Fuck yeah! I haven't seen the finale yet but this has been a super enjoyable anime. Very glad we'll be getting more of it!
Not hard at all! I got some of those seedling trays that come with the lid that allows for easy bottom watering and basically just watered once every week or two. Kept it under a grow light for 12 hours a day and had a heating pad under it set to 22° C (it was in the basement so I didn't want it getting too cold). Now I just water it once a week and let it do its thing! It seems to really like the bonsai mix.
Post pics if you got em! I think mine is my dioscorea elephantipes (at least right now, it changes often). Grown from a seed, she'll be a year old in July :)
Don't know if there's any Canadians on Lemmy that have ordered from Crystal Star Nursery but this is my third order and I'm so excited!
This will be my struggle in a year or two. I'm planning on moving a couple provinces over so I'll need to come up with a way to move them. Probably end up taking a bunch of cuttings instead.
Damn I'm surprised someone was able to decipher that lol.
Ooo I didn't know this was getting a new season, fun! Definitely will be going on my watch list.
I ran the pic through Planta which says it could be a common fig, or ficus carica. I think it looks pretty similar, could be that.
They stopped issuing cards and just print it on a full 8.5"x11" piece of paper now actually lol.
Definitely spider mites, I've gotten rid of them by giving them a good spray down with my shower head, wiping all the leaves with damp paper towel, and then dousing the plant in miticide (i used safer's end all, it comes in a yellow bottle). I did 3 separate treatments 3 days apart. and then kept them quarantined for a month to make sure i got em all. I managed to get rid of the mites on most of my infested plants except for my parlor palm which i ended up throwing out. There's other, more environmentally friendly options you can google but that's what worked for me.
Make sure you get all the nooks and crannies, including the underside of the leaves, stems, and the top of the soil. Those buggers are prolific and if you miss some then they come back quickly.
Here's my suggestions:
dance pop: Virginia to Vegas - Casamigos
indie rock: Good Kid - From the Start
Edit: Are covers allowed? Didn't realize the Good Kid song was one haha
Some great posts back in the day, and definitely some not so great posts haha. I had to unsub after it turned into celebrities hocking their products.
Thank you for the recommendation! I've definitely considered carnivorous plants. Actually I ended up throwing all my plants in water last month (except for some succulents which weren't part of the problem) to convert all of my plants to a semi-hydro system instead. I haven't seen a fungus gnat since! Once it warms up outside and I can rinse off the substrate with a hoze I'll be potting them up in a soilless mix.
Hey so you actually can make it so an email address doesn't log into the account, it's how I stopped one particularly persistent hacking attempt when they finally managed to crack my password but were stopped by 2fa. Go to your profile > account info > sign in preferences, then as long as you have an alias email on the account you can deselect ones that you don't want to be able to be used as a log-in.
I'm with you on the houseplants, starting to branch out (lol) into hoyas now.
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Thank you! I just gathered them for the photo but they normally hang out on shelves with grow lights or spread out by the windows :)
This is most of my current collection, minus a couple hoyas in quarantine, some succulent babies I'm growing from seed, and a thanksgiving cactus that is budding that I did not want to risk messing up the blooms.
Started with a spider plant in July of 2022, after almost a full year of keeping it alive I decided to try branching out last spring and here we are. A lot were cuttings from friends' plants :)
Hello! I'm looking to see if anyone has a good hoya seller in Canada, specifically looking to have it delivered to New Brunswick. I tried an Etsy shop from BC in August and received the fungus gnat infestation I'm currently still battling, so anyone reputable that you haven't received pests from would be awesome!
I could try that, I think I'll try the sand tip first to see if that helps before repotting everything (been trying to avoid that since it's such a huge undertaking at this point). I only have the one fern, I have a bunch of epiphytes (a bunch of pothos, couple hoyas, a small monstera, etc.), no ficuses. I was considering switching my alocasias to leca but was intimidated by the change in care, I'll have to do some reading up on it.
Would watering for clay basically be the same as soil? water when dry?
I was considering sundews and was actually just checking for some at my local nursery but only saw venus fly traps and pitcher plants. I also don't know if I'd be able to keep a sundew alive, how have you found the care for them? I'd say I'm still intermediate with skill level, I only started keeping more than 1 plant in April (up to ~50ish now but most were cuttings from friends so they're all still fairly small)
I have a fungus gnat problem with my houseplants, I've kept them relatively under control using Mosquito Dunks in my watering can since August and some yellow sticky traps but I can't seem to eradicate them. I was considering buying nematode pot poppers but I've never used them before so I was wondering if anyone had any tips for application. All my plants are still relatively small so I don't have many large pots for any of them (most are between 4-10").
Any and all recommendations welcome, having pests is really taking all the joy out of having plants. I'm in Canada so a lot of pesticides aren't available to me.
UPDATE: I figured I'd update this post incase someone comes looking for solutions and sees this. I ended up going with a top layer of silica sand (2-4 mm in size) on all of my pots. I continued with the BTI water, let my plants completely dry out between waterings, and bottom-watered most of my plants. I haven't seen a fungus gnat in about 2 weeks so I think I have been successful in eradicating them. Will update again if this changes.
Update 2: I take back the update, they're still here... I'm so over the freaking gnats.
Update 3: Just updating this post in case someone stumbles across it looking for answers. What worked for me was switching most of my plants to semi-hydro and I now have a Pinguicula Morensis that eats any stragglers that come in with any new plants. The plants that are still in soil are watered so rarely that the gnats are not really an issue.