I was given a dying hibiscus by a customer last summer. I nursed it back to life and it was doing great. However the heat in my shop is a blast furnace and half of the building is over 100f while there other half is a frozen wasteland.

There hibiscus did not stay green over the winter and i feared the worst. But this afternoon i noticed it has sprouted!

Hello! Recently got a pot for this guy. While I'm repotting I may try to split it- I want to encourage it to be more bushy. I have been reading a bit about how to encourage bushiness and it seems I could either separate it at the root so the base is wider and hope it fills in, and/or prune.

Just wanted to see if any of you had success with this or generally getting them to grow more bushy than tall. This one sits directly under a bright fluorescent light at work (less than 12 inches above the plant, maybe 8).

If you've pruned one of these, how would you recommend going about it?

Thanks!

When I have to run the hot water before starting the dishwasher I usually catch it in a pitcher and use it to water the plants and that got me wondering.

Not because of the temperature but because the hot water has more dissolved minerals in it (yes I am aware this means my tank probably needs flushed; it's on the better half's honey-do list).

I guess now I am curious if water closer to room temperature is better for them too since it would be less of a shock.

This is my Hoya hellwigiana. It's starting to throw out a peduncle again. Honestly last time the smell was so over-powering that I'll probably chop it off before it can bloom.

She was gifted to me last year, with only two flowers that fell in a few days (I guess the change of environments hit her hard), and I was feeling quite pessimistic about her future, because I've never taken care of an orchid.

Apparently I'm doing something right! I can't wait to see all the flowers open to share them with y'all!!!!!

Watering my plants today and noticed how cute these two were looking so I thought I'd share :)

Getting Thai Cons while being as bad with plants as I am was such a huge mistake haha

The first one I got in late September - it was a young but well established plant with 3 leaves - one of them already decently fenestrated! I kept it in my very dark living room with a rather sad little grow light and it started rotting basically right away.

In desperation, I tried moving it to LECA and a much brighter spot, which seemingly did more damage as I had been a bit rough on the roots as I was cleaning the soil and rotten stuff off. By December, all roots had died off and the rot was starting to get to the stem :(

I was really worried about the stem getting affected, so I made the executive decision to split up the plant about a month ago. The smallest leaf had already died off earlier, so one leaf was left with the questionable stem while the top-cutting (that had been struggling to push a new leaf since November!!) got exactly one root node. All the root nodes left on the stem cutting had already grown and rotted away, so I wasn't sure whether that one could be saved.

I think it was the right call though! The top cutting is growing amazing new roots with no rot in sight (see header picture), while the stem cutting is unexpectedly pushing out some small new root buds!!

My second Thai Con - which I got in November and put into LECA at the same time as the other one - HAD been looking good until recently, but I'm guessing I was a bit too enthusiastic when building that self-watering pole and now it looks like overwatering is getting to it.

Or at least I'm hoping that the yellow leaves and the weird brown stuff on the back of the leaves is just overwatering and not some larger issue ;_;

Picked this up yesterday. I’m excited.

I originally got this guy in Oct of last year from a plant shop and was in pretty miserable shape:

I left it in my south facing window and it lost those leaves and then shot up a whole bunch of new ones all at once (the ones in the before/after)

I was concerned that they were growing too straight as a result of it not getting enough light. I put the plant in another window that gets direct sun earlier in the day and then I started to see the very tips start to curl

My mom had given me a plant light a couple years ago that I never used so it was the perfect opportunity to set it up in a corner of my kitchen currently unused. Over the course of just a couple days I saw some real differences! These should all be taken about 12 hours apart:

Those were all taken about 5 days ago, then here's this morning, same as the top photo:

Anyways, the photos aren't great because I didn't expect to see progress, especially none so quickly. So they're not staged well and I think I messed up the formatting because my app was giving me issues uploading more than the first two pics. Also my water just got shut off for emergency maintenance and I was already in the middle of an anxiety episode but I'm absolutely over the moon when I woke up to see those tight curls!

Those leaves grew so tall so quickly I was afraid the lack of bright light would have caused them to just be stretched and the info I found on the internet led me to believe that they were forever doomed to be frizzle fizzle until next growing season

Anyways, that's my plant and one of the joys in my life right now!

Before you say "Just give it some fertilizer", please look at my post about that plant before.

It started flowering a few weeks ago, and the roots are growing back very healthy, but slowly.
I think those two factors are what contributed to the plant consuming itself, as you can see on the pictures where the lower leafes start yellowing quite significantly.

If they continue to do so, I will loose them, and that would suck.
My question is: What can I do to mitigate that, so I can prevent the leafes from dying off completely?

I already cut off the flower spike to redirect the resources, but I fear this isn't enough.

There's a shit load of fertilizer in the substrate now too. I grow it hydroponically, and started with an EC of just 1 mS, because that's what's recommended for orchids, but I quickly realised that this isn't enough, and increased it to 1,5-2 mS. Right now it sits at about 2-2,5 mS, which is objectively on the higher side for other plants, but very high for orchids from what I know.
But on the other hand... it needs to grow a lot of plant matter.

The problem is, that there are probably not enough roots to support this growth, and the nutrient uptake is limited because of that.

Still, I don't want to loose the leafs. Would foliar fertilizing help? Or is it too late?

Here are root pictures my other two orchids that I rescued too at the same time. They don't show signs of a deficiency, but also regenerated a lot of roots. Maybe this helps?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39240669

Anybody Alive And Growing Anything?

Photo of my biggest terrarium for attention. Things are less colourful currently; this is from about a year ago. I always enjoy my terrarium the most in February with the green contrasting with the Canadian winter. It’s especially white and snowy this week.

Hey everyone! I'm a huge fan of Hoyas, and I’ve been growing them for a while. I feel like I know a bit, but there’s always more to learn! Recently, I’ve been especially fascinated by Hoya Kerrii and its care needs.

Do you have a favorite Hoya? Hoya Kerrii care ,Any tips for growing them successfully? Let’s chat!

I had a customer that sent me a picture of a heart shaped succulent planter she found on pinterest, and said, "Can you make it like Minecraft" This is the result.

Then she ghosted me and didn't buy it. 😂

Anyway, I planted some succulents in it I got at the store and now it sits on my counter.

EDIT: I made an Imgur post with more pictures if you are interested.

Those are Maranta leuconora, which are supposed to be very hard to grow from what I've heard.

The mother plant also grew this fast, so I made a few cuttings to propagate her.

That's how she looks now:

I can't stop them from flowering...

The only issue so far has been that I've simultaneously both over-fertilized AND let them run dry while having extremely low air humidity. Like extremely low. This resulted in all existing tips burning, but this hasn't happened yet again on the new growth and hopefully never will.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17758317

Here's my original post on Feddit.org, a german instance: https://photon.slrpnk.net/post/17757233

I still made quite some effort to translate it manually for you.

I bought two phalaenopsis orchids about two months ago.

A pink, and a gold one.

First the pink one. I got it from a discounter, and... well it already looked like shit when I bought it. The roots were pretty much all dead.

Now, it recovered, and even put out its' first flower spike!

It still looks a bit dehydrated/ leathery, but otherwise it's in a stable condition and recovers very well.

The other one is from a proper garden center, AND IT LOOKED EVEN WORSE!

Not only were the roots completely mush, but it also had a new buddy in its sleeve, I call him "worm buddy", my new pet.

Now, it looks like this:

It grew new flower pods and already started to bloom! How awesome is that?

On top of that, I showed the pictures a worker in the shop I bought it, and they were so embarrassed, that they gave me a voucher for a new plant, because they called it "inrecoverable". So I got this Oncidium orchid additionally for free:

This post is just a small reminder that plants can be very tolerant to anything, and with some luck and experience, you can save them.

I'm new to Phalaenopsis orchids.

I bought this one about one month or two ago, and when I got home and repotted it, I noticed that 90% of its roots were rotten.

I still pulled through it and now I'm in the process of saving it.

It looks better from day to day, and formed new healthy roots, and so far, it's looking fine. At least compared to how it looked in the beginning.

A week ago it started forming this small knob on the remaining flower spike I left, and now, I'm wondering, if thats just new flowers forming, or if it's a Keiki, a new baby plant that will separate from it's mother soon and can begin living on their own?

Is this a sign of severe stress ("I'll die soon, this is my last resort!") or does it tell me "Thanks for not throwing me into the trash, here's a small gift for you!"?

Whole plant:

The "thing" one week ago:

First visible air roots forming, a few weeks ago:

The plant when I got it:

Got it for free in a - i presume - rather rock-bottom state and now it is finally in bloom again! So happy rn