Your battle with mites reminds me of one weirdo I talked to while working in the Lawn & Garden department. He was some Christian nutjob who let parasites, mites, etc devour all his plants because he didn't want to risk making God angry at him for killing. He figured it was better to let the plants try to fight them off... and if they couldn't, then he'd just get new plants.
I was half expecting him to hide Chick tracts around the store in an attempt to "enlighten" everyone. (As far as I know, he didn't.)
You're the only person I know who can make gardening sound epic. :)
I love your citrus trees, they are just lovely! We have some citrus trees in our garden that have been around forever. They're the wild variety, and some have probably been around since the time my garden was part of a farm (around 50 years, give or take). My favorite is our orange tree. It's this lean-looking creature with really dark leaves and spindly branches, but come flowering season, the whole garden smells of orange blossom. The fruits are smallish and very acid, but they strike me - somehow - as prettier than those humongous oranges you see in supermarkets nowadays.
I love my citrus trees, too! :D They are a challenge to grow in this climate. Week before last, I had to bring them in for a couple of days because it was raining for a week, and they can't handle being waterlogged that long. They were heavy as hell. :/
One of the lemons has one open flower right now, which smells wonderful. I can't wait for the billion flowers on the Meyer lemon to open. I'll probably choke on the smell of lemon blossoms. :D
I know this is an old entry I'm commenting on, but man, I want to get some Lithops. Specifically, this assortment: http://www.oldmancactus.com/Details.asp?ProdID=450&category=24 (They won't all look like that, with 50 species for them to chose from.
They seem to be easy enough to take care of, but I don't think I can get them until after I graduate from college--I don't sunlight in my apartment. At all. I'm on the shady side.
Also, your plants are gorgeous! Mom killed two of my succulents, but I think they had bad soil, since I was scared to replant them from their original containers.
I keep on leaning towards succulents for some reason. I don't know why. They're just... cute. But I like mini-trees, too. One of these days, I want to start with bonzais.
I haven't done too terribly well with the succulents I have right now, but they kinda rotted on the bottom--that, and I let my mom take care of them while I was at school. XD She tends to kill things. (Only some tropical plants have managed to survive her.)
We had my dad's jalapeño plants for years until he didn't want them anymore, and dad also had a tropical plant that kept on growing huge--and then mom accidentally left it outside during the winter while she was cleaning and it died. (I suspect that wasn't completely an accident, however, as it was often in her way. Eheh.)
My bamboo and my ponytail palm are both doing pretty good, but the palm probably needs to be replanted soon. The bamboo is just in water/rocks.
I've been reading your posts and I'm very impressed by your plantcare! Because you're so good, I was wondering if you knew anything about succulents? A jade plant to be specific. I got a clipping from another plant from my mother in law, and it's been sitting in a container with water for the past 6 months.
Its all rooty now and I'm scared to pot it, would you know what kind of soil arrangement I would possibly use? I know it has to have soil that drains well or it will get root rot, but I'm still uneasy because my jade plant before that died, but it wasn't healthy when I bought it.
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I was half expecting him to hide Chick tracts around the store in an attempt to "enlighten" everyone. (As far as I know, he didn't.)
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I love your citrus trees, they are just lovely! We have some citrus trees in our garden that have been around forever. They're the wild variety, and some have probably been around since the time my garden was part of a farm (around 50 years, give or take). My favorite is our orange tree. It's this lean-looking creature with really dark leaves and spindly branches, but come flowering season, the whole garden smells of orange blossom. The fruits are smallish and very acid, but they strike me - somehow - as prettier than those humongous oranges you see in supermarkets nowadays.
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One of the lemons has one open flower right now, which smells wonderful. I can't wait for the billion flowers on the Meyer lemon to open. I'll probably choke on the smell of lemon blossoms. :D
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They seem to be easy enough to take care of, but I don't think I can get them until after I graduate from college--I don't sunlight in my apartment. At all. I'm on the shady side.
Been wanting them for over a year. XD Heh.
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I keep on leaning towards succulents for some reason. I don't know why. They're just... cute. But I like mini-trees, too. One of these days, I want to start with bonzais.
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We had my dad's jalapeño plants for years until he didn't want them anymore, and dad also had a tropical plant that kept on growing huge--and then mom accidentally left it outside during the winter while she was cleaning and it died. (I suspect that wasn't completely an accident, however, as it was often in her way. Eheh.)
My bamboo and my ponytail palm are both doing pretty good, but the palm probably needs to be replanted soon. The bamboo is just in water/rocks.
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Its all rooty now and I'm scared to pot it, would you know what kind of soil arrangement I would possibly use? I know it has to have soil that drains well or it will get root rot, but I'm still uneasy because my jade plant before that died, but it wasn't healthy when I bought it.
Well, I added you because your journal rocks :)
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I would put it in a cactus mix with some vermiculite.
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