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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% |
| Woody plants! |
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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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Yeah, don't like blast it with light after defoliating, you just don't want to light-starve it when stimulating the growth of new replacement foliage when I say "grow light" I mean like a bulb not a vivosun My portulacarias dropped all their leaves and I've been keeping them in a windowsill while they've been budding all over
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Dec 4, 2020 02:48
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Jestery posted:I keep a similar succulent looks great, I remember when you were scared about its health but it looks like it's really bounced back well. Bringing plants outside vs keeping them indoors is such a massive difference, makes me wish I had a deck or more easily accessible yard with this current apartment. My mom has a monstera deliciosa at home that's loving colossal because she dragged it out to the back deck and kept it there until november. loving thing started out in an 8" and it's like man sized now. makes me think she'll appreciate a "condo" mango tree one day trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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Dec 4, 2020 02:54
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Apropos of monstera, my adansonii is getting a ton of yellowed leaves, particularly at the pot/base of the vines. A bunch of those were actually strangled/broken by vine growth and I've since trellised up some of the heavier vines and pruned out the broken or smashed leaves. But in terms of over/under watering I still seem to be loving the plant up somehow. I started watering weekly then moved to 10 days/biweekly (but that seemed too little and it would wilt in between waterings) so I switched to trying to only water when the plant tells me its thirsty with leaf droop/wilting. It doesn't look like it's light based or related to rootbinding but that's where I'm headed next, aside from continuing to try to fine tune the watering. I'm scared and frustrated because it spent its first few months looking excellent and putting on mass and now I'm afraid it's going to wind up all threadbare and scraggly or worse.
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Dec 4, 2020 18:44
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subpar anachronism posted:You might want to get a flashlight and check for spider mites. None that I can see. Maybe root binding?
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Dec 5, 2020 06:55
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the fart question posted:
Good job. You should try saving and drying out the cuttings if you haven’t trashed them yet. Maybe you’ll get some of them surviving and taking root
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Dec 5, 2020 22:52
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Jestery posted:Best of luck my dude Should be fine, plant looks wicked healthy sans leaves
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Dec 6, 2020 01:04
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Professor Shark posted:It's a Sugar Maple. We don't has access to the property yet, however we will in January. I guess I could just put them in a jar in the fridge until then? That sounds fun. Mind you, maple seedlings are gonna look like poo poo for the first couple of years. So while you’re at it you should find yourself a nice more mature maple sapling and join us in the bonsai thread
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Dec 6, 2020 19:38
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The E. trigona rubra I got for my mom’s Christmas/birthday gift arrived yesterday and I’m struggling really hard not to amputate a branch for myself. What a stunningly gorgeous plant.
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Dec 8, 2020 14:31
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looks like some kind of Crassula varietal
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Dec 9, 2020 19:17
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In case y’all didn’t know I have a bit of a Euphorbia/Croton/Euphorbicae collecting thing going—and, naturally, the season has me noticing all these neat poinsettia varietals On a scale of 1-10 how stupid/ill-advised am I to try to rescue a bunch of poinsettias from post-holiday liquidation? How stupid am I to try to get them to thrive and reflower? (As I understand it you keep them like a standard croton until the fall and then you have to carefully control their light environment or you don’t get the color change and flowering). Seems like it’s more of a “poinsettias are cheap, disposable, closely associated with the holidays, and getting them to look good after a year is exponentially more trouble than that’s worth/probably requires at least a grow tent or lit closet” issue and less of an outright “poinsettias are impossible and will die on you” issue. I feel like a big issue for me is size— croton experience (and plant experience in general) tells me that a much bigger plant is going to be a lot hardier and stand a much better chance of looking great next year, but a few 6” or 4” poinsettias at $2 a pop is a much easier pill to swallow than having a bunch of clearance 8” or 10” poinsettias kicking around all year. Will I come to hate them in the summer? I feel like one of those people who tries to adopt unwanted goldfish and I’m gonna end up with some hideous plant carp. Like nobody’s gonna think “oh cool tropical plant” they’re gonna be like “why do you have these Christmas plants? Why did you invest so much in them? What is wrong with you?” Right?
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Dec 11, 2020 17:45
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This ends with me buying a lightproof grow tent for my weird poinsettia rescue experiment
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Dec 11, 2020 18:35
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:People grow them in their yard here, but they seem to change colors after christmas? It's a definite old lady plant. My great grandmother had some 6' tall. Yeah they remind me of spending summers in Latin America at my grandmas’ houses
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Dec 11, 2020 19:06
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Platystemon posted:If you do something that’s a little weird, you’re a weirdo. turns out people do bonsai with them its not exactly common, but it isn’t uncommon either oh dear
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Dec 13, 2020 03:32
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Nosre posted:On another note, I got this shelf recently to quadruple my plant space there and I'm super happy with it. Ongoing problem is, though, that that's the best light in the house but it's still not enough for some of the succulents/cacti. I recently bought a set of Barrina grow lights from Amazon (~$50) based on a goon’s recommendation and I’ve been super happy with them for the three days I’ve had them. Grow lights don’t let you merely “top up” or add to natural light, they’re also really good for extending the photoperiod and getting a few extra hours of “daylight” to your plants.  (Pls ignore the mess and the incomplete wiring job, I finished mounting the last light tube last night) trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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Dec 14, 2020 17:14
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