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I usually post in /out/'s gardening general but they exemplify the modern nu-gardening that only cares about growing tomatoes and peppers, so I will try my luck here. Pic related is an old moss rose.
>>5019859>only cares about growing tomatoes and peppersDon't forget tomatoes, carrots, and zucchiniThe chad's choice
>>5019868I like collards and kale, they keep producing well into fall and even early winter.
>>5019853i have like 30 of these growing all of my yard since i stopped weeding... which is fucked up since i ordered and germinated seeds this year
>>5019859beautifulold rose varieties are really underrated
>>5019953Yes they are fabulous and their history is fascinating too
A honey bee on my fennel.
Can Moon Cactus live long healthy cactus lives and grow big and strong as long as they're not bright red all the way around? Found a guy selling these and want to know if I'd just be buying the plant equivalent of a pug. Barely speaks english because of course he doesn't so I can hardly ask questions, said they weren't from seed, knew enough to call them Gymnocalycium Milhanovichii when asked.
>>5020144They'll be fine, Gymnos pup like madmen which is why there's nobody with just one. The pups will even variegate differently so you can choose your favorite pattern!
>>5019859I come from the other school of modern nu-gardening that only cares about growing local natives as part of an ecosystem garden but that's a pretty nice flower
Anyone have a list of black flowers?
>>5020195in fairness a lot of random natives from the roadside are bangers
if natives were so great they wouldnt get btfo by invases KWAB
>>5020231I grow those.
>>5020304Its kind of funny how in every environment on earth, no matter how hyperspecialized to become perfecfly adapted to the conditions around them any animal spends the last hundred billion years becoming, they just get completely mogged by generic-ass dogs and cats every single time.
>>5019859It's a shame my mum died. She would have appreciated your roses. She was a botanist and our back garden growing up had so many bizarre plants and flowers I've never seen anywhere else.>>5019853A neighbour grew maypop a few years ago but I never got to try the fruit, if it even made any. All my wife grows are the sorts of things >>5019859 hates lmaoBut at least they're uncommon (to wypipo) varieties, I guess, cuz we're Asian. Like, she grows these round, yellow, sour cucumbers, for example.
>>5020231>>5020390One of the primary ways that invasives take hold is actually disturbed areas such as road berms. In a mature forest, every niche is filled and there isn't any room for something like knotweed or purple loosestrife to take root but in areas that are regularly mowed, tilled or otherwise disturbed the fastest growing plants are the ones that take hold and that's often invasives which can tolerate subpar growing conditions such as highly contaminated roadside soil.
>>5020410Also there are fewer animals that will eat them and pathogens that target them to keep their numbers down.
i'm running out of terracotasoon I will be forced to stop impulse buying
>>5020420>Terra cotta>Impulse buyingWhy is it always succfags who can't control themselves?
>>5020390dogs and cats are just carried by humans desu. we actively breed them and intentionally or unintentionally release them where they fill niches formerly occupied by predators we actively kill
Have I been stupid in thinking I'll have to collect rainwater for the winterwouldn't there be no difference from just scooping up snow and letting it melt
>>5019853Smoking passion passion flower gives u a small buzz, mixing it with gangweed gives it a really mellow feel!
>>5020840Snow is deceptively very dirty and what you end up with after it all melts is significantly less than the amount of snow you gathered.I collected top layer of snow, packed it into a bucket as much as I could, and as the snow melted, it looked like those dirty snowbanks you see in a parking lot when spring is rolling around, and I ended up with roughly a puddle of dirty water at the bottom of my container which was packed full and had a small mountain of snow built on top of it.
>>5020851Isn't dirty water good because it has trace nutrients and such? I doubt any harmful molds or insects are going to be hanging out in pure snow.
>>5020852I don't really know, but I remember thinking that I was going to take advantage of all the snow, only to be really disappointed.
>>5020859Meh, I'm patient. Collecting snow each day will give me something to do. The consistency will be nice over seething every time it rains while I'm at work (which is every time)
What are these on my cissus rotundifolia..?It looks produced by the plant itself, but if something that produces turds this big, I should see damage, which ai don't.
>>5020885I knew it, it's produced by the plant, sticky sap so it can latch on easier. Thank you nature for scaring me..
>Post question on /plant/>Find the answer yourself before anybody respondsliterally every single time
>>5020432Because we have actual variety of genera and species unlike carnivorcels who have like 4 different plants to choose from
>>5020969and they're all so tiny and cute!!!!
The tropical virgin driving half an hour to a garden center to debate whether he wants to spend a hundred dollars on a new spider mite infestationThe Succulent GOD going to the department store 2 minutes away from him and nursing $3 plants back into beautiful specimens by dropping them outside and forgetting they exist
Heh... tread carefully now, you're about to enter my Savage Garden... In this place, life and death are intertwined, careful not to step wrong... or you may become fertilizer next!The plants:>I-IS THAT A VITAMIN??? AIIEEEEEEE SAVE ME GARDENMAN
Is it worth growing mimosas as a ground cover around fruit trees instead of mulching? I only have some seeds from a thorny species (looks like quadrivalvis), but there seem to be strigillosa seeds available online. Does living mulch make any noticeable difference?
>>5021062>Does living mulch make any noticeable difference?it does when you use stuff like mimosa because it fixes nitrogen
A new terrarium I've built. It's been a good way to utilize crystals I've collected.
>>5021203qt :3
>>5021062Mulch, living or not, will help with moisture retention.
monarch eggs in my milkweed
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i have some lunaria plants im growing indoors and both of them have tiny stems and comically huge leaves, bot of them need a crutch to stay upright. will they get better?
>>5021564I think this is the scenario where you're unironically supposed to use a fan
If sunburn is caused by the plant not getting enough water to a leaf to deal with the amount of sun it's getting, shouldn't making sure it's topped up on water ward against it?Not completely, obviously, but is it a good idea to water my plants the night before if I know tomorrow's supposed to be really hot?
>>5021609I'd never heard that theory on plant sunburn. My understanding was that a plant may be green under normal conditions, and as UV exposure increases and the plant produces anthocyanin to protect the chlorophyll you start to see those reds and orange "stress colors" If the exposure continues the cells start to die and you see the brown scabs of dead "skin" cells on the plants.
>>5021615water your plants prior to hot weather anyways though. Be careful, because water droplets left on the surface of plant leaves can concentrate the sun and cause burns or permanent marks on the plant though so I'd recommend bottom watering
>>5021617>Be careful, because water droplets left on the surface of plant leaves can concentrate the sun and cause burns or permanent marks That is not even true lmao why do people believe this shit. Ever heard about rain?
Ideas for labelling outdoor pots if I think the little stick signs are unbelievably tacky and waste pot space?I can only assume stickers or tape would run off in the rain
A plants first heat wave is bittersweet because its going to fuck them up but they'll be ready for anything and primed to thrive afterwards.
On the one hand, I just want this leaf to fucking propogate alreadyBut on the other, I'm fascinated that a single leaf from a dying plant has lived on its own for almost a month
this sunflower in my bird seed mess finna go sunflowerpalooza
Found this plant in my parent's place with completely dry soil that hugged the roots in a tiny empty pot. I repotted into a bigger pot, watered it and put it near a sunnier window. Can anyone here identify it? I think it's either a Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (Flaming Katy) or a Phedimus spurius (Caucasian Stonecrop). Neither my parents know what it is. I can't tell if it's leggy or supposed to look like that.
>>5021965>photo for antswell it looks like an extremely leggy and barely alive kalanchoe
>>5021984Thanks. What should I even do with it? Should I wait for the roots to take in and the leaves to develop and get the stems one at a time, leaving time to regrow, and try to propagate the stems?
God I really want a psychopsis so bad
TIL the NPK ratio in Australia is different from the USA and UKHere we use elemental weight whereas overseas they use the compound weightLearning about this makes the nitrogen ratios I see here not seem as crazy compared to overseas
>>5022035perhaps, or just cut and propagate right now
Are all my plants going to grow crooked and lopsided if they're on a slight incline outside?
>>5022081Is there a conversion, or does it depend on what's used e.g. urea vs ammonium nitrogen
>>5022239Nitrogen is always the sameDivide by 0.436 to get USA phosphorus Divide by 0.83 to get US potassium
Anon who was contemplating getting fake plants rather than real ones after more than a year ago of getting rid of 100+ plants after thrips breakout..I now have both fake and real plants. Life is much better with plants. Spent yesterday repotting and propagating, felt my soul return.
Visited parents, their garden is infested with thrips, yet it's kinda managing from natural predators.Bad idea to treat their plants against the thrips?
>>5021485>>5021487
lunaria update: leafs still too big. they're both maybe a foot tall and still need a stick
>>5022948Cute :)
every day at this time my plants wilt from the heat, but yesterday i watered them a lot so i have to assume they do not need more water
Is this African Violet worth saving? What is it even doing?
>pretty much every single systemic pesticide is banned in my countryManaged to find one at least, probably because of some loophole.
>Live in basement with no natural light>Biggest plant is the only one that doesn't fit under my shitty grow light setup>It was a gift from my landlady so I have to keep it alive over winterI hate the concept of plants as gifts, it's like giving someone a pet because you thought it looked cute and know they like animals.
>>5023251Where do you live that imidacloprid, dinotefuran and fipronil are all banned?t. commercial pestie
>>5023673Sweden.At least regular consumers can't get their hands on it easily. I got pic related uses flupyradifurone, butenolides and IRAC 4D.I can find bulk pesticide meant for farmers, but regular 500ml or spray bottles, worringly rare.
You can just cut jellybeans at the stem, stick the stem in the ground and they'll grow roots, right?
>>5023846If you mean sedum, those things grow from anything
>>5023942They're also apparently immune to sunburn, if mine are anything to go by.
Is it normal for new growth to not be sun stressed while the rest of the plant is?All my plants' new leaves they've grown under my care are green instead of the reds and blacks their old leaves are/were. They're getting as much direct full south facing sun and heat as I can physically provide, conditiobs which gave them their deep sunstress colors in the first place.I know its probably a good thing, because hey, they're not stressed anymore, they're acclimated and ready to take in EVEN MORE light to fuel EVEN MORE growth with their green leaves, but Im a selfish human and don't want them to lose their pretty colors.
It's been over 88°F every few days and it's just too hot for most of my transplanted flowers :(
>>5024039one my little pawpaws lost all its leaves :(
Its been 31°C for the past few days and my cacti are having the time of their lives :)
>squamiferum hasn't even been in my apartment for two weeks and it's already bloomingCALM DOWN I HAVEN'T EVEN REPOTTED YOU
Had a brain fart and repotted my cacti into 1/3 sphagnum moss soil. Will need to repot again before they rot
>>5023151Its starting a bunch of new growth at the top where it looks like it was cut. I don't see anything wrong with it beyond the fact that its recovering from a previous wound, that'll all fill in and become fairly bushy if you keep taking care of it and let it do it's thing.
>>5023618I'm in the same situation except its some of my plants that rapidly grew tall and thus makes it hell for using growlights. Plants as gifts do kind of suck when its people who don't know about plants that are giving the gifts, and it all depends on circumstance of course. If someone gifted me a compact succulent or a cactus, awesome. But something that isn't a low light plant that gets big or grows quickly is like a nightmare when you work off of grow lights.I have this one succulent that naturally grows like a tower, and I cant fit it into my setup because it strictly grows vertical. Then it starts to become etiolated because its own height forces me to move the grow lights or it.
>>5024227Thankfully snow is becoming a myth so even in canada mine will be able to stay outside almost year round until it decides to be -30 for like 3 weeks and then goes back to chilly
>>5024229I'm in Canada too, I feel like putting mine outside would solve a lot of light issues, but its at a point where I'm worried that wind would potentially break the plant apart. Which could be better, but my mentality is that all plants or even leaves get a chance at life and I would have to plant those pieces.These taller succulents really taught me that smaller and more compact plants are the best.
>>5024236I mean if its a tall succ breaking apart is normal for it, right? just plant the broken end or acclimate it to the wind like you would the sun.
Buying an etiolated cactus just to fuel the growth of one of its pups and abandon the rest later feels like grooming. Would it grow better if it has a whole cactus to feed it or if I just remove it asap?
>>5024016Depends on the plant and different colors are often related to soil quality.
>>5024431The literal day after I posted that I looked at my garden and saw that the new leaves have started turning the same color as the rest of the plant. It makes no sense that the new, more vulnerable leaves can just skip out on their sunscreen until they get older.
>>5021965>>5021984After some research I've come to realize it's some type of sedum spurium that's extremely leggy. I trimmed off that dead branch since then and it's still growing better if extremely leggy, although it's not as leggy as I oringinally through since the species apparently grows really long barren stalks like this because it's a ground cover plant that grows in between and over rocks.
>>5024407Honestly wouldn't it just be better to buy a pup or smaller cactus from the get go? Seems like a lot of hassle to save like two bucks. Of course I live near an exotic plant store that sells small exotic plants for like 5 bucks each.
I'm new to houseplants but I bought this Kleinia stapeliiformis (Pickle Plant / Pencil Plant) and I think this is the fastest growing plant out there save for bamboo or literal grass. Just give it as much sun/light as you can give it in some well draining potting mix (I use a thicker miracle grow potting soil, a more fine miracle grow potting soil, and a ton of perlite) and water it once in awhile. I use natural window light for mine and it's growing like crazy. The ones I see on my visits to the store I bought it from they were growing so fast they were reaching for the grow lights. Honestly I for now I prefer them over fragile cacti, Euphorbias that just instantly lose their leaves, snake plants or other succulents because Kleinia stapeliiformis simply does not give a fuck. Really an underated plant and it's virtually impossible for it to become leggy because the leaves have merged with the stem and you only have to water occasionally. Only problems is that pruning it for multiple shoots leaves an ugly scar that it's lack of leaves can't really cover up and that it can grow so fast that you might run out of room or it might make the post unstable due to uneven growth, you gotta be constantly rotating this shit or pressing it against a wall or against the window. You can even turn it into a basket plant by having the stems "collapse" from their own weight and dangle off the basket. Top tier and underrated plant I think this might be the easiest plant to take care of all and it looks like no other plant out there, and it can even bloom into pretty flowers.
Had some leggy succulents which I just repotted, and stuck the stems in the ground as well. Can I expect anything from the stems? Are they going to branch? Sprout from half way up? Do nothing at all?
>>5024541Ffs why did the picture rotate 90 degrees
I bought another bulbophyllumThat's 7 in total now and I don't even know if I can flower them
>>5024489What a pointless post
>>5024587Okay sorry for trying to spark some life into this dead board then I was just sharing my thoughts
>>5024587you should see reddit. you know how people put about that idea that you can just add "reddit" to the end of google searches and get actual results like you used to? nope. tried looking for potting mix recipes the other day and got these threads with 20+ posts of "yeah I just eyeball it" or "depends on the plant really" and nothing else
>>5024819Soil mix is something you should genuinely be able to figure out yourself, watch a bunch of videos of people with healthy plants, note their mixes and then put together what you can based on trends compared to your own circumstances. Basic research.
>>5024835basic research like... googling it?
>>5024407Yeah, but mainly for the roots. You could cut the top off, every 2 to 3 inches or so and prop from them too.
>>5024407>>5024846It turns out it doesn't matter and the spherical pup is much too small to take off yet, so the dog penis cactus will be staying with us for a while.
>>5024492i have one of these i use it as a sounding rod
https://youtu.be/ZYcYg_huG6U
>>5023685I sprayed my entire collection after a test subject surviving.Found several dead thrips on a few plants just now.Hitler would be proud of me.
>>5024819The main recommendation for any potting mix is perlite. Just by adjusting the amount of additional perlite will give you potting mix for all sorts of plants. Not only does perlite prevent the soil for keeping soil it keeps is airy to prevent root suffocation. I mix some fine and chunky miracle gro together and fill with tons of perlite and it works pretty good as a succulent mix. Garden plants like herbs and spices generally want more garden soil with more decayable matter. Most tropical you lean more into thicker water holding materials such as moss. Succulents you 100% want to avoid anything that holds water or could suffocate roots and keeping it airy. I generally use like 30-40% perlite mixed with half and half chunky and fine miracle grow mix as my makeshift succulent mix, you can use this for jungle cacti too since they like more water than desert cacti. Snake plants and even cacti I would do like 40%, 50%, or even more perlite, more so for snake plants since they love dry rocky soil. For snake plants and succulents you can also mix in orchid bark, coconut hair, or COURSE sand (not fine sand) into the mix as well if you want step it up a notch, the orchid bark is good for plants and succulents that live in jungles or have lots of really thick winding roots like orchids or snake plants. I like to use perlite and course sand to decorate the top of some of my succulents to give it a desert type of vibe.
Nigga took 5 full lines to say "use perlite"
>>5025289i'm going to drink myself to death
My plants are drinking themselves to death, will perlite help?
>>5025330Some bug spray would be better for the mosquito breeding ground you made in your backyard
>>5025385I think its too acidic for mosquito larvae, either way its almost drained now. I zip tied a piece of screen over the spigot inlet but it still gets clogged and takes a while to seep out
>>5025330Classic carnivorefag post
"I need more space, lets relocate the pothos, maybe untang-"Dear god.
>>5025578Forgot how resilliant pothos roots are. Going to try and have one of these piles in just water with a stone bubbler. They should be able to be hardy enough to handle it, right?
>>5025578Pothos need light on all of their leaves or they'll etiolate and look shitty, right? I can't just shine a super strong grow light on one part of a pothos and decorate my whole room with it?
>>5025643Yeah it kills off earlier/shaded leaves to spurt on to maximize light.
I was going to make a post saying "You are growing succulents to prepare for when the entire world is a desert, right anon?" but it occurred to me that the climate change apocalypse will also mean harsher winters on the off chance they actually happen.What are some "Doomsday prepper" plants that can survive any climate like sempervivum or prickly pears?
need help identifying this pesky fuck. there's tons of them under the southern live oak in my yard and thats a problem because im trying to hang a tire swing up for the little ones and these things are not bare feet friendly especially after mowing as they leave a carpet of spikey stubble.
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Does anybody know what this pretty flower is? I moved into a new house 2 weeks ago, cleared a garden bed of weeds and dead plants and this has grown since then. There are now 3 others coming out of the ground and I have no idea what it is.
>>5025788Lycoris Squamigera>>5025409:(((( The drain is plugged with peat.
autism maxxed my growth medium with like $100 worth of dry amendments. I've got high quality calmag-buffered coco peat, sifted pumice, biochar, worm castings, crushed basalt dust, zeolite, the fucking lot. Can't wait for this to be the exact same as grandma's potting mix from the hardware store, but god does it feel nice to run your hands throughI would have had some leonardite for that sweet, sweet humic acid but it still hasn't arrived and I couldn't be fucked waiting
I have an aloe Vera with baby shoots, how do I separate them properly from the mother plant? Should I try to cut as close as possible to the main root?
>>5025947Based, I've looked all over for zeolite and lava rock at reasonable prices/amounts but right now my mix is 2 parts pumice, 1 perlite, 1 vermiculite, 1 diatomite, and 1 potting soil, with an extra part potting soil for less extreme stuff like aloes or haworthias and double the rocks for cactiMakes me feel like a plant god and looks really nice in the pot too.
I’m not a great gardener and was wondering if anyone knew if this was a specific sunflower breed or if I accidentally created a hybrid. 2 years ago I planted mammoth sunflowers, and medium bush sunflowers in my front garden bed as well as some short decorative ones in the very front. This year I didn’t get around to planting anything due to being too busy with work. These guys grew from dropped seeds from the previous year…. They are fucking massive. About 8 foot tall and bush style…. Going to save seeds, but was curious if anyone knew what they were specifically.. I’m in northern Arizona. If you want more pictures I can take them.
>>5026028The flowers are a lot smaller than the mammoths but seem marginally bigger than bush ones
>>5026028Various stages of flower…
>>5026032Stems are very girthy…. I have big hands and can’t touch my fingers around them.
>>5026033Nigga is like half turtle
It got better.
>>5026172There's 8 or 9 sundews that came up from seed this spring.
>the shiny pink and black rock I've loved since I was a kid is actually graniteI can't wait to pulverize a bunch of it with a hammer and start adding it to my soil mixes, this is so awesome
>>5023685Call me evil when it comes to bugs, but my favorite formula is Sevin augmented with Malathion. Both apparently have very short half-lives, and thereby inhibit their predators hardly at all. Don't meed either except in long dry spells where my garden is conspicuous by its irrigation.
>>5025788Resurrection Lily. Easy to grow and underrated. They're almost the inverse of daffodils--they leave in spring and early summer, then flower out of nowhere in August.
>1 month to Spring
>>5026254>Don't meed either except in long dry spells where my garden is conspicuous by its irrigation.I had a stroke reading this.
>>50263371 month of summer left, and all the grocery and hardware store plants have died off or etiolated completely, I can't find anything presentable anymore
>>5026340My locals are selling mini roses, begonias and kiwi hebes cheap right now. I'm not buying anything new until February when I'll get some sort of bramble fruit and climbing roses for a whiskey barrel out front. Gonna tie the roses to this horizontal trellis I have and use the brambles as cover.
My wollemia is currently getting the ever-loving shit battered out of it by the wind - does anyone have any advice regarding this species?
>>5026541Let it get battered, it'll grow a thicker stem.
Well well well well wellLook what was hiding under the floorboardsFrom a couple leaves sitting in dirt with an inexplicable complete lack of roots to pupping(???, it's definitely a new rosette) in just a month and a half of cooking in full sun instead of on a shaded doorstep
>>5026541don't have any advice but it's cool as fuck that you're growing that. are you in aus or nah? also is that a male cone hanging there or something else?
How do I into niwaki gardening?
Bonsai and niwaki are plant abuse
>>5026813Growing any exotic outside it's natural habitat is abuse. Get over yourself, hippy. Your anti-nipon behaviour is blatant.
>>5026177Very cool anon, very cute babies
Still the coolest plants.
>>5019853Bump
>>5026028>>5026030Holy shit this is cool. Often the unintentional plants grow the best
https://youtu.be/OaWHu6B6Rw4
>>5025691>southern live oakYou're welcome
>>5025682Jujube
>>5025600You don't need the bubbler.
It got snagged on another plant I was going to water.. God fucking damn it.>>5027938"Need". I have one on the way to see how it works.
Another old rose
Why are plant people so generous?A third of the time I go out to buy one craigslist plant all I have to do is show interest in anything else they're growing and they just go "Oh, you like it? have one. Here, have one of these too, and one of these, do you have one of these? Just stick them in the ground and they'll grow. Here's some pots too."I bought one thing from a lady today and doubled my collection.
>>5028193On the whole plants tend to spam out thousands of seeds, put out tons of daughter plants vegetatively, or root easily and any stray cutting could make a new plant. Inevitably they end up with many times more than what they need and have to clean it up, although throwing entire thriving plants in the trash is kinda mean. I mean they are alive, so once you have a mature garden you can guess what they'll do.
>>5028204I always feel bad tossing away "extras" into the woods to die over winter :(, but people INSIST on shoving a ton of extra plants into the same pot and refusing to sell individuals.
Prickly Pears are insidious. All my other cacti are up front and honest about hooking a piece of your skin and going "Where you goin' buddy" but I don't even remember the pear touching me while I was transporting and I keep getting... well, pricks, all over my fingers and arm whenever I rub them against something. It's like they sting you.
>>5028229glochid moment
>>5028233I always thought they were horrifically ugly but for some reason once I learned that they were a cactus that lives through snow I just had to have one.
>>5028264i'm planning to get some but i heard the fruit is really mid and the good domesticated varieties are hard to find
>>5025643Pothos are weird. If you plant them in shade they can grow into full sun. But if you put even ones that have been brightly lit into full sun, they'll likely turn black.
>>5028373I mean yeah, a plant growing into new conditions is a world away from you picking it up and putting it there.
I feel like she's telling me something but I can't put my finger on it
I think pothos are the most generic, personalitiless plants in existence outside of grass.
I love growing vines. If I could I'd have a 20ft trellis above my fence with a variety of clematis, jasmine, honeysuckle, hops, morning glory, and wysteria
Is it normal that a leaf looks like this?
>>5028485Looks like a nutrient burn.
>>5028486That's weird because I have never fertilized it, not even once. Since it's a deciduous tree my own theory (which have no idea if it's correct) is that it wants to get rid of an old leaf. The bottom leaves that look like that are about one year old so maybe it thinks the leaf is too old by now and wants to drop it despite it not being winter anymore.
I was given spider plantsIs it correct that they're low water plants despite not being succulents? Should just rain be fine for them? Do they really hate tapwater more than other plants?
>>5028477No passionfruits?
>>5028469That's how I feel about monstera. Pothos is just versatile. Grasses can be awesome.>>5028477Same. Clematis are underrated.
>>5028662billions must grow clematis virginiana
I followed an iNaturalist report to a patch of Datura stramoniumI'm going to eat half of a single petal and see what happens
>>5020139I love this so much
>>5028672Agreed>>5028614Eh, even the hearty varieties don't really thrive in 8b at least not compared to clematis. Also add Virginia creeper to the list
with a Euphorbia Trigona, if I want a nice thick tree base, am I going to have to do a long cycle of >Grows thicker on top>Chop and restart>Grows thicker on top>Chop and restartuntil it's a uniform thickness?
If African Violets are from Africa, should I let them cook in the heat and sun like my succulents?
>>5028782There are native passionfruits in 8b that grow great. Incarnata and lutea grow in my yard as weeds and I'm in 8a. They're kinda getting shit on by fritillary caterpillars rn.
>>5028963Big misconception. Africa is not one giant desert or always hot and a single country can have a huge variety of climates. I believe they tropically grow in near forests under the shady of bigger trees and I think letting your African Violets cook like that will burn the shit out of them unless you water them way more than usual, and given how easy to kill African Violets are I wouldn't try and complicate things.
>>5029111ty, i will not buy them then
>>5029117Try orchids or Stonecrop, far easier to care for.
>Water plant>Ants start moving eggs out of the pot...well that would have been bad to bring inside...>>5029118Orchids are easy? I've only heard about how temperamental they are and how hard they are to get to flower and so that was why it was the only traditionally looking flowering plant that plantfags cared about.
>>5029120orchids want specific conditions for them to bloom but if you have the right orchids for your spot then you don't have to do anything
>>5029120It's funny when your waterings are staggered and the new pot they evacuated to is flooded out almost immediately after they moved inIt's happened 4 times guys, take the hint
>>5026784Nah this one's in the UK, and yeah that's a male catkin from last year. No cones or catkins this year unfortunately but it's just a young tree bless it
>>5029154I just sprayed everything with insect soapI imagine it won't be an issue once I get around to putting the last of everything into rocky soil
>>5029111>Africa is not one giant desert or always hotSome of the best skiing is in Africa in Gran Kabylie.
>>5028611They can literally live in solely water. A lot of plant info, especially stuff you get from other people, is based on the fact that the plant isn't dead. So people will tell you that a spider plant is a low water plant because the it doesn't die when its essentially tortured.Its probably the most easy to care for and forgiving plant. They like to be watered like normal and can grow really fast, but one of their features is that their roots will store water and fatten up, which lets them handle periods where they're underwatered.Mine don't seem to have problems with tap water, and I'm in an area where tap water will actually burn the roots of my Orchids.
>>5029282Huh.I've been learning they actually like to be kept wet so Im gonna try a lot of vermiculite.If they dont care about tap water, what's the real reason for burnt tips on all of them? Everyone says chlorine/flouride.
>>5029284That could be it. My suspicion was that the tips dry out because they go without water for just a little bit(or a humidity issue?), but I would totally believe that its a chlorine/fluoride thing. Every plant would love and do better with rain/distilled water, if you can do that, then do it. Mine also have the burnt tips, but the plants don't seem to be dying or anything like that.If you can use rainwater on them consistently, then definitely do it. I suppose I'm just saying that tap water isn't lethal to them.
Please pray for my paper spine cactus I forgot to move him to the shade before I went to work because he looked so fitting with the rest of the garden I forgot he was new
>>5029312I gave my barrel cactus too much sun and it shrivelled up, I thought it would have permanent marks but it filled back out after spending some time in the shade and it looks like nothing ever happened.I still let him just get the morning sun though. I'm not chancing it with the afternoon sun just yet.
>>5029363I've found the hour a day method to be perfectly fine, but I mostly work afternoons so I can acvomodate it. anything can stand pre-12 o clock sun. Just water them nightly if you're dealing with like 30c temps, even if you're "not supposed to"
>>5029312>>5029363He's perfectly fine! I WAS told he'd seen afternoon sun before, but it's fulfilling to worry.I did come home to the strangest bullshit I've ever seen, though. One of my echeverias was blasted out of its pot, soil everywhere, with ripped chunks of leaf on the side where it was hit from. It couldn't have been the mowers, because the grass is on the opposite side. That's not the weird bit though, my ferrocactus was also removed from its pot, in the same direction, but like, perfectly. There was no debris anywhere. I had to dump out the soil and repot it because it was just, literally all still in there. The cactus was just surgically removed, roots and all, with no visible damage, sitting on top of its pot. I cant even begin to think of what this might have been. An animal running over it would have knocked the pots around, made a mess. A kid or a nigger coming over to vandalize my shit wouldn't have been so... *perfectly careful* and precise. Like, there was NO soil gone from the pot except the stuff trapped in the root ball. I dont understand whatsoever.
>tfw my San Marzano tomatoes probably have blightit's only the San Marzano ones, the other tomatoes are fine. I had to prune a lot and throw a lot away. Any tips on how to prevent this in the future?
>>5029636call a Grey Warden
>>5029636Go back to /pol/
>mother of thousands are monocarpicnooooooo my emotional investmentmy plants are supposed to outlive me reeeeeee
>>5029636I get blight all the time because of nematodes
So for potted plants, are you supposed to put compost over the top dressing and just like, let the nutrients seep down when they get watered or are you supposed to put it into the soil mix? I mean, its basically dirt.
>>5029892Same question for bone meal I guess
oWo
>>5029892I personally mix a bit in to soil, but don't forget you will probably be manually fertilising as well
One more leaf and double fenestration for sure.
If my Haworthias are dormant because its summer, would it be better to move them to where its shaded for most of the day. or would that mean they wouldn't be getting enough light if they're cooled down and more ready to grow?
Are outdoor vfts high maitenanceWill I have to constantly buy distilled water
Where in the FUCK can I get my hands on a Hydnophytum, of ANY varietyin the US?? Logee's has had them out of stock for as long as I can remember. Speciality nurseries around me don't sell it. I've been looking for one for two years now. I can find any other strange plant I wanted my hands on, dioscorea, bowiea, 3 varities of albuca, but I cannot for the life of me find even a single specimen of one of these.
>>5030394>after a week's heat wave with no rain, rains hard the night after I buy them and put them outlucky me i guess
>>5020410This. We have a big problem with tree of heaven where I live. But you don't find it deep in the woods. Only on the edges. I will say though, privet just comes up everywhere.
>>5030173dormancy does not equal dead
>>5030578that doesn't answer any part of the question at all
>>5030619>Almost all Haworthia species are naturally adapted for semi-shade conditions (in habitat they tend to grow under bushes or rock overhangs) and they are therefore healthiest in shade or semi-shade.
>>5030628fine, I will move them away from the main collection thenBut if they etiolate i will never forgive you
>>5019853I planted two of these vines last year and they did rather poorly and died off fairly quickly. I figured they were toast, but I didn't mow the spot this spring just to be safe. I had like nine come up this year and they're just starting to flower now. I'll give them something to climb next year.Has anyone made tea of the flowers?
I'm seeing two different types of plants both being labelled as Liatris ligulistylis, one with a branching flowering pattern and one with a tightly packed cylindrical flower pattern. Anyone know about the difference? I collected some seeds from a plant that looked like pic.
>>5030683And this is the other type I'm seeing pictures of online.
Wait, so, how are flytraps supposed to catch ants and such if they need to be kept with a plastic moat of water protecting them?I know they don't actually primarily eat flies
>>5030683This one is liatris spicata
>>5030779Thank you.>>5030707They just like the roots to stay moist. I saw them in habitat in south carolina growing in sandy soil that was dry to the touch on the surface.
>>5030922I appreciate the attempt at an answer anon but Im aware they're not sitting in cups of water in the wild, I meant the ones we keep.
>They're climbersThe more you learn about dragon fruit the lamer they become
>>5031001That's why I'm going to grow tunas instead
>urge to order more plants>find a bunch and put in online cart>spend a few minutes thinking it over>click buy relucantly>pick delivery option>store has removed home delivery optionIt was a sign.
Did I cuck my newest leaf of this deliciosa? I uprooted it and have begun an airlayering. The new leafs lengths is like 35-40cm shorter than previous one but already unfolding.Could it be that I repositioned it much closer to bright light and it finds the distance sufficient?All previous leaves have been at the same length before unfolding.
my store-watermelon seeds finally gave sprouts! on the 7th day of keeping them in a wet napkin, god damn, i thought they are all dead.
>80 dollars for a Zero filter>12 dollars every 3 weeks for a new filterI dont think carnivores are for me bros...
>>5031424Buy a rain-barrel. I got a barrel they ship soda syrup in from a junk shop for 20 bucks. Washed it out, drilled a hole, stuck in a valve in it, and put it under a gutter downspout. I grow drosera and sarracenia in small pots in nursery trays. I just dump rain water in them when they dry out then they get up-potted and their own trays when they're big enough. Unless you live in a desert then you're going to have to figure something else out.
do you like smelly indoor plants? well, i know you don't like hoyas i have an option to buy a few cuttings for 8$ per unit (you save money on shipping since it cost 0)i don't understand what you have to do to kill this plant, it is so easy to maintain
>>5030998what I mean to say is that they don't need to be kept in puddles of water in cultivation.>>5031424A gallon of distilled water at the supermarket is like a dollar, sometimes less.
Anyone know what rose the huge hip on the right belongs to? The others are rugosa and pimpinellifolia
>>5031478>rugosaScratch that that one's not rugosa but that's not important
Do you guys ever wonder how much microplastic is building up in plants grown in plastic containers watered with water from plastic containers
I potted some borage and it kept wilting and righting itself over and over again so now the stem is like a snake along the ground. Anyway it finally bloomed...
>>5031476>a dollarI seriously doubt it will be that cheap, and i despise supporting any kind of bottled water industry, but theres apparently a place that sells RO water refills far away from me
>>5031491Apparently it is that cheapI'll buy one for the jug and put it out when it rains, but I know from experience that skinny necked containers barely catch anything unless it downpours.
>>5031229there's no better feeling desu. I've done this with chillies and they came out way more flavourful and spicier than the shop bought ones I got the seeds fromI do this with garden plants too, just walk into the forest and find something that looks nice, grab some seeds and you're growing some shit no one else has for free
>>5031484unless you're using really scratched and degraded plant pots and watering cans they probably don't shed that much microplastic. the main source of microplastics would be from the water and what's in the medium already. you pretty much can't buy anything like soil or compost without at least some visible plastic in it these days and I imagine that's just the tip of the iceberg
>You really can buy unglazed terracotta at the dollar storeIt was so overpriced everywhere else I thought they were just mistaken when they told me
>>5030643>1 (one) day later, one is starting to turn green again in the centerWe finally found itThe low light houseplant
>>5031476Do they not? Every single source I see says they keep them with some kind of water source underneath and that they never let it run dry.I got some sphagnum moss because the only peat the store had had fertilizer, I told the guy it was for flytraps and he said "it'll be fine because there isn't much and its slow release" and that was how I learned that the guy at the specialty plant store knows nothing about plants, snd afterward learned people say not to use sphagnum because it's too moisture retentive. Would it really be fine to leave them out in the summer heat without a water bowl if they're in sphag+perlite? Everybody stresses to never let their root tips get dry and says that's the fastest way to kill them
>>5031527I keep sarracenia, not flytraps but I never keep them totally waterlogged. You don't want the roots to dry out but they dont need to be submerged. your soil will become anaerobic if you keep it completely underwater all the time and the roots wont really grow well, at least in my limited experience. Keeping them in a water dish is a good idea I think, but if you have the pot in a water dish I wouldnt fill the dish more than halfway up the side of the pot, let the capillary action pull the water up.I'm just going by personal trial and error though, so if what you're doing is working for you then keep it up.
>>5031539I've genuinely only had it for 2 days, I knew the basics but adapting the basics to my circumstances has been much harder than with my succulents
>>5028749How was it idiot
>>5019853Best books about plants?
Found this one "in the wild". Luckily there's a fence there or the city people would've cut it down.
I like that variegated spider plants are so common that I went "ooh aah" after seeing one that's just straight greenHopefully it wont reveal hidden stripes when it gets more light, some of them have a hint of lighter color down the middleIs that how variegation works? Do they lose it when they need more chlorphyl? Or do they just die harder and faster?
>>5031910It's a genetic mutation. Happens in flowers too.
>>5031950So if the mother plant was all green, its very unlikely it'll grow a stripe in the sun once it has the energy to support it?
>>5031959Yes but maybe some day it might randomly produce a sport that is variegated
Alright I grew an American elderberry from seed like months and months ago but it kept wilting near the top and leaning over and now has turned woody but is like a retarded S shape. Is this going to be an ongoing problem for every new cane or was it just because it was thin and weak at the start? A new one suckered out of it recently and is like 3 feet tall now and is much straighter
you dont understand, i just have to buy two usb fans, extender cables, power adapter and an automatic controller, plus two phytolamps, a bag of mycorrhiza fungi, a bag of bokashi and 3 different fertilizers. I just HAVE to have all this shit.
anyone been doing selection seriously? what could you expect to achieve in plants and how soon using the classic old method of picking the seeds from the best one.
>>5031497>forest and find something that looks nicethat is quite adventurousNot what i would do personally since i want to get some yield out of my plants, unless perhaps we are talking about mushrooms where the forest ones taste 10 times better than the commercial ones.
>spider grown in dark room with no natural light has burnt tipsIts 100% tapwater that does itAlso no wonder these things are everywhere, they're fucking troopers. Will grow healthy with the tiniest amount of light, will explode and keep doubling their size fast if you put them out in the sun
>>5032347Also, will severing the babies make it put more energy into the main plant or will it just spend it on another baby?
If a plant has "shallow roots", they'll just grow downward eventually anyway if they have nowhere else to go, right?
>Fill flytrap's water bowl>leave it all day for 12 hours of south facing full sun on hot pavement>water level is the same after workUhhh??? Evaporation???? Your response?????????
>>5032311desu I wouldn't get anything I expected 'yield' from from the forest, I'm more talking neat looking ornamental shrubsas far as getting crazy yields for food crops I've so far had better experience buying heirloom seeds online than what I get from the shops. I've got a single jalapeno plant that produces more than I can pickle and offload to random people I know that probably didn't really want it, but I still do love all the plants I've grown from salvaged seeds because it's nice to get something for free
>>5032463really depends on the plant. some shallow rooted plants, e.g. proteacae, are shallow rooted out of necessity and will pretty much only ever grow roots along the surface. I've got some grevilleas with roots that go a good 10+m along the ground but they turn around whenever they hit a shallow slab like a driveway rather than go downif it's a big fuck off tall tree and people call it "shallow rooted" they probably just mean compared to those pines that grow taproots as deep as the tree is tall, and it'll happily grow well under the slab of a building if that's what you mean by nowhere else to grow, but keep in mind that when people talk about big trees having shallow roots like this it's because you see them getting ripped up by stormsdo look around and do some research into the species though because sometimes shallow roots means something like ficus sp which will grow through fucking walls if you're stupid enough to put a wall in their way. if you see anyone describing the roots as invasive this is what they mean (potentially)
>>5032594dead still air can do this. a small layer of saturated air will build up over the top of the water and if there's no wind to move it out of the way no more water will evaporate. even a small breeze would be enough to dislodge this though I'd think. was the pot saturated before you put the water in? maybe some did evaporate but a bit drained out of the pot to replace it
anons, i need help with my hedgethis hedge next to my carport looks sick - is there anyone who can help with a safe advice on how to make it feel better?i have moved in recently, so I dont know anything about these plantsmy neighbours have the same kind of hedge-plant, and it looks much healthier, bigger, and has more leaves/branches ( i dont know them well enough to ask )i live in EU, if it helps to identify the plant
>>5032732The soil is still very wet yesHuhIm gonna be using a LOT less dist water than I thought
>>5032809Doesnt look particularly sick to me. Might be drought stress.
>>5032836>Doesnt look particularly sickbut whats up with leaves then?..i have a number of other plants outside, as well as inside, and most of them are doing much better - no problems with leaves or stunned growth >drought stressshould i water them? we had a moderately rainy summer, and other plants are doing well enough, so i didnt connect it with lack of water
>>5032809That's a normal looking plant to me. According to the internet it's a Vosges Whitebeam (Hedlundia mougeotii) which grows up to 8–10 m tall so your plant is probably 2-3 years old meaning its roots haven't grown very deep yet which may account for the drought stress (if that is indeed the case). You could always dig a hole in the dirt next to it and check moisture levels. Also, old leaves just turn yellow and die once they've expired, which is totally normal.
>>5032917>Hedlundia mougeotiithank you anon! it sounds about righti will try digging a hole as suggestedi would not be worried, if neighbours bushes didnt look much better - the right half in the picturewhile mine look weak and sickly.. i hope they will recover by themselves, but it will be a real eyesore if they wither any furtherid like to avoid the hustle and expenses of planting a new onenow when i know whats it called, i might try looking for local information sources
Has anybody used sulfur powder to treat fungus? It says to not apply it when its hot out because it can cause damage, so I brought the cacti inside.But when can I put them back out in the sun and the heat? Its not like the sulfur I dusted onto them is going anywhere.
what kind of a retard grows strawberries out of seedsme, im that retard3 weeks and they are less than a nail in size
>>5033027I planted some last fall and only just now one or two are the size of a quarter
>>5033028how are they supposed to survive in the forest i dont understand
>>5033031They're perennials and they make runners. A lot of forest floor plants can take years to establish and will regrow from the root every year. Strawberries are one of them, for some reason.
How am I supposed to know how much sphagnum to put in a pot if it gets like 8 times bigger when wet
>>5033048wet it first?
Stumped on where to prune. Three new growth sprouts are on top, and I have leca for the propagation.
I was thinking about the wonderful plants I'll never get to grow and, truly, a tear rolled down my cheek.Chimantaea humilis, Wunderlichia mirabilis, Dendrosenecio kilimanjari, Azorella compacta, Stegolepis hitchcockii, Rafflesia arnoldii, Maguireothamnus speciosus, Bonnetia roraimae, Crepidorhopalon droseroides, Dawsonia superba, a thousand orchids besides, and the ferns and all the mosses, oh the mosses.I could grow and collect plants for the rest of my life and I'd still not have a thousandth of the time I need. I could travel the world for the rest of my life and I'd never be able to appreciate them all. The Earth is not finite in the slightest.
>>5033316In other words, someone pls travel to the UK with me and help me break into Kew.
>>5033316Dont cry that you wont have them, think its cool that so many exist
>>5033316Your collection would be destroyed after you're dead (or ran out of money) anyway. I've read about many instances where unique collections that existed nowhere else were lost forever once their owner passed on.
>>5033098no, no, that would never work.
>>5033327If you couldn't face the reality of finding an apprentice to inherit your collection you weren't a real plant hermit.
so what exactly makes haworthia shed their roots if mine were sun/heat stressed into complete non-growth and rained on as normal but they still have them?
It struggled for close to two weeks but I think It's finnaly going to die. I think I did not water it in properly in the heatwaves we had and the soil itself was definitely not for it, far too heavy.Dead like my soul.
I'm using orchid mix with coco peat for my large plants. I can't quite gauge when to water it. 24c, 50% humidity, loads of airflow. Makes me water every 4th day or something like that. I guess I need more material that holds water longer?
you're using... peat...???Peat????PEEEAAAAATTTTT!!!!!!?????????? AIIEEEEEEE YOU STUPID NIGGER RETARD DONT YOU KNOW PEAT IS BAD!! ITS BAD!!! ITS ALSO NOT EASY TO GET OR CHEAP AT ALL!! THERES LITERALLY NO REASON TO USE PEAT EVER!!! DIE DIE DIE PEAT LOVER!!!! REEEEEEE
I bought a money plant from Home Depot on a whim like 2 years ago and now it's almost 4 feet tall. I live in an apartment and don't want it to get too huge. I'm okay cutting off the top growth right? I know nothing about plants.
T H I C C
>>5033826That will kill the plant. Don't do that under any circumstances. You have to put it in a bigger pot and or it's roots will choke it's self. Then when the roots are given room, the plant can relax and stop growing. Make sure to give it some fertiliser also
I want to grow a large bamboo grove of phyllostachys vivax or something similar. But i'm too pussy toWell actually i'm not really, only the problem about growing runner bamboo is I'd worry that when i'm gone it could become a real problem. I'd manage it pretty easy myself especially a variety you can eat and as long as i'm alive but i wouldn't trust just anyone to manage it when i'm gone in 50-60 years. I know a root barrier is the typical answer but do you really trust them to not escape? Bamboo can grow over it given the chance and once it does and no one is keeping it in check, it could become a real ecological problem. I don't really want to be the cause of that
>>5034110>>5033355
>>5034107Its in a 10" pot, it was repotted early this year after a previous repotting.
the sphagnum moss didn't expand nearly as much as I thought it was going toWhy do they wrap store vfts in those little socks???
>Given 2 spiders>One was slightly bluish green/green was more washed out, looked very pretty, preferred it>week later>its a normal green, same as the other
I bought this Dancing Bones Cactus as a farmer's market and after noticed this weird plant growing in the same pot. This little plant survived a lot of repotting and other events. Anyone know what it is? Is it anything valuable like a succulent that ended up in the pot or is it some kind of weed that could be harmful to my plant that I should remove?
>>5034154TrueI would have to groom a successor
>>5034414It's just a weed
>>5021952These feral birdseed sunflowers are great. There are several different varieties that will often pop up and the heads will make even more seeds and the squirrel can bite off and carry away, like a giant seed burger. Butterflies love them and they really do follow the path of the Sun throughout the day too.
>>5034414Cacti truly get the coolest/stupidest common names
I just received the gayest plant I've owned. And it outgays my tetraspermas.Anyone recognize and can name it?
>>5034552Cleaned the leaves up from limescale.Absolute units of aerial roots.
>>5034552>>5034590rhaphidophora decursiva before fenestration i reckon
>>5034552I don't recognize it but I'll name him Tsar Nicholas III
>>5034607>>5034657Raphidophora..... MEGASPERMA. Never seen one before, and with that name, ez buy.
they called me rapid megasperm in highschool, you know
>Summer is just over a week earlyfuck right off
Is anyone willing to redpill me on what the best mulberry varieties are?
>>5033812I use peat to spite hippies :^)
This rose has been cultivated since the middle ages
>>5035328*picks it*
>>5035328*eats it*
Not my picture but I was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for growth lights that double as aesthetic third lighting for rooms? My room needs additional lighting anyway and I wanted some lights that could increase the light near the northern window and bookshelves for the backs of plants near the southwest window and to have my succulents grow during winter and give my non-arid succulents a chance with the northern window that's currently dark as shit due to the massive tree blocking it. I don't really want some ugly bare bulbs or bisexual lighting through I would enjoy a warmer light that makes my tiny ass apartment cozy with, hopefully, warmer light.
>>5035634Thats just a light, any decent grow light is going to be blinding to look at
>>5035650I'm very new to houseplants and only have a few exotic succulents/plants but they're easy to take care of. I just need a secondary light for my arid's plants side that doesn't face the window so they all don't grow towards the window (and I get even more crazy growth) and I wanted to relocated my more northern adapted and jungle plants to a dim north facing near my books for more light. In general just to have more plants around the room rather than all shoved next to my tiny southwest window.
>>5035634>>5035650Grow lights, aetshetic, blinding, huh?
>>5035763God damn it.
>tfw putting propagations together
Sup cunts i just spreyed my zuccini with sum limocide and let me tell you that stuff smells good. Now im wondering if it tastes as good as it smells so have any of you ever mixed it with vodka and drunk it?
>>5035968triple sec?
>>5036026That's what im expecting but i dont know what kind of oil they used to dissolve the lemon extract. Dont want o drink engine oil. For now at least.
Finally got to the squamiferums. So mistreated with heavy water on the leaves.. spent like 50min rubbing the limescale off.
>>5036418If an expensive plant looked like this, there should be a big discount.
How could I turn mother of thousands plantlets into fertilizer without them growing?Just press them into liquid and bits?
>>5036433I would honestly just roast the shit out of it until it was 100% dead.
>>5036433The result wouldn't be fertilizer. First it needs to fully decompose before nutrients are released which plants can use. On top of that the NPK of compost is very weak regardless.
>>5036551>>5036554How can they have no use if they're like a little egg packed with all the ingredients to make a new plant? :( I was told they're edible to humans even if they're toxic to animals but apparently that's not true...
I do not care for trailing plants
Ping care is basically identical to vfts outside of dormancy, right?
>>5036570Maybe you can try activating them like almonds, apparently that converts the nutrients
>>5036741I don't know whether to take this post seriously or not...
>>5036736>They're just carnivorous succulents>Complete with just becoming normal succulents for part of the yearyou're so cool nature
I think it's really cool and fun that even if you don't make a concious decision of "I'm going to grow THESE kinds of plants" the sheer convenience factor of something like already having the potting medium leads people to "specialize" into keeping one kind/environment of plant and having a general theme to your collection.
>>5036778I've noticed my collection is pretty much all succulents many of them on the more exotic side. I've got a snake plant, a Euphorbia trigona rubra, two dancing bones cactus, a sedum spurium and what I think is a Euphorbia monadenium guentheri. I probably should have gotten more low-light plants but so far I am getting new growth pretty fast even if they are all crowded around the window and faced some problems but I think I'm doing pretty well for someone new to houseplants. Currently resisting the urge for a arid cactus and a ZZ plant because my other windows are dark as shit and my southwest window is completely filled with the 7 succulents.
>>5036778What if I just chuck whatever the fuck I get my hands on in my garden and let it grow? Is that even a collection?
>>5036698t. tree
Yeah I grow rare and exotic succulents, like snake plants
Every single time I think "It's too cold and rainy, I'm finally bringing them in under the grow light" the sun comes right back out to scold me for trying to interfere
My little slice of heaven
>>5037027Looks like throwup
>>5036923My snake plant is rare because it's not half-dead throw into the darkest corner of the room with leggy and droopy leaves and left to rot for several months without any water until it's thrown out and replaced.
>>5037027Very cool. My friend whose new to plants really wants a venus flytrap to, in theory, eat the flies in his room. I've tried to talk him into a cactus or another easy non-toxic plant but he really wants the venus flytrap in addition to the cactus. What advice can I give him to not immediately kill it? I never attempted a flytrap since like I was in elementary.
who /lanklet/
>>5037287I used to purposefully abuse this kinda tree plant to grow lankey. Only the top had leaves, looked so funny. But I forgot to water it and it died..
>>50372171, flytraps don't catch flies, get a Pinguicula.2, youtube.
>>5037217Also, cacti are only easy if you keep them outside. Windowsills aren't enough light.
>>5037321Flytraps do catch flies
>>5037361If you have big green/horseflies, sure.
>>5037372Im talking about regular house flies. Not saying they're the best choice for dealing with them but they do catch them.
>>5037217Like the other anon said, pings make better houseplants. Its hard to keep temperate carnivores like flytraps and sarracenia indoors because they require a winter dormancy period. They also need more sun than you realize, and most people just can't provide that indoors.
>>5037458They're also really easy to get to flower constantly , which normies will appreciate
>>5036974My only solace on cloudy days is that they're at least still getting more light than greenhouse and windowsill plants
>>5037540>appreciateNormies dont appreciate anything about plants, least of all flowers. They have no clue how much of a feat it is for anything to make one.
