Welcome to /plant/, the happy green place on this blue board, where growers, gardeners and horticulturists share their love for things that grow.Newbies and amateurs are very welcome, and we’ll always try to answer your questions.>Flora of the Worldhttp://www.worldfloraonline.org/>Plants of the World Onlinehttps://powo.science.kew.org/>Hardiness zoneshttps://www.plantmaps.com/>Plant ID Siteshttps://identify.plantnet.org/https://wildflowersearch.org/>Pests and Diseaseshttps://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/advice-searchhttps://www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/>Thousands of Botanical Illustrationshttp://www.plantillustrations.org/>Cacti and Succulentshttps://worldofsucculents.com/https://www.cactiguide.com/https://www.succulentguide.com/>Carnivorous plantshttps://botany.org/home/resources/carnivorous-plants-insectivorous-plants.htmlhttps://carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides>Alpine plantshttps://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/>Pondshttps://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-pond>How to Make a Terrariumhttps://terrariumtribe.com/diy-terrarium-guide/>Old Thread>>4804212
>>4815957looks like a minor wiener
>>4815980I see it
For you, how important is it for plants to be perfectly centered and upright in their pots?
>>4816230Almost as important as everything else
>>4816230as important as art of cute girls is in my life
Whos everyones favourite tiktok plant girl?I like Jacintha passthatplant cos she cute and tummy and shows feet sometimes :)
>>4816337shut up
8th for giant sequoia in front yard.
>>4816376That tree was there before the house right?
>>4816376That is a mighty tree
>>4816376Imagine the roots.
>>4815957How good is a Japanese Peace Lily as a starter plant? Never had a plant in my life.
>>4816376Who the fuck just plants one of those in their yard
>>4816892I've had one of those they seem pretty low maintenance
My 3 year old dogwood has "collapsed" in the past ~5 hours. I'm baffled. Does anyone have any ideas what might have caused this, and what might be done to fix it?Our weather has been great lately. After a nice stretch of sunny and warm days, it rained some last night. It wasn't a bad storm or anything - a standard normal rain storm. None of the other trees in the area seem to have been affected at all. In general, we've had a great stretch of weather and this tree has weathered far worse than our little rainstorm last night. I'm in eastern MA if that helps. Any guesses? What causes a tree to seemingly "die" in like 5 hours? The timelapse footage on our camera is crazy to watch. It's like it was assassinated.
Anyone else here ever been too poor for pre-made soil? I've looked up compost guides and started my own, but does anyone have any tips for easy green matter gathering? I can't get enough.
Hey /plant/ - I am looking for sellers of caudex/succulent seeds. Preferably wholesale or cheap if in bulk. Anyone got suggestions?
>>4817565IT WAS ME HAHAHA!!
>>4817646Do you have access to poor soil?Like literally any type of dirt or so mix that with organic material, water it and 3 months later you'll have good ass soilAlso you can try and visit your local florists, they usually throw away stuff that's either a residue or some other organic green waste they won't use Or you can just go and pick up leaves, look for places like a market where plants are sold or grass cuttings idkOn top of that composting incentives you to eat healthy natural food, like all natural so you can use the organic waste for compost Agriculture also has tons of organic waste, like rotten potatoes or something like that, mix that with any kind of soil then water etc then months later you have perfect soil Also look into vermiculture
>>4817565>>4817568You'll have to look at it's roots and discover it for yourself I could think about massive beetle larvae or some person doing something to that tree, like hiding some waste there I guess there could also be a preternatural reason
>>4816376absolutely unfathomably based
>>4817646My local dump has compost that they sell you for $4 a "barrel". I'm not sure what volume a barrel is so when I need some I just go by and get $8 of the stuff and shovel it onto a tarp in my trunk.
was gonna post a garden update but my pictures too big
ok bye again
Is it normal for a pomegranate to lose leaves like that? The bottom leaves are dying from the tip down
Plant health question: does a 1~ year old, otherwise healthy Nectarine tree stand a good chance at recovering from a very mild, almost-went-unnoticed case of gummosis? I noticed gummy black buildups on a few spots of the plant and scraped them off, and cut what looked infected away with a clean knife. It should recover if it receives proper watering, light, and nutrients, right? >>4818081Not sure for pomegranate specifically but its pretty normal for plants to have their lower leaves have dieback and fall off so that it can prioritize efficient growth closest to the light source
>>4818099heres a photo of the tree
>>4818100Did it go from seed to that big in just a year?
What is wrong with this one? It isn't mine and I know essentially 0 about plants, but I want to save it for the person who it does belong to.It is apparently a "strelitzia". It gets indirect sun. Water once a week. Placed in a regular living room @~18-22C (64-72F)
>>4818182It's been a few months over a year but yeah, it's about 3 and a half feet tall or so. Really fast growth but I'm either very near or inside the area in Georgia where all the peach orchards are so I guess its to be expected, since I'm in absolute ideal conditions
I'm thinking about making a berry terrarium. I'm planning on using a 33cm tall terrarium. Any recommendations?Right now I'm thinking on using:Alpine/wild strawberryRubus buergeri(20cm?) or Rubus parvifoliusCranberry or lingoberry
>>4818479Also thinking if I should ass some moss as "grass" under all these but maybe once they grow there won't be enough light for the moss. Maybe I could cover most of the surface with some big rocks/wood and have the berries growing between them and moss on top of the rocks/wood. Also not sure what to do about pollination. Maybe some bugs/jumping spiders would be enough considering how it is a confined space?
>>4818048>>4818049pretty titewhat sort of asplenium is that? and are those little dudes on the right of the second picture nephrolepis or some kind of adiantum eg hispidulum?t. fern enjoyer
>>4818479>>4818492Just to be clear I plan to use a vivarium, not a sealed jar terrarium
>>4818205wilting like that is what plants do when they're dying of pretty much any cause so it's hard to tell. strelitzias are full sun plants, even where I live near the tropics, so I'd guess it's not getting nearly enough light in a living room. was the person who owns it trying to grow it indoors? cause idk if you can really do that. even the brightest living room is gonna be orders of magnitude darker than outside (it only looks bright cause your eyes adjust), and these things are from the grasslands of southern africa
>>4818507stay tuned, not whoever that is but i will post some fern pics i took on my land, in the wild, and some that i took to cultivate, there are many ferns incoming
>>4818517what's that one? looks kinda similar to this
>>4818523Asplenium platyneuron aka ebony spleenwort
>>4818535wow not even closely related at all to the one I postedalso check out this monster staghorn I found
>>4818479Found these growing in the mountains in Japan. I wonder if they are suitable
>>4816376Imagine getting to climb that everyday as a kid....
>>4818515Cheers. Ya, it is being kept indoors at all times. Bought at pretty much the size it is now, a year ago. Have told them to stick it on their fully sunlit patio (glass roof, walled to the sides, open to the front, so the wind can get in to it and keep it from scorching in the sun, which I assume is bad if you keep it in an entirelyenclosed glass roofed area) and to bring it in when it gets cold (this is in western Europe)
>>4818541Wow, nice.
>>4817565>>4817568Possible land shifting? Underground electrical cable severed and shocking the shit out of your tree? Underground liquid leak of some type, fuel, sewage, etc possibly poisoning it? I'm just taking stabs in the dark because wow that thing keeled over fast
I am growing in coco-coir and my EC is 0.3 mS/cm.. It's considered low per chatGPT. i do supplement it with compost and Cana a&b, so should I measure the run-off EC to be completely assured?
>>4819261chatGPT says yhok, thanks /plant/!
>>4818983we thought that might have been an option. it's not too far from a natty gas line. it was cool(er) than it had been, and it's plausible a neighbor turned on their heat for the first time and that somehow led to gas coming up under the tree. maybe. it's rebounded ~65%, which is weird, but good. it's not totally keeled over but not back to where it was. strange.
found this fruit tree today and ate some. Anybody know what it is?
Anthurium
>>4819407Red Anhero berries. You're fucked m8.
>>4819407Could you post a less blurry picture of the leaves or fruit?
>>4816230i'm not autistic
>>4818081Most likely bad soil, almost all problems stem from terrible soil. Keeping the soil too wet can cause infections like microbial life, algae or insects, these can change the soil's chemical composition or damage roots.Based on the pictures I see I could make this post couple times to each of these threads. Change the soil and the majority of unknown problems vanish.
>>4818817I don’t think anyone is capable of climbing that much less a kid
>>4819407You probably shouldn’t go around eating things if you don’t know what they are champ
Damn I didn't see the general, what is this thing growing in my flower box?
>>4819552something in the genus Chenopodium
>>4815957It looks a lot like a coral
>>4819557Oh nice that's a lead
>>4816230I like to stage my cacti and succs in some of my spots if they're a special species. Love to plant at odd angles and use a top dressing to make them look like they're growing in situ with some of my really special stuff
I'm preparing to say goodbye to my hibiscus syriacus because what's happening makes no sense and nobody anywhere can seem to help me>any amount or frequency of watering causes it to act as if I'm severely overwatering it, causing droopy yellow leaves (which eventually fall off) and leaking of sweet thick sap>even if I wait weeks between watering, and dig down and feel that there's no moisture at all in the soil>no visible insect infestation, and even if there were it wouldn't explain why it happens after watering
>>4819605Leaking thick sap? Sure it's not gummosis?
>>4819261what the fuck is a mS/cm? and what the fuck are you growing anyway? I take it it's some kind of uhh cash crop?
>>4819261>>4819888ok I've got no experience growing cash crops myself but I've grown plenty of shit in coir and as long as you rinse out some of the excess sodium with water and run some other shit with a more balanced electrolyte profile (potassium, calcium, etc.) through it I haven't found anything that won't thrive (other than hardenbergias). personally I use powerfeed and I suspect anything branded anything like "cana" is gonna attract a significant premium for what is basically the same but honestly bro if you've got sources that are quoting you shit in "mS/cm" you should probably trust that shit more than 4chan cause I got no idea about nothing like that
>>4819663nice conifer collecting water in this little depression
>>4816376Is it not illegal to have a tree that large on a suburban street?
>>4820027If by some miracle something knocks it over it would take a couple houses with it
>>4819626Nope. Some digging on Google tells me it's a thing called "extrafloral nectary", but that's a normal process and shouldn't be related to the drooping.My only guess now is that it's suffering from inconsistent watering, but I don't know how to rectify that without fully killing it, since it doesn't seem to want any water at all.
>>4820027not him, but why? there are entire neighborhoods built into old stand forests with mature trees, that in fairness, are like half that tall, but would still be dangerous if they fell. the only regulatory body around something like that is a home owners association anyways and i highly, highly doubt that home is part of one. no sane person is anyway
>>4819376>hero tree saves neighborhood from gas leak
>>4819261Fuck ecFuck run offjust feed what it looks like it needs, 1/2 the dose, see what it looks like in two three days, carry on from there.I grow in 100% cheap compost and a hand full a perlite, autos in a 20LThis does until flowering starts, than I just use canna B, and 1/3 of the PK 13 recommendation.
A curse on the house of whoever the fuck sold the world on killing everything that pops up in your precious flat grass. So many pretty flowers appear if you'd just stop mowing over them for two weeks. You'll find things like this
Do you have to prune weeping willows?Tl;dr: some of the branches reach the ground and are lying flat on it, a few of em might be a meter long. My mother thinks it needs pruning. I think it's retarded and I don't want to harm the tree. And won't the branches just? lift up as the tree grows taller?Plus don't they grow back just as long as they were anyway? Who is in the right?
>>4820082A great sentiment that I cease to share the moment I see wild parsnip start to pop up
>>4817565Is the tree just dying? It could be weedkiller run off applied to close to the storm, or is the soil washing way?
>>4818492My concern would be winter cycling, you will need to put in a basement ands reduce light during the winter or the plants will grow themselves to death and act like annuals
>>4820091>Do you have to prune weeping willows?Have to? Not really. They do well in the wild without it. Can you? Yes. Does it hurt the tree? No. Well, maybe a bit if you go too much.
>>4820162go back to posting on /b/ or whatever the fuck, babydoll, you dont get to spam /plant/ just because it's a backwater
>>4818541I didn't know ferns could look like that at allI had this one down to two kinda small fronds but as soon as I put it under the shade of a Tulip poplar it started exploding, 15 new fronds have emerged in the last month
>>4820114Luckily those don't grow as far south as where I am so I don't have to cease
>>4819888It's just a water/potting media parameter that's important to track when cultivating crops indoors using a soilless media like coconut coir. AKA, indoor cash crop hyper-autism.Nothing you really need to learn or know about as a normal plant enjoyer, or as someone who isn't helplessly addicted to smoking a certain plant in the hemp family.
>>4820144I didn't consider seasons for this. I know strawberries can bear fruit year round so it shouldn't be a problem for it. Cranberries on the other hand I have no idea what would happen if it never experience true winter. Currently I'm thinking about wild/alpine strawberries, checkerberries and maybe some of those wild raspberry like things>>4818479>>4818796if I still have space for it Checkerberry have some pretty flowers and long lasting vibrant fruits. The wild rubus might have issues with never experiencing a freezing winter on the other hand it might not since most Japan doesn't get that cold anyway.
>>4820230Forgot pic
What are some nice and friendly plants? I haven't watered a plant in over 10 years.
>>4820257Sunflowers and sunflower adjacent plants like Heliopsis helianthodes are bright, colorful, easy to maintain, and not hard to get, so I'm gonna say sunflower and its relatives are a nice and friendly plant
>>4820150What if I was retarded and planted it like 15 meters (50 feet) from the house and 10 from the side building and garage? It pretty much doubled in height in 2 years, from 3 meters to 6. Maybe more. Spreading out pretty wide too. At this rate in 2 years it'll actually reach the buildings. One one hand I'm really happy it's doing so well. On the other. This is going to end in disaster isn't it?In my defense I'm may have used our walnut trees as a reference point and thought this would grow like those. (ie: we're safe for the next 30 years). nope.
>>482030110 feet away?? I had a whole thing typed up saying it was ok but then I re-read just to be sure and somehow I glossed over that part. Ouch. That's too close, those roots might already be under the building or near them, soon to do damage to their foundation or surrounding asphalt or concrete you may have around them. On the other hand, if the side building and garage are outbuildings and dont have a real foundation then you might be ok. They might be lifted up by the roots.
>>4820257Oh I'm retarded again, you meant like 10 meters. It's probably ok. I have tulip trees planted 10-15m away from my house and they've so far left it unmolested, which is impressive considering they are 140 feet tall and massively fanned out with leaves
>>4820082You should torrent Kill Your Lawn.>>4820199>I didn't know ferns could look like that at allTake the Platycerium pill. Pic related.
>>4820674>Kill Your Lawn.funny youtuber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkFcxU0N5Q
>>4820301
These things have conquered my back yard, I welcome my new Ruellia overlords
>>4820808and now they must learn to live with their new neighbor
Anybody know anything about this type of dirt. the first foot of dirt is normal but below that there's this stuff that almost looks like rock. Maybe some type of clay?>>4820027If I recall the owner actually wants to cut it down because it's a liability but the city won't let him. It's Vancouver and the tree is called Old Ben Mosser I think
>>4816337Based Jac fan
>>4821229nice plump ass
>>4821247brother my ass is plumper than that skeleton slag
>>4820091The tree in your picture has been pruned very well. All plants can be bonsai tier.
>>4821272Cmon it’s nice and snootyCould be because she’s squatting too I guess
>>4820679Yeah, he's a funny guy. Completely self-taught but really knows some shit.
>>4821384>snootysnooty/ˈsnuːti/adjectiveINFORMALshowing disapproval or contempt towards others, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class.
hey guys
>>4821714I’ve only heard the word used in reference to ass…>>4821724She has pretty eyes, at least
>>4821724oh my god, what is with all these bitches planting invasive plants in pots inside their homes especially monstera. the woman taking my blood at the doctors office talked to me about plants and she had one too. is this just the woman plant? the plant for people who don't actually care about plants and just want something that looks 'cool'?
>>4821919thats why most of us do it yeahwhat makes you think we care what you think
>>4821919>planting invasive plants in pots inside their homes especially monsteraWho cares if whether or not it's invasive if it's houseplant?You want something with big leaves, preferably something that will be OK with shade, so monstera is quite good. He'll I might get one if I'm looking for some leaf monster. That or plenty of ferns, since you don't get much light in apartments. That picture on the wall is a redflag tho.
>>4821926just because its indoors doesn't make it not release its pollen to the air, which immediately flows out the moment someone opens a window or door. not to mention the amount of people who stop giving a fuck rapidly and just toss the plant out or dump the dead plant out somewhere only for the roots to send up a new one. idfk just seems like a terrible idea>>4821922i don't understand the point of the second half of this, why the hell would anyone care what an anonymous person on the internet thinks unless it was really personally poignant and made you reconsider some decisions. that doesn't disallow me from posting what i think
>>4821929>just because its indoors doesn't make it not release its pollen to the air, which immediately flows out the moment someone opens a window or door.Oh yeah those god damn indoor flowering monsteras that polite the air during pollen season. Shut the fuck up, dude you are retarded.
>>4821929Out of all plants to whine about you picked one that isn’t pollinated by wind, requires specific conditions to flower making it unlikely to flower outside its natural habitat nor spread in the wild outside tropical zones. Why the fuck do you think you don’t see trees full of invasive tropical orchids in Canada despite orchids being a popular flower? It is like complaining about invasive cherry trees in the amazon.
>>4821919Seems like it my friend Starting to see monstera as a sort of a meme plant nowNot so bad honestly, plants are nice
>>4821940that point doesn't drop dead just because I mentioned monstera earlier in the conversation. Literally just mentioned it because it's so common, plenty do this>>4821977I don't exactly mind but it should be encouraged to get things from your region instead
Also yeah some species despite being from overseas are not invasive They do no harm, you're just plant racist at that point
>>4821979>I don't exactly mind but it should be encouraged to get things from your region insteadI sort of agree but, ah you know human nature I have anthuriums (Amazon plants) and live in the coast, my country has 3 types of regions from deserts to jungle lolIt's not so bad, also can't be helped some plants are just beautiful I wouldn't try to harm an ecosystem knowingly just for vanity though
>>4821984 I'm not some plant nazi I have a few stone fruit trees and all sorts of crops, though the berries are all native. Its cool watching the arachnids and wasps take care of the bugs that want to eat anything I have, I don't even need to use pesticides
>>4821980Placists unite!
>>4821986>I'm not some plant nazi Can you relax?
>>4821986Nature and the variety of ecosystems are a beauty are they not?I often think how lucky we are just to be able to admire the complexity and have the need to care for these precious things as if that was our jobI only wish more people would pair this with their knowledge of God, because it becomes a more complete view of life and because this life isn't forever, not here at least
>>4821929My point was: why would she care what you think.Not me. I don't give a fuck, I have three monsters because I like their form and roots.
>>4821979>it should be encouraged to get things from your region insteadOh boy, I can't wait to grow all those cold temperate plants indoors!
>>4821986meet the Überpflanze.
>oh my god, what is with all these bitches planting invasive plants in pots inside their homes
>Grow plant indoors.>Barely survives spidermite infestation.>Plant rebounds and is thriving, growing big and flowering like crazy.>Find out its a creeping/groundcover plant.
>>4821980>you're just plant racist at that pointyes
>>4821986no anon you must have at least 3 monsteras dying in your bathroom otherwise you're a racist
I'm getting monstera just to spite this retard. It's my pot, my windowsill, I can grow whatever I want.
>>4822398Based
>>4822373my brother girdles decorative invasive trees people put in their yard in the night, it's hilarious. just killed a chinese umbrella tree doing it>>4822162if only i didnt have gorgeous long hair to court the plant-whores with, maybe that image would get to me>>4822161i love palms, what makes them the superplant?
What the FUCK is wrong with my hydrangeas? What did I do to them? I put some organic fert down around them, and some sulfur to lower the pH. Did I shock them too much? I've been dousing them in 3 gallons of water to flush away any salts built up if I did fuck them up. I've waited until they're dry to water, so I'm not doing that too much I think. Some of the new growth isn't fucked up, so maybe they'll get better , idk.
>>4822713
>>4822713Just leave em, don't even feed em, they will grown anywhere.
Also here's my new plants that need to get in the ground, but Lowe's are massive counts and are out of treated 4x6s I've been using for the borders. 3 reblooming weigela2 rose of Sharon 3 reblooming white azaleas 1 reblooming lilac1 spirea that isn't reblooming and I kind of regret buying.
>>4822718Ok maybe they'll pull through it. But what the FUCK are up with my roses? Roses are massive cunts. I've been spraying them with anti fungus stuff but they still look like this. Maybe I'm using the wrong kind? These are climbers, and I want them to go up on my porch. 1st year. They probably could use some more sun, it's on the north side, but I don't think that's the problem
>>4822550>i love palms, what makes them the superplant?coconut palms established all tropical beaches as their Lebensraum in a very short amount of time.
>>4822724
>>4822724>>4822715What is that soil? It looks like trouble, wood chips?
I don't think I'm cutting my flytrap's flowerstalks next year, I'm feeling a lot of regret from doing it.The stalks haven't dried up and died off or anything, they're just open wounds that ooze fluid and have been that way for months now. It isn't even growing traps either, its just putting out these huge trap-less leaves.
>LECA
>>4822978Mulch you dickbutt
Please welcome /plant/'s newest treesBe nice, it takes them a long time to build the courage to stop being a grass and become a tree
>>4822994I think trapless leaves means it's not getting enough light, but I could be wrong.
>>4823030Well it looks like shit you faggot, your soul is trash
>>4823192Can't even see the soil retard
>>4823068I'm going to get as many of these as I can and put wiregrass underneath them and manually suppress the competition around my house to prevent the need for fire to maintain a Longleaf savanna
>>4819605Update: I gave it a huge and thorough watering, instead of the sparse dose I usually administer, and it's not wilted anymore, but it still looks a bit yellow and ugly.
>>4823075I hear its like a mutation or something that happens post-flowerstalk when there's about to be a big growth spurt, but I can't imagine it having a light issue. It sits really close to a grow light. Its definitely not etiolated/reaching though.
>>4823068Dasylirion?
>>4823222That's exactly why I know it's trash you retarded anus
>>4815957what temperatures are considered "excessive" for corn? some weird stuff is happening to my corn and apparently it might be due to high temperatures, if what i read on the internet is right. i'm in the mid atlantic region of the USA just to give an idea of the temps i'm dealing with
>>4823353sorry if this is a stupid question btw i'm a total amateur
>>4823353I'm not an expert but that just might be how normal corn looks like, on top of that any form of heat damage is usually shown on the leaves
>>4823329Pinus palustris, they are endangered
Name of the plant? Also what's wrong with it? It used to have really healthy green leaves when I got it.
>>4823473I think it's dead
>>4823473juniperdead
>>4823461>they are endangeredno they aren't
>>4823507yes they are you fucking moron
Dunno if I can ask here but I'm planning on growing mushrooms. Can you reuse those premade grow bags after harvest?
>>4823523Why wouldn't you
>>4823526Don't they die after a couple of harvests? I've read it's 2-3 harvests max
>>4823528Fuck it nigga just use them until they're unusable lol
>>4823504>>4823506How did it die so quickly? What could be the reason? It hasn't even been a week.
>>4823530It's a young plant clearly and you probably left it in full scorching sunlight during a drought and didnt water it. It probably was stored in an area without full sunlight prior to you getting it too so it probably roasted alive until it finally gave up and died due to heat and negligence
>>4823531or vice versa, it was in full sun and now its trapped inside. Either way it looks like you did not water it
I want to buy my first plant. I was thinking of a Sundew because I like the red and green colors, as well as the syrup/glue it makes to trap prey.What's a good online seller to buy one, and what are some good sites to read up on for care tips.
>>4823576California carnivores is pretty goodI haven't tried other online dealers though
>>4823014so true
>3 months later
>>4823343Care to explain yourself fucktard ?You seem to be claiming you can see through walls.
>>4823507Twats like you make the world a shit place.>I'll just say the first shit that comes to mind with no thought or research
>>4823523No.Because mould.You will never get it clean enough, also didn't you cut a great big fuckin X on the side of it?How are you going to seal that?If you look online you can get maybe 10 bags for £10.I'm guessing you don't have a enclave, a clean room, or hepi filter set up or even wipe the needle or bag before you inoculate.
>>4823531>>4823532Nah, I definitely watered it atleast once a day. But it might be true that it was likely stored inside and that I kept it in full sunlight. Can it still be saved?
>>4823647Then yeah, it probably died from the sunlight. I don't *think* it can be 'saved' per se but if you keep it in some level of light, and continue to water it, and prune away the dead leaves, without making too many cuts into the plant itself, it will probably send up a new plant or three that are clones of itself from the root and be just fine
>>4823633You don't need to see through walls to know your soil is absolute trash you massive retard It's literally the first thing I noticed, now I won't elaborate because you're a faggot and deserve what you got
>>4823739All I got was a change to laugh at you.Fuckin idiot.
>>4823750Yeah mentally retarded people like you like to laugh at people who aren't as retarded like them I understand you, retard, good job fucking up your soil btwDumb cunt
I keep having mold and dried out cuttings. Im monitoring the moisture to make sure the soiless medium is always ideal but I keep getting failed cuttingsIm using powdered rooting hormone but just cant seem to get it right. Any ideas?
>>4823739>You don't need to see through walls to know your soil is absolute trash Apparently you just need to see some mulch, then make retarded assumptions.
this was a while back. but I'm still depressed
>>4823759Not my soil you retarded assuming fucknuttPlease do not just post shit without any information that could help.Please fuck off back to >>>/pol/ or /b/ or 9gag or reddit, whichever streaming data site you came from
>>4823730Thanks.
>>4817646You can get coffee grounds for free from coffee shops and gas stations. Just talk to the manager and ask them if they'll keep the grounds for you. Coffee is considered green even though it's brown because it's rich in nitrogen. It has a C:N ratio of about 20:1.
>>4817043I had an uncle who did that in a very small back yard (this is in the Netherlands), the man is a total psychopath
>>4823956It is pretty funny though
Was adding a large amount of urea fertilizer to those mole holes and then flushing it down with water a good idea? Will it fertilize the grass near the tunnel?
>>4823861>>4823898It's the mulch (wood chips btw) paired with the nutrient deficient plants If you add too much random decomposing carbon into your soil you get certain nutrient deficienciesYou guys are stupid and don't know this but I forgive youSpecially when it was one of you who began acting like an absolute retard Whatever
>>4819407There are millions of years of human evolution. And then, there's you. Congrats man.
>>4824043my instincts attained through evolution by natural selection told me well to eat it because I wasn't poisoned from the fruit. I just still don't know what the heck the plant is called.
>>4819407>>4824043What are those? Look like tomatoes.
>>4823576I recently got a sundew and have a total of 4 different carnivorous plants. Fairly new to them as I only started this last year. Sundews seem like a really good starter, in my opinion them and the flytrap are the most beginner friendly ones. I find that a lot of carnivorous plants are fairly easy to care for, even easier than other types of plants, but they have special requirements. So if you can meet those, they're honestly easy.>Water needs to be pure. Like rainwater or distilled. They've evolved to eat bugs for their nutrients because their soil lacks it.>Because of that, their roots can't handle chemicals, minerals, etc.>So you have to avoid giving them water that would have that, soil that would have that, and a pot that can do that(Meaning you use plastic or glazed. One that won't leech anything into the soil).And basically that's it. From there its just making sure they get the right amount of sun, and seeing if they go dormant which is probably the hardest feature. What makes them really easy to me is that they're hard to overwater(They like the soil to be wet), to the point where you have to basically do it on purpose. My Sundew and Sarrencia both sit in a little saucer underneath them, and I just refill that whenever it runs out(AKA bottom watering.)So if you have it in the right pot, right soil, right water, right sun, literally your entire care routine is making sure that little saucer underneath them isn't dried out. Extremely easy upkeep.
>>4816376seems kind of dangerousalso roots must be all up under the house
>>4824117>>4819407>>4819448Managed to identify the plant I had eatenwikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_cerasifera
>>4823647Pretty unusual it died in a week especially if you watered it every day. Maybe you put it in a very sunny spot thst surrounded by white walls and it just overheated?
>>4816376top kek
Something unexpected happened with the Foxtail fern that I had recently purchased. One of its "branches" (circled in red) dried out, lost all of its leaves, and broke off. I believed the plant was dying, yet it sprouted new, larger growth (circled in blue) at the same time as the "dead branch." The plant appears healthy, if not better than previously. Did the plant purposefully cut off resources to kill one of its "branches" that was facing away from the sun in order to produce new branches that were directly exposed to sunlight? I doubt plants are so capable, but I'm not very knowledgeable about them. What could have truly happened?
>>4823268N florida here, even in native nurseries I haven't been able to find any wiregrass species. Apparently the seeds are super difficult to germinate cause they need fire or something? I've got a super sunny dry, sandy patch on my property that I know would be perfect for Aristida beyrichiana but never had luck finding any
>>4824794I live like 4 miles out of the Sand hills region in Georgia and a 20,000 acre+ longleaf savanna reserve so It shouldn't be hard, worst comes to worst I hop in my truck and grab some. Also have a bunch of sandy-clay patches of dirt on my property that it would love. And yeah they need fire to propogate, they are the very thing which carries the fire on the wind to maintain that ecosystem
>>4824794if they're anything like australian fire-dependent plants you could try smoke granules or smoked vermiculite. You either steep them in water and water your trays with it or sprinkle it over the medium and water it in. They work on most plants that need fire to germinate. There's a few species that just need fire to release the seed or to break down the seed coat but for those you just chuck it in an oven or soak them in boiling water, respectively, but I'm assuming wiregrass is one of the ones that needs the smoke because grasses don't usually have capsules that need opening and hot water soaking is one of the first things people tend to try with hard to germinate seeds
>>4824800Ive never heard of the smoking but yeah boiling/putting fire-dependent seeds in hot water usually works. I had like 30 red bud seeds I picked up and as soon as I boiled them they were sending out radicles. They're all healthy saplings in a ditch now
My roses bloomed a few weeks ago. It made me pretty happy.
>>4824023>If you add too much random decomposing carbon into your soil you get certain nutrient deficienciesSpecifically nitrogen, you need a nitrogen source (urea, manure, kitchen compost) to feed the decomposition of woody material otherwise it'll get pulled out of the soil.
>>4824819is it better to sprinkle urea granules around the plant or dissolve them in water and thencwater the plant?
>>4824728As your (half-accurate) image name says, that's not a fern; it's an Asparagus. Which puts it in an entirely different class of plants.I don't know shit about Asparagus, apart from the fact that Asparagus aethiopicus is an absolute cunt of a weed that ruins Australian bushland (it kills huge numbers of kangaroos, wallabies and other marsupials by smothering understorey plants so there's no food and the animals are forced out onto roadsides where they get hit by cars and trucks). But it is typical of plants to drop their lower branches as they grow taller. As the plant grows taller the upper branches shade the lower ones, so the lower ones get less light and perform less photosynthesis. Eventually the lower limbs become a liability rather than an asset, so the plant drops them.I don't know if that's what's happening with your Asparagus but I would assume that's what it is.>>4824800>you could try smoke granules or smoked vermiculiteDon't some Australian plants (and presumably plants from other places) require specific smoke chemicals released by the burning of certain species/genera of other plants native to their particular ecosystem? (My impression is that nobody has identified these specific chemicals, or in most cases even the species involved -- they just have to burn a collection of shit from the ecosystem to get it happening).I would like to learn more about this.>>4825009>sprinkle ureaThe easiest way to do this is just piss on the feeder roots of your plants. Not with such force that it blasts the soil away from the roots, though. You can squeeze your penis to restrict the flow of urine so that it does not expose the roots of your plants. With a little practice you'll soon get the hang of it!
>>4825009>>4825058I piss on my plants, ironically the ones I like the most.
>Whiteflies on my banana treeI thought they were some kind of mold this whole time.
Best way to get rid of wooly aphids on Liriodendron tulipifera? I have a mighty example but it's under a heavy assault and like 1/5 of its leaves especially on the lower parts are dying or dead from aphid infection. It's getting pretty dire, and I don't want it to fall on my house. Non insecticide solutions? I just sprayed the thing with a long range hose to blast them off which I read helps but I think this might be a bit more dire of an issue than that can solve. For some reason its neighbor tuliptree which is the same height isn't infected.I also got a cutting of a rose bush that was my great-great-great-great-great grandmas, thought it was dead after like 3 weeks of decline to total loss of all leaves and flowers, but kept watering the pot for 2 months, and today, I found two whole branches with like 15 leaves that have grown since the last time I inspected it, I'm very happy about it
Found this growing in my yard. Does anyone know what it is? I tried cutting it down before i knew it flowered and made some kinda fruit? Berry? I dunno. Looks semi poisonous to me. I'm in the massachusetts Berkshires of that helps any.
>>4825445You can use milk to kill aphids. Dilute 1 part milk with 9 parts water and spray it over the tree
Super big noob. I got 3 cuttings each of spearmint and peppermint from my mom's garden and put them in separate glasses of water to propagate 3 days ago. The spearmint has already started to sprout roots but nothing from the peppermint and one of the plants is extremely droopy.Any ideas why this is happening? I thought perhaps I left too many leaves on the cutting so I plucked all but about 4 on the peppermint plants.
>>4825058>cunt of a weed that ruins Australian bushlandtrue it's fucking everywhere man>Don't some Australian plants (and presumably plants from other places) require specific smoke chemicals released by the burning of certain species/genera of other plants native to their particular ecosystemprobably lol, there's a bunch of shit out there that's just a cunt to germinate and that's probably why. There's this kind of grevillea I've been trying to grow for ages and I've never even got one to germinate, but there's one of them at my work that's got a whole bunch of seedlings growing out of cracks in the concrete underneath it. Just occurred to me it might genuinely be all the cigarette ash that did it
>>4825449Serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis
>>4825457tickus-tockus the fuck off back to redit
>>4825479Thank you! It's growing intertwined with another bush that flowers, but doesn't really bear fruit. I'll be home in a bit and post a pic.
>>4825459It's most likely transplantation stressPlants are tough, give them time. Sometimes hopeless looking ones suddenly come back one day
>>4825506This one has tiny flowers and bloom in bunches, and then makes these tiny pods, it's not a fruit or a berry as far as I can tell
>>4825459>>4825533also I just thought of this since you said you were a big noob, when you take a cutting you need to choose a good candidate, it needs to be semi-fresh growth thats still green but is established, and you need to take the cutting from the base of wherever that limb starts. Leave a sloped cut to avoid water getting stuck on your cuts and infecting the original plant. You could also try rooting hormone, but that would wash off immediately in water, so I'd only bother with it when attempting to clone in soil
>>4825538I hate to make a third post as well but you need to put them in soil as soon as you see a lil bit of roots, not like immediately, give it some time to atleast send something out a bit more than an inch, but be careful, plants make water roots in water and theyre much more delicate than they are in the soil. They grow very differently that way if left for an extended time
Any idea what these plants are? I have like six to post.
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>>4825146>I piss on my plants, ironically the ones I like the most.Fuck yeah. You get it.>>4825467>grevillea I've been trying to grow for ages and I've never even got one to germinate, but there's one of them at my work that's got a whole bunch of seedlings growing out of cracks in the concreteTypical!>it might genuinely be all the cigarette ash that did itThat would be funny. Can you propagate Grevilleas from cuttings?Of course Grevillea is named after Charles Francis Greville, co-founder of the Royal Horticultural society.Also Greville St, Prahran, where AC/DC used to play at the Station Hotel down by the railway tracks. But I digress.
>>4825623Looks like a curcubit (pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber, watermelon, etc).>>4825625Looks like a tomato.
>>4825623Definitely a curcubit, I'm going to go with squash.>>4825625That's a tomato.>>4825627>>4825628Pretty sure these are melons>>4825636No idea. Definitely not a mint. Google says it's mulberry weed.>>4825637Red sunflower
My plant grew all the way to the ceiling
I'm gonna miss this shitty thing, it's at the end of its natural life. I planted it
>>4825847I'll make a hole in that ceiling for a reasonable price
>>4825648>>4825714Thank you both. I was so confused what was planted and when I should expect to have and fruits or vegetables. I also had no clue how to prune them. The curcubit is growing ridiculously fast.
>>4825647>Can you propagate Grevilleas from cuttings?yeah but cuttings are for pussies
>>4825537I've never seen this before.
>>4825537>it's not a fruit or a berry as far as I can tellIt is the fertilised ovary of a flowering plant, so it is by definition a fruit.Whether or not it is an edible fruit is an entirely different matter.Fruits come in many different forms, including pumpkins, tomatoes, berries, nuts, drupes (such as coconut and almond), beans and woody seed pods from trees such as Jacarandas and Poincianas.It might not be edible but it's still a fruit!
>>4825871Is that an arborvitae and why is it at the end of its life? If you want a new cypress that will last longer I recommend sequoiadendron gigenteum picrel
>>4826023Kek. Read a book. A nut isn't a fruit.
>>4826227nta In biology walnuts for example are classified as fruit
my tomato has gotten comically big
>>4826224It's Cupressus leylandii so it's a 30 year-max sterile hybrid of a Nootka cypress and Monterrey cypress.I'm thinking of replacing it with one of those OR Bald cypress
>>4826239Do you use fertilizer for it? What kind of soil do use?
>>4826239show us
My tomato got infected by mildew. I applied 10% milk, but do you guys think lactose-free milk works?
>>4826500Even extremely unhealthy tomato plants make great tomatoes for some reason
>>4826229All that college biology smarts and you still haven't identified the plant in the pic.You still paying your student loans?
>>4826500>do you guys think lactose-free milk works?I don't think so, but let us know how it works for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQIx_sHCDsToes out
>>4826227lmao retard
>>4826549Won't the fruit be infected by the fungus as well?
I have a simple day lily border but it gets unruly. I've heard people can thin them out to look neat but I can't find any real world examples of how that looks. Can anybody help?
>>4827034We are not here to teach you how to google.More flowers the better, give em more P K, only once the flowers have finished should you give them nitrogen, giving them the energy to store for next year.
>>4826614Even better, then you can transcend this mortal body and become a fungal supersymbiont. Or die, it depends on the fungus.
>>4827034Dividing Day Lilies is super easy, as are many other perennials.Dig up the clumps and use a big fork to separate the rootballs into smaller pieces, then replant them spaced apart so they have room to grow, always good to incorporate manure or compost into the soil when doing this.You can use a spade as well, but in my opinion the fork is a bit more gentle than hacking with a spade.It's best to do this in either Spring or Autumn, rather then Summer when they plants are in full bloom and also more likely to dry out in hot weather.>>4827150>We are not here to teach you how to google.Rude prick, this general is here to help people and give advice.
>>4827183just like in my survival horror game…
>>4827248You have just enabled a useless lazy prick to ask stupid and simple questions to people and waste their time explaining something, information they could have looked up themselves.I read >>4827034 Then googled; how to thin out day lilies, this took less than five seconds and would you fuckin believe it; a better explanation that what you gave and a fuck tonne of videos showing you how to do it.Unbelievable, I know.Do you think >>4827034 will read your post and have everything they need to go and do it?? No, they will google it in the end and watch a video.I'm more than happy to explain this rather than how to divide fuckin lilies.I hope >>4827034 reads this and understands how annoying they must be IRL to other people.I'm just sick of lazy fucks in general.
>>4827438Just admit you don't know jack about plants. It's fine. I won't judge, we've all been there.No need to be a miserable twat about it though.
Thoughts on glyphosate? I'm oddly tempted to spray the grass around my trees to make them grow better.
>>4827513My collection of endangered plants would say other wiseI'm happy being a twat if it makes people answer their own stupid questions.
Growing some sunflowers and many of them are at roughly the same stage as picrel. Problem is there seems to be a decent amount of piece of shit aphids in there. I can see the husks but they are inside the bud proper. Blasted it with water stream but obviously not strong enough to really get in there.Wat do?
>>4827610Don't use it. It won't make anything grow better. If you're looking for a phosphorus supplement then just put down bone meal. If you're looking for an herbicide then there are much better options.
>>4827712okay can you recommend herbicides? I want to kill the grass around the trees to the trees grow better.
>>4827623Dilute milk to 10% with water and spray it over your plants. The milk will leave a residue that will gum up their mouthparts. It can also help prevent fungus issues.
>>4827715Glyphosate isn't meant to kill grass anyways. I would recommend putting down a layer of cardboard and covering it with a mulch like compost or bark to keep the cardboard in place. You can also use garden stakes to help hold the cardboard in place. Vinegar can kill grass, but if the tree is young then it could be damaged.
>>4827726vinegar poisons the soil with repeated applications. It sticks around. Glyphosate on the other hand doesn't do that but it does kill grass or any type of plant. Might try the cardboard thing though.
just decimated my garden's slug population bros.
the recent drought has allowed spider mites to kill my potatoes
>>4827745You shouldn't need repeated very many repeated applications just to kill your grass and glyphosate fucks up your soil microbiota and favors bacteria and pathogenic fungi. Definitely try the cardboard thing. It's probably the single most effective way to remove grass, especially if the grass has had time to establish a robust soil seed bank.
My physalis (not sure if tomatillo or ground cherry) plants are growing absurdly tall to the point of regularly collapsing under their own weight. Is that okay? Am I doing something wrong by trying to keep them upright?
>>4827610Just dig a tree ring out, it will look better than some dead brown grass.
>>4827807How did you do it?
>>4827997I ate them
whats with the Big Dairy shills ITT?
>>4827715Mate, your trees don't give a shit about grass. You will only damage your trees by fucking with their roots trying to dig grass out.If grass is growing up the trunks of your trees you can pull it out by hand. The grass around the trunks of your trees is not stealing water from your trees. Your trees have feeder roots that collect water from further out. And the grass kind of helps keep the water from running away and/or evaporating immediately.There are trillions of trees on this planet doing OK without your help. Just chill.>>4827807>just decimated my garden's slug populationYou killed one in 10? Roman soldiers used to have to do that to their comrades as punishment.
>>4825537Looks like an edamame tree to me.
>>4827933usually people stake fruit treees if they start collapsing from their own weight.
>>4827997cut them in half with a shovel. I was warned they could emit unpleasant odors but so far I have not detected unpleasant odors.
>>4828203Where>>4828206Very nice figurine
I was poking around my parents' neglected lemon tree and there were a bunch of what I assumed were suckers, but it turned out they weren't connected at all and had completely independent roots. They claim it has never fruited before, so what conclusion can I draw? They are wrong and it dropped a bunch of seeds, or what else could have happened?
>>4827622All your bitching and complaining and you still didn't answer my original question. I am not talking about dividing a plant. I'm literally talking about the aesthetics of thinning out a specific plant. (Removing leaves, spacing, etc.) Whatever is required to make it look nicer. Providing pictures, beyond what 5 seconds of google can grant somebody asking others who are interested in the same topic as myself.If that isn't good enough for your precious thread you should probably consider killing yourself.
>>4828443Ha! It's not mine. I wish I had one, though. I would do exactly the same thing.
>>4828748You have secateurs, you have the plants, you have the experience how they grow, you are asking other people about the asthetics of your own plant.You just answered your own question;Thin out the parts that need thinning by cutting the bits that need thinning.It's not hard.I don't know what you expect people to say.Just go cut shit until it looks nice.It's like me asking this thread: How should I cut my hair the way I like it?
>>4828748Nta Fren it seems that you are dealing with some type of short tempered autistic sperg. It's best just not to interact with retards fren.
Can Spathiphyllum survive on the balcony or not? I see contradictory information on the internet.
>>4828869I think we all would Is that some kind of fruit
>>4829199no, it's the flower of Hydnora, a parasitic plant
>>4829212Technically everything is a fruit. Nuts are fruits, trees are fruits, vegetables are fruits, the list goes on and on, just ask this retard >>4826023
>>4827438if people asking questions about plants bothers you that much you'd probably be better off in literally any other thread on this website
>>4829326are you really that upset by the fact that nuts are fruits? because I have good news for you, other than nuts, nothing else you just mentioned is a fruit
>>4829459You're a fruit.
>>4829326uhh not quite pine nuts aren't fruits for example.
>>4829326Give it a rest, tiger. Nuts are fruits.Some things commonly referred to as nuts, such as peanuts, almonds and and pine nuts, are neither nuts nor fruits.You can confirm this for yourself by reading a book or just by fucking googling it.
>>4829456It was literally; a retarded question.How do I cut/thin these plant how I like them?Answer: You cut/thin them how you like them.I just like pointing out how stupid people are some times.
biologist really need to find their own words and not hijack words in common use such as "nut"
>>4827610>>4827715>wanting to pay $20 for some fucking poison spray (totally safe for humans though, trust us) instead of just using some cardboard to smother your unwanted grassGood goy.
>>4829978>>4829978Very basedArtificial chemical stuff is 100% rat poisonPlus recently cut grass is rich in nitrogen, these people are not gardening
>>4829763really you wouldn't have complained if he'd called it some random latin shit? you wouldn't have been like "what the fuck does that mean" and been told "it means fruit" and we'd all have found ourselves in the exact same position?
>>4823014>>4826700snapshit them with a Leica
>>4829978>>4829984For me it's the flamethrower.
>>4830106how is that working out for you
>>4829984Rat poison is usually brodifacoum or bromadiolone these days; neither have use as a herbicide.
>>4830226Warfarin too. Also useless against plants/bugs.
>>4830018well in that case calling it fruit would be inaccurate. fruit = sweet tasting soft edible thing plants make and fruits also contain seed(s)
>>4815957Hey folks, I have two amazing carnivorous plants, however the sarracenia git very poorly a while back and almost died, desu, the sundew did too. However with some tlc and some real rainwater they've fought back with a vengeance however now I'm worried about repotting them. If you can see the pot is small and the sarracenia is about to touch the edge. Would it be better to keep them together in the same dirt and transplant the whole lot into new sphagnum soil? Like just cut the pot away and put the whole pit in the new soil. Advice very welcome
>>4830280Circles is rhe rotting part of the sarracenia. Was thinking about separating the healthy bit from the rotten but dont want to kill both plants in the process. Reposting cause I screenshot images in gallery strip at bottom lol
My mom bought a phalaenopsis a couple of years ago, but neither of us know how to take good care of it. When we repotted, I cut a piece of Ligustrum bark and put on the pot, it seems to have worked to keep the plant alive at least, the root grew on it. Right now I bought coconut chips to put on the pot cause I heard it's good for minor nutrients and humidity. But should I add more tree barks so it can get the major nutrients? I've heard they like pinus bark, but is it safe to cut a piece of bark from a random wild tree (pinus or even another ligustrum) and put on the pot?
>>4829978ended up buying it. Applied it today to some weeds we'll see tomorrow if they are kill>>4830106tried it but its a bit tedious and doesn't kill the roots
>>4830586I wouldn't use anything from the wild because you don't know what else could be coming in with it.
>>4830612This.>use a piece of wood from garden in terrarium>over night start hearing faint kinnor sounds>wake up in morning and there is a fully operating bank in the terrarium
>>4830271so a lemon isn't a fruit?
I've been trying to let the yard grow out and had some success. I culled most invasives, and gave the (few) natives a helping hand (it's very cool seeing wildflowers pop out if you give them a chance), I also let clover partially replace the grass because it's pretty. Then the Creeping Charlie struck. I had seen patches of it before, and subsequently killed it, but this past week it appeared everywhere. It's completely decentralized and is threatening to out compete everything.Please tell me there's a hidden way to jihad these bastards without going scorched earth.Another question; The creeping charlie has never been an issue before. I read that it prefers damp n' shady environments, has my mat of grass and clover gotten tall and thick enough to trap moisture, provide shade, and be a perfect micro climate for charlie? \>Michigan, 6b
>>4830755Pull it up and eat it. As the grass gets thicker it should outcompete it, especially if you're pulling it regularly.
i potted some dandelionswhen they flower next year, do i need to cut em off or nah? no one will ever know, but am i an asshole if i let them spread all over?
>>4830271That is like complaining biologists don’t consider whales, dolphins, jellyfish, starfish, lobster, etc fishes despite them all being animals that live in water or that bees and flies are not birds despite being animals that fly. You are just more used to modern classification of animals than plants.
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>>4823075Nah it can just happen randomly sometimesOne of my divisions was trapless for a few weeks this year whilst another division of the same clone right next to it in the same pot was making traps just fine. I think it can be triggered by some sort of shock but they get over it
There are fucking thrips on my mint. I thought that mint was like THE plant that bugs don't fuck with!?
It's insane that I've had more bug problems after getting a greenhouse than when I just had my plants out in the open. That was kind of the whole reason I got it. What's worse is that the bugs that infest my plants now are so much more insidious and hard to kill than the piddly cabbage whites that plagued them previously. I feel like fucking shit now. Neem oil doesn't do shit. Mosquito bits don't do shit.
Warning: Braindead tier question.>Does having a plant in my room attract insects?
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>>4831026Depends on the plant and how you're taking care of it. Always water from the bottom so you don't get an infestation of fungus gnats.
