Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!

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I like how having plants is such a weird learning experience.
Pandora the pothos, she who started this whole mess, spent about a month over the new year looking slightly sad. Every week I had a new yellow leaf to pick off.
I assumed it was due to the low winter light. Not much I can do about that since I won't move to a sunnier place or put up growth light.
Then I saw some insta about fertilizer and pothosses (pothosi?) in the winter. Normally I only use it once a month, but now I gave her some for every watering.
And Pandora is happy. No new yellow leaves since. Wooh!
 
I planted a young, deciduous tree in the yard a year or so ago. It looked really sad when its leaves shed, so I gathered about a dozen potted plants to encircle it (mostly desert roses.)

The littler pots were getting knocked over, and eventually I took a close look and discovered why: rabbits are pooping in the pots. The plants and young tree are completely unharmed so they're not getting on the pots to reach anything. I don't think the rabbits would want to climb up to scout out the area since there are lots of predatory birds here.

Is there some evolutionary advantage to pooping in pots that I've missed?
 
I FORGOT TO SOLARIZE WHERE I'M GOING TO SET UP THE SECOND GARDEN PLOT GODDAMNIT
 
I have saved a bunch of gigantic MURRICA-sized convenience store soda cups for starting tomatoes. They work well because you can fill them halfway with soil to start the seeds, which gives them lots of room for their taproot, but you also have room to add soil and bury the main stem for extra strength. Not starting them just yet since we're still in a cold snap, but probably will plant in the next week and pop them under the indoor grow lamp until it warms up enough to plant. I have TONS of saved seeds, so I'd like to share sprouts with neighbors and maybe trade. I am so excited for tomato season, you all have no idea.

The nasturtium seeds I didn't manage to pick out of the soil have already started sprouting and it's still going to be too cold for them, poor babies.

The shroom growbag is progressing, but much slower than the instructions would indicate. The mycelium is just now fully colonizing the bag after about 6 weeks.

Edit: sun's bride is a much nicer name than sneezeweed, and the flowers are lovely.
 
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suspended animation dijo:
I planted a young, deciduous tree in the yard a year or so ago. It looked really sad when its leaves shed, so I gathered about a dozen potted plants to encircle it (mostly desert roses.)

The littler pots were getting knocked over, and eventually I took a close look and discovered why: rabbits are pooping in the pots. The plants and young tree are completely unharmed so they're not getting on the pots to reach anything. I don't think the rabbits would want to climb up to scout out the area since there are lots of predatory birds here.

Is there some evolutionary advantage to pooping in pots that I've missed?
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The bunnies may have been getting up on the pots for a closer sniff and inspection of the tree's bark. I have a real problem with them gnawing the bark off my new and young fruit trees.
 
Im pleased to report that my potted plant is doing a lot better this winter after I invested in the cheapest possible grow light for it.
I’m not sure what kind of plant it is. It had small blue flowers when I received it but it hasn’t flowered again.
 

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Stan dijo:
Im pleased to report that my potted plant is doing a lot better this winter after I invested in the cheapest possible grow light for it.
I’m not sure what kind of plant it is. It had small blue flowers when I received it but it hasn’t flowered again.
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That's a Kalanchoe blossfeldiana that looks really happy for being indoors! They do love strong light.

I've never heard of this species having blue flowers, though. It's hard to find accurate information online with all the scammers trying to sell rare plants. The big box stores paint the poor fucking flowers sometimes too.
 
My plants are not enjoying this winter. They are all basically dormant from lack of light, even in the south facing window. The good news is of the 6 I have, 5 are doing great. One I over watered and might just be a goner but I won't know until another month or so and the light gets strong enough to start reminding them it's growing season.
 
Leather Gliscor dijo:
Ha, funny name. Fun fact about this one is that its name in other languages is sun's-bride, bride of the sun, or sunbride.
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i wish modern botanists would go ahead and rename all these plants with dogshit common names given by settlers from the 1700's*, because no one uses helenium leaves like snuff anymore and now it just makes people assume it's an icky weed that makes a lot of pollen.

*see also: boneset/feverwort (old treatment for dengue aka break-bone fever), indian tobacco/pukeweed (toxic plant used as a purgative), fleabane (thought to repel fleas), tickseed (seeds vaguely look like ticks), and beardtongue (dumbfuck autist fixated on the flower's tiny stamen hairs instead of literally anything else)
**with exception to rattlesnake master, which is not a rattlesnake repellant but the name is super cool and should be kept anyways
 
I got an aloe plant as a cutting last summer. I named her Alouette. She had triplets, and I've since moved them out of the house into their own digs. Of course, they are Alice, Alton and Algernon. Now mom has quintuplets growing. Names TBD. She's a busy lady. For real though, I love seeing every new spike peek out of the inside of the last one.

My pothos is also consistently growing new leaves. I might try to propagate cuttings of that sometime. I still have some potted herbs from last year that are overwintering inside. I plan to propagate my mints like crazy since I want to make lots of tea with them.
 
Aunt Carol dijo:
Mints are usually ahead of us on that one, but I'm sure they'll appreciate a hand.
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mint, willow, succulents, and pothos are probably the easiest plants to propagate. they're so easy that i've successfully done it with nearly all four except for willow, and that's only because i haven't tried yet.

(behold, the spineless prickly pear pads i grew from a half-dead parent plant, as they do whatever the hell this is: IMG_4540.jpeg )
 
Aunt Carol dijo:
Mints are usually ahead of us on that one, but I'm sure they'll appreciate a hand.
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Oh, I know. I popped some mint cuttings in water in some shot glasses and put them in a sunny window. They root in like a week. I need to plant them soon.

I actually have a couple ginger roots that were in my pantry for a long time. Last I checked, they had green shoots growing out of them. I wonder how hard it is to propagate/plant those...
 
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