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What type of plants are you interested in growing?
This poll is closed.
Perennials! 142 20.91%
Annuals! 30 4.42%
Woody plants! 62 9.13%
Succulent plants! 171 25.18%
Tropical plants! 60 8.84%
Non-vascular plants are the best! 31 4.57%
Screw you, I'd rather eat them! 183 26.95%
Total: 679 votes
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the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice
Unfortunately I've just discovered a bastard mite infection on a bunch of my houseplants, some of them quite a venerable heritage - it looks like little fluffy dots on vulnerable and sheltered spots, almost like small cochineal bugs, which I totally wouldn't expect being in the UK. What's a good way to get rid of them?

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the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice

kedo posted:

Anyone know what these mushrooms/fungi are? I just found them growing in a bed outside a few minutes ago and they're blowing my mind.



Hand for scale (and mimicking the mushroom for fun)


that looks like this

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/pseudocolus_fusiformis.html

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice
Hey I’ve got a purple oxalis in an indoor pot that’s done great over the summer, but it’s got a bit big and bushy. Can I just cut that sucker back or will that kill it?

BTW the leaves are pretty delicious.

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

Judging by the oxalis in my lawn, you can cut it back every week and it will never die


showbiz_liz posted:

Purple oxalis is the first plant I ever kept alive long-term, and I can tell you: I moved into an apartment with terrible lighting, realized my potted oxalis was doing badly, put the dying potted oxalis underneath my bed for a full year, it turned into a pot of literally just dirt, and then once I moved somewhere with light and stuck it in a window and watered it again, it sprang back to life immediately and got bushy and huge. I have since divided it like five times and now I have SO MANY oxalis and they cannot die.

Basically, cut it back as much as you want, it will be just fine.

thanks, I've just given it a rather severe haircut

the fart question fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Nov 13, 2020

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice


It’s not supposed to be droopy like that.

Got hit by a hard frost before I remembered to bring it in for the winter.

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice

Ok Comboomer posted:

What monstrose form is that? Hobbit?

Silver lining, the plant did its own defoliation!

It’s about 20 years old now, but I think it’s Gollum. Instead of its usual bright green it now looks like over cooked asparagus 😢

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the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice


All the leaves were basically mush so I defoliated

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