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I like chives. Never eat them, but they look pretty.
>>5114039It's not meant to be eaten, it's meant to be planted by your pond
What is this on my Kalanchoe? Gall? Not something to worry about I assume
>>5113591>No, if it's not in thousands of lumens it's not useful for anything but tiny plantsCan you tell me more about this topic, I don't know much about it, always thought that you need to look for full light spectrum and not light output
>>5115046Take your light meter app, (change it to footcandles), go outside under the spring/summer sun and compare the number to whatever you have insidethen realize that indoor lighting is essentially a cave and plants stretch inside because they literally think they are buried underground and need to get back to where there's daylight.In regards to full spectrum, consider that there are giant plants that have lived longer than you have exclusively under glass windows in greenhouses, those windows blocking invisible light like uv (that full spectrum doesn't even have) and only receiving the basics.
>>5115046>>5115073Photosynthesis is performed using light in the visible spectrum. Light from the sun, or a basic lightbulb, produce white light, which is white because it's all the colors. "Full spectrum" is a pointless nondescriptor. The brightness and intensity of the (white) light is what matters. You also can't trust your eyes in regards to the brightness of light, because your eyes adapt to the situation, and are adapted for low light. Staring directly at a lightbulb may hurt your eyes so you think it's very bright, but when measured with unbiased technology, you can see that it might only be 500 fc, compared to the sun when it's not overcast, which will be 10,-12,000+ fc. In all directions, as opposed to just coming from one small source.The photosynthesis reaction is catalyzed by energy from light. Just straight photons. The more light, the more energy, because there's more light. The more light, the brighter, because there's more light. Colors don't enter the equation anywhere. Sure red and blue light are absorbed the best, but there's literally no reason to just throw out the entire rest of the spectrum when it's like, the default light we produce. If you had a white light and a red light of the same brightness, the red light would be way more expensive and way hotter for next to no benefit.
>>5115046They don't actually use the full spectrum do they? They use mostly red and blue and make an effort to reflect green and infrared. Our eyes adjust when indoors so we don't get a good objective read on light level, which does need to be high enough.
>>5115046>>5115078As long as you have a light between 9000 and 12000 lumens in brightness and around 5000k or 6500k color temp you will have a grow light as good as sunlight. You can get LED projector units for less than $50 easy, but it needs to be setup properly as how far the light is from the plant will affect lumen. Blue v red v UV is just weed farmer lore and not something to worry about.
>>5115114Sorry I didn't mean to emphasize the blue-red thing so strongly. I should have said it the other way around.
Did /plant/ replace the HMG general threads from a few years ago?
Which plant is the least Jewish?
>>5115465Pumpkins of Manpukuji
I bought a japanese maple and I'm gonna grow it on my balcony
Grass is very important.
>>5115551Nice. Plant some oxalis in the container for a companion plant and living mulch.
My poppies are coming up strong.
>>5115581What are their names?
>>5115587They're papaver somniferum.Was getting worried about my milkweed surviving the winter, since I planted it pretty late last year but after rooting around a bit I found the namesake tuber of asclepias tuberosa. Looking forward to more monarchs this year!
Getting the potting mix for Lithops right is so confusing. I found some sand that I thought I would mix in because I like the color of it and its big enough that I can easily pick out each individual grain in the container, I'm second guessing myself.Anybody here actually keep Lithops?
>>5114032more like Strokesia
Almost have a house so I can make a pollinator garden. Have been collecting seeds from my hikes.
I want to start air layering my starfruit tree because I only have one and if a hurricane takes it out I'll be sad. Is there any reason to buy and use those little plastic air layering balls/pods that seem to have exploded in popularity instead of the classic saran wrap + tin foil?
>>5115551Acers are great, the red ones are the most popular but I actually prefer the green ones.
>>5116260i'm at 3400 dollars out of however many milliononly 20+ more years to go!
>>5116363the government doesn't want you to know this but you can just plant seeds anywhere on the planet without owning the land as long as the land owners or authorities don't catch you
>>5116375AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIS THAT...NOT GRASS???????>mows your lawn>pulls out your weeds
>what i thought were elderberry cuttings grew leaves and are actually boxeldersNow what. I don't really want them
>>5117325boxelder bugs are sick as fuck keep them
1 of my 34 chili seedlings have survived from last year as I went through a gauntlet of trial and error growing for the first time. It is currently in a 1L pot indoors but I am now planning to re-pot it into a larger one in time for last frost so I can leave it outdoors for the remainder of spring and summer.My question is though is HOW big should the new pot be? Everywhere says 10L - 20L is ideal and I already have a 15L pot on hand, but apparently chilis will grow as big as the pot is wide and that you can go 30L+ for high yields. I want to be able to overwinter it indoors as the cold here kills chilis late autumn to winter so I can't just dump it in a 300L growbag and call it a day, but at the sametime I would like a nice high yield chili plant. Is there diminishing returns the bigger you go?
>>5117423>Everywhere says 10L - 20L is idealDo you know how many varieties there are of Capsicum? some grow up to be 2-3m tall, some other do not go over 1m, just double the size of the pot as the plant fill it with roots.If you have the right climate bring it outside and allow it to have more than 10 hours of sunlight, since now it's in a 1 liter pot, if it filled it with roots put it in a 2L, then 4, 8 and so on. It's useless to put it in a giant pot, it will not grow faster, it will most likely grow slower because to control the moisture to avoid root rot you will most likely underwater it.
>>5117993>Do you know how many varieties there are of Capsicum? some grow up to be 2-3m tall, some other do not go over 1m, just double the size of the pot as the plant fill it with roots.From what I have been able to identify by the foilage it's capsicum chinense, so I think it's going to be on the wider side.>if it filled it with roots put it in a 2L, then 4, 8 and so on. It's useless to put it in a giant pot, it will not grow faster, it will most likely grow slower because to control the moisture to avoid root rot you will most likely underwater itI understand it will not increase growth speed, but from what I have read there is a correlation with maximum size and the width that roots are allowed to grow into. But I am sure you can appreciate my current position in that it's not easy to find a pot like a 2L that is specifically really wide as aposed to tall, so that is why I consider larger overall volume. As for root rot you have a point, but I typically only really water the chili when it wilts, so would root rot still be a concern with watering habits in a pot larger than 2L?
Update on the grape fruit tree that I grew from grocery store bought fruit. Just moved it into a bigger pot.It grows very rarely but when it does it grows super fast. Some of the large leaves on the top appeared this spring.
>>5118077how do you care for it? do you fertilize it with something?whenever I tried planting any citrus seeds they'd always just (seemingly randomly) die at some point no matter how I cared for themand even when I had multiple seedlings they'd always all die at the very same time and I could never figure out what's the secret to keeping them alive for a long time
>>5118093I have never fertilized it with anything. I just water it whenever the soil dries
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>>5118024>capsicum chinenseWe are talking about a plant that will reach 1 meter, maybe 1,5m if you are lucky, you end goal is a 7 to 10 gallon, 25 to 35L, pot.> I have read there is a correlation with maximum size and the width that roots are allowed to grow intoNearly all plant when there isn't anymore space to grow their roots, they stop growing both the roots and the aerial part of the plant because they stop producing Cytokinin, this isn't a problem if the pot is big enough or if you transplant it into a bigger pot. Chili plant want costant water but don't want to stay neither dry, or moist for too long, they need to consume the water fast enough to avoid to cause root rot, to manage this you will most likely water it less and around the base, reducing the ammount of nutrient the plant can take and the possible space the roots can explore, limiting the growth.>But I am sure you can appreciate my current position in that it's not easy to find a pot like a 2LI'm sorry if I came off as rude and if I worded it in a measleading way, what I meant is to go and double the volume of the pot at the plant outgrow it, it doesn't need to be precise, personally the one I use are a 0,10L for germination, a 2L (10x8x7) one for starter, a 6L (15x12x10), then a 17L one (20x17x15) and if required a 27L one (24x20x18) before putting them in their "forever pot". You are a beginner, it's best to go a litter safer than going big, putting it now in a forever pot like a 35L one now that, I imagine, is still small, probably below 20cm, specially in summer could make you overwater the chili and kill it in the process, costant increase reduce this risk and allow for better watering schedule.Just a word of advice, but I think you are already there, do not water on a precise time, water when needed, once a week is useless if the pot is still moist, wait for it to dry the superficial part, Oxygen in the soil is as important as water, and they occupy the same space.
>>5118298Thank you anon, I really appreciate the advice. I will leave it be then for the time being and when it starts to outgrow the 1L I will then look to double it's volume to a 2L and go from there.
>>5118173sexo
explain what would be wrong with me johnny appleseeding a bunch of sempervivums around my city and letting them grow in concrete corners and """"""nature strips""""" where grass hasn't completely taken over
Trying to start a native plant garden. First one on my list to actually hunt for is assclapaings niggergenetalia
Is this a baby tree? I left a plum on the ground in this approximate area last year and then I saw this
Nu-gardening is either growing "edibles" in raised beds or obsessing about "native plants" (and "native pollinators"). How far horticulture has fallen.
>>5119161I love my Black Turmeric × Mango Ginger Hybrid idea though... >>5119152Yes I believe it is!
>>5119161People really stretch the definition of edible, talking about it like a nutrient supplement or daily medicine, which are things they shouldn't need anyway. There's nutrition and health value in actual food too. I think they're just too lazy to keep looking for stuff that tastes good and just go with whatever seeds are commonly available or what people on TikTok say they use for a tonic or whatever.
>>5119161Gardening is still one of the most popular hobbies in the UK, it hasn't fallen here.
>>5119161I mostly agree with native plants but I fucking hate their superiority complex. It's what turned me away from the community. And they're actually kind of fucking stupid and don't even understand how the ecosystem works.
How often do I need to change the Garlic cloves in my plant?
>>5119192Ive even heard them refer to non-native cultivars as "ornamentals".They have this weird rewilding fantasy and completely miss the point of what a garden is in the first place.
>The sheer volume of forsythia blooming near me is absolutely insane. My wife and I were driving yesterday and nearly every single house has one on their property, either intentionally part of the landscape or escaped nearby. >I think I have a new least favorite shitty plant - it’s the perfect example of ecologically useless spreading bullshit that shades out natives and does nothing for insect life and the color just makes it so in your face.>Fuck that plant. I can’t stop thinking about it how bad it was yesterday.
>>5119161You cried about this last threadI know you are the exact same person because you're still talking your retard bullshit about how a garden can't be a habitat for anythingYou could post a fucking flower instead of crying that plants are woke now you know
>>5119259And you're still seething about it apparently
