Guenther_Amanita
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- Comment on Aeroponic houseplants 7 hours ago:
You could cross-post this to !hydroponics@slrpnk.net if you want :)
- Comment on Stop killing your Calatheas by understanding them better. This is how! [Guide] 5 days ago:
I pretty much only find spider mites on already weak and highly stressed plants and only nearby windows.
Do you have them in soil? AFAIK they can only lay their eggs in organic substrates.
Systemic pesticides also do wonders when needed.
- Comment on I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids] 6 days ago:
Some phals need a temperature drop or photoperiod shift to bloom. Most supermarket orchids, yours most probably included, are ultra complex hybrids that are everblooming and don’t care much about that. Still, it might help.
The most obvious reason they don’t bloom tho is a lack of sunlight. Blooming costs A LOT of energy and doesn’t give the plant anything back. Give it LOTS of diffused light.
People say they don’t need much light, but that’s total BS. They might survive, but not thrive.
Mine are usually behind a shear curtain (blocks half the light) on a SW window. VERY bright.
IMPORTANT:
- Don’t move them too suddenly when they’ve adapted to dark conditions
- Observe the temperature of the leaves. They can get hot fast. In my climate they don’t burn, but they quickly will when they get direct sun for too long.
Show me a few pics of yours. Include some pictures of the roots and the leaves please, so I can help you troubleshoot.
Nutrients are usually not the primary issue. But they might. If they are, you’ll (or I) see it by the looks.
- Comment on Stop killing your Calatheas by understanding them better. This is how! [Guide] 6 days ago:
Kinda looks like this
Instead of soil (decomposing organic stuff), you use expanded clay balls, pumice, lava rock, or whatever inorganic porous material you prefer. I like LECA by far the most.
The medium is fully inert and can be heat sterilized and reused again indefinitely.
The inner pot is standing a few centimetres deep in nutrient solution (water with fertiliser), with a floating indicator that tells you when the pot is soon empty again. Due to the porous nature of the balls the nutrient solution is wicked up passively and held constantly moist with a lot of air gaps in between.
- Comment on I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids] 6 days ago:
Thanks! ❤️
More pics will follow soon!
I have 5 or more orchids right now with a flower spike or buds already forming, that will bloom in less than a few weeks!
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- Comment on How to Remove Burn Mark from (acrylic ?) Sink 2 months ago:
That’s the spirit! You got it!
Basically Kintsugi, but made by someone 13-year-old mentally 😂 Exactly what I imagined too
Just make sure you don’t inhale any fumes from the plastic
- Comment on How to Remove Burn Mark from (acrylic ?) Sink 2 months ago:
If nothing else works, maybe make the best out of it, grab a lighter (or soldering iron) and just burn a cool pattern on it?
- Comment on Portable watering station suggestions? 2 months ago:
Why not just take a bucket?
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- Comment on I belive it was time to increase the pot size of my banana tree. 4 months ago:
Are you sure this banana should be living in a fish tank? Aren’t you worried about the roots suffocating?
But it looks awesome!
- Comment on I belive it was time to increase the pot size of my banana tree. 4 months ago:
My banana tree is, besides the marijuana plants, the fastest growing plant I’ve owned so far.
As soon as there have been a few sunny days, it feels like it has doubled in size.
I wasn’t even able to keep up with watering, because it guzzled up liters of nutrient solution a day. - Submitted 4 months ago to houseplants@mander.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print? 5 months ago:
Thangs
- Comment on Here's the promised video of my Nepenthes snacking 5 months ago:
Maybe they can help you on your balcony!
I don’t think so, because there are so many that are attracted by other things, such as honeydew.
But I have a Sarracenia out there!
It wasn’t really happy until now, but once it acclimatises, it might catch a few ants and maybe wasps?
My nepenthes is indoor only, because I’m afraid I might introduce pests to my other houseplants when I have to bring it indoors over winter.
That’s amazing. Did the buggy get there on its own or did you help?
I had to help a bit 🙃
I put the bug onto the plant itself, but it crawled in there on its own.My neps are still learning to walk. They’ve been fed synthetic fertiliser up until now, and they yet have to develop their hunting instincts :D
- Comment on How to treat mealy bugs on pings? 5 months ago:
Definitely take some leaf pullings before! Just in case, if the soap kills the plants, you have a backup and can start growing them again.
I’m in a similar position with my Drosera right now.
What substrate do you use for your pings? If you use peat or other organic media, I think they won’t be super happy. They arent bog plants and don’t like to be having wet feet constantly afaik
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- Comment on The beginning of my Pinguicula on mosses project 6 months ago:
I think the brand doesn’t matter much. They all work fine.
I will make a post about it, so it is easier accessible for others too.
TL;DR what I’ll say:
- Expensive isn’t much better
- There’s “red” LECA (smoother surface, but more compact) and “grey” LECA (very lightweight, porous and floats). Both have their own (small) pros and cons, but still similar. I just mixed them by now for aesthetic purposes lol
- The size variation matters a lot. Bigger, rounder balls = more air gaps.
- You have to soak it first in pure water when dry. If you use tap water instead, it will leach over the next weeks and alter the water chemistry, including pH.
You can reverse this by cooking pretty fast tho
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- Comment on The beginning of my Pinguicula on mosses project 6 months ago:
I made a guide a few weeks ago, here it is
LECA is expanded clay balls. Similar to pumice for example, it has a lot of pores, which draw up water by capillary action. It is constantly moist, but also highly aerated and my hydroponic medium of choice.
I also made a few posts about it, including microscope pictures and explaining the concept of semi-hydro :)
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- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 6 months ago:
Obsidian or Logseq.
I’ve used Logseq for my lab journal, thoughts, and whatsoever, and it works excellent for that.
- You can link different things/ dates with each entry
- Markdown
- Functions and querys
- Local
It can be tricky tho if you want to collaborate, because the sync isn’t perfect yet, but the devs are working really hard on it
- Comment on Hydroponic carnivorous plants - Another update 6 months ago:
They’re growing in a soil-less media and receive hydroponic fertilizer. The technique is called “semi-hydro”, which is a passive way of growing plants.
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- Comment on Look, I just really don't like working with soil in my apartment [DWC with Caladium, Tradescantia, Hawaiian "Ti"] 6 months ago:
increasing the nutrient concentration
Be careful. A nutrient burn is way more harmful than a deficiency.
It’s one of many plants that people say “do not like wet soil,”
Water isn’t the problem, it’s the anaerobic conditions that lead to root rot
Are all of those pictures of your plants really all hydro?
Yeah, the only exception is my one Drosera, which lives in the peat mix I bought it in (can’t survive in most other media) and a few of my balcony plants, mainly my blackberry (annual) and some pollinator flower mixes that live as weeds.
All other ones, houseplants (including calatheas and some carnivorous plants!) and balcony crops (cannabis, melons, chilli, etc.) are in hydro.
Here, for example, my Tradescantia (because it was a main subject of your post) and Nepenthes
