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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
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30 | 4.42% |
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| Tropical plants! |
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| 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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https://youtu.be/G2oRwfyyQgg Edit: Oh man, this is from like a week ago but my intent was to post it in the TCC WeedThread, hope somebody enjoyed it tho. Just think of those microbes as even more miniature donkeys....or wait, is that the other plant thread? trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Solkanar512 posted:One other tip for repotting trees into larger pots (I do this with Japanese Maples) - Use pots with straight rather than curved sides. When you have to pot up to a new size, you want to be able to get the plant out, and lots of otherwise nice looking pots have rounded sides. Or those terrible pots with the overhang....
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Aug 18, 2020 17:46
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We have this maidenhair fern which we inherited, and then almost killed by putting it on a sunny windowsill and forgetting to water it. Fortunately it's the kind of fern that just goes dormant and then re-grows from the roots. At first it grew a few straggly little branches, which you can still see. Then we moved and put it in a warm bathroom, and now it's flourishing. But more than that, I just noticed these in the soil:  I'm pretty sure it dropped spores, and these are baby ferns. I actually tried propagating sword ferns last year, without success, so I'm pretty excited!
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Aug 20, 2020 20:39
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Good work goon. One of my fav fern varieties
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Aug 20, 2020 23:58
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Ferntastic work
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Aug 21, 2020 05:27
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Platystemon posted:I stopped by the nursery today and bought that turmeric plant. It was going into dormancy then, eight months ago. I felt kind of silly buying it as a potted plant, but I couldn’t get the grocer’s turmeric to sprout. This took its sweet time to emerge from dormancy, but it’s been doing great since then.  I can really see the relation to bananas.
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Aug 22, 2020 07:35
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This threads fuckin died since we got moved to this forum @__@
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Aug 24, 2020 01:34
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That's so cool with the ferns. I just learned about their reproductive process and I'm excited to try starting one sometime. Let me know how your babies go!
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Aug 24, 2020 02:05
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Oil of Paris posted:This threads fuckin died since we got moved to this forum @__@ I blame the gardening thread.
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Aug 24, 2020 02:08
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Bi-la kaifa posted:I blame the gardening thread. Should they be combined? I just check them both and never remember which is which
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Aug 24, 2020 02:15
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Oil of Paris posted:This threads fuckin died since we got moved to this forum @__@  I think maybe we need like 5 threads? Or maybe just 1 thread? -A talk about plants/trees thread, especially wild plants, that's in the outdoors forum like the mushroom thread. (what this thread has theoretically become?) -A growing houseplants thread in DIY (big part of what this thread started as) -A growing veg/herb gardening thread (A thread that exists in DIY but also absorbed the ornamental stuff) -A growing ornamental gardening thread (big part of what this thread started as) -Landscaping thread about drainage/site work/lawncare (this exists in DIY but sometimes I think it could be absorbed by other threads, but also threads are free so there's no reason not to have more of them and it's a good place to talk about tractors and french drains that aren't quite growing things?) Or maybe just have 1 big growing plants/gardening thread in DIY, and a chat about trees thread in Outdoors? There's either a lot of very specific threads or a giant non-specific thread and idk what other people like. I mostly use bookmarks so it hasn't changed my user experience much that this is in a different forum. I'm more a 'million specific threads' kind of person, but others may feel differently. Reboot all the threads and make people have new bookmarks?
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Aug 24, 2020 02:46
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Not 100% sure splitting off the whole thread would help, its kind of nice that this is a big rear end megathread because theres a lot of knowledge contained in one convenient spot. just seems like the traffic has gone down markedly since the move. also while we do occasionally post about the cool plants that we see in the world, almost all the posts are about ornamentals that we personally possess, this is way more horticultural than botanical
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Aug 24, 2020 11:15
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I think I might be more right here than other threads, as my "expertise" (never thought I would write that) is in garden ornamentals: shrubs and small trees. With some herbaceous thrown in and general industry and landscaping. I have a good general knowledge of European trees and shrubs found in the wild, and enjoy identification challenges. I know very little about house plants except that I kill them and appart from fruit trees I am only just starting to improve my vegetable growing skills. I do have a herb collection though. So yeah, plants are a big subject and could easily be pruned off (hahaha, classic) into lots of separate threads. I just want to stick to a thread where I can see some nice stuff, especially in the wild and chime in when someone has a question.
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Aug 24, 2020 12:11
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Oil of Paris posted:Not 100% sure splitting off the whole thread would help, its kind of nice that this is a big rear end megathread because theres a lot of knowledge contained in one convenient spot. just seems like the traffic has gone down markedly since the move. also while we do occasionally post about the cool plants that we see in the world, almost all the posts are about ornamentals that we personally possess, this is way more horticultural than botanical The gardening thread is nearly 100% vegetable/herb gardening which is totally fine, but posting about ornamentals there feels like you're attempting to derail it. I can't tell if the lack of posts in this thread is because people can't find it anymore or if it's because people aren't sure what they're supposed to be posting here. The first post is about general plant appreciation. Maybe it's a good idea to keep this as the botany thread (or reboot it) and split one off that is explicitly for ornamental horticulture? The person who originally posted this thread is permabanned. I'm happy to help pull together information for a new OP at least covering the succulent questions that come up over and over, and I still have a list of goon-approved places to get you some plants, but there's a lot of posters here (hint hint Oil of Paris) that are a lot more qualified to talk about ornamentals that don't enjoy being deprived of water.
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Aug 24, 2020 13:47
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Wallet posted:The gardening thread is nearly 100% vegetable/herb gardening which is totally fine, but posting about ornamentals there feels like you're attempting to derail it. I can't tell if the lack of posts in this thread is because people can't find it anymore or if it's because people aren't sure what they're supposed to be posting here. The first post is about general plant appreciation. I think they may not actually be permabanned, but probably should be for posting icky vore porn from DeviantArt. But yeah, it kinda makes sense for the other thread to go back to being the vegetable gardening thread (that's literally what the OP is about), have a new thread in DIY for ornamentals, and open a thread in TGO for botany/wild plant identification. (I'll most likely have all three bookmarked anyway.) Edit: yeah the OP of this thread could seriously use a reboot.
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Aug 25, 2020 00:21
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Hi just showing off my zany cholla cactus. ~13 ft last I measured!
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Aug 25, 2020 07:46
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When this thread was moved here the weird thing for me was that it appeared to make no place for potted/houseplants. Assuming the gardening thread in DIY stays the same, you could have -that one (vegetable gardens) -another DIY thread for potted plants/ornamentals/lawns (?)/etc -a thread in TGO for outdoors botany, hikes, trees, more 'wild' stuff If the problem is lack of activity, though, segregating further is not the answer
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Aug 25, 2020 11:29
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CheddarGoblin posted:Hi just showing off my zany cholla cactus. ~13 ft last I measured! Nice cactus! I love it wish I could grow one here
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Aug 25, 2020 15:54
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Our cactus is blooming some flowers. They only bloom at night and close back up at dawn. After a couple days the buds wilt and fall off.
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Aug 25, 2020 16:09
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CheddarGoblin posted:Hi just showing off my zany cholla cactus. ~13 ft last I measured! Nice xeriscaping! Even the cat looks impressed.
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Aug 25, 2020 17:07
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Nosre posted:When this thread was moved here the weird thing for me was that it appeared to make no place for potted/houseplants. Assuming the gardening thread in DIY stays the same, you could have Yeah this to me is how I would like to see it. I like this big rear end thread, even if the OP is perma'd; I don't think thread Balkanizing is going to get us anywhere. This thread should probably just get shunted back to DIY imo and named something that explicitly points out that it's ornamentals of all stripes, that way it's more geared towards people looking for plant advice/help/show off Hate you feel that way about the potted plants, lots of people come in to ask questions about how to take care of their specialty indoor stuff, especially succulents. But yeah if I was looking for general potted plant help, I probably would think that this thread, being where it is, would just be hikers talking about finding a particularly sick orchid on their hike In reality, we're all just mostly homebody nerds who like to dig in dirt and plant pretty stuff in the holes. Horticulture is the main focus of the thread, actual botany remains an interesting but only occasional aside CheddarGoblin posted:Hi just showing off my zany cholla cactus. ~13 ft last I measured! That cactus is Bad rear end 
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Aug 26, 2020 10:25
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I post in both threads because I don't really get the difference. I have a container garden and some ornamental houseplants, some inside and some outside. Is the breakdown supposed to be edible/inedible? Inside/outside? I'm in an apartment so there's no yard per se.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:04
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This thread is supposed to be more botany. IDing plants in the outdoors and stuff while the gardening thread is about cultivation. I don't see why we can't talk about ornamentals in an aesthetic or botanical sense. We're shouldn't limit ourselves to what we discover in nature. Although it's hard to talk about something pretty without also wanting to talk about how to keep it alive.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:26
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I think that ideally the gardening thread would be “here’s how I prepared the garden/here’s how things are growing/here’s the harvest” as the seasons progress, with everyone sharing advice along the way. This is more or less how GBS and C-SPAM threads have gone. The plants thread would be everything that doesn’t follow that model, whether that’s a philodendron on the windowsill or a bristlecone in the White Mountains.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:42
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Platystemon posted:I think that ideally the gardening thread would be “here’s how I prepared the garden/here’s how things are growing/here’s the harvest” as the seasons progress, with everyone sharing advice along the way. This is more or less how GBS and C-SPAM threads have gone. Basically this: Oil of Paris posted:In reality, we're all just mostly homebody nerds who like to dig in dirt and plant pretty stuff in the holes. Horticulture is the main focus of the thread, actual botany remains an interesting but only occasional aside Wallet fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Aug 26, 2020 21:07
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Bonsai thread is the only plant thread that makes any sense anymore.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:10
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The grandmas in a local FB group didn't get further than "Solanaceae", so if any if you want to take a guess at what I've ended up growing with my mandarins, shoot. Maybe a metre tall, and the leaves are very soft, velvety. Location Helsinki, Finland.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:44
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Bi-la kaifa posted:This thread is supposed to be more botany. IDing plants in the outdoors and stuff while the gardening thread is about cultivation. I don't see why we can't talk about ornamentals in an aesthetic or botanical sense. We're shouldn't limit ourselves to what we discover in nature. Although it's hard to talk about something pretty without also wanting to talk about how to keep it alive. I’m not trying to be pedantic, but horticulture is literally what you’re describing: the marriage of botany, aesthetics, and generalist plant-oriented poo poo That’s why I don’t really consider this thread to be literally “botanical” whatsoever and much more horticultural in basis. And that’s not a bad thing. it’s not like we spend a ton a time fretting about nomenclature change, genetics, or any other hard science poo poo it’s all “how do I keep this poo poo alive?!”, “hey dudes, any planting suggestions?”, “picked up some cool poo poo at the plant sale”, or “gently caress. deer.” All generalist horticulture questions and posts Which is why I think we should just be moved back to the old forum where people go to ask questions and post about their Great Works lol
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Aug 27, 2020 00:37
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Ok Comboomer posted:Bonsai thread is the only plant thread that makes any sense anymore. Lol I keep up with you guys in there and what made me realize that this thread had died from the move was the fact that you were getting triple the posts we were for the first time ever
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Aug 27, 2020 00:40
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Ras Het posted:The grandmas in a local FB group didn't get further than "Solanaceae", so if any if you want to take a guess at what I've ended up growing with my mandarins, shoot. Maybe a metre tall, and the leaves are very soft, velvety. Location Helsinki, Finland. Not a Finn but I'd guess they're right, but it's gonna be tricky to narrow it down more til it flowers probably cause that leaf and steam setup is pretty generic in the family at a glance? I was playing the same game with a random solanaceae in my herb garden last year (it was a kangaroo apple). Might just be black nightshade that's everywhere. Edit: alsoi first time in this thread so guess the move sorta worked for me? Botanist by education but rusty due to not doing any work remotely close to it for years and years (pretty much all my work has been monitoring, data analysis and social sciences somehow?) A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Aug 27, 2020 06:17
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I hope you guys figure out how to divide the thread and please direct me to the correct place for the further adventures of me trying to keep a dwarf citrus alive indoors.  My specialised citrus fertilizer arrived today. I had to order from Germany since I couldn't find any local shops that carried it. Between that and the pot+tray with drainage holes (which is still on the way) I'm pretty sure I've spent more than the plant cost just for things to keep it happy.
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Aug 27, 2020 12:16
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I PMed Jaded Burnout about moving this thread back to DIY and he asked for opinions in the other thread. In case any of you don’t read that thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3085672&perpage=40&pagenumber=389#post507595396
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Aug 27, 2020 15:36
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jojoinnit posted:I hope you guys figure out how to divide the thread and please direct me to the correct place for the further adventures of me trying to keep a dwarf citrus alive indoors. Yea I'm into your citrus story too so please keep us updated..I want one!
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Aug 27, 2020 15:41
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Spotted on /r/marijuanaenthusiasts: Giant Pecan tree that lives at my sister’s house  shillyshally posted:That is a fine tree, practically a city. How old is it?. ranipe posted:Oh I have no idea. Some experts came and measured it the other day to determine if it was the largest in the state etc but if they told my sister yet she hasn’t told me goochspider69 posted:Is this in the neighborhood of Somerville TN? If so, I'm the alleged expert who measured it! ranipe posted:Ohh!! Yes it is!! She told me someone was going to! Nice to meet you goochspider69 posted:We haven't updated the listings yet, but I'll tell you that your tree will be listed as a champion.
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Aug 27, 2020 16:50
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Thank you for your service to arboreal record keeping, goochspider69
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Aug 27, 2020 17:01
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My city has a list of big heritage trees like that, it's pretty cool to go around and see giants of each species. I never thought about state records though!! Dang now I want to go see the biggest of all my favorite species, can you imagine the worlds largest madrone? Oil of Paris posted:Thank you for your service to arboreal record keeping, goochspider69 Basically, I bet they have a sweet photo book of all the monsters Edit: is there a big weed=trees joke I'm missing or was someone just stoned in a backyard looking at a big tree? Either way lol cool tree Harry Potter on Ice fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Aug 27, 2020 17:08
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Platystemon posted:Spotted on /r/marijuanaenthusiasts: this is the most weedthread thread ever
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Aug 27, 2020 17:12
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:My city has a list of big trees like that, it's pretty cool to go around and see giants of each species. I never thought about state records though!! Dang now I want to go see the biggest of all my favorite species, can you imagine the worlds largest madrone? The champion Pacific madrone is growing right next to some lady’s house in Mendocino County, California.
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Aug 27, 2020 17:16
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Platystemon posted:The champion Pacific madrone is growing right next to some lady’s house in Mendocino County, California. I'm a big dork but I have full body goosebumps seeing this  that is phenomenal thank you. I didn't even know about the phrase "champion tree" fffffuck this is coolLOOK AT THE 2ND AND 3RD PIC?!?!!?
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Aug 27, 2020 17:19
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Ok Comboomer posted:this is the most weedthread thread ever That subreddit is all about literal trees because actual marijuana enthusiasts got the “trees” name. New posters do wander into the wrong one monthly or so.
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