Let’s learn plants

[SMdoubleXL]

I’ve been thinking of this thread lately.  
thank you  bumping it. 
 

@Ko SprueOne

A few docent things to do with those depending on what you want your end result to be. 
 

Any flower (all of you) should be dead headed  (cut it off) after it blooms. If that old flower falls in your plant it could lead to a bacteria or even mold to grow. 
UNLESS you are trying to get seeds from it. 

i would harvest those seeds-and cut the bloom off.  
If you are keeping it-you should definitely be able to give it a rejuvenation prune.  All the way down and allow it go dormant in the winter  and start fresh when’s it’s time.  Im not 100 if you can take it all the way down to the stalk- but just in case  leave a few branches with a few nodes so it has some new growth starter points. 

[LUGR]

What’s up with the ‘stoney trip’? Only for the bees?

[SMdoubleXL]

I’m sure the same compound that “relaxes” humans is probably a super sleeper for bees hahah. 
I mean they get all in that 

[Ko SprueOne]

5 hours ago, SMdoubleXL said:

I’ve been thinking of this thread lately.  
thank you  bumping it. 
 

@Ko SprueOne

A few docent things to do with those depending on what you want your end result to be. 
 

Any flower (all of you) should be dead headed  (cut it off) after it blooms. If that old flower falls in your plant it could lead to a bacteria or even mold to grow. 
UNLESS you are trying to get seeds from it. 

i would harvest those seeds-and cut the bloom off.  
If you are keeping it-you should definitely be able to give it a rejuvenation prune.  All the way down and allow it go dormant in the winter  and start fresh when’s it’s time.  Im not 100 if you can take it all the way down to the stalk- but just in case  leave a few branches with a few nodes so it has some new growth starter points. 

 

Dead Headed to avoid bacteria and mold, Good info. I didn't know that.

 

I'm not trying to harvest the seeds for now. The ones that fell a couple years ago grew this one in the picture.

 

When you say, All the way down to the stalk, does that mean under the bloom until it reaches the branch it's growing from? See the red lines in the picture. Or further down than that?

 

Thanks for the replies, awesome thread!

 

 

[Ko SprueOne]

4 hours ago, LUGR said:

What’s up with the ‘stoney trip’? Only for the bees?

 

I may have embellished the wording a bit. She may have said something like, 'Mellows them out'

Edited August 23, 2021 by Ko SprueOne
espellin

[SMdoubleXL]

2 hours ago, Ko SprueOne said:

 

Dead Headed to avoid bacteria and mold, Good info. I didn't know that.

 

I'm not trying to harvest the seeds for now. The ones that fell a couple years ago grew this one in the picture.

 

When you say, All the way down to the stalk, does that mean under the bloom until it reaches the branch it's growing from? See the red lines in the picture. Or further down than that?

 

Thanks for the replies, awesome thread!

 

 

Exactly.   Where the stem starts at the leaves. 
 

yea. Any dead or dying plant matter (including flowers) should be removed from and from around any plant.    

 

also. If you see a dying/I’ll branch /leaf or any part of a plant that isn’t doing well, cut it off!! 
 

the plant will use its energy to keep trying to repair that instead of sending that energy to new growth.  
 

kinda similar to life. 
 

we can learn a lot from plants. 

Edited August 23, 2021 by SMdoubleXL

[Ko SprueOne]

Ok got it. I'll work on this each day after work until completion which should be by this weekend.

 

 

[SMdoubleXL]

Started these avocado seeds back in July I think. 

 

started several more for a few co workers. 

using wet paper towel method as opposed to toothpick suspension over water. 

 

 

 

 

 

[SMdoubleXL]

This is what they looked like 8/21 

 

aftrr that radical (first root) is long enough , I’ll turn it root side down over a jar with a mouth opening wide enough to allow root to sit in that water. Topping water daily to prevent any pert of the root to dry out 

[SMdoubleXL]

Colocasia/ Taro/ Elephant ear plant I picked up early in the summer. My patio couldn’t allow as much sun as it needed so it stretched and got too wild  

(Still shot from bad video) 

I was pretty sure it had a root system you could store for later so I chopped each leaf down, pulled it all out of the pot and separated it’s roots (tubers).  Shook of some soil and put em in a paper bag. I’ll keep em out on the patio for keeping cool and reset it next spring. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For fun  I set one in water to see how it would react. It grew a leaf within two weeks 

 

Roots are happy 

 

 

[mr.yuck]

Whoa! I didn’t realize elephant ears are tubers!

[Ko SprueOne]

On 10/12/2021 at 7:49 AM, SMdoubleXL said:

This is what they looked like 8/21 

 

aftrr that radical (first root) is long enough , I’ll turn it root side down over a jar with a mouth opening wide enough to allow root to sit in that water. Topping water daily to prevent any pert of the root to dry out 

 

A very sort of Halloween thing going on there

 

[Ko SprueOne]

On 10/12/2021 at 4:19 PM, mr.yuck said:

Whoa! I didn’t realize elephant ears are tubers!

Me neither

[SMdoubleXL]

On 10/13/2021 at 9:33 PM, Ko SprueOne said:

 

A very sort of Halloween thing going on there

 

I call em Nature’s Knick Knacks ha

[Ko SprueOne]

On 10/15/2021 at 10:31 AM, nicklesndimes said:

picked a couple of these today, still not sure what they are though...

 

gonna go just w/ trinidad scorpion

If you don't eat them, they can be cristmas tree ornaments. Is that a thing yet? Peppers as tree decoration?

[ndv]

On 10/18/2021 at 8:28 PM, Ko SprueOne said:

If you don't eat them, they can be cristmas tree ornaments. Is that a thing yet? Peppers as tree decoration?

 

you can always spice up the bedroom by stringing them up as anal beads.  I am sure that'll make the bung hole feel like some kinda Christmas 

[Ko SprueOne]

I was looking for NEW things to do with peppers in the October season

[Ko SprueOne]

October always brings the Orb-Weaver-Araneidae to the yard. 

 

The Mrs took this shot. She took a few more super close ups but they were blurry. I would've took a few myself but I was busy with some other sht. That thing was the size of a Kübelwagen! I wasn't scared tho, just busy doing other stuff. 

 

 

Edited October 21, 2021 by Ko SprueOne

[Ko SprueOne]

We're eating Guava from our tree on the daily

 

 

[One Man Banned]

^ Fresh, reminds me of Asia

[One Man Banned]

 

They refer to this as a penis plant but I can't help but feel they missed going with dickweed.

[Ko SprueOne]

^ Boner Blossom 

[One Man Banned]

dick bush

[One Man Banned]

10 hours ago, nicklesndimes said:

^^peckerwood

 

would be perfect if it were a tree, and then they planted them around CA prisons

[SMdoubleXL]

Ha

 

ive seen that thing. We call it a Corpse plant. Because it smells like death 

 

 

if they call it a penis plant they should say it smells like dick cheese or something  

 

 

 

 

[Ko SprueOne]

... and so the experiment begins. 

 

We ripen avocado and bananas* like that but in a paper bag. I never knew how it worked but your explanation is useful insight. 

 

 

* kept misspelling 'bananas' approx. 8 times while typing this, FYI

[Ko SprueOne]

Volunteer tomato plant

 

 

 

[Ko SprueOne]

These detailed drawings are fascinating

 

https://cdm21045.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/coll13/search/searchterm/wurzelatlas mitteleuropaischer waldbaume und straucher/field/subcol/mode/exact/conn/and

 

 

[One Man Banned]

On 12/13/2021 at 9:28 PM, Ko SprueOne said:

These detailed drawings are fascinating

 

https://cdm21045.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/coll13/search/searchterm/wurzelatlas mitteleuropaischer waldbaume und straucher/field/subcol/mode/exact/conn/and

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ko SprueOne]

Hah, those Romans quips, man I tell ya