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First for cute droseras.

I just ordered me a Drosera Auriculata tuber because I just learned about these and they look fucking amazing. Any and all info about caring for these is welcome.
Also bought a Nepenthes veitchii x N. platychila from the same site (http://carnivoria.eu/, they have a lot of super cool species). I understand this is a low/highland hybrid, what can I expect from such a combination? I've only had an N. Alata many years ago, which required very little care.

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Newbie question here

I have this thingy and I'd like to grow something in it. My whole hobbyist portfolio is an avocado and two droseras grown off of seeds. My current room doesn't have windows that would let direct sunlight in.

Any suggestions?

>>2399336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6A02XtdvM
http://inhabitat.com/diy-how-to-make-your-own-green-terrarium-to-keep-or-give-away-for-the-holidays/
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Basics-of-Closed-Jar-Terrariums/
And so on and so forth.

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Jesus Christ, there's so many fucking fly eggs inside.

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>>2399340
And in this one too, and it isn't even fully opened yet.

>>2399339
Wow, thanks. I hoped people would send whole guides and not just plant names

>>2399340
what is it?

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>>2399316
>I understand this is a low/highland hybrid
No, where did you get that idea from? I mean it's an easy hybrid and it'll survive in a wide range of temperatures, but it's not lowland x highland by any means (intermediate x intermediate more like).
>>2399336
If you have no light, then I don't see how putting something in a big jar will help.
>>2399342
Nice, the flowers are surprisingly creepy when they open. Wish mine hadn't died from a mealybug infection whilst I was away at uni.

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hello

>>2399355
Stapelia grandiflora, "carrion plant".

>>2399374
*tiny screaming*

>>2399316
The climate preferences of hybrids average out between the two parents usually. Both of those parents are closer to intermediate than lowland and highland anyway. It'll be easy and adapt to house conditions.

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>>2399374
Hi

>>2399371
>No, where did you get that idea from?
You're right, one of my search results said it was intermediate x highland, I remembered it wrong.
>>2399407
Cheers.

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Time to have 80 Styrofoam cups laying around.

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>>2399471
Tiny drosera!

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Nothing new to report with the bird plant.
This motherfucker should owe me rent.

>>2399663
Maybe he's just paying you in sexy bird pics that you can post on the internet

>>2400088
He's just wanting repotted.

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I think putting ten flytraps together was a mistake

>>2400091
[screams in plant]

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>>2400092

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Progress!

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>>2400117
>phallus
Cool penis plant and/or green stick.

Do people buy jade? It's so easy to get and root, I wanted to just sell tomatoes but I can get hundreds of these.

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>>2400124
It's gonna be a nice penis plant. Looks like a miniature tree when its done but is actually a single leaf.

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>>2399614
They are everywhere!!

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>>2400136
What kind are they?
I remember the first time I tried my hand at carnivorous plants, my drosera capensis spread to all pots.

>>2400165
Burmanii
They only live a year but spread as fast as capensis

So I've got a ~20 germinated tomato plants.
I don't really have space for them at the moment.
How much soil / depth should I give them? Could I put them in a grid on my roof gutter for extra space?

>>2400236
>>2400233
Why would anyone need this much mint?

>>2400239
Do this https://www.thespruce.com/growing-tomatoes-upside-down-848178

>>2400247
I don't see any reason to do this.

>>2400240
He's lost his mind, we established this days ago.

>>2400258
>I don't have enough space
>I see no reason to plant in a way that saves space
? ? ? ? ?

>>2400259
That doesn't save space, it just inverts it. Enjoy the next storm if you want potted tomatoes that you can't get inside. This was always a dumb idea and a novelty with no actual benefits.

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>>2400240
If I ever have a yard I plan on filling it will mint.

People will smell their way to my home.

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This petunia is pumping out flowers like no tomorrow.

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>>2400322
Petunias have always been my favorite container plant. Surprisingly I didn't put any out this year.
Also, daily birb plant bump.
Hang on little fella, it's pretty windy today.

>>2400236
>>2400233
Those look an awful lot like cannabis, or is that 'the joke'?

>>2400413
Holy shit that is weed, I just thought he was insane.

>>2400238
Neato. Wiki says they can be grown multiple years if you take them inside?
And that their traps close in seconds, that seems pretty cool too.

>>2400419
das it mane

I have a saguaro cactus seedling that came from a seed in some stupid kit. It's getting big enough that i'll have to move it to a larger pot soon. What soil should I use?

>>2400563
So you're admitting it's weed. None of us even knew. Nice crop though.

>>2400423
Dunno since I've been growing them outside. If one dies, it won't be before leaving hundreds of seeds there so I don't really care about the individual drosera...

>>2400563
The absolute madman.
I can't wait to get my blue dionaea seeds delivered

>>2400563
>Cue for rulefags in 3, 2, 1...

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Finally got that package with the orchids I wanted. And they are in great condition.
The Fredclarkeara needs repotting though, but I'm not sure if I should do that now or wait until the growth period is over. Any advice?

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How do I clean or sharpen this tool?

>>2401003
Pls post more pics of this filthy hoe

(and I don't know if you can just wash it, shit's covered in rust)

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>>2401004
The metal was underground for maybe 10 years before I found it under the porch and tugged on it, thought it was just a broken handle, it was covered in sticky white stuff that the spiders left behind.

>>2401003
Look up electrolysis rust removal

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Can't even figure out what it's called with Google, anyone know?

>>2401012
I don't have all the tools right now, I tried brilloing the thing but it was too caked. I'll look into other ways to remove the rust, my main concern is sharpening inside the divots because it's good for long shit but not grass right now.

>>2401017
>sharpening divots
A sharpening rod for serrated knives.

>>2401020
Good call, that's going to be hard to find but I'll check the store tomorrow. I want a real scythe, this thing is pretty shit. I can figure what it's called then too because they have a new one still labeled, and maybe they can tell me about care. It has potential but it really needs sharpened.

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>>2401023
Overnight vinegar soak works wonders for rust removal. Take a dremel or drill with a wire brush attachment to it afterwards.

>>2401064
That's a really good idea, I've been hunting for a wire brush drill attachment for a month or two but you can not buy things that you need in the appalachians. I can't even get a pair of shoes. Going to put it in vinegar now, have two gallons of it. Maybe it will come out sharp when the layer of rust goes away. Thanks.

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I had this plant for a few years and its doing something weird, I have never seen it change colour like this before

>>2401076
I've been having lots of purple turn up on my plants like pepperoncini, jade, broccoli and garlic this year. Maybe just the cold. It's 50 degrees mid day in June, I have no idea what's going on or if this is what's affecting the plant colors, but Obama did just spend 8 years spraying chemicals all over us and it's blocking sunlight, which is exactly what they said they were doing.

>>2401003
Salt and potato.
https://youtu.be/BRVtqQQi1FI

>>2401097
That's kind of shocking, I'm going for vinegar first because the blade is pretty narrow and has hundreds of divots that would evade this treatment, but if the vinegar misses shit I'll go for this and post the fixed up tool tomorrow. I don't need it that bad but it's a $30 tool and will always do the same job, so I'd like it around.

>>2401101
Fuck nevermind I just got flower pots and thought I'd soak it in there but they're all perforated, salt and potato results in an hour or two.

>>2401087
The gay frogs were just a distraction!

>>2401105
Tonight actually I have shit to do. Give me 4 hours.

>>2401087
>Obama did just spend 8 years spraying chemicals all over us and it's blocking sunlight
I thought we were just getting fucked over by global warming. It was actually cold enough this morning to put on a sweater.

>>2401245
Oh yeah totally, the earth is getting warmer but it's a steady 30 degrees lower than normal this summer. I'm fucking sick of slugs and thry 're thriving.

>>2401253
>Steady 30 degrees lower
We still get high 80s~low 90s here. This week it's just a bit colder because it rained earlier. Now it's just plain cloudy. This past February was frickin' ridiculous, though, as well as not this past December, but the one before that. We had an incredibly muggy Christmas that year.

>>2401101
The salt/tater worked about halfway, I know I need to scrub more but I keep dropping my taters over the porch into the yard into a bush I can't get them out of. I hope I have nothing adverse come from putting 6 cups of vinegar in the tub and laying the tool inside, which I am going for next. Not posting pictures because it's still fucking brown.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/downloads/petunia_varieties.pdf

9 more varieties added today. I wonder how this will affect the industry if the illegal orange is in so many of their reds, pinks, and purples? I guess they must have libraries of older stuff somewhere and new ones are coming out every year.

>>2401430
Ah, sorry it didn't work out better for you. Pretty funny, though.
Do you have a 5 gallon bucket you could use?

>>2401446
Tons but they're perforated. I'll have the thing cleaned up and posted tomorrow.

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XTRA THICC

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>>2401097
Kind of shitty still, can't get in the divots with a tater and I got drunk last night and forgot to put it in vinegar. I'll soak it here in a minute and hope the rust doesn't stain my tub. Potato/salt was 3/10 for this thick ass rust, but I only scrubbed for ten minutes.

>>2401435
post your petunia jail

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>>2401771

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T. venosum blooming

>>2401774
It's in vinegar, gotta go do shit, see you guys in 6-7 hours with clean hoe.

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>>2401788
Nice. How old is it? How's the smell?

Also Amorphophallus albus still going fast.

>>2401798
Wasn't that a stick two days ago? Or are you not that guy?

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>>2401798
>How old is it? How's the smell?
No idea, I had them a couple of years but they grow very fast if you fertilize them. They multiply readily as well. In fact I have a hole tub of at least fist sized corms right now.

The smell is different from Amorphophallus I'd say, smells more like shit.

>>2401802
Damn dude you grow sticks too?

>>2401803
that's right

>>2401799
I am that guy, and yes that was that stick. It actually came out of the earth about 9 days ago.

Like I said, going fast. Amorphophallus can multiply the weight of their bulb by 5 to 10x in a single growing season.

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>>2401773
I still only have the 3 sadly. I looked all over yesterday but nope. I could have found at least one more but they only added the potunia red to the list after I got home, pretty sure one place had that guy.

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Fucking caterpillar is falling in my flytraps and then escaping via eating its way out.

>>2401791
4 Hours in vinegar and ZERO results, the rust will not be removed. I'll take brillo to it later but this fucking sucks and nothing is working.

Oh and my house smells like shit.

>>2401820
they might be worth something once they mostly get destroyed. i thought the orange ones looked the best

they still sell those at like ace hardware. it is not the rust that is the problem it just needs a sharp edge. maybe a honing rod for a knife a grinder. forget about the rust if you just want to chop weeds

>>2401976
Well I just want the thing to look good so I can be a shirtless, hairy chested, weed whacking amish man on my own property. We're at 5 hours in vinegar so we'll find out soon how effective salt/tater scrubbing is on vinegar soaked rust, I checked at 4 hours and it was still caked on but I have to scrub yet.

>>2401534
Nice one!

>>2401847
That fucking cunt. I had a beetle do that to mine once.

>>2401888
You still need to scrub it after the soak.

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>>2401976
I don't know, if there is any illegal underground trade for petunias it'd likely be the orange ones if any. Might be some little old ladies trying to keep them IDK.

I mean the companies could decide to do the expensive paperwork and testing and bring the orange back. As for the pinks, reds and purples, they probably have other varieties they can fill in their catalogues with. Unless the orange has gotten into everything. I do wonder at how much they will have to toss.

>>2402009
I got a drunk nap and now we're at 7-8 hours, we'll see what the brillo does here soon, friend.

carnivorous plants are GAY

>>2402053
Agree, too many of them now and they're more prevalent than aloe, and when you reach aloe status you're fucking gay.

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>>2402053

>>2401978
just let your body be the star attraction. i still use one because they last longer than the battery on my weedeater and they don't need a cord. watch out for tetanus.

>>2402040
i might swing by my home depot and see if I can score an orange one so I can get in on this underground petunia trade. I saw one on ebay but thats just going to far.

>>2402087
Shit man, illegal orange petunia trading via illegal asexual propagation? That's some dark stuff to get into. Be careful.

>>2402087
9 Hours in vinegar, still busy. Maybe 12 will work.

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I need a plan to diagnosis, I got have a blueberry plant in Canada.

I was treating it with fungicide for leaf rust and now the leaves are turning black. I'm pretty sure it's mummy berry. Any tips anons?

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>>2402157
Here's another pic just to be sure

>>2402157
Grow organically.

>>2399663
im the bird plant's biggest fan

>>2402164
That won't do any good now, man.

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This is what a real cactus looks like.

>>2402164
A+ advice thank you, also if you meant organically as in no chemicals, the fungicide I used was a mixture of dish-soap, Vinegar, Baking Soda, Canola oil, and water, I doubt that's still considered organic but oh well.

What plant makes the best pet?

>>2402324
Sundews or Flytraps.

>>2402336
Do sundews die if you breathe on them wrong?

>>2402341
No. They're easy as hell to propagate, too. I remember a guy here last year posting his capensis that was living underneath the moss in his flytrap pot. They'll survive any way they can, basically, but you do have a minimum standard of care for them, as with most plants.

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>>2400954

hey thats very neato guy, why does it need repotting? has the medium been consumed? When i got my C.fimbriatum i no only repotted it but i acctually dismounted the three pseudobulds from a piece of brach, this was a couple of days before fall and even with the shock of the shipment, plus the dismounting
it holded pretty them gud. if you look pic related, the base of the pseudobulb on the middle you can see a little piece of green root, that is a new root that grew after a hole fkn fall.
Also most catasetums like to be re potted in mid spring

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Does anyone know what this is? Found in the woods of Portland, OR.

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>>2402375
Curious on what this is as well, found near same location.

>>2402314
Well just the dish soap is off the list. None of that you want on the plant anyways, oil blocks pores and sunlight, vinegar kills shit, baking soda is just powdered salt and dish soap also blocks sun and damages leaves.

17 Hours in vinegar on that rusty tool because I'm a drunkard and keep passing out, I'll scrub it soon but my tub is sure to smell like shit for days.

>>2402471
>baking soda is just powdered salt

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>>2402476
Yes, friend.

Here's the big reveal: I need to get a knife and tediously scrape this shit, however vinegar guy was right. We'll have a brand new tool in a day or two when I stop drinking and start giving a fuck, but I'll go back at it with salt and taters at sunrise. There's definitely clean metal under here.

>>2402347
>why does it need repotting?
It appears to be in nearly poor sphagnum moss (which is good), but that has become very compacted. I fear the roots get not enough air and it won't drain or dry properly.

>>2402485
>vinegar guy was right
Aw yis. That pic I posted was my own, so I was pretty sure anyway, heh. But now you know why I recommended a powertool with a wire wheel, you'd be done in a few minutes, and it's super satisfying to see the dirt go away.

>>2402542
I really want one but I'm going to have to knife thus shit off. There's definitely some clean steel under there.

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>>2402341
Get a D. Capensis, they grow like weed. You can just dig em up & pull them apart if you notice they have multiple 'cores' (you'll know what I mean when you see it, it's super obvious), and plant em in new pots. See pic, left one cost me ~$4 in a generic shop, right is about half of what I got out of it, all thriving.
They move to curl around prey, not nearly as fast as a flytrap of course, but they can still move quite a bit in ~30 minutes, still very cool.
And they don't need live prey, you can feed em crushed ants or even fishfood (wet it a tiny bit so it's gooey and put it in a leaf).

>>2402549
Basic pointers:
>only rainwater, destilled water, or RO water
>keep it outside asmuch as possible unless it's freezing, they love light
>if it produces dew, all is well
>don't feed it stuff that's much bigger than a leaf, it'll mold
>soil: peat/perlite mix 1:1, or peat/moss, or peat/CLEAN white sand

>>2402549
That's the only flytrap I'd ever bother to own.

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>>2399316
Is the tuber acclimated for your hemisphere? I have some squamosas and stoloniferas that I got last summer from Australia that won't go fucking dormant despite it being June and 75-85f during the day.

Pic related; one of the dumbasses

>>2402558
More humidity man, some plants just won't grow

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Does it improve drainage if you put a layer of gravel to the bottom of a planter, then placing a geotextile fabric on it to prevent the substrate from washing through the gravel and clogging the drainage holes in the planter?
There are lots of instructions like this in my local language but I can't find anything in English.

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What kind of plant is this?

>File deleted
Case closed. Fuck off with your degeneracy.

>>2402609
I deleted it myself because I don't condone such things, but they are commonplace here. I could provide more examples.

>Some edgelord/bored art student on /b/ posts a roleplaying thread
>This means posting about yourself breaking the law is legal

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>>2399305
Hello /plant/! I posted in an earlier thread, I was looking to start my first garden on the balcony of my apartment. For reference, I live in Greece (mediterranean climate), and my balcony gets plenty of indirect sunlight and plenty of shade, but no direct sunlight unfortunately.
So, I went out yesterday and got myself my first plants! Following the help of the guy at the shop, I got a mint and a lavender, that I'm planning to put in the same long pot (the guy told me to only water the mint, so that the lavender doesn't take over the entire pot. He also told me that those two herbs were ideal for shade).
I also got one of these beauties, I wasn't planning on it but I liked it the moment I saw it. The guy told me it's called Fuchsia, and that it's gonna do ok on my balcony.
Anyways, today I'm preparing to move them from their little pots to the bigger ones I got for them. Can anyone give me some advice or maybe a link for a good guide on how to go about this from now on? I read that I should put coffee filters on the bottom of my pots, so that the water drains but the soil doesn't fall, would /plant/ recommend it? Also, I saw that the fuchsia looks great on a hanging basket, but unfortunately I only got a regular pot for it, and it's also pretty developed already - it's at half a meter high I'd say. Should I go and move it to the regular pot? Will I have a chance to move it to a hanging basket?

>>2402588
Tradescantia

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>>2402549
I'm a bit tired of them, every two years I have to kill like 80% of all I own or they overflow their pot and kill themselves

>>2402623
They're a good baby friendly plant, though. Unless you're Reddit. I still have no idea how you can fuck up as badly as r/SavageGarden does on a daily basis.

>>2402578
Yes that's a standard addition but not many people actually need to do it unless we're talking cactuses. Whatever you're growing probably needs that space for roots and less drainage because soil set up like this dries extremely fast and can require two waterings a day in a plant like tomato, but yes that does accelerate drainage a lot.

>>2402592
You anti weed guys are hilarious. Just shut the fuck up, no one cares.

>>2402615
Mirabilis jalapa looks like this in case you want a copy.

>>2402314
buy that fungicide with copper in it. Or move your plant to a sunnier and windy area. try to spray up from the bottom if that makes sense.

>>2402635
also this may or not be obvious but don't spray the copper fungicide on any fruit you plan on eating. but i see you haven't got any fruit yet.

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>>2402635
I spray the bottom of my maters because it seems plants only like moisture on the bottom of the leaves. They're really happy right now.

Can anyone recommend books/websites/videos if I've never done anything with plants before

>>2402759
There's such a big variety that it'd be easier if you told us the conditions you can provide to them.

>>2400275
>tfw grandmother planted a couple mint plants
>now it's an infestation of mint
>people think they're weeds there are so many of them

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>>2402525
then go ahead men, i have mine in a mix of bark/coal/sphagnum.

Also i forgot to ask you what is that second one on the photo, looks like a phallenopsis, and those thick striped leaves are driving me insane

>>2402924
It's actually a Paphiopedilum, P. sukhakulii
And yes, the leaves are great, I got it because of that.

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How quickly will these beans become potbound? I know I should've planted them in deeper soil but 3 inches seemed high enough to start and we're only 5 days in and they're rooting out the bottom.
Immediate transplant? Pinto left, Kentucky wonder green bean right.

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Hens & chicks

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And a bird plant

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>>2403156
I use ash constantly because I smoke 20+ cigars a day. Not sure yet, but it seems good.

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>>2402375
Looks like Maianthemum racemosum to me.

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>>2402377
This one is Vancouveria hexandra, known as inside-out flower.

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Pollenated my Nepenthes inflorescence, now I wait to see if viable seed is produced

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Do any of you guys know what this left plant is called? The tall one with long fingered leaves.
Its my plant, but the store where I got it out of business. Trying to find out if its poisonous for my dog, and also I just like the plant and would like to know.

>>2403277
Yes, when you make flowers fuck themselves, you get seeds.

>>2403495
That's weed dude. I've never seen weed like this though.

>>2403498
no m8.. thats coming, though.

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>>2403495
>>2403501
alright, heres a fresh picture. Its doing much better now.

>>2403503
Well no, it's not weed, but it is a fucking cool plant even though it looks like a weed.

>>2403503
Also increase pot size to 4-5 gallons as soon as possible.

>>2403513
Alright, I hadn't thought of it. I keep moving it around and it really hates that. Every time I do it sheds a ton of leaves before it just goes into grow-mode and sprouts tiny little baby leaf hands all over the place!

I gave the monstera a bigger pot recently and it was just all roots and almost no soil left in there. Looked slightly terrifying like a parasitic alien organism. Then it was so happy with its new pot that it started rolling out more leaves again which was awesome

>>2402769
Someday I will have a yard, fill it with mint and strawberries, and let them fight to the death.

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>>2403072

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>>2403574
Daisy's will be in bloom earlier this year

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>>2403577
Comfy garden pics

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>>2403579
Lillys almost done

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>>2403580
And of course

>>2403582
Damn get it a fresh plant, mourning doves don't move enough to give a shit, you can probably transplant it again.

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>>2403586
They started the nest in a healthy plant.
I moved it and the eggs to a dead plant from last year, then moved the healthy plant to a different location.
Pic related

>>2403590
I know but you should try a similar, fresh plant is what I was saying.

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>>2403593
At this point I don't want to mess with them.

>>2403597
True, they usually get pissed off when nesting is disturbed, but maybe later you can replace it.

I think you should've put a fresh plant in. No real reason, just want their eggs out of mold etc.

>>2403597
How did you manage to kill a wandering jew? I thought those things were indestructible?

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>>2403602
Waited too long to bring it in, they don't like the cold.

>>2403603
Cute bees.

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>>2402949
very beautiful men


>>2403072
>>2403574
boy that is very thick, love them.

>>2403607
SPIRAL PLANT
The fuck is that?

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>>2403604
Kek

>>2403610
Yes, your dog is cute too.

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>>2403607
>boy that is very thick, love them
Thanks, I plan on moving stuff around, I'll thin them out by using them to fill around my lillies

>>2403613
He's been like that for 10 days, what a good dog.

>>2403617
Persistent dogger.

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>>2403603

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B52 trying to escape a sea of typicals and other lesser known cultivars.
"NORMIES OUT REEEE"

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>>2403608
cereus forbesii spiralis, the other bulbous one is C. monstruosus


>>2403615
that will sure look amazing, I only have a few elegans, glauca and gibbiflora.
Also that burgundy flower, dream fuel right there friend

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>>2403672
I'm sure everyone is aware of your special snowflake status, no need to scream.
Potted some basil today.

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>>2403689
>cereus forbesii spiralis,
That is really nice.
I have a pile of p pear under my bathroom windows. I'll break some off here and there, but I detest pulling weeds around it.

>>2403689
THICK

>>2403689
Wonderful

>>2403672
I can't tell the difference.

>>2403689
I would love cacti if they weren't so spiny.

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>>2403723
>>2403724
Well thank you bois


>>2403690
>but I detest pulling weeds around it.
This, I hear you mate, cleaning the pots of any plant is a pain in the ass but doing so on cactus is a fucking torture

>>2403767
It's bigger with longer teeth and the traps are wider.
Anyway it's not an adult yet so the main difference, its size, it's not that noticeable yet.

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>>2403767
There are lots of cactus with no thorns or very inoffensive thorns
pic related is the echinopsis chamaecereous
(like people around here call it "peanut cactus), it has very small and thin thorns

>>2403771
Sorry i mean >>2403702

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>>2403781
Also there's lots of other cool succulents that aren't cacti.

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>>2403801
Yeah no shit.
that euphorbia looks very neat

>>2403771
Tweezers friend, and use non yard dirt or microwave your next substrate mixture for a minute and the weeds won't come up.

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>>2403820
Really? That microwave thing just blew me away, I will keep it in mind for the next potting.
I use a brand which is unironically meant for weed, but I tried it first with succulents (it has a very good drainage rate) and it proved to be excellent.
counterside is that invasive species seem to love it even more
Thank you pal

>>2403834
Did it? All dirt selling companies bake their dirt to kill bacteria, fungus, insects and weeds. It does kill "beneficial soil microbes" whatever the fuck they are though. The dirt becomes sterile and only minerals remain, I notice plants like peppers grow HORRIBLY BAD in sterile dirt, but it has it's uses. You should just buy a soil mix and dig clay, dry it, powder it, mix it in and then add epsom (magnesium/sulfur) and smoke tons of cigarettes and add the ashes. But not firesafe paper cigarettes, they are poison, use little cigars and regular cigars.

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>>2403842
Ey thank you for the tip, I will try it out
This is dirt sold by a very small operation, it's made in a garage by two or three old hippies, it's actually very nice because I got to see the place personally, they don't use chemicals, i have tried in korn and the results were very tasty.
They use things like coconut fiber, river sand, dry moss, worm hummus, fish flour and some other stuff I cannot recall right know
Even this little guy is thriving in that soil

>>2403870
Hippies, like me, make the best dirt. You can trust us, just don't trust the brownies.

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>>2403872
>don't trust the brownies
Im not sure i understand what you mean here man, this is not my first language.
this is a photo of the korn, it took me a while to find it, here it was 1 and a half months or so

>>2403952
You know, weed brownies, hippie stuff. Right? Get it? Damnit, I've never gotten that joke over anyone's head. Congratulations.

>>2403960
Have you tried it with cookies? Pretty great stuff too.

>>2402558
I don't know. It's a EU seller with local stock, but the description says 'Sydney'.

>>2403966
I've never eaten weed but I smoke a lot and lose a lot of money to street dealers, which I'm losing my shit over, I need stores.

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>>2403277
Nice one. I think making your own seed eventually ends up as the main goal of keeping Neps, unfortunately I'm still waiting for any of my female plants to come into bloom.

>>2403498
>Nepenthes flowers
>fucking themselves

You're talking straight our of your arsehole mate.

Any recipes for organic fertilizers?

I'm looking for something with an NPK ratio of 2-1-1

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Healthy roots and moss

>>2404016
I know nothing of carnivorous plants and think they're gay.

>>2404054
Whatever NPK is, I have no idea. Dig up clay, bake discs, powder it and amend soil. Not sure how this works yet, I only have garlic and Japanese maple in it, but the garlic is definitely growing faster than the ones in potting soil. 8 Inches tall in 5 days from clove.

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High /plant/

Why is my mint acting all retarded?
I left this, my only plant to date, at my mother's for a trip, and these little baby arms kept growing for a month without achieving anything of significance. Fucking welfare leeches, living off the other leaves.

It's like the branch forgot how to grow leaves, but tried again every five centimeters but said "fuck it" and kept on going.

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>>2403960
Sorry dude, i will get it next time, also i never accept pot brownies, i make my own

>>2404054
why so low? what are you planting?
I use bat shit/rabbit shit (guano, idk if in English you have a different word for it) for my succulents and edibles, i believe that the ratio for that is 9-8-9 but the problem i find is that those organic fertilizers have a very slow rate of assimilation.
mineral fertilizers (there are a few in the market that are organic) are much faster but the npk ratio is killer ( 18-11-19 or things like that).
My advice (aldo it would be gud to know what are you growing) to you would be go with a little of rabbit shit diluted in declorified water (leave the bucket 48 hs outdoors, the more sunlight the better), again if you are going to use it immediately you can use an aquarium pump in the mix for 24 hs, that boosts the assimilation rate.

>>2404402
Your mint is lonely and wants buddies.

>>2404402
Put a little cage around it and tangle it up, or just cut them off.

>>2404407
Supposed to be around 100 days for shit to become available, but I continuously have to wonder why you guys would want to use poop on food plants.

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Collecting seeds

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>>2404417
why wouldn't i use it? isnt supposed to be used in organic plantations?
If it is about the fungus it brings to the soil i use trichoderms for the lower, i know a ton of people who use trico as a kind of biological funguicide and truly never knew someone who poisoned himself for using guano (not by the guano itself and not by Histoplasmosis nor any of that shit)
what are you using? are you this guy >>2404239?

>>2404435
I just don't like poop on edible plants, and yes link 2 was me. It works, but that's just because of nitrogen, which is readily available everywhere else. Put worms in your plant or something, maybe buy nitrogen and Epsom, using poop is kind of nasty.

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Green stick is done being a green stick now it seems.

>>2404471
That was fast.

>>2404414
thanks, now I empathized with and am emotionally invested in my plant

>>2404417
>Put a little cage around it and tangle it up, or just cut them off
will do both
will cut on of the motherfuckers in pieces and put them in water to see if they grow roots

>>2404486
Maybe since mint is more of a weed, but all cloning presents difficulties.

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>>2404444
>using poop is kind of nasty.
well the idea of using it might be but you can be careful with it and its fucking amazing.
Plants fucking love it


>>2404471
Euphorbia?, men those two look tasty

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>>2404200
Are clear pots safe for them? I've thought about it but was worried about cooking the roots.

I also just learned the small bag of pretty white gravel I bought is marble, which I learned soon after is not suited at all as groundcover for carnivorous plants.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can use instead that looks about the same? (and that doesn't require me buying a 20+ kg bag)

>>2404572
white quartz

>>2404402
>High /plant/
No, bugguy left.

>>2404444
>Put worms in your plant
Then you're just fertilizing with worm shit. Why is that supposedly better?

>using poop is kind of nasty.
Only to 21st century white suburban Americans.

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Could this be a convolvulaceae?

>>2404620
/plant/ = plant general
plont = trip fag from the Netherlands who constantly pissed people off

>>2404632
Yeah but 'a Convolvulaceae' isn't really a valid noun, you don't really need the 'a' there. Just call it a bindweed desu.

>>2404661
He was also a druggie.
But yeah, it wasn't a funny joke. Sorry.

>>2404632
Morning glory?

>>2404630
I knew I would get bit in the ass, but worm shit is a bit if a cleaner process. They're just wet tubes with mouths and assholes, a bit cleaner than what cows get into. Not different at all, but I'm anti cow shit and worms are easy to get cleaned out.

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>>2402228
Sweet. I have a collection of prickly pears myself.

>>2404572
They've been there for 3 years, I think they'll be safe.
You can buy aquarium sand, which is basically what >>2404578 said.

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>>2404999
Yeah, I do have clean white-ish sand, but those white pebbles would've been a lot prettier.
I do have some very black sand too, that might be interesting.
Pic is my baby, only have this 1 VFT at the moment, 2 sarracenia, and a bunch of D. Capensis. I bought them a little over 3 weeks ago from a local garden center, it's got 2 new functional traps since then, with 4 more incoming as you can see. I think it's doing pretty well.

what would be some good plants to keep near your computer? Relatively small, would prefer either a small tree (kind of like a bonsai tree) or a cactus. Please recommend me something that has low light requirements. Thank you, and sorry, i am new to /plant/.

>>2405631
Lucky bamboo. Just don't give it tap water and you're good.

I need to go and buy some cheap cookware to mod into shallow pots so my tropical cacti stop root-rotting.

Serious pro-tip. If you're planting those, try for shallow pots. Minimal dirt for the root mass. You want things to dry out instead of retaining moisture, and so traditional pots are a death sentence.

>>2405789
Well, not necessarily root rotting. What happens is I check on them and all the green plant bits have melted into goo.

>>2405789
It sounds like it would be considerably easier to just repot them into something free-draining. If things have literally turned to goo then you're probably doing things very wrong - how much light and water are they getting?

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Seedlings from 2016

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Anyone know what this is called? Also, what is it growing there?

I picked it because it looked really healthy.

>>2399305
You should cross link to /out/'s homegrown threads

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>>2405789
My maters are efficiently drinking a gallon a day with no drainage, going to have to keep beefsteaks out of pots next year because I don't have a hose hookup.
I can get an expandable hose and hook it to the sink but those are $20 at the damn dollar store.

So I got myself a little Perle von Nurnberg on a whim. I know it's a cactus but how much am I actually supposed to water it? Every few days? Weeks? Once a month? All I can really find is "occasionally," and "regularly until it establishes a root system."

>>2406057
I thought that was a succulent from what I saw on google. Once a week is what I do for similar plants, but if it's actually a cactus go for 20 days.

What's a neat indoor plant that I can stick in my room and probably won't mind if my dog slightly mangles it?

>>2406057
Never. My cactus still isn't dead. Though mine's an outdoor cactus, so it probably gets overwatered, desu.

>>2406072
A shelf is a neat indoor plant that your dog can't mangle. Easy germination, transplants, light watering schedule and almost no maintenance.

>>2406074
That wouldn't require me to touch or go anywhere near any sort of power tools*

>>2406082
I just nail a tiny piece of wood to the wall and water it until it grows into a shelf.

What is it a rental? Get a wire rack or something. Your dog won't eat your plants anyways, cats are the ones that eat them.

>>2406092
My sister's dog ate my pothos last year.

>>2406120
Well fuck I didn't know they did that. Use shelves.

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I want to thank y'all for getting me interested again, I love my plants. I came home stressed out, spend 3 hours just feeding & looking at em, and now I'm all zen again.

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>>2406200

>>2406200
Those are not plants, they are reddits.
Grow a tomato. I have 300. They're nice and they make food.

>>2406244
Plants are plants

>>2406245
But if tomatoes are plants, are sundews reddits?

The answer is 14. Good luck.

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>>2406244
I'm also growing cute tomatoes.

>>2406244
You appear lost, friend, maybe the >>>/out/ thread is more your style.

>>2402588
Some kind of epidendrum... Looks like its hybrid. those are really easy to take care of and have a lot of keikis. Nice orchid to start with.

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>>2406281
I don't like /out/ at all, the discussions are asinine and irrelevant to anything but zombies, which don't exist.

>>2406277
These are my cherry tomatoes. I'm very glad to have them, pretty valuable plant, expecting up to $150 from them because there's 50 stalks and they're $4 a box for shit mexican glyphosate eating maters. All organic here, and my vegetables will taste much better and sell a bit higher, but I won't ask more than $5 a pound.

>>2406325
I believe they are referring to the homegrowmen thread. >>>/out/1034574
It's a little different than the rest of /out/ IMHO

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>>2406325
Tomatoes everywhere. Watermelon, green beans and garlic in there too.
Shallow tray is because I'm finding that vegetables just STOP until they find the bottom of their pot. Had to have pepper plants given to me because I planted seed in a 20 inch deep pot and got 2 inch sticks after three months. Hitting bottom is definitely the key to fast growth at the start of the season.

These are beefsteaks and "slicing" tomatoes, the second being store harvested and dried seed.

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>>2406333
Yeah and they're weird people that are uncomfortable with each other. I have six years here, kiss my ass, /out/ is nothing like these threads.

<extremely fast tomatoes moving at incredible high speed

>>2406339
>they are weird people who are uncomfortable with each other
>so I will do my best to make everyone else uncomfortable posting around me

m8

>>2406374
Speak for yourself. I'm quite entertained by passionate tomato anon.

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>>2406339
The homegrowmen thread is awesome. The sticky alone has a ton of useful info.
You would think someone growing 300+ tomato plants would appreciate it, but hey if you would rather talk to more normal people like us who am I to judge?
Speaking of normal, bird plant.

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>>2406382
Hey you only have hostas sucking the life out of your yard.

Here's 4 red cabbage, 2 garlic, 10 green beans, 2 broccoli, and 2 slug foods.

little over a year ago, my dad & i sodded our entire back yard. now it's still looking like it's not grown together
I've read that overseeding can probably help our situation, but from what I've read, it's mostly for winter

how often should I overseed if I'm going to do it to try & fix our dying lawn?

>>2406395
Just piss on it, that's what I do. Works great.

>there are actually people that tell you to piss on your plants

>>2406317
thats not a epidendrum, its not even a orchid, >>2402616 was right

What species of peppers are this?

My cousing gave me a couple of red chillies from her college greenhouse and and I never new what the fuck I was planting.

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>>2406546
Fuck

>>2406339
It's funny, they criticize the /an/ plant gen for being mainly about carnivorous plants. And from the OP I can understand where they get that from.

>>2406339
More like we called you a faggot till you fucking left.

>>2406802
I am rat man, not the swedish guy. That did happen, but I was tripping nuts from roommates smoking new spice in the house and my room being airless. Shit actually really fucked me up, caused severe skin disease and a recall of my asthma, no fault of my own. I'm not plont though, you can lay off me unless you have screens from 2010 and want to nail me for bing a dumbass.

>>2406570
I don't like them because too much propagation. Same as aloe and spider plants and hostas. All extremely annoying, worthless plants. Have you ever used aloe on a burn? It does not work like these mystical claims say it does. It does nothing but clog pores and block the air flow onto the area, which agitates burn. Use petroleum jelly. Spider plants and host as are also completely useless. Carnivorous plants are the same, use a flytrap, they're 20 cents a pop.

>>2406547
Finally got it, I think that's bird's eye. Don't touch it like that. Fuck, don't touch any unidentified pepper.

>>2406809

>Hostas
>useless

They're one of the few edible plants that can be grown in permanent shade. They're perennial and can be harvested year on year and are highly effective weed suppression. Damn good for any shady part of a permaculture garden, or any garden, as long as you're not living in a desert.

>>2406837
They're EDIBLE?
Holy shit I've been mistaken. What do you do, boil them?

And yes, they suppress weeds because of their 10 square foot root system per bulb.

>>2406848

>10 square foot root system per bulb.

What?

Anyway, the edible part is the leaf shoot while it's unfurling in spring, depending on the variety (i.e. thickness of the shoot), you can either boil them or pan fry them. They go well with soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and sesame oil.

>>2406848
>And yes, they suppress weeds because of their 10 square foot root system per bulb.
I think you're the same anon who complained about hosta roots before.
Honestly, you're doing it wrong. I've transplanted many of them, from small cuttings to 4-5' wide bushes. While it's true they can have an expansive root system there is no need to take every inch of the established roots. A sharp shovel 6-8" down along the drip ring of the plant is all you have to dig. Leave the rest of that shit to rot, the plant won't grow back. The hardest thing about digging up large hostas is simply the weight, and that only matters if you are trying to keep it all together.
The actual reason they are good for weed control is not much grows under them, due to lack of light.
Regardless, you don't like hostas, I get it. While you are entitled to your opinion, there is no need to spread misinformation.

>>2406869
Yes, I am, but problem is I've only ever dug up a 10-20 year old hosta and I project A LOT. I just don't like the prevalence and intense process of digging old ones up.

I'm not kidding, that fucker had 30 plants (3 square) and 10 square feet of roots. This is where my hatred was born, I was trying to put a poinsettia and pineapple there.

I didn't have a shovel. Just hand tools. Fuck. I hate hostas so fucking much.

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Finally got my first garden up and running! I got a couple of herbs going (mint, lavender), and also this pretty thing, which I later found is called "fuchsia". Mediterranean climate, shady balcony.
Now, I'm a total beginner, and all I've done so far is repot the plants and water them when the soil dried up every couple of days or so this past week. Any advice for taking care of these particular plants? What should be my next step, fertilize? prune my fuchsia maybe?

>>2406890
Fuchia like shade so you got that. Where I am some are hardy and some aren't but you're somewhere warmer so it could be perennial. Deadhead for more flowers, although I find the seed pods/fruit kinda neat. The stem the pods are on will snap off. Just be careful you don't take off nearby stems that still have flowers going at the same time. Pinch prune a little to keep it bushy and not get giant arms going out.

>>2406890
Mirabilis jalapa

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Cupped trap.
This one is so small even in adulthood that live moss might become a problem.

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Identity please

>>2406809
>a plant has to have a use to be worth growing

Like, I get that this is just your opinion but that's such a bleak view on gardening. It can be enjoyable to grow difficult things that offer nothing beyond the challenge, just as it can be enjoyable to grow something simple because one enjoys its aesthetics.

I impulse bought a pitcher plant and I was hoping I might be able to get advice for careing for it. I already know they need to be kept wet pretty much constantly - although I don't really know how to get mineral free water?

Is there anything else they need that's important? Sorry if I sound dumb as shit but I don't want it to die.

>>2407154
Also you could argue that a use for ornamentals would be just eyecandy. A plant being eyecandy is as valid a reason for it's existence as being a food source.

>>2407160
Which one?
Mist them whenever you can, they like humidity. Keep the soil wet, but do not have it standing in a dish with water or anything. Lots of light, not too much direct sunlight.
You can either buy a reverse osmosis thingy to make your own carnivorous-plant-safe water, or buy distilled water. Or ask around if someone has a rainwater barrel.

>>2407153
Trident maple. Maybe.

>>2407154
I actually do agree, I love pretty plants, but only a few. I told you I was narrow minded and project. I don't like a lot of stuff, I'm autistic.
Difficult to grow is actually a cool aspect, but nothing is even difficult to grow but corpse flowers and I wouldn't have access to them. Everything in gardening is piss easy, except organic gardening pest control, maybe that's where the appeal can become lost. I will never like carnivores, but I would also be happy to have a rare plant. I'm really neutral plus or minus a couple things, the more common the plant, the worse it is.

>>2407162
I agree, this is a valid use. Except Japanese maple and hosta. I have no access to eye candy plants without paying $30 per square foot to my neighbor, who charges outrageous fees and doesn't start seeds, he ships them in and his plants die. He sold me a 6 square foot peace lily that died in 4 days, complete bullshit for a dude that owns a flower shop.

>>2407160
There are three/four different kinds of pitcher plants each with very different needs, is it a Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Heliamphora or Darlingtonia? Nepenthes is tropical and assuming you live in a temperate climate should be kept indoors (the ones you find in stores generally are hybrids that grow well enough on a windowsill). Sarracenia is temperate and should grow outdoors in a bog, just like Darlingtonia (which tends to be more fussy but is also a lot cooler looking). Heliamphora needs a lot of light but cool temperatures and should stay indoors unless you live on a mountain in Guyana.

You can find distilled or demineralised water at your local supermarket, or you can use rainwater. It's not that big of a deal if you water them with tap water once if they need watering and you've run out of 'good' water, just don't do it often.

>>2407216
I just found about 40 chlorine filters for $1 at a thrift store. I don't own carnivores though.

What is the absolute peak of cool? I want to like these things but they're mom plants now, except the one guy with the outdoor bowl that actually knows what he's doing.

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I posted a while ago about a Sarracenia alata I bought with an unidentified butterwort in the pot. You folks said to put it outside in full sun, which I did, and I'm misting it 2-3x a day, but it's looking kind of iffy now, and the butterwort is all but gone. Are they just adjusting? Will the butterwort grow back?

>>2407220
Chlorine is not really the problem, it's the total dissolved solids, which can be at most about 100 ppm (parts per million). Tap water is often already 300 ppm if not more.

>>2407246
Uh, well, it shouldn't be doing that. There still seems to be some green at least. I guess it was grown in a more shaded environment before so it got fried. With a bit of luck it'll recover, even if it doesn't look like it's doing anything for a while. Don't mist Pinguicula though, it takes away the mucilage so they have to put energy into producing it again.

>>2407246
>>2407259
Oh btw it's most likely Pinguicula primuliflora. If you look it up you'll see more people have had problems with putting it in full sun.

>>2407259
Should I separate the butterwort into its own pot, since I shouldn't be mixing it?

Forgot to mention, it's in the fish tank because it was really windy for a couple of days and it seemed to be getting blown around.

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Hang on to your ass bird!

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>>2407263
I love watching the weather roll in.

>>2407263
You must be near California, that same shit hit the Northeast yesterday at 2-3.
It'll only last 40 mins. Maybe tie a rope to the planter when the bird plant leaves and tie it into a ground stake. Winds will be 25-30 for a few minutes, but it's a pretty calm storm overall.

>>2407265
Yes, but not when you have 60lb pots sitting outside. Fuck that storm drained me. Where is it now?
Had to cover 40 things yesterday. Wasn't even necessary, they were strong enough to hold up.

>>2407246
I told you that butterworts don't tolerate direct sunlight.
The sarracenia should be fine once it adapts

>>2407176
>>2407216
Thank you both; it's a Sarrecenia. I live in the UK so it's not an ideal climate for tropical plants but it came in a glass container that seems to be holding the moisture in pretty well.

I bought it on sale and I think it was on sale because one of the pitchers (would you call it a leaf?) looks mouldy/like it's dying, should I be worried? I can get a picture if necessary.

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I want to expand but they're already taking too much room for their own good. I have high walls surrounding my small garden so they don't get as much light as they could. If my make them into more pots I won't be able to keep them all on the table.
Can I not just grow them straight on my walls, like, vertically?

>>2407551
Get it outside, sarracenia are not tropical plants.
In fact, some have become naturalized in the uk

http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27783-sarracenia-purpurea-in-wareham-england/

>>2399340
>>2399342
so what happens when they hatch? maggots all over the floor?

>>2407569
Yup. Lot of tiny maggots. I've put the plants in a big, black bowl and luckily the maggots die in a few hours out in the sun with nothing to eat.

>>2399305
Oh, that's pretty neat, thank you.

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Hey /plant/, need a bit of advice

So I just bought a Coconut plant in Lidl, it's about 160cm tall (5'3 feet) kinda like pic related, I find it absolutely beautiful. Is there anything I should know about growing it? I put it on our porch in a half shade for now, should I keep it there, or can I just put it in the full sun?

I know they're kinda a tropical species, so I've been wondering how much will it grow in Central Europe (Hungary)? Also, when is it worth re-potting it, bringing it inside, how should I water it, that kinda info I'd appreciate if somebody could share it.

>>2407216
Lets say i divert part of my pind into a bog in a rubbermaid tub. Constant slow circulation back to the pond. Do u see there being any problems. Also high nitrates and different adnon

>>2407641
bog is nutrient poor and acidic. you have to prevent pond water from entering your bog.

>>2407551
Yeah, sorry, my reply >>2407176
was thinking about Nephentes.
Sarracenia do like standing in water, and can go outside.

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>>2407551
Sarracenia are surely one of the most written-about plants for noobs on the internet, get googling. Get it in a deep tray of water, unless you're down South or in some city shithole tapwater should be fine. Either stick it in a very sunny conservatory (if you've got one) or a sunny and sheltered spot outside. They're incredibly easy if you can be arsed to get the basics right.

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>>2406974
Thanks for the help mate! I did some work today after looking up all the advice you gave, pinched the tops of my mint because it's growing tall and also I tried to deadhead my fuchsia. I ended up removing a bunch of wilted and dried flowers - most of them just came off, the rest I pinched the stem off a couple of centimeters away from the pod.
Unfortunately as I was checking it I discovered a bunch of green extremely small locust-like insects on a fresh flower of my plant (aphids? that's what google gives me). I pinched it off with all of them on it and threw it away, and I couldn't find any other of them on my plant. Wat do?

>>2407680
Oh shit, yeah, aphids like fuchsia. There's a lot of different ways to try and kill them aphids, from soapy water to pesticide to ladybugs. The main thing with any spray you decide on is to get ALL of the plant because fucking eggs.

>>2402157
that looks like frostburn yo
let it dry more too.

IS PLANT IN NEED A NEW TRIPFAG? BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONE NOW

I promise to memebump the thread and to make /plant/ great again!

>>2407695
congrats of making it into the filter with your first post

>>2407584
They're very hard to grow outside the tropics because of their constant need for extreme sun light and warmth. They might survive during summer outside but during the winter you'd have to light it with 400W+ sodium lamps for 12+ hours a day. Also, if you manage to keep it alive, they grow very large, it will be difficult to fit it anywhere. A normal leaf is several meters long, what you see on the plants being sold are merely cotyledons.

They're literally quick-buck plants which are sold to ignorant people (no offense). They survive for a while because of their large nut even though their roots are cut to fit in the pot etc. but usually once the energy is depleted, they die.

What is your favorite perennial? (and your zone)
What is your favorite annual?

tree and shrubfags need not apply
cactifags please limit yourself to one (1) succulent

>>2407712
>perennial
hyssop for sure, specifically 'Arizona Sunset Hyssop Agastache hybrid' bc im experienced with them and they smell good and i get lots of hummingbirds with them. Zone 6a
>annual
Lobelia erinnus, though special props to cleome

>>2407712
Jasmine. 8. They smell nice.

Petunias. Huge variety, I like their smell, and they are easy as heck.

>>2407725
jasmine? like fragrant jasmine? I know star is pretty good but i know coral is also really pretty

Petunias are the most basic plant and you are basic for liking them

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What plant is easy to grow and smells like complete ass?

I need a brap plant

>>2407746
chameleon plant

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Behind a blind and a double glass window,

Is this enough light for my brand new sarracenia carolina yellow jacket? I looked inside and didn't see any fluid, does it need rainwater to build up its digesting juices?

>>2407758
>Is this enough light for my brand new sarracenia carolina yellow jacket?

no

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>>2407759
Thank you

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I just bought a spider plant for my apartment, am I one of you guys now?

>>2407797
Yes

>>2407787
nice cactos, where are you from mate?

>>2407797
No, sorry, you have to get an actual plant.

>>2407860
Why do people info harvest like this?