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/>Previously on /plant/ >>4879086
I think mealybugs are cute
>>4888900So are Tribbles.
>>4888900Cockroaches are cute, too. Doesn't mean I want em in my cupboards.
>receive a shipment of neps>less than 1 week has passed>30% is looking like its about to die already (black leaves, droopy, some with a black growth tip)What am I doing wrong fellasTemps are about 24C and humidity stays at 60%, theyre under grow lightsWhat can be so wrong to make some of them decline SO QUICKLY???
>>4888394>Why is my S. Purpurea developing new growth points instead of becoming big what the fuck is this retarded bitch doing holy shit.Help
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>>4889086Happy little purple men
>>4888856it's a very fire adapted ecosystem. Interestingly though, while the other species in the area, banksia integrifolia and spinulosa, which grow in much more fire prone habitats (seasonally dry eucalypt forests), will in my experience eventually release their seeds and germinate with or without fire (though heat and fire do definitely accelerate the process), b. robur, which grow near creeks and wetlands where fire is much less common are actually much more fire dependent and will not release seeds at all without burning. My personal theory is that while fire will generally improve any of the banksia species prospects growing from seed by clearing out other plants and fertilising the soil with ash it's especially important in the wetter areas that b. robur grows in because the canopy tends to be much thicker and fire much less frequent so it's far more important for it to synchronise its germination to just after a fire as that might be the only time in years that significant amounts of sunlight actually reach the groundapart from the interesting ecology I just love how the thing looks to be honest. Big fuck off spiny paddles for leaves and massive flowers. Looks like something straight out of the jurassic. Wish people grew it more oftenThe fire dependence means it's basically extirpated from anywhere near human settlement unless deliberately planted. I would have loved to have collected it from habitat but to tell you god's truth I saw it planted in the garden of some country club looking thing driving past and just jumped the fence and just nicked some cones. It was at least adjacent to somewhere I know it grows wild so maybe it's got some good genetics anyway
>>4889006>>4889086hi ther
Is it okay to keep a tarp+rocks over the area I planted bulbs for a few weeks? Skunks keep digging them up. They don't eat them they just dig them up looking for bugs to eat.
>>4889136Should be fine until they send up leaves. Could you just water them in more so the soil isn't visibly disturbed?
>>4889063I wouldn't worry about it, purps are tough just let them do their thing.You guys growing anything cool from seed?1/3 LW
>>48893662/3 Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus #1296(while I was away on a trip my roommate put this outside for a few days I can't tell if it's it's partway through dying or just looks particularly hard grown)
>>48893673/3 Turbinicarpus ysabelae (HO-776) #453.84
>>4889104oWo
>>4889368Beautiful view
>>4889366Uh oh a village settled in
>>4889418>>4889419Incredible.
>>4889366I sowed these Copiapoas early last year
>>4889366I got two Asclepias brachistephana and one Fouquieria splendens seedlings. I'm both very excited and very worried about the Fouqueria, two other seedlings died very quickly and this one still has leaves though they don't look as good as I'd like.
Where on 4chan could I ask about mushroom ID?
>>4889607>>>/out/mush
>>4889617Thanks
Anyone here familiar with Tillandsia? Can I just kinda set them wherever as long as there's good light, or do they need like a cup of water? Epiphytes are fuckin weird. I've just been dunking them in a pot of water once a week and misting them throughout. They seem to be doing alright so far.
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>>4889726The fuck? Not at all what I meant to upload but now you all get to see that too I guess. My bad.
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>>488996810/08/24(Tue)05:07:45More than 24 hours without a post.I have had to sell a plant because it got to big for my home.Alocasia wentii got to 1.5 meters wide.I did take a baby plant from it which by this time next year will be the same size.I'm going to keep it in a smaller pot and cut the roots.Is this going to work??
>>4890506For transplanting, or are you trying to keep it from growing as fast? If you're transplanting it then I would say not to damage the roots if you can help it. I have no idea if you'd be able to keep it small by trimming the roots regularly, but it will at least slow the growth.
>>4889716depends on where they are native, some need constant high humidity others only sporadic humidity with dry periodsgenerally they all want sunyou can spray them with diluted fertilizer every now and then in growth periods>>4890506why would you cut roots
>>4890506>I have had to sell a plant because it got to big for my home.That sucks, but at least you hopefully got some decent money from it, and you got another one to replace it. I wonder what I'll do once my Monstera gets too big. I started it from a tiny little shoot.Speaking of alocasias, can anyone help ID the mystery meat here? 3$ Walmart special I grabbed on impulse. I'm guessing it's just an a. Amazonica cultivar. It was kinda sad when I got it but it's greened up since getting water and light.
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>>4890665looks like Alocasia 'Poly' (also sold as "Polly" but it's poly as in polyploid)
>>4890664Why would I cut the roots?To keep it small??>>4890636I want to keep it small and grow slow. Like a bonsai house plant?The leaves on the one I sold were 60cmNO, actually the reason I got rid of it as well is because it was dripping water all over the place as well.If I can keep it small I'll keep it.Pretty Polly
Myrmecodia bungei a bit leggy but shaping up very nicely ever since I put it in moss
>>4890676That might work. You'll probably have to trim the top regularly too.
How would one go about removing rotted and dead roots from something like this? Just snip all the dead ones?
>>4890751Not sure growing it in a clear bowl of water is the best idea long term. It's not an aquatic plant.
>>4890800it's been in this thing for like over a year (it wasn't mine until just recently) I'm trying to bring it back from death. It's got great color and seems to be fine at first glance but there is so many rotted roots and a couple dead stems I need to do something soon.
What potting mix do you guys use for cacti? I have mine in generic cactus soil with extra perlite thrown in, but I'm afraid the soil is going to get solid as a rock and stop roots from growing.Do cacti do well in something that's mostly gravel? Like what you would keep a lithops in?
I was getting ready to transplant a few trees for autumn, but the area im digging in has old very fine roots. Is it better to dig up the old roots or to keep them in place since theres nothing drawing up the nutrients. Will the saplings use the old roots and graph to them or just become entangled?
My Hederas are getting touchy with each other
>>4890902I use a 'cactus/succulent' soil as a light base, and depending on what I have in stock add: coarse sand, pumice (7-20mm), coarse perlite, coco chip and zeolite.Usually end up about using a ratio around 20-30% soil: amendments then mix it up in a 25L container and use as needed.
>>4890923To add to this, get real pumice gravel, not the 'gnat barrier' stuff usually found in small bags, that stuff is more like concrete dust once wet and will choke the roots.
>>4890699Ive had no luck with ant plants so far.Which conditions do you have yours in?I very recently acquired a lecanopteris crustacea but it looks like its struggling. I grow it along my nepenthes.
>>4888040You can grow local ferns easy peasy. They are used to the moulds, slimes, bacteria in your locale. Anything slightly exotic will shit the bed hard in the early spore stages. Fern primary growth tactic is to piss spores on everything possible until the shit sticks, only 0.00001% of spores will grow from a plant every year without help from an autistic anorak. If you want multiple plants to sell on you have to multiply the autism.
>>4890902I use Growth Technology brand Cactus Focus, with nothing else added and it works great for most of my succs.I have a couple of Euphorbias which basically haven't grown at all in 2 years but are otherwise green and healthy, so I'm going to try a different potting mixture next year, but otherwise all my succs are doing well in Cactus Focus.I've seen people have good success growing in pure pumice gravel, which I am curious to try myself.
>>4890923>>4890925You can use different grades of crushed lump charcoal for the sand, pumice, and zeolite
How does it look? Healthy looking or sick?
Are there any uses for my African milk tree's sap? I'm depressed and I want to feel like a druid.
I have a Hibiscus syriacus plant indoors, and it's starting to lose its leaves because of the cold. When they all fall off and it goes dormant, do I just leave it until next spring? Do I still need to water it during the winter?
>>4891149Euphorbia sap was historically used as a purgative, hence the common name 'spurge'.I wouldn't recommend it though, as the sap will irritate your mouth, lips, and throat, which is likely why we don't use it today.
>>4891185They grow outdoors here in the UK so not sure how viable it will be kept indoors. It's probably too warm in your house for the plant to truly go dormant, will need to be at least below 10C, maybe even below 5C for that.
>>4891126looks ok soil looks bit organic tho
>>4889104Squeee!
>>4891149>>4891287The sap of many Euphorbias is toxic and can cause irreversible eye damage if you get it in your eyes.
>>489093180% rh @ 20 - 25CThese are about 1.2 years oldAt first I had them on pine mulch thinking they'd be good with just high humidity and the occasional watering but they grew extremely slow managing just 2-4 leaves after germinating and eventually even dried up looking very emaciated. Some of them did not survive.I now have them sitting on the mulch they germinated on so they have something to hold onto and a layer of sphagnum moss ontop that covers the caudex to keep it wet but not waterlogged. This did wonders for their root growth and soon after they put out new leaves quickly.I water them when the moss is still slightly moist but no longer wet to the touch and pour off the excess water (the kitchen dish I have them in has no drainage holes). I can't tell you much about fertilizing as I have been quite lackadaisical with it. They are fertilized rarely and infrequently with whatever generic house plant fertilizer I happen to have, which is not ideal but they are alive. Orchid fertilizer, maybe more diluted than the instructions recommend, is probably better suited.Also they are sitting under 4 50 lumen leds which seems to be too little but still sufficient, I'll put them back under a 100W grow light along with other seedlings once my tent frees up again.If I was you I'd try putting lecanopteris on orchid mulch + moss or just straight onto moss at above 70% rh and 20+CIn botanical gardens you can also often find antplants tied to a pad of moss and coco coir on a branch as they do with most epiphytes. They usually tie them with fishing line or cut up pantyhose (or they use hot glue)>>4890699I got the species wrong, this is Myrmecodia beccariimaybe I should actually read the labels I put on stuff
>>4891478I have the lecanopteris on the same mix I use for my nepenthes-orchid bark-sphagnum moss-perliteretains humidity great but also light and aeratedHumidity is the weak point of my setup as it stays at about 60% with some dips to 50%As for light I may be giving it too much, currently using a Mars Hydro TS1000 dimmed at 50% power. Neps love it but maybe the fern not so much.
during summer my Meyer lemon is outside and during winter I take it into a relatively cold garage. Can I take the Meyer lemon into the living room during winter instead? Someone told me if I did that all the leaves would fall off.
guys the leaves are falling off the trees. winter is coming and i wont be able to enjoy green things for a while...
>>4891545Start an herb garden inside. You'll have green things and fresh herbs all year round.
>>4891545What >>4891547 said.And also try to find natives and plant them!Look up which herbs or plants in general are native to your area, and plant them inside! You will have both herbs and beautiful flowers all year round.
Just measured my grow lights using PhotoneHere are the stats450 PPFD20 DLI (12h)31k luxAm I gonna cook my nepenthes, orchids and ferns?
>>4891566From what I can find the maximum recommended for neps is about 200ppfd,but dimming the lights would also reduce the DLI, which happens to be in the ideal range right now, can someone help me here?
>>4891566>>4891570You should be fine. If you're worried about it you can dim the light and give it 18 hours instead of 12.
>>4891581So should I leave it at 450ppfd? its more than double the higher end they supposedly tolerateOr do you mean to lower to 200 PPFD and increase time?
>>4891585I think you can leave it on full. If you see an issue you can dim it.
>sage
>>4889443Those look great, my turbs are growing much more slowly
hello all!I wanted to buy a black dhalia flower for someone but haven't been able to find any instead i could only find "tubers" i think they are called so i am thinking of buying and trying to grow one indoors at least until spring comes. would anyone happen to know what is the darkest(or most small pot friendly) strain of dhalia? or anybother general advice would help me a lot since my only experience with plants is getting sprouts once and then they died. the temperature in my house does fluctuate a bit since i have wood heating, will this be an issue?
>>4891545winter sucks Hawaiibros have it so good >>4891513bump
Turns out my tap water is about 50ppmCan I use it safely to water all my plants? (carnivorous ones included)Up until now I've been collecting rainwater or distilled water for the picky ones.
>>489188750ppm of what?
>>4891887Let it stand for at least 24 hours and at room temperature.Also this: >>4891899 ???
>>4891899>>4891915>50ppm of what?Idk whatever tap water usually has lmao.At such low concentration it shouldnt be an issue right?Specially if I let rest for 24h so the chlorine evaporates as suggested by>4891915
>>4891972low concentration of what?
>>4891975>low concentration of what?Idk whatever tap water usually has lmao.
>>4891972Letting is sit doesn't reduce dissolved minerals though. A jug of distilled water is like a dollar, I don't see a reason to take the risk with tap water.
>>4892045Seems like the original point is being lost.Is 50ppm tap water safe for sensitive plants such as most carnivorous plants or calatheas?I know I can buy distilled or collect rainwater, it's what I've been doing for years now.
>>4892065Should be fine
>>4892065I didn't read the whole discussion, my bad.I never tested my tap water's ppm, but using it gave my calathea crispy tips, I switched over to distilled. Didn't even risk it for any of my carnivores.
Any tall/long grass for screening my house and hiding myself for fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr1MvzAr26E
>>4892324me in my gfs pubes
I'm moving into a new house and it has a blocked up ornamental fireplace that looks sorta like pic related. I thought it would be cool to line the base with a waterproof liner and grow something in it. It doesn't get any direct sunlight and the space above is obviously a bit limited (about 1.5ft). Any interesting ideas?
>>4892449Whoops.
>>4892449You can tuck a light up there, otherwise you'll be limited to low light plants. You can get an app called Photone to check the light level of that spot before you commit to anything. If your model isn't supported then you can calibrate it with the sun on a clear day.
>>4892462I'm happy to place a light up there to make things possible, I was more after inspiration since I've only grown basic bitch stuff before and though this would be an interesting centrepiece.
>>4892480It definitely will. Put a rack or a shelf at the back so you can have smaller plants framing whatever you put in the middle. Maybe something that smells nice like herbs or flowers. Flowers would be hard to keep up all the time because you'd have to force your plants to flower and then let them rest for a while before they will flower again. The herbs will smell good all the time and you can eat them. Your centerpiece should be a large planter with some neat plants in it. Are you familiar with "thriller, filler, spiller"? Basically the idea is to put something big and showy in the middle or the back of the pot, surround it with smaller plants, and put plants that hang over the front and sides of the planter on the edges of the pot.
>>4892488>put plants that hang over the front and sides of the planter on the edges of the potHaving something that hangs over the edge of the rail that obscures the liner or planter is an excellent idea, thanks.
>>4890800>>4890871The dirt jew fears the aquaponic chad
I've planted a flamboyant (Delonix regia) tree on a closeby square, but I'm not sure if I should protect the bark. It has lenticels and was even slightly green, so covering it could hinder transpiration and gas exchange. Lastly, wouldn't the bark wrap just accumulate moisture, potentially leading to infections? The only proper study I found was the effectiveness against bear attacks.
>>4892562Why do you feel like you should protect the bark?
>>4892573It's in an urban area where all kind of shit can happen, it's not uncommon here for people to damage the bark just because and cost the life of young trees. This one I planted is a little isolated so I don't expect anyone to try and do anything, but I was wondering if it was a worthy practice just so I could get used to it, in case I need to plant in more vulnerable areas (sidewalks for example).
>>4892449>line the base with a waterproof liner and grow something in itwhat about drainage holes?
what is the bush with big leaves and small flowers that grows on the side of the road in tropical east asia, and when you break it, it releases a white sap I don't know what it's called but i see it all the time in Thailand I wish i could take plants from there
>>4892692Could it be Euphorbiaceae?
>>4892732yeah, it looks very similarIt may very well be in that family
>>4888898I have a patch of periwinkle under one of my 100 year old oak trees and it looks beautiful in the spring. It's a shame it's invasive in my area.
>>4891871>HawaiibrosBut you can't plant something with chill hours requirement like most of Prunus...
>>4892680I'll just add a thin drainage layer at the bottom? I have some gravel lying around and I'll buy leca if it's too big.
>>4892985Crush some lump charcoal and put that at the bottom. It won't be as heavy as the gravel and it will hold more water.
Top: Black Bamboo half of the small garden to protect aviary from the wind, still got to trim them fully. The white jar flowering plants (dunno their name) are an accident but I just let them grow.Left: ~1 year timelapse of carnivorous plant bog, just to the right of the black bamboo, upgraded from 2 vases to pool liner (floating plants cover the water though). What are the weeds on the early pic called?Right: Aquarium plants, if it counts.
>>4893070What are the tall aquarium plants either side in the foreground with long single stems and an orb on top?
>>4893075Eriocaulon cinereum100% need: CO2 & actual strong light (none that come with aquariums, also avoid overuse of floating plants above them).Recommended: RO water with shrimp-safe levels of added salts (100-150 PPM), not hard water
can an autist ID this plant? It’s a bamboo of some kind? What should be done to ensure it’s survival? It looks like it’s in a stage of shedding at the moment.
Should I pissing in my potted plants every once in a while to introduce nitrogen? I guess I'd water right after so I don't "burn" them? For example, I have a potted banana indoors that I feel needs some love.
>>4893209>buy cheap as shit actual fertilizer>'nah'or>pee on your plants>'now we're talking'I mean it CAN work if you dilute it like 1:10 urine to water, but honestly do you really wanna risk your plants smelling like pee
>>4893209Just get a slow release fert, it's good for half a year or so.>>4888898Do you guys actually mix your potting mix or just layer it?
>>4893122Doesn't look like bamboo but some sort of dracaena.
>>4893076Thanks for the info.
>>4893209If you're going to piss in your plants then piss into a bucket of crushed lump charcoal instead. It will make a slow release fertilizer that won't burn your plants.
>>4893255I make my own potting mix. The only other layer in my potted plants is an inch or two of crushed lump charcoal at the bottom for drainage.
>>4893070God I want to eventually get around to a tank that has an insane amount of practical use. My biggest issue is deciding which animals I want in it. I want something edible that tastes fine, but keeps the red algae I'd like to grow under control. Cherry shrimp are good control, but taste like nothing and eat like mush. Amano shrimp would be great, but I hear breeding them is the biggest issue. Any recs?
>>4893215>>4893255>>4893304ok thanks anons
guys i was gonna make a compost tea and i used veggie/fruit scraps with steel cut oats and chia seeds and old pine needles and weeds and stuff, covered it in water in a closed bucket. it's been well over a month, maybe two. what have i done? do i bury it in an area devoid of life out in the woods somewhere?
>>4893533Nah, just pour it over your plants and water the area. Usually you want to make the compost before you make the tea, but it will still work. Maybe consider vermicomposting. You can keep a little tower vermicomposter under your sink. If you want I can tell you how to make one out of tupperwares
>>4893573>You can keep a little tower vermicomposter under your sinki always knew it'd come down to this. i've got plans for the worms already. tysm anon.
>>4892985>I'll just add a thin drainage layer at the bottom?Drainage doesn't really work like that.. you'll just be raising the wettest portion of soil higher up and closer to the roots.>>4893122Dracaena sanderiana>>4893255Potting medium should always be well mixed. Having layers of different materials of different sizes will creates drainage problems, for the same reasons that putting gravel in the bottom of pots does.
>>4889443holy shiet youre so much better then me!, but im still improoving after many years
>>4893602No problem, anon.>>4893630>you'll just be raising the wettest portion of soil higher up and closer to the roots.That's not true a drainage layer will prevent oversaturation while a potful of potting soil will draw up that moisture and cause problems for the plant roots.
>starting to frost at night>peppers still taking their sweet time to ripenI'm getting sick of dragging these fuckers inside every night...
>>4893674ntayrt but pic related.Soil acts like a sponge, retaining water by capillary action, among other things.If you take a wet sponge and sit it on a pile of gravel or sand or charcoal or whatever, the gravel or whatever doesn't magically suck the water out of the sponge.Gravel and sand have applications for drainage in landscaping and engineering on much bigger scales. It doesn't work for potted plants.
>>4893523Dunno if you get anything edible out of a 9gal my guy. I haven't researched the topic either but AFAIK the only edible algae are saltwater types, the ones you get in normal aquariums are more like the equivalent of dusty moss, just a sign of imbalanced parameters and something you want to get rid off.Saltwater aquariums are about 3-5x more expensive so I'm not sure that's an effective way to get your veggies. Plus constantly removing and replanting stuff destroys aesthetics, the word you're looking for is "tank/farm" rather than "aquarium" there.As for Amano they need brackish water to reproduce, while living in freshwater during their adult stage. It's possible to get a smaller brackish setup at home for that purpose but I've no clue how easy it'd be. Plus they seem small.Bigger than them (better meal?) are Bamboo shrimp, here's my own being addited to the outflow like he's eating ass in a trance for hours. There's also Vampire shrimp (Atya gabonensis) closed to a crawfish size. Or you know.... just straight up crawfish, aren't they sold alive for sub-dollar prices each? Sounds like the best option of all.
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>>4893791>ntayrt
>>4893791You're ignoring the situation presented, there's no drainage holes in the bottom of the "pot", because it's a fireplace. This would be like not having a drainage layer in a terrarium.
>>4893699You can try pulling a tarp over them, but it's not as good of frost protection as your house.
>>4893791Go ahead and look up a self watering planter or a wicking bed. I think it will be a revelation for you.
>>4893699GreenhouseParaffin heater
>>4893792>anything edible out of a 9gal my guyI just found out there's an aquarium general. My bad. But I'm going for red algae mainly, with edible animals as a side hope. Red algae absorbs greenhouse gasses like crazy and I can extract the oils to sell at ridiculous prices since it's great for skin. Whatever's left after will be used as fertilizer. Not that it isn't edible, but it's really only a thickener in food, and I have much better uses for red algae than a thickening agent.
>>4893848Well that's a dumb situation. "Drainage" layers in terrariums fill up like like fishtanks when overwatered. They don't make the water magically disappear.>>4893852How on Earth do you think that wicking beds working by capillary action contradicts anything I said?Water clings to soil, and soil can indeed suck water upwards, just like a sponge. The issue is that people think gravel can magically suck water out of potting soil. It can't.Also, watering and the natural decomposition of organic matter in the potting progressively soil fill up the spaces between the pieces of gravel with smaller and smaller particles, so you just end up with wet sludge anyway. All the gravel does is effectively reduce the volume of the pot available to the plant for normal, healthy root growth.
Found this little fella on my new plant, what we figured out was probably a sort of Echeveria Cultivar of some kind. He must be about 1mm in diameter, white, still alive, vaguely shaped like a micro-potato bug, with what sort of looks like a very thin layer of white fuzz on him (but it’s way too small to tell for sure). Does anyone know if this is a pest of some kind, or a friend? It is difficult to tell if he did any damage to the leaf he was on, or if that was just scratches in the wax from me getting him off the plant.
>>4894081Did you understand that there's always water at the bottom of wicking beds and self watering planters? It doesn't cause any issues. Soil is like a sponge in that it can only soak up so much water. the rest of the water drains out. That's what the drainage layer is for. It allows the excess water to drain out of your soil. That prevents root rot. It does not cause it. I thought you'd be able to figure that out.
>>4893821normie/10
>>4894126That's a mealybug, and he's an absolute cunt. Easily the worst pest in houseplants.Dab them with a cotton bud soaked in alcohol, for larger infestations spray the entire plant.Isolate any infected plants for at least forever.You say it was on a new plant? Don't buy anything from where you got it ever again and tell everyone you know to never buy plants from there.If you have root mealybugs then God help you.
>>4894126Read this: >>4894168Take it seriously.Burn it, burn the plant, burn your house, burn your neighbourhood, town, state.But seriously strip the whole plant of soil, use a bucket or room temperature water and just swish that plant and the roots in there then look over every millimetre of it, spray it with pesticide, plant it back up in coco perlite and vermiculite.Keep it in quarantine still for about two months.
>>4894168>>4894186Thanks for the early warning guys. Getting at them right now, found maybe two more. Plant might be a little over a month old now, so it seems like a new infection, even though that astounds me given this thing isn’t anywhere close to another source of mealy bugs unless my roommate or I somehow tracked them in (I’m on the 5th story above all the surrounding trees about maybe forty to fifty feet up.) I’m planning on getting new soil and repotting tomorrow.
>>4888898Can you put vertical slab mounted orchid into a pot? Google doesn't do shit.
>>4894152>Soil is like a sponge in that it can only soak up so much water. The rest of the water drains out. the drainage layer ... allows the excess water to drain out of your soil. That prevents root rot. It does not cause it.Oh, sorry. I see now that the caption on the meme I lazily posted without reading says that a "drainage layer" can cause root rot. My bad. I didn't mean that.A "drainage layer" (however worthless it might be) does NOT cause root rot in a pot that has a drainage hole, or in an undrained set-up such as a terrarium THAT IS NOT OVERWATERED.I thought the meme was merely illustrating that all a drainage layer does is move the water table of the pot higher up into the pot, which it absolutely does do. (I will crop the text off the meme for any future use).My points remain. A "drainage layer" does fuck-all for plants in pots with an unobstructed drainage hole. All it does is reduce the volume of soil available to the plant. And when the spaces between the gravel or sand particles inevitably fill up with smaller mineral particles and decomposed organic matter any ostensible "drainage" effect must cease to exist because those magical gaps are no longer there.On the subject of terrariums, in the great majority of cases people either overwater them so that they fill up like fishtanks, or they try to prevent that by underwatering, so everything dries up and crisps out. But I hope fireplace anon succeeds. Please post bulk pics of progress and success.
>>4894257You're not doing shit by not posting name and photo of orchid.
>>4894166Why do you injure me, anon?
>it's a anti drainage layer schizo episode
>>4894276I think it's called cock town orchid or something, looks like picrel but it's on a wood slab.
>>4894239It's a good plan if you can be arsed to do it with every new plant.I try, I have a huge tub outside with coco perlite and vermiculite in it, once I've washed the plant I just scoop it into the pot and push in the plant.I'm sure not everyone will agree with just coco, but, works for me.Tropical, houseplants, ferns, bulbs and succulents.
>>4894275You're just wrong. You know that. You looked up self watering planters which have a drainage layer and no hole and are meant to store water in the bottom. You looked up wicking beds which have a drainage layer and no hole and are meant to store water in the bottom. Neither cause root rot. At this point why don't you try an experiment? Get three bowls and two sponges. Put a layer of gravel or marbles or whatever in one bowl. Fill one bowl with water and put the sponges in it until they're completely saturated. Put one in the empty bowl and one in the bowl with the drainage layer. What happens? Which sponge is dryer? Why do you think that is?
>>4894275Root rot is not caused by "wet feet" or other buzzword. It's caused by lack of aeration, or air circulation, so if your mix is chunky enough it won't rot. We are literally submerging plant roots nowadays with hydroponic, but they ain't rotting, that's because of aeration.
I'm using crushed limestone for drainage in my potted plants. Most of my plants are cacti and succulents. Is that bad?
How do I get into flowers?
>>4894408limestone raise your soil ph, but idk if it's in the bottom of the pot
>>4894409wtfWhat do you want?A green room? I have a nice little jungle room.I have a weed tent I also grow cuttings in.I have basic plants in my kitchen window.I have plants / flowers I like in the garden.I also have fake plants and trees in my bedroom because; not enough light.What do you want?Where do you want it?Do you want to grow from seed?Go to a garden centre and buy something you like.This might not be popular but, it doesn't matter if you kill a plant, there's more.But read up on stuff and try not to.I threw away a peace lily, because fuck you Lily.
>>4894409Don't.You'll get called gay/tranny/sissy for liking flowers.
>>4894475Don't they already think that if you like plants?
>>4888898Hi, can anon id this plant ? They left it on my office, with a dionaea tag, but i ain't that blind
>>4894453Maybe I could start by learning their names.
>>4894495Another one with the light on, the white spot are water droplets, as it was raining outside
I changed the soil in my hoya cause half of it was gone, and after a week the bottom leaves are getting yellow.
>>4894495>>4894506Looks like a devil's backbone plant, a lovely name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_daigremontiana
>>4894511you gone done fucked up
>>4894512Thanks a lot anon, I discovered a new species of plants
>>4888938FUCK I hate berberis
>>4894506thats mary jane bruh
>>4894511Sounds like overwatering issue.
>>4894672I didn't water it all week so it was just the moisture from the soil.
Any northeast/new england anons know if any good books that document rare plant species in our region?
does someone know which species of pine this is? It's from the Hobbit set in New Zealand
Bilboa bagendii
>>4894696Is it actually pine? They have a lot of native species. Kauri is under threat but exists in the North of the North Island from memory and has small leaves too.
>>4894702Yes it's definitely pine. The needle color reminds me of pinus nigra but I don't think it's pinus nigra.
Thoughts on GA3?
>raping your plant
It has been four days since I bought this tree fern from the online store (with two days shipping). Am I doing it right? Does anyone here know what species it this?
>>4894746Shit wrong pic.
>>4894746everyone should have a kutaka in their garden to eat snails.
greetings /plant/my sweet grandma gave me 2 of these mother of thousands as a present.how do i prevent murdering them and having an awkward moment when my granny comes to visit for tea?
>>4894702>>4894705https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podocarpus_totaraThey have native pine too apparently, could be some random endemic.
>>4894865that's not even in the pinaceae family nigger
>>4894891Conifers and pines are basically the same shit, fraud ass leaves.
>>4894906pines (pinus) are just one genus of the conifers (pinophyta), I'm tired of this shit
>>4893209I make leaf mold. I pile up my autumn leaves and pour piss on them. They decompose faster. I have a regular compost pile with kitchen scraps that I use to make top dressing compost, but the leaf mold compost makes a nicer amendment for potting mix. It'll have the texture of peat but it'll be enriched with nitrogen from all the urine.
>>4893791I grow bog plants indoors and I grow some of them in aquariums with a layer of crushed charcoal and perlite in the bottom. They need to stay constantly moist but they don't like their crowns submerged. It works well for drosera, sarracenia, and venus flytraps. Tray method works better for larger plants, but I start seedlings this way.
>>4894453You be trolling along right?Who gives a fuck about names, go read a dictionary
>>4894840wouldnt keep it in peat moss longterm for a start
planted out my goodenia and he's got a flower again. This time it looks much more normal
wasn't there a terrarium general on this board?
>>4891471>The sap of many Euphorbias is toxic and can cause irreversible eye damage if you get it in your eyes.Maybe I could make some kind of gun/spray to use against potential home invaders? We don't have a "second amendment" in my country.
>>4895118be careful it doesn't become a badenia
>>4895268
>>4894275I put rocks in the bottom of my pots so that high winds don't knock them over
>>4895268he wouldn't do that he's my bestenia
Cannabis is growing nicely
How fast do common indoor ferns grow?I want to get bunch of them, so I'm wondering if I should just buy the small plants for few bucks or get fewer big plants and then potentially divide or something. The price is like 3-4 small ones = 1 big one.
>>4895650you can almost deduce how fast they grow by looking at the price difference between snall plants and big plants.
One of my rebutias which I grew from seed flowered a few weeks ago and the other day I found it looking deadIt was shrivelled and had no green colour at all but after watering it it swelled up and is green againMaybe this is an adaptation to rebutia's natural environment
>>4895650After one year a small will be a big one.Give it a slightly larger pot but not huge.Feed it every week.Depends what kinda fern.
>notice pothos leaf is 1% lighter shaded than the others>already know what's going to happenhardy and "thrives with little light" my ass
>>4893304How long do I soak the charcoal in it?
>>4896249Longer is better. I'd give it at least a week.
I recently moved to a new place and I want to clean and flatten out my garden. It's winter, I haven't decided what to do with it yet after I clean and flatten it, I just know I want an area dedicated to just herbs.Problem: Garden top layer is dirty, tiny pieces of assorted garbage/rocks/wood chips/charcoal/grass. Uneven.What's the best approach?I'm gonna try me best to explain what my plan is but I do not know a lot of gardening terminology.>use a fine rake to clean everything on the top layer (worry about separating shit later)>use a pick axe to break apart and loosen the soil and rake/pick up the grass>move soil around to even it outTo help even/flatten, I can also borrow one of those small soil compactors which you push around.Is this the right approach?
>>4896339>I can also borrow one of those small soil compactors which you push around.Absolutely don't do that, compacting soil is a terrible idea, it leads to anaerobic conditions in soil that kill all useful plants.Other than that it's not a bad plan.>>use a pick axe to break apart and loosen the soil and rake/pick up the grassIs soil really so hard you need to use a pick axe?For weed removal better idea would be to turn soil with a digging shovel and remove roots as you go, this will aerate soil and prevent weeds from coming back, if you don't remove roots then they'll just grow back from them, especially rhizome weeds, those can have interconnected underground mat of roots all over the place.Then when soil is loose after turning it's really easy to even it out with a leveling rake.It is a lot of work to turn the soil and if you do that it's best to seed and plant right after you are done before any weeds can take root, otherwise you might need to do it again later to remove weeds again so consider cleaning it in stages instead of all at once.Also keep charcoal and woodchips if you can, those are great as mulch and in compost, you can also throw all the weeds and grass into a pile to compost them but only if you have enough to build a large pile to generate enough heat to kill all the seeds within, you would need at least cubic meter for that.
>>4896346Thank you.>compacting soil is a terrible ideaOk.>Is soil really so hard you need to use a pick axe?Not at all, in fact I can depress the soil just by walking (not a hamplanet).So instead of a pick axe, just use a shovel instead.>compostYup, part of the plan. For now I'll just gather everything that can decompose in one place, rocks/stones/pebbles in another, and garbage/plastics in the dump.>a lot of work to turn the soil and if you do that it's best to seed and plant right afterI see, I guess in that case I will just clean the top layer first and deal with the weeds section by section, starting with my herbs.Speaking of herbs - I want thyme, rosemary, and chives.Peak winter here is usually around 0c, snow only occurs maybe 1-3 days a year.
>>4896133feed it more ya cunt
>>4896405It's too cold to keep it next to the window now.
>>4896408heat your home more ya cunt
>>4896379if you want to do this the lazy/expensive way you can rent a sod cutter aka turf cutter and use it to take the whole top layer off and flip it upside down. That'll kill all the weeds and grass and stuff by cooking the roots in the sun
>>4894239It seems that the new leaves are growing towards the place where one of the older, bigger leaves fell of when I first got this thing and it was worse for wares. Is this a bad thing? Will it correct itself? Other than that, I’ve been rotating the plant to try and even out the stem and prevent it from going crooked, but will this adversely affect newer leaves coming in, which will turn towards the light while the lower leaves remain unaffected?Also, fingers crossed, it’s mealybug free. The two or three that I initially found where all slaughtered moments after, and i haven’t found any since. I never ended up repotting, but I stirred up the soil looking to see if I could find anything (I didn’t) although I plan to repot when I get the chance (hopefully next weekend if I’m not busy again).
>>4895248Lol. You will blind yourself trying. And it's sticky as shit so I don't know how you could turn it into a spray.Just get a heavy metal fire poker or a cricket bat or baseball bat or something.>>4896249>>4896253You should shit in it too. And then vomit on top.>>4896464It looks fine. Don't fuck with it too much. Rotating it is fine but don't unnecessarily fuck with the roots. Damaging the roots provides entry points for disease.
>>4896379>I can depress the soil just by walkingThat's good, uncompacted soil is best for herbs, veggies and vast majority of plants, there are few plants that like compacted soil.>Peak winter here is usually around 0c,Peak as in the warmest it gets or usual temperature in the middle of winter?If you winters are really mild and soil barely ever freezes you can plant and seed frost resistant stuff even in the middle of winter.You can forget planting stuff that needs a lot of chill hours or colder climate in this case tho, it won't do well at all in this hot climate.>thyme, rosemary, and chives.Those are low maintenance, really easy to keep assuming temperate climate, chives will struggle in hot climate.
>>4896484Good to hear. I figured messing with the roots was a bad idea, it felt wrong to do, so the only reason I decided to was out of contingency.
>>4896651Don't worry. It'll be fine. Those things are as tough as hell. About the only way you can kill it is by root rot, from letting it sit in wet soil too long. If the leaves of a succulent feel stiff, as if they'll snap when you bend them, that means that plant's cells are full of water, so you shouldn't water it.If the leaves are floppy you can give it a good, deep watering until lots of water comes running out the bottom of the pot. Then let the soil dry out and don't even think about watering it again for a week or two.If another leaf breaks off, just leave it in the pot. It should take root and become a new plant.
>>4895555>Numerals completely ignoredChequed and nice buds. I'm trying to grow some for the first time from mystery seeds and so far it's going alright. One's way bigger than the other for some reason, though.
>>4896927Looks good, make sure you get the genders on them correct so you dont ruin the final product. If its a male toss asap or put it somewhere far away from the femaleI've only managed to grow it successfully on my third try from some shitty bush weed I bought for 10$. First was a male I had to throw out, second all the plants got mites and fucking died, I put this one indoors next to a window hoping it works out, already have some results so it won't be a total failure if it dies. I threw some seeds outside in my garden and I'm watering them to see if they might sprout too>One's way bigger than the other This happens a lot, I had one that was in seedling stage for like 3 weeks while the other was fuckin massive. Not sure what causes it, could be soil qualityOn an unrelated note, picrel is my chilli plant flourishing nicely. I will pick it soon
>>4896931Picrel
>>4896927They need a fuck tonne more light and some fans to make them stronger.But, if you're not growing it to smoke or make money, then fuck it.
I rescued an ailing, but likely salvageable Thanksgiving cactus from someone, and I'm really lost as to how often I should water it. Online answers range from "keep the soil moist but not waterlogged" to "infrequently water it heavily" to "it doesn't need watered almost ever".
>>4896973It's not actually a cactus, does best with moist soil (not wet) but will endure being dried out for a while and has no problem with being infrequently flooded.Mine are close to flowering atm.
>>4896931Could I grow these in a frosted greenhouse in a country where it's illegal. Would that work?
>>4897024As long as nobody can see it sure. It's not especially hard to grow with just natural sunlight and water
>>4896992>It's not actually a cactusIt is actually a cactus. It's just a weird one native to Brazilian cloud forests.
>>4896927More light = bigger buds. Also look into low stress training. Basically it's just bending stems so the plant develops more buds and an even canopy of leaves. It helps when growing indoors under lights. Are they autoflowers or photoperiods? Photoperiods need to be induced to flower by decreasing daylight hours and keeping them in the dark when your lights aren't on.
>>4897024Biggest challenge would be obtaining the seeds.Also you can grow these indoor with grow lights.
>>4896965I got a fan on them and the phone camera is auto ducking the light. It's actually fairly bright in that corner (or at least it was until the shitty pull chain ceiling light broke this morning. Now I gotta go to Walmart and get another). Pic related. Ideally I would like to smoke it though.>>4896931Yeah I know the males are useless and knowing my luck they'll both be male, but w/e. Its more of a learning experience.>>4897038>Low stress training Isn't that just bonsai? Sounds interesting. Also how exactly does pot flower anyway? Every picture I see of it flowering it just looks like a single big bud on the top of the plant. are they just like a really dense haworthia where it's a single stem with a bunch of flowers coming out the sides of it? That's kinda what the dried product looks like when it's still got the stem.Also I have no clue what kind of pot it is. They're random seeds I've been collecting since I started smoking so I've no clue if they're auto flowering or not.
>>4897115Low stress training is not bonsai because the point is flower yield and not making it look like a tiny tree. Plants have this hormone called auxin and it determines whether a plant will grow straight up in a single stalk or produce lateral side growth. Bending a plant over induces more lateral side growth, which means more bud sites. It also makes it easier for leaves to get full light. For indoor growing that's important because the light comes from only one direction, above. Cannabis flowers where there are leaf nodes basically. Each plant has male or female flowers ( although if plants are stressed they can go hermaphrodite ). The female flowers are the ones you want unless you're breeding. You should read up on how to determine the sex of your plants. If you know the strain names you can look up whether they're autos or photos. You can also just keep them on an 18 hour cycle and if you don't see any flowers forming after 6 or 7 weeks you probably have photos, which means you'll have to set them on a 12 hour light 12 hour dark cycle to induce them to flower. Good luck!
>>4897115The reason I said about the light was, they are far to tall for the amount of leaves, they are stretching already, at that age, even if it is an auto flower, that thing's guna be 1.5 to 2 meters tall when finished, and inside, that's not good.I admit you can't see a plant move in photos but it's skinny as fuck, probably because of the light again.
>>4894293>cock town orchidBased name
I've been extremely busy the past year and only just now have an vacation.I think this alocasia may have been on roids..
Can seeds harvested from a pepper plant that produces orange fruit grow a plant that only produces green peppers? These things have been sitting fat and huge on the plant for well over a month with zero sign of changing color.
banksia roburs germinated. Those are the ones I posted about having to set on fire to get the seeds out about 3 weeks ago
>>4897698It's almost November. Probably too cold for them to ripen.Overwinter the plant so that next year it will start flowering earlier, giving a longer fruiting period.
>>4897698If it breeds with a plant that does have green fruits then yes, it can.More likely it is the cold weather not allowing them to ripen, unripe peppers taste much better after pickling.
>>4896973>Thanksgiving cactusIt's helpful to use botanical names, rather than common names. One species might have 15 different common names, while 15 different species might share one common name.I suppose that you're talking about something in the genus Schlumbergera.>>4896992>It's not actually a cactusYes, it is.>does best with moist soil (not wet)Only when actively growing. In their natural habitat Schlumbergera are epiphytic and epilithic, so they spend their down time being pretty dry.>>4897033>It's just a weird one native to Brazilian cloud forests.Nothing weird about it. Cactuses evolved in South America, and many of the South American ones are epiphytic. Cactuses only made it to North America after the land bridge of Central America popped up. The cactuses of the US and Mexico are more recent lineages. They're the weird ones. >>4897797Outstanding! Are you the guy who said the hard-to-germinate Banksias were germinating in the smoking area outside his work because the cigarette ash was triggering the bushfire response?
Pereskia Acuelata, a cacti.
>>4897865nice CACTUS
>>4897865That aint no cactus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OY-rOtA6_k
>>4896927It appears that the lighting is making the one on the right grow more since it is directly above the plant and the other does not get much light. Maybe put the light between both plants so they get the light evenly
>>4897865>ora pro nobisI have two but they've been yellowing and dropping leaves, new growth looks good so it's probably fine I guess.
>>4897955>Please wait for the timer or verify your email address before making a post.Forgot pic.
>>4897961Looks like cytrus
>>4897966Yeah the waxy leaves does looks like citrus, combined with the spines even more so. But the young spines looks more like roses prickles. It's also called lemon vines and that might be the reason.Though if you look at the left there are some flower buds (with dropped sepals) that doesn't looks like citrus.
>>4888898indoor and outdoor grass questions:I've tried to maintain a small (roughly 14"x19") indoor lawn for my cat in a 5.5" deep bin with good drainage but I can't seem to keep it alive long term. Any pointers? Is there a good way to measure and monitor what I'm doing wrong?Is it bad for the health of a lawn to cut it too late into the season? I've let mine grow to a fairly substantial meadow and I need to cut it down before the spring, but I've had a lot going on and haven't gotten around to it yet. Any pointers for maintaining meadows in general?USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6bKöppen climate type Dfa/Dfb
>>4898055>indoor lawnProbably needs more light, grass is pretty hungry for photos, found this:>Bermudagrass cultivars had similar minimum DLI thresholds at a fairway cutting height in summer, requiring 24 to 26 moles of PAR per square meter per day. The range for zoysiagrass cultivars was 18 to 26 moles per square meter per day at fairway height, and ‘Zeon’ and ‘Zorro’ were at the lower end of the range. Trinexapac-ethyl had no effect on minimum DLI thresholds for bermudagrass cultivars at fairway height in summer, but reduced minimum DLI thresholds for zoysiagrass cultivars to 15 to 20 moles of PAR per square meter per day in summer.>Minimum DLI threshold differences were more pronounced at rough height. Minimum DLI thresholds for rough height ‘Latitude 36’ and ‘Celebration’ bermudagrass in summer were similar to those at fairway cutting heights. Conversely, ‘Tifway’ and ‘TifGrand’ bermudagrass required more PAR at rough height in summer. The minimum DLI thresholds for all zoysiagrass cultivars decreased at rough height, requiring only 9 to 14 moles of PAR per square meter per day.20ish DLI is a lot, on par with many vegetables, how much light does it get? You can roughly measure how much it gets with a smartphone app, they aren't very accurate but will give you an estimate.>Is it bad for the health of a lawn to cut it too late into the season?No, it prevents it from rotting under compacted snow, unless you don't get snow in the winter then I guess it doesn't really matter.
>>4898055It's an indoor lawn. Your hardiness zone and general outdoor climate don't really come into it, so it shouldn't be an issue giving it a trim.Lawns need a lot of sunlight.Look at some lawns in your area that are in constant shade, they will be patchy and sparse.
Will silvervine sticks bought as cat snacks grows as stem cutting? Or is it too dry and old?
Im so bad at germinating seeds it's unreal
>>4898313Seedling soil or cocoWater itPut seeds on topRead instructionsCover seeds with more coco if neededPlace in the right temperature and lightwtf is so hard about that?
>>4898313look up gibberellic acid
>>4898451That's one hell of a name, like the scientist that discovered it gave up half way through the word "gibberish".
What plants grow on forest floors? Just moss?I have a tank for insects that I want to plant, they're nocturnal so it doesn't get direct light, just ambient, and not that much. Something like pothos that can grow basically anywhere but not exactly pothos
>>4898066>how much light does it get?Last time I tried I had it under a grow light that was previously keeping a small cactus alive. I've also tried putting it in a south-facing window. >it prevents it from rotting under compacted snowMy concern was that mulched meadow clippings that are too cold to decompose might compact the short grass that isn't growing like it does in warmer months. >unless you don't get snow in the winterWe didn't get much last winter but we normally get decent coverage. >>4898303>Your hardiness zone and general outdoor climate don't really come into itI also have an outdoor lawn. I've been trying to get an indoor patch established because I don't let my cat out unsupervised and the lawn usually gets covered by snow in the winter.
>>4898464Have you never been to a forest?
Rough start to Sundays tending
>>4897853>Are you the guy who said the hard-to-germinate Banksias were germinating in the smoking area outside his work because the cigarette ash was triggering the bushfire response?yes lmao I'm surprised anyone remembersthey were actually grevilleas but it's the same family and same germination requirement
>>4898055Many turf grasses require brighter light than other plants (and other turf grasses) because they use a different photosynthetic pathway.This is why in winter many lawns kind of shut up shop and get overgrown by broad-leafed weeds. But when the bright spring-summer sun comes back the grass starts growing like crazy again.Grass isn't a great indoor plant, but you might have better luck if you can find a more "shade tolerant" variety.>>4898464>What plants grow on forest floors?Check out the indoor section at your local garden centre. Those are the plants that can tolerate the lowest light.Maybe some kind of Selaginella would work for you. And just scrape up various kinds of moss and foliose lichen that you see lying around on the ground, in gutters, on concrete, etc, and see what grows in your tank.>>4898633Nice. Smoke a durry for the environment!
Cat somehow felled my strawberry crown and toppled my cucumber seedling tray, idk if it's my cat or the neighbour's, there's three of them. Fuck, four plants just killed like that.
>>4898583Forests don't exist anymore old man
>>4898823Oil rigs and cell phone towers are the new forests
>>4898706>Grass isn't a great indoor plant, but you might have better luck if you can find a more "shade tolerant" variety.I planted wheat. I'll look into shade tolerant grasses, thanks.
>>4898304Probably too old. If you can find a place to get silver vine in the US then definitely post about it here
>venus gets first catch>pretty native moth
>office has been infested by fruit flies for a week now>by infested i mean one lands on my desk every 30-60 minutes>where do these niggas come from?>change all the garbage bags, no dice>finally find out they spawn from my potted plantis it possible to root them out or is the plant done for?have put it outside for now so they fly away, but it's cold so they may just hibernate until i take it inside again?
just spray mortein on the soil occasionally, bottom water the plant for a while, assuming you mean fungus gnats, fruit flies are attracted to decay/fermentation
>tHiS pLaNt LoVeS pEaT>plant in peat>rots
>>4893791>If you take a wet sponge and sit it on a pile of gravel or sand or charcoal or whatever, the gravel or whatever doesn't magically suck the water out of the sponge.No but the dripping wet sponge can drip and not sit in its own drippings, allowing it to dry faster.
>>4888898>you will never be an ent who gets tend to his plants for many long millennia It's not fair, bros...
>>4899270Those are not fruit flies, they are root gnats.Check below the pot and remove all maggots. Replace the top few centimetres of soil, or at least let them dry completely. Put up yellow sticky traps. The colour attracts the bastards, no poison necessary.It's a common problem with indoor potted plants
>>4899270Fungus gnats, a common problem in potted plants.Apply mosquito bits / BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) dissolved in water according to label.It's 100% organic and very effective, no chemistry involved at all because it's a bacteria that kills larvae of mosquitoes, fungus gnats and a few other nasty pests.Merely using sticky traps is enough to get rid of them, it does help a lot tho.What also helps is keeping surface of soil dry or covering it with something like sand, fungus gnats can only lay eggs in first few millimeters of moist soil.
Just use a chunky top dressing to deter gnats, works like a charm.I use gravel for my succulents, and fine bark chips for my foliage plants. Never seen a single fungus gnat since I started doing this.Plus it looks nicer than bare soil.
>>4896484>Lol. You will blind yourself trying.
>>4899394>>4899396nice to know, cheersi will give it try
It's almost time for my pothos plants to get moody and drop leaves at the drop of a hat
>>4899490Cut it apart and clone it. Pothos plants produce auxin (rooting hormone) so you can put cuttings in a cup with cuttings from other plants and they will root better.
Is Dieffenbachia easy?
you will never be white-sloanea
>>4892743Here is the iNat link to a list of the common species in euphorbiaceae observed in Thailand, do any of these seem like what youre looking for? Maybe castor bean or bellyache bush? You can click on each picture to see more images of each specieshttps://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6967&subview=map&taxon_id=51821&view=species
A bunch of shit happened and now I finally have time to start working on my yard again. Pic is the entire backyard plus a meter or two more to the left. There's a similar sized front yard as well which I'll deal with later because it's covered.One step at a time. Problems I want to solve:1. top layer inorganic garbage2. sorting the pile of garbage/soil/rocks3. even/flatten out the top layer and picking up all the grass.First problem: top layer garbageInitially, I thought I would only have to rake the entire field to get rid of it. As can be seen in the image, it's mostly clean now. However, if you look closely there's a dark/black area. This area is just layers upon layers of burnt garbage. The more I dig, the more I uncover.I'll keep going at this rate and I should be done tomorrow.Next problem: sorting the pile of garbage/soil/rocksWhy: I want to keep the rocks, charcoal, wood chips, and all organic matter. I want to throw out any inorganic matter.How: I could make myself a simple soil sieve.
>>4899867Continuing on the soil sieve. I could make something as simple as this, and maybe make it fancy where it's easy to swap out the mesh strainer so I can adjust the granularity as I sort shit out.There are ready made ones on amazon. I'll take a look at the price of lumber first and compare which one will be cheaper.Unless there's someone who has a better idea of dealing with the piles of dirt and garbage?
rich-ass whiteboy faggot
>>4899809Feels bad manMy dream would be to have a Stapeliad collectionI'd want to have at least 10 flowering Whitesloanea in my collectionBut I know if I bought the seeds they'd amaze me after 1-2 years only to turn into goop overnight
>>4898464>What plants grow on forest floors?Depends on the forest. We talking temperate or tropical? You see moss, ferns, and understory plants that tolerate low-light. You can kinda imagine what they look like. If you want to grow plants in a terrarium to shade your insects and you don't care about anything else just take a bunch of cuttings of your houseplants and stuff you see growing in your yard and see what roots. I had a partridge-berry, Mitchella repens, growing up a stone-wall in my backyard and it makes a nice terrarium plant too. Thyme too. Basically any low growing creeper that isn't too aggressive make good terrarium plants. Whatever the insects tolerate.
>>4900196>temperate or tropical?boring room temperature western north american forestsI saw a plant with purple leaves that grew really close to the ground outside and couldn't find out what it was (southern ontario) but thought it would be perfect the way it kinda spread as a patch of itself
>Transplant Lithops that were trapped in rock hard soil for a long period.>They immediately resume splitting in their new pot.>Except they're so "backed up" that they're splitting multiple times over.>The new leaves are coming out while already in the process of splitting themselves.>Have no idea when I'm supposed to water them while they're doing this because obviously they have to get their liquid from somewhere while splitting.The new growth coming out is wrinkly itself. Do I water them? It seems like the splitting process has froze.
>>4900226On closer inspection, I'm wondering if they've stopped absorbing the outer leaves because they're splitting a second time. Almost like there's rather plump outside leaves, then the layer inside is currently getting sucked up by the leaves within them.I wonder if they can consume it all the way through or if the outer leaves have just been cut off from the entire process?
>>4900226I don't know shit about Lithops except for the fact that in the garden centre I used to work at, every single one that wasn't bought within a week or so of the supplier delivering them would rot because the other staff would overwater them. Our Lithops were in the cactus and succulent section, which was under cover out of the rain and only watered once a week. When I was the one doing that weekly watering (as I frequently was) I made sure that the Lithops didn't get a single drop on them. But other people included them in that weekly watering (more like fortnightly, because I did it at least once a fortnight and didn't get them wet) and they still rotted.In my limited experience Lithops can tolerate only a small fraction of the water that cactuses and other succulents can. I've never even bothered trying to grow one myself because I thought it would be throwing money down the toilet. It sounds like you are doing something right. I'd be very careful about fucking it up by adding too much water.If in doubt, don't water it. You won't kill it by dehydration.Maybe post photos so peeps with more Lithops experience can help.
>>4900294What kind of soil moisture sensors exist for monitoring this stuff?
Can you guess my plants from their shadows
>>4900352NTA. You want a capacitive soil moisture sensor with a coating. There are resistive ones that don't have a coating and they corrode very quickly. There's also premade flower pots that you can buy that come with soil moisture sensors. Make sure those have a coating too.
Where can I buy a bunch of pawpaw seeds in EU?
>>4900398>implying plants manually paint their shadows onto fabric
>>4900416>pawpaw seedseBayBuy one, then you'll have a fuck-tonne a seeds.
>>4900416They are pretty hard to get, I bought seedlings from a plant nursery that specializes in rare stuff and planted them, expensive af.
>>4900451found this listinghttps://www.ebay.com/itm/226302428806Yeah pretty expensive considering a single fruit makes like 10 seeds and usually people throw them away.
>>4899270>>4899394>>4899396You will also need to dump boiling water down every drain. Watering plants from the bottom discourages infestations.
>>4900483Including the drain for the washing machine, learned that the hard way
>>4900500This. Also any tub drains, floor drains, or any drain you don't normally think of.
>>4900294Just an update, but giving it a little water was the right call. Mine is in a bit of a weird situation because it came from a garden center that doesn't properly take care of all their plants(Its a tropical garden center so all the succulents/cacti etiolate, wrong soil, etc). From my understanding, its possible for them to get dry enough that they go into stasis in the middle of splitting, and a little bit of water wakes them right up.I can say for sure that the "Never water during splitting" concept is a bit of a myth because it can depend on the circumstance. Sadly the cluster I had purchased had two tiny babies in it which both shrivelled up and died because the bigger ones were splitting and the process essentially froze because they went to sleep in the middle of it, etc. That's what really lit a fire under me to get a new pot, buy all the stuff to make the potting mixture, etc.I'll probably post a picture after they get settled and finish their backed-up splitting process. I do have one of them freshly replanted though that I can post for a before/after sort of thing.
Gee whiz, anonymous. I sure love plants!
Hi, I'm new to carnivorous plants. About a month ago I got a few plants including this drosera capensis. I noticed the tips of its new leaves are getting brown and I'm not sure what could be causing that, I cut the brown tips the first time that happened but newer leaves seem to be having the same issue. The past two weeks have been very cloudy/rainy where I live, and only a few days ago sun finally decided to come out, could lack of light be the reason? Or the sudden hot weather is burning them? I've been leaving it on a tray with distilled water like my venus flytraps and they have all been growing well. Would anyone have any advice on this?
>>4901284Things don't last forever.Look at all the new arms growing.Venus only eats 10 or fewer before a trap dies.It looks healthy anon.
>>4901284you have four arrows point at four out of eighteen leaves, get a grip
>>4901285>>4901287Since I don't have experience with this kind of plant, I end up worried at anything different that happens. Thanks though, I'll keep an eye on it without worrying so much
>>4901284>>4901294Plants can also adapt to their new environment and that can involve them growing entirely new leaves that were made for their new environment while the other ones die off. The nursery I got my flytrap from had all it's original leaves destroyed by the sun, while all of it's new leaves were created to handle it.
Picked some trifoliate oranges from St. Paul's cathedral in LondonHoping they have some seeds
Thinking of finally getting some grow lights. Last winter I started some eggplant seeds indoors by a window, which worked, but they were pretty thin.>>4900398Left is a pepper?
>>4901688Left to right they're grape fruit, cherry and pomegranate
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>>4888898I find Apricot Madagascar Periwinkle beautiful and prolific under certain conditions, and grow it almost year-round, indoors and out. The red-eyed white variety is even more prolific and easy to grow, if by a slight margin, though both are so good as garden varieties it kind of depends on setting or juxtaposition: The white ones look surreal beside marigolds or as a lower border to bushy single roses, and the apricots look kind of insane by petunias tending to the purple or violet.
>>4901688It's worth it for starting seeds
impulse bought my first Orchid, quickly DIYed a pot and had orchid bark already laying around
>>4894475I've been called girly twice for growing flowers. This toxic masculinity shit need to stop man.
>>4901953Growing flowers or anything at all foe that matter is symbolic of man's dominion over natureYou should emphasise the technical challenge and how a woman would be incapable
Bloomin
>>4901976HOOOOOOOW?Do you feed it?
>>4901997>HOOOOOOOW?Thanksgiving cactus starts blooming when nights get colder and days shorter so the trick is to keep it outside.I permanently place it outdoors when night temperatures stop going below about 7C which is about second half of May where I live but you can start taking it outside when it gets warm in April and bring it in for cold nights. Bring it back in when night temperatures start consistently going below 7C, it'll take a night or two just above freezing but whole week of this kind of temperature will seriously harm it (I know from experience), I usually bring it in early October / late September, depends on weather.It'll flower like crazy after that, don't bring it in too early tho, it'll drop most flowers if you do that.I place it in sheltered place with half a day of sunlight, pic related from this May, it needs to be gradually hardened to direct sunlight just like indoor seedlings otherwise it'll be damaged by UV.>Do you feed it?I just give it a bit of some sort of balanced liquid fertilizer once a month.
>>4902001Try giving it compost tea instead
>>4902163nice little collection
>>4893791You should wipe your ass with this plant.
>>4902547You just reminder me of that subreddit where people use stinging nettle to masturbate
>Have a plant that frustrates me to no end to the point where I hate the fucking thing>Don't want to kill it or get rid of itI regret ever buying a Mimosa Pudica. I had no idea this thing was this endlessly creeping plant.
>>4902595>Mimosa Pudica>endlessly creeping plantNigga there's a reason it's considered a weed.
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>>4902595It's called shameplant for a reason. Just be it's shear happy dommy mommy.
