#plant update

[balkanradfem]

Plant update! January 22

So, I have once again, fumbled sowing my early plants, this time in the opposite direction. Let me explain.

You see I count on myself to responsibly grow little transplants, because this is my primary source of food; I will plant them all in my garden, harvest and eat all summer, and then can them for winter, it's how I live. So. When my first little batch of plants seemed to not be doing great (seeds not coming out of the soil, seedlings becoming leggy) I reasonably concluded that if I don't get this in order immediately, I will not have plants to put in my garden this spring, and then I will have nothing to eat this summer, and then nothing to eat the next winter, and then while starving to death I will think 'this could have been avoided, if only I started more seeds on time :( '

So in my panic, I put double amount of seeds for germination in a plastic bag, and to my surprise, most of them germinated very quickly. And then, I noticed, the plants from my first sowing that seemed to not want to grow, also started coming out of the soil. And now I have an unreasonable amounts of seedlings in January! It's too early for this much!

I did not have fresh soil for this, so I had to find an old dead plant on my balcony to steal soil from; it's already-used soil so it's not ideal, but it's something. I have in the past attempted various mixes of soil; like bringing in some sand and mixing it with the forest soil, mixing new and used soil and sand on top of it, and you know what the result was? My plants were growing SLOWER in it. It was BAD. I learned this way that the absolute ideal soil was just pure forest soil, with nothing added or mixed in it. The plants just love the nutrients.

This is the dead pepper plant who got her soil stolen, and you can see the new germinated seeds in my palm!

These babies did get planted in secondary quality soil but, I will transplant them into better soil later on, seedlings can do fine with less nutrients at the start. I am asking myself already where will I keep all these plants and the answer is,,, I don't know,,, I'll need to turn to invention of space.

Next morning, funnily, even more seeds germinated, and even though I'm so happy to have all these pepper seedlings, I feel like I'm being made fun of. This is when you decide to have 90% germination rate? When I'm in January and making bad choices? Alright. To the second hand soil they go.

Now about the everything I had planted beforehand!

You remember how I told you I had a tomato illegally growing in a pot where I planted peppers? Well guess who showed up:

Peppers.

They're roommates now.

The little tomato seedling also started growing a first true leaf! It is so cute! And she's so fast about it, you'd think I planted her in perfect living conditions, which I have not.

My first dwarf tomato plants are out as well!

They're so tiny and precious, I am feeling a lot of adoration here.

Second sowing of broccoli plants has also come out, and look at this:

One of them is purple, and I wish I could explain that, but I genuinely don't know what's going on. When I grabbed those seeds from a plant I wrote down 'this is broccoli... maybe' on the seed packet, which means it could have been anything and I only had vague ideas about it being broccoli. And now one of them is purple. We will find out within this year what these plants are. I am confident they're brassicas though!

The basil is very shyly coming out:

It's not doing super well but it's there and that's all that matters.

And for the end, here are the plants that were growing illegally and I transplanted them!

The biggest one on the right seems to be doing just fine, looking great. The ones on the left have some of their leaves yellow and dry; this means they are struggling to get nutrients, and it probably is because I broke some of their roots. But as they're not withering or actively dying, I think they'll make it! I'll water them with some nettle infusion solution and this might give them an easier access to nutrients, and give them time to grow new roots.

This is the comparison, picture from the last update vs today:

You can see a lot of plants straightened up! I had to make another aluminum board to make sure all these new plants had good light, but it was a 3 minute project, and I'm pleased with how much used aluminum I had stashed. You can see most of the leggy plants managed to stand up and we'll see if they manage to recover! And it also means the new plants will not get leggy like the last batch did.

[evolnoomym]

Hello Friends 🫶🏻

I’ve got a hugeeeee plant update below the cut for y’all to see 🤭🌿

All of these are new arrivals

Philodendron erubescens

Philodendron grey sticks

Philodendron pink Princess

Dracaena fragrans

Alocasia cucullata

Dracaena fragrans white jewel

Ficus elastica

Alocasia odora

Spathiphyllum Diamond

[madaims]

Hi everybody! Aims here. 35 year old artist and plant mama (gn) of 6 different houseplants.

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My pronouns are She/Any. No, seriously! My gender isn’t really that important to me.

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My Tumblr is mostly Good Omens, but I also sometimes have Doctor Who on here. I’m a huge David Tennant simp, I love him so much! I reblog lots of him. Also Michael Sheen being feral, Georgia’s unhinged fangirling of her own husband and the many tag games and personality quizzes my amazing moots tag me in.

Crowley is my kinnie just saying, he’s my favourite character and I just love him to bits. I draw him so much! He’s such a dork but he thinks he’s so cool! 🤣

I also loveeeeeeee Ineffable Husbands!! Aziraphale and Crowley are meant to be! 💛 I draw them and reblog art of them together all the time.

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[haunted-calathea]

Oh btw my amaryllis is flowering & I have spider mites on some greenhouse plants. Winter gardening is going great !

[tavina-writes]

Plant Update

I'm slowly hoarding plants (and by that I mean I own six orchids one lucky bamboo plant, one aloe vera, three baby cacti, SOME NUMBER OF SUCCULENTS and like 30 assorted flower bulbs. (Stay tuned on the flower bulbs tbh something may come of them yet!!! LILIES MY BELOVED).

And tbqf this year alone I've gone from like, (1) orchid to (6) orchids so. Two of them are not phalaenopsis orchids (though tbh my largest and most successful one is a white phal. The yellow phal (david lim) has got, if i'm counting correctly THREE buds on it right now so I'm very excited.

The other two phals were rescued from the grocery store discount clearance bin so I have no idea what color they're supposed to be (probably white though, is my guess since I rescued them from the grocery store clearance bin) and their roots were a MESS because they were shoved in (1) tiny pot together, so you may imagine what distress they're in. But also they cost like 7.50 usd so who am I to complain. They've since been repotted but like, that's the state of things there.

I got my Cymbidium as a baby -- it was only planted in December 2022! -- so it's probably going to be a long time before it flowers alas.

My Lycaste is.... doing something. I don't know what. Most of the leaves have fallen off, but the roots are fine, so I think it's in winter dormancy right now but honestly I don't know! We'll find out if I killed it in a couple months I guess!

Anyway I feel like I'm well on my way to becoming an orchid whisperer so stay tuned. There's an orchid auction every year in August/September-ish so I will be keeping my eyes PEELED for new types....and other colors....

EDIT: I somehow forgot to add that I rescued a miniature rose from the same grocery store clearance bin as well. I have no rose growing experience but we'll see!

[wensdaiambrose]

Lil oddish, my milk bottle garden, and my lemon tree sprout.

[sarahgrows]

I can't keep it from you guys anymore...

She's all pink!!

Now before you go all "it's going to die off, not enough chlorophyll", yada yada, hush. Shhhh. Let me enjoy this.

And also, that's not guaranteed. With how mature this plant is, I think it has a very good chance of sticking around happily. It would make more sense if it was a small plant without as many leaves to make up for the lack of chlorophyll in the all pink one, but there is plenty of green in her to go around to keep it happy. But hey, I don't know everything so as I learned to say from an episode of Bluey: we'll see.

[velveteengreen]

Philodendron Ring O' Fire 🧡

6/16/23 - 9/25/23

[exxxtraterrestrialll]

Happy Solstice ☀️🌻 Look who decided to start blooming today

[thebiotope]

Finally got a job interview. Wish me luck 🤞

[balkanradfem]

Visual Plant Update!

These are plants I just put in soil week and a half ago, they're all coming out very well! I'm scared of the cantaloupes but right now they're just little babies. On pictures are 1: cantaloupes 2: eggplants 3: tomatoes

These are cherry tomatoes, two little sunflowers, and a dwarf tomato! All doing well, though the dwarf is yellowing at the edges and possibly needs fertilization.

On the first picture you can see lots of previously planted peppers and tomatoes, and also my onions are dying! This happened last time as well so I'm not surprised, though I do not know what their problem is. I have watered them, the pot is well drained, I tried in the past to plant them separately in smaller pots and the same thing happened. Confusing, but few are alive still, and if only few survive I can accept that. Second picture is that wild batch of tomatoes that's been wilding, it's continuing to grow super fast, and the last one is the illegal tomato! Thriving, easily the biggest plant out there.

[evolnoomym]

Plant updates incoming 🪴🥰

My Alocasia birthed one new leaf, I’m crossing my fingers for more soon 🙏🏻

The philodendron gets soooo many new leafs but these ones with the green mixed in look so gorgeous 😍

And last but not least the Monstera finally pushed out the new leaf I’ve been eyeing for weeks 🥹🤍

[candle]

my cymbidium is flowering again :)

[angelsdean]

growing a plant from seeds is so thrilling. it makes you notice how much difference a day makes. how every single day is an opportunity for growth and change. this is four days in my baby flowers lives !! just four (4) days !!!! from barely poking their alien green heads out of the dirt to opening their leafy mouths into perfect little sprout emojis 🌱 and they keep curving toward the sunlight. they seek light and life ! they want to live ☀️

[suzycreamcheeze]

fresh rosemary from my backyard for a friend ✨

[madaims]

Plant mama update!

Knives and Vash have now swapped places (turns out Vash is a sunlight freeloader) and Knives has grown two new leaves!! It also looks like another off shoot is starting to grow too.

As for Vash, he also has a new off shoot starting to grow too, so maybe soon they might get even more leaves!

Will have to empty some water out of the self irrigation system I have made for the colder months, to avoid freezing.

Keeping the food bottles though as a treat to the seedlings. I’ve heard spraying plants with apple cyder vinegar deters parasites, so might look into getting some of that too. It might get rid of the mould growing on top of the bedding. 🤔

I also talk to them sometimes about random shit. Not sure that works, might have to start threatening them! 🤣

I find keeping and nurturing plants is very fun and challenging because unlike sentient creatures, they can’t actually tell you what they need. You have to take either an educated guess (and get it wrong) or fuck it up completely and kill the little buggers. Either way it’s a learning curve, don’t make the same mistake twice.

Also another thing I love about plants is how peaceful and calming they are. There’s just something special about those you’ve cultivated yourself though. It’s like “I kept this alive”. It’s so rewarding. 😊

I’ve kept you here ages talking about plants, yeah sorry about that! I just think they’re so cool! 😅

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