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

[glioblastoma multiforme]

Ive planted a little vegetable garden and am propogating some cuttings, but ended up with a pretty bad case of leaf spot on roses and some other plants. Looks pretty much like fungal leaf spots you see online, but its killing whole plants. I keep disposing of the infected leaves, reducing previous over watering (it rains a lot so sometimes they do get really wet), and have tried some copper antifungal on the plants, but no luck so far. If anyone has any products they have had work against that please let me know.

i've had black spots on orchids and have had success in not losing the whole plants by sterilising a knife/scissors to remove from well below the affected area, just used boiling water, then applying cinnamon to the cut. its a natural antifungal, won't be as strong as the option mentioned above and given your plants are outside you may need to reapply after rain.

speaking of orchids, one of mine just finished flowering and is already flowering again. and it is making another little shoot of buds!! i had awful luck with orchids for years but i think i've kinda cracked it, only kinda cos one of mine seems to be dying. tor isn't letting me add an image for tax, of an exceptionally uninspiring photo of an orchid, so hope this imgbb thumbnail works:



also this orchid nearly died when my mum who was supposed to be looking after it for a bit had an exceptionally senior moment involving putting it outside in our rainy corner of the world. i had to do the fungus spot removal described above, all but one tiny leaf died, and now its thriving!!

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

My string of bananas immediately started blooming after I bought it. I can't wait for the buds to open so I can see if they really smell like cinnamon.

I'm still not sure if the blooming is a good sign or not. My parallel peperomia did that too. I think they just really like my grow light setup. (Can I manually pollinate them with one another????)

Edit: Boo! I thought string of bananas was a peperomia.

My pothos seems to be insane. It puts out a new leaf on each vine about every week and the soil dries out twice as fast as any other plant. The new leaves are much more varigated then how it came from the store.

 

[NoReturn]

The new leaves are much more varigated then how it came from the store.

It's probably getting a lot more light, then. I did an experiment with a marble pothos and put one cutting in a dark area and one in a light area and the difference was stark. One of the dark-plant-leaves is just normal green on one side. No varigation at all. Speckles on the other side, but just flat green on that one.

 

[Layton Mysteries]

Chlorothalonil, but don't get it on the bracts. I think this is basically the strongest shit that exists and it will kill your plants if you're not careful. I've used it with success before though.

Although once you start seeing brown patches all across the entire plant it's a goner regardless. Fungicide will at least stop the spread though.

I've had some luck with spraying a bit of copper antifungal on the milkweed and removing the leaves that showed spots, as for the roses I trimmed it down much smaller and removed all the affected leaves, hoping it works but Im not feeling too confident on that one. Not sure why the milkweed has a problem, I've had milkweed for years and never had any issues with fungus and loosing so many leaves.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

HELP ME.

All right...it's June tomorrow, Spring happened here in the last two weeks, and as usual I'm playing catch-up with last Fall's leaves (I've bagged over 20 huge bags*, and am maybe 65% done with the front side of my house, nevermind the rest yet), and remembering what needs pruning when, and now it's hit high 80s, so fuck me, I'll never get on top of it.

*I have a heavily wooded (mature maples, elms, oaks, ironwood, dogwood), large-ish property and pay to have leaves blown out in the Fall, and I have previously done so in Spring as well, but frankly, they don't do an "on your knees, hand de-leafing," so I decided to save the $350-400 this Spring and do it myself...think I'm going to be working for about $3.15/hour, all calculated, if lucky...but that's OK.

Anyway, I have two questions:
1) best time (meaning bud development stage, and time of day) to snip lilacs for max enjoyment indoors?; and

2) Hydrangea help?! Some hydrangeas aren't blooming, and haven't for years. They grow fine, overall. I've experimented with both minimal and severe pruning, and it's the same non-result. These are [I forget name (summer something) but can find if needed] - the blue-ish ones, and they are generally in full shade. I also have [white and pink/green ones], both the shrubby types and the tree types, and those bloom fine, both with some shade and full shade. Why do they hate me, and how do I make them love me?

 

[Layton Mysteries]

HELP ME.

All right...it's June tomorrow, Spring happened here in the last two weeks, and as usual I'm playing catch-up with last Fall's leaves (I've bagged over 20 huge bags*, and am maybe 65% done with the front side of my house, nevermind the rest yet), and remembering what needs pruning when, and now it's hit high 80s, so fuck me, I'll never get on top of it.

*I have a heavily wooded (mature maples, elms, oaks, ironwood, dogwood), large-ish property and pay to have leaves blown out in the Fall, and I have previously done so in Spring as well, but frankly, they don't do an "on your knees, hand de-leafing," so I decided to save the $350-400 this Spring and do it myself...think I'm going to be working for about $3.15/hour, all calculated, if lucky...but that's OK.

Anyway, I have two questions:
1) best time (meaning bud development stage, and time of day) to snip lilacs for max enjoyment indoors?; and

2) Hydrangea help?! Some hydrangeas aren't blooming, and haven't for years. They grow fine, overall. I've experimented with both minimal and severe pruning, and it's the same non-result. These are [I forget name (summer something) but can find if needed] - the blue-ish ones, and they are generally in full shade. I also have [white and pink/green ones], both the shrubby types and the tree types, and those bloom fine, both with some shade and full shade. Why do they hate me, and how do I make them love me?

My hydrangeas just finished blooming for the first cycle of the year.
Try to avoid pruning Hydrangeas too much, as a lot of the blumes grow from stems created the year before. You should still try to deadhead, just dont cut down below it very far. Hydrangeas generally like more acidic soil than other plants, so adding something to make the soil more acidic can help. Compost and fertilizer with additives can do that.
Once you get blooms one interesting thing is if your blooms are not plain white, you can change the colour by altering the soil. Adding Aluminium Sulfate and fertilize with more potassium can get you blue flowers, and adding lime and fertilize with more nitrogen can get you pink! You can buy fertilizers specifically for hydrangeas that already have a compound to make the soil more acidic and the chemicals needed to change the colour if you'd like, or you can mix them yourself.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I'm in the process of planting a garden and I've kind of got green fever. What interesting/exotic fruits should I grow? I can grow most things that can be grown in the USA barring more tropical things.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

My hydrangeas just finished blooming for the first cycle of the year.

Thank you! You must be a few zones south of me - I went from snow in April to high 80s now, so, as usual, things go from brown and leafless to exploding in a couple weeks...but hydrangeas are not yet there around here.

Try to avoid pruning Hydrangeas too much, as a lot of the blumes grow from stems created the year before. You should still try to deadhead, just dont cut down below it very far. Hydrangeas generally like more acidic soil than other plants, so adding something to make the soil more acidic can help. Compost and fertilizer with additives can do that.

I admit I have neglected mine that I'm concerned about for years...but they've never bloomed (much)...so I'm definitely not an over-pruner...and these particular ones just.dont.bloom, so I've nothing to deadhead. There are 4 of them, they don't have other perennials (or others) to compete with, I de-weed their space, but they will not produce a bloom. I haven't supplemented or added much to the soil, so maybe I'll finally do that. I have a nice compost barrel ready to go, and I should actually add some fertilizer. I'm just at a loss with a decade of no blooms. ...I do need to deadhead the lilacs and other hydrangeas, though, for sure - they're getting rangy (I oddly feel bad cutting blooms for indoor enjoyment, even tho I know it is good got them).

Cheers, thank you!

 

[NoReturn]

Hydrangea help?! Some hydrangeas aren't blooming, and haven't for years. They grow fine, overall. I've experimented with both minimal and severe pruning, and it's the same non-result. These are [I forget name (summer something) but can find if needed] - the blue-ish ones, and they are generally in full shade. I also have [white and pink/green ones], both the shrubby types and the tree types, and those bloom fine, both with some shade and full shade. Why do they hate me, and how do I make them love me?

Pour watered-down milk on them for a bit.
Next time you empty a gallon of milk, fill it with cold water like you would to rinse the container, but then pour the water-milk on the roots.

I'm in the process of planting a garden and I've kind of got green fever. What interesting/exotic fruits should I grow? I can grow most things that can be grown in the USA barring more tropical things.

These may not seem "exotic" but you can get exotic breeds of them (e.g. Alpine Strawberry)

Blueberry
Happy with some shade, tenacious, but don't let them get sunburned. They can grow back if you do, but you should prune back the dead parts.

Blackberry
Grow them in a pot so they don't escape. Escaped blackberries are why parts of the PNW are covered in them.

Strawberry
Comfy, cute, and if your winters aren't too cold you can grow them back the next year.

Hacksap/Honeyberry
You can grow these from sticks. Just shove a few of them in the ground, at least one of them should root. They don't make a lot of berries, but they're cute.

Currents
Also grow in a pot, not because they'll escape, but because they like it in there.


Anything else depends on your grow region.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH MULBERRIES OR PERSIMMONS. They are sexed so you need both a "male" and a "female" tree to get fruit.

 

[FatalTater]

My vegetable garden is confused by the weather. First it was a spring that stayed cold forever, then it got hot and I swear the sun has been extra strong.
Potatoes seem to be growing well. They're just some from the grocery that sprouted so I planted them.
Green peppers sprouted, got a set of true leaves, then noped out. I have some new seeds started but if these don't make it I'm giving up on them for this season.
Zucchini has sprouted, four out of six so far.
Cabbage is hanging in there.
Nasturtiums are trying to grow, zinnias sprouted and died at about 1/2 inch high. wtf.
Dill is doing well.
Strawberries (Quinault) are producing but the fruit doesn't have as much flavor as last year.
Okra isn't up yet, but I just planted it last weekend.
Roma tomatoes had yellow leaves for a while but are greening up now.
Sunset's Red Horizon tomatoes are not doing well, which is weird since I usually have the best luck with those. Three of five plants just withered and died. Two are hanging in there.

I noticed a weird lack of volunteer tomato plants this year. Not even seeing any where I had cherry tomatoes last year.

 

[Diamond Homonculus]

Hello I have a Devil's Backbone/Mother of Thousands plant and I want to propigate it. Is it litterally just as easy as putting the little baby plants in another pot?

 

[NoReturn]

Hello I have a Devil's Backbone/Mother of Thousands plant and I want to propigate it. Is it litterally just as easy as putting the little baby plants in another pot?

Yeah, but if you want to make it even easier on the babies, order some takeout. You want one of those plastic takeout containers with the clear plastic lid and the opaque bottom.

Poke some holes in the lid (Or, in the case of my last box, fuck up poking the holes and make a big crack in the lid. It's still fine.), spread a layer of dirt on the bottom, put the babies on top, then spray with water, put the lid back on, and leave it in a sunny place where it gets indirect light.
Leave them in the little greenhouse until they have established roots, then put them in a pot.

 

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I'm in the process of planting a garden and I've kind of got green fever. What interesting/exotic fruits should I grow? I can grow most things that can be grown in the USA barring more tropical things.

You can make cool natural hedges out of Sea Buckthorn, and as an added bonus the berries have a very interesting taste. Kind of like a sour tropical fruit?

As an added bonus those things are incredibly resilient.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

I'm in the process of planting a garden and I've kind of got green fever. What interesting/exotic fruits should I grow? I can grow most things that can be grown in the USA barring more tropical things.

I'm trying this one: Sugar Apple. I like that the insides resemble both yoghurt and pus, what's not to love?

Hacksap/Honeyberry

I have never seen that before, and it's adorable. Definitely going on the list!

 

[Spitz]

Pretty flower photos

Spoiler: Daffodils

Spoiler: Tulips

Spoiler: Hyacinth

Spoiler: Iris

Have a wonderful day!

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

Pretty flower photos

Spoiler: Tulips

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all great photos, i really like the white and dark red tulips, what varieties are they?

i have one dahlia that is about to flower, the rest are really small. i've treated them all exactly the same so i don't know why that one is so enthusiastic and the others are a little lazy. some are grown from new tubers bought from a reputable vendor and the rest are dup up from last year. stupidly i never marked which was which when planting so each one will be a surprise when they flower.

any dahlia tips would be welcomed, its only my second year having them, they were glorious last year and i'm looking forward to having many more flowering soon,

 

[FatalTater]

I have one dahlia that I got on clearance sale years ago. So far all I do is ignore it and it seems to be doing okay. Gotta remember to stake it before it blooms, stupid top-heavy things.

My okra sprouted exactly one day after I last posted about it. Currently they only have the two beginning leaves.
One single green pepper has sprouted, out of four. Still only has 2 leaves. I am not optimistic.
I found three volunteer tomato plants at the edge of the garden. I transplanted them into proper rows so they can learn to be respectable. No idea what kind they are, but whatever.

There are SO many baby grasshoppers out there. Potential devastation is at hand.

 

[NoReturn]

Catnip is a mint.
Mint grows everywhere.
I have lots of catnip now.

Pretty flower photos

They're all so bootiful!

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

It's probably getting a lot more light, then. I did an experiment with a marble pothos and put one cutting in a dark area and one in a light area and the difference was stark. One of the dark-plant-leaves is just normal green on one side. No varigation at all. Speckles on the other side, but just flat green on that one.

Definitely.
Old leaf:

New Leaf:



I thought one of my coworkers was into houseplants. Her office had a bunch of very common low maintenance plants, like snake plants and pothos and little succulents. Somehow in my head I slowly formed this idea that she's got a lot of knowledge about houseplants and keeps the more fancy and temperamental stuff at home. Then she moved offices and- despite having a window, put all the plants where there is 0 natural light. And pointed her desk lamp at them. Yeah. They're all dying now. I talked to her and tried to give gentle advice about the light levels. Yeah. She just bought the plants because it was trendy, now she doesn't really care. "When they die I just want plastic ones." Put a knife in my heart, won't you </3

For what it's worth, not all plastic plants look like the ones from Walmart and the Dollar Tree. High quality silk and otherwise artificial plants have a role in interior decor and frankly can be considered an investment like any other type of art. Look at this spider plant- it even comes with spiderettes. You're not going to spend under 50, and typically you're looking at more like 100-200 for a mature-size, high quality silk plant + nice planter/pot, though. But then it can last 10+ years with just needing a dust every once and again.

 

[Spitz]

all great photos, i really like the white and dark red tulips, what varieties are they?

i have one dahlia that is about to flower, the rest are really small. i've treated them all exactly the same so i don't know why that one is so enthusiastic and the others are a little lazy. some are grown from new tubers bought from a reputable vendor and the rest are dup up from last year. stupidly i never marked which was which when planting so each one will be a surprise when they flower.

any dahlia tips would be welcomed, its only my second year having them, they were glorious last year and i'm looking forward to having many more flowering soon,

The tulips with the large petals are Triumphs and the others are Single Early. I had a French Single Early that had some interesting hybridization one year, but It didn't happen ever again, and then it got overrun by other plants. Here's a picture of it.

Spoiler: Another Tulip

It sounds like you're doing well with your dahlias. The only things that I can think would be to fertilize with some Hi-Yield Super Phosphate, 0-18-0, deadhead the blossoms as they wither, that'll promote more blooming, and watch out for sun-scald, dahlias like 6-8 hours of full sun everyday, but they can get overwhelmed by intense, afternoon sunlight.

She just bought the plants because it was trendy, now she doesn't really care. "When they die I just want plastic ones."

My sister was like this with hamsters in her teenage years. The idea was always better than the actual thing. It's a shame when people don't enjoy and appreciate taking care of living beings, whether that be plants or animals.