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This is such a lovely idea!! I'm so glad there's a place to gush about plants and I'm surprised how many like-minded people there are!

[Dama]

Username: Dama
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Favourite plant: Bluebells and orchids
i love plants

Hey! I'm quite new to looking after plants, this is probably the first one I've owned in years. But long story short, he's a hand-me-down plant twice over, and the person who had him before me gave him up just over a week ago.

So! This is Bobby. He's great. Ignore my poor choice in names though.

This is probably a stupid question (baring in mind this is all new to me) but does anyone know what kind of plant he is? The guys who had him before me don't really know, and I've asked friends who don't know either. I assume he's some kind of spider plant but I have no idea.

Any ideas? Thanks for the help :]

[Mozzy.]

I’m new too! You are growing a lot of plants, though I’m sure growing up where you have it’s a piece of cake for you :0! Have you successfully grown produce on your own in the past with aid? I hope the best for your harvest :3

Hello!
It's not quite a piece of cake, since I now rent a unit with a tiny backyard I can't dig holes in haha, all my plants are either indoor or in a planter box in the front. It's very different to the airy acreage of the country I grew up in so a new challenge for keeping plants alive haha.
I'm not sure what you mean by without aid? Do you mean on my own or organically?
And thank you! I harvested some bok choy yesterday for my lunch and have been using my parsley a lot more.

Dama;
Hello and welcome!
Your big Bobby looks in great shape! As for the species, I couldn't name it for you but I have seen it a lot - it's a common house plant. I'm sure someone better with names will be able to help c:

And speaking of my plants, I did a massive repot the other day;
Moved my chilli from the fruit juice greenhouse onto a terracotta pot. It's happier now living on top of the microwave in a bunch more space.
The bok choy got it's own pot which means the eggplants can grow now, since the bok choy was taking up all the room they hadn't grown for a while.
Spring onion in the chilli tub was also moved into a pot, with some golden cherry tomato seeds in there as well (big pot).
Planted more golden cherry tomato seeds and gold passionfruit in an old egg carton, and capsicum in the fruit juice greenhouse.
Fingers crossed I'll have a bunch of seedlings in the next few weeks!

[aespa]

hi! just passing by! i want to discuss about my bonsai tree in the near future, and some good tips and stuff with taking care of it <3

[dibidibidis]

my favourite of my plants I have at the moment is my perle
von nurnberg, every time i look at it i just love it more and
more! it's actually been a dream of mine to own ever since
i saw dibidibidis' perle for the first time!



If you have any care advice for it, let me know! I wanna
help it grow as healthily and strong as possible <3

whats your favourite plant you currently own? :3

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late reply is hella late oops
I feel honoured?? To have been able to inspire someone?? xD
Congrats though, what a beaut!
Uhh in terms of care, mainly just treat it as any other succulent? Make sure it gets tons of sunlight as PVNs tend to easily grow leggy. Plus, sunlight keeps the color nice and purple.

whats your favourite plant you currently own?
Currently, it's probably my variegated kalanchoe brylophyllum fedstchenkoi -- I'd been searching for one of these guys for ages. My lithops (buttrocks!!) and haworthia cooperi come close thouhg...


I do have a couple of displays I'm quite fond of too, mainly these two;


I've bought so many new plants the last couple days... Not including offsets (my sempervivum alone have a total of like, 30+), I currently own ~40? succulents/cacti! And then I also have my other plants (hoya, snake plant, one air plant, two rooting zanzibar cuttings). :'D

Whilst checking on my plants yesterday, I moved the pot of my perle von nuremberg slightly, and it suddenly snapped from it's stem. I'm honestly not sure how because I literally moved it about 1cm, without even tipping the pot or anything. I'm pretty sure it won't survive because it now only has two, little roots, which I have tried to bury in the soil ;-; Does anyone have any idea as to why it has done this? It's been doing really well recently so I'm not sure how it has weakened, but the stem still seems to be quite strong.

The exact same thing actually happened to one of mine; PVNs tend to get very top heavy and leggy, so they can snap pretty easily.
My boy is currently growing roots now! I highly suggest water propagating -- I tried to root my boy in soil, but after around a month of nothing, I got worried and figured I wouldn't lose anything to try out water rooting (my first time trying it!). Within two days, he had started growing roots, and now I think he'll be ready to repot soon (I'll leave him there for just another week or two). I can give you some details through PM's if you'd like? c:
Whether you do water propagation or if you do it through soil, make sure that you remove some of the bottom leaves and make sure they're covered (submerged in water or under the soil), as that's where the roots grow from.
As for the stem, mine hasn't shown any indication of rot/dying, but no new shoots have grown in the past 1-2 months. ://
Might be because I wasn't able to keep any leaves attached to photosynthesize though! I'll keep watering it normally and see how it goes.

I also read it’s bad to use tap water and rain water is the best water I could provide for this little guy, but i was wondering if bottled water would work equally as well? Thank you!

I use tap water for my succs/cacti, and haven't had any problems! If your plants are in a display, especially if there aren't drainage holes, I'd highly suggest adding activated charcoal/carbon (natural/no additives/no flavors, you can find it at pet stores) to eliminate bacteria and other unwanted stuff in the unfiltered water. c:
I live in my country's biggest city, next to its most polluted lake, so unfortunately rainwater isn't an option for me! :P

[Jodjo]

hello everyone! sorry for disappearing!!
so, a few plant updates:
i now have an aloe vera, a new tisandila , and because im trying to propagate a succulent of mine, i should have 3 new succulents very soon!! (my apolgies for the spelling and format on this post it is and it is going to be awful)

so!!! i will add pictures soon, but my aloe vera (named: vera and is vera bradley) is a tall girl!! and she was only $4 :)
and my new tisandila is such a beauty. he was about $5 and im preeeeety sure the pink on him is air brushed, but i dont mind! as long as its not harming my unnamed chunky boy, i love it <3
i want to make 2 really pretty arrangements for my 2 tisandilas, but i wanna get supplies from the dollar store and i havent had a chance to get there yet.

updates on my plants:
so, as i said, im propagating my succulent! i was going to also propagate my aloe vera, but i accidently broke the leaf in half instead of at the bottom :( i didnt want the leaf to end its life there, so i used some of its sap and put on a kinda fading scar to see what it would do. probably not the best idea, but its too late now.
anyway, back to the succulent. i have no idea what succulent it is, which is unfortunate, but its fine by me. i had a name for them but i forgot what it was.. im a horrible parent! but the story with this succulent was i noticed it wasn't doing so well, so i kept watering it (aka misting the leaves a couple times). i realized this wasnt doing anything, so i then really intensely misted the soil under the moss above it. now, its doing much better, and the leaves are flat! which seems kinda weird, but before, they were slightly shriveled and therefore they were pointed slightly downwards. i guess i know for next time to just put my succulent under the water next time they need a drink. im very happy that my kid is doing much better, and that they will have some babies very soon!!!

i had this forget me not, and i repotted the flower because despite it being small i felt the pot was too small. long story short, there is now just one flower, but after coming close to death, he is doing very well!! super green and vibrant :).

okay, so last thing: wug is flowering!! he has 2 flowers in a close ish area. the only thing is, i think i accidentally forgot to put drainage in wugs diy pot so i think there is mold :(. is there anyway to get rid of it without re potting him? because that is an actual genuine pain for my hands so..

sorry for the super long post!

[dibidibidis]

I'm at the point where my plant collection gets updated so quickly that I have to (im)patiently wait for someone else to post and then BAM major update even though I just posted rip

i noticed it wasn't doing so well, so i kept watering it (aka misting the leaves a couple times). i realized this wasnt doing anything, so i then really intensely misted the soil under the moss above it.

I would advise against misting in general for succulents, especially if it's a rosetted one -- if water gets into the grooves between the leaves, it could damage the leaves/cause rot. I personally use a precision waterer to make sure I get water right down where the stem meets the ground, without touching the leaves.

Congrats on the new tillandsia though! I love air plants, I just bought three myself, yesterday, bringing my total up to four! Two of them are just sitting around, but one of the new ones I've made a terrarium for:


In other news, my collection has been expanding... a lot. My current count is approx;
Kalanchoe bryllophylum daigremontiana x2
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana x1
Kalanchoe bryllophylum fedstchenkoi x1 (variegated), a good 5-6 baby non-variegated cuttings
Cranberry sempervivum x 11 (but like, a good 30+ offsets)
Echeveria Perle von Nuremberg x2
Echeveria Apus x2
Echeveria Chroma x1
Echeveria Green Pearl x1
Echeveria Black Prince x1
Sedum adolphyl x2
Sedum adolphii x1
Coral Reef Sedum x1
Garden Stonecrop x4
Graptosedum California Sunset x1 (+1 offset)
Ball cactus x1
Haworthia cooperi x1 (baby)
Unknown graptosedum x2
Unknown graptoveria x2
unknown sempervivum x3
Unknown Echeveria x4
Unknown haworthia x1
Unknown cactus x1
Aaand I'm probably forgetting someone too.



And then I have like 30 propagating succulent leaves, a potted monstera deliciosa, a pothos, two zanzibar gem cuttings (starting to root!!), and a snake plant. Plus 4 different tillandsia.
And to think,, in april I had a total of 3 succulents. Total.
The last two months have been plant hell!

[lesbian]

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hey, im sorry, i've been MIA due to ill mental health!! but I am back now and loving plants more than ever! >:3c

@cheesecake. i'm half a month late but i really hope your perle pulled through! ^v^

@dama hello and welcome! :3 bluebells are gorgeous, i can understand why they're one of your favourites, shame they're only around for a few weeks a year, but totally worth the wait. Bobby is a massive cutie! looks like a dracaena of some variety to me - though i'm not too knowledgable when it comes to classifications, maybe someone else knows?

@koku feel free to discuss your bonsai here! i don't own any but my grandpa has a massive collection of them and they're all super cute - i love hearing about them!

@dibidibidis thank you so much for the advice, and for sure on the sunlight thing, my lil dude's been sitting on the windowsill since i got it and soaking in all the sunlight it can get haha (also, all of your plants in the second last post you made are gorgeous - especially the one in the weiner dog planter! ) and that tillansia setup, in the wine glass, of your most recent post is super cute! OMG so many props, what are you gonna do if they all take? so many plants!!

@Jodjo i love tillansias so i cannot wait for pictures, aloes too - they're cuties! one piece of advice i'd give is that aloes dont tend to propagate from leaves, they end up dying more of the time than they do as successes; the upside is that next spring/summer it will give you so many pups that you'll have more aloe than you know what to do with haha

as for repotting wug, i'd definitely recommend repotting asap just because i dont think there's a way around it and the mold will only get worse - try using gardening gloves and lots of newspaper when repotting to avoid getting poked by wug's spines!

[Tahel.ie]

Last night I was at a summer solstice festival and this kind lady was walking around handing out cut flowers. I was wondering if there is any way to keep cut flowers growing and to prevent them from dying for a decent amount of time.

[lesbian]

that's so sweet! disinfect the vase/container you're keeping them in,
then wash out the disinfectant thoroughly with water; cut the ends at
an angle; change the water every day or second day; remove flowers
once they have wilted (sometimes some plants expire quicker than
others and if there's even just one dead one, it makes the whole vase
looks less sad!) try to keep them out of direct sun and heat too!
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