Gardening and Plant Thread

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Anasa Tristis said:
Those fuckers lied. The tank was still there, and it was breaking down. I was lucky I found it how and when I did. It was a real bear to get out too.
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Failure to disclose that is fraud and can be a solid basis for a lawsuit.

Also, since I was late and the usual area shared between our neighbors and used as a garden was basically destroyed by the subsequent owners (they both died), I really have no place for a garden any more. (It was technically on their property but we shared it.)

So I just got a huge pot, filled it with a cubic foot of soil, and planted a basil plant, and 3 each of banana peppers and habanero peppers, watered it with fish emulsion water, and I suppose I have a tiny pot garden this year.
 
AnOminous said:
Failure to disclose that is fraud and can be a solid basis for a lawsuit.

Also, since I was late and the usual area shared between our neighbors and used as a garden was basically destroyed by the subsequent owners (they both died), I really have no place for a garden any more. (It was technically on their property but we shared it.)

So I just got a huge pot, filled it with a cubic foot of soil, and planted a basil plant, and 3 each of banana peppers and habanero peppers, watered it with fish emulsion water, and I suppose I have a tiny pot garden this year.
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Hell ya, container gardening can work real good. I grow most of my peppers in 5 gallon growbags, and aside from having to water them more than my in ground plants I think its worth it. Almost no weeding and being able to easily reorganize the placement of my plants between seasons and during seasons is worth the extra watering.
 
There may be better places to ask this but does anyone have a recommendation for a decent solar powered outdoor camera? I ask because the weeds in our pond are growing back and our new neighbors are pretty retarded. It’s only a matter of time before they dump a ton of roundup or something into the pond to clear it and kill everything and i want to make sure they dont get away with it when they do.
They’ve already engaged in other trailer park behavior to deal with things like non-venomous snakes and stray cats.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
There may be better places to ask this but does anyone have a recommendation for a decent solar powered outdoor camera? I ask because the weeds in our pond are growing back and our new neighbors are pretty retarded. It’s only a matter of time before they dump a ton of roundup or something into the pond to clear it and kill everything and i want to make sure they dont get away with it when they do.
They’ve already engaged in other trailer park behavior to deal with things like non-venomous snakes and stray cats.
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A trail camera would be a good fit. You can also get one with cellular so you get live notifications. Don't have any brand recommendations so you'll have to dig into that.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
There may be better places to ask this but does anyone have a recommendation for a decent solar powered outdoor camera? I ask because the weeds in our pond are growing back and our new neighbors are pretty retarded. It’s only a matter of time before they dump a ton of roundup or something into the pond to clear it and kill everything and i want to make sure they dont get away with it when they do.
They’ve already engaged in other trailer park behavior to deal with things like non-venomous snakes and stray cats.
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Yandex Captcha Solver said:
A trail camera would be a good fit. You can also get one with cellular so you get live notifications. Don't have any brand recommendations so you'll have to dig into that.
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Alot of the trailcams that run off cellular have pricey plans and photo limits which suck. If it's within range of wifi try and get a wireless camera. It'd be cheaper in the long run. There's some that are battery operated. If it's also got wired connection options you could probably mount a little solar panel with it.
 
Honored guest said:
Hell ya, container gardening can work real good. I grow most of my peppers in 5 gallon growbags, and aside from having to water them more than my in ground plants I think its worth it. Almost no weeding and being able to easily reorganize the placement of my plants between seasons and during seasons is worth the extra watering.
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I personally like containers more than in-ground and raised bed for peppers. You have a lot more control over things like nitrogen and what ferts you opt for.

I always rotate these two raised beds between tomatoes and beans every year but I’m also opting for some blood meal for the mortgage lifters this year.
 
FlipTopBox said:
This year I've decided that I want to start seeds myself indoors instead of just buying plants from the store. Haven't gotten great results when trying to start seeds in previous years, but I feel like I'm experienced enough now that I should be able to do it right this time. I have tomatoes (cherry and beefsteak), peppers (bell peppers and various hot peppers), onions, and oregano planted in little pots placed in a tray. The seeds are a few years old so hopefully they are still viable. And I also have to make sure that the cats don't eat the sprouts either. They've already fucked up multiple houseplants.
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Update on this: Most of what I planted did not sprout, which isn't surprising, but still disappointing. All the tomatoes and peppers sprouted though, even if some of them sprouted way later than I would have wanted. The first tomatoes that sprouted are doing pretty well right now and I've repotted them and am hardening them off. Gonna wait a bit before I plant them in the raised beds. Need to get more soil for those.
 
FlipTopBox said:
Update on this: Most of what I planted did not sprout, which isn't surprising, but still disappointing. All the tomatoes and peppers sprouted though, even if some of them sprouted way later than I would have wanted. The first tomatoes that sprouted are doing pretty well right now and I've repotted them and am hardening them off. Gonna wait a bit before I plant them in the raised beds. Need to get more soil for those.
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From experience some of them can sprout super late and some of them start better in the ground than others.
Personally i dont like the starter substrate because you cant really tell if it’s dry in the center.
Also even when things do sprout in them they can often die during transplantation.
Overall just massively annoying to deal with.
 
Anybody have much experience growing wild american trees?

This year, I've been picking buckets upon buckets of mulberries, and I'm thinking I'd like to try to start some on my own land, rather than continuing to pillage the countryside. I tried starting some from seed last year, but my enthusiasm doesn't yet match my skill, so none of the seedlings survived the winter.
 
FlipTopBox said:
Update on this: Most of what I planted did not sprout, which isn't surprising, but still disappointing. All the tomatoes and peppers sprouted though, even if some of them sprouted way later than I would have wanted. The first tomatoes that sprouted are doing pretty well right now and I've repotted them and am hardening them off. Gonna wait a bit before I plant them in the raised beds. Need to get more soil for those.
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Peppers outside of the super hots are very forgiving plants, so you can always count on them to rally through. I had a cayenne that had all of its leaves torn off by a hailstorm and it was one of my most prolific peppers that season.

I bought a chocolate soldier today, which has to be one of the weirdest succulents I’ve ever seen. It’s kind of cute and feels like a toy with flocking on it.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
The pings are doing better now that I took them off the rock and just have them in moist soil. Some have even caught a few gnats. This has emboldened me to make a bog bowl with some native carnivorous plants, as I live in the environment for it.
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I have a bog bowl on my blazingly hot patio and it loves the environment. Sundews and a pitcher plant. A squirrel dug around in there a few times, but I put some sharp bamboo skewers and a fake rubber snake in there and haven't had any more issues.

I moved my pings to teacups full of ping soil and have them four inches from a bright grow light for 12 hours a day.

Got fertilizer for all the above and give the plants a light spritz every three weeks. So far everyone is much happier.
 
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Built a fence around my garden today, no more rabbit nibbled plants and having to yell and the dog for trying to pee on my tomato plants.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
I have a bog bowl on my blazingly hot patio and it loves the environment. Sundews and a pitcher plant. A squirrel dug around in there a few times, but I put some sharp bamboo skewers and a fake rubber snake in there and haven't had any more issues.

I moved my pings to teacups full of ping soil and have them four inches from a bright grow light for 12 hours a day.

Got fertilizer for all the above and give the plants a light spritz every three weeks. So far everyone is much happier.
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My pings have done a lot better indoors and with a drop of Schultz’s cactus and succulent fertilizer. I always just apply the fertilizer using a glue syringe because I’m paranoid about getting it into the substrate.
 
Apparently the vining weed I battled back 2 autumns ago (20 feet by 20 feet by 15 feet tall) and have been attacking every time I see it rearing its ugly head is oriental bittersweet and its major growing season (out of the ground) is now.

I, for each autumn and spring since the initial battle have searched, cut and round upped each stalk as it comes up but man, it's a loosing battle it feels like. I see 50 or so new stalks in my giant wildflower garden (50x20 feet) and in the b8g ass wooded portion of the yard is a new big ass tall clump forming yet another toxic mess- 5 by 5 by goddamed 5 feet tall already.

It's already popping up in individual stalks throughout the rest of the wooded area and I am pretty sure there's a big ass fucking clump of it on one side of the apartment that's new.

I keep getting people yelling 'o no, roundup is the devil' well, anyone yelling that at me can come beat that invasive shit back by hand alone, even the experts haven't found a different way. And bring gloves because it fights back with big ass thorns.

I am so unhappy with this.

eta, I am going full psycho and painting each cut with a high percentage mix of each triclopyr and glyphosate
 
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one_time_user said:
Apparently the vining weed I battled back 2 autumns ago (20 feet by 20 feet by 15 feet tall) and have been attacking every time I see it rearing its ugly head is oriental bittersweet and its major growing season (out of the ground) is now.

I, for each autumn and spring since the initial battle have searched, cut and round upped each stalk as it comes up but man, it's a loosing battle it feels like. I see 50 or so new stalks in my giant wildflower garden (50x20 feet) and in the b8g ass wooded portion of the yard is a new big ass tall clump forming yet another toxic mess- 5 by 5 by goddamed 5 feet tall already.

It's already popping up in individual stalks throughout the rest of the wooded area and I am pretty sure there's a big ass fucking clump of it on one side of the apartment that's new.

I keep getting people yelling 'o no, roundup is the devil' well, anyone yelling that at me can come beat that invasive shit back by hand alone, even the experts haven't found a different way. And bring gloves because it fights back with big ass thorns.

I am so unhappy with this.

eta, I am going full psycho and painting each cut with a high percentage mix of each triclopyr and glyphosate
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You'll probably have to dig that shit up and burn it tbh. I can't blame you for picking chemicals, when it's that invasive and damaging you may just have to salt the earth so to speak and fix it after the fact.
 
one_time_user said:
Apparently the vining weed I battled back 2 autumns ago (20 feet by 20 feet by 15 feet tall) and have been attacking every time I see it rearing its ugly head is oriental bittersweet and its major growing season (out of the ground) is now.

I, for each autumn and spring since the initial battle have searched, cut and round upped each stalk as it comes up but man, it's a loosing battle it feels like. I see 50 or so new stalks in my giant wildflower garden (50x20 feet) and in the b8g ass wooded portion of the yard is a new big ass tall clump forming yet another toxic mess- 5 by 5 by goddamed 5 feet tall already.

It's already popping up in individual stalks throughout the rest of the wooded area and I am pretty sure there's a big ass fucking clump of it on one side of the apartment that's new.

I keep getting people yelling 'o no, roundup is the devil' well, anyone yelling that at me can come beat that invasive shit back by hand alone, even the experts haven't found a different way. And bring gloves because it fights back with big ass thorns.

I am so unhappy with this.

eta, I am going full psycho and painting each cut with a high percentage mix of each triclopyr and glyphosate
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At least you get the choice to use it or not. I was able to enjoy the irises that i planted in my pond for a whole two weeks before alligator weed overran the whole fucking thing. Its unethical and illegal to dump roundup in the pond and it would kill my irises anyway so every weekend im using a rake to pull up dozens of pounds of alligator weed by hand.
 
Abella said:
My pings have done a lot better indoors and with a drop of Schultz’s cactus and succulent fertilizer. I always just apply the fertilizer using a glue syringe because I’m paranoid about getting it into the substrate.
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Their roots are so shallow I'd be afraid a strong wind could dislodge them if I had them outside. I also use Schultz cactus, but I have it super diluted in a little spray bottle with distilled water. A glue syringe is a good idea, though.
 
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