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I was overrun by scale bugs and all of my houseplants died. I still feel so terrible that it happened, I worked so hard to try and save them but nothing I did was enough. I really want to grow again, but of course I have to wait for spring to come around again. #pastaproblems

Before everything died on me I had carnations, a flytrap, a pitcher plant, a spiderwort and a stargazer lily. Weird choices for houseplants, I know, but I couldn't grow a 'real' garden on the rental property and those were the ones I liked.
 
wheat pasta said:
I was overrun by scale bugs and all of my houseplants died. I still feel so terrible that it happened, I worked so hard to try and save them but nothing I did was enough. I really want to grow again, but of course I have to wait for spring to come around again. #pastaproblems

Before everything died on me I had carnations, a flytrap, a pitcher plant, a spiderwort and a stargazer lily. Weird choices for houseplants, I know, but I couldn't grow a 'real' garden on the rental property and those were the ones I liked.
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I have pitcher plants (sarracenia) and I grow them outdoors in a bog garden becuase of how big they are (15 inches tall) not exactly a house plant. My flytraps are all indoors because I like to be able to micromanage them, they live under a skylight
What kind of growing medium did you have your flytrap in? What kind of water did you give it?
 
Bugaboo said:
I have pitcher plants (sarracenia) and I grow them outdoors in a bog garden becuase of how big they are (15 inches tall) not exactly a house plant. My flytraps are all indoors because I like to be able to micromanage them, they live under a skylight
What kind of growing medium did you have your flytrap in? What kind of water did you give it?
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I researched carefully before I picked up my carnivores. My flytrap came with some of its own soil and I used that along with some sphagnum, ditto the pitcher plant. I gave them rainwater and distilled water as needed.
I would have made my own soil mix but I couldn't find any of the important components aside from the sphagnum, so I just did the best I could with what I had.
 
I just started my fall/winter crop tonight and hopefully will be able to transplant by the full moon. Right now I have 20 or so tomatoes of heirloom variety producing their last fruits, 10 jalapeño plants, a couple habañeros, 12 or so asparagus, 3 artichokes, and a whole mess of other flowers, and vegetables. My garden space is about 1800 sq ft so there is still some room for other stuff. I'll get some pictures in the next couple of days or so.

During the winter I plan on building an aquaponics system and a separate hydroponics system. I live out in the middle of no where so fresh fruits and vegetables are worth their weight in gold.
 
wheat pasta said:
I researched carefully before I picked up my carnivores. My flytrap came with some of its own soil and I used that along with some sphagnum, ditto the pitcher plant. I gave them rainwater and distilled water as needed.
I would have made my own soil mix but I couldn't find any of the important components aside from the sphagnum, so I just did the best I could with what I had.
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Honestly if one of my indoor carnivorous plants had an infestation of whatever I would not hesitate to kill the shit out of the whatever with chemicals, but in the outdoors garden I am chemical free because I want a safe space for all my buggy friends (except aphids, fuck aphids)
I've never had to deal with an infestation on any of my flytraps so I don't know what you'd use to kill the invading buggies
 
Can someone identify these? They're both from the grocery store, and were listed as "tropical plants", which really helps a lot. I mostly want to know if they can be dangerous to dogs and cats
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This one said "ani" on the pot, but I don't really trust that
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Hanging plant, obviously. It has very thick, waxy leaves.
 
Rabbit Bones said:
Can someone identify these? They're both from the grocery store, and were listed as "tropical plants", which really helps a lot. I mostly want to know if they can be dangerous to dogs and cats
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This one said "ani" on the pot, but I don't really trust that
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Hanging plant, obviously. It has very thick, waxy leaves.
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First one is an anthurium, and second one is a heart leaf philodendron. Unfortunately the anthurium causes painful swelling when ingested, and the philodendron also irritates animals' mouths when ingested.
 
I got an air plant from my grandma, I'd had it roughly for 3 weeks now and every monday I soak it for 20 mins, I forgot yesterday so today I am soaking it in some rain water I collected.
Anyway, air plant peeps. I know that every so often you should feed your air plant but what do you guys like to feed yours with? I've heard some people just give them regular plant food, some people use orchid food and some people have some crazy ass air plant specialty food. If possible can you give a brand name of your plant's favorites?
 
Ive been working on removing invasive plants from my yard in MA (pachysandra, burning bush, wintercreeper, ect.) and replacing them with natives with value to wildlife or that have become rare to the area. This summer I've planted a male/female pair of American Bittersweet, Pulled up a patch of wintercreeper and replaced it with milkweeds and barren strawberry, and am going to plant partridgeberry where i removed some periwinkle that had invaded the woods this week. Hopefully come spring i'll get some lowbush blueberrys and huckleberrys after i acidify the soil and pull up the pachysandra thats there now.

PS. Is this powerleveling?
 
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I got an aloe plant from my grandma, I repotted it today into a larger pot and I used cactus potting mix which I couldn't find out if you should use that for aloe but I did it anyway without thinking. Good or bad is my question?
I didn't spend money on the mix btw I had all the components lying around in my garage
 
Can anyone identify this?
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It's never made any more shoots, it's always just been the two. Here it is five years ago.
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Rabbit Bones said:
Can anyone identify this?
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It's never made any more shoots, it's always just been the two. Here it is five years ago.
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I think that's a dracaena marginata AKA Dragon Tree. It's not going to make new shoots ever because it's a lot like a palm tree. There are actually two seperate plants in the planter. Every 2 years they should be repotted so you might try carefully splitting the two plants up. Also they're pretty good at tolerating neglect so it seems you've been doing pretty good with it so just keep doing what you were doing to it
 
I noticed one of the fly traps was looking pretty scrawny and I thought it was just about to go dormant until I looked closer and it has a big ass flower stalk
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It's too tall to cut it off now, I may as well let it flower and if the plant dies at least I may get a few hundred seeds out of it.
I have 3 more back up fly traps so it's not a super huge deal but I don't like having my plants die
 
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It's been so nice and rainy today, I put the whole gang outside. You can see the top of the Japanese red maple tree in the corner, which I'm pretty sure I killed a few weeks ago. :( Going to keep babying it and hope it's just shock and it will come out of it eventually. I got her for free, but I think being taken out of almost 100% shade and a tiny pot and stuck into about 80% sun and a huge pot fucked her up.
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I repotted my ponytail palm as well, for the first time since I got it last year. It had all kinds of metal mesh and wires wrapped around the very base and roots. I have no idea what the store was thinking. I just hope it doesn't die from the damage I did trying to get it all out. (Also featuring my spider plant and filthy floor and the dish the palms old pot sat in :oops:)
 
I used to keep venus flytraps around when I was younger, because I had a weird facination with them. Part of me kinda hoped that they'd grow super huge and take over the world while declaring me king, but most of em died before they got too big because my dog ate them.

Now I'm looking into keeping cacti since they're of the few plants that can be used effectively in melee combat.
 
If the fly trap goes to seed I'll probably sell them but would anyone be interested in some? I'd give some free to kiwis, only issue is a lot of you are in the states and other places and I'll find the find out how to legally ship seeds to the states and other places but from what I understand it's fairly simple.
Keep in mind the fly trap I grew from a seed back in August is now only a centimetre in diameter, they take many many years to grow so they are not for the impatient
Edit: if getting seeds to the states or where ever is going to be a huge fucking pain I'm not gonna bother because I ain't got time for that shit. First I have to wait for the plant to make seeds and then I'll go ask the post office people
 
I found a Nepenthes x ventrata at my local greenhouse and I bought it and set up a tank for it because it's still a little babu plant. It just lives in a ten gallon tank, in the same medium as the flytraps live in drinking the same water too. I have a 40 watt Ottlite grow bulb pointed at it and I keep the humidity at 70% at all times (except night when it is allowed to drop a bit)
The local carnivorous plant group suggested for feeding it I could either give it koi or betta pellets (in the pitchers) or spray it with diluted plant food and then give it a good spray of regular water. I've tried the plant food thing so far with excellent results, three weeks after I bought it he's already grown a new pitcher that is half fully grown and is on his way to making a new one. I'm actually terrified of fertilizing it with the plant food because too much nutrients can easily kill a carnivorous plant so next I'll try betta pellets or small koi pellets and see how it likes that
Right now it's roughly this size
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Years from now it will hopefully look something like this
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That's about 6-8 inch long pitchers btw
 
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