AWKWARD ZOMBIE

EvErything I try to grow dies



Even my cactus



HOW DO YOU KILL A CACTUS I ASK YOU

By not caring for it properly??



Some new things I'm trying! I'm going to attempt to grow two mango seeds, an avocado seed and a pineapple. I watched some videos on youtube and read some more info online about caring for these plants. Practically, they likely won't last long in my climate, even indoors. At the very least, I hope they sprout. Good news is that my pineapple has already begun growing little roots after I had put it in water only last night! Hope renewed. It's also pretty cool that my avocado seed has already cracked a bit. Woo!

My basil and mint plant died because my dad kept moving them out of my room and they were over watered when he put them outside due to our excessive rain one week. He said there were bugs on them but that's just from too much moisture! baw
I got a new basil plant and just transplanted it into a new, bigger pot with fresh soil. It's looking a bit better thus far.

I'm a bit worried about my orchid as some of it's buds shriveled before even blooming. It's still growing from what I can tell, so hopefully that was just a one time thing.

with a mcdonalds pop flyin' meal i got given this pack of cress seeds and a paper pot to grow them in
i looked after them like they were my children until i had work experience and they all shrivelled up and died

OHK UPDATE


One of my mango seeds has started to root! The other died.

My avocado seeds have split open and I'm hoping they'll sprout.

Pineapple died too sobbu ;-;

I don't know about the mango, but the avocado should still be able to grow indoors.
And as for the orchid, the thing with those in northern climates is that depending on when you got them, they could have been forced to bloom out of season in order to sell immmediately. Normally, they have about nine months of bloom, and then like, december through early march, they're dormant. But when they're forced out of cycle in a hothouse, it can take them up to two years to get back on track. so you may have some weird short bursts that don't follow the typical behavior.

That's really good information! I have four orchid plants right now. The small one is still growing but another flower that was about to bloomed died before doing so. I guess the poor thing just needs a break. Are Orchids perennial or just annual? I'm unsure how long they typically last for.

They're perennial. New stems will shoot up from the roots.

Had to search for this thread.

So the house I bought has a lot of plants, a lot.
There's an area which could be loosely described as an orchard.
Unfortunately it's over grown and has weeds everywhere. Also noticed a lot of what looks like disease/parasites.


Pulled out as many weeds as I could and filled up the compost bin with them. I think I maybe got about 10% of the weeds after weeding an area of about three square metres.

Holy geez.

I'll say, I was pulling out dandelions taller than myself.

I garden.

They havent found the bodies yet...

That is clever and relevant.

i want a garden so bad :'[


i haven't posted in this thread in ages ahaha. i've started a wee garden meself at our apartment.

way back in spring we bought a young satsuma tree, and it bloomed hundreds of flowers and tiny oranges which i picked most off to avoid damaging the branches as its still tiny and wispy. i let about 15 grow though and they're almost ready to pick c: Not sure if they'll be any good and only one or two really got big enough but the fact that they all seem healthy and the tree WANTS to make fruit gives me hope that next year they may be bigger and we can actually eat more of them

we planted a bunch of broccoli too, but most didn't make it through a rough drought period where they didn't grow at all. we sent 4 plants to my parents' and kept two here. one made a head but it doesn't seem to want to actually make broccoli? there's flowers but they're very sporadic and not broccoli like. one at my parents' made a nice head and we cut it off to eat the other day.

we also had some onions but only one onion survived. it never bloomed so i'm gonna leave it in the dirt til it does.

in addition my dad gave me pieces from his three angel's trumpet plants (PANK, yellow, and white,) and i've got them in a pot and the plan is that they'll appear to become one multi-coloured plant. the PANK one made a single flower on the day after we brought it home but nothing since. i hope in the spring at least the PANK and white (the largest pieces,) will bloom.

there is also a very pop flyin' aloe vera, and a kalanchoe from one of my grandfather's plants.

i tried growing catnip, sage, and basil, but then the drought happened and they didn't stay alive :'[ i'll try again next year.

Don't you have a house now though? You could plant much more then.

I really want to lay down some vegie patches, but everywhere is taken up with trees and ornamental plants.

So amid keeping the gardens all under control, I think first thing will be to sort the orchard out properly. Weed, prune, get rid of any diseases etc.

That area also has a lot of creeping plants. We've identified wisteria and figs so far. Neither look healthy and have destroyed the boundary fence.

I also have a lemon tree and what might be an orange tree, but they've been planted under a shady pergola which needs to be pulled down.

Technically yes but it's a trailer and we don't own land so I'll be in a lot. Which is still more space and ample space to have a small garden in the ground though when we can actually live in it (needs repairs.) I do plan on putting at least the veggies in the ground though! and probably more/different plants too. we really want a starfruit tree!

i'll probably not actually plant the trumpets and instead move them into a larger pot since they'd be hard to move later, and i don't even think i CAN plant the tree there lol. i'd rather wait til we're at the place we plan on being for more than an unknown amount of time it let it root itself.