#corm

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 5 October 2024

In my friend‘s old cottage garden on Orkney this cultivar, probably of Colchicum autumnale 'Pleniflorum' (meadow saffron, autumn crocus, fog crocus, meadow crocus, Michaelmas crocus, upstart), has been here for decades in a sheltered border. This cormous herbaceous perennial flowers in the autumn and will produce large leaves in the spring.

Jill Raggett

[sarahgrows]

Corm update! I shared a month ago that I started a bunch of corms from my Alocasias. This is them now! I do need to disclose that I got more excited than I should have been and opened the humidity dome sooner than I should have which stunted the growth a little bit. I don't think any of them dry rotted but they're not as far as long as they should be (especially the top ones).

The Silver Dragons have all taken off. The two Melos on the middle right are doing well. The dragon scales on the middle left are doing okay, they're alive. I don't see much going on with the Cuprea's all on top but with how well the rest is coming along, I've got my fingers crossed.

I have one of the Melo's and SD's sold already when they become actual pups. I'm excited to get them potted when they get too large for the dome really, and get them in the greenhouse, which will be equipped with lights and a little humidifier if deemed necessary. I have this vision in my head and I am happy to see it slowly coming into fruition 🙌🏻

[x-cottage-goblin-x]

[fairydriver]

bro i have corn

[fishmech]

it's always so funny when people start ranting about hfcs as some great evil.

bestie the sugarbeet lobby got the government to put hefty tariffs on most forms of sugar imports in the mid 70s. and nearly doubled the price of regular sugar in a matter of weeks as supplies of pre-tariff imports ran out.

then the damn sugarbeet farmers couldn't grow enough extra sugarbeets anyway to meet demand (america has ALWAYS been heavy on sugar. it's a core cuisine element). and ofc the few other crops you can easily extract and refine sugar from, like sugarcane, have pretty restrictive areas for cultivation in US borders.

that's why there's HFCS, which despite what weird losers and diet scammers claim does not have any actual different effect than other sugar preparations, to meet the supply now, using techniques developed in Japan in the 1950s to meet a different kind of issue with supply of sugar. and despite what people like to say HFCS isn't "subsidized" to make it cheaper nor would it be cheaper anyway, it's inherently more expensive to make.

but because the sugarbeet assholes got the tariffs in in the mid 70s and no one's ever seriously lobbied to remove them, HFCS has been price-competitive with the much higher price of other sugars in the US, solely because all sugars including HFCS are much pricier to the wholesale market than in just about any other country that isn't experiencing a war and curtailed imports because of that war.

incidentally, the tariffs don't apply to imported prepared foods - which is why there's huge factories just across the Canadian and Mexican borders to make things like candy out of cheap normal global price sugar and send 'em over the border - there are costs associated with this of course, but they're much less than paying double for a primary ingredient.

also almost all the time when something is "subsidized" for the farmer in the US (or really, most other countries) that does not mean it is cheaper for the farmer to grow or cheaper for the end customer to buy. it means the government maintains a price floor or a means of purchasing spare crops that don't sell on the domestic market - it means prices go up. that's why the common dipshit idea of "hfcs is because corn is subsidized so its cheap" is wrong on multiple levels.

[bedupolker]

How do we feel about crops? Any crop enjoyers here?

[tenaflyviper]

Space corm.

Hisashi Saito, 1980

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 24 October 2024

A lovely sight growing naturalised in grass were the flowers of Crocus speciosus subsp. speciosus (Bieberstein’s crocus). This small, perennial corm, produces large, solitary, long-tubed flowers in autumn, before the narrow leaves appear in winter.

Jill Raggett

[sarahgrows]

I transplanted a few of the corm pups today, all Silver Dragons. This one has a spot of variegation!! I did not expect that at all and am so thrilled.

[e8-ri333-ra765hi09-54]

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[hunter-rodrigez]

The country girl made do too much...

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

hehehehe snake shed looks like it's pogging

hang on lemme go grab a photo

[barrenclan]

What ddid Poinsettia do to earn a place in Defiance instead of being turned into someone's lunch?

If you've ever seen a wild hare, and then imagined that wild hare full of so much aggression and bloodlust it would attack you on the spot with no fear of death, you wouldn't be asking me that question.

[xx-akubara-xx]

THEY BETTER STAY IN THEIR LANES.