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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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razz posted:I have a Boston Fern and it keeps producing these leafless "stems" that come horizontally away from the plant and out of the pot. They will get like a foot long (or perhaps longer) and they're really thin, way thinner than a regular stem with leaves. Sounds like runner roots - from poking around on the internet that's how it propogates. Maybe put a smaller pot next to it and poke some of them into it and get another fern? They need to stay attached to the main plant like an umbilical cord for awhile though if that's the case. I have a succulent question. I bought this guy quite awhile ago but forgot its name:   I've had it for a little over a year and really love it, but I'm having pruning issues. Once a year or so I prune it back, because the plant's so fleshy that the branches tend to snap under their own weight if I let them get too long. They also layer over one another and torque as they grow so they snap each other, so I try to trim it back to stop that. I also remove all the largest leaves from the bottom of the plant. However, after the last prune back it doesn't seem to be regrowing anything, which is annoying because where all the leaves were removed it's just sticks now:  Not very attractive. I saw one or two new branches trying to grow above the cuts, but they died immediately. Now I'm afraid to prune it back anymore because it doesn't seem to be recovering well - what'd I do wrong, and how do I encourage some new branches? Am I pruning too aggressively? I just can't let it grow on its own or the main branches get longer and longer and it starts falling apart. eta: it had a really traumatic repotting this summer after which I was sure it was going to die, maybe it's still recovering from that? I also have a Moses-in-the-Reeds, which ... doesn't look very impressive. Also its juices give me a rash when I prune it:  but the undersides of its leaves are a really nice shade of purple. It is currently recovering from a failed stint as an office plant (it did not enjoy the corporate world and came back home to convalesce). fuzzy_logic fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Jan 5, 2014 20:51
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I have a question about my Garrya Elliptica: I live in California in its natural range so I went ahead and planted one in my yard last year. However, I live right my the ocean and the poor thing hates the blasting winds we get. Every one of its (well technically his I guess) leaves has turned brown from wind scorch but haven't fallen off. The core plant is still alive, it just looks horrible. My question is should I try sheltering and increasing water where it is now to nurse it back, or, I have a more sheltered spot about ten feet away where it might be happier. Is it more harmful to dig the guy up now after a year acclimating and being stressed from wind damage, or is it worth the risk to move it from a place it's so obviously unhappy in to one sheltered by a corner of a wall? Thanks! I'll post some pics of my other natives once they get leaves back, they're all in summer mode and look horrible right now.
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Sep 5, 2016 22:47
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EagerSleeper posted:I would go ahead and move it to a more sheltered location away from the wind. With any luck it might be able to recover. I never heard of Garrya Elliptica, but it seems like a very beautiful plant. My neighbor up the street has a stunning one around eight feet tall in her front yard so I figured I could totally have one too, didn't realize what a difference several blocks makes. I'll poke around and see if the roots have even really established, I bet I can get it up while the weather's mild. Whenever I do google searches on them I get a lot of British results back, I guess Brits are obsessed with the things and trying to coax them to grow in England.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:20
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kid sinister posted:If any plant can't survive several blocks away, then the difference has to be an extremely local one, ones like sunlight, weather exposure and soil. You aren't trying to grow this thing on a concrete slab in a wide open field in a hurricane, are you? San Francisco! Because of the hill contours, one block can have a rather different climate than a half mile down the road. In this case we get constant wind from the ocean and the tract houses on her street shelter her yard but our house is detatched from the neighbors so the wind blows through. I think I'll try to move him into a corner of the wall to give him a better shot.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:12
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My roommates call my mystery orchid "the rescue orchid" because I found it without flowers, tipped over and shoved under a shelf in the hardware store. Got it for like five bucks and no idea what it is (possibly a cattelya hybrid I think). Poor thing still hasn't flowered yet this year though. I'm dying to know what it looks like but it may be holding back until it feels better.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:26
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Beachcomber posted:Hello plants thread. I have had...less success with gardening. Seconding nasturtium and strawberries (I have a non-fruiting kind called dune strawberry or something that's doing well). California natives will also survive summer well because they usually go dormant, so don't water them in the dry season (or fertilize ever), they're insanely easy if you don't mind having a scrubby-looking yard every dry season. I had a coreopsis gigantea and loved that stupid thing, it grew like five feet in one year and looked like a bonkers dr Seuss plant. I don't think I ever watered it, like ever. Butterfly Gaura does well, so do rockrose (cistaeacae). If you can keep callas alive you can probably do canna bulbs or dahliahs too. Question for you guys! I have a badly potbound yew and pine tree (they're going to be bonsai if they survive but they're not styled yet so I guess I'll ask here) but it's not repotting season for either yet. Do I do an emergency repot and root trim now, or wait and hope they don't die? What symptoms should I watch out for that mean they're declining? The yew I think will be okay and I'm scared of damaging the roots since they're sensitive, but the pine is so bad that water tends to pool and run off when I try to water it so I'm concerned it's going to dry out before it goes dormant.
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Oct 3, 2017 02:04
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Oct 3, 2017 02:05
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I have a ginger root that sprouted in my pantry. I'd like to grow it, problem is it's pretty cold here and I don't want it to just die. Can I put it in cold storage with my dahlia bulbs to get it to hibernate over winter or do I need to plant it and hope it stays warm enough to not die? I'm in 9A if it matters, we keep it pretty cold indoors here, like 63.
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Dec 17, 2017 00:11
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I got this for Christmas, what iiiiis it (other than a ficus who went to pride week) foilage: 
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Dec 31, 2017 22:45
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Hirayuki posted:It looks like a croton! Oh awesome, I have one in animal crossing but it doesn't look like the real one :x
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Jan 1, 2018 01:16
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Dennis McClaren posted:I'm glad I found this thread, it took some digging. Lol soil joke Don't plant bamboo or podocarpus whatever you do. They both spread like absolute weeds, require constant trimming forever, and are completely impossible to get rid of.
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Jan 17, 2018 04:51
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learnincurve posted:Plant of the day: Cedrus atlantica Glauca Pendula or weeping blue pine. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/133008/Cedrus-atlantica-(Glauca-Group)-Glauca-Pendula/Details ugh stoooopppppp I want one so badddd but I shouldn't get anymore trees Also I see and raise you my dawn redwood, which should put on more than five feet next year despite being in a pot.
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Jan 24, 2018 03:32
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Nosre posted:Great, I'd love to see pics and examples of pruning strategies. Issue for figuring out this one is that there's tons of examples like those videos I posted above about yearly pruning of a more... 'managed' bush, but few about how to get a wild old thing under control. Yeah the internet's really big on prevention and how to keep things perfect but in general if you've already hosed up (or just inherited a fuckup) articles aren't really helpful and most forums are like "well why'd you gently caress up?" Contentless content: my Dorstenia foetida flowered an ugly weird little flower but I was unable to get a photo of it. I love my weird little alien plant, here's one from GIS: 
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Feb 15, 2018 03:56
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Freakbox posted:Hey plants thread! I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I need some help identifying a mushroom/fungus I found in my yard ((Tulsa, OK)). What type of tree is that it's growing on? I can try to key it out for you since it's a polypore but in general identifying mushrooms from a photo is pretty much impossible. edit: that is NOT hen of the woods, I can tell you that much. Could be false turkeytail but from that photo it's impossible to know for sure. The fruiting surface would need to be visible. Not poisonous but you'd be hard pressed to try and eat it I bet because it looks like one of the corky/woody types. fuzzy_logic fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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Mar 1, 2018 04:18
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Plant MONSTER. posted:
Pretty sure the leaves have some caffeine in them, so keep any pets from eating it. That foliage is really pretty.
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Apr 15, 2018 18:18
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I have a couple of unidentified miniature African violets I got for free awhile ago. One of them seems to have split up into 3 or 4 separate rosettes - do I need to remove the daughter plants and give them their own pots or can they hang out together for awhile? The pots are less than 2" across, I can't imagine how tiny I'd need to get for the daughters to stay "snug" enough.
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May 25, 2018 01:21
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Ugh, my parents' house used to have a beautiful bank of lily of the valley that lasted my entire childhood until I ran it over with a lawnmower one summer. Thanks for reminding me, I still feel awful about it  :
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Jun 5, 2018 20:40
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I posted earlier about my miniature african violets, one of them has bloomed! The other split off a bunch of babies so I removed them and repotted it in an orchid pot as an experiment. Mom plant is doing well but most of the daughters are biting the dust since they had no real roots of their own. Back in February:  This week:  When I say "miniature" I mean it, the pots are less than 2" across at the top and the plants aren't expected to get much bigger.
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Jun 16, 2018 20:11
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ExtraNoise posted:Based on the trunk (interwoven bootjacks followed by a smooth trunk), it looks like this might be a Sabal Palmetto palm, in which case you might be over watering it. It can handle cold weather pretty well and doesn't do too bad with a lot of water as long as it drains. Most palmettos don't require a lot of maintenance, but it depends on where you are. Mexican windmill is my guess. They're pretty tough so I'm not sure what's up with your unless something damaged the roots.
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Jun 18, 2018 19:34
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Read some more background articles and according to The Internet I am doing everything wrong with these violets - wrong size pot, wrong soil, planted too high, watering wrong. They all seem super happy so I'm just going to keep going as I'm going I guess. Not sure if mine are super tough or if their fragility's been overstated or something. One thing I did run into this morning was mold on the terracotta pots. None on the soil or plants, just a thin layer of what looks like bread mold on the rims and outsides of the pots. I wiped it off. Does this seem like it'll be an issue? I think the pots may have come in with mold on them but since it's white I didn't notice. The pots sit right over our kitchen sink so it's kinda damp in that area.
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Jul 2, 2018 22:50
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enraged_camel posted:Still trying to figure out why the small palm tree in front of my house is wilting... it looks kind of shocked. How much are you watering when you water? Might be better to do a deep water less frequently and get it early in the morning before it heats up. Are you soaking the trunk and leaves too? The fact that the new fronds that were coming in have died back is not great but the mature fronds look okay, maybe a little wind damaged. Any weird weather lately? drought, wind, really hot weather?
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Jul 10, 2018 03:36
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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.
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Jul 13, 2018 04:01
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 I'm in CA so we get them easily from Japan but PetCo will have them in the fish section in many places!
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Jul 13, 2018 04:43
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cakesmith handyman posted:So where I sit in our office gets too little natural light to keep succulents alive, will those survive? Because if so I'm on it. Probably, too much light is actually a good way to kill them. They live at the bottom of cold lakes so they prefer it to be a little dark.
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Jul 14, 2018 01:02
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My dorstenia foetida (kind of like a succulent I guess) has been doing poorly lately so I poured its soil out to see what's up - it has a ton of tiny, tiny white maggot looking things all over the roots. They're like the size of a period in a book, too small to remove manually, is there anything I can kill them with that won't also kill the plant? I put it back in the soil but can dig it out again if I need to apply something directly to the roots.
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Jul 21, 2018 22:32
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Solkanar512 posted:Any thoughts on landscape architecture books/sites/sources? I just bought a house (quarter acre lot, mostly back yard), have a square, flat backyard with lots and lots of sun. I want to make the lawn go away as much as possible, but I have to deal with landscaping around a septic system and drain field. I'm in California soI read a lot of Sunset magazine articles. Might be too specific to our climate for you but they have a ton of stuff online.
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Aug 10, 2018 21:27
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Everyone around here uses the self-coiling hoses, they seem pretty easy:
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Aug 19, 2018 19:50
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Lacrosse posted:This is my experience with collecting succulents: I'm so happy someone else calls them butts, my friends say it's juvenile of me. You can also look into caudex-having plants like Dorstenia, they have basically the same care requirements and have hilariously fat bulbous butts. I have a dorstenia foetida that looks like a weird little alien. Sometimes it makes weird alien flowers and then shoots seeds all over the kitchen at high speed. Check out these good thick boys: https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/266
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Nov 11, 2018 06:24
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My orchid keiki has emancipated itself! It's made good progress, going to repot and remove some of the shriveled bulbs soon. It's some kind of oncidium hybrid.  (oh ffs imgur. It's like a nine-step process to rotate that picture, gently caress it)
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Feb 10, 2019 07:06
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Plant MONSTER. posted:
You know it bloomed for like four months last year and I don't think I have a single picture! Really pretty flowers, deep sort of fuschia/purple with every other petal white. I thought they seemed very simple and elegant-looking but my sister, who knows more about orchids, called them "structurally complex." I don't really get what that means but I don't think the remaining bulbs are big enough to flower again this year unfortunately.
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Feb 19, 2019 07:34
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What a cute baby Oncidium. Do you know what colors the flowers were?
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Any green leafed Japanese maple that doesn't have the really lacy leaves should be fine in full sun, just avoid the yellow or red ones.
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Apr 3, 2019 00:58
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Solkanar512 posted:I got some more Japanese maples!!! How close are you to NorCal? https://www.mendocinomaples.com/acer-palmatum/aoyagi https://www.mendocinomaples.com/acer-palmatum/osakazuki
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Apr 14, 2019 03:29
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Repotted my oncidium and it seems way happier - I bought it potted in pure green moss which immediately started rotting the roots away, so I moved it to a bonsai mix to dry out but the roots had a hard time extending into that. Got a mix of chopped bark, lava, and a little sphagnum packed around the roots, hopefully this is the Goldilocks mix.
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Jun 3, 2019 23:43
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cheese posted:Anyone have experience growing CA native plants in containers? I have a patio that gets full sun April-October (north facing) and a small yard that is partly sunny, and I'm on year three of killing sage and lavender. I just can't figure it out, although this year has been more successful than last. I'm starting to think the key is to take the sun down a notch from what they would want in the ground, i.e. sage that loves full sun when ground planted should get only part sun in a container. But its still a mess. What zone in California? It's tricky if you're in chaparral, they all really hate containers. I'm in SF and basically nothing from around here can go in a pot, it'll just die. content: my new Ming Aralia and my stupid African violets that refuse to bloom. Apparently I'm into old lady plants lately. 
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Sep 4, 2019 04:36
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bird with big dick posted:Any treeborists able to identify this tree? I'm guessing Austrian Pine based on it being one of the recommended types of trees to be planted in this area based on soil and climate (northern nevada, full sun, clayey soil) and whatnot but it's mostly just a guess. I think the needles are in clumps of 2 but that's based off the photos, not an in person examination. Looks like P. densiflora / red pine. Though I think if you put an Austrian and Red pine next to each other I'd be hard pessed to tell you which is which. Getting a cone would help. it's not contorta, ponderosa or lodgepole judging from the needles.
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Nov 4, 2019 07:55
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cheese posted:I went ahead and thinned it again. I just pulled out clumps and made a bunch of quarter sized dirt patches, then attacked any especially thick areas a little more closely. Impossible to figure out which seedlings are strong and which are just different varieties. Its no where near thinned the way you suggested, but I pulled out about a basketball of greenery and I'm willing to fertilize to get flowers. Lots of learnings from this bed, as they say. Yeah this is part of the issue, if you leave them to fight it out usually one variety will grow faster / bigger leaves and you'll wind up losing most of the other ones. On the other hand the fastest and biggest shoot rn could just be weeds...
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Mar 24, 2020 05:17
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