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/>Roses, Clematis and Peonieshttps://www.helpmefind.com>Pondshttps://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-pond>How to Make a Terrariumhttps://terrariumtribe.com/diy-terrarium-guide/Previously on /plant/ >>5114032
Would sedum make a good living mulch for vegetables?
>>5132767looks like milkweedsave the monarchs
>>5130332It's super interesting to watch.Almost every day I see something new. Like how it decided that the original stem isn't needed anymore now.
Stupid phone
I just put my yucca outside on my southwest facing balcony. I live in the northern hemisphere so this place gets full sun from morning to late in the afternoon. it has been kept indoors for the past two years. will it survive in this spot, or should I place it somewhere shadier?
>>5133032(I know, I should've dusted off the leaves before taking the picture)
>>5133032plants need to build up adaptations to their environment, especially to blue and UV lightyou should give it time-limited exposure to build up its tolerance
>>5133038appreciate your advice, brother, I'll ease it in slowly then
>>5132774Newbie here. I started getting interested in /plants/ a couple months ago, and this is my little cuttings crate. I know nothing, so it's going to be a lot of trial and error and a pinch of internet wisdom.The censored part is just a Plus Code I added to keep track of the source trees' location.Let's see if you can identify them all.
>>5133112What roses are those?
>>5133048THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
>>5133117Actually, you tell me. Pic related is the original. I got the cutting because I enjoyed its fragrance.
What is that funny little spirally thing that's crawling out of my pumpkin plant?
>>5133316Put it around your dick and don't move for a couple weeks
>>5133248Looks like a modern rose. Google suggest 'Bienvenue' which seems like a good match. Have the cuttings rooted?
No fucking way.. it happened again..Dropping a thing on a very potent new growth..>>5133316A feeler that latches on and tells the main stem it's good to continue growing its path. Look at tomato and grape vines.
>>5131564>>5131607I guess I don't know nearly as much as I thought I did. I assume you're well-researched enough to know not to use miracle gro peat, but maybe your peat is contaminated with salt or something. You could try flushing it with distilled water and draining it to clear out anything.
How can I clip whatever this is and propagate it elsewhere? I have no idea if it’s a Chinese Evergreeen or some amalgamation but it’s just been sitting in this for over 4 years with nothing but slight water top offs lmao.
>>5133348>Have the cuttings rooted?I think so. It's still alive after over a month, and offers some resistance if I pull.
I know nothing about aquaculture but I do have a forested backyard full of gnats and mosquitos and when this crossed my desk I got pretty interested.What are some simple water based plants I can grow in a wide plastic tub, about two feet deep?Preferably something that's sort of fire and forget. Im in zone 6A
>>5133726here you go broeasy aquatic plants bucket zone 6anow you can just copy it into google instead of typing
>>5133730Damn, you sure showed me. Sorry, I'll leave you to your clearly riveting conversation I must have disrupted.
I ended up with more lemon tree seedlings than expected, so I potted them and brought them indoors, then placed them close to a south-facing window (it has evening sun, and a reasonable amount of indirect light the rest of the day).Is this good enough?
>>5133454Make sure you have a node, otherwise it won't root.
>>5133732Just ask ask some AI chatbot since that's where you got that imbecilic picture from
>>5133835Indirect light indoors essentially amounts to deep shade. Why arent you keeping thel outdoors? They need all the light they can get.
>>5133726it's mostly a bad idea if you are concerned with mosquitos. dragonfly lifecycles are too long and it's easy for predators to take them out when they emerge from the water. only go for some kind of pond if you really like the idea of having a pond
>>5133885I already have a lot of them outside. It was either that or discard them. I thought it could be an interesting experiment.
I would like to say that i really like plants.
>>5134125That's cool.
>>5134125I'm in my druid arc, big fan of life in generalNot mine of course, just in general
>>5134125Plants are cool when they become like a fractal, physalis grisea for example. The main stem splits into two, then those two split into two and those two and those two. Becoming a real life fractal.
I hate plants.
Native plants killed my parents
>>5134217they didn't listen
>>5134411I like how the left half is "I mean... it COULD kind of... reduce inflammation, I guess" and then the right half is listing all the ways it will probably poison you
HenloWhat is a small, slow growing plant that doesn't need much light to not etiolate?Something that can live a nice life living on a shelf with a normal lightbulb pointed at it
>>5134463https://www.reddit.com/r/succulents/
>>5134468Stupid dumb retard
>>5134463get yourself some moss
>>5134736that really doesn't seem very satisfying to keep...
>>5134463If it's an LED, you could get something like an african violet, and it'll make cute litte blooms all year round as long as you fertilize it right
>>5122770One month later update and they seem to be growing fine. I had a lot of trouble getting the Ginkgo to stand up (It's why I didn't really manage to get it right in the center of the pot) and it seems to growing to the side a lot which I find weird. Putting them up there I honestly thought they would be getting a lot of direct sunlight since two of four walls are mostly just windows but I guess because of the position they're mostly entirely out of it. Which is fine for summer I guess since here it can easily get 39C+ and I doubt that's going to be good for them. They should be good in those pots until next spring I believe as I think their grow rate slows down during summer.
>"hey plebbit check out muh wildlife garden!">it's some shitty tiny suburban plot of land with a couple coneflowers and rudbeckias sticking out of the mulch
>>5135108i too use the least recognizable name for echinacea and black eyed susan
I too go onto reddit to find posts I know I won't like so that I can post about them on 4chanOh wait, no I don'tBecause that's fucking insane
How do you deal with repotting plants in soil that's turned into concrete? I ended up with a bunch of ancient houseplants that've been been potted with no maintenance in 20-30 years. The dirt they're in is rock hard and barely absorbs water. Do I soak the root ball until I can break up this shit or what?
>>5135319hammer, obviously
>>5135319Fully submerge the rootball in a bucket or something till all the air bubbles are gone.
>>5135319Warm water will soak in faster than cold.
>>5135319pee on it
So I just ran into a random person who gave me a scotch bonnet seedling out of the blue. I guess I'm growing face melting peppers now.
>>5135407It's your duty to save the seeds and give out more seedlings next year.
>>5134887Weird no one's pointed it out to you yet but that is absolutely not a Ginkgo tree, just some weed. I've been germinating my own set of Ginkgo's this year, they look totally different. To germinate Ginkgo seeds you need to wrap them in a wet paper towel and store them in a plastic container kept at room temp for like 3 months. As the seed absorbs water it will swell and the halves of the shell will start to separate. The embryo in the seed undergoes a secondary maturation after it's fallen off the tree, that's why it takes a couple months. The first leaves will be fairly big and unmistakably Ginkgo. See pic related.
https://youtu.be/JPYuKBS3_y8
What the actual fuck do I do about thrips on outdoor plants? They're turning my plants into weird bonsai-esque stunted-but-stretched mutants. I can't believe that there's an insect this perfectly destructive. At least I could manually squash aphids.
>>5135796Outdoors you can probably use insecticidal soap but longer term it’s probably better to introduce predators. I get them on daylily and iris flowers but they just eat the pollen and don’t change the foliage so I haven’t really tried to remove them outdoors. I assume some other insect eats them as well since the numbers haven’t exploded.
>>5135822>insecticidal soapWent to the hardware store and found some of that, thanks. Seems like it's safe for my vegetables if used correctly.
>>5135940Looks nice
Cape gooseberry
>>5135919>>5135822Got the bottle but it says I can only use it a handful of times TOTAL. I'm not feeling good about this. So, I'm gonna use it 6 times, not be able to use it ever again, and then they'll just come back. Maybe I'd be better off shunting my containers near some wild overgrowth and hope that something naturally comes over to eat the thrips.
>>5136556If the infestation continues it will be found by nature anyway. For a short-term crop this is catastrophic but for perennials you might just spray them with water a bit until predators find them. Or like the other guy said, buy them.
Last year when my echeveria tried flowering it spent forever putting out a really long thick stem that took months before flowers even started developing, and i cut it at the end before bringing it inside before it bloomedIt still has the old stem to this day, still hasn't fully absorbed it or fallen offThis year, it's putting out 2 flower stems that are branching and developing much shorter, and I can actually see petals starting to form, within a couple weeksIs this a resources thing, as in it's healthier now, or did it learn it has to shove out flowers faster or they'll get cut?
the first small tomatoes finally appeared on my plant. I started growing it from seeds back in March so I was really looking forward to this day
>>5136756cool bee
>>5136777why are they so long
>>5136806Need more light
>>5136806they're san marzano tomatoes, they're supposed to be longer
>>5136778It's an european guy. Doesn't live in America
>>5132774Is it illegal to plant weed or psychedelic mushrooms? I am not even a druggie, i just thought it would be funny to have it
>>5137042Try it and tell the feds you did it as a joke and see how funny they find it.
>>5137042just follow the oregon trail bro
>>5137042>I'm not even a druggieYou're as stupid as oneGoogle it for your own city retard
I received a Ricinus seed. Any reason to try and germinate this one?
What happened to this leaf? I pruned it off because I didn't like the way it was losing the green color from that spot.
>>5137473looks like sunburn. it may be that your plant needs shade cloth to do its best in its location, for example:
Can anyone tell me how fucked this is?And if it's not completely fucked, what can I do to save it?It's I think 3 or 4 years old.
>>5137588Looks fine to me, if you wanted to you can snap off that new nodule and root it. Maybe wait for it to get a little bigger so it's holding onto more water.
>>5137597I think it's been overwatered though? The bottom is grey and brown, and the whole thing looks kind of wrinkly.
>>5137600Looks like corking to me, if you're really concerned give it a gentle poke with something and see of its hard or rotten.
>>5137588How have you had this for 4 years and are convinced its fucked by it looking like thisIf its hard its fine, if its soft its fucked
>>5137601>>5137608Thanks. It wasn't mine the whole time.
Hey guys. Newbie gardener here. I bought a Home Depot bearss lime. I know some basics about citrus and how to care for it, but I'm still scared I'm gonna kill this guy. What can I do to maximize his chances of thriving? I live in a hot, windy desert. The bricks were intended to protect him from wind, but I fear they may not help at all and just burn him. No idea.Pic related, it's my guy.
>>5137620Also no, I have not used any of the fertilizer in the bg on this guy
>>5137620Watch this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UM3LTmyv_yM&t=722s&pp=ygUgSG93IHRvIGdyb3cgY2l0cnVzIHRyZWVzIGluIHBvdHPSBwkJQQsBhyohjO8%3D
I found a mutant dogwood. Normally these plants have 4 white bracts (which are actually leaves that have taken on the role of petals) and a ring of leaves underneath. This one had 6 bracts and no leaves. Somehow all the leaves have turned into bracts.
>>5138011Cultivate it and sell it to retards for $1000 per specimen.
>>5138060It will be hard to cultivate a plant with no leaves.
>>5138011That's quite beautiful.
New growth point on the right! I was worried this leucophylla was just hanging on by a thread, since I'm growing it pretty far out of its range and the growing season is shorter up north but if it has enough energy to expand the rhizome like that its a good sign.In other news, I've been gradually collecting the pumice pebbles that are on top of the moss and lifting up a sheet of sphag to put them underneath but its a losing battle until the moss gets thicker and comes in more fully.
>>5138087It seems to be doing pretty well for itself. As long as it produces seed you're good to go.
>>5132774I'm not the biggest fan of Phallies, it's the basic bitch orchid, but mine is so healthy and pretty right now.
Senpai ive been working on this thing for a very long time and its finally got plants growing in and mosses establishing. Brings me joy each day.
>>5138511It's a welfare queen leeching nutrients from the other plants around it.
Haven't been able to use my grow lights long enough during the heatwaves recently. I have fans on them, but it makes it even more unbearable, even with ac. Hope the plants doesn't get fucked over by the "cold" breeze.
>>5138981really cool project
What's this lime trying to tell me? Are the leaves diseased? What's the speckling about?>>5138981Looks amazing, more pics por favor?
