Weird patterning on these two odd leaves from two separate plants. The rest of the plants are fine with new growth. I recently let it dry out a bit as I got caught up with life, could be a cause, but it seems like it's a possible nutrient issue. I did feed it recently.

This is most of my current collection, minus a couple hoyas in quarantine, some succulent babies I'm growing from seed, and a thanksgiving cactus that is budding that I did not want to risk messing up the blooms.

Started with a spider plant in July of 2022, after almost a full year of keeping it alive I decided to try branching out last spring and here we are. A lot were cuttings from friends' plants :)

If only it would do it for the whole plant.. 👀

If you have another idea about a plant related poem, let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can come up with.

Hello! I'm looking to see if anyone has a good hoya seller in Canada, specifically looking to have it delivered to New Brunswick. I tried an Etsy shop from BC in August and received the fungus gnat infestation I'm currently still battling, so anyone reputable that you haven't received pests from would be awesome!

I trimmed the trunk because it was growing quite tall and spindly. Is there any way to continue growing the main trunk or will it only grow branches now?

Plus bonus cat because he's in the background.

A fun little poem about over watering succulents. I hope you all enjoy!

For those who haven't seen them, I'm a big fan of these "self watering" IKEA plant pots.

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/ikea-ps-fejoe-self-watering-plant-pot-black-30117188/

Basically that means there's a reservoir at the bottom, a tube down, and a stick with Styrofoam on the end. The stick floats up when there's water in there, so you don't flood your plant.

Bottom watering is also great way to reduce things like fungus gnats, and apparently is better for your plants.

On top of all this they have shitty wheels on the bottom that make it way easier to move around big plants.

My problem was I have several large plants I want to put out for the summer and hook into my irrigation. A simple solution was just drilling a hole in the bottom, then shoving a rubber cork in it when its inside.

In the summer I just store the cork in the top of the tube (the orange bit).

It's a simple hack but works really well.

Hello to everyone,

So I am growing a set of plants this winter, soil in terracotta pots with some terracotta ollas for watering them. I have the plants sitting in the window, about 8-9 inches away from the pane itself to keep from getting too cold, and have the grow light over, so that way they are getting light in that cycle, the lights being on during the day time so that when the sun isn't as strong, the lights can help.

I was thinking about whether or not I should get a heating mat for them as well, or a heating lamp to help keep them from being too cold. What would be your recommendations?

The plants are as follow:

Lemon balm, Orange Hat Tomatoes, Bush Pinto Beans, and Tom Thumb Lettuce.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you for reading!

I have a fungus gnat problem with my houseplants, I've kept them relatively under control using Mosquito Dunks in my watering can since August and some yellow sticky traps but I can't seem to eradicate them. I was considering buying nematode pot poppers but I've never used them before so I was wondering if anyone had any tips for application. All my plants are still relatively small so I don't have many large pots for any of them (most are between 4-10").

Any and all recommendations welcome, having pests is really taking all the joy out of having plants. I'm in Canada so a lot of pesticides aren't available to me.

UPDATE: I figured I'd update this post incase someone comes looking for solutions and sees this. I ended up going with a top layer of silica sand (2-4 mm in size) on all of my pots. I continued with the BTI water, let my plants completely dry out between waterings, and bottom-watered most of my plants. I haven't seen a fungus gnat in about 2 weeks so I think I have been successful in eradicating them. Will update again if this changes.

Update 2: I take back the update, they're still here... I'm so over the freaking gnats.

Update 3: Just updating this post in case someone stumbles across it looking for answers. What worked for me was switching most of my plants to semi-hydro and I now have a Pinguicula Morensis that eats any stragglers that come in with any new plants. The plants that are still in soil are watered so rarely that the gnats are not really an issue.

Hello, I planted a dragon blood tree because I read that it can also be kept as a houseplant.

The seed has started to grow roots but so far nothing is visible on the surface. This has been going on for about two months now, so am I doing something wrong?

Gauging interest post. Do any of you fabulous folk want to help start a cutting swap community? Always loved them on reddit. Half of my collection is from those fine folks! :)

Because I feel like for once, I didn't murder a grocery store plant

My potted myer lemon tree started flowering a few weeks after I brought it indoors for the winter. Is it OK to let it flower? Should I try pollinating the flowers to get more lemons?

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I think I've discovered a drawback to moving everything outside in the spring. Buying more plants doesn't matter when you don't need to worry where to put them... until fall.