Go check them out, guys. Let's plant some more seeds in this place. :)

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Hi everyone,

I have a Strelitzia Nicolai which isn't doing too well. Most of the leaves are turning yellow/brown, some of them having spots. This happened last year as well. After a while, I cut them off, and they eventually regrow.

The plant is on a hydroculture with a water meter.

I don't think its due to overwatering. Once the meter indicates zero, I wait 4 days before refilling to the "optimal" level on the meter.

I also don't think it's because of a lack of sunlight. The plant stands in our "veranda" (sorry for the Dutch term, no good English term seems to exist). Plenty of sunlight. In the winter, the temperature never drops below 16. In the summer it almost never drops below 20.

The plant receives a fertilizer for hydroculture plants roughly every 6 months. Last time was about 2 months ago.

Any thoughts on what could be going on? I've had this plant for 4 years, and only been struggling with it the last 2.

A bulbophyllum thiurum!

As well as a masdevallia bennetti:

Soo hyped 😆 and hoping i can get them to bloom!

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Perfume is a bit fainter than my other Hoya but Inigo makes up for it with pretty blooms.

I admit Im using y'all as guinea pigs while I figure how to post in these platforms, hello everyone, its nice to meet you!

All my plants living inside got a name. Am I the only one doing this?

Its kind of fun to say stuff like "yeh i have to water Gerta" or "I am living with Gerta, Liselotte, Bums, Godwin, Waldemar and Dawn" :P

How did you name your plants? If you do.

Flat mites are becoming super common in the Hoya world, but because they're so hard to see and do damage so slowly most people don't know about them. A lot of cases of plants failing to thrive, never growing, or just looking sickly and slowly dying may be due to flat mites. You can see them easily with a cheap handheld magnifier, usually on the underside of leaves near the base.

Check out this link for more info: https://vermonthoyas.com/2022/11/09/lets-talk-about-the-new-hoya-scourge-the-flat-mite/

To cut to the chase, mix 2 tbs of sulfur with a gallon of water, shake vigorously, and put it in your sprayer. Shake frequently while spraying. Do it outside, we call it farting on our plants for a reason...

The gracilis (memoria?) pictured looked OK but it was next to patient zero, a fitchii that is just now coming back from the brink of death. The gracilis is suddenly growing like mad a month after farting. I left the sulfur residue on the leaves as a preventative so you can easily tell the new growth from old.

Paranoid of bugs with a house full of plants and it's too sunny for the varigated bois. 😅 Tonnes of babies in the back you can't see! I ran out of soil, hopefully they're cosy with their camp out until tomorrow. 🏕️

I think there's probably been about 10 flowers in total. It's a shame they don't stay for longer but it's been lovely to see them!

My wife discovered somebody nearby selling a few small rhizomes of this plant just a few months ago.

A few months after she buried them, slowly more and more of the gorgeous purple leaves came up. The leaves even go to sleep at night and fold down, it's adorable.

Soon, the flowers followed, the whole plant was covered in flowers recently and they still keep coming. Even the flowers go to sleep, just the most cute and beautiful plant ever, it brings us a lot of joy. :)

First cucumber on the vine! It might be a little crooked, but hopefully it'll be delicious in a couple of weeks ^^

Decided to create a bonsai focused community. https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/bonsai !bonsai@discuss.tchncs.de

Hope some of you decide to join and share your bonsai😁

If anyone would like to help me set up these communities and/or mod, please get in touch. This place is what we make it and I’d love some fresh ideas. I mod a number of smaller science subreddits and would like to help make this place just as nice, if not better!

My friend said "that plant's feeling horny!"

I didn't know this flowered, and liked it for it's foliage, then where these appeared I remembered it's name and did a 'doh!'

Just wanted to contribute showing my flowering Hoya Bella.

I had it for three years and every year gives more flowers at a time and flowering period is longer. It has been with flowers at least the last six months and now its opening eight at the same time ❤️ Def my favourite plant 🫶

And as a bonus, also share my hoya kerrii picture. This one was not a single heart when I bought it, but I'd say it has doubled the size in a year 🌿

Hi everyone! I'm a reddit refugee trying to find my old communities. I've been wondering if some of the other Plant subreddits are being created here. Mainly PlantClinic and HousePlantCircleJerk lol.

Thanks!

My Binata snuck around to my U. Reniformis container to give it some pizazz