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I like flowers, flowers are pretty.

What is your favorite smell of flowers? I like the flowers which are light purple.
 
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Necro-ing this thread because a lot happened in plant town
Updated list of grown shit:
-3 flytraps
-1 air plant
-1 african violet
-1 Nepenthes x ventrata
-1 Nepenthes of an unknown species
-1 Sensitive plant
-1 Dracenia marginata
On the way I have 5 Sarracenia minor (Hooded Pitched Plant) seeds being shipped to Canada from Texas and they sure as shit better grow because they were expensive to get sent here. They'll need to cold stratify for 4 weeks and then growing them is a lot like starting up the flytrap seed which I have done before.
Here are Nepenthes pictures (Nepentheses?)
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They both live in a small tank with 70% humidity at all times and they've both done very well. Also Pokemon cards and 3DS smash in the reflection the desk the tank sits on is also the random shit desk
 
I have BIG plans for my yard this spring. 3 purple milkweeds, 4 black huckleberry bushes, 8 jack in the pulpits, and 45 wintergreen plants have been ordered. I also have poke, swamp, and climbing milkweed seeds stratifying in my refrigerator. Finally, I plan on releasing 150 S. Tsugae beetles to eat the wooly adalgids that have been killing my hemlock trees.
 
BLUEBIRD said:
I have BIG plans for my yard this spring. 3 purple milkweeds, 4 black huckleberry bushes, 8 jack in the pulpits, and 45 wintergreen plants have been ordered. I also have poke, swamp, and climbing milkweed seeds stratifying in my refrigerator. Finally, I plan on releasing 150 S. Tsugae beetles to eat the wooly adalgids that have been killing my hemlock trees.
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I have a bunch of swamp and common milkweed planted in big pots outside, I'm waiting for it to sprout. I forgot to start cold stratifiying seeds in the fridge :oops: I hope I have enough pots for the milkweeds, I'm redoing the garden but my mother does not want them in the ground garden because they have the word "weed" in their name
I want to get a tropical milkweed this spring too for extra milkweed action, but come fall it will have to become a houseplant for the winter or I could chop it down
 
Bugaboo said:
I have a bunch of swamp and common milkweed planted in big pots outside, I'm waiting for it to sprout. I forgot to start cold stratifiying seeds in the fridge :oops: I hope I have enough pots for the milkweeds, I'm redoing the garden but my mother does not want them in the ground garden because they have the word "weed" in their name
I want to get a tropical milkweed this spring too for extra milkweed action, but come fall it will have to become a houseplant for the winter or I could chop it down
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I have heard that tropical does well in pots because it lacks a deep taproot, but im not sure how well common would do. You could try planting your Common in a location surrounded by an underground edging to keep it from spreading out too far, than cutting the pods off so it wont go to seed ?



Edit. I said tropical, i meant swamp.
 
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BLUEBIRD said:
I have heard that tropical does well in pots because it lacks a deep taproot, but im not sure how well common would do. You could try planting your Common in a location surrounded by an underground edging to keep it from spreading out too far, than cutting the pods off so it wont go to seed ?
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Even if it doesn't grow properly I still have plenty of Swamp Milkweed which did really well in a pot last year and then I'll have the tropical milkweed so the caterpillars will have enough food. I might even clear out the back garden and sneak it in there after it sprouts
 
I don't have much room in my apartment, and the only sources of sunlight (small porch, and two windows) are basically all taken by the maximum amount of plantlife possible. The rest of the apartment has like 3 spiderplants, 2 peace lilies, and a really hardy dawn redwood I got under growlights. Everything is in terra cotta pots, which I love the look of in comparison to glazed clay pots or plastic pots.

Kitchen Window

*1 Rosemary plant
*1 Chili Pepper Plant
*1 Sage Plant
*1 Italian Oregano Plant
*1 Basil Plant
*1 Tarragon Plant

Living Room Window

* 1 Boston Fern
* 1 Azalea Shrub
* 2 Orchids
* 1 Bloodroot plant (fuck this plant)
* 1 Delphinium plant
* 1 Foxglove

Porch

* 1 Really big and thriving Rose Bush
* 1 Peruvian Lily
* 1 English Ivy
* 1 Red Passionflower Vine
* 1 Pot full of Purple and White Columbine
* 1 really tall Tomato plant
* 2 different kinds of daisy
* 1 Geranium plant
* 1 Sea Lavender
* 1 African Daisy plant
* 1 Blue Hydrangea

My front porch collection needs a yellow flower, any suggestions? I prefer perennials
 
Pikimon said:
I don't have much room in my apartment, and the only sources of sunlight (small porch, and two windows) are basically all taken by the maximum amount of plantlife possible. The rest of the apartment has like 3 spiderplants, 2 peace lilies, and a really hardy dawn redwood I got under growlights. Everything is in terra cotta pots, which I love the look of in comparison to glazed clay pots or plastic pots.

Kitchen Window

*1 Rosemary plant
*1 Chili Pepper Plant
*1 Sage Plant
*1 Italian Oregano Plant
*1 Basil Plant
*1 Tarragon Plant

Living Room Window

* 1 Boston Fern
* 1 Azalea Shrub
* 2 Orchids
* 1 Bloodroot plant (fuck this plant)
* 1 Delphinium plant
* 1 Foxglove

Porch

* 1 Really big and thriving Rose Bush
* 1 Peruvian Lily
* 1 English Ivy
* 1 Red Passionflower Vine
* 1 Pot full of Purple and White Columbine
* 1 really tall Tomato plant
* 2 different kinds of daisy
* 1 Geranium plant
* 1 Sea Lavender
* 1 African Daisy plant
* 1 Blue Hydrangea

My front porch collection needs a yellow flower, any suggestions? I prefer perennials
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I'm very much an indoor plant person so I don't know any yellow flowering plants that would live outside. Sarracenia have yellow flowers though but they need special care.
Also why so much hate for the bloodroot plant
 
BLUEBIRD said:
Explain?
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It's a seasonal woodland plant that requires a specific soil moisture level thats near impossible to achieve in Southern California, I bought the seeds online from some natural health website and it took fucking so much work for one flower.
 
Pikimon said:
It's a seasonal woodland plant that requires a specific soil moisture level thats near impossible to achieve in Southern California, I bought the seeds online from some natural health website and it took fucking so much work for one flower.
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Its a spring ephemeral, right? How long does it last until going dormant?
 
I live in the American southeast. Would growing succulents be a good idea here? I live in a dorm so space is limited so I should stick to small species.
 
kittie said:
I live in the American southeast. Would growing succulents be a good idea here? I live in a dorm so space is limited so I should stick to small species.
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Succulents are very easy to grow, even indoors. Also you can take a leaf off one and it will start growing a tiny version of the big succulent so theoretically you could buy one and eventually end up with 30
 
kittie said:
I live in the American southeast. Would growing succulents be a good idea here? I live in a dorm so space is limited so I should stick to small species.
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Additionally air plants are super easy to care for (just needing weekly 10-20 soaks in water and afterwards being dried laying on their side for about 12 hours before they can be put back on their perch. Personally I soak mine for more like 40-60 minutes once a month and I feed it 20-20-20 plant food every once in a while during these soaks.) Air plants have no need for soil so they can be put anywhere such as a small bowl filled with some colored sand to keep it upright. They grow very slowly and sometimes will even bloom.
African violets are quite small but some people report trouble growing them, I'm growing one with a wick watering system and it's doing wonderfully.
Also: flytraps but those can be tough to grow requiring specialized care. I do love them though
 
Today the blueberry bush was able to venture from the safety of the garage back outside. It seems to have survived the winter because it has many buds on it's branches.
Hopefully this year it might make some fruit, it couldn't last year because I had just bought it and it was a little babu
 
I usually plant my tomatoes in May, but I might put them out in April this year since we've had a sort of early Spring thanks to El Niño. I'll probably put out some cucumbers and squash, too. I want to plant some eggplant, but I can't cook for shit and can't think of anything that I can actually do with them.

I've also managed to slowly kill a lucky bamboo plant over the past seven months, but it's definitely over a decade old, so maybe that's why. :\
 
Picklechu said:
I usually plant my tomatoes in May, but I might put them out in April this year since we've had a sort of early Spring thanks to El Niño. I'll probably put out some cucumbers and squash, too. I want to plant some eggplant, but I can't cook for shit and can't think of anything that I can actually do with them.

I've also managed to slowly kill a lucky bamboo plant over the past seven months, but it's definitely over a decade old, so maybe that's why. :\
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Lucky bamboo is the shittiest plant because they need constantly clean water and they don't like tap water either.
Also they stank up the water real bad
 
Repotting all 4 of the Sarracenia into individual pots sitting in water dishes. They didn't do well in the bog garden I made because I made it wrong :(
From now on I'll be treating them as giant outdoor flytraps
All 4 are still alive though so that's a plus
5 more Sarracenia minor seeds also came in the mail, they need to sit in the fridge for roughly a month before they can be put in pots to grow though.
 
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