Gardening and Plant Thread

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Justsomecicada said:
So what’s your plan? Identify the fungi, inoculate the soil, then plant a host plant in the soil, then finishing with attempting to cultivate with seed?

I am also very into parasitic orchids
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I am going to have to Identify the fungus like you said. Then you need to get enough regular plants into that dosed soil and then the orchids might be able to cultivate. I would attempt a flasking procedure just to give it a little head start and not being totally reliant on the fungus for germination. The important part is having those regular plants to do all the work for the orchid.
 
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I cut the flower stalk. I decided I'd like the plant to be a bit bigger before I let it flower. Not to mention my spouse (who is tepid toward plants at best) likes this one, so I didn't want to risk it declining/dying on me. I also carefully repotted it into a bigger square pot that fits better in the terrarium. Tbh, it's a really hardy little guy. It showed no signs of repotting shock at all.

As for the flower stalk, I left it on top of the substrate and misted it every day.

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TLDR: Sundews are fun.
 
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The clone wars have begun. The yellow phal dropped the last of its blossoms just a couple days ago so I applied the paste on the second node and topped the spike about an inch above the node.

We'll see if it clones in a couple weeks, I'll post updates then.
 
Following up on some advice I received from this thread ages ago.

Thank you to everyone who helped me out. I've started growing tea leaves in my home and it's been going wonderful so far. Lemon Balm and Mint are what I started with and my neighbor has provided additional advice. I hope at some point once i move to be able to grow more and do more with this but for now I appreciate all the suggestions for potters, soils, what I can do with the space I have and what not. Once Im able to post photos I likely will if that's of any interest.
 
fist_of_khonshu said:
Following up on some advice I received from this thread ages ago.

Thank you to everyone who helped me out. I've started growing tea leaves in my home and it's been going wonderful so far. Lemon Balm and Mint are what I started with and my neighbor has provided additional advice. I hope at some point once i move to be able to grow more and do more with this but for now I appreciate all the suggestions for potters, soils, what I can do with the space I have and what not. Once Im able to post photos I likely will if that's of any interest.
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Tea is pretty easy. I'm doing yaupon holly. Just choose a location with full to partial sun and well-draining, acidic soil (pH around 6). You can feed it like cannabis at about 1/3 strength. The machine that harvests at Charleston tea plantation just rips off the top of the plant and allows it to get more bushy. You can process tea to your desired method from there. I would love to see pictures.
 
I have something like 20 square meters of available space. Is crop rotation even possible? I'd like to plant a few potatoes in a corner, however i have read they can fuck up your soil if you don't rotate them. I am making compost but i can't find if that would be enough to keep the soil healthy (i hate modern search engines so much).
 
TriariiStrategos said:
I have something like 20 square meters of available space. Is crop rotation even possible? I'd like to plant a few potatoes in a corner, however i have read they can fuck up your soil if you don't rotate them. I am making compost but i can't find if that would be enough to keep the soil healthy (i hate modern search engines so much).
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Potatoes grow better vertically like with a potato tower or felt pots instead of beds. If you regularly amend your soil, you don't need to worry about crop rotation with such a small space.
 
TriariiStrategos said:
I have something like 20 square meters of available space. Is crop rotation even possible? I'd like to plant a few potatoes in a corner, however i have read they can fuck up your soil if you don't rotate them. I am making compost but i can't find if that would be enough to keep the soil healthy (i hate modern search engines so much).
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Clover or peanuts are good nitrogen fixers when you want to "rest" a section for a year.
It's so strange the fertilizer producers also sell the same herbicides that kill the natural top cover that replenishes the soil.
 
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Currently I am planning a glove box build with my uncle (He lives with me and likes building things.) The reason why I need this is to eventually propagate orchids from the seed and to do tissue cloning. A sterile environment is required for both of these as you need to cultivate it in a nutrient rich agar solution or, for advanced orchid doctors, a specific fungal culture.

I'll post updates about that as it proceeds and hopefully we'll have something usable for others to copy. I saw some people improvising solutions that seemed tedious and crude to me so I figured we could build a glove box for half the price of commercial lab equipment or better.
 
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.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
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.
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Is your grow environment hot/wet or cool/dry? When a plant dies quickly like that, it's often pythium or fusarium.
 
Hey all, I just wanted to take the opportunity to shill Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) also known as a spinach tree. It's from Mexico and it'll grow pretty much across the entire southern US. The leaves taste like spinach except they have more protein. It's also super easy to grow from just branches. The one caveat is that the leaves are toxic when eaten raw, you have to boil them.

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Just_A_guy said:
Currently I am planning a glove box build with my uncle (He lives with me and likes building things.) The reason why I need this is to eventually propagate orchids from the seed and to do tissue cloning. A sterile environment is required for both of these as you need to cultivate it in a nutrient rich agar solution or, for advanced orchid doctors, a specific fungal culture.

I'll post updates about that as it proceeds and hopefully we'll have something usable for others to copy. I saw some people improvising solutions that seemed tedious and crude to me so I figured we could build a glove box for half the price of commercial lab equipment or better.
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I've made single use glove boxes with a cardboard box and saran wrap before and never had an issue with contams on my agar cultures.
 
G'day all, I decided to try my hand at brute force gardening. I took the seeds from some pumpkins i got on clearance and I chucked them into this giant bank of leaves i have in my backyard.

For one bank i raked all the leaves to the side, put the seeds on the bare dirt, then raked the leaves back over them. For the other one, the bank was so thick i just raked halfway down and put the seeds there before putting the leaves back. Will i see any pumpkins growing next year or did i throw all these little bundles of potential into their annihilation? Climate zone 4
 
I have a question. It’s late autumn/early winter where I am (north UK) and temperatures vary from 10c to -5c. I planted my spring bulbs a couple of weeks ago as I was always told to do (if not a bit late), but some of them have started growing and breaking through the surface already. Aren’t these buggers supposed to only come up in spring time? Will the colder weather over winter now kill them all?
 
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.
 
Was wondering if anyone had any experience with growing thimbleberries? If so any advice? Had a friend that lived in a region where they grew naturally and I've been obsessed with them since. I have been able to sustain black berries, strawberries, and raspberries. I did the preliminary google research but wanted to know if anyone had any tips
 
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