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>>2386075
from last thread:
What does /plant/ know about mugwort?
A family friend grows and sells a myriad of different plants and mugwort took over a few of her beds.
After learning a bit about its calming nature, I've decided to bring home a bundle to dry in my window. Gonna try and use it to help my brother quit smoking cigarettes.

Any interesting fun facts on mugwort?

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Can anyone help me identify this plant?

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How bad are aliexpress seeds? The picture shown is a ginkgo but they claim to be selling ulmus parvifolia.

>>2386319
Never buy from Chinks, my man. You will never get what you paid for.

>>2386319
they're shit

Hey /plant/

I'm a newb to all this, but are there any household plants I can buy that could help with air quality? It gets humid in my apartment, but it's usually too cold out to open a window.

I already have a dehumidifier, but I was thinking about getting a plant and figured I could get one that has a practical use too.

Thanks!

>>2386319
>Chines Elm Bonsai Tree Seeds New Fresh Woody Perennial Outdoor Garden Seeds Mini Ulmus Pumila Seed
holy keyword results batman. Isn't bonsai a form of plant care I.E. you don't get "bonsai" versions of plants? In the same vein pretty sure there's no such thing as "mini" versions of plants.
>returns accepted if product not as described
heh
>>2386325
>never buy from Chinks, my man. You will never get what you paid for.
30 seeds for 1 cent each
pretty sure you get exactly what you paid for.

>>2386364
Yes but generally you would want a shit ton of them.

I.E. some are more efficient than others at cleaning the air, but even the most efficient would probably still need quite a few for you to notice the difference.

>>2386467
>Isn't bonsai a form of plant care I.E. you don't get "bonsai" versions of plants?
Correct.
"Bonsai" seeds identical to, but generally more expensive than, regular plant seeds.

Any reputable tree seed sellers?

Strange question, but can anyone think of the name of a purple flower (not dark) that sounds like "pele"-something?

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Nepemthes xMastersiana, one of the first man-made Nepenthes hybrids, created by Veitch and Sons nursery in 1883. First pitcher on a rooted cutting I bought from a friend. Expensive but worth it

>>2386178
Spicebush (Calicanthus)

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Dionaea pot.
It's been some time since I posted it.

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Soon.

They're a lot bigger than last year already. I hope it doesn't smell too bad.

Nice Stapelia. What species is it? It smells, I say.
I see Euphorbia obesa or something like it also.

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>Tfw the deer prune your strawberries back for you

How kind of them.

>>2386741
S. grandiflora, but it hasn't lived up to that name yet, granted it's only 3 years old. The smell wasn't really noticeable until now, but the flowers were a lot smaller. I have another one with an even bigger bud, but something has gone wrong with that one, it's all crooked.

And yes, that's Euphorbia obesa. SUCCulents are about the only thing that do well on that window.

A friend gave me some Amorphophallus saying it will be ok but that bulb hasn't done anything yet as far as I can tell.

>>2386747
Amorphophallus is easy to grow. In greenhouse it can grow the tuber weighting about 1-2 kgs. And its leaf will be umbrella-sized. Believe me, it's my experience. Just protect it against plant lice. I had flowering Amorphophallus only once, and it smells really noticeably. But the blooming lasts not for long.

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And blooming

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>>2386752
Lillies are next

>>2386752
Oenotera
Nice hardy perennial plant.

>>2386756
Lilium pensylvanicum - Siberian lily.
Where are you from? Plants look like ones popular in temperate climate in Russia (central part of European region).

>>2386319
>30 bonsai tree seeds
Who in their right mind wants 30?
You know you can just get regular tree seeds, which is what those are.

>>2386756
>hosts
Those things are ugly and probably undercutting plants 5 feet off, roots are a huge mess and extremely hard to remove. I've had to remove 6 square feet of yard from one plant.

I would tear it out and keep those things in a planter instead. Way too many hostas in the world.

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my favourite plant

>>2386797
Is that a brown ferncluse?

rabbit foot fern

>>2386836
That's just what it wants you to think. It's obviously a slow moving spider that has buried itself in a pot and allowed you to grow ferns on its back in exchange for water and food.

>>2386780
>30
Is that too few?
>bonsai tree seeds = regular tree seeds
I know, I just searched up aliexpress for Chinese Elm seeds and all I found were gimmicky "bonsai seeds", couldn't find a single listing not calling them "bonsai seeds". I guess they sell better that way.

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Hey guys, im new to bonsais and shit. My bonsai has this strange "web" thins on it soil, should i be worried?

>>2386894
Yes. Enjoy your spiders.

>>2386895
Do i need to buy a pesticide asap?

>>2386894
Worried? No.
But do get that taken care of. Sprinkling a very small amount of dry powdered snuff on that stuff kills it for good, but make sure your plant can take acidity and the shit gets nowhere near the roots.
Also don't put moist coffee grounds in there and maybe mulch it too, gather sticks and scrape bark off with a knife, let it dry for two days and crush it up decently.
There aren't many non pesticide solutions but drying it out completely can also kill it. Stop misting too, if you are, and squirt water directly onto the base of the trunk if you have to.
A couple hours sun will also cripple it.

>>2386901
Also I know nothing about bonsai trees, just how to kill the mold, so try just sunlight exposure to start and Google a little more about mold on bonsais because the roots are probably right on the surface and easily harmed.

>>2386894
that's mold

>>2386894
That definitely looks like wet, used coffee grounds, which are fair ferts dry but you'll want to compost them. Putting them on shit dry or wet is usually always going to get you mold. Use baked dirt if you're having to cover up the roots.

>>2386703
thank you

>>2386895
>>2386901
>>2386903
>>2386906
Thanks!

>>2386922
Yeah just put it in horrifyingly hot sunlight for 2 hours, tilt the planter with books or whatever if the sunlight doesn't hit the mold.

Don't put snuff in it just yet, but I did it with my tomatoes and mold was gone permanently with 3 pinches on top of 4 cubic feet of dirt.

Sunlight and let it dry out.

>>2386923
Its winter, so there is not much sunlight or heat
Should i place it near a heater at nights and place it out in the sun at day?

>>2386894
What the fuuuuuuck. You're watering it way too much. Wait until the soil gets a bit dry to the touch before watering again. Also put it outside in the sun so it can get more vigor to recover.

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>>2386926
It may be the watering system that it came with

>>2386932
It's mostly the substrate's susceptibility to mold, dirt is really the only answer. But pull that thing out and let the thing dry up some.

>>2386925
Near a heater probably not, might make it worse. It's clear the only answer is drying it out for two or three days.

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>>2386935
>>2386932
Yeah I'd change the soil. For my bonsai I love this stuff, not even trolling. It's virtually impossible to over-water in it.
It's also cheap.

>>2386942
Using water holding soil is generally worse for mold problems, but like I said I know nothing about bonsai trees.

I legitimately hate the shit even though it reduces watering. Not good at all for indoor plants, in fact it's fucking terrible for them and will likely drown all you own. But I'm used to plants, not trees.

>>2386944
The floor-dry stuff I use doesn't really hold water, it drains almost all of it through. In my (limited not-tree plant experience), plants take much better to super water-retentive soil than trees. Ficus Retusa is water-loving, but even water-loving plants have limits.

>>2386950
That's pretty neat, didn't know it drained well, that does sound optimum for your baby trees.
I suppose no potted plant needs this water holding soil though, garden plants it seems to work for which is where I used it, but putting it in a planter that will already hold water for 3 days with composted mulch soil is a death sentence.

>>2386319
You will literally get grass seeds or dandelions trust me on this one

>>2387044
lol I ordered 31 cents' worth of mystery seeds let's see how this goes

the wonders of capitalism

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Got around 7 feet of Taxodium Distichum for $25

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>>2386763
Climate zone 6a, flyover US.
There are several different lillies in this pic, the ones about to bloom are asiatic I believe.
>>2386793
I've transplanted hostas several times and have never had an issue with roots.
I like the hardiness and low maintenance.

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>>2387144
And after mulch and weeding

How good are clovers?

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>"introducing a new basic caresheet with every thread"
>it's still the Stapelia one I did months ago

Good job lads.

>>2386502
Very nice mate, must admit I was ogling it a bit on the HLgroup earlier. I really should try and get some heritage hybrids of my own at some point, the oldest thing I have is x Peter D'Amato.

>>2386793
I love hostas because I can sell them to customers and the customers will manage to not kill them.

I swear, the amount of people that don't understand that plants are alive. Crazy.

>>2387144
>>2387193
I guess the only one I dug up was 10 years old, I figured they all root nastily, and they probably will.

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>decide today is a good day to plant my mimosa pudica seeds

>can't find them

>>2386797
rabbits foot fern?

I have a small one in my terrarium.

>>2387314
It's a spider actually.

Question after my banana tree has given its first bananas do I need to chop it down?
Everyone is telling me they only give bananas once and I need to chop it off but I feel kinda bad for the tree

>>2387392
>Each banana plant grows from a pseudostem, which is a bundle of the bases of the leaves of the plant. The true stem is underground, around the rhizome that produces the pseudostem above it and other suckers from which more banana plants grow. Some call this collection of banana plants growing from the same underground structure a banana mat. After the main pseudostem produces a bunch of bananas, you should cut it to the ground because it will never produce fruit again, and even if you leave it in place, a light frost will kill it to the ground anyway. The underground portion of the banana plant remains so it can produce suckers that will grow into new fruiting pseudostems
Two seconds in Google.

>>2387394
I guess I just wanted a different opinion but the guy must go down, sorry ;_;

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Just picked up this flytrap at the supermarket, will it survive? Do I need to repot it and if yes, can it survive in cactus soil? And can I water it with boiled water instead of rain water?

>>2387573
1 Looks healthy
2 No and no
3 No, use distilled water instead

>>2387573
Keep it outside in the sun, not on a windowsill.
Distilled water or rainwater.
If you eventually repot it, use a peat/perlite mix.
NO fertilizer.
Feed it live bugs, or gently press the sides of closed trap a bit if you decide to go for dead ones, otherwise it'll open again.

>>2387575
>>2387585
thank you!

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Cape Sundew is still going strong and putting out new leaves like mad.

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Can anyone help me identify this plant please?

>>2386712
How old is that hoard? Where'd you get the seeds from?

>>2388033
Marijuana

You guys are starting to convince me to get a carnivorous plant, and I have several empty pots.

Where do I get started? A sundew or pitcher plant would be neat.

>>2388113
Get a sundew. Pretty hard to mess up with a sundew. Unless you're reddit.

>>2388137
Where do you guys normally get your sundews

>>2388033
Begonias.

Back to >>>/trash/ with you, degenerate.

>>2388137
There are not that many easy to grow (hard to kill) sundews. Capensis, binata, aliciae, spatulata, that's about it. Adelae seems like a hit or miss for newbies.

>>2388154
Depends where you live, but there's always an online seller in your region. I've had some pretty good experiences buying both seeds and live plants from eBay as well, even from Chinese sellers.

>>2388220
I've bought seeds off Amazon before.

Anyways, I live in Oklahoma. Any online retailers you'd recommend?

>>2388221
I'm a Yuropoor so can't say for sure, but I've read good things about Predatory Plants:
http://www.predatoryplants.com/Beginner-Plants-s/59.htm

Their prices are very reasonable and all the plants have instructions on how best to grow them.

>>2388221
>>2388229
Here's a more extended list: http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq6280.html

>>2388229
>>2388220
Well speaking of yurop, what's a good place to get carnivorous plants here?

You guys have got me interested as well, though I'm not quite sure if they're the right plant for my situation. Ideally I'd put them on a windowsill of a south facing window with no shading. Is that enough sun or do they actually need to go outside?

>>2388253
i got mine at the supermarket >>2387573
but if you look online, many stores ship them too

Does any one have any recommendations for a watering system? (preferably cheap)
I am going back home for 1-2 months over the summer and i don't want my plants to die.
My cacti and succulents should be fine but if i am lucky i will have some chillis by then and my venus flytrap
(can the tray method work for such an extended time?)

Maybe a silly question: I've seen a few aphids on my strawberry and pepper plants, can I feed the fat ones to drosera?

>>2388253
I had a great experience with carnivoria.eu (ships from Czech Republic). He sent everything right away and all plants arrived very healthy. I also just came across roraima.pl (from Poland, obviously) which has mostly Nepenthes but the prices are great.

Subtropical and tropical species normally all fare well or at least survive on a windowsill with a fair amount of light, but temperate species should be outside during winter (and preferably during summer as well because this is the climate they live in).

>>2388338
Yes, just make sure they're really stuck to the dew, otherwise your sundew will be infected in no time.

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I think this clone is the only giant that gives what it promises, >4cm traps

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>>2388340
Roraima's prices are great (unless it's a hamata or other large plant... then they start taking the piss), however I find that plants from them need hardening for much longer than other sellers. I don't know if their conditions are just very humid and warm, or if the fresh BE imports are sold too quickly, but I always have to leave them in a bag to adjust for a couple of months.

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>>2388043
I didn't grow any of these from seed except for one.
I'd say they all are about 3 years old.
These are 9 months old seedlings, they are sloooow.

>>2388383
They're so cute!

I don't know anything about carnivorous plants. Can they survive without eating bugs? Like indoors during the winter?

Do you guys autistically feed your plants little bugs with tweezers?

>>2386319

>buying seeds from Chinese
>ever

Bruh are you shitting me?
Have you ever heard of the ebay china horror stories?

>>2388392
Yes, the bugs make them grow faster and stronger, but they can survive on photosyntesis only, anyway do not keep flytraps indoors, they are full sunlight plants that need to feel the change of seasons and go dormant in winter.

I do it with young plants so they reach adulthood sooner, once they are adults feeding them too much produces deformed traps.

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>>2387193

Someone else who suffers dealing with people who don't realize plants are alive. I feel your pain. I almost want to suggest silk flowers to people anymore because they want it to look pretty and not do anything.

>>2387292

They need dug up and divided every so often because they can get overgrown. That is not an issue for most people that just shove it somewhere to fill a space, but if you intended to use the bed for other stuff you will need to do this at some point.

>>2388033
Shrimp plant, Justicia brandegeeana


Anyone know a good source on variegated Canna? I was late buying and all the usual places are sold out.

>>2388402
The store I'm had actually had a fake plant section one year.

>do we have to trim this tree or will it keep growing in this shape?
>Oh um, that's plastic

It became very awkward.

>>2387314
yes

>>2388400
>do not keep flytraps indoors.
I live in Canada where the winters are harsh. We get multiple feet of snow and have still been getting frosty nights despite it being May.

We do have a cool room though, maybe I could put it there. Or just on a windowsill where it gets cold?

>>2388408
yes, keep them indoors during winter in a cold place

>>2388406
Hahaha that's really funny

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>>2388408
Get one of these instead, they are canadian and don't give two shits about snow, in fact I have problems with mine because our winters are too mild and it tends to develop fungi in the cold (moist and chill for me) season.

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New to growing here, first plant is this C.annum here. Should I repot? There are 4 in there and I'm concerned that they will have knotted roots and that they'll be potbound. I looked up how big they can get and saw around 70cm as an answer and these guys are only about 20cm. Thoughts?

>>2388412
Are there any environmental benefits to plants like this? Do they kill mosquitoes?

Are there any plants that repel deer?

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>>2388406

I would actually prefer people to have fake plants because they are so god damn lazy.

>I want something that blooms all the time and I don't have to do anything to it

Then they get offended when I tell them what they're looking for are fake plants.
I have a relative who sucks with flowers, and she puts out fake flowers in her front yard because she won't kill them. And they look nice and she has to replace them once a year because they get sunbleached. No biggie.

I hate working retail with plants and want to work in a commercial greenhouse where I don't deal with the general public. The cluelessness wouldn't bother me if it wasn't saddled by attitude and childish behavior. I can help people who don't know anything but I can't help someone being a manchild.

>I want X plant in this spot
>no that won't work
>But I want it
>I'm telling you it won't. If you want to buy it anyway go ahead, it will not survive.
>Customer comes back a week later with a dead plant wanting a refund because we sold her a "bad plant"

If it didn't look nice they wouldn't have bought it in the first place because most people are so damn picky. Oh no, a lower leaf of a geranium has a brown spot because it needs cleaned up and no one has done it. The whole plant must be sick! Why are you selling bad plants, anon?

t. greenhouse anon

>>2388461
>tfw aunt bought the most gorgeous geranium two years ago
>tfw she just leaves it in its pot on the front porch for actual months without watering it
I actually snagged a cutting from it and it's growing fine and healthy now. I had a bit of trouble overwintering it, though it got better.

>>2388464

What about it was pretty if you don't mind me asking?

Just a nice color flower or variegated leaves?

>>2388466
The flowers are this nice dark shade of pink.

>>2388461
How much do you make a year? I want to start doing stuff with plants instead of sitting in an office all day.

What sort of jobs are there? What are the requirements?

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I'm the only one that thinks that Dionaea flowers smell like vanilla or some other bakery scent?

>>2388464
How do you take a cutting from this plant and get it to grow? Can you describe the process?

Did you have to scrape the stem, cake it with dirt and wrap it to incite rooting? Or just pick and plant like spider plants?

Googling at the same time, thought I'd ask still.

>>2388517
How old are those?

I think it's ironic that it has flowers and relies on bugs to pollinate, but at the same time wants to kill them

>>2388526
With this one I just pulled off a stem that was already halfway broken off and put it in some dirt and watered it.

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>>2388461
>I want something that blooms all the time and I don't have to do anything to it

Oh boy that question. Customers really want plants that will just bloom forever and have no understanding/care about plants having like, lives and yearly cycles. They want a huge flowering plant that just keeps trucking from march to november, will come back every year, and needs no work whatsoever, and is cheap.

>Oh no, a lower leaf of a geranium has a brown spot because it needs cleaned up and no one has done it. The whole plant must be sick! Why are you selling bad plants, anon?

God there was some guy that came in who was yelling "all these plants are dead!" because the bacopa hadn't been deadheaded in a while.

Also at least half of this job is reading tags for people. Goddamnit.

>how big does this plant get
>let me read the tag for you and answer that

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>>2388529
Oh, sounds easy, know any other plants that this works well with?

I want to do it to the pink peony in my yard. Really fucking bad.

Anyone that knows of ANY plant I can do this with, let me know please. I love cloning shit. Also, rooting powder?

>>2388528
The mother plants are about 8 years old, but when they reach complete adulthood they just divide into new plants instead of growing bigger, so I don't really know how old are these.

That's why the flowers are so tall and sweet smelling.

>>2388534
Jade, kalanchoe and tradescantia are this easy to reproduce.

>>2388534
Pothos and wandering jew are the only ones I've tried it with. Think it works for peace lilies as well. Honestly, it probably works with most plants, they're not that picky.

>>2388536
I just scrolled back up and that, my friend, is a fucking nice plant, and blemish free to boot.
Good job.

>>2388539
I actually already got a kalanchoe planted this way. I do know where a bunch of jade is too and was about to grab one last night. Weird how I was already doing this.

>>2388540
I just killed a 7 foot tall, 8 foot wide peace lily. But seriously fuck that plant, impossible to move, I'm completely glad I killed it and have half my living room back now.

>>2388517
Impressive flower display! I normally cut off the flower stalks to make the plant grow faster, I'll let them bloom this time so I can know what they smell like.

>>2388528
Normally the pollinators and the prey are different species. That's why the flowers stalks are so tall compared to the plant, they need to make sure the little guys carrying the pollen around don't accidentally step onto one of the traps.

>>2388542
>Killed a peace lily
How?

>>2388544
It was bought for a funeral for a cousin, I took it home, however we had to put it in the back of a truck with me holding arms around it. The driver went too fast I guess and all the motion must've shocked the shit out of it. It started drooping 3 days after. It was moved like this twice within a week, with little care, though I had a deathgrip around it.

Also the grower, a neighbor, had it in a 12 inch wide, 12 inch deep pot, and my instinct to replant it immediately was overshadowed by his suggestion that it could stay in the TINY pot for another 2-3 months.
Pulling the root bundle also showed huge amounts of stress, it needed repotted 4 months ago really.

>>2388548
Ah, okay. We still have the peace lily from my aunt's funeral a few years back, but it's nowhere near as big.

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What plant is this and how do I make it live? I've been watering it everyday and it got droopy... fuck

>>2388550
You're probably watering it too much and it probably needs more sun. Also, how do you get dandelions that big?

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>>2388550
Just a marigold, not even worth a second thought dude, pull the roots, add more dirt, and put something else in there.
It's the most unimpressive flower there is. It's good for keeping certain bugs away from a garden though, when planted in front of everything. Marigolds here, no real reason.

>>2388552
It's a marigold apparently. I got it from my baby sister after she planted it for a class.
>>2388554
Something else? I do have bluebonnet seeds, would anything bad happen if had them share?

>>2386744
Get a 12 gauge Benelli and shoot those motherfuckers in the heart
It's completely legal and is a periodic solution to your issue

Any good advice for slugs and potato bugs, organic growing (ignoring the nicotine rule.)

Do I have to resort to salt?

>>2388560
Please don't kill your baby sister's plant.

>>2388562
Get a 12 gauge Benelli and shoot those motherfuckers in the heart.

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>>2388564
I shan't she gave it to me as a gift I'll take care of it. Its name is spike btw

>>2388560
Oh, nevermind, keep the flower for her sake.
The leaves are dead so no transplant right now, do this:
(I feel dumb trying to save a marigold..)

Remove dead leaves.
Add soil to the top so the cup is filled. This is not food so just use lame ass fertilized potting soil here, which the plant needs.
Moisten the new dirt up, not too much water.
If the open flower keeps dying, it will, give it another 4 days from now and cut it off at the base of the bulbous thing.
Check the bottom, if there are no holes, it needs them poked through, 5 medium holes.
If roots are coming through, your plant is dead because no leaves=no transplant, but trim the roots off anyways.
Set the cup on a small plate from now on, if you have a small bowl filled with gravel or those glass mancala pieces, bury it halfway in there.
Switch to watering every 2-3 days, soil needs to dry out more.

Once the leaves return in force, you can transplant it. But as stated, if it needs the transplant right this second, you can't save it.

Also I can just send you marigold seeds for something cool (not bluebell.)
This is a pretty general guide for tiny pots, but plants with plenty of leaves -are- transplantable. Remember to keep transplanted plants out of all sunlight for 3 days after repotting. The no sunlight rule does not apply to those cardboard cups that you can plant in the ground whole.

>>2388570
Actually nevermind, not worth sending 25c marigold seeds anywhere.
But I do have 3 packets I don't wantwant, 525 milligrams, French dwarf double mixed colors, orange/yellow/red. But only if you can't locate the dollar store, you can send a stamp here and you can hook me up with a cool seed.

But seriously, just go to the store unless you need what other seeds I have too. Nothing good except 450-500k scoville fucking mutant banana pepper seeds.

Can you get a picture of the bottom of your marigold pot for me to further assess?

>>2388570
that was really helpful, tysm!!! email me at pdofphaz@gmail to arrange seeds if you want.
Also, if the roots are coming through? What does that mean? If they're coming through the holes?
I checked just now and the roots don't go through the holes, I hope that's good. Thanks again haha

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>>2388573
Lmfao I think I'm good, no mutant bananas. (excuse the dirt in my nails, I just dug it out to check the roots)

>>2388576
Yeah I know, not worth trading, get a quarter and go to family dollar. Maybe we can trade soon but I don't have anything good enough until plants start seeding.

Marigold,
You can rescue it for sure since roots aren't poking out, just make sure to get fertilized soil on the top so the water can seep through and feed the plant, this should make new leaves. Elevate it like I said so the drain holes aren't flat on a table or sill, when air hits the bottom of the pot it helps dry the soil out, but only certain picky flowers need elevated like this.

>>2388578
Got it. Thank you!!!!!

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Question time.

Dutch Iris blue.
Throw it away? Might've mistakenly covered the soil in quite absorbent used, dried black tea, for nutrients. No drain holes either. Did it drown or just run out of room?
Bulb was planted. Toss it and make a new plant the easiest option? I'm not concerned about it really.

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Q2

These are mixed bell, green-purple hue.
But.. They're 90 days old right now. I am confused.
I don't use fertilizer on food plants, how long of a wait might this be? Is this normal growth, I know they're fall fruiters but I'm sad anyways.

>>2388433
'c. annum' could be a whole lot of things. Check out the homegrowmen thread >>>/out/1021006
They are big on peppers.
I'm still inexperienced myself, first time grower, but I'd have repotted it even if it was just one plant instead of 4. Peppers can take a lot, but I read everywhere that most plants don't like their roots being fucked with too much.

>>2388582
Oh, and, that'll want a transplant probably in 10-15 days. 1 Cubic foot of dirt is plenty for permanent planting.

Keep it pretty dried up and in the window filtered sun for 3-3.5 hours a day. Do this for 5 days.
Try watering from the bottom of the pot, every second night before bed, 1tbsp water on a plate underneath the flower.
Change windows if you can, the screen is blocking light. Move it outside into direct sun if you want, secure the pot.
5-6 Days like this and report back to a plant thread with a new picture and I got you.

If it's possible to remove all that plastic with a razor blade and have absolutely no dirt disturbance, repot it in 4-5 days. Wet soil well before cutting into the plastic. Sometimes you can turn the thing upside down and have it slide right out.
Get your dirt ready, dig a hole and take the whole cup and press it into the soil to form the shape and you'll be able to drop the plant right in very stably.

Phew. All for one marigold.

Can I use Ice Mountain brand spring water for my venus flytrap?

>>2388591
That one is definitely ready for a new pot though. Might have to neatly cut the whole plastic pot off of the dirt to move it though.

I guess one cut around the entire base and then one slit from top to bottom is the neatest way to do it, if you can't flip the container and have the whole plant fall out.

To original poster, is that pepper in fertilized soil? If organic, what soil mixture? This is if you didn't purchase it sprouted I mean.

>>2388595
I know nothing about flytraps, but everyone says to use distilled water.

Get a clean ass bowl, a pot and a lid. Put spring water in pot. Burner on medium.
Every 5 minutes lift the lid and tip the evaporated water over into the bowl.

Have fun, agallon of distilled water is only a dollar, but I suggest this in case you can't access it right now.

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>>2388595
Nop

>>2388597
>>2388599
Thanks guys.

>>2388602
Oh shit, here's a huge bit of life advice.

Spring water - Ground source, filtered, decent mineral content. Having little success with this water on veg (except tomato) and potted flowers this year, but I buy it to drink mainly.

Distilled water - Any source, distillation through boiling, very, very pure. Any plant.

Purified water - Faucet water from detroit with baking soda and shit added. Will kill plants, baking soda is salt. Do not ever use on plants.

Hope this helps, most people are fooled into buying purified, which is shitty salt water, just wanted to make sure you don't hit your plants with it.

Just wanted to say this is my favorite general thread on 4chan. Everyone is always so nice.

>>2388607
Homegrowmen on /out/ is the same, just a bunch of people having a good time. In fact internet gardening communities in general always seem to be relaxed. Maybe because there isn't really anything to argue about.

>>2388606
>Distilled water - Any source, distillation through boiling, very, very pure. Any plant.

Nowadays ion exchange or reverse osmosis is used to get water which is equivalent to distilled water for 99% of applications. Boiling it is just too expensive (heating up water takes a huge amount of energy).

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>>2388617
Gotta be careful with that and flytraps it sounds like.

Most bottles list the purification methods. I guess distilling water isn't dangerous or hard, if you're that heavily invested in your flytraps.

What is this plant? 3Ft, reddish stalk. Could it be tobacco?

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>>2388619
Even if just a weed, anyone have a name? Unless it's a plant of zero concern or value, then I don't care.

>>2388613
Whatever happened to ol' Buggy anyway? I miss that guy.

>>2388617
>>2388619
Flytrap fag here, I use osmotized water for all my plants, it'd cost me a fortune to keep a collection that big with distilled water.

>>2388606
Thanks man I just picked up some RO water.

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>>2388624
He got BTFO and unironically left for plebbit. Good riddance desu.

>>2388638
>Implying Reddit would tolerate him when even 4chan rejects him
That's hilarious.

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Can anyone ID the plant with pink flowers? Had it for a long time but it never flowered until i replanted it recently.

>>2388643
That's a christmas cactus

>>2388644
thanks m8

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>>2388470
Ah, okay. There's a light pink with dark speckled one-forget the name of the variety, but it's an unstable mutation and reverts back pretty often. Nice plant though. Same for the tri-color leaf (Mrs Pollock) and other fancy leaf geraniums.

>>2388472
I am poverty tier, but that is because I dual as retail instead of being a "certified" greenhouse employee. If I went to school or got some papers I'd probably be bumped up to ~30k/yr
Ideally you want certifications in greenhouse maintenance and degrees in either agriculture or horticulture if you want to work in a commercial greenhouse. I don't know the pay for those, but I'm sure it's more then mine-especially since if you have the right papers, you are a step above the usual laborers who do deadheading, moving, watering-that kind of stuff.


>>2388533
Yeah, we haven't had our usual guys deadhead geranium hanging baskets so people have been complaining they're sick. They aren't, they just need cleaned.

You do just end up reading tags for people. Then they look at you like you're an idiot for even needing to read the tag. Well, fuck me sideways if I don't know how tall each color of asclepias gets by memory, I have to look.

We've had a good year selling portulaca hanging baskets as they are so fucking low maintenance anyone can take care of them. They like sun, they like heat, they like dry, you don't need to deadhead them.
>but the flower isn't very big, I want something big and flowering
>this kills anon

I pray every day for fake plants to come back into vogue so I don't have to explain to people they need to be responsible and take care of a living thing when they clearly don't want to.

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>>2387144
Opened today

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>>2387145

>>2386739
What is that?

Does anyone know where I can find a catalog of plants in northern Thailand/Burma that has pictures?

I've found some really interesting things out here in the jungle and I have no idea what they are, and even when the locals know (because often they don't, or simply don't care to know) they can't speak English.

I found some trees yesterday which I thought were oranges, but turned out to have this thick skinned fruit full of gooey orange pieces, I also found this funny little frilled succulent with a pink flower that seems to grow only in higher altitude in sandy soil.

>>2387145
ok that looks f-ing amazing in regards to neatness. but wait till I post my lillies. I have some over 6 feet tall before they started advertising those varieties. But actually this year might be their worst year in awhile. I guess the cooler weather is a set back. I'll see if I can find some from last year. I just don't have the money or the patience to plan a garden like that.

>>2388894
http://lntreasures.com/burma.html
Best I could do in sub5 minutes on Google. This one has links to pictures.

>>2388621
It looks kind of like pokeweed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana

It is very poisonous.

>>2388918
Ohhh, yeah, I forgot the mowers killed the 8 foot tall dingleberry plant.
Guess I'll chop it back down.

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>>2388920
>dingleberry plant

But on a serious note you'll probably have to dig up the taproot. I recommend gloves, you can never be too safe.

>>2388894
Look up a gernisiad group on facebook and post pics instant replies

>>2388533
Well I might as well ask you fellow Anon. I live in an apt and I want to get into growing a little plant or flower. I want to give it a try and see if I like the hobby. Any recommendations? Also I do have a son so something that doesn't necessarily needs to be by the window. Thanks for your time

>>2388922
There's a nice red flowering bush there, and it isn't much concern to chop through a hollow stem every 3 months. I got other stuff overgrowing I'd rather cut up, that's a 800lb pull at least and the ground under it is hard as diamonds so that's not garden space to me.

If the soil was 2 feet deep I'd fix the area, but it's one inch to bedrock.

>>2388961
Go to dollar store, gardening section, find brightly colored solo cup for $1, Buzzy kit, and do whatever it says.

Don't grab tomatoes though because you will get 65 sprouts in that tiny cup and then your gardening adventure really gets shitty when you need 4 giant pots for them and 100lbs of soil.
I got about 30 stalks out in two pots when this happened to me. Wasn't thinking about consequences when instructions said "dump all the seeds in."

Now I have 60 tomato plants. Be careful man.

>>2388961
Well if you don't need it to be from seed you could try a spider plant. Non-poisonous, hard to kill, and very easy to propagate (they make little baby plants) But if you have pets, dogs and cats love to eat them so be careful of that.

>>2388987
Spider plant and aloe are bad and you should feel bad about saying we need more mom plants in the world.

There are a couple things you can pluck and plant, not many, someone earlier suggested Jade and I had a new plant in 15 minutes that I found outside.
Why not find a good plant and carefully remove it and pot it? Works sometimes. Vegetables in pots is nice for lack of pests, but growth is very slow and moving 40lb pots of wet dirt around is bullshit. I don't know too many cool flowers you can pick up or buy seeds for, I haven't been to Wal Mart in a year.

Broccoli is alright to grow in a pot, you can find 4 broccoli plants for sale in tiny planters at some places. Buy a pot 18 inches wide and 18-20 inches deep, make 4-5 very large drain holes, get 24lbs of unfertilized dirt and stick all four broccolis right in. No pesticides, easy plant, free food, and most importantly: Easier to move around than potted 5 foot tall tomatoes.

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>>2388896
> I have some over 6 feet tall
That sounds pretty neat, I'd love to see them as lillies are by far my favorite.
>money or patience
I did good as far as money is concerned, everything growing was either cuttings from other gardens or a gift. I've moved stuff around several times in five years, don't know what that says about planning. Now that I think about it, I haven't even watered my garden yet this year, and have only weeded it twice.
Anyway, thanks for the compliment.

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>>2388892
Stapelia grandiflora, and these buds are getting seriously big. A lot bigger than they've been the past 2 years.

I have a feeling I should put these outside before they open.

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The little guy survived at the end. He's now growing strong.

>>2388607
It's quickly becoming my 2nd favorite too (after inverts). I'm not big into plants but I have a few botanist friends which kinda got me interested and now I'm reading through here and this thread is very nice.

>>2388745
Very pretty. Looks photoshopped even.

>>2386115
Don't have too much, I love a bit of mugwort tea but apparently it has thujone which is toxic in large quantities

>>2389192
Technically everything is toxic in large quantities.

>>2387313
I live in Malaysia where these thingamajigs grow like weeds. Want some live Mimosa pudica plants? I can post them to you probably.

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Dank purp

>>2388993
Hey, it's easy, looks nice, and if that kid is really little, won't kill him if he decides to put it in his mouth.

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Could someone be so kind as to indentify this...tree? For me? Wanted to replant it and do it right.

>>2389251
Looks like some kind of Yucca, not sure of the particular species. It's in the same family as asparagus!

>>2389251
That pot has seen some shit.

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I bought this Ficus Microcarpa a few weeks ago, but I think it's not getting enough sunlight because it's been shedding some of its leaves.

I now want to buy a grow light for it, but I'm unsure what kind of lamp would be best suited. So, could one of you fine gentlemen perhaps suggest to me a (preferably not too expensive) grow lamp for my lovely little tree?

I like growing zinnias. I haven't done it in awhile, but they're so vibrant that they are great at combating depression.

>>2389251

agreeing with >>2389393
although I thought it was a Dracena at first, looks more like a tree Yucca

>>2389770
An LED lamp would work great for that spot. Little heat, power draw yet good light output. Go with white light, 4k-6.5k Kelvin. Pure grow lights are less suitable for living spaces unless you like pink.

If you have some DIY skills you can order high power LEDs from aliexpress for a couple bucks a piece with integrated supplies which you can hook up directly to mains. Just need to provide a heatsink.

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Is this the place to ask about plants? If so, pic related.
What is it?
Cool thing, the flowers (?) look like Seattle Space Needles. It's from Australia, and that's all I think I know.
Help?

>>2389797
Aight I'll try that, thanks guy!

>>2389824
some kind of eucalyptus, the flowers are withered

>>2389393
>>2389792
So reading up on them, they like well draining soil, light watering, they propagate by making pups and shit. So can i treat them exactly like all my aloe vera plants? Because they sound the same

>>2389770
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>>2389856
ok so what

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>>2389045
These photos are from 3 years ago mostly oriental. These are probably 5 feet tall in this photo.

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>>2390149
this photo was mostly so I could know what color is planted where

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My roommates' parents gave us these 2, what can y'all tell me about it, both general info and how to care for them will be much appreciated.

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>>2390152
sadly almost all of these were eaten by mice. I really didn't know mice could cause such damage. but about one summer they ate all of them.

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>>2390153
some kind of maple. i hope its dwarf. plant it in the ground and it should be ok if you are in a semi normal zone. i don't see them in pots around me.

>>2390154
last shot of lily bed the tall ones are in the back. I have actually made a lot of progress since this shot. all of these came from homedepot or lowes but once i realized how big the bulbs from catalogs are I probably won't mess with the clearance homedepot bulbs anymore. I have a couple of very old varieties I'll find pics of if you are interested.

>>2390149
>>2390152
>>2390153
>>2390154
>>2390165
Stunning. Thanks for the pics.

>>2390230
One of those things is not like the others. Can you spot which?

>>2390233
Oops, lol>>2390153

>>2390233
are you saying that maple tree is not stunning?

>>2390256
It isn't a lily.

>>2390153
Japanese maple, Acer family. No idea on specific variety.

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this opened a few weeks back, miltassia royal robe
>>2386075
funny enough i just got one of those cattleyas as a gift.

>>2387168
amazing colours dude, i have only one paphio and i have never seen it flower.


>>2388517
increíble, para variar

Which one would you say are the best flowers for a complete newbie? I have some small pots I want to plant something in.

>>2390303
inside? outside? how much space? how much light? google your zone?

>>2389770
>Ficus Microcarpa
First that is pretty cool. But most any plant that you just bought usually came from ideal conditions. So that was either in a greenhouse or outside. Possibly even outside with a lot more leaves and cut back to look awesome. Losing some leaves is probably normal. However it looks pretty damn big to not be outside or in a sunroom. At least drop some florescent lights near it until you get a better feel for its requirements.

How do I fucking stratify Japanese maple seeds?

>>2390308

- Technically outside, but the window is facing south and don't get too much sun.
- Not much, just a couple small pots, around like 20 litre.
- Sub-tropical weather, I'm not in burgerland so I don't know what's the equivalent to the areas I keep reading in most pages.

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>>2390320
i'm in northern burgerland and its hard to get things to flower in southern windows. And now my burger education has me wondering why you have windows to let the light outside? and is the light situation reversed for north/south amount of light depending on your hemisphere.

i have few sub-tropical suggestions but if I ever lived in such a climate the first thing I would buy is a bird of paradise. maybe they aren't that exciting though if you already live around them. the old hotel i worked at spent a small fortune on bromelaids people would always take them home because they would never flower a second time. amaryllis, maybe hibiscus. or just go for the venus flytraps and pitcher plants that everyone seems to love here. they should be easier for you than most burgers.

What sort of mixture would one recommenced for a high drain cactus potting soil for a very, very humid outdoor shithole?


I was thinking like
2 parts miracle grow potting soil
1 part play sand
1 part perlite.

Think that would work well?

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There's the first one and I can't smell anything. Thank god.

Wonder if I should put these outside for fertilization. Then again, why would I want seeds?

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>>2390481

No.

To understand how well a mix will drain depends on how much organic material is in the mix, but MOSTLY on the particle size of the mix itself. Smaller particle size(fine sand, silt, clay) = NO DRAINAGE.
Sand, unless it is very coarse sand will not drain.

tl;dr if you can just get a bag of bonsai mix (something like what Hoffman's has) it will work fine unless you have a ton of pots in which case you would have to make a huge batch yourself. In which case, I'd reccomend reading forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1382584/als-gritty-mix-a-learning-experinece

I can recommend this as I've had cacti/succulents outside while it rained for a week straight and be okay in this type of mix. They were also in clay pots, which helped a lot.

>>2390165
>some kind of maple. i hope its dwarf. plant it in the ground and it should be ok if you are in a semi normal zone. i don't see them in pots around me.
Sadly I don't have any ground.

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I think I haven't posted this one yet.

>>2390291
¡Gracias!

>>2390481
>miracle gro potting soil

Why do you own this disgusting shit? I really hope you didn't use it for vegetables and have leftovers because those vegetables are going to be the worst tasting produce you've ever had in your life.

>>2390686
>>2390564
Well I work at a store that sells it, so I get it fairly cheap.
And no, I just grow cacti right now.

Been using the miracle gro cactus soil for all my aloe vera and it's worked well for them,

I just dont want to spend the money for fucking 60 of those tiny ass cactus soil bags for these fucking trees, why I wanted to semi mix my own.

I just went with the potting soil and im going to mix in 2 bags of perlite per pot to give it some drainage.

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>>2390630

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>>2390757
And now I stop fagging about my flytraps

>>2390697
I guess you won't be eating it, and I know little of cactus feeding reqs, I'm just a huge stickler for using less chemicals.
Plus that shit ruined over 200lbs of my produce one year because my grandma made me put the plants in with it. It's foul shit.

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Zone 6a Organic beefsteak. Stalk count 50. Feb 20th.

How's everyone's tomatoes doing? I seem to have the biggest ones in town.
No miracle gro-ers allowed.

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>>2390773
Ya if it was anything I was eating I wouldn't use it, I just grow aloe vera in the hopes of it selling it locally eventually, and now yucca apparently as given by
>>2389855

Their cactus soil works very well so far, I'm sure I can mix better shit but quite frankly I'm lazy, and it works.
I get it for like $3.50 for 8 quarts.

I think this season though with the next massive batch of pups (last season it was like 43, and I have twice as many producing plants, and even the ones from last year are significantly bigger)

I'm going to try mixing my own for all the aloe to save money, also going to buy some bulk nursery pots.

Gotta do some reading for the perfect aloe vera mixture for my area first.

>>2390809
You can throw away the aloe man, unless you need an ineffective burn relief goo machine.
They're so worthless I can't describe it to you.

If you want a plant like that, a badass one, get a healthy pineapple from the store and plant the top. Cloning is almost 100% for them and a 8 inch tall, 3 inch wide top can easily grow to 20 inches wide/28 inches tall in 80 days with good ferts.
The ferts it loves are bone dry, used coffee grounds, sprinkled around the plant but not on the base. Also mix the same dry coffee grounds into the soil with wintered leaves.

It looks exactly the same as aloe but more awesome, more sturdy, more sun loving and more likely to eat all your organic very trash.
I would get a new one but I can't get pineapples here.

>>2390809
Well you can sell the plants themselves, but not the goo, twine or any other part I was meaning.

Housewives eat that shit up. I fucking hate how much aloe and how many spider plants exist, but you do have guaranteed sales because no intelligent person will buy an aloe plant. The USA is full of dumbshits so guaranteed sales.

Just like Oregon bitches about their invasive plants, aloe is invasive to the entire northeast and reasonable gardeners are fucking sick of it. But make your money however you have to.

>>2390494
Diddle your finger in the flower, no need for bees. Why not seed everything you possibly can now that the gmopocalypse is threatening extinction of all plant life through cross pollination?

GMO everything with infertility specs and cross pollinating infertility infection will exist in 10 years, better get ready my friend.

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>>2390858

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What is this? Found it in the trash. It was doing well for a while but now it looks as pictured. I thought maybe it was getting too much sun, but I really don't know.

Is it okay to plant a plant in a mason jar?

>>2390876
Yes. You can plant in just about anything. Most plants are finicky about those things.

>>2390874
An Euphorbia pulcherrima

>>2390881
>poinsettia
Wow! Didn't realize that. Thanks

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>>2390825
>Housewives eat that shit up. I fucking hate how much aloe and how many spider plants exist, but you do have guaranteed sales because no intelligent person will buy an aloe plant. The USA is full of dumbshits so guaranteed sales.
Was my exact thinking.
>The ones the size of the middle of the smaller rack sell at my local grocery story for $9
>and they sell constantly.

I lucked out and found an aloe that reproduces like a fucking plague, gotta use what ya got.

>the one large one produced 42 pups in about 2 months after re-potting.
>theres already 16 new ones growing just on the big one alone within the first 2 weeks of real spring here.
Given last years numbers and what size produced what, I'm thinking at least 100 new ones from my 5 larger ones alone.

Pic related
Little fuckers grow faster than weeds i swear.


Also my large one produced a fairly tall flower last year, was pretty nice.

>>2390885
Holy fucking hell. That's a 13 branch wooded poinsettia.

My friend, you are incredibly lucky, add 1 cubic foot of neutral unfertilized dirt and repot that. It's one of the best plants, even though everyone gives them away at Christmas. I've never seen one with woody stalks.
I would give you $40-50 for that thing. Keep it around to enjoy though.

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>>2390858
>bees
>fertilising a Stapelia flower

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>>2390858
>Stapelia
>bees

And I'm not going to fucking stick my finger in there, I don't want to smell like I just buried some bodyparts in a forest.

>rest of post
>pic related

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>>2390819
>pineapple
>looks exactly the same as aloe

>>2390975
>>2390999
Just do it. Pretend you fingered a meth whore.

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>>2386752
Full bloom

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>>2391067

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>>2391069

>>2391069
I still hate your hostas, but then I seen the lilies. There's no way you sowed all these lame housewife plants yourself, so I can forgive you.

I saw a yard today with 40 hosta plants, fully grown.

All out front. What the fuck man.

>>2391076
Iris*

>>2391076
>There's no way you sowed all these lame housewife plants yourself, so I can forgive you
Lol, there's eight different plants from seven different housewives in this pic>>2391067
All cuttings from other people's gardens and yard sales. I paid a quarter for the black eyed susans

>>2390925
If you live in the US in the DC area I'm happy to sell it to you. I actually have 12 or so different plants I've found over the years and kept, and once I tried to repot one and it slowly died and I'm scared to try anything else. So if you live in the area please come to my house and advise me.

>>2390611
it looks a decent size for that pot. maybe at some more dirt to that pot on the right. keep it outside in the summer and maybe move it inside if it gets below freezing in the winter. they don't grow very fast. water it when it gets dry. you can occasionally give it some fertilizer. doesn't much matter which one. But the one on the right is having a hard time. It's probably a nice plant but its not a normal gift plant so you might should ask some questions. They probably just meant for it to be on your patio/deck.
>>2390481
i grow a lot of African violets and the common mix for the miracle grow violet mix is equal parts perlite to miracle grow violet mix. the common thinking is it holds too much water.
>>2390784
my miracle grow tomatoes are twice as large and tastier.

>>2390819
how can we trust someone who can't get a pineapple, plus the burn relief is real
>>2390825
aloe is not evasive in the northeast united states. i'm getting confused
>>2390876
there is no drainage so it better like a lot of water
>>2390925 damn this guy really like poinsettias.
its kinda average on most people plant scale.
>>2391076
ill look like a garden creeper but someone in my neighborhood has his entire front yard of hostas. And like a japanese maple and its all deer fenced off. its actually kind of interesting but i'm like you they aren't really my thing. however i think bitches love lillies. you can't just have a yard of barberry. what are the manly flowers

>>2391172
400 Miles friend, sorry, and that's not going to ship at all. It's yours.

>>2391296
Miracle shill detected.

>>2391296
>it looks a decent size for that pot. maybe at some more dirt to that pot on the right. keep it outside in the summer and maybe move it inside if it gets below freezing in the winter. they don't grow very fast. water it when it gets dry. you can occasionally give it some fertilizer. doesn't much matter which one. But the one on the right is having a hard time. It's probably a nice plant but its not a normal gift plant so you might should ask some questions. They probably just meant for it to be on your patio/deck.
That was indeed the intention, both are outside on the deck/balcony thingy. I'll give the sad one some extra soil and some fertilizer.
Thanks for the reply!

I planted chilli seeds but I was being a retard and planted them about 1-2 cm deep, but now I just read that's not what you're supposed to do at all...
It's been a week tomorrow and they obviously didn't germninate yet. Will they ever? Should I dig them up or plant new ones closer to the surface? Please help

>>2391480
They will probably make it through but germination times vary greatly. If you have more seeds try again. Otherwise wait bc you probably won't find them

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Fucking blackbirds

So why aren't Aloe's liked here?
They aren't endemic here and I just like the way it looks. Easy plant to take care of. Already have a little sprout.

>>2391686
Presumably because every housewife has one. Also, there was only like one guy expressing distaste for Aloe.

>>2391688
Aloe is just awful.
Yes I'm the same one.

>>2391688
One guy is enough to set the tone for the entirety of people posting here!

>>2391691
But why? Don't you like succulents in general? Is it because it's tied with a certain demographic? Who hurt you, anon?

>>2391697
Succulents yes, aloe I'm just sick of seeing

Any tips on purging my front porch of morning glory and ivy? They were there when I moved in and I used to love them. Now I pull one vine up and two more take its place. I dug up one side of the porch the other day and it looks like the big roots are underneath it and out of my reach.

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Hi guys. First time poster.
I wanted to look into flytraps, so I nabbed a plant from a chain gardening store around town.
They didn't seem like they knew much and contradicted some of the info I've read online, so I have a couple questions.

How soon should I repot this? It doesn't have roots coming through the bottom or anything.
Does it really need to stay in the cup? I was told they like humidity, and it is rather dry here in San Diego, but I plan on keeping the soil moist anyway.
I read that they need 4 hours of direct sunlight a day, but the employee told me out on a patio or in a windowsill is fine. What's optimal for growth?
Would cutting the flower so soon after bringing it home be a bad idea?
How stupid was I to buy from a chain?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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>>2391786
Please please please please don't put your flytrap on a windowsill. Please compare these "healthy" windowsill flytraps to outdoor ones like >>2388517

>>2391786
You'll want to get it out of the cup, mostly because they do best outdoors and would overheat in the cup. Wait until dormancy is ending next spring to repot. They can handle any light you can give them but will probably lose the old leaves if you move it quickly. When I grew flytraps I aimed for 8 hours of direct light a day. The flower is already mostly formed so cutting it won't save any energy. Buying from chains is fine, its usually cheaper than going online.

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Some utric flowers are funny, this one looks like a little rhino before it unfolds.

>>2391792
>>2391796

Thank you guys! They're out of the cup and outside in the sun now!

>>2391815
Be sure to slowly introduce them to sunlight. I'm decently sure flytraps need to be hardened off, anyway.

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Nepenthes x Dwarf Peacock- this hybrid was made in the 80s by a nursery called Lee's botanical garden. Scored a very old plant on eBay

So I built a few aquaponic tanks a year ago, and after a few months of getting everything right, I stocked them with goldfish because for a few reasons. Now they're reaching maturity, and I need to start thinking about what to do with their offspring. Any idea?


Side note, I got linked to this thread a few days ago from /out/'s /homegrown/. I've been on /out/ since day one, but for all the years I've been on 4chan, I always assumed /an/ was just for people's pets. Why did moot make /out/? I was a /k/ommando at the time, and just assumed it was an offshoot of the guns board.

>>2391819
Not really. Besides, the only thing that can happen if you put an indoor plant outside in full sun is that the existing leaves get burnt and the plant will look a bit sad for a week or two. All new leaves will be just fine.

>>2391806
It looks like a bunny after it's unfolded.

>>2391839
Be sure to take cuttings and send them across the world so it can survive forever. What did you pay for it?

>>2391841
/out/ is more for camping and other outdoor activities It's like a lovechild between /an/ and /k/.

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>>2391841

Here are some freaky aquaponic carrots if you're interested

>>2391852

Yeah, I remember that's what they were saying on /k/ years ago

The N. X Dwarf Peacock was $75 from the eBay auction. The guy who created it 31 years ago actually contacted me after seing a photo I posted of it on Facebook! He lost his original plant in a hurricane years ago. When my plant grows a basal rosette I'm chopping it down for cuttings.

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New Nepenthes kampotiana seedling- looks like shit because it was literally shipped in a ziplock back full of peat sitting in a box. This species is one of the few Nepenthes that experiences a dry dormancy. It grows a thick tuberous root to store water.

Local hardware store offered me ALL their plants for free today, I'm going on Tuesday.

I'm on foot because epilepsy, walk is half mile downhill, quarter mile uphill then back. Over 600 stairs between the staircases too.
How do I optimize my haul? I don't have trays, just a backpack which is useless. This is going to take a few trips isn't it?

>>2391890

You don't know anyone with a truck? If not, where do you live?

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>>2391896
I do, it's just too damn hard to get people to do even 5 minute favors. I'll ask around.
I'd rather have 4,000 stalks than 2,000. I have a problem.

They mainly have vegetables that no one likes, squash and zucchini, plenty of delicious broccoli, basils, parsley and some other stuff. Not sure how I got chosen, I only bought 8 broccolis from them so far because I couldn't afford $5 for parsley. I'll get them.

>>2391907
What are you going to do with that much squash and succhini?

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>>2391868
Very qt, people always forget about the differences in leaves and flowers, but roots still barely cross anyone's mind. Wish I could grow lowlanders and the new mainland-Asia species desu, the closest I have is a fairly sad N. bokorensis who can't handle highland temperatures on the cooler end.

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>>2391909
30 Planters? Take them last, don't take them or give them away. The vegetable selection is pretty much broccoli but there's other cool stuff. I'll post up on Tuesday what I get.

The fucking dollar store stopped selling sterile dirt, I can get it but in large huge mcbig bags at the hardware store that I have no way of hauling. It's enough of a bitch to get an 8.34lb gallon of water up here.

This is a tater.

>>2391863
Nice man, let's hope it grows well for you.

>>2391868
Huh, I had no idea there were tuberous Nepenthes. Cool!

>>2391934
You spelled "taterous" wrong.

>>2391918
If you don't mind getting stared at, just get like a wagon or something you can pull behind you on wheels.

>>2391937
Oh fuck you're right, I always forget those things exist. Gotta borrow one.
Not worried about stares, I've been trotting around town hugging a cooler full of extremely fast asshole worms for days.

I think the owner there also helps people haul stuff sometimes, so there's two good options, thanks.

>>2391940
>Borrow
Is there something preventing you from just buying a hand wagon or a bike to go with your hand wagon?

>>2391941
No cash, plus why would I need a permanent installment like this when I live up 250 stairs from ground? They don't sell wagons here though man. Estimated 80 plants I'm going to collect.

Can't drive for life, what the fuck United States?

>>2391943
Oh, I forgot about your stairs.

>>2391947
>Can't drink the tap water
What kind of shithole do you live in? Also is it due to your epilepsy that you can't drive? I would've thought we had enough meds to keep that in control by now.

>>2391952
RIP. Have you considered just getting a water filter? Wouldn't that be cheaper on the long term?

>>2391954
Yes. You can't buy it here. Yes, I want to move but will immediately revert to homelessness. No sense. The woods are fair game, though in much of the US you get arrested, out in the hills the cops can't reach or bother you, and they won't.
I'll spend the $1 every 2 days on a gallon of water. Severely allergic to bleach, showers pound me the fuck out. Run out of money and I'm begging everyone for clean water. Let's stop talking about me, thanks.

>>2391956
You can't like, order it off of Amazon or something? If lack of job is a problem, they have an online platform where you can work for $4/hr for gift cards.

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Conditions in my tent have been very hot recently (day: low 90s, night: low 70s- around 33day, 22 night for non-burgers). My N. northiana X Veitchii seedling is finally growing larger traps.

>>2391975
Honest question to flytrap guys, are you in it for preservation of species, fly disposal or having a cool plant?
I guess they're the most accessible rare plant, but eventually they won't be rare at the rate you guys are going. There are 500 of them between all the threads I've seen, plenty of pitchers, sundews and flytraps.
How do they seed, and can you clone any of them? I'm trying to grasp why we have so many carnivorous plant growers with the difficulty of care and niched appeal.

I'll never want to own them, but other rare plants are gold to me due to low accessibility.

>>2391985
>Fly disposal
Flytraps actually attract more flies than you would have otherwise.

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>>2391975
Very pretty plant. How many nepenthes do you have in that grow tent. And what is that in spike behind you?
>>2391985
A large number of carnivorous plants are actually pretty easy to grow. I grow all of mine in open air conditions so care is minimal. The 3 reasons you listed all come into play for most growers. That's it really. I grow them because they're cool to me and don't require much more care then an aloe

>>2391909
>SUCC

>>2392008
>no more care than aloe

Can't we get some more elusive plants circulating? Does anyone have rarer plants? Why do we always talk about seed trading and never do it when postage is 50 cents?

We're a quarter of the population of people in the world that want cool plants but we never trade or offer our seeds successfully, this is what PO boxes are made for. Can just one person come forward and start sending badass seeds out? There's so much I want to have, but I can't name any of it.

>>2392017
Things like nepenthes are slow and harder to propagate because they have one sex per plant and take a few years to become large enough to make cuttings out of. If you wanted seeds I do have a packet of d. finlaysoniana I wasn't going to plant. I'm not too sure of its viability as its been sitting in room temp for the past 2 weeks but it should be fine.

>>2392023
I'm good, carnivorous plants are too much, even though hard to grow stuff is fine with me. Rewards are not awarded here.

>>2392017
>Why do we always talk about seed trading and never do it when postage is 50 cents?
So what do you have to offer?
What families/genera do you collect?
>There's so much I want to have, but I can't name any of it
Just start buying seeds online then. Alternatively join a society dedicated to collecting a certain kind of plant. If you live in america/europe than you have a ton of options to choose from.

The reason there are so many carnivorous plant posts is because the demographics of carnivorous plant growers and image board users overlap- both are very young and male. Many horticultural communities are rapidly aging, with few young people interested. I heard that the average age in a local gesneriad society is over 70! The orchid scene is mostly older folks as well.

Finally moved my sorghum dwc outside to my landing. Figured it was well past time since they're like 3ft tall now
Moving them around was super sketchy though kept worrying I was gonna break the stalks

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>>2392074
I am young? Thanks mate.

Anyway, B52 proves again that is the real giant. I can't wait for next year.

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>>2391786
Take it outside man and follow the internet caresheets. The best flytraps I've ever seen are from some guy from San Diego.

>>2392192
I think Mr. Glass Pots' flytraps are better. Don't flytraps have issues with being planted in ceramic containers, by the way?

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Ok, I have to correct myself. It does kinda smell now. Still not awful but the flowers were tiny so far, which makes me a big apprehensive about the big guy on the left. And now I can't put them outside because it's pouring.

>>2392203
Enjoy your corpsestench. I hope you don't have guests over anytime soon.

>>2392203
the smell gets stronger the higher the temperature is

>>2392111
Is that one stronger too? Relative to its size, I mean. Can it hold bigger bugs more easily? I remember that the plant I had when I was a kid sometimes couldn't 'hold on' to certain bugs.
Also once a beetle ate its way out of a trap ._.

>>2392222
I don't know about any differences in strength between cultivars (except for those with deformed traps of course), but a large part of it depends on how much sun it gets. The less sun it gets, the slower the trap shuts and so the higher the chances the prey can escape.

>>2392227
Speed was fine, but I remember one instance where I fed it a big fly, and it managed to escape the closed trap.

>>2392222
The bigger traps grow very arched and have trouble closing even after being blasted with sunlight for 10 hours every day in summer. In fact I have to feed it a mealworm and help it to close to take that picture.

>>2392281

New thread lads