13Pandora13 posted:

Okay, so I decided to get started with removal tonight after work (it's been raining two days so the soil is pretty moist and pliant) and discovered two lovely things:
1. There's bugs that are small and white on the root balls of two plants I pulled up, I don't know enough about bugs to know if they're termite nymphs or what but it worries me enough to not want to try to salvage/move the plants to my backyard near the wood fence.
2. The soil close to my house isn't soil at all, it's loving mulch, for a good 14"+ down. I don't know how the foundation hasn't gone to poo poo, or how I don't have termites in the house itself, or any number of issues. I don't even know the best approach to fix it, soil backfill and rocks, or all rock?

I knew this was going to be a relatively large project but I feel like it's going to end up being a nightmare. gently caress.

ColdPie posted:

Hmm, I planted blackberries in one of our raised garden beds this spring. Am I a bad person? I could be convinced to pot them. I live in a city.

Minenfeld! posted:

Is there a way I can get this jade to branch out on the other sides? It's going to tip over soon.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Stick a rod in there, tie it up gradually? Put it in a corner and aim it there?

Minenfeld! posted:

It's very happy since I took over care from my office mate. It used to be red, yellow, and orange.

It's hard to tell from the photo perhaps, but that's not the main stem, that's a branch. Using a stake is just going to have the branch bend up. I was wondering if I could cut the branch and replant it or if there was a way yo get branching off the main stem.

learnincurve posted:

You could chance it with cutting it and using rooting powder, but it’s a big risk.

Minenfeld! posted:

Mozi posted:

Jades are incredibly easy to propagate.

If you just take a leaf and put it on some soil, it will grow roots and new leaves:


Or you can do this, with remains from a little pruning - just leave it out in the air for a few days to harden off where you cut it, then put it in some well-draining dirt.


I have too many already so I'll be giving these away at the office in a few weeks once they've taken root.

Jade plant was the first thing I grew (took a cutting from my parent's decades old massive jade tree) and I haven't managed to kill any of them yet. My project this year will be to get some of them to flower.

As far as fertilizer goes they will survive with very little but would always appreciate a little worm poop.

Minenfeld! posted:

Well, here's what I did with the jade:


And here's the leaf that fell off:

B33rChiller posted:

Shoutout to Harry Potter on Ice, and other jade growers. This spring I decided to give a bit of attention to the old jade plant that has been a fixture in our North facing kitchen window for years. It was super leggy, bur had a few good trunks, so I pruned it back to one node above where it last branched, and I tried to leave one untouched branch on each trunk. I moved it to under lamps, and when new growth appeared, I started hardening it off, to move onto the patio. It's had a couple weeks outside now. Next step is to give it a bigger pot. It's pretty rootbound.


Also shown is an echiveria of some sort, and a hobbit jade. I thought they looked cool in the store. Aaand a big pot with some transplants from the front flowerbed

Plant MONSTER. posted:

I made this for a customer. Idk, would you buy this/happily receive it as a gift? I think it’s pretty cute.

kid sinister posted:

I saw this on my Facebook feed and I want one, a Persian Carpet Flower.

Vitalis Jackson posted:

We planted two Cleveland pear trees this spring as street trees, here in a mid-sized city in Nebraska. They were around 8’ tall, and dug/burlapped when we bought them; they were planted promptly and staked, mulched. When we bought them, though, it was right after we had one of those late freezes and the newly sprouted leaves had been damaged fairly badly at the vendor's place. So, here’s the deal—they’ve been in the ground for a couple of months now and one is looking fine, finally, with new leaves growing and it’s greening up. The other one, not so much. It’s not dead, the wood looks fine, but there are a very few little green buds on it and it basically looks the same as it did after I planted it. I water both trees once daily because I read that newly balled and burlapped trees should be watered every other day to saturation (so, therefore, every day should be even better!). Am I overwatering? Will that tree live? Any suggestions?

LOVE,
VITALIS

Reformed Tomboy posted:

Yes, I have and it's one of my favorites. I had one in a 24" pot and it grew over 7'. Had to leave it when I moved last because we couldn't get it off the patio.

MisterBibs posted:

Obviously it varies from species to species, but is there any decent rule of thumb for knowing if your succulent seeds have decided to not germinate?

First couple weeks of March I potted a bunch of seeds from this collection (I'd copy-paste it but their website doesn't allow it, wtf) and only the Cactus Apples have grown into what could legitimately be called tiny cactii. Everything else, for the most part, remains dirt.

As a total newbie to this whole thing (as in I didn't bother getting a decent lighting setup before starting this hobby, so most of what did grow went leggy and died between now and then), I'm sure that "just dirt since March" is a sign of non-germination. Or am I overthinking it and should just let them be?

learnincurve posted:

I’m in deep guys. Just got an aquarium and rigged it with grow lights so I can propagate roses.

fuzzy_logic posted:

Oh, for anyone looking for desk/easy indoor plants, I totally forgot marimo / momos / mossimos existed until today:





(random pics stolen from imgur, mine lives in a jam jar in the bathroom)

They're loving adorable little algae balls that looks like Ghibli characters and prefer cold water and low light. Very easy and charming. Some places sell them in sealed glass containers which I don't recommend because they like having the water freshened up every few weeks. They'll float up to the top of the tank at night and go back during the day so you'll find them in different positions which can be a little eerie.

i say swears online posted:

w...what have i done




In the two previous years I've experimented with morning glories, and this season I went all-out. I have a wraparound porch that faces due north, so both sides face NE and NW respectively. The NW side especially gets a lot of sun, and is the main reason I started this project. I strapped soccer nets to the balcony and spent a few minutes each day wrapping each little vine horizontally to slow their rush to the roof. There are probably six species of climbing vine in the mix, and everything is great until the temp gets above 90.

I'm in Texas and watering 3 times a day, even with like six cubic feet of dirt. I work nights, so on the hottest days i I have to throw myself out of bed and set an alarm to water in the heat of the day. You can see where entire vines have died by me not watering in time. For now, I'm dumping compost tea into the containers every couple days to increase water retention, and have placed sheets of white styrofoam in the direct path of the sunlight so the roots stay cool. Anything else I can be doing? The leaves are really stressed from wilting twice a day and are starting to look ratty. I also think I have really tiny bugs making small, dark grey webs on the leaves in one section. These plants have invited their own ecosystem, which is neat.

I was using exclusively compost and miracle-gro 3-1-2 to prioritize vegetation, but I'm interested in collecting a ton of seeds for next year (of the few dozen vines, 3 or so have stems the width of a nickel at the base, and they're less than four months old). I stopped using the 3-1-2 about three weeks ago and haven't seen buds develop. Is my compost tea strong enough to inhibit flowering? It's all-purpose, not N-heavy. I don't wanna starve 'em, they've already significantly slowed their growth.

enraged_camel posted:

I have a chain link fence that I can't easily rip out (concrete foundation... wtf ) so I decided to grow some vines on it to at least try to make it look pretty.

Where do I start?

Bina posted:

Wat is it?

I got a plant for free because somebody returned one in my store from another. We apparently don't carry them and it was going to be thrown away.

WrenP-Complete posted:

Update: I really like the rhododendron we have on the property. It's super huge and overgrown. I spent a bunch of time watching videos about how to care for it and then implementing. Such a beautiful and special plant! I can show some pictures after I mulch.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

I have a massive potted philodendron. Well, it was huge, but then a 60-foot oak tree fell directly on top of it last fall. I mean directly on top of it, and the only leaves it had left were crawling out from beneath that tree. I couldn't get a tree service out all winter, so it languished and died beneath the tree in freezing weather. I dumped it in my compost pile early in the spring. It was very sad. But then all the broken stems in the pile started putting out new growth, and now miraculously I have two smaller philodendrons. I have no idea how it survived a tree falling on it, a temperate winter, and then an unceremonious dumping in the compost... but it did.

Nosre posted:

A bit ago I was asking about rooting two mystery cuttings I took from my fiance's great-aunt's house in Italy. Well, all of them took off fine in just water, and are now looking great. Still would love thoughts on an ID, though!

The mature plants there were a bit more woody, and got very leggy and tangled off to various sides as they sought out sunlight






also bonus artsy shot of a friend enjoying our stonecrop planter

Hubis posted:

If they get the right kind of pump it'll work fine. That said, I'm not sure a $20 pump is going to fit the bill.


Do you have a product link for the pump?

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

They look like zinnias to me, but I’ve never seen zinnias with dark leaves like that. Butterflies and bees do love zinnias though, and they’re easy easy to grow. I planted some a few years ago and they’ve seeded themselves back in every year.

Nosre posted:

I think it's potentially both; when I burned my Avos the majority of the damage was to the underside of the leaves, so it wasn't a sun thing. It wasn't a ton of damage, but definitely something to watch.

I posted a few pictures ITT https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3543738&userid=27875&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post484916663

Beachcomber posted:

Hi!

My mom grows succulents in a haphazard way. She has a LOT of them, but she doesn't even know what a lot of them are called. She gets most of them at big box stores in Pennsylvania.

Anyway, does anyone know of some uncommon ones she's unlikely to have?

B33rChiller posted:

Pearl necklace is pretty unique, but I don't know about rarity.
Uhhhh, make sure you include the word succulent in your googling for that one.