Gardening and Plant Thread

[HERE YOU GO]

i have the blessing and curse of black berries and raspberries as far as the eye can see.
it's well over 6ft and has turned a large part of the woods into an unwalkable bramble. lol

wasps and caterpillars want to bore into my apples that just started growing in.
where as bumble bees and honeybees will often leave for different flowers when apple blossoms stop forming.

my garden is also stunted by the persistent cold weather. maybe mulch would have helped.


some things have been ok with the cold.


apples and cherries growing in.

 

[Diamond Homonculus]

My spider plant just started blooming and I've never seen that before. I had no idea spider plants even flowered. I guess it's happy.

 

[Spitz]

Worm coitus:

Spoiler: NSFW

I know it's weird to be excited about this, but I always appreciate the free aeration and nutrient distribution, so, the more the merrier.
Here's a picture of some recently harvested radishes so that this post won't be a hundred percent haram.

 

[BulletSpongeRTR]

I never used grow lights before but been meaning to. What kind of brand and specs do you recommend?

This one is a solid unit but the price is @ $30 higher than when I bought mine. https://www.spider-farmer.com/products/spider-farmer-upgraded-se3000-full-spectrum-led-grow-light/

 

[HERE YOU GO]

i grew basil before but these ones are bigger and better.
without humidity they dry up, so if you try this, you need a humid area like a tent, green house or tall plastic humidity dome with tray.
they'll mold if they have too much humidity, so you only want to give it enough, not a lot.

once they root, they can survive in areas with less humidity.
basil cuttings wedged into the sides of rooted plugs will thicken the growth into a shrub shape instead of a single stalk.

 

[Spitz]

Harvested some spinach to be parboiled and stored.

Crop pictures.

Had to pluck this little guy. The plant isn't established enough for them, yet.

Some poppies for good measure.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

here's further an example of what goes on with selling plants online and how RETARDED people are.
dill is known to be very dainty, so dainty it's hard to grow. that automatically means it's probably hard to ship and wont survive in the dark, cold or heat very long.
these people buy plants like they should magically arrive, and then it's your fault as the seller if it doesn't, but that's not the shop owner's fault as often as they think it is.
it's often the fault of the shipping service for damages or lost packages.

here are some reviews by shallow people with their names public.


so little Tracy Lynn Savok here says her dill arrived dead as a door nail and that the seller is a sham for it.
let's look at her picture, she has a poor tiny plant in a pot that's TOO BIG for it, and it's over watered.
over watering a small plant will kill any of her new plants no matter where she gets them.

but her lack of knowledge is going to be wrongfully blamed on the seller.
this person can't garden at all, they took a dead plant and did not put it in a humidity dome/green house to stabilize.
they put their fragile dill in a giant muddy pot with other plants because they want that HERBS IN A BIG BUCKET thing.
but then they get so angry it's everyone fault EXCEPT THEIR OWN when their stupid idea doesn't work.

they think they can call out that the plant looks "nothing like the picture" when over 50% of users on etsy DO NOT use pictures from their own store.
they are allowed to use pictures that are not their own, the pictures will OFTEN not look the same as the plant you get in the box.
i have a ton of plants and some are shorter and bigger and more to the left than others, and these people are ready to bum rush you with their anger if it looks a little different than the perfect picture photo.
they are so stupid they think the picture SHOULD BE EXACTLY what they get or they deserve to be upset and make who they bought it from suffer in some way with a bad review or shitty attitude.

do you see how they try to be as smart as possible and only achieve being maximum selfish and stupid?

i have a ton of plants and some are shorter and bigger and more to the left than others, and these people are ready to bum rush you with their anger if it looks a little different than the photo.
they are so stupid they think the picture SHOULD BE EXACTLY what they get or they deserve to be upset and make who they bought it from suffer in some way with a bad review or shitty attitude.
they get one plant that isn't to their expectations and they actually try to tell others to not buy from you anymore like you're a sham.
these people know nothing and etsy leaves harassment reviews up for a very long time before they are removed, if they are removed at all because some never get removed.
i grow dill and this is exactly why i have always been hesitant to sell it online, i thought it was too fragile and going to make people turn into retards, and it did.

they get one plant that isn't to their expectations and they actually try to tell others to not buy from you anymore like you're a sham.
these people know nothing and etsy leaves harassment reviews up for a very-long time before they are removed, if they are removed at all because some never get removed.
i grow dill and this is exactly why i have always been hesitant to sell it online, i thought it was too fragile and going to make people turn into retards, and it did.

the plants should have not have been directly watered right away at all, and placed in a humidity dome to determine whether it mummifies or stabilizes.
they complain that it's dead small but then they put it in a spot that a small plant can't start in. literally they're all fucking retarded.
they're only mad because they don't know how to take care of hurt plants, and at that rate why the fuck do you have them at all if you're going to be so angry when it doesn't work?

i've bought plants for over $100 and had them die with my stupid lack of knowledge and lack of tent for proper temperature and humidity.
i didn't go and chew out who sold it to me, in fact, i bought another one. and when that other one also died, i deemed that i was too stupid to grow that plant in particular at the moment.
but everyone else? they go to who sold it to them and try to kill you because they don't know how to grow a plant that they bought from you.

they think they can just ask you "HOW DO I GROW THIS" and the 15+ years you've spent with plants can just be explained instantly in one second for them.
if you're an expert, they think they can shit more on you like "why is my plant dead?? you suppose to be expert! i wan refund."
i could give you all of the expert advice i have, and if you know nothing about plants, it wont help you.

here's another one that's less retarded, but still thoughtless


meanwhile the plant is packed perfectly, and shipping killed it in their stupid truck throwing it around. shipping gets no flack but the sellers get called out.
they literally talk about the dirt flying out of the pot in the box and THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO SHIPPING SERVICE/PACKAGE TRANSPORT/ DELIVERY
really shows how much nobody knows anything about plants that they are mad like this.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

Fuckin' deer ate some of my plants either yesterday or early this morning! I'ma start putting predator urine around the garden to deter them, But idk if that's gonna be enough. Deer are overpopulated in my area. How do I implement TDD?

 

[Aunt Carol]

A dude on YouTube keeps warning about not letting three-cornered leek get started in your garden, because it's edible but it spreads like wildfire. This catalog season, my bulk bulb source started selling it.

...If I can't have my 100% mint lawn because mint decided to quit being invasive the second it saw my yard, maybe I can have an allium explosion and dump my mower bag directly into the cream cheese.

 

[Spitz]

Self-pollinated a female squash blossom a few days ago.

Self-pollinated this one today.

Found an interesting tri-purpose shovel/cultivator/shiv at the department store. Best for gardening in the projects.

Some daylilies for good measure.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Found an interesting tri-purpose shovel/cultivator/shiv at the department store. Best for gardening in the projects.
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Oh, that's rad. You ever see the Root Slayer family of digging implements?

Not quite as wickedly pointed, but good places to put your foot, and the smaller entries into the series have built-in bottle-openers.

 

[Spitz]

Oh, that's rad. You ever see the Root Slayer family of digging implements?
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Not quite as wickedly pointed, but good places to put your foot, and the smaller entries into the series have built-in bottle-openers.

Yeah, the tree-removers use these sometimes when their heavy machinery can't get the roots out; like when a fence or another tree blocks the way. I've never used one myself. I usually go with a pickaxe and shovel for the workout. Then again, I'm not big on trees, especially deciduous, because of the problems I've had with them in the past. I've lost an oak to canker, two maples to poor climate conditions, two apple trees to blight, more choke cherry trees to fire blight than I'd like to count, and a buckthorn to fungus of which I can't remember the name right now. Plus, trees shade areas where I usually have crops/flowers that need full sun for most of the day. Any impatiens I decide to grow end up going in pots so that I can move them around if they get too much sunlight.

Gardening/farming tools as weapons isn't something I see much or think about at all, but the moment I saw that and felt how sharp it was, I thought, "Damn where are you gardening? Out in the wilderness with lions and tigers and bears!? Or in the inner city with the high crime rate?"

 

[Aunt Carol]

Yeah, the tree-removers use these sometimes when their heavy machinery can't get the roots out; like when a fence or another tree blocks the way.

We had a handful of elm trees that died, were removed--and then their extensive underground network of roots kept sending up suckers for years. Root slayer shovel is great if any time you dig at all, you're going to be running into small-to-medium superficial roots.

Long-handled tools always make me think a little bit about peasant revolts, especially when they have a good balance to them. In some kind of Home Guard situation, I'd rather shove people with a bow rake than try to do any scrapping up close. That pointy thing is probably a "bulb planter" about the same way those brass knuckles on eBay are "paperweights."

 

[AnOminous]

Long-handled tools always make me think a little bit about peasant revolts, especially when they have a good balance to them.

Many early polearms were in fact repurposed agricultural implements. They were generally cheap and practical, requiring little metal and not weighing much considering their length and reach. And more to the point, since without these tools, peasants couldn't do the work expected of them, the nobility couldn't really disarm the peasants.

Even polearms specifically designed for military use (like halberds) were effectively based on the same tool-like design, with an emphasis on ease of production and use combined with reach and use in formation.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Many early polearms were in fact repurposed agricultural implements. They were generally cheap and practical, requiring little metal and not weighing much considering their length and reach.

Gary Gygax was right about polearms

 

[AnOminous]

Gary Gygax was right about polearms

I could never get anyone to use the magnificent variety of polearms available in D&D. They just weren't sexy enough. Fair point, I suppose, but I loaded up their enemies with them.

 

[Spitz]

Harvested some beets today so that the others would have some room to spread out.

Most of the peppers have blossoms and, despite not being bushy enough, I have decided to stop pulling them off because of how the weather keeps fluctuating. With the monsoon season coming, all I can do now is hope for heat units and an above average September-October. The Reapers and Ausilio peppers will have to come indoors to mature. They have been growing extremely slowly because of the colder weather. I did see a few little nubbins on the other super-hot peppers, but I bought them from a nursery as older plants and planted them in smaller pots. They will probably have to come inside as well, and then it will be a battle against an aphid infestation. Luckily, I have a lot of play sand, buckets, Dawn dish-soap, and those fly-traps you hang from the ceiling and then forget about and run into them and get all pissed off that it stuck to your face and tear it down only to get the sticky shit and fly guts all over you, fuckin' pieces of shit fuckin' aphids, fuck.

 

[River possum]

Been a while since I posted here but I wanted to share with you all my orchid that bloomed thanks to the help of the advice I got here!

 

[Prince Vegeta]

About a year ago, @Freshly Baked Socks gave me some solid advise to battle the powdery mildew assaulting my trees, and by golly it seems to have worked. Many thanks. My trees are doing great.

 

[River possum]

Here's my hardy kiwi I planted back in March, it's really taking off! I'll eventually need a trellis for it and repot it into something larger. I don't want to plant it in the ground because I worry it won't survive the mountain winter here, so I can just bring it inside if necessary.