Make document of your findings please.
Cross quoting over here from the original thread.
Off the top of my head, some things I've tested enough times that they've become a normal part of my life:
- Raw honey (I know, not a plant, but worth including) does accelerate healing
- Ginger is good for everything people say it is, especially tummy trouble
- Garlic is antimicrobial and nuking yourself with garlic helps with viruses and bacteria, so if you know you're sick, but you don't know what's causing it, there's no downside to just roasting some garlic and eating it other than you might be stinky
- Turmeric helps with inflammation, but also with mood, which I guess makes sense because if you're feeling subconsciously shitty and the pain you barely notice goes away, you will feel less punchy
- Aloe is good for your outside, not just skin, but hair, too
And while some people think co-planting is a meme, I can confirm the following combinations make significant and noticeable differences from experiments I've run in my own garden:
- Peas and strawberries
- Sage and blueberry
- Parking lot moss > "Nice" moss for terrariums. I think because it has bugs in it and animals + plants = more stable microecosystem
- Pothos and wandering jew + anything you want to propagate = Faster root growth
And a weird one
- Lots of things and onions
I'm not sure why this last one is, but sometimes if I have a plant that's struggling (like a strawberry that isn't growing well) and I shove a green onion in there (stalks, not bulbs) the plant that's struggling starts to do better to do better. I'm not sure if that's because my onions have some kind of symbiotic fungus going on, or if this is a more general onion thing yet. Need more experiments to be sure.
Check with your local forestry service or your state Parks department, it's literally their job to catalog and print this stuff. They'll have something for you and if they don't they'll most likely be willing to point you in the right direction. I've worked with a number of different forestry services and they've always been generally good people.
Crossquoting this, too.
Colorado State University (not the University of Colorado, they're two different schools) has a really good plant identification and disease diagnostic clinic:
https://agsci.colostate.edu/agbio/plantclinic/
They have such a good reputation that I've heard people talk about them not just in Colorado, but in all the surrounding states, too.
Anyone have tips for Marimo balls? I have a pair, but one of them on arrival had a few browning spots. Since its gone into the shrimp/snail tank it seems to be doing a little better.
A very small pinch of salt for 32 oz of fresh water every third water change seems to make them more green and keep them healthy.
I lost one of my balls a while back when it turned brown and stinky seemingly randomly (I think some fungus must have landed in the jar and made it sick) but since I started the salt trick things seem ok.
Apparently they are going to get me a new pot but that was one of my grandma's old pots she had forever and gifted to me, and tbh one of my favorite pieces (It was fat and round with a small neck/opening that looked super nice with the twiggy lil cactus. I don't even have a pic of it before being broken
Those guys are fucking dickheads. Might I suggest an alternative for the broken pot instead of glue since you have so many succulents?
Oh hey, I think I have some of these!
Yeah! That's definitely the same one!
I've been doing a lot of stuff outside (but still not done lol) and I'm getting a feeling.
If you have experience, feelings are just pattern recognition built over time, even if you can't put it into words. I trust you.
