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submitted 2 weeks ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Shipping has closed for the winter so I will not be getting anymore plants this year. Probably for the better... I'll have no space once they all get bigger 😅

Got a couple of my wishlist hoyas (undulata and clemensorium) and some other beautiful plants including some succulents and begonias.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

I've been waiting a month or so for the blooms to finally open up! They smell so good, very floral.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

My thinking would be why risk not getting checked out? Unfortunately worst case scenario happened this time :(

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submitted 1 month ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Whoops! How silly of me, here you go:

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Sign me up for a house-bot. I'm so tired by the time I get home from work that I'd love a robot to do all the chores for me.

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Hoya Sunrise (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

My hoya's sunstressing makes me so happy ❤

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

They're so pretty! The Cuprea is a stunner 😍

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I enjoyed it but I wish I didn't pay full price. The game is very linear and I think I beat it in about 6 hours. Also not a lot of replay value in my opinion.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Featuring my cat 😺

More blooms:

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submitted 5 months ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Post pics if you got em! I think mine is my dioscorea elephantipes (at least right now, it changes often). Grown from a seed, she'll be a year old in July :)

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submitted 5 months ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Don't know if there's any Canadians on Lemmy that have ordered from Crystal Star Nursery but this is my third order and I'm so excited!

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

This will be my struggle in a year or two. I'm planning on moving a couple provinces over so I'll need to come up with a way to move them. Probably end up taking a bunch of cuttings instead.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They stopped issuing cards and just print it on a full 8.5"x11" piece of paper now actually lol.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Definitely spider mites, I've gotten rid of them by giving them a good spray down with my shower head, wiping all the leaves with damp paper towel, and then dousing the plant in miticide (i used safer's end all, it comes in a yellow bottle). I did 3 separate treatments 3 days apart. and then kept them quarantined for a month to make sure i got em all. I managed to get rid of the mites on most of my infested plants except for my parlor palm which i ended up throwing out. There's other, more environmentally friendly options you can google but that's what worked for me.

Make sure you get all the nooks and crannies, including the underside of the leaves, stems, and the top of the soil. Those buggers are prolific and if you miss some then they come back quickly.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

Some great posts back in the day, and definitely some not so great posts haha. I had to unsub after it turned into celebrities hocking their products.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago
[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hey so you actually can make it so an email address doesn't log into the account, it's how I stopped one particularly persistent hacking attempt when they finally managed to crack my password but were stopped by 2fa. Go to your profile > account info > sign in preferences, then as long as you have an alias email on the account you can deselect ones that you don't want to be able to be used as a log-in.

[-] Polkira@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My Happy Marriage

Horimiya

MY Love STORY!!

My Love Story with Yamada-kun lvl 999

Tomo-chan is a girl!

Kaguya-sama: love is war

Your lie in April

Recovery of an MMO junkie

Fena: Pirate Princess

Your Name

From Me To You

Monthly Girl's Nozaky-kun

Golden Time

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My Collection (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

This is most of my current collection, minus a couple hoyas in quarantine, some succulent babies I'm growing from seed, and a thanksgiving cactus that is budding that I did not want to risk messing up the blooms.

Started with a spider plant in July of 2022, after almost a full year of keeping it alive I decided to try branching out last spring and here we are. A lot were cuttings from friends' plants :)

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submitted 10 months ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Hello! I'm looking to see if anyone has a good hoya seller in Canada, specifically looking to have it delivered to New Brunswick. I tried an Etsy shop from BC in August and received the fungus gnat infestation I'm currently still battling, so anyone reputable that you haven't received pests from would be awesome!

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

I have a fungus gnat problem with my houseplants, I've kept them relatively under control using Mosquito Dunks in my watering can since August and some yellow sticky traps but I can't seem to eradicate them. I was considering buying nematode pot poppers but I've never used them before so I was wondering if anyone had any tips for application. All my plants are still relatively small so I don't have many large pots for any of them (most are between 4-10").

Any and all recommendations welcome, having pests is really taking all the joy out of having plants. I'm in Canada so a lot of pesticides aren't available to me.

UPDATE: I figured I'd update this post incase someone comes looking for solutions and sees this. I ended up going with a top layer of silica sand (2-4 mm in size) on all of my pots. I continued with the BTI water, let my plants completely dry out between waterings, and bottom-watered most of my plants. I haven't seen a fungus gnat in about 2 weeks so I think I have been successful in eradicating them. Will update again if this changes.

Update 2: I take back the update, they're still here... I'm so over the freaking gnats.

Update 3: Just updating this post in case someone stumbles across it looking for answers. What worked for me was switching most of my plants to semi-hydro and I now have a Pinguicula Morensis that eats any stragglers that come in with any new plants. The plants that are still in soil are watered so rarely that the gnats are not really an issue.

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submitted 1 year ago by Polkira@lemmy.ca to c/houseplants@mander.xyz
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