I'm planning on growing some normal petunias first. Then once the price has come down a bit (and I have some experience keeping petunias alive and overwintering them indoors) I'll grab a Firefly plant.
I did however buy some of those new purple tomatoes. Hopefully they'll do well enough I'll be able to make some crosses I want to try (Early Girl and San Marzano).
You know, I've always wondered why people substitute ß with ss if it's not available in the typeset. The name of ß is literally "Eszett", so it should be substituted with sz.
The german prononciation of the letter ß is eszett but the word weiß is pronounced Weiss. Even in German you will never see weiß written in weisz. Weiss is not technically accurate either but is shown that way from time to time
In the past sz was also used, but it's not allowed in modern spelling. The ß was (is?) used for both ss and sz, to the point where nobody knew anymore which it was originally.
Good Luck. I had a plant that I brought inside for the cold weather, all of the leaves fell off - it was a succulent - so it looked dead. I saw 1 small green branch, so I put it outside, now that it is warm, to see if anything happens. Low and behold - it's growing leaves! So don't give up
Gosh, I wish I could put my plants outside but they will be instantly destroyed by city nature.
I’m not even sure how she ended up like this. Her leaves just fell off naturally and never regenerated. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Had a quick search: "Grow Alocasia 'Polly' in bright light out of direct sunlight, in free draining peat-free compost. A minimum temperature of 16ºC is perfect, ideally in a humid location, such as a bathroom. If the room isn't humid enough, you can increase humidity levels by standing the pot on a tray filled with pebbles and then add water until it rises to just below the bottom of the pot."
If relevant, try addressing humidity and ensure it stays out of direct sunlight. It could be waiting until conditions are favourable.
Thank you for this info!
I feel like this applies to just general care though. I’m looking to learn specifically what happens when I have a healthy stump, how to stimulate stem/leaf growth.
It’s very happy, I’ve harvested a lot of seedlings that are growing beautifully and I think mama are growing more in the roots. I’m just confused why she be like she be 😅
So from what I have read the minimum time to flower is about two years and temperatures play a big role in that. You can force the flowering stage with the gasses that apples produce (see comment thread from one of my older posts) but in my case it took about 4.5+ years for mine to start to flower. After the process begins it supposedly takes about 6 months to have a fruit mature enough to harvest. I only stuck mine in succulent dirt and sort of bound it in a plastic pot that was slightly too small and also watered it like the rest of my succulents. I essentially stressed it a bit with drying it out between watering and then soaking it when I did water it to get it to reach deep for the water. Liquid succulent plant food occasionally. I am a dick to my plants but they seem to do decently and I have no idea if any of that is really a good way at all.
To be a good succulent parent you do need to tend toward the neglect side of things.
Potted plants in general tend to get over watered thanks to too much love and attention from their owners. Roots need the opportunity to dry out and pots do a good job of resisting that.
Many first time growers who experience dead/dying plants think it's because they're not doing enough, when the inverse is often the case: they're doing too much.
I am in NY, so during the warm months I bring them outside and in the sun, when it gets cold, I bring them inside and the growth process usually stalls.
This is the first pic that I have of the plant that I took presumably because it was when it was actually showing growth. I’m guessing that this was a few months after I originally jammed it in this weird rectangle pot. This was from September 2020 so I probably bought the original pineapple sometime around the original covid lockdown. I guess it is closer to 4 years and a couple months old actually. I have only repotted it once since then and it has only ever been in that window.
Probably my leggy ass jade. I got this thing as a pup in probably 2005 or 2006 and it has somehow survived a ton of BS. The pups that this thing has produced have all been much more successful than this one but I still love this thing.
Hope you found some testers for your containers! If you still want more testers, I'm not PNW based (in texas) but I'm a professional photographer and have so many plants and never enough containers, especially hanging ones. I'd love to help out :)
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