anyone else love juicing plants with fertilizer and seeing them just go fuckin nuts w/ it (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I'm giving my tomato plants fertilizer like every two or three days partially because they seem to love it and partially to offset the spider mites sucking them dry that this stupid fucking spider mite spray isn't killing. Anyway, it's real satisfying watching them respond to it and shoot out the lushest most verdant emerald greenery you can imagine

I'm doing the same thing with my lemon tree basically and whenever it gets its plant foods it's like YESSS and starts shooting out all kinds of new growth like crazy. It's got this one bit of new growth that's got leaves as big as my fucking hand like omg i love it. Did you know lemon leaves and shoots smell lemony?? wow, amazing. Too bad I don't live in a zone where it can reliably survive the winter in the ground

(My plan is to keep taking cuttings and keep it going as a line of clones until climate change lets me plant it)

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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Are you saying build a greenhouse because idk i guess I could do that... but i just have this vision in my head of a tree in a little square of mulch growing all free and strong

Maybe i could plant it, build a greenhouse around it, and then when it's all big and strong take it down and hope it's so strong no weak ass frost gonna get it

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

I am saying build a wall. Maybe one that's long enough for several trees. Maybe replace a wooden wall with a brick (or adobe?) one.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

What if it's too hot in the summer then though

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

It probably won't be, because during the day, the wall will heat up slower than the surrounding air. That's the sweet thing about thermal mass walls, they work both ways.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

i guess i could build a wall, if i can build it east to west that'll block my neighbors view and i can finally be dong out in the yard like god intended