The Horticulture Thread

[Kiyske]

The thing with most carnivorous plants is that they use photosynthesis as their main sustenance, but they consume insects for the nitrogen or something, which there is a deficiency of in their natural environment. Put them in nitrogen-rich soil, and they'll do just fine.

[iamthelordhitman]

i have a weird obsession with spider plants



mine dont have the stripe but the idea is pretty much the same, im trying to grow some outside but the soil here is shit at my house

[Palenque]

Anyways, how do you keep carnivorous plants alive, Pale? My flytraps seem to be doing okay for now, but it seems that they're all going to be a hell of a pain in the booty. I'd love to get a pitcher plant one day, though. Either kind.

I, uh, actually can't remember, as this was around 5+ years ago. But go by what kiyske said since that sounds good.

[Torizo]

I used sphagnum peat moss, nice and organic. Anti-fungal, too. Feeding them is essentially like fertilizing them, apparently you can do one or the other. Once the traps get big enough I'll swat a fly or two.

[Trygve]

Mmmmmm.... Shrooooms....

[Cori]

I have a very brown thumb...I love plants but it's so hard for me to keep them alive... :<

I had a little stalk of bamboo and it...died.
I had a grafted Moonlight cactus and it...died
And I had a Venus flytrap that...died (this was the most disappointing one, because carnivorous plants are awesome. I gave it one of my gecko's crickets and then the trap holding the cricket just withered and died. Dunno why.)

Right now I'm taking care of a Christmas cactus; it's perched in my bathroom and I give it a little bit of water whenever its' leaves start feeling soft.

I rescued another plant from a general store, they were withered and dried out and 'free to a good home' so I picked one out. I removed the dead leaves and stems and it looked almost perfectly healthy. I don't know what kind of plant it is though.

Also my favorite flowers are Bleeding Hearts. They are absolutely gorgeous. I tried raising the first plant indoors but it died, so I planted the second one outside. It withers every winter but so far it's always come back in the spring.

Here's what a bleeding heart looks like:

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I have a lot of plants in my house, but they're pretty unorganized because we haven't arranged them since we brought them inside to aviod the frost. I can try getting pictures another time.

i have a weird obsession with spider plants

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mine dont have the stripe but the idea is pretty much the same, im trying to grow some outside but the soil here is shit at my house

I have a spider plant. I like them, and they're easy to take care of, but I harbor the same loathing for them that I have for Mother Chick and Hen cacti - they spawn too many babby plants and I can't bring myself to toss them outside so I replant all of them, but then once they mature the cycle just continues.

[Cori]

My mom really likes the Hens and Chicks cacti, but they don't grow that well in Washington. She had a bunch of them before we moved and when she found out they couldn't be planted outside because of the cold she gave them to her friend.

I never saw them spawn too many baby plants, though.

[Kiyske]

Here's what a bleeding heart looks like:

Aww, that thing looks adorable. They should sell those for RUCKY Day instead of all the roses.

[Torizo]

Corserai, those are lovely. If I can get my hands on one I'd definitely like to try growing a bleeding heart.

Spider plants are neat too, they're so easy to propagate. Those are extremely good for filtering toxins out of the air if I remember correctly. Same case with silver queen aglaonema, dieffenbachia, heartleaf philodendron and the like.

[hotb]

I have an assload of cacti

they flower like every two days it's great

[Sollix]

I used to have a pretty assortment of flowers and Mini trees when i still Lived with my Mom
but she wouldn't let me Take them with me. So my Mini Indoor garden is like. non existent.

I should start a new one...

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My aunt's old house had bleeding hearts growing in the front garden.

[Zang]

I think

That instead of pet stores, they should have plant stores

And people will name plants, and they could take children there and they would be like

"Mommy, I want that one, can we keep him, pleaaase?"

and the mom would be all "having a plant is a big responsibility and all"

and we could look inside the little fences set up around the store and there would be one plant missing a branch

and we would all feel sorry for it and want to adopt it and give it a metal branch.

and we could by toys and little decoration for plants and have plant shows.

and we could let the plants sleep at the foot of our bed at night and give them funny names

itwouldbesocool

[Stranaton]

I think

That instead of pet stores, they should have plant stores

And people will name plants, and they could take children there and they would be like

"Mommy, I want that one, can we keep him, pleaaase?"

and the mom would be all "having a plant is a big responsibility and all"

and we could look inside the little fences set up around the store and there would be one plant missing a branch

and we would all feel sorry for it and want to adopt it and give it a metal branch.

and we could by toys and little decoration for plants and have plant shows.

and we could let the plants sleep at the foot of our bed at night and give them funny names

itwouldbesocool

I had a spider plant once on my desk. His name was steve.