Submitted 3 weeks ago by Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com to houseplants@mander.xyz
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Rain all day today! Looks like night time lows wont dip too far below 50 for the grow season. Just brought all my suffering babies outside today!
One of my favorite days of the year!
Congrats! What’s the plant that looks like a bush of string beans on the right?
I had to scan it because I forgot. It says mistletoe cactus!
it likes water a bit, and part shade.
Looks like it might be a pencil cactus
Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Make sure you don’t bring any pests inside. I did that once and thought it was a good idea.
Spoiler: it wasn’t. Some slugs got into my substrate (expanded clay balls) and ate all roots. I couldn’t get rid of them and then decided to pour boiling water into the pots because the plants were dead anyway 🤷
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
oh I got bugs consistantly, mainly them gnat bitches.
Everyone gets treated before the fall time bring in, but yeah, my dirty secret is I always have some gnat infestation, controlled, but present. Slugs would be aweful! oh no! that sounds aweful to deal with, im guessing the boiling water did the trick? sucks you lost all your plants, I would have been devistated, im so sorry :(
Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I would say they count more as pets 🥸 They aren’t really that damaging for plants. They are more of a side effect of fungal decomposition, mostly anaerobic conditions due to overwatering, root rot or the wrong substrate.
What substrate do you use? Soil? If so, maybe try another substrate (coco coir, LECA, pon, etc.) and synthetic fertiliser. They are inert and don’t compose, so they don’t attract gnats.
It was mostly out of hate 😤
I’m glad it were just a few, and not much of worth for me.
But I learnt something.