If you have a pet try and place them subtly in the background in all photos
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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This should be a rule for all sfw photos on the internet
The cat tax must be paid!
I'll try!! Lol
That would absolutely be worthwhile of interest, one post a day is FAR from spammy
I would love to have more information on plantcare!
Fuck yeah, let’s go!
On another note: do you have some sort of irrigation system set up, or are you watering manually?
I always seem to overwater, so I’d love on-site on how OP manages watering.
We have a lot more plants than OP (over 400), and my partner swears by the Planta app. A lot of our's are outside, so in the summer it would be so much more work if we didn't have something to track them.
I'm in awe
But YES!!! the planta app is amazing! It's definitely not to be listened to 100% of the time when it comes to watering, but it is an absolute plant bible!
A lot of it came from the previous person that lived here, but yeah, our yard is a bit of a jungle.
Oh wow! We have 47 plants right now and that seemed like a lot. I see we were wrong, ha! I also use an app, however I find myself watering outside the schedule all the time… kind of as needed. Need to stick to the schedule more, I imagine it will make it easier.
Oh, this is by no means a normal number of plants. Our back yard is very jungle like. The previous people that lived here planted pretty much all of our outdoor plants.
Not the OP, but I water weekly (I picked Sunday) and you get on board or die. (No one has died.)
I love that! This is what I’ve been doing, except I don’t stick to one day a week but rather water quite… erratically. Take it or leave it, plant.
No, they're all done manually. Irrigation systems are mainly meant for outdoors or "true grow rooms," I'm just a lady that has a ton of potted plants scattered throughout the house haha.
That sounds great! Maybe have a name for the series so that people know to look for your other posts.
Incidentally though, if there is a houseplant community please let me know. I got a bonsai for my birthday and I really don't want to kill it
Quick FYI... most bonsai need to stay outside 365 days a year. They're not plants. They are literally trees.
Can Bonsai survive in cold dry climates like Canada's? Maybe that's a stupid question to ask about a tree.
Certain varieties certainly can. Some people will take trees out of their pot and put them in the ground over Winter. Some put the whole pot in the ground.
Not a stupid question. Small pots will freeze much harder than a tree in soil. You need to be more careful, especially with trees that are not as cold tolerant.
It's a ficus ginseng and the labels say it's fine for indoor use, so bit confused now. It's quite small at the moment and is doing well on my kitchen windowcill, hopefully it stays that way as I don't have a garden
I’d love to see your houseplants and to learn about them!
Go ahead, I would suggest adding your personal touch. Opinions, anecdotes, trivia etc. Someone with a vast collection as your probably has interesting things to add.
This would be really cool!
I would love this :)
Me too. I know the names of very few houseplants. Right now, several are just named Robert…
I have one in particular that I love and have no idea what it’s called. It’s a cutting from a botanical collection.
Do you have a photo of it? Maybe I can help identify it for you :)
I have over 170 house plants
How many houses do you have?
I assume they don't have much space left for them self anymore:
That person looks pot bound!
Please do this, I'm still negotiating with my house plants.
Who's winning? 😅
Definitely not me, but I like to think that we are both losing to my incompetence.
I need this so bad, the only plants I can keep alive are orchids (both are two years old now) and I want to have other things but they always just die so fast.
That's funny, out of all the plants I have, I've never owned an orchid because (ironically) I've been concerned about their care! I know now they're nothing to be scared of but I had that mindset when I first started collecting and I guess it just stuck lol.
I've understood that orchids thrive on neglect
I think it's really just getting the soil and pot right tbh. I have based mine on the "wiffle ball" technique except instead of buying a wiffle ball I just made a bark clump in the middle and then wrapped the roots and bark with sphagnum moss, and then bark + moss on the top to try to hold some of the moisture in, each in a good orchid pot. That made them pretty happy as before they were just hanging on and were dealing with root rot from the pot they came in. I stick my finger in the bark occasionally and soak them for like 15 minutes when they're dry. I think it's about every week and a half.
Right now I'm trying to keep a little hydrangea alive that we bought our son, I think it had pretty bad transplant shock when I repotted it. It's lost all the flowers and leaves after a month or so but I see new leaf growth so I'm just holding steady trying to make sure it's getting water only when it needs it.