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/ >>5132774
Why do people like peat? It's always too dry or too wet.
>>5154186>Because a plant grows at 100% when ti has enough water and nutrients. Adding an extra rootstock won't make it grow faster. Just like how adding extra nutrients when it's got all the nutrients it needs already won't make any difference.Yeah, because if a plant has a single rootstock it can only process so much nutrients. Increase the scale of its root network and it can increase its processing of nutrients, especially when there are two or more main stems fusing into one. Plants with a tri-rootstock networks have been shown in preliminary studies ro have overall increase in diameter of around 150%, an increase in total leaf surface area of 80% and an increased leaf count of 50%. The only downside shown is a minor decrease to the plants height compared to singular rootstock of about -10%. Then there's the histlrical practice of orchard grafting where tree grafters sometimes graft together multiple saplings of the same variety to improve their resilience to harsh weather conditions.
>>5154209I have never known anyone who likes peat
>>5154206>bamboo will grow like crazyWhen will this meme dieIf you plant in a place that's too dry, too rocky, etc it barely grows at allMine only has like 5 stems barely 10 feet tall after four years
I got this ficus as a gift. Where do I trim it? I read that leaving it to grow on its own doesn’t work too well for a bonsai
>>5154269I'm no expert but it looks like it has grown already quite tall, but honestly, it entirely depends on the style of bonsai you're going with. I'd remove the first three lower stems from the main stem with a clean blade to make it seem neater, then I would suggest you either trim down the two branch cannopies horizontally that have split from the main stems upper node so you have an even cannopy with some leaves still present, or alternatively, cut one of the branches off wholesale and keep the other. If you choose the last option I'd then look into bonsai bending to curve the remaining branch overtime very slowly at an 8 or 4 o clock angle (some use wire, string or curved plastic with a channel to fit the branch in to do it).Or you can do the autistic nuclear option and tanuki it.Get a hunk of dried drift or bogwood and cut a channel along it and then align the ficus's main steam along the channel with some bonsai wire. Over time the main stem will fuse with the bog or driftwood. Pic rel is a very simple and basic example of a tanuki and with your bonsai I think that might be something worth looking at due to how tall it is already. You can also drill out a hole at the base of the dried wood with a diameter wide enough to feed the main stem of the ficus through and then bend it along the length of the dried wood, finishing it off by covering the base of the dried wood with substrate so it looks like the ficus is an actual branch growing from the dried wood. That though is more finnicky to pull off though as you need to feed the main steam AND it's cannopy through the drilled hole, which is doable, but you run the risk of damaging the cannopy in the process.
>>5154201Okay so my melon status is SWELLIN’What the fuck do I put under these things so they don’t rot as we approach ripening? It’s honeydew and cantaloupes.
My Solanum uleanum cutting rooted and has new shoots, was under a bell jar in moss, now moved into standing semi-vented jar. >>5154395dry untreated cardboard slat if you don't have too much rain
Hibiscus guy from the last thread. It got through the repotting OK and it's rebounding with a lot of new growth. The old leaves dried up but once it recovered it took off.Question: I'm not gonna fuck with it this year while it's regrowing, but next year is there anything I can do to encourage growth from the bottom like a normal one, or am I stuck with everything growing from the tips of the old trunks?
>>5154757Backstory was it was kept in the same pot indoors for 20 years with no fertilizer and apparently no soil. Most of the plant had died off and was rotting.
>>5154757If it was more alive you could probably hack it back to a stump and start over. You're better off waiting for it to go dormant and taking off like one third off the top of the old branches, and then do it again next year until they're completely gone.
>>5154757It's not a normal one, it's one that survived 20 years of awful conditions. Let it look unique.
>>5154843I'm a little reluctant to hack anything. Most of that stump is already toast.>>5154889I'm jealous of my neighbor who has one that's had a happy life. It's only a couple years old and it's 5' tall and bushy enough for a Viet Cong to hide in.I think my guy had been repotted several times from absolutely tiny pots in the past, and they never took out the crushed pot shards used for drainage. When I was soaking the roots I found three layers of stuff buried in there. When I got it the roots had long escaped the pot looking for greener pastures.
>>5154209>>5154254>making bogs without peatPeat is based and i wont hear anything else from you hippies
>>5154509>dry untreated cardboard slatWanted to stop back by and confirm that this worked really well. It rained maybe once and then I just replaced the cardboard as needed to keep it dry. Glad I buy so much dumb shit online and have so many boxes lmao
What can handle very hot reflected heat from rocks or being stuck between very hot rocks?
>>5154995Are you trying to grow something in a sauna?
>>5154995
>>5155023BASED
Update on the mystery plant in the garden
If I took a cutting of the nice new leaves how easy would it be to grow?
I asked about Garlic in Plants in the last Thread but got no answer. Maybe someone will be so kind as to reply this time
>>5155123It's not a mystery plant, its a rose of Sharon as you've been told before
>>5155152I dont know what a rose of sharon is so its still a mystery plant
>>5155152Yes but it's still THE mystery plant
>>5155175it's a temperate perennial rose mallow (mallows being the same family as okra) that eventually forms a flower bush or a small tree, similar to the tropical hibiscus you see for sale as annuals except it will overwinter and live for decades and is the national flower of korea
>>5155260Never heard or seen this mystery plant. It seems quite mysterious
I really like the smell of these.
>>5155142what is your question my son
>>5155343Thanks for calling me that, it's quite warming.I want to know if topping the soil with garlic skin actually keeps the flies away, or am I just wasting my time?
>>5155382i would not imagine so. garlic skins don't contain a lot of the phytochemicals that cause garlic to repel pests. if they did you would be able to smell them. and even if you spread actual garlic cloves on your soil they would lose their potency quickly. you'd be better off growing an actual garlic plant in your garden bed for this purpose, or another species in the genus allium like chives since garlic has much stricter timing requirements to grow. alliums in general are said to repel aphids and some kinds of caterpillar and are traditional companion crops for plants which are vulnerable to those pests, like cabbages. i don't know about flies but most things other than humans seem to really hate the smell of alliums. even birds in my experience. i have to move my parrot to the other side of the house whenever i chop garlic or onions or he starts shrieking
>>5155618oh sorry i've just realised you're probably talking about a pot rather than a garden bed. have you tried BTI, aka mosquito bits? it worked very well for me when i had fungus gnats infest all my trays. people do also make sprays out of garlic for this sort of thing since it will actually last a bit longer in a container than a garden bed, especially if it's indoors, but then your whole house will stink of rotting garlic so it's not something i would do personally
>>5155618Sad to hear, becaSe this is a real ontmgoing problem. I was referring to indoor plants so most of that doesn't apply. Thank you for your response
>>5155629I feel like you can just buy a garlic concentrate or something for this no?
>>5155630I don't know what to do. I'm asking
None of these so called companion plants repel insects. They're old wives tales. It's ridiculous how people believe certain plant must surely repel insects because they happen to possess a strong or distinct smell to us. As if insects would hsve the samr sense of smell, sensibilities or preferences as human beings (the fact that many insects are attracted by rotting organic matter and literal shit should immediately refute this idea). Garlic repels flies as much as it does vampires.
>damn is that garlic? gross>anyway
>>5155655I agree with this somewhat. One has to remember they are animals in the wild. They can't afford to be picky. Even if they don't like the smell, it might be the only thing they can eat or place they can breed. It kind of reminds me of that scene in Battlefield Earth where the humans are eating rats.
>>5155655I thought companion plants worked by being more attractive to insects than other plants. Like they protected the plants you wanted by being eaten preferably. But I don’t know where this idea came from.
>>5155833What you're describing is called 'bait cropping' but it's mostly based on wishful thinking (aren't you just inviting pests into your garden at that point that otherwise wouldn't have been there by giving them a dedicated food source?). The best way to mitigate pests is probably by avoiding monoculture.
>fliesIf you have flies then you need to get rid of the rotting food in your houseIf you have fungus gnats, which is what you actually have, you need to learn that plants aren't fish and don't have to be drowned every few days
>>5155960In my own experiments to eliminate them I found that gnat populations can survive a crazy amount of deprivation. They will just change their characteristics to improve survival chances.The only real limiting factors are that larva need some organic material with minimal moisture and they need to live in a medium that they can burrow through and can emerge from the surface as adults.So there's basically two options:1) Go with a soilless mix and use synthetic fertilizer only2) If the soil has organics than can break down then the surface needs to be covered with something like river sand and the pot only bottom-watered.
>>5156003Diatomite won't work?
>>5156015I'm 30% diatomite
>>5156085OK but seriously, it's a layer of silica shells of some single-celled algae. They sell it as a broken up powder and at the insect/egg scale it's like crawling on broken glass. It's supposed to cut open larvae and dehydrate them.
>>5156085Diatomite is my name.
>>5155960>you need to learn that plants aren't fish and don't have to be drowned every few daysFalse.
>>5155655these are literal basic facts about plant biology. plants like garlic have strong odours and flavours because of secondary metabolites that they produce for the main purpose of deterring herbivory. they're called antifeedants and if you'd read literally a single thing about what they are and why they exist you would know this. the main antifeedant and flavour compound in garlic is called allicin and its effects on smell, taste, and insect predation are eminently googleable. you are at any moment less than 5 seconds away from this information and you resist acquiring it in favour of dismissing the things the people who know it do as wives tales
>>5156172Nonsense. It's entirely possible that garlic has a certain chemical defenses against certain insects but that doesnt mean that it keeps those those insects away altogether or thay it is some kind of universal insect repellent. But people like you typically start seething when you dispell these old garden myths because they were taught that way by grandma so they're emotionally attached to them
>>5156172Anon, refer to >>5155687You're going to eat moldy bread if you're starving and don't know when you'll get food next.To put a point on it, you're going to eat AROUND the mold.
Some of my tropical Solanum varieties (but notably, not all) are strongly red fluorescent under a blacklight. Specifically Solanum evolvulifolium shows a mixed reaction, with newer shoots being more red, and mature shoots not showing strong redness.
https://youtu.be/M1tpyd5VOGk
My Tomato plant seems to be growing well, but almost all the flowers its grown lately have never really opened and look to have withered. What am I doing wrong?
My wild bergamot has finally flowered and I'm really excited that even if summer is pretty much over its actually showing off a bit. Even saw a humming bird checking it out for a little bit for a second or two, was too far to tell if it was actually drinking from it.
Just started a penjing (I don't use bonsai because I despise the Japanese) on a whim with zero prior knowledge and made every beginner mistake. It's a sugar maple sapling.I have it in straight potting soil mixed with the soil I pulled the sapling from, the soil is too wet I'm afraid, and all the rocks in here aren't helping so I'm going to pulling those out later. I have holes drilled in this tray already but will be adding more tomorrow. I already have real penjing substrate mix in the mail as we speak. I hope it lives two more days until then. I got enough substrate to start a second one as well. My dad has peach trees on his property so I'm going to get a cutting and try to tame a peach at the same time.Wish me luck and critique me heavily anons. I want to know everything I'm doing wrong
>>5157002
>>5157002there's a lot you're doing wrong
>>5156453Is it really hot outside where you are still? They don't like extreme heat.Also tomato flowers do drop off before the tomato pops up in their place. Could be normal.
Well looks like I accidentally knocked this guy off my orchid. It has no roots. Do you think it's doomed or can it be revived? Any tips?
>>5157069>Is it really hot outside where you are still?We've had a week or two in the 90s recently, so maybe that could be the culprit.>Also tomato flowers do drop off before the tomato pops up in their place. Could be normal.The ones in the picture have been dead for a while.
>>5157051>>5157004Lol thanks guess I'll go fuck myself
>>5157070how much of that is stem and how much is just leaf sheath? if I had to bet I'd say it's fucked but I think there's technically a chance as long as there's some actual stem inside that. I'm not an orchid person but personally I'd cut like 80% of those bottom two leaves off but as to whether you need to transfer it somewhere dry to callus off like a cactus cutting or whether you need to make sure to keep it moist to keep it from drying out like a regular cutting I couldn't tell you
It's a good setup?
>>5157351What the fuck is going on there>stairway to random tiny room with no windows>hole literally knocked into the wall>glass (?) ceiling (better hope it never snows lol)
>>5157352It's a Solanarium, the 5th floor of my house is just this tiny room that is for looking into the sky.It's for Solanum plants, I've got these in there, also a pineapple top, and a bunch of gac fruits in some soil to germinate. Solanum macranthum _ Brazilian potato tree Solanum galapagense x Blueberry cherry tomato (F1 hybrid) Solanum pseudolulo - ? Solanum quitoense _ Naranjilla Solanum sessiliflorum _ Red Cocona Solanum betaceum _ Tamarillo Solanum muricatum _ Putumayo Pepino Solanum uporo _ Cannibal's Tomato Solanum virginianum _ Kantakari Solanum torvum _ Turkeyberry Solanum habrochaites _ Hairy Tomato Solanum melongena _ Turkish Orange Eggplant Solanum corymbiflora _ Hardy Tree Tomato Solanum caripense _ Tzimbalo Solanum melongena _ Little Finger Eggplant Solanum seaforthianum _ Saint Vincent Lilac Solanum glaucescens _ Cuatomate Solanum sisymbriifolium _ Litchi Tomato Solanum nigrum _ Otricoli Orange Huckleberry Solanum lasiocarpum _ Hairy Fruited Eggplant Solanum neorickii _ Wild Tomato Solanum burbankii _ Wonderberry Solanum pimpinellifolium _ Currant Tomato Solanum abutiloides _ Dwarf Tamarillo Solanum evolvulifolium Solanum sp 'Ecuador'
>>5157358>Solanum melongena _ Turkish Orange EggplantSolanum aethiopicum _ Turkish Orange Eggplant
people just be naming plants anything
>>5157358>>5157359I mean, if you growing all that you might need a bigger room. I'm no tommato guy but I do chillis which are very similar if not outright the same in terms of care and healthy plants need a good deal of space for the roots.
>>5157358>Solanum quitoenseLulo>Solanum pseudoluloFake lulo
>>5157391Well, the thing to me is like, with citrus fruit, almost all of the citrus varieties of any culinary note or economic value come from the hybridization of three species. With the exception of the kumquat and finger lime.The triangle of the hybridization ratios of these species is the 2D projection of a 3D paraboloid planar function across a cubic phase space where the answers to A+B+C is 100% (a complete genome). This is similar to the form of a bowl viewed from above and flattened to a triangle.I recently read 'Tamarillos AKA Tree Tomatoes" by Slawek Wojtowicz, a polish autist, who was able to hybridize Solanum corymbiflora with Solanum diploconos and had plates and documented every morphological aspect of the parent plants and the hybrid, as well as citing other tamarillo hybrids. I would love to know more, if you have any thoughts or information about Lulo, and Fake Lulo.The list I have, most of them are edible, and the phase space is more complex, imagine A through Z style, where it is in a higher dimensionality than the cubic citrus space. The paraboloid would still be sum [A...Z] = 100%, but with more components. Considering the amazing diversity of citrus fruits, I imagine it would exist here in some form. Many of these species freely hybridize, or can through embryo rescue. This, in my mind could lead to amazing new fruits, like lemons, which do not occur in nature. These plants have 24 chromosomes, and similar growth condition and other factors, I think I can get something from this, especially considering at least one of these is a hybrid already.>>5157370I have another area for this, but this is where they are right now until I run out, as it's very warm, humid, bright, and I can't think of any other way to use the space.
>>5157398I think the issue with a lot of nightshades is they either suck ass or need a couple of years to mature to get decent fruit set, but a lot are good or close to good quality already. If I remember right, pseudolulo is one of the most viable since it's a smaller bush almost able to put on fruit before Winter, and lacks the sourness of real lulos, so it's a decent crop just lacking selection. I think a lot of them also don't re-use the same buds and need to be pruned every year to get new growth.Litchi tomatoes are also reportedly easy to grow as-is, and just need more fruit and more flavor. You have to target something like tomatoes that matures quickly and can finish ripening within one season, and potentially can keep flowering on new growth throughout the season. The most desirable traits like the wood regrowing new flower buds on the same node are only on peppers, and a perennial root that can hibernate and regrow the plant in cold regions are on some wild physalis from the US East Coast.I don't think it's ever going to be possible to squeeze cocona or lulo into a growing season outside the tropics as they're just too big. I have some muricatums growing right now and they don't seem to be doing anything, and from reading about them they really want to spend a couple years expanding into a patch and not just be grown as an annual, and they won't even flower during Summer and will wait for the weather to cool down. Flowering in general might be a problem for you because they'll flower when they reach maturity, which will be at all different times. It will be a very good resource for how long each takes though, if you write it down.Also you're missing Solanum centrale, though it's more of a desert plant.
>>5157404>Solanum centraleI can't get some kinds, no seeds for sale I can find, but I do have Solanum pyracanthos as a established plant. I don't mind the strange restraints of solanum, and can you expand about the part where you said>a lot of nightshades is they either suck ass or need a couple of years to mature to get decent fruit setWhich ones are slow here, tamarillo and torvum are slow I know, and macranthum.
>>5157412Quitoense (lulo) is even bigger than torvum. Coconas similarly are big and take a while. Corymbiflora and the other pseudo-tamarillos take as long as tamarillo. Pseudolulo and virginianum both take many months to mature before flowering. You could be waiting six months or even a couple of years for some of these. A couple of them are trees, so...
>>5157426>A couple of them are trees, soYeah, I've got a room that is 18-ft tall arched on the far end and south facing, it's an indoor pool space with corridors on each side where I can put some, and planter boxes built into the far end, I've got a bunch of mirrors and such to adjust light and temperature and humidity. It's probably about ideal, otherwise I've got spaces and outdoor spots for the ones that can handle it. >Quitoense (lulo) is even bigger than torvum.thanks for the tip on this, good to know, do you know anything about glaucescens?
>>5157432>glaucescensNever heard of it until now. Looks cool if seedy. I see people mainly using them green to crush into salsa, so that should work in your favor. This and pseudolulo seem to be picked wild almost exclusively rather than cultivated.
It's disappointing that there's nothing magical about natural sunlight and plants will grow better under high powered lights than outside because they don't have to deal with clouds or reduced photoperiods from shadows
>>5157461I mean, same deal with tap water vs rain, but I know what you mean. Still it is a nice perk considering the output of tap water and grow lights.
>>5157463>I mean, same deal with tap water vs rain,wrong, actually
>>5157477depends what comes out of your tap, I'm on well, but I know what you mean. Still that same thought could be applied to sunlight (imagine a huge mirror setup to reflect sunlight at all times from outerspace onto your plants, I feel like it would also be better in some way.
>>5157412I'd be happy to send you some if you could pay for shipping. Solanum centrale and aviculare are not too hard to find for sale where I live, and even some more obscure australasian species are sometimes available
>>5157519yes I'd like that, would you like some kind of contact for me so we can do some interchange?
>>5157520have you got discord? I'd prefer not to post mine on 4chan so if you'd rather not post yours either I could make a throwaway or something
>>5157522pricklypeargames, yeah
>>5157463Tap water is usually slightly basic with chlorine in it and sucks for soil pH and microbe count. Rain is acidic and carries nutrients to feed microbes and plants.I definitely notice plants immediately do better when they finally get rain in the summer, as opposed to me having to give them shitty tap water. Also why you need to modify tap water to do hydroponics properly.
So while I was away for a week all my started hyssop fucking died on me. Whatever I'm pissed but I'm over it What IS interesting though is that this fucking thing is growing from the wreckage and i have no fuckinf clue what I'm looking at. Anyone got any potential ids? I thought about tossing it but in interested in seeing where it goes
I only learned recently about generational alternation, that's really cool
>>5157627In English doc
summer is ending so everyone gets to take turns having a day under the super light
>>5157637If I'm understanding this correctly... some plants have two forms, one making large spores asexually with the full genome, and then these offspring grow up to do more traditional sexual reproduction with smaller spores, but their offspring grow up into the first form and reproduce asexually again. I guess this mechanism takes many forms and for some of them it's a small clone they make just for this purpose, so fern spores don't always make a whole fern, they make a tiny clone nearby that makes (sort of) pollen as a proxy for its parent and that's how you get more ferns. Looks like this MOSTLY mosses and algae but it's present in some more complex plants like hollies.
It flowered for 8 fucking hours. If I was working a different shift I would have missed it open.
>>5157680All plants do this
>>5157682
>>5157616Crassula ovata
This may be the wrong thread but does anyone know a reliable source for sturdy iron plant stands like pic related. All my windows are high and I don't have many plants and I think these look nice, plus they're currently on an already cramped desk after being on stacked cardboard boxes for years. The website I saw this one on has shitty reviews in terms of customer support.
>>5157974maybe not so stylish but i recommend steel wire shelving.
>>5157627>>5157637>>5157680
>>5157680>>5158025tldr instead of animals who reproduce little animals, plant version B reproduces plant version B and plant version B reproduces plant version A. One of the versions is asexual and one is sexual.
>>5158029^plant version A reproduces plant version B
>>5157358>5th floor>of my houseWhat's it like being rich? Do you sleep peacefully at night? Do the worries go away or does one just find new things to keep himself up at night? Do you enjoy life?
>>5158138>5th floorthats not rich, thats a cuckhouse where you share walls with your neighbor because its all built into one big cuck unit. you dont own it anyway and never will
>>5158299Well, he didn't say >my flat>my apartment>my buildingIt's possible.
I wish I'd taken a picture before genociding them but the ants that had stowed away in my cactus's pot that were brought inside piled a shit ton of brood directly on top of it out in the open like a hat, it was very strange
>blazing hot out>not been raining>no rain in the forecast>go out to water>3 hours later, it starts raining
>>5158350ground cinnamon, the same thats probably in your cupboard. sprinkle a little around the top soil and then water it lightly
>>5157069>>5157129It started cooling down over the past week and the plant seems to have successfully flowered. So it must've been the heat keeping it from flowering.
Hey lads, fuck is this?Western Australia
>>5158514Very lewd thumbnail.
Kept this arse plant alive for a year now
went out to check my plants this morning and theres a mushroom like 2 inches tall sticking out of my tomato planter, off to the side. it wasnt there last night so thats pretty impressive growth overnight. dunno what it is, its white. should i leave it? will it fug with my tomato plant?
>>5158645>pretty impressive growth overnighti cant answer anything else but they colonize the medium first before fruiting so you're just seeing the equivalent of a flower
>>5158645Mycelium was already there in the substrate, it's very common. The mushroom you have seen is basically the fungal equivalent of a flower blooming and is usually a good sign as most compost/potting soil mycelium breaks down matter into base nutrients for other plants to eat. However, mushroom "fruiting" typically only happens when conditions for the mycelium are ideal, usually wet and damp. This isn't a problem for the vast majority of temperate plants, but when you're dealing with plants like tomato those set of conditions can potentially lead to root issues. You might want to double check your drainage or watering routine just in case as well as where you've positioned the planter.Tl;dr>mushroom good, but keep an eye on the tomatos current growing conditions
>>5158654planter is wooden and has drainage at the bottom. i haven't watered it lately because it was rainy for a few days. i did cut off some small leaves at the very bottom though and didn't bother removing the clippings, thinking it'd just break down anyways. ai tells me that would be enough to grow a mushroom and that it was in the soil already like you said.the plant itself looks healthy but its not that big yet. guess i'll leave the mushroom for now, i don't think it'd live long anyways since its out in the sun atm.
>>5158659yeah a couple of beds i planted this spring had compost and leaf litter mixed in and after a few days of rain the whole thing exploded into hundreds of small mushrooms covering the surface end to end
>>5158299I do own it, I'm just very lucky. Here's a pic from when I moved in. Also, the video here >>5157432is from a while back, but it is also part of the structure.>>5158329It's a house. >>5158138>What's it like being rich?that part is fantastic, all my insane ideas become my hobbies. I can get a bunch of raw materials and screw around all the time because I'm retired.>Do you sleep peacefully at night?No, but it isn't because of stress, I was beaten, 'lynched' and kept in a Thai jail in 2014 and kept until I contracted malaria and I was dropped outside of a clinic by the cops. When I close my eyes I see all kinds of strange things, and I don't tend to sleep well. It's isn't a problem and I get a lot done, but it's a medical observation. I don't sleep every night, and even when I do sleep it is often in random places and random times for short bursts. I wouldn't change it, but no, I don't sleep peacefully. >Do the worries go away or does one just find new things to keep himself up at night?worries gone? yes I would say so. The sleeping thing would probably resolve itself if I didn't have so many specific flash bulb moments from that time period. >Do you enjoy life?I always did, I always do, and I will going forward. I've had a fantastic life, even with strange lumps in it. Also, on a side note, being that it is such a strangely designed building, it is sort of hard to count the floors, I call it the fifth floor but it doesn't quite work like that, a lot of the floors are different levels.
Waiting for these guys to ripen in New England fall weather is frustrating.
that mushroom didn't even last the day, it fell over by 5pm when i checked it. i pulled it out and it only rooted like a quarter inch into the soil so i don't think they'll harm my plant. since it got dark tonight i found another growing in there now so i'll leave it go.
>>5158772Again, mushrooms aren't like plants. They don't emerge and then grow and expand their roots. The fungus has already been there a while put out a mushroom because it's already mature. They do grow and expand but they don't even bother appearing above ground while doing it; they only pop up to reproduce. They don't even really compete with plants, they just digest dead matter into compost, so if anything it's probably helping. Also it must be reiterated that you got to it when it was already done.
>>5157520this graft seems to have worked, the scion has new growth.
I think there's white mold growing on the soil of my indoor potted plant. Does it look like mold and what should I do if it is?I water it frequently but I don't think I do it too much and it doesn't get much sunlight. There isn't a better place to move it to. It's a closed pot hanging from the ceiling in my living room. It has been there for 4 or 5 years and I've only given it fertilizer once. Pls help this plant is important to me but I'm retarded.
>>5157974I hanged some plants like this but you can't realistically have open bottoms (no homo). It doesn't really take up space and cleaning the floor is less work.
>>5157974>>5159202sorry for the spam but I also want to add that you don't really need customer support for something like that
>>5159186dunno if its mold but mold needs to try out. put it outside during the day but not in direct sun (indoor plants not used to uv of direct sunlight can harm it). after it dries some scrape off whatever it is
>>5159254Thanks I'll try. It's hard as an apartment rentcuck without a balcony
>>5159295if you need to keep it indoors point a small fan in the direction of the plant but not directly on it on low, that'll help draw away excess moisture. did you check the soil itself? does the mold go underneath? scrape it all out and maybe get some fresh soil to put a layer on. don't mist or water it excessively until you remove whatever it is
If you give it more light the soil will be drier and you won't have mold problems
The bottoms of those pots HAVE to have been cut out right? There's no way those tiny planters cut support plants that big. Watering them alone would be a total nightmare.
If my echeveria keeps making leaves with little clefts in them, if I propogate those clefted leaves, is there any realistic chance it'd grow a plant that has all clefted leaves?
>>5160307
Oddly, the cuttings of Peruvian tamarillo I set up to root, are flowering straight from the freshly rooted cutting in soil.
I wanted to get a tiny desk plant to keep me company, so I settled on a gardenia. I heard they don't need often watering, and can survive on somewhat low sunlight. Any tips to help this little guy survive?
>>51615791. Don't overwater2. Don't overwater it3. No half-assed waterings4. Fertilize a few times a yearWhat I really mean to say is that dribbling a little water into the pot every once in a while isn't really productive. It has an inner plastic pot, take that out and bottom water it every once in a while so all the substrate is nice and hydrated.
>>5161579needs more light
Why is this plant such a piece of crap? Any little thing that is considers not perfect will result in nasty discoloration that's irreversible therefore making it only fit for the bin
>>5161819she’s sensitive, pls no bulli
>>5161823Sorry I meant in general. This one isn't mine
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=artificial+seedsThis is ridiculous.
This mornings plantings:Correa albaLomandra glauca var. 'Blue Ridge'Hibbertia diffusa
