Didn't notice any Plant threads up.
I'd like to get some advice for taking care of my African violet again last time you guys helped I really appreciated it and my plant is looking a somewhat more healthy then before but I'm still unsure on its health.
I got a vase and I fill 1/4th of it with water and place a pot with a hole inside of it for about a day to drink the water and leave it like it is in the picture. This has made the leaves look much greener but also killed a couple too... Does this look healthy? I give it plenty of light and my room is pretty warm..
I've never managed to stay invested enough in Saintpaulias to not neglect them to death so ideally I shouldn't try to hand out advice, but ... The container you have yours in looks too large for it. It would probably do better still if you downgraded. Otherwise, I guess it looks alright enough but again, I'm no judge.
>>2082677
Better to do the soaking for less than a day. A couple hours would do.
If you smoke, mix a little bit of ash, like a pinch or two into the soil, between waterings.
Rise and shine, wankers.
>>2083322
Finally this bugger's actually doing something, too.
>>2083324
Managed to overwinter one of my lavender seedlings, barely. Not exactly sure what to do with it now since it's a first, apart from lobbing it outside when it gets warmer.
>>2083332
Another first time survivor: Mandevilla.
Tulips
>>2083336
Sweet-looking cultivar. I'm anxiously waiting for the ones that I planted last year to come up, especially this one.
>Hedera helix
How fast do these grow?
>>2083364
Also does anon use self-watering pots or is it a no-no?
>>2083364
I find that they grow surprisingly slowly indoors, no matter how much or little light you give them or how meticulous you are with their watering. They can also be surprisingly finicky about humidity and attract pests like nobody's business when the air's dry. I've seen indoor Hederas that thrive but I've never found out the secret ingredient to making them do anything but grow a few leaves and then begin their slow or fast decline. The owners' story always seems to be the same: I just put it there and I've been watering it sometimes and it's been growing like crazy.
Long story short: I think Hedera helix is a pretty shitty houseplant and unless you're one of the mysterious people who can make one grow with little effort or someone who doesn't mind houseplants not thriving, I recommend looking into alternatives.
>>2083366
I prefer not to use them. They seem to keep the substrate too consistently moist even for plenty of plants that like constant moisture unless you use them in a manner that completely defeats their whole purpose.
Sarracenia flava growing defordmed pitchers due to this unusually hot winter
I'm not a plant person /an/ so help me out here. I bought one of these things, and I feel like it's not doing so well. It's losing leaves every day. I have it in the sun, but not in direct sunlight, and I water it enough to where the ground it always slightly damp, but never muddy.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just how these things work. I feel like it's losing too many leaves compared to how fast they grow and how many there are (lose about 2 or 3 a day).
>>2083693
Oh, as a side note, those leaves in there are some clippings I did when I first got it, not leaves that just fell off. I put the leaves in the soil because I figured it would probably add nutrients, but I was just guessing and I don't actually know if that's good or bad or does nothing.
>>2083693
> I water it enough to where the ground it always slightly damp, but never muddy.
Sounds like you're overwatering it. Try letting the top half of the substrate dry out before watering it again.
>>2083694
The substrate probably doesn't have the kind of soil biota to decompose anything very rapidly. The leaves probably aren't going to cause a major problem but they're unlikely to be of much help either -- they're likely to dry out, sit there for a long time, and accumulate if you keep putting them there.
I'm liking this presumed Pteris sp.. It's been growing all winter and when I moved it to a drier place, it only browned some leaf tips before seeming to become acclimatised. Now it's growing just like before.
Sarracenia psittacina awakening from dormancy, it's not growing any flower this year.
>>2083322
Papaver lapponicum seedlings are now just barely large enough for me to get a picture out of.
Guys, I think I'm killing my dracanea marginata. I feel terrible. It was going alright but starting to get brown at the tips of the leaves. Looking back it was probably because I've had to keep it inside out of the sun because it's too cold out on the porch in winter, or because I wasn't watering it often enough. Well, this is my first house plant other than a cactus, so I thought I should fertilize it and water more often. I acidentially gave it way too much fertilizer (read directions wrong on bottle) and now the leaves are going all weird, the older ones are bleaching and drying out and all the new growth is shooting out and turning slimy and brown. It's down to about half as many leaves as it had when I got it last year. Is there any way to save it? I feel terrible and I really like this poor plant.
Drosera burmannii flowering themselves to death
Both my aunt and my dad have this bad habit of buying plants and then not taking care of them. Last year she bought this absolutely adorable pink geranium plant, I managed to save a sprig of it, but the big plant died. It was one of those stupid "hybrid" plants that's just two completely different plants in the same pot. It's actually growing pretty well now, but I have zero clue how to take care of plants besides water them and stick them outside once it gets warm enough. Almost every other plant we have is a hardy fucker that's managed to survive 5+ years under my care. Also, I don't even remember what else I put in this pot, it was empty until I put the geranium in, everything else just kind of started sprouting recently. I'm 90% sure it's just weeds from sitting outside with almost no care anyway. I'll probably take a better picture once it's actually light enough to see.
>>2084621
Oh, yeah I accidentally damaged one of the leaves, that is 100% my fault.
>>2084489
If you haven't flushed the soil by letting water run through it, then you should probably do that. Dracaenas are generally sensitive to fluoride, I think, so using water from outdoors instead of tap water would presumably be ideal but not necessary. Other than this, I'm not sure what there is to do.
OP reminded me that I have Saintpaulia plantlets grown from a leaf cutting somewhere around here. I found it but it was bone dry so the leaf and most of the plantlets were goners. This one looks like it might still live. Not sure I want it to, though. I don't even know the traits of cultivar the leaf is from since it was randomly acquisition.
>>2083324
nice, I have some of those in my wall too.
it was finally time to get the brugmansias out of my basement, they started to look like aspergus.
>>2084925
they'll be staying in the shed now.
Several of them sprouted but now only one Oxytropis campestris remains. Maybe if I hadn't accidentally dropped them, twice, so that they flew all over the floor with the substrate, there'd be more.
i havent watered my cactus in over two months. i'm a shitty person and i feel bad about it. he's been looking okay although i haven't seen him in a few days. he'll be fine if i just water him tomorrow right?
>>2086739
Probably. Depends on the species of cactus and the amount of light and warmth it's getting, though, among other things. I hear you should only give an ailing cactus a moderate amount of water at first and a heavier watering the next time the potting soil's dry but I wouldn't know since I'm an overwaterer, not an underwaterer.
I have found my new home.
I've only recently gotten an interest in botany, plants, planting, and the like, so I've really been working for a few weeks, probably more than a month now.
Located in Australia, NSW, I set about collecting seeds from reserves and crown land (in conservative amounts and with consideration of what and where, mind you), and have so far gotten the seeds of Allocasuarina torulosa (germinated ez, also have access to littoralis, and a few shrub species of which I forgot the name of) though probably won't be planting many of the babies,
a Eucalyptus sp. which I haven't yet identified though will at a later point, Syncarpia glomulifera which I'm unsure of whether the seeds have germinated or there's simply other plant seeds in the soil (been weeks for these ones), Acacia deanii (?), yet to confirm for certain with reference to a guide on Acacias, which I've only recently applied hot water treatment and planted, (results are promising!), a few plants of the edible cultivated kind, and I have a load waiting to be planted, such as Petrophile pulchella, Angophora costata, unidentified Acacia shrub, Brachychiton acerifolia, and a few others.
I have a question to anyone here regarding the germination of these seeds, any particular requirements other than soil (potting mix, it seems) and sufficient water?
>>2083693
Sweet ikea bonsai lol
Not hating, I had one too. They are nice plants, potted attractively, for a pretty good price
>>2086780
>I have found my new home.
You should try the homegrowmen thread over in /out/. Much more informative.
![IMG_20160322_122809[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dOPbt08.jpg "IMG_20160322_122809[1].jpg")
>>2082677
I've had a lot of success with this African violet over the past six years with a little under a cup of water a week is a pot with no hole in the bottom. It's due for a re-potting soon as it's shot off another leaf bundle making it pretty cramped in there.
Currently growing assorted lettuce greens in coastal Virginia. They are doing well outdoors atm in temps ranging from 40f to 80f (spring temps yoyo here), and partial sunlight. Is it reasonable to expect them to thrive into summer or do most lettuce varieties dislike warm weather?
Also growing two succulents in a small indoor terrarium. They are small but beautiful right now, doing well with ambient sunlight and allowing complete substrate drying between watering. I'd like to keep them small for aesthetics, is there some way to do that intentionally or will they grow indefinitely when healthy?
>>2086780
Well, I can't say what's the best method, but whenever I get tropical or subtropical seeds that I'm not entirely sure how to germinate, I put them in moist vermiculite or on paper towels in a plastic bag, put the bag somewhere warm, and see what happens. I've had varying success but still better than with potting soil.
>>2086910
Giving succulents very little fertiliser or special succulent fertiliser that has little nitrogen supposedly keeps them compact. Keeping them in as much sun as they can handle and keeping a tight watering regimen typically also helps keeping them from getting leggy.
Speaking of succulents: my body is not ready for the summer dormancy of this presumed Titanopsis that I grabbed from a nameless succulent mix last autumn. I'm not that great with succulents and not watering a dry plant in summer when it looks like it isn't doing so swell feels totally unintuitive to me.
>>2086897
Homegrown thread's all about crops and common plants, doesn't feel like I'm in the right place there.
>>2086958
Titanopsis are very cool, but yeah they can be a little counterintuitive if you haven't worked with them a lot.
Stole a little cutting of this coleus from Bryant Park in New York City, been growing pretty well in my dorm room so far, is it too late to prune off the furthest parts to encourage it to grow more densely?
>>2084925
>2016
>Growing Jimsonweed
>>2087166
>coleus
dream plant
>>2087375
>Jimsonweed
waking dream plant
>>2087495
>waking dream plant
>killed 2 kids dead in my 6th grade class plant
sounds dreamy
>>2087497
>>killed 2 kids dead in my 6th grade class plant
What kind of dream plant would it be if it could not kill at least a couple small children? no kind of dream plant.
>>2087494
Are you talking about it being psychoactive?
>>2087547
>small children
>6th graders
![a-close-up-of-a-shrub-with-dark-purple-berries_large[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/w8zyaX4.jpg "a-close-up-of-a-shrub-with-dark-purple-berries_large[1].jpg")
Fine people of /an/, can I get some assistance identifying this shrub?
Those purple 'berries' grow around fall/winter, the rest of the year they are not there. The shrub is always green and if you don't trim it, it can look like a small tree; I've seen them grow up to 14' tall.
>>2086739
Dude, let me tell you about my cactus. I have had my cactus since ~2010. I put it outside in like 2012. I have not watered it since. Fucker is still alive. We live in a temperate climate, but he's still survived several inches of snow. Cactii are hardy fuckers, it'll be fine.
>>2087766
Looks like chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense)
Hey /an/ could someone tell me what this is on my succulent. Is it trying to propagate? Thanks
>>2088126
Roots, by the looks of it. So yes, it's making the most out of the impending loss of that leaf by using it to propagate itself. Stick it in soil and you'll eventually get plantlets growing out of it.
Sarracenia, Utricularia and Drosera get ready for springtime
I'm getting some root action too, finally.
>>2088612
It looks like it's trying to walk away.
![Coppice2[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/DIH7RDt.png "Coppice2[1].png")
>>2088009
Yes, you might be right. I have a few of these that are quite overgrown, they have like 3 feet of 'trunk' making them look like trees. Do you think it might be too late to cut them down so they can grow again? I've heard that it must be done during winter.
>>2088618
Ah, fuck.
>>2089201
Nice one.
>>2089201
nice
I'm an idiot and didn't check on my cacti/succulents for about two weeks.
This happened. The poor bastard is dying on me.
I didn't change their water or sunlight, they had no exposure to the elements, no insects were around them. Does anyone have any idea what happened to my buddy?
>>2089304
One more pic, this is normally where it was kept. I immediately moved it away from my other cacti just in case any pests were to blame for its poor health, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
>>2089304
If that photo is up to date, I don't see how it is "dying", as it looks like it's not thriving but not exactly on its last legs either. Looks like it could use some more sun.
My mess of a fern hotspot.
