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The lemons and co. have survived so far! The habaneros have been exploding, and sometime later I'll be sure to include some photos. I'm so proud of them. :)
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09-Apr-2021 17:00:17

Brigantia

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We went and bought some tomato seeds, along with some jalapeno and sweet peppers.

Of course I planted all of the seeds not expecting them to sprout. I really should have learned...

Anyhow now we have 8 tomato seedlings!
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28-Apr-2021 17:11:19

Megycal
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The bottom end of my garden is overgrown with forget-me-nots including a few pink ones. They do look pretty but they've taken over. :P I plan to pull most of them up before they produce seed. I might leave the pink ones which are smaller plants but I doubt they'll breed true.

28-Apr-2021 19:26:04

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I checked my rhubarb plants and 1 has a new leaf. I'm happy to see the 3 I bought from B&Q are doing well.

Yet the 3 I got from Amazon have no signs of anything. I even dug down through the 4-6 inch of bark and nothing at all showing. I may have been ripped off lol. Bye bye £16.

Be doing some gardening today with luck. I have 5 climbing roses to plant. Cost £50 lol. Need to make boxes to protect them from my strimmer and fill with bark. Pictures to follow of what I will do for them. Easy to understand once you see a picture or 2. Comprehensive Account Security
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29-Apr-2021 11:12:32 - Last edited on 29-Apr-2021 11:13:11 by Tuffty

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Yeah, I got some ghost pepper seeds in a growing kit for my birthday (I think it originated from Amazon) and so far they haven't sprouted at all, and it's been like a month and a half.

Also ended up with a dyed orchid from Tesco, (absolutely beautiful colour btw) and I'm not sure how well that guy is doing. I am admittedly not super familiar with orchids. After bringing it home I noticed that the flower stems were (at least it looks that way) injected with blue dye. Not sure how well the plants respond to that but I guess we'll see how it goes. I think I'm going to have to change the dirt and hopefully fix the roots a bit. They're not looking too hot.
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29-Apr-2021 11:29:34

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I've got some repair work to do as soon as we get a decent warm week... I've got shrubs growing in long wooden planter troughs that are looking the worse for wear (the planters, not the shrubs).

The wood isn't that thick and has started to bulge a bit as the roots spread, so I've got some timber to reinforce them.
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29-Apr-2021 11:33:50

Megycal
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A lot of orchids produce aerial roots that absorb water from the atmosphere. The orchid medium in the pot is just to support the plant. I stand mine on a tray of pebbles that I keep topped up with tap water but I make sure the bottom of the pot isn't in the water. I water the plant itself with de-ionised water because we live in a hard water area which orchids hate. Some people mist their orchids with soft/de-ionised water but because of where it is I don't do that. I must go and get some orchid plant food now the weather is warmer.
My husband bought me the orchid several years ago as a wedding anniversary present. I must be doing something right because its flowered every year although, the year I repotted it, it was very late flowering and I thought I'd killed it. It looks like it needs repotting again plus it produced a baby orchid (known as a keiki ) at the top of an old flowering stem 2 years ago. I should have removed the keiki once it had several aerial roots of its own but I thought I'd kill the main plant. Last year the mother plant and the keiki had flowers! Definitely time to cut the "apron strings" and move the baby to its own pot.

29-Apr-2021 18:32:33 - Last edited on 29-Apr-2021 18:32:57 by Megycal

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Megycal said :
A lot of orchids produce aerial roots that absorb water from the atmosphere. The orchid medium in the pot is just to support the plant. I stand mine on a tray of pebbles that I keep topped up with tap water but I make sure the bottom of the pot isn't in the water. I water the plant itself with de-ionised water because we live in a hard water area which orchids hate. Some people mist their orchids with soft/de-ionised water but because of where it is I don't do that. I must go and get some orchid plant food now the weather is warmer.
My husband bought me the orchid several years ago as a wedding anniversary present. I must be doing something right because its flowered every year although, the year I repotted it, it was very late flowering and I thought I'd killed it. It looks like it needs repotting again plus it produced a baby orchid (known as a keiki ) at the top of an old flowering stem 2 years ago. I should have removed the keiki once it had several aerial roots of its own but I thought I'd kill the main plant. Last year the mother plant and the keiki had flowers! Definitely time to cut the "apron strings" and move the baby to its own pot.

I was doing some learning because my MIL has this.... very strange plant. I eventually learned that it is indeed an orchid, just not the kind we usually think of. (It's a dendrobium) I noticed the weird aerial roots but I didn't know the 'traditional' orchids had the same sort of roots.

It kinda looks like they potted it in some sorta dirt, and the roots don't look super great from what I can see. It also looked pretty wet when I pulled it out of its weird bag/wrapper thing they put them in, so hopefully it'll be cleaning up a bit.

What do you do with kinda sickly looking roots??? Do you leave them like that?
Arrr! Only th' Devil an' I know th' where'bouts o' me treasure, an' th' one o' us who lives th' longes' should take i' all.


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29-Apr-2021 19:11:43

Megycal
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My orchid is potted in something called orchid medium in a transparent pot. Its very open, more like chipped bark. I don't know if all orchids are the same but that seems to suit the one I have. I think they don't like to have really wet compost round the roots because that "drowns" them. I'm not an expert so I could be wrong because I've only ever had one type. Mine might be a Moth orchid which is one of the easiest to look after. The new aerial roots are pale green with a sort of greyish fuzz. If they shrivel and go brown I've often managed to snap them off. If you cut anything off it needs to be with a clean implement.
I wouldn't do anything with the sickly looking roots just yet, I'd wait until the compost has dried out a bit to see if they improve.

30-Apr-2021 10:15:43

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