Gardening and Plant Thread

[Gruntgar The Indentured]

Basically overnight, my tomato plant wilted and all the leaves died. It's in a 30 gallon growbag and prior to this it was growing very quickly, but the flowers would die and drop off before forming fruit. Not sure if it was a nutrient issue or a watering issue.

Cutworms maybe?

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Cutworms maybe?

I did diligently check for pests, during daylight and nighttime. I removed one green tomato worm but apart from that never saw any pests or signs of chewing.

 

[DatBepisTho]

I pity-bought and repotted a few struggling florist's kalanchoe, now they're blooming all over the tiny sunroom I have and it's making the holidays feel less dreary.


Also guest-starring; an African violet I haven't killed yet.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Bought another Cherokee Purple plant for round two, with some marigolds. Planting this weekend.

Impulse bought a few more roses. Floribunda are quite easy to care for, you just have to keep an eye on them and address any problems when they arise. They are a magnet for eating pests (aphids, various worms and beetles) and powdery mildew.

 

[Just_A_guy]

So far the clone wars have been a failure. My chartreuse phal is the latest to receive the treatment. I will post further updates if any of the orchid's statuses changes.

Also the witchcraft is finally entering dormancy and dropping it's leaves. It could still bloom but I'm not gonna get my hopes up till next year.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I've brought a couple plants indoors, including peppers and basil, and they're still alive. After losing my first pepper batch (including Carolina Reapers), I got a second batch, which produced a really great sauce, and there is apparently a third batch of habanero and a single currently orange Reaper.

You got any good tips for keeping pests off your peppers? I’m in a different country so the pests are probably different too, but whenever I grow chillies here they always get absolutely fucking mobbed by greenfly. I end up spraying and rinsing them so often that it ruins a lot of the blooms, so less fruit. Short of keeping them in some sort of sealed glass box, I don’t know what else to do, and it’s stopped me growing them for a couple of years.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

My Everleaf Emerald Tower basil is still alive. It's very resistant to hot weather and made it through the Florida summer months, and I think it will fare through our winter too. I did trim it back heavily to encourage new growth as one or two nights of below freezing temps here had damaged a lot of the leaves.

My parsley and sage are taking off. The parsley does not do well in Florida summer so I think it will die once it starts warming up here, but I plan to harvest and freeze it in increments. The sage doesn't love the heat but does okay. I have acquired some dill but I think even in the shade, the Florida winter is still too hot for it. We will see.

 

[Just_A_guy]

You got any good tips for keeping pests off your peppers? I’m in a different country so the pests are probably different too, but whenever I grow chillies here they always get absolutely fucking mobbed by greenfly. I end up spraying and rinsing them so often that it ruins a lot of the blooms, so less fruit. Short of keeping them in some sort of sealed glass box, I don’t know what else to do, and it’s stopped me growing them for a couple of years.

A lot of people recommend neem oil wipes. Its takes care of a number of mite varieties. At least in the orchid world your mileage may vary.

 

[Rotter]

My mum gave me a cutting from this Carpobrotus chilensis she had in Spain.



I've separated this cutting into three different plants now. I hope it'll survive indoors here in Denmark (fingers crossed). They are supposed to get some nice purple/pink flowers in the summertime.

 

[AnOminous]

You got any good tips for keeping pests off your peppers? I’m in a different country so the pests are probably different too, but whenever I grow chillies here they always get absolutely fucking mobbed by greenfly. I end up spraying and rinsing them so often that it ruins a lot of the blooms, so less fruit. Short of keeping them in some sort of sealed glass box, I don’t know what else to do, and it’s stopped me growing them for a couple of years.

Luckily I haven't seen those around here. I use something called Jack's Deadbug which has some kind of harmless to humans bacteria that kills bugs.

 

[Lucius Aelius]

We've had a sudden warm spike this week, and it has caused several of my seed jugs to SPROUT. it's a disaster!

 

[Big Miss Steak]

The roses are doing quite well. Maybe I am fortunate, maybe it has to do with choosing varieties for your location, but I do not understand why people say roses are hard.

 

[Just_A_guy]

The Witchcraft entered dormancy and now has a new growth present. I'm gonna hold off watering for a while, like till march or april. Then it gets a ton of water and feed so I can get it to bloom this season.

 

[Drip Torch]

The Witchcraft entered dormancy and now has a new growth present. I'm gonna hold off watering for a while, like till march or april. Then it gets a ton of water and feed so I can get it to bloom this season.

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Is that Dendrobium?

Thread tax:
"Loch Ness Monster" Daylily (and my doggo)

 

[Just_A_guy]

Is that Dendrobium?

Thread tax:
"Loch Ness Monster" Daylily (and my doggo)
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It's a Monierara Millenium Magic catasetum type hrbrid.

 

[Drip Torch]

catasetum

A Cymbidum cousin then. That would explain the fatness of the pseudobulb. Good luck with orchids!
Only orchid I have is a Spathoglottis no name. I though it was a hardy ground orchid but was mislabeled and turned out to be a tropical species, still a terrestrial orchid though.

This isnt my plant, but very similar.

 

[Just_A_guy]

A Cymbidum cousin then. That would explain the fatness of the pseudobulb. Good luck with orchids!
Only orchid I have is a Spathoglottis no name. I though it was a hardy ground orchid but was mislabeled and turned out to be a tropical species, still a terrestrial orchid though.

This isnt my plant, but very similar.
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Oh I adore orchids. A cybidium is on my list because it will do excellently in my cold northern climate. I also have a vanilla orchid on my list because I wanna get my own seed pods.

 

[Drip Torch]

Oh I adore orchids. A cybidium is on my list because it will do excellently in my cold northern climate. I also have a vanilla orchid on my list because I wanna get my own seed pods.

I dont do much with orchids, or houseplants anymore (my SO does so I am still stuck with tropicals over winter). Which is why Im trying to focus on hardy species outside. Sadly hardy terrestrial species are harder to find than epiphytes, which are all tropical. Summer heat is brutal here, but marginally hardy stuff does well, like gingers and angels trumpets. I satisfy my orchid fix by finding native terrestrial orchids in the wild.
Like this native terrestrial orchid:
Platanthera ciliaris Orange fringed orchid

 

[Just_A_guy]

I dont do much with orchids, or houseplants anymore (my SO does so I am still stuck with tropicals over winter). Which is why Im trying to focus on hardy species outside. Sadly hardy terrestrial species are harder to find than epiphytes, which are all tropical. Summer heat is brutal here, but marginally hardy stuff does well, like gingers and angels trumpets. I satisfy my orchid fix by finding native terrestrial orchids in the wild.
Like this native terrestrial orchid:
Platanthera ciliaris Orange fringed orchid
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I have a side project where I want to try and cultivate Coral-root orchids in captivity. They are entirely parasitic and use their connection with Russula fungus to parasitize trees. Because of they're entirely non-photosynthetic and has made me do a lot of side research just to understand how it feeds.

They however are terrestrial.

 

[Enjoy_the_Soylence]

I'm under a foot of snow but I started some dahlias from seed and 2 have germinated. I have to keep them quarantined because my house plants (flowering cactuses) caught fucking spidermites...somehow.