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Never tried neem oil but soap water is a very mediocre solution it never gets rid of the aphids completely.
Imo the best way is to thoroughly hose the shit out of the plants, give them a power wash then apply vaseline on the stem, that also stopped my biggest problem, those piece of shit ants climbing on the leaves and placing the aphids on them.
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solanumnigrum said:
Never tried neem oil but soap water is a very mediocre solution it never gets rid of the aphids completely.
Imo the best way is to throughly hose the shit out of the plants, give them a power wash then apply vaseline on the stem, that also stopped my biggest problem, those piece of shit ants climbing on the leaves and placing the aphids on them.
t.aphidless pepper haver
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Soapy water is mostly useless against aphids. A strong spray of water is just as effective or more, simply by knocking the aphids off. Being dumb, they can't climb back on before dying.

My aphid problems are normally controlled by carpenter ants and assassin bugs. Which most clueless people indiscriminately kill off because in their uneducated pea brains "all bugs bad".
 
What can I do?

My sunflower was growing so good till last week when I noticed yellow spots on it, Its not a lack of water, could it be im just paranoid and its not the ultra strong fungus?

If so what can I do to correct it? I ask so little of this life and dont want to see my plants die
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CUMcravingTODDLER said:
What can I do?

My sunflower was growing so good till last week when I noticed yellow spots on it, Its not a lack of water, could it be im just paranoid and its not the ultra strong fungus?

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In the second image it looks like the stem might be damaged. Can't tell from the image, but what kind of damage was done to it and was it completely around the stem?
 
CUMcravingTODDLER said:
What can I do?

My sunflower was growing so good till last week when I noticed yellow spots on it, Its not a lack of water, could it be im just paranoid and its not the ultra strong fungus?

If so what can I do to correct it? I ask so little of this life and dont want to see my plants dieView attachment 2667731View attachment 2667732View attachment 2667733
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Sunflowers are usually pretty resilient, but they can be hurt if you over water them, also you might want to put in in more soil just be careful not to damage the roots. Since we're on the subject of sunflowers I'll show a black sunflower I grew this year, only down side with this variety is that it's pollen less so it didn't attract as many pollinators as I would have liked and getting seeds for next year was a pain in the butt since alot of them weren't viable.
 

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>In the second image it looks like the stem might be damaged. Can't tell from the image, but what kind of damage was done to it and was it completely around the stem?
Originally It was from a batch of 7 flowers that managed to germinate, shes the biggest of them all but unfortunately they all died due to birds or insects feeding on them, the damaged part is where the original leaves were, they had holes and I managed to save her in time by putting her on a pot in my rooftop, one week ago they turned yellow and brown, so I decided to take them off.

>Sunflowers are usually pretty resilient, but they can be hurt if you over water them, also you might want to put in in more soil just be careful not to damage the roots.
>Could you be over-watering? That doesn't look like a lot of soil, but maybe it's the angle.
I want to believe that you guys are correct and its just a lack of soil and an excess in water, and not Verticillium. For the time being im not going to water it for the rest of the week and make sure its on the sun for a couple days, also placed her in a new bigger pot with more soil.

Now the second baby its a plant I grew in seclusion in my room I used dirt from my main garden and so far shes not showing any signs of infection so far, I have a small theory that it was the dirt on the pot that I place it in which was contaminated, said pot was bought years ago for another plant so hopefully that's it, to be sure I threw away all the other pots that were in contact with it just to be safe, but if my second baby turns out to be contaminated I... I dont now what to do, my plants are all that I have and all that I care about.
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@Bugaboo

I also went crazy and started to try and get into carnivorous plants, I started with a flytrap and 4 tiny flytrap seeds. Then I went to see a man who was selling Sarracenia, I intended to come home with one plant; I came home with 7.
-4 Sarracenia (North American Pitcher Plants, all 4 are different species)
-1 Sundew
-2 Flytraps
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Flytraps and Sarracenia are hard to grow, I've found, unless you live in a USDA zone 6a-ish region. Sundews and Nephentes are great for indoors, though!
 
I have ordered a bright orange floribunda rose called Vavoom. Orange roses are relatively rare, as they did not start appearing until the 1920's or so because it is a highly recessive color in roses. Most "orange" roses tend towards yellow or pink.

It is supposed to arrive for planting this spring. We will see how it goes.

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I've had a really good experience with polyantha roses this year. Started with yet another romantic idea of being able to get flowers for the vase from the balcony (similar to the previous idea of a little herb garden for cooking) and I'm happy with them. Can get more blooms from a polyantha growing in a bucket than I would from a big bush at the garden. Surprisingly resistant too, given how cute they look. Can't post pics without doxing my neighborhood, but will try to remember next year.
 
Here is a picture of another floribunda rose I have called Oranges N' Lemons. It is a bright orange and yellow bicolored rose, and orange and yellow happen to be my favorite colors. They are very hardy and can grow in zones 4-9. Here in Minnesota, you can plant and ignore them most of the time as they do not need winter protection and are not bothered by many diseases. As it is a floribunda, it blooms repeatedly all summer long.

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I have much love for Floribundas, because of the florabundance eyyyyyy. I love having flowers I can cut. I'm dahlia mad and if left to my own devices I would plant literally hundreds of tubers.

I interplanted 15 tubers with cosmos this year and I couldn't give away bouquets to my buddies fast enough. They produce SO many blooms.
 
Salade Nicoise said:
I have much love for Floribundas, because of the florabundance eyyyyyy. I love having flowers I can cut. I'm dahlia mad and if left to my own devices I would plant literally hundreds of tubers.

I interplanted 15 tubers with cosmos this year and I couldn't give away bouquets to my buddies fast enough. They produce SO many blooms.
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Dahlias are one thing I wish I could grow, but they will not survive in Zone 4. One of these days I want to move to a Zone 6 location in the Midwest like in Northwestern Michigan.

Say, does anybody here have a recommendation for a fuschia/magenta floribunda rose...like something similar to this color?

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Without going into powerleveling, this is a rather nostalgic color for me as anybody who grew up during the 80's will understand.
 
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Say, does anybody here have a recommendation for a fuschia/magenta floribunda rose...like something similar to this color?
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Tricky colour! Could recommend a few Dahlias (sorry!). An old neighbour of mine used to have Twilight Zone roses that are a bit more purple than that, but in the sun were quite bright and striking. That's the closest I could think of off the top of my head... but Google informs me they're a grandiflora, not florabunda.
 
I didn't expect an actual farming thread in this forum, lol.
Anyone here doing hydroponics? I'm interested in building one to grow my vegetables.
 
What's the best way to find novelty orchids?

Aka not the typical crappy white-pink-purple-orange Phalaenopsis orchids, but some of the rarer varieties?

Would it be better to wait until spring-summer to start seeing those in stores?
 
jje100010001 said:
What's the best way to find novelty orchids?

Aka not the typical crappy white-pink-purple-orange Phalaenopsis orchids, but some of the rarer varieties?

Would it be better to wait until spring-summer to start seeing those in stores?
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Unironically order them online. Run of the mill garden centers typically don't carry anything other than the basic stuff because they can't be assed. I can vouch for Orchids Limited out of Minneapolis. There are also some places out of Hawaii that ship.

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Does anyone know what these beautiful purple trees in Pretoria, South Africa are named?
 
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