I might resort to growing my peppers and tomatoes inside this year. The slugs are everywhere end keep eating my plants, they've destroyed my aubergine and paprika plants.
Yeah, I have three moisture-in-soil sensors inserted around the plant. The idea was to use to them to control the irrigation, but they did not work out.
The sensors are from AZDelivery, these ones. They are connected to an arduino nano which reads the capacitance values and sends them over to a raspberry pi 5. The raspberry pi 5 is connected to a few other sensors (CO2, particle counter, air humidity and temperature all from Sensirion), and there is a 7-inch raspberry pi display that the pi writes images to. I was making a home air quality station but I decided to place everything around the pumpkin instead for now, to see if I could get something interesting out of that. But, so far most of them have not been practically useful.
Buried an 80G trash can in the yard, made a water garden. Took a slightly smaller plastic window box, drilled holes in the sides and bottom, screwed it to the side.
Transplanted Sarracenia and sundews are going nicely crazy. (I know, not legal to grab them out the wild, but I'm working on growing more and have reintroduced them to my swamp in the boonies.)
BONUS: We got dragonflies hovering around! And the trees frogs are back! Love me some insectivores, plant or animal.
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 😅
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.
Congrats! I wonder if petting the leaves demonstrates some love that makes them thrive more. Legends say talking nicely to them makes them grow better (read that somewhere in a Madeline L'Engle novel, I think).
There's at least some truth to it: a little disturbance (like wind or someone talking to them and riffling the leaves) helps plants grow stronger stems. I don't know if there's any data that differentiates between the effects of a fan or someone telling their plant that they're loved and appreciated, but who cares? Your plants do better when you talk to them instead of leaving them standing still. 👍🏼
Nice! I planted 4 pineapple in my garden and i heard from farmer it'll be a looong wait before it start to flower, since i plant it using the head of the pineapple. It's gonna be some time i get to eat the fruit 😅
From what I’ve read, it’s like 2 years to grow and then it’s another 6 or more months to actually grow a full fruit. Thing is, it’ll lay dormant when it gets cooler conditions and takes a while of proper warm conditions to finally flower. Or something along those lines.
Ya that's what i've heard too, but 2 years is the minimum according to the farmer, and we lived in tropical country. Sometime natural phenomenon like el nino or la nina can knock the grow time off. Idk i'll just plant it and forget
You can try to force it to flower with an apple too. The apple releases some compound when it decays that stimulates flowering apparently. Sorry I’m too lazy to look up the specifics.
Mine arrived all mangled, with most of the roots ripped off during shipping. It's recovering now, looking forward to hopefully getting to see the bioluminescence in a few weeks
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