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/ >>5037604
Is it unethical to plant non-natives in the ground?
>>5063726in your own country, if they're invasive, yes, definitelyIf it's a foreign country, and they're invasive, no, it's funy
>be australian>kill every kangaroo paw i plant
>>5063848Killing kangaroos is in your blood anon
>is horticulture unethical?
>>5063995Who are you quoting?
have gotten into plant identification over the last 2 months, very comfy hobby, and walking through the park and realizing I can now name half the stuff I see feels great
>>5063726Only if they are allelopathic. Most native plants can compete with invasives if they aren't suppressing the seed bank. >>5063995Yes. Bonsai is the cruelest of act of horticulture.
>>5064071It's neat when you start to notice different species in what used to be a generic green blob. Inaturalist has been a great help in identifying weeds in my area.
>>5064075inaturalist is what I've been using too
>>5064070The guy who asked of keeping non-native plants is bad
I heard that these are good for your memory somehow, so I plucked some leaves off a tree I walked by and ate them. Tasted like shit and I noticed no significant memory improvement
>>5064082That's not what he said, and not what you said though?And you also didn't reply to him, are you dumb?
>>5064087Shut the fuck up
>>5063285The absolute flared girth on this new one.
I was told sphagnum moss is the best growing medium for sphagnum moss, but I cant get red sphagnum to establish on top of green, it just keeps dyingDo sphagnums compete with and deter other species?
Anyone know about hydroponics? How do I control this fungus?
>>5064390Don’t most people in hydroponics plant directly into clay pellets?
>>5064456I got some peat sponges.
First frost of the year was last nightYou moved everything inside before then, right?
>>5064798>First frost of the year was last nightnah that was already like 3 weeks ago
>>5064802Well lah dee dah mister Im Too Good For Global Warming
>>5064100Mayonnaise lookin inbred hick
>>5064824Its funny that you have to try so hard to make up insults and yet I can just remind you that you're brown and hurt you infinitely more
How do I actually use my rosemary and lavender plants to make my workplace smell nice? Do you actually get much smell from drying the herbs and leaving them around? Should I put them in a diffuser like people use for essential oils, which should be better for you than essential oils are?>>5064084I think that's the nuts, anon, not leaves…
>Left spider plants in the shade and basically forgot aboout them>left them outside in frost>both currently breaking out of their pots with root growthCall them boring or normie or whatever but I've gained a lot of respect for spiders since I started paying attention to themI just don't like how they always kind of have a visible "front side" and "back side" because of how they grow instead of being a nice circular bush
>>5064390built for Big Monstera Cock
>October>still harvesting tomatoesfeelsgood.jpgIt pays to get a cold-resistant species. I've been eating my own, fresh tomatoes since August.
Holy shit, my megasperma is already growing out a new leaf after hardening the previous huge leaf. It's winter and it's popping off.
>>5065139Vaginismus
>>5064919Whatever you say cum face
>>5065139Flytraps are vulnerable and bogs as a whole are under major threat
>>5065185
>>5065362Ok jizz face
>>5065374>>5065185Ahem. Cumskin is taken. If you want an insult for white people, try these:CorpseVampireNeanderthalYetiIcemanBarbarian (the OG white person slur)Angel of deathMade in lucifer’s imageGrim and frostbittenSnow kangInbred northern indian
>>5065378the frozen hordeswest mongolianswolfmen
>>5065378No it works really well for them pasty honkies
>>5065378>>5065379chatgpt-ass post
>>5065384>jizz face!>white guy: Thats it? Nigger>REEEE *assault with a deadly weapon*
>>5065388It's so weird to me how nogs just get this trigger word where they hear it and are allowed to chimp out and be physically violent
>>5065388^jizz^Ya know what they say, you are what you eat ;^)
>>5065136Which one? I want names, pics and seeds.
>>5065136I learned from a book recently that plants can not only learn by adapting strategies they use to deal with hardships they face, but also "teach" their children the things they've learned recently because they alter their own dna to do these things, so as long as nothing catastrophic happens, and you keep using your own seeds, your plants will eventually adapt better and better to your local conditions over generations.
made terrarium!
>>5065583BASED
>>5065583>bro let me in, I'm a fairy
>>5065583Those kittys will get swallowed.
I have iris seeds in my fridge which have been cold stratifying but I’m too lazy to plant them.
>>5065583Even I'm jealous
hey guys xx
>>5065859I have sundew seeds under a light that i got impatient with and only cold stratified for 2 weeks
Could someone help ID this Nephentes for me?Also if it needs anything special. I had an Alata for a few years. This one looks slightly different. I love the reddish hue it has going on.but I'm not sure if it's sun stress or it's due to poor environment in the store or if it's supposed to look like that. For what it's worth it looks healthy.. i think.
Rainy fall day on the bog. I got a lot of phyllodes this year instead of pitchers, probably because I stressed the plant by repotting late last year.>>5066274If you didn't get it from a specialty store and its doing fine without any humidity or temperature controls its probably a hybrid created for the houseplant trade, see; Nepenthes x "Bloody Mary". They're widely available at big box stores like home depot and lowes and are a great way to introduce normies to the world of CP.
>>5066693
This is my favorite tree, whenever I wak past it I can hear all the squirrels rustle the bark as they run up :)
>>5066693The Bloody Mary looks a bit rounder isn't it? I did some research I think it's a Rebecca Soper now. Btw, is it true you can feed fish food during winter months to Nephs? How often and what amount?Bugs are getting hard to find
Every single desert plant I own has died either from over or under hydration.Every single tropical I own is thriving.I don't fucking get it
>>5067775Literally just squeeze the leaf to tell if its thirsty retard
>>5067820This. If it flexes too much or feels squishy it's time for water>TFW euphorbias getting too tall for the basement >Too cold outside now too>>5065583I kinda wanna do that with this 75gal, but I heard fish tanks were kinda ass for maintaining as opposed to purpose built terrarium tanks.
always feels nice going up to my echeveria and squeezing a leaf as hard as a rockhttps://youtu.be/w-i_DKMUyL4?si=umR_iMHCJTrCwEAM
>>5067380nigga, that's nuts
>>5067820you literally can't touch a Sedum Burrito without it literally falling apart into beads
>NYOOOO I CANT TOUCH MY [sedum species]!!Because it's not healthy
All my sphagnum is turning green before my drosera seeds have even gotten close to sprouting, should i be worried about them getting overgrown?
>thought this was dead and rotten >let it sit for months without trashing out of laziness>suddenly life
>>5067957>?si=umR_iMHCJTrCwEAMthank you glownigger-kun
I gathered up some tree seeds (Japanese Maple and Ginkgo Biloba) from trees in the park where I live and was thinking of planting. Everyone says to plant them during fall but I feel like right now It's way too hot (around 13-19c which is kind of abnormal for this time of the year really I live in a Zone7b/8a on the hardiness scale), do I just wait for early December when the temperatures drop even further? I have the soil,seeds and trays and everything ready. I'm just not sure how to really proceed as It's my first time sowing anything, I'm thinking of keeping them in a unused room in my attic, It's unheated and far way from everything so the temperatures will be very low while still getting sun, I just want to make sure they're protected from wind and birds, insects. A thing I'm unsure is do I have to water them during this cold stratification period? I know the soil has to stay relatively moist (in fact I plan on soaking the seeds for 24h before planting) but I'm not really sure what that actually looks like.tldr I guess what temperatures am I waiting for and how do I treat them during the winter, thanks for the help in advance
Is there any appreciable difference between the little bags of horticultural charcoal at my home improvement store and the no-chemicals lump charcoal at my grocery store?
As I learned nearly a month later, you're apparently not supposed to just wait for a cold night and pop a flytrap directly into the fridge, because for whatever reason, once it's in there it won't die back and go dead-looking "dormant" dormant. She's one month in out of 3 and she's just kind of sitting there frozen in time, not growing or dying. I hope it's at least mildly restorative, though I can't imagine it's as beneficial as slowly tucking down to sleep. Though I ALSO imagine that dying back isn't neccessarily a requirement for it to be dormant, just an adaptation that benefits it in the wild, outside of controlled conditions. There's no need to reabsorb and store all your materials if there's guaranteed to never be any frost or snow that could damage your leaves
>>5068516What does it matter what the temperature of the soil is right now?? Plant the seed and it'll sprout come spring. Use your head man.
Post about chilis in last thread. Only 2 of the 33 have survived after wilting (I suspect it is due to fertilizer burn that I added to their watering solution). Just ordered a 9000lm grow light panel to ensue all bases are covered and that the 2 survive.
>>5068622Because winter does not usually last 5 months? I don't know if the seeds can stratify for that long without something happening to them. Everywhere I read said the usually need around 1-3 months. Otherwise I think I might break the cycle, no? Since I wan them to have a normal year long cycle. If I plant them now can they really stay in dormancy for so long to germinate during spring (Beginning of March), especially with how warm this autumn is right now?
>>5068967No. If the seed is viable it will sprout after the cold stratification is finished. Until then it'll stay dormant regardless of how long it's been in the ground for. In fact some people suggest that a period of warm stratification before cold stratification improves germination rates. These all required sufficient moisture by the way.
What are your most hated normie plants?
>>5069019When I buy a house I will actively kill all the grass on the lawn
>>5069019Ferns.
>>5069025u mad sporelet?
>>5069019
>>5069019Monstera and other vining houseplants. They look awful until they start getting too big for your house. My favorite is the spider plant. I like their grassy foliage and thick white roots.
>>5068405probably went into a dormant due to abuse or enviroment change
>>5069222>rare plants>normie
>>5069019Eucalyptus.
>>5069795u mad california?
Why do people say you shouldn't repot into a pot that's "too big" when you can plant the same plant outside or into a aquaponics bed and watch it do just fine??
>>5069795Absolutely Australian. >>5069818And that is a good thing.
>>5069019Not the trees themself but the way they're added to gardens feels overly artificial somehow.
>>5069025Explain.
>>5069019Whatever this shit is called. Ugly as sin.
>>5070106I dont get why putting down a giant carpet of decaying wood creates an ecological dead zone that nothing living will come nearIt feels like it would have the opposite effect
>>5069875
>>5070110If you do it with untreated broadleaf wood chips (not just conifer bark) it's beetle breeding heaven.
>>5070110>>5070239Normies love to put landscape fabric underneath so the soil wont even benefit from all that decaying organic matter
>>5070285christ alive just put down fucking plastic grass and flowers at that point
How do I turn this sad looking Portulacaria afra into a bonsai?I've been letting it grow for more than a year because I want a bigger trunk, but it's only grown it's branches like mad. Do I still let it continue growing its branches?
>>5070317Final boss
Does anyone have any recomendations for an indoor garden? Any plants that work well or tips for beginners? My sister got gifted a sort of hydroponic indoor garden thing she seems to like. I would rather not buy something like that but the idea of it is nice and I have a decent sized window to use for light instead of the plugged in artificial light hers has.
Need some advice on this christmas tree I got last year. I dont know much about taking care of one.Some of the needles have fallen off, but it seems that most are green and are on pretty tight. I would like to try to make it more presentable for christmas but also try to take care of it better in general.Should I trim the branches back to where the needles have fallen off? There are green shoots on the end
>>5070682In the ideal world, I would plant the tree after christmas but I live in an apartment building and a real tree is important to me.Alternative I can buy another smaller one this year if its too big for the pot.
trees
Every time I've tried to propogate echeveria leaves they either sit there for months on end or rotIs it just about luck?
is this salvagable?zebra plant was neglected by the person looking after my house while i was away for 9 days :(
>>5071698Yeah, 100%. You aren't going to be able to save any of that wilted foliage but the roots are probably fine. I assume it was allowed to dry out? Cut back the wilted stuff and lift out that plastic inner pot, fill up a container with water and give it a good thorough bottom watering then leave it somewhere sunny and warm. If it was exposed to a frost it's probably a goner. Also for what its worth, I hate those pots with the built-in water dish, they really never drain well because the holes are so small.
Anyone else get fucked by some surprise snowfall?A good inch and a half of bullshit at the worst possible time
>>5071715>surpriseABRA KADIZZLEABRAKA SHIZZLE8 MONTHS FROM NOWYOUR GARDEN SHALL SIZZLE
>Keep Ping outside>Never adjusted, constantly sad, made lots of little leaves that would be quickly reabsorbed, never made much butter>Bring it inside under light for the winter, put it far on the edge so it's just getting the outskirts of it>Instantly thriving, always putting out the biggest leaves I've seen it have>Less than a month in its floweringThe first plant I've ever kept that's actually significantly happier indoorsI don't understand partial shade, an area is either in shade or it's not, right? Why would a plant do well with just a few hours of morning sun and then darkness for the rest of the day?
>>5071783Also, I know basically permanently being in bloom is a ping's signature thing, but should I try to catch it some bugs? I've genuinely never seen it catch any and I don't have gnats so it won't while it's inside.They don't seem to attract insects at all, they literally just sit and hope one happens to walk on and chooses to lay down and die, because it's certainly not sticky like a sundew.Do they attract bugs with their flowers??? Is that why they keep them out all the time?
>>5071786I think you can give it maxsea fertilizer on the leaves, or fish flakes if you want.
>>5071401Wish I had the space for them. I want a grove of Paulownia.
>>5071710didnt freeze just droughtand yeah i have a bad habit of buying pots for aesthetic purpose onlythanks for the advice fingers crossed cuz im quite fond of this one
This thing grows too fast.
>>5065859I planted them and it’s been like 2 days and they haven’t sprouted. It’s over
>>5071606Just enough moisture and neglect they send out roots seems to work for me, I usuallty just leave them then remember a month or so later or put them around established plants and dig us if sprout.
>>5070591Snake plant, pothos, peace lily, spider plant, crassula, zz plant all easy beginners
LOOK AT THEMLOOK AT MY SUNDEWSWHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO CATCH WITH LEAVES THAT SMALLfirst things ive gotten to grow from seed
>tfw first sunrise in over a week
>>5073357Also just realized that this is how deliciosas have evolved, guiding new leaves.
>>5073357h-hello
>>5063609wooly white flies are gangbanging my orange tree.So I started spraying soapy water (50g soap in 1 liter as the base, then dilute 40ml of that solution per liter of water to use on the plants), I'm on the 2nd application (one application every 3 days) and I still see a lot of flies, I guess the soapy water doesn't hurt all the stages of the fly so it might take a while to interrupt the life-cycle. its been almost a week now and I realized I don't know if I should rinse off the soapy water or not.
Beautiful.
>>5073357
>>5073780looks tasty
>>5073244>those tiny deadly leavesAdorable.Are you growing them on extoplasma?
>>5073989I think it's a coating of algae over the sphagnum
I fucking love plants
Thoughts on cranberry hibiscus? Apparently the leaves tastes somewhat like cranberries. I'm gonna plant one and see how it goes.
>>5074463Plants are based and I fucking love you for it (no homo)
Why is it that dudebros grow carnivores and women keep succulents?
>>5075150I have both (well 3 carnivorous and roughly 50 succulents)
Today's planings:>Cyathea cooperi - Lacy Tree Fern>Lamondra labill - Mat Rush cultivar Evergreen Baby>Dianella tasmanica - cultivar Tas Red - Native Flax>Dianaella revoluta - cultivar Little Rev - Native Flax>Chrysocephalum apiculatum - Desert Flame EverlastingsGarden redo in full swing
Its very interesting watching a jellybean grow into a little tree, since you can never be sure if what you're looking at in a picture is an individual plant or not.They seem to have no problem with just growing new rosettes anywhere on the stem, they'll reabsorb a leaf and it'll turn into a new growth point right under some older leaves. An old ugly circle left on the stem from where a bean fell off? We'll just use it again.I've heard they get leggy and bare-stemmed after a few years no matter what though, which I suppose makes sense, leaves hidden at the bottom of a stem serve little purpose.Additionally, calling them jellybeans and marketing them based on how cute they are really undersells just how fucking bizarre and alien they look next to other plants, they look fictional, like someone tried to make a weird looking plant to put in the background for some sci fi planet.
Would it be smart to use large chunks of dry charcoal as drainage at the bottom of pots/planters?I don't have any big rocks or branches, but I have a shitload of natural charcoal.Using some of it to make biochar with compost tea, but I'm thinking the big dry chunks I might use for drainage in my pots
I take slo-mo videos of insects visiting plants as a hobby, and I also like noodling on my classical guitar. I combined the two and it's sorta nice and I wanted to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dn08-FKyxk
>>5076247Don't do this, it actually impedes drainage.The correct way to improve drainage is to incorporate stones or gravel (or charcoal) into the potting medium itself.
>>5076247I was going to warn you about watertablespergbut I was banned, sorry
>>5077004what about that post was sperging
>33 seconds
What am I doing wrong with my saliva divinorum? Stems keep blackening at random and so are leaves. I keep the humidity high and the soil moist, not wet. Is it too little air circulation?
>>5073502I've seen it drop these before, but never so big. There are barely any growing fruit on it.Its over
my echeveria is about halfway through replacing all of his old sunburned (and eaten...) leaves with bigger, longer thinner ones and I'm very proud of himI wonder how long it takes them to start growing their stem and making offshoots, he's definitely at least a couple years old.That said it's odd that we associate a plant with a bunch of growth points as a healthy and strong specimen, look at all those rosettes, when from what I've seen, at least with echeverias, that they generally only do that out of desperation as they starve to death. If they're healthy and happy they'll kind of just chill and grow really slowly.Makes me think that some selective abuse might be a way to grow impressive, multiheaded echeverias quicklky, but i'd never risk that with this one, he's my baby. I freak out if his leaves stop pointing straight up for like a day.And they'll do it quickly too, I've found. One or two shady days and they'll start getting fussy and demanding more light.
>>50720943 have sprouted now. It’s not over.
Do people actually painstakingly get rid of all the soil their plants have worked hard to dig their roots into whenever they repot them or is that just a youtuber thing? Unless you let it get horrifically rootbound it seems like just transferring the clump is better in every respect, even down to the time it takes
>>5078187It's just indoor plant fags who use dogshit perlite and sterile peat moss instead of actual soil.
Why are we destroying bogs for peat if it's so awful for the single thing it's used for?
Will Alocasias do well if I have 40+C summer temps?I have a bog with a bunch of Umbrella plants that are growing like crazy because of all the yummy nutrients
>>5078613Why does your bog have nutrients????
>>5079295Bog ---> Pond ^^^----------|Pond has ducks, ducks are a massive bioload
>>5078613One way to find out.
>>5078187I do it every year or two for my succs it's the only way I've found to deal with root mealybugs.
When a plant reabsorbs its leaves, is it like, eating them? Does it reharvest all the sugars and cellulose and sugar and phosphorus etc and redistribute it or is it mostly just drinking the water in them? Does a healthy, well-kept plant just keep stacking its resources infinitely?People say flowering "takes a ton of energy", but do they get it back after reabsorbing the stalk? And I STILL dont understand why they don't grow exponentially if all of their energy is used to fuel growth, which in turn fuels more growth, because the things they're growing, roots and leaves, are just there to get more food to grow in a feedback loop
Also, if a succulent/cactus is essentially just growing more/bigger water storages for its entire life, is an older/bigger one going to be able to go longer and longer without water the longer it lives?
Do you really need to use plastic containers and wet paper towels for cold stratifying? I have an unheated attic room that gets pretty cold during winter since there's nothing near it that warms it and was just thinking of putting my seeds in a tray with soil and leaving it out on the table, away from sunlight, checking every week to see if the top level soil is moist. Is there any reason this would not work?
>>5079719This nigga doesnt have a fridge
>>5079719Just leave the tray outside why would you even keep them indoors?
>>5079786Animals, birds, insects, wind, frost.
>>5079789>wind, frost.
one more month and my flytrap can come out and grow!!!
>got into native gardening>loves going to native plant fair >but absolutely depise the native plant "people"half of them are native plant community are pretty young which I thought I could fit in but they gives off very a holier you attitude that I can't stand being in a room with them. Like the hipster moved into the gardening community or something.
>>5080049half of the*
>>5080049Did you see many legumes for sale?
>>5063609I get the basil plant from the grocery store (in dirt) but it always dies. Is there a way to preserve it? I want to start an herb garden for cooking, but I obviously don't know wtf I'm doing
>>5080144You're keeping it inside, keep it outside
>>5080144Grocery store basil is usually a pot full of seedlings rather than a single plant, so it looks nice and full when you buy it, but struggles to regrow new leaves after you pick them since it's lots of little plants competing in a very small amount of soil.Simplest thing to do, instead of picking off a few leaves here and there, pull out entire stems from the soil, just as if you were thinning out seedlings.This will leave fewer plants but they will be healthier due to having more space and soil to grow.A couple of caveats however, firstly basil is an annual so only lives for a year anyway, secondly if it's winter time where you live, the growth will slow down anyway due to cooler temps and less sunlight, and will even just die if you put it outside in cold weather.
hai :3
>>5079719I've read that you can cold stratify by just putting the seeds outside in fall or winter. https://www.saveourmonarchs.org/blog/cold-stratifying-milkweed-seeds-101 Tried it for the first time myself this year. Maybe the attic will work.
>>5079719The only downside is insect eggs may hatch inside your house. I see a lot of people putting rigid containers outside instead, like a tub with a lid or a milk jug or something. The seeds just need cold to break down inhibitors and to have some water inside and eventually reach the right temperature to germinate. It doesn't really matter how you do it, unless it ruins the seeds somehow. Just planting them directly in a pot outside is effective too. Or just in the ground directly, depending on what it is.
>>5063609Meanwhile when I try to grow Anigozanthos in the country they're from
Any cosy garden 'tubers you watch /plant/? Been getting into Self Sufficient Me lately, makes me want to properly get into gardening
>>5081108
I love the humble spud :)
Is this the work of spider mites or could it be something else?I've never seen this kind of thing before in my gardenJust wondering if I should get rid of it because usually I don't like killing bugs for no reason
folks, if you make a cactus display like mine make sure to use a wooden trough and not a plastic one. the faces of mine are bowing out due to the sand and its exposing all the plant pots the cacti are in as well as the polystyrene i used to fill up space.
>>5081108it kinda drives me up a wall that all these guys are in hot climates and half their recommendations are useless outside south florida
>>5081290species on the left and right of the middle?
>>5081369For me it's"[x] plant is incredibly cold-hardy, I've seen it survive freezing cold winters, snow, the whole works, it's practically invincible! Just don't let it get below -6"Fucking desert dwellers I swear to god.
>>5081383and the truly incredible amount of spending they do
>buy cute little seedling>within a year its 6 foot monstrositySo this is what it's like to have children
>>5081290This looks awful.
>>5081369It's the opposite for me, 90% of tips and plants that's recommended doesn't work because its 48°C and dry and windy as shit in summer
Are bunny ears the fastest-growing cacti there are?Te seen grow at a perceptible rate, I'm trying to get some nice pads for propagation but the baby pads are starting to grow their own pad before they've gotten nice and big
>>5081790*they're the only ones I've seen grow at a perceptible rate
>>5081790That said, do you actually have to propogate prickly pears if they have an ugly bottom? Can't you just bury the bottom pads and it'll grow roots out of them?
>>5081480It does not.
>vendor reply immediately on order request>slow to reply when ask about plant damage/>sent proof>4 days no reply Tales as old as time, time to publicly shame them on their live sale again.
>carefully ration out space and prebuy trellis materials for nightshade patch>just enough room for each species>order the seeds>as a free gift, a second completely different variety of tomatoes!
I have planted over a thousand rose seeds
>>5080049This is how I feel posting in this general sometimes. I want to talk about plants in depth with someone. I want to talk about potato varieties. I want to talk about plant evolution and taxonomy. I want to talk about prehistoric plants. I want to talk about foraging and making wild food. I want to talk about plant anatomy. But it's just a bunch of weenies who bought a house plant and don't know how to look after it and have come to ask a stupid question they could find the answer to with a simple 5 minute search
>>5081108Not really any gardening channels but I watch a couple of channels about wild plants if that's any good to youhttps://www.youtube.com/@offalyheritage/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/@UKWILDCRAFTS/videosYou got any more gardening channels?
>>5081108https://youtu.be/ZYcYg_huG6U?list=PLzI2W90chvbnSOXb0YuN9uxquXGc7D-cW
>Spider plants aren't doing so hot suddenly and I cant figure out why.>Assume I just watered them too late.>Look like they're trying to bounce back but the leaves get stuck in each other and I have to manually separate them.>No matter what the leaves keep dying off at the base.>Notice there are these extremely tiny yellow insects on the leaves, they look like a tiny yellow line.>So small that I can't get a good look at them even with a magnifying lense.Are these thrips? They don't jump when I prod them, the just sluggishly move a little bit. None of my plants seem to have any marks that look like damage(those silvery streaks that they're supposed to leave?), but new leaves seem to just die off before they can form.
>>5082285Throw the plant away. Thrips at such a stage of infestation is impossible to recover from.
>>5082286Yeah, I think I'm just going to bin all of my spider plants since they seem to have the most. At this point I'm convinced they're thrips because I found some damage on my Alocasia(as well as them) on it, but I think it might be more manageable. Thankfully most of my plants in the room aren't very leafy as almost all of them are succulents that are easy to look over or possibly treat. I went over every single leaf on the Alocasia that was near them and fully cleaned them, the Nepenthes that was also near them seems to have next to none on it(I heard they don't like moisture?).These fuckers really did just spawn out of nowhere, the plants have been in the same spot in the same room for an entire year. Any other tips or suggestions? Thrips are a pest I haven't really encountered before.
>>5082293My best success has been systemic pesticide. Turns the plant itself into poison for pests, so anything taking a bite dies off later. Thrips lays eggs inside the plant so depending on the pesticide, they either die or need to hatch and feed to die. They lay MANY eggs and can fly.They are extremely difficult to get rid of. If you can't get a systemic pesticide, you're going to have a rough time. And yes, higher moisture is good against them.
>>5082272
why is it literally always tropicals that get/bring in pests first? You'd think the weak and half-dead succulents everybody sells would be where they thrive
>>5083031Throughput. The tropics have a lot of energy, water, and nutrients constantly flowing between different owners, so they can maintain a really dense diverse ecosystem with all these super specialized niches. It might seem like pests would depend on plants more in arid regions and mountaintops with no other food sources, but if they actually did this they would deplete their supply in no time.
>>5083062But no one is harvesting monstera and spider plants from the tropics, and once they're in the greenhouse/department store I doubt thrips would be picky enough to avoid the sicker, easier plants that they infest in homes regardless
Bottom watering is an annoying time consuming meme, I'm just gonna buy a god damn watering can.Winter can't end fast enough, I miss doing 0 maintenance, you never notice how much dew waters your plants until you bring them inside.
>>5083074>succfags when they have to do literally any plant care at all
>seeds ordered>Supplies gathered>Plans drawnSoon it will be time to return to the dirt and plants
>>5083078me refusing to plant any annuals in the vegetable garden
>>5083116Kek why even live?
The fact that jellybean leaves actually taste sweet is some insane fantasy world shit
>>5083121actually its fun, theres a lot of microclimate and botany involved, also there are lots of exotic herbs and unknown cousins of common veggies... if you stop and think about it for 2 seconds, the ideal perennials are like spice trees and berry bushes, which makes for a great low-maintenance garden
>>5083130Do they? I felt the same eating sorrel for the first time.
>>5083132My apologies, anon. I was just memeing at you.
>>5083138inshallah i will have the funny treehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_olida
>>5083133Its a lot like a sempervivum leaf I tried, the inside is flavorless, but the bit between the skin and the flesh has this almost muted citrusy flavor, my tongue wasn't saying if I should or shouldn't be eating it, it just kind of existedI imagine its incredibly flavorful for a plant that has literally never been bred for taste
