that breed. They also produce fruits.
His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 16:42
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One of my Gala apple trees is dying and/or dead and we can’t figure out why.     This is one of the two middle-most trees in the row, and it’s the only tree in the entire row that is having problems. All of my other apple trees are thriving — all 18 of them — including the two on either side of this one.  (yeah I still need to mulch them... poo poo’s been a bit weird at my house lately) Unfortunately I only just noticed this last week, since I haven’t been outside to check on the trees in several weeks. Otherwise I might’ve been able to stop it, or at least get some kind of photo record on how it got this way to help diagnose whatever is wrong. What the gently caress is going on here? What is killing this tree, and why is it only affecting this one tree? What do I need to do to keep whatever is wrong with this tree from spreading to all of the others? And what should I do to make sure a new Gala tree planted in this same spot won’t meet the same fate?
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Jul 15, 2020 23:11
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It looks like it just got cooked from not getting enough water and the weather getting hot. Probably some combination of not enough water/not enough root growth (didn't you plant late IIRC?)/ heavy soil/no mulch. You might have noticed droopy, limp leaves a week or three ago? It could also be fire blight, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure. I just now it makes brown leaves and it's a major reason more apples aren't grown in the SE. I'd say its 90% chance it got cooked, 10% chance it's fire blight. The other trees look happy and healthy.
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Jul 15, 2020 23:32
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:It looks like it just got cooked from not getting enough water and the weather getting hot. Probably some combination of not enough water/not enough root growth (didn't you plant late IIRC?)/ heavy soil/no mulch. You might have noticed droopy, limp leaves a week or three ago? It didn’t get cooked. It got the exact same amounts of water, sun, and heat as all of the other trees, and is in the exact same mix of soil, and it’s still the only tree out of the bunch that is suffering. If it had been cooked, then several of the other trees would’ve had the same poo poo going on too. Likewise, I feel like if it got hit by a fungus, then some of the surrounding trees would’ve also started showing signs of problems by now, but I don’t know how fruit tree fungii work so maybe I’m wrong about that. EDIT: Maybe cat poo poo is involved somehow, I dunno. 
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Jul 15, 2020 23:44
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I've seen that happen when one tree becomes the pissing tree. It changes the chemistry of the soil in that one particular spot. You got dogs or other animals that get into pissing contests? Small children?
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Jul 15, 2020 23:55
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I. M. Gei posted:It didn’t get cooked. It got the exact same amounts of water, sun, and heat as all of the other trees, and is in the exact same mix of soil, and it’s still the only tree out of the bunch that is suffering. If it had been cooked, then several of the other trees would’ve had the same poo poo going on too. There might have been pretty clear signs of what was going wrong a couple of weeks ago but it's kind of hard to tell now. It could be an animal or whatever specifically damaging that tree, but it could also be that all of the trees experienced the same stress this one did but it wasn't as able to deal with it. It seems pretty common to get multiple plants of the same species from the same source and find that some of them don't do nearly as well as others or take much longer to settle in. Plants that are already weak are less able to defend themselves from pests, and it looks like even before it withered away that tree didn't have nearly as much foliage as the trees to either side of it (unless you pruned it since it died).
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Jul 16, 2020 01:23
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Bi-la kaifa posted:I've seen that happen when one tree becomes the pissing tree. It changes the chemistry of the soil in that one particular spot. You got dogs or other animals that get into pissing contests? Small children? I hope this is the issue. If it is, then all I have to do to fix the soil for the next tree is correct the pH/nutrients/etc and install those two other motion sprinklers I got a few weeks ago. Unless there are parasites in cat piss that I need to worry about. Is there a test you can do to check for parasites/diseases or cat piss in your soil? Or do I need to send a soil sample off to my local ag extension and have them test it?
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Jul 16, 2020 02:32
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I have no idea. If it were me I'd leave it as a sacrificial tree
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Jul 16, 2020 02:58
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no way, that poo poo ain’t happenin
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Jul 16, 2020 03:05
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I. M. Gei posted:Is there a test you can do to check for parasites/diseases or cat piss in your soil? Or do I need to send a soil sample off to my local ag extension and have them test it? You could just test the PH of it and compare to the surrounding soil. That obviously won't tell you about parasites but it seems sort of unlikely that anything parasitic in the soil would have killed that plant but have ignored all of the other ones.
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Jul 16, 2020 03:30
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Hold up, does mulch serve a purpose other than aesthetics?
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Jul 16, 2020 14:12
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Warbird posted:Hold up, does mulch serve a purpose other than aesthetics? How doesn’t it serve a purpose? Mulch helps the soil retain moisture, helps moisture enter the soil instead of pooling on the surface or running off and causing erosion, suppresses weeds, and as it breaks down it provides nutrients and improves the condition of the underlying soil. Inorganic mulch (rocks, rubble) does some of those things, and not particularly well.
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Jul 16, 2020 14:22
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Also protects pathogens from splashing up from the soil during watering onto plant
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Jul 16, 2020 15:50
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That fuckin apple tree has fire blight Warbird posted:Hold up, does mulch serve a purpose other than aesthetics? Really lolling at the idea of looking at every garden ever planted and thinking “drat, this whole mulch look really caught on” Oil of Paris fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jul 16, 2020 |
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Jul 16, 2020 22:46
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To be fair, a nice thick layer of bark mulch really makes whatever is growing there pop against the dark ground. It's a good look!
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Jul 16, 2020 23:12
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Oil of Paris posted:That fuckin apple tree has fire blight Kaiser Schnitzel posted:https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/peach/fig1.html I. M. Gei posted:no way, that poo poo ain’t happenin Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 00:11
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