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You can cut on a really well established one, as in several heads crowding their pot. I wouldn’t expect a lot of performance out of a single plant. Maybe try planting several in the same pot so they can establish?
Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!
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i've never had trouble keeping them alive, getting them to flower was another story. now they flower pretty regularly (maybe twice a year? hard to tell cos when they do flower the flowers stay for ages) cos i always add orchid feed to the sprayer i use with them. in summer i spray them probably twice a week, in winter slightly less. if their potting medium gets super dry, i give it a good soak.
i've been keeping orchids for over a decade (fuck that makes me feel old!) and have never had one die on me. i don't even change their potting medium though i feel like i should. i even managed to nurse one back to health after my mother, who was tasked with taking care for a few weeks, put one outside. like wtaf mum it was you who taught me they don't like water in the spaces between leaves!!
no idea what species i have. just get whatever is reduced in whatever shop i'm in. i live in northern UK so not exactly their natural habitat, keep them on windowsills with indirect light.
the main problem i have now is fucking mealybugs in two plants. i thought i'd got rid of them this summer but now they're back. don't seem to harm the plant but must do if left unchecked. the infected plants are quarantined from the others kept apart from each other, and its sad cos it means i can't use the spaces they're kept in for other plants cos i don't want them to spread. need to try the nuclear option suggested by someone on here: suffocation.
anyway they are awesome, i love them and i hope they bring you joy too if you decide to go for it.
incidentally, the word "orchid" derives from the greek word for testicle.
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I finally figured out why my philo birkin had such a strange growth pattern. The grow light was above it. It wanted the light on the side/at an angle. Now the leaves are finally going bushy and not just growing straight up and then dying.
Yes indeed, it was dying because it wanted to be moved a foot to the left.
My pothos is rootbound af, circling the pot, a few leaves are yellowing now and I'm sure it's because of that.
I think I'm going to split it and put some in this massive ceramic jug I have around.
Do you think I could plant both string of bananas and pothos in the same pot?
Yes indeed, it was dying because it wanted to be moved a foot to the left.
My pothos is rootbound af, circling the pot, a few leaves are yellowing now and I'm sure it's because of that.
I think I'm going to split it and put some in this massive ceramic jug I have around.
Do you think I could plant both string of bananas and pothos in the same pot?
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For a while, yeah. I've done it a few times to help kickstart the plant I'm planting WITH the pothos, but that's it.
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I'm almost giving up on growing tomatoes. I've tried in-ground and pots, different ways of fertilizing and watering. I have tried both determinate and indeterminate. This year I got like 4 decent tomatoes.
I also keep running into shit I can't control, i.e. the weather. I can't keep pesticide/fungicide on my plants if it rains for a week straight, then suddenly gets hot and try (scalds tomatoes), then rains again. I also keep running into the same problem Null had with his banana peppers: they immediately turn yellow or orange.
Luckily I saved some seeds from my best tomato I grew, as well as some seeds from tomatoes I got from the famer's market, so next year I will try growing directly from seed again. The first time I tried that it went well until all my seedlings decided to die for no discernable reason. Meanwhile, all my flowers have done well.
I also keep running into shit I can't control, i.e. the weather. I can't keep pesticide/fungicide on my plants if it rains for a week straight, then suddenly gets hot and try (scalds tomatoes), then rains again. I also keep running into the same problem Null had with his banana peppers: they immediately turn yellow or orange.
Luckily I saved some seeds from my best tomato I grew, as well as some seeds from tomatoes I got from the famer's market, so next year I will try growing directly from seed again. The first time I tried that it went well until all my seedlings decided to die for no discernable reason. Meanwhile, all my flowers have done well.
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I grew sting of pearls and pothos together and it worked just fine. Pothos roots deeper, the succulent has shallow surface roots so as long as you’re getting them both the water they want they seem to coexist quite well
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Does anyone have any experience with tropical fruit-bearing plants? I have somehow managed to get like 20+ lychee seeds to sprout (about 2 months/8 in. tall at the moment) but I think I need to move them all to individual pots now. I think I know what to get, but I'm seeing inconsistent information on the depth of the pots. No matter which option I choose, it's going to be a lot of money, so I just want to get it right.
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Experiment with different size pots and report back your results!
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My lithops has fully bloomed, and I'm so happy for it. It looks like an ass with a flower coming from it, and it smells faintly like vanilla.
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What is the trick to these things? Somehow this is the only succulent that I have trouble with.
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Lychee develops tap roots. Use a taller tree pot instead of a more square one.
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When I got my first little sprig, the directions told me they liked to dry out like other succulents and would rot if overwatered. I’ve seen pics of waterlogged pearls, they turn to mushy peas and rot. I have found they actually like pretty frequent watering to stay plump and juicy. They kinda grow a mat of shallow roots hovering over their soil so I usually water quickly to give those roots a soaking before the water quickly drains away. I water them 1-2x a week with my other houseplants when the soil is dry, 1x every two weeks in the winter. They also like a lot of light, that’s pretty crucial.
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First play this to set the mood.
I grew some tomatoes this year, and while I was working in my garden one day I accidentally cut myself on some galvanized fencing. It was a deep cut, and I dripped some blood on one of my tomato plants, but didn't think anything of it. Later that month I was having a bout of insomnia, and I couldn't sleep, so I would get up and go make myself an omelette at 3am. I had lots of fresh herbs growing at this time, so I would take a battery lantern, and walk out into my backyard in the dead of night to where my garden was, and pick a bunch to mix up into the eggs. Every time I was out there picking herbs I could swear I heard this....muttering? Like something very small whispering. Granted the lantern also attracted a lot of moths, and they would fly around my head and into my ears sometimes, so I thought maybe it was just the wing noises? I was very wrong though....Some time later I was picking some nice looking tomatoes, and as I placed my hand underneath one of them while I cut its stem I felt something bite me from the underside of the tomato. I expected to find some kind of insect, but when I turned it over I...well, see for yourself. I took a picture of it. My blood must have mixed with the tomato DNA, and created what I can only describe as some kind of homunculus....It had cold dead eyes, and this horrible grin that will haunt me forever...
he was delicious...
I grew some tomatoes this year, and while I was working in my garden one day I accidentally cut myself on some galvanized fencing. It was a deep cut, and I dripped some blood on one of my tomato plants, but didn't think anything of it. Later that month I was having a bout of insomnia, and I couldn't sleep, so I would get up and go make myself an omelette at 3am. I had lots of fresh herbs growing at this time, so I would take a battery lantern, and walk out into my backyard in the dead of night to where my garden was, and pick a bunch to mix up into the eggs. Every time I was out there picking herbs I could swear I heard this....muttering? Like something very small whispering. Granted the lantern also attracted a lot of moths, and they would fly around my head and into my ears sometimes, so I thought maybe it was just the wing noises? I was very wrong though....Some time later I was picking some nice looking tomatoes, and as I placed my hand underneath one of them while I cut its stem I felt something bite me from the underside of the tomato. I expected to find some kind of insect, but when I turned it over I...well, see for yourself. I took a picture of it. My blood must have mixed with the tomato DNA, and created what I can only describe as some kind of homunculus....It had cold dead eyes, and this horrible grin that will haunt me forever...
he was delicious...
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He's adorable hdu
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Help! One of my prayer plants (I think, it was a random oddment with no label) is sad. So I am sad. There is another prayer plant right next to it, of a different variety, who seems perfectly happy getting identical treatment.
I've started misting the leaves to try and help with the wrinkles, but the yellowing and dying leaves is concerning too. None of the answers on google show yellowing like this, any ideas?
In better news I started a new bag of leaf mulch today and its almost full already, Raking the leaves while seeming more coming down did seem somewhat Sistphean, but never mind. I put some of the properly rotted stuff from the other bag in to try and help it get a good start.
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When I got mine from a big box store it was really badly overwatered. The rotten ones are a darker green, and they burst like rotten tomatoes. I've got the remains propagating now, and they've got little roots started.
What's the secret for begonia rex? I killed one with overeating, and I got a second with a cord in the soil. It lasted a long time, but then it started developing dryness around the leaves, and I thought it was the soil getting too dry. So I kept it more moist, and it died.
What do these plants want from me?
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I too have a plant that recently, randomly decided to get root rot after I didn't change anything.
I think that was the problem. The days got shorter and I didn't change anything so it stayed too moist and got root rot.
I think that was the problem. The days got shorter and I didn't change anything so it stayed too moist and got root rot.
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One month update on the broken pothos: Every weekend I have taken the cuttings out of the water, rinsed them off and put them back in a fresh batch of distilled water. Last time I decided to get rid of any that haven't set any roots yet, so I threw two cuttings out. Seven cuttings remains and have grown roots of about 1-10 cm long. None of them have branched out on the roots yet though, so they will stay in the water for a bit longer. So far so good. I think I will only put some of them back in the big pot when they are ready, and make new pots instead.
(Also slightly regretting my choice with the climbing pole because I saw a fantastic picture on Instagram of someone having a small pot and a super long pothos vine pinned up all the way up along the ceiling/wall and mine with the superlong vine could have done that....)
(Also slightly regretting my choice with the climbing pole because I saw a fantastic picture on Instagram of someone having a small pot and a super long pothos vine pinned up all the way up along the ceiling/wall and mine with the superlong vine could have done that....)
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Next summer, I'm giving tomato plants another try. The last two years were either hot as hell or pouring rain for days, the plants had no chance.
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My oldest pothos, mother-of-clippings of all my other pothos and my first houseplant ever, is in its original tiny terra cotta pot. I think it’s 6 inches diameter across the top and 4 inches deep, a little squat planter with a saucer I got specifically to fit on a windowsill. The bottom inch of its substrate is chunky quartz gravel and sand for drainage. I think I’ve topped the soil off once in three years, aside from that and occasional fertilizer, and very occasional vine stump removal the dirt has remained undisturbed. It’s dirt is packed in hard but absorbs water well and stays moist for a good 4-6 days in the summer, longer in winter. That said, you can almost physically see the plant slurping up the water. I can pour a good 24oz of water into the pot before the saucer fills up.
The plant itself was originally 8 small clippings off of a variety of pothos, so some of the vines are variegated dark green and white, or light green and yellow; some are a solid kelly green. Some of the vines have big heart shaped leaves and a good 3-4” of space between leaves on the vine, others are crunchy and curly smaller leaves with dense spacing 1-2” between each leaf. The plant is really more a collection of sister plants mingling and growing together.
I think the minimal space for roots has resulted in lots of top growth. I stopped clipping off it about a year ago and it has 6 vines that are getting really lengthy. I have one climbing a hanging lamp rope, I anticipate being able to clip it to the ceiling in a few months now that it’s getting colder and darker and growth will slow. The plant obviously prefers bright sun but it’s coped with the shadier places by continuing to crawl into spots of sun reflection on the walls or ceiling. The other vines I train and support with those clippy leaf thingies @NoReturn suggested.
With the three longest vines I’m considering clipping in the near future to encourage forking on the vines. Ideally I want this small room to be covered in a big hug from this pothos. I love an overgrown jungle room.
I can’t capture the prettiest vines well because this window is too distinctive, but I can get a few of the longer vines that are successfully grown out of the window and onto the walls. I had to move my windowsill plants to clean recently and did my best to prop up the pothos so its vines could stay put in the window. Lil guy has worked so hard to get big and beautiful.
