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Previously on /plant/ >>4998970

>2 months to spring

>>5011010
2 months to autumn here
Can't wait

>order 3 plants
>after 1 week a single one arrives
>tfw online store scams you

My droseras are flowering, managed to catch one in the act. Harvested a fair few VFT seeds as well, been a good crop this year.

>>5011052
BASED

>>5011007 (OP)
I currently live in a tiny apartment. How do you tell how much light your plants get and when you should water them? I have 4 succulents: A small pickle plant, trigona rubra, something related to a trigona rubra that I forget the name of, and a dancing bones cactus that I think might have suffered being in a pot with no drainage from when I bought it and is slowly recovering from root rot.. I have them put up at a south-western window that appears to get high light and medium light depending on the time of day. Should I buy grow lights on them or grow them somewhere else and put a different plant there? I have them in my office/bedroom/living room next to a typical sized window that's pretty tiny. I have drainage holes in all of them too, but I'm worried about either overwatering them and the fact I keep losing soil everytime I water them because it keeps falling through the drainage holes. I live in central eastern US coast so I get a mix of extremely hot days to cold snowy winters. Should I invest in growlight anything so my plants survive the winter? The pickle plant appears to already be growing toward the window at times.

>>5011166
you can buy a cheap light meter. but almost all plants want to be very near a window, except really low light ones like pothos which seem indestructible.

What is the most mind blowing plant fact you know? Recently for me it was realizing trees aren't all related.

>>5011254
Forgot my pic.

Does bottom watering not work for really minerally soils or is it just absurdly slow? Will it not suck up the water if there's not enough dirt?

>>5011254
Pineapples don't grow on trees

>>5011256
ok if banana trees are "definitely" trees then so are tree ferns

Amogus.

Cacti are so stressful, any bit of damage or slight imperfection due to imperfect care are pretty much permanent. Etiolation fucks them up forever, they never regrow spines that break off, spines have a growth phase and then they just stop, they'll never recover from sunburn, they're so unforgiving its scary

Is it too late to start from seeds?
Someone gifted me culinary herb plant seeds, I'd like to use them, can I do it or should I wait until february, my current temps are between 95° at peak during the afternoon and 74° at night.

Can anybody tell me what this stuff is on my bamboo? It sort of rubs off. I know I have a scale bug infestation on my nearby potted trees, but this looks different. Is it fungus?

>>5011648
spider mites

>>5011658
Damn. Thanks for the info anon. Does neem oil or something similar work well against them?

>>5011483
That's really nice. What is it? I'm looking for a new indoor plant that does well without direct sunlight.

>>5011007 (OP)
to the two who asked for updates in the last thread, heres the finished result. I am pleased with the arid desert look of the surface but I wish to make changes to the LED part as it is a bit too low for my liking but anways. would appreciate feedback

>>5011687
daylight. Like i said, the LED setup needs to be re-done but will do for now.

>>5011569
Have you tried jungle cacti or some African succulents that look like cacti? They seem to be a lot tougher and you can actually prune away any damage. Jungle cacti look nothing like arid cacti but they have limbs you can just chop off if they end up looking like shit.

The baby's/teens corner today

>>5011673
Neem oil, pyrethrum, isopropyl will all work

>>5011688
they cute

>>5011688
is that a devil tongue? why are its spines so tiny?

Got some saffron bulbs for 80% off way past when they should have been planted
Hopefully they'll be ok for next year
Soaking them atm and going to plant them tomorrow

>>5011674
Hehe, another one bites the dust. Everyone I've shown this fern falls for it. It's a fake plant. I found it on amazon and it looked so convincing.

It's based of a sword fern I believe. I've had a ton of them before and they all die eventually. It's inevitable as I dehumidify my apartment with my AC, so they can't survive. So if you can maintain a high humidity, it's a pleasant plant.

As a basic rule, the more dark green the plant is, the more photosynthesis it has, meaning less light needed.

>>5011254
Palm trees are a kind of grass

No, palms are not grasses. Palms are Arecaceae, grasses are Poaceae—different families entirely

>>5012033
Palms are cycads which are gymnosperms. Grasses are monocot angiosperms. They're not closely related at all. Grass is more closely related to venus fly traps than palm trees.

>>5011254
Dinosaurs are older than flowering plants. All those herbivore dinosaurs... none of them smelled a rose or ate a melon.

>>5011018
you should have just wait until they drop off at your local big box. Shit's like 20 bucks now.

>>5011254
Weeds are plants too

>>5011007 (OP)
The echinacea in my garden were covered with these really beautiful green metallic sweat bees today.

Can these pups be torn off to propagate? The one of the right I think yes, the one on the left I'm unsure

>>5012117
why would you want to scar these beautiful boys

Anyone tried planting bougainvillea from seed? Mine hasn't germinated in one and a half months. I might have gotten scammed.

>>5011052
Good

>>5012056
Not quite true, flowering plants were just starting to appear in larger numbers when the asteroid hit and they were replacing conifer forests. But they were the primitive flowering plants, and flowering plants later exploded in diversity shortly after the mass extinction

>>5012274
It is true. I didn't say there was no overlap between the lineages, brainlet. According to the known fossil record dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic, flowering plants first appeared millions of years later in the Cretaceous. Roses and melons aren't primitive angiosperms either. Your gotcha failed. Haha.

>>5012279
I guess chickens are dinosaurs technically. Non-avian dinosaurs never smelled a rose or ate a melon.

>>5012279
Ok, but they did smell magnolias which falls within the spirit of your statement

>>5012297
>I can be a hair-splitting dickhead but you can't. Nyaaaaah.
Yeah great. Cool. You must be way smarter than me.

So a plant getting more light needs more water, but is it the same sort of ratio idea with fertiliser?

>>5012304
Probably given my credentials, yes

Love these poppies

Sweet William just popped up. I was hoping it was phlox.

>>5012054
palms are not cycads, palms are palms which are monocots in the commelinid clade which places them right next to grasses at the order level. Cycads can look like of like palms but they're completely different

im pretty certain this left one is a passionfruit, but is this right one a sumac tree, or...?

>>5012342
All those credentials and you don't understand the difference between "older" and "never coexisted"

Spotted bee balm living up to its name.

>>5012506
I was being charitable and not treating your statement about dinosaurs interacting with flowering plants as a non sequitur

>>5012085
Haven't seen them yet on mine, though yesterday a ruby-throated hummingbird hovered right in my face and seemed to look me right in the eye. Slow moving as they are at hover, they''re amazingly fast in level flight.

>>5012334
In my experience it depends on the plant. Petunias tolerate a wide range of nitrogen, while oriental lilies or impatiens are almost destroyed by overdoing just a little.

>>5012635
Well I appreciate you clarifying things for lurkers, but you're still a pretentious fag.

>>5011254
the fact that coniferous trees are separated from every other tree by like 200 million years of evolution always blows my mind
also the fact that grass flat out didn't exist until the middle of the Cretaceous

whatd i miss

>>5011254
Role of gametophyte and sporophyte in the lifecycle are basically reversed in mosses and higher plants. Growing ferns from spores is a blast, the gametophytes are so cool. Alternation of generations was a mindfuck when I first learned about it.

Is there a good method for hanging one of those big square grow lights if I can't drill into my ceiling?

>>5012877
Get a coat rack and tape the light to it.

>>5012877
Something like pic related and some zip ties.

Finding a great amount of joy in picking up cool rocks I find outside and placing them next to my plant pots

>>5013022

Small, fat, black ants ate just about all the thrips on the balcony plants and have moved on to hunting my springtails
Biological pest control is something else

WHAT DO I GROW TO ATTRACT FIREFLIES

>>5013067
Seems like they live in compost and leaf litter mainly, so you just need to not disturb the ground

>>5012531
Nice. I wish I knew more about varieties of monarda before I planted Jacob Cline variety. It's nice but now I don't have room for wild bergamot which I like better.

>>5013067
Trees/forest floor
or fake it with boxes of leaves, I've seen people do that on r*ddit

Pothos finally starting to grow and attach itself. Need to raise the lights.

How are you supposed to clean plants with farina

>>5013236
There's lots of cool species in the genus. That one is Monarda punctata. It's super easy to grow from seed, and it will tolerate really poor sandy soil. I have sandy acidic soil on a southwest facing slope and tons of deer and rabbits in the area. It's hard to find stuff that can take those conditions without any babying. Once they're established I don't have to do anything to keep them going or protect them. I love watching bees work them over.

>>5013258
Hmm I should sprinkle some seeds in the parts of my yard I don't mow. Mostly around the edges where there's trees, trying to let more trees grow but so far it's all just grasses ferns and cinquefoil which at least has nice yellow flowers. I'll just take and scatter some seeds this fall.

>>5013348
it spreads by rhizome so it will take over

What is a plant you like that moves a lot during the day?

Mine: Purple shamrock. The petals open and close with the light, and it flowers frequently and really fills a pot nicely

>>5013247
>clean plants
excuse me what?

>>5013664
this costs more than ass wipes and my ass is much dirtier than most plants.

Why are nepenthes so expensive when you could just pump out clones using tissue culture

>>5013702
why the fuck would you do that?

>>5013705
Some species are cheap, but if I had to guess, its because of the growing requirements like higher humidity, etc. They could sell them without any pitchers grown in, but i imagine the people buying them want to see that. In my experience they grow fairly slowly too.

>>5013664
There's this thing called dust

>>5013710
how the fuck do you let a plant get dusty enough that you need to wipe it clean? do you have no air circulation?

>>5013710
Water nigger

please don't respond to my posts with dumbass answers

I threw hairy vetch seeds all over my lawn this spring because why the fuck not and finally some of it is blooming. it's tiny but a nice little color.

>>5013710
Water and a paper towel.

>>5013348
I winter sowed seed in milk jugs and transplanted them in early spring after they grew a few pairs of true leaves. It’s the easiest way I know of ensuring the plants I want go where I want. Spray and pray has a low success rate.

I lost a bunch of plants to my garden getting torn up by rabbits this spring, but today I was out doing some weeding and found these! Some seeds dropped last year germinated, I observed 5 tiny seedlings but there may be more.

>>5013778
Cool. Looks like Drosera rotundifolia. My soil is so dry and sandy I have to grow mine in trays.

>Bring my barrel cactus outside to adapt it to the outdoor sun because blasting him with growlights at close range isn't really cutting it anymore.
>Place hit in a spot where he'll only get the morning sun.
>He gets about 5 hours of shade afterwards, and then I move it to a different spot so it could get an hour or two of evening sun on his other side.
>Terrified I just gave it sunburn.
I'm hoping that its just thirsty because its looking a little shrivelled in some spots, but it has these weird lighter-colored squiggly streaks all over it's body and I would be so sad if the sun was too piercing for it to handle and its going to develop these scabs all over its entire body. I put my other succulents out in as much direct sun as possible and they seem to have no issues.

I saw some bumblebees enjoying my hostas flowers yesterday

>>5013842
Nice light and composition, anon.

>>5013839
Just remember,. any kind of sunburn or discoloration will be completely permanent!

>>5013067
Unkept groves next to damp meadows full of snails.

>>5013780
I think it's intermedia, I never planted any rotundifolia. Could be a shocking number of hitchhiker seeds that just needed striation to germinate but I doubt it.
>My soil is so dry and sandy I have to grow mine in trays.
I got a 30 gallon feed trough and put a spigot on the bottom to control the saturation, filled it with a mix of sand, pumice rocks and sphag and it's worked well so far.
>>5013839
Don't sweat it, hard grown cacti are way cooler than greenhouse queens.

do plants normally keep their flower stems for like weeks after you snip them off? I thought they'd just go "well that was a bust" and reabsorb it pretty quickly

>>5014069
A lot of plants will keep all sorts of shit rotting away on themselves for months to years, depending on the species. Abscission of limbs is complex. Many inflorescences will die back to the perennial structure but may or may not abscise naturally. For this reason it's usually best to trim dead inflorescences as far back as you can, barring some that might be considered "architectural".

Abscission of Limbs
good song title

>>5014200
Wait so would cutting the flowering stem encourage them to keep it for longer than they would have if you didn't?

>>5011569
Imperfections, stress, and damage makes plants interesting.

>>5011687
>>5011688
The top dressing looks fantastic, do you have a background in Warhammer models or something?

>>5012085
Very cool bee, what are they called? We have nothing like that in Britain

>>5012393
Love the smell of the opium milk from these fellas. Not a druggy mong btw

Any pumpkin growers have any advice for a new guy? Things are coming along well so far but I'm worried they'll randomly get sick and die or something.

>>5012499
Looks like a Sumac yeah, and they do spread via runners, can be quite invasive in fact

>>5013600
You could say it's a normie plant but I never get tired of sunflowers

>>5014218
That's Agapostemon virescens. The genus Agapostemon are informally called sweat bees because they'll land on you and drink your sweat. They're really beautiful. They love Echinacea purpurea, aka purple coneflowers. I go out every morning and they're covered with them.

>>5014223
Nothing normie about appreciating common things you can find every day

>>5014221
Watch out for squash vine borers. If you see dead-leaves for seemingly no reason check for little holes in the vine nearby. You can slice along the length of the vine and pull out the little caterpillar.

I have two Jade plants that I wanted to top-dress. Any recommendations? I was thinking of something like coarse silica sand.

>>5014222
cant be any worse than the thing next to it

>>5014231
scoria

>>5014231
I top dress my succs with shingle (aka flint gravel) and decorate with shells and semi-precious stones.
Smaller pots I will use finer grit size, and larger pots can get the 10mm gravel
I wouldn't use plain sand, it will look shit and just block too much evaporation from the soil.
>>5014420
This looks very nice with succs too

>>5014229
Thanks! I'll definitely check for this, I hadn't heard of these guys.

any suggestions for plants that are similar to mountain mint (pycnanthemum) but grow lower? I'm planting some flowers but it's a raised bed so a play that grows 2'-3' up from a raised bed and flops over looks kinda sloppy

>>5014590
Do you want them to smell minty, look similar, or attract pollinators? You can always prune them in the late spring before they start flowering to get them bushier.

>>5014596
>thought I had a bunch of marigolds growing
>turns out it's hemlock
Dammit.

>>5014596
To attract polinators.
My neighbor has a patch of mountain mint that's always a hub of activity so I can ask him for cuttings or rhizomes but it's kinda tall and it looks like it needs a fairly large stand to support itself and avoid flopping over in the wind

>>5014626
If you're planting for pollinators, look up what plants are native in your area

I just planted about 16 wild asters in a row on the edge of my yard. What am I in for?

>>5014626
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium is a pollinator magnet and grows low. It'll max out at two feet. It blooms late in the season, October, but it will be absolutely covered in pollinators when it does. There are Monarda didyma cultivars like 'Grand Marshall" that grow low. It's mint family and smells like oregano.

>>5014626
there are some nice dwarf goldenrods that can do the job and are only 1-2'

I bought some peaches in the shop and ate one there and then I thought about growing it from seed, so I looked it up and apparently it's not like apples where you will probably get a real shit tree, but it will actually have similar characteristics to it's parent. So I looked at the variety on the box to research further and it said "aristo" but I can't find any results with search engines. You guys know anything of this?

So how do Sundews and Butterworts actually consume their prey? They land on it, and only their legs stick, then they eventually die.
Sometimes a sundew will roll over and smother it, but if the main body of the insect isn't touching the leaves, how do these plants consume them?

Here's my little plant collection I have in my tiny ass second floor apartment. We have my dancing bones cactus, my pickle plant, and my African Milk Tree (Euphorbia trigona rubra). I don't know what that last one is, it's supposedly related to the African milk tree but I can't find anything on it. It's a succulent and a Euphorbia I think. Can anyone here identify it?

I found the answer to my own question >>5015116

It looks like butterworts secret digestive juices wherever the prey is located. The insect in the top left of this picture was in the center of the leaf, but after it released it's digestive juices, it caused it to glide down toward the edge of the leaf, leaving a trail behind it.
Also in this picture, trapped fungus gnats and their larvae(which I plucked from it's pot and fed to it because its what they deserve.

I also let the sundew get a share of them as well. There's three piled up in the left of the picture, and one more towards the right.

>>5015169
ritchiei?

>>5014215
thanks and no. my idea for the terrain i guess is from experience with fish tank substrate and tank hardscaping

Late bloomers

Does anyone know what this variety of poppy is called? I planted black swan but it doesn't look like the others, maybe it's supposed to be that but isn't fully swan-ified.

>>5015445
Oh shit I didn't even notice the bee until now

>>5015445
Ah, I found it, it is not just a weird black swan. It's "Pepperbox" - https://athousandflowers.us/index.php/product/poppy-purple-red-fringed/

>>5014696
Aren't the seeds in the shops sterile? I'm not sure taking the pit and planting it is gonna get you a tree.

Everyone please congratulate my tiny aloe that had literally no roots when I bought it despite not showing any signs of rot because after sitting inert for about 2 months it has started to push out growth and beginning to lose its sun stress despite being out in full sun all day long

>>5015502
Wait did I say peaches? I meant apricots... I was tired when I typed that, sorry
No they (apricots) are not sterile, they can grow from seed. Just crack the shell

>>5011648
sometimes bees do that so the plant blooms a month early

>>5015536
congratulation to the aloe!

Any guesses as to what this is?
>southeastern Indiana

house plant newfag here. I filled a pot with some fresh soil and planted some seeds but the soil is now infested with little gnats and its super annoying. what should I do?

>>5015536
gz!
My hybrid aloe pushes up flower shoots year round but this is the first year my castilloniae is putting up a shoot. I killed the main plant a few years ago by overwatering but saved an offset and its been growing vigorously since.

>>5015793
Forgot pic

>>5015783
fungus gnats? probably the soil is way too wet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oHiIVFf_qc

foot kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6NObLjtyTo
kino kino

>>5015783
>>5015839
I don't think it has to be "too wet" to get Fungus gnats, all it takes for them to set up is for the soil to get get wet, and if you let it dry, they hide and wait.
Kill every gnat you find, put up flytraps, get mosquito bits and mix it with the water you water your plants with.

>>5016032
>Flytraps
I mean like flypaper and that kind of stuff.

>>5015290
>>5015289
Lillium 'Silk Roads'?

>>5012054
It'd be easier to say that grasses are only in the Poaceae family.

>>5015783
Your potting mix was probably infested with fungus gnats to begin with.

>>5012499
The one on the right could be a Black Walnut

>>5016190
No, they should be "stargazer".
>who knows, bought bulbs of an old Asian lady who didn't speak English
>asked if these were stargazer, got an ESL "yes yes!"

>>5014637
I went to a local native plant nursery, ended up buying some pycnanthemum muticum anyways since they had it on sale, then some Symphyotrichum novi-belgii and lysimachia lanceolata var. purpurea as well

Niggas really out here in places that just have "Local native plant nurseries".

>>5016309
Yeah, you're right. Silky roads don't have the dots on the petals.

Recommendations for dealing with rust on cacti?

Why is it no matter how much expensive full spectrum light I give anything, everything always just seems to do way better and be way happier outside?

>>5016548
To put a single completely inaccurate word on it, plants in great, too-stable conditions get "bored". They don't have to try. Plants "want" to be blown by the wind, to "hear" the ambient noise of the outside. Even being crawled on and having tiny bites taken out of them by insects will encourage growth to deal with the threat.
There's also probably something (very minimal) to be said about raw sunlight even vs full spectrum artificial, but I have no real information on that and many people will yell about how there's no difference.

>>5016548
The effectiveness of a light greatly depends on distance. Not only is sunlight way more potent, but it blankets and hits everything. There's also air circulation and all that too.
The sun is literally the best light you can give.

>>5016552
>The effectiveness of a light greatly depends on distance
which is why I keep everything very close to the lights, I have to acclimate them to where they'll eventually be kept or they get burned.

>>5016554
I think growlights are good if you have small plants, or lower light ones. But having succulents that love light, especially ones that aren't very small and compact, are such a pain with growlights. The sun is always at a very slight angle which paints the entire face of a plant, but growlights are really weird and cant do that well.

>>5016556
i made the post because of an echeveria, which I noticed that after literally 4 hours in morning sun, being put into the shade for the entire rest of the day at 12, its bottom leaves were already starting to perk up, whereas before everything else had but not the bottom ones.
I kept it like 1 or 2 inches away from a sansi 40 watt or something that puts out like 30,000 fc where it was sitting, with it put into a lamp that was shining directly onto the top of it, its own personal grow light that blasted the entire thing all day long
And it liked 4 hours of light sun better

>>5011007 (OP)

>>5015650

>>5016703

>>5011648
>>5011658
Let us talk of spider mite genocide. I recently tossed out my majesty palm because it got infested and aside from already dying because of a bad repot job I did, it wasn't worth saving. Being summer, palms are on sale so I got a new one for $13 and this time I'm going to be very proactive about keeping mites off. Is misting it down with diluted peppermint oil once a week a good idea? It's in my kitchen right now because I'm afraid to put it where the other one was in case those little bastards are still hiding in the area for a few days. I also tied the stalks to make it more vertical because this thing is like 7' tall and would gladly spread out to take a 4'x4' area if I let it.

>>5016707
I swear every palm gets destroyed by Spidermites. If you've got money to throw around, I think the ultimate pest control option is to just buy predatory mites and let them loose.

Simply buy smaller plants that aren't impossible to fully wipe down

To the anon who was sad about my sempervivum getting bleached by a heat wave, wworry not, she has already outgrown the damage and 3 of her 5 chicks survived (though I was really excited about what a perfect star shape they were going to make...)

Hear me out..

You can bend branches and similar slowly over time, right. Can you do the same for monstera deliciosa stems?
They lose their lower leaves and gets a long snakey stem. What if you were to twist that into a ring to lower the overall plant down and then also get to put all that into potting medium to promote root growth.

Saw a mexican guy going around the condos spraying weed killer and I dont trust for a second that he wouldn't splash my plants

Do any common pests (that aren't roaches) lay ootheca or is something cool going to hatch on my plant?

Do Haworthia shed their oldest leaves like other succs or will I have to wait for them to pup if I want them to be perfect?

>>5017089
No common "its over" level pest is large enough to lay a big visible ootheca, part of what makes them so hard to deal with is how small they are.

Jesus christ, the poojeets have infested the plant community with ai videos..

How overkill would a 32k lumen light be for an entire room of plants..? Like 3m away the effectiveness would be like what, 20%?

>>5017126
Slowly, yes. If one's bothering you pluck it

>>5017513
Perfect! No need to then, taking that leaf off will just mean less surface area to grow new ones to replace it. Thank you!

>>5016325
where the fuck do you live then?

>>5017628
Did you really expect a real response to this

>>5017692
nah I just wanted to talk some shit honestly

>literal day after I bought a haworthia it rained on it so hard that almost all of its leaves broke

Been looking at fruit trees and planning to get some Ugni molinae. Any objections? Anything I should know? Better varieties?

>>5017698
Local plant nursery niggas.

>>5018353
this is pretty much the exact thing I get out of 4chan
anyway if where you live doesn't have a local native plant nursery, either you're rural, in which case go the fuck outside the native plants are right there, or you're in some suburban mortgage farm in which case either go out country and get your own native seeds or go further into the city where there's actual businesses and there'll be some sort of native nursery. only other possibility I can think of is some sort of thirdie shithole where no one gives a shit about native plants, but in that case unless you're in downtown shanghai you're probably not far from some habitat with native plants in it, in which case get your own seeds and be your own nursery nigga

>tiny monstera thai survived the transition from soil to water

Phew.

Is purchasing a tiny greenhouse a thing
Would it keep things warm in the winter

>>5018754
Wait can you seriously just use a clear fucking storage bin?
Is the greenhouse effect that strong?
Or is this shit for people who have "winter" where they freak out if they see frost in the morning?

Why does no one mention waiting for an overcast day when acclimating plants to sun? It's like a hack, they spend a cloudy day outside and they're pretty much instantly ready as long as the next day isn't a scorcher.

>>5018793
>greenhouse effect
Lack of airflow. The air standing still in there greatly insulates them and the lid stops warm air leaving. A more polite term for this is a "cold frame." You just have to keep the temperature above where they start dying off. Even if the air temperature seems safe on paper, it can drop suddenly for one night and kill everything, or the wind can be several degrees lower and cause serious damage. A container provides a really good buffer.

Plants that die back to the root (or that can survive being cut back) can also just be heavily mulched over to insulate them.

>>5018870
hmm
I haven't seen a single picture or video of people doing it with any snow around so im skeptical it could stand up to real winter even if i brought it in at night

>>5018879
Technically, snow also provides a degree of insulation for the same reasons. I see people using plastic containers mainly to germinate stuff, but you can find tons of pictures of cold frames covered in snow.

>cleaning outdoor cactus shelves
>knock fishhook cactus off top shelf
>instinctively block it

IM A GENIUS

>>5016325
OK "native plant nursery" might have been an embellishment, its a botanical garden that focuses on natives and also sells them.

I'm starting to notice that when I look at cacti, unless they're mature, their biggest and most impressive spines tend to be on top, while the ones at the bottom near the ground tend to be small, discolored, and almost rotten looking. Was I wrong about Cacti? Do they grow their needles at the top and then they move down the plant eventually replacing the oldest ones like other succs do with their leaves?

>seemingly thriving peperomia collapses and gives up on life
sick of this rerun episode

>got a big monstera
>the new leaves are all out of sync so untangling them all will most likely kill one of the emerging leaves

Reee.