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Drive-By Comment said:
Repotted my avocado like 1½ weeks ago. It has been dying since. The smaller and younger the leaf, faster it went. Last night it has 2 big leave that clearly have not been completely cut of water. Everything else gone.
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Check for aphids that destroyed mine. They bite, leaf turns brown and dies.
Also be careful it's not exposed too much to sun, wind or dry conditions. If it's dry, a plastic bag over the plant helps.
AnOminous said:
My one previously thriving basil plant (the other is suffering) got blown over by a severe thunderstorm and now lies, prone, on the ground. How can I save this poor plant?
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Tie it to a stick. Basil has very weak roots. It may limp together or it may not.
MorallyGreyFrog said:
I set to work against it with shovel, pick, and axe. Through much labor, I eventually achieved endsieg.
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I was removing a smaller stump from a cypress tree. It is really impossible to cut, dig or do anything without a lot of effort. Dug out what I could and planted alongside it.
 
AnOminous said:
My one previously thriving basil plant (the other is suffering) got blown over by a severe thunderstorm and now lies, prone, on the ground. How can I save this poor plant?
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You can literally tape it straight and tie the broken part to one of those stick supports you get at Home Depot and theres a chance it will heal if it didnt break all the way. Works like a graft. Did this with perennials so idk how effective it is on annuals.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
You can literally tape it straight and tie the broken part to one of those stick supports you get at Home Depot and theres a chance it will heal if it didnt break all the way. Works like a graft. Did this with perennials so idk how effective it is on annuals.
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Luckily it isn't broken and has somewhat recovered since. I'm still going to stake it, though. It's actually been bent fairly close to the ground for a while. I've tried turning it so the morning sun may cause it to grow in the direction of the sun.
 
Everything is coming in so well I'm shocked we've been so rainy in SEPA area. Not that warm either. My friend had some heirloom lettuce they brought us oh my lord it was wonderful I just washed it added fresh ground black pepper and ate it.

I'll have to ask what kind but it was lettuce that actually tastes like something! Radishes soon I'm excited those are some of my favorites.

We have a hummingbird feeder and stuff to attract them it's so funny the male always goes for the fire cracker plants then the feeder. My wife and I joke he goes for the Mexican coke before the canned.

Hope everyone is having good plant season. I'm off work early and doing stuff in the yard now.
 
On the basil front, the basil plant, in literally just the hours since this morning, basically returned to its original weird posture. Also it's almost to the point I'm going to have to harvest some to keep it from going all woody and seedy. First small single serving batch of basil pesto coming.

Banana peppers continue to explode and I am actually going to have to eat some of them pretty soon.

I have also put down some diluted cedarwood/peppermint essential oil in an attempt at least to keep the fat black snake off my front porch. I don't want to step on it in the morning and it insists on basking in the sun directly in front of the house. I understand it likes the vole buffet, but limits are a thing.

The neighbor says he'll take it and chuck it in the woods if he sees it, so that might have happened already.
 
Do you ever like buy some plant with a certain intention and then life just gets in the way? I bought a couple mangrove propagules a month or two ago expecting to have another setup ready for them shortly after, only to still not have anything ready. They're just sat in my aquarium at the moment. They're kinda growing all fucky, they're taller than the light bar is so they're not exactly happy even though the best one's grown about a foot in that time. It's getting hot enough here that I'm considering taking the lid off the tank so it doesn't overheat but it's close enough to the windows that if I do take the lid off I'm kinda worried that they'll start growing towards the window and get even more tangled and fucky. They're such cool plants honestly.

I also kinda hate those sorts of online niche plant stores that don't list rough prices for things that are seasonal. Spent the entirety of autumn and winter waiting and then constantly checking throughout spring on this website looking forward to this cool tree being back in stock only to check a couple days ago to find it's like fucking 400usd for something about a foot tall. Wish they would have listed the price even when they were out of season and not being sold so I didn't get excited for it. Probably would still go for it even with the price, but I live roughly on the survivable border for it and the soil here isn't great. Bit of a risk for something so expensive you feel?
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Do you ever like buy some plant with a certain intention and then life just gets in the way? I bought a couple mangrove propagules a month or two ago expecting to have another setup ready for them shortly after, only to still not have anything ready. They're just sat in my aquarium at the moment. They're kinda growing all fucky, they're taller than the light bar is so they're not exactly happy even though the best one's grown about a foot in that time. It's getting hot enough here that I'm considering taking the lid off the tank so it doesn't overheat but it's close enough to the windows that if I do take the lid off I'm kinda worried that they'll start growing towards the window and get even more tangled and fucky. They're such cool plants honestly.

I also kinda hate those sorts of online niche plant stores that don't list rough prices for things that are seasonal. Spent the entirety of autumn and winter waiting and then constantly checking throughout spring on this website looking forward to this cool tree being back in stock only to check a couple days ago to find it's like fucking 400usd for something about a foot tall. Wish they would have listed the price even when they were out of season and not being sold so I didn't get excited for it. Probably would still go for it even with the price, but I live roughly on the survivable border for it and the soil here isn't great. Bit of a risk for something so expensive you feel?
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I've noticed quite a few online shops pulling that crap. Goddamn 400 freedom fries for a small tree? If you don't mind me asking what was it and who was the merchant? As for survivabilty and grow zones for trees I wouldn't try to grow something on the border of its grow zone as a cold winter or an arctic blast could kill it, lost a bunch of apple trees this year to that and I didn't even think it was that cold.
 
Honored guest said:
Goddamn 400 freedom fries for a small tree? If you don't mind me asking what was it and who was the merchant?
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The site literally just sells one type of tree, it's fairly rare so kinda fair it's expensive I just wish I knew before spending half a year excited for it. Tree's probably rare enough as to be identifying information honestly.
NoReturn said:
I had a dream I was working on my Chinese Evergreen to repot it and it was full of weird gross white worms in the soil.
What does it mean? Are my plants sending me a dream message?
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I get similar. I get stupidly realistic dreams of me doing just normal household things and wake up thinking it was a memory from yesterday instead of a dream only to find out days later that no actually I didn't water the plants and all that shit.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
I had six monarch caterpillars on my milkweed and something at them all (:_(
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About this time last year there were like five of them on a leaf of my blackberry bush.
This is obviously a bad thing since they bring disease but I didn't really want to kill them so I tried putting them in a jar with a mesh top like when I was a kid, but they wouldnt eat anything besides blackberry leaves and died.

As to not be a downer I'll supplement this with the story from that year where we had people coming by to redo our patio, but as I was clearing everything off of it I found six blue skink eggs in between the pavers we had, so I put them on some substrate in a tupperware and kept it humid with a wet paper towel covering it and they all hatched within a week or two.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
About this time last year there were like five of them on a leaf of my blackberry bush.
This is obviously a bad thing since they bring disease but I didn't really want to kill them so I tried putting them in a jar with a mesh top like when I was a kid, but they wouldnt eat anything besides blackberry leaves and died.

As to not be a downer I'll supplement this with the story from that year where we had people coming by to redo our patio, but as I was clearing everything off of it I found six blue skink eggs in between the pavers we had, so I put them on some substrate in a tupperware and kept it humid with a wet paper towel covering it and they all hatched within a week or two.
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Last night I heard the sounds of a duckling calling for momma at around 10:30 PM. I went outside in my pajamas and found a duckling in my pool. I had to get into the pool to catch him. I put him in a bucket and could not find momma around my house. I armed myself with a strong flashlight and walked to several nearby ponds, looking for momma. Could not find her. I googled and found conflicting information on if ducklings can survive being kept overnight. I put him in my neighbor's pond, figuring his mother was probably passing across my property when her duckling fell in (it's a below ground pool). Walked away, hearing the duckling cheeping. A splash, and no more cheeping.
 
Lawns suck and I'm sick of mine. The neighbors keep mowing theirs only for it to grow back to the length of mine within 2 days because of the rain.
I have a nice clover patch next to my driveway that makes it easy to get to my truck, so I'm buying two pounds of native clover seed to strategically plant around in the hopes they overtake hard to mow areas.

I live in a high-trust area without an HOA.
What else can I do with a front yard to reduce the amount of grass? Needs to be safe from/for stray cats and squirrels.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
Lawns suck and I'm sick of mine. The neighbors keep mowing theirs only for it to grow back to the length of mine within 2 days because of the rain.
I have a nice clover patch next to my driveway that makes it easy to get to my truck, so I'm buying two pounds of native clover seed to strategically plant around in the hopes they overtake hard to mow areas.

I live in a high-trust area without an HOA.
What else can I do with a front yard to reduce the amount of grass? Needs to be safe from/for stray cats and squirrels.
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There are various anti-lawn resources out there that have suggestions for specific, short native plants that are easier to care for than a lawn, depending on where you live.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
Lawns suck and I'm sick of mine. The neighbors keep mowing theirs only for it to grow back to the length of mine within 2 days because of the rain.
I have a nice clover patch next to my driveway that makes it easy to get to my truck, so I'm buying two pounds of native clover seed to strategically plant around in the hopes they overtake hard to mow areas.

I live in a high-trust area without an HOA.
What else can I do with a front yard to reduce the amount of grass? Needs to be safe from/for stray cats and squirrels.
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Native wildflower/pollinator patch.
 
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