Gardening and Plant Thread

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Yesterday I finished filling up the last area of my raised bed with garlic and shallots. It's ready to be tucked under plastic sheeting to sleep until spring.

And received a pile of paperwhite and hyacinth bulbs in the mail. This is my second year forcing bulbs to flower indoors through winter. By keeping over 50+ vases in the cold-cellar I can pull a couple out every week to keep the house smelling of fragrant flowers while always having new blooms to watch pop open.

My amaryllises are beginning to die back. I expect to dig them up from their pots in the next couple weeks to let the bulbs sleep in paper bags in my pantry for a couple months . Then they'll be ready to "wake up" and bloom again next year.

 

[repentance]

Hello gardening thread.

I have a small container garden for veggies and am growing ornamentals for the first time. Tiger lilies have just started blooming.

I'm growing 2 varieties of lettuce, 4 varieties of dwarf tomatoes, 2 varieties of cucumber and 4 varieties of leafy greens. I've picked the first cucumber of the season and some of the tomato plants have fruit which just needs consistent warmer weather to ripen. I've taken a chance on planting brassicas for the first time in years.

Some rogue tomatoes are growing in my raspberry bed but I don't know whether I'll get a crop from them. The raspberries have begun to blossom but I have never grown them before so I don't know how they will go.

I started a lot of ornamental seeds under lights at the beginning of spring but life got in the way and I didn't get around to transplanting them so I've just sown some more.

As far as aphids go, I've given up on ever growing spring onions because they're a total aphid magnet here and the ants then carry them to other vegetables. I don't have the same issue with chives (although ants will steal the seeds of both).

 

[NoReturn]

I got a jewel orchid.

How to I keep it alive and thriving?

 

[repentance]

Transplanted some native tubestock.

It's my first attempt at growing natives, so it's very much an experiment.

From left to right : grevillea - sunkissed, lemon myrtle, grevillea - liliane, lilly pilly - cascade.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

TIL coriander and cilantro are the same plant.
cilantro is usually fresh or dry foliage.
if you ask for coriander it's just cilantro seeds, crushed or whole.

last week i bought cacao, guarana and kola nuts to grow in my indoor tent.
planted 35+ green beans and the bean vines are growing down from a high planter rather than growing vertically from a low spot.

coconut i bought is growing its first 3 true leaves, exciting.
i also bought a date palm and started germinating some walnuts.
cold stratifying the walnuts for 3 months, so i'll find out around february if they do anything.

 

[AnOminous]

I brought in the ghost pepper plant about a month ago, and despite that, all the leaves fell off it and it went dormant.

But after giving it a bit of fish emulsion and (sparingly) watering it for a couple weeks, it's growing back small leaves, although a bit sparsely.

So maybe I get another season out of it.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Updates. I had sage which was growing indoors during the hot summer (gifted to me in July) but it hasn't done well. The basil grew like eight inches but has largely defoliated and the viable leaves aren't very healthy-looking. The red bell pepper plant was largely defoliated after the summer but never had any blooms (the flowers would just die and fall off as soon as petals appeared). But, after checking it the other day...


They're currently the size of my thumb (an adult male thumb), and I have no idea how big they'll get or they'll even survive. Because this is a red bell pepper, they will turn red when they are ripe.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

I brought in the ghost pepper plant about a month ago, and despite that, all the leaves fell off it and it went dormant.

But after giving it a bit of fish emulsion and (sparingly) watering it for a couple weeks, it's growing back small leaves, although a bit sparsely.

So maybe I get another season out of it.

This may be of little use to you (or you may already know this) but I've had success with just that a few times with various peppers on one condition: that they were the ones not near a radiating heat source. The ones that were didn't make it in the end. I hope yours pulls through!

 

[AnOminous]

This may be of little use to you (or you may already know this) but I've had success with just that a few times with various peppers on one condition: that they were the ones not near a radiating heat source. The ones that were didn't make it in the end. I hope yours pulls through!

This may be a very good tip because I was considering putting it literally next to a radiator. Instead, it is actually in one of the colder parts of the house. I think I will keep it there.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

As far as aphids go, I've given up on ever growing spring onions because they're a total aphid magnet here and the ants then carry them to other vegetables. I don't have the same issue with chives (although ants will steal the seeds of both).

Imidiclorpid+mineral oil (Phosphoric acid) mixture is your friend. Are you sure it's not thrips/mites? If the latter run Cypermethrin (I hope you don't have a cat). Be very glad you don't have white flies.

This may be a very good tip because I was considering putting it literally next to a radiator. Instead, it is actually in one of the colder parts of the house. I think I will keep it there.

Radiating heat source not your issue. Pepper's optimum range (At least yours) should be between 72-87F. Also it doesn't like continous light (Radiator has light) in certain conditions.

cold stratifying the walnuts for 3 months, so i'll find out around february if they do anything.

What type of walnut? You may need more time (or moisture) depending on the type. Butternut (Juglans cinera), Tigernut (J. mandshurica) and Heartnut (J. ailantifolia) come to mind.
I hope you have somewhere to grow them in the ground cause that tap root is fast and deep baby.

Meanwhile this year, the weather is so fucking busted, I've had several trees go dormant, and then leaf out again. RIP my pecans though. Dead to drought + black aphids + extreme heat. At least I got good BBQ wood or furniture wood.

I should've just gone and grown weed instead. Instead I get to graft a metric shit ton (400+) pecans next month.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

Imidiclorpid+mineral oil (Phosphoric acid) mixture is your friend. Are you sure it's not thrips/mites? If the latter run Cypermethrin (I hope you don't have a cat). Be very glad you don't have white flies.

Radiating heat source not your issue. Pepper's optimum range (At least yours) should be between 72-87F. Also it doesn't like continous light (Radiator has light) in certain conditions.

What type of walnut? You may need more time (or moisture) depending on the type. Butternut (Juglans cinera), Tigernut (J. mandshurica) and Heartnut (J. ailantifolia) come to mind.
I hope you have somewhere to grow them in the ground cause that tap root is fast and deep baby.

Meanwhile this year, the weather is so fucking busted, I've had several trees go dormant, and then leaf out again. RIP my pecans though. Dead to drought + black aphids + extreme heat. At least I got good BBQ wood or furniture wood.

I should've just gone and grown weed instead. Instead I get to graft a metric shit ton (400+) pecans next month.

they're english walnut/ white walnuts, it'll take awhile for them to mature but maybe i'll still be around by the time it produces.
i don't have any nut trees except acorns and a scarce amount of hazelnuts. i'm cultivating more of the hazelnuts and introducing white walnuts.
i also don't have any special wood flavors like pecan, but i have a ton of red maple here. i'm also using the maple hardwood for smoking food, hardwood ash fertilizer, or furniture as i clean it up.

out of 9 trees none of my apples produced this year so i fertilized them with hardwood ash and will find out what the blossom count looks like in spring.
too much nitrogen can cause excessive foliage instead of fruiting


i germinated kola nuts in a sealed bag of moss and didn't think about the nitrogen concentration i created inside of the bag.. lol
when i opened that thing later i was blown away, my whole house turned into a nitrogen stink bomb and i couldn't check on them without opening the stink bag.
so i took them out and continued germinating them in a 70-80 degrees humid and dark cabinet inside of a damp cloth in a ziplock bag, where they quickly sprouted tap roots.


bananas can grow new plants by rhizome and i had a ton of them overcrowding one of my pots.
at first i just took one to see if i would really work, and weeks later after staying in a humid bag it came around and transplanted successfully.
so i took more of them and did the same thing. left is main pot with the plants already taken, right is picture of what i took to re-plant.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

they're english walnut/ white walnuts, it'll take awhile for them to mature but maybe i'll still be around by the time it produces.

Are you in the states? It sounds like your further down south if you are. Be care of black (?No proper name yet?) rot of Walnut. Seems to be some fungal pathogen that's native to Black Walnut area that ruins the kernel for English Walnuts/prevents fruit set.
You may need to go to USDA GRIN and ask for ascensions on walnut grafts, look for Reda or other cultivars from Hungary/Romania/Sochi (Russian Federation) area. Those generally tolerate humidity better.
You can also tap the syrup (not as much as maple).
Will need to spray fungicide once (maybe more if you're in the gulf coast) in spring to deal with rot.

 

[River possum]

Hello plant frens! Just wanted to post a pic of my orchid, it's constantly growing new roots and I'm really hoping it will bloom in the spring. It's about a year old now, I have it in this container so that it will fit on my windowsill. (It's not usually sitting on this bin.) It gets about 6-8 hours of indirect sunlight, I water once a week with some orchid spray food. Do you guys think I have a chance of it blooming? Sorry if I suck at attaching files my phone doesn't seem to like doing it

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Do you guys think I have a chance of it blooming?

Yes, but take care not to overly fertilize with nitrogen. That will prevent bloom.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Do you guys think I have a chance of it blooming?

Phalaenopsis flower in response to a "cold" treatment. Ideally you should keep it somewhere in the house that gets below 65 degrees at night for a month or two. I wouldn't let it get below 50 though. As noted above, don't overfeed it. You could get away with fertilizing once every three months weeks or so. It looks really good right now, those roots are nice.

EDIT: Every three weeks, not months.

 

[cuddle striker]

I was given a bromeliad as a gift and I have no idea what to do with it. the flowering center is dropping and turning a bit brown but the leaves look all right- it's in a pot with what looks like regular potting soil.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I was given a bromeliad as a gift and I have no idea what to do with it. the flowering center is dropping and turning a bit brown but the leaves look all right- it's in a pot with what looks like regular potting soil.

Those aren't my wheelhouse since I do food crops + large ornamental....

Check temperature, humidty and if it's been getting water. Plant needs high humidity. Check if the pups (suckers as I call them) have formed. If so then that is normal progression for the life cycle of the plant.

 

[cuddle striker]

I'm not going to specially humidify the house for it, it's just in a window in the living room. I'll give it a spray now and then. looks like it's all alone in the pot so far. should I cut back the flower part that's dying?

Those aren't my wheelhouse since I do food crops + large ornamental....

Check temperature, humidty and if it's been getting water. Plant needs high humidity. Check if the pups (suckers as I call them) have formed. If so then that is normal progression for the life cycle of the plant

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I'm not going to specially humidify the house for it, it's just in a window in the living room. I'll give it a spray now and then. looks like it's all alone in the pot so far. should I cut back the flower part that's dying?

You could just get a plastic see through box and heat it with a heating pad and water in a bowl. Open it every once in a while (it needs CO2).
I tend to err on caution with cutting the "center". I know palms will die if you cut off the apical tip. No idea about your plant.

What they refer to a "pup" here in the attached picture is what you're looking for. Unfortunately I can't definitively say what it is since I'm not familiar with that genus of plants but it looks to be what would be scientifically called adventitious shooting.

Sorry can't help you more. It's really, really out of my wheelhouse.

 

[cuddle striker]

I'll keep it damp when I remember but houseplants aren't my thing either, maybe it'll survive on a little benign neglect.

You could just get a plastic see through box and heat it with a heating pad and water in a bowl. Open it every once in a while (it needs CO2).
I tend to err on caution with cutting the "center". I know palms will die if you cut off the apical tip. No idea about your plant.

What they refer to a "pup" here in the attached picture is what you're looking for. Unfortunately I can't definitively say what it is since I'm not familiar with that genus of plants but it looks to be what would be scientifically called adventitious shooting.

Sorry can't help you more. It's really, really out of my wheelhouse.

my figs have all gone dormant, and I'm trying to keep a fish pepper plant alive with them in the garage. I think it's got aphids. I've got neem so I'm planning to zap it with that.