It's like 30 fucking pounds, and it's making the pot crack. There are also like 20 babies growing around it that I had to pluck out. I'm going to get it a bigger, sturdier pot soon, but holy shit it got huge fast.
It's like 30 fucking pounds, and it's making the pot crack. There are also like 20 babies growing around it that I had to pluck out. I'm going to get it a bigger, sturdier pot soon, but holy shit it got huge fast.
It's like 30 fucking pounds, and it's making the pot crack. There are also like 20 babies growing around it that I had to pluck out. I'm going to get it a bigger, sturdier pot soon, but holy shit it got huge fast.
It's like 30 fucking pounds, and it's making the pot crack. There are also like 20 babies growing around it that I had to pluck out. I'm going to get it a bigger, sturdier pot soon, but holy shit it got huge fast.
My cacti are finally making new pad thingies. I just hope that they don't completely outgrow the pot they're in, since I don't have any more space on my patio.
So, I have a weird question. Every winter I move my potted plants into my dining room, and every year they get sickly and weak looking from lack of sunlight. Would a grow light help? Where would I even get one? Does something like that even exist? I have a decent number of plants and I typically get a new one every few months, so it would have to be fairly large (Like more than a desk light with a special bulb.)
You can see my dragon tails have only been inside a few days and they're starting to look like shit.
So, I have a weird question. Every winter I move my potted plants into my dining room, and every year they get sickly and weak looking from lack of sunlight. Would a grow light help? Where would I even get one? Does something like that even exist? I have a decent number of plants and I typically get a new one every few months, so it would have to be fairly large (Like more than a desk light with a special bulb.)
You can see my dragon tails have only been inside a few days and they're starting to look like shit.
Are one of those a Christmas cactus? Those do fine in relatively low light conditions. They may just be in shock from adjusting to the new conditons in your dining room. A grow light might help, here's a cheap one I use which you can put in any desk lamp
I went to the garden in the woods of framingham today. I saw
At the plant sale (15% off!) i bagged 2 black cohosh, 4 christmas ferns, a lowbush blueberry, and wintergreen. Spring ephemerals were 50% off, so i got 3 squirrel corns, and 2 trout lilies. Also half-off was a scraggly-ass serviceberry tree.
The scissors shows the boundary between the smaller male and larger female cocoons. Males are always at the front of the nest since they wake up earlier. And act as a protective barrier against nest predators for the more important females.
I may have to buy a few more male cocoons since the male/female ratio is off, but im happy with what i got and the bee cocoons are now cleaned off and chilling in the fridge until mid-late April.
I'm looking to get a Midnight weeping fig tree. One of the reviews said they smell bad - Does anyone have any experience with them to tell me if they do?
Any idea what this is? I got it at the grocery store, and it was just called "tropical plant". I love him in my owl pot... he looks like he has funky hair :3
Any idea what this is? I got it at the grocery store, and it was just called "tropical plant". I love him in my owl pot... he looks like he has funky hair :3
It's the end of the year, here's what I'm growing for winter 2016
-Nepenthes miranda
-Nepenthes ventrata
-Nepenthes alata (may also be ventrata, I'll figure it out when it makes new pitchers)
-Brugmansia (white)
-Dracenia marginata
-African Violet (it won first prize at the fair this fall!)
-Crassula ovata (Jade plant) x2
-Aloe Vera
-(possible I haven't gotten it positively ID'd and cacti can be tough to ID) Stetsonia coryne
-Passion Flower
-Christmas Cactus (white flower)
The following plants are dormant in the garage
-Hyrid Tea Rose bush (Electron)
-Hydraena
-Dwarf Blueberry bush (it's second winter)
-Strawberry plant
The following plants I have seeds of and they will be planted in the spring
-Celosia cristata (I literally have 900 seeds, I've started giving them away to friends and co-workers)
-Showy Milkweed (going to plant these this winter so they may cold stratify)
-White Moon Flower
So, I have a weird question. Every winter I move my potted plants into my dining room, and every year they get sickly and weak looking from lack of sunlight. Would a grow light help? Where would I even get one? Does something like that even exist? I have a decent number of plants and I typically get a new one every few months, so it would have to be fairly large (Like more than a desk light with a special bulb.)
You can see my dragon tails have only been inside a few days and they're starting to look like shit.
how are you with watering them as well? they all look like they're fairly moist with the dark soil. but I know that generally you want to begin to water them a little less in the winter time. They don't drink as much when there is less sunlight, so I'd usually wait until the soil is completely dry before you water them again.
Bring in as much light as possible, so i know it's suggested to make sure that the blinds are all open and i guess a growing light could probably help as well.
The thing with winter is that even if they're still sitting in front of a window there is less hours of sunlight in the day anyways, so no matter what you do they will be adjusting a little.
I think that's the thing tho, their blooms will go, they may look/be dormant as well, but once spring comes and you can move them back to their normal spots they will begin to bloom and flourish again !
I find with plants i've worked with in the past they go through periods of looking like they're done for, no blooms, dormancy ect, but if you continue to care for them carefully they come back just as beautiful if not more.
Also many of the plants you have here look like theyre the type to be able to be able to withstand some neglect and still come back.
TLDR;
water less, provide as much sun light as possible, and just wait it out.
I dont wanna come across as a know it all im sorry if I do!!
I untangled my four swamp milkweeds and put them in separate containers. I had no idea they would grow so fast. The soil i reused from a few other pots must have had miracle grow or something.
I recently moved to a new house with a shitload of gardening space. What I got planted so far:
Vegetables:
Onions
Potatoes (2 varieties)
Tomatoes (4 varieties)
Lettuce (4 varieties)
Corn (2 varieties)
Red Bell Pepper
Sugar Snap Peas
Black Beans
Yellow Squash
Zucchini
Radishes
Garlic
Cabbage (2 varieties)
Carrot (2 varieties)
Brussel Sprouts
Broccoli
Chili Peppers (6 varieties)
Spinach
Fruit
Strawberries (2 varieties)
Pomegranates (small tree)
Blood Oranges (large established tree)
Lemons (small tree)
Passionfruit (grows on back fence)
Peaches (grows by garage)
Herbs
Sage
Dill
Thyme
Parsley
Cilantro
Rosemary
Tumeric
Flowers
Sunflowers
Morning Glories
Roses (5 shrubs)
Pansies
Daisies
Petunias
Foxglove
Delphinium
Salvia
Random Assorted Native Wildflowers
Lavender
Calla Lilies
Marigolds
Camellias
African Daisies
Sea Lavender
Snapdragons
Sweet Peas
Wooly Blue Curls
Butterfly Weed
Lupine
Other shit
The recent rain has been a godsend and everything has been thriving like crazy, I had to remove (and burn) an old rosebush that came with the house since it was showing signs of rose rosette disease.
Its been unseasonably warm in Massachusetts, so my dumb pieris bush has begun to flower right before it's supposed to freeze again. So to save the flowers I constructed an emergency cover. Im feeling this is futile, but I would rather have tried than not done anything at all.
