Gardening and Plant Thread

[Bluebird]

Does anyone here have experience with growing orchids? I got some pink lady slipper and downy rattlesnake plantain seeds. I was thinking about just spreading them about in the woods but any related advice would be wonderful.

 

[Bugaboo]

Does anyone here have experience with growing orchids? I got some pink lady slipper and downy rattlesnake plantain seeds. I was thinking about just spreading them about in the woods but any related advice would be wonderful.

I've been trying to figure out orchid keeping for a while but a lot of the advice and info I find is contradictory so atm it's one of those types of plants that seem like an Einstien project

From what I can gather it seems Lady Slipper's prefer to be planted in moist, shady areas eg. under a tree. Maybe read up a little more and try one or two test seeds and see how they do?

Edit: I'd also recommend finding a local orchid growers group, mostly these people grow tropical orchids but I'm sure there would be some who dabble in ones from North America like the Lady Slipper

 

[ForgedBlades]

Does anyone here have experience with growing orchids? I got some pink lady slipper and downy rattlesnake plantain seeds. I was thinking about just spreading them about in the woods but any related advice would be wonderful.

Growing orchid from seed is a colossal pain in the ass. Even under ideal greenhouse conditions with an expert grower, it'll take two to three years for it to bloom depending on the cultivar. It's rewarding as hell if you can pull it off, but if you're looking for something relatively immediately, you'd be better off just buying one.

 

[DatBepisTho]

I don't have a garden started this year, but I've got a bunch of plants indoors and a few outside.
Indoors-
1. Dumb Cane
2. Bougainvillea (white blooms)
3. Weeping Fig
4. Medusa's Head Euphorbia
5. Crown of Thorns Euphorbia (red-white blooms)
6. Panchira Money Tree
7. Bird's-nest
8. Christmas Cactus (salmon blooms)
9. Golden Pothos
10. Marble Queen Pothos
11. White Kalanchoe
12. Indian Corncob Verigated Euphorbia
13. Burro's Tail

Outdoors-
1. Sacred Datura
2. Clove Currant
3. Joseph's Coat Climbing Rose

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Does anyone here have experience with growing orchids? I got some pink lady slipper and downy rattlesnake plantain seeds. I was thinking about just spreading them about in the woods but any related advice would be wonderful.

Generally, orchids lack cotyledons and instead depend on a symbiotic relationship with some sort of soil fungus in order to break open the seed and pass on nutrients to the young plant. When the plant is established, the fungus will in turn extract nutrients from the orchid's roots. I have never had any luck establishing native orchids where they don't already grow, and I suspect it's due to the absence of appropriate fungi.

But what the hell, both pink lady slipper and rattlesnake plantain like a variety of environments with acidic, well-drained soil, so why not just scatter the seeds somewhere likely and see how it goes?

 

[Bluebird]

Generally, orchids lack cotyledons and instead depend on a symbiotic relationship with some sort of soil fungus in order to break open the seed and pass on nutrients to the young plant. When the plant is established, the fungus will in turn extract nutrients from the orchid's roots. I have never had any luck establishing native orchids where they don't already grow, and I suspect it's due to the absence of appropriate fungi.

But what the hell, both pink lady slipper and rattlesnake plantain like a variety of environments with acidic, well-drained soil, so why not just scatter the seeds somewhere likely and see how it goes?

Scattering the seeds around is what i think im gonna do. There is a wooded area up the street from my house that had a single pink lady slipper growing but is now gone, someone probably picked it. This is what made me want to start a new population. Anyway, I should collect some leaf duff from that area and innoculate my woods with it in case it may help.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Got my tiny garden started and it looks so white trash because they're all in a cluster of five gallon buckets.

Spoiler: The plants

1. Ace 55 tomato
2. Mountain Pride tomato
3. Golden Girl yellow tomato
4. Cherokee Purple black tomato (dabes tomato 5evr)
5.Mojito Mint
6. Goodwin Creek Lavender
7. Curled leaf parsley
8. Bee balm
9. Unknown variety of red raspberry.

I'm basically a nightshade family and herb fag. The raspberry is there because its fruit and leaves are good in teas.

 

[DuckSucker]

I grew a carrot that grew a nose. It's kinda cute actually, if I had googly eyes, I would stick them on there.

I also have a radish that looks kinda like it's got buttcheeks, and I've had it in my fridge for like over 6 months because Im retarded and cant bring myself to eat it. I dont have a picture of that one though.

 

[SlothInAMilkCrate]

I grew a carrot that grew a nose. It's kinda cute actually, if I had googly eyes, I would stick them on there.

I also have a radish that looks kinda like it's got buttcheeks, and I've had it in my fridge for like over 6 months because Im exceptional and cant bring myself to eat it. I dont have a picture of that one though.

Please show us your buttcheek radish.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Got my tiny garden started and it looks so white trash because they're all in a cluster of five gallon buckets.

Spoiler: The plants

1. Ace 55 tomato
2. Mountain Pride tomato
3. Golden Girl yellow tomato
4. Cherokee Purple black tomato (dabes tomato 5evr)
5.Mojito Mint
6. Goodwin Creek Lavender
7. Curled leaf parsley
8. Bee balm
9. Unknown variety of red raspberry.

I'm basically a nightshade family and herb fag. The raspberry is there because its fruit and leaves are good in teas.

It may not be pretty, but 5 gallon buckets are the best way to grow tomatoes and peppers. No amending the soil, no weeds, easy to stake. Good stuff.

 

[DatBepisTho]

It may not be pretty, but 5 gallon buckets are the best way to grow tomatoes and peppers. No amending the soil, no weeds, easy to stake. Good stuff.

Yeah it really is. Not too shabby for herbs like chives, too.

I'm staking and putting cages around the tomatoes just in case, so their later weight doesn't cause them to snap in the slightest breeze.

 

[Bugaboo]

I grow tomatoes exclusively in containers, it's just so convenient and I have this weird need to micromanage the growing conditions of plants so I like it for that too

 

[DuckSucker]

Please show us your buttcheek radish.

I kept forgetting to come back to this because after 6 months Buttcheek-radish has shriveled up and gotten old. In the day, she was much more plump.

I was going to add a GIS cutout of a woman's head looking over her shoulder seductively, to kinda accentuate the form of what Im seeing, but couldnt find a picture with a perspective I liked enough to think that it wouldnt look like shit.

In a way, even though the radish is older, I kinda like maturity in womenradishes--they're spicier; cougars have always been a little bit hotter. But I had to cryogenically preserve it so I put it in the freezer, and had to wash it off which is why it's shiny, here.

>tfw youre seduced by a goddamn radish.

 

[Southern Belle]

Hey guys, I want to get a plant to put in my kitchen. It's the only place I can put it where pets won't mess with it. I've tried gardening and growing plants in the past, but I seem to have a black thumb. I really want to try again. I need something that is very low maintenance and is not a cactus (or one of those really weird air plants). My kitchen gets plenty of natural light, and I have a small windowsill I can put a plant on/in if I need to expose it to direct sunlight periodically. Any suggestions on what plant would best suit my situation?

 

[Bugaboo]

Hey guys, I want to get a plant to put in my kitchen. It's the only place I can put it where pets won't mess with it. I've tried gardening and growing plants in the past, but I seem to have a black thumb. I really want to try again. I need something that is very low maintenance and is not a cactus (or one of those really weird air plants). My kitchen gets plenty of natural light, and I have a small windowsill I can put a plant on/in if I need to expose it to direct sunlight periodically. Any suggestions on what plant would best suit my situation?

My favourite hardy houseplant is the pothos. The only way you can kill it is from under watering and it will droop to let you know when it needs water. It can live in low light conditions, the only kind of light it can't be under is bright direct light. They come in a few varieties and will start to trail.

 

[Southern Belle]

My favourite hardy houseplant is the pothos. The only way you can kill it is from under watering and it will droop to let you know when it needs water. It can live in low light conditions, the only kind of light it can't be under is bright direct light. They come in a few varieties and will start to trail.

Hrm. Googling it to see what they look like, I think that's doable. My mom's got some of those. Never knew that's what they're called. I've always admired the trailing/vine type plants, too. I'll see if she'll give me a cutting. If not, I'll get a plant when I go to home depot next week. I'll post a picture when I get my table set up with the plant on it. Thank you!

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

@Bluebird , how are your milkweeds doing? It seems like a good year for them in general.

 

[Bluebird]

@Durable Mike Malloy Fantastic! This one is 4 1/2 feet tall and going to produce lots of flowers.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

So having not looked at my vegetable garden for a week or two as my irrigation system takes care of business while I drink homebrewed beer I moved aside a leaf today and discovered a pumpkin the size of a fucking car!

 

[Bluebird]

So having not looked at my vegetable garden for a week or two as my irrigation system takes care of business while I drink homebrewed beer I moved aside a leaf today and discovered a pumpkin the size of a fucking car!

What if it was just an orange volkswagon that somebody parked there