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Through life, fire is kindled; heal the spirit, the mind, the body. Every plant can nurture and wither in the right hands. There is no flame without a breath to carry it or kindling to raise it.
Osanyin, my beautiful forest deity dragon.
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
Fucking killer story map from NPR. A+++
This is fantastic!
One important takeaway from this article, if you're a gardener, is that there's a corresponding Heat Zone Map put together by the American Horticultural Society that isn't widely known.
With tools like the USDA plant hardiness map, we typically only consider low winter temperatures as the primary metric by which we determine
They're trying to implement this info more in the Hardiness Zone map, but trying to account for too many factors in a single metric runs the risk of muddling the metric, so it's worth considering them separately.
I think all houseplant care guides (including the little stakes they put in the soil when you buy one) should also include the expected lifespan of the plant. Not its flowers, the plant.
I feel like I’m left wondering if I killed the plant or if it was just its time way too often.
Also, it’d just be nice to know if the plant I’m buying will live for two more years or two more weeks
TOMATO ADVICE BLOG'S TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE TO "DID I KILL THIS HOUSEPLANT?" BASED ON MY TIME AS A RETAIL GREENHOUSE WORKER:
1. Look up if it's an annual, biannual or perennial first. Most houseplants are (supposed to be) perennials, but there are a few annuals/bianuals that get sold as houseplants. Amaryllis can survive for many years if properly potted and you have the mandate of heaven on your side, but they are annuals. That said, even an annual should live at least 5-6 months at minimum.
2. If it died very suddenly (like "looked kinda sad one day, worse the next and wholly deceased on day 3") a couple weeks after you got it? Not your fault. It was already infected with a greenhouse fungus when you got it, and there was nothing you could do for it.
Greenhouse fungi are extremely common and effect the majority of retail plants sold in the US: they spread virulently through greenhouses AND can infect any plants transported with them, and plants transported in the same truck afterwards. Outdoor plants have more resilience against them because other microrhyzal fungal colonies in their outdoor pots or garden beds will protect the plants, but houseplants are kind of screwed.
You can take a swing at mitigating this by immediately repotting any houseplants you receive with dirt from a pot/garden bed/part of the yard that has other plants actively growing in it (remove.other plants before putting that dirt in with your houseplant), and putting your houseplants outside when the weather is warm, but it's often a lot cause by the time you receive the plant.
Greenhouse fungi infections are the #1 killer of retail houseplants in my experience.
3. If your plant dies EXTREMELY suddenly, like "fine last night and dead this morning" something in the building it's kept in poisoned it.
Likely culprits: cats peeing in the dirt, small children pouring soda in there (sugar aggravates any infection it might have), shitty coworkers pouring coffee in there, and accidentally hitting it with a cleaning spray while you were sanitizing the kitchen counters.
4. If it dies very slowly over the course of a couple of weeks within a year of you getting it, I'm afraid you probably killed it. The two main ways people kill houseplants are
A) Over Watering. How to fix it: keep your plant pots in a large, high-sided, no- drainage container like a large Tupperware or boot tray. Once a week (twice when AND ONLY WHEN it gets to be +80 farenheit in the room where the plant lives) fill the container with an inch or two of water, and let the plants absorb it through the bottoms of their pots, AND DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THIS SCHEDULE. If you must deviate, err on the side of under-watering them, that's a lot easier for a plant to recover from.
B) Not Enough Light. Most houseplants are tropical understory plants because those are the only ones that will tolerate the "Total Shade" level of ambient light in most houses. Succulents, cacti and most woody houseplants are not understory plants. They need 8-12 hours full spectrum light, and most glass that windows are made of block a large part of the spectrum they need. Get some grow lights. You can use the purple ones as fun night lights for your house that won't mess up your vision or sleep cycle when you get up in the middle of the night!
C) Not "common" but often enough: over-feeding. Potting soil does not need that much amending, and adding plant food to fresh potting soil will scorch the roots. Don't.
5. If your perennial plant that was thriving suddenly dies after three years, ESPECIALLY if it was an orchid: not your fault! The way that many greenhouse plants are grown is FUCKED.
Orchids in particular are doomed: orchids are heavily specialized and extremely dependent on microrhyzal fungi to stay alive. Like, parasitically dependent. As in, orchids make literally millions of microscopic seeds in hopes that one will land somewhere that has the extremely specific species of tropical fungus that orchid can hack to stay alive. Because the orchid's fungal needs are so key and so specific, greenhouse orchids are grown in a way that dooms them to tragically brief lifespans.
Greenhouse orchids are grown in sterile conditions by placing the seeds in agar and pumping them full of growth hormones and food tailored to that species exact needs (that's why there's only a couple dozen commercially sold orchids of the tens of thousands of species in the family), and continue pumping them full of their specific super food until they're large enough to be sold, and they're usually sold with Orchid Food.
Imagine growing a baby in a test tube, but the baby's immune system comes from bacteria it would be exposed to in uetero, so your lab baby has no immune system, so you feed it shitloads of vitamins to prop it up against infections. How long do you think that baby would survive outside of the lab, even if it's keeper kept up the vitamin regimen?
In the case of most orchids, about three years.
You CAN make an attempt to save your doomed bubble baby. You can go outside, find SEVERAL places full of vigorous and lively plants, pull up one of those plants (preferably one that doesn't regerminate from severed roots, like thistles) knock the handful of dirt that comes up with it into your collection of Very Alive Plant Dirts, and repot your orchid in a well-drained pot with that mixture and some orchid soil. IF YOU ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY, there will be a microrhyzal fungus in your wild dirt samples that is close enough to your orchid's host species that it will be able to accept it as it's new immune system. This is literally a one-in-a-million shot, but I *have* seen it work, and the rescued orchids live for DECADES.
Godspeed.
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Some of you may have heard about Monarch butterflies being added to the Threatened species list in the US and be planning to immediately rush out in spring and buy all the milkweed you can manage to do your part and help the species.
And that's fantastic!! Starting a pollinator garden and/or encouraging people and businesses around you to do the same is an excellent way to help not just Monarchs but many other threatened and at-risk pollinator species!
However.
Please please PLEASE do not obtain Tropical Milkweed for this purpose!
Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--also commonly known as bloodflower, Mexican butterflyweed, and scarlet milkweed--will likely be the first species of milkweed you find for sale at most nurseries. It'll be fairly cheap, too, and it grows and propagates so easily you'll just want to grab it! But do not do that!
Tropical milkweed can cause a host of issues that can ultimately harm the butterflies you're trying to help, such as--
Harboring a protozoan parasite called OE (which has been linked to lower migration success, reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability) for long periods of time
Remaining alive for longer periods, encouraging breeding during migration time/overwintering time as well as keeping monarchs in an area until a hard freeze wherein which they die
Actually becoming toxic to monarch caterpillars when exposed to warmer temperatures associated with climate change
However--do not be discouraged!! There are over 100 species of milkweed native to the United States, and plenty of resources on which are native to your state specifically! From there, you can find the nurseries dedicated to selling native milkweeds, or buy/trade for/collect seeds to grow them yourself!!
The world of native milkweeds is vast and enchanting, and I'm sure you'll soon find a favorite species native to your area that suits your growing space! There's tons of amazing options--whether you choose the beautiful pink vanilla-smelling swamp milkweed, the sophisticated redring milkweed, the elusive purple milkweed, the alluring green antelopehorn milkweed, or the charming heartleaf milkweed, or even something I didn't list!
And there's tons of resources and lots of people willing to help you on your native milkweed journey! Like me! Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions!
Just. PLEASE. Leave the tropical milkweed alone. Stay away.
TLDR: Start a pollinator garden to help the monarchs! Just don't plant tropical milkweed. There's hundreds of other milkweeds to grow instead!
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How non-profits, trusts and cities are converting manicured greens into places where wildlife, plants and people flourish.
x / Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede, Richard Siken
To me, the wool gene doesnt look like actual wool or silk and tbh i dont think its meant to. I think it looks like wax! Wooly bugs like the ones pictured here are soft and furry due to wax buildup. Pretty cool huh
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Many people think of butterflies as fragile, but there is one species that is remarkably resilient. Individuals in North American travel over 48000 km (3000 mi) down to Mexico, where they overwinter. In the spring, they reproduce, and the succeeding generation makes the return journey back north. The monarch butterfly is the only butterfly known to make this two-way migration.
(Image: A cluster of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) by Candace Fallon)
Nothing like inhaling massive amounts of plant semen all summer
*grabs you by the shoulders* listen don’t get it twisted you CANNOT get it twisted. those are plant penises, NOT the sperm. once the pollen lands on the female structure in question, THEN it germinates and makes the sperm. do you know how many college biology students are threatened by this misinformation each year?? how many fall victim to the classic blunder??
obsessed with this person organically deriving the alternation of generations in the tags of this post
Do wheat rust next the alternation of generations in fungi is crazy
fungal rusts aren’t doing alternation of generations they’re doing violence. you walk into a plant pathology lecture and they’ve got the damn Ferris wheel on the powerpoint like ok class this is the Bob rust it causes 6 mass famines and 60 billion dollars of lost GDP per year and uses funerary flowers as a backup host to its backup host to its backup host to its host who’s leaves infect the soil they fall onto for 20 years afterward unless you burn them but there’s also a 30% chance that each spore is locked into its own personal fireproof temperature controlled vault in the soil thats a miracle of nature that only opens for the tender shoots of the most common weed in the region which, as you all remember, is actually it’s 4th host twice removed. now get your phones out for the kahoot question
This thing gives me Snapper dragon vibes Glademama I'm scared 0_0
(For context: I found a picture of an alligator snapping turtle and immediately my brain registered it as a menace to society.)
just don't put your limbs near its mouth and you should be fine, my child.
The Eleven Flight Rising
After roughly a year since releasing the first one, I have finally completed all eleven dragons. After much inactivity, procrastinating, and stubbornness. I did push to finish.
These are also, purely my versions of the deities. Would be alright with me if you agree/disagree with the choices. I’ve been quite inactive with the game as of late, and have given away most, if not all my valuable items/dragons to a good friend who I know will take care of it.
Edit: Added the hi-res version.
Lovely nature~
