Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!

[Rock Eater]

I lost some of theses boys in a move, but they were happy at the time.

 

[Jacinda Ardern IRL]

Ooh, what's the one in the middle? Is it in a pot or are those bare roots? It looks neat.

I lost some of theses boys in a move, but they were happy at the time

Edit to add: orchid bud watch:

 

[Honored guest]

So I brought in 4 peppers plants to overwinter them. I trimmed them down to a Y shaped stick and made sure to clean them so no pests hitch a ride on them. They receive indirect light and have started sprouting a lot of leaves, to the point where I'm concerned, does anyone have experience with successfully overwintering peppers?

 

[Rock Eater]

Ooh, what's the one in the middle? Is it in a pot or are those bare roots? It looks neat.

Edit to add: orchid bud watch:
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Both! His roots wraparound the rock that is part of the pot. Although I cannot remember the name of the plant for the life of me.

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

Orchids are shitheads.
More like pets than houseplants.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

Maybe the wrong place to ask but my girlfriend has talked about wanting indoor plants to spruce her place up & bring in some color for ages, I want to gift her some plantkeeping stuff for Christmas along with some small plants to get her started but I have no clue what kind of plant I should get her.
Any suggestions?
Preferably more hardy plants featuring some color, that don't get too big.

 

[Lichen Bark]

So I brought in 4 peppers plants to overwinter them. I trimmed them down to a Y shaped stick and made sure to clean them so no pests hitch a ride on them. They receive indirect light and have started sprouting a lot of leaves, to the point where I'm concerned, does anyone have experience with successfully overwintering peppers?

I usually put my chili peppers in the largest pots I have (mine happen to be 16 inches tall x 11 inches wide) in the basement, and setup a cheap two bulb T4 fluorescent light fixture on a timer (maybe set for 12 hours) a few feet above them. I water them when they are 90% dry. I just dig them right out of the garden, and plop them into the pots. The real challenge I had with them is the aphids. The aphids love indoors (I guess it's the lack of predators) but they start breeding like nuts. You can avoid losing your plants to the buggers if you treat them with insecticidal soap. It's soap that just dissolves the waxy covering on the aphid, and they dry out and die. They use this stuff in organic gardening. The trick is covering every square inch (every! inch!) with the soap, branches, leaves, everything, and you need to use your hands (nicer with some latex gloves) to spread the soap around, get it under the leaves etc. This takes a bit of time depending on your plant size, but then you don't have to worry about aphids for the rest of the winter. I do this every day/other day for a week or so. They are really good at hiding so even if they appear to be gone, its better to keep going for a bit to get the stragglers.

Other than that I didn't do much, and I even started to harvest some peppers from the plants over the winter. I used a little paint brush to pollinate my pepper flowers, they are self polinating, but this does help them along. If you don't want to do the light setup, I have overwintered them in the sunniest window, but I never got any peppers from them when doing it this way.

 

[White_N]

Maybe the wrong place to ask but my girlfriend has talked about wanting indoor plants to spruce her place up & bring in some color for ages, I want to gift her some plantkeeping stuff for Christmas along with some small plants to get her started but I have no clue what kind of plant I should get her.
Any suggestions?
Preferably more hardy plants featuring some color, that don't get too big.

A huge number of plants fall under your requirements; it all depends on the conditions in which you grow them and whether they are locally available.

Here are a few options that I personally like, always have color and are not demanding.

Crassula Capitella Campfire


Callisia "pink panther"


Echeveria "the Black Knight"

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Oxalis triangularis

 

[Kled]

We're getting winter weather finally so I've been on and off storing everything. I hate that its been so rainy as well because its threatening a lot of my plants im trying to overwinter. I think this weekend im going to pulling my peppers out to properly overwinter in the tool shed. I really don't want to lose any of them. Worked way too hard on them.

My mom gave me an orchid a while back she recieved for teacher appreciation week and so far its been doing amazingly! Its still blooming and its gained a new leaf recently as well! During the site's downtime, Kled gma and I went to a few plant swap meets and exchanges and i managed to snag:

-a Confederate jasmine
-a $70 monstera in a huge pot (its even growing new leaves!)
-a chinese money plant piece
-a tall pepperomia jayde
-more golden pothos and a pearls and jade one
-several begonias including a happily rooted polkadot angel wing one
-a number of seeds for free

Plus a ton of discount and sale plants. Got a fully grown ganging pitcher plant for around 11 bucks too! Every spring and fall theres a plant festival at the state farmers market and on sundays they usually hard closeout with sales so i managed to snag a patchouli, hot lips salvia, and turks cap lillies. I cant stress enough to keep in the know with old plant ladies. I got a bag of crinum lilies for free because this nice old lady had too many.

Remember, if you're overwintering your plants, do not water them often. I moved to the livingroom for the winter to let most of my plants stay in a warm room. The staghorn fern is happily in tbe bathroom and the pitcher plant is gonna make a move there too.

Picture tax for the fall and winter!
The last picture is part of the haul i got from the last plant swap i went to. Note the monstera there in the bag. The third pic is my current broke bitch set up for my room. Im in the process still of getting everything organized and neat since ive been having bad back problems the last few weeks.

 

[NoReturn]

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Maybe the wrong place to ask but my girlfriend has talked about wanting indoor plants to spruce her place up & bring in some color for ages, I want to gift her some plantkeeping stuff for Christmas along with some small plants to get her started but I have no clue what kind of plant I should get her.
Any suggestions?
Preferably more hardy plants featuring some color, that don't get too big.

How big is "too big"? I ask because a pothos may not be colorful, but they can be damn pretty.

Wandering Jews can get big, but they don't start that way. The Zeberinas are my favorite because they sparkle in a way that doesn't show well in photos.


As for plant stuff:

• Self-watering planters (plastic is good, but so are the ceramic ones use for African violets depending on the type of plant)
• Spray bottle (not actually useful for humidity, but super-helpful for dusting leaves)
• Twine or something similar for attaching vines to trellises and moss poles
• Watering can or one of these conversion kits for your garbage

Plus a ton of discount and sale plants. Got a fully grown ganging pitcher plant for around 11 bucks too! Every spring and fall theres a plant festival at the state farmers market and on sundays they usually hard closeout with sales so i managed to snag a patchouli, hot lips salvia, and turks cap lillies. I cant stress enough to keep in the know with old plant ladies. I got a bag of crinum lilies for free because this nice old lady had too many.

It's so big!

The last picture is part of the haul i got from the last plant swap i went to. Note the monstera there in the bag. The third pic is my current broke bitch set up for my room. Im in the process still of getting everything organized and neat since ive been having bad back problems the last few weeks.

That shelf is sagging a bit in the middle, is it ok? Stay safe with your back.

 

[Kled]

That shelf is sagging a bit in the middle, is it ok? Stay safe with your back.

I forgot to get another L bracket at Lowe's so its a bit unstable right now lmao. Inflation is killing me and these things are hella expensive when they used to be a dollar and change.

I'll edit this post today with more pictures since i need to log them.

Oxalis triangularis

Im trying to find this one with yellow flowers. I have this one with the pink flowers but i never knew how hard it would be to find yellow flowers.

Does anyone deal with native wildflowers if they do some outdoor planting?

 

[₲litches]

Does anyone deal with native wildflowers if they do some outdoor planting?

I just bought my first home last year. It’s over 50 years old, so lots of terrible, terrible landscaping. Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus syriacus), Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia); English ivy…things that love taking over the beds and being bitches to eradicate. As I’m ripping things up, I’m trying to replace it with natives. This is my first winter, so I’m waiting with bated breath to see what comes back in the spring.

…Probably more Rose of Sharon

 

[NoReturn]

I forgot to get another L bracket at Lowe's so its a bit unstable right now lmao. Inflation is killing me and these things are hella expensive when they used to be a dollar and change.

I'll edit this post today with more pictures since i need to log them.

Im trying to find this one with yellow flowers. I have this one with the pink flowers but i never knew how hard it would be to find yellow flowers.

Does anyone deal with native wildflowers if they do some outdoor planting?

I just bought my first home last year. It’s over 50 years old, so lots of terrible, terrible landscaping. Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus syriacus), Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia); English ivy…things that love taking over the beds and being bitches to eradicate. As I’m ripping things up, I’m trying to replace it with natives. This is my first winter, so I’m waiting with bated breath to see what comes back in the spring.

…Probably more Rose of Sharon

I got a few "weeds" in convenient places last year, so I just left them and let them grow to see what would happen. One turned out to be a pretty native plant with adorable little flowers and the other was some kind of mystery green thing that looked nice as an "adult" but died when things got cold. I think I'll run the same experiment again and just let things grow if they wind up in places where they won't harm the things that I put there intentionally.

 

[Jacinda Ardern IRL]

Speaking of gardens, I have a BEAUTIFUL, healthy, massive rose bush that's been at my house since long before I moved in. It's so beautiful, but I've realized - FUCK ROSES. I will never plant a rose in my own garden, and any smaller and less beautiful roses I've found in my yard I've gotten rid of. They're so thorny it's impossible to garden anywhere near them. I want to keep the one big rose plant because it's so pretty, but no gloves have been good enough to keep me safe. Ugh.

If anyone knows what the best gloves are for not getting impaled when pruning roses, let me know.

 

[Kled]

I just bought my first home last year. It’s over 50 years old, so lots of terrible, terrible landscaping. Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus syriacus), Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia); English ivy…things that love taking over the beds and being bitches to eradicate. As I’m ripping things up, I’m trying to replace it with natives. This is my first winter, so I’m waiting with bated breath to see what comes back in the spring.

…Probably more Rose of Sharon

I got a few "weeds" in convenient places last year, so I just left them and let them grow to see what would happen. One turned out to be a pretty native plant with adorable little flowers and the other was some kind of mystery green thing that looked nice as an "adult" but died when things got cold. I think I'll run the same experiment again and just let things grow if they wind up in places where they won't harm the things that I put there intentionally.

I bought two bags of wildflower seeds last year and in 2020 to make a bed for them but soil is expensive and hard to transport if you dig it off the side of the road. I just enjoy seeing the bees and butterflies visit the yard. Ive had mystery plants pop up all year that i thought were weeds but were actually these plants called spiderwort. I always thought they were weeds but they're native flora and encompass a large number of plants.

I said I'd post recent pics but theres nothing to post tbh i did however decide to spend an hour getting my morning glory seeds in an old pill container.

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

Speaking of gardens, I have a BEAUTIFUL, healthy, massive rose bush that's been at my house since long before I moved in. It's so beautiful, but I've realized - FUCK ROSES. I will never plant a rose in my own garden, and any smaller and less beautiful roses I've found in my yard I've gotten rid of. They're so thorny it's impossible to garden anywhere near them. I want to keep the one big rose plant because it's so pretty, but no gloves have been good enough to keep me safe. Ugh.

If anyone knows what the best gloves are for not getting impaled when pruning roses, let me know.

I have given up on roses. I used to grow massive tea roses, wiped out by disease. Knockout roses were the new supposed disease resistant way to go even though the blooms were far less spectacular. Eventually a disease found them too.
Fuck roses. It all ends in tears.

 

[₲litches]

I have given up on roses. I used to grow massive tea roses, wiped out by disease. Knockout roses were the new supposed disease resistant way to go even though the blooms were far less spectacular. Eventually a disease found them too.
Fuck roses. It all ends in tears.

Continuing the previous owners landscaping theme of fuckers that are unkillable, I have a lovely specimen of “wild rose”, (R. multiflora) on the fence line. Wish I could gift you a cutting. It’ll end in tears, but not because the plant is diseased.

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

Continuing the previous owners landscaping theme of fuckers that are unkillable, I have a lovely specimen of “wild rose”, (R. multiflora) on the fence line. Wish I could gift you a cutting. It’ll end in tears, but not because the plant is diseased.

Noticed your post about Rose of Sharon. Mine always fill up with bugs near the end of the blooming. They don't seem to hurt the very boring Rose of Sharons I don't even like that much. Does this happen to yours?

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Noticed your post about Rose of Sharon. Mine always fill up with bugs near the end of the blooming. They don't seem to hurt the very boring Rose of Sharons I don't even like that much. Does this happen to yours?

Is this what you’re experiencing? These little bastards infest my rosemallows every year.

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

Is this what you’re experiencing? These little bastards infest my rosemallows every year.

THATS THEM